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NEARBY CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Gathering storm Parrikar takes oath in as SC declines Cong. plea Court asks Governor Mridula Sinha to hold loor test in Assembly tomorrow AAP seeks paper ballot Nistula Hebbar support and the actions of for civic polls Prakash Kamat NEW DELHI the Raj Bhavans a “murder New Delhi/Panaji of democracy,” outside the After Bahujan Samaj Party Hours after the Supreme House Congress vice-presid- supremo Mayawati claimed that the Uttar Pradesh Court refused the Congress’ ent Rahul Gandhi said it elections were rigged as the plea to stay the swearing-in amounted to “undermining electronic voting machines of as Goa democracy.” (EVMs) were tampered with, Chief Minister, the BJP leader Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took charge in Panaji on Jaitley upset on Tuesday sought a paper Tuesday evening, along with Finance Minister Arun Jait- ballot in the upcoming a nine-member team. The ley, who was present in the municipal polls. court, however, requested Lok Sabha when Mr. Kharge

DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 Governor Mridula Sinha to sought to raise the issue, DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD hold a floor test in the As- asked for the Speaker’s per- sembly on March 16. Men who matter: Manohar Parrikar, centre, with , mission to respond as Mr. The Congress had moved right, and at the swearing-in ceremony. AFP Kharge had used “strong lan- ‘8-10 lakh Jats will the SC on March 13, claiming guage.” march to Delhi’ that the Governor’s decision to spar over efforts at gov- twice after being refused The Speaker, however, as- Gurugram to appoint Mr. Parrikar as ernment formation in Goa permission to discuss the is- sured the Minister that the Around 8-10 lakh Jats from Chief Minister without con- and Manipur, both inside sue in the Lok Sabha by remarks would not be taken Haryana, Rajasthan and sulting it — the single largest and outside Parliament. Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. on record. Uttar Pradesh are expected party — was a “brazen” mis- Members of the Congress, While the leader of the to reach Delhi in tractor- use of constitutional office. the Nationalist Congress Congress in the Lok Sabha, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 trolleys on March 20 in On Tuesday too, the Con- Party and the Rashtriya Mallikarjun Kharge termed FRESH START IN PUNJAB support of their demands, Cloud storage: The Kannur skyline on Tuesday, with the promise of summer showers. S.K. MOHAN gress and the BJP continued Janata Dal staged a walkout the BJP’s efforts to shore up Ī EDITORIAL including reservation, Akhil Bharatiya Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti national president High alert Yashpal Malik said. On computing ability, rural BJP combine invited to form NATION Ī PAGE 6 sounded in

Srinagar-Jammu is lost in the woods Pathankot government in Manipur highway remains shut SRINAGAR Special Correspondent The Srinagar-Jammu Just 8.8% of population can use PCs, smartphones: Study New Delhi Biren Singh to be sworn in as Chief Minister today National Highway was A high alert was sounded closed for traffic for the Suvojit Bagchi in Pathankot, Punjab, on Shiv Sahay Singh party with 28 seats in the seventh day on Tuesday in Kolkata Tuesday after inputs of sus- Imphal 60-member house, the BJP the wake of landslides due The ability to use computers picious movement, and the Ending days of speculation, with 21 seats got the support to snowfall and rains. remains low in the country, police launched a massive Governor of Manipur Najma of four MLAs each from the Special air sorties have in spite of campaigns for di- search operation. Heptulla on Tuesday invited Naga People’s Front and the been arranged by the gitalisation, an analysis of The police said searches the Bharatiya - National Peoples Party and government for stranded National Sample Survey Of- were being carried out in a led combination to form the one from the Lok Janshakti passengers in Jammu as fice (NSSO) data reveals. 4-5 km area near the Army government. Party. well as in Kashmir. An estimated 8.8% of the cantonment along the N. Biren Singh will be The BJP also managed to NORTH Ī PAGE 2 rural population has com- Pathankot-Dalhousie road. sworn in as the Chief Minis- get the support of a few puting ability. In urban A helicopter made an aer- ter of the first BJP-led gov- N. Biren Singh other MLAs, including one areas, the figure is nearly ial survey. The police also ernment in the State at 1 from the Congress, which is four times higher, at 30.2%. carried out searches near p.m. at Raj Bhavan on Wed- elected leader of the BJP le- likely to help the combine These findings emerge from the Chakki river. The Hi- nesday, along with Cabinet gislature party on Monday. reach the magic figure of 31. an analysis by Md. Zakaria machal Pradesh police Ministers. The 56-year-old Though the Congress Siddiqui, a scholar of Ap- were alerted. MLA from Heingang was emerged the single largest CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 plied Economics from Aus- defined as a user’s ability to Council, claimed that ‘com- On January 2, 2016, six tralian National University operate a desktop, laptop, puting ability’ is not linked terrorists attacked the and Sabir Ahamed of Prati- palmtop, notebook, smart- to digital infrastructure or Pathankot Air Force sta- chi Trust in Kolkata, of NSSO phone and tablets. Internet penetration. tion. The encounter lasted OPPORTUNITIES Ī PAGE 4 data of 2014. The study, supported by four days and left seven DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES Computing ability was the Australian Research CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 soldiers dead. JNU M.Phil student ends Amarinder bats for life; family alleges foul play Rahul’s elevation Discusses govt. formation in Punjab Found hanging at his friend’s rented accommodation Special Correspondent Shubhomoy Sikdar then alerted, arrived broke Chandigarh NEW DELHI open the door. Ahead of the government A 28-year-old M. Phil student Three days before his formation in Punjab, state of Jawaharlal Nehru Univer- death, Muthukrishnan put Congress president Capt. sity committed suicide at a up Facebook posts con- Amarinder Singh on Tues- friend’s house in south Del- demning the Hyderabad day batted for the elevation hi’s Munirka area on varsity’s alleged role in Dalit of Rahul Gandhi to the post Monday. scholar Rohith Vemula’s sui- of party president. Punjab Congress chief The family of Muthukrish- cide last year, and criticised Capt. Singh and the AICC Amarinder Singh in New nan, however, alleged foul JNU’s new admission policy. vice-president met in New Delhi on Tuesday. play behind his death and A Dalit himself, Muthukrish- Delhi and discussed plans has demanded that an FIR nan had also recounted sev- for government formation gracefully, saying that in- be registered in the case. His eral instances where he had ahead of the swearing-in-ce- stead of acknowledging that father Jeevanandam, who ar- faced discrimination remony on March 16. Capt. his party had failed to con- rived here on Tuesday from through his other Facebook Amarinder, however, said it nect with the voters of Pun- Salem, filed a police com- posts. was a courtesy visit. jab, Delhi Chief Minister plaint asking that an FIR be Muthukrishnan The police, however, said Sources said delibera- Arvind Kejriwal was taking registered under relevant it was too early to link the tions were held on the refuge in making allegations provisions. He did not say if “The other students — posts to his suicide. names of Manpreet Badal, about EVMs, which, incid- the family suspected Lakshyajeet and Issac — His father told The Hindu Navjot Singh Sidhu, Razia entally, his own party work- someone murdered were in another room with that his son could not have Sultana, Rana Gurjit Singh, ers had been guarding. Muthukrishnan or abetted Kim. The victim had retired committed suicide. Charanjit Singh Channi, Capt. Singh said in the his suicide. to a room, saying that he had The police have consti- Brahm Mohindra, Trupt light of the state’s fiscal situ- slept at 3 a.m. the day before tuted a five-member medical Rajinder Singh Bajwa and ation he did not want any Jhelum Hostel resident and wanted to rest,” the po- board to conduct the post- Aruna Chaudhary for pos- unnecessary or wasteful ex- Muthukrishnan was a first lice said. mortem, which is likely to sible inclusion in the min- penditure to be incurred on year M.Phil student at the “The other three agreed happen on Wednesday. istry. Rana K.P. Singh could the oath taking ceremony. Centre for Historical Studies and had lunch. deciding likely be the next speaker of The party had decided to go of JNU’s School of Social Sci- they would serve V-C condoles death the Punjab Assembly, al- in for a simple and low-key ences, and stayed at the Muthukrishnan his meal JNU Vice-Chancellor though there was no official swearing-in ceremony. Jhelum Hostel on the once he woke up,” said Mr. Jagadesh Kumar took to confirmation. “I have requested all the campus. Singh. Twitter to express his con- newly elected MLAs to also Deputy Commissioner of dolence. “JNU community is Courtesy call keep their personal invita- Police (South) Ishwar Singh Found hanging grief stricken at untimely & “It was a courtesy call. tions to the bare minimum said that Muthukrishnan and However, when he did not sad demise of Shri There was no discussion on to keep the ceremony two other JNU students had get up by 4.30 p.m., the Muthukrishnan J. We pray cabinet formation during simple,” he said. been invited by their friend three started knocking on that God be with his family the meeting,” Capt. Singh Pointing out that the State Gomen Kim, a South Korean the door and when at this critical time,” he told reporters, adding that was reeling under debt and IT professional, for lunch at Muthukrishnan did not re- tweeted. the time was now ripe to el- there was a need for collect- the latter’s rented accom- spond, Issac peeped in from The JNU Teachers' Associ- evate Mr Gandhi as the ive and out-of-the-box initi- modation in Munirka Vihar. a small opening between the ation held a condolence party president. atives by all government de- Kim stays with his wife and window panes and saw him meeting on the campus on Capt. Singh lashed out at partments to address the two children, who were also hanging from the ceiling. Tuesday evening. the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) crisis, he also called for pub- present there. The police, who were SEE ALSO Ī DELHI METRO PAGE 1 for refusing to accept defeat lic support for the purpose. 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DELHI Timings Wednesday, March 15 ‘H.P. budget devoid of Sisters raped RISE 06:31 SET 18:29 Srinagar-Jammu highway in Haryana, RISE 21:03 SET 08:10 any inancial prudence’ Thursday, March 16 one arrested RISE 06:30 SET 18:30 Dhumal targets Virbhadra govt. RISE 21:56 SET 08:46 remains shut for the 7th day Press trust of India Friday, March 17 Staff Correspondent made for resource mobilisa- Kurukshetra RISE 06:29 SET 18:31 Shimla tion and the formation of a Two sisters, one of them a RISE 22:48 SET 09:23 Initiating a discussion on resource mobilisation com- IAF airlifts over 500 passengers who were stranded in Jammu minor, were allegedly the State budget for the year mittee by government un- raped by two youths near 2017-18, the leader of the op- der the leadership of a Press trust of india Shahbad Markanda in this position in Vidhan Sabha, senior minister sometime SRINAGAR district, following which , on back was a total sham, he The Srinagar-Jammu Na- one of the accused has Tuesday blamed the alleged. tional Highway was closed been arrested, police said Virbhadra government for for traffic for the seventh day on Tuesday. not identifying even a single ‘Ignoring warnings’ on Tuesday in the wake of According to an FIR re- factor for resource mobilisa- The former Chief Minister landslides due to snowfall gistered with the police by tion and depending exclus- while giving a detailed stat- and rains. one of the victim, aged 19, ively on borrowings and istics from last year’s budget Special air sorties have the accused, belonging to central allocations. said the government is de- been arranged by the gov- the same locality, entered The State, he said is de- pendent on borrowings and ernment for stranded pas- the house of the two sisters pendent on central alloca- is blatantly ignoring the sengers in Jammu as well as when their parents and a tions to the tune of 77.45% warnings of Finance Com- in Kashmir. younger brother had gone and has plans to borrow the mission and Union Finance “The national highway is to Shahbad for medicines. rest 22.55 % for meeting the Ministry on relentless bor- still closed for traffic as fresh They raped the sisters expenses. rowings and exceeding the landslides have rendered it separately in separate In the budget exercise no fiscal deficit above three per unsafe for vehicular move- rooms. serious effort has been cent of the GSDP. ment,” an official of the Traffic Department here Threatened said. The elder sister tried to raise an alarm but the ac- Fresh landslides cused threatened to kill He said landslides have oc- Roadblock: Trucks stranded on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Tuesday as the vital road them and their parents if curred at a few places near remained closed for traic due to landslides. PTI they raised voice or repor- Ramban and Ramsoo, leav- ted the matter to anyone. ing behind a trail of muck. best to clear the road. remaining closed for four ferried to IAF station here in The incident, however, There have been fresh The highway, the only all- days. 17 SRTC buses. Of them 530 was reported to the police landslides at Mehar in Ram- weather road link between Meanwhile, the IAF on passengers were airlifted in on Monday evening after ban and other places near the Valley and rest of the Tuesday carried out sorties two sorties by IL-76 aircraft their parents returned Ramsoo on Monday which country, was closed on Wed- to evacuate over 500 passen- to Srinagar, IAF officials said. home and came to know have blocked the highway, nesday last following heavy gers who were stranded in about the incident. the official said. rains and snowfall. Jammu following closure of More sorties Police registered an FIR He said the men and ma- The road was thrown the highway. About 830 pas- More sorties are likely under relevant provisions chinery were on the job and open for one-way traffic for a sengers, who were stranded between Udhampur and of the law against the authorities were trying their brief period on Sunday after at Jammu bus stand, were Srinagar , they said. accused. New BJP MLA ‘threatens’ cop Recording goes viral on social media, inquiry ordered

Press trust of india viral on the social media and As per the purported au- Hardoi electronic channels follow- dio recording, the MLA Three days after his election ing which ASP B. C. Dubey warned the police officer from the Sayajpur Assembly has been asked to conduct that BJP had come to power seat here, BJP MLA Mad- an inquiry into the matter. in the State and insisted that hvendra Pratap Singh Ranu an FIR be lodged in connec- is in the eye of a storm for al- ‘Officer’s fault’ tion with an incident con- legedly threatening a police The MLA however claimed cerning one of his workers. officer. that he had maintained de- The MLA also claimed An audio recording of the cency and alleged that it was that there were certain alleg- conversation between the the officer who did not act ations against the CO and it MLA and Circle Officer Shah- on a complaint and behaved was in this light that he bad, Arvind Verma went in an irresponsible manner. warned him. BJP MLA’s son, friends accused of assault

