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Afghanistan, would be given 9     F               ! #  dent, his team of office-bearers too, and the BJP has captured The BJP asked the workers asylum/refuge in India.       $ #      & '  # () and workers to focus on polls, 75 per cent of geographical area to counter Opposition’s rumour Turn to Page 4   P%  %           " :     QO! !  ) ' P  '  #        ,               # %    !;          ('   ,   '  Q'%           ## /   '  * #   " (    !                               New : Putting to rest all exhibition has been held in exhibition in Lucknow trig-      M      speculation about shifting of Bengaluru every two years. gering angry reactions from    !" L      the prestigious international Several States, including political parties of Karnataka. ,       M      " $%        aerospace exhibition Aero Gujarat, Rajasthan, Odisha and The five-day event will               M  !'  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This whole thing is The increase pushed the petrol price in Delhi Communist Party (KCP-PWG) was arrested by = >  M 6? 0    1  Dakota, he also accused the crazy, but we’re going to stop it. to 80.38 per litre. Diesel rate touched its high- Delhi Police’s Special Cell from Bishnupur in %@ M  Q      World Trade Organisation We’re going to stop it. We have est level of 72.51 a litre. In , a litre of Manipur for threatening and extorting busi- $   %'! ,     " (WTO) of allowing China to stopped it. petrol costs 87.77 and diesel comes for 76.98, nessmen and influential people in Delhi. 5 $   @  2      become a “great economic “We are a developing the notification said. Fuel prices in Delhi are the The terrorist was also wanted by the     % '      3 4        power”. nation, too, OK? We are. As far cheapest among all metros and most State cap- National Investigative Agency (NIA) and a A   %      " & “We have some of these as I’m concerned, we are a itals due to lower taxes. Mumbai has the highest reward of 2 lakh was declared on his arrest by    % countries that are considered developing nation. I want to be tax rates among the metros. the agency. He has been brought to Delhi on  !        growing economies. Some put down in that category Opposition parties have called for a nation- transit remand from Manipur. !B '    A O(#P  countries that have not because we are growing, too. wide ‘Bharat Bandh’ on Monday to protest “The accused identified as Moirangthem ' 7 @    )*! *     matured enough yet, so we are We are going to grow faster against the spiralling fuel prices. Rana Pratap, alias Paikhomba, is a self-styled  % 9,<#$  1  ( !  5 6 paying them subsidies. Whole than anybody,” Trump said The spike in prices has renewed calls for cut general secretary of the banned outfit,” said N %  !C /      thing is crazy. Like India, like amidst applause from the in excise duty but Finance Minister Arun Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of  # !$'             ! 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It is our duty       '%   of land in Sikkim, 3.15 million Ministry has informed there is nobody — Church, and responsibility to protect !  %  % hectares in Assam, 2.70 million Parliament that the main rea- Government or police — to our persecuted sister.   % ! hectares in West Bengal and sons for floods are high inten- help and protect us. We are Turn to Page 4    (  )* +, -./0 !  !" !%$ ;)8$& ('  P #    *     ( &  "'    04 -  <"% ;&%% )! )     ? 9 /+     -    0! = << !    <%$= =  ;! *      !  />:"# 8      04 fter the two Conjurings from where this    third one with a different name   Aemanates, the nun, haunted or     otherwise, fails to fulfill its basic job — to scare    the night lights and the daylights out of you.  Yes, the Romanian castle sitting over a '   gentle mound just off a remote village is visually   perfect for a horror movie and the dark, eerie  4 cloistered convent where the evil sits all blood and       fury, evokes the only tinges of feat that come to  " .       you throughout the movie. Other than that, it’s   04  !       B   pretty much a blood-smeared, veiled skeletal nun     O     " with a man’s voice and evil intentions gliding     5 8  6 ?       through the entire film but without doing much 04    " -      to show its devilish side in action.   4       There’s a nun who is yet to be one, a Father *78*7$7% of person who likes to            who is used by The Vatican more as a sleuth than 9 /7   watch morose films with a   04  D0E"      as a man of God, a love interest and a whole lot  +  bit of soulful music, Laila            of cloistered nuns who actually may not be there !  /3:"# Majnu fits the bill.     4   7*7%           9 / ?   7  !    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Border vicariously benefitted from the if fear, genuine, screaming and staccato kind of lasted film presented by that has ruined the Valley. 8   *      t is unfortunate that any movie on Army popular outpouring for the incident and ran to fear is missing, The Nun possessed is hardly likely Imtiaz Ali and directed The Ali brothers have 0!!    %=  !    << <%$= jawans, our unsung assets who put their lives houseful shows for weeks because the distress of to be missed. While the movie may not be based by Sajid Ali is therefore chosen a great time to ;!A   Iin line to give us safe frontiers, falls flat on the tragedy was a constant companion of the film. on true events, the demon that possesses is real. not about what the end is shoot the film — Srinagar <=0! @GG its face and, worse still, makes you feel guilty for Paltan, helmed by Arjun Rampal as a wishy- But even that fails to give it the desired premise but how it will end. during the Fall when the 1  K       not being evoked into instant patriotism for washy England returned colonel who looks much mainly because the proceedings have been kept We all love watching a Chinar leaves turn burnt      ?  8  your country. too sophisticated and urban to be a hands-on strangely undertoned and linear. love story and if it has a — red. To see love blossom in   !! :    JP Dutta’s Paltan, which has hit the halls at an Armyman, struggles with many issues, one of them Better evil next time! and they lived happily ever times of stone pelting and    4  awkward time (it is not even the month of August being boredom around the stories Dutta tries to after — we rejoice and that not being the main    or January), is surprisingly clueless about what the build but fails miserably in doing so. Either the clap our hands. If it has focus of the film is another     J purpose of the film is. In the cold and barren land characters are too effusive and overly patriotic or great songs that one can high point albeit strange  around Nathula where the entire movie sits, has they are inept at evoking enough realism into their dance to or hum even a few and totally out of context  "  a kind of static that adds to the proceedings. The clashes with the Chinese on the other side of the weeks after watching the with what is happening at     4  only glorious thing about it is the fact that it is border. film, it is a sure shot hit as ground zero in reality even    based on true martyrs who lost their lives when The skirmishes look almost frivolous till the far as the masses are if the director aimed to tell     India recorded its solo victory against China by bombardment actually starts towards the end and concerned. But what does the story of Kashmiri      repulsing them at the Nathula pass. Jackie Shroff as the commander out to avenge the one say to a movie which youth.      Dutta brings to that screen the Paltan in quite 1962 chicanery of the Chinese looks quite the man we all know ends in a Another feather in the      an insipid manner, failing to capture the emotional out of place, only symbolising the impotence of an tragedy and doesn’t have cap for the director is to get      appeal behind those war heroes. 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Around 32,000 saplings were Saturday laid a plan to geo-tag and will be printed on the name trees consisting of Neem, Pipal, plantation drive is meant to increase planted at the venue of the event, a around 10,000 saplings of trees, it plate along with tree name. By Khirani, Ashok, Pilkhan, Jamun, the Delhi's green cover so as to fight government official informed. planted in New Delhi area on scanning QR code using Mobile Arjun and Imli have been plant- the menace of air pollution. The Delhi Government's Saturday as a part of Chief Phone, the complete details of tree ed along the avenue roads like Jai The Chief Minister was joined by Environment and Forest Secretary A Minister Arvind Kejriwal's mass along with photographs will be Singh Road, Sansad Marg, Mandir thousands others in his initiative. K Singh said the target is to plant 32.5 plantation drive. The geo-tag- shown. By capturing and storing Marg, Peshwa Road, Mother Officials said around one lakh students lakh trees in the current year. So far, ging would be completed by the of photographs of trees at regular Teresa Road, Raisinha Road, and residents participated in the cam- around 15 lakh have been planted, end of this month. time intervals, the growth of trees Jantar Mantar Road and 200 in paign at 600 locations spread across informed the official. Delhi Ministers According to chairman of can be monitored through online Central Park of Connaught Place the city. A large number of school- Satyendar Jain and Rajendra Pal NDMC Naresh Kumar, the geo- application. in New Delhi. children attended the tree plantation Gautam, AAP MLAs and party leader tagging of all the saplings plant- While the block chain tech- As per the Chairman, during event held at Yamuna flood plains at Dilip Pandey also attended the tree ed by the NDMC would be done nique refers to bifurcation of last monsoons NDMC planted Garhi Mandu in Usmanpur. The plantation campaign. Delhi's by the end of this month while the trees in particular blocks that over 10 lakhs tree, shrubs and Chief Minister encouraged the stu- Environment Minister Imran “block-chain system” would take can be easily demarcated and ground cover in its area. The dents to plant saplings near their house Hussaain also planted a sapling at his at least two months. The block- identified. Corporation also requested peo- and take care of it. residence. chain technology would help the “It would be an innovative ple to plant at least one sapling “Planting trees will be a solution Under the plantation drive, the stakeholders to keep a track on the idea, initiated by the NDMC first per person in order to maintain to the pollution we are creating, as New Delhi Municipal Corporation plantation and also help in taking time in the world and it would ecological balance, climate con- well as the pollution created by oth- & ' '    !  *  * #   *   /' (NDMC) on Saturday planted over corrective steps in this regard. provide an opportunity to moni- trol, ground water supply ers. We need to plant a lot more #  $ & '  # () 10,000 saplings of trees, 33,895 Geo-tagging of trees is the tor the growth of the trees through recharge and above all, prevent trees. shrubs, 3,77,650 ground cover and 23 process of collection of geo- Geo mapping and block chain the transport of chemicals into “I am happy to see thousands of to go back home and plant more trees officials will take care of the plants you palm in 14 circles, the NDMC said in graphical information in the form technology,” he said. stream and enrich the soil con- students planting trees. I want you all near your house. The Government have planted here. The trees you will a official statement. of latitude and longitude coordi- Apart from 10000 saplings, servation. L      < +%% $  4          ). )78( of e-buses will start from sec- it in February this year. Later,    ). )78( obviously could not walk at all. ond quarter of next year,” the government approached “She had to crawl on the n its bid to provide “eco- Kejriwal said on the sidelines of the Supreme Court against 71-year-old Zambian floor to go to toilet. After the Ifriendly” public transport in a mega tree plantation drive of the stay order, that has Awoman underwent a surgery she is now able to the national Capital, the Delhi his government. allowed it to purchase 500 'challenging' double-knee walk with the support of a Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal A senior Transport buses.“The Supreme Court surgery at a hospital located walker which will also be dis- on Saturday said his Department official said that also directed us to approach the in national Capital. The elder- carded in a few weeks,” the doc- Government is working on its the trial of the e-bus operation high court. I am hopeful the ly woman who had to crawl tor said. plan to induct electric buses (e- is likely to begin after high court will lift the stay and the floor to go to the toilet is “The surgery has been buses) and the delivery of first September 15. we will be able to buy 2,000 now able to walk with the done in two stages. To salvage batch of these vehicles is “Three manufacturers, buses,” he said. support of a walker after the this situation is a very diffi- expected to start from second including one from China, The buses under public surgery. ligaments around the knee cult option because one has quarter of next year. have promised to provide e- transport in the national After undergoing a knee were damaged,” a hospital have to remove all the previ- The Delhi Cabinet in July buses for the trial run. Their Capital include over 4,000 run replacement surgery in her spokesperson said on ous implants and then re- this year had given an in-prin- formal consent is expected to by the Delhi Transport country four years ago, Saturday. implant a special type of ciple approval for procure- be conveyed by mid Corporation (DTC) and 1,612 Lenahnahmushamo from According to Dr Yash Gulati device which can take care of ment of 1,000 low-floor electric September,” . standard floor buses operated Lusaka came to India recently. Senior Consultant, ligaments for ensuring sta- buses. The Delhi Integrated The Chief Minister also by the DIMTS. Independent “She had dislocated both Orthopeadics, at Indraprastha bility,” he said.The patient Multi Modal Transit System The Chief Minister also dard floor buses further boost- said that the Delhi estimates put the number of the knees after knee replace- Apollo Hospital, where the was obese which made the (DIMTS) has been appointed expected that the Delhi High ing public transport in the Government was on the verge buses required for public trans- ment and this was a very dif- surgery has been conducted, said surgery all the more difficult, as a consultant for the pro- Court will lift its stay on the city.” Our plan for electric of buying 2,000 buses when port needs of the city to around ficult situation because all the that she could not stand and said the doctor. curement process. procurement of 2,000 stan- buses is ready. I hope delivery the Delhi High Court stayed 11,000. 0 #  '  2  *'     

   ). )78( arrested in 20 cases of theft and snatching. Accused are well elhi Police Anti-Auto acquainted with the topogra- DTheft Squad (AATS) phy of the area and before arrested two burglars who were committing the crime they involved in more than 20 cases used to thoroughly conduct of burglary, snatching and auto- reckee about entry and exit lifting. Police have recovered 13 points of target houses and stolen mobile phones, three shops,” said DCP. wrist watches, four metal idols “Accused persons had pro- of God and house breaking cured house breaking tools to tools from their possession. break the locks of houses and “The accused identified as shops for theft. Both accused Ajay alias Ajju (25) and Sonu persons used to meet and con- (25), both residents of Prakash sume drugs at Bony Park, East Mohalla in East of Kailash. On cycle were stopped on the pick- “During interrogation, Ajju of Kailash from the money seeing the increase in the cases et. They were not able to pro- and Sonu revealed that they raised from sale of stolen articles. of burglary and snatching cases duce the paper of bike. On both live in same locality and Accused used to sell the stolen in the area police kept an eye on investigation the bike was found are drug addicts. In order to items to junk-dealers as well as the activities of criminals stolen and the duo were meet their needs, they both to passersby,” said DCP.”12 cases released on bail, following detained,” said Chinmoy Biswal, started petty thefts, house- of theft, snatching and auto-lift- which two suspects riding on a Deputy Commissioner of Police thefts and shop-lifting. They ing qand further investigation is Hero Honda Splendor motor (DCP), south east district. both have been previously going on,” the DCP added.  ! "          

   ). )78( on his bike when near Bhalswa chowk two masked man n a broad daylight robbery, stopped him and snatched his Itwo unidentified masked bag on a gun point,” said a man at a gunpoint looted senior police official. around 3.50 lakh at Bhalswa According to the victim, Dairy chowk from an Airtel the duo who robbed him with employee who was returning to 3.50 lakh collection money office after collecting money were wearing a mask and after (' & '   #          ' '     from Airtel dealers. looting him, they fled from the ' $     ))( & ' “The incident took place spot. “We have registered a on Saturday around 1 pm when case. We are also looking for the victim Ganesh after col- CCTV footage in the area to #  $ $ % lecting the money from the identify the accused. Further Airtel dealers in the Bhalswa investigation is going on,” said $ $   dairy was on his way to office a police official.    A        ). )78( issuing a note to Information & Technology (IT) Minister Kailash n the wake of Delhi Gahlot over Government web-   !    IGovernment website facing sites facing problems for the problems and glitches for the past few months.    ). )78( last few months, the depart- The directives were issued at mental heads of all depart- a recent meeting with Principal elhi Congress staged a ments under Delhi Secretaries and Secretaries. The Dprotest at the inner circle Government have been direct- move intends to provide updat- of Connaught Place against ed by the Chief Secretary ed information pertaining to alleged Rafale deal scam in Anshu Prakash to review con- Government works to users of which prototype of the Rafale tent of the website of their department websites. Portal of aircrafts were paraded in the rity” of the country by giving respective department. Delhi Government is a single accompaniment of a band. the contract for the Rafale deal According to an official window access to information Delhi Congress president to the company which was communication they have also and services being provided by Ajay Maken alleged that the registered only 12 days before been instructed to update their the various department of Delhi Central Government is run- the Rafale deal contract was respective department's web- Government. “The Chief ning away from holding a Joint signed, instead of giving the site. A nodal officer would be Secretary directed Head of Parliamentary Committee probe maintenance contract to the designated for it as the Chief Departments (HODs) to review on the alleged  1,71,000 crore Public Sector Company Secretary has also directed for their content on websites and scam “committed by the BJP-led Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. He the appointment of nodal offi- update the same...,” stated a Government at the Centre”. alleged that the company have cer for this work. written communication of irri- Maken said the Central neither the expertise for man- The directive came following gation and flood control depart- Government has “compromised ufacturing or for maintenance Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal ment to its officials. the external and internal secu- of the fighter aircraft.    (  )* +, -./0 ! !%

