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!"#$"%&' She joined the BJP in 2008 Nirmala’s proposals and lakh people across 1.02 lakh official report on the country’s and was made a member of the approach in the Budget due in households. The PLFS notes poor job scenario and main- he biggest surprise in the National Executive. She was about a month,” said that the all-India unemploy- tained that the unemployment Tportfolio allocation of the nominated as party spokesper- Jagannadham Thunuguntla, Sr ment rate was at 6.1 per cent data was yet to be finalised. The Modi Cabinet on Friday was son in March 2010 and has VP and Head of Research, for 2017-18, the highest since Modi Government had come crucial Finance Ministry going been a full time party worker Centrum Broking Limited. 1972-73. under fire for witholding the to Nirmala Sitharaman, who since then. Her elevation as “Emergence of clarity is As per data, share of self- key macro data, with the was immediately greeted by the Finance Minister has raised what was important, and now employed among workers was Opposition parties alleging forecast of a sagging economy eyebrows both within and out- narrative in markets will be about 57.8 per cent among that it was a deliberate attempt which saw GDP falling to a side the BJP. about the economic policies rural males, 57.7 per cent to hide its non-performance. five-year low of 5.8 per cent Nirmala took over as that will be adopted to revive among rural females, 39.2 per Moreover, some members of and the Government admitting Defence Minister in September and stimulate the slowing econ- cent among urban males and the Statistical Commission had that the unemployment has hit 2017 taking over from Arun omy,” he said. 34.7 per cent among urban earlier resigned to protest a 45-year high figure. Jaitley, who was holding the Meanwhile, India’s eco- females. Among regular against the Government’s deci- Nirmala became the first portfolio as additional charge. nomic growth rate slowed to wage/salaried employees in the sion to withold the data. woman in 48 years since then At a time when the GDP is five-year low of 5.8 per cent in Government on a day when non-agriculture sector, 71.1 The data poses a huge Prime Minister Indira Gandhi falling, unemployment is rising, January-March 2018-19, due to Modi 2.0 Cabinet took charge per cent had no written job challenge to the Modi to hold charge of the Finance export and FDI flow slowing poor performance in agricul- showed 7.8 per cent of all contract: 72.3 per cent among Government which has Minister. Nirmala, who became down, and credit off take and ture and manufacturing sec- employable urban youth being males and 66.8 per cent among returned to power for the sec- the first full-time woman NPA emerging major area of tors, official data released on jobless, while the percentage for females. ond term on the promise that Defence Minister in the first concerns, news agency PTI Friday said. $ " *" " $ %& the rural was 5.3 per cent. The The data showed jobless- it will set policies right and tenure of the BJP Government, quoted analysts as saying that The Central Statistics joblessness among males on all ness for rural male youth (aged ensure faster economic growth will also head the Corporate the narrative in markets will be Office (CSO) also revealed was below China’s 6.4 per cent. the same on Friday with the lat- India basis was 6.2 per cent, 15-29) went from 5 per cent in and employment. The data is Affairs Ministry. about economic policies that that GDP growth during 2018- On the unemployment est data showing that jobless- while it was 5.7 per cent in case 2011-12 to 17.4 per cent in also significant because this was Indira — who handled the will be adopted to revive and 19 fiscal stood at 6.8 per cent, front, Nirmala faced the daunt- ness had indeed touched 6.1 of females. 2017-18. For rural women in the first comprehensive assess- Finance Ministry in 1970-71 — stimulate the slowing economy. lower than 7.2 per cent in the ing task of dealing with jobless per cent from July 2017 to June The data comes from the the same age group, joblessness ment of the employment situ- as PM had held additional “The ambiguity of portfo- previous financial year. The growth. Months after rejecting 2018. The unemployment rate Periodic Labour Force Survey went from 4.8 per cent in ation conducted after Modi’s charge of the Defence Ministry. lio allocation is now removed, growth in GDP was slowest the claim that India’s unem- is defined as the percentage of (PLFS), which was conducted 2011-12 to 13.6 per cent in decision in November 2016 to Among the BJP leaders, so this is good for the market since 2014-15. The previous ployment rate had touched a persons unemployed among by the National Sample Survey 2017-18. withdraw most of the country’s Niramala is a relatively junior in a sense. We will get to see low was 6.4 per cent in 2013- 45-year high, the Narendra the total labour force. Office (NSSO) from July 2017 The Government had ear- banknotes from circulation face in the Modi Government. new Finance Minister 14. The fourth quarter growth Modi Government admitted The data released by the to June 2018, and covered 4.3 lier brushed aside a leaked overnight. R
!"#$"%&' Nagar, Shah was in the past in Anurag Thakur, a first time elected as an MLA in 1997, Minister in the Modi JP strongman Amit Shah, 1998, 2002 and 2007. Government. Anurag is close to Bwho had promised that his As Home Minister, the Jaitley. Government would scrap former BJP president is expect- Prime Minister Narendra ! " Article 370, is new Union ed to have a high-level of syn- Modi will retain the Home Minister in place of ergy with the Prime Minister Department of Personnel and Rajnath Singh. Rajnath has who was effusive in his praise Training, Atomic Energy and been moved to Defence while of Shah soon after party’s stu- Space as well as all important Nirmala Sitharaman has been pendous Lok Sabha success policy issues and portfolios entrusted with an equally high- on May 23 when BJP went past not allocated. profile Ministry of Finance 300 and NDA 350 seats. Giant slayer Smriti Irani, and Corporate Affairs. Sitharaman has stepped who ended Congress presi- Replacing Sushma Swaraj, into the shoes of Arun Jaitley, dent Rahul Gandhi’s run in his who held the portfolio of who opted out of new pocket borough of Amethi, is Foreign Minister in Modi-1 but Government on health the new Women and Child opted not to contest Lok Sabha grounds. Known as close to Development (WCD) Minister polls, is former Foreign Jaitley, Sitharaman had a steep along with retaining the Textile Secretary S Jaishankar. The rise in her profile from being Ministry, according to a com- critical Ministry has been given spokesperson to holding min- muniqué issued by the to Jaishankar, trusted by Modi istries of Corporate Affairs, Rashtrapati Bhavan. WCD was since latter’s days as Chief Commerce and Industry to earlier held by Maneka Gandhi Minister in Gujarat. becoming first full-fledged who has not been included in Jaishankar, son of noted Indian woman Defence the Cabinet. strategic expert and a former Minister. She will have a deputy Continued on Page 4 ' ( ) head of Institute of Defence * $ %& Studies K Subrahmanyam, is the first former foreign secre- tary to take charge of MEA. He !"#$"%&' Government. “We are firmly is also the second diplomat with the NDA,” Kumar said. after Natwar Singh to hold ihar Chief Minister and The Bihar CM insisted Cabinet portfolio. BJanata Dal (U) president there is no “unease” between The command of home Nitish Kumar on Friday made the alliance partners and that portfolio going to Shah is sig- it clear that there is no question the decision against joining nificant given his poll-time that his party will join the the Ministry was taken as the assertion in West Bengal last Union Cabinet in future even JD(U)’s presence there would month that his Government as he disclosed that BJP chief have been merely “symbolic”. would remove controversial Amit Shah made repeated The JD(U) president said provision of Article 370 in attempts to convince him to Shah called him up on May 28 Jammu & Kashmir. “We will accept his proposal for one and said he wanted to meet remove Article 370 from berth in the Modi Cabinet. him for discussion the next day. Kashmir after forming the next “As the JD(U) national He said the two met in New BJP Government at the president, I want to tell that Delhi Shah told him that his Centre,” he had said at there is no question of JD(U) party wanted to share power Kailimpong public rally at joining the Union Cabinet in with all NDA constituents, and Darjeeling. Besides this, he the future,” news agency PTI suggested that the JD(U) has also maintained that his quoted Kumar telling reporters accepts a Cabinet berth. Government would introduce at the Patna airport on his “I kept listening to him and National Register for Citizens returning from Delhi after par- the sense I had was that it was across the country if voted to ticipating in the swearing-in to be a symbolic presence for power again at the Centre. ceremony of Modi. the JD(U) in the Government. One of the closest confi- Nitish, however, made it I didn’t want that. Still, as he dant of the Prime Minister, clear that one should not have insisted, I told him that I will Shah has held MoS home port- any confusion that being in the consult my party and get back folio under Modi’s Chief Government is the only testi- to him,” Kumar told reporters. Ministership in Gujarat. mony that they are with the Continued on Page 4 Presently an MP from Gandhi P" # $ %&
# " $ ! !"#$"%&' announced the landmark deci- of the scheme by including all reporters after the meeting. Budget under which the L M % sions for the farming commu- land holding eligible farmer The 75,000-crore Government decided to pro- ulfilling its poll promises in nity in the first Cabinet meet- families under the scheme, Pradhan Mantri Kisan vide 6,000 per year (in three !"#$"%&' Fthe very first Cabinet meet- ing. “The Union Cabinet has subject to the prevalent exclu- Samman Siddhi (PMKSS) was equal instalments) to an esti- ing, the NDA Government on approved to extend the ambit sion criteria,” Tomar told announced in the interim mated 12.5 crore small and n a first of its kind, former Friday decided to extend PM- marginal farmers holding land IForeign Secretary S KISAN scheme to all 14.5 crore up to 2 hectares. Jaishankar is now heading the farmers in the country costing “Now, the revised scheme same Ministry and took charge 87,000 crore a year and also envisages to cover around 2 on Friday. An expert on China announced over 10,000 crore crore more farmers increasing and the US, his new stint will pension scheme for 5 crore the coverage of the PM-KISAN be keenly watched to see farmers. to around 14.5 crore benefi- whether he brings any change Implementing another poll ciaries,” the Minister said. He in India’s approach towards promise, the Cabinet meeting said total burden on the exche- Pakistan. Incidentally, he chaired by Prime Minister quer will increase by 12,000 assumed the new responsibil- Narendra Modi also crore to 87,217.50 crore for ity nearly 16 months after retir- announced monthly pension of the year 2019-20. ing as a career diplomat. Jaishankar will be busy in 3,000 to all shopkeepers, retail Tomar said the Cabinet Natwar Singh was the another preparing the groundwork for traders and self employed per- also approved the PM-Kisan Indian Foreign Service (IFS) Prime Minister Narendra sons after attaining the age of Pension Yojana under which officer to head the External Modi’s bilateral visit to Sri 60 years. small and marginal farmers will Affairs Ministry during the Lanka later in June. It will be Announcing the key deci- get a minimum fixed pension UPA regime. Modi’s second foreign visit sions, new Agriculture Minister of 3,000 per month on attain- Elevated to the high-profile after taking the oath of office. Narendra Singh Tomar said the * + + ,* + ing the age of 60 years. Ministry as its Minister, Continued on Page 4 Modi 2.0 Government has ' "* # $ %& Continued on Page 4 !
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Do they However, such conve- “We need to stop the damaging A 6 While debating on the and real victim were from dif- mean to say that if a commu- nience will not alter facts, at stuff, roll out new green tech- intricacies is best left to the sub- ferent religions, caste or polit- nity or region lacks represen- least not for the better. This nologies, stabilise human pop- 3 ) 2 3 ject experts, what a person with ical background. tation in the cabinet then the brings one to the main issue ulation- as low as we fairly can ) 2 6 4 even average intelligence will Perpetuating this folly, community or region is likely which surprisingly has been and keep hold of the natural $ / A * 6 $ understand is that there are some elements are now divid- to be ignored? sidelined for long- the envi- wealth we have.” / B$/C* * 6 groups of people and organi- ing the union cabinet ministers This mentality basically ronment. Considering some of the 0 & # " sations which are so deeply on caste lines to claim that goes against the constitution’s It is actually a challenge to major works done in * 6 *A under the influence of their people conveniently empha- ‘upper caste’ people were given spirit and the oath of office and balance development and envi- Uttarakhand during the past 2 own personal likes and dislikes sised that the BJP got votes of better and more positions in secrecy that all ministers took- ronmental conservation even five years, one is wary of how * )$/ that they will continue to use the minorities too because they the cabinet than others. of discharging their responsi- though this fact suffers from the environment will fare with & * 6 the various pretexts they have voted out of fear. It is ironic that those who bilities in accordance with the overkill due to being quoted greater and main focus being used so far to criticise, oppose So the reason for the pro- cite the constitution of India constitution of India, without too often by politicians and laid on ‘development’ by the and fool others just for the heck jected defeat of BJP ended up and repeatedly focus on caste fear or favour. officials. Modi government. ) ) ) of it, when not doing it so for being the reason for the actu- and religion to criticise their Just like Narendra Modi is Paying lip service to envi- However, one still hopes ) O4& 7 ?O 4 their own ulterior benefit. al victory, according to these rivals forget that the constitu- the Prime Minister of India not ronmental issues has become a that the government will " 6 B4"C' 4 6 During the election cam- ‘experts’. tion proscribes discrimination just Gujarat, the ministers are dangerous habit. 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$"&/2$4! We will also be checking the uniforms of the driver and egional Transport Office the conductors. The campaign Rwill be taking strict actions will start by end of the first against vehicles which are week of June.” found overloading, working as Superintendent of Police stage carriages on the permit of (traffic) Prakash Chandra Arya contract carriages, stopping at said, “For the operation of spots other than designated smooth traffic in we have stops. banned public transport vehi- District traffic police have cles including buses, three- also banned city buses, wheelers and e-rickshaws from Vikrams and other public stopping within 50 metres transport vehicles from stop- radius of major intersections. ping inside the 50 metres radius We have also distributed appli- from main junctions and cations for the verification of roundabouts in the city. bus owners, conductors and Regional Transport Officer drivers.” Dinesh Pathoi told The It is pertinent to mention Pioneer, “We will be conduct- here that RTO in their three ing a similar drive as the one we day drive have issued 203 chal- did against the Vikrams which lans and seized 17 vehicles. were operating as stage car- Assistant Regional Transport riages.This campaign will be Officer (ARTO) Arvind $"&/2$4! about a dozen paintings at a in the gallery,” the staff mem- for city buses, which are oper- Pandey said that they will be time. The condition of the ber of the gallery added. $"&/2$4! vice tax from many of the ating in the city and have com- keeping a check on those trans- he Uttara Contemporary building is also not very good Talking to The Pioneer, government institutions like " plaints of over loading on some ports, which are over loading TArt Gallery which was and the facility also lacks a director of the culture depart- n order to raise the revenue FRI, ONGC and others. routes. and taking extra charges. inaugurated by the Chief curator. ment Bina Bhatt said, “There is Iof the Municipal However, no property tax O$ P Minister Trivendra Singh “A curator is the right per- no position of a curator in the Corporation of Dehradun is being collected on the gov- & ' Rawat in the month July last son who has knowledge of the facility. (MCD) officials are planning to ernment residential facilities & year still lacks basic facilities for art and paintings. He or she not However we thought of collect property tax from gov- like Officers Transit Hostel, functioning properly. only oversees those taking care appointing one such expert. We ernment residences as well. government hostels and politi- )& " The lone art gallery opened of the facility but also guides opened the vacancy for the Some of the government cians’ residences. ' &$" by the government in the state and explains the paintings to position of curator in the institutions already pay service We held a meeting with the ) ' ' which was started with the pur- the visitors. month of November last year charges to the MCD but no mayor Sunil Uniyal ‘Gama’ pose to promote local artists of However, this art gallery and also received documents of such tax is being charged on recently and it was decided that Uttarakhand not only lacks lacks a curator,” said a staff interested candidates. We were government residences so far. tax will be charged on such space but is functioning with- member of the art gallery. unable to select one curator The Dehradun municipal government buildings as well." out a curator nearly a year after As per the record of the because of the model code of commissioner Vinay Shankar The municipal commis- will be decided accordingly. it was opened. gallery very few people have conduct. Pandey stated that collecting sioner further said, “We have As soon as the data will be According to the art gallery visited the facility. “One of the But now that the model property tax from these gov- assigned our team to collect all collected we will start collection staff it has been more than six main reasons for this is limit- code of conduct has ended, we ernment residences will the data of such government of the tax. months since the last exhibition ed awareness among the peo- will be selecting the appropri- increase the collection of the buildings. The present property tax was held here. ple about the gallery. ate candidate soon for the MCD. We will be considering the collection of MCD is about Rs The art gallery lacks space Also, it has been long since position of curator at the art Adding more in this he carpet area of these buildings 20 crore which is likely to rise and can be used to exhibit we held any painting exhibition gallery.” said, “We presently collect ser- and the property tax amount to Rs 25-27 crore,”said Pandey.