Press trust of India played at his farmhouse. Tikamgarh Nobody has been arres- The police on Tuesday re- ted yet. gistered a case against the The case was registered local BJP MLA K. K. Shrivast- in the evening for assault ava’s son Siddharth and under Section 324 of IPC three others for allegedly and other offences, said in- beating up some people spector R. P. Choudhary of who wanted them to lower Tikamgarh rural police the volume of music being station. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Special Correspondent Sabha on Tuesday. proach for security arrange- Justice Sharma is 28,000 tonnes needed per month for Anganwadi centres, midday meal: Mamata Kolkata The total sanctioned ments at the Indo-Pakistan Assam Upalokayukta A total of 2,731 km of the length of the fence along the border. Soumya Das GUWAHATI legedly committed suicide sanctioned 3,326-km-long Indo-Pakistan border is The arrangements in- Kolkata Justice (Retd) Chittaranjan due to losses in farming in the fence along the India- 2063.06 km, of which clude deployment of Border Sharma was on Tuesday A day after a potato farmer al- Anandapur area of Paschim Bangladesh border has been 2003.06 km has been com- Security Force personnel, sworn in as Assam’s legedly committed suicide Medinipur district’s Keshpur completed. pleted. Along the Indo-My- construction of border fence Upalokayukta by Governor after suffering heavy losses, block. According to his fam- This was stated by Minis- anmar border, a 10 km fen- and border roads, installa- . Justice Chief Minister Mamata ily, Swapan Hajra (45) com- ter of State for Home Affairs cing has been sanctioned, tion of floodlights, introduc- Sharma was administered the Banerjee on Tuesday said her mitted suicide after sustain- Kiren Rijiju in a written reply out of which work in about 4 tion of hi-tech surveillance oath of office by the government will purchase ing “heavy losses” in potato to a question by Jyotiraditya km has been completed, a equipments, providing Governor at a simple 28,000 tonnes of potatoes, farming. Scindia of the Congress and release said. weapons and specialised ceremony at the Raj Bhawan required for Anganwadi Saugata Roy of the Trin- The government has ad- vehicles to security forces, here, an official release said. centres and midday meal ‘Heavy debt’ amool Congress in the Lok opted a multi-pronged ap- the PIB release said. Justice Sharma was a former programme, directly from “He incurred a large debt for Judge of the Gauhati High farmers. Mamata Banerjee addressing a government programme in cultivating potatoes in four Court. PTI Her announcement comes Kolkata on Tuesday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT bighas (1.60 acres) of land,” at a time when potato farm- Mr. Hajra’s son Indrajit told ‘Land policy ₹4 crore demonetised ers across the State are facing gramme. The government As per the projected estim- journalists. notes seized a severe crisis -- at least two of will buy potatoes at ₹4.60 per ates of the State government, The Opposition, however, reduced KOLKATA them have committed sui- kg,”she said. the number of schools (up to is sceptical whether the The police have seized over cide -- due to the sharp drop Ms. Banerjee was speaking Class VIII) to be covered un- move will be beneficial for jhum area’ ₹4 crore in demonetised in prices following this years’ at a government programme der the midday meal scheme the potato farmers. “This is ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes from bumper crop. on Krishak Dibas (Farmers’ is 83,673 and the number of nothing but a face saving Press Trust of India a person in the city. Acting on Day) observed by the Trin- students is about 1 crore. Ac- move. If the TMC govern- Aizwal a tip-off, a raid was Krishak Dibas amool Congress government cording to potato merchants, ment is really bothered about Mizoram Governor conducted by a team of the “We have decided to buy on March 14 to pay tribute to this is the first time that the the farmers they would have Nirbhay Sharma on Tues- Kolkata police last night at a 28,000 tonnes of potatoes those who died during the TMC government is directly purchased potato from them day claimed that the flag- premises on Lee Road in the ship programme, the New Bhowanipore police station directly from the farmers anti-land acquisition move- purchasing potatoes from at a much higher rate,” said Land Use Policy (NLUP), limits and ₹4,15,07,000 was which we need every month ments at Singur in Hooghly farmers. CPI-M district secretary of seized from Ashok Surana, a for the Anganwadi centres district and Nandigram in The development comes a Paschim Medinipur Tarun has increased rice produc- senior police officer said. and the midday meal pro- Purba Medinipur district. day after a potato farmer al- Roy. tion and reduced jhum cul- “The entire amount is in the tivation in the State. demonetised currencies of “Implementation of the ₹500 (50,160 pieces) and NLUP has resulted in re- ₹1000 (16,427 pieces),” he duction of jhum area, said. On enquiry, Surana said No takers for ₹10 coins in Berhampur which reflects a shift to- that the money was acquired wards permanent cultiva- from his business. PTI Rumours that some coins were fake triggered the problem tion,” Mr Sharma said ad- dressing the State legislature on the first day Three killed in Staff Reporter BERHAMPUR lowing this, most traders, es- “Atmostshopsinthecity, problems related to non-ac- of the Budget session. Meghalaya accident pecially small retailers, even at fish and vegetable ceptance of ₹10 coins. They The Governor said that SHILLONG Possession of ₹10 coins con- stopped accepting ₹10 coins. markets, ₹10 coins are not handed over a memor- New Economic Develop- Three occupants were charred tinues to be a headache for Despite several clarifications being accepted by traders,” andum addressed to the RBI ment Policy (NEDP) is also to death when an oil tanker citizens of Berhampur as by the Reserve Bank of India, said Sunita Behera, a house- Governor to the manager of on in full swing. “The overturned and caught fire at most traders are refusing to there has been no improve- wife. At petrol pumps in Ber- SBI in Berhampur. NEDP aims at providing Mawpun in Ri-Bhoi district of accept them. ment in the situation in hampur, notices have been The activists demanded bold, practical, effective Meghalaya on Tuesday, The problem started a few Berhampur. pasted claiming that they do that the government take im- officials said. The oil tanker and comprehensive which was coming from months ago after the govern- not accept ₹10 coins. mediate measures to make strategies to push the eco- Guwahati overturned after ment announced demonet- Allaying fears On Tuesday, activists of people aware that ₹10 coins nomy to a high growth failing to negotiate a bend isation of ₹1,000 and ₹500 A few days ago, the Ganjam the SUCI (Communist) held a are still in use. The banks path,” he said, adding that and hitting side railings at notes. There were rumours district administration also demonstration in front of the should also start accepting ₹250 crore has been ear- Shillong by-pass, Deputy that some ₹10 coins were come up with a declaration, main branch of the State ₹10 coins as deposits, said marked for the policy and Commissioner C. P. Gotmare fake and these may also get quoting RBI statements, to Bank of India (SBI) in Ber- SUCI leader Somanath another ₹27 crore to be said. The deceased included demonetised in future. Fol- allay fears about ₹10 coins. hampur to protest against Behera. converged with the NLUP. the driver of the vehicle. PTI

Maoist surrenders in Malkangiri MALKANGIRI (ODISHA) A wanted Maoist, carrying ₹1 lakh reward on his head, surrendered before the police in Malkangiri district on Tuesday. Deba Madhi (34), active in Naxal activities since 2013, was allegedly involved in about a dozen criminal offences including killing, explosions and attack on security forces, a senior police official said. PTI EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Special Correspondent Bengaluru In another brazen attack on Janasena to contest a Bengaluru city politician, 2019 polls: Pawan the third in the last six HYDERABAD months, a Bommasandra Congress MP and film star town municipal council Chiranjeevi is not on the radar member from the Bharatiya of the Janasena Party that Janata Party was hacked to will contest the 2019 death by a gang of armed Assembly polls in both men on Hosur Road, Bom- Andhra Pradesh and masandra, in the early Telangana with 60% of seats hours of Tuesday. offered to the youth. “Our paths are different. There is Srinivas Prasad, 43, was no chance of us working driving to a neighbourhood together,” Janasena founder park for a walk around 5 and actor Pawan Kalyan said a.m. when the assailants when asked if he and his surrounded his car, dragged brother Chiranjeevi would him out and hacked him to come together. death before fleeing. ‘Hyderabad has best ‘Well planned operation’ Brazen attack: Public gathered at the spot where Srinivas Prasad (inset) was hacked to death in standard of living’ SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT NEW DELHI Last month, two men on a Bengaluru on Tuesday. bike had shot at Dasanapura Hyderabad for the third year APMC president two men on the busy Kama- with long knives were wait- murder was the result of in a row has emerged as the best city in terms of living Kadabagere Srinivas, who raj Road near Commercial ing near the park. They political rivalry, Inspector- standards among Indian sustained serious injuries, Street. knew that he would stop General of Police (Central cities, while Vienna has been Devastating loss: Monday evening’s forest fire in the Chandradrona hill range in Chikkamagaluru but escaped. In October Tuesday’s attack was there,” said a police official. Range) Siman Kumar Singh ranked at the top globally in a district destroyed hundreds of acres of vegetation. Officials managed to douse the fire, thathad 2016, BJP member Rudresh well-planned, said the po- While the victim’s family said: “We have some leads, list by consultancy firm spread to surrounding areas, by Tuesday. PTI R. was hacked to death by lice. “The attackers armed and the BJP alleged that the but are probing all angles.” Mercer. The National Capital for the second straight year hit the lowest score among Migrant labourer found Indian cities for living A.P. police conduct standards. PTI Row in Kerala Assembly Krishna to join BJP on guilty of killing Kerala trio March 15: Yeddyurappa UDF stages walkout after war of words over Tanur violence disturbing, says PCI MYSURU Narendra Kumar fled to U.P. after crime Karnataka BJP president B.S. Special Correspondent Yeddyurappa on Tuesday said Special Correspondent need of money as he was in Thiruvananthapuram Case relates to attack on journalist former Congress leader S.M. KOTTAYAM debt of around ₹2 lakh. On Rahul Devulapalli Krishna will join the BJP on The Kerala Assembly wit- brother of Telugu Desam Principal District and Ses- May 16 night, he killed the Hyderabad March 15. Mr. Yeddyurappa nessed noisy scenes on Party MLA Amanchi Krish- told this to reporters here sions Judge S. Santhakumari three one by one at their Tuesday with heated ex- The Press Council of India namohan, even after video after addressing a rally in the has found Narendra Kumar house which was near the changes over the political directed the SP of Prakasam clippings showed his in- run-up to the Nanjangud and (26), a migrant labourer from laundry and escaped to his tension in Tanur, Malap- district Trivikram Varma to volvement in the attack. Gundlupet bypolls. PTI Uttar Pradesh and accused in home town in U.P. A special puram, following the recent appear before its inquiry a multiple murder case, investigating team traced clashes between workers of committee on Wednesday ‘Questionable arrests’ No headway in probe guilty. him to Firozabad in U.P. and the CPI(M) and the Indian as a respondent in a case re- The committee members into Nigerian’s death The quantum of sentience recovered the money and BENGALURU Union Muslim League. lated to the attack on a said the pace of investigation will be pronounced on gold ornaments. The Opposition UDF The scene at a house in Tanur after a clash between CPI(M) and journalist in Chirala town and arrests in the case were A day after a 28-year-old Wednesday. One of the crucial recover- staged a walkout to protest IUML workers. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT last month. “questionable” as the ac- Nigerian died in Kothanur, The case pertains to the ies from the house of the ac- the Bengaluru police have against the Speaker’s refusal The Chairman of PCI, C.K cused were arrested after murder of Praveen Lal (28), cused was the ear of the vic- to permit leave for an ad- IUML cadres. Chief Minister All hell broke loose after Prasad, who heard the case more than 10 days. The made little headway in the who ran a laundry at Param- tim Prasanna Kumari, which case. The Airport Traffic journment motion. Pinarayi Vijayan blamed the Tanur MLA V. Abdurahiman on Tuesday, termed the chairman sought to know puzha near the town, and his the accused had chopped off. Police on Tuesday wrote to situation on the politics of raised certain allegations local police investigation why the investigation was parents Lalson (71) of The prosecution had pro- the Foreigners Regional Situation ‘explosive’ intolerance. His remark that against IUML workers, hold- and conduct “very disturb- completed in 12 days Moolamprambil House, and duced strong material evid- Registration office seeking Terming the situation in Ta- the IUML had resorted to vi- ing them responsible for the ing”. Requesting the journ- whereas a counter case filed details about Ife Anyi. Prasanna Kumari (62) on ences, including the cloth nur ‘explosive,’ Leader of olence following the victory violence. alist, Nagarjuna Reddy, to against the journalist under While the police claim he fell May 16, 2015. worn by the accused at the the Opposition Ramesh of the CPI(M) Independent A war of words ensued appear before the inquiry the SC/ST Act, allegedly by off a scooter, the African According to the prosecu- time of crime, his mobile Chennithala alleged that the candidate in Tanur in the and the Speaker could bring committee, Justice Prasad the supporter of the Chirala community alleges that he tion, Narendra Kumar, who phone, and forensic reports government was justifying last Assembly elections the situation under control pulled up the A.P. police MLA around the time of the was a victim of police was working at the laundry of Kumar’s samples collected the brutal attack by CPI(M) prompted the UDF benches only after he agreed to ex- representatives for failing to attack, was still under brutality. for a few weeks, was in dire from the spot of crime. workers and the police on to protest. punge the remarks. take action against the investigation. 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IN BRIEF Jat leader says 8-10 lakh will Mehbooba’s brother to make march to Delhi on March 20 debut, contest LS by-election Tassaduq Mufti will contest the poll from south Kashmir

