FM Seeks to Allay Depositors' Fears, Hints at Review

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NEARBY FM seeks to allay depositors’ Nissan seeks $770 million in tax dispute with T.N. fears, hints at review of Bill Japanese carmaker sends legal notice to Prime Minister

‘The Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill could undergo corrections’ Reuters Anshu Prakash is Delhi’s New Delhi new Chief Secretary Special Correspondent with representatives from NEW DELHI Japanese automaker Nissan NEW DELHI the stock market and bank The Centre appointed senior Motor has begun interna Bank depositors’ fears about ing, insurance and pension IAS ocer Anshu Prakash as tional arbitration against In the new Chief Secretary in the safety of their savings — fund regulators. Lenders, dia to seek more than $770 the Delhi government on once the Centre enacts the which have to pay a premi million in a dispute over un Friday, according to an order proposed new law for resolv um to the DICGC for insuring paid state incentives, ac of the Ministry of Home ing nancial entities’ bank deposits of up to 1 lakh, cording to a person familiar Aairs. ruptcy — may be premature would have to pay a sum to with the matter and docu DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 as the legislation is still at the the Resolution Corporation ments reviewed by Reuters. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD drafting stage and could see as per the proposed Bill. But In a legal notice sent to several ‘corrections’ before it is silent on the insured Prime Minister Narendra its passage, Finance and Cor amount. Modi last year, Nissan sought porate Aairs Minister Arun “The Corporation shall, in payment of incentives due Jaitley said on Friday. consultation with the appro from the Tamil Nadu govern Road block: The company says its requests to Tamil Nadu Expected to be tabled in priate regulator, specify the ment as part of a 2008 ocials for payment, due in 2015, were overlooked. Parliament’s winter session total amount payable by the agreement to set up a car that starts on December 15, Corporation with respect to manufacturing plant in the Nissan executives, said the ted to working with the go the Financial Resolution and any one depositor, as to his southern State. According to person familiar with the vernment of India toward a Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill so includes a ‘bailin’ option tary committee can oer deposit insured under this the notice, Nissan said re matter. The Central ocials, resolution,” but did not elab Two teachers held for of 2017 proposes scrapping to resolve nancial entities’ drafting suggestions. The Act, in the same capacity and peated requests to State o from several Ministries, as orate. assaulting 4-year-old the Deposit Insurance and stress. A bailin option entails reafter it will go back to the in the same right,” the draft cials for the payment, due in sured Nissan that the pay A senior Tamil Nadu o KOLKATA Credit Guarantee Corpora a bank issuing securities in Cabinet,” Mr. Jaitley said. Bill states, creating doubts 2015, were overlooked and ment would be made, and it cial said the government A fouryearold KG student at tion (DICGC) that guarantees lieu of the money deposited about the extent of deposits even a plea by the compa should not bring a legal case. hoped to resolve the dispute a reputed school in south repayment of all bank depo in its coers. Asked about the Will seek feedback that will be guaranteed as al ny’s chairman, Carlos without having to go to inter Kolkata has allegedly been sits up to 1,00,000 in case a implications of this clause, “The Cabinet will place the so whether depositors may Ghosn, to Mr. Modi in March Ultimatum given national arbitration. sexually assaulted by two stressed bank is liquidated. Mr. Jaitley said the drafting recommendations in the pu face varying degrees of hair last year seeking Central as But, in August, Nissan gave “There is no discrepancy teachers of the school. process of the Bill was still blic domain and ask for feed cuts or writedowns on their sistance did not yield any re India an ultimatum to ap with regard to the amount According to the child’s Ambiguity over savings under way and it could be re back. So I think a lot of cor savings at dierent stressed sults. point an arbitrator, the per due, and we are trying hard father, she was crying and There is ambiguity on how viewed as part of the regular rections will take place,” the entities. The notice, sent by Nis son said, adding the rst ar to resolve the issue,” the o complained of severe pain depositors’ savings will be drafting process for new le Minister said. Instead of the The Corporation will be gi san’s lawyers in July 2016, bitration hearing will be in cial said. after returning home from protected in stressed banks gislation. “The Bill still has to DICGC, the Bill envisages a ven a year’s time to resolve school on Thursday. Upon was followed by over a do midDecember. and other nancial entities go through the overall draft Resolution Corporation un problems facing rms in CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 inquiring further, parents had zen meetings between Cen A Nissan spokesman said under the new law, which al ing process. The Parliamen der the Finance Ministry trouble. TWO DIMENSIONS Ī PAGE 8 lodged a police complaint. tral and State ocials and the company was “commit NATION Ī PAGE 5 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

#460490 SC to consider plea for Hospital declares twins national ban on crackers Heavy rain continues in Kerala, south T.N. NEW DELHI The SC on Friday took on dead, kin nd one alive board a bunch of applications High waves swamp large tracts of land, displace hundreds of families; 218 shermen rescued seeking a complete Hemani Bhandari boy and a girl, on November nationwide ban on the use, New Delhi T. Nandakumar centred 90 km north of Min highest number of ve ca 30 morning. manufacture, licensing, sale, Thiruvananthapuram resale or distribution of icoy and 220 km south sualties. In a shocking incident, pre The doctors allegedly de recrackers to combat Heavy rain continued to bat southeast of Amini island. As many as 218 shermen mature twins were allegedly clared the girl stillborn. pollution. ter coastal areas of Kerala Though the strong winds who had put out to sea dur declared dead by doctors of The boy was declared NATION Ī PAGE 5 and south Tamil Nadu on Fri unleashed by the cyclone ov ing the cyclone were rescued Max Hospital in Shalimar dead a couple of hours later. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD day, crippling normal life, er Kerala abated, the rain and brought to land, the Ker Bagh and handed over to The woman’s brotherin even as Cyclone Ockhi lay picked up in strength by Fri ala government claimed on their parents who realised law Deepak said that Var centered o the Lakshad day noon, leading to ood Friday night. that one of them was alive sha, who was six months weep islands. The death toll ing of lowlying areas. Kerala Fisheries Minister J. only when they were on pregnant, had complained in the two States in rainrelat High waves pounded the Mercykutty Amma said a Na their way to perform the last of stomach pain on Novem ed incidents rose to 11. entire Kerala coast, swamp vy ship had been deployed to rites. ber 28. The tropical cyclone deve ing large tracts of land and search for 22 shing vessels The police registered a She was taken to a nurs loped into a very severe displacing hundreds of fami spotted o the coast of case on Friday on the basis ing home in Nangloi where storm, even as it veered o lies. Kollam. of a complaint led by the the doctors said that her towards the Lakshadweep is The death toll in incidents (With P. Sudakar family. condition was critical. lands on a path predicted by related to the storm went up in Tirunelveli) The family said that their Wait continues: The relatives of shermen, who were weathermen. to seven, with Thiruvanan 20yearold daughterinlaw DETAILS ON DELHI METRO DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES reported missing, in Thiruvananthapuram. * S. GOPAKUMAR By evening, the storm lay thapuram accounting for the CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 Varsha gave birth to twins, a Ī PAGE 1

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promote natural breeding of has distinct features. * K. ANANTHAN success. They need to be will cover all cases of in opponents at all levels. wati decided to stay away hinged, by a huge margin of the Vechur cattle. The extracareful in selecting stant triple talaq across the The SP, however, won 202 from public meetings, de 75,972 votes, its candidate Panchayat has been oered However, over the years, the programme about two the bull. It needs to be country, except in Jammu corporation wards, 45 Nagar scribed it as a “historic victo Sitaram Jaiswal winning a purebred Vechur bull by a place lost its sheen as a decades ago. healthy and purebred. Also, and Kashmir. Palika Parishad chairman ry,” and an “eyeopener” to 47.2% votes, more than the farmer. We hope to soughtafter grazing pasture. Around 4,000 heads of bulls need to be rotated The draft has been pre seats and 83 Nagar Pan those who are expecting the combined votes of the SP, commence the project by Our attempt is to bring the Vechur cattle are believed periodically to get optimal pared by a Group of Minis chayat chairman posts. results of the urban polls in BSP, Congress, RLD, Peace Decemberend,” Mr. Jayalal culture back. We will be to exist today in Thrissur, reproductive performance,” ters, headed by Home Mi Apart from Meerut and U.P. to have an impact on the Party and the AAP. said. charging a nominal fee from Alappuzha, Kottayam, and Dr. Sosamma said. nister Rajnath Singh. Aligarh, won by the BSP, the Gujarat election. However, in an upset, Na According to ocials, the farmers for natural Ernakulam, among other A publication from the Other members are Ex BJP won all other municipal dira Khatoon, an indepen bull and the cows will be breeding,” Mr. Jayalal said. districts. A sizeable National Bureau of Animal ternal Aairs Minister corporation seats (Mayors), Credits PM, Shah dent Muslim candidate, de allowed to roam free and This rare breed, which number are also with the Genetic Resources (NBAGR) Sushma Swaraj, Finance including Varanasi, Luck He credited the victory to feated the BJP in the ward graze in the vast green averages 90 cm in height College of Veterinary and titled ‘Cattle Breeds of India’ Minister Arun Jaitley, Law now, Ayodhya, Kanpur, PM Narendra Modi’s “deve election from Purana Go pastures, enabling natural and 130 kg in weight, takes Animal Sciences. depicts 30 varieties. Minister Ravi Shankar Pra Mathura and Gorakhpur. It lopment vision,” BJP chief rakhpur ward86, in the vi breeding. Once the cow is its name from a village of the According to some sad and his deputy P.P. also won Agra, Firozabad, Amit Shah’s “strategic skills” cinity of the Gorakhnath impregnated, the animal same name in Kottayam. It Milk fat diers experts, there is a lower Chaudhary, and the junior Ghaziabad, Moradabad, and the “organisation” of temple and from where the will be returned to its was on the brink of Vechur cow milk is incidence of respiratory Minister in the PMO Jiten Jhansi, Allahabad, Bareilly the U.P. BJP for taking the CM cast his vote. owner. extinction, when the Kerala considered good for health infections among Vechur der Singh. and Saharanpur. schemes of the State and CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 “Pathiramanal was once Agriculture University as it has a higher cattle, compared to Mr. Adityanath, who led Central government to the BSP SHOWS SIGNS OF REVIVAL CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 a hotspot for cattle grazing. launched a conservation proportion of smaller fat crossbred cows. the campaign for the polls masses. Ī PAGE 5

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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 2 EAST SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Militant killed in encounter Notice to govt. over Kendrapara rape incident Press Trust of India identied as Rajen Deka, Guwahati was killed in the encounter, A hardcore ULFA(I) militant the spokesman said, adding, schoolgirls made to strip echoes in Odisha Assembly was killed in an encounter Deka was the leader of the with the security forces in militant group. The other Assam’s Udalguri district on militants ed and the secur The incident happened in Arunachal Pradesh on Nov. 23 The accused, a repeat oender, was out on bail Friday, a defence spokes ity forces rescued the man said. family. Staff Reporter and a student, as per the they play the role of a true Staff Reporter law and order situation in rejecting his bail application Acting on a tipo, troops Deka had joined the mili NEW DELHI NHRC statement. guide and protector for their BHUBANESWAR the State. on Thursday. of the Red Horns Division tant group 15 years ago and Taking suo motu cognisance Issuing a notice to the students. Such an inhuman The Opposition Congress on A 22yearold man, who “Odisha is ranked third as and the police cordoned o was a selfstyled comman of a media report, the Nation Chief Secretary of the State and insensible act cannot be Friday sought to target the had been held on the charge far as incidents of rape are a house in Khoirabari village der for Udalguri and Dar al Human Rights Commis government, the NHRC asked expected from a teacher,” the Naveen Patnaik government of raping a sixyearold girl concerned in the country where ve militants had ta rang districts. An AK47 ri sion on Friday issued a notice for a detailed report, includ NHRC observed. over alleged sexual assault last year and was out on bail, and on an average six rapes ken shelter, the spokesman e, a foreignmade pistol, to the Arunachal Pradesh go ing information about what The NHRC added that by on a threeyearold girl by a was arrested again on charg are reported in a day in the said. ammunition, mobile vernment over 88 schoolgirls action had been taken making the girls strip in front man who was out on bail in es of sexually assaulting the State. The day is not far The inmates of the house phones and currency were made to strip as punishment against the teachers as well of the whole school, their another rape case in Ken minor girl. The accused, Ra when Odisha would go up in were held captive by the found near the militant’s bo by teachers. as for counselling the vic right to dignity had been vio drapara district. jesh Mallick, had committed the list,” said Mr. Mishra. militants and one militant, dy, the spokesman added. As per a report, the stu tims, within four weeks. lated. Raising the issue during the crime at Kothapada vil The senior Congress lead dents of Kasturba Gandhi Ba The NHRC also asked the zero hour, Leader of the Op lage on November 13. er demanded a statement by lika Vidyalaya in Papum Pare ‘Inexcusable act’ Union Human Resource De position Narasingha Mishra Mallick had, according to the Chief Minister on the in district were made to strip by The NHRC observed that the velopment Ministry Secre contended that had the pol the police, confessed to the cident. Other Congress lead three teachers on November “sordid act” of the teachers tary to provide information ice conducted proper inves crime stating that he was un ers rushed to the Well of the 23. The teachers were trying as reported was about whether any guide tigation into previous rape der the inuence of liquor. House in support of the de to get the girls to confess to “inexcusable”. lines to protect students from case, the incident would not He was produced before a mand, resulting in adjourn having written “vulgar “Teachers are always high such punishment had been have happened and it is a local court which remanded ment of the House for 15 mi words” for the head teacher ly respected in the society as issued to States. clear sign of deteriorating him in judicial custody after nutes.

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“Although you have tried continues to be a health hazard for the residents 33 years after the industrial disaster. * FILE PHOTO bide plant was not t for con zeer issued notice on Mr. counsel for the State of Pun zilka court had issued fresh to highlight the need for sumption. However, the Khaira’s plea challenging the jab. There shall be stay of summons to the AAP leader energising the ‘Swachh Bha BGPMUS, and N.D. Jaypra 1984, when the gas leak from ing the environment for the areas near the plant are den verdict of the Punjab and further proceedings before and four others, asking them rat’ campaign, it is, indeed, kash, the coconvenor of the factory led to the death last 33 years. During mon sely populated, with most fa Haryana High Court, which the trial court,” the Bench to appear on December 21 to inexplicable as to why the is BGPSSS, on behalf of the vic of over 20,000 people and soon, water from the waste milies engaged as labourers had dismissed his petition to said. record their statements. sue of the urgent need for tims of the disaster, request gravely aected the health seeps into the soil and reach in factories and shops. cleaning up the highly toxic ed the Prime Minister to “di about 5,50,000 other resi es the groundwater. This has Abdul Aziz, a resident of spots in an around the form rect the ocials concerned dents of Bhopal. threatened the health of Housing Board Colony, sit er pesticide factory of Union to take requisite steps to re Nearly, 25,000 tons of tox communities and safety of uated close to the factory, Carbide India Limited (UCIL) mediate the polluted envi ic waste are lying in the open water supplies,” alleged Mr. told The Hindu: “For the last is not a vital part of that cam ronment, including 1.10 lakh at a solar evaporation plant Jabbar. two years, I am spending paign till date,” wrote Bhopal tons of contaminated soil, by (SEP), some 400 m north of The SEP, spread over 14 around two weeks in hospi Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog seeking necessary technical the UCIL factory. hectares, was used by UCIL tal every month. The doctors Sangathan (BGPMUS), and help from the United Nations for storage of wastewater, say my lungs no longer allow Bhopal Gas Peedith Sang Environment Programme”. Water contamination containing high concentra me to breathe properly. Ac harsh Sahayog Samiti The cost of the cleanup, “The management of Union tions of inorganic chemicals, cording to them, I might (BGPSSS), in a letter to the says the letter, should be re Carbide never bothered to especially chloride. have consumed drinking wa Prime Minister on Thursday. covered from Dow Chemical clean up what it left behind Reports compiled by Na ter from tube wells that had Company, the present owner after the December 3, 1984 tional Environmental Engi toxic contaminants. I believe UNEP help sought of Union Carbide Corpora incident. Shockingly, the go neering Research Institute, their words as the tube well The letter signed by Abdul tion (UCC) which set up the vernment too ignored the Madhya Pradesh Public from where we used to fetch Jabbar, a gas tragedy survi UCIL plant in 1969 and was matter. Tons of dumped Health and Engineering De water was declared unt by vor and convenor of managing it until December waste at the SEP are pollut partment, Greenpeace, Citi the municipal authorities.”