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' A similar trend is visible in An analysis of the board the MHRD in net, the expectations of resi- the class X examination as results show that the some Uttarakhand. Most of dents of Haridwar from their //" ' well. Data of board shows that schools operated by organisa- these issues pertain to MP and Union minister of - " / 169481 students appeared in tions like Saraswati Vidhya education and skill Human Resource the class X examination of Mandir and Vivekananda development. Development, Ramesh ' Uttarakhand board in the year Sansthan are saving the grace On Friday, CM Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ have risen. & ) 2015. In the years 2016, 2017 of the Uttarakhand board. Rawat also expressed “Nishank has been mem- "/ ' ' and 2018 the number of stu- The students of these schools gratitude to the Prime Minister permanent campus for NIT ber of various parliamentary dents slid to 162865, 150573 dominate the board results of Narendra Modi for giving a Srinagar. Apart from redressing committees and has a rich and 146166 respectively. This both class X and XII. portfolio as important as the this issue, other education relat- experience of having handled $"&/2$4! year the number of students However apart from these MHRD to Nishank. Stating that ed issues related to special various positions in the state. increased marginally as schools most of the private the new Union HRD minister Basic Teacher Certificate (BTC) PM Modi has rightly chosen all claims of education 146584 students appeared in schools are opting for a more will lend a new aspect to edu- qualified persons and Right To him as the HRD minister. We Tdepartment on improving class X examination. popular board like CBSE and cation on the basis of his capa- Education (RTE) budget hope, he would bring progress standard of the government The experts list a variety of display an affiliation granted bility and experience, the CM release will also have to be han- at much faster pace to this schools notwithstanding, the factors responsible for this by central board as USP to opined that Uttarakhand will dled effectively. ancient city,” said a resident of interest of students in the decline in interest of students attract students. derive special benefit from this. Another important task is Kankhal. Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi in the state board. They cite When contacted, the addi- Meanwhile, observers skill development which is Speaking to this corre- Shiksha Parishad (UVSP) pop- the lack of infrastructure in tional director, secondary edu- opined that one of the major considered to be especially spondent, entrepreneur Arun ularly called Uttarakhand government schools, politi- cation, Ram Krishna Uniyal issues awaiting redressal is the important in Uttarakhand to Saraswat said, “HRD mainly trate on Haridwar like Modi comes when they are about to Board is steadily diminishing. cization of teaching commu- said that education depart- absence of permanent campus of enhance the earning potential entails education. Nishank is an did on his constituency pass out from their class. This Though the board has started nity, migration from villages ment is making every possible the National Institute of of the youth also to stall migra- educationist so we as industri- Varanasi.” needs to be fastened,” said showing improvement in the and lack of discipline in the effort to increase quality of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar. tion from the mountainous alists hope he will maintain While educationists wish to principal of school number pass percentage, its efforts are government schools as reasons education being imparted in The issue also reached the high regions. Earlier, before the for- Indian values and culture. As have more effective imple- 28, Shewali. proving futile in arresting the for this loss in student num- the government schools. He court which has in the past mation of the union cabinet, far as Haridwar is concerned, mentation of RTE Act with free A lot more needs to be decline in number of the stu- bers. Many schools located in said that new teachers have pulled up both the Central and the CM had held a meeting we expect speedy completion of quota for poor children some done in the field of higher edu- dents. The data released by the the far flung and hard to recently been appointed on State Governments for delay in with the five MPs from pending road construction and government school principals cation said the Haridwar resi- Uttarakhand board suggest access areas face acute short- vacant positions and extensive necessary action. Opened in Uttarakhand and stressed on overall development of the city. said that they want the process dents. Students mostly have to that in class XII examination, age of teaching staff. The training is provided to the 2010, NIT Srinagar continues to the need for effectively raising It was nominated for smart city of fund allocation for uniform move to neighbouring cities for 143159 students appeared in teachers who are posted in teachers. To improve teaching have a temporary campus nine the state’s issues in the parlia- so we see a ray of hope in that and books to be expedited. higher education and there the year 2015. This number these schools take frequent standards learning level assess- years after its creation. Following ment especially to mitigate the direction. We expect he will “Normally amount for stu- must be more institutions for reduced progressively to leaves and lobby for their ment is being implemented, he talk of its being shifted to outside problem of migration. devote some time and concen- dents’ books and uniforms vocational education. 133064, 131190 and 130094 in transfers to the places of their claimed. . " < 2 ) $"&/2$4! court on Saturday. The victim’s happened between nine and 11 about the incident later. Then $"&/2$4! force deployed is police force to different loca- medical examination has been in the morning.” we found that villagers were for the safe passage tions for the time being, of ollowing the alleged rape of done. Now, the procedure for The victim’s mother told pressurising the family to com- n view of the ongoing Char of visitors and course there is a constraint.” Fa nine-year old girl in the medical examination of the media in Dehradun on promise quietly. They were IDham Yatra and tourist sea- smooth traffic. According to the informa- Sendul village of Tehri district the accused will be initiated.” Friday, “My daughter was alone saying that filing a complaint son, district police have When asked tion provided by SSP office 474 on Thursday, the shopkeeper Narendranagar police at home. I was in the field and will defame the village. The deployed about 200 addition- about the affect extra police men will be accused of the crime was Circle Officer, Uttam Singh my husband was at work. accused has a grocery shop in al police men including two extra deployment deployed including two inspec- arrested by the police on informed, “The accused Vipin When I came back in the the village, is married and has inspectors on the circuit at of Police forced tors, 28 sub-inspectors, 23 head Friday. The victim was brought Panwar was arrested in Kempty evening, she was crying and two daughters.” Mussoorie, Raiwala, Rishikesh will have on law constables, 229 constables, 21 to Government Doon Medical area at about 4:30 pm on Friday. told us what had happened.” It is pertinent to mention and 274 police men have been and order situation women constable, 163 home College Hospital for medical After his medical examination When asked about the that Circle Officer (city) stationed at local police sta- in the district SSP guards, two sub-inspectors and check up. he will be produced in the Tehri accused she said, “Panwar Shekhar Suyal also visited the tions. Dehradun senior super- Kukreti said, six constables from Director General (Law and district court on Saturday.” coaxed my daughter. Showing hospital and spoke to the moth- intendent of police Nivedita Kukreti said that the extra “Because we have diverted our traffic police. Order) Ashok Kumar said, Kempty police station offi- her Rs 10 note, he then took her er. According to the sources in “We have arrested the accused cer, sub-inspector ML in a room. There he raped her the police, he came to check the and are now collecting scien- Jakhmola said, “The case was and threatened her to not tell need of the security required tific evidence.” registered at about 10:30 on anyone.” for the victim and her Garhwal Inspector Thursday night under sections Social activist Jabar Singh guardians as activists of Bheem General, Ajay Rautela said, 376 of IPC, 3/4 of POCSO Act Verma, who accompanied the Army were reportedly planning “The accused has been arrest- and SC/ST Act. According to victim and her mother from to organise a protest in front of ed and will be produced in the the complainant the crime Tehri said, “We came to know hospital gates. $ "& "
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1 1 3&2!$'02/& the Food Processing Ministry Rs 2.38 lakh. Sukhbir Rs 102 crore. The during her second term as the Harsimrat, seems to be couple has Rs 1.6 lakh as cash ecuring the Cabinet berth Cabinet Minister as fond of jewellery, owns jew- in hand. .4//.5/"0'.!52 "') Sfor the second consecutive announced on Friday, is ellery worth Rs seven crore. Her assets, in comparison term, the Shiromani Akali among six women Ministers Besides, she has also invested to her previous five-year term ).).7?/'3&")5'!')"/ Dal’s (SAD) three-time MP and the only non-BJP leader Rs 12.84 crore in various com- starting in 2014, were Rs from Bathinda, Harsimrat inducted in the Union Cabinet. panies, including Orbit, Metro 108.16 crore, and increased by esides SAD’s Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Kaur Badal is the richest Besides being the richest, Eco Green Resorts Limited, Rs 109.82 crore at the rate of Bthree other MPs from this part of the region emerged Minister in the newly-consti- Harsimrat has also topped the and Dabwali Transport 102 percent — listed among as the top 10 richest Ministers in the Prime Minister’s new tuted Council of Ministers of list of Ministers with highest Limited. the top five MPs, recontesting Cabinet. the Prime Minister Narendra liabilities. She has the total lia- Harsimrat owns agricul- in 2019, with highest increase On third spot is BJP’s Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjit Singh Modi, who himself is far bilities worth Rs 95.48 crore, tural and non-agricultural land in assets. with assets worth Rs 42.09 crore, followed by his colleague behind her on 46th rank with including Rs 8.82 lakhs as dis- worth nearly Rs 9.4 crore, Another Minister from and Faridabad MP Krishan Pal Gujar on fifth spot with Rs Rs 2.51 crore assets. puted liabilities. while Sukhbir has the same Punjab, Bharatiya Janta Party’s 36.96 crore assets, and BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Hardeep Singh As per the assets declared Wife of SAD president worth nearly Rs 59 crore. In Som Parkash, who was the Puri, who unsuccessfully contested from Amritsar, on sev- before the Election Sukhbir Badal, who was also addition, Sukhbir also owns poorest parliamentarian elect- enth place with Rs 34.05 crore assets. Commission of India, elected from Firozpur Lok residential buildings worth ed from the state, has declared PNS Harsimrat has declared her Sabha seat this election, nearly Rs 40 crore. assets worth Rs 2.94 crore. The assets worth Rs 217.99 crore, Harsimrat’s declared assets in The gross value of their first-time MP, the bureaucrat- the Minister of State on Parkash has total immovable including Rs 100.30 crore 2019 were her own, her hus- immovable assets is nearly Rs turned-politician has succeed- Thursday, has been given the property worth Rs 73.08 lakhs movable and Rs 117.69 crore band’s, HUF and one depen- assets, Sukhbir has over Rs 76 such riches, the Badals do not 117.67 crore, out of which ed in making it to the Union charge of the Ministry of and immovable property immovable. dent. crore, while Harsimrat has own a single car. In fact, Harsimrat owns assets worth Cabinet in his first stint. Commerce and Industry. worth Rs 2.20 crores, totalling Harsimrat, who retained Out of the total movable nearly Rs 24.18 crore. Despite Sukhbir owns a tractor costing nearly Rs 15.67 crore and Parkash, who took oath as Ranking 39 in terms of assets, Rs 2,94,04,519. -'./0 !Q 3 ! 51' ,
3&2!$'02/& % ! !444 xhorting the entrepreneurs Eto play an active role in the uplift, welfare and develop- ment of the society, Haryana From Page 1 each. won country-wide or in Bihar. Chief Minister Manohar Lal He said he consulted the He said BJP general sec- “It was for them to decide. on Friday said that as a result JD (U) office bearers and retary in-charge of Bihar In any case, they had an of business friendly policies MPs —16 in the Lok Sabha Bhupendra Yadav met him absolute majority on their of the State Government, and 6 in the Rajya Sabha-- on that night and repeated the own. We were not ready for a Haryana has reached to third the issue. “The unanimous offer. “I told him there is symbolic presence in the position in the country from view was that we should stay no sense of regret or unease in Government. 14th position in terms of Ease out of the Ministry. my party on the issue. We are with the (Modi) of Doing Business. Everybody felt there He has forged this alliance Government. Being a part of Manohar Lal was inter- should be proportional rep- in the interest of Bihar and the it is not necessary,” he said. acting with the Haryana based resentation in an alliance coalition Government is func- Kumar said Shah again entrepreneurs doing business Government,” said the Bihar tioning smoothly,” he said. dialed him the next morning. in Delhi regarding the invest- Chief Minister, adding he did Kumar told Yadav the feel- “I repeated what I had told the ment opportunities, services not convey to Shah the num- ing in the JD(U) was that BJP general secretary. We may and facilities being given to ber of seats he wanted for his there should be “proportion- not be part of the Government them, responsibility of indus- Doing Business. Objection Certificates (GST) more simplified, the welfare works and policies of party in the union council of al representation” for his party. but we are firmly with it,” he trial sector towards the soci- He urged the entrepre- (NOCs) in a time bound man- Chief Minister assured them the State Government. The Ministers. said. ety and other related issues in neurs to come forward and ner, online application system that their suggestion in this Chief Minister asked them to Media reports had When asked how that pro- The JD (U)-BJP-LJP New Delhi. MLA Bhiwani, invest in Haryana while the and adequate supply of elec- regard would be sympatheti- participate in the Swa-prerit claimed his talks with the portional representation alliance in Bihar swept the Lok Ghanshyam Sarraf was also entrepreneurs appreciated the tricity. cally considered. Adarsh Gram Yojana and said BJP leadership collapsed as he would have been determined, Sabha polls winning 39 of the present in the meeting. State Government for giving On the suggestion given On the occasion, the that development of rural insisted on a Cabinet berth, he said, the number could be State’s 40 seats. The BJP and The Chief Minister said several facilities especially the by the entrepreneurs to make entrepreneurs also offered areas has always been among one Minister-of-State with reached by taking into JD (U) had contested 17 seats that Haryana ranks first in system of issuing different the process for the collection their whole hearted support the priority areas of the State independent charge and MoS account the seats each party each. northern states in Ease of type of No of Goods and Services Tax and cooperation in the public Government. !
From Page 1 40 years, he said.Detailing the with GST turnover below 1.5 “In the initial phase, the pension scheme to traders, crore and aged between 18-40 Government will cover mini- Information & Broadcasting years can enrol for the scheme,” mum 5 crore small and marginal Minister Prakash Javadekar said an official statement said. From Page 1 Mines. well as Environment and Forest From Page 1 not a member of either the farmers in the first three years,” more than three crore traders Interested persons can enrol Nitin Gadkari, considered Ravi Shankar Prasad will which is important in terms of The Prime Minister is Rajya Sabha or the Lok Sabha he said, adding that this would across the country will benefit themselves through over 3.25 one of the best performers continue as Minister of Law giving permissions and clear- scheduled to travel to the at this point -- is also likely to cost 10,774.5 crore per annum from this unique scheme. Five lakh common service centres during the first term of Modi and Information Technology. ances to key Government pro- Maldives next month in his push for deepening coopera- to the exchequer.This scheme is crore traders are expected to join spread across the country. The Government for his expedi- He also gets Telecom, a port- jects. In past he was criticised first bilateral visit. In 2014, tion with the African continent a voluntary and contributory the scheme in the next three Government will make match- tious project implementation, folio he commanded in the first by Maneka Gandhi for certain Modi’s first foreign tour after where China is fast expanding pension scheme for a small and years, Javadekar added.“All ing contribution in the sub- will continue to be the Minister half of Modi 1.0 Government. policies allegedly having nega- becoming Prime Minister was its influence and presence. marginal farmers across the shopkeepers and self employed scribers’ account, the statement for Road Transport and A new Ministry of Jal tive impact on animals and to Bhutan. Securing the long-awaited country, with the entry age of 18- persons as well as retail traders added. Highways and has also been Shakti has been created and wildlife. Sri Lankan President membership of the UN given charge of the Ministry of Gajendra Singh Shekhawat DV Sadananda Gowda will Maitripala Sirisena, who is in Security Council and Nuclear Micro, Small and Medium (Rajasthan) will be its Minister. be the Minister of Chemicals India as a chief guest for the Suppliers Group is expected to Enterprises. Post-Assembly poll Ujjwala-man Dharmendra and Fertilisers and Narendra new Government’s swearing-in, be another area of interests of reverses of the BJP in Madhya Pradhan retains his Petroleum Singh Tomar will be the new on Friday said Modi will visit the new Government. India has Pradesh, Rajasthan and portfolio and has also been Minister of Agriculture and his country in early June. also been trying enhance ties Chattisgarh, Gadkari made given charge of the Steel Rural Development.Akali Dal Describing it as an “honour for with the Gulf region as well as some controversial comments Ministry. leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal people of Sri Lanka”, Sirisena the hydrocarbon rich Central against the Central leadership Former Uttarakhand Chief continues to be the Minister of said the relationship between Asia, and Jaishankar is set to which was seen as ‘power Minister Dr Ramesh Food Processing Industries, India and his country goes back ensure continuity on struggle’ within the party by Pokhariyal ‘Nishank’ is the Thawar Chand Gehlot will be over 2,600 years. “PM Modi’s it.Jaishankar, son of the late K some political observers with new Human Resource new Minister of Social Justice visit is very important to us, we Subrahmanyam, one of India’s the heavyweight Minister ques- Development Minister while and Empowerment. are neighbours and friends, this leading strategic analysts, was tioning decision making by Bihar ally and Lok Janshakti Former diplomat Hardeep relationship between India and a key member of the Indian the top leadership. Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan Puri will be new Minister of Sri Lanka dates back over 2,600 team which negotiated the Piyush Goyal, who pre- remains Consumer Affairs State with Independent charge years. We’re eagerly awaiting for landmark Indo-US nuclear sented the interim budget ear- Minister. Pokhariyal has old of Civil Aviation while former his arrival, it’s a great honour deal. The deal, initiated in lier this year and was expected connect with Modi when the IAS bureaucrat RK Singh will for the people of Sri Lanka,” 2005, took several years to to take over from Jaitley, has latter worked as ‘prabhari’ of retain the ministries of Power Sirisena said after meeting craft, and was signed by the been given the Commerce and the State. Pokhariyal also dab- and Renewable Energy in the Modi. UPA Government headed by Industry Ministry in addition bles in poetry and has a num- same capacity. Besides Sirisena, Modi met Manmohan Singh in 2007. to his old charge of Railways. ber of books to his credit. Puri like Jaitley had lost his other BIMSTEC leaders like Jaishankar’s appointment However, the Coal The Agriculture Ministry Lok Sabha election from Nepalese Prime Minister KP as Foreign Secretary in January Ministry has been taken away has been allocated to Narendra Amritsar but still back in the Sharma Oli and Bhutanese 2015 evoked a sharp reaction from him and given to Pralhad Singh Tomar who also gets the Council of Ministers. Prime Minister Lotay Tshering, from various quarters over the Joshi, a new entrant in the Rural Development and Eight-term BJP MP from exploring ways to further timing of the Government’s Modi Government from Panchayati Raj portfolio. Uttar Pradesh Santosh Kumar strengthen bilateral ties. A day decision to remove Sujatha Karnataka.Joshi, close to RSS, Prakash Javadekar has been Gangwar will be MoS with after taking charge as Prime Singh. He had earlier served as will also be the Minister of given the ministries of Independent charge for Labour Minister for a second term, India’s Ambassador to the US Parliamentary Affairs and Information & Broadcasting as and Employment. Modi also held extensive talks and before that to China. with Bangladesh President A 1977-batch IFS officer, Abdul Hamid and PM of Jaishankar played a key role in Mauritius Pravind Jugnauth. resolving the crisis following 9# # As regards the new the incursion in Ladakh’s External Affairs Minister, Depsang and the Doklam Jaishankar, considered an stand-off, handling the tough expert on China and the US, negotiations with Beijing. 2R will be keenly observed to see Among other positions, whether he brings any changes Jaishankar has been India’s in India’s approach in dealing High Commissioner to $"&/2$4! /&.#)&2))&" in 21 major states of the coun- with Pakistan. Singapore and Ambassador to /2)"$"3/"2"$).8D try and the improvement He will also have to address the Czech Republic. n a significant achievement, "/)&.42!$).8E"/ shows better performance of overall expectations of expand- Last year, Tata Group Ithe infant mortality rate in NHM in Uttarakhand. It is ing India’s global influence and appointed Jaishankar, who was Uttarakhand has reduced from )&.42!$ worth mentioning here that the stature, particularly in key mul- Indian Foreign Secretary from 38 per thousand to 32 per thou- Government of India had felic- tilateral forums like G-20, January 2015 to January 2018, sand. In its report of May itated Uttarakhand after it was Shanghai Cooperation as its president for global cor- 2019, the Sample Registration Naithani said that Uttarakhand successful to reduce maternal Organisation and BRICS. porate affairs, within three System (SRS) has indicated as per the survey of SRS, 2016 mortality rate from 285 per However, a major focus of months of his retirement from that the mortality rate has had a child mortality rate of 38 thousand to 201 per thousand. the Ministry under his leader- the Government service. reduced by six points. per thousand which in the The chief minister of ship is likely to be on further A graduate of St Stephen’s Enthused by the drop in key survey of 2017 has reduced to Uttarakhand, Trivendra Singh boosting India’s trade and College, Jaishankar is an MA in factor of infant mortality, the 32 per thousand. Rawat has set up a target of defence ties with the US, Political Science and an MPhil director national programme, Incidentally the infant reducing the infant mortality to Russia, France, Japan and the and PhD in International Dr Anjali Nautiyal said that the mortality of the country stands 30 per thousand till the year European Union as well as Relations from Jawaharlal significant drop has occurred at 33 per thousand which 2020. Dr Naithani claimed that with the countries of the neigh- Nehru University (JNU). He is due to various schemes under- means that the mortality rate in the target set up by the CM bourhood. Another challenge married to Kyoko Jaishankar taken by the National Health Uttarakhand has become less would be achieved by effective for him will be to further and has two sons and a daugh- Mission (NHM) for women than the national average. implementation and regular strengthen India’s ties with ter. In 2019, Jaishankar was and child health. Elaborating further, Dr monitoring of various schemes China, badly hit by the Doklam conferred with the Padma Shri, Informing about the SRS Naithani said that the report of NHM and health depart- standoff in mid 2017. the fourth highest civilian bulletin released on May 30, Dr has been published after survey ment. The 64-year-old -- who is award of the country. "1 !