Peerzada Ashiq Hindi Bhavan likely at Agitationists expect maximum number of protesters from Haryana Kashmir’s Srinagar and Srinagar Anantnag Lok Sabha seats Mumbai University Ashok Kumar MUMBAI The ruling People’s Demo- are going to the polls on Gurugram cratic Party (PDP) and its al- April 9 and 12 respectively. The Maharashtra hovernment Security is committed to building a Around 8-10 lakh Jats from liance partner, the Bharatiya The PDP’ alliance part- `Hindi Bhasha Bhavan’ on the Haryana, Rajasthan and Ut- Janata Party (BJP), on Tues- ner, the BJP, has also de- Kalina campus of the tar Pradesh are expected to reviewed day decided to contest the cided to field its candidates University of Mumbai, reach Delhi in tractor-trol- upcoming Lok Sabha by- for the twin seats. “There Press Trust of India Education Minister Vinod leys on March 20 in support polls for two seats in the Val- will be no pre-poll alliance New Delhi Tawde said on Tuesday. Mr. of their demands, including ley separately while the Na- with the PDP as the party Tawde’s assurance came reservation, Akhil Bharatiya The Centre on Tues- tional Conference (NC) and has decided to contest the during a special meeting held Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh day reviewed the se- the Congress are likely to elections independently,” on the issue at Vidhan Bhavan Samiti national president curity situation in the contest together. Tassaduq Mufti said Ashok Kaul, BJP’s State at the initiative of former Yashpal Malik said. Capital and neigh- PDP chief spokesman Me- general secretary. Minister and Congress leader “The maximum number bouring States in the hboob Beg said Chief Minis- “It’s a bigger platform for The BJP’s high-level com- Mohammed Arif Naseem of Jat protesters are expected wake of Jats threaten- ter Mehbooba Mufti’s Tassaduq to pursue his ideas mittee will announce the Khan. PTI to reach Delhi from Haryana ing to lay seize to the brother Tassaduq Mufti, 46, and implement his projects candidates soon. “The BJP’s from Bahadurgarh and Gaining momentum: Yashpal Malik, the leader of the Jat city next week, press- will contest the polls from as a Member Parliament. policies, working atmo- Singhu,” Mr. Malik said. agitation, said they also expected a large number of ing their demands for the Anantnag constituency The PDP needs a young face sphere and public dealings Forest officer killed in While the support from Ra- protesters from UP to take part in the march. FILE PHOTO: PTI quota. in south Kashmir. with fresh ideas to talk to have been widely accepted attack by sloth bear jasthan would be token and Union Home Sec- friends and foes in New by the general public,” Mr. PALANPUR most of them would come by are stopped from going numbers for the march. retary Rajiv Mehrishi Reluctant politician Delhi and pitch for imple- Kaul said. A forester was killed and two bus and train, the Jat leader ahead in their tractor-trol- took stock of the law A reluctant politician, Mr. mentation of the Agenda of The opposition NC and others injured in an attack by said they expected a large leys, adding that the protest Mobilising support and order situation in Tassaduq, a Bollywood cine- Alliance (a common min- the Congress are “working a sloth bear on Tuesday when number of protesters from would be peaceful. “I visited the dharna site in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar matographer, joined the imum programme between out modalities” to contest they were camping at the UP to take part in the march. “In case the government Faridabad on Tuesday. On Pradesh and Ra- PDP formally on January 7 the PDP and the BJP),” said the polls together. Kansa village in Banaskantha decides to use force against Wednesday, I will visit Hisar jasthan after meeting on the first death an- Mr. Beg. The NC’s core group held district to trap the wild Camps to be set up the peaceful protesters, and Jind. From March 16 on- senior police officers. niversary of his father. a meeting in Srinagar on animal, a senior official said. Around a dozen transit those sitting in dharna in wards, I will be visiting Uttar He instructed the of- There was speculation ‘Crucial’ seat Tuesday where both NC The sloth bear had attacked camps will be set up at six Haryana would shift to roads Pradesh to garner support ficers to prevent at- that the party leaders For the crucial Srinagar seat, president Dr. Farooq Abdul- and killed two shepherds in points on both sides of the and block traffic,” Mr. Malik for the march,” Mr. Malik tempts to disrupt nor- wanted Mr. Tassaduq to the PDP is fielding Nazir lah and Omar Abdullah, the same village on Monday. PTI Delhi-Haryana and Delhi-Ut- warned, adding that protests said. mal life during the work as an MLC in Kashmir, Ahmad Khan, a former Con- former Chief Ministers, de- tar Pradesh borders to sup- were being held at 30 sites in He said the Jats support- protests. The Akhli where he has already started gress leader who contested liberated upon the ply food, water and medical Haryana. ing the BJP in the Uttar Pra- Bhartiya Jat working on many projects the polls against NC working candidature. Man arrested for aid to the protesters. The Jat Mr. Malik himself has desh elections would not Arakashan Sangharsh related to environment and president Omar Abdullah in A top NC leader said there brother’s murder leader said the protesters been going to the dharna make much impact to the re- Samiti has threatened tourism through non-gov- the 2014 Assembly polls and was a consensus on Dr. Ab- MUMBAI would march on foot to- sites across the State, exhort- servation agitation in to lay seize to the city. ernment organisations bagged 22,807 votes against dullah’s candidature during A 27-year-old man was wards Sansad Bhawan if they ing people to turn up in large Haryana. (NGOs). Mr. Abdullah’s 23,717. the meeting. arrested on Tuesday for allegedly killing his brother over a monetary dispute. The accused was identified as Sana—ul—Haq Hussain. Zia— Omar doubts Modi wave behind UP poll victory Newborn boy stolen ul—Haq Hussain, his elder brother, was found shot dead near Milan hotel in Dharavi on Says PM should explain ‘debacles’ in Delhi, Bihar; exhorts Oppn. to prepare for ‘difficult 2024 test’ from Kolkata hospital Monday afternoon. The Police Press Trust of India Staff Reporter got suspicious as Sana didn’t blame someone else for our learn lessons and prepare for Conference. twitter,” he explained. Refer- the afternoon. Srinagar Kolkata turn up to visit the family defeats. If the BJP credits the difficult test that the next ring to the criticism of his even after the brother’s If the BJP credits Prime Min- Modi for the UP win, which it general elections would be. Horse-trading allegation tweets by some Congress At a time when Chief Minis- ‘Suspect a woman’ death. PTI ister for its should, then it should also “I said [on Twitter] that if “The way BJP swept the polls leaders, Mr. Abdullah said ter Mamata Banerjee has “The women, who was Uttar Pradesh victory, it give explanation about Bihar the same situation prevails, I in UP and the way they some people disliked it, but launched a tirade against about 50 years old, told me should also explain the Delhi and Delhi,” he said. mean the defeat, which we formed the government in that would not stop him from private hospitals in the that she was taking my child Cop kills self accidentally and Bihar debacles, former faced in these elections [in two States with the help of saying such things. State, a newborn boy was al- to the doctor for check-up. during celebratory firing J&K Chief Minister Omar Ab- ‘Lessons to be learnt’ UP], if we did not learn from ‘jodh-todh’ [horse-trading] legedly stolen from the gov- Then she asked me to get SHIVPURI dullah said on Tuesday as he Seeking to clarify his remarks it, then undoubtedly we despite coming second, we Hoping against hope ernment-run Calcutta Med- my blood report. By the A constable was killed when asked the Opposition to be- made in the wake of the UP should think about 2024 can conclude that 2019 will “I am hopeful that after the ical College and Hospital on time I came back with the his service revolver went off gin preparing for “tough” election results that with no elections instead of 2019,” he be a tough contest,” Mr. Ab- results of these polls, we will Tuesday. report, she had fled,” the accidentally during a Holi 2019 polls. leader to take on Mr. Modi, told reporters here. dullah said. change the way of our work- According to police, the mother told journalists. The celebration on, the police “If the Modi wave suc- the Opposition should forget If the same situation pre- “We should prepare ing and increase rapport four-day-old baby boy of police have released CCTV said. Rajendra Jatav (38), the ceeded in UP, then why did it 2019 and prepare for 2024, vails, then it is obvious, said ourselves for that difficult with people. We will also Saraswati Naskar, a resident footage of the accused deceased, was posted at the not in Delhi or Bihar? We Mr. Abdullah said he was Mr. Abdullah, the working test from today only and that present a tough contest to of north Kolkata, was stolen boarding the Metro Rail rural police station here. PTI only count our successes and only stressing the need to president of the National is why I said what I said on the BJP in 2019,” he said. by a middle-aged woman in from central Kolkata. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017 NATION 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF No Aadhaar, no scholarship Patient’s relatives assault S&T Ministry notification says students need it to pursue career in science doctor in Dhule hospital Jacob Koshy NEW DELHI Bhavan, and newly-minted One of the 9 arrested for attack commits suicide in custody scientists are offered an as- Three more accomplices A key set of scholarships that sured 5-year research Jyoti Shelar They told the relatives that if of Prajapati arrested encourages middle school contract. Mumbai the patient required a LUCKNOW students to pursue careers in A 35-year-old resident doc- neurosurgeon, he would Tightening the noose around science, collegians to opt for ‘Not mandatory’ tor was assaulted by relat- have to be shifted to a higher rape-accused U.P. Minister basic science research and The Aadhar link to the schol- ives of a patient at the Dhule centre as the Dhule Civil Gayatri Prajapati, the Lucknow Police on Tuesday women to return to labs arship comes even as a Con- Civil Hospital on Sunday Hospital did not have the fa- nabbed three more of his after a break in career, will stitution Bench of the Su- night. The video that shows cility. accomplices and is soon require an Aadhar preme Court, led by former the mob kicking and slap- interrogating his two sons registration. Chief Justice of India H.L. ping Dr. Rohan Mhamunkar Heated argument and nephew to get clues A March 9 notification by Dattu, said that the use of and hitting him with a cot One of the relatives got into about his whereabouts. The the Union Ministry of Sci- the Aadhaar card was purely has gone viral, evoking an argument with Dr. arrests were made in the ence and Technology says, voluntary and not mandat- strong reactions from doc- Mhamunkar, and suddenly city’s Hazratganj area. PTI “…an individual desirous of ory. tors across Maharashtra. the mob started beating him availing benefits under the While the Supreme Court Dr. Mhamunkar, who up. One of the doctors said it Indefinite hunger stir for Schemes is required to fur- is yet to rule on whether the suffered multiple injuries, was the eve of Holi and the Bodoland enters 5th day nish proof of possession of Aadhar scheme is an inva- including an orbital fracture, Dr. Rohan Mhamunkar entire group seemed to be in GUWAHATI Aadhaar or undergo sion of a citizen’s right to pri- was given preliminary treat- an inebriated state. Dr. The indefinite hunger strike Aadhaar authentication. The vacy, it has only allowed it to ment. He is recovering at his was riding pillion when they Mhamunkar was slapped called by ABSU and other schemes are DISHA Pro- be used for subsidies under residence in Kandivali. met with an accident. and kicked. Some relatives Bodo groups in Kokrajhar gramme, INSPIRE Award, IN- the public distribution sys- The police arrested nine Lashkar was severely in- of the patient hit him with a town seeking a separate SPIRE Scholarship, INSPIRE Key document: The SC is yet to rule on whether Aadhaar tem and for distributing LPG people in the case. However, jured and rushed to the hos- cot. The mob also ransacked Bodoland, on Tuesday, V. RAJU entered its fifth day. “We’ll Internship, INSPIRE Fellow- infringes on a citizen’s right to privacy. cylinders. in a tragic turn of events, pital with a head injury. the mini operation theatre. not withdraw agitation till ship and INSPIRE Faculty”. However, the government one of the nine committed Casualty medical officer Dr. Mhamunkar is re- talk begins at political level. The last date for applica- in Science Pursuit for In- SPIRE scheme. now uses it to manage a vari- suicide in the police lockup Dr. Arunkumar Nage started portedly in a state of shock. We need a separate Bodoland tion would be September 30 spired Research) scholar- As part of this, 10,000 stu- ety of schemes, from grants on Tuesday evening. The de- preliminary treatment. Dr. “He was in pain but he was State,” All Bodo Students and, were a scholarship- ships and DISHA scheme (for dents get ₹80,000 to pursue to Bhopal gas leak victims ceased, Pradeep Vetal, 23, Rameez Raza, a lecturer in calm. But, after he saw the Union (ABSU) President holder to live in a block or women scientists) have been a research career; 200,000 and the Pradhan Mantri hanged himself with a general surgery, and Dr. video, he went into shock Pramod Boro said. PTI taluka without an Aadhar en- designed to reach students children from every school Ujjwala Yojana to Sarva blanket on the iron grill of Mhamunkar, a senior ortho- and hasn’t stopped crying rollment centre, the Science and women-researchers in India are awarded a Shiksha Abhiyan. It also de- the toilet window in the paedic resident doctor, also since then. He is not able to Elderly woman raped by Ministry would be required across all districts. ₹5,000 cash prize every year cided last month that chil- lockup. evaluated the patient. come to terms with the way youth in Uttar Pradesh to set up a facility, the noti- As of July 2016, 1.3 million to develop science models dren wanting to avail midday It is suspected that Vetal The doctors decided that he was beaten up like a DEORIA fication adds. students have benefited with 60 of them chosen to meals in schools need to be was riding the two wheeler a CT scan would be done criminal,” his mother An octogenarian woman was The INSPIRE (Innovation from the three-pronged IN- display it at Rashtrapati Aadhar-registered. and Shatrughan Lashkar after the patient stabilised. Archana told The Hindu. allegedly raped by a youth here on Tuesday, police said. The incident took place when CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC the 80-year-old woman had Girl dies after gone to the fields to relieve 6 Allahabad High Court Fruits of labour herself. The youth reportedly falling into raped her there, the circle staffeld h for theft officer of Bhatpar Rani, water tank Baijnath, said. He said the woman has been admitted to Probe exposes conspiracy to destroy Press Trust of India a district hospital. The hunt is files in connivance with appellants New Delhi on to nab the accused, the police said. PTI A six-year-old girl on Tues- Special Correspondent various provisions of the In- day died after falling into a No let-up in cold New Delhi dian Penal Code and the water tank in an under- conditions The Central Bureau of In- Prevention of Corruption construction house in the CHANDIGARH vestigation has registered a Act. Pul Prahladpur area here, Most places in Haryana and case against six persons, in- the police said. A case of Punjab continued to be under cluding two employees with Untraced files negligence has been re- the grip of a biting chill, with the Allahabad High Court, The theft came to light gistered and the owner of Karnal recording the lowest for allegedly stealing and when a Division Bench of minimum temperature among the under-construction the two States at 5 degrees destroying court the High Court was hearing house is being questioned, Celsius. The cold wave swept documents. a criminal appeal. The case they added. Karnal in Haryana, where the In September last year, files were sent to the Court Arpita (6) and her elder minimum plummeted seven the Allahabad High Court on July 25 last year. The sister had gone out to buy notches below normal, had directed the CBI to con- lower court record was re- some household items. making it the coldest place in duct a preliminary enquiry turned to the office the It appears that on the the two States on Tuesday, a into the missing High Court same day. The High Court way, Arpita went to the un- MeT official said. PTI and lower court documents file was returned two days der-construction house, in a particular case. The later and the same was re- where she accidentally Two killed in explosion at agency submitted its report ceived in the criminal ap- slipped and fell into the MoD hardware factory on January 18. peal section. However, both tank, the police said, KOLKATA According to the CBI, the the files could not be traced adding that the tank did Two persons who sustained files were stolen in conniv- later. not have a barrier around injuries in an explosion at the ance with two peons posted The High Court, during it. On returning home, the Metal and Steel Factory at with the High Court — Dilip the next hearing on August elder sister told the parents Ishapore in West Bengal’s Kumar Chandel and Naren- 31 last year, observed that Prison produce: Convicts harvest pumpkins in the Tiruchi Central Prison on Tuesday. B. VELANKANNI RAJ that Arpita was missing. North 24 Paraganas district dra Kumar. The others there would be no option, died on Sunday. The named in the FIR are but to cancel the bail of the explosion took place on Saturday at a furnace where Subhash Chandra, Chandra accused persons Basudev steel is prepared. The factory, Veer Singh, Basudev and Ra- and Rajbir, and issue a dir- Jitendra’s cousin Nitin Kapur which is controlled by the jvir. On further directions of ection for enquiry. In Ministry of Defence (MoD), is the High Court, the CBI has September, the Court direc- one of the main producers of now registered a case ted the Registrar General to jumps off flat in Andheri raw material for military against the accused per- look into the matter and hardware. sons, booking them under submit a report. ‘No suicide note found; depression may be the cause’ CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Mr. Kapur was taken to pected to be the reason be- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Special Correspondent Cooper Hospital in Vile Parle hind his extreme step. Mumbai where he was declared dead The police have filed an An echo of ‘Lion’ in Swedish Nitin Kapur, husband of before admission. accidental death report. Telugu actor Jayasudha and The Versova police were “Mr. Kapur’s family in Hy- cousin of Bollywood veteran then informed and a team of derabad has been informed. woman’s search for parents Jitendra, was found to have policemen sent to the hos- Investigations have not in- committed suicide in pital for inquiries. dicated anything suspicious Andheri on Tuesday. about his death,” said Mr. Adopted after being abandoned as a toddler in Mumbai According to the police, Unemployed Dudhe. the incident occurred at “He had been unemployed Mr. Kapur had married Press Trust of India around 1:45 p.m. Mr Kapur for 18 years and was under Ms. Jayasudha in 1985 and Mumbai (58) was staying at his sis- depression for the last-year- the couple has two sons. Left on the streets of ter’s residence in Seven Bun- and-a-half. For the last one Ms. Jayasudha, a star in Mumbai as a toddler and galows. “He went to the ter- month, he had been treated Telugu cinema, is also a adopted by a Swedish race of the six-storey Sea for depression at Kokilaben former MLA from couple, a 36-year-old woman Glimpse building where he Hospital,” said Mr. Dudhe. Secunderabad. of Indian descent searching was staying, and jumped No suicide note was She has starred in many for her biological parents off,” said Mumbai Police found on Mr. Kapur’s person south Indian movies and ac- has found a small spokesperson DCP Ashok or in his house, and prima ted in some Bollywood connection with the past on Dudhe. facie, his depression is sus- movies too. her third trip to India. Jessica Lindher’s latest trip united her with the policeman who found her ‘Not much has changed near Sion Hospital on October 13, 1981, when she was just 17-months-old. since Ambedkar’s time’ Diwakar Gaonkar, who was then a constable, was Special Correspondent overjoyed, when she met NEW DELHI him on Monday. Recalling the death of Hyderabad stu- “When we found her, I dent Rohith Vemula and the recent remember taking her flogging of Dalits at Una in Gujarat on around in Sion-Matunga area suspicion of slaughtering a cow, and asking residents if senior Congress leader P. Chidam- anyone had reported a baram said here on Tuesday that not missing child,” said Mr. much had changed since the days of Gaonkar, now a Sub- B.R. Ambedkar. He was speaking at Inspector. the release of a book The Essential Mr. Gaonkar said he Ambedkar by former Planning Com- searched for Jessica’s Jessica Lindher with her family in Mumbai on Monday. PTI mission member Bhalchandra parents in the nearby area Mungekar. P. Chidambaram and informed all police Trafficking, said that Jessica, Ms. Lindher first visited “Not much has changed in India stations. also known by her Indian India in 1999 to trace her from the India he [Dr. Ambedkar] Dalits in Una were first chastised, However, no missing name, Kamalini, is still parents and returned in portrayed,”Mr.Chidambaram said. then hounded for allegedly complaint was found. After hopeful of finding her 2016. Describing the late Hyderabad slaughtering cattle, and then pun- no one came forward to biological parents. Jessica’s story is similar to University student Rohith Vemula’s ished for saying they would not skin identify her, she was handed the story of Saroo Brierley, life as a “miracle” of our times, he animals any longer. “Allof us should over to an orphanage. Bears no grudge the reel life adaptation of said: “He was born and raised as a hang our heads in shame as Dalit per- Now married with two “She bears no grudge. She which, released as Lion, and Dalit. Whether he was a Dalit is not secution is still on,” Mr. Chidam- kids, Jessica was adopted by understands that they may starring Dev Patel and Sunny important. His peers and he believed baram said. a Swedish couple from the have had their reasons for Pawar, earned accolades at that he was a Dalit. He crossed every Commending Dr. Ambedkar’s Shree Manav Seva Sangh dumping her. She just wants the Oscars last month. hurdle but failed at the last hurdle as a deep knowledge on a variety of sub- orphanage in Sion in 1982. to meet them,” said Ms. “She hasn’t given up hope PhD student. Desperation made him jects, Mr. Chidambaram said that had Social activist Anjali Pawar, who facilitated and will be in India again to hang himself. So, what has changed his IQ been measured, it would not Pawar, a representative of Jessica’s interaction with the find her biological parents,” in India?” have been lower than that of scient- the NGO Against Child police and local officials. Ms. Pawar added. Mr. Chidambaram also said that ists Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 8 EDITORIAL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Reflections on the election of our time Narendra Modi was better tuned into grassroots voices, who spoke a different language of immediacy