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IN BRIEF MNS workers M.P. has most number of repeat oenders vandalise Cong. oce Work on sex Staff Reporter oenders registry Bengal tops in cases Mumbai Former CJI A.S. Anand in progress: NCRB The feud between the Raj passes away of human tracking Thackerayled Maharash NEW DELHI Vijaita Singh tra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Former Chief Justice of India New Delhi Second in crimes against women and Mumbai Congress unit Adarsh Sein Anand died of The percentage of juveniles chief Sanjay Nirupam over a cardiac arrest here on who repeat a crime at least Soumya Das es, while Gujarat came third the hawkers issue took a Friday morning, family once is the same as that for Kolkata with 648 cases (4.9%). violent turn on Friday after sources said. He was 81. adult criminals, according to While Kolkata has turned As for cases of attempt to MNS workers vandalised Justice Anand is survived by the data published by the Na out to be the second safest murder, West Bengal occu the Mumbai Regional Con wife and three daughters. PTI tional Crime Records Bureau city as far as the number of pied the top slot with 11,973 gress Committee (MRCC) (NCRB). crimes per lakh of popula cases, accounting for nearly oce. Kidnapped bank officials As per the NCRB, 44,171 ju tion is concerned, West Ben 25% of the total number of MNS leader Sandip released in Tripura veniles were apprehended in gal recorded a poor perfor such cases in the country in Deshpande later claimed AGARTALA 2016. Of them, 5.2% were mance in several key areas 2016. Bihar occupied the se responsibility for the at A week after they were convicted in the past at least in 2016 as per the latest data cond spot with 6,998 cases, tack on the MRCC oce. kidnapped by unidentified once. Last year, the total released by the National followed by Uttar Pradesh “The MNS carried out a miscreants, four bank number of adults arrested Crime Records Bureau with 5,109 cases. ‘surgical strike’ on Niru employees, including the was 37,37,870, which includ (NCRB), published on In terms of crimes against pam’s oce. It is a tit for tat branch manager, returned ed 1,91,849 persons or 5.1% Thursday. women, West Bengal occu attack,” said Mr. unharmed in Tripura on who had been convicted for The State registered the pied the second spot with Deshpande. Friday, the police said. The the crime at least once. highest number of cases in 32,513 cases (9.6%), while Mr. Nirupam had come miscreants had demanded a There were 35,608 adults the country in terms of hu Uttar Pradesh topped the out in support of hawkers ransom of 65 lakh for the who were convicted twice man tracking, attempt to list with 49,262 cases against whom the MNS had release of the four Tripura (1%) and 10,427 persons con murder and causing grie (14.5%). Maharashtra occu launched an agitation fol Gramin Bank employees but it victed thrice or more (0.3%). vous hurt to the suerers in pied the third spot with lowing a stampede at the was not known whether it Percentage wise, among 2016. 31,388 (9.71%) cases. In 2015 Elphinstone railway station was paid, SP, Police Control, the 29 States and seven Un The State also came se too, West Bengal occupied on September 29. Congress Pradip De said. PTI ion Territories, Chandigarh sam11,659, Telangana maintained in Western coun addresses, PAN card details, cond with regard to crimes the second spot in this cate and the MNS workers had with 38.1% reported the max 13,605 and Andhra Pradesh tries, including the U.S. and Aadhaar card number, n against women. However, it gory with 33,212 cases. later clashed in north Four killed, one injured imum number of repeat of 16,471. the U.K. gerprints and DNA samples does not gure among the But according to the Mumbai. On Friday, Mr Ni as car falls into gorge fenders among adults. Though the breakup for The Home Ministry has through this registry. top three states to record NCRB data, Kolkata regis rupam claimed the attack JAMMU This was followed by sexual oences was not avail told Parliament that details The proposal to set up a the highest number of rapes tered the second lowest showed the frustration of Four persons were killed and 29.2% repeat oenders in able in the Crime in India of sexual oenders even be registry was rst mooted by in 2016. number of crimes per lakh the MNS. “I can under one injured on Friday after Tripura, 20.5% in Jharkhand, 2016 report released on low 18 years of age would be the UPA government after of population (159.6) after stand the frustration of the their car fell into a 400ft 16.9% in Mizoram and 12.2 % Thursday, an ocial said the included in the database, the 2012 gang rape in Delhi. deep gorge in Jammu and 3,579 tracking cases Coimbatore (149.5). MNS, whose workers are in Delhi. data on “recidivism amongst which would be put up on Asked about the fate of Kashmir’s Ramban district, West Bengal reported 3,579 Chennai was listed as the being beaten up by hawk the police said. The accident In absolute numbers, the persons arrested under IPC the NCRB website. the registry, a senior NCRB cases of human tracking third safest city (194). ers regularly. Their attack happened on the Jammu maximum number of repeat crimes” would come in han ocial said, “the proposal is cases, which is about 44% of Out of the 5,13,635 crimes on our oce is a cowardly Srinagar National Highway oenders among adults was dy while preparing the pro To publicise details very much in progress. We the total such cases. Rajas recorded in 19 metropolitan act. Chief Minister Deven when the victim’s were on in Madhya Pradesh35,320, posed sex oenders registry, The government plans to pu are getting the necessary than occupied the second cities, only 1.6% took place dra Fadnavis must act fast their way from Srinagar to Tamil Nadu18,841, As on the lines of registers blicise their photographs, clearances for it.” spot with 1,422 (17.49%) cas in Kolkata. or a betting reply will be Jammu. PTI given for sure,” he said. 2 teachers held for sexually SC to consider plea for ‘Abductions’ ‘States delay recruiting national ban on crackers by spouses of lower court judges’ assaulting 4yearold girl under lens Seeks Centre’s response in 4 weeks Fail to adhere to the SC’s time limit: study Krishnadas Rajagopal Kolkata police book the duo under the POCSO Act Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI Special Correspondent too. Seven States with a two NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on Chennai tier recruitment system Staff Reporter “Yesterday [on Thurs They will be produced be The Supreme Court on Fri Friday decided to hear a States take much longer to took an average of 196.28 Kolkata day], we noticed that there fore a city court on Saturday. day took on board a bunch group of parents based in complete a cycle of recruit days to complete one cycle. A fouryearold kindergarten were blood stains on her “A case has been lodged of applications seeking a the United States, whose ment of lower court judges Ten States that followed a student at a reputed school clothes after she returned against the two accused un complete nationwide ban children were “abducted” than the time limit pre threetier system took an av in south Kolkata was alleged from school. When we took der the Protection of Chil on the use, manufacture, li #460490 to India by their own scribed by the Supreme erage of 335.9 days, the ly sexually assaulted by two her to a hospital, the doctors dren from Sexual Oences cencing, sale, resale or dis spouses. Court, a study has revealed. Centre said. teachers of the school. Ac told us that there had been Act, 2012,” Joint Commis tribution of recrackers in a A petition led by the The Supreme Court pre cording to the child’s father, some foul play,” the child’s sioner of Kolkata Police bid to combat pollution. group under the banner scribes a time limit of 273 Two metrics she was constantly crying father told journalists. (Crime) Vishal Garg told The A Bench led by Justice A le photo of a girl bursting ‘Bring Our Kids Home’ is days for a threetier recruit The report assigned ranking and complained of severe He also said that his Hindu. A.K. Siri issued notice to the crackers in Hyderabad. * AP about crossborder ab ment system and 153 days if to States after assessing pain after returning home daughter had told him that Even as the principal of Centre on the pleadings duction of children by it is a twotier system. their lower judiciary recruit from school on Thursday. she was taken to the wash the school, Sharmila Nath, led by advocate Gopal San Punjab, Haryana, the Minis spouses who ee their A datadriven assessment ment processes based on Upon inquiring further, room by a physical educa said an inquiry would be karanarayanan for an allIn try of Rural Development marital homes abroad. by the Vidhi Centre for Le two metrics: average time the parents lodged a police tion teacher but could not conducted and CCTV came dia prohibition, or at least in and the Indian Meteorologi The child is brought to gal Policy, New Delhi, taken to complete a recruit complaint, suspecting that explain what had happened ras installed on the school the alternative, a ban on the cal Department on a plea to India by the eeing pa showed that the average re ment cycle and the percen the child had been sexually after that. He lodged a com premises soon, angry guar possession of reworks form special teams of the rent and is denied the cruitment cycle was 326.7 tage of vacancies potentially assaulted. Two physical edu plaint at the city’s Jadavpur dians of students were not anywhere in the National police forces of both States love of the parent it left days for a threetier recruit lled. In the direct recruit cation teachers of the school police station. satised. Pointing to a simi Capital Region (NCR). which would be authorised behind in another coun ment process to appoint Ci ment of District Judges, rely were arrested on Friday The two physical educa lar incident that had taken The court directed the to “take immediate action try. vil Judges ( Junior Division). ing on data from 15 States, evening. The incident took tion teachers, Ashok Roy place about three years ago, Centre to respond within where and when instances The group says such in Tamil Nadu and West Ben place at the G.D. Birla Centre and Md. Mozuddin, were they staged a protest on the four weeks. of crop burning are cidents cause trauma to Data from 20 States gal were ranked the highest, For Education in the city. arrested on Friday evening. campus for several hours. The court impleaded observed”. the children involved and The Centre said in a state while Assam and Bihar were amounts to child abuse. ment that data from 20 ranked the lowest. India has no law to ad States were studied, while In the appointment of Ci dress such international the average was calculated vil Judges ( Junior Division), Mayawati’s BSP shows signs of revival in U.P. “abductions” of children for 18 States over a 10year Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha by their parents. period. and Punjab got the top Omar Rashid lit atrocities by dominant Verma won by almost also managed to win 147 out ishad posts and seven nagar A Bench, led by Justic The process is equally ranks, while Jammu and LUCKNOW Thakurs, the party lost by 30,000 votes while in Ali of 1,300 municipal corpora panchayat posts, including a es Rohinton F. Nariman timeconsuming for District Kashmir, Manipur and Delhi Down and out after the As just 2,000 votes. BJP’s San garh, Mohammad Furquan tion wards, 27 out of the 198 chairperson. AIMIM’s candi and Naveen Sinha, issued Judges (Direct Recruitment) were ranked the lowest. sembly elections, the Bahu jeev Walia won the Saharan defeated the BJP by a margin nagar palika parishad chair date Mashrur Fatima stood notice to the government jan Samaj Party showed pur mayor seat with 1,21,201 of over 10,000. persons and 45 nagar pan second for the Firozabad while acknowledging signs of life as it managed to votes, 36.55%, against the Fighting local body polls chayat chairpersons. Ms. mayor’s post, scoring more that, in a global world, win two mayor seats in the 1,19,201 of BSP’s Fazlur Reh in UP on its symbol for the Mayawati did not campaign than the SP, BSP and Con marriages have taken on a Uttar Pradesh civic polls, man. Saharanpur is among rst time in almost two de in the election through pu gress. AIMIM president Asa crossborder nature, and preventing a clean sweep by the four new municipal cor cades, the BSP managed to blic meetings. duddin Owaisi took to Twit instances of wrongful re the BJP. porations that elected do pretty well for itself given The All India MajliseIth ter to congratulate his team. moval and retention of The BSP won in Meerut mayors this time, the others its debacle and drifting vote ehadul Muslameen also “...I thank them and to the minor children by es and Aligarh, while in Saha being Mathura, Firozabad bank in recent elections. sprung a surprise, as it won electorate of UP who voted tranged parents have ranpur, the epicentre of the and Ayodhya. Ms.Mayawati’s party, which 12 municipal corporation for MIM we will continue to reached an alarming Bhim Army protests over Da In Meerut, BSP’s Sunita relies heavily on Dalit votes, wards, six nagar palika par work hard in UP,” he said. high.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 6 EDITORIAL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Turning the corner The next few quarters call for focus on consumption, private investment, agriculture and exports decit would have been accepta tion rates are not helping. The sit ble had it been on account of high uation on job creation is still bleak. er capital spending, not higher re Large job creating sectors like con Fragile momentum venue spending. The government struction, agriculture, textiles, The economic slowdown has been reversed, can either cut further into capital leather and tourism need to exhi spending (which tends to be dis bit more vim. but the task of sustaining the trend remains cretionary, or can be postponed to ajit ranade urning around a large ship is never easy. So it the next budget year) or it can in Exports are the key must give policymakers a measure of satisfaction crease its market borrowing to tide Finally, among the biggest worries here was a collective sigh of over this year. Either way it is not are India’s exports. The world at that the slowdown seen during the last scal year T relief when the second quar good news for the markets. That’s large is experiencing one of its and in the rst quarter has been reversed. Data released Tter GDP data were released because the former implies lower strongest growth phases. Indeed, on Thursday show that economic growth as measured ocially by the Central Statistics economic growth, and the latter the International Monetary Fund by the gross domestic product rebounded to 6.3% in Oce (CSO). The government implies higher interest rates. This has revised its growth projections the three months through September, from a threeyear folks were relieved that a declining could be the main reason for the upwards for most countries. In

low of 5.7% in the preceding quarter. The reversal in di trend of four consecutive quarters GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO markets crashing. Indeed, a scal such a scenario, India’s sluggish rection apart, what is equally noteworthy is that this re of growth had nally been re data is a bit puzzling since it seems so negatively? It is of course hazar slippage right after an upgrade by exports stick out like a sore thumb. vival was coterminous with the nationwide rollout of versed. inconsistent with the data on the dous to impute motives to the international rating agency Moo When the world economy does The forecasters and economists Index of Industrial Production stock marker index movements, dy’s does not sound auspicious. well, India’s exports should be the goods and services tax from July 1. Interestingl y, it were relieved that the announced (IIP), whose growth is only 2.2% since there are multiple inuenc Rating agencies tend to be scal ourishing. The exporting sector’s was manufacturing that was in the vanguard of the re data had mostly conformed to during this quarter. The services es, both domestic and global. Sev fundamentalists, focussing dispro fortunes are closely linked with bound, with gross value added for the sector recovering their expectations. Industry and component of trade, hotels, tran eral caveats are in order. The stock portionately on scal decits. the manufacturing sector. Exports smartly from the rst quarter’s anaemic 1.2% growth to business people were now hopeful sport and communications also market has been scaling new They in turn inuence bond inves create jobs, especially in small and post a healthy 7% expansion. While the GVA data for the that this was the rst instance of a grew smartly at 10.5% for the half peaks, even though GDP growth tors, who might suddenly stop medium enterprises. Why can’t sector appear, on the face of it, to be signicantly at var sustained upward trajectory of year, as compared to 8.3% a year had been declining. The stock pouring dollars into India’s bond India’s small enterprises sell on iance from the Index of Industrial Production data that growth. GDP growth came at 6.3% ago. So much for the good news. market is always a forwardlooking and stock markets. But markets global portals like Alibaba and for the quarter ending September, Industrial revival is an absolute entity, a harbinger of things to are notoriously ckle. They might Amazon? What are the hurdles? Is had been reported for the last quarter, the Central Sta higher than 5.7% in the previous must for sustained growth in em come. Whereas the GDP data re very well be more jubilant if the the GST framework (with delayed tistics Oce made it clear that the secondquarter IIP quarter, but still lower than 7.5% a ployment and output. It should al leased by the government de government exceeds its privatisa refunds) inhibiting the growth of manufacturing growth gure of 2.2% was indeed fac year ago. The Finance Minister so be accompanied by an increase scribe what happened two or tion target this year. exports? What are the policy and tored in and used as a proxy for the approximately one said that the eects of the demo in private sector investment, three months ago. The stock mar Moving away from sentiments other bottlenecks? These are the fth of manufacturing GVA contributed by the “quasi netisation and initial rollout of the which is still lacklustre. The por ket is swayed by a relatively small of Dalal Street, it is important to issues that we need to grapple corporate and unorganised segment”. A lion’s share, or goods and services tax (GST) were tion of GDP growth coming from minority of deep pocket investors focus on the weaker components, with to sustain an upward growth more than 70%, of economic activity in the sector was behind us. (In saying so, he impli xed capital formation (which (and increasingly algorithms and which should become policy focus path. citly endorsed the view that in stands for investment activity) de bots), so its reaction is not repre area. As said above, private sector We need to acknowledge that measured using growth among private listed corporate deed demonetisation and the GST clined from 27.5% in the rst quar sentative of what’s happening to investment is still anaemic. It is unlike last year, this year the go entities, based on the numbers reported by them. rollout had been negative for the ter to 26.4% now. This has to be the broadbased economy. Even constrained by low capacity utili vernment has less scal room to Sustaining and building on this reversal of momen GDP, at least in the short run. But closely watched, and needs high so, despite these caveats, it’s use sation, deleveraging of balance pump prime growth. Oil prices tum may be more challenging in the coming months, gi this is not the occasion for such policy priority. All the improve ful to pay heed. sheets (as companies are reducing have gone up in the past few ven other economic data that are a cause for concern minor nitpicking!) ments in the Ease of Doing Busi loan burdens), insolvency resolu months, taking away the scal di and some external headwinds. Specically, agriculture ness (EODB) ranking are meaning Spooked markets tions and large inux of imports, vidend. GST, Real Estate (Regula remains in a slump, and this in a ‘normal’ monsoon Devil’s in the detail less unless we see substantial The market was spooked by the especially manufactured goods. tion and Development) Act, Insol All these responses of being as pickup in private sector invest data on scal decit. At this stage Second, consumption spending vency Code are all great reforms year — GVA growth in the sector, which includes fores sured that we had turned a corner ment. More about this later. of the scal year, the decit is run has started losing steam. Its for the medium to long term. But try and shing, slowed to 1.7%, from 2.3% in the rst are justied if we see some of the There was one more silver lin ning at 96.1% of the annual target. growth went down a notch from the next few quarters call for sus quarter, and was considerably weaker than the 4.1% positive details from the GDP data. ing in the data. The CSO says that Last year at this stage it was only at the last two quarters. taining consumption, inviting pace posted in the yearearlier period. Agriculture is a For instance, industrial growth ac GST collections data are provision 79.3%. The revenue expenditure Nearly twothirds of India’s GDP private investment, energising signicant contributor to rural incomes and consump celerated from 1.6% during the al, and could be an underestimate. component (roughly salaries, pen is consumption spending, and re agriculture, and giving a big llip tion demand, and the impact of a protracted agricultu June quarter to 5.8% in this Sep To that extent an upward revision sions, interest payments, etc), mains the key to sustaining the to exports. We have our work cut ral slowdown on the larger economy cannot be over tember quarter. Its subcompo of the GDP data is possible in the which is not the productive spend growth momentum. Its slowing out. nent, manufacturing, too grew fas future. ing on items like infrastructure, is means that purchasing power stated. Worryingly, the foodgrain output in the kharif ter at 7% compared to only 1.2% So if the GDP trend is satisfacto growing at twice the rate as bud both in rural and urban areas is season contracted by 2.8%, compared with a 10.7% ex during the previous quarter. This ry, why did the stock market react geted (10% against 5%). The higher under pressure. Mounting ina Ajit Ranade is an economist pansion in the yearearlier period. This could portend a resurgence of inationary pressures on food prices that would limit the room for growthsupportive monetary action by the Reserve Bank of India . Consumption Scripting another Asian narrative spending by households also remains in a stubborn rut: the secondquarter growth at 6.5% was a tad slower Japan is lling the vacuum created by the U.S.’s withdrawal from the region than the 6.6% seen in AprilJune; it was 7.9% a year ear go’s armed forces will remain un ween 2006 and 2010. help the Indian N avy is being #460490 lier. With global oil prices having risen appreciably, and der strong, selfimposed con Japanese sales pitches to coun discussed. the scal headroom for more pump priming by the go straints. The constitutional tries in the region always have one vernment having narrowed drastically — the scal de revision would merely recognis e eye on China, emphasising advan Creating a ‘Quad’ cit at the end of October has already hit 96.1% of the the legality of Japan’s long extant tages in areas where Beijing is vul A free and open IndoPacic, a budget estimate for 201718 — the coming quarters could SelfDefense Forces (SDF). Oen nerable such as safety, reliability phrasing that places India as a ma well test the real mettle of the economic recovery. pallavi aiyar sive weapons and preemptive and solutions that deliver benets jor actor in the Pacic, is an idea strikes would remain outlawed. to local populations. being proselytised by Japan in con junction with the U.S. This is a res apan has long been an anoma Countering China Looking to India ponse to concerns over the expan Accident-prone ly: an economic powerhouse His nationalist leanings notwith China’s $900 billion, Belt and sion of the Chinese navy and The apathy over enforcing road safety Jwithin a geostrategic pygmy. standing, even Mr. Abe realis es Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure Beijing’s territorial claims in the rules must stop But China’s muscular ascent com that remilitaris ing alone will not building campaign across Eurasia South China Sea, waters through bined with the capriciousness of a provide Japan with an eective so GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO is a gauntlet that Japan has picked which a huge majority of Japanese he most eective measure to keep roads safe is Trumpled U.S. is causing Tokyo to lution to its diplomatic dilemmas. in the Asia Pacic, rather than let up by turning to the only country energy supplies transit. enforcement of rules with zero tolerance to viola slough o its diplomatic slumber What Tokyo needs to prevent the China set the agenda with alterna in the region with the heft to It is against this background Ttions. But as anyone who uses India’s roads and rethink its role in Asia. From region from succumbing to a Pax tives to TPP such as the Beijing match China, India. that Tokyo’s championing of the knows only too well, that is not an administrative prior proposing new security dialogues, Sinica is to use its strengths, its backed Regional Comprehensive Japan and India have an Quadrilateral dialogue with the ity. Even the periodic directions of the Supreme Cou rt to taking the lead in developing capital, its technological know Economic Partnership (RCEP). nounced an AsiaAfrica Growth U.S., India and Australia aimed at multilateral trade agreements, it is how and its democratic creden At the same time, Japan is step Corridor, aimed at creating sea creating a community of demo in a public interest case, Dr. S. Rajasekaran v. Union of beginning to pick up some of the tials to win friends and inuence ping up aid and investment in corridors linking the countries of cratically oriented interests in the India, have not produced any dramatic change in the of slack left by the U.S.’s “America countries across the region and Southeast Asia. A train line near the IndoPacic to Africa. In addi region must be understood. cial attitude. In spite of the court setting up the Com First”inuenced withdrawal from beyond. It needs to beat infras Manila, a seaport in Cambodia, tion, Japan is cooperating with In Tokyo wants to use the bilateral mittee on Road Safety and appointing an amicus curiae leadership in Asia. tructure sugar daddy China at its and assistance in the reconstruc dia in third country infrastructure ties it is developing to create a mul to help implement its recommendations, it is mostly Japan is in a potentially explo own game. tion of Marawi City in the Philip projects such as Iran’s Chabahar tilateral architecture in the region. business as usual for the police in enforcing road rules, sive neighbourhood, and it no lon A large part of China’s rise has pines are some examples. As the Port, Sri Lanka’s Trincomalee Like Germany in postWorld War II for engineers tasked with forming roads and pave ger believes that a wholescale re to do with its indispensability to top source of development aid to port, and the possible joint deve Europe, Japan is aware that unilat liance on the U.S. for a defenc e global trade. But Japan is a trading Vietnam, it has helped construct a lopment of the Dawei port along eral moves by it invariably conjure ments, and transport ocials in charge of licensing. umbrella is sucient to secure its heavyweight too, and is attempt new airport terminal in Hanoi as the ThaiMyanmar border. up images of militarism and ex The death of 1,50,785 people in accidents in 2016, best interests. Foreign Minister ing to stake leadership on the re well as the rst subway line in Ho Japan has bagged the $17 billion pansionism. However, without which represents a 3.2% rise over the previous year, in Tar Kon said in October: “We gional platform with the Trans Chi Minh City. contract to build India’s rst high making genuine amendments for dicates the scale of the challenge. Fortunately, the or are in an era when Japan has to ex Pacic Partnership (TPP). With the Mr. Abe recently committed 1 speed railway line, linking Mum its past aggressions, an idea that ders of the court now provide actionable points with ert itself diplomatically by drawing U.S.’s departure from trade nego trillion yen ($8.7 billion) to the Phi bai and Ahmedabad. Tokyo is also Mr. Abe does not seem interested deadlines for implementation. Governments should be a big strategic picture.” tiations, Japan has become the lippines over the next ve years, investing in development projects in, Japan’s attempts to shape the called to account on these, and civil society must en Military normalis ation is one principal driving force keeping the with a continued focus on infras in the Northeast and the Andaman future of the region will remain prong of Japan’s new foreign poli deal alive. At November’s Asia tructure development. Japanese and Nicobar islands. And Japan’s constrained. sure that they act without compromise. The most im cy, but even if a controversial revi Pacic Economic Cooperation investment in major Southeast Diet gave the go ahead to a Japan portant among these is the Road Safety Action Plan that sion of Japan’s pacist C onstitu summit in Vietnam, Japan got the Asian countries is estimated to India civil nuclear energy deal ear Pallavi Aiyar has reported from China, each State and Union Territory must announce by tion, as proposed by newly 11 countries still involved to agree have averaged $20 billion per year, lier this year. The possibility of Europe, Indonesia and Japan. She is a March 2018, and roll out after giving due publicity. But reelected Prime Minister Shinzo on the “core elements” of a deal. It from 2011 to 2016, more than dou purchasing Japanese submarines Young Global Leader with the World police forces and transport bureaucracies need not Abe goes through, the archipela wants to lead rulemaking on trade ble the average annual ows bet and searchandrescue planes to Economic Forum wait for formalisation of the plan, and should start en forcing rules relating to lanebased driving, using CCTV LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. cameras to penalise oenders, and conducting safety audits along with experts. Disturbing States. What is more counterterrorism are not key. The issue of the right to Visvesvaraya College of result of a deep ignorance of The absence of a scientic approach to accident in Crime statistics speak the disconcerting is the fact we sacriced at the altar of individual privacy, for Engineering building was history (Some editions, vestigation in India remains a major factor in xing res language of numbers, but are analysing crime data for federalism? instance Aadhaar, now has and is unnecessary. The “British era air raid shelter ponsibility. This was pointed out by the Sundar Com their real signicance 2016 during the end of 2017. V.N. Mukundarajan, the attention of the most advisable and demolished”, December 1). mittee of the Ministry of Road Transport in 2007, but springs from their insights It is shocking that a major Thiruvananthapuram Supreme Court. One must practical plan would be to The fact that Madras came other than a failed attempt at creating a National Road into society’s sociocultural information technology hope that the case is rebuild and refurbish close to being bombed is Individual data Safety and Trac Management Board, no real eort has norms and values such as power like India should be thoroughly sifted for both heritage buildings. something that most gender equality, struggling to put in place a Our concept of data privacy the pros and cons and not Technology in the form of youngsters in the city and been made at reform. The orders of the Supreme Court empowerment of women, realtime national crime has moved little from the be allowed to be overridden photogrammetry, spatial State are bound to be provide a road map, and the direction to States to form and safety of women, tracking network that will Indian Copyright Act, 1957. citing administrative information system ignorant about. There are a District Road Safety Committee headed by the Collec besides reecting the connect all police stations The IT Act, to aid the exigencies. technology, computer several heritage structures in tor before January 31, 2018 should ensure that someone eectiveness of the law and across India. The fact that revolution in digital R. Narayanan, aided design and drafting, the city which are in a state is accountable when citizens le complaints on hazar order machinery in law and order is a State transactions, is even now Navi Mumbai and 3D scanning can be of utter neglect and being dous conditions. It bears pointing out that the courtap dierent States. The subject has made it dicult beset with a plethora of used to rebuild the same eyed by the real estate maa. pointed Committee on Road Safety has written to States national crime data for for the Central government amendments. The Privacy Whither heritage structure, retaining all its One only hopes that the 2016, released by the to speed up the setting up (Protection) Bill, 2013 to It is most unfortunate that features. State governments extensive work being done on the need to prosecute every case of driving under National Crime Records of the Crime and Criminal safeguard sensitive data, there is scant regard for should accord priority to by a small and unrecognised the inuence of alcohol and drugs, seeking imprison Bureau, reveal a disturbing Tracking Networks and was aimed more against heritage building prolonging the life of old, band of historians and ment and ne, and to treat driving on the wrong side of spurt (“Spurt in rape cases, Systems that was launched social media posts. We are conservation across most historic and beautiful conservationists bears fruit the carriageway as an oence under Section 279 of the with M.P., U.P. leading the by the UPA in 2010. Many yet unclear on critical core parts of India. While in the buildings and retaining our and that the Tamil Nadu Indian Penal Code, which can lead to imprisonment, table”, December 1). The laggard States are yet to areas of concern on data West, there is great pride history. government is deeply and not merely under the Motor Vehicles Act. Stringent high prevalence of crimes install the Statespecic privacy in this exploding and investment in C.R. Sathya Prakash, convinced of the need to Bengaluru penalties have a lower chance of being imposed, com against women in the infrastructure required for digital age. preserving heritage save the glorious heritage of ‘Hindi belt’ is cause for this purpose. Is it not time Recall that the NDA was structures, it appears to be Madras/Chennai. With the pared to nes that are proportionate to the oence. Yet, concern and demands the that we initiate a debate to utterly dismissive of exactly the opposite in I It was a surprise to learn availability of advanced even the existing minor penalties are not being im attention of civil society, include law and order in Aadhaar during the UPA India. In Bengaluru for that Chennai has a British technology, is it so dicult? posed, and road conditions remain hazardous due to cultural and religious the Concurrent List of the regime, yet three months in instance, the razing/ era air raid shelter, in north Kamala Narayan, poor engineering. This is proof of the apathy of the sys leaders, criminologists, the Constitution so that oce, it was quick to sing destruction of the historic Chennai, and later a shock Chennai tem. It’s time to shakethe system out of its indierence. police, and the political national priorities such as paeans about it and now Krumbiegel Hall at Lalbagh that it has now been partially more letters online: class in these crimeprone crime prevention and eager to wield it as a master and the University demolished, largely the www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2017 GROUND ZERO 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The lost Jews of Churachandpur Arguing that they are the Bnei Menashe, one of the ten lost tribes of Israel, a secton of Kukis wants to emigrate to Israel. But they cannot do so unless they formally embrace Judaism. Prafulla Das reports on the strange predicament of people torn between a contested history and an uncertain future