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) during 2014-2019, but some 3 ) 5 deficiencies remain. There have been some malicious percep- rahlad Patel, senior BJP tions that have been created Pleader and MP from the about the Indian culture, like Madhya Pradesh's Mahakoshal about Kumbh. I believe that region is the new Culture and one of the big successes Tourism Minister. A former between 2014-2019 is that Union minister of state in the today what the world knows Atal Bihari Vajpayee Cabinet, about Kumbh is actually what Patel took charge of the Culture tion" created about the Indian Indian culture is," Singh, said Ministry on Friday. He will take culture. The 57-year-old par- adding, "We have have to work charge as tourism minister on liamentarian brought a pri- on both aspects. India is big Tuesday. Known for supporting vate bill in Parliament for ban and our culture is big. If it ban on cow slaughter, Patel said on cow slaughter way back in spreads in the world, so will he would work towards "cor- 2000. "The roadmap for the tourism. So, we have to correct recting the malicious percep- future has already been drawn this perception". + )0+ a four-time MP from / 5 Karnataka, by his side. "Together we can take the 5 1 ) )+ O ) 6 aving retained the work of railways to newer & / $ 5 Hportfolio, Piyush heights. Newer heights of iren Rijiju is the new Minister of Goyal expressed happi- transparency, newer KYouth Affairs and Sports, replacing ) he said. "That was the black aving remained in political wilderness of ness over Prime Minister heights of innovative Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, who has ' 1 6 period for the media, there Hsorts for eight long years after helming Narendra thinking, newer heights of been dropped from the Council of 5 was everyday censorship and Uttarakhand as the Chief Minister till 2011, Modi reassigning him bringing honesty in the Ministers. The charge of Minister of State complete curtailment of press Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' was one of the the Ministry and said it railways and growth in in the Ministry of Minority Affairs has ack to the Information freedom. We fought against it surprise picks of the Modi-Shah combine. To would mean there would passengers and freight also been awarded to Rijiju. A lawyer by Band Broadcasting Ministry under the leadership of add further to his stature, he was allotted the be "continuity" in the traffic," he maintained. profession, Rijiju, who took charge of his saddle, Prakash Javadekar on Jayaprakash Narayan, Atal key HRD Ministry - one of the most impor- work. Improving passen- He outlined that new Ministry, has emerged as the key face Friday stressed the impor- Bihari Vajpayee, Advani ji," tant Ministries in the Government. As Nishank ger experience and mod- newer speed of imple- in the North East. "My heartfelt gratitude tance of Press freedom even as Javadekar added. He said took charge on Friday senior ministry officials ernising the railways menting infra projects to PM Narendra Modi for reposing faith he targeted the Congress for the leaders fought on two- handed him the draft of the much awaited New would be his focus areas, and customer satisfaction in me to be a member of his council of imposing the Emergency. As three main issues during Education Policy (NEP), which is an ambitious he spelt out his priority. "I that is the new Indian ministers. I sincerely thank Amit Shah he took charge of the ministry Emergency and press free- project of the previous Modi government. The am happy that there will Railways and new India and karyakartas and well wishers across on Friday, Javadekar said the dom was one of them. NEP is is expected to be on the agenda of be continuity in the work that the PM has charted India. For me, leadership is not about government not only recog- "I am very happy that it was Nishank, who started his career as a teacher in that we had begun in the for us. However, Goyal's power and privilege, it is about respon- nises freedom of press, but restored after our struggle was the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated first stint. The many biggest challenge would sibility," he said. He also thanked Team cherishes it. "Press freedom is successful. I also fought and Saraswati Shishu Mandir. Nishank said that he works that we have start- be to ensure punctuality, India, which playing the world cup in the essence of democracy and went to jail for 16 months. So will be meeting officials of the Ministry of ed will be continued. I timely track maintenance England, saying together we will work as we not only recognise it, we for us press freedom is the basic Human Resource Development and will chalk from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna University hope that we will be able and renewal, ramping up a team. While Rathore was 2004 Athens cherish it. In the history of free essence of democracy," he said. out a plan of action soon. A committee, head- in Garhwal, is a prolific Hindi writer with 36 to improve the passenger production of state-of- Olympic medalist, Rijiju does not have India, only once this freedom Javadekar also hailed the work ed by former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan, was works to his credit, of which 10 have been experience as well as the the-art coaches for trains such a background as he had only par- of press was curtailed and that done by Rajyavardhan Rathore, formed to draft the new education policy by translated into other languages. His works process of loading of such as Vande Bharat ticipated in the National Games during was in 1975 during M Venkaiah Naidu and Arun the HRD Ministry previously headed by include novels, short stories, poems and trav- goods," he said, with Express so that more such his college days. Rijiju was MoS in the Emergency brought by the Jaitley, who were in-charge of Prakash Javadekar, who is now Information and elogues. He holds a PhD degree from Hemwati Minister of State Angadi services can be intro- Union Home Ministry in the first Modi- then Congress government," the ministry earlier. Broadcasting minister. Nishank, a PhD Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University. Suresh Channabasappa, duced. led government.
) 0) Ministry. After assuming the 32 5 charge of the MoHUA, Puri > * " !$ said the NDA government had spent six times higher on urban is defeat in the Lok Sabha schemes in five years compared , Hpolls notwithstanding, he to the amount UPA dispensa- " ? ( is the biggest gainer as Prime tion spent in its 10 years. There Minister Narendra Modi has are several schemes for the Aizawl: The Congress in paigning across the country... not only retained him but also urban sector including PMAY Mizoram on Friday extended (though) the outcome of the Thiruvananthapuram: said in his letter. rewarded him. Hardeep Singh (U), SBM (U), Atal Mission for full support to the leadership of recent Lok Sabha election may Congress chief and Wayanad "What is disturbing is Puri, diplomat-turned-politi- Rejuvenation and Urban AICC chief Rahul Gandhi and not have come in our favour," MP Rahul Gandhi urged that while the government of cian, is the new Civil Aviation Transformation (AMRUT) said there is no need for him to it said. Kerala Chief Minister Kerala has announced a Minister, whom he took charge among others. "This is what resign. The resolution said the Pinarayi Vijayan to provide moratorium on repayment of on Friday, even as he has Prime Minister Narendra Modi Gandhi had offered to Congress is one of the few par- assistance to the family of a of farm loans till December been re-appointed as the (MoHUA). He has also been through flagship programmes resign as the party president ties that won more seats in this farmer, who committed sui- 31, 2019, yet farmers are still Minister of State (Independent given responsibility as the has been able to do for the after the Congress received a Lok Sabha polls than in the cide allegedly due to non- being pressured and hound- Charge) of the Ministry of deputy under Piyush Goyal in urban sector and that is work severe drubbing in the Lok 2014 election, "and therefore repayment of loans, and also ed by loan collection agents," Housing and Urban Affairs the Commerce and Industry in progress, he said. Sabha polls. we felt that Rahul Gandhi's conduct an inquiry into the the letter said. A resolution adopted at the leadership is required for the matter. The Congress chief said it meeting of the Mizoram organisation". VD Dinesh Kumar, 53, was important to consider 1 5 Pradesh Congress Committee The Congress improved died after consuming some "long-term measures" to free 5 2 5 (MPCC) unanimously decided on its 2014 tally of 44, winning poisonous substance, police farmers from the "vicious to stand by Gandhi. 52 Lok Sabha seats this year. said on May 25. to the family. debt trap" given the devastat- oon after taking charge, "Gandhi must continue as "The Congress had lost His relatives said that Police aid that Kumar ing impact of the last year's SMinority Affairs Minister the party president. We strong- (polls) many times in the past financial burden had forced had taken a loan of Rs 10 lakh floods. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on ly believe that his leadership is and bounced back.... With him to take the extreme step. from three banks and was "I offer you my fullest Friday said his ministry will required for the Congress, to Gandhi's leadership, we will Gandhi, in his letter to reportedly facing recovery support and cooperation in work with the mantra of 'sabka steer the party out of its current sure come back and save the Pinarayi dated May 28, said proceedings. finding concrete long-term saath, sabka vikas and sabka state...," the resolution said. motherland like we had done he was "deeply saddened" by "Kumar's case isn't an solutions to the critical issues vishwas' - as outlined by Prime "The MPCC sincerely felt in the past," it added. the farmer's suicide. He isolated one. There have been Kerala's farmers are faced Minister Narendra Modi. that Rahul Gandhi had shown The resolution said Gandhi requested the state govern- a spate of farmer suicides in with and in ensuring every Naqvi said the ministry has an exemplary leadership dur- has championed the spirit of ment to conduct an inquiry Wayanad, due to an inability farmer in Kerala lives a life of prepared a 100-day roadmap to ing the party's election cam- secularism in the country. PTI and extend financial support to repay loans," Gandhi had dignity," Gandhi said. PTI strengthen Prime Minister Narendra Modi's commitment to 'sabka saath, sabka vikas and sabka vishwas' (with all, for " " ( ? everybody's development and having everyone's trust)." He asserted priority will be given Mandap will be constructed on provide employment and Srinagar: The overwhelming ing the prayers at the Jama ing to support any initiative in ous jails across India, includ- even today when the situation to "3Es"-- education, employ- a war footing in minority-con- employment opportunities to mandate to Prime Minister Masjid here on the occasion of this regard. ing (separatist leaders) Yasin has only further deteriorated," ment and empowerment -- for centrated areas across the master artisans from the Narendra Modi has given him 'Jumat-ul-Vida', the last Friday "So, it is an opportune Malik, Shabir Shah, Asiya he said. "If these steps are ini- development of minorities. The country to ensure better edu- minority communities will be an opportunity to play a deci- of Ramzan. time to initiate political Andrabi and others," he added. tiated by both sides, it will Minority Affairs Ministry will cational infrastructure under further accelerated. Hunar sive role in the resolution of the "Pakistan PM Imran processes which enables and The mirwaiz said during bring relief to the people of launch a nationwide awareness Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Haat, which has been proved to Kashmir issue, Hurriyat Khan's oft-repeated offer of facilitates conflict resolution," the Hurriyat's engagement Kashmir and an atmosphere campaign on a war footing to Karykram". Naqvi said that be an effective measure to pro- Conference chairman Mirwaiz dialogue on all issues between he added. with the governments of Atal for sincere engagement among reduce school dropout rate 100 per cent digitization and vide employment and employ- Umar Farooq said on Friday. India and Pakistan, including The separatist leader said Bihari Vajpayee and all stakeholders will be creat- among minorities, especially GPS mapping of waqf proper- ment opportunities to master Farooq expressed hope on the Kashmir issue, should a resolution to the Kashmir Manmohan Singh, and after ed for a permanent resolution." Muslim girls, he said adding, ties across the country will also artisans, will be organised that Pakistan Prime Minister be seriously considered by the issue could transform both visiting Pakistan, the sepa- The Hurriyat chairman "Schools, colleges, ITIs, poly- be a priority for the ministry. across the country in the com- Imran Khan's offer of dia- new dispensation in New India and Pakistan and usher ratist conglomerate had put said India and Pakistan have to technics, hostels, Sadbhav Naqvi said the campaign to ing days, he said. logue would be seriously con- Delhi as the way forward," in a new era of stability and forward certain substantial acknowledge and address "the sidered by the new National Farooq said. progress in South Asia, bring- measures as a precursor to unresolved political problem" Democratic Alliance govern- The moderate Hurriyat ing the much-needed relief to serious negotiations. in Kashmir. )5 ment. chairman said Kashmir cannot the people of Kashmir striving Farooq claimed that both "We want this long cycle of "As the people of India be resolved militarily or for a resolution. India and Pakistan had at that killings and violence to end. overwhelmingly voted for Mr through confrontation, but by "For that, it is imperative time had agreed to imple- We do not want to see our !$ 5 / A 6 !& 5 2 Modi and his party back into dialogue and deliberations. that democratic processes are menting these steps — includ- youngsters or an Indian or 6 power, this mandate gives PM "All Kashmiris, irrespec- invoked and restored by New ing revocation of the Armed Pakistani soldier die in this 1 2 6 ) 6 Modi the opportunity and the tive of their organisational Delhi and the policy of repres- Forces (Special Powers) Act, 'forever' conflict," he said. & 5 power to play a decisive role in affiliations, are speaking in sion and military approach be gradual demilitarisation, pris- "Without addressing the ques- 6 6 6 6 the resolution of the long- one voice about the urgent done away with. oner release — to prepare tion of Kashmir, there will be 6 3 * 6 pending Kashmir conflict," need for resolution of the con- "One measure for doing so ground for serious negotia- repeated returns to perilous ) the separatist leader said. flict," he said, adding that the is the release all of all political tions. states of war as we recently wit- 6 F ! 1 The mirwaiz was address- Hurriyat Conference was will- prisoners languishing in vari- "These measures hold true nessed." PTI 1 6 FG A * 6 66A G 6 6 '2 6 A * 6 *! & @, A + 6B 6 A 'I 6 6 6 1 $& * / 4 & 5 ? 6 * 6 & 5 ) 6 5 ' ) 6 % 5 ' 6 Mumbai: The NCP on Friday "Many senior leaders were Thursday and the Rashtrapati Vadodara: Fourteen turtles 6 5 0 took a dig at the new NDA dis- not given Cabinet berths. Singh Bhavan announced allocation were found dead in a dried-up 5 8 H' & 5 A pensation, saying it is a gov- has been given Defence port- of portfolios to the ministers on pond in Gagodar village in 6 5 6 & 5 $ * ernment of only Prime Minister folio and sidelined. Same is the Friday. Meanwhile, on the spec- Kutch district of Gujarat, forest * ' ' 5 I 3 * & Narendra Modi and Home case with Gadkari ji," Malik told ulations that the NCP might officials said on Friday. 6 6F 4 ) 6 4 " Minister Amit Shah, while reporters. He claimed that some merge into the Congress, Malik Deputy conservator of 6 6 * ') H 5 & 6 " senior leaders like Rajnath of the BJP leaders would call the said there was no substance in forests (wildlife) S S Asoda * 6 5 5 * 6 Singh and Nitin Gadkari stand previous Modi-led dispensation the reports. said 15 other turtles were res- "sidelined". as the government of only Speculations that the NCP cued from the pond after the NCP chief spokesperson "two-and-half" people, imply- would be merged into the incident was reported on Nawab Malik alleged that Modi ing that other ministers had no Congress were rife on Thursday evening. #"" " $ 66# and Shah do not want senior say in its functioning. Thursday. These were fuelled "After being alerted, our leaders to be part of the cabi- "Now, it is a government of after Congress chief Rahul team rushed to the pond that is !"#$"%&' Home Minister and career security, including defence net. only Modi and Shah. Others Gandhi met NCP president located in Rapar taluka, and diplomat S Jaishankar as the policy and internal security. Singh, new Defence min- have no opportunity. They Sharad Pawar at the latter's res- found carcasses of 14 turtles. were found alive there, were res- here will be two new faces external affairs Minister. Besides the Prime Minister, ister, had led the Home don't want seniors in the gov- idence in New Delhi. They must have died due to lack cued and immediately shifted to Tin the all-powerful Cabinet Chaired by Prime Minister the Ministers of Defence, Ministry in the previous Modi ernment, that's their mentality," "The two leaders discussed of water as the severe heatwave another pond in Thanisara vil- Committee on Security (CCS) Narendra Modi, the CCS is the Home, External Affairs and government. Gadkari will con- Malik alleged. only the Maharashtra Assembly has dried up the pond," he told lage located nearby, which still with the induction of BJP final decision-making body Finance are members of the tinue to hold the Minister for Modi and his new team of polls and drought in the state," PTI over phone. has sufficient amount of water," president Amit Shah as the on matters related to country's committee. Road Transport and Highways. ministers took oath on Malik added. PTI "Fifteen other turtles, which Asoda said. PTI ! "- " 7 4% " !$4( + * + ()$ 6 + + 7(, +025 7##0' ! !-! / ( ' R ! ' " # , ) 6 %* ) * ) * 6 3 ( S 5 ) 2, . +, # # $ ) 3/$S ( ( ( / $848 1 n his first speech after a mammoth ( electoral victory, Prime Minister S 6 Narendra Modi had summarised # what could best define not just India’s but the axis shift in world politics. “For 1 4 ) 2 * yearsI the Left had its ideology but we trans- 1S )S lated that into reality,” he said with convic- 3/$S 3 1 4 tion. Justifiably so because he proved a the- orem that is being borne out by the rest of ) 7 the world, where the right-wing is drawing 3/$S / 8 O strength from all sections of people — -:, -; O hordes of ordinary people to be precise — to becoming a mainstream entity than just ! .6 < !.= being a fringe benefit or aberration, depend- 3 > / ) ing on its tolerance or virulence. So the nar- 1 4 ) 1 rative is not about right-wing dominance but about right-wing populism. 3/$ In that sense, the Modi phenomenon is 3/$S in continuity with a global pattern really, one 0 1 that is sweeping the Far East, through the European continent and lunging across the ! 1 # )S /$ Atlantic. If Donald Trump and Xi Jinping 3/$ % are the twin polarities in the West and East, ! 1 3/$ ( then there are several in between other than Modi. Consider the frenetic rise of Brazil’s ? $ 3 ) new far-Right leader Jair Bolsonaro, who ( "( crested a series of social movements that ! gave him the pulse of the people. Hungarian # 1 Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Turkish president Recep Erdogan have overturned ( 5 ) 1 the Left-inspired liberalism and made it deficits. In many countries, the economists, that has bubbled up over a longer period of time, to support authoritarian lead- ( their own. In Thailand, the compliance of entry of multi-nationals meant now, forcing a review of exist- made the job easier. Its version ers, thinking that their robust- *S conservatives is the reason for the continu- loss of land for lavish units and ing theories and paradigms. of trade unionism dwindled ness will give them a voice that ity of military rule. sweatshop conditions for local This deep discontent is also the since the 1990s and has since civil society, so far an ivory 4 5 ) So what is the reason for this socio-psy- labour. The second biggest reason why traditional civil lib- pejoratively been seen as a tower of privileged and imper- / $)7 ( ( chological behaviour profile in a post-glob- problem that arose from free erties, of the kind that is sup- deterrent to economic activity vious intelligentsia, has denied # . 