hinted that the politics of ressenti- acquired a reified life of their own, ment had to be replaced by a are socialism and secularism. Mr. strategy of mobility. Modi, in rendering them effete, has Fresh start in Punjab also created a set of closures we Capturing the imagination must understand. It is clear that Congress gains a lifeline in the State, and a Third, Mr. Modi realised, that the while mobility is an aspirational media’s understanding of the social dream, dissent today is an almost nudge to empower regional leaders elsewhere shiv visvanathan order was incomplete. He had a extinct possibility between the he Congress’s victory in Punjab, bagging 77 of the better hearing aid to listen to what I inanity of the left and the liberals he Uttar Pradesh election res- call grassroots voices. They spoke a and the hostility of the BJP regime. 117 seats in the Assembly elections, comes as a ults are like a riddle wrapped different language of immediacy What we are facing is individual as- Tsalve for the beleaguered party. This is its first vic- Tin an enigma. The sheer scale unembellished by the rhetoric of piration but a death of the old cat- tory in a big State since Karnataka 2013, and it took a of the victory, the arithmetic, concepts. Mr. Modi’s concepts such egories which at one time created particularly feisty campaign led by Amarinder Singh. shows it was a tsunami that no one as “Make in India” were more per- the romance and the Utopian The party had to fend off not just the ruling Shiromani had predicted. More than the act of formative, promising delivery of around words such as justice and Akali Dal- alliance but also the prediction in the form of the exit the goods and competence better equality. challenge posed by the Aam Aadmi Party, which had polls that confounded us, the prob- than any of the words that the so- The U.P. elections show that the lem lay in deciphering the results. cialists or the Congress offered to old covenant around the concepts made a significant foray in the State in the 2014 Lok At the macrolevel, it is like watch- the people. It is in this sense that we once held sacred is dead. The Sabha election. The results suggest a strong anti-incum- ing the arrival of a juggernaut, one has to understand that his vic- hegemony of the BJP-Rashtriya bency sentiment against the SAD-BJP coalition. In its whose presence now looks inevit- tory was not merely an organisa- Swayamsevak Sangh-Bajrang Dal decade-long stint in power, it may have helped build the able, but which still requires an ex- GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO tional victory created by Mr. Shah combine is almost clear. What we State’s infrastructure. But during its second term, pub- planation of how it came there. At a which already had a shop-soiled promising a sense of the world by and the millions of party workers face is what I am going to call the lic distaste grew over the consolidation of power in the microlevel, one looks at pieces quality. His style of electoral am- appealing to demography and a on the ground but also a literal cap- closure of the Indian mind. There Badal family, and there were reports of corruption and which make as little sense as the bush of appropriating the Opposi- new generation. He did it in two turing of the mass imagination. It are few possibilities of new political whole picture. It is not the immedi- tion’s favourite stereotypes was ways. He cleared the decks by treat- was so total that it was virtually dreams. Mr. Modi is offering a high-handedness. The Congress managed to convert acy of the result that challenges us acutely tactical. ing Samajwadi Party leader emasculating to the Opposition. straitjacket of a narrow idea of de- this disenchantment into support for itself, building a but what it implies for the future. Consider the issue of demonet- Akhilesh Yadav and Congress vice- Brutally put, it went beyond a cap- velopment and globalisation which campaign around the leadership of Captain Singh and This is a strange election where isation. He was not devaluing cur- president Rahul Gandhi as old fur- ture of votes to a seduction of the contain no alternative possibilities, the promise of effective administration. The AAP, with one man became a national phe- rency but instead rendering some niture. But he went beyond this by imagination. It captured not only no dissent, no side bets. It is not a its focus on rural areas, especially in the south-central nomenon. As a wag put it, Naren- older political styles effete. The suggesting almost blatantly that the the working concepts of today’s post-truth society we are confront- Malwa region following its surprise success in 2014, dra Modi became a final cause, re- Congress and the Bahujan Samaj stereotypes of caste and ideology electoral language but also the very ing but a creation of a captive mind. made a play for the anti-Akali vote. But infighting and mote cause and immediate cause of Party (BSP) could no longer claim were outdated because change has grids of thought that determine the This society by choosing Mr. Modi the election results. He represen- to be the spokespersons of the dated them. Such categories create thought styles of the future. It is in has closed itself to many great ima- the absence of a grassroots presence or a clear State ted the idea of India the majority poor. Ironically, Mr. Modi made de- the captive minds of the old elect- recognising this that this article, ginations. What we see is not a new leader tested its organisation. In the end, the AAP was wanted. People believed his words, monetisation speak a political oral politics. which till now appears like a com- generation speaking a new liber- unable to substantially increase the vote share of and his utterances such as develop- rather than an economic language. What he was offering was a pilation of what made the BJP tick, ated politics but a bowdlerised soci- around 24% that it had gained in 2014: a great chunk of ment, nationalism and “Make in In- He demonetised political currency simple, aspirational, mobile soci- becomes a symptomatology of ety oozing simplicities, created by the Akali-BJP vote went to the Congress. dia” acquired a shelf life beyond and challenged the bankability of ety where those at the bottom of fears. Let me admit that I might the masterminds of propaganda. The challenges the Congress administration faces are the original meaning of these terms such as secularism. Simul- the pyramid — a clichéd word for have got my psephology wrong but India, like the United States, has formidable. It must address the agrarian crisis as well as terms. What Mr. Modi seemed to taneously, he appropriated the pro- the poor — feel a different sense of my intuition tells me that my sense today become a collection of hard convey is what I call a lowest com- poor platform by pretending to be possibilities. His overt change in of the future might be pathetically hat minds, facing a tragedy where high unemployment in the State. Punjab leads the mon denominator democracy. He anti-rich. He became an anti-cor- style, dress, and his muted muscu- and prophetically right. the aspiration is global but the cat- country in youth unemployment rate, and its urban has created a “roti, kapda aur ruption crusader in that sense, larity all helped create an effective egories are parochial while mas- centres need renewal. The drug problem continues to makan (food, clothing and shel- telling the poor that he was their veneer around his political style. An epitaph for the old querading themselves as national. ravage rural Punjab, devastating families and nourish- ter)” imagination for the new way out of their current world. His This not only added to his vote Think of a few simple facts. Here is Mr. Modi’s victory signals the vic- ing a trafficking nexus. The high debt-to-GDP ratio middle classes. His communalism combination of patriotism and catching power among Dalits but a party which even after the Gu- tory of the parochial and affordably (31.4% in 2015-16 against the national average of 22%) — which he wore like a badge, pre- anti-poverty became a potent also made old warhorses such as jarat riots is virtually contemptu- mediocre over any vision of the cos- puts further constraints on the State administration. tending it is a patriotism — is so brew. BSP leader Mayawati appear like ous or indifferent to the Muslim, mopolitan or plural. Deep down, it blatant and confident that it chal- yesterday’s newspaper. What Mr. clear that this critical election did is the future which we have lost The Congress has no option but to deliver, as its per- lenges the old tenets of secularism The strategy Modi was signalling to each caste not need the help of any Muslim today. This is Indian democracy’s formance in Punjab is the key to its revival in northern making it irrelevant. When a Prime Let me be clear. It is a strategy that category which had frozen into a candidates. Mr. Modi has also told most ironic gift. and western India where the BJP has won most As- Minister, not merely a head of a we have to understand. Mr. Modi vote bank was that caste alone Dalits that their politics, like minor- sembly elections over the past five years. Success here party, refuses to allocate a single formulated a symbolic strategy, would not work. One needed devel- itarianism, is doomed. The two Shiv Visvanathan is Professor, Jindal should also nudge the party to groom regional leaders seat to a Muslim candidate in U.P., while BJP president Amit Shah opment, innovation, a new sense of great concepts that created the Global Law School and Director, Centre elsewhere instead of being dependent on its high com- the message is clear. He has pushed spelt out the tactics on the ground. energy, and not the old lethargy of compost heap of Indian electoral for the Study of Knowledge Systems, O.P. out an old political vocabulary He created a sense of the new, waiting for reservation. Mr. Modi politics, the vote banks which have mand, and more specifically, its vice-president, Rahul Jindal Global University Gandhi. For the AAP, the presence of 20 members in the new legislature allows it an opportunity to develop a grassroots presence. AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal has sought to move the party away from its Prejudice makes no distinction early volunteer-driven model towards a more central- ised organisation, with power concentrated in his It’s time Indian-Americans in the U.S. involved themselves deeply in civic issues hands. Its inability to convert the momentum gener- stories we hear in our communities, From my perch as a leader of an scientist Sangay Mishra has pointed ated in 2014 into a win in the Assembly election was reminding each other about carry- international organisation, I often out, such an approach shows real ig- partly a result of its failure in projecting a strong chief ing identification, staying away criticised my fellow Indian-Americ- norance about the fundamental dy- ministerial candidate. from bars in the Midwest, worrying ans for not strengthening their namics of racism — treating all that hate speeches about our ‘for- roots in America, not getting in- people of a particular colour or eth- eignness’ could easily end up in volved enough in the civic organisa- nicity as an undifferentiated mass, On the rocks gunshots as it happened to the three tions in America, and not engaging “erasing individuality, distinctive- vishakha n. desai victims of the crime. Needless to enough in the American issues of ness and humanity.” A second referendum on independence say, it has shaken the Indian-Amer- the day. In the age of Trump, this is Now, it is time for this well-to-do may not be in Scotland’s best interest rinivas Kuchibhotla in Kansas, ican community to its core. no longer just a good idea. Now the community to recognise that crim- Harnish Patel in South Caro- stakes have become dangerously inals who commit hate crimes are he timing of the announcement by Nicola Stur- Slina, and Deep Rai in Washing- Faulty terms of engagement? high and the need visibly urgent. indiscriminate. As we know from ton, all well settled Indians in Amer- For the longest time, we were proud While the White House, including the assailants of the three Indian

geon, Scotland’s first minister, to seek a second GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO ica, were shot at in a span of three to declare that Indian Americans the President, continues to deny victims, they confused their target referendum on independence for Scotland may T weeks resulting in two deaths. The were the true success story in the of the American system. But, by and any relationship between the rhet- for Iranians and Arab Americans, or be no more than strategic. Her call on Monday coin- words repeatedly used by their as- U.S. After all, even as a relatively large, we didn’t engage in the messy oric and policies of the new govern- Muslims. It didn’t matter that all cided with the U.K. Parliament’s adoption of a land- sailants were, “go back where you young immigrant group (87.2% be- issues of civil rights, political parti- ment and the unprecedented spike three of them were well-to-do, liv- mark legislation to begin talks to exit the European came from.” While these are the ing foreign born) at 1% of the popu- cipation, or racism. We thought in hate speech and hate crimes ing in comfortably prosperous com- Union. But Ms. Sturgeon’s move should remind West- most visible cases of attacks against lation (around 3 million), we could these were not our issues. against South Asian, Arab, Muslim munities. minster that the thought of separation from the British Indian-Americans, the harassment claim to have the highest per capita We remained attached to our and Jewish communities, the truth It’s time Indian-Americans of the community is far more per- income ($88,000 median house- country of origin, going back and is that the Trump presidency has joined hands with all Americans union has never fully been excised from the popular vasive since Donald Trump took of- hold income compared to all U.S. forth frequently, contributing to emboldened latent racist and ultra- who suffer from racial, ethnic or so- imagination in Scotland, despite the resounding 2014 fice as U.S President. median at $49,800) and highest local causes (after all, our dollars right nativist elements to come out cial prejudice, Muslims, Arabs, vote to stay. Recent developments seem to have In my own family, spread levels of education (70% of those could go much further in India, and in the open. This has to be the real African-Americans, Latinos or the hardened public sentiment against continuing in the throughout the U.S., we are hearing age 25 and older with college de- India surely needed help). Some of wake-up call for the Indian-Amer- LGBT community, to fight for what United Kingdom among the Scots, who had voted over- stories of insults and innuendoes. A grees, two-and-a-half times the fig- us also got very active in the politics ican community. makes America the great country whelmingly in June 2016 to remain in the EU. The popu- niece in Maryland being told by a ure for overall population) of any of our homeland, especially when it During the election, a group of that it is, welcoming new immig- co-worker that she will have to go ethnic group. Indians, calling themselves rants eager to make a new life here, lar mood in favour of independence did surge briefly, as came to right-wing Hindu causes. back where she came from, if she We could boast that Indians had Like other immigrants, we nostal- “Hindus for Trump,”tried to make a and in the process, constantly re- reflected in opinion polls soon after the Brexit vote. But was not a citizen (she is); a friend in truly arrived in America, as promin- gically longed to hold on to our distinction between themselves newing the very idea of America, al- the support receded in subsequent months. The pro- the DC suburb detained by the local ent writers, business leaders, aca- sense of belonging in the old coun- and other Indians, especially ways in the process of becoming, spects for a separate Scotland once again revived after police for ‘suspicious appearance’ demics, and even policymakers. We try while moving forward with our Muslim Indian-Americans, and not so much looking in the rear view British Prime Minister Theresa May’s landmark speech and for not carrying an identifica- lived and breathed the so-called lives in our adopted country. Secure other brown-skinned people, sug- mirror as moving forward. in January, in which she made clear her decision to quit tion (she was simply taking a walk in American dream; we bought ex- in our successful American experi- gesting that they were different, pensive homes in American sub- that they should not be confused the common market. It is futile to speculate on what her neighbourhood as she has done ence, we took the American part of Vishakha N. Desai, president emerita of for years). In our family WhatsApp urbs, sent our children to the best our hyphenated identity for gran- with Muslims and, therefore, better terms might have been offered to assuage senti- the Asia Society, is senior adviser to the group, we are constantly sharing universities and reaped the benefits ted. should not be targeted. As political President of Columbia University ment in the north, as Ms. May has prioritised immigra- tion control as the red line in her negotiations with her counterparts in the bloc. But Edinburgh has been grow- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. ing more impatient of late with London over its demands. Success and setbacks victory, no mean feat, was government formation. The analyses of the Assembly involvement of the local sky opens up (Tamil Nadu, The greatest political challenge for the Conservative The BJP needs to be made possible by the Congress has emerged as elections was the dismal farming community. It “Throwing a lifeline to government in London as it acts to take Britain out of complimented for its untiring efforts of Narendra the front-runner in Manipur performance of the Left. would be better still if NGOs waterbodies”, March 14). the 28-country bloc, is to put forward a coherent and thumping victory in Uttar Modi. Voters saw in him a and Goa and it is quite The Communist parties are and welfare associations S. Vaithianathan, convincing case for Scotland to remain in the U.K. The Pradesh which was branded very bold and efficient natural that the Governor paying a heavy price for also joined in this effort to Madurai economic argument for Edinburgh to leave is appar- as the mother of elections leader who is corruption should have invited this ignoring the importance of conserve every drop of more letters online: ently at its weakest, given the recent slump in oil prices and a semi-final for the 2019 free, has no family baggage party to form the caste in Indian society. rainwater if and when the www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/ and a mounting fiscal deficit. The champions of access general election. The party and is an orator par government. If this failed, it Their notion that class cadre and its leaders have excellence. 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What voters, candidate, is unfair since no which has also resulted in are becoming irrelevant in a Indian Railways when RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was the Railway steps to effect Brexit continue to be divisive nearly a especially the young, expect one from that community candidates who fought country like ours where Minister.” The Sudhir Kumar who was arrested and suspended, from is development and prompt came forward to join that against it till yesterday now people still live under sub- the 1987 batch of the Indian Administrative Service, was not an OSD in year after the vote. In fact, the advocates of independ- the Railways at any point. ence are likely to argue that if London can rip apart a action. party. jumping ship in the lust for human conditions and It was foolish on the part of It is clear that the power and identity. 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THE WEDNESDAY INTERVIEW | SHYAM SARAN ‘Early visit of PM Modi to the U.S. would have a positive impact’ The former Foreign Secretary says he remains optimistic about India-U.S. ties and that India should reject China’s territorial claims

Kallol Bhattacherjee larly in the energy field. dia-China border talks, Dai the security of both coun- However, we must acknow- Bingguo, stated that India tries. Such cooperation is Several recent developments indicate the need for India to ledge the fact that India is no should make concessions in likely to continue and even strategise long term: China’s ambitious connectivity infrastruc- longer a priority country for the eastern sector, including expand under the Trump ture in South Asia, the arrival of a new U.S. president, and New Russia in the commercial Tawang, and China would re- presidency. To the extent Delhi’s increasing political distance from Russia, a traditional field. Its focus remains on spond by making appropri- that Mr. Trump considers ji- ally. Former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran has been speaking China and Europe. ate, though unspecified, con- hadi terrorism a threat which about careful strategising of India’s policies since the Narendra cessions in the western needs a robust response, this Modi government came to power in 2014. In this interview, Mr. Have developments in the sector. This is despite the fact is positive because it also Saran, who was also a a key negotiator with the U.S. for the nuc- U.S. left India more that in 2005, in the Political puts pressure on countries lear deal, assesses India’s key foreign policy choices. Excerpts: vulnerable to China’s Parameters and Guiding like Pakistan. Some recent aggressive trade and Principles concluded measures announced by In the context of recent Following the temporary territorial moves? between the two countries, it Pakistan, including the arrest developments in the U.S., suspension of premium was agreed that settled popu- of the Lashkar-e-Taiba chief, ■ what do you suggest are H-1B visas, there are new It is too early to say how lations would be taken into Hafiz Saeed, are a response the best possible options concerns about the future developments in the U.S. will account in any settlement. to the likelihood of Pakistan before India to strategise of India-U.S. ties over affect global geopolitics. If Both sides understood that being targeted on the issue of priorities for its global Information Technology. the global footprint of the this referred to Tawang, terrorism. While this is wel- aims? Is the U.S. violating trade U.S. and its Western allies di- which is the only area with a come, we will have to tackle ties by suspending the minishes, this may create significant population in the crossborder terrorism on our ■ India will have to deal with visas? Can India take the spaces for other major border area. We should con- own. It cannot be outsourced the reality of the likely per- U.S. to the World Trade powers to play a bigger role. tinue to reject Chinese claims to the U.S. or any other coun- sistence of a Trump adminis- Organisation for violating We see this already in Rus- even while seeking an early try. India has garnered sup- tration grappling with do- trade conventions? sian activism in West Asia settlement. At the same time port from the international