eventyyearold Avihu Singsit, a na tive of Churachandpur district in SManipur, is excited about migrat ing to Israel. “I have been waiting to go to the holy land which God chose for my ancestors,” he says. He is among the thousands of tribal people of Manipur keen to leave India for Israel. Although their Jewish connections became apparent in the 1950s, Singsit and others began practising Judaism in Manipur sometime in the 1970s, after coming to know that they were the ‘Bnei Menashe’ (Hebrew for ‘the sons of Ma nasseh’), descendants of the tribe of Ma nasseh, which is one of the 10 ‘lost tribes of Israel’ that were exiled by the Assyrian empire more than 2,700 years ago. Singsit and his wife Zivah Singsit (65), who have lived all their life in Manipur, embraced Judaism formally in 2009, four years after he retired as a Zonal Education Ocer at Kangpokpi. Both adopted Jewish names after converting to Judaism — Avihu Singsit was earlier Thangkam Singsit and Zivah Singsit was Aneng Singsit. So far, around 3,000 people from Ma nipur and Mizoram have already emi grated to Israel after embracing Ju daism. But there are still more than 7,000 Bnei Menashe living in India and practising Judaism, nearly all of whom wish to immigrate to Israel. A batch of 162 persons from Churachandpur, who had been shortlisted in 2014, moved to Israel a few weeks ago, attracting promi nent coverage in the Israeli press.

The fabled past Singsit had heard his grandfather tell him stories about their ancestors who lived in caves before eeing to India. While there is no historical record of this mass migration, the Bnei Menashe tribe believes that they settled in north eastern India and in countries adjoining the region several centuries ago, and that, while passing through China, they lived in caves to escape religious “So far, around 3,000 people from Manipur and Mizoram have already emigrated to Israel after embracing Judaism.” Bnei Menashe boys whose parents wish to go to Israel. (Below) Members of the Bnei Menashe

persecution. Council in Kangpokpi district, Manipur. * RITU RAJ KONWAR A section of the Kuki population liv ing in the hilly areas of Manipur believe they are the Bnei Menashe just as some India to full their dream of returning to the Bnei Menashe can return to the land our adherence to Christianity,” says Joel #460490 <> At the current pace, it could of the Mizos in neighbouring Mizoram the Land of Israel, according to Freund. of their ancestors as soon as possible.” Janglun, a senior member of the Mes take over a decade for the do. It is believed that they practised In an email interview, Freund said: sianic Council. His daughter, Kimeha, immigration to be completed, their ancient Jewish traditions for centu “Shavei Israel invests a great deal of The reluctant non-converts married to a rabbi of the locality, immi which is far too long. I hope ries, unaware that they were the des time, energy and resources in helping As uncertainty haunts the followers of grated to Israel with her husband and that the Israeli government cendants of one of the lost tribes of Is the Bnei Menashe with their absorption Judaism, about 100 km from Chura has been living there for the past eight rael. A majority of them converted to in the Jewish state and we will continue chandpur, a large group of people oer years. will speed up the process so Christianity in the 19th century. It was to do whatever we can to facilitate this ing prayers at the Bnei Menashe Mes While some Kukis who embraced Ju that the Bnei Menashe can only after they were introduced to the process. As relations between Israel and sianic Council synagogue at Kangpokpi daism in recent years have immigrated, return to the land of their Bible that the Bnei Menashe identied India continue to grow stronger, I am tell this correspondent that they too and many are eagerly awaiting their ancestors as soon as possible. Manmasi or Menasia, a legendary an condent that the Bnei Menashe will wish to immigrate to Israel, but are turn to leave, there are lakhs of Kukis in Michael Freund cestor of theirs, as the Biblical Manas play an increasingly important role in stuck as they don’t want to convert to the hill districts of Manipur who have Chairman of Shavei Israel seh, the son of Joseph. bringing our two countries even closer Judaism. no plans to leave India. The community’s belief in a Jewish together.” More than 40 people from Kangpok According to Haokip, the hopes and tions for the Menashe tribes to immi identity was reinforced in the early Observing that the Bnei Menashe pe pi immigrated to Israel between 1997 aspirations of this vast majority ow in a grate to Israel [which is unlikely], I will 1950s when Mei Chalah, a priest in Miz ople are a living link between two great and 2017, after they accepted Judaism as dierent direction. They are more inter happily live here,” Boigund says. oram, dreamt that his people belonged <> We love India as we were born countries and civilisations, Israel and their religion. About 200 people who ested in ghting for a separate State for Says Rebecca Jubai, a young girl from to Jerusalem. According to veteran Kuki and educated here. But we India, Freund pointed out that when have started practising Judaism are the Bnei Menashe tribal people within Kangpokpi town: “We don’t wish to leader P.S. Haokip, president of the Kuki want to go and live in Israel, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited waiting for their turn to go there, says T. the framework of the Indian Constitu emigrate to Israel since we were born as National Organisation (KNO), all the Ku the land of our forefathers. Israel earlier this year in July, hundreds Menashe, president of the Messianic tion, he says. Indians. But we have come to know of ki tribals are Bnei Menashe with Jewish Naomi of Bnei Menashe immigrants gathered Council. While he says that Christians “We are descendants of Manasseh, the religion that our forefathers used to roots, and about 90% of those in Mani Resident, Churachandpur to greet him, along with other Indian are abandoning Christianity and em but don’t want to immigrate to Israel. practise, and we are now doing the pur are Christians. He claims that “they Jews living in the country. bracing Judaism in the hope of a better We are happy as Indians,” says Haokip. same.” were brothers and descendants of Ma far, even as those shortlisted two years “This is a tangible sign of how the quality of life in Israel, other locals He, however, is not opposed to any nasseh, as God clearly revealed to His ago are yet to leave. The process of im Bnei Menashe people help deepen the claim that they are leaving only because member of the Kuki tribe embracing Ju A matter of identity servants, Rev. Chomlhum and Pastor migration is a complicated one involv bond between our countries. It is a tes of their conviction that they are descen daism and emigrating to Israel. “I don’t George T. Haokip, assistant professor of Hnamthinkhum, in 2011”. Before con ing extensive counselling of the Bnei tament to India and its democracy that dants of the lost tribes of Israel. oppose those emigrating to Israel. It’s a Political Science and Human Rights at verting to Christianity, these tribal peo Menashe and intense scrutiny of their the Bnei Menashe people are free to Pointing out that those who follow Ju question of faith and religion.” the Indira Gandhi National Tribal Un ple who followed Jewish customs were religious orientation by a rabbi sent by practise their faith openly. Unlike Jews daism believe in the Old Testament of Claiming that there are about six lakh iversity, echoes her sentiments. “I am a worshippers of nature, of pythons, Shavei Israel, an Israelbased voluntary in Europe, who are experiencing a the Bible and don’t accept the inspira Kuki tribal people in Manipur, Haokip Christian with Jewish roots. But I do not lakes, and hills, he adds. organisation that facilitates the immi growing wave of antiSemitism, the Bnei tion of the New Testament, Menashe says that he wants the establishment of think it is obligatory or necessary to gration of the followers of Judaism. Menashe have not experienced any dis says that the members of the Messianic a Kuki State comprising the six hill dis emigrate to Israel as a Jewish descen The long wait crimination or hatred in India, and we Council in Kangpokpi, numbering tricts of Churachandpur, Chandel, dent. There are Jewish populations eve While they await the green signal from Strengthening the ‘living link’ are grateful to the Indian government about 1,000, who follow some Jewish Tengnoupal, Kangpokpi, Pherzawl and rywhere. It is a matter of one’s identity, the Israeli government, Singsit and Zi After verifying the applicants’ ability to for enabling the Bnei Menashe to ob traditions but are actually followers of Kamjong. history and origin. Some Kukis who are vah have shifted to a rented accommo recite prayers in Hebrew and observe serve the tenets of Judaism without Jesus Christ, cannot go to Israel unless The KNO is not the only organisation adopting Orthodox Judaism would dation in the district headquarters town the tenets of Judaism, the Bnei Menashe fear,” said Freund. they change their religion from Chris of Kuki tribal people ghting for a sepa think of Israel as their religious ‘original of Churachandpur. Council and Shavei Israel shortlist the The Bnei Menashe people who have tianity to Judaism. rate State. Many Kuki outts that have home’ or Zion. It is their individual faith In their home, the Star of David names of those who qualify for immi immigrated to Israel receive Israeli citi “Although many messianic people been ghting separately for long are and conviction. Having Jewish ancestry hangs on the wall. Singsit wears the Kip gration. Shavei Israel facilitates the en zenship and new immigrant status after have been living in Israel, the messianic now coming together to take up this de does not mean that Kukis are refugees pah, like many others in Churachand tire process of immigration in coordina completing various bureaucratic pro tribal people of Manipur wanting to re mand and put an end to the economic in India. In Manipur, Kukis are as old as pur, which indicates that they are fol tion with the Israeli government, and cesses that could take several months. turn to the land of their ancestors are disparity that exists between the valley the land itself and they have their own lowers of Judaism. They have given up arranges funds for aspiring emigrants. “The pace of the immigration as well as unable to go because the Shavei Israel and the hilly areas of Manipur. They right to selfdetermination,” he says. eating pork, a dietary mainstay of the Those shortlisted by Shavei Israel in various other aspects is decided by the organisation is not accepting them or fa point out that the valley and the hills are He, however, observes that the ‘lost tribal community, and have switched to 2014 are now leaving in phases. Israeli government, not by Shavei Is cilitating their immigration. We have gi yet to have a rail link connecting them tribe fever’ has overwhelmed the Kukis chicken, beef and vegetables. They also While taking care of his family with rael,” he claried. “Judaism is not a mis ven several memorandums to the Israeli despite the fact that it was the latter that of Manipur, particularly in recent years, recite their prayers in Hebrew thrice a his pension money, Singsit spends time sionary religion. Hence, Shavei Israel government and Shavei Israel to take us contributed the Manipuri classical sparking claims and counterclaims bet day, and observe Sabbath on Saturday, at Bnei Menashe Council India, which works only with those Bnei Menashe to Israel without requiring us to convert dance to the country and polo to the ween proJewish and Christian groups. in keeping with the faith. operates from the premises of the Sha who observe the tenets of Judaism.” to Judaism,” he says. world, and continues to supply jawans “Though all the Kuki people agree Their two older sons have not em vei Israel Hebrew Centre in Chura He added: “At the current pace, it “As a lost tribe of Israel, we long to go and ocers to the Indian defence forces that they are the descendants of Israel, braced Judaism and live in their village chandpur town. Other followers of Ju could take over a decade for the immi back to our promised land. We envy and ocers to the police service. there is a division among them,” George Keiphelmandi, in Kangpokpi district, daism, including women and children, gration to be completed, which is far those of our brothers who have immi Haokip has been organising Kut, an says. “This is seen in the adoption of dif about 100 km away. But they are not oer prayers at the synagogue there. too long. I hope that the Israeli govern grated to Israel. The reason we cannot annual festival of brotherhood in Mani ferent religions. No Christian can immi alone as their third and youngest son, The Bnei Menashe Council observed its ment will speed up the process so that go is our faith in Yeshua (Jesus Christ), pur where Bnei Menashe tribes from grate into Israel. It requires a rigorous Naomi Singsit, and his wife, Meir Sing silver jubilee in 2001. dierent northeastern States and neigh study of the Hebrew language and con sit, have embraced Judaism and are liv The Shavei Israel Centre, founded in bouring countries are invited. The fes version rituals. There are many Chris ing with them. “We love India as we 2004 by Michael Freund, Chairman of tival aims to promote unity among the tians in Manipur who believe that con were born and educated here. But we Shavei Israel, claims that it does not Bnei Menashe descendants. verting to Judaism in order to immigrate want to go and live in Israel, the land of proselytise or support any form of mis “It is sad to see onesided news re to Israel is an attempt to escape poverty. our forefathers,” says 31yearold sionary activity. But it does sponsor rab ports, and news channels claiming that ProJewish groups, however, justify emi Naomi. bis and teachers to work with various there are only 8,000 people in Manipur gration as the fullment of a dream they Some of their relatives are already liv groups of lost Jews in places as far as In and Mizoram who belong to the lost have carried with them during their ing in Israel. While Aviala, the widowed dia, and in many other countries where tribes,” says Caleb Boigund, a Manipuri exile.” daughter of Singsit and Zivah, emigrat the ‘lost tribes’ have been found to be Christian whose father, Khuplam Milui In the lush green valleys and hills of ed to Israel along with her son and living. Lenthang, has written a book on tribes Churachandpur, the disengagement of daughter in 2007, Zivah’s father and As conversion to Judaism remains a in northeast India with Jewish links. “In the state with its people becomes appa brother have also moved to Israel. Avia precondition for the Bnei Menashe tri fact, there are several lakhs of KukiMi rent. In 2006, it was categorised as one la’s son has already joined the Israeli de bals to immigrate to Israel, Shavei Israel zo (Menashe) tribal people in northeast of the country’s most impoverished dis fence service after completing his mili oers various educational options in Is India, where 7,0008,000 people have tricts by the Central government. The tary training, as it is mandatory under rael, including Machon Miriam, the only converted to Judaism. But migration to vast majority of its population, the Ku law to join the armed forces on turning Spanishlanguage conversion and re Israel requires unnecessary conversion kis, depends on agriculture and the for 18. turn institute in Jerusalem. into Judaism. I believe in my own faith est for their livelihood. For many of Uncertainty, however, prevails over For the past 15 years, Shavei Israel and I am also happy being an Indian. them, Israel is not only the land of their the Singsit family’s planned move to Is has been assisting members of the Bnei Until conversion to Judaism and an im ancient past but also a metaphor for a rael as they have not been shortlisted so Menashe community of northeastern migration trial cease to be precondi better future.