1 * alised world? It would be easy enough to dis- movement of skilled labour portive of human rights, protec- than as a guarantor of local jobs them. Ironically, it is also the miss it as born of hopelessness and deso- was immigration, an influx tion of minorities and progres- that the Right has successfully children of globalisation, the > . lation, climbing out of a similar trough seen that worked when subservient sive and democratic values, are marketed. The Singur move- millennials — the generation # > ) 6 between two World Wars whose belly but not when it claimed equal under attack. Simply because ment, a watershed marker in the that is disconnected from his- # 1 / fired up fascism and gave us a Hitler. He stakeholdership in the host they do not acknowledge the decimation of the Left, which toricity or hasn’t lived through successfully built “otherness” as a reason for country. So if supposedly the crisis of “otherness,” somebody catapulted Mamata Banerjee catastrophic world events real- 1 1 ) @ <)@= Germany’s ills before suggesting his outra- most apolitical country like else stealing your job, somebody in Bengal, showed that for a ly and whose reality is shaped * 4 geous solutions. But we are not in the Great Sweden is becoming intolerant else taking over the economy, party which initiated land by what is floating on the inter- $ . ) ) Depression or a World War but in a glob- of immigrants, leave aside the somebody else denying what reforms, it could be blatantly net brand of unpoliced democ- alised world which was meant to equalise crisis fuelled by Brexit, then could be due to you, somebody smug about land acquisitions racy — who are seeking anoth- / $)7 )@ (( and share resources. Or at least attempt to anti-globalisation is a bigger benefitting from doles and, too. er kind of destiny, a dream $ ?1 . > 1 do so. What has happened in the process sentiment and the neo-age pro- therefore pushing you to pover- Most importantly, the class crafted on their terms than the / ) * of an increasingly flat world of give and take, tectionism advocated by Trump ty. In short, the classic psycho- interests that it so abhorred one bequeathed. in no small part aided by the massive its mere expression. Research logical “blame game” that lets were solidified by its own They also haven’t felt the # ! $ 4 ! empowerment courtesy digitisation, is that has shown that in the US, the you assign victimhood to your- internecine machinery of out- impact of authoritarianism 3/$S ! 1 it has led to total deconstruction of tradi- regions hardest hit by globali- self. It is this idea of exclusion- sourced implementers. In rely- unlike those in transitional 1 ?3 + 21 =? ) + 2 ) )11 ) + ! (!# )> * 3 )> )) )0 1 +1> +*) + ) * L =?)2 L>1 6 6 ) 1 0 + 0) , ## : / ! # : ( 2( , 0 R ) # , ;5 *, # ", ! * 6 " > "( # 4 ) @ # * . <8 = * * 7 2-B ;,, 7 -88 : # -:,,,, ( C+C n 2011, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh A Yadav led a spirited campaign against the then ( IChief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Bahujan * Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati. As SP # * president, he toured the length and breadth of . * the State — sometimes on cycle — calling the # then BSP Government as one of the most cor- rupt regimes in the annals of Uttar Pradesh. He even called it a pathar wali sarkar (a Government of stones) — an oblique reference to Mayawati’s # P ( penchant to build parks and statues. This mutu- Q al mistrust and antagonism was so deep-seated " 4 that the subsequent SP-BSP trust alliance always seemed cosmetic and superficial. But before this misadventure, Akhilesh’s hard 4 ( work bore fruit when in 2012, the SP won the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh with a huge 2 &'%"&2'%"$ # ( margin. Mulayam Singh Yadav was then the national president of the party and he surprised ). ""&' all by projecting Akhilesh as the Chief Minister. 25'%- At the age of 38, Akhilesh, then an MP, took oath ).0")&"/ )&" . ?1 7 as the Chief Minister on March 15, 2012. This, #2-&"32//'"$ > 3 # political pundits say, was the beginning of the new .4)2 era in Yadav politics. Talks then centered around 1%..$%" ! how Akhilesh, a foreign-educated young man, could transform the impoverished State, which 3.4 ?1 @ /"%23'!0&' 2;B +CF is home to around 23 crore people, into one of versus 15 per cent (upper caste), which (Rampur), Shafiqur Rahman Warq ground work almost a year ago. the most developed States in the country. 2)&"/#')& would undoubtedly go in their favour. (Sambhal) and ST Hasan Mulayam’s words have proved 3 &'5"%2 ( People had pinned hopes on Akhilesh One of the courtiers of Akhilesh (Moradabad)— emerged victorious. prophetic. The SP stands vanquished because of the legacy he carried. Son of wrestler- !2)'.!2% Yadav had told this reporter poetical- The defeat has raised many ques- today, primarily because neither the # ( turned politician Mulayam Singh Yadav, it was /"'$"!) $'$ ly that the bouquet of caste in this tions on Akhilesh’s leadership simply Dalit nor the Yadav vote was consoli- > 3 R> > 2,S H believed that the young leader was well-conver- !.) 0. $.#! alliance was spread from western Uttar because it is the second time the SP has dated enough to ensure transference to P +F S ( sant with political ups and downs. Mulayam was #"%% #')& )&" Pradesh to eastern Uttar Pradesh and contested the election under him. As each other’s candidates. The results ( -C FB- ( three-time Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh /2! 2!$ '%" also had its footprints in Rohilkhand national president of the party, he had announced on May 23 punctured the S GQ " besides being the Defence Minister in 1996 dur- 2%%.%$F)'5"/ and Bundelkhand. contested the first election in 2017. In invincibility argument and now the ing the United Front Government. So, for The just-concluded parliamentary fact, it was his idea to enter into an alliance stands exposed. The BSP, SP Akhilesh, politics was nothing new. He had #&.&2$14'%) poll results came as a rude shock to the alliance with the Congress. His politi- and RLD have around 39 per cent vote # )&"1/'3 F brushed shoulders with the high and mighty and mahagathbandhan as it stood complete- cal acumen was even questioned back share while the BJP and its ally has over was well-versed with every Machiavellian 1-F1/'3 #"/" ly decimated. In this ignominious then because as a performing Chief 50 per cent of the vote. This shows that %")'0!./"$ 3 manoeuvre. defeat, however, the BSP can walk away Minister, who had carried out a spate the myth of castes moving at the dik- But the high hopes were soon dashed. First, 2!$)&"'/ with its head high — if one can say so of development work, including the tat of leaders does not hold good any- Akhilesh failed to keep his family together. The 3.!)')4"!3'" — because the party won 10 seats where construction of the Agra-Lucknow more. way he carried out a bloodless coup, replacing #"/")2 "!4 it had drawn a blank in the 2014 Lok Expressway, he did not need a prop. Akhilesh is standing at the cross- his father with himself as national president of 1-)&"!"# Sabha election. But it is Akhilesh, who With the tagline of his campaign as roads now. He is carrying the legacy of 1 ( the party, did divide the party. Mulayam, after 32$/" has to face the bigger question, because ‘Kaam Bolta Hai’, his inclination to go Mulayam Singh Yadav while the repu- all, was the reason for SP’s claim to any sort of while his family members lost the elec- for an alliance with the Congress tation of SP that senior leaders like ) ) relevance. The rift widened so much that uncle tion, he failed to increase his tally. showed that he was unconvinced about Janeshwar Mishra, Rama Shankar . Shivpal Singh Yadav parted ways and formed his In the 2014 election, the SP had his own work and did not have the Kaushik, Babu Lal Yadav, Md Azam # 2,+F . own party, the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party won a total of five seats — all the win- stomach to drive hard political deci- Khan and Reoti Raman Singh had built S 3 ( (Lohia), which inflicted larger damage to the SP ners were from the family. Besides, sions or go it alone. In that election, the through blood, sweat and tear is at . ( in three Yadav pocketboroughs of Kannauj, Mulayam (who had won from SP’s tally reduced from 226 to 47. stake. Uttar Pradesh has witnessed # Budaun and Firozabad in the 2019 Lok Sabha Mainpuri and Azamgarh), other fam- In 2019, again, he showed political how Ajit Singh floundered the politi- elections. All old-timers in the party, who had ily members of Akhilesh, namely nervousness and entered into an cal legacy of Chaudhry Charan Singh. ( build the SP brick-by-brick and whose advice was Dimple Yadav and his two cousins alliance with the BSP and RLD to con- His politics of aaya ram, gaya ram and 3 worth a pound of gold for Mulayam, were left Dharmendra and Akshay, won the test the Lok Sabha election. Some fondness to align with the ruling party ignored and their constituencies were taken up elections. In the bye-election after termed it as the election story of 2019. has reduced the RLD to a political non- by the new blood. Mulayam vacated Mainpuri, another The result, however, was pathetic. entity. ( The courtiers in Akhilesh Yadav’s durbar cousin of Akhilesh, Tej Bahadur, Akhilesh not only lost seats but his Akhilesh should take lessons from +2 ( were rich, having no practical understanding romped home. SP’s total tally further party’s vote percentage, too, came the failure of Ajit Singh. He should try 3 ( about the ground realities or imperatives. They increased to seven after it won the bye- down. (SP’s vote percentage is 18 per for a reconciliation of the party and the became the eyes and ears of the former Chief elections of Gorakhpur and Phulpur in cent while it is 19 per cent for BSP and family. The first step should be to hand 6 J 5 Minister. Such was their influence on Akhilesh 2018. 50 per cent for the BJP). over the baton back to Mulayam Singh ( that they started campaigning for the 2019 elec- In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the His father and the wily SP founder Yadav. Shivpal Singh should be brought tions very late. Some even advised that campaign- party once again won five seats while Mulayam had publicly said that back and he should start touring the ing through WhatsApp was enough because the Dimple Yadav (Kannauj), Dharmendra Akhilesh had “lost half the battle” State. He should open his doors to the # SP-BSP alliance would fetch dividends as the Yadav (Budaun) and Akshay Yadav when the latter chose the politics of party workers. It is time for Akhilesh # arithmetic just would not fail. They argued that (Firozabad) lost the elections. Besides, alliance. He had even admonished his to smell the coffee or otherwise he could ( the battle was between 85 per cent (combination Akhilesh Yadav (Azamgarh) and son, saying that the SP was not battle- be heading Ajit Singh’s way. of Dalits, Muslims and backwards as represent- Mulayam Singh Yadav (Mainpuri), ready as it was relying too much on (The writer is Executive Director ed by the alliance partners of SP, BSP and RLD) three Muslim leaders —Azam Khan Mayawati whereas the BJP had started [News] with The Pioneer, Lucknow) 9 R , A 4$3
ning streak of the Republican Party by during armed conflict between the US disparities, which were exploited by remittances from the Middle East. ness to Tahir, who supported the attacking the Bush administration’s eco- military and China-backed North parties such as ZA Bhutto’s Pakistan Unprecedented financial aid from Musharraf dictatorship for a while nomic performance, knowing fully well Korean armies. People’s Party (PPP). the US and Saudi Arabia (for the anti- but despite the 8.5 per cent growth that the struggling economy had begun Tahir’s father, Baqir, took over the Baqir was a card-carrying member Soviet insurgency in Afghanistan) rate achieved by the regime till 2005, to impact many Republican voters as family business in the mid-1950s and of Ayub’s centrist and modernist also helped. he could not revive the family busi- well. According to the famous German began to expand it. Tahir told me that Conventional Muslim League. In Baqir was successful in regener- ness. philosopher and political theorist Karl his father led a “highly Westernised life” December 1971, the PPP came to ating his export business and also Out of frustration, he sold it off .1"'!0/2! '88 8 Marx, a person’s “political conscious- and befriended many industrialists, power on a ‘socialist’ platform. There became an importer after Zia lifted and joined a multinational organisa- ) *6 6 ness” is almost always shaped by his bureaucrats and politicians. Baqir fully was an increase in Pakistan’s import bills curbs on imports. This was the peri- tion as an employee. The frustration 0 O * n March 1991, a few days after the economic circumstances. supported Ayub Khan’s 1958 coup due to the 1973 world oil price shock, od of Zia’s ‘Islamisation’ and Baqir was also vented out through support- US forces invaded Iraq for the first Let me demonstrate this through because he believed that political insta- a serious post-1973 global recession followed suit by shunning his ing the anti-Musharraf movement in Itime, 90 per cent of Americans, the example of an acquaintance of bility had begun to negatively impact during 1974-77, failure of cotton crops ‘Westernised ways’. He became a 2007. The economy had begun to * 6 who were polled, approved of mine, Tahir, or rather, through the his family’s economic fortunes. in 1974-75, pest attacks on crops and ‘born-again Muslim’. His palatial spiral down and this also meant 7M:? 2 President George H Bush’s ‘job per- story of his dad, Baqir. I’ve known And Baqir did greatly benefit from massive floods in 1973, 1974 and house in Karachi also went through Tahir’s wish to revive the family busi- * formance’. Bush’s approval ratings Tahir since school. His family became the Ayub regime’s ‘pro-business’ poli- 1976-77. Pakistan experienced the a transformation. Expensive paint- ness was thwarted. * skyrocketed and political commenta- extremely conservative in the 1980s cies. In 1960, he married a bureaucrat’s worst inflation during 1972-77 when ings gave way to equally expensive He got married and moved to tors predicted that the Republican but it wasn’t always so. Tahir’s father daughter. It was a love marriage. prices increased by 15 per cent. calligraphy of sacred verses and Qatar and then Saudi Arabia. This is Party would be able to retain the pres- had migrated to Pakistan from India Apart from expanding his export As his business nosedived, Baqir water colour paintings of Islam’s when I reconnected with him through 6 ' idency in the 1992 election. in 1947. He was 16 at the time. In business, Baqir spread his economic sold his cinemas and bars in 1973 and sacred sites. He built a mosque in the Facebook. He supported Imran Khan Republican presidents Ronald Karachi, Tahir’s paternal grandfather interests by buying two cinemas in in 1975, he wrapped up his export area where the house stood and also in 2013 and just before the 2018 elec- 6 Reagan and then Bush had held the was a small trader who set up a shop Karachi and one in Lahore. He also business and moved the family to one in his vast office. tions, he was posting statuses about White House since 1981. And in 1991, in Karachi in 1949. Tahir’s father often bought a restaurant and opened two London where he opened two He remained a Zia supporter the upcoming ‘Islamic welfare state’ 6 ) * it seemed Bush, too, would be able to visited the shop after school. bars in Karachi’s Saddar and Tariq Pakistani restaurants. However, he even after the latter’s demise in 1988. and Riyasat-i-Madina on Facebook. * win a second term just as his predeces- Tahir once told me that their Road areas. He also built a new pala- returned to Karachi after the fall of the He voted for Nawaz Sharif’s (then However, only recently, as the 6 sor Reagan had. However, by the end “class status suddenly jumped from tial family home in Karachi. Bhutto regime in 1977. By 1980, he ‘Ziaist’ and pro-business) Pakistan country’s economy is once again 6 6 of 1991, Bush’s approval ratings began lower-middle to upper-middle” in the According to political economist was able to resurrect his business in Muslim League (N) until his business threatening to spiral down, his 7M:? to plummet, surprising many political early 1950s, when his grandfather Akbar Zaidi, the country’s annual Karachi when the Gen Zia dictator- once again began to go south due to Facebook posts have become critical pundits. This is when the strategy team managed to export merchandise to the growth rate during the Ayub regime ship initiated denationalisation, dereg- international sanctions imposed on of Khan’s regime. So I inboxed him: of Bush’s opponent Bill Clinton US forces stationed in Korea. (1958-69) was an impressive 6.7 per ulation and privatisation policies. Pakistan after the country tested “Tahir, it seems there is no place for N * (Democratic Party) came up with the Between 1950 and 1953, the cent in Gross Domestic Product. But Pakistan achieved a national sav- two nuclear devices in 1998. you to restart the family business in slogan, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Pakistani economy witnessed a boom Zaidi also mentions that Ayub’s policies ings/GDP ratio of 16 per cent in 1986- In the early 2000s, Baqir hand- Riyasat-i-Madina.” He didn’t reply. Clinton was able to break the win- of sorts due to such exports to the US in this context also created economic 87 amidst massive inflows of worker ed over the reigns of the family busi- (The Dawn) ! ";