mestic political turmoil, the R.V. MOORTHY and recent Chinese initiatives we must strengthen our bor- community on the issue of resistance of the Washington ■ One hopes that the suspen- on the Afghanistan issue. der defences and capabilit- terrorism and no country elite to several of his policies sion is only temporary. The on the U.S. There are ex- Russia. Is it time to be However, it is not clear ies, so that we are able to ef- needs convincing that China’s credibility as (witness the strong blowback trend towards limiting visas panding opportunities in <> more cautious towards whether the U.S. under Mr. fectively foil any aggressive Pakistan is the breeding on his efforts to improve rela- to Indian IT professionals of- other parts of the world and a partner in the war the U.S. and build a more Trump will reduce its global moves by China on our bor- ground of terrorism. China, tions with Putin’s Russia), fering their much sought- within India itself. Advances against international robust relationship with engagement, so we should ders. Having said that, we in fact, has isolated itself, and the growing polarisation after services in the U.S. in digital technology should terrorism has taken Russia, or a quad with wait and see. Furthermore, should welcome the fact that and its credibility as a part- in American society. This began during the (Barack) be used to offer services over a dent as a result of Japan, Australia and New not all Chinese activism the India-China border has ner in the war against inter- could mean that external en- Obama administration and is cyberspace rather than per- its move to prevent Zealand? should be considered negat- remained peaceful over the national terrorism has taken gagement of the U.S. may likely to continue. Since issu- sonnel to clients abroad. the inclusion of ive from an Indian perspect- past four decades. a dent as a result of its brazen well suffer, with its global ance of visas is considered to The premise behind this ive. For example, if China is As far as trade is con- move to prevent the inclu- profile becoming relatively be an immigration issue and Several attacks have taken Masood Azhar in the question appears to be that able to contribute to peace in cerned, enhancing the com- sion of JeM chief Masood diminished. not a trade issue, one cannot place recently against UN terrorists list. we have neglected our rela- Afghanistan and is able to re- petitiveness of Indian goods Azhar in the UN terrorists Nevertheless, India-U.S. take the suspension to the Indian immigrants in the tions with the other coun- strain Pakistani meddling, and services, developing a list. This is a blow to China’s relations have become much WTO dispute settlement U.S. Do you think that rant sentiment sweeping tries referred to, in favour of that should be welcomed. modern infrastructure, and credibility, not India’s. stronger and broad-based in mechanism. What we can do India will have to come up across the world and we strengthening relations with While India-China rela- improving trade practices Russia has not joined the past decade and enjoy bi- is to highlight the fact that In- with a new policy on need to be mindful of that. the U.S. In fact, the objective tions are influenced by In- and support facilities will be Chinese efforts to shield partisan consensus. This is a dian IT services contribute to immigration and look at We do not have an official of Indian foreign policy has dia’s relations with other ma- the keys to confront the Pakistan. It has, however, valuable asset and a factor of enhancing the global com- other parts of the world as policy to encourage emigra- been to develop and expand jor powers, it would be a Chinese challenge. India’s re- changed its position on the stability even in uncertain petitiveness of U.S. compan- more favourable tion of Indian citizens, but it a diversified set of relations mistake to look at these rela- lations with other countries Afghan Taliban and has times. India should seek to ies, that Indian IT companies immigration destinations? is the duty of the govern- with all major powers and tions as a mere derivate of is not really a factor. joined China in initiating expand the relationship are providing significant em- ment to look after the wel- with countries in the devel- the state of Indo-U.S. rela- peace negotiations between wherever possible. Despite ployment in their operations ■ The hate attacks against In- fare of those who have oping world. These relations tions. The future of India- Compared to trade and the Taliban and the Afghan its current preoccupations, to U.S. citizens, and U.S. tech dian citizens and Indian- chosen to seek employment are never mutually exclusive, China relations will be de- immigration, there is government. There is no the U.S. is and is likely to re- companies in India are some Americans are most repre- abroad. The ideal situation nor do they constitute a zero- termined by how the two greater convergence over reason for India to object to main the foremost economic of the most profitable in the hensible. When there is a would be the availability of sum proposition. Even if pro- countries handle the several counterterrorism and this. However, it is true that and military power in the world. This is a partnership general anti-immigration employment opportunities tectionist trends are visible bilateral issues between security between India Russia has recently improved world and the source of cut- in which both parties gain. sentiment unleashed by the to all strata of society within in some sectors in the U.S., them and whether there is a and the U.S. Yet, India’s relations with Pakistan and ting-edge technological in- Furthermore, in negotiat- government itself, people our country itself, so that there are opportunities to ex- readiness, despite differ- concerns on Pakistani entered into a military hard- novation. Therefore, it will ing with the U.S. on this is- with prejudice feel em- there is less pressure to seek pand trade and investment ences, to seek areas of con- involvement in terrorism ware relationship with it for continue to be an indispens- sue, we should leverage the powered to abuse and attack jobs abroad. in other sectors. We have vergent interest and shared seems to not be getting the first time in several dec- able strategic partner in In- fact that India is a growing people who look different concluded Comprehensive concern and develop a habit the necessary support ades. This is a matter of con- dia’s trajectory towards great market for U.S. products and from themselves. What is re- There seems to be Economic Partnership of working cooperatively on from Beijing, and cern for India and should be power status. Our engage- services, in particular for de- assuring is the reaction of or- growing support for the Agreements with Japan and them. There is an outstand- surprisingly from clearly conveyed to our Rus- ment with the Trump admin- fence hardware and techno- dinary American citizens and position that given the South Korea and a Free ing border issue between the Moscow. sian friends. Our response istration should reflect this. logy. There should be some local communities in support protectionist policies of Trade Agreement in trade, two countries and China reit- should be to enhance our en- An early visit of Prime Minis- element of trade-off. Indian of the victims and the the U.S., India should investment and services with erates its territorial claims, ■ Since the Mumbai terrorist gagement with Russia rather ter Narendra Modi to Wash- IT companies should also ad- promptness with which local avoid getting too close to the ASEAN. Similarly with such as on Arunachal Pra- attack in 2008, India-U.S. co- than react by limiting it. ington would have a positive apt to the changed situation and central administrations the U.S. and invest more Russia, we have been ex- desh, regularly. Recently, the operation on counterterror- impact. by diversifying markets away have responded. Neverthe- in other international panding our trade and in- former State Councillor and ism has expanded signific- The full interview is available on from the heavy dependence less, there is an anti-immig- partnerships, such as with vestment relations, particu- Special Representative for In- antly and has contributed to www.thehindu.com

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC SINGLE FILE FROM ARCHIVES Not so accessible after all FIFTY YEARS AGO MARCH 15, 1967 Vigorous procurement of grain in Madras The government’s own documents are not accessible to persons Mr. C.N. Annadurai, Chief Minister, said here [Madras] to-day [March 14] that in the present food situation in the State, the with disabilities Government was not emboldened to lift controls altogether. At the end of a day-long conference with District Collectors on Parul Ghosh the food situation, the Chief Minister told Pressmen that Gov- Irony: a state of affairs or an event ernment would implement the procurement programme ef- that seems deliberately contrary fectively. He hoped the food situation would improve in an- to what one expects and is often other two years, and enable Government to lift the controls. wryly amusing as a result. Now that we have the defini- tion of irony established, let me A HUNDRED YEARS AGO MARCH 15, 1917

GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK explain how that connects with the disability rights movement. Mr. Kipling in Lahore But first, a little context. A landmark year for the movement A pleasant informal little ceremony took place at the offices of was 2015-16. A fight that was decades in the making went from the “Civil and Military Gazette” on Monday afternoon (March a murmur to a resounding roar that echoed through the cham- 13, Lahore) when Sir Michael O’Dwyer unveiled the bronze bers of Parliament. And that roar led to the passing of the tablet commemorating Rudyard Kipling’s connection with the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2016. From only seven “Gazette”. The tablet which was designed by Mr. Sullivan, ar- recognised disabilities in the previous archaic Act of 1995 to 21 chitect to the Punjab Government, and executed at the Mayo CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC disabilities now, the new law is a true game changer that CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC School of Art, under the direction of Mr. Heath, bears the provides provisions that will benefit many. This isn’t just a CONCEPTUAL NOTEBOOK simple inscription “Rudyard Kipling Worked Here 1882-1887.” piece of legislation that is the politically correct thing to say. It It has been erected by the Punjab Government and, it is be- is the real deal which takes into account real issues like access- lieved, the first of a series which will be placed on various ibility to infrastructure, technology and information. Simpson’s That one phone call buildings in Lahore to commemorate the work of distin- We also saw the launch of the Accessible India Campaign guished men of the Punjab. (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan) by the Department of Empower- Paradox/ Sometimes reporting can result in lifelong relationships His Honour in unveiling the tablet said that he was there not ment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) in 2015, and it was Statistics as the Lieutenant Governor but as one of the few men remain- welcomed for its spirit and intention. The campaign has a ramya kannan been diagnosed with voice heavy with tears. He ing in the Punjab who had known Mr. Kipling in his earlier heavy focus on not just accessibility to physical infrastructure, acute myeloid leukaemia called again later to say days. but also on Information and Communication Technologies — First described by British When the phone rings, it and could not go to there were funds remain- which is the elephant in the room we need to address. civil servant Edward could mean many things school. Her father Velu in- ing in her account and As per the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016: “The Simpson in 1951, it is also for a journalist. At best, a terjected with the mild, that he was writing a appropriate Government shall take steps to ensure that all referred to as the Simpson- story; at worst, a PR pitch. respectful tone I’ve come cheque for a girl with can- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Yule Paradox or the re- their public documents are in accessible formats.”The Access- But sometimes, it’s also to associate with him cer.He’dcalleverynow DATA POINT ible India Campaign itself has a separate objective and its own versal paradox. The the beginning of a lifelong since: “But she was study- and then: when Lavanya targets on enhancing the proportion of accessible and usable starkest examples emerge relationship. ing all the time she was in cleared her Class X exam- public documents. From all the other provisions laid out in the in medical statistics where In May 2013, on the day hospital. Even when we ination with flying col- law and the campaign, this needs a special mention since more an aggregate of samples the Class XII State Board would ask her to rest, ours, his wife Sumathi’s often than not, people with disabilities miss out on informa- may show a trend that is examination results were she’d refuse.” sorrow, on Lakshmi tion to do with their own lives because of lack of accessibility. the opposite of when those announced, a doctor A Dalit, Velu had Priya’s birthdays, even samples are broken into friend called asking if the struggled to give his when he said he could not Attitudinal barriers subgroups. For psepholo- newspaper would be inter- daughters Lakshmi Priya take it any more. I would And there’s the connect. The irony. Recently, the DEPwD draf- gists, Simpson’s Paradox ested in a story about a and Lavanya the educa- listen and sometimes say ted the rules of the new law which have now been made avail- could explain why the young girl with cancer tion he had a mere intro- things that could not mat- able to the public for comments. The 74-page-long compre- Muslim vote, Yadav vote who had scored high duction to. The diagnosis ter much. Over one con- hensive document will be scrutinised by many, but not by and Other Backward marks. She felt if someone came like a bolt from the versation, he said he had those whose lives these rules directly impact. It’s ironic that Classes vote may individu- wrote about the girl, blue for the family which saved money for Lavan- the rules, a public document on the department’s website, are ally suggest trends that are people would be moved to was trying to keep it to- ya’s higher studies, but if not published in an accessible format to those whose roar different from the Uttar contribute to help with gether with Velu’s she got through admission made this happen. Pradesh Assembly election her treatment, as her fam- monthly salary of ₹14,000. on merit, he was willing to I have put out opinion pieces, both in long form and those of verdict. ily could not afford it. At Gradually funds poured in give that money to some the 140-character variety. And I have been a part of the Access- that point, the story was and the transplantation other deserving student or ible India Campaign and the department. I chose to play that only lukewarm interest- took place. Velu called patient. Could I recom- role to understand the dynamic of the government instead of ing, and the girl’s score from time to time, to share mend someone? CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC simply pointing fingers and playing the blame game. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC was not that high at 81%. I information about her Lavanya is writing her And what did I learn? Attitudinal barriers are here to stay. MORE decided to call anyway. small milestones, the doc- final school exam and I’m Formulating an ambitious campaign is a wonderful idea, but Lakshmi Priya was a tor’s remarks, his joy, and expecting a call from Velu what about the barriers within the walls of the system? Change ON THE WEB revelation. She had heard to seek reassurance: “All any time saying the same cannot come about if it does not first begin at home. And pub- of her result when she was will be well, no Madam? thing he always does: lishing the rules of the Accessible India Campaign without The last of Tibet’s guerrilla undergoing chemother- She is everything to me.” “Madam, are you fine? So making them accessible is just ironic in a tragic way. fighters apy, and she asked if it was Lakshmi Priya died on happy you picked my http://bit.ly/DalaiLamaEscape okay if could we just speak August 26, 2013. I knew call.” No Sir, I’m so glad Parul Ghosh is a disability rights professional over the phone. She had because Velu called, his you called.

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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE SC allows Goa swearing-in, Rahul says poll Parrikar takes oath as outcome not bad Chief Minister of Goa orders Thursday floor test Breaks silence 72 hours after results Later, after the two walkouts Shri Shibu Soren, with the by the Congress on the is- support of 17 of his own Says Congress has so far done nothing to prove that Parrikar’s claim was wrong Smita Gupta sue, Mr. Jaitley took to Face- MLAs plus others was in- New Delhi book to take on the Con- vited to form the govern- Krishnadas Rajagopal [of members] you have. We Congress vice-president gress’ charge. ment. In 2002, in Jammu New Delhi cannot stop the formation of Rahul Gandhi broke his si- In a blog entitled “Largest and Kashmir, the National The Supreme Court on Tues- the government,” Justice Go- lence on Tuesday almost 72 Single Party Vs A Combina- Conference had 28 MLAs day requested Goa Governor goi told Congress counsel hours after results of the five tion with Majority Support” but the Governor invited the Mridula Sinha to hold a floor and senior advocate Ab- Assembly elections came in, he accused the Congress of Peoples Democratic Party test in the Assembly on hishek Manu Singhvi and ad- acknowledging that struc- “complaining too much” (PDP) and the Congress March 16 for parties to prove vocate Devadatt Kamat. tural and organisational over the events in Manipur combinations of 15 + 21 their majority. The Bench said it could changes were needed in his and Goa. “The Assembly MLAs to form the govern- “This sensitive and con- even dismiss the petition party. elections in Goa produced ment,” he said. tentious issue can be re- filed by the Goa Congress Le- He, however, stressed an inconclusive verdict, He also quoted former solved by holding a floor test gislature Party leader that the Assembly poll res- there was a hung Assembly. President K.R. Narayanan’s at the earliest... We request Chandrakant Kavlekar for ults were “not bad” though The BJP managed to form an communiqué from March the Governor to hold the not impleading Mr. Parrikar the party was “a little Rahul Gandhi alliance and presented to 1998, which said, “when no floor test at 11 a.m. on March as a party in the petition. down” in Uttar Pradesh, a the Governor 21 out of 40 party or pre-election alli- 16, 2017,” the Supreme Court Senior advocate Harish State where the Congress BJP and we will continue to MLAs. The Congress did not ance of parties is in a clear recorded in its order. Salve and Additional Soli- won just seven of the 403 do that.” even submit a claim to the majority, the Head of State A Bench of Chief Justice of citor General Maninder Assembly seats after a tie-up Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Governor [as] it had the sup- has in India or elsewhere, India J.S. Khehar and Justices Green light: Lawyers emerge from the Supreme Court after Singh, representing the with the Samajwadi Party many Congressmen port of only 17 MLAs,” he given the first opportunity Ranjan Gogoi and R.K. the hearing on the Congress plea on Tuesday. R. V. MOORTHY Union of India and Goa, ini- (SP). Simultaneously, he privately expressed dissatis- wrote. to the leader of the party or Agrawal refused to stay the tially suggested this Friday hailed the role of regional faction with Mr. Gandhi’s He also gave instances the combination of parties swearing-in of BJP Legis- rashtrawadi Gomantak Party to prove that Mr. Parrikar’s or Monday as suitable days leaders who had fought As- leadership not just about where this rule was invoked that has won the largest lature Party Leader Manohar and the Goa Forward Party claim was wrong. Neither for holding the floor test. sembly polls and emerged the U.P. results but the lack- and Congress or Congress- number of seats subject to Parrikar as the Chief and two Independents. did the Congress, since the Pointing to the Congress, victorious. adaisical manner in which backed governments came the Prime Ministers so ap- Minister. The Congress moved the poll results were announced Chief Justice Khehar ad- the party had treated gov- to power. “In 2005, BJP won pointed obtaining majority The Congress won 17 seats SC on March 13, claiming the on March 11, call on the Gov- dressed Mr. Salve: “They ‘Ups and downs’ ernment formation in Ma- 30 out of 81 seats in support on the floor of the while the BJP came second Governor’s decision to ap- ernor to prove its majority [Congress] are saying you Seemingly oblivious of the nipur and Goa. In both Jharkhand, the Jharkhand House within a stipulated with 13 in the election to the point Mr. Parrikar as Chief nor had it led arguments or [BJP] are a very powerful extent of defeat in U.P. — for States, the Congress was the Mukti Morcha ( JMM) leader time. ” 40-member Goa Assembly. Minister without consulting place any record before the party and you can manipu- which the strategy was single largest party, falling The Governor invited Mr. the single largest Legislative SC to prove that Mr. Parrikar late a majority.” “But we are drawn up by him with sister short of simple majority by Parrikar, who resigned as Party (Congress) was a did not enjoy the majority. not opposing a floor test,” Priyanka Vadra — Mr. just four seats in each State. BJP combine to form Union Defence Minister, to “brazen” misuse of constitu- Mr. Salve replied. Gandhi said there are “ups The sense that emerged form the government in the tional office. SC questions Congress “The situation is fluid. In a and downs” for every party. from conversations with State on March 12 after he The court said it was not “On what satisfaction do we floor test, the House will de- “We had a little down in senior party leaders was govt. in Manipur paraded a majority of 21 possible to stop the oath-tak- stop the oath-taking... You cide whether the Governor’s Uttar Pradesh which is fine, that Mr. Gandhi had simply elected members, including ing ceremony as the Con- have not raised any argu- decision was right,” Justice we accept it. But we have an not taken the matter seri- Speaking to journalists at book,” she said. “The BJP three each from the Maha- gress has so far done nothing ment here on the numbers Gogoi explained. ideological fight with the ously. the Raj Bhavan, Ms. Hep- has requisite numbers,” she tulla said she was aware that said, adding that, “they have the Congress had emerged more than 30 and that is CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC the single largest party but it enough.” ‘Wait for TN Irom slams was not “incumbent on a Ms. Heptulla also added Braving the chill Governor” to necessarily that she wants Mr. Biren probe into BJP action call the single largest party. Singh to prove his majority “The responsibility of the “as soon as possible” as the Jaya’s death’ in Manipur Governor is to see who has new government should got the majority, who will be start work at the earliest. Special Correspondent K.A. Shaji working for the interest of “May be soon after the Chief NEW DELHI Attappady (Palakkad) the State and have the stabil- Minister is sworn in, he can The Centre said on Tues- Internationally renowned ity,” she said. prove his majority on March day that it would act to in- human rights crusader “I feel that it is very ne- 23 or 24,” the Governor quire into the circum- Irom Sharmila has ques- cessary that we have stabil- said. stances surrounding the tioned the democratic con- ity in the State,” Ms. Heptul- Meanwhile, the Congress death of Jayalalithaa only victions of the BJP, which lah said. leadership said they would after the State government has staked claim to form Asked about allegations not disrupt the swearing-in received the report of its the government in her made by the Congress, the process scheduled for Wed- own inquiry. home State, Manipur. She Governor said that she has nesday. “We will play the In the Lok Sabha, Parlia- has alleged that it is money been in Parliament in 37 role of a responsible Opposi- mentary Affairs Minister and muscle power that years and 17 years in the tion and since the BJP gov- H.N. Ananth Kumar was re- helped the party “usurp chair (Deputy Chairperson ernment has a very thin ma- sponding to AIADMK MP power”. of Rajya Sabha) and never jority, if the BJP unable to P.R. Sundaram’s demand Speaking to The Hindu during the period had any prove its majority the Con- for a CBI probe. “Her sud- after reaching a rehabilita- allegations of bias been gress will once again stake den demise is of great con- tion centre here where she raised against her. claim,” a senior Manipur cern to the Centre, too, will recuperate for a The “I am a very straight for- Congress leader told and there is a feeling that month, Ms. Sharmila said Hindu ward person and I go by the . the death occurred in mys- the BJP’s assuming of terious circumstances. The power in the north-eastern State government has State would further erode Rural India poor in already ordered a probe, the its fragile socio-political and the Centre can act only equilibrium, already viti- after the report is in,” Mr. ated by the special powers computing ability Kumar said. Mr. Sundaram, enjoyed by the Army. said to be close to the Pan- “It is about use of gadgets,” households (in some cases a neerselvam faction of the ‘Communal designs’ Dr. Siddiqui said. “But if any varying number) were AIADMK, alleged that no The activist, who secured one of the gadgets — espe- chosen for the final survey. one was allowed to meet Cool heads: Schoolgirls return home at Kanidajan in Budgam district of central Kashmir on Tuesday. The Srinagar-Jammu National just 90 votes, also chose cially a smartphone — is The extraction and trans- Jayalalithaa in the hospital. Highway remained closed for traffic for the seventh day due to snowfall and landslides. NISSAR AHMAD the occasion to appeal to taken out, then the measure fer of raw data from the major secular and demo- of computing ability will go NSSO into spreadsheets is cratic forces in the country further down.” The data was ongoing, and the research- to rally against the “com- collated from the NSS 71st ers would give their findings Sena wants five Mumbai stations renamed munal designs of round of 2014. at a workshop in April. forces”. Scholars from research insti- “Indian politics is turn- Kerala on top tutes like the Centre for ing extremely complex Among the major States, Study of Regional Develop- Charni Road, Elphinstone Road, Curry Road, and Sandhurst Road in the list with communalists using Kerala has the highest com- ment [CSRD] of Jawaharlal facilities of corporate agen- puting ability at 32.3% in Nehru University, IIM-Cal- Press Trust of India the Chhatrapati Shivaji are identified with Lalbaug, New Delhi das to turn popular man- rural areas, while Chhattis- cutta, International Institute Terminus. Dongri and Girgaum and not date in their favour. Polit- garh has the lowest, 2.9%. In of Population Sciences The Shiv Sena on Tuesday with the names of any of ical parties must engage in the urban areas, Kerala is in [IIPS] are expected to parti- demanded renaming of the Rename demand these stations,” Mr. Sawant serious introspection second position, after Delhi. cipate, said Amirul Alam, city’s five railway stations Mr. Sawant also demanded said. about their follies apart Tamil Nadu and Punjab are workshop coordinator. that have a colonial imprint. that Charni Road station be from evolving strategies to in the middle of the table. The Sena’s Arvind Sawant renamed as Girgaum, El- Rechristened counter the communal Computing ability, meas- Cooking fuel gap said in the Lok Sabha that phinstone Road as Last year, the Ram Mandir designs,” she said. ured from NSS data on So- Data on access to gas, elec- the Mumbai Central station Prabhadevi, Curry Road as station was created on the When asked about her cial Consumption and Edu- tricity or kerosene for clean should be rechristened after Lalbaug, and Sandhurst city’s suburban railway future course of action, Ms. cation, was found to be the cooking indicate a wide gap Jagannath Shankar Seth for Road as Dongri. track. Sharmila said she would lowest in the tribal popula- between rural and urban his contribution to the city “Most of these railway sta- Victoria Terminus was re- continue her struggle. “I tion. The researchers said consumption. While 14.9% and the growth of railways in tions have colonial names. christened as the Chhat- am here for a month’s village or urban blocks were of rural population has ac- its pioneering years. Curry Road is in Lalbaug, rapati Shivaji Terminus dur- break. During this stay, I identified to ensure repres- cess to clean cooking, the Seth is known for his con- Sandhurst Road is in Dongri, ing the earlier Shiv Sena-BJP would ponder over the way entation of all districts, and figure goes up to 76.4% in Jagannath Shankar Seth is known for his contribution to the tribution to the Victoria Ter- Charni Road is in Girgaum. regime between 1995 and I can continue the FILE PHOTO for each of these, only eight urban areas. Victoria Terminus station, now known as CST. minus station, now known as The addresses and pin codes 1999. struggles,” she said. Lok Sabha clears amended ‘Naval rethink needed Introspect over Sukma: Rajnath for maritime security’ Enemy Property Bill 12 CRPF personnel were killed in Maoist attack last week