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in tax dispute with T.N. Suhasini Haidar progressive values, tole Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI rance, inclusion, and rights NEW DELHI Mr. Modi’s oce did not res to payments disputes. Unveiling his new role as a for LGBT people. These are The Supreme Court on Fri pond to an email seeking There are over 20 cases social reformer at a town universal values he holds, day agreed to examine comment. pending against India, hall and media event in Del not for any one country. whether the Election Com The case, brought against among the highest against hi, the former U.S. President When he was here in India mission of India should be India for alleged violations any single nation. Barack Obama on Friday last he said in a speech that empowered to deregister of its Comprehensive Eco In 2008, when Nissan highlighted the issues of reli he has deep respect for how a political party on the nomic Partnership Agree and its global alliance partn gious tolerance, LGBT com important traditions are, ground that a convicted ment with Japan, is the lat er, French carmaker Re munity rights and the impor and how important identity person has either formed it est in a string of nault, agreed to invest in set tance of nongovernmental is, but that is not inconsis or is a crucial party international arbitration ting up a car plant in organisations (NGOs). tent with respecting others ocebearer. proceedings against the Chennai, the State govern At the townhall event of and being tolerant of them,” The threejudge Bench country by investors con ment promised several in 300 youth leaders, activists Mr. Rhodes, who travelled to led by Chief Justice of India cerned about issues ranging centives including some tax and social entrepreneurs or Delhi with Mr. Obama, said. Dipak Misra sought a res from retrospective taxation refunds. ganised by the Obama Foun He said the Obama Foun ponse from the Centre and dation, Mr. Obama spoke dation also wanted to high the Election Commission. about the importance of light the importance of Senior advocate Sidd “nding a voice” for the Les NGOs. “Here in India, the harth Luthra, appearing Heavy rain pounds bian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans point we would make is that for petitioneradvocate gender (LGBT) community. NGOs are necessary to help Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, To a specic question solve problems. NGOs reasoned that if a convict Kerala, south T.N. from Akkai Padmashali, a should be seen not as a ed person could be banned transgender activist, on Sec threat, but as partner, and from contesting elections, As many as 2,759 persons in restored in many pockets. tion 377 of Indian Penal Code play a role in the solution,” he or she should also be de Thiruvananthapuram, Kol As a result, mobile commu which criminalises homosex Back in Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Barack Obama on Friday. * PTI he said in response to a ques barred from heading a pol lam, Alappuzha, Ernakulam nication was aected. Many uality, Mr. Obama said peo tion on funding restrictions itical party and controlling and Thrissur were relocated residents relied on boat ser ple from the community and that is something I have Indian economy, saying they nicant as they repeat con placed on American NGOs other elected members of to relief camps. vices as lowlying areas were should “take hope” from the told Prime Minister Modi in had been “also great cerns he expressed at a pu Ford Foundation and Com his or her party. In Tamil Nadu, while the inundated. However, auth experience of the U.S. and person as well as to people in friends”. blic lecture during his 2015 passion International. The petition names lead authorities said four per orities were able to move es other countries, where America ... People see the Referring to a “counter visit criticising cow vigilan Mr. Modi, who hosted a ers like Rashtriya Janata sons had died due to the cy sential commodities during samesex marriages had now dierences between each narrative” to tolerance in the tism and attacks on churches lunch for Mr. Obama on Fri Dal chief Lalu Prasad, who clone, unocial sources put the forenoon. been legalised. other much too vividly and U.S., Europe and India, Mr. in India at the time. day, later tweeted: “It was a was convicted in the fod the gure at 10. Close to 70 Though the intensity was Earlier in the day, Mr. Oba miss the commonalities,” he Obama said, “For a country pleasure to meet, once der scam. personnel from the National not that heavy in neighbour ma said he had brought up told an audience at a confe like India where there is a Universal values again, former President Ba “Presently, even a per Disaster Response Force ing Tirunelveli and Thooth concerns about the treat rence organised by the Hin- Muslim population that is In an exclusive interview to rack Obama, and learn about son, who has been convict (NDRF) were deployed in ukudi districts, continuous ment of religious minorities dustan Times group. While successful, integrated and The Hindu, Mr. Obama’s the new initiatives being ta ed for heinous crimes like many pockets to assist the rain resulted in Papanasam with Prime Minister Naren praising Mr. Modi for his considers itself as Indian — chief international adviser ken forward under his lea murder, rape, smuggling, needy and evacuation drive dam recording 451 mm rain dra Modi during his last visit work on Climate Change and which is not the case in some Ben Rhodes said the former dership at the Obama Foun money laundering, sedi was on at many locations. fall. as U.S. President in January the Paris accords, Mr. Oba other countries, this should President believed these dation…and his perspectives tion, loot, dacoity, etc., can Schools and colleges re Out of the 11 dams in Tiru 2015. ma credited the former be nourished and were “universal values”. on further strengthening In form a political party and mained closed in Kanniya nelveli district, six had “A country shouldn’t be Prime Minister Manmohan cultivated.” “In any country round the diaU.S. strategic partner become party president,” kumari district, where pow reached the maximum stor divided on sectarian lines Singh for modernising the Mr. Obama’s words are sig world, he is going to support ship.” the petition contended. er lines were not yet age level. 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The Bharatiya Janata Party rately on all seats this time Special Correspondent Legal Correspondent The petition led by Su nure of six years, or up to the mendation of the CEC,” the also lost to the SP in ward18 after a failed alliance in the New Delhi NEW DELHI preme Court advocate Ash age of 65, whichever is ear petition said. in Ayodhya under which the Assembly polls, would have The Enforcement Directo The Supreme Court on Fri wini Kumar Upadhyay ar lier, and enjoy the same sta It contended that the “ra disputed site falls. taken them comfortably rate on Friday conducted day sought the Attorney gued that though the proviso tus and receive salary and tionale behind not aording The party, however, won ahead of her. searches at six places in General’s assistance on a PIL to Article 324 (5) of the Con perks as available to Su similar protection to Elec the Ayodhya mayor seat by The ruling party faced re Kolkata and Chennai in petition pointing out the stitution safeguards the preme Court judges. tion Commissioners is not 3,500 votes; Gulshan Bindu, sistance in Saharanpur connection with the mo vagueness in the procedure Chief Election Commission explicable.” a transgender elded by the where the Bahujan Samaj ney laundering probe into for removal of Election Com er (CEC) from arbitrary re Same powers The element of indepen #460490 SP, stood second. Party gave it a run for its mo the AircelMaxis deal. missioners, saying it aects moval, the same provision is “The CEC and the Election dence sought to be achieved The Varanasi municipal ney losing out by just 2,000 The searches were car the Election Commission’s silent about the procedure Commissioners enjoy the under the Constitution is not corporation was secured ea votes in a highscoring po ried out at four locations in autonomy. for removal of the two Elec same decisionmaking pow exclusively for an individual sily by the BJP’s Mridula Jais larised ght. Chennai and two in Kolka A Bench led by Chief Jus tion Commissioners. ers which is suggestive of the alone but for the institution, wal, although the combined The SP and the Congress ta, linked to four persons. tice of India Dipak Misra fact that their powers are at it said. vote share of the SP and could not win a single The probe is related to the asked for a copy of the peti Just one clause par with each other. Howev The petition, in short, has Congress, who fought sepa mayor seat. Foreign Investment Pro tion to be served on Attor It only provides that they procedure of the Election er, Article 324(5) does not asked the Supreme Court to motion Board clearance to neyGeneral K.K. Venugopal cannot be removed from of Commissioners may aect provide similar protection to provide Election Commis Maxis’ investment of over so that he could address the ce except on the recom the functional indepen the Election Commissioners sioners with the same pro 3,500 crore in Aircel in court on the issue which is mendation of the CEC. dence of the Commission. and it merely says that they tection against arbitrary re States’ views sought 2006 when P. Chidamba due to come up after three The petition said the am The CEC and the Election cannot be removed from of moval as the Chief Election ram was Finance Minister. weeks. biguity about the removal Commissioners have a te ce except on the recom Commissioner. on triple talaq law As per the provisions of the security. It is a safety net,” Navy alive to China draft Bill, accessed by The said a top government o T.N. working to settle Nissan suit Hindu, a husband who re cial involved in preparing sorts to instant triple talaq the draft law. threat, says Lanba can be jailed up to three In August, the Supreme Dispute over refund of VAT and pace of reimbursement of accruals, says ocial years and ned. Instant tri Court passed a landmark ple talaq in any form — oral, judgment terming instant Sanjay Vijayakumar form of valued added taxes Finds submarine deployment odd written or electronic form triple talaq illegal and un T. RAMAKRISHNAN among others based on cer Chennai such as SMS, WhatsApp or constitutional. However, go tain conditions. Dinakar Peri email — has been banned vernment sources say data The Tamil Nadu government “The issue pertains over NEW DELHI and made a nonbailable suggests that even after the is working towards resolving dierences in value added Referring to the Chinese de and cognisable oence. judgment, there have been the controversy over the taxes refund claimed under ployment of submarines for The Bill also provides for 66 cases of instant divorce. payment of incentive refund the incentive. The incentives antipiracy patrols in the a subsistence allowance for The subject of divorce with Nissan, a Japanese car are spread over a period of 21 Gulf of Aden, the Chief of the victim and her depen and marriage comes under maker running a plant in years,” the ocial said. the Naval Sta, Admiral Su dent children and gives her the Concurrent List of the Oragadam near here. The dispute arose about nil Lanba, on Friday said it the custodial rights of minor Constitution and Parliament Nissan has initiated inter Cars parked ouside the Renault-Nissan plant at Oragadam in four years ago when the go was an “odd task” for a sub children. “The provision of is empowered to pass laws national arbitration proceed Tamil Nadu. * M. KARUNAKARAN vernment felt that the com marine to perform. subsistence allowance and on it. ings against the Indian pany was attempting to “People’s Liberation Ar custody has been made to “Going by the recommen government. BACKGROUNDER partner Renault established “claim double benets” out my Navy (PLAN) said they ensure that in case the hus dations of the Sarkaria Com Explaining the State go the plant after signing a of the project. The govern [submarines] are being de Sunil Lanba band asks the wife to leave mission, the Centre has de vernment’s version of the also apprising the Central memorandum of under ment contended that the ployed in the Indian Ocean the house, she should have cided to consult the States,” row, a senior ocial of the government of the factual standing with the then ruling company, by promoting a for antipiracy patrols. It is temporary facilities for bas legal protection and social said the ocial. Industries Department says position as the company has DMK government in Febru marketing entity, had shown rather an odd task to give to ing of ships, submarines the dispute has two dimen raised the matter with the ary 2008. The venture has that all its sales had taken a submarine... It is not the and aircraft to operate,” Ad sions. While one is over the Centre, making a reference invested 6,100 crore in the place with the marketing en most ideal platform to do miral Lanba said. refund of value added tax to the Comprehensive Eco following seven years with tity, for which it claimed re antipiracy patrols,” he said Himachal BJP revokes (VAT), another deals with nomic Partnership Agree annual production capacity fund of 14.5% VAT. in response to questions at Conventional carrier the pace of refund of VAT ment (CEPA), the ocial of 4.80 lakh vehicles. The refund would be al the annual press conference After much deliberation, the accruals. says. For setting up a plant, the lowed till the accruals ahead of Navy Day. Indian Navy has decided to expulsion of rebels While the government is In March 2010, Nissan State government usually o reached the level of China has actively de go ahead with a convention talking to the company, it is along with its joint venture ers nancial incentives in the investment. ployed ships and subma ally powered reactor in Staff Correspondent and only then the State of rines in the Indian Ocean in stead of a nuclearpowered SHIMLA ce would initiate any the name of antipiracy one for its second Indige The State Bharatiya Janata action. measures and the frequency nous Aircraft Carrier (IAC Party on Friday revoked the Evidence related to the Slain JeM has steadily gone up. Sever II). expulsion of all party rebels Shimla parliamentary con SC rejects plea for probe into al U.S. military ocers too “We have analysed it and during the recent Assembly stituency having 17 Assemb militant’s have expressed similar xed the form and t of the polls in Himachal Pradesh ly segments will be exa views in the past. On this carrier. It is going to be on the plea that the action mined rst. medical college bribery case rie stolen note, Admiral Lanba said about 65,000 tonnes a was prompted by local lead the Navy had “carried out throughdeck carrier with ers and that the State lea ‘Proper assessment’ Krishnadas Rajagopal A.M. Khanwilkar imposed a sed the Jaiswal petition special correspondent threat assessment of PLAN Catapult Assisted TakeO dership would review the A nal decision on the cul New Delhi cost of 25 lakh on CJAR to expressing the hope that Srinagar submarines.” But Arrested Recovery (CA charges of antiparty pability or otherwise of the The Supreme Court on Fri be paid to the Supreme “good sense prevail over the A manhunt was launched In a related development, TOBAR). It is going to be activities. party leaders would be ta day dismissed a petition Court Bar Association. legal fraternity and amends on Friday after a youth de India and Singapore are in conventionally powered A number of rebels had ken after proper assess led by the Campaign for The petition of the CJAR, be made as lot of uncalled camped with a rie from the process of discussing and we are going through been expelled from the par ment and verication by the Judicial Accountability and represented by advocate for damage has been made the Budgam encounter the modalities of the ove the process of taking it to ty for indulging in antipar State president, said BJP se Reforms (CJAR) for a Special Prashant Bhushan, is identi to the great institution in site, where three Jaishe rarching naval cooperation the Ministry for acquisi ty activities on the recom cretary Chandra Mohan Investigation Team probe in cal to a petition led by ad which public reposes their Muhammad militants were agreement signed in pre tion,” Admiral Lanba said. mendation of mandal Thakur. to an FIR registered by the vocate Kamini Jaiswal, faith.”Despite the judgment killed on Thursday. A sence of the two Defence Mi Acknowledging that INS (circle) or constituencyle According to State unit CBI on a conspiracy alleged which the same threejudge in the Jaiswal petition and search operation was held nisters earlier this week. Chakra, the nuclear attack vel party leaders. leaders, former Minister ly hatched by several per Bench, in a judgment on No the Bench warning him that in Karimabad, Wahibugh, This gives India access to submarine from Russia, suf State BJP chief Satpal Sat Shyama Sharma from Sir sons, including a retired vember 14, dismissed as the CJAR petition was co Frisipora, Chewa and oth the Changi naval base near fered damage to its sonar ti has directed the circle un maur was expelled on High Court judge, to bribe scandalous. The verdict had vered by the November 14 er villages. Meanwhile, one the Strait of Malacca as a dome where two panels its of the party across the charges of antiparty activi Supreme Court judges for a termed both the Jaiswal and judgment, Mr. Bhushan LashkareTaiba (LeT), ov basing area. “Our sta will have been dislodged, he State to submit to him all ties a few days ago by mid favourable order in a private CJAR petitions as eorts to went on to contend that the erground worker, identi work out an implementa said, “We have already or evidence in their possession dlerung leaders without medical college case. “seriously jeopardise the in investigation into the FIR ed as Aaq Ahmad Bhat tion agreement on the bilat dered the panels. Hopefully on the alleged antiparty ac approval of the top leader A Bench of Justices R.K. dependence of the judici should not be left in the alias Abu Huraira, was held eral agreement which has it should be up and about tivities before December 10 ship in the State. Agrawal, Arun Mishra and ary.” The Bench had dismis hands of the CBI. in north Kashmir. been signed. We will have sooner than later.”

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2017 GUJARAT 2017 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Rupani can’t rest easy on home turf POLL POURRI More trouble for Hardik Patidar factor looms large in the constituency, where the Congress candidate is posing a tough challenge to the CM AHMEDABAD After a massive show of strength by Hardik Patel in Mahesh Langa Karnataka, since 1990, but in People of this area will elect Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay RAJKOT 2002, Narendra Modi con a person who is Chief Minis Rupani’s Assembly One of the toughest battles in tested the bypolls from here ter of the State,” Mr. Dhruv The Hindu constituency of Rajkot West, the Gujarat Assembly elec to become a legislator after told . the election authorities have tions is being staged in the he was parachuted as Chief filed a complaint against the Rajkot West Assembly consti Minister to replace Keshub Highprole campaign Patidar agitation leader for holding the meeting in tuency, where Chief Minister hai Patel. However, in the As However, Mr. Rajyaguru, which over 50,000 people turned up, without the Vijay Rupani is seeking re sembly election held later in who has launched a high requisite permission from the authorities election against Congress December 2002, Mr. Modi prole campaign in the area, concerned. The Election Commission has also candidate Indranil shifted from Rajkot to Mani had announced his candida launched an investigation into the funding of Rajyaguru. nagar in Ahmedabad and Mr. ture from this seat some six Hardik Patel’s campaign. Mr. Rajyaguru, now MLA Vala returned as legislator months ago and since then for Rajkot East and the rich from there. has been working hard. “I est candidate in the State, have been actively cam A question of faith has been shifted to West to Real battle paigning and I am condent SURAT take on the Chief Minister “This time, there is a real bat of a surprise this time,” he A day after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi broke from his home turf. tle here. Both are powerful said. “People of Rajkot West his silence on the Somnath Rajkot West has been a BJP and it will be a tight contest,” are well aware that Mr. Rupa temple controversy and said bastion for years, but with said Mukesh Kalaria, a local ni will not be CM after the his family worshipped Lord the entry of Mr. Rajyaguru, a businessman and resident of polls.” Shiva, the Congress launched prominent builder and busi Rajkot. The city never saw However, what makes this an attack on BJP president nessman of the city, it may such a keen ght in the past contest signicant is not Mr. Amit Shah. “Amit Shah calls himself a Hindu, but not be a walk in the park. few decades. Rajyaguru’s candidature but he is a Jain. As far as Rahul Gandhi is concerned, Both Mr. Rupani and Mr. Ra As anywhere in Rajkot ci the external factor of Hardik Shiv Bhakti has been practised in his home for a jyaguru are rsttime MLAs ty, the constituency is domi Patel, who held a massive long time. Indira Gandhi used to wear rudraksha, from Rajkot, the Saurashtra nated by Patidars, who make campaign rally in this consti which is only worn by those who worship Shiva,” region’s main city and busi up almost 35% of the total tuency on Wednesday. In his Congress leader Raj Babbar said on Friday. ness hub. electorate. “It’s been a safe to Rajkot West to get elected close ght. powerful and rich person ery address, Mr. Patel ex Some BJP leaders began questioning Mr. Gandhi’s This seat had been held by seat for the BJP for decades. as MLA,” said BJP spokesper “Some people may believe but the people of this area horted the Patidar communi faith after his name was allegedly listed as a BJP’s seasoned leader Vajub When Narendra Modi be son Raju Dhru, dismissing that it’s a close ght because will not be concerned about ty to vote out the BJP nonHindu visitor in the visitors’ book at the hai Vala, now Governor of came CM of Gujarat, he came the claims that there is a the Congress candidate is a who has how much money. government. Somnath temple. ANI

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Popularity indicator AHMEDABAD The poll curiosity shop Congress presses Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani on Friday expressed her confidence corruption charges that the BJP would win the Gujarat elections, contending that the results of the Uttar Special Correspondent In Delhi, former Congress Pradesh civic polls were proof New Delhi Minister Manish Tewari of the “unpopular leadership” of the Congress. Continuing its attack over raised the same issue. “We “The results from Uttar Pradesh where the the Rafale deal, the Con would like to ask the Go Congress has been wiped out yet again is gress on Friday asked the vernment of India: Was that indication of how unpopular its leadership is,” she Union government why it ig oer evaluated? After all if told presspersons here. “Rahul Gandhi and his nored a fresh oer of sale somebody is oering you an party called Modiji Maut ka Saudagar,” Ms. Irani from makers of the Euro aircraft which is supposedly said, adding that “the desperation of Congress is ghter aircraft that oered a 59 million euros or 444 evident from the derogatory statements they lowered price. crore cheaper than what make”. People of Gujarat knew Mr. Gandhi’s For several weeks now, you nally negotiated, you “templehopping” was aimed at accruing votes, Congress vicepresident Ra need to tell the people,” said the Minister said. ANI hul Gandhi has made the Mr. Tewari at the brieng. multicrore Rafale deal an election issue in Gujarat, al ‘Clarify the grounds’ Campaign on app leging wrongdoing in the The Congress leader said AHMEDABAD purchase of 36 Rafale jets. the government should tell Prime Minister Narendra Modi At a press conference in the country on what on Friday interacted with Ahmedabad, Congress spo grounds was the “fresh oer workers of the BJP’s Mahila kesman Randeep Surjewala was rejected since tax Morcha through the Narendra #460490 Modi app, as part of a special shared a letter of July 4, payers’ money is involved.” campaign outreach. During 2014, when the head of the The government had rub the interaction in Gujarati, military aircraft division of bished the Congress charge the Prime Minister talked about the development Airbus wrote to the then De and claimed that the NDA works undertaken by the party. The outreach is fence Minister making a renegotiated the Rafale deal aimed at expanding the campaign to the women fresh oer for the Euroght much better than the pre voters of the State, who constitute almost half the er — the only other aircraft vious UPA that too had en electorate. Interestingly, the BJP has fielded only that met technical standards tered into an agreement 11 women candidates for the 182member of the Indian Air Force — with French aircraft maker Assembly, which is marginally ahead of the that was reportedly priced Dassault Aviation to buy 126 Congress, which has fielded only 10 women