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Near- according to the official data strengthened in April 2018, sidered the claims of lenders of ended 118 points lower, metal, FMCG, utilities, basic term events to be closely released by China early this when Wuhan witnessed the parent firm Reliance dragged by losses mainly in materials, auto and banking tracked are India’s Q4FY19 year. first Informal Summit Communications on the basis auto and financial stocks. indices fell up to 1.30 per cent. GDP rate, infrastructure output The trade deficit in 2018, between our Prime Minister of corporate guarantee of RITL The NSE Nifty too edged While, BSE teck, oil and for April, and foreign exchange according to the data, climbed (Narendra) Modi and which would reduce its voting 23 points down to settle below gas, telecom and energy indices reserves data...,” Hemang Jani, to $57.86 billion from $51.72 President Xi Jinping. This share in the CoC. the 12,000-mark. rose up to 1.07 per cent. Head — Advisory, Sharekhan billion in 2017. Summit has provided a fresh The bank claimed to be However, on a weekly Broader indices ended on a by BNP Paribas, said. “We are glad that our impetus to our growing bilat- direct lenders and said as a syn- basis, the Sensex gained 279.4 mixed note with, BSE smallcap “Auto sales data for the bilateral trade will cross the eral engagement,” Vimal said. dicate of four banks, it had lent points and the Nifty rose 78.70 slipping 0.65 per cent and BSE month of May to be released on significant mark of $100 bil- As a result, the number of 1,400 crore to RITL. points. midcap rising 0.23 per cent. June 1 followed by the RBI lion this year,” India’s Deputy visits by trade and invest- Doha Bank is against con- Post announcement of key Investors also appeared monetary Policy on June 6. On Ambassador in China Dr ment delegations have sidering lenders having corpo- portfolios in newly elected cautious ahead of GDP data, global front, US-China trade Acquino Vimal said while increased and the comfort rate guarantee of RITL as finan- & + >D 0 1 government, focus to shift scheduled for release later in wars along with rise in oil price addressing an event on ’India- and trust levels have cial creditors as this will mar- % "" # + ." # " 01 > towards various economic the day, traders said. will determine further trend. China business forum, explor- improved, he said. ginalise their voting rights to 15 +, 0>1 % "" " reforms and policies. BJP President Amit Shah We continue to remain opti- ing opportunities, enhancing “This is demonstrated in per cent from around 55 per After gyrating nearly 750 who played a crucial role in the mistic on equity markets and cooperation’ specially in the the increase in the number of cent currently. points, the 30-share index settled return of his party’s govern- prefer Private banks,” Jani said. IT sector. visas we have been issuing in The lenders of Reliance 117.77 points, or 0.30 per cent, ment at the Centre will be the Meanwhile, foreign insti- A large number of the last few months. In order Infratel have invoked bank lower at 39,714.20. The gauge hit new Home Minister in Modi tutional investors (FIIs) bought Chinese investors and Indian to ensure that such engage- guarantees of 8,000 crore an intra-day low of 39,374.24 2.0 Cabinet while incumbent equities worth 1,664.74 crore IT firms based in China ment is promoted and encour- issued by the company in and a high of 40,122.34. Rajnath Singh has moved to on Thursday, while domestic attended the get-together aged, I’m happy to inform that favour of Reliance The broader NSE Nifty Defence, another high profile institutional investors (DIIs) organised by NASSCOM — a we have further liberalised Communications. The tribunal also settled lower by 23.10 ministry. Outgoing Defence sold shares to the tune of trade association of Indian visas for Chinese travellers to asked State Bank of India (SBI) points, or 0.19 per cent, at Minister Nirmala Sitharaman 1,122.60 crore, provisional Information Technology (IT) visit India by the introduction to file reply within seven days 11,922.80. During the day, the will be the new Minister for data available with stock and Business Process of ’electronic visa’ facility,” the and Doha Bank to file a rejoin- index hit a low of 11,829.45 and Finance and Corporate Affairs exchanges showed. Outsourcing (BPO) industry Indian diplomat said. der in three days. , " -1 . & & & " + ' " " > # 2% " $>> .' * " " "" 0 1 78 " " " " , 76E2FB* & " ? E2FH !"#$"%&' #2&'!0).! their imports for six months. !"#$"%&' inancial creditors of “There will be no more oil FReliance Communications ny efforts to import waivers granted and the only he growth of eight core have submitted claims of over AIranian crude oil beyond oil that would have been per- Tinfrastructure sectors 49,193 crore, which showed the accepted levels negotiat- mitted would have been slowed down to 2.6 per cent in that China Development Bank, ed from November to May under the cap that we nego- April, due to negative growth LIC and SBI have the highest will be sanctioned, the US has tiated. That cap was negoti- in crude oil, natural gas and fer- exposure in the dues. warned, amidst reports that ated, it was to run for a peri- tiliser output. According to the list, India and China were seeking od from November of 2018 During April 2018, the Interim Resolution Professional ways to buy oil from Tehran. until May of 2019,” Brian expansion rate of eight infra- (IRP) Pardeep Kumar Sethi has US President Donald Hook, Special Representative structure sectors — coal, crude admitted claims of 47,038.79 Trump last month refused to for Iran and Senior Policy oil, natural gas, refinery prod- crore and the remaining . " " " +& 5 give waivers to countries like Advisor to the Secretary of ucts, fertilisers, steel, cement amount has been put for veri- 3 " " % + " India from buying oil from State, told reporters during a and electricity — stood at 4.7 fication. LO ( P2% Iran, in an attempt to reduce conference call on Thursday. per cent. The list showed that China " Iran’s oil exports to zero. He said once the coun- Coal generation growth Development Bank (CDB) The US on Thursday reit- tries have reached the cap of was flat at 2.8 pet cent in April claimed dues of 9,863.89 crore erated its position after the what was negotiated, that 2019, said the Government and the IRP has admitted the media reports from New would be the limit of the oil data. entire claim. Delhi, quoting unnamed gov- that US would permit to move The output of electricity The IRP also admitted full ernment officials, said that through and would not be and refinery products was 5.8 claims made by Life Insurance India was looking at ways to sanctioned. per cent and 4.3 per cent, Corporation (4,758 crore), resume oil imports from Iran “We will sanction any respectively. Exim Bank of China (3,356.44 despite the US sanctions. efforts to import Iranian Crude oil, natural gas, and crore), Standard Chartered Last week, India’s crude oil beyond the limits fertilizers sectors posted decline Bank (2,130.23 crore), ICBC Ambassador to the US Harsh that were negotiated in the in growth during the month. (1,832.89 crore), Syndicate Vardhan Shringla said India period that ran from The infrastructure sector Bank (1,225.19 crore), and had stopped buying oil from November through May,” growth has impact on the Punjab National Bank Iran after May 2 when the US Hook said. Index of Industrial Production (1,126.87 crore), among sev- ended its waivers that allowed Iran earlier used to supply (IIP) as these segments account eral others. the top buyers of Iranian oil, 10 per cent of India’s oil for about 41 per cent of the State Bank of India sub- , & O4 P % "" #2% including India, to continue needs. total factory output. mitted a claim of 4,905.37 " +" " A + crore but IRP admitted " " " "
4,714.52 crore and set aside 190.85 crore for verification. Among lead lenders, Bank of Baroda placed a claim of 2,707.67 crore but IRP admit- ted 2,531.87. Details of operational and other creditors were not avail- able in the note. Anil Ambani-led RCom is under the corporate insolven- cy resolution process after it failed to pay dues of lenders and vendors. Earlier this month, the National Company Law Tribunal allowed RCom to ( G' *" 7" 4 2 exclude the 357 days spent in ' *P " + litigation and admitted it for +, ' + + # " bankruptcy proceedings. .5 ' * # &3P
E+6I9" $ !"#$"%&' E?7DF7M !"#$"%&' teel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has staged an Simpressive turnaround by clocking a Net Profit dur- he fiscal deficit for 2018-19 ing the Financial Year 2018-19 after 3 consecutive years Tcame in at 3.39 per cent of of losses. Declaring its annual results today, the Company GDP, marginally lower than 3.4 posted a Net Profit (Profit After Tax) of 2178.82 Crore per cent estimated in the revised in FY 2018-19 (FY’19) as against a net loss of 481.71 estimates of the Budget, main- Crore in FY 2017-18. During the financial year 2018-19, ly due to increase in non-tax rev- intensive efforts on improving physical performance enue and lower expenditure. throughout the year in tandem with the market condi- In absolute terms, fiscal tions made it possible to achieve higher volumes, deficit at the end of March 31, improve the product-mix and increase the share of value- 2019, stood at 6.45 lakh crore added steel. as against 6.34 lakh crore in Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Chairman, SAIL, dedicated the the revised estimates of Budget. turnaround to organisational synergy and team work. He The fiscal deficit for 2018- said, “The entire SAIL’s collective worked in mission mode 19 works out to be 3.39 per cent to achieve this turnaround. Together we have done it and of GDP, as per data released by it has strengthened our resolve to perform better in com- Controller General of Accounts ing times. We all are committed to put SAIL into a high- (CGA). er orbit of performance. The performance during the last Although in absolute terms year gives us confidence to aim higher and we shall put in the fiscal deficit has gone up, even greater efforts to ramp-up production from our sophis- but as a percentage of GDP the ticated mills while focusing on augmenting production of deficit figure has come down special & valued added steels and niche products.” marginally, mainly on account SAIL’s operating margin grew by more than 100% in of GDP expansion in 2018-19 FY’19 over CPLY indicating an overall improvement in — data of which will be the performance. released later in the day. "< ! .9 2 6 -7 ? :, # !,#! , @ ) nearing 100. Out of these more "the encounter broke out after : " than two dozen terrorists of a Cordon and Search Jaish-e- Mohammand terror Operation was launched in the outfit including its top com- Dragad area of Sugan village in manders have been eliminated Shopian following credible 0 0 .% 2)2 former and sitting, municipal tion,” she said adding, “expand by the security forces. inputs about the presence of chairmen and councilors have your support base through Since November 2018, militants, adding that the gun- n what could give Mamata joined the BJP in Delhi. public contact because we will 1) ) 2554 Kishtwar was witnessing regu- fight site was located in IBanerjee more butterflies in On whether he saw a definitely bounce back from lar movement of 'radicalised' orchards and with no habita- her stomach, senior BJP leader revival of Trinamool Congress this place,” she told her party ishtwar district in Jammu youth in the area. tion nearby". Mukul Roy on Friday said from the electoral jolt it had leaders. Kprovince, declared a ter- The same month saw tar- "During the search opera- another crop of about 10 suffered in the recently held Once again attacking the rorism-free zone over a decade geted killing of a senior BJP tion, the hiding militants fired Trinamool Congress MLAs parliamentary elections, Roy BJP and the Election ago, witnessed first firefight leader Anil Parihar along with on the search party, police and “some MPs” were waiting said more and more people Commission for manipulating between unidentified terrorists his brother Ajeet Parihar. said, adding that the fire was to join the saffron camp. were getting attracted towards the electronic voting machines and jawans of police patrol In April 2019, another RSS retaliated, leading to an Roy, a major architect of the BJP impressed by the per- to win the elections Banerjee party in the wee hours of leader, Chandermohan encounter in which two listed BJP’s astounding performance formance of Prime Minister said, “the people will have to be Friday in Appan area of Sharma, was killed in cold militants along with the other in the Lok Sabha elections Narendra Modi. told about this. We will have to Marwah tehsil. blood along with his body one who was part of this group from Bengal, said the Mamata “If this trend continues descend on the streets, organize Two Special police officers guard inside district hospital in were killed". Banerjee Government may not and if the TMC leaders con- mass movements against the (SPO's) wounded in the attack Kishtwar. Incidents of weapon The killed terrorists were last till 2021 and could collapse tinue to join our party in such EC so as to build pressure” on were rushed to Army com- Sinha said, "after receiving a launched comprehensive snatching were also reported in identified as Abid Manzoor well before its time as “many large numbers then I don’t the poll panel in order to “pre- mand hospital, Udhampur for specific input about the move- searches in the area. the area in the recent months Magray alias Sajju Tiger son of MLAs and MPs are in touch think this government will vent it from repeating its mis- specialised treatment. ment of anti-national elements IG, Jammu range, MK raising concerns of revival of Manzoor Ahmad Magray res- with me.” survive its full term till 2021” chief in the 2021 Assembly Meanwhile, in two suc- in Appan area of Marwah, a Sinha also visited Army militancy in the region. ident Nowpora Payeeen He said, “just now there are the former Railway Minister elections.” cessful operations, a joint team team of SOG and district police Command Hospital at In March 2019, posters Pulwama, Bilal Ahmad Bhat 10 MLAs and some MPs who said. Buttressing her argument of security forces eliminated had left for the area on Udhampur and enquired about carrying pictures of seven son of Gul Mohammad resi- are in touch with me. There will Meanwhile, with a view to she wondered “how Amit Shah five terrorists during the day. Thursday evening". the health and welfare of the 02 "wanted terrorists" affiliated dent of Urmulla Lassipora be more to join us in the com- stimulate the senior Trinamool and the BJP could say prema- According to police, three He said, early Friday morn- SPOs who sustained bullet with the Hizbul Mujahideen Pulwama and Jasim Rashid ing days,” and added he would leaders’ sagging spirits Chief turely that they would get 300- Hizbul Muhajideen terrorists ing while police team was on its injuries and the Lashkar-e-Taiba were Shah son of Abdul Rashid res- prefer the TMC leaders to join Minister on Friday held a party plus seats and how could he say were neutralised in Dragad job, it came under fire from Since beginning of the holy released by the police. Official ident of Malnar, Shopian. the BJP gradually so “causing core committee meeting where this will happen at 10 am and area of Sugan village in Shopian unidentified militants near month of Ramzan, more than sources said, at least seven ter- Abid and Manzoor were her chest pain to increase slow- she asked the Ministers, MPs, that will happen at 11 am and while two terrorists were killed Faizi Bridge. The fire was retal- 20 terrorists have been elimi- rorists are active in the region wanted by law for their com- ly. I will not give them a sud- MLAs and district presidents to yet another thing will happen in Nanar area of Tral in South iated. He said in the exchange nated by the security forces and six of them belonged to the plicity in a series of cases includ- den heart attack but a slow and stick to their basic jobs and at 12 pm on the counting day. Kashmir's Pulwama district. of firing, 02 SPOs, Mohd. Iqbal across Kashmir valley in relent- Hizbul Mujahideen and one to ing attack on security estab- sure shock causing a stroke.” expand their public base. This means that there was Public Relations Officer & Ashiq Hussain got bullet less operations. the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). lishments and civilian atrocities. Already a large number of “Don’t live your respective connivance and high-tech (PRO) of Inspector General of injuries. He said, after the The overall tall of terrorists Meanwhile, Police Several cases were registered TMC leaders including MLAs, areas. This is my strong instruc- manipulation of the EVMs.” Police, Jammu range, MK attack, Army and police teams killed since January 2019 is spokesman in Srinagar said, against them, police said. ') *P* ?( #( * + " . ,!! (/ = "" " Chennai: The DMK on Friday likened K Stalin persuaded Rahul not to quit By doing so, the DMK said, "Rahul Rahul Gandhi to Jawaharlal Nehru for from the president's post, the party transcended. To be very precise, Rahul his liberal ideological moorings that mouthpiece said he did not confine Gandhi reflected the thoughts (liber- ', "( Amethi (UP): The main accused in in-charge also suffered minor went beyond just electoral politics and himself to only "electoral politics," dur- al ideological stand) of Jawaharlal the killing of a close aide of Amethi injuries in the gunfight. asserted that the Congress needed a ing the run up to the polls. Nehru." MP Smriti Irani was arrested on A case was registered against "broad-minded person" like him. Instead, Rahul, the DMK said "Rahul is the strong brick for Mumbai: No evidence was accused had hurled casteist Friday following an encounter with five people for killing Surendra At a time when the Congress showed his concern about the Indian building the fort of Congress and it is found to indicate that Payal slurs at her. police here, officials said. Singh. appeared to be in a disarray with Rahul society, and expressed his anguish more strong than a mountain of sand." Tadvi, the junior doctor at a The prosecution, seeking Wasim was held in Shalhapur Ramchandra, Dharmanath, wanting to step down from the post of about several aspects like religious hos- The DMK also said it was usual to Government hospital here who police remand for the accused area under the Jamo police station Naseem and Golu were arrested ear- party chief due to poll drubbing, the tility, economic inequalities, and pover- blame the Nehru-Gandhi family dur- allegedly committed suicide, when they were arrested, had area on Thursday night, Assistant lier. Ramchandra is a member of the Dravidian party said, "Rahul's politi- ty. ing poll debacles. had been killed, the Mumbai suggested that it could be a case Superintendent of Police Daya Ram kshetra panchayat and also a local cal journey should be about slogging The DMK daily said he also under- "Many do not realise during times Police's crime branch told a of murder. said. Congress leader, the police said. from the grassroots level. If that is stood the difference in mindset of success that it is the very same fam- court on Friday. However, the crime With this, all the five accused in Singh, 50, a former head of there, victory is possible." between the southern and northern ily which fetched victories for the The court, which refused branch, which took over the the case have been arrested, the he Baraulia village, around 25 km Apparently seeking to lift Rahul's states. Congress party." to extend police remand of the case on Thursday, told the said. from the Amethi district head- spirits, the DMK's Tamil organ Rahul spoke of "Periyar (rational- Similarly, some were now trying to three accused, noted that the court that it has not "come Wasim has suffered gunshot quarters, was shot at around 11.30 "Murasoli", in its editorial, said the ist leader) and celebrated Kalaignar place the blame on Rahul for the case diary and the autopsy across any material to call it a injuries and has been admitted to a pm on May 25. He was referred to Congress was a broad-based party and (late DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi)," Congress party's poll defeat. report did not suggest that it murder". The accused — community health centre, the ASP a Lucknow hospital, but succumbed to lead it, only a broad-minded person and all such aspects went beyond poll Rahul has offered to step down fol- was a "clear-cut" case of mur- Bhakti Mehere, Hema Ahuja said, adding the Jamo police station to injuries during treatment. PTI like Rahul was needed. victories and defeats, Murasoli said. lowing the dismal performance of the der. and Ankita Khandelwal — Days after The Congress president, hence, Congress in the Lok Sabha elections, Tadvi (26), a post-graduate were produced before DMK chief M transcended the confines of electoral while the Congress Working student at B Y L Nair Hospital, Additional Sessions Judge R M politics by talking not Committee rejected it. allegedly hanged herself in her Sadrani at the end of their only about Prime The BJP had on May 23 won 303 hostel room on May 22, as she police custody on Friday. Minister Narendra out of 542 Lok Sabha seats that went was reportedly fed up of being Seeking their further custody, Modi but also focus- to polls, handing out a crushing defeat ragged by the three accused the investigating officer said it ing on all such to the Congress and many other polit- who were her seniors. was required for the recovery aspects. ical opponents. PTI It was also alleged that the of the suicide note. PTI & #$% & ' = ! 84,, ,'502 #5(22) #7)70 27 0250-7 7-;7, &7,75 ;57 #'50( 2,(, ' F ' O ' 6 " F ' G ' * * F ' * ) 6 O * . " ' I 6 7> 6 6 6 ' 9K 2 ' 1 ' * F ' * * 6 ' ' * 2 ' 6 ' I K=$6 & G I F 6 ' I B C *6 6 * 6 ' 'A ' 1' 6 6 A * 6 6 F * ' ' * F 6 ' ' * F 6 (1 P! "##$!