Sri Lanka bats for safety of civilians Special Correspondent ness” among the LWE Approves changes introduced in the Rajya Sabha last week New Delhi groups, he told the Lok Kallol Bhattacherjee Minister said during his ad- Home Minister Rajnath Sabha. NEW DELHI Press Trust of India the recommendations of a an enemy firm. The govern- dress at the leadership sec- Singh on Tuesday called for Security forces had New Delhi Select Committee. Those ment has vested these prop- Citing the importance of the tion of the annual counter- “introspection” following achieved tremendous suc- Heirs of those who migrated amendments had to be ap- erties in the Custodian of En- waterways around Sri terror conference by the In- the killing of 12 CRPF per- cess in 2016 in all LWE-af- to Pakistan and China dur- proved by the Lower House, emy Property for India, an Lanka, Prime Minister Ranil dia Foundation. sonnel in an ambush by fected States, particularly in ing Partition will have no which was done on Tuesday. office instituted under the Wickremesinghe on Tues- Maoists in Chhattisgarh last Chhattisgarh, where 135 claim over the properties left Central government. day argued for a greater The connector week and said he had LWE cadres were killed, 779 behind in India, with Parlia- Seeking clarity After the Indo-Pakistan naval role for safety of civil- Indicating at Sri Lanka’s role ordered an inquiry to arrested and 1,198 sur- ment on Tuesday passing a RSP member N.K. Prem- War of 1965, the Enemy ian traffic. Addressing a in ensuring global maritime identify lapses behind it. rendered, Mr. Singh said. Bill to amend a 49-year-old achandran had moved a stat- Property Act was enacted in counter-terror conference security, Mr. Wickremes- He told the Lok Sabha The number of violent in- law. utory amendment seeking to 1968, which regulates such here over video link from inghe said the Indian Ocean that the attack on security cidents in Chhattisgarh also The Enemy Property introduce clarity with regard properties and lists the Cus- Colombo, Mr. Wickremes- region was the connector personnel in the Sukma dropped by 15% from 466 in (Amendment and Valida- to those properties which todian’s powers. inghe said more terror at- between the energy sources forests was an outcome of 2015 to 395 in 2016. tion) Bill, 2016, which had already been acquired “The purpose of [the] Bill tacks were likely to target of the Gulf region and en- desperation among the Left The number of LWEs amends the Enemy Property by the heirs of the ‘enemy’ is to clarify the 1968 Act. In- the maritime sector in the ergy consumers of Asia. In Wing Extremists (LWEs) as led to it can be identified, as killed increased by 150% (89 Act, 1968, was passed by property owners, a refer- heritance law will not be ap- future. this context, he lauded the they had suffered unpreced- this will reduce the possibil- in 2015 to 222 in 2016) in voice vote in the Lok Sabha, ence to nationals of Pakistan plicable on Enemy Proper- “Non-state actors target- March 5-7 conference of the ented losses last year. ity of repetition of such in- 2016, while surrenders and incorporating the amend- and China. ty...This will put an end to ing logistics and infrastruc- Indian Ocean Region in “However, there is a need cidents in future,” he said. arrests registered a com- ments made by the Rajya According to the Bill, “en- the long-pending issue ture sector will become a Jakarta where the Ministers for introspection over this bined increase of 47% over Sabha last week. The LS had emy property” refers to any which should have ideally nightmare in the future. also adopted the “IORA De- incident. I have directed the Unprecedented success 2015 (2,238 to 3,282), he passed the Bill earlier but property belonging to, held happened in 2010 when the Complexities of maritime se- claration on Preventing and DG, CRPF, to conduct a de- The unprecedented success said. Only three security per- certain amendments were or managed on behalf of an Bill was introduced,” Home curity require navies to re- Countering Terrorism and tailed inquiry into the incid- of the security forces of late sonnel lost their lives in 2016 introduced to it in the RS, on enemy, an enemy subject or Minister Rajnath Singh said. think their role,” the Prime Violent Extremism”. ent so that the lapses that had led to “evident uneasi- against 15 in 2015, he said. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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IN BRIEF Jaitley takes up Swamy asks Uncertainty in South Block PM to speed Officials say Parrikar’s exit could not have come at a worse time for Ministry additional charge up I-T probe

Dinakar Peri nerships, procurements and Meets service chiefs and officials Special Correspondent NEW DELHI anomalies in the Seventh NEW DELHI Uncertainty looms over Pay Commission. They will Bharatiya Janata Party Bangladesh PM on 3-day South Block with Manohar now get delayed,” he said. leader and Rajya Sabha Parrikar leaving charge of member Subramanian visit to India from April 7 DHAKA the Defence Minister. His Pay revision Swamy said on Tuesday exit could not have come at a The other major issue is im- that he had written to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will pay a state worse time for the Ministry, plementation of the Seventh Prime Minister Narendra visit to India from April 7 to several officials said. Pay commission for the ser- Modi alleging that senior 10 to further expand the Mr. Parrikar’s sudden de- vices, which was already government officials were relationship between the two parture has put the brakes done for their civilian coun- holding up action on In- neighbours, an official on several major initiatives terparts. come Tax Department in- statement said on Tuesday. to overhaul defence procure- The issue is being looked vestigations into the com- Ms. Hasina will travel to India ment, indigenisation, civil- into by the anomalies com- panies owned by Karti after seven years. PTI military relations and so on. mittee and there is growing Chidambaram, son of “Continuity is required in Make in India: The Indian-bult INS Khanderi. The Defence resentment among the ser- former Finance Minister P. Three Union Bank staff the Defence Ministry, espe- Ministry is now focussing on indigenisation. PRASHANT NAKWE vices over the delay. Chidambaram. booked for illicit deposits cially when projects have a He said these issues had Dr. Swamy told the me- NEW DELHI long gestation period. So un- partnership model, part of But a question mark hangs to be sorted out quickly, More responsibility: taking additional charge of dia that he had urged the The CBI has registered a less they are pushed con- the Defence Procurement on it now. which was best done with a the Defence Ministry in New Delhi on Tuesday. PTI Prime Minister to inter- corruption case against three tinuously, the time lag will Procedure, which will spell full-fledged Defence vene as this was an ex- employees of the Kanpur keep increasing and the pro- out guidelines for tie-ups Not an add-on Minister. Special Correspondent ley was received by Union ample of the fight against branch of the Union Bank of cess of indigenisation will between foreign manufac- Defence is too important to Beyond procurements New Delhi Minister of State Subhash corruption being hijacked India for allegedly exchanging keep getting delayed,” the turers and the private sector be handled as an add-on, es- and the implementation of Union Finance Minister Bhamre, Defence Secretary by some civil servants ow- ₹1.17 crore in demonetised former Chief of the Army in high technology areas to pecially by the Finance Min- the pay commission propos- Arun Jaitley on Tuesday G. Mohan Kumar and other ing allegiance to the notes in violation of the rules Staff Deepak Kapoor told build military hardware in ister, said Air Vice-Marshal als, Mr. Parrikar had spent took additional charge of officials. Later, he met the erstwhile Congress-led last November. Without the The Hindu. India. Manmohan Bahadur (Retd), considerable time and effort the Defence Ministry, for the three service chiefs. After UPA government. receipt of the required forms, He cautioned that delays Officials said that the Distinguished Fellow at the on issues such as reorgan- second time in three years. the BJP came to power in “The Income Tax invest- they allegedly allowed the were “detrimental to na- policy, after much delibera- Centre for Air Power Studies. ising the military to make it This follows the resignation May 2014, Mr. Jaitley was in igation wing in Chennai exchange of notes. tional security”. tions and delays, was ready “Major decisions are re- lean and lethal and the ap- of Manohar Parrikar. charge of Defence till Mr. has, after seizure of docu- Among the top priorities and was expected to be re- quired which are in the final pointment of a Chief of the On his arrival at the Min- Parrikar took over in ments and hard disks from No shortage of coronary is the policy on the strategic leased after the elections. stages such as strategic part- Defence Staff. istry in South Block, Mr. Jait- November that year. the companies and resid- stents: govt. tells LS ence of Mr. Karti …, found NEW DELHI and compiled the huge il- There is no shortage of legal investments abroad coronary stents in the market and established the illegal, after substantial reduction of Team OPS counters Sasikala’s reply to Election Commission secret foreign bank ac- its price and the government counts,” Dr. Swamy had is closely monitoring their written in his letter dated availability, the government Former Chief Minister to meet Chief Election Commissioner in New Delhi today to give ‘oral evidence’ March 7. informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. PTI Dr. Swamy said he was Special Correspondent Ahead of his visit, his A copy of the same was amy, said that Sasikala had became the CM only in 1977, by its General Council.” apprised of such a report CHENNAI team submitted a rebuttal to sent to the Bengaluru prison made “several glaring er- Sasikala has said he became The founder was the head by a whistleblower in the Police install CCTVs The fight for being recog- the response given by jailed where she is serving a four- rors” in her response to the CM in 1972, which is wrong,” of the party only till 1977 but I-T Department in Chennai. in Delhi markets NEW DELHI nised as the real AIADMK leader V.K. Sasikala to the year jail term. Commission and the OPS Mr. Palanisamy said. she had stated that he was and capturing the party’s Election Commission to “We are also meeting the team had pointed them out In her response, Sasikala the head till 1987, whereas Seeking to check crime and popular ‘Two Leaves’ sym- their petition challenging Chief Election Commis- in their response to the had admitted that she was other leaders held the post terror strikes, the Delhi Police bol ahead of the bypolls to her appointment as the in- sioner to give oral evidence Commission. only the interim general sec- during those years. has installed over 2,400 Annan CCTV cameras at various the Dr. Radhakrishnan terim general secretary of over the matter. OPS “She has made some glar- retary of the party, he poin- “She cited that the party markets of the city, Minister Nagar Assembly constitu- the AIADMK. would be there with all of ing errors in her response to ted out, and said: “We have had reunited after a split in of State for Home Hansraj ency has intensified with the A senior leader of the OPS us,” he said. the Commission. She has submitted to the Commis- 1989. But at that time, Amma Ahir informed the Lok Sabha faction led by former Chief camp said that a point-by- made mistakes even in the sion to declare her election (Jayalalithaa) was elected on Tuesday. Government’s Minister O. Panneerselvam point rebuttal running into ‘Glaring mistakes’ years when founder leader as null and void, since she unanimously by both fac- anti-terror measures include (OPS) set to meet the Chief 61 pages was submitted to Another leader of the OPS MGR was the general secret- was not elected by those tions [led by Jayalalithaa and check posts, forming armed Election Commissioner in the Election Commission in camp and former Member ary of the party and the holding the primary mem- Janaki],” Mr. Palanisamy response teams, he said. PTI New Delhi on Wednesday. Delhi on Tuesday. of Parliament K.C. Palanis- Chief Minister. Though he bership of the party and not said.

Army chief’s Now, fake ₹2,000 notes threat has no turn up like a bad penny result: Omar Special Correspondent Srinagar Agencies probing if security features were compromised Former Chief Minister and National Conference (NC) Vijaita Singh working president Omar New Delhi Abdullah on Tuesday said In the four months since the that the tough measure of government scrapped the the Army Chief, General old ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes, Bipin Rawat, to name the Reserve Bank of India people converging near en- (RBI) and the police have de- counter sites as over- tected fake ₹2,000 with a ground workers has failed face value of ₹66 lakh across to yield any result. the country. “The Army Chief’s The government informed threat was aimed at keep- the Lok Sabha that investiga- ing protesters away from tions were on to determine encounter sites. He whether the security fea- thought the threat will tures of the new currency keep people indoors. How- notes were compromised. Spot the original: There were instances of counterfeit notes ever, this threat is not On November 8, 2016, being smuggled from neighbouring countries. K R DEEPAK working. Instead, more Prime Minister Narendra and more people are join- Modi announced the with- 3,346 pieces of fake ₹2,000 stances in which the fake ing the protests near the drawal of the old notes and notes were recovered. The notes had been smuggled encounter sites,” said Mr. the introduction of ₹2,000 highest number — 1,323 from the neighbouring coun- Abdullah in Srinagar. notes to weed out black notes with a face value of ₹26 tries. An investigation was He also expressed ap- money and fake currency lakh — was recovered in Gu- on to find out if the fake prehensions over deterior- notes. jarat, followed by Delhi notes were scanned or pho- ating security in the State. The Prime Minister said (1,261 notes with a face value tocopied versions of the “The militancy is on the the measure would help of ₹25 lakh) and Karnataka genuine note or if the secur- rise. Leave aside panches eradicate corruption and ter- (266 notes). ity features had been and sarpanches, former ror funding. compromised. ministers’ security is being The Union Home Min- Smuggled in Recently, the Bengal po- withdrawn. It’s incumbent istry’s reply in the Lok Sabha Union Minister of State for lice, with the NIA, had seized upon the EC to create a said that from November 9, Home Hansraj Gangaram fake notes with a face value conducive atmosphere,” 2016 to March 7 this year, Ahir said there had been in- of ₹3.9 lakh. said Mr. Abdullah.