"& $  ?,     0                '$R  &    ,C  Lucknow:Six people died in  ;  );A  *2'1? “Opposition parties” in the rain-related incidents in the country.  4     State on Saturday, taking the haripa Bahujan Mahasangh “I condemn this 'mansik- toll since September 1 to 79,  8(*29 M- !  inspired by the Hindu princi- Bleader Prakash Ambedkar ta' (mentality) of Mohan  >)779?) DE Friday and made available to while one person was rescued ple 'Sumantrite Suvikrante' or Saturday condemned RSS chief Bhagwat that he has referred to the media, she said following by Indian Air Force personnel, amenting that the Hindus  !  . 'Think Collectively, Achieve Mohan Bhagwat's statement Opposition parties in the alini Sriharan, a life con- her 2014 petition, she moved officials said here. Lhave been suffering for Valiantly'. at the World Hindu Congress country as dogs,” Ambedkar Nvict in the Rajiv Gandhi the High Court in 2015 seek- UP Relief Commissioner thousands of years, RSS chief ! ! ! He urged the conference in Chicago, US. said. assasination case, has for- ing a direction to the govern- Sanjay Kumar said there were Mohan Bhagwat has asked   "N attendees to discuss and evolve Speaking at the second He said parties have come warded a petition to the Tamil ment to consider her plea for two deaths each in Allahabad them to come together and a methodology to implement WHC on Friday, Bhagwat had and gone out of power but this Nadu Home Secretary urging release. In its order dated and Fatehpur, and one each in organise themselves, saying “if the idea of working collective- said that Hindus had no aspi- mentality indicated that the the Government to consider July 20, 2016, the Madras High Firozabad and Etawah on a lion is alone, wild dogs can about organising them, they ly. ration of dominance and the ruling dispensation thinks that her plea for early release. Court had said the authorities Saturday. invade and destroy him”. used to say 'sher kabhi jhund He said the Hindu society community would prosper the Opposition cannot fight The plea comes two days were at liberty to consider her He said, “The DM of Addressing a gathering of mein nahi chalta' (a lion never has the largest number of mer- only when it worked as a soci- them. after the Supreme Court asked representation in accordance Lalitpur confirmed that one some 2,500 delegates attending walks in a group). But even that itorious persons. “But they ety. He claimed that it was this the Tamil Nadu Governor to with law subject to the outcome person has been rescued today the second World Hindu lion or a royal Bengal tiger who never come together. Coming “If a lion is alone, wild dogs mentality that led to the impris- consider the mercy petition of of another writ petition in the by Air Force personnel in Congress here, Bhagwat, how- is the king of the jungle, if he together of Hindus in itself is can invade and destroy the lion. onment of RSS functionaries in A G Perarivalan, another con- Supreme Court. Kadesarakala village of ever, said the Hindus have no is alone, wild dogs can invade a difficult thing,” he said. We must not forget that,” the 1949 by then deputy Prime vict in the 1991 case. The High Court's judg- Talbehat Tehsil. He was aspiration of dominance. and destroy him.” He noted that Hindus had Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Minister Sardar Patel. A life convict at the Special ment has been confirmed by a marooned on an island of “The Hindu society will Bhagwat said a sense of been suffering for thousands of (RSS) chief had said. The RSS members were Prison for Women here, Nalini division bench in its order of Betwa river after water was prosper only when it works as idealism is good and described years because they forgot to “We want to make the released subsequently but the in her petition recalled that she April 27, 2018, she said. released from the Matatilla a society,” he said. “One of himself not as “anti-modern”, practice its basic principles world better. We have no aspi- organisation has, ever since, had made a representation on Days ago, “the Supreme dam.”On Friday, two persons the key values to bring the but as “pro-future”. and spiritualism. ration of dominance. Our been misusing its freedom, February 22, 2014 to the Court had disposed,” of a had died in the state -- one in whole world into a team is to He sought to describe the “We have to come togeth- influence is not a result of con- alleged Ambedkar. Government seeking her related pending petition too, Sultanpur and other in have controlled ego and learn Hindu dharma as “ancient and er,” Bhagwat said, noting that all quest or colonisation,” he “I believe people should release under Article 161 of the she said.In view of the ruling Mirzapur. to accept the consensus. For post-modern”. the people need not to register added. The WHC marks the rethink before bringing them to Constitution. of the Madras High Court and Thursday witnessed the example, Lord Krishna and In this context, he alluded under one umbrella. commemoration of the 125th power again,” he said referring Article 161 deals with the the apex court disposing of a loss of one life each in Yudhishtra never contradicted to the war and politics in the He noted that the Hindus anniversary of Swami to the Bharatiya Janata Party judicial powers of the governor related plea, Nalini said “my Mirzapur, Lucknow, Ghazipur each other,” Bhagwat said. Hindu epic Mahabharat, and had been suffering for thou- Vivekananda's historic speech (BJP), an affiliate of the RSS. of a state. Her plea for representation dated February and Kannauj due to rain relat- Stating that it is very diffi- said politics cannot be con- sands of years because they for- at the Parliament of the World's Ambedkar also took a release was in accordance with 22, 2014 seeking my release ed incidents.As many as 18 had cult to bring the Hindus togeth- ducted like a meditation ses- got to practice its basic princi- Religions in 1893 in Chicago. swipe at the “Ajey BJP” (invin- the state government's 1994 under Article 161 of the died across the state on er, he said: “Coming together of sion, and it should be politics. ples and spiritualism. Condemning Bhagwat's cible BJP) slogan coined by Scheme of Premature Release Constitution in accordance Wednesday. Of this, four deaths the Hindus is in itself a difficult “To work together, we have Addressing the congress,' statement, Ambedkar, while the party at its meeting of of Life Convicts, she said. with the said scheme...May be each were reported from thing.” “In initial days of to accept the consensus. We are Bhagwat highlighted the need addressing a press conference national office-bearers and In her petition, which she considered and I may be Unnao and Faizabad., while our work, when our karkyakar- in a position to work together,” for such an action, and how here Saturday, claimed that state unit presidents held in forwarded through the released from prison at an two deaths each were reported tas used to talk to Hindus Bhagwat said at the conference Hindus should work together. the “dog” reference was for the New Delhi. Superintendent of Prisons here early date.” from Gonda and Rampur.PTI ; # '   ' +      ) ! &  !  )    0  , #  # #  ** $ *+  ' P

 !?(*2*? Kashmir Editors Guild Association and Kashmir   ' '#'  ' <<< (KEG), an amalgam of promi- Journalist Association also called  $  journalist Asif Sultan who nent newspapers on September for Sultan's release and an inves- Ahmedabad:Terming the scam, the commissions are at From Page 1 Awas arrested last month by 2 in a statement asked the J&K tigation in what they called his Rafale fighter aircraft deal “a least 30 per cent. The Rs 21,000  :)2*71?1 his role in the Lankesh killing, Besides global leaders and Jammu and Kashmir Police police to make charges against “illegal detention.” scam of unimaginable propor- crore given to Anil Ambani is SIT sources said.The Anti- big investors in aerospace was sent to Central Jail Srinagar a magazine journalist Asif International Federation tion”, senior Supreme Court just commission, nothing else,” he Special Investigation Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra industry, the show will also see for two weeks judicial custody. Sultan public. The Guild also of Journalists (IFJ) and lawyer Prashant Bhushan on he alleged. TTeam probing the killing of police had arrested three mem- participation by think-tanks A district court Srinagar took exception to the “notices” Committee to Protect Saturday alleged that the Anil The Reliance Group, in a journalist-activist Gauri bers of a suspected right-wing from across the world. It will while hearing his bail plea being sent to newspapers. It said Journalists (CPJ) also expressed Ambani's Reliance Group got statement quoting Ambani's let- Lankesh has taken into custody Hindutva outfit, including provide a unique opportunity remanded him to Central there are disturbing reports their concern about the ongo- an offset deal worth  21,000 ter to Congress president Rahul one more person in connection Gondhalekar, in August and for exchange of information, Srinagar in judicial custody till about reporters being asked to ing “detention and interroga- crore as “commission”. Gandhi last month, had said, with the case. seized a huge quantity of explo- ideas and new developments in September 22. Asif Sultan was disclose sources, something that tion” of Asif Sultan, who was He compared this to the “Allegations of Reliance bene- Sources in the SIT said sives, including crude bombs. the aviation industry. Besides arrested by Jammu and Kashmir has not happened even what it working as Assistant Editor at alleged kickbacks in the Bofors fitting by thousands of crores is Sudhanwa Gondhalekar, who The ATS had said they giving a fillip to the domestic police on August 31 from his called “during the emergency.” monthly English magazine gun deal in the 1980s. a figment of imagination, pro- was arrested from Pune by the would be questioned about all aviation industry it would fur- home in Batamaloo, Srinagar. Kashmir Working Journalist Kashmir Narrator. Ambani has earlier reject- moted by vested Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism the cases in which the involve- ther the cause of Make in ed the allegation.Bhushan interests.””Simply put, no con- Squad in August in connection ment of right-wing extremists India. The Department of charged that the BJP-led gov- tract exists with the Government with the seizure of a huge was suspected, including the Defence Production is com- ernment “compromised” on of India.”French company cache of explosives, was Narendra Dabholkar, Govind mitted to make this a success- $   1 national security, left the Indian Dassault, which is supplying brought here Friday on transit Pansare and (journalist) Gauri ful and result oriented show, it Air Force “high and dry”, just to the fighter jets, has entered into remand.He was produced in a Lankesh killings.Left leaning said. accommodate Anil Ambani's a joint venture with the Reliance local court which remanded Lankesh, who was strongly In his request to host Aero company in the deal.”Rafale Group to meet its offset obliga- him in police custody for 14 opposed to Hindutva, was shot India near Lucknow,     deal is a scam of unimaginable tions to create business for days.With this, 14 suspects dead on September 5 last year Adityanath had on August 11 proportion. Bofors was aRs 64- Indian firms, following the have been arrested in the case. by two motorcycle-borne said such a move will give a fil- crore scam, with four per cent Rafale deal. A native of Satara, assailants near her house here, lip to the proposed defence cor- R  commission paid in that. In this PTI Gondhalekar has confessed to triggering outrage. ridor in Uttar Pradesh. Days later Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy wrote a let- ter to Prime Minister Narendra From Page 1 raped her when he visited          DDD Modi, insisting that Bengaluru This struggle will contin- Kerala to attend a Church would be the “best choice” for ue till justice is delivered to programme.         From Page 1 Chhattisgarh. It was the Atal- the event. “Bengaluru being her,” the nun said. The nun had lodged her He said this would be done Advani combination that the hub for defence and avia- The family of the victim complaint with police by From Page 1 through over-ground-workers “without any hesitation”. brought party to power from a tion majors of the country is also participated in the protest June-end and a special police “He along with his associ- (OGW's) in Manipur. The Shah had replaced Rajnath poor two tally of MPs in the certainly the most suitable fast held at Kochi's Marine team has already recorded ates was allegedly threatening OGW's used to collect the Singh as the party president Lok Sabha in 1984, he said. place to conduct the show,” he Drive. The embarrassment the her statement six times and extorting money from extortion money from victims soon after it came to power in Shah recounted a range of had said in the letter. nuns' open protest against it though the only concrete businessmen and influential and further distributed the May 2014 as Singh quit his post economic programmes and In the budget for 2018-19, has caused for the Church is action they took against the people, said the DCP. same between different offices following his inclusion in policies which were given shape the Government had sure to grow bigger in the rape-accused Bishop was to Earlier on August 28, of the banned outfit. He was Modi's Cabinet. He was then by the Modi-dispensation in announced to set up two coming days as the victim's record his statement just once, Oinam Ibochouba Singh alias living clandestinely in Nepal for elected as the president in over last four years which also defence corridors -- one in family is set to approach the that too in his office at the Khoirangba, a top commander the last five years, in order to January 2016. The BJP's con- “deleted” over here lakh bogus Tamil Nadu and other in Uttar High Court seeking orders diocesan headquarters in and self-styled acting chairman evade his arrest,” said the DCP. stitution allows its president to companies in the country. The Pardesh-- to promote defence for action against Bishop Jalandhar in accordance with of the banned outfit, was arrest- “He joined militancy with serve two consecutive full BJP president said the manufacturing. The corridor Franco, most probably on his convenience. ed from south Delhi's Kotla daydreaming to earn easy and terms of three years each. As Government had conducted in Uttar Pradesh will pass Monday. The victim had Mubarakpur area. He had huge money and live with a lav- such, Shah can be elected to the Rs 11,000 crore e-purchases through six districts --- Aligarh, “The Church has effec- approached police after all allegedly threatened Manipur ish lifestyle. Further investiga- post for one more term. which would otherwise would Agra, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow tively rejected us but we her efforts to get justice from Chief Minister N Biren Singh tion is on,” the DCP added. Shah paid glowing tribute have cost the country an esti- and Chitrakoot. PNS haven't left it and we won't. We within the Church failed. and some other Ministers. KCP (People War Group) to Vajayee whose contribution mated Rs 33,000 crore. are waging our war from with- Before petitioning police, she “During interrogation was formed in January, 2016 by to the party, he said was He accused the Congress of in the Church. We own noth- had taken her complaint Paikhomba confessed about a combined extremist group of “impossible” to mention. He playing hypocritical politics ing but this nun's habit... Our against the Bishop to all the his involvements in terrorist KCP-Poirei faction, KCP- said Vajpayee was the first pre- on triple talaq and 'urban nax- sister (the victim) has suffered relevant Church authorities, activities in Manipur and Tamnganba faction and KCP- mier who restricted the size of alism' and congratulated much. She must get justice. We including Cardinal George recently he shifted his base Paikhomba faction under the the Union Cabinet, created Maharashtra CM on the latter will continue this war even if Alencherry, head of the Syro- from Nepal to Bareilly. It was chairman of Laishram Ranjit DONER Ministry for the issue. The meeting is to pass an we have to die,” one of the Malabar Catholic Church and Paikhomba who had directed Meetei. North-East states, conducted economic and political resolu- nuns told the media after tak- Papal office itself but no action Khoirangba to go to Delhi and In January 2017, the nuclear explosion in 1998 and tion detailing Modi- ing part in the protest fast. was taken on her plea. set up a base here to conduct Special Cell arrested the self- created new States of Government's achievements in “This is not a protest but The nun, her family and their activities. On his direc- styled convener of the KCP- Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and last four-years. it is the cry of the nuns for jus- many among the laity and tions, Khoirangba had alleged- PWG, Ranjeet Singh Porai alias tice. That they are made to cry Kerala society believe that the ly given threats to Manipur Rocky, and in August 2017 for justice is not good for the special police team is delaying Chief Minister. Paikhomba busted a module of the KCP- Church. The Church author- the arrest of the accused due used to extort money from dif- PWG with the arrest of top  1$ % " "!!! ities should have heard their to pressures from their supe- ferent Government authori- leadership including com- cry much earlier. Justice riors and political bosses. ties, local businessman, private mander-in-chief of the KCP- should be delivered to them,” “Nothing will happen in this schools by threatening them Tamnganba faction Laishram From Page 1 Rs 30,000 crore. said senior priest Fr Paul case as far as the present with demand letters sent Ranjit Meitei. For its part, the National Officials said the NDMA's Thelekkat, former spokesman police chief (Loknath Behera) Disaster Management study is based on parameters of the Syro-Malabar Catholic remains in that position,” said Authority's (NDMA) 'flood such as areas actually flooded Church to which the Bishop's a brother of the victim the vulnerability index' lists Punjab during 1950 to 2016, areas family belonged. other day.  ((( and Haryana as the States most vulnerable to flood and met- Pressure continued to The nuns who came out vulnerable to floods. Punjab is ropolitan and large cities that mount on police and the on the streets in support of the followed by West Bengal, Bihar, fall in flood-prone areas. Church to take action against victim's struggle for justice are UP, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, On a scale of 10, Punjab the Bishop with prominent five of the total nine inmates From Page 1 tries from the outside harm. Kerala, Assam, Gujarat and has been assessed as facing the personalities like former Chief of the Kuravilangad convent of Attacking the WTO, Trump “I think it's fine, but they Odisha. According to the Met highest flood hazard risk of Minister VS Achuthanandan the Missionaries of Jesus con- said he thinks that the World got to pay us for this. We're Department, the country 6.67, followed by West Bengal coming out in support of the gregation, controlled by the Trade Organization was prob- watching the whole world and received 718.7 mm rainfall 6.43, Bihar 6, UP 4.76, Andhra victim and her fellow-nuns. Jalandhar Diocese, and one of ably the worst of all. “But a lot they take it for granted. against the normal of 768.9 Pradesh 4.49, Haryana 4.12, On Saturday, the Women's the remaining three had of people don't know what that “For years and years we've mm till September 8, this year. Kerala 3.88, Assam 3.84, Congress became the first already abandoned her reli- is, that allowed China to become been protecting these coun- As many as 110 districts Gujarat 3.38 and Odisha 2.73. women's wing of a political gious habit allegedly following this great economic power”.On tries. They're making a fortune. have recorded excess rainfall As per the Home Ministry party to pledge solidarity with harassments from the Bishop. the trade deficit between the US They've had very little military during this year's monsoon. data, as many as 1,400 people the nuns. “As per Catholic cate- and China, which has led to a cost. We have the biggest mil- Despite that the rain deficit have died due to rain, land- The victim's charge chism, nuns are betrothed to tariff war between the world's itary cost in the world. Most of stood at 7 per cent this year. In slides and floods in 10 States so against the Bishop is that he Jesus Christ. It is a pity and a top two economies, he said, “I'm it goes to protecting outside 2018, as many as 500 people far in the monsoon season. As had raped her at a guest house big sin that when one of those a big fan of (Chinese) President countries, some of whom don't have been killed and over 10 many as 254 people died in attached to St Francis Mission brides of Jesus is raped by a Xi Jinping, but I told him, 'we even like us,” Trump said. lakh displaced in Kerala due to Uttar Pradesh while West Home, her convent at bishop, considered as the have to be fair'.” “We're protecting coun- floods and landslides in the Bengal witnessed the death of Nadukunnu, Kuravilangad in deputy of God Himself, the so- “We can't let China take tries that have -- I got to say, State. 210 people due to floods. The Kottayam district, 13 times called pious fathers of the USD 500 billion a year out of they do have respect for us now, The impact of the floods in toll in Maharashtra was 139 between 2014 and 2016. Her Church are being so insensi- the United States and rebuild but they didn't have any respect Kerala is yet to be completely while it was 52, 50, 37, 29 and ordeal in the hands of the tive and amoral,” said a senior itself,” he added.The President for us, and they got to pay. They assessed, though the 11 in Gujarat, Assam, Bishop had allegedly started priest of the Latin Catholic also said the US should get paid got to pay, you know, when Government estimates that Uttarakhand, Odisha and on May 5, 2014 when he first Church. for securing the wealthy coun- they're wealthy,” he said. rebuilding would require about Nagaland respectively.    (  )* +, -./0 ! !%#   R     #     #    !   #  ,P *                 ). )78( forces and the paramilitary Gujarat and West Bengal.  ! forces and assessing their future Pakistan was exploiting its  !   