One-stop shop: Salimbhai Patangwala arranges campaign kites at his shop in Ahmedabad on Friday. * VIJAY SONEJI lower than the Rafale jet. ghter jets. candidates. ANI

Restricted entry AHMEDABAD Around 15% candidates face criminal cases The Gujarat High Court has given permission to legislator Jayrajsinh Jadeja to enter Gujarat till December 17. ADRGujarat Election Watch analysis nds average asset of a BJP candidate is 10.7 cr and of a Congress candidate 8.46 cr Jadeja, a sitting legislator from Gondal, had been Special Correspondent are facing attempttomurder recently convicted in a AHMEDABAD cases. murder case and the High Court had externed him Around 15% of the candi The analysis of partywise from Gujarat. Now, the BJP has fielded his wife dates in the fray for the rst candidates reveals that 31 from his seat. On Jadeja’s request, the court has phase of the Gujarat Assemb candidates out of 86 of the now allowed him to enter Gujarat. ly polls are facing criminal Congress and 22 out of 89 of cases, shows an analysis of the BJP candidates face cri their selfdeclared adavits minal cases. “Our analysis POCKET carried out by the Associa shows that there are 21 out of Surendra tion for Democratic Reforms 89 constituencies having (ADR) and Gujarat Election three or more candidates Watch. with declared criminal cas There are 977 candidates es,” Jagdeep Chhokkar of the in the fray in 89 Assembly ADR told presspersons in Ah segments in the rst phase medabad on Friday. where polling will be held on December 9. The Gujarat Financial records Election Watch and ADR ana Another focus area of the lysed adavits of 923 candi analysis was the candidates’ dates and 137 were found to nancial records and back have declared criminal cases ground of assets and liabili against themselves. ties. As per the analysis of nancial details, the average Murder case asset of each candidate is A candidate from Dediapa around 2.16 crore. da, Mahesh Vasava, contest The average asset of a BJP dates have average assets of of the Congress, who has de crore, Dhanjibhai Patel of Manek of the BJP with 88 ing under the Bhartiya Tribal candidate is 10.7 crore and 19.16 lakh. clared assets worth 141 the BJP with 113 crore, Jawa crore and Santokben Aareth Such a huge crowd? I know it is not our rally. Party (BTP), is facing a mur that of a Congress candidate Among the richest candi crore, Saurabh Patel of the har Chavda of the Congress iya of the Congress with 82 Bring it down, I will address the crowd and y der case. Eight candidates 8.46 crore. Sixty BSP candi dates are Indranil Rajyaguru BJP with assets worth 123 with 103 crore, Pabubha crore. away before their leader arrives!

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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 WORLD SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI Taliban kill 9 in Peshawar Trump’s former National Security Adviser acknowledged that he was cooperating with Mueller probe training institute attack EILEEN SULLIVAN dogged Mr. Trump’s rst discussed an upcoming Unit ADAM GOLDMAN year in oce. While Mr. ed Nations Security Council Three militants disguised in burqa opened re at students MICHAEL D. SHEAR Trump can point to the court vote on whether to condemn WASHINGTON documents and say they Israel’s building of settle Mubashir Zaidi U.S. President Donald show no evidence of collu ments. At the time, the Oba Karachi Trump’s former National Se sion with Russia, the special ma administration was pre Three militants disguised in curity Adviser, Michael T. counsel’s lings so far paint a paring to allow a Security burqa attacked an agricul Flynn, pleaded guilty on Fri damning portrait of Mr. Council vote on the matter. ture training institute in day to lying to the FBI about Trump’s associates. His Mr. Mueller’s investigators Peshawar on Friday, killing conversations with the Rus former campaign chairman, have learned through wit at least nine persons. sian ambassador last Decem two other campaign aides, nesses and documents that The TehrikiTaliban ber during the presidential and his former National Se Israeli Prime Minister Benja (TTP) claimed responsibility transition, bringing the spe curity Advisers have now all min Netanyahu asked the for the attack. cial counsel’s probe into the been charged with felonies. Trump transition team to Police said the terrorists President’s inner circle. Russian roulette: Donald Trump, left, with Michael Flynn, lobby other countries to help went inside the training in Mr. Flynn, who appeared right, at the CIA headquarters in Langley. * NY TIMES Two discussions Israel, according to two peo stitute and killed students in federal court in Washing Mr. Flynn pleaded guilty to ple briefed on the inquiry. residing in a hostel. Most stu ton, acknowledged that he The development came at President’s team is hoping to making false statements to Investigators have learned dents had gone to native vil Anxious wait: Family members of ocials trapped inside the was cooperating with the in a particularly sensitive mo focus public attention on FBI agents about two discus that Mr. Flynn and Mr. lages as it was public holiday agriculture institute wait outside during a military crackdown vestigation by the special ment for the White House, what they argue is an im sions with the Russian am Trump’s soninlaw and se on account of the birth anni against Taliban militants on Friday. * AP counsel, Robert S. Mueller just as Mr. Trump and Repu pressive list of accomplish bassador to the United nior adviser, Jared Kushner, versary of Prophet III, into Russian interference blican congressional leaders ments in his rst year. States, Sergey I. Kislyak. Ly took the lead in those eorts. Mohammed. with AK 47s and Kalashni six students, a security in the 2016 election. His plea are toiling to hold together a The White House had no ing to the FBI carries a penal Mr. Mueller’s team has The attackers threw gre kovs. “Some students got guard and two civilians were agreement suggests that Mr. tenuous coalition to push immediate response on Fri ty of up to ve years in pri emails that show Mr. Flynn nades as they entered the in out to watch the gunbattle killed in the attack . Police Flynn provided information through a large tax cut plan. day to requests for comment son. In one of the saying he would work to kill stitute. Later, they sprayed and they were shot by the and military launched an op to prosecutors, which may It marked an unwelcome on Mr. Flynn’s guilty plea. conversations described in the vote, the people briefed bullets on the students at the militants,” student Zahid Ul eration and killed all attack help advance the inquiry. headline at a time when the The investigation has court documents, the men on the matter said. NY TIMES hostel. They were armed lah, 16, told AFP. Police said ers, said police.

Tibetan Minister justies refusal Zimbabwe President under re monk kills to raise Sri Lankan ag Backlash over reappointed gures from Mugabe era in maiden Cabinet self in China

Agence France-Presse the choices drew groans of said was aimed at arresting Agence France-Presse Provincial Minister Sarveswaran says he didn’t disrespect it Harare dismay from several “criminals” in government Beijing Zimbabwe’s new President, Zimbabweans. around the 93yearold Mr. A 63yearold Tibetan T. RAMAKRISHNAN ed to hoist the national ag, ary Liberation Front, argued Emmerson Mnangagwa, “The deployment of se Mugabe. monk has selfimmolated MUMBAI he asked the school authori that the national ag was not came under re on Friday nior members of the military His Cabinet also retains in southwest China in prot Kandiah Sarveswaran, Edu ties whether the latter had a accepted across sections of for unveiling a début Cabinet into the Cabinet is profound many faces from the Mugabe est against Beijing’s pre cation Minister of Northern ag of the Northern Pro people and the issue of de that named two military al ly shocking,” said Piers Pigou regime, including the Fi sence in Tibet, campaign Provincial Council in Sri vince [each Province in Sri signing a national ag accep lies to top positions, reap of the Brusselsbased think nance Minister, Patrick Chi ers said, the fth person to Lanka, who triggered a con Lanka has its own ag] to un table to all “also forms part pointed gures from the dis tank, the International Crisis namasa, and Home Aairs do so this year. troversy last week over his furl and the response was in of any debate to resolve the credited Mugabe era and Group. Minister Obert Mpofu. Tenga, a popular monk refusal to unfurl the national the negative. “So immediate ethnic conict.” sidelined the opposition. Emmerson Mnangagwa “The bulk of members of and volunteer teacher of ag of the island nation, has ly, I instructed my ocer of However, taking note of Mr. Mnangagwa gave key ‘Army gains inuence’ the so called new Cabinet is village children, died after justied his act. At the same the Education Department Mr. Sarveswaran’s presence jobs to two top military oc Mr. Moyo was appointed Fo Their appointment suggests from the old guard,” said Un setting himself ablaze on time, he asserted that he did to unfurl the national ag. on Thursday, Ramiah Yoga ers, including Sibusiso Moyo, reign Minister while the long “the Army has gained so iversity of Zimbabwe politi Sunday in Sichuan provinc not “disrespect” the ag. Everything went o smooth rajan, Sri Lanka’s Ambassa a major general who on No serving air force comman much inuence in govern cal scientist Eldred Masu e’s Ganzi Tibetan Autono Asked by The Hindu ly,” he said. dor to Egypt and former vember 15 went on state TV der, Perence Shiri, became ment, it is going to start to nungure. mous Prefecture, said the about the adverse reactions Contending that the row Member of Parliament re to announce the military’s minister of lands and agricul dominate government,” said “It is like recycling dead International Campaign for his action triggered, Mr. Sar had been made out of the in presenting the ruling United takeover — a power grab that ture, a vital job following the Abel Esterhuyse, a strategy wood. Essentially, this is like Tibet, headquartered in veswaran, who was here to cident to “divert public at National Party (UNP), point climaxed a week later when controversial seizure of land professor at South Africa’s putting old wine in new bot Washington. attend a seminar , recalled tention” on the discussions ed to the badge on the na Robert Mugabe quit the from white farmers nearly Stellenbosch University. tles,” according to opposi The International Cam that on his visit to a school in on constitutional reforms, tional ag that he wore and presidency. two decades ago. Mr. Mnangagwa, 75, was tion Movement for Demo paign for Tibet said he was Vavuniya district of the Pro the Minister, who is from the said “I am proud” of display According to a statement Observers sharply criti sworn in last Friday after the cratic Change spokesman the 151st Tibetan to selfim vince, when he was request Eelam People’s Revolution ing the national ag. released late on Thursday, cised the new lineup, and takeover, which the military Obert Gutu. molate since 2009.

#460490 IN BRIEF Suu Kyi meets Xi in Beijing Pope greets Rohingya in Dhaka as Rohingya censure grows Uses term for rst time during Asia trip, calls for action to end refugee crisis Haroon Habib Says her govt. made progress in creating peaceful society Dhaka Pope Francis met a group of Japan Emperor to Associated Press did not say whether the is Rohingya refugees in Dhaka abdicate in April 2019 BEIJING sue was discussed during on Friday and called for a TOKYO Myanmar’s civilian leader her meeting with Mr. Xi. The “decisive international ac Japan's Emperor Akihito will Aung San Suu Kyi, facing two leaders hailed the po tion” to end the refugee cri step down on April 30, 2019, growing international criti tential for future coopera sis. On a threeday visit to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cism over her country’s per tion through a “ChinaMyan Bangladesh, the Catholic announced on Friday, the first secution of Rohingya Mus mar economic corridor,” ponti also used the term retirement in more than two lims, said on Friday her state broadcaster CCTV Rohingya in his speech, centuries in the world's government had made pro reported. which he avoided in Myan oldest imperial family. Mr. Abe he was "deeply moved" gress in creating a peaceful Ms. Suu Kyi’s visit comes mar. at the "smooth decision" society but acknowledged Aung San Suu Kyi just a week after Min Aung “The presence of God to taken at a special meeting of that “much still remains to Hlaing, the commander of day is also called Rohingya,” the Imperial Council to be done.” northern neighbour, includ Myanmar’s military, held his the Pope said after meeting decide on the date for the In remarks on a visit to ing when she met with Chi own talks with Ms. Xi in Beij 16 refugees who were 83yearold to step down for Beijing, Ms. Suu Kyi did not nese President Xi Jinping on ing. Myanmar’s Army re brought to Dhaka from the health reasons. Emperor directly address the crisis Friday. mains politically powerful refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar Akihito's eldest son, 57year that has seen more than and the civilian government near Myanmar border. More old Crown Prince Naruhito, is 6,20,000 Rohingya ee the ‘Much still remains’ has no control over certain than 6,00,000 Rohingya ed expected to ascend the country over the last few Ms. Suu Kyi spoke at a gath areas such as defence and Myanmar’s violencehit Rak Chrysanthemum Throne the months in what the U.N. and ering of political parties national security. hine state to the neibouring next day. AFP the U.S. say is a campaign of hosted by China’s ruling Analysts said Beijing has Bangladesh over the past

ethnic cleansing by Myan Communist Party and said likely won greater leverage three months. Recently, Ban Crowd favourite: Pope Francis greets Bangladeshi Christians, in Dhaka on Friday. * AFP Russia to vote on banning mar. her National League for De over Myanmar by helping gladesh and Myanmar had U.S. media from House Ms. Suu Kyi, who spent 15 mocracyled government shield it from criticism over signed a repatriation agree Dhaka on Thursday from them. A special prayer for tended. Catholics have MOSCOW years under house arrest “has made progress in its en the Rohingya crisis. ment to return the Rohingya Myanmar. Rohingya was also held in travelled to the Bangladeshi Russian lawmakers will vote during the nation’s military deavours to create a peace “Myanmar has leaned to to Myanmar. The Rohingya families the church following the capital from around the next week on measures rule, has come under wides ful, stable and harmonious ward China because of inter met him at an interreligious meeting. country to have a glimpse of banning all U.S. media from pread criticism for not society.” national criticism and con Safe repatriation gathering in a church in Dha Earlier in the day, the the Pope, who is the rst Ro the lower house of speaking out against the vio “But much still remains to demnation on Myanmar The Pope also prayed for the ka’s Kakrail. Pope held an openair mass man Catholic Church head Parliament, a deputy said on lence. However, Ms. Suu Kyi be done,” she added. over the crisis,” said promi “safe repatriation of the Roh “We have realised that at Dhaka’s sprawling Suhra to visit Bangladesh in 30 Friday, in response to the U.S. was warmly welcomed in China has avoided criticis nent Myanmar political ana ingya in peace and dignity”. your suering is very deep. wardy Udyan, which an esti years, where Christians are a Congress stripping state China, Myanmar’s friendly ing the crisis and state media lyst Yan Myo Thein. The ponti arrived in We all want peace,” he told mated 80,000 people at minority. channel RT of its credentials. A senior United Russia party lawmaker Olga Savastyanova said the Russian Duma would vote on the ban on December 6. It is unlikely that the In expanding Africa role, U.S. set to y armed drones in Niger proposal would be rejected by the overwhelmingly pro Kremlin Assembly. AFP Pentagon ocials say unmanned aerial vehicles would enhance American military’s ability to go after extremists in West African nations

Explosive found near HELENE COOPER The drones, the memo ment spokeswoman. She would allow the military to 2016. Drones used in Libya German Christmas market ERIC SCHMITT says, will eventually be said for “operational security target ghters aliated with y from Italy. “This is long BERLIN he government of Niger moved to a Nigerien air base reasons,” she could not com alQaida in the Islamic Magh overdue,” said Donald C. Bol German police said a Thas given the Defense De in Agadez, where U.S. troops ment on “specic military reb, Boko Haram and the Is duc, a retired Army Brigadier suspicious object that partment permission to y will also be deployed. Penta authorities or permissions”. lamic State, ocials said. General who until last June prompted the evacuation of a armed drones out of the cap gon ocials said the new While the U.S. has been was the top U.S. Special Op Christmas market in Potsdam ital, Niamey, Pentagon o mission likely would in Widening reach able to reach Yemeni, Somali erations commander in Afri on Friday was an "explosive". cials said on Thursday, in a crease the number of U.S. The Pentagon has been try and Libyan targets from bas ca. “This will allow us to be "Suspicions of an major expansion of the U.S. troops in Niamey, from the ing for two years to get per es in Djibouti and southern more eective against the unconventional explosive military’s footprint in Africa. 800 who are there now. mission from the Nigerien Italy, its reach in West Africa threat there.” device have been confirmed," Pentagon ocials want to About 500 of those troops government to put precision has been more limited. Gen. Bolduc, who said he police in Brandenburg State start the ights within days. now deployed in Niger would guided bombs and missiles The Niger deployment had advocated armed U.S. said on Twitter. The device A memorandum of under move to the base in Agadez. on a eet of Reapers to be would be only the second drones in Niger for the past was found in a package found at a pharmacy just off the standing between the U.S. “This operation supports own out of Niamey. Penta time that armed drones have four years, cautioned that Christmas market in central and Niger, which was nal the longterm strategic part gon ocials say the drones been stationed and used in drone strikes alone were not Potsdam, a picturesque city ised this week, calls for the nership between the United Battle-ready: A soldier involved in antiinsurgency operations would expand the military’s Africa. Drones now based in a “panacea” against militant near Berlin that was once a remotely piloted aircraft to States and Niger, as well as stands next to a Reaper drone in the Niger capital. * AFP ability to go after extremists Djibouti are used in Yemen groups, and that they need residence for the kings of be armed initially, by the mil the ongoing eort to counter in West Africa, in an area that and Somalia, where there ed to be combined in a Prussia. Police said a itary’s Africa Command, at violent extremism through from The New York Times. terrorist organisations from could stretch from Mali to have been 30 strikes this broader “whole of society pharmacist had sounded the the Nigerien air base in Nia out the region,” the Defense “The government of Niger using the region as a safe ha Chad, and Nigeria to south year against alShabab and approach” to defeat terrorist alert after finding a can with mey where they are current Department said in an and the U.S. stand rm in ven,” said Major Audricia M. ern Libya. Such an area of Islamic State targets, twice organizations like the Islamic wires inside the package. AFP ly deployed without arms. emailed response to a query working together to prevent Harris, a Defence Depart operations for the drones the number than in all of State or alQaida. NY TIMES

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market watch 01-12-2017 % CHANGE Factory activity rises fastest Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 32,833 ddddddddddddd-0.95 Govt. eases mine auction rules Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 30,250 ddddddddddddd-0.49 Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddd ddddddddddddddd 64.22 1.14 ‘Amendments aimed at making process more pragmatic, spur bidding interest’ since October 2016: survey NIFTY 50 PRICE CHANGE Special Correspondent have also been relaxed. For Adani Ports...... 386.75...... -11.25 NEW DELHI an average annual output of Nikkei India PMI shows increase in new orders, output Ambuja Cements...... 263.55...... 1.05

Asian Paints...... 1133.75...... -13.00 More than two years after it up to 2 crore, bidders now Special Correspondent Aurobindo Pharma ...... 672.40...... -20.45 introduced auctions as a need a net worth of just 0.5 ward movement in the hea NEW DELHI Axis Bank ...... 533.85...... -1.55 means to allot mining rights crore. Similarly, for an aver dline index was driven by a Bajaj Auto ...... 3216.90...... -88.60

Bajaj Finance ...... 1711.60...... -15.45 for major minerals, the age annual output of up to Manufacturing activity im marked increase in output,” Bharti Airtel ...... 484.15...... -12.30 Centre on Thursday signi 20 crore, the net worth proved in November to its it said. “Furthermore, the Bosch ...... 19988.15. .. -345.60 cantly eased the auction norm has been slashed from highest level since October rate of expansion quickened BPCL...... 496.40...... -7.45

Cipla ...... 598.10...... -2.80 rules in a bid to rekindle in 40 crore to 10 crore. 2016 on the back of growth to the strongest since Octob Coal India ...... 272.05...... -3.75 vestor interest in a process Rigid enduse conditions in new orders and output, a er 2016. A combination of Dr Reddys Lab ...... 2233.90...... -50.15 that has been marred by on minerals excavated from private sector survey higher order book volumes Eicher Motors...... 29280.95. .. -663.10