%&$Q ' 6 F 6 * 2=2%. ')2$4))2 12-4&' &2/52 n this age of short attention spans, a condensed format of dif- ferent forms of entertainment prevails in our consciousness. With an abundance of digital platforms,I the short film format is here to stay. Filmmaker Avalokita Dutta, who is all set to debut with her short film Gutthi, believes that these are the future. “People nowadays want short, sharp and tight bursts of entertain- ment, which they can watch at work, at home or on the move on their 2" phones,” she says. If we compare them to feature films, they have traditionally been O * % 5 6 treated as a poor cousin, especially at film festivals. However, their brevity t’s a giant dying lion carved into the cliff face lion monument has steadily deteriorated,” makes them ideally suited to the dig- of a former sandstone quarry, above a pond Damian Suess of Lucerne Tourism said. ital platforms. Iand set in a landscaped garden in this “The Lucerne administration took over the Avalokita explains that short films medieval town. It is often referred to as the monument in 1882 and in 1891, a report on engage the audience for a little time but “saddest stone” as it commemorates the sac- its condition was drawn up. On the basis of that simultaneously provide great quality rifice of 800 Swiss guardsman in the pay of report, it was decided that the conservation of content. And that is what today’s King Louis XVI during the French Revolution the monument, renewal of the weathered areas, generation needs. She says, “Anyone — but is now threatened with decay, chiefly preservation of the rock around the monument can make these because this is the dig- from melting snow. and the laying of a protective stiffener above ital era. Moreover, these films could be Not surprisingly, the Lion Monument, one the rock face would be done,” Suess explained. about anything and everything that a of Switzerland’s most loved icons and described In 1902 construction of a new framework person wants to talk about. These by American author Mark Twain as “the most to protect the monument from snow in win- screening platforms have made short mournful and moving piece of stone in the ter was planned and executed but tragedy films more democratic. It’s so amaz- world”, is visited by some 1.4 million tourists struck in 1950. ing. Who would not want to see the example of Badhai Ho. The same has we have known each other for quite a who come to gaze at the regal beast, dying from “That autumn, a piece of the lion’s thigh, world through so many different happened with short films because the long time. We met at a film festival. I a spear wound marked by a shield bearing the at least a meter long, detached and fell into the eyes.” Short films for sure have two audience has begun to watch films for am much younger to him as he’s a mark of the French monarchy. Above it is the pond. That was a major blow for the author- undeniable roles. “First, they allow new what they are about rather than who senior filmmaker. But he always treats inscription — Helvetiorum Fidei Ac Virtuti (To ities, who were struggling hard to protect the talent the chance to get noticed and stars in it,” she adds. me with great respect and equality. I the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss). monument and restoration work immediate- refine their style. Second, they also Avalokita’s Gutthi is about about don’t even know if I deserve it. May be The monument, ten metres in length and ly began,” Suess said. help to encourage creativity and inno- friendship between two girls. She I have earned it.” six metres in height, has a very emotional his- Rock protection measures were undertak- vation that includes new ways of explains that she wanted to treat She tells us that she was a bit tory. When the angry masses stormed the royal en in 1978 and minor repair work was carried telling stories,” she adds. friendship with the same amount of scared about this whole mentorship palace on August 10 1792, the 800 Swiss out on the lion in 1982. On the upper right side, Given their obvious importance, importance that love stories get. She thing. “Because we both are extreme- guardsmen stood as the defenders of the the a larger rock section of approximately 15 tonnes why do short films continue to remain feels that friendship between two ly opinionated people and have our monarchy — but in vain. Their defeat was dev- was stabilised and in 1990, the monument was in the shadows? Well, “that’s more a females hasn't got much exposure in own visions for the kind of cinema that astating. thoroughly washed with water. sociological question,” she says. “The our cinematic space. It’s her take on we want to make. But he gave me quite Surrounded by popular tourist attractions Drainage has been a perpetual problem. obvious answers could be — lack of friendship in an intimate manner. She a free range. He placed more faith in like the Glacier Garden, the Alpineum and the The area behind the quarry is heavily forest- great actors. Or the penchant that we says, “Relationships wither away with me than I have in myself. Amit asked Bourbaki Panorama, the monument was ini- ed with the temperature plunging to zero as an audience might have for the epic.” time. These two girls are dreamers. N".%"/""/ me to be responsible for every decision tiated by Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen, a junior degrees celsius in winter accompanied by snow. Avalokita apprises us that short They make films to change the world. that I take. I have learnt from him that lieutenant with the Swiss guardsmen who was A series of pipes were laid to prevent the melt- films are very important for filmmak- But over the years, their friendship has 3.!)"!).="/ you need to have respect for another on leave at the time and thus escaped the mas- ing snow in spring from seeping into the rock- ers as they give a playing field to them. become monotonous. The spark has "="/-)&'!0"%" )&" person’s vision,” She adds. sacre. face and to drain the water into the pond. Moreover, it hones their skills as a completely gone.” She further tells us that she’s a con- In 1793, he felt obliged to erect a monu- “Despite all efforts, the condition of the short film needs to be tighter in what The short film is one of six films 24$'"!3"&21"3.5" trol freak and wants to dominate ment in honour of his fallen officers, comrades monument deteriorated rapidly. Taking this it is trying to convey as compared to titled Shuruaat Ka Twist. 5./"233")'!0. every single person in the crew. But and soldiers and it took almost 30 years to com- seriously, all copper pipes for draining the water a feature film. It’s more difficult to say The only commonality between &./)'%5 3'!"52 thanks to Amit, “I understand how plete amidst of several design and architectur- were replaced in 2004. Further measures something vital in shorter time. the six films is the theme, that is of important it is to allow freedom to al changes. The monument was designed by were taken in 2008 to improve the water flow “The audience has become more ‘twist’. Every film is the interpretation ')2 '!02)4/!./ everyone. You need to give people Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and and thus protect the monument,” Suess point- accepting of short films. There’s a huge of the word twist by six different direc- .5")&'!01"))"/ space and the liberty to work as per hewed by Lukas Ahorn. Completed in 1821, ed out. difference in today’s time and 90s tors. their strategies. So that they can con- it will mark its 200th anniversary in 2021. So, in order to save its most beloved mon- when there was a star system. People She adds, “The twist in my film is )&"24$'"!3"&2 tribute in the best possible way. May “Before the Lion Monument was erected, ument from adverse climatic conditions and headed out to watch films only to see what happens when one girl decides 1"04!).#2)3&'%5 be you could actually get something the area had not yet been built on. However, erosion, the Lucerne administration has spent the big stars on the screen. And now to move out.” extraordinary out of it. Because there’s intensive construction began in 1870. Due to millions of Swiss Francs and is expected to do cinema is taking a turn for something Amit V Masurkar, popularly ./#&2))&"-2/" a difference between when one brain the constant building activity, with numerous so for many more years because it attracts great better. People prefer content over known for directing Newton, mentored 21.4)/2)&"/)&2! works and when many brains work for new buildings and conversions up to the pre- testimonials from people around the world. everything. They want to see actors Avalokita for this film. She says, “I have #&.)2/'!')O the same goal in unison.” sent time, the situation of the garden with the L& presenting quality content. Take the never worked with Amit before. But )A-1 masterful schemer? inhabited by hoards of children. There is a lot of unspoken resentment and ' history between these two. Victoria resents What was the biggest challenge that you Feodora for leaving her when she went off faced during the filming? and got married, Feodora resents Victoria In a scene, Queen Victoria takes a dip in / 6 Q = for having the attention and focus because the water whilst wearing her bathing suit, she was the heir. It’s a difficult relation- which is a lot like pajamas that are made "!!23.%"52! ship. They also have a shared experience from hemp. It was absolutely freezing and at Kensington, which bonds them, so there unfortunately we had to film this twice A 6 1)"25 ='=2 is a constant push and pull of love and because the weather was so awful. The resentment between them. Queen is meant to be taking a leisurely dip here is the Queen of England and how loudly they were cheering at The They haven’t seen each other for but the waves were making it seem now and what challenges lie Great Exhibition. She wrote about the joy years and instinctively Victoria doesn’t treacherous. Wahead of her? on people’s faces and the tears in their eyes. trust Feodora. She knows there is some- Series three opens with pregnant Victoria Being loved, more than she would like to thing going on but the extent to which Why is the role of Queen Victoria so expecting her child number six on the eve admit, is incredibly important to her. Feodora is being an Iago figure comes to exciting and enjoyable to return to? of the French Revolution. There is a def- light later on. Feodora cleverly weaves her I love her lack of filter, her frankness and inite sense that time has passed as the chil- What irks Victoria? Is it the arrival of way through the family, putting a wedge honesty. I love the fact that if she likes dren are older. Victoria is wiser and her agent provocateur, Lord Palmerston? between Victoria and Albert, who are someone she is incredibly loyal and if she relationship with Albert is in a very dif- She hates him. Palmerston was a law unto most distant during this series. They are doesn’t, she will let that person know. In ferent space. Victoria faces question of himself. He managed things in a very dif- a few years into their marriage now and terms of playing her, when she is in a bad whether or not her role is disposable ferent way and perhaps didn’t give her the have many children, so there are new pres- mood or is tired, she is very reactionary because the King of France turns up on deference that she felt she deserved. sures and strains. They operate complete- and temperate so she has always been her doorstep in rags, having been over- There is a battle between them for ly differently and have always been yin and known and written about as having a tem- thrown and she questions whether this people’s affections and Victoria isn’t used yang but they seem to have fallen out of per. could happen to her. This is all she has to competition in that area. However, she balance with each other. They used to write about her having known and all she expects to know so that slowly realises that they are more similar a ‘combustible’, which I love. Victoria did- forces her to look in the mirror and exam- than she thought and she begins to What is it like to work with so many chil- n’t have to answer to anybody and so could ine her relationship with her people and become rather fond of him. He is always dren? really get angry within her own house. She what that truly means to her. somewhere between being invited over for It is a form of utterly amazing and com- would feel mortified after having one of The core difference between Victoria tea and being thrown out — you never pletely chaotic mayhem. You just have to these ‘combustibles’ and would cry and and Albert is that the latter is more know which side of the fence she sat with call action and see what happens. Kids apologise to Albert but she ping pongs methodical whereas Victoria is emotion- him. really do say the funniest things and it is through emotions rapidly. As she gets ally-led. Ultimately, she just wants to be the unpredictability on the set which is older, she can be controlled even less, so supported and adored by her subjects. She What is the relationship that Queen hilarious, especially when you throw in a it is fun to age with her. always wrote about it. On the day of her Victoria has with the new character, few dogs, horses and a couple of politi- (The season 1 and 2 of the show are live on coronation, she wrote about the crowds Feodora, who is her half-sister and a cians. I can’t imagine the palace now not SonyLIV.) & #$% & ' == ! +A-1 ven after giving almost helping create sustainable via- district, it has undertaken a 40 years of his life to bility for heritage while also project to restore an extraordi- government service, focusing on its potential as a nary 700-year-old monument, retired civil servant resource for overall develop- the Dargah of Sheikh Musa, a SK Misra felt his work 8 89/8 ment, his NGO concentrates on medieval Sufi saint. Ewas still not complete. The for- infrastructure development, pri- “In the Maluti village in mer bureaucrat felt that the mary education, skill develop- Jharkhand, there is a unique her- experience he had gained and ment, employment generation, itage site with 62 terra-cotta tem- the reputation he had built / 5'/2 6 and development of rural ples. There were 108 temples and could be better used for public tourism. now only 62 remain,” he said. service. Thus began his second “In all our projects, the goal While Misra took the ini- innings. concerned with restoration of is not only to preserve important tiative to conserve and protect After he retired as the heritage, for almost 10 years. But, heritage assets but to help the these unique monuments in Principal Secretary to former the need for an organisation impoverished rural communi- 2011, the Jharkhand govern- Prime Minister Chandra focusing solely on rural heritage, ties that own them to learn how ment in 2015 agreed to fund the Shekhar in the early 1990s, birthed ITRHD. to successfully manage previ- entire project with a budget of Misra continued his work in the “INTACH was primarily ously unrecognised heritage 7 crore. “The work is going on fields of conservation and urban oriented and was con- resources, in the process achiev- and we hope to complete it by restoration of heritage, rural cerned only with conservation. ing self-sufficiency, improved end of this year,” the former development, women empow- The new NGO, formed in col- living conditions and a new bureaucrat said. erment and community engage- laboration with a number of dis- sense of pride as owners of these “In addition, the state gov- ment. Standing strong at 87, the tinguished persons from differ- special and most precious parts ernment has also entrusted a Padma Bhushan recipient heads ent walks of life, was concerned of our culture,” Misra said. project of conserving a histori- the Indian Trust for Rural with conservation of rural her- While in Jharkhand, cal jail in Ranchi which housed Heritage and Development itage and also rural development ITRHD is working on restora- freedom fighters of the tribe (ITRHD), a non-governmental along with community involve- tion of 17th century terracotta called Munda. After restoration, organisation set up in 2011 that ment,” he said. temples and restoration of a his- it is to be converted into a trib- works in villages with strong, * " )* 2 Founded with the aim of toric jail, in Haryana’s Mewat al museum,” he added. L& often endangered, heritage tra- ditions with projects spread gained, I should put that expe- tourism, civil aviation and agri- He added that other officers across eight states. rience to social purpose. I am culture secretary in the union who gain experience should “I could never think of total 87-years-old now and I still government and was also prin- not just hang up their boots after retirement or sitting idle. I felt can’t think of just relaxing,” cipal secretary to three Haryana retirement but should continue that the experience that I had Misra, who also served as chief ministers, said. to work “as there are so many areas where work needs to be done and where their experience could be utilised.” After retirement, Misra served as the chairman of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), the biggest NGO in the country ! " = $4 , " 9 : 2' ,4,,$ 2" $$ A, 1+03 %, $ 1 * 5 & * 7E 2 5"332 rebel drone attacks shut down a national community to take a 2 )"&/2! O$ "! $ *!# $ 8 House more than two years 3 5 1 key Saudi oil pipeline. firm stand to confront Iran and !# 7 ! " 7< ago, Trump proclaimed his ulf and Arab allies rallied His remarks came at the its destabilising acts in the housands of Iranians ambition to secure a final 5 ) 5 $ Garound Saudi Arabia Friday start of two back-to-back emer- region”. A joint statement issued Tjoined annual rallies in !# "F :!78!# accord ending the Israeli- )6 as it ratcheted up tensions with gency summits in the Muslim by Gulf leaders went further, support of the Palestinian cause 7 ! P Palestinian conflict. 66 regional rival Iran after a series holy city of Mecca that drew echoing criticism of a land- on Friday, rejecting a US peace But the odds of his suc- 6 of attacks, drawing accusations near-unanimous support for mark 2015 nuclear deal between plan President Donald Trump Trump and Netanyahu tram- ceeding where every previous from Tehran of “sowing divi- the Sunni kingdom from Gulf major powers and Iran voiced by has dubbed the “deal of the pled as pro-Iranian militias US president —Republican as ) 1 O P sion”. Tehran, which has strong- and Arab states -- with the US President Donald Trump century”. marched through the streets. well as Democrat —has failed 22) 1 ly denied involvement in any of notable exception of Iraq. when he abandoned the agree- The Quds (Jerusalem) Day The long-awaited “deal”, appear particularly low. > C 3 the attacks, expressed disap- A joint statement issued by ment in May last year. commemorations, which are which has yet to be unveiled by Palestinians have broken all 4 pointment that Riyadh plans to Arab leaders condemned “acts It expressed “support for the held on the last Friday of the its architect, Trump son-in-law contacts with the Trump 6 * level the same “baseless accusa- by the terrorist Huthi militias US strategy towards Iran” that Muslim holy month of Jared Kushner, has already administration since he recog- tions” at a summit of the Org- supported by Iran who (sent) has seen Washington tighten the Ramadan, were launched been rejected by the nised Jerusalem as the capital 1A 6 anisation of Islamic Cooperation aircraft that crossed into Saudi screws on Iran’s economy with by Iran’s revolutionary Palestinians, who say Trump’s of Israel in December 2017. 2 6 6 6 (OIC) early on Saturday. Arabia to two oil pumping sta- crippling unilateral sanctions leader Ayatollah Ruhollah policies have shown him to be Kushner, who was in King Salman called on Gulf tions and acts of sabotage that and deploy an aircraft carrier Khomeini and are held by pro- blatantly biased in favour of Jerusalem on Friday on the lat- and Arab leaders to confront affected commercial ships in ter- task force, B-52 bombers and an Iranian groups across the Israel. est leg of a regional tour to sell 1 1 Iran’s “criminal acts” after still ritorial waters of the United amphibious assault ship to the region. High-ranking officials the plan, has looked to an )5 unexplained sabotage attacks Arab Emirates”. Gulf, along with additional Demonstrators burnt US attended the Tehran rally, alliance with Saudi Arabia 0 / damaged four vessels, two of They said Iran’s behaviour troops. Gulf leaders called on and Israeli flags and effigies of including President Hassan against Iran as a way to gain ) = them Saudi oil tankers, in the “poses a direct and serious Iran to “stay away from hostile, Trump and Israeli Prime Rouhani, Foreign Minister Arab support. F6 4! Sea of Oman and twin Yemeni threat” and called on “the inter- destabilising acts”. Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Javad Zarif and parliament The US is expected to roll 0 6 They held up posters read- speaker Ali Larijani. out the economic aspects of the A ing “Quds, the eternal capital of “Undoubtedly, the deal of peace plan at a conference in Palestine” and “no to the deal the century will become the Bahrain on June 25-26. * O " G of the century”. bankruptcy of the century,” In similar protests in the state news agency IRNA Baghdad, flags of the United quoted Rouhani as telling States and the Jewish state reporters at the rally. were set ablaze and portraits of On his arrival in the White 2. ! = 9 ?), Vienna: The UN atomic watch- increased sanctions, which has dog said Friday Iran continues been taking a toll on the Iranian to stay within the limitations set economy. That has left the other by the nuclear deal reached in signatories — Germany, Britain, 2015 with major powers, though France, Russia and China — its stockpiles of low-enriched struggling to come up with uranium and heavy water are enough incentives to keep Iran growing. in the deal. In a confidential quarterly Earlier this month, Iran report distributed to member announced that if a way could- states and seen by The n’t be found within 60 days to Associated Press, the shield it from US sanctions tar- International Atomic Energy geting its economy and oil Agency said Iran has stayed industry, it would increase its within key limitations set in the enrichment of uranium beyond so-called Joint Comprehensive the purity allowed under the Plan of Action, or JCPOA. JCPOA. The deal is meant to keep And about a week Tehran from building atomic ago, Iran said it had increased weapons in exchange for eco- its uranium-enrichment nomic incentives. It has been production capacity, though complicated by the unilateral only of the lower-enriched ura- withdrawal of the United States nium permitted by the agree- last year and Washington’s ment. AP % " " P " " #2&'!0).! gence officials have stopped short of saying the resident Donald Trump efforts contributed to Trump’s Pangrily assailed special victory. counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump’s 20-minute erup- motives on Thursday, a day tion underscored that he after Mueller bluntly rebuffed remains deeply distressed over Trump’s repeated claims the probe that has shadowed his that the Russia investigation presidency for nearly two years, had cleared him of obstructing even after Mueller announced justice. his resignation and the closure The president also offered of his office. Democrats are mixed messages on Russia’s mulling the possibility of efforts to help him defeat impeachment proceedings. Democrat Hillary Clinton in Trump insisted that he’s the 2016 campaign. been tough on Russia and that Early in the day, Trump Moscow would have preferred tweeted he had “nothing to do Clinton as president. But that’s with Russia helping me get not what Russian President elected.” That was the first time Vladimir Putin has said. he seemed to acknowledge that When asked last year in Russia tried to help his cam- Helsinki whether he wanted paign. Trump to become president, Then on the White House Putin replied: “Yes, I did.” On South Lawn, Trump told Wednesday, Mueller, in his first reporters: “Russia did not help public remarks on the Russia me get elected. You know who investigation, pointedly reject- got me elected? You know who ed Trump’s claims — repeated got me elected? I got me elect- almost daily — that the special ed. Russia didn’t help me at all.” counsel’s investigation cleared Mueller’s report said Russia him of criminal activity and was interfered in the election in a “witch hunt.” hopes of getting Trump elect- ed, but his findings and intelli- 5 " # # +! :$#* $- ! 5 Q# # $ ( $ " 143&2/") gious leadership. Francis’ visit comes on the ope Francis arrived in heels of the European PRomania on Friday for a Parliament elections that hol- three-day, cross-country pil- lowed out the political middle grimage that in many ways is in the bloc, and Francis is completing the 1999 trip by St. expected to speak about issues John Paul II that marked the confronting the continent dur- first-ever papal visit to a major- ing the trip. ity Orthodox country. Key moments are Francis’ President Klaus Iohannis Mass for the largely Hungarian- met Francis at the airport and speaking Roman Catholic the two huddled for a private faithful at the country’s most meeting before Francis opened famous Marian shrine, a series of meetings with Sumuleu Ciuc, in eastern Romania’s political and reli- Transylvania. =+ ● )*'+ +% ' '++ + ,-.. / &+0 1 ● % '+'2#/ '+ / !! ! 3 3 ) =)1 ? >G *>)6 0 3 H )6 01> 36 3 0 L ) 8 4 " " * 687A " I "* 2 !.))'!0&25 > ' est Indies crushed & >>D" > E Pakistan by seven $*JJ EE wickets in a one- ' " > % EE sided World Cup > " > K match at Trent " > > K WBridge on Friday, with the two-time >> " % 6F champions showing they are a resur- &44 ", > 6 gent force in the one-day game. 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' ' >, ?=7@ Nicolas Pooran smashed pace- ,," ( 78 man Wahab Riaz for a huge six over >> "> 66 the square-leg boundary to give the # '' "' 8 1975 and 1979 world champions an " :B ideal start to their campaign. >> I "It was a good game. I think the . 0 :+:1 F bowlers were outstanding today," % 0:* L6:2B 1 68K said Holder. "We kept our foot on the $ "* ? :F60 > +B2:1+BFE accelerator. We've eased off in the past 0# ' +F2E1+II:0 ,+68271 but it was good to see the killer instinct today. F8EF: ) 0+ P 21 3 "We wanted to be aggressive. It's > B8:98 the nature of our cricket with bat, ball 4 :2B6B88 + 1 0 ) 3F! 4 && II "* and in the field. E??8 > E?> 89 88 77M 9 "We've definitely come to win this World Cup but I just want us to enjoy Babar Azam were the joint top- E??: M EED EK 88 :M K our cricket, play fearless cricket and 2/2/2S2&5"$I'$"&2$ scorers with 22 each in an abysmal E?77 K 7:? 9E K? D? F make the fans back home proud." display of batting. E?7K > 89? K> >> E7K K The only positive for Pakistan %'))%").."/#')&)&"12) The only other batsmen to reach was three wickets for paceman 2.&2!")&.52 2.! double figures were Riaz, who scored E?7M 7 K? K? ?? K? F Mohammad Amir on his World 18, and Mohammad Hafeez (16). ! ,I ..( A& ,A ,% %( Cup debut after he missed the 2011 &.%$"/ 2!$/"/4"%% Holder took three wickets and and 2015 tournaments due to a &"%$.!3.))/"%%2!$ Andre Russell chipped in with two. ) 1 1) =>+> ? spot-fixing ban of 2010. Pakistan's lowest World Cup Amir had Shai Hope (11), Darren 32/%.1/2)')" score was 74, made against England > < ! Bravo (0) and Gayle caught in an inci- at Adelaide on the way to their only 79? 3 F% 7MF?EFE??8 sive six-over spell, but the batsmen "/./5"$25./")&2! World Cup title in 1992. had not put enough runs on the 221%"'5"/.!2)'.!. Pakistan captain Sarfaraz 7D: # ' F1 6 $ ?9F?8FE?77 board to give the bowlers a chance. Ahmed, said: "Very disappointed at 7M7 F!S 3 E?F?EFE?77 Pakistan's sloppy and vulnerable -")"/-"2/0/"2)2!$- the batting. I was very confident batting was cruelly exposed by some /.1"/) 5'3&2"%&.%$'!0 before the match, batting was a key E7E F# ' ! 6 87F?KFE?7M short-pitched bowling by the West point but we didn't apply it to the E7K 2 1 6 ! 87F?8FE??: Indies pacemen on a Trent Bridge 52%3.%552/&2%%2!$ short ball. pitch famous for big totals. 3.%'!3/.) "Credit to the West Indian $&.3$.%. Opener Fakhar Zaman and bowlers, they bowled really well." 7 6 !"#$"%&' here's no secret to Jason Holder's game plan now - the TWest Indies captain is ready to unleash the fury. 5;(! $! Much has been made of his powerhouse batting line-up, with names like Chris Gayle, Shai Hope, Nicholas Pooran, Shimron Hetmyer # $* $ !#" $ ! and Andre Russell enough to strike fear into any bowling attack. But it was Holder's bowlers that !"#$"%&' #&"!)&"-%2)%')"$)&" Sarfaraz countered he believed provided the destructive force at #./%$34'!7MME)&"- it would be a game for the bowlers, Trent Bridge, an all-seam attack that akistan suffered a seven- though it was the men in maroon brought back memories of the past wicket defeat to the West %.)1-)"!#'3 ")).)&" who rolled back the years with a as they laced together aggression, PIndies in their ICC Men's #")'!$'"'!)&"'/ performance reminiscent of the hostility and speed in a combination Cricket World Cup opener in ).4/!25"!)."!"/ .') 1970s, when their pace attack that proved deadly to Pakistan. Nottingham. 3.4%$1"#./" 2!$)&"- inspired them to two World Cup The two-time champions Beaten by seven-wickets it #"/"1.#%"$.4)./ 4) victories. bowled their rivals out for just 105 was their second-lowest World But it won't get any easier for in 21.4 overs - Pakistan's second Cup score in history as they were :91-"!0%2!$ 4)2"# the Pakistan captain, with world lowest total in ICC Men's Cricket rattled out for just 105 by a hos- $2-%2)"/ 1-)&""!$. No1 side England - pumped up World Cup history. tile West Indian bowling attack at )&").4/!25"!) '5/2! from their opening win over South Oshane Thomas took 4-27, Trent Bridge. &2!I'$"#"/"#./%$ Africa — their next opponents on Holder 3-42 and Russell a scorch- It was their 11th consecutive 3&25'.! 25.4%- the same ground next Monday. ing 2-4 in just three eye-catching ODI defeat but maybe they can "I was happier with how we overs as only two Pakistan batsmen take some inspiration from histo- )4/!'!0)&")21%".!)&' bowled and the effort we showed, passed 20. their rivals and made their feelings ning in and bowling fast. We just ry. -"2/I&.)'!)&"'!2%2) especially as we were defending "We want to remain aggressive known as Russell aimed down con- ❝ #"#2!)). have to stay consistent and not get When they last lifted the )&"530 such a low score," added Sarfaraz. and that's through good fast bowl- secutive short deliveries as he rat- /"52'!200/"'=" carried way. He's been outstanding World Cup in 1992 they lost by ten "It was good to see ing," said Holder. tled in from the Radcliffe Road end. 2!$)&2)I)&/.40& and that creates a buzz throughout wickets to the West Indies in Mohammed Amir back in the "Our style is to be aggressive, Holder's contribution started the entire team. their tournament opener, so it team," said Sarfaraz. form we know he is capable of and whoever we are playing against. If before a ball had been bowled, this 0..$2)1.#%'!0 "It was a great start and while we could be worse. "We lost too many wickets it will be good for us in the next you aren't picking up wickets then was definitely a toss to win on a live- .4/)-%"').1" bowled really well, it was a very clin- And they were bowled out for early on and that's why we didn't matches as well. you are never going to contain ly pitch that gave the bowlers some 200/"'=" ical performance with the bat too." just 74 by England just a few days come back into the game. "We have got to back ourselves teams. encouragement under overcast Australia are next for Holder's later. "We expected a hard game and and not think too much about "It's good to see a lot of short skies. #&."="/#"2/" men, a team that will be able to cope By the end of the tournament, we knew what was coming to us. what happened in this match. balls and the discipline and aggres- "I've had not much luck with the %2-'!0202'!) ' with the short stuff better than Imran Khan's side were world It was not a good result for us but "This game is gone but we sion we showed was great. We toss recently, so it was a nice to call -.42/"!I)'3 '!0 Pakistan, who looked bemused by champions, famously turning the we have what it takes to play and have a strong players who will help stacked the overs nicely together one right for the boys with the over- what was raining down upon them. tables on this year's hosts in the win." us bounce back and win the next and really built the pressure on head conditions and a fresh wick- 4#'3 "))&"! "I'm not thinking too far ahead," final at the MCG. All the pre-match talk was match. them. et," he added. -.42/"!"="/ added Holder. The point is, they remain as about whether the Windies' pow- "We know we can beat "If we feel a batsman is suscep- "I wanted to bat second, I 0.'!0). ❝ "It's a long tournament and we predictably unpredictable as ever. erhouse batsmen could threaten England, we came close twice in tible to a short ball then it will be always back us chasing with a deep have to focus on what we can con- "We wanted to bowl first and the 500-run mark on a ground the recent series and we just did- an option we will use." batting line up we have. Oshane was 3.!)2'!)"25 trol. We need to stay clinical and the start is very crucial for our made for big scores. n't finish well." Pakistan fans outnumbered excellent. It's great to see him in run- maintain this momentum." =0 ● '+0 +% ' . + +% + + ' 4 /'+ + ' 0 & & + '% +% +% &+ '&+ ! ) ) >0 0 )3 + 1 * )3+2 ) 3 010 L 5 67270R# '8 '$.!I) !.#&.#543&)&" 2)/"2%%-3.4!)./2#" 3.5"'!).2).4/!25"!) 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EMF F* * 6 1 E?79 G..? ,, + A *6 * 6 6 !( # ! < ,!!!3! ,* 32/$' ')'!.)"2-#&"! %" ew Sri Lanka skipper -.4$.!I) !.#)&" Dimuth Karunaratne Nsaid his struggling side %2-"/2!$)&"- !"#$"%&' has received timely advice from &2="!I)%2-"$2 former greats including Kumar '!0%"025"'!2%.!0 ane Williamson knows Sangakkara ahead of their )'5" "="!5" '325" there is more than one World Cup opener against New 123 '!).)&"'$" Kway to win a match and Zealand here on Saturday. the Kiwi skipper has forecast a Sri Lanka, who won the 2)"/.4/-"2/.') return to the 'scrappy' one-day tournament in 1996 before '!.)"2- 14)'-.4 cricket of the past if they are to making consecutive finals in 0")23&2!3"-.4!""$ lift the World Cup in 2019. 2007 and 2011, enter the 2019 )./.="-.4/"% Brendon McCullum's mas- edition on a difficult recent run ter blasters destroyed all in their of form. "="/-)'5"-.4!""$). path on their way to the ICC They are ranked ninth 1"&4!0/- )&."!"# Men's Cricket World Cup final among the ten teams compet- %2-"/#&.#2!)). four years ago on home soil. ing here in England and Wales, $.#"%% )&"-#2!)). But in the final against have been whitewashed 5-0 "/./5).)2-'!)&" Australia their all-out aggression four times in three years. They came unstuck and they had to called up Karunaratne to skip- )"25 settle for a runners-up finish in per the side, despite the open- the end. er not playing an ODI for his Fast-forward to 2019, and country in four years. us and gave us advice before we back into the side after four South Africa earlier this year, ber the domestic level of games. Williamson is now in charge of But the likes of Arjuna left Sri Lanka. years so it is not easy. skippers a squad that includes All the other guys who have a Black Caps side that sit fourth Ranatunga — captain of the "That is the sort of thing we "But if you get a chance you six players who have 80 or played in the last couple of in the ODI rankings and kick off 1996 champions — and Kumar need to be courageous, past need to prove yourself. Every more ODI caps to their name years failed to perform for Sri their campaign in Cardiff on Sangakkara have given this cricketers coming in and help- time you need to be hungry. - including veteran and until Lanka," added Karunaratne, Saturday against Sri Lanka. squad their backing. ing us. Jayawardene is also Those new players who want to recently captain Lasith who has not decided if he will And in English conditions )&"/"&21""!2%.).)2% "Sanga came and gave us here and we hope he will come do well, they want to perform Malinga. open or bat at No 3 on — despite plenty of pre-tourna- some words of advice which and talk to us as soon as pos- to stay in the team. But there are a number of Saturday. ment chat about hitting the 21.4)/"2%%-&'0&3./"14)' was really helpful, he did real- sible." "I also have some experi- new faces on board as well, "That is why the selectors mythical 500-mark — ly well in the last World Cup so Karunaratne realises that enced guys that have played including Avishka Fernando want to give a new chance to Williamson insists adaptability )&'! )&"/"#'%%1"2!451"/ it was useful to hear how he pre- he has a daunting task ahead. World Cups before and they are and Isuru Udana, and that the players who have done rather than aggression is the .025"#&"/")&2)'!I))&" pared, mentally and everything "It is not easy when you key if you want to do well, you inexperience could work in well domestically. That was order of the day. else," he said here on Friday. don't know the players and they need those kind of players." their favour, according to the the past. We have a good side "There has been a lot of talk 32"2!$')#'%%/"Q4'/" "Arjuna who lifted the haven't played a single game in Karunaratne, who led Sri captain. with fresh faces, and are trying about really high scores but I 2$ 4)5"!) World Cup in 1996, he spoke to a long time. Even me, I came Lanka to historic Test series in "No-one seems to remem- to start again. think there will be a number of games where that isn't the case and it will require adjustment," !"#$"%&' he said. Scores that are a bit lower and Cup opener. "For us at the last World much more of that scrappy And despite a 3-0 series win atham had been a doubt for his 1 % Cup, there was a trend in how type. over Sri Lanka on home soil side's opening game after breaking we played. It was about being "There will not be one way back at the start of the year, Lhis finger during a warm-up game smart with the crop that we had to play. Williamson is not going to in Australia earlier this month. means the bone has knitted back well." to try and get the best perfor- "We know that not every underestimate their opponents. While he is yet to play a game since However, both Stead and Latham mance. game will be a 350 score, and it's "I don't know how much the the injury, the 27-year-old took full part preached caution, explaining that how "That meant we were important to be made aware of past really counts for as we come in a training session on Thursday, 30 Latham's finger reacts to the training aggressive, the ball swung and that as we go throughout this into a tournament. It is on the May, and remains on track to be avail- session is as important as the fact that we looked to use that. tournament. day and we know in this com- able for selection for New Zealand's first he got through it. "It's nice to get "We are yet to know how "It's easy to get ahead of petition that every team can beat World Cup game, against Sri Lanka on through training today but we'll still wait things will shape in this tourna- yourself and think, this is what any of the other teams," he Saturday, 1 June. and see how it pulls up tonight and ment, but the last few years we we are going to need to do ver- added. "He's probably slightly ahead of tomorrow," Latham explained. have been growing and it is sus what do we need to do now "We are certainly treating all time," said Gary Stead, the New Zealand If Latham does need more time to about adjusting to the day. in this current situation to give of our matches like that and head coach. "So far Tom's reached all the recover, the Black Caps will feel assured "Guys maybe will have to us the best chance?" want to bring the focus back milestones that we've wanted him to, due to the form of their back-up keep- push harder on a particular The Kiwis have a clean bill onto the cricket we want to play. and today was another step, taking balls er, Tom Blundell. Though he's yet to surface on a given day, but of health ahead of the Sri Lanka "We know the Lankan side with more heat on them and making make his ODI debut, the youngster equally it might be about adjust- clash, a side they beat hand- is a bit different to the one we him dive and jump around a wee bit scored a century in New Zealand's final ing to what one-day cricket somely four years ago, coinci- played at home, but we have no more. It's a bit bent from what hap- warm-up game against West Indies, and used to look a little bit like. dentally also in their World doubt that they are a tough side." pened, but he's had no pain so far, which looks set to step up if needed. =1 ● &'+ 0 + 0/% '+ .55 & '% + + +0 +% 0 '++ 67+% 8% &/&'+ 1 ! ) 2 3) > ) 1)> 3)) + )1) 0 L 2J)1 '##0:-( ")123 U 67270R# 2 %.!$.! ) ) $ 8 $ K teve Smith and David Warner will seek redemption on the biggest 5 E F E F F ❝ ' # 3 7 F 7 F F stage as they re-launch their one- day international careers for #2/!"/#2)&" )0) Australia against Afghanistan at )./4!3./"/'! 26 T E?> 98 K A ?9F?8FE?7K theS World Cup on Saturday. 2 T 97:F> K? EDF?7FE??K The star batsmen were both banned )&"/"3"!)'!$'2! for a year for their roles in a ball-tamper- /"5'"/%"204" 21 3 ing scandal but they have found form on < 3 K 77 L their return to the international set-up. #&'%"5')& 26 > 7 K F F7> >> Warner was the top runscorer in )/43 2&4!$/"$ 2 D9 >E E? 7 7:K ?? the recent Indian Premier League $&.3$$.%. while Smith struck a hundred in a '!2#2/5F4 )&"-B20&2!')2!C2/"2 warm-up victory against ='3)./-202'!) England last weekend. $2!0"/.4'$" '-.4)2 " The defending champi- "!0%2!$%2) -.4/..).)&"02./2 ons have endured a focus on their World Cup campaign. #"" "!