ecurity agencies have issued requirement, procurement of resident agents and Indian res- Sa detailed advisory to the military hardware, ascertaining ident agents and using Pak mis- -      stakeholders to remain alert to the organisational set up, com- sion in India and in third      Pakistani espionage tactics by munication network, location of countries, cyber space, espe- keeping a watch on the visa vio- cantonments, air and naval cially social media, monitoring lators, tracing Pak nationals bases, rail movement of army of websites of Indian scientif-   ). )78( with valid visas and missing Pak and paramilitary units, annual ic institutions and compro- nationals besides tracking visit- exercise programmes of army mising disgruntled elements of he scheduled visits of ing business delegations from including simulation exercises scientific establishments. TExternal Affairs Minister across the border and fortifying and war games. The focus is also Fake social media profiles Sushma Swaraj and Defence counter intelligence apparatus on gathering telephone directo- are also used for honey-trap- Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Minister is likely to visit Paris 8) -?)8 >(!( As regards Swaraj's tour, Russian fighter planes have around sensitive defence and sci- ry of defence units, especially of ping officials, compromising later this month to Syria and in October, sources said here )-)?+) 9+)! * * External Affairs Ministry mounted fresh strikes on the entific research institutions. those deployed along the Indo- computers and extraction of France respectively were on Saturday. The Minister Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar Syrian province of Idlib, amid The advisory comes amid Pak border. information through crank deferred on Saturday. will, however, undertake her (+) .8) 8) 92?)!! said fresh dates for her visit will a meeting in Tehran among renewed efforts by Pakistani Another area of emphasis by calls through illegal grey tele- While Swaraj's tour was scheduled tour to Egypt on (! ?)7)7)!!70 be decided in consultation with leaders of Iran, Russia and intelligence agencies to gather the Pak agencies is on espionage phone exchanges or calls over postponed due to escalating September 20, they said. **/(2 8) * the Syrian Government. "The Turkey to chalk out a common information by seeking to com- in the field of science and tech- VoIP and compromising gov- tension in war torn Syria, The French visit defer- 29>)?+) 9>)? 8) External Affairs Minister's visit strategy to deal with the promise officials of Indian mis- nology where Pakistan was try- ernment officials posted in Sitharaman's visit was deferred ment comes at a time when the 3G %%% ?9?) ?*-*7) to Syria has been deferred due volatile situation in Southern sions abroad, making pseudo- ing to monitor developments in Indian mission by exploiting due to scheduling issues. She Congress is relentlessly attack- to the prevailing situation in Syria. The Russian military nymous calls to government diverse fields such as nuclear, their weaknesses. was to visit Paris on the invi- ing the NDA government over -(28)? )*7 .(8 -?*) that country. Fresh dates will has warned its US counter- officials, cyber offensives and space and missile technology Suggested counter mea- tation of her French counter- the 59,000-crore Rafale fight- *77)2(2 * !*+ be decided in mutual con- parts not to get involved in the like to gather intelligence on and defence research, particu- sures include keeping watch part Florence Parly on er deal with France alleging a sultation with the Syrian side," any military operation in scientific developments in larly those related to technolog- over activities of Pak jathas September 17. The French scam. The Government has visit the Rafale production he said. It would have been the southern Syria. space and missile technology, ical developments for the fron- (Tablighs and Zaireen)/busi- minister had come to India in repeatedly denied allegations in facility later this month to first visit by an Indian External India has been maintaining defence exercises and simula- tier areas besides trying to obtain ness delegations, their places of October last year. the Government to inspect the progress of pro- Affairs Minister to Syria after that all parties should exercise tion facilities among others. classified documents. Most of stay, trans-border smugglers , New dates are being Government deal. duction India specific jets. the civil war-like situation restraint and avoid any steps The thrust areas for the Pak-backed espionage mod- sawari/hawala operators and worked out for the bilateral Meanwhile, an IAF team Some IAF pilots are also likely broke out in that country. that may further escalate the Pakistan-directed espionage is ules were located in the border persons released by courts in meeting and the Defence headed by Deputy Chief will to fly the jet there, it was learnt. According to reports, situation in country. the activities of the Indian armed districts of Punjab, Rajasthan, espionage cases. ,     ! !4 %    -%   ). )78(  $   ormer Nepal Prime FMinister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', who is now % $ !    the Co-Chairman of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP),    ). )78( accused persons as per a  /*8+*1 23!!   called on Prime Minister Supreme Court directive and    " Narendra Modi here on iming to reform the crim- enabling police custody of the epal will not join the first- 4 !  2 " Saturday to discuss bilateral Ainal justice system, the accused any time after arrest Never joint military drill 5  6 ! 3!  ties. Centre is considering a slew of as against the current practice among the armies of the Bay of . ! 7 '  "The two leaders discussed proposals including bringing of the 15-day deadline besides Bengal Initiative for Multi- !8 ! 8 ! the progress in India-Nepal policing as a subject in the increasing the number of Sectoral Technical and "   relations, as well as other issues Concurrent List of the working days of the courts so Economic Cooperation (BIM- of mutual interest," the Prime Constitution, legislation of an as to reduce the pendency of STEC) members, to be hosted .!   !3! Minister's Office (PMO) said in omnibus Internal Security Act, cases in the courts, Union by India next week, an advisor " ' " % a statement. separation of investigation and Home Ministry sources said. to the Prime Minister said "The Prime Minister fond- prosecution wings of police Trial of heinous or serious here on Saturday. Official sources told ly recalled their previous inter- and establishment of Multi- crimes is being considered to Kundan Aryal, Press Xinhua that the decision was actions, and thanked Dahal for Agency Centre-like organisa- be taken up on priority for Adviser to Prime Minister K.P. made by the Nepali govern- his valuable contributions in tion to share information to the speedier conclusion to improve Sharma Oli, told Xinhua news ment amid growing criticism strengthening India-Nepal rela- =       * #'*  &' > '>            & '  police on crimes and criminals. credibility of the criminal jus- agency that Nepal will not join from multiple quarters over the tions," it stated. # () A subject under the tice system and maximum the joint military drill to be country's participation in the Modi also said that India- Concurrent List allows the number of adjournments organized in Pune from first ever military drill among Nepal relations have received a Cooperation (Bimstec) region- tweeted that the two leaders After the merger of the Centre to exercise authority on allowed for the defendants of September 10-16. the armies of BIMSTEC mem- boost with frequent high-level al group's summit. "exchanged views on advancing CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist), the listed subject along with the criminal cases may also be lim- "Nepal will not participate bers. interactions. Earlier in the day, bilateral ties between the two Prachanda is sharing the post States. Currently, policing is a ited to speed up trials. in the BIMSTEC joint military BIMSTEC — founded in Modi last visited the Prachanda met External Affairs countries". of Chairman with another co- State subject under the Possibility of informing drill. This is the official decision 1997 — is a regional bloc Himalayan nation in August to Minister Sushma Swaraj. Prachanda arrived here on chair and Nepal Prime Minister Constitution. The Multi- the victims of crime about the of the government," he said, grouping India, Bangladesh, attend the Bay of Bengal Following the meeting, Thursday on a three-day visit K.P. Sharma Oli. He aims to Agency Centre (MAC) shares stage of investigation in trial without giving details about the Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Initiative for Multi-Sectoral External Affairs Ministry with the aim of improving become the Prime Minister information/inputs to the of cases through SMS with the reasons behind the decision. Lanka and Thailand. Technical and Economic spokesperson Raveesh Kumar bilateral relations. after Oli completes his tenure. police/ paramilitary forces help of CCTNS is also under on terror. consideration of the Ministry. The organisation modeled on SMSs could also be used  . && the lines MAC will help share to alert witnesses regarding ))( ))   *    and disseminate information court appearances and   on crime-related informa- putting in place a provision to tion/inputs under the Crime issue e-summons is also being *      # and Criminal Tracking studied by the Government. /01 $ Network System (CCTNS). The Internal Security Act is Setting up of commission- aimed at consolidating the  !?(*2*? erate system of policing in existing laws. #    , urban centres with population A system of continuous n injured trekker was air- over 10 lakh is also under recruitment whereby online Alifted on Saturday from consideration. tests can be taken by interest- the Kalohoi glacier in Jammu The proposal under con- ed candidates regularly and & Kashmir's Anantnag dis- sideration for separation of database of successful candi- trict, authorities said. investigation and prosecution dates created for any Two trekkers, identified as wings of the police includes Government organisation, Naveed Jeelani and Adil Shah exploring the possibility of including police can choose fell into a crevice on Friday and appointment of a Director and subject them to further test died. The third trekker, Hazik General-rank officer as Director or interview to avoid escalation Beigh, has been airlifted for of Prosecution in every State. in number of vacancies in treatment. Efforts were on to The Union Home police resulting in poor police retrieve the bodies of the two Ministry is also reviewing the to population ratio, the sources victims, the authorities added. issue of not handcuffing added.

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Rashtra Samiti over the issue of from the party for the election. %#, ). )78( !"  !. apex body to regulate medical countries including Thailand, Assessment and Accreditation 97 -! 9 ticket distribution for the "On the contrary we spent our education in the country, Malaysia , Indonesia, Mauritius Council (NAAC) and the forthcoming State Assembly  9   money on the party candidates he Medical Council of pointed out that "It has to be have English as a medium of National Board of elections. in legislative council elections TIndia (MCI) has rejected a borne in mind that the qual- instruction for medical educa- Accreditation (NBA) will be enhance the existing capacity. In the first sign of trouble who had come from Telugu and municipal corporation Bhopal-based University's ity centricity of medical edu- tion. The neighbouring coun- expanded, the premier Indian Speaking at the event, the since TRS president K Desam party. Then why have elections", she said. demand to allow it to impart cation has to keep pace with tries like Pakistan, Nepal, Institutes of Technology (IITs) Minister said 80 per cent of the Chandrashekhar Rao release they stopped my ticket", she Lashing out at KCR she medical education with the scientific and technolog- Bangladesh, Sri Lanka have and Indian Institutes of weightage for accreditation will list of 105 candidates on quipped. said, "Telangana is not the as a medium of instruction. It ical advancement which is English as a medium of instruc- Management (IIMs) could also be given on learning outcome Thursday party MLA from "Perhaps I committed a property of his family". She cited several constraints like galloping as of now at a very tion for medical education, it join hands and form an accred- and peer reviews, while the Warangal East Konda Surekha mistake by listening to KCR to held KCR's son and Minister K paucity of adequate learning fast pace. It is inevitably said to draw home its point. itation agency to expedite the physical verification of the cam- has announced she was quit- leave Mulugu constituency Taraka Rama Rao responsible material in Hindi language required to ensure that these The MCI also expressed process, he said. pus and infrastructure could be ting the party. Her's was and come to Warangal East," for denial of ticket to her. and the fact that English was advancements are appropri- fear that allowing Hindi lan- At present, only 15 per cent done through the use of satellites. among the 14 constituencies she said. She declared that she, her more acceptable abroad for its ately incorporated in the cur- guage in a multilingual coun- of the higher educational insti- "An institute which main- where the party nominations Delaying in ticket was husband and her son will all refusal to grant permission. It riculum and syllabi in a time- try where official languages are tutes in the country are accred- tains quality will only survive were kept pending more shocking to her because contest the elections this time. also said that giving permis- ly manner, so as to keep a included in a specific schedule ited. "We have asked IITs and and those who fail to do so will An angry Konda Surekha sion for Hindi language will proper pace with it." appended to the constitution IIMs to come together and cre- be out of business," he said. and her husband Konda Murli prompt other States too to It further noted that, "bulk and the states having been ate an agency which we can use Higher Education told a media conference in make similar demands on lin- of the learning resource mate- reorganized on the linguistic to expedite the process of Secretary R Subramanyam Hyderabad on Saturday that by guistic lines. rial on the said count is handy basis, there would be similar accreditation," the Minister suggested that "no accredita- not including her name in the In a recent meeting held and mostly available in English demands from the corners of told reporters on the sidelines tion, no admission" should be list KCR had insulted her. here, the MCI while refusing to which facilitates the timely the country. of the 4th World Summit of taken up as a policy initiative "This is an insult to a backward permit the Atal Bihari Vajpayee incorporation and required States will demand to have Accreditation here. from 2022-23 onwards in class woman", the firebrand Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal dispensation in teaching and their respective state languages He said accreditation from keeping with Prime Minister leader said. to teach MBBS in Hindi lan- learning at undergraduate to be availed as a medium of now onwards will be based on Narendra Modi's vision of a Konda Surekha had joined guage maintained that "in an medical education." instruction for medical educa- "learning outcome" and quali- "New India". TRS after quitting Congress era of internationalization and On the international front tion which would add to the ty of education should be the Meanwhile, speaking at a before 2014 elections. information and communica- too, the language availed as multiplicity to the issue at key parameter for determining panel discussion on Speculations are rife that the tion technology ruling the medium of instruction for hand, said the medical educa- the standard of an institute. International Literacy Day, Konda couple was likely to roost, it is difficult to conclude medical education is English. tion regulator. The Minister's comments the Minister said the return to Congress fold. and recommend that situation The MCI had constituted a Of the total 450 medical came against the backdrop of the Government would be rolling She said that the treat- is ripe and appropriate to avail panel to look into the demand colleges across the country, University Grants Commission out a scheme where school ment meted out to her was Hindi as a medium of instruc- of the Bhopal's University. only 150 colleges are in (UGC) in August clearing a pro- students can engage them- shocking because she had won tion for undergraduate medical Apart from the developed Hindi-speaking States while posal to allow more accredita- selves in the literacy mission the last elections with a major- education." world even the developing the remaining are in Southern tion agencies to come into the and provide education to peo- ity of 50,000 votes. 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If any girl tried to offer Hurriyat Conference activist, Adityanath on Saturday sus- resistance or raised an alarm were killed by suspected ter- pended Examination *+) 9 7(28 1?(2 past midnight he used to rorists in two separate attacks in Regulatory Authority secre- 8)*?(2 9 * .?( -(7) thrash them and forcibly take Sopore and Srinagar quarters. A tary Sutta Singh with imme- :0 9) !9(/* )>( ( 8) them inside his room. Once lady owning a beauty parlour diate effect and constituted a *77*8*:* 8(28 91? there he used to offer some eat- was also shot at in south high-level committee to probe ables laced with sedatives and Kashmir's Pulwama town. into the lapses. exploited them physically".  '     '  #   !'  '# Official sources said a The committee would fix post. Later, the Government So far these shocking policeman was injured when individual responsibility of had withheld the appoint- details have emerged during Pastro Anthony from more ed late Friday evening to rescue police foiled a weapon the officers concerned so that ment process. the preliminary round of than last one month. The chil- the children. snatching bid by terrorists in stern action could be initiat- In the exam, whose results investigations and informal dren claimed, "after his wife left Kathua police has already Achabal area of Anantnag ed in the matter. were declared in August, more interaction with the children for kerala he started abusing registered a FIR no 334 u/s 376 district in south Kashmir Earlier, Minister of State for than one lakh aspirants had rescued by the team of district minor girls one by one.Every and 323 of RPC (Ranbir Penal during night hours. Basic Education (Independent recruitment examination. period, Singh will be attached appeared, but only 41,556 and police officers from inside night he used to pick one girl Code) and u/s 6/10/12 of They said that a group of charge), Anupama Jaiswal, had The committee, headed by with the Director, Basic could clear it. the hostel run by Pastor and exploited her physically" . Prevention of Children from militants attacked Minority entrusted the inquiry into this Principal Secretary (Sugarcane Education in Lucknow. Meanwhile, on the direc- Anthony in Parliwand area of Official sources revealed, Sexual offences act (POSCO). Guard Post in Khul Ranipora matter to officers who were development) Sanjay It may be mentioned here tive of the Chief Minister, ward no 14 in Kathua district "When some of these children In another related devel- Achabal area of Anantnag dis- involved in the entire exami- Bhoosreddy, will submit its that irregularities in evalua- some officials of Basic of Jammu division. collectively raised their voice opment Kathua police pro- trict and during a brief nation process and their role in report to the Government tion and declaration of assis- Education department were Twenty children including and resisted his attempts to duced accused Pastor Anthony shootout one militant was the irregularities was under within a week, fixing respon- tant teachers recruitment shifted on Saturday. eight girls and 12 boys were forcibly take away a minor girl before the local court where killed and a policeman sus- scrutiny. sibility for the lapses. examination results came to Additional education director, rescued during the surprise inside his room they were seven day police remand was tained injuries. When this was brought to The other members of light during hearing on a Basic Education Directorate raid inside the hostel late Friday beaten up as well". These chil- granted for further investiga- The slain terrorist was the knowledge of the Chief the committee are Sarva writ filed by one Sonika Devi in Lucknow, Rubi Singh, has evening. dren then decided to expose tions in the case. identified as Bilal Bhat, a local Minister, he acted tough and Shiksha Campaign director in the Allahabad High Court. been posted as secretary, At present these minor the 'dirty' deeds of Pastor On the other hand large cadre from Yaripora area of instituted an independent Vedpati Mishra and Basic It was found that her Basic Education Council children were shifted to Bal Anthony and shared their pain number of local residents and south Kashmir's Kulgam dis- inquiry besides taking prelim- Education director Sarvendra answer sheet was changed. Allahabad while Lalita Ashram and Nari Niketan in with their school teachers. activists of different social trict. Bilal, an Undergraduate inary action against the guilty Vikram Singh. The Advocate General had Pradeep has come in place of Kathua where team of senior These teachers with the political organisations staged student had joined terrorist officials. In the preliminary then said in the court that the Rubi Singh. Joint education district officers interacted with help of local media informed demonstrations outside the ' ranks in June this year. An official communiqué inquiry, Sutta Singh has been Government would take director, Meerut, Anil them and recorded their state- the police how Pastor Anthony house of horrors' demanding In another incident, released by the Government found to be prima facie guilty action against the erring offi- Bhushan Chaturvedi, has ments as well as per rule of law. was sexually exploiting these firm action against the accused. unknown gunmen shot dead a here on Saturday confirmed and so she has been sus- cials behind the lapse. been made director, State According to official minor girls. Stung by Rasana Protest demonstrations youth near Naseem Bagh area that a three-member high-level pended and a departmental During investigation, it Science Institute at Allahabad sources, these children while rape and murder case the were organised in Jammu by of Hazratbal in Srinagar city. committee had been constitut- inquiry has been ordered was found that 23 candidates and secretary, Examination narrating their ordeal revealed Kathua police was little reluc- various organisations and polit- The slain youth is suspect- ed to probe into the irregular- against her. were selected even after they Regulatory Authority, they were facing this exploita- tant but later better sense pre- ical parties seeking speedy jus- ed to be a member of Ansar ities in the assistant teacher During her suspension were not qualified for the Allahabad. tion and torture at the hands of vailed and a raid was conduct- tice for minor children. Ghazwatul Hind militant out- fit, an al-Qaeda affiliate. Police said they have taken up further investigation to 2"1345 $6    ( 9# #   '   9     ascertain the facts related to the incident.  > 80)?*:* 5 . !    systems to the CMRS. After the Hyderabad Metro crossed a Security sources said that     $   77 4 !  2 signalling system certificate major landmark when the num- the slain youth has been iden- he dissolution of Telangana  ! ( : was submitted the CMRS safe- ber of passengers it carried since tified as Asif Nazir Dar, a res- TAssembly and consequent  '   ty team will undertake inspec- its inauguration on 28 November ident of Panzgam Awantipora "3..    were being smuggled. There is with three AK-47 rifles and fluid political situation is unlike- !3.3    tion of the route and permit the 2017 reached 20 million or two in south Kashmir’s Pulwama also suspicion of the involve- some spare parts, said Munger ly to come in the way of the inau- running of commuter metro crore mark on September 4. district. They said one pistol  "    !.3% ment of Army and interna- SP Babu Ram. Later on three guration of a new stretch of trains, Reddy said. Expressing his happiness along with two magazines was 2  ! ( tional smugglers. more weapons were recovered Hyderabad Metro line. However  ' "  With the inauguration of over the achievement NVS recovered from the slain youth. What has made the offi- from one Mohammad there was a question mark on the 16 kms stretch, the entire 29 Reddy said that it was achieved Sources added that Asif cials highly concerned is the Shamsher in Bardah village. who will do the honours of inau- before the election notification kms long Corridor I will be much before than expected with could be a member of Islamic ? '** revelation that about 70 such The main accused, according to guration. and model code of conduct operational. Metro was already only two stretches opened. The State J&K outfit or Zakir Musa’s assault rifles have made their police, was ex Army man Hyderabad Metro Rail Ltd. comes into effect the Chief running on Miyapur-Ameerpet number of passengers will Ansar Ghazwatul Hind outfit. unger in Bihar once was way to Munger and from Purshottam Lal Rajak of a vil- managing director NVS Reddy Minister or minister for munic- stretch of this corridor and increase significantly once the Mfamous for its guns man- there it were send to Nalanda, lage in Rewa district of Madhya said the Ameerpet-LB Nagar ipal administration can inau- Ameerpet-Nagole on the other Ameerpet-LB Nagar stretch was ufactured in it gun factory. Gaya and Aurangabad, said Pradesh. line will be opened this month gurate the stretch. corridor. opened. Then it became infamous for Bihar IG Operation Kundan The police said the AK-47 itself. "As the election notifica- However such a move may gun making cottage industry Krishnan. These weapons are rifles or its parts were stolen tion has not been issued there trigger a political controversy where all kinds of guns were feared to have gone in the from the ordnance depot will not be any problem in as opposition parties will not manufactured clandestinely. hands of white collared gang- reached Rajak’s house where he inauguration of the line", he said. take it kindly and view it as an Now the city has become a big sters and Maoists. had made the weapons assem- He was talking to the media after attempt by ruling Telangana market of illicit weapons where Initial reports suggested bling unit. The police arrested the Chief Secretary laid down Rashtra Samiti to take political they are manufactured and that the spare parts of AK-47 Rajak’s wife Chandrawati who the foundation for the multi level mileage out of the event. smuggled in from other places. were stolen and smuggled revealed that she along with her parking complex as part of the The recovery of six AK-47 out from Jabalpur ordnance husband travelled to Munger Nampally Metro station. Cutting Edge Technology rifles in three days in Munger depot and it were assembled 40 to 50 times by train during He said that the testing of has caused a sensation in the in Munger. the past six years and delivered signalling and other systems The communication based police administration and the The arrest of two persons about 100 weapons to their on the stretch was in the final Train Control Signalling System serious matter is likely to be in Munger and one in Jabalpur agents. The accused revealed stage and the clearance by the supplies M/s Tahles was being taken over by the NIA for made the recovery of six rifles. that each AK-47 rifle was sold Commissioner of Metro Rail tested extensively both in the investigation into where from In Jamalpur locality Imran for 4 to 5 lakh and Imran in Safety was expected soon. lab and the site as it was a cut- these sophisticated assault rifles Alam was arrested carrying bag Munger was their main agent. Originally the Chief ting edge railway signalling Minister K Chandrashekhar system, NVS Reddy said. Rao was expected to inaugurate HMRL has already sub- the stretch by the middle of mitted the documents of other September. clearances including the civil NVS Reddy said that structures, tracks and electrical    (  )* +, -./0  %

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They are often tar-        The case dates back to a member of the minority council, saying “if there was geted by extremists and their     2013 when Morsi supporters Ahmadi community, from the one academic on the EAC that places of worship vandalised.           gathered in Rabaa Al-Adawiya # 9 =       ' #   $ *  # ! newly-constituted economic Pakistan needs, it was him Mian, a Massachusetts   4  Square in Cairo’s Nasr City dis- panel, according to media (Mian)”. Institute of Technology-edu-      " trict following his overthrow by including incitement to vio- onment, including Mohamed Of the accused, 315 are reports. Wishing the government cated Pakistani-American eco- the Army in July 2013 in lence, murder and organising Badie, leader of the now jailed and 419 are fugitives. “With a heavy heart, I have and the EAC luck for the nomics professor at the presti- ?% response to mass protests illegal protests. banned Muslim Brotherhood. Charges were dropped against resigned from the EAC this future, the professor said he gious Princeton University, was  3" 3& against his one-year rule. The 75 death sentences About 200 defendants were five defendants who died. morning,” Rasul, a professor of remains willing to offer “non- recently named member of the -1! -        The 739 defendants, who were handed down in July and sentenced to five years behind The government’s actions economics at University partisan, evidence-based 18-member EAC to advise the $K   ,     4 included members of the Saturday’s confirmation of bars, among them award-win- in dispersing the Rabaa el College, London, said in a advice” that can help improve government on economic pol-       Muslim Brotherhood, were them and the additional ver- ning photojournalist Adawiya Square protest were tweet on Saturday. economic policymaking in icy.         arrested and tried for partici- dicts mark the end of the mass Mahmoud Abu Zeid. He was widely condemned as at least The economist said he Pakistan. He is the only Pakistani to    +   pating in the month-long sit-in trial. detained while taking pictures 817 people were killed in the “profoundly disagrees” with Rasul said while Pakistan is be considered among       !" in Cairo to protest Morsi’s Among those sentenced of the dispersal of the demon- violence, according to a 2014 the circumstances in which full of talent, it “needs leaders International Monetary Fund’s  4     removal. to death at the Cairo Criminal stration. He was expected to report by Human Rights Mian was asked to resign from willing to draw on all this tal- list of ‘Top 25 brightest young        Earlier this year, Egypt’s Court were prominent Muslim now walk free after having Watch. the council. ent, and that are willing to economists’.     -  Parliament gave military offi- Brotherhood members Essam spent five years in jail pending Saturday’s verdict came “Basing decisions on reli- appeal to our better sides, for His appointment was         cers immunity for the deadly El-Erian, Mohamed Beltagy, trial. shortly after the US govern- gious affiliation goes against my the common good and not sow embroiled in a controversy   " '  !    crackdown and any crimes Abdel-Rahman al-Bar and Osama Morsi, the son of ment released tens of millions principles, or the values I am division.” after it was opposed by sever-      +  committed between July 2013 Osama Yassin. Of the 75 peo- the ousted President, was sen- of dollars in military aid to trying to teach my children,” he Rasul quit after another al individuals and reigiuos    $K    and January 2016. ple, 44 are in jail and 31 are on tenced to 10 years in prison. Egypt, funds that had been pre- said. EAC member, Asim Ijaz groups, including the hardline       - Those who were sentenced the run. Another 360 defendants were viously withheld due to con- In a series of tweets, Rasul Khwaja, professor of Islamist party Tehreek-i-      ,   in the mass trial were accused Another 56 defendants sentenced to 15 years in prison. cerns over the country’s human spoke in favour of Mian’s International Finance and Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), who    " of security-related offences were sentenced to life impris- No one was found innocent. rights record. appointment to the advisory Development at the Harvard objected to his Ahmadi faith. >+    *'  Q   4 5 !          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The arc of the moral universe is long, with any man, woman or animal, with 10 the LGBTIQ community in 1990 with the sexual orientation or gender identity. There outside of India who feel that while the pass- but it bends toward justice years of imprisonment. launch of the first gay magazine Bombay is nothing different about them. One’s ing of a law is a move in the right direction, — Dr Martin Luther King Jr Welcoming the verdict, Ashok Row Dost. He has been organising Kashish identity is not just being gay or lesbian or it is the society’s perception that needs to Kavi, Humsafar Trust founder-chairper- Mumbai International Queer Film Festival bisexual. One’s identity is one’s personality, change towards homosexuality. Till that hap- he LGBTIQ community today son, says: “We believe this is the beginning for nine years which exclusively showcas- nature and the kind of work we do. We are pens, such people will find it difficult to over- has much to celebrate. For 158 of a new journey for the LGBTIQ com- es films on the lives and challenges of peo- hoping to get social acceptance at a larger come their fears and the problems they face years, it has suffered in silence munity in India. This verdict comes after ple from this community. level. This will give confidence to the fam- because of their orientation,” Sharma says, — ostracised, humiliated, sustained advocacy for over 18 years on the “I faced several challenges. Not many ilies to support their children. We need to adding that the scrapping of the Section will attacked and beaten by society issue. At long last, the law does not crim- people like to attend a film festival that understand that same-sex has been part of help such people facing psychological prob- monitorsT due to sexual orientation. Like inalise consensual sexual acts between talks about LGBTIQ people. Even com- India for centuries. It is not a western import. lems but the society needs to change its Bill Pullman in the 1996 movie, The adults, occurring in private. panies and brands would not extend It is as natural as anything else. That is the mindset first. Independence Day said: “We are fighting “The LGBTIQ Indians can finally financial support. With this judgment, we change we would like to see in the people. Social activist and advocate Ashok for our rights to live, to exit. We will not enjoy equality before the law, freedom of are hoping to have a turnaround,” We should talk to religious groups, Agarwal tells you that today’s society is go quietly into the night, we will not go expression, personal autonomy and right Rangayan says. Government officials, doctors. All of them healthy and progressive. “People should vanish without a fight, we’re going to live to dignity as expressed in Articles 14, 15, Prince Manavendra Singh Gohil, an have to be sensitised,” Rangayan says whose have liberties. If two men and/or women on. We’re going to survive”. 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India. It LGBTIQ activist who has been running award-winning film The Evening Shadow is want to live together they should be In this regard, the scrapping of Section is now time to gear up for our fight towards The Lakshay Trust which works for the the curtain raiser film at the ongoing allowed. More freedom should be given. 377 is a landmark judgment in which further rights including legal recognition, community, feels that Section 377 was not Lonavala International Film Festival. For a country to progress, it is necessary Supreme Court decriminalised homo- marriage rights, employment rights, anti- used as much as it was misused by enforc- Through Kashish Forward for the society to progress. We must learn sexuality. This is the first step to bring discrimination laws, adoption and other ing authorities. “I have been working with Programme, Rangayan is also spreading something from the scrapping of Section about a larger impact in society by chang- legal rights which have been historically !        Lakshay Trust, the first organisation which awareness amongst youth by screening 377. We must move beyond archaic think- ing the mindset of people and the demand denied to us.”   " ?       started working with transgenders and gays LGBT films to them. “Youth’s minds are ing. And the good is that now LGBTIQ for civic right and inclusiveness. However, Agreeing with Kavi, Yashwinder Singh,         72:N in Gujarat. We have been contacted by the open to imbibe new ideas. I have also been people will not be blackmailed by the Pride Parade will continue to take place program manager at the Trust, tells you that " !  / Government for HIV prevention and a part of a group — Swikaar — which sup- unscrupulous elements,” Agarwal states. to break gender stereotypes. A long way verdict against section 377 will be a huge ,   !  <%$K    " when our workers would go to distribute ports and connects parents in accepting Tripti Tandon, a lawyer with Lawyers to go in achieving this, but by raising support to deal with the crisis cases and the K  5  4 + contraceptives for safe sex practices, they their homosexual child. Children feel Collective, who represented two peti- awareness through active and continuous fight for the human rights of the would be harassed by the police and tor- more confident to reach out and talk to tioners RS Jafar and Kavi, has a similar take discussions at school, college and work- LGBTIQ community. “All the people under 8       tured on grounds that we were violating other parents. Being gay or lesbian is not and tells you that the best part is that the place and impactful reportage the ultimate the LGBTIQ umbrella can live and ask legal        Section 377. So this kind of misuse will a disease,” Rangayan says explains. community will now not be blackmailed change may come. assistance without the fear of being prose-     ' "    stop and scrapping this law is definitely Prince Gohil says the next step has to because of its sexual orientation and per- According to The Humsafar Trust cuted under Section 377,” he tells you.       going to help us to fight HIV. It has also be the implementation of the judgment sonality. (HST), between 2016–2018, HST’s crisis Filmmaker Onir says that this is just  ! ,     been notified by the Health Ministry that and advocacy at all levels. “We have to “First, Section 377 was used to crim- response team attended to 83 crises cases a beginning. “The scrapping of 377 does-    72:  Section 377 has been an impediment to work towards implementing this judgment inalise the expression of one’s sexuality and in Mumbai. Of these 83, 6 cases involved n’t guarantee us civil rights and inclusion. K 5 ?-  HIV control,” Prince Gohil asserts. so that it reaches to the masses. For this, personality because there was no distinc- an adult, homosexual male being black- It is just giving us the right to have con- The life of homosexuals was full of we need the support from the Government tion between consensual and non-con- mailed by the police under the threat of sensual sex between two adults of the same !         hurdles earlier. A reflection of this was and other stakeholders to ensure equal sensual. This is gone. Second, because of Section 377 of the IPC. In 12 cases, adult, sex. But with this move, we are empow-       72: shown in films like My Brother Nikhil. “A rights and zero discrimination. We need this, two people of the same sex engaging homosexual males were threatened with ered to take the fight forward to get our        lot of people were forced to live double lives to do advocacy at all levels and create more in an intimate act have the same right as false accusations under this section and civil rights, including the right to marry     """   as they were considered criminals. People and more allies to get the support and heterosexual people. The LGBTIQ com- victims of extortion by ordinary persons, same-sex people, right to adoption, rights           feared to come out in open. They were acceptance from people who are not from munity faced blackmail, violence and sometimes climbed to 1 lakh. at workplace, right to inheritance and other   2    made to feel ashamed for their sexual ori- the community. I have already designed a extortion. This happened to them every While reversing an earlier decision, the benefits like rights that guarantee us        entation. This was misused by law enforc- model which talks about LGBTIQ issues day and they couldn’t report it. If they did, court termed the Section irrational and equality, liberty, respect and dignity of life  72:     ing bodies. There are people who think and this will get implemented at Karnavati the police would label them criminals. arbitrary and ruled that the LGBTIQ irrespective to cast, creed, gender, religion  "      that gayism spreads diseases. First, there University in Gujarat where I give lectures. Now, the community can report a crime community would from now on have and sexuality. It is a long journey still,” Onir      4     is nothing called gayism. Second, statistics I am going to provide a safe place for the against it and seek justice. Third, the court rights similar to other citizens. In other adds.   " 5 ( say that homosexuality does not cause dis- people who are thrown out of their house says that LGBTIQs are entitled to a full words, consensual gay sex is no longer ille- The director, who has made films like +" 8       eases, unsafe sexual practices do. They mis- by their parents for being a homosexual. spectrum of rights. This is very powerful. gal provided it is in private. The SC also My Brother Nikhil and Shab, opines that his     72:   quote history, culture and science to I am also educating parents to accept their It will mean that LGBTIQ people can enjoy said that there should be respect for these work will now get accepted and screened        prove their regression,” Onir says. child. We can reduce the hypocrisy at the all rights like other citizens in every rights and criminalising gay sex was irra- by satellite channels. “My next fight is going          The fact that Section 377 has now lowest level possible,” Prince Gohil says. sphere, work or education. No discrimi- tional and indefensible and must be inter- to be for inclusion. For years, I had to fight     decriminalised gay sex is a boost to the Dr KK Aggarwal, president, Heart nation will be tolerated,” Tandon explains preted as per the requirement of changing with satellite channels requesting them to      B  community’s confidence. “You are a citi- Care Foundation of India tells you that the and adds that the scrapping of the Section times. show my film My Brother Nikhil on TV.           zen of this country and not a criminal. We medical community has always considered has opened the door for same-sex mar- The ruling came in light of a writ peti- Even for my last film Shab, I fought for   " may not be afraid now to reveal our iden- homosexuality as a normal and natural riages. tion filed by dancer Navtej Jauhar, jour- eight months for a U/A certification from tity” Rangayan says. phenomenon and not a disease or crime. She also tells you that despite the back- nalist Sunil Mehra, Chef Ritu Dalmia, the Central Board of Film Certification and K 5  Now, while the State is behind the “It becomes important now for a medical ing of the State, it is the society that needs hoteliers Aman Nath and Keshav Suri, am still facing a hurdle for a satellite release. LGBTIQ community, the next step is to doctor to know if the person is an to change. “This is the reason why the SC business executive Ayesha Kapur and 20 There is an unspoken homophobia that change the mindset of the people who need LGBTIQ. Till now, many of them did not has urged the society to change its mind- former and present students of various muted my voice every time I raised my to accept the community. In this regard, come forward and disclose their orienta- set. It has said that the scrapping of the IITs. The issue was first raised by Naaz voice to screen my films. Justice Nariman has asked the State to give tion fearing the law. The job of a doctor Section has to be widely publicised and Foundation, an NGO which had “Today, I hope they will accept the SC’s wide publicity to the judgment and to sen- or of the judiciary is to change with the made available on social media platforms approached Delhi High Court in 2001. order and accept my films. There are very sitise key actors like the police. changing times and broaden, delete or re- so that people read it. How does society With this judgment, India joins the list few people coming up with films on the “With the help of media, satellite chan- interpret the laws as per the changing change? Someone needs to stand up. of countries like Vatican City (1890), the LGBTIQ community. I hope that after this nels and other social media platforms, we needs of the society. It is heartening that Then only will, larger numbers will follow. US (2003), Fiji (2010), Nepal (2007), verdict many more filmmakers will come will be able to tell stories that will help peo- the SC is now coming to the rescue of peo- That is what people did after the Naaz Seychelles (2018) and Canada (1969) to up and tell stories that need to be told to ple to understand and learn to accept ple, which will help in reducing the men- judgment of Delhi High Court. People decriminalise homosexuality. Incidentally, make the society understand and accept LGBTIQ people. It will not happen tal and social disorders in the society.” came forward and said: ‘I am legal. There it has never been illegal in countries like homosexual people. It is about becoming overnight. It is everybody’s duty to make Even the Indian Psychiatric Association is nothing criminal about my personali- Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea, a better human being and a better soci- the difference,” Onir tells you. indicates that homosexuality is not a psy- ty’. This has happened again. 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The 26- team "is not going to start as year-old overcame the Chinese 4-3 to favourites in any of the match- emerge triumphant after the Slovakian ")",#+!", es" in this tournament. had missed his second shoot-off clay "We are not going to start ) *  # '    '   '          !== #*     target to settle for Bronze.  +(7* as favourites in any of our Ankur also won the team Bronze matches. We are a young and   $  13 matches against the same news for us. We'll have to be in the event along with compatriots Md oberto Mancini's first competitive game as Italy coach inexperienced side and we are  I1. set of players, that would a bit careful on Sunday," he Asab and Shardul Vihaan, their tally of Rended in a 1-1 Nations League draw with Poland, mid- playing against senior sides. +! have given us an edge." said. 409 points putting them behind China's fielder Jorginho saving Azzurri blushes with a second-half We can say we have a good Maldives played out a Farukh Choudhary, who 410 and the Gold winning team Italy's (* '  !,#     * # penalty to level Piotr Zielinski's first-half opener in Bologna chance to win this game. But meet again. goalless draw against Sri made his national team debut tally of 411. on Friday. I don't feel we can be labelled "I am not a person who Lanka in their tournament against Lanka, felt the team is In other events of the day, two to finish 10th. Mancini, 58, was appointed after the four-time win- as favourites before the kick- loves to focus on history too opener and will be desperate not "under any pressure" at the Indian women missed out on the In the trap mixed team junior ners' shock failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup for off," he stated. much. Obviously, it's nice to to earn full points, which will moment. finals of their respective events by the event, Manisha Keer and Manavaditya the first time since 1958. The last time the two look back to find that we have lift them into the semi-finals. "We are not under any narrowest of margins. Singh Rathore reached the six-team And the former Man City boss admitted there was teams met in the SAFF beaten them 13 times. But Reflecting on Sarthak sort of pressure. Personally, I Anjum Moudgil, who has already final with a qualification score of 139, work to do. "It's the first important game, so a few errors Championship was in the such facts don't matter at all," Golui and Ashique Kuruniyan am enjoying every single won a Silver here in 10m air rifle and which placed them second. can happen, but overall the boys did well," said Mancini. semi-final in 2015-16 when he maintained. being cautioned in India's moment in my first National a 2020 Olympic quota place for India, They eventually finished fourth, "I knew it was going to be difficult. They are a team India relied on a Jeje "Sunday we are playing opener against Sri Lanka, Team endeavour," he quipped. shot 1170 in the women's 50m rifle 3 with a score of 24 in the final. that, at this moment, have more assurance than us. Lalpekhlua brace and a Sunil against a completely different Constantine admitted it is a "Yes, it could have been a positions qualifying round to finish After the seventh day of competi- "But in the second half we made less technical mis- Chhetri strike to prevail 3-2. Maldives team and they're "concern". dream debut for me had I ninth. The top eight make it to the tion, India have 20 medals — seven takes and I'm happy with those 45 minutes. Before we made However, Constantine also going to face a different "Yes, that's a concern for scored. But leaving the ground finals. Gold, seven Silver and six Bronze, many mistakes, too many." said that history won't play India team whom they played sure. If they get cautioned with three points is all that Manu Bhaker, in the women's putting them in the second position Italy struggled in all areas, Zielinski opening for Poland any part when the two teams last time. Had we won those another time, it won't be good mattered." 25m pistol, tallied 584 in qualification behind Korea and ahead of China. five minutes before the break to angry whistles from the crowd at the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara. Federico Chiesa came off the bench in the 71st minute to replace Lorenzo Insigne, and when he was brought down in the box minutes later Brazilian-born Jorginho stepped %  -       1  up to beat Lukasz Fabianski. Striker Mario Balotelli played for an hour before being substituted by Mancini along with Insigne who spear-  )*! ?18)?-9? lead three minutes from half-time when warm-up for their Nations League open- headed the early Azzurri attack along with Federico US captain Wil Trapp clipped Fabinho er against Iceland on Tuesday. Bernardeschi. oberto Firmino and Neymar scored in the penalty area. However, the visitors were handed a Zielinski and Robert Lewandowski were in the front Rthe goals as Brazil cruised to a 2-0 Paris Saint-Germain striker Neymar series of gifts by a Scotland side that line for the Poles. Mancini handed 26-year-old Fiorentina friendly victory over an inexperienced stepped up to stroke in his 58th inter- slumped to a fourth defeat in five games left-back Cristiano Biraghi his first cap. United States here on Friday. national goal in his 91st game. since manager Alex McLeish was Poland will play their next matches in the Nations Brazil, playing their first international Neymar, who was handed the cap- appointed for a second spell in charge. League at home on October 11 against Portugal and on since a disappointing World Cup quar- tain's armband by manager Tite for this Martinez named a strong side with October 14 against Italy. ter-final exit, were in complete control game, is now only five goals away from six of those that started the World Cup throughout a low-key encounter at the surpassing Ronaldo in second place on semi-final defeat to France in the start- $ , MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Brazil's all-time scoring charts. ing line-up. %$!Artem Dzyuba hit a second-half winner as World Jersey. Ronaldo has 62 goals, while Pele tops But it took a gift from Aston Villa's Cup quarter-finalists Russia opened their Nations League The South American giants had won the charts with 77. John McGinn to get the visitors going campaign with a 2-1 away win over Turkey on Friday. their previous 10 games against the when the midfielder was caught in pos- Stanislav Cherchesov's men were intent on taking up United States, whose lone victory came  %  session on the edge of his own box and where they had left off in WC and the visitors looked well way back in 1998.     ,  '** #' B22C  ' *4  ' '#          $! World Cup semi-finalists Mousa Dembele and Thorgan Hazard on their way when Valencia winger Denis Cheryshev There was never much doubt that Belgium capitalised on a series of teed up Lukaku for his 41st internation- opened the scoring with a well-struck volley after just 13 Brazil would extend their winning record for repeatedly squandering possession Costa, but was left for dead as the Scotland mistakes with goals from al goal. minutes. to 11 consecutive wins as they dominat- cheaply. Brazilian skipped past him all too easi- Romelu Lukaku, Eden Hazard and a Eden Hazard then smashed home Serdar Aziz gave Turkey a lifeline when he levelled ed throughout against an American The opening goal came after 11 min- ly before picking out Firmino with a pin- Michy Batshuayi double to thrash the Belgium's second a minute into the sec- four minutes before the interval with a fine strike from team who are rebuilding after their utes, when Juventus winger Douglas point low cross. hosts 4-0 in a friendly at Hampden on ond-half. While,Valencia striker just inside the area as Russia failed to clear. shock failure to qualify for the World Costa found himself in space on the right The Liverpool forward tapped in an Friday. Batshuayi scored twice in eight minutes But only eight minutes later slack defending saw Yuri Cup. flank. easy finish past Columbus Crew goal- Roberto Martinez's men showed before the hour mark after pouncing on Gazinski's short pass find Dzyuba unmarked on the right Brazil glided through a one-sided British-born left-back Antonee keeper Zack Steffen for 1-0. their class and no hangover from their slack passes by Charlie Mulgrew and side, the captain finishing with calm to stun the hosts. first half, with the hosts paying the price Robinson rushed in to close down The South Americans doubled their exertions in finishing third in Russia to Ryan Jack.    (  )* +, -./0 ' #  )  ,  :     )     '  H  

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The wicket was and three full day's play remaining in leg in the 16th over. quite slow, but the ball was the match. In the morning session, Buttler always doing something, so I Courtesy birthday boy Jos Buttler's scored his 10th career half-century to just tried to stay as patient as I 89 and his 98-run ninth-wicket stand rescue England to 304 for eight as could. The Indian bowlers did- with Stuart Broad (38), England man- Indian bowlers struggled to wrap up the n't give me a lot to hit. So I just aged a decent first innings score of 332 home team's tail. tried to bat. I don't always play after they were struggling at 198 for Starting at overnight score of 198 like that, but we were in a seven at the end of first day's play. for seven, the Indian pacers found some decent position," said Ali on In reply, India's top-order disap- lateral movement in the morning but Friday. pointed once again with Shikhar were unable to get the English tail- "You're always hoping to let Dhawan (3) failing once again in what enders' out. The English tail-enders' them bowl and bowl. But they could be his last Test innings for a con- performance has been the main reason just kept coming, bowling same siderable period of time. why India are 1-3 down in the series, pace, same areas. It was one of KL Rahul and Cheteshwar Pujara and it was a near-repeat effort from the the best bowling attacks I've made identical 37 to stitch together 64 home team's lower-order on Saturday faced. They were just always,   !    # '   runs for the second wicket to stabilise morning as Indian bowlers failed to get consistently there."  ' #' (   the Indian innings before the English wickets despite getting assistance from Cook scored 71 runs off bowlers got back into the groove, the pitch. 190 balls and put on 60 runs ers, maybe some you don't picking up crucial wickets when it mat- Mohammed Shami (0/72) was with Keaton Jennings, know about at the moment. tered. again India's best bowler on Saturday, England's best stand of the Obviously we don't want these At stumps, debutant Hanuma beating the bat again and again but luck series thus far. He survived a collapses at the time," he said. Vihari was unbeaten on 25 with didn't favour him. dropped chance at 37, but Talking about his role as the Ravindra Jadeja (8 not out) for com- Adil Rashid (15) and Buttler couldn't capitalize to score a number three batsman, he said, pany as India lost their way after tea. pushed the score past 200 quickly as 45 hundred as India struck back "I probably wasn't good enough After the final break of the day, con- runs came in the first hour of play. after tea. to nick them. When I went into ditions favoured bowlers a lot more Jasprit Bumrah (3/64) did account Ali and Cook put on 73 tea, the guys were calling me under heavy cloudy conditions and for the wicket of Rashid, out lbw in the runs for the second wicket, after Geoffrey Boycott, then they floodlights as the ball darted around seventh over of the morning despite a which England six wickets for came in, played and missed with James Anderson (2/20) and Sam DRS referral from the batsman. 65 runs in the final session. their first ball, and I was pret- Curran (1/46) troubling the Indian bats- But Buttler and Broad denied the "When he got dropped, I ty happy with that. men most. Indian bowlers any further break- just said it was meant to be for "I've not done it (batting at Rahul looked set for a big score throughs in the remainder of session, you. A player will come in to try number three) much for before Curran went through his defense much to the frustration of the Indians. and replace Cook, which will be England, and I don't see why I with a nearly unplayable delivery in the Buttler reached his half-century off very difficult. He was finding it can't bat there. I just go out and 23rd over. 84 balls as England crossed 250 in the difficult, probably not as easy as try to play according to the sit- Thereafter, India lost three wickets 104th over. we thought it would be (on this uation. I bat number three for for 33 runs as Anderson wreaked #     '    , '  ,   ',' &'  '  D # ' ' (   Later, Buttler brought up his 50-run wicket). There were some dents Worcester and managed to havoc with the moving ball, dismissing partnership with Broad off 61 balls as in the wicket. score some runs (double hun- both Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane in ing his 70-ball knock and looked bat- against the debutants — the first of slip cordon. England quick scoring rate added to "I prepared different this dred) there earlier this year. quick succession. ting easy even as his colleagues strug- which looked out on replays but Earlier, replying to England's total, India's frustration. week than I would have done Why not? Pujara was caught behind, while gled. England didn't opt for DRS. the visitors made a poor start and lost India reduced England to 181 for previously against a bit newer "Sometimes, it's a good Rahane (0) was caught at slip in the But Kohli perished while trying to Vihari then regained his compo- opener Dhawan early, out trapped seven at one stage on Friday, but now ball. It just gives you time to get thing. There are times when space of 13 balls. be too positive, edging a Ben Stokes sure and batted till the end of day in LBW by Broad in the second over. the game seemed to be slipping away your mind around batting at you can balance the team out, Just like previous matches, India (2/44) delivery to his counterpart Joe company of Ravindra Jadeja (8 not out) Rahul though batted with more from the visitors. England have already number three for England. I and you get into the side prob- skipper Virat Kohli (49) looked in great Root at the slip cordon. In between, young wicket-keeper freedom than in the earlier Tests, and taken an unassailable 3-1 lead in the know I was dropped, I know I ably before most of the other nick and seemed determined to take his Vihari looked out of sorts against batsman Rishabh Pant (5) again failed looked to play his shots as he hit four series with wins in Birmingham, Lord's played and missed, but I just guys. But there are times when side out of troubled waters with posi- Stuart Broad's (1/25) inswingers ini- to cash in on the opportunity edging a fours. Pujara, meanwhile, was solid at and Southampton. India won the third tried to bat. I'm always confi- you just feel you want a set bat- tive intent. He hit six boundaries dur- tially. The bowler had two LBW shouts Stokes delivery to Alastair Cook on the the other end as they played out a near- Test at Nottingham. dent. There's always good play- ting position," he signed off. / .         '    8EF  !# ! * 031GE