GAIL (India)...... 455.80...... -12.60 failed auctions. a block, have been done showed. and a decrease in GST rates HCL Tech...... 830.00...... -18.00 While 33 blocks of miner away with. Miners can now The Nikkei India Manufac reportedly contributed to HDFC ...... 1658.80...... -16.90 als have been successfully Easing end use: Miners can now dispose of 25% of unused dispose of 25% of unused turing Purchasing Managers’ greater production.” HDFC Bank...... 1848.20...... -5.50 However, rate of production Hero MotoCorp ...... 3604.05...... -29.60 auctioned since May 2015, low-grade ore, removing a major concern for bidders. lowgrade ore. Index recorded a value of However, the report said, Hindalco ...... 235.35...... -5.10 when the mineral auction The Centre aims to spur 52.6 in November, up from growth was still lower than the rate of growth in produc HPCL ...... 409.55...... -7.15 rules were introduced, as was a consensus that the than three bidders in the fray increased interest in the up 50.3 in October. A value the long-term trend. tion was still lower than the Hind Unilever ...... 1250.50...... -21.95

Indiabulls HFL ...... 1144.75...... -61.10 many as 60 auctions have rules needed to be eased to during the second round of coming auctions — 34 miner above 50 denotes an expan longterm trend witnessed ICICI Bank ...... 305.25...... -2.30 opped for lack of interest. make the process more prag auction, as opposed to the al blocks are in the pipeline sion in activity, while one be manufacturing companies since the survey was started IndusInd Bank ...... 1661.10...... -0.85 The development assumes matic for bidders without sa existing rule that requires for the rest of 201718. The low 50 implies contraction. observed a renewed in in March 2005. Bharti Infratel ...... 385.95...... 2.25 Infosys ...... 958.80...... -17.30 signicance as the Centre is cricing the requisite checks the process to be annulled if new norms also have a “The Indian manufactur crease in new export orders “India’s manufacturing Indian OilCorp...... 387.85...... -5.65 looking to auction more than on successful bidders,” Un there are less than three bid clause to discourage miners ing sector recorded its stron during November.” economy advanced on its ITC ...... 255.20...... -0.85 gest improvement in busi On employment, the re path to recovery as disrup Kotak Bank ...... 1005.15...... 4.85 100 blocks over the next 15 ion Mines Secretary Arun ders in the rst three rounds. from ‘squatting’ on mine L&T...... 1211.65...... -4.90 months with a potential va Kumar said at a brieng to leases. “We have now decid ness conditions for 13 port said greater production tions from the recent tax re Lupin ...... 814.20...... -3.50 lue of about 2 lakh crore. explain the amendments Net worth norms ed that if you have the letter months, recording marked requirements in November form (GST) continues to di M&M ...... 1409.40...... 2.85 and accelerated increases in led to the fastest rate in em minish,” Aashna Dodhia, Maurti Suzuki...... 8609.00...... 9.90 “We have been monitor notied on November 30. In a bid to expand the of intent for a mine, be ready NTPC ...... 181.30...... 0.15 ing the process closely with States can now allocate pool of prospective bidders, to mine within three years,” output and new orders,” the ployment creation since economist, HIS Markit and ONGC ...... 179.65...... -1.00 State governments and there blocks even if there are less net worth requirements Mr. Kumar said. report said. “Furthermore, September 2012. “The up author of the report, said. PowerGrid Corp ...... 202.95...... -3.10

Reliance Ind ...... 910.10...... -11.45

State Bank ...... 312.75...... -7.60

Sun Pharma ...... 525.95...... -14.00

Tata Motors ...... 398.90...... -5.25 Tata Steel ...... 680.90...... -13.25 Equity indices drop for ...... Auto makers step on the accelerator in Nov. TCS 2629.95 -7.05

Tech Mahindra ...... 472.90...... -16.35

UltraTech Cement...... 4184.95...... -18.85

...... the fourth straight day UPL 729.90 -1.45 Robust demand in rural markets and good response to new models boost companies’ sales

Vedanta ...... 286.70...... -8.75 Wipro ...... 289.40...... -2.50 Press Trust of India marketing) Rakesh Srivasta Similarly, Toyota Kirloskar YES Bank...... 306.85...... -0.05 New Delhi Zee Entertainment ...... 556.80...... -11.35 Fiscal decit, crude prices hit markets va said growth during the Motor also reported a 13% Auto majors, including Ma last month has been rise in domestic sales at CHENNAI BULLION RATES SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ti Airtel and Bajaj Auto all ruti Suzuki, Hyudai, Mahin achieved due to the strong 12,734 units in November. It December 01 rates in rupees with pre- MUMBAI vious rates in parentheses losing more than 2% each. dra and Toyota, posted performance of next gen Ver had sold a total of 11,309 un healthy double digit sales na Gen Verna along with its in the same month of last Retail Silver (1g) ...... 40.90. ....(41.20) Benchmark equity indices The broader Nifty closed 22 ct gold (1 g) ...... 2,787. ....(2,796) lost ground for the fourth at 10,121.80, down 104.75 growth last month, overcom Grand i10, Elite i20 and year. consecutive session on Fri points or 1.02%. ing postfestive season lean Creta. IN BRIEF day as concerns related to Government data re phase. Various factors, in Mahindra & Mahindra re Two-wheelers scal decit dampened in leased on Thursday showed cluding robust demand in ru ported sales growth of 21% at In twowheeler segment, Ba Now, Ola to ‘Pedal’ vestor sentiments even as a that the scal decit at the ral markets and good res 36,039 units last month in jaj Auto reported 21% in bicycles for short travel higher GDP growth rate was end of October touched ponse to new models, the domestic market. crease in total sales in No NEW DELHI reported after market hours 96.1% of the budget estimate helped in driving the sales, Sales of passenger vehi vember at 3,26,458 units Cab aggregator Ola is now on Thursday. for 201718. the companies said. cles, including Scorpio, against 2,69,948 units in the piloting bicycles on various Fast track: Maruti’s domestic sales rose 15%, driven mainly by The 30share Sensex lost Vinod Nair, head Of re The country’s largest car XUV500, Xylo, Bolero and same month last year. campuses to promote use of the compact segment comprising Swift , Dzire and Baleno . maker Maruti Suzuki India Verito, increased 21% to Royal Eneld said its dom environment-friendly means 316.41 points or 0.95% to search, Geojit Financial Ser of transportation. According close at 32,832.94. vices said investors would (MSI) said its domestic sales month. Utility vehicle sales, cars, including Alto and Wa 16,030 units compared with estic sales were at 67,776 un to a video posted by the Almost 1,700 stocks lost be cautious in the near term were at 1,45,300 units, up including Gypsy, Grand Vita gonR, witnessed a 1.8% de 13,198 units in the same its in November as against Bengaluru-based start-up, ground on the BSE as due to concerns on domes 15% from 1,26,325 in Novem ra, Ertiga, SCross and com cline to 38,204 units. month last year. 55,843 units in the yearago ‘Pedal’ can be used for against only 1,010 gainers. tic scal decit and rising ber last year. pact SUV Vitara Brezza, in Rival, Hyundai Motor In Ford posted sales increase month, up 21%. Suzuki Mo “distances that are not far Further, as many as 27 of crude prices but downside The sales were mainly dri creased by 34% to 23,072 dia Ltd (HMIL) reported a of 13.1% at 7,777 units in the torcycle India reported dom but too far to walk” like the 30 constituents of the in the market is protected ven by compact segment, units in November from 10% increase in domestic domestic market , driven estic sales at 42,722 units in within college campuses, Sensex pack lost ground due to strong reform mea comprising Swift, Dzire and 17,215 in the same month of sales at 44,008 units in mainly by recentlyintro November as against 30,830 corporate parks or residential with Tata Steel, Adani Ports, sures in domestic market Baleno, which jumped by 2016, the company added. November. duced new edition of com units in the same month last #460490 complexes. PTI Sun Pharmaceuticals, Bhar and favourable global cues. 32.4% to 65,447 units last However, mini segment HMIL director (sales and pact SUV Ford EcoSport. year, a growth of 38.6%. Ministry seeks review Bank capital infusion, of gold import duty execution is key: Fitch

Jewellery sector had sought cut in levy Rating agency stays negative on sector

Special Correspondent SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT amid expectations of more New Delhi Mumbai haircuts and subdued earn Commerce Secretary Rita Fitch Ratings said the bank ings. The timing of injection Teaotia made a case for re ing sector outlook may be will be crucial due to the be viewing gold import duty revised to stable from nega necial impact it can have even as the gems and jewel tive in 2018 if the Centre’s on both the pace of nonper lery sector sought reduction 2.11 lakh crore capital infu forming loan (NPL) resolu in the import duty on the sion plan is well executed. tion — where banks have yellow metal to 45% from “If the government front been hesitant to accept 10%, saying high levy en loads a substantial part of large haircuts due to the po couraged smuggling. the capital injection — as is tential capital impact — and “I think the real issue on generally expected — Fitch banks’ ability to raise capital why free trade agreements Rita Teaotia may revise the sector out at better valuations. tend to be leveraged is the look to stable during 2018 — Fitch said recapitalisation issue that we have been rais lance on the duty issue. It provided there is greater coupled with resolution of ing again and again and that certainly needs to be ad clarity on operational de some large NPL accounts is the [import] duty on dressed because as long as tails and timelines associat could mean that assetquali gold,” Ms. Teaotia said at an there is arbitrage, there will ed with the recapitalisation ty parameters may even event here on Friday. “This be people who will try to exercise,” Fitch said. It had tually witness some stability is a matter that the Govern game the system.” been maintaining negative after FY18. ment of India is seized of,” She also said that NITI sector outlook on Indian “Credit growth is likely to she said. “There are implica Aayog had constituted an in banks for many years. recover gradually, but a tions on both sides and I terministerial panel to con Fitch also said the exer sharp uptick is ruled out un think we will have to work to sider the components of the cise should go a long way in til balance sheets are come to some sort of ba new gold policy for India. plugging the capital gap cleaned up,” it added. AWS announces ‘Alexa for business’ The AI assistant will allow employees to use voice commands to execute tasks

Yuthika Bhargava it into any device they had. Las Vegas On Alexa for Business, he Amazon’s cloud computing explained that it was a fully arm, Amazon Web Services managed service for manag (AWS), on Thursday an ing Alexa devices at work nounced the availability of place. “You no longer have its articial intelligence (AI) to dial in a conference ID... assistant Alexa for work Just say ‘Alexa, start the place. meeting’.” This will allow employees to use voice commands to Unlocking digital system execute tasks like starting “On receiving the command, conference calls and manag Alexa will turn on the video ing meetings. conferencing equipment, “We have been thinking dial into the conference call that if voice is a natural way and get the meeting going. of interacting in home and Her master’s voice: An Amazon Alexa device is switched on for Voice represents the next home automation... why a demonstration of its use. * AP major disruption in comput don’t we build something ing…It unlocks digital sys that one can use at work as speaker to carry out tasks these devices, they them tem for everyone,” Dr. Vogels well,” said Werner Vogels, such as playing music or set selves are actually not that said. Popular hotel chain Amazon’s Chief Technology ting reminders. Echo was in terribly smart... All the Wynn is in the process of im Ocer, while announcing troduced in India earlier this smartness of these devices plementing this service in the service. year. lives in the cloud, in the their rooms, wherein there Amazon had introduced “... the launch of all the Alexa Voice Service,” Dr Vo guests can talk to Alexa to Echo range of speakers that Echo devices...it has been of gels said. switch on the TV, lower the come with Alexa built in great help for us to really un He said Alexa voice ser shades or call room service. three years back in the U.S. derstand how people want vice was not unique to Echo (The writer was in Las Vegas Users can to talk to the to use voice. If you look at and anybody could integrate at the invitation of AWS)

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 12 BUSINESS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF INTERVIEW | MUKESH AGHI EMA to study Biocon bid to ‘America First and Make in sell biosimilars in Europe India complement each other’ Trastuzumab, Peglgrastim are used in cancer treatment Special Correspondent which will be completed as Strategically, India and the U.S. are aligned; so disputes will have a limited impact Bengaluru part of the regulatory re Audi cuts prices of four Mylan N.V. and Biocon on view. “We expect these CA models by 38.85 lakh Suhasini Haidar nuclear deal was done, we Friday announced that the PAs to be veried during in MUMBAI India must spend 20 years haven’t yet seen one European Medicines Agency spection as part of the Audi India has announced a building its own capabilities agreement, or the rst U.S. (EMA) had accepted for re review process,” Arun Chan downward revision of prices on the economic and defence dollar go into the sector…. view Mylan’s marketing davarkar, CEO and joint MD, of some of its models by as fronts, Mukesh Aghi, Presi- I I think that’s about priori authorisation applications Biocon, said. much as 3 lakh 8.85 lakh dent of the Washington- ties. For this government, re for proposed biosimilars, to woo buyers at the end of based U.S. India Strategic newable energy is impor trastuzumab and ‘Engaging with EMA’ the year. Besides, the tant, but it is making a big company has announced a Partnership Forum, who at- peglgrastim. “We continue to work close scheme under which a tended the Global Entrepre- push for solar energy tech Trastuzumab is used to ly with our partner Mylan in customer can buy an Audi in neurship summit in Hydera- nologies. treat certain breast and gas engaging with EMA to pro 2017 and start paying from bad this week, said in an The other thing is because tric cancers while peglgras audit conducted by the Eu vide these high quality, af 2019. “It is a limited period interview. Excerpts: ToshibaWestinghouse went tim is used to reduce the du ropean inspecting authority fordable therapy options for oer with special prices and into bankruptcy, the process ration of neutropenia (low of Biocon’s drug product fa cancer patients in Europe,” easy EMI options on Audi A3, What has been the impact of has been delayed. I believe it count of neutrophils) in cility, the rm said in a joint he said. Nasdaqlisted Mylan A4, A6 and Q3. The oer is Ivanka Trump’s trip to India? will come through eventual adult patients treated with statement. oers a portfolio of more for limited stocks,” the I The immediate impact is ly, once Westinghouse gets chemotherapy in certain Biocon has completed the than 7,500 marketed pro carmaker said in a statement. there is much more aware its house in order. But from types of cancer. Corrective and Preventive ducts globally, including an ness on a global basis that In <> The trade decit, policy clash with PM Modi’s an Indian perspective the The agency’s acceptance Actions (CAPA) outlined as a tiretroviral therapies on Inditrade in talks to buy dia is a fantastic opportunity which I think is quite ‘Make in India’? growth is in the solar sector. of the submissions follows result of the audit observa which more than 40% of pe micronance rm Varam for startups. And as the eco small, is not such a I As the relationship dee an earlier withdrawal of tions. The CAPAs will be con ople being treated for HIV/ MUMBAI nomy grows in the next 10 big issue pens and broadens, there Finally what needs to be both applications due to an rmed during reinspection, AIDS depend. Inditrade Capital Ltd. is in years, startups will make a will be such disagreements. done to really increase talks to acquire a majority big dierence, and hopefully administration on trade ties? The U.S. and Canada have bilateral trade, that is just stake in Chennaibased India will build a strong eco Is there continuity? more disputes at the WTO over $100 billion for goods micronance rm Varam system to develop the I There is denitely some than anyone else. What and services ($67.7 billion in Wipro ghts Capital Pvt. Ltd. for about Videocon arm plans startups. continuity. What we are see makes a dierence is the ma goods, 2016), to the oft 40 crore through its repeated goal of $500 $140 million subsidary Inditrade Micro ing is much more openness turity in handling these dis Finance. “Inditrade Capital There has also been some on the transfer of technolo putes, which we are seeing. billion? to boost CCTV sales I suit in U.S. has... decided to enter into a criticism about the red gy. The best example of that Strategically India and the I think you have to look at carpet welcome — normally is on the UAV or drones, so U.S. are aligned. India and what has happened in the nonbinding letter of intent Special Correspondent VCon to make products ‘aordable’ for acquiring a majority stake reserved for royalty — mething India has been ask the U.S. believes in the rule U.S. and China. A large in Bengaluru N. Anand in Varam,” the company said accorded to Ivanka Trump. ing for, for years. This Presi of law, want a stable world. vestment has to come from CHENNAI in a ling. Inditrade Micro, What kind of weight will her dent took a decision, as So these disputes will have a the U.S. into India, especially Wipro Ltd. would “vigo which started operations in presence here carry back India’s strategic partner, to limited impact. on the technology side. In rously” contest a $140 mil VCon, an arm of the Video April, planned to grow home in the U.S.? supply the drones and the I don’t think that ‘America dian investors have also lion lawsuit led by Nation con Group, is aiming to be through acquisitions. I Well, I think you have to best technology to India. I First’ and ‘Make in India’ upped their game, putting al Grid U.S. over the come one of the top three look at the weight she car think that is a very positive clash. In fact they comple about $ 12.6 billion into the implementation of an en players in the close circuit te DRL arm gets initial FDA ried for China. During the sign. The trade decit, which ment each other, as we have U.S. last year. terprise resource planning levision (CCTV) market, ac nod for psoriasis cream election campaign, the Presi I think is quite small, is not seen with the ghter jets, But I think what is going to project which started in cording to a top executive. HYDERABAD dent was very critical of Chi such a big issue. The two that could be made in India, bring the big leap is when In 2009, it said in a BSE ling. 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LANKANS IN INDIA Lanka. The rst hour of the likes of Aravinda de Silva, Ar in Test cricket alive. It is iron only be termed a desperate The teams: India: Virat Kohli Kolkata Test notwithstand juna Ranatunga and Sanath ic that Cheteshwar Pujara, measure to ll the stands. Sri (capt.), M. Vijay, K.L. Rahul, Vijay Lokapally ing, Sri Lanka, a strong ve Jayasuriya. any captain’s rst choice for Lanka may not be a crowd Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar NEW DELHI day team once, has lacked With a rich legacy to im veday cricket, languishes puller but administrators are Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Wridd Ravi Shastri and Virat Kohli the punch to cause anxious bibe, the pressure on this Sri in the background. confounded by fans not ack himan Saha (wk), R. Ashwin, Ra vindra Jadeja, Mohammed Sha have long been propagating moments in the Indian Lankan side is enormous, es Pujara is a Test match spe nowledging the starstudded mi, Umesh Yadav, Rohit Sharma, the virtues of Test cricket. camp. pecially when combating a cialist. His batting is priceless Indian line up. Kuldeep Yadav, Ishant Sharma They remind us how the pur The second Test at Nagpur performing opponent like In to the team but least appeal On the eld, a charged up and Vijay Shankar. est form of cricket has sur highlighted the dierence in dia, led by a man who has set ing to the galleries. It is this Ishant Sharma, with an inci vived the onslaught of the quality, reviving memories of his eyes on rewriting the art paradox that confronts Test sive inswinger as a lethal Sri Lanka: Dinesh Chandimal (capt.), Dimuth Karunaratne, other two versions of the the 30 rout at home earlier of batsmanship. cricket in its struggle to stay weapon in his armoury, will Dhananjaya de Silva, Sadeera game — 50 overs and this year that left Sri Lankan Kohli’s presence on the aoat. Lack of appealing cha be the man to watch on a Samarawickrama, Angelo Math Twenty20. cricket deeply wounded. eld is the reason for fans to racters is a sore spot in Test pitch which is expected to ews, Lahiru Thirimanne, Nirosh “Ask any cricketer and he Sri Lanka is a team in the ock to the venue and watch cricket’s journey to reclaim hold good with the ball com an Dickwella (wk), Suranga Lak would tell you that Test crick process of reinventing itself the longest version of the its coveted position. ing on nicely. mal, Lahiru Gamage, Vishwa et is ultimate,” Shastri em after the retirement of Kuma game. Compared to the ongoing Sri Lanka is backing itself Fernando, Dilruwan Perera, phasises. Kohli, on the eve of ra Sangakkara and Mahela Players like Kohli, Joe Ashes, the IndiaSri Lanka to win. On given form, it will Lakshan Sandakan, Dashun Sha the IndiaSri Lanka Test at Jayawardena, who strove to Root, Kane Williamson, A.B. series pales. Herding school be creditable if Sri Lanka can naka, Roshen Silva and Jeery the Ferozeshah Kotla here, dene the team’s batting de Villiers and David Warner kids into buses and trans stretch the contest to the fth Vandersay. wants youngsters to take to strength as showcased by the have kept spectators’ interest forming them into fans can day. Match starts at 9.30 a.m. Test cricket in a big way. Worldwide, this format has been facing challenges to survive even as the shortest Bonding among the openers is helping the team: Vijay format thrives. Test matches, in a plea Chandimal feels the pitch for the third Test is similar to the Nagpur track sant departure from the past, have become resultorient Special Correspondent get a good experience before ed. “Few want to play for a NEW DELHI the South African tour.” draw. Tests are nishing Competition among the Sri Lankan skipper Dinesh within four days. The game openers is good for the team Chandimal viewed it die has changed,” maintains and M. Vijay welcomed it as rently. “If you look at the Shastri. The game has he praised colleagues K.L. pitch here, I’m not sure changed because players Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan. they’ve prepared it for South have changed. “We three are very good Africa. It looks like the Nag Flying high: The prolic Virat Kohli’s joy would be When a batsman repeat friends o the eld and that pur pitch,” Chandimal said. compounded if India sustains its momentum and wraps up the edly plays the reverse sweep makes it much easier. It de “The Kolkata track was simi series against Sri Lanka in the nal Test beginning on in a Test, one realises why nitely unsettles the opener, lar to the ones in South Afri Saturday. * SANDEEP SAXENA the game has changed. who is playing regular. Our ca but these two are not like good rapport outside the that. I’m surprised they are Batsmen punished eld will help us big time in saying they’re preparing for Batsmen in the past have the coming series and the fu South Africa and they’ve gi ‘Adelaide ton best’ been punished for playing ture ahead. We three are in ven these pitches.” casual shots — the most strik good form,” said Vijay on the Chandimal hinted at some IANS second innings hundred ing being Kapil Dev and San eve of the third Test between changes in the team with New Delhi at Adelaide where we deep Patil dropped after In India and Sri Lanka here. Rangana Herath out due to Indian skipper Virat Kohli almost won the Test dia lost to England at this Throwing light on the trio, injury. “Rangana is a big loss. says his 141 in the second match,” said Kohli at an very venue in 1984. Both Vijay observed, “We make it Camaraderie: M. Vijay, second from right, enjoys a laugh with Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja and Unfortunately, he has got a innings against Australia awards function here. were out to lofted shots and easier, more fun, talking fellow openers K.L. Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan. * SANDEEP SAXENA back injury. But we have at Adelaide in 2014 is the “Though it hurt a lot Patil never played a Test about it openly and having a Lakshan Sandakan and Jef most memorable century not to cross the line, it again. good chat over it rather than Shikhar feels, we put it out in and have good times outside had some grass on it. “It frey Vandersay. They have a he has made. gave us a lot of Test cricket has witnessed keeping it with oneself and the open so that it comes o the eld, which is really (pitch) obviously has grass good opportunity to play. We “There have been so condence as a team that some predictable results in making that person feel it. It (out) and we move forward. helping us as a team.” and that has been the pat haven’t decided on anything many, but purely in terms we could win anywhere,” recent times and no team ad is better o going in the Basically, we are funloving Vijay insisted the team tern for the series. Hopefully yet but probably we are go of the transition, the he added. vertises it better than Sri open. Like whatever I feel or people, do things together would play on the pitch that the wicket plays good and we ing to make a few changes.” ‘Pujara deserves hefty BCCI worried Wagner’s sevenfor puts Kiwis on top