$❝ tumultuous past year "Gulbadin has said he'll make use of #&'%")&"-#'%%&4/)-.4 2!$ but the Aaron Asghar's experience (at the World Cup). -.4)'%%&2=").%2-2)-.4/ Finch-led side They are a united front now," said chief 21.%4)"1")).1"2))&"5 are peaking at selector Dawlat Khan Ahmadzai. the right time Afghanistan, who beat Pakistan in a #'!!'!0)&"'/#2/5F4025" and are con- Kane Richardson. World Cup warm-up match, are setting 202'!)2 ')2! )&"-%2-"$ sidered one of Spinners Adam Zampa and their sights high. the favourites Nathan Lyon lend variety to the "There was no Rashid or Mujeeb (ur 1/'%%'2!)%- )&"-&2="0.)2 in the 50-over bowling attack that combined Rahman) in 2015 so this time we are aim- &40".%%.#'!0 #')&4./) showpiece event. to get the better of England ing for a semi-final berth. With the team After edging out hosts India 3-2 in and Sri Lanka in warm-up composition we have, we can definitely 2%%.="/)&"#./%$!.# a five-match ODI series in March, games. surprise a few teams," said Ahmadzai. #&'3&'&40"./3/'3 ") Australia welcomed back Smith and The five-time champi- 2 O 97: K? "We have identified teams we can beat L 2 )* Warner with open arms. ons will start as overwhelm- 6 26 but obviously I can't tell you which But they are not expected to be given ing favourites in Bristol teams." an easy ride by English fans, with former against an Afghanistan 5 9 E?7K 6 captain Smith being booed and called a side only playing their # 3 ' 5 "cheat" during the England warm-up second 50-over World 2 O 6 Afghanistan: Gulbadin Naib (capt), game. Cup. Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Noor Ali #2)3&.4)./ Former Australian paceman Brett Afghanistan's rise Zadran, Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmat Shah, Lee expects the pair to make big contri- from associate-nation * 989 K? Asghar Afghan, Hashmatullah Shahidi, ■ $ # 2 butions but has warned they might need status to cricket's elite 6 2 Najibullah Zadran, Samiullah Shinwari, thick skin playing in front of the English has been nothing short Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Dawlat ■ . 6 * * *6 5 7E E??> crowds. of a fairytale. Zadran, Aftab Alam, Hamid Hassan, ■ 26 ! * / "I don't think they have got a point The minnows witnessed a captain- Mujeeb ur Rahman 5A* to prove, they will just be happy to be back cy change two months before the start 26 O Australia: Aaron Finch (c), David Warner, playing for Australia," said Lee, who won of the World Cup, with little-known Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith, Shaun ■ 3 # 3 6 the tournament with Australia in 2003. Gulbadin Naib named leader of the Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Marcus Stoinis, ■ 2 6 Australia also boast a potent pace ODI side in place of Asghar Afghan, )* " * Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Kane ■ 3 26 *66 attack led by Pat Cummins and Mitchell a move that did not go down well with * Richardson, Pat Cummins, Jason Starc, ably supported by Jason some senior members of the team. Behrendorff, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Adam * # 3 U Behrendorff, Nathan Coulter-Nile and But the team have now settled to $ * E> E?7K Zampa, Nathan Lyon A3%2-"/ ,423 8 82A8 B26 C ,B ,8 B2 C '33.$'/ 6 I 6 * E?F " 6 F6 6 * 6 6 6 6 66 6 F 26 2 2 * 16 ' * & * *F ?>T??') 1 % 6 * 6 6 $ 6 6 G..? ,, +'' 1 * 6 G / ! * !($ ##$ $! !>$ >#* $$#"( 2 !.))'!0&25 five-time winners We've talked about it a lot Australia's World Cup and we can put strategies in *+ =$!$ ustralian coach opener against Afghanistan place," Langer said. Justin Langer has on Saturday. "That said, when it hap- Arequested fans to The pair, who both pens it doesn't make it any 2 1/').% Smith would be one of the "all-time greats" by the show Steve Smith and recently completed one- easier. They are human time he retired. David Warner respect and year bans for ball-tamper- beings, that's the truth — ustralia captain Aaron Finch says disgraced "There was never any issue about how he not boo them during the ing, were given a hostile and that's what I find the stars Steve Smith and David Warner will would bounce back, and the same with David," World Cup. reception by the crowd at hardest. Ause the World Cup to restore their "world- he said. Langer, a former the Ageas Bowl in "I'd be disappointed by class" credentials after their role in the infamous "They are both so competitive, they have got Australian opener, said they Southampton during any player being booed at ball-tampering scandal in South Africa. great records. There was never any doubt how well have already paid a big Australia's warm-up victo- any cricket ground, regard- Both players are back in the Australia squad they would come back." price for their mistake. ry over England. less of what country they for the World Cup after serving 12-months sus- The pair were given a hostile reception by "You (the media) talk "They made a mistake play for. It's never a good pension and are set to start their country's first some members of the crowd at the Ageas Bowl about earning respect, and and paid a big price for it. look when that happens," match of the tournament against Afghanistan in in Southampton during Australia's World Cup I think it's really important After the experience of the Australian coach added Bristol on Saturday. warm-up victory over England last week in which that people show respect as Hampshire, we have a pret- in the pre match confer- Finch said the tournament was the ideal stage Smith scored a century and Warner hit 43. well," Langer said ahead of ty good idea what to expect. ence. to show their competitive qualities had Warner is fit to face Afghanistan after not been dimmed by the scandal. recovering from a sore muscle. "I think when you are a world- "David is fine. He will play class player, you adapt again real- tomorrow, no doubt about that," said ly quickly and you get up to Finch. "We are very close to a start- & #,! #! speed," he said. ing XI but we are not going to name "Having them play, I think, it yet. Everyone is in contention." 13 games each in the IPL Australia are the reigning world 2 !.))'!0&25 Khan's family joined the waves (Indian Premier League — they champions, having won four of the of refugees flooding across the , , , actually played 12 each) was past five editions of the tournament, roomed on dusty pitch- Pakistani border, fleeing the 1 ) 3F! > ! really important. and are expected to open their cam- es as a refugee, record- bloody battles that followed the KD 99 :MD >? 7EK :+7D "That's a higher standard of paign with a comfortable victory Gbreaking Rashid Khan US invasion in 2001 and the war cricket and it just gets you back against minnows Afghanistan. will face his toughest examina- with the Taliban. up to as close to internation- But Finch is taking nothing for tion yet at the World Cup, with It was in Pakistan's bustling al competition as you granted, with Afghanistan having served former coaches confident the frontier city of Peshawar that 1./!'!)&"/")'=" can." notice of their ability by beating Afghan can "dismantle" top bat- Khan began playing cricket and !2!02/&2//.='!3"'!7MMD Finch Pakistan in a warm-up match. ting line-ups. he grew up to idolise fellow said "They are a dangerous The world's top-rated Pashtun slugger and great &2!I25'%- .'!"$)&" side. If you take your Twenty20 bowler from the war- Pakistan all-rounder Shahid #2="./"40""%..$'!0 foot off the gas for a torn nation last year made his- Afridi. while they will hurt tory as the fastest to reach 100 Coaches in the area 23/.)&"2 ')2!'1./$"/ you, and you still one-day international wickets. took notice of the raw tal- have to play at Aged just 20, and after a ent of the developing ath- %""'!0)&"1%..$-12))%" your absolute best remarkable cricket upbringing lete, who had plenty of )&2).%%.#"$)&"4 to beat them," he shaped by years of conflict and skill but was lacking focus. said. displacement, Khan will on "He was God-gifted '!=2'.!'!E??72!$)&"#2/ "Winning Saturday make his World Cup but he was not very hard- #')&)&")2%'12! their warm-up debut against defending cham- working," remembered Lala game against pions Australia. Ali Shafiq, who coached Pakistan, they "I am sure he will disman- Rashid at the city's Islamia "Nabi was there so I told keep batsmen guessing. played bril- tle the best in the World Cup," academy. him that since you are looking He reached 100 wickets in liantly. They said his former school coach Ali "There was no doubt that he for an all-rounder, you won't his 44th ODI, shattering have got a Hoti of his former charge, who was a very talented bowler and find a better all-rounder than Mitchell Starc's previous record, huge following, is also third in the International a better batsman." him," he added. "Initially they achieved in 52 matches. with support all Cricket Council ODI rankings. Islamia College assistant did not agree." "Rashid's action is unique," over the world "He is the bowler to watch director of sports Hoti described But Khan went on to prove said Shafiq, whose academy has now, which is in the event." how a young Khan caught the them wrong, making his also helped develop Pakistan huge for cricket. Afghanistan cricket is a rare eye of senior Afghanistan play- Afghanistan debut on the tour players such Usman Shinwari, source of pride in the conflict- ers including the captain at the of Zimbabwe in 2015 as he Mohammad Rizwan and riven country, where murals of time, Mohammad Nabi, and developed his wicket-taking Shaheen Shah Afridi. Khan and teammates adorn the Nawroz Mangal. armoury, which relies less on "It's different, so it's hard to maze of concrete blast walls "In 2013/14, he went to prodigious spin but more on his judge and he also has a good criss-crossing the capital Kabul. play a tournament in Islamabad unusual bowling action, with googly and has worked on his Born in the restive and impressed with his bowl- disguised googlies, subtle vari- leg-break. He works hard and is Nangarhar province in 1998, ing," said Hoti. ation and changes of pace to getting better." =7 ● / 9 0 $ 1 '7+'00+% ' % 9 & ' ' +% /+% 0,- ! 3 3 + 3 > *) 0>3 ) 3> ) > )+ )> 2 )+ )3 0 ) L 0 0 *+*%,3.4!)"/ % + !@ (; * %.!$.! * * " " * outh Africa will have to move on quickly from the drubbing it received in the World Cup opener against England and regroup P #! themselves before its next game against Bangladesh, said captain Faf du Plessis. SThe South Afican captain admitted they were outplayed in all facets of the game by England. + # ( ( "You are going to play games and come up against opposition that are better than you. England beat us in all three facets of the game," Du Plessis said after 2■ %.!$.! the defeat. "As much as we are disappointed, we will en Stokes insists his want to learn from it quickly and put it to bed. astonishing catch in ❝ We want to move on from it quickly." BEngland's rout of South '#223)42%%- South Africa will face Bangladesh in its Africa on Thursday doesn't '!)&"#/.!0 rank as the best of his career. Stokes capped a man-of- .')'.! ') the-match display in #.4%$&2=" L2543&2#"2/" England's victorywith one of $'2.'!)"$ the greatest catches in World 1""!2 Cup history. /"04%2)'.! #"#'%%#2!) Diving backwards to dis- ).%"2/!/.5 miss Andile Phehlukwayo 32)3&''#2 with a one-handed take on '!)&"/'0&) ')Q4'3 %-2!$ the boundary off Adil Rashid, Stokes' sensational effort was %23" 14) 4)')).1"$ immediately labelled "the #"#2!)). catch of the century" by for- -"2&')'.!" mer England spinner Phil .)&.")&2) 5.=".! ' Tufnell on the BBC. /.5') It was the culmination of )'3 ./ a remarkable day for Stokes, $."!I) Q4'3 %-M !( ) who also top-scored for ❝ England with 89 in 79 balls and took the last two wickets %.!$.! The skipper felt even the 300-plus in successive balls to finish off score was not enough. the South Africans. second match at The Oval on Sunday. kipper Eoin Morgan rued that a slug- "We did not think we had enough But Stokes claimed he wrong position. It would Du Plessis backed his decision to start gish track did not allow them post a runs but we thought we were on par. It is preferred his stunning one- have been a regulation catch the innings with Imran Tahir in place of Sdesired total but hailed the adaptabil- extremely pleasing. I would back us to lose handed grab of an Adam if I was in the right place, but Kagiso Rabada and the ploy worked ity skills of his side, which thumped South four early wickets and still go at five an Voges edge in the gully dur- yeah it is one of those that wonders as the leg-spinner got rid off Africa by a massive 104-run margin in the over. ing a 2015 Ashes Test against sticks or doesn't," Stokes said. Jonny Bairstow with the second deliv- World Cup opener. "We have been at 20-5 before and put Australia at Trent Bridge. "I bowled the next over ery of the tournament. Half centuries by Jason Roy (54), Joe a reasonable score on the board, fought Asked if it was the great- and Eoin Morgan had to "It was a plan. It was something we Root (51), Morgan (57) and all-rounder to the end and believed we can still win. est catch of his life, Stokes come to me and ask if my first thought about a year ago. When we Ben Stokes (89) helped the hosts post 311 If we lose wickets then we will adapt." told reporters: "Nah, that heart rate had gone down. played against England, I thought we for eight before they bundled South Morgan heaped praise on Stokes for one was against the Aussies, Things like that catch do get want to go with him because it is dif- Africa for a paltry 207. starring in all three departments. Stokes so that one ranks higher!" you fizzed up. ferent," Du Plessis said. "I think given the nature of the pitch returned with the figure of 2-12 before hit- Stokes admitted he had mis- "I didn't really know "At The Oval you want to bowl and the way South Africa bowled, we were ting 89 runs off 79 balls. judged the flight of the ball quite hard to react to be hon- two seamers first but we went with struggling with our plan A game with the However, it was a sensational one- initially, leading est. I just tried to take it in." what I thought was the best way to bat for some time and that emphasised handed catch by Stokes near the bound- Phehlukwayo's shot to flash Regardless of which catch get a wicket. I went with my gut. how slow the pitch was," said Morgan. ary off Adil Rashid, to dismiss Andile past him until the all- deserves top billing on "Imran had not bowled with "You could not get away and we could Phehlukwayo that drew admiration. rounder leapt backwards to Stokes' CV, the 27-year-old the new ball before so he had been not strike the ball like we would do for our "He has had a full day out and when complete a jaw-dropping was grateful to be back in the practising that for the last two plan A. One of the ways we have improved he does, it is entertaining. We see him do catch with his right hand. spotlight for the right rea- weeks. He knew he was going to in the last two years is understanding con- stuff like that in training all the time and "I was actually in the sons. do that today," he added. ditions and we adapted really well here." you shake your head at it," Morgan said. , !"#$"%&' , / ofra Archer showed why England could not leave him out of their Jfinal World Cup squad as he %.!$.! bowled them to opening win against ! South Africa. anded a massive defeat On a rainy day that saw England's in their World Cup first ODI against Pakistan curtailed to 2/3&"/1.#%"$ Hopener, South African just 19 overs of play, Archer dis- pacer Lungi Ngidi said the team played both control and vicious pace /"2%%-#"%%#')&)&" was satisfied with their bowling to return figures of 1/6 from four overs. !"#12%% 2'2'$ effort as they managed to restrict On Thursday he returned to south England to what he feels was a London and once more — before Ben 1"./")&'025"2 "below-par" total. Stokes pulled off the impossible — was %.).04-&2="!I) Opting to field first, the the star of the show, proving again that South African bowlers did well the step up to international cricket has %2-"$202'!)&'5 ') to restrict the powerful English been child's play for a bowler who has batting line-up to 311 for eight. made his name in global T20 leagues. #'%%)2 ")'5"./ "We believed we could have While it was Archer's speed and '!)"/!2)'.!2%12))"/ kept them to under 300. Even movement off the pitch that impressed when they got to 311, I thought in that ODI against Pakistan, Thursday, ).0")4"$).&' they were below-par," Ngidi on his World Cup bow, he showcased 23)'.!N&"I2%'))%" said after the defeat. his ability to find success with the short Ngidi, who was hit for 27 ball, wreaking havoc on the Proteas 1')!''"/#&"!&" runs in his first four overs, said batting line-up. &'))&"3/"2"2!$ initially he was bothered by the Hashim Amla has fond memories thought of preventing England of playing at The Oval; it was the scene )&2)I#&-&"I43& from scoring 350. of his Test-best 311* in 2012. Today, 2!,F23)./1.#%"/ "I was very disappointed however, he was sent back to the with my bowling performance changing rooms for an extended peri- &"1/. ")&/.40& upfront. I might have been od thanks to a striking blow to his .4/."!'!0)&/"" overthinking it. All the talk was grille from a rising Archer delivery. He how they post totals of 350 so eventually returned to the crease later )&"/"2!$)&2) maybe that was at the back of my in the match - a good sight for all to /"))-543& #2 mind," he said. see - but in forcing him off early, South However, the 23-year-old Africa were, quite literally, struck a 2%#2-0.'!0).1"2 soon found his bearings, adjust- hefty blow in their chase of 312. ing his pace according to the Next came Aiden Markram. ).40&2 /.5 wicket. Gloriously talented, Markram has yet )&"/" "There were a few opportu- to truly demonstrate his Test-level nities in the Powerplay, where excellence in the ODI format. He hint- K 22 they nicked it through the slips ed at doing something special today B.4)&2/'3232)2'!C and I started to think, 'These with a luscious cover-drive off Chris people are humans, just like me'. Woakes that was followed by another I kicked into my rhythm from hit through the covers off Archer. But Rassie van der Dussen has had a With figures of 3/27, he has confirmed with Rassie [van der Dussen] - he there." Archer had the last laugh, finding extra prolific start to his own international that the decision to include him in the bowls slower-ball, slower-ball, 80 per "I listened to what the wick- bounce to catch the edge of Markram's career, and got himself to another half- 15-man squad — despite his status as cent ball, 80 per cent ball and then a et was telling me. Slower balls '%')"!"$).#&2))&"#'3 ") push from the very next ball — Joe century, hinting at life in the South international newbie — is a sound one. quick bouncer. There's some thinking were working so I stuck to that. Root obliging with a neat grab at first African chase. But Archer returned in Du Plessis revealed the difficulties behind it. When he does bowl that Even though they were trying to #2)"%%'!05" %.#"/12%% slip. the 32nd over to have the right-han- of facing Archer after the match, short one it is bit quicker than his other come after me, they couldn't And also against Archer, Du Plessis der top-edge high into the air with the highlighting how there remains a balls. seem to get it away," Ngidi said. #"/"#./ '!0.')43 ). couldn't demonstrate similar genius ball lobbing into the hands of Moeen sense of mystery to a player who has "When we get an opportunity to Ngidi finished with figures )&2) "="!)&.40&)&"-#"/" with bat in hand. As a short-of-length at mid-on. only played in five international match- face England again we'll know how his of 3/66 and took the crucial ball rushed on him, his bat swished Archer's place in England's World es (including today's game). short-ball is his wicket-ball. He's not wickets of Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler )/-'!0).3.5"2)"/5" )&"- hard only send the ball high and long Cup squad has been a debated topic for Du Plessis — victim of Archer's necessarily a guy that will swing the and Moeen Ali. "I was happy to 3.4%$!I)""5).0")')2#2- towards fine-leg. Moeen Ali did the quite some time, but here he was final- short-ball barrage — highlighted the ball as much as other bowlers but his take three sticks but would have rest, and Archer's impassioned cry told ly at the tournament, and the occasion effectiveness of the seamer's tactics. short-ball will be his wicket-taking preferred two up front," he said. the tale. was one he was more than ready for. "You can see towards the end - ball."