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I want to become a trusted wrong shots and get out. And that's Opting to bat, Australia A Peter Handscomb (8), Head and cricket. member of the team and I can fulfil exactly what happened. were in trouble at 180 for six Marnus Labuschagne (nought), Jadeja took two for 57 on day one the all-rounder slot well because I "From there we got six wickets before Marsh and pacer Michael leaving the visiting side tottering of the fifth and final Test, which hap- have done it before in the past. It isn't for 50 or so. As a bowling depart- Neser (44 batting) added 110 at 140 for five. pens to be his first of the series. anything new to me. It is a matter of ment, that is our idea - not to con- runs for the unbroken seventh Gowtham picked Ashton "For me the biggest thing is that time. cede runs. If there's a partnership, we wicket stand. Agar's (23) wicket, leaving I am playing for India and maybe "When you are going through a will bowl in good areas. In England, Marsh played 151 balls so Australia A 180 for six, but some day if I do well, I will be back bad patch, you need to play more and if one wicket falls, you get two or far, hitting 13 boundaries while Marsh and Neser, batted patient- playing all three formats of the more to regain your old form and three in a cluster. And that's what Neser has also played 108 balls ly and built their partnership game soon enough. But my aim is to touch. So it is possible the more I happened," he said. hitting six fours in the process. steadily. convert any opportunity I get into play international cricket, the better Mohammed Shami was unlucky Among the top order, No 3 Opener Usman Khawaja and performance," he said after stumps I will perform and will be able to as he beat the batsmen on numerous Travis Head (68) and opener  '  ' *  ' # '   spinner Jon Holland, who were on day one. make a comeback in all three for- occasions, but failed to induce an Kurtis Patterson (48) added 92   $   !'     star performers in 98-run victory "For me the biggest thing is that mats," said the southpaw. edge. runs for the second wicket before over India A in their first match, I am playing for India and maybe India did well to reduce England "Shami bowled well. He was a middle-order collapse er, who made his way into the were rested to give Agar, someday if I do well, I will be back to 198 for seven by close of play con- unlucky that he beat the bat so many occurred. side after recovering from ham- Renshaw and leggie Mitchell playing all three formats of the sidering the hosts were 133 for one times. He's bowling with good Chinaman Kuldeep Yadav string injury, was cleaned up by Swepson a chance. game soon enough. But my aim is to in the 64th over. rhythm; he is generating good pace (2/68) and left-arm orthodox seamer Gurbani. Wicketkeeper Alex Carey convert any opportunity I get into Jadeja said that the bowling too. Shami, Bumrah and Ishant - all Shahbaz Nadeem (2/64) were the However Patterson and has flown home for the birth of performance," he said after stumps attack worked together to a plan of of them did well," said Jadeja. most successful bowlers. Head steadied the ship with a 92- his first child, with Handscomb on day one.          #   cutting down boundaries and frus- England made their best start of Off-spinner Krishnappa run second wicket stand. taking the gloves for this match. "When you are playing just one trating the English batsmen. the series on a pitch that proved to Gowtham (1/60) and Rajneesh Patterson played aggressive- format it is very tough because keep motivating yourself - whenev- Jadeja took a couple while Ishant be more batsmen friendly than oth- Gurbani (1/50) also chipped in ly hitting eight boundaries while  %  there is too much gap between er I get a chance, like in this game, Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah shared ers earlier, with the first wickets with a wicket each. Head played steadily and kept Australia A: 290/6 (Mitchell matches and the experience whatever ability I have, I have to give the other five wickets as India's putting on 133 runs. Thereafter the Australia A started off dis- the scoreboard ticking, until Marsh 86 not out, Travis Head (rhythm) you need to play at inter- my best on the field." bowling proved miserly throughout hosts collapsed in the final session, astrously by losing opener Matt Nadeem dismissed him. 68; Shahbaz Nadeem 2-64, national level is less. So you have to He outlined playing the holding the day. conceding six wickets for 65 runs. Renshaw for a duck. The open- Head's 68 was decorated Kuldeep 2-68) vs India A.   % A    8     /$ ? 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India is just another game and we help his side, but pointed out that find the top three of Zaman, Imam- Verma had to sweat it out for 51 should avoid creating hype as it adds Pakistan haven't fared as well in ul-Haq and Babar Azam in good minutes to get the better of unseed- unnecessary pressure," Malik said on ODIs in the UAE as they have in touch. The three finished as the top ed Gurusaidutt 16-21 21-15 21-11 in Friday. Tests. three run scorers in Pakistan's last the semi-final of the USD 75,000 However, he acknowledged the "Playing in UAE gives us an ODI series, a five-match affair BWF Tour Super 100 tournament. opportunity that the fixture provides advantage but it is not as easy as peo- against Zimbabwe, which Pakistan Verma will take on Soong Joo   7       to players to make their mark. "This ple think it is," said Malik. "If you swept 5-0. Ven of Malaysia in Sunday's summit is perhaps the only cricket match notice our track record here, it is bet- Zaman topped the charts with clash. The Malaysian had defeated They will face sixth seeds Akbar that the entire cricket fraternity ter in Test cricket but when it comes 515 runs, while Haq and Azam seventh seed Firman Abdul Kholik Bintang Cahyono and Winny watches and not only India and to playing the shorter formats our returned 395 and 184 runs respec- of Indonesia 21-17 21-14 in the other Oktavina Kandow of Indonesia in the Pakistan fans, which is why it pro- performances aren't extraordinary. tively from five games. semi-final. final. vides a massive opportunity to play- "People need to understand that "Batsmen at the top of the order, Elsewhere, top seeded local pair Earlier on Friday, With big guns ers if they want to become a hero," batting under lights here is difficult positions one to three, should score of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and K Srikanth and HS Prannoy battling he said. as conditions are different but that the bulk of the runs if the team is to Chirag Shetty also made it to the final poor form, Sameer Verma emerged Malik is right. Just ask Fakhar does not mean there isn't room for post a good total on the board. We of the men's doubles event with an as the best-placed Indian in the race Zaman, who starred with a 106-ball improvement. We will continue are glad that our top three are in easy 21-14 21-6 win over compatri- for a place in the BWF World Tour 114 in the ICC Champions Trophy working to improve in this particu- great form and we expect them to ots Arun George and Sanyam Shukla. Finals with two-thirds of the season 2017 final against India and has since lar area." continue their good run in the Asia The mixed doubles duo of completed. then grown leaps and bounds to While the clash against India is Cup as well," Malik said. Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Sameer, who had clinched the become one of the mainstays of the expected to steal the limelight, As for the bowling, he added, "I Reddy, top seeds, too booked their Swiss Open earlier this year, Pakistan line-up, and having scored Pakistan do have Hong Kong as well believe that it is important to have place in the final with a 21-19 21-15 remained in the hunt to qualify for his first one-day international dou- to deal with. The Associate nation two-three bowlers who can pick up straight-game victory over fifth seed- the $ 1,500,000 season-ending event ble hundred. qualified for the tournament by wickets during the middle overs to ed Hong Kong pair of Chang Tak as he is currently in the sixth place Malik also has a good ODI winning the Asia Cup Qualifier break momentum of the opposing Ching and NG Wing Yung. in Race to Guangzhou Rankings. record against India - he has scored , *       )   2018, and Malik isn't taking any sides."    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hile debating an appropriate to meet a person who hasn’t smiled at hearing the latter got shoved aside to the haphazard sure to see people of all classes and hues buy title for this article, I once that I belong to the hills, specifically Shimla. tiers sloping down the hills. Interestingly, how- cakes, pastries, breads, savouries and the other again committed the error of Over the years, I have come to cherish this ever, native-born discrimination originating so-called ‘foreign’ dishes with the same thinking positively about the instinctive response, delighting in how the much before the arrival of the British came warmth and sometimes explicit excitement as word ‘homeliness’ for the name of a hill station sends my listener on a into play as well, and the haphazard tiers purchasing the other, more Indian stuff. When Wnth time. For some unknown reason, dictio- memory trip to some or the other hills for a themselves developed a hierarchical pattern, so visitors from the plains return to their abodes, naries equate homeliness with the unattrac- few seconds. “Jahaan ki yaadein ab bhi taaza that the topmost layer would be occupied by they fondly recall the eventful treks they had tive, the non-beautiful, and the inelegant, hain” (whose memories are still fresh), as they the higher castes and those at the bottom by across these Malls in thrilling and occasionally although another meaning does try to com- invariably add. Conversely, I am yet to meet a the ‘untouchables’. From a distance, therefore, hyperbolic terms: “Itnaa chaley hum!” (We pensate by referring to ‘being homely’ in the person from the hills who doesn’t exude a a typical ‘Indian’ hill station would echo not walked so much!). For “Mall par jaana must sense of being ‘unpretentious’. I have often sense of satisfaction at voicing his or her con- only colonial splendour and oppression hai!” (It is a must to go to the Mall) is almost wished that such confusion regarding the 8++;7!;5J<>* nection with the highlands. This is true of not through its magnificent buildings that filigreed an innately felt duty, as all roads lead to the word never existed in the first place, so that only the Himalayas but also of people belong- the ridges, but also Indian bias wrapped up in Mall! The freedom of movement along the ‘homeliness’ would simply and unambigu- ing to other raised terrains. a sore, unplanned look — a testimony to impe- connector of the Mall democratises a colonial ously imply something warm, happy, cheer- Mihir Vatsa, a friend and poet from the rial indifference towards urban planning for legacy on an everyday basis, but such democ- ful, and beautiful in a kind of wholesome Hazaribagh plateau in Eastern India, makes the common Indian. As my brother describes ratisation comes with its own interesting oddi- totality. For ‘home’ is a precious word and me aware of similar claims to what might be this predicament, hill stations bore the look of ties. At a time when major cities of the country idea, even as it may mean different things to called “landscape intimacy” or “topophilia” “a beggar wearing a crown”. have been renamed to preserve an indigenous different people. Amply romanticised in cul- in his beloved upland, whose folk too bear ‘ring’ (Calcutta to Kolkata, Bangalore to ture since the beginnings of history and witness to a “ghar ki feeling” (feeling of ost-Independence, however, has been a Bengaluru, Bombay to Mumbai), Shimla’s Mall often intrinsically tied to the concepts of home). It is almost as if hills and mountains different story, as all colonial hill stations continues to be known as ‘the Mall’ (like other belonging and identity, ‘home’ fundamentally .8(7) 891!)! ( themselves prompt you to think of them in Phave metamorphosed into as ‘Indian’ hills stations’), even though post-Independence indexes the lived notions of comfort, ease, distinctive yet familiar terms, terms that nat- towns and cities as any other. The transforma- it was recast as Lala Lajpat Rai Marg after safety, and bonhomie. Homes make us as !8(+7* )!!)(*770 urally mature in the currency of home. tion is a complex one, full of fascinating points the famous Indian leader whose statue still much as we make our homes. !(2(-0 8) N')?!9*7O Hill stations came into existence with the and idiosyncrasies that can easily fill a book. dons the town-centre. Then again, the Ridge, I first became conscious of home as a consolidation and expansion of the British The most telling of these is the deepening of Shimla’s largest public space presided by the special concept during my childhood when 8)0 !(+17*)91!70 empire in the Indian subcontinent. The heat the affectionate claim of ‘home’ by the com- Christ Church and the Gaiety Theatre, my father’s transferrable job began introduc- 2?9. (9 * )!(+90 and dust of the plain-based cities triggered the mon indigenous population, for most of whom retains its name despite the decades-old ing me to different parts of the Himalayas of 9- 8) N!9(*7O" !18 cartographers and travellers of the East India such spaces embody freedom, joy, and satisfac- change to Nehru Maidan. North India. For as long as I can remember, Company (and then of the Crown) to search tion. From once being the prerogative of the Notwithstanding outdoor pleasures, the home has struck as a fertile, multilayered (! 8)(? *)!8)( for cooler climes that lay in high areas spread- whites, hill stations have come a far way even ‘house’ still remains a most compelling sym- notion, that invariably speaks in different (>)?!(0 8* )*8 9- ing across the length and breadth of the though some people continue to associate bol of the feeling of being ‘at home’ in hill sta- degrees and intensities through a variety of colony. By the middle of the 19th century, places like Shimla and Mussoorie with an ‘elite’ tions. The much-touted aphorism that “a markers. While the entity of the ‘house’ is 8)+ 9?(:1)! 9 well-known hill stations, such as Shimla, atmosphere, owing to the few famous Indians house is built by bricks, but a home is built by possibly the most obvious transmitter of 8) +*/(2 9- 8) Darjeeling, Mussoorie, Ooty, and Nainital, had residing there: This actor, that artiste, and that hearts” perhaps needs a little tweaking in the home, the environment which the house started gaining attention in popular conscious- erstwhile maharaja. But like much else, this case of highlands because the phrase presup- finds itself in — a neighbourhood, a locality, 8*?*)? 9- !8(+7*" ness, established as they were in the image of a elite has itself become the stuff of local folk- poses a necessarily inferior status for material a village, a town, a city — equally, if not *! * .9? N8*?*)?O ‘home away from home’. These stations were lore, so that it is not uncommon to find the ingredients in contrast to heartfelt emotions. more, contributes to the feel and ambience of consciously meant to evoke the ambience of ‘non-elite’ shedding light on the ‘hill life’ of the Materiality, however, matters. Anyone even home. Hilly regions generously lend them- (+'?)2*)! 8) the British countryside, natural and cultural, crème de la crème with a vivacity typical of remotely interested in architecture and urban selves to this aspect because the outside and 9)' 9- * 8(77 so that European templates of architecture and friendly storytelling. Hence, the generation of planning can provide an insight into the the inside are always in a conversation with social customs got transposed to a foreign ter- the ubiquitously found highland phrase: tones, densities, textures, and indeed, feelings each other. Views from one’s windows matter 9. *! (- 8) 891!) ritory to generate something new in the lens of “Everyone knowing everyone”. associated with the elements of building, be as an essential part of the house itself, as (!)7- 1?2)! 1! 9 '1 the familiar. Unlike the precolonial mountain- But the invention of such sentiment has they brick, stone, metal, wood, glass... you does the last ray of the sun peeling away ous establishments that sprouted along rivers also to do with the relatively smaller size of the name it. Like the local artisans of the time, from the flank of a distant hill, so that ( 9 '*? .(8 81+*! in valleys (Kullu, Chamba, Kangra, to name a hill stations to those of the cities, as well as the colonisers of the 19th century also care- pahaad (mountains) routinely become 7(/) * !)() )(0 few) — water being the fundamental source with the lanes and trails that crisscross the fully assessed the materials and designs that synonymous with ghar (home). for the seeding of civilisations — colonial hill hills to connect with the Mall Road — the life- went into the making of their houses. But for India being a largely tropical country stations shifted the very imagination of urban line of all major hill stations, which daily con- all their foreign look and appeal, Shimla dominated by plains, heights continue to sig- geography, preferring to germinate at the top duit the movement of their residents and visi- houses developed on a fine intermixing of nify a much loved and often revered ‘other’. of mountains and along ridges. Such position- tors. Connections blossom on these Malls that Himalayan and British aesthetics. Hill people themselves are conscious of this ing was synonymous with making grand state- play home to delightful architecture and a host aspect, and it is common to find countless ments about imperial might and supremacy, of shops, restaurants, offices, and bakeries. Yet summits serving as homes to Gods and and because hardly any hill station was another colonial legacy, bakeries too thrive Goddesses and the powers beyond. 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And historical- sible to choose one favourite animal.” ly, we have always revered and wor- Sharing more details from the envi- shipped nature and wildlife. So much so ronment her parents created for her, she that I cannot think of a single human says, “Since I remember, I saw my parents expression — whether it is in arts or cul- as people who were animal lovers and ture or religion or mythology…it is in our environmentally very conscious. My storytelling, our textile design, our archi- mother would never use plastic in our tecture — it is everywhere. Everything we home. My father was constantly innovat- do is inspired by nature. Even the motif on ing design and technology. He built fur- your kurta, my kurta, your handbag is niture and a lot of it was with locally avail- nature. Another reason for making the able material. I can never forget him wildlife anthem was that we wanted to give doing interiors for a restaurant where he the children of this country an opportu- actually designed kulhads to be used nity to correlate our identity and our pride there. A lot of the furniture was built out with wildlife and nature. of cane and bamboo and locally available “People who have seen the video ask material. I can’t also forget my father me, ‘Is all this footage from India?’ And I building a solar basket to heat water in tell them, ‘Absolutely, it’s all ours!’ Our the house. So, it’s these influences that wildlife is visually very engaging and enter- cultivated the relationship that I have with taining. Even our films haven’t explored animals and the environment.” this aspect. It reflects on the fact that many She adds, “They taught me that when- of us in the professions or vocations that ever you use something, think of where we pursue become so cocooned in the idea it’s coming from and where it’s going to of what it should be that we don’t explore go. All items of consumption come from enough. And I think it is time. I hope that nature; that’s a fundamental question that through Born Free Entertainment and every human being should learn about my participation in such work, I can find because we do not associate material pos- narratives that will engage and entertain sessions — whether it’s the homes we live and, at the same time, educate people. It’s in or the materials we build our homes very important to be able to walk the talk. with or the clothes we wear or the jew- If you genuinely love something and ((* 171?) ellery we wear or anything we use — with express that love, people will find a way *>9*) nature. It’s only certain campaigns that to share that with you. have drawn people’s attention to this. For “The anthem goes: Pyaari hai mujhe -?12*7(0 91 instance, now people correlate paper desh ki zameen/Mere desh ki with trees. But the fact is that every sin- zameen/Yahaan na koi kami/Haryaali ki 9- ?)!') -9? gle item of consumption other than basti hai yahaan/Hawa hawa mein masti papers too, comes from nature. hai yahaan/Kahin sher ver, kahin hiran *1?)" :1 .) *?) “I think Indian culture advocated fru- viran/Kahin ped ghane, ya dhoop kiran. 7(>(2 ( * )?* gality out of this very respect for nature. There is a passage in the middle which But we are living in an era where every- Sunidhi Chauhan has sung. It says, ‘This .8)?) )>)?0:90 (! body is constantly asked to consume, and is my land, this is my world. Just as you the correlation of economic growth is with belong to nature, know that she belongs 9!*70 *!/) consumption. The question now is, what to you.’ It gives us a sense of ownership, kind of things do you want to consume? which is essential to conservation.” 9 9!1+) * I have become conscious about not con- Talking about what she loves the most 8) 9??)7*(9 suming single-use plastics. I have become about elephants in particular, the actor conscious about ensuring that the prod- adds, “Their loyalty and gratitude. Human 9- )99+( ucts I use — whether it’s a make-up prod- beings claim to be the greatest species but uct or other products — are not animal I think elephants might just surpass us in 2?9.8 (! .(8 tested and are earth friendly even in their value systems. Unlike us, they never for- packaging. I try to wear as much hand- get to be thankful. They are a matriarchal 9!1+'(9 crafted and handwoven textile as possi- society. They are very gentle and loving ble because I really think that if you want despite being very big. There’s just too true sustainable development, it has to much to love about animals.” help human lives and help lives that are She does not, however, have a working with nature as opposed to work- favourite animal as almost all of them ing against nature.” were a part of her growing up years. She Summing up her thoughts on India’s says, “I can’t actually think of one because relationship with its wild animals, Dia I remember being fascinated by all. I grew says, “We need to understand that our up in an environment that really cultivat- existence is interdependent with the ed engagement with wildlife and nature. existence of wildlife. They are the bene- So, whether there were cobras that lived factors and they are the ones who ensure in our house and whom I would watch that we have water to drink, food to eat, regularly pass by and never feared or there and clean air to breathe. 