#460490 central contract’ about liabilities Host nishes day one at 85 for two, trailing only by 49 SCOREBOARD Vijay Lokapally G. Viswanath 2,420 crore from the Enfor ANI West Indies — 1st innings: K. NEW DELHI Mumbai cement Directorate for al Wellington Brathwaite c Nicholls b Wagner Ravi Shastri treats Chetesh Salary structurerelated dis leged FEMA violation when Leftarm seamer Neil Wagn 24, K. Powell c Raval b Boult 42, S. Hetmyer c Latham b war Pujara as a special cussions between the Com the IPL 2009 was played in er clinched a careerbest se Wagner 13, S. Hope c Blundell b player. Just as Kapil Dev mittee of Administrators South Africa, 1,250 crore venwicket haul to put New Wagner 0, R. Chase c Raval b treated Shastri as one. (CoA) and Virat Kohli, M.S. related to legal cases (Kochi Zealand in charge at stumps Wagner 5, S. Ambris hit wicket Speaking at a panel dis Dhoni and Ravi Shastri in Tuskers Kerala and World on the rst day of the open b Wagner 0, S. Dowrich run out cussion on Rajdeep Sarde New Delhi on Thursday Sport Group), 540 crore ing Test of the twomatch se 18, J. Holder b Wagner 0, K. sai’s book ‘Democracy XI’, have not gone down well claim from the IT depart ries against West Indies at Roach (not out) 14, M. Cum the India team coach said with the majority of the ment, 600 crore from the the Basin Reserve here on mins b Boult 1, S. Gabriel c that Pujara deserved to be in BCCI members. Sales Tax department, 90 Friday. Latham b Wagner 10; Extras the top bracket of the cen None of the ocebearers crore from the Service Tax Wagner nished with se (b2, lb5) 7; Total (in 45.4 tral contracts. Cheteshwar Pujara. was invited for the meeting. oce and 52 crore from ven for 39 as the Caribbean overs): 134. Fall of wickets: 159, 275, 3 “It you want to attract * K.R. DEEPAK The BCCI treasurer Anirudh Competition Commission of side collapsed to 134 in the 79, 480, 580, 697, 797, 8 players to play Test cricket Chaudhary is seized of the India (CCI). rst innings in a mere 45.4 104, 9105. you would have to give them years. What is wrong if they matter of preparing a re “They (Kohli, Dhoni and overs after being put in. Wrecker-in-chief: New Zealand speedster Neil Wagner New Zealand bowling: Boult security. Pujara is your spe get paid handsomely. I have vised pay, so also the Fi Shastri) did not talk about Coming on the back of its celebrates the exit of West Indian Roston Chase, one of his 168362, Henry 111390, de cialist batsman in Tests and seen some former sport nance Committee chairman numbers, how much money recent Test series win over seven victims, on Friday. * AFP Grandhomme 41130, Wagner deserves a hefty central smen in dire straits Jyotiraditya Scindia — both should the players be paid Zimbabwe and a victory CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 14.42397. contract,” said Shastri. nancially.” for the national and domes etc. Looks like Anil Kum against England, West Indies In reply, opener Tom New Zealand — 1st innings: T. ț On the same subject, Ka Answering a question on tic players. ble’s proposal will be was full of condence and its Latham (37) and skipper Sunil Ambris became the Latham c Roach b Holder 37, J. pil Dev said, “Do you ques how he reacted to heckling tweaked a bit. condence grew even more Kane Williamson (one) were rstever batsman to be Raval (batting) 29, K. William dismissed hitwicket off tion businessmen or actors by the crowd during his Claims galore “And the CoA also know after openers Kieran Powell dismissed in quick succes son c Hope b Roach 1, R. Taylor the rst ball of a Test why they get so much mo playing days, Shastri said, “I BCCI members are an that they have to take into (42) and Kraigg Brathwaite sion. (batting) 12; Extras (b4, nb2) career 6; Total (for two wkts. in 38 ney? I don’t understand was inspired to play better.” xious about the potential lia account the BCCI liabilities. (24) progressed steadily. The match also saw West overs): 85. why people ask questions He was supported by Ka bility of 4,952 crore, on dif There is also the issue of However, after the dismis Indies batsman Sunil Ambris ț He also became the Fall of wickets: 165, 268. when sportsmen make mo pil Dev, “You must realise ferent accounts, turning what constitutes 26% of sal of the opening pair, the create history for all the eleventh player overall to West Indies bowling: Gabriel ney. Why not? that Ravi would be batting into a reality. Gross Revenue Share Windies batsmen failed to wrong reasons as he became get out in this fashion on 102220, Roach 94271, “Most of them don’t have slow under instructions The BCCI is facing cases (GRS),” revealed someone nd momentum and fell like the rst player to get out hit Test debut Cummins 8560, Holder 94 a career of more than 10 from the captain.” pertaining to a claim of who attended the meeting. a pack of cards. wicket for a golden duck. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 191, Chase 2070. Proigate India settles for a draw in its opener against Australia Mideld, marshalled by Manpreet, was exceptional; Germany puts it past England Both teams left unsatised HWL FINALS Australia, though, would feel lucky to escape with a Uthra Ganesan draw. It did push in the mid SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT blame anyone or point out performance. BHUBANESWAR dle two quarters and earned BHUBANESWAR one person, everyone “You have no shots at A groundbisecting pass from as many as six PCs but could It was his 200th gives his best on eld,” he goal from eld play from captain Manpreet Singh on convert only one and hardly international and he was added. the No. 2 in the world and the left, a uid onetouch created any open chances. commitment personied He was justied in I think that’s really good. pass ahead from Lalit Upad “It was quite an expe on the eld but India feeling bad too. As one of But we are not satised hyay and a diving, stumbling rience for the newcomers to captain Manpreet Singh the best players on the because we wanted to reverse shot from Mandeep play in front of this kind of wasn’t too happy after the eld and leading from the win,” he explained. Singh that struck the board crowd. There were a few mis match against Australia. front, Manpreet knew the Manpreet said the team in the 20th minute. sing but just the rst match, “Missing chances is importance of starting would work on its penalty It was one of the many things need sharpening up,” normal in hockey but at with a win, specially corner conversions. moments of brilliance exe Australia coach Colin Batch least Akashdeep tried his against a defending On the other hand, cuted by the Indians but the said. best and that’s why he also champion in a tournament Australia captain Mark only one that mattered as the got the chances,” of topeight teams. Knowles made no bones host began its campaign in The concern Manpreet said bluntly Coach Sjoerd Marijne about his team not being the Hockey World League Fi The result may not really when asked to comment was more circumspect. good enough. “Our quality nal with a 11 draw against de matter in the larger scheme on the misring forward. “You always want to win wasn’t good enough and if fending champion Australia On target: The Indians celebrate Mandeep Singh’s strike against Australia. * BISWARANJAN ROUT of things. With all eight “Hockey is a team game but I am always looking for you continue like that for a here on Friday. teams playing the quarter and mistakes are part and alternatives. I am happy good part of the match, It was a match India “We conceded too many he was everywhere. Feeding ting wide. Four penalty cor nals, everyone would get a parcel of it. We can’t with the overall you can pay for it.” should have won. It was a turnovers on the 30yard the strikers, distributing the ners were earned but all second chance and that match where the sixth line, that is something we ball, disrupting the Austra went waste. would be the stage when ranked team in the world need to work on,” captain lian moves, he did everyth S.V. Sunil and Sumit stood things would start getting se against the World No. 2 and the previous edition a tad too without getting too aggres had the World No. 2 side on Mark Knowles admitted. ing. out for their crosses from rious. dominating them, then it will seriously, playing second d sive. Mats Grambusch and the backfoot for a good half It was more than just that. The captain was clearly on either ank but the team mis But it would be the mis be even more dicult in the dle to a dominant Germany Christopher Ruhr struck for hour — the rst and last quar The Indian mideld was ex a mission in his 200th inter sed the nishing touches. sing elements that would later stages. in a 20 loss in the tourna Germany. ters — and relentlessly ceptional, marshalled by national. He just couldn't And the defence, with two concern the team more. “Momentum needs to be ment opener. The results: Pool B: Germany 2 pressed ahead, created Manpreet who clearly was nd the personnel upfront to men returning from injuries “The result may not be built up from the beginning,” Barring a brief period at (Mats Grambusch, Christopher chances by the dozen and the best player on display. make the most of his eorts. and the others inexpe that important but it matters. admitted Sunil. the beginning, Germany was Ruhr) bt England 0; India 1 restricted Australia to its own Diving, leaping, changing Akashdeep Singh, Mandeep rienced, held up rm despite If we do not score now, after Earlier, England appeared the superior side in every de (Mandeep Singh) drew with half. directions and moving ends, and Gurjant all misred, hit repeated assaults. taking the upper hand to have taken its lessons from partment and in control Australia 1 (Jeremy Hayward).

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ChengYu Yu 76(4), 64. 141 to lead your side to a 10 conrm that his laughter at “I’ve just got to do wha Other results: $25,000 ITF wicket victory, Root elded the Gabba had not been tever I can to win games of men, Jakarta: Quarternals: questions about Ben Stokes, mockery at England’s predi cricket in the next four Justin Bakri (Ina) & Vijay Sun dar Prashanth bt Adam Taylor Jonny Bairstow’s “headbutt” cament, merely at Cameron games because personally & Jason Taylor (Aus) 61, 63; and Moeen Ali’s nger. Bancroft’s laconic explana this would be the biggest Soichiro Moritani & Kento Ta After suggesting that En tion of how Bairstow had achievement of my career so keuchi (Jpn) bt Sidharth Ra gland would use as motiva greeted him with a “head Radek Stepanek joins far,” he said. wat & Manish Sureshkumar tion Smith’s uncontrollable butt” in a Perth bar. Djokovic’s team “The best way of me 64, 67(5), [1513]; Frances laughter during the post Smith also red back at PARIS achieving that is to go out co Vilardo (Ita) & Arjun Kadhe bt Arief Rahman & SunuWa Former World No. 1 Novak match press conference at James Anderson’s assertion and score heavily, big runs. hyu Trijati (Ina) 61, 62. Djokovic has brought Czech the Gabba on Monday, he that the Australians were It’s as simple as that.” Radek Stepanek into his quickly added that he would like “bullies” with their The teams: coaching team, the Serb said prefer people were talking “sledging”, suggesting the Australia: David Warner, Came Shrikrishna on Instagram on Thursday. about cricket. England quick was in a ron Bancroft, Usman Khawaja, American Andre Agassi will league of his own when it Steve Smith (capt.), Peter sizzles continue to coach Djokovic at Insignicant came to the art. Handscomb, Shaun Marsh, Tim the Grand Slams with “It’s quite an insignicant Smith was equally ebul Paine, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cum Sports Reporter Stepanek stepping in at other part of what is an important lient when asked about En mins, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon. BENGALURU tournaments. REUTERS series. The cricket is what glish attempts to frustrate England (from): Alastair Cook, should be the main focal him at the crease by limiting S. Shrikrishna of Tamil Na Porel in Bengal Mark Stoneman, James Vince, part of what we are about,” his scoring as his team seeks du defeated West Bengal’s Ranji squad Joe Root (capt.), Dawid Malan, Root said. to level up the series at 11. Irshad Ali 59956 in the se KOLKATA Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, cond round of the subju “Our responsibility as “That’s cool. I’m happy Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Promising under19 pacer nior boys’ billiards event in players is to make sure that with that,” he smiled. “I love James Anderson, Jake Ball and Ishan Porel has made a the National subjunior for the rest of the series, that batting, I’m happy to stay Craig Overton. Key player: England will stand to gain if skipper Joe Root can conjure up a good knock.* AFP comeback to the 16member and junior championship Bengal side for the Ranji at KSBA here on Friday. Trophy quarterfinals against In another second Gujarat to be played at Jaipur round xture, Haryana’s from December 7 to 11. Dynamos look to bounce back against NEUFC Top seeds ousted The team: Manoj Tiwary Mehul Saini got past Tamil (captain), Sudip Chatterjee, Special Correspondent Prequarternals: Sitthikom Nadu’s R.N. Gurudev Abhimanyu Easwaran, The visitors are yet to claim a point and score their rst goal in this edition Mumbai Thammasin bt Sourabh Verma 197145. Shreevats Goswami (wk), Sourabh Verma and Ritu 217, 1221, 2220; Bodhit Joshi In the subjunior boys’ Anustup Majumder, Abhishek shore up their defence as Our philosophy is to NorthEast United is yet to parna Das, the top seeds in bt Korakrit Laotrakul (Tha) 19 snooker event, Karnataka’s Raman, Aamir Gani, Pradipta ISL <> they have conceded six goals press well and we claim a point and is still wait the men’s and women’s sec 21, 2117, 2116; Mithun Manju S. Azar defeated Ashanth Pramanik, Ashoke Dinda, nath bt Harshit Aggarwal 21 (Tamil Nadu) 6503, 5527 Press Trust of India while scoring four. have not been doing ing to score its rst goal in tions, were knocked out in Ishan Porel, Mukesh Kumar, the prequarternals and 16, 164; Pratul Joshi bt in the rst round. New Delhi that and I’m worried this edition, but head coach Kanishk Seth, B. Amit, quarternals in the Tata Shreyansh Jaiswal 2117, 2114; Writtick Chatterjee, Ritwik Delhi Dynamos will look to Team philosphy Joao Carlos Pires de Deus Lakshya Sen bt Swarnaraj Bora about that Open India International Roy Chowdhury and Saurabh bounce back from its heavy “It’s a problem conceding six said he would not change the 2111, 2117; Siddharth Pratap Veselinovic Miguel Angel Portugal, badminton challenge here Singh. defeat in its last match when goals in two matches. But it’s Dynamos head coach way his side has been Singh bt Siddharath Thakur 21 it takes on NorthEast United not just about our defence. playing. on Friday. 12, 1921, 2114; Teck Zhi Soo beats Mahak Minerva Punjab rallies FC in its rst home game of Rather, it’s about the way we support will be the die Verma lost to Thailand’s (Mas) bt Rahul Yadav 218, 21 to down Neroca FC the season here on Saturday. have been defending as a rence because it’s good to ‘Do the same’ Sitthikom Thammasin and 11; Abhishek Yelegar bt Lakha Sports bureau LUDHIANA nee Sarang 2113, 2115. Dynamos began their ISL team. have fans supporting your “What I tell my boys is to do Rituparna to Ira Sharma. Indore Minerva Punjab overcame an season with a 32 victory ov “Our philosophy is to team through the entire the same as we did in the The results: Men: Quarter Women: Quarternals: Ira initial setback to beat Neroca The experienced Ana Vese er FC Pune City but suered press well and we have not game. rst two games. We created nals: Lakshya Sen bt Siddharth Sharma bt Rituparna Das 1821, FC 21 in an ILeague match at #460490 Pratap Singh 218, 2114; Mith 2118, 2119; Riya Mukherjee bt linovic of Montenegro de a 41 drubbing at the hands been doing that and I’m wor “But that will be the only enough opportunities in the Guru Nanak Stadium on un Manjunath bt Pratul Joshi Yin Fun Lim (Mas) 2119, 2119; feated Mahak Jain 63, 61 Friday. Rattled by Odili Chidi’s of tournament newcomer ried about that,” Dynamos advantage we have in the those two matches. 2321, 2123, 2115; Sitthikom M. Thinaah (Mas) bt Yeo Jia in the seminals of the 18th minute strike, the host Bengaluru FC in their second head coach Miguel Angel match. We’ll have to play the “ We’ll try to do the same Thammasin (Tha) bt Bodhit Min (Sgp) 2114, 1421, 2116; $15,000 ITF women’s ten hit back through Chencho away match on November Portugal said at the pre game the same way as we did against Delhi Dynamos and Joshi 2112, 2116; Abhishek Ruthvika Shivani Gadde bt K. nis at the Indore Tennis Gyeltshen (24) and Lago Bei 26. match press conference. in the rst two matches,” the hope we get a little bit more Yelegar bt Teck Zhi Soo (Mas) Sri Krishna Priya 1721, 2110, Club courts here on Friday. (45+3) to ensure that it Dynamos will look to “I know my stadium. Our Spaniard said. lucky,” de Deus said. 2112, 2422. 2117. The results: Singles: Semi earned full points against the nals: Ana Veselinovic (Mne) newlypromoted side. bt Mahak Jain 63, 61; Olga Doroshina (Rus) bt Y. Pranjala 63, 75. Walia wins Padmini Rout looks in ne touch Doubles: Final: Dea Herdze las (BIH) & ChingWen Hsu Sports Bureau P.K. Ajith Kumar ve points and has played ea ment though they are unlike (Tpe) bt Albina Khabibulina chandigarh NATIONAL CHESS (Uzb) & Ksenia Palkina (Kgz) SURAT sily the most consistent, so ly to reach anywhere near 62, 61. Eighth seed Drona Walia After a welldeserved break, lid chess over the past week. the podium. overcame second seed the ladies will be back before The only game in which karni. While Meenakshi has The rst six rounds had Bhupender Dahiya 60, 76 the board on Saturday, as the she looked a bit shaky was done well on her comeback produced some extremely Big jump for (5) in the under18 boys’ Iwasa 44th National women’s the one against the much to the event after a gap of ghting chess. It should get nal of the AITA Champion premier chess championship lowerrated Samridhaa three years, her young Tamil more intense in the last ve. Ghosal ship series junior tennis resumes at the Surat Tennis Ghosh in the fth round, Nadu teammate Nandhidhaa The standings (after six tournament at the CLTA Club. which was drawn. And the once again showed that she rounds): 1. Padmini Rout 5 Press Trust of India Complex here on Friday. With ve rounds remain second seed is the only is growing rapidly as a points; 25. P.V. Nandhidhaa, Chennai In the girls’ under18 ing, the ght for the ultimate player who has remained un player. Soumya Swaminathan, S. Mee Saurav Ghosal has jumped nal, Nimrat Kaur Atwal crown in domestic chess is beaten thus far. Soumya and Bhakti too nakshi and Bhakti Kulkarni 4; 6. ve places to move to No. beat Rahat Mangat for the very much on. Padmini Topseeded Mary Ann could aord to dream of a Mary Ann Gomes 3.5; 78. 16 in the world squash loss of ve games. Rout, winner of the last three Gomes has managed only 3.5 strong nish, but they need Sakshi Chitlange and Swati rankings list released on The results (nals): Un editions, is in sole lead, but, points and is placed sixth. to be a bit more consistent Ghate 2.5; 911. Samriddhaa Friday. Ghosh, P. Bala Kannamma and der18: Boys: Drona Walia bt as she herself pointed out, She needs to score heavily in than they were in the open Harinder Pal Singh has Bhupender Dahiya 60, 76 Bhakti Kulkarni 2; 12. Srishti there is quite some way to go the second half to close in on ing half. moved to 52 form 69, while (5). Girls: Nimrat Kaur Atwal Pandey 0.5. bt Rahat Mangat 64, 61. yet. She should be pleased Padmini. As for the likes of Srishti Seventh round pairings: Pad Vikram Malhotra is at 69 Under12: Boys: Rushil Khosla though that she has a full There are four players on Pandey, P. Bala Kannamma mini v Meenakshi; Samriddha v and Mahesh Mangaonkar bt Shrey Vir 64, 36, 76(4). point lead. four points — P.V. Nandhid and Samriddhaa, they would Nandhidhaa; Kannamma v at 73. Among women, Josh Girls: Suryanshi Tanwar bt Ji Solid show: Padmini Rout has justied her top billing with The amiable, young wo haa, Soumya Swaminathan, go on gaining the experience Bhakti; Swati v Mary; Soumya v na Chinnappa is placed at gyasa Narsinghani 61, 61. some consistent chess over the past week. * P.K. AJITH KUMAR man from Bhubaneswar has S. Meenakshi and Bhakti Kul of playing in a strong tourna Srishti; Sakshi v Kiran. 15 and Dipika Pallikal 20.