Privilege notice Google search leads to against Minister arrest of rape accused

Special Correspondent Nikhil Priyadarshi, his father to be brought back to Patna BHUBANESWAR The Congress on Tuesday Amarnath Tewary that is when we decided to registered against Priyadar- Kavita Upadhyay served a privilege notice interrogate the two persons shi in a police station in Patna/Dehradun against Odisha Agriculture further.” Patna. Minister Pradeep Maha- After absconding for three A Google search with Priy- Priyadarshi has also been rathy, accusing him of mis- months in a case of rape of adarshi’s name showed up accused of running a sex leading the State Assembly the minor daughter of a the history of the “high-pro- racket. on the recent suicide of a former Bihar Minister, a file rape case” in which he is The name of the Congress farmer in Bargarh district. Patna-based businessman, a main accused and his leader Brajesh Pandey too Moving the privilege no- Nikhil Priyadarshi, and his father a co-accused, Mr. had come up during the in- tice, Leader of the Opposi- father, Krishna Bihari Mohsin said. vestigation into the case, but tion Narasingha Mishra Prasad, a retired IAS officer, “The confirmation came he is yet to be arrested. said action should be taken were detained by the Ut- from the Patna SSP [Manu The victim had said in her against the Minister and of- tarakhand police on Maharaj] to whom I had sent police complaint that she ficers responsible for mis- Tuesday. pictures [of the two ac- had come into contact with leading the House after cused],” Mr. Mohsin said. Priyadarshi after a missed making an inquiry by the Vehicle check Priyadarshi, an auto- call on her phone. Privileges Committee. Senior Superintendent of Po- mobile businessman of Earlier, a Patna court had Countering the Minis- lice (SSP), Pauri, Mukhtar Patna, was absconding in the rejected Priyadarshi’s bail ter’s statement that Khainu Mohsin told The Hindu, case of sexually abusing the petition twice. Bagarti committed suicide “During a regular vehicle Dalit girl on the pretext of The father and son have on March 4 following a dis- check near the Chilla area marriage. been lodged at the Laksh- pute with his wife, Mr. [in Pauri district], we spot- man Jhula police station in Mishra said an Advocates' ted an Audi car with a Hary- Sex racket Pauri district. Committee had found that ana number ... When we A case under the Protection “SIT members have gone the farmer committed sui- started questioning, the two of Children from Sexual Of- to Uttarakhand to bring cide due to crop failure [Priyadarshi and his father] fences (POSCO) Act and the them to Patna,” Mr. Manu and loan burden. seemed quite nervous and Indian Penal Code has been Maharaj told The Hindu. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 12 WORLD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ELSEWHERE EU religious signs ban sparks outrage U.K. Parliament clears way for Brexit talks Rights groups raise concerns after court rules that employers can ban staff from wearing such symbols Vidya Ram Muslim women who chose systematic manner” did not PM Theresa May is expected to trigger Seema Verma confirmed LONDON to wear the scarf from secur- “constitute direct discrimin- for health care post Religious organisations and ing jobs.” ation based on religion or Article 50 by month-end as planned WASHINGTON rights groups have expressed belief,” it concluded. The U.S. Senate has concerns about a “disturb- Two cases However, in the case of Vidya Ram confirmed Indian-American ing” European Court of The Luxembourg-based Ms. Boughanaoui, the court London Seema Verma for a top health Justice ruling on Tuesday court’s ruling involves two concluded that the ban British Prime Minister care position in the Trump that enables European com- cases: that of Samira Achbita could not be based on “sub- Theresa May scored a parlia- administration. The second panies to ban employees who was dismissed from her jective considerations” such mentary victory as both Indian-American in the from wearing visible reli- role with Belgian firm G4S as the employer’s willing- Houses of Parliament administration to be gious signs. The court ruled Secure Solutions in 2006 ness to listen to the custom- passed the Brexit bill un- confirmed by the Senate — that employers can ban the after expressing her intent to er’s demands. after UN Ambassador Nikki amended late on Monday, wearing of visible political, start wearing a headscarf. “The ECJ has qualified its Haley — Ms. Verma would leaving her free to trigger philosophical or religious The second involved Asma ruling by saying that a ban head the $1 trillion Centers of Article 50 by the end of Medicare and Medicaid signs, so long as it was Boughnaoui, who was dis- on religious signs by an em- March as planned. There Services that provides health already included in com- Fears of discrimination: A protest in Brussels in March 2010 missed by French firm Mi- ployer can only be justified if had been speculation that care to 130 million people. PTI pany laws, and equally ap- against the prohibition of headscarf in schools. AFP cropole in 2009, after a cli- it is based on an internal Brexit talks could be plied. While the cases con- ent complained about her rule… However, we fear that triggered as early as Tues- Malaysia to deport 50 sidered by the ECJ involve ing is disturbing as it has al- appearance have become a wearing of the headscarf. employers will treat it as a li- day, but it is now expected N. Koreans despite ban the headscarf, the ruling will lowed an employer’s free- political battleground, In the case of Ms. Achbita, cence to discriminate at the to take place at the end of KUALA LUMPUR also apply to other religious dom to conduct business to people need more protec- the court noted that there point of hire,” said Ms. Kaur, month, following a meeting Tourist post cards at a shop Malaysia will deport 50 North symbols such as Sikh override an employee’s fun- tion against prejudice.” was an internal G4S rule that from United Sikhs. of EU heads of governments in London. GETTY IMAGES Koreans for overstaying their turbans, Christian crucifixes, damental human right to “We fear that this ruling employees were prohibited “Instead of seeking to visas, the Deputy-Prime in Rome on March 25 to or Jewish Kippahs. practice her faith.” will serve as a green light to from wearing visible signs of make us all look the same, mark the 60th anniversary cing two amendments guar- Minister said on Tuesday, in The ruling could be used The ruling gave employers those wishing to normalise political, philosophical or re- governments and employers an apparent exception to a of the Rome Treaties, the anteeing the right to remain as a “licence to discriminate the leeway to “discriminate discrimination against faith ligious beliefs in the work- should focus on protecting departure ban after the founding treaties of the of EU citizens in the U.K., assassination of Kim Jong- at the point of hire”, said against women — and men — communities,” said a spokes- place without distinction. our fundamental right to European project. and requiring Parliament to nam. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi Mejindarpal Kaur, interna- on the grounds of religious person for the Muslim Coun- Prohibiting wearing a head- freely express our faith,’ said The parliamentary vic- be given more of a voice told reporters that 50 North tional legal director of the belief”, said John Dalhuisen cil of Britain. scarf, under such circum- Martha Spurrier, director of tory was somewhat over- through the negotiations. Koreans working in Sarawak network, United Sikhs, in an of Amnesty International. “Many will be worried stances where the rule was U.K. civil liberty and human shadowed by Monday’s an- The government had on Borneo island would be emailed statement. “The rul- “At a time when identity and that this action will prevent applied in a “consistent and rights body Liberty. nouncement by Scottish already pledged a vote to deported from Malaysia First Minister Nicola Stur- Parliament, but peers despite the ban. REUTERS geon of plans to hold a sought to ensure it was a Israel closes Palestinian second referendum before meaningful one rather than map bureau, arrests head Fillon placed under ‘Madhesis will have greater the end of Brexit talks in one that was done on a JERUSALEM 2019. Ms. Sturgeon argued “take it or leave it basis”, that her government had leaving Parliament with the Israeli police closed on formal investigation Tuesday a Palestinian representation in local bodies’ faced a “brick wall of in- choice between the deal be- research centre in Jerusalem transigence” in Westmin- ing proposed and reverting and arrested its director, a ster, and a lack of willing- to WTO rules. However, prominent cartographer. Suspected of diverting public funds Nepal Deputy PM says civic elections cannot be delayed ness to engage with the when the bill was returned Israeli officials accused its devolved assemblies as had to the House of Commons, Reuters for comment. Mr. Fillon, Kallol Bhattacherjee hesis in the local bodies a quick negative response head Khalil Tafakji of working Paris New Delhi been promised, particularly these clauses were re- with the Palestinian Authority who has for weeks denied which will address the de- from the Madhesi leaders on the issue of single market moved, and the House of to monitor the sale of land by French presidential candid- any wrongdoing and said he The government of Nepal mand for greater representa- who said that Kathmandu is access. Also complicating Lords subsequently chose Palestinians to Israeli Jews in ate Francois Fillon was put is the victim of a “man- will ensure greater repres- tion of the Madhesi popula- trying to mislead the Mad- matters was the call by the not to make another chal- east Jerusalem. AFP under formal investigation hunt”, had initially said he entation of the Madhesi tion in the local bodies”, hesis. “Madhesis constitute Sinn Fein, the second lenge, passing the bill by a on Tuesday over misuse of would answer a summons to people in the local bodies, said Mr. Nidhi, adding, “we 52% of the total population Sharif orders action against largest party in Northern majority of 274 to 118. public funds in the fake jobs go and see examining magis- said the country’s Deputy are willing to consider other of Nepal but have barely Ireland, for a vote on unify- The lack of any amend- ‘blasphemous’ content scandal involving his wife, trates on Wednesday and Prime Minister Bimalendra demands like the territorial 20% representation in the ISLAMABAD ing Northern Ireland with ment to the original legisla- the prosecutor’s office said. not Tuesday. Nidhi on Tuesday. He added demarcation and inclusion National Assembly. The local the Republic of Ireland. tion means that the govern- Pakistani Prime Minister The 63-year-old conser- Under French law, being that elections cannot be of Madhesi language in the level elections have not been ment will be able to Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday vative candidate was put un- put under formal investiga- delayed and that the Mad- coming days”. held for two decades but Vote on legislation commence Brexit talks ordered authorities to take der formal investigation on tion means there is “serious hesis will have to show flex- Mr. Nidhi, who is on a already the government is immediate action against The legislation on Brexit has along the lines outlined by suspicion of diverting public or consistent evidence” that ibility even as the Madhesi brief visit to India, said that planning to reduce the made rapid progress Prime Minister Theresa May “blasphemous” content on morcha the social media, days after a funds, complicity in misap- points to probable involve- leaders said that the government of Prime power of these bodies as through the Houses of Par- in January and in a sub- High Court order. “Those propriating funds, receiving ment of a suspect in a they are determined to pre- Minister Pushpa Kamal Da- they are not allowing the liament from late January. sequent white paper, taking behind this heinous crime the funds and not declaring crime. It is a step towards a vent the election process hal ‘Prachanda’ will take provinces to hold the elec- The Brexit bill first made it Britain out of the European should be dealt with, without assets fully, a judicial source trial, but a number of such without the constitutional into consideration views of tions in the lawful manner,” through the House of Com- single market and the cus- any delay,” said Mr. Sharif to said. investigations have been amendments. all sides before holding the said Upendra Yadav, co- mons unchallenged, but toms union to enable the Interior Minister Chaudhary Mr. Fillon’s lawyer could dropped without going to “We will ensure greater elections. ordinator of the United Mad- peers in the House of Lords government to end freedom Nisar Ali Khan. PTI not immediately be reached court. participation of the Mad- The peace overture drew hesi Democratic Front. were successful in introdu- of movement from the EU. ‘14 million will lose coverage if Obamacare is repealed’ Report comes as Trump prepares to dismantle the plan

Reuters signature piece of domestic Two House of Represent- Washington policy is commonly called, atives committees have ap- Fourteen million Americans expanded insurance to proved the legislation to dis- would lose medical insur- about 20 million Americans. mantle Obamacare that was ance by next year under a unveiled by Republican lead- Republican plan to dis- Hearing postponed ers a week ago, but it faces mantle Obamacare that Hours after the CBO report opposition from not only would also reduce the was released, the House Democrats but also medical budget deficit, a non-par- Budget Committee post- providers including doctors tisan congressional research poned its consideration of and hospitals and many con- office said on Monday, the Republican Bill to servatives. The CBO report’s throwing U.S. President Thursday from Wednesday. findings could make the Re- Donald Trump and Repub- Prior to the report, Repub- publican plan a harder sell licans on the defensive as licans had been planning to for lawmakers, particularly they press forward with re- vote soon on the Bill in the in the U.S. Senate. The CBO, placement legislation. House, where it is likely to however, said federal defi- The U.S. Congressional pass, and send it to the Sen- cits would fall by $337 billion Budget Office (CBO) forecast ate, where its outlook is un- between 2017 and 2026 un- that 24 million more people certain. The CBO projected der the Republican Bill. would be uninsured in 2026 that 52 million people would The Affordable Care Act if the plan being considered be uninsured by 2026 if the aimed to help restrain U.S. by the House of Representat- Bill became law, compared healthcare spending, which ives to replace the 2010 Af- with 28 million who would is about 17% of the nation’s fordable Care Act were to be not have coverage that year economy, but it has contin- adopted. Obamacare, as if the law remained ued to grow faster than President Barack Obama’s unchanged. inflation. Russia ‘deploys’ Marx’s hometown to accept China’s gift statue special forces in Egypt Beijing offered to present the city of for tourists from China, but bronze version of the father many residents are never- of communism towering Eyes role in Libya, say diplomats Trier with a bronze statue, ahead of his theless uncomfortable with over the Simeonstiftplatz, 200th birth anniversary on May 5 accepting a gift from the the city’s square, which is Reuters more detail, describing a 22- Chinese government. named for a church that Washington/Cairo member Russian special “China is not a free coun- once stood there. City au- Russia appears to have de- forces unit, but declined to Melissa Eddy Weishan. However, the coun- try, quite the opposite,” a thorities erected a wooden ployed special forces to an discuss its mission. They ad- Berlin cil left open the thorny ques- Trier newspaper quoted To- stand-in in the square to give airbase in western Egypt ded that Russia also used The bicentennial of the birth tions of how large it would bias Schneider of the Free residents an idea of how it near the border with Libya another Egyptian base of Karl Marx was supposed be and where in the city it Democratic Party in Trier as might look. in recent days, U.S., Egyp- farther east in Marsa Mat- to bring his hometown, would stand. saying on Monday. tian and diplomatic sources rouh in early February. Trier, Germany, an import- “Karl Marx is one of the “We could draw up a long Final height unclear say, a move that would add The apparent Russian de- ant exhibition about his life most important citizens of list of human rights viola- In the end, a majority of the to U.S. concerns about Mo- ployments have not been and an increase in tourism. this city, and we should not tions. Do we want to allow council voted to accept the scow’s deepening role in previously reported. The But an offer from China to hide him,” the Mayor of such a rogue regime to set statue, although perhaps a Libya. Russian Defence Ministry present the city with a Trier, Wolfram Leibe, told upastatueofKarlMarxin smaller version of it than The U.S. and diplomatic did not immediately provide nearly 20-foot-tall bronze the public broadcaster SWR the heart of our city?” was originally envisioned, officials said any such Rus- comment on Monday and statue of Marx, the 19th-cen- before the vote. with a final height to be de- sian deployment might be Egypt denied the presence tury intellectual who was The debate over the gift Bicentennial of Marx termined later. partofabidtosupport of any Russian contingent one of the writers of The began last year when China The Chinese told city offi- It would be unveiled as Libyan military commander on its soil. “There is no for- Communist Manifesto,is announced that on the occa- cials they were offering the part of the city’s attempt to Khalifa Haftar, who suffered eign soldier from any for- overshadowing the festivities sion of Marx's 200th birth- statue to honour the bicen- re-examine Marx’s work and a setback with an attack on eign country on Egyptian a year before they begin. day on May 5, Beijing would tennial and as a symbol of the turbulent time in which March 3 by the Benghazi De- soil. This is a matter of sov- present the his hometown the strong ties between the he lived, through exhibitions fence Brigades on oil ports ereignty,” Egyptian army Months of discussion with a bronze statue. countries. The Chinese gov- and intellectual discussions. controlled by his forces. spokesman Tamer al-Rifai After months of discussion Statues of Marx, who was ernment agreed to cover “This debate is less about The U.S. officials said the said. and more than an hour of born in Trier on May 5, 1818, Birthplace: A bust at the garden of the Karl Marx House about two-thirds of the cost human rights, aesthetics or U.S. has observed what ap- The U.S. military declined lively debate, the City Coun- and later lived in Berlin, Lon- museum in Trier, Germany. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS of a pedestal for the statue location” of the statue, peared to be Russian special comment. U.S. intelligence cil in Trier, in western Ger- don and Paris, were com- and its installation, estim- Richard Lueckefeld of the operations forces and on Russian military activit- many near the border with mon throughout Eastern cluding in Berlin. But his The city, which is on the ated at €1,05,000 (about Green Party said. “It is about drones at Sidi Barrani, ies is often complicated by Luxembourg, decided on Europe during the Cold War, birthplace, firmly in the banks of the Moselle River $1,12,000). getting the city out of a pre- about 100 km from the its use of contractors or Monday to accept the gift and several still survive in former West Germany, has and in an important wine- But after word spread dicament, because those re- Egypt-Libya border. Egyp- forces without uniforms, of- from the Chinese govern- Germany’s formerly com- struggled with how best to producing area, has increas- about the gift, many resid- sponsible have failed to hon- tian security sources offered ficials say. ment, by the sculptor Wu munist eastern states, in- remember its famous son. ingly become a destination ents balked at the idea of a our Karl Marx.” NYT CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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14-03-2017 % CHANGE Food and fuel prices spur Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 29,443 dddd 1.72 Sensex touches 52-week US Dollar dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 65.82 dddd 1.17 Goldddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 28,900 dd -0.52 Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 50.74 dd -2.70 acceleration in inflation high on poll outcome NIFTY 50