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he indigenous dhajji that thrive with countless sto- Imtiaz Ali’s Tamasha (2015). edly plays out through its dewari timber-framed ries and provide material While Black depicted the intimate claims to space. Tstructures undergirded anchorage to the sense of growth of a young, physically The recent long advertise- by stone and earth infill were identity. While houses essen- challenged girl in amiable ment for Saregama Carvaan, melded with the floor plans tially signify the ‘personal’, edifices such as Woodville a modern electronic version of European Romantic era they simultaneously grow Palace and the Punjab Circuit of the erstwhile humble cottages to issue something into a testimony of the House, Tamasha traced the radio replete with Hindi new, something unseen in ‘social’. Such is their aesthetic journey of a dreamer and film songs of yore, too uses the history of architecture. A diversity that each of them storyteller using another an enchanting ancestral friend and famed Shimla his- contributes to the making of colonial era property perched home, Sunnymead, belong- torian Raaja Bhasin warmly the ‘character’ of Shimla. As a near the town’s famous Christ ing to a dear Shimla friend, labels the cross-currents of word, ‘character’ continually Church. Such is the visual Madhavi Sanghamitra Shimla buildings as “that impregnates the concept of a and affective power of Shimla Bhatia. Deeply sentimental, dearly loved, adopted child hill town, as if the house homes that when you visit the commercial literally — mine, but not mine”. itself urges us to put it on par the Film City in Mumbai conjures the music of living When the celebrated with humans like a sentient (which I did some years ago), in the hills as the passage of traveller of British India, entity. 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aman Singh, who is a writer Is the animal imagery — Kitty’s initial Sharp class barriers are created in the and daughter of former description reads like a cat’s — intentional? book only to be undone later. Why? Prime Minister Manmohan The animal imagery was not intentional. The class barriers were very sharp in that Singh, had given readers a It is something that you have picked up on world. What I tried to show was that it is peek into her parents’ lives and it is interesting; I will think about it. possible for two individuals to cross those Din her last book, Strictly Personal: Maybe it was there on a subconscious level. barriers. It can be done at an individual Manmohan and Gursharan. Now, she is level, even though you couldn’t do it on a back with a book — Kitty’s War — that Why did you choose this particular societal level. deals with the direct as well as indirect period in history — World War II? impact of World War II on colonial I was never interested in history as a stu- Why do you call the town Peepli? India. It was not a natural inclination dent; I found it very boring. And for most My previous book — a novel called The towards India’s history that led the of my adult life, it meant nothing to me. Sacred Grove — had a village called Pipri. author to this book, though. It was dur- It’s only when I started working on my last So, I just changed it a little bit and never ing a discussion with her parents for her book, which was a biography of my par- thought about it. In it, I have tried to give previous book that Daman got an ents, and when I started asking them the flavour of either a large village or a account of what it was like to grow up about their lives, that the history of those small town. So, it could be any place real- at the time of World War II. And that times became real for me. It was not just ly. I didn’t make it a special place. made her want to find out more. The a textbook with names and places that you author talks about the process of writ- had to mug up. It was then that I got real- Do the Railways serve as a metaphor ing this book and the random associa- ly interested in history. Of course, this is in your book for the conflict between war tions she made while choosing names of modern history. I am still not very inter- and development? characters in the narrative. She also tells ested in other kinds of history. And what When I started research for my book, I us that for her next book, she is planning fascinated me was, of course, not what the found out that one of the services that was to research on how mental asylums func- Government was doing or what the big badly affected by the war was the Railways. tion and what Governments do to help leaders were doing. But what ordinary That’s why I zeroed in on it. Because it gave patients admitted there. people were doing — how did they me a chance to express what was going on. think? How did they feel? How did they At that time, our colonial Government was In the first few paragraphs of the novel, deal with such complex and difficult )H ! D) )/9 starved of funds because all resources were you describe the protagonist, Kitty, things that were going on? So, I was real- being pumped into the war. So, there was almost like a cat — soft and little, seek- ly interested in that aspect. And I think The role of Japan brings out the fact that men into the ‘public world’? a general slowdown in administration; any ing comfort, unsuccessfully trying to some of it comes into this book as well. the war was not just being fought in I hope not (laughs)! I hope I didn’t create new project would be shut down or put on shut out the outside world. Why do you While talking to my father about his Europe, far away and in parts of Africa; the this gender barrier. I think Kitty as a per- hold. The Railways, which was about a 100 call her Kitty? childhood — when he was a boy attend- war was practically at our doorstep. The son was just more inward-looking. And I years old then, was a growing industry. The My answer to that is actually very silly ing school in Peshawar — he said he threat was real. From what I have read, all think she was somewhat protected from war meant they had to stop any expansion, (laughs). When I was growing up, I had would often listen to the radio and fol- along the East Coast, we had ‘built up’. I the war, or from what was going on in the hold new projects, repairs were delayed, a cook book written by an Anglo-Indian, low the news of World War II. And at that mean, the Army was on alert to deal with world. So that’s why she is not affected by equipment was getting faulty or overaged Kitty Riddle. And that name just stuck time, I thought to myself, “What does an invasion. It was a real threat. And it’s it in the same way that Jonathan is. because they could not replace it on time. in my head. So, when I was thinking of World War II have to do with us?” So, not something that is written about much. But what I found really startling was a name for my book, it just popped out. after I recorded that interview, and I had The novel ends around August 1942. But What kind of war is Kitty involved in? that the war was on in, say Africa, and And without even thinking, I named the to research the time and period, I start- in December that year, I think, Calcutta We are talking about the war that is bogies and tracks were being sent there main person Kitty Riddle. I didn’t even ed reading about what World War II was actually bombed! This is again some- going on inside her mind, where she is from India. I found this really bizarre. You consider other alternatives. Some people meant for India. And it was really a sort thing I had no clue about — I thought to being pulled in different directions. She have railway tracks in India, and the said, “Why such a common name? You of revelation — I had no idea. Firstly, the myself: “In World War II, we were feels that England is home, but she is liv- Government thinks, “Oh well, these are could have used something more military aspect. You know, India actual- bombed? Nobody told me that!” ing in India. She connects with every- not particularly important tracks. So, unique.” But somehow Kitty Riddle was ly played a big role for the allies. And thing that is British, but her upbringing uproot them and send them out.” So, the already in my mind. I don’t even switch then, of course, the social and econom- B8'K)7! Kitty struggles with the fact that has not really exposed her to what is Railways, too, went through a lot of tur- to using Katherine in the novel. Because ic aspect. I decided then that this is what Jonathan is too preoccupied with India. So, she is living in a bubble. And moil. Coming back to the book, Kitty is it was part of the culture to use nick I want to write about. +   the war to write love letters to her. it’s through the course of the book that a railway girl; they affect her father as he names. But of course, she needed a prop- )  53# Is that an attempt to show how at the she actually starts understanding a lit- is a rail fanatic. And when he sees what er name also. 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Schriver a place in the strategic policy formulation ponderance has helped certain terrorist increasing drug smuggling and the nexus developing international cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region’s major democra- said in reference to the US Congress grant- in the present scenario. organisations in creating base for its between drug smugglers and terrorists fighting transnational terrorism. cies — India, the US, Japan and Australia ing powers to the President to waive sanc- Another area which requires attention claims and fighting proxy war for quite have posed a serious problem to the inter- The September 6 meeting between the — is also developing. While the dialogue tion had created a misconception that is chemical weapons in the possession of some time. nal state-security networks and com- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, was focused on strategic and Defence Washington would not impose sanctions terrorists. Actually chemical weapons are The question now arises is whether the pelled various nations to organise them- Defence Secretary James Mattis, and issues, there have been signs of stress in on New Delhi. normally not easily detectable and are eas- anti-terrorist operations are merely a selves and wage a relentless war against India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma the trade and services sectors. Before the “I would say that’s a bit misleading,” ily transportable compared with conven- work of simple police and paramilitary net- them. But mere implementation of vigor- Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala start of the dialogue, the Indian media Schriver said in a speech at the Carnegie tional weapons. International cooperation work or that of a special force trained for ous drug laws cannot become effective Sitharaman in New Delhi has provided a talked about the possibility of the US Endowment For International Peace in in terms of forming strict laws and regu- counter-terrorist activities? The deploy- unless the judicial procedure is modified much needed impetus to work out a new imposing sanctions against India if it Washington as reported by AFP. “We lations that prevent acquisition of such ment of special forces in countering ter- for ensuring speedy trials. The concept that security roadmap in enhancing the bought S-400 Triumf air Defence missile would still have very significant concerns chemical weapons can provide a strategic rorist activities has become a reality in one man’s terrorist can be another man’s Defence capabilities and dealing with system from Russia. India will acquire five if India pursued major new platforms and management in dealing with nuclear ter- many countries. In this regard, the expe- freedom fighter must be done away with; most obnoxious form of modern threat missile systems worth over 40,000 crore systems from Russia. I can’t sit here and rorism. The forthcoming cooperation may rience of different countries can help. For local populace should cooperate with law that is terrorism. and the talks are in advanced stage with tell you that they would be exempt, that also develop a foolproof mechanism to put example, the way West German Police enforcement machinery even at the cost The initiation of multi-layered secu- Russia and the deal may be announced we would use that waiver.” an end to the accessibility to Cyclotric defeated terrorist faction, the way the of personal misery; and prompt and strict rity cooperation which is better known as before summit talks between President He said the prospect of India buying Methylene Trinitrate (RDX), Erythritol French Army took measures to improve decisions should be undertaken by vari- Indo-US 2+2 talks was planned during Vladimir Putin and Modi in October. India the S-400 missile system from Russia is Tetranitrate ( Penta ) and sophisticated their anti-terrorist capabilities need to be ous nations for controlling terrorist psy- Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to put forth its views on the proposed mis- “troubling” for the US. weapons like AK 56 and AK 47 assault rifles. studied. The Italian Police too had to com- chologically. In changing environment the the US in 2017. The strategic dilogue — sile deal with Russia and conveyed to the Against this backdrop, India has been Besides, the revolution in communi- bat large-scale terrorist violence from new- security apparatus and police need to slated to be held in April, but was post- US that it is going ahead with the contract trying its best to impress upon the US cation network, growth of international fascist groups and the Left-wing challenges diversify its activities by bringing togeth- poned because of changes in the leader- as India needs the missile systems to bol- about its regional security environment, its narcotic trade spread through the Golden of the Red Brigades. It is commendable er technical and professional expertise ship of the State Department after Rex ster its air Defence system. This comes decades old strategic and Defence ties with Triangle on the borders of Myanmar, Laos that the US security and Intelligence net- based on many decades of experience in Tillerson resigned and Pompeo was in the against the backdrop of the US imposing Russia and assert that New Delhi will move and Thailand and golden Crescent through work avoided any further terrorist attack maintaining internal security. In this process of taking over — is a centrepiece military sanctions against Russia under the forward with the proposed contract. The the network of Afghanistan and Pakistan after September 11. regard the most crucial thing is to devel- of the growing ties between the US and Countering America’s Adversaries US was also apprised of the fact that India have posed new forms of threat. The coop- India can learn a lesson or two from op capability to anticipate security needs. India as Washington wants to scale up rela- Through Sanctions Act(CAATSA) some has almost finalised the deal with Russia eration in policing dealing with drug traf- this. Unless we develop a high-level Against the backdrop of various threats tions by extending the strategic vision from months back. and there is not going back on it at this ficking will provide a strong mechanism Intelligence network to anticipate any such looming large, it is to be admitted that the the Pacific to the Indian Ocean. The act allows the US Administration stage, sources said. to crack the nexus between terrorists and threats, the talk of combating strategies 2+2 dialogue is a pragmatic move. The Outlining the new approach, Tillerson to punish entities and countries engaging Clarifying India’s stand on the CAAT- drug dealers. The increasing cases of drug would only remain chimera. In addition remarkable scholarships, phenomenology said last year that India and the US were in significant transactions with the Defence SA, Sitharaman in June this year had said peddling and their support to terrorists to strict anti-terrorist acts, some kinds of and decision-making process adopted by “two bookends of stability on either side or Intelligence establishment of Russia. it is an American law and not a United and subversive activities have compelled positive programmes which can replace the people who make difference in strate- of the globe”. “We need to collaborate with However, the US Congress on August 1 Nations law, and India has conveyed its the Government to enforce drug laws vig- the frustration of terrorists can prove effec- gic policy orientation of India undoubted- India to ensure that the Indo-Pacific is granted President Donald Trump and position on the issue to the US. orously and promptly. This can become tive. There is also a need to promote open ly present a holistic and analytical view on increasingly a place of peace, stability, and Pompeo the power to waive sanctions. There has been a major paradigm shift highly effective if the speedy and proper institutions, including political institution, the need for immediate attention in the field growing prosperity — so that it does not However, the matter gained urgent in nations’ foreign policy outlook. trail is ensured. to absorb the ethnic, religious and polit- of strategic modernisation. become a region of disorder, conflict and currency in India as days before the 2+2 Countries of the world have become How to frame a strategy dealing with ical pressure and allow them (the radicals) predatory economics,” he said in a refer- talks was to begin, Pentagon’s assistant sec- more pragmatic in dealing with others and religiously misled terrorists and nip it in to vent their feelings in a proper way. 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3! he guessing game is on over the number of Lok Sabha seats 4$$ that will go in the kitty of the BJP and the Congress. 8*?( !8*/*? >0*! According to some surveys, the BJPT might face losses, while the Congress is in for some gains. Union Minister and RPI leader, Ramdas Athawale, has been reiterating that the BJP will lose some seats. But in the same breath, he predicts that the NDA will form the Government and only Narendra Modi will become the Prime Minister. This has, however, made one thing clear: The BJP and its alliance partners are apprehensive that they are going to lose some seats. On the other hand, the Congress believes it will gain only what the BJP loses. The Congress leaders — on the basis of internal and media houses’ sur- veys — feel that the BJP will lose around 100 seats, and if this happens, the Congress will gain more than half of that ie more than 50 seats. The Congress feels that 50 to 60 seats belonging to the BJP will come to it and the rest will go to the alliance partners. If the BJP loses in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Karnataka, and Maharashtra, the Congress will benefit directly, while the BJP’s loss in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar will be a boost for the SP, BSP, and RJD. Apart from this, if the equation of seats changes, the regional parties will benefit. For example, in Tamil Nadu, the DMK’s loss will be the AIADMK’s gain. % P % % here is no tradition of setting up a Tcore committee in the Congress, especially for elections. But this time is different; the party has formed a core committee nine months prior to polls. Apart from that, a campaign committee and manifesto committee have also been set up. It is being said that the nine-mem- ber core committee will be solely respon- sible for coordination during elections. leaders will be given separate responsibili- to stop them from joining any alliance FIR has been filed only to target Sonia’s seems that he doesn’t want the Assembly The Congress is mostly worried ties. For example, for some time now, against the BJP. Some regional stalwarts son-in-law, Robert Vadra. Along with Elections along with the Lok Sabha polls. about pre-poll alliances before the next Ahmed Patel has been talking to Mamata. say the Central Government will not take Vadra, BS Hooda is also named in the It is noteworthy that in Telangana, both Lok Sabha Elections. Many regional ksha- When the TMC chief came to Delhi, he any action against them in the election FIR. If police takes action on the basis of elections are held simultaneously. trapas are not ready to surrender before went to meet her, and it was Patel who had year as it is bound to have repercussions the FIR, then the Congress might face In Telangana, elections are sched- the Congress. In the Hindi belt and even communicated to Mamata to cancel the for the Government too. Arrest of any problems before the elections. The case uled for next April and May, but KCR in North-Eastern States, regional parties meeting of the Opposition parties she had Dalit, Backward, or tribal leader or raids might be handed over to the CBI like wants elections this December. If he rec- consider themselves bigger than the arranged on August 30, as the Opposition on them will only lead to sympathy for other land scams of Haryana. ommends the dissolution of the Congress. So, although they are gearing leaders had to go to Chennai to attend the them and this will not be good for the It must be noted that the Assembly Assembly right now, then the Election         up for tie-ups, very few seats will be allot- prayer meeting for M Karunanidhi. BJP. On the other hand, the BJP sources Elections might be held in Haryana Commission might conduct polls along      ted to the Congress. The Congress lead- Sources in the Congress say Ghulam say the Central agencies might take along with Lok Sabha polls next year. with the four States where elections are :5'  "    ers say it is not feasible for Rahul Gandhi Nabi Azad and Ahmed Patel will talk to action only to shift focus to corruption. Before that, there is buzz that BS Hooda scheduled at the end of this year. to talk about alliances everywhere. leaders of UP, Bihar, and Jharkhand. All Levelling of corruption charges against will be given command of the Congress. It might be that KCR is apprehensive       In almost all States, Rahul has regional leaders like Lalu Prasad, Akhilesh the Opposition leaders is the only way to Hooda has been on a Jan Kranti Yatra of the BJP, despite showing an inclination :5'    appointed relatively low-profile leaders as Yadav, Mayawati, and Hemant Soren hold divert attention from Rafael and other and is getting good support. towards it. At the same time, he is also in-charges. While Shaktisinh Gohil has them in high regard. In the same manner, issues. Probably this is why Robert Vadra In the FIR, Vadra’s name appears as worried about the Congress and TDP. $%%      been given charge of Bihar, RPN Singh AK Antony and Chidambaram will hold is in the news again. It took four years to he is the director of Sky Light People are saying that the TDP and      has been made responsible for party alliance talks in five southern States. It is register an FIR against Vadra, which also Hospitality. What is interesting is that Congress are going for an alliance in affairs in Jharkhand. Gaurav Gogoi’s under the same strategy that Rahul has names former CM of Haryana, names of two more companies are in the Telangana. They feel that if the Assembly      appointment as the in-charge of West appointed Mallikarjun Kharge as the Bhupinder Singh Hooda. They allegedly FIR, but the names of their directors are Elections are held along with the Lok      Bengal raised a few eyebrows. Let alone in-charge for Maharashtra. bought land at a throwaway price, not mentioned. And that is why Vadra Sabha polls, there might be communal Mamata Banerjee, even the Congress changed its land use, and then sold it at a says this is only political vendetta. polarisation. The BJP might benefit in 3%  "    leaders are not giving much importance %  high price. It is to be seen who will be in both elections owing to Modi. If the fight   3%  S%   to Gogoi. That is why it is being said that ill the Central Government take the line of fire next. O   P turns out to be four-or three-cornered, Rahul has formed the core committee at Waction against the Opposition lead- he Chief Minister of Telangana, K then there is a chance of a hung     :5'  the behest of Sonia Gandhi. ers in the election year? Sources say that    TChandrashekar Rao, has been tilting Assembly. It seems that KCR has been        The committee comprises leaders like most of the regional leaders have become ome people are questioning the towards Modi and the BJP. He has gearing up for elections for a long time Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ahmed Patel, and P apprehensive over this. It is being said Smotive and timing of the FIR in the promised that he would support the BJP and now wants to jump into the fight by       Chidambaram. There is buzz that all these that the kshatrapas are being threatened Haryana land deal case. They say the after elections, if the need arises. 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heresa May has said she did not enjoy watching the BBC drama TBodyguard, which focused on the relationship between a Rightwing Home Secretary and her personal pro- tection officer. The Prime Minister switched off after 20 minutes of the first episode and told reporters while visiting Africa that she preferred watching programmes that were not so close to home. “I watch TV to );&%&!7$&&!7J& unwind,” May said. “I’m not sure a drama about a female Home Secretary is the best way for me to do that.” The PM is a fan of the American police +*8). :)77       4  -     2   show NCIS, The Great British Bake Off, and Strictly Come Dancing — a notable choice given the mixed recep- protection officer — David Budd, -                tion for her dancing at a South played by Richard Madden — a war African school, where she joined in veteran bitterly opposed to her politics. he dog days of August used Corsini. His wife, the redoubtable into ‘A woman and her mobile’, and with teachers and parents shortly after Hawes said she had looked to Amber to be the deadest time of Principessa Giorgiana, is a key fixture featured the following lyrics: “Tells me her arrival on Tuesday morning. Rudd for inspiration rather than May, year, at least for glamorous of the festival often spied dancing on ti amo /On Instagram-o / Spelling is In Bodyguard, Keeley Hawes plays partly because Rudd was Home social gatherings. But thanks table-tops until the small hours. dodgy /Mostly emoji.’ Julia Montague, a Conservative MP Secretary at the time of filming. “We’re to three bright young musi- Lady Marina Windsor, 25, grand- Even the Royal family came in for who supported military intervention in not playing Amber Rudd. That wasn’t Tcians, that has suddenly all changed. daughter of the Duke of Kent and a some ribaldry during a song dedicated Iraq and wants to restrict civil liberties what we were going to do. But she’s a Now, on the last weekend of summer, cousin of The Queen, has spent the to the Corsinis — “May we salute thee / by updating phone-tapping legislation, very good example. She was brilliant people pack their bags for Florence for summer working backstage here. Principe Filippo / You have more grace but ends up in a relationship with her for me to research,” Hawes said. a four-day extravaganza of opera, Another of the Queen’s cousins, Flora / than the Prince Philip we know.” dance music, and high society party- Ogilvy, 23, co-hosted a dinner party for A vital ingredient is the Corsini ing. The New Generation Festival was 70 with Count Julian Solms, at his family, who ruled Florence since the    2     launched last year with the aim of home in the Torrigiani gardens. Guest 1100s; one ancestor, Pope Clement championing young performers. The of honour was Alice Walton, the XII, commissioned Rome’s Trevi foun- idea was to create a Glyndebourne- American arts patron and Wal-Mart (O! 9 51! *:91 tain. Principally, the family are now esque experience in Italy, the place heiress. But it’s not invitation only (yet, 8) 9')?*" )>)?0 involved in wine and olive oil produc- where opera was actually born. though there’s talk of that in the future) tion, but they are wildly social and Hard to believe nobody had and tickets are cost only 35 if you are (28 .8) 8) love music, each summer travelling thought of it before — outdoor opera in under 35, with full price tickets ranging 1?*( 9+)! across Italy by campervan, literally a beautiful Florentine garden, what’s from 95 to 2,500. singing for their supper. During the not to like? It opened in the gardens of The brains behind the festival are 9. 8) *1()) festival, the younger children run the Palazzo Corsini recently, with a three young Englishmen. Roger -( 8)+!)7>)! around ringing bells to announce the dazzling new staging of Mozart’s Don Granville, 30 and Frankie Parham, 29, show’s about to start. Yet, for all the Giovanni. It was followed by a perfor- met at prep school and have gone into ?(-(2 (9 * exuberance, there is one sad note — mance of Shakespeare’s Henry V, with business as impresarios. They were :)*1(-1770 7( the absence of Prince Filippo Corsini. music by William Walton, and conclud- introduced to Max Fane, 26, a wildly He was the 21-year-old son of ed with a final Don Giovanni. talented conductor, and the idea was 7(+9*(* K * :*? Giorgiana’s son Duccio, and sole male But it’s not just about the opera. born. “It’s mad to think there was no -9? !9?(2 7)+9 heir. In October 2016, he was knocked Every night when the curtain comes Glyndebourne in a country where it is off his bicycle in Knightsbridge by a down, the audience find themselves actually hot,” says Granville. “Where it’s ?))! ( .()? K lorry, the eighth cyclist to be killed in drifting into a beautifully lit limonaia nice to sit on the grass because it’s not .8)?) * 5*LL * London that year. A late-night concert — a barn for storing lemon trees in wet, and where the food is delicious.” in the Church of Ogni Santi is named winter — where a jazz act flown in Forget the standard hampers you -79. ( -?9+ ). in his honour. from New York is playing. This in turn usually see at open air music festivals 09?/ (! '7*0(2" Back in the Corsini gardens, the gives way to a late-night set of dance too, there are no limp prawn sand- 8(! ( 1? 2(>)! dress code is black tie or Renaissance music by Dutch DJ Harold Van Lennep. wiches and tubs of coleslaw at picnics masks, or “any fabulous outfit you care 2 have apologised for can- “We don’t know what has hap- This heady cocktail of old and here. This is Tuscany, home to the .*0 9 * 7*) (28 to choose”. One New York grandee told celling a concert after Bono pened and we’re taking medical new, formality and fun is intoxicating, Florentina steak and finest Chianti !) 9- *) +1!( me he had forgotten his tuxedo, so had Ulost his voice. The Irish band advice. As always, we appreciate our and attracts a colourful crowd. wines. Guests at the opening night it Fed-Exed over, only for it to be were playing in Berlin on Saturday but audience’s understanding and all our Princess Michael of Kent was in the guzzled ravioli and roast veal, knocked impounded in Customs. had to stop after only a few songs as fans’ support in Berlin and those who front row with daughter Lady back with gallons of Corsini wine. When, finally, he put it on, he their lead singer struggled on stage. travelled from afar. We will update Gabriella Windsor last year, while As an added twist, they were enter- found it no longer fit, having put on The band said in a statement: you very soon.” actress Goldie Hawn could be seen tained by London cabaret act Bounder weight since its last outing. A tailor was “We’re so sorry for tonight’s cancella- The statement, shared on the wide-eyed watching opera’s bawdiest & Cad. Perhaps it was just as well not quickly sent for, who turned out to be tion. Bono was in great form and band’s official website, was signed by lothario, Don Giovanni, being dragged everyone could understand the lyrics none other than the late Salvatore great voice prior to the show, and we Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr and screaming into hell. of some of their racier songs, such as Ferragamo’s personal tailor, aged 80. He were all looking forward to the second the Edge. Bono, 58, had halted the gig The backdrop to the stage is the the very literal interpretation of Bach’s adjusted the girth minutes before cur- night in Berlin, but after a few songs, and told fans: “I think we can’t go on, crumbling façade of the Palazzo ‘Air on a G-String’. A rendition of tain-up. The show must go on! he suffered a complete loss of voice. it’s not right for you.” Corsini, home of Prince Filippo Verdi’s La Donna E Mobile translated (' & (  *' 5DD* 

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The McLean County community took its last load in 1956. measures 8 feet, 8 inches with a hearse — complete with a by naming them eration of people aspiring to live of Ruso was on the verge of disincorpo- Schmaltz hopes others will follow wide and 3 feet, 7.5 inches corpse inside. The Tlaquepaque Harland after Col the American dream.” ration when its population dropped fol- him to Ruso, which is about 40 miles tall, appears in the 2019 police department says on its Sanders. The chain said  lowing the July death of 86-year-old (64 kilometres) southeast of Minot Guinness Book of World Facebook page that the hearse the first baby named Bruce Lorenz. It takes a minimum of near Strawberry Lake. “Other people Records, the record- had been readied to take the Harland to be born on    three residents for a community to be have expressed interest in moving out keeping organisation body of an 80-year-old September 9, the  O    P incorporated, according to the North there. We don’t want things to slow said. Ciaglia said the board man from a hospital in Colonel’s birthday, and Maine fisherman who hauled Dakota Century Code. “We want to down,” he said. “I’m about preserving was designed to function in neighboring registered with the restau- Ain a translucent ‘ghost lobster’ keep it going for Bruce’s sake,” Laurinda what little is left of Ruso. I’m proud the same way as a much- Guadalajara to a rant will win $11,000 to go off the state’s coast snapped photos Roloson, the city’s auditor and one of of being out there.” smaller board, with the funeral home. Police toward their college educa- before returning the crustacean to the Ruso’s two remaining residents, told the  main differences being say a 40-year-old tion. The amount of the ocean. Mike Billings posted photos to Minot Daily News. 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Besides, "%6  ence and technology — seems to be acquiring a false     4 M   varied references to Krishna’s sense of invincibility. For those of us who have only     5 manifold avatars are avail- heard of the apocalypse, Kerala floods offer but a short .   1   able in Bhagavad Gita, when trailer of the shape of things to descend if we do not ! *" L1  it states that Krishna’s titled as vilasa/ashvarya he is held to manifest par- those serve archavatara mend our ways. The many names with which the dif-      4  avatars appear in the world forms; gunavatara, yuga- tially, and in some others, as as the symbols of divine ferent religions call the impending disaster to befall on        4 for the protection of the vatars, and lila-avatars, fully, to help people in times Krishna, worshipping mankind appear to be a distinct possibility, given the        good ones, destruction of the which can be recognised as of crisis, and wherein, he whom with concentration, increase in frequency of Kerala-like catastrophes that       evil-doers, and establishment Narayana, Brahma, Vishnu, takes possession of a person the devotee may develop are now too global to be ignored. As the going gets      of righteousness. Rudrashiva; those presid- or an image (in his archa- intense devotion. hotter around the world, the prospects of melting glac-      "M Gradually, on the analo- ing over the four yugas; vatara form) by making Apart from the simple iers, rising oceans, and cracking earth seem to be lurk- gy of Vishnu’s avatars, the and the 10 avatars starting them the medium (in the devotees, the yogis and intel- ing. If the Biblical deluge was to punish a humanity Bhagavatas also inculcated a from the fish. Of these form of poet, prophet, lectuals also worship images, gone awry, the idea of pralaya in the Hindu religion    separate theory regarding avatars, the chief ones preacher) by his own mani- but those which are present signalled God’s ire for the humankind gone astray.       Shri Krishna’s manifold being gunavataras, are festation. The Bhagavatas — in their minds and not out- Qayamat in Islam has similar connotations. All these, avatars. With the result, a those that are categorised in such a manner, which giv- wardly going to the temples. then, are the ultimate outcome of the unsavoury ways       grand scenario of avatars of on the basis of their main ing vent to the form of image They just make their minds of mankind. It is not just about pollution of the envi- (       Krishna was prepared by quality — either of sattva, worship of Krishna in the dwell upon those images. ronment, though that is also a reason. There is more to *  (   D*(E them. Different categories of rajas, or tamas. form of the charya or Thus, in their image wor- be thought and dreaded — the serious and alarming      Krishna avatars were named Similarly, the yuga- paricharya of Krishna’s ship, all the attributes of the rise in the pollution of thought processes. Spurious  2 +  with different terminolo- avatars were those that images or the archas — had Lord are transferred to the ideas are poisoning the human mind as it acquires an       gies. Firstly, it was professed appeared for the furtherance ( !9+) *- also conceptualised Krishna’s images itself. Another cate- unusual streak of haughtiness, challenging the  ) K    that Shri Krishna manifests of the evolution of the world new avatars in the form of gory of Krishna’s avatars supremacy of Mother Nature, a creation of God. For      himself through four forms process. Thus calculating, the 8) +*(-)!! his many images installed at named antaryamis was also the non-believers, there are explanations in science as   "       —svayamrupa (in which he Bhagavatas, sometimes count '*?(*770 * various Krishna temples. construed, as these forms or well as philosophy. While science talks about the inter-      himself abides), avesharupa Krishna’s avatars as 24 and As such, the doctrine of avatars of Krishna easily connectedness of the world, which is a neatly designed 1   . (in which his part abides), other times as innumerable. ( 98)?! -1770 archa-avatars of Krishna occupy and dwell in the perfect system in an equilibrium state, and any distur- !      shaktisvarupa (in which his Besides the aforesaid avatars 9 8)7' ')9'7) was also evolved. It is held hearts of devotees, and being bance brings about a corresponding change so that the $3% %%%    power abides), and tadekat- of Krishna, the Bhagavatas that when the idols of more close to them, these act equilibrium is restored. This homeostatic tendency is 2 +   marupa (with whom he also ascribe 39 vibhava- ( (+)! 9- Krishna undergo the cultic as the evokers of their sha- inbuilt, though rather impossible to detect. Philosophy,         identifies himself). avatars to Krishna. Further, ))" 8) */)! rituals, they constitute the ranagati and prapatti-bhava. on the other hand, talks about the natural teleology      K The avatar in which Krishna is held to incarnate direct blessed forms of the Being more close, these also which, doubts notwithstanding, explains the natural 7 *   D E Krishna always abides is in in another four-fold forms '9!!)!!(9 9- Lord in which he is always appear more compassionate phenomenon rather lucidly for anyone willing to see +   D   E ! the form of dual imagery of known as real, eternal, mani- * ')?!9 9? * manifested. Thus, the to the seekers. the big picture. Even though acceptance of this princi- * D E  Radha-Krishna. While in fest, and unmanifest. He is images forming handy Hence, the manifold ple is not wide, rejecting it with certainty is still not !  D. his next form called ave- stated to reflect himself in (+*2) :0 +*/(2 mediums of worship repre- idols of Shri Krishna are authenticated. It is this teleological argument that finds ! E"     sharupa, Shri Krishna mani- forms which are the embodi- 8)+ 8) senting themselves as the treated as the innumerable favour with most philosophical schools, and Buddha’s       fests as poets through the ments of his very powers. avatars of Krishna, in fact, avatars known as concept of dependent origination named        great sages like Narada, For, it is held that Krishna as +)(1+ ( 8) reflect the various aspects of antaryamis. These being Pratityasamutpada logically asserts the principle. The     DE Sanat, Sanak, Sanandan, and Devakiputra at Mathura dis- -9?+ 9- * '9) his concept and also serve single for an individual incidents of disaster that keep arising at a nagging pace  '  O N3%% poets like Valmiki and played himself as the embod- '?9'8) 9? as symbols of divinity that devotee also act as their full must be taken seriously and there’s a need to instill a  O ,    Vyasa. Next, applying his iment of its manifest power. Krishna stands for. For, controller. Thus, it may be sense of urgency globally. Ignoring them as stray       , power, Shri Krishna is But at Vrindavan, as '?)*8)? these are direct manifesta- maintained finally that the events may be at our own peril. It is unfortunate that  4&," !3#/ thought to manifest himself Yashoda’s son, he revealed tions of God. Bhagavata doctrine of world leaders of consequence appear not to be as through Shri Radha and all himself as the embodiment The ideology of treating Krishna’s manifold avatars, deeply concerned as they should be. Rather, they are the souls or the jivas of the of unmanifest power. As the images as the avatars of besides that of his super- pursuing the path of disaster, most prominent being      world called gopis. Vasudeva Krishna at Dwarka, Krishna or the direct bodies avatara on the eighth of the response of US President, whose country should Regarding the incarna- he displayed himself in the of the Lord was framed on dark half of Bhaadra month have taken the lead. It is time to acknowledge that we    tions that are quite identi- avatar of his real/eternal the basis of the apara avatars in the Dvapara Age, invests are running out of time. And this time around, there is cal with Shri Krishna are shakti. Here, it may be stated of Krishna, which specifies him with multiple avatars no divine sermon to suggest that a concept like Noah’s included those in which he that by adding the notion of that the idols correspond of fivefold nature, which Ark is very much the need of the hour. The difficulty manifest his very own part Krishna’s manifold avatars to the direct bodies/forms reflects devotees’ deep lov- lies not only in identifying a Noah, but is also in the (sva-amsha) through the into the Krishna cult, the of Shri Krishna. Made of ing faith towards him and failure to realise that the world is for living in peaceful Vyuhas, who are stated to Bhagavatas could add into five elements, these his varied manifestations coexistence instead of chaotic individualism, that has be represented by his elder the Krishna concept many idols — when being superim- with the help of which, he become the norm. It is time people rise to the occasion brother Balarama, his son set of new faiths and deities posed with the divine quali- blesses his devotees in times rather than the Government leaders, who cannot see Pradyumana, and grandson in the form of purushavatars, ties of Shri Krishna — of crisis. beyond the end of their nose. Aniruddha. 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