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THE HINDU CROSSWORD 12178 (set by Anon) SUDOKU FAITH 11 Starts riding in yachts and 2 Spice initially removed from doing hoops of capital city (6) snack on islandnation (5) Self, a true friend

12 Runs scam on canals (8) 3 Fuss about primary The Supreme is called Satchitananda. Sat is that w hich is endangered animal’s skin (7) always exists and this means it is innite in nature. Anything 13 Holding up container of gin that is nite is not eternal. That eternal is in the heart of all cocktail (9) 5 Arrival of bill by air (6) existence and is the source of all joy and is of the nature of consciousness. It is because joy is within that the desire to 15 Film rst known lizard (5) seek joy is basic in all beings. 6 Grandma to push tent All worldly happiness when experienced is actually a re 16 Shoots Soviet missiles (5) regularly in American island (9) ection of the inner joy in all of us. 18 In favour of moving But the irony in life is that this truth is hidden and invaria bly happiness is sought in the objects of the external world, advertising (9) 7 Severe ght for bronze (7) pointed out Sri M in a lecture. Some seek happiness through 22 Alien in vast surface (8) work and some through entertainment and so on. The h u 8 Already agreed to depart man mind, unable to recognise its immortal nature, is forev concert? Kind of (13) 23 Meditate after odd beer, er caught in the trap of its own like and dislikes, and gives in stupefy… (6) to the pulls of the world and gets aected by the va riety of 14 Crazy man eloped with the pairs of opposites in it. 25 …the most affluent by brewing wallaby? (9) Krishna teaches the practical truth that there is no friend whitest ale (10) or foe for one than one’s own self. While everyone wishes to 17 Most dear son trapped in have a friend and nobody wishes to have an enemy, it is up 26 Accomplishment is the same cupboard (7) Solution to puzzle 12177 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku seen either way (4) to one to see how one’s own self can be seen as both a friend I ACROSS and a foe. 19 Criminal to start mauling head 27 Run back into starting of golf To one who has conquered the senses, mind and intel 1 Remove hint of rancidity from off crustacean (7) course on time (6) lect, one’s self is a true friend as it guides him in the path to wine with Indian spices (6) salvation. To one who yields to the cravings and desires that 4 Visits initially hostile relatives 28 Fix architectural ornament 20 Indecent boy almost sent back arise in him, the self becomes his own foe. (6) according to report (6) from drama (7) The freedom to rise or fall is with each one. Kabir Das li kens human beings to the musk deer, a special variety of 9 Journalist, in the morning, has I DOWN 21 Artist dissolves chemical deer, endowed with the natural function to produce musk a cheese (4) initially in compound (6) fragrant substance, in its body. 10 Reaching variant rig in a riot 1 Wine created with rened air It goes in search of the fragrance from the musk in its own (8,2) (7) 24 Fly is very small? Not quite (5) body.

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Arjun Atwal stays in lead Tiger Woods’ play and Spain and Portugal in Press Trust of India same group at World Cup Domaine de Bel Ombre (Mauritius) presence rule the day Arjun Atwal of India stayed Defender Germany to open against Mexico in the lead at the AfrAsia The legend shoots a 69 to be tied-eighth; in-form Tommy Fleetwood in the van Associated Press Bank Mauritius Open after Moscow shooting a oneunderpar HWC in the neighbourhood of 70 in the second round on that, it was nice to feel the Spain and Portugal, the last Friday. adrenaline out there.” two European champions, were drawn on Friday to Rakesh Rao Describing his card dotted meet in the rst round of the The eighttime Asian NASSAU with ve birdies, two bogeys World Cup, one day after Tour winner has totalled Standing on the seventh tee, and a couple of spectacular Russia opens the tourna 10underpar 132 to hold a Tiger Woods sipped water parputts, Tiger said, “Up ment in one of the easiest oneshot advantage over and waited for Henrik Sten and down because I had a lot groups of the competition. Dylan Frittelli (66) of South son and Alex Noren, playing of birdies, made a lot of Africa and Laurie Canter a group ahead, to nish put putts. I didn’t play the par 5s The Russians will play (66) of England at the € ting. During this time, World very well, made two 6s and I their rst match at Luzhniki One million event. No. 1 Dustin Johnson, play grinded it out and made a Stadium in Moscow on June S.S.P. Chawrasia added a ing in the group behind Tig few pars, which is nice.” 14 against Saudi Arabia the bogeyfree 67 to get to six er, reached the sixth green After twoputting from only team ranked lower than Iceland, the country with follows concerns about ra under and T13, while Shiv and lined up his putt. about 40 feet for his rst bir the hosts. Egypt and Uru the smallest population of cism and hooliganism. Kapur made a smart move There was nothing un die on the par5 third hole, guay are also in Group A. the 32 World Cup teams, was up with a 69 and he is now usual about what the players Tiger produced a 20footer Defending champion Ger “We will do everything to drawn with Argentina, Croa T25. were doing. But what stood putt to save par on the next. many will play rst against make it a major sporting fes tia and Nigeria in Group D. The only other Indians out was the sharp contrast The roar was much higher Mexico in Group F and then tival,” Putin said, looking Another newcomer, Pana making the cut were Shub between the gallery that fol when he drained the round’s face Sweden and South Ko forward to a World Cup of ma, will take on England, hankar Sharma (72) at T37 lowed Tiger and Dustin. second birdie — from 25 feet rea. Fivetime world cham “friendship and fair play, va Tunisia and Belgium in and Gaganjeet Bhullar (71) If a couple of hundred — on the par3 eighth. pion Brazil is in Group E lues that do not change with Group G. Peru, the last of the at T54. spectators walked the course Tiger’s rst of the two bo with Switzerland, Costa Rica time.” 32 teams to qualify for Rus Honey Baisoya, Ajeetesh under bright sun and geys came on the ninth hole and Serbia. The Olympic doping scan sia, is in Group C with 1998 Sandhu, Rahil Gangjee, cheered Tiger even when he where he dued his ap “None of us wanted an ea dal surrounding Russia hung champion France, Australia Khalin Joshi, S Chikkaran found par, Dustin’s third bir proach chip. But he picked sy group,” Mexico goalkeep over the nal countdown to and Denmark. gappa, Chiragh Kumar, die over the rst six holes up the shot after taking the er Guillermo Ochoa said. the draw. Russian Deputy Himmat Rai and Sujjan was watched closely by just turn. “If you’re playing the The only group without a Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, Singh missed the cut, one spectator! The moment After saving pars on the World Cup, you want to face former World Cup cham who is the head of the World which fell at oneunder 141. truly reected what Tiger’s 11th and 12th holes, succes the best. And if you want to pion is Group H, which is Cup organising committee, return to the sport meant for sive birdies, including a 15 reach the nal, you have to made up of Poland, Senegal, defended himself against ac the golf lovers. footer on the 13th, brought play great matches.” Colombia and Japan. cusations that he helped to India exits in At the end of the opening him within a stroke of the Spain, which eliminated Russian President Vladi orchestrate statesponsored day of the $3.5million Hero lead. Portugal in the last 16 on the mir Putin opened the draw doping at the 2014 Sochi quarternals World Challenge, it didn’t However, the excitement way to winning its rst ceremony at the Kremlin, se Olympics. matter how well Dustin put World Cup in 2010, will open ven years after landing the “Nowadays everyone is Sports Bureau proved too brief as an illdi ted or who led the eld. Tig against the European cham hosting rights. Putin urged trying to make some kind of MARSEILLE rected drive on the par5 er ruled the hearts with his 15th forced Tiger to take a pion on June 15 in Sochi. fans to visit and enjoy his axis of evil out of us, just be India, seeded eighth, lost presence and play that ‘drop’ for a bogey. He sur Group B also includes Mo “big and multifaceted” cause we’re a great sporting to second seed England 30 fetched him a card of three vived the rest of the test with rocco and Iran. country, a rallying cry which power,” Mutko said. in the quarternals of the under 69 to be tiedeighth. pars. WSFWorld men’s team For the record, England’s First round scores (all USA un squash championship here inform Tommy Fleetwood less mentioned): 66: Tommy on Friday, notwithstanding shot a bogeyfree 66 for a Fleetwood (Eng); 67: Rickie Flawless display: Tommy Fleetwood produced a bogeyfree a ghting performance onestroke lead over Ameri Fowler, Matt Kuchar; 68: Kevin 66 for a onestroke lead over Americans Rickie Fowler and from India’s top player Sau cans Rickie Fowler and Matt Chappell, Justin Rose (Eng), Matt Kuchar. * AFP rav Ghosal. Kuchar. Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth The results (quarternal): Given the presence of niel Berger failed to break In Tiger’s words, “It was (US); 69: Francesco Molinari England bt India 30 (Nick (Ita), Charley Homan, Justin eight from the world’s top10 par. Defending champion Hi not only nice to get the rst Matthew bt Saurav Ghosal Thomas, Tiger Woods; 70: Hen 116, 611, 117, 1012, 119; list of professionals in the deki Matsuyama recovered round out of the way, but al rik Stenson (Swe), Kevin Kisner; Daryl Selby bt Harinderpal elite eld of 18, the quality of for a 71. Even Tiger’s playing so I’m only three shots out of 71: Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Sandhu 112, 114, 112; James play was understandably partner World No. 3 Justin the lead. So to be able to put Brooks Koepka; 72: Patreek Willstrop bt Vikram Malhotra high. Thomas carded a 69 after myself there after not play Reed; 73: Alex Noren (Swe); 75: 114, 911, 118). Only Alex Noren and Da struggling on the frontnine. ing for, is it 10 months or so, Daniel Berger.

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Press Trust of India with a time of 55.60 New Delhi seconds. India’s veteran Winter “I am so proud to bring Olympian Shiva Keshavan the gold medal back to India on Friday won a gold medal for the fourth time. The at the Asian Luge Cham track is one of the most di pionships at Altenberg, cult in the world and I have Germany. had a few bad crashes here The sole Indian partici in the past. So it was a chal pant and defending Asian lenge on many levels ,” said champion retained his title Keshavan, after the race. Another goalless draw for JFC Defending champion ATK’s woeful campaign continues ISL midelder Memo hit a long ranger, but it sailed over. Amitabha Das Sharma ATK elded towering JAMSHEDPUR Finn Jussi Jaaskelainen in Jamshedpur FC continued goal, replacing Debjit Ma to remain goalshy as it jumdar, who leaked four played out another goalless goals against FC Pune City in draw, this time against ATK, the last match. even though it had the ad The pitch was relayed vantage of playing at home with fresh turf ahead of the here at the JRD Tata Sports tournament, but it didn’t Complex on Friday. stand as big chunks of soil The host continued to came up all across the park miss a genuine striker as it making life dicult for the wasted numerous scoring players. opportunities. Defending The host had the best champion ATK’s woeful chance in the 27th minute start continued as it remains when its winger Kervens winless for the third con Belfort tried a thundering secutive match. shot, which came o an ATK JFC had a rst look at goal defender. Doutie pounced as early as the second mi on the rebound and set up nute when Sameehg Doutie an onrushing Jerry Mawh dodged past two ATK defen mingthanga from the right. ders before going down in But the latter mued up side the box. the chance nding the out But referee Santosh Ku side of the net. Jerry wasted mar was not interested. Af another close chance in the ter a few minutes, Brazilian 40th minute.

Ecient, but... JFC’s Mehtab Hossain marshalled the mideld well, but couldn’t come up with a killer pass.

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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 18 LIFE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Egg fossils crack open secrets Now, control devices Rare nd The rstknown Greek ver with thumb gestures sion of a manuscript de scribing Jesus’s teachings Press Trust of India pear on a nearby computer to James has been disco of ancient ying reptiles Washington screen. As wearers strum vered in archives at the Ox Scientists have created a their thumb across the n ford University. PTI Mayweather adopts Huge cache discovered in a Gobi desert site, where pterosaurs ourished computing nger ring that gers, the hardware detects baby panda in China can be used to make phone movement, said research SHANGHAI Nicholas St. Fleur spot numerous times to lay calls, send voicemails or ers from Georgia Institute American boxing star Floyd their eggs. answer text messages — all of Technology in the U.S. Mayweather has adopted a Welcome to Pterosaur Park. Using CT scanning, the without the wearer reach While other gesture baby giant panda in China Palaeontologists have un team peered into the shells. ing for their phone or even based systems require the and renamed it “TMT FLoyd covered more than 200 fos Of the 215 eggs they found, looking at it. user to perform gestures in Mayweather”. TMT stands for silised eggs belonging to the 16 had embryonic remains, The system called Fin the air, Fingersound uses his brand “The Money Team”. ying reptiles that soared including one with partial gersound is triggered by a the ngers as a canvas. The panda will remain in during the age of dinosaurs. wings and a toothless lower thumb ring outtted with a This allows the system to China and Mayweather will The discovery, published in jaw. One of the young ptero gyroscope and tiny micro clearly recognise the begin visit it. The adoption fee of the journal Science, is the saurs was estimated to be “at phone. It also allows people ning and end of an intend 100,000 yuan (9.75 lakh) largest collection of ptero least two years old and still to trace letters on their n ed gesture by using the will go the research centre in saur eggs found so far. growing at the time of its gers and see the gures ap gyroscope. south west China where the “I remember looking at death, supporting the grow panda lives. AFP the specimens and saying ing body of evidence that that’s not possible,” said pterosaurs had long incuba Alexander W.A. Kellner, a tion periods.” palaeontologist at the Feder al University of Rio de Janei Crawled at rst ro and an author on the pap The team also discovered er. “We had less than 10 eggs evidence that hatchlings had before and now we have leg bones that were more de found hundreds in one veloped than their fore YouTube pulls 1.5 lakh spot.” limbs, suggesting the babies videos with children The nd could help ad most likely crawled and were SAN FRANCISCO vance our understanding unable to y. The team ad YouTube has taken down about the early lives of the ded that young pterosaurs 1,50,000 videos of children extinct winged creatures, in were probably very reliant and teenagers after lewd cluding their relationships on their parents. comments about them were with their parents. Ptero A depiction of pterosaurs and their young. * ZHAO CHUANG/NYT Denis Charles Deeming, a posted by viewers. The saurs were the rst creatures palaeontologist from the Un Googleowned platform has sought to reassure big brand — after insects — to evolve po Xiaolin Wang, a palaeon me a year before that some iversity of Lincoln in En advertisers their messages wered ight, meaning they tologist at the University of one would nd hundreds of gland who wrote an adjoin would be kept out of apped their wings to stay Chinese Academy of Scienc pterosaur eggs at one spot, I ing article in Science about compromising situations. AFP aloft instead of simply jump es, Beijing, and lead author would have said ‘Yeah, yeah the ndings, said he was sur ing and gliding. of the study, discovered the get out of here. Not even in prised by the sheer number eggs in a 120millionyear your dreams,’” Mr. Kellner of eggs that were all collect Amazing wingspan old pterosaur boneyard in said. “But here we are.” ed together in one place. But Pterosaurs terrorised the the arid Gobi Desert in Pterosaurs laid soft eggs he cautioned against making skies for more than 160 mil northwestern China. When like snakes or lizards, not conclusions about the early lion years until they went ex the pterosaurs thrived, the brittle ones like birds. The lives and development of tinct alongside dinosaurs place was most likely a lush fossilised eggs found at the pterosaurs from the small some 66 million years ago. lake shore. The team sug nesting ground look more number of embryos that the They are the largest animals gested that a strong storm like deated balloons than team found. David Harbour’s Hellboy to have ever own, with most likely washed the eggs eggs cracked for an “They try to paint a pic to release in 2019 some like the colossal Quet- into the lake, where they omelette. ture of how these things LOS ANGELES zalcoatlus having wingspans were buried alongside ptero worked, but the reality of it The Hellboy reboot featuring David Harbour is set to hit the as large as ghter jets. saur bones and preserved Large nesting colonies is that the evidence isn’t screens on January 11, 2019. The species that laid the for millions of years. Mr. Kellner said it was also there,” he said. The film will be separate from recently discovered eggs is When Mr. Wang disco much more likely that ptero Mr. Kellner said his team Guillermo del Toro’s original known as Hamipterus tian- vered H. tianshanensis at the saurs laid their eggs in large plans to uncover more ptero films, according to The shanensis. It lived during the same site in 2014, he had on nesting colonies near lake saur eggs, which may be hid Hollywood Reporter. The cast early Cretaceous period and ly unearthed a handful of and river shores rather than ing beneath the ones they al includes Milla Jovovich as the its wings stretched about 11 eggs. Later he found the in solitary nests high on cli ready found. They hope to villainous Blood Queen and feet. It also sported a thick mother lode. The cache of sides. He added that the nd more preserved em Ian McShane as Hellboy’s forehead crest and had a wellpreserved 2inch eggs large number of eggs they bryos that will help un adopted father, Professor mouth full of pointy teeth for stunned his colleague Mr. found suggested the ptero scramble the mystery. NY TIMES #460490 Broom. PTI snatching sh. Kellner. “If you were to tell saurs returned to the nesting (With inputs from AFP)

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