PRICE CHANGE ACC ...... 1415.40...... 15.40 Rupee strengthens to 65.82, highest level since Nov. 2015 Adani Ports...... 309.25...... 10.45 CPI inflation quickens to 3.65%, WPI-based figure hits 39-month high of 6.55% Ambuja Cements ... . 233.70...... 4.65 Special Correspondent Asian Paints ...... 1071.40...... 41.15 MUMBAI Aurobindo Pharma . 662.20...... 9.70 Special Correspondent NEW DELHI Axis Bank ...... 510.90...... -5.00 The benchmark Sensex Bajaj Auto ...... 2866.70...... 2.15 Retail and wholesale price touched a new 52-week high Bank of Baroda ...... 161.00...... 2.00 inflation accelerated in Feb- on Tuesday as stocks rallied Bharti Airtel ...... 361.10...... -3.80 ruary, spurred by food and on the back of a strong out- BHEL ...... 161.35...... 3.25

Bosch ...... 22591.45... -169.70 fuel prices, vindicating the come for the BJP in the re-

BPCL ...... 636.70...... 13.35 Reserve Bank of India’s de- cently-concluded State elec- Cipla...... 600.20...... 11.10 cision to change its monet- tions. Tuesday was the first Coal India ...... 294.95..... -21.35 ary stance to “neutral” amid trading session after the res- Dr Reddys Lab ...... 2741.00...... 25.15 concerns about the “persist- ults were announced on Sat- Eicher Motors ...... 24001.25.....644.70 ence” of price gains in cat- urday and the Sensex soared GAIL (India) ...... 375.80...... -2.45

Grasim Ind ...... 1033.90...... 34.85 egories excluding food and more than 600 points dur-

HCL Tech...... 853.60...... 7.25 fuel. ing the trading session. HDFC...... 1424.15...... 50.35 While retail inflation as The 30-share benchmark HDFC Bank...... 1410.70...... 10.60 measured by the Consumer touched a 52-week high of Hero MotoCorp...... 3357.45...... 46.40 Price Index (CPI) quickened 29,561.93 during the morn- Hindalco ...... 190.40...... 2.80

Hind Unilever ...... 913.75...... 38.55 to 3.65%, from January’s ing session, before closing at

ICICI Bank ...... 287.25...... 16.70 3.2%, according to data from 29,442.63, up 496.40 points Idea Cellular ...... 103.05...... -1.20 the Ministry of Statistics and or 1.71%. Incidentally, the IndusInd Bank ...... 1354.20...... 18.45 Programme Implementa- Sensex is now only 582 Soaring high: The Sensex is only 582 points shy of its all-time Bharti Infratel ...... 310.05...... 1.60 tion, wholesale price infla- points shy of its all-time re- high of 30,024.74, hit on March 4, 2015. Infosys ...... 1034.80...... 12.95 tion accelerated sharply to a cord high of 30,024.74, ITC ...... 267.10...... 3.65

Kotak Bank ...... 836.15...... 7.25 39-month high of 6.55%, a touched on March 4, 2015. and insurance companies susceptible to global risks.

L&T ...... 1558.10...... 66.50 separate release from the The broader Nifty gained have seen large and continu- March earnings may still see Lupin...... 1446.95...... -0.15 Ministry of Commerce and 152.45 points, or 1.71%, to ous inflows and as a result, the effects of demonetisa- M&M ...... 1326.00...... 23.25 Industry showed. In compar- Costlier calories: Economists see food prices continuing to climb as perishables become dearer close at 9,087. Interestingly, have created large cash tion. We stay cautious in the Maurti Suzuki ...... 6132.40.....176.80 ison, the Wholesale Price In- leaving the RBI little option but to hold interest rates in 2017. the India VIX index — a baro- pools in the portfolios. They near term. Dec (December) NTPC ...... 159.60...... 2.50

ONGC ...... 191.90...... 0.30 dex (WPI) based reading was meter for near-term volatil- will have to deploy that 2017 Sensex target of

PowerGrid Corp ...... 193.65...... 1.10 5.25% in January. consumed by households. compared with 2% in Janu- “We had expected an ad- ity — declined 11.2% to close money aggressively, that will 29,000,” said BofA ML. Reliance Ind...... 1289.50...... 7.85 Tuesday’s data showed in- ary. The minerals segment verse base effect to push up at 12.4 from the previous ses- keep the momentum of the Similarly, Kotak Institu- State Bank ...... 274.65...... 2.60 Perishable food prices flation in the housing seg- saw the third month of rapid WPI inflation in February sion’s close of 13.96. market high and will look tional Equities opined that Sun Pharma ...... 708.20...... 25.25 “In our view, CPI inflation ment of the CPI quickened inflation, with the rate accel- 2017 to 5.9%,” Aditi Nayar, While attributing the forward to the FY17 last the market would now shift Tata Motors ...... 469.75...... 0.65 troughed in January (at 3.2% marginally to 5.02% in Feb- erating to 31% in February, Principal Economist at ICRA, surge to the positive verdict quarter earnings,” he added. focus to earnings and any Tata Motors DVR ... . 282.10...... 2.20

Tata Power ...... 83.65...... 1.70 y-o-y) and will start rising ruary from 4.98% in January. from 25% in January. said. “The lagged revision in for the BJP, market parti- Data shows that foreign kind of “disappointment on Tata Steel ...... 472.55...... 4.80 due to higher perishable Inflation in the food and “The acceleration (in the the minerals sub-index, par- cipants said that the current investors have invested al- earnings will make valu- TCS...... 2567.50...... 25.25 food prices, a gradual nar- beverages category of the WPI) was driven by a sharp ticularly for crude oil, con- rally is showing signs of sus- most ₹10,000 crore in equit- ations look even more ex- Tech Mahindra...... 479.85...... 4.05 rowing of the output gap, CPI was at 2.5% in February, rise in primary articles and tributed to the sharper-than- tainability with both foreign ies in the month of March, pensive, which the market UltraTech Cement ..3998.95.....146.50 higher minimum support quickening from 1.3% in fuel inflation,” Nomura’s anticipated spike in WPI in- and domestic investors flush after pouring in ₹9,902 crore may not like.” Wipro ...... 501.35...... 14.30

YES Bank...... 1531.75...... 50.40 prices and the recent uptick January. Varma wrote. “Primary infla- flation to 6.5% in February with funds and waiting on in February. Meanwhile, the rally on

Zee Entertainment . 522.65...... 7.85 in rural wages,” Nomura eco- Similarly, retail inflation in tion rose to 5% y-o-y in Feb- 2017, as well as the upward the sidelines to deploy in In its latest India strategy Tuesday was broadbased nomist Sonal Varma wrote in the fuel and lighting cat- ruary from 1.3% in January, revision in the December quality stocks. report, Bank of America with 1,696 stocks gaining, as EXCHANGE RATES a report. egory accelerated to 3.9%, led by a 1.5% m-o-m (month- 2016 print to 3.7%.” They, however, added Merrill Lynch (BofA ML) said against 1,140 declines. All Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit except yen at The RBI, which is aiming from 3.4% in the preceding on-month) rise in non-food Inflation in manufactured 4 p.m. on March 14 that earnings would play a that the equity markets were the sectoral indices barring CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL at CPI inflation of 5% by month. prices (flowers, rubber, products in the WPI eased key role in providing the expected to “stay strong” on BSE Telecom and BSE Metal,

US Dollar ...... 65.62...... 65.94 March-end with a mandate “On the policy front, we coconut) and a steep 9% m- marginally to 3.7% in Febru- next set of positive triggers account of the election res- also ended the day in posit- Euro ...... 69.77...... 70.11 to achieve a medium-term expect the RBI to leave rates o-m rise in mineral prices ary, from 4% in January. for the market. ults. The global financial ma- ive territory. British Pound...... 79.61...... 80.00 target of 4% plus/minus 2%, unchanged throughout (manganese ore, crude pet- “Manufactured inflation jor said that while the Indian The gains in the Sensex Japanese Yen (100) ..... 57.07...... 57.35 last month cautioned that 2017,” Nomura’s Varma roleum, copper ore). Fuel moderated to 3.7% y-o-y in Chinese Yuan ...... 9.49...... 9.54 ‘Inflexion point’ market was trading above pack were led by ICICI Bank

Swiss Franc...... 65.05...... 65.37 vegetable prices may “poten- added. price inflation also picked up February from 4% in Janu- “We think this momentum is average multiples, India’s that rose almost 6%, or ₹16.2 Singapore Dollar ...... 46.38...... 46.62 tially rebound” as the defla- Primary articles inflation on higher coking coal and ary, as prices of beverages here to stay and think from business cycle “should im- to close at ₹286.75. Banking Canadian Dollar ...... 48.79...... 49.03 tionary effects of demonet- in the WPI accelerated to 5% other market-linked fuel and tobacco, wood, leather long-term perspective we prove over the next several peers HDFC Bank and State Malaysian Ringitt ...... 14.74...... 14.82 isation wear off. The central in February, from 1.3% in prices.” and basic metal products de- are on the cusp of positive quarters.” Bank of India also gained Source:Indian Bank bank said at the time that “a January. Within this, infla- Wholesale inflation in the clined sequentially,” inflexion point for earn- However, it added that ground. broad-based stickiness is dis- tion in the food articles seg- fuel and power segment Nomura’s Varma wrote. ings,” said Motilal Oswal, the market knows the chal- The rupee too gained, BULLION RATES CHENNAI cernible in inflation,” partic- ment sped to 2.7%, from a quickened to 21% in Febru- “Thus, the WPI inflation up- chairman & managing dir- lenges of policy implement- strengthening ₹0.78 against March 14 rates in rupees with previous rates in paren- theses ularly in housing, health, contraction of 0.56% in Janu- ary, from 18% in the previous tick was driven by higher in- ector, Motilal Oswal Finan- ation and so the rally might the dollar on Tuesday to

Retail Silver (1g)...... 43.30.... (43.30) education, and miscel- ary. Non-food articles infla- month. Within this, coal put costs and not by higher cial Services. not be an extended one as close at 65.82 – a level last 22 ct gold (1 g) ...... 2,739.... (2,742) laneous goods and services tion was at 6.5% in February, price inflation stood at 19%. output prices.” “Domestic mutual funds seen in 2014. “Market seems seen in November 2015.

Tata Sons hires Verma MeitY upsets Apple cart, of BofA-ML says tax sops not feasible Lalatendu Mishra MUMBAI Tata Sons has strengthened the Chair- iPhone maker had sought duty exemption for components man’s office by hiring well- known investment banker Yuthika Bhargava Ankur Verma to join the New Delhi holding company of the Apple’s plans to Make in In- Tata Group. He would be dia may get delayed, with closely working with N. the Ministry of Electronics Chandrasekaran, who took and IT stating that it “may over as Tata Sons Chair- not be feasible” to grant the man on February 21, 2017. U.S.-based technology major “Mr. Ankur Verma has exemptions from certain du- joined us effective March ties that it had sought. 14, 2017, in the Chairman’s “Apple is seeking an ex- Office,” a Tata Sons group emption from Phased Manu- spokesperson said, con- facturing Programme (PMP), firming the appointment. which means that chargers, Mr. Verma has joined batteries and headphones Tata Sons from Bank of for manufacture of Apple America Merrill Lynch phones be exempted from where he served as Man- basic custom duty (BCD)and aging Director (Investment countervailing duty (CVD), Banking Division). which may not be feasible,” the Ministry had said in its M&A experience response to the Apple wish “He brings with him ex- list received for comments tensive experience in the from the Prime Minister’s Apple of discord: The tech major does not intend to source its areas of corporate plan- Office, a senior official told components locally, hence wants removal of duties. REUTERS ning, strategy, investment The Hindu. banking and mergers & ac- more sub-assemblies of mo- in this regard was received quisitions,” the Tata Sons Current exemptions bile handsets in the budget in the PMO via a letter dated group spokesperson said. Presently, all inputs for man- 2017-18. However, the pro- October 10, 2016, which was Mr. Verma has a PGDM ufacture of mobile handsets, posal was not agreed to by forwarded to the authorities from the Indian Institute of except chargers, batteries the Department of Revenue concerned, including MeitY, Management, Calcutta, and headphones, are ex- in Budget 2017-18,” the offi- Department of Revenue, after graduating in Mech- empted from BCD and CVD. cial said, adding that Apple’s Ministry of Commerce and anical Engineering from Since Apple does not intend request entailed the removal Ministry of Environment, the Delhi College of Engin- to source its components of all forms of existing and Forests and Climate Change, eering. locally, it had asked for re- future duty for all compon- by the DIPP for appropriate This is the first major moval of all forms of duties, ents, including the three action. hiring at Tata Sons from pre and post GST, on com- that were subject to CVD for To examine the issues outside the group after pletely knocked down and the next 15 years. raised by Apple, the DIPP former chairman Cyrus semi-knocked down units of On Apple’s request for ex- Secretary had also convened Mistry was ousted from his its iPhones that will be as- empting all capital goods for a meeting with all ministries position as well as from the sembled in India. manufacture of mobile concerned on January 25, group in a bitter power The official explained that handset from BCD and CVD, 2017 along with Apple struggle. the government had intro- the Ministry pointed out that representatives. The Group Executive duced the Phased Manufac- as part of its Budget 2017-18 Council (GEC), which was turing Programme for mo- recommendations, it had re- Manufacturing line set up by Mr. Mistry was bile handsets to increase commended that all capital “Apple is planning entry in disbanded soon after his domestic value addition. goods for manufacture of two phases. They plan to removal. GEC members Under PMP, headphones, mobile handsets be exemp- start a manufacturing line in Madhu Kannan, Professor chargers and batteries are ted from BCD and CVD. spring 2017 which would Nirmalya Kumar and N.S. subject to CVD of 12.5% on However, the request was help them build a deeper Rajan, who were hired import since Budget 2016-17 not agreed to by the Depart- understanding of manufac- from outside, were asked and the domestic manufac- ment of Revenue in the turing in India as well as op- to go and other GEC mem- turers of these products are Budget 2017-18. erating environment in In- bers Tata insiders Mukund extended differential excise dia. After, the successful Rajan and Harish Bhat duty dispensation “by virtue Wish list completion of Phase 1 and were transferred to differ- of which all their imports In a meeting between Prime agreement on the require- ent roles. are exempted from BCD and Minister Narendra Modi and ments, they would plan an The GEC used to provide CVD and excise duty of 2% is Apple CEO Tim Cook in May expansion of their manufac- strategic support to Mr. levied on domestically man- 2016, there was an agree- turing capacity to poten- Mistry. It is still not known ufactured headphones, ment to work together for tially fulfil domestic demand whether Tata Sons would chargers and batteries.” manufacture of iPhones in and seek to expand to ex- revive the GEC or establish “MeitY had proposed that India, the official said, port market,” the official a similar structure. this be extended to five adding that a list of requests said. 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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 14 BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF BRICS to discuss steps Blue Star may drop Jammu plant to boost investment The air-conditioning major is likely to go for a bigger facility at Sri City Special Correspondent purifiers and certain cat- HYDERABAD egories of ACs. Coordination on e-commerce issues also on agenda Blue Star will take forward its plans for a greenfield air- Sri City facility ARUN S conditioning plant in Jammu If the CGST concessions New Delhi only after assuring itself of were not available in Jammu, Singapore Airlines, BRICS nations will soon con- getting concessions under then the company was likely SilkAir, Vistara ink pact sider a proposal to frame the Central GST similar to to opt to increase capacity MUMBAI ‘guiding principles’ for in- Cenvat benefits available for ACs at Sri City, Mr. Singapore Airlines (SIA) and vestment policymaking to now for setting up manufac- Thiagarajan added. its subsidiary SilkAir have boost investment flows into turing units in hill States, a Mr.Thiagarajan said fiscal signed an agreement to code Brazil, Russia, India, China top official said. incentives were key to creat- share on Indian domestic and South Africa as well as The Cenvat benefit of 14% ing an eco-system for manu- flights operated by Vistara, take steps to promote e- remained a major attraction Cold storage: Fiscal incentives were the key to creating an facturing air-conditioners in with effect from March 14, commerce among the five for new manufacturing facil- eco-system for manufacturing air-conditioners in hilly regions. hilly regions, particularly 2017. Vistara is a joint leading emerging econom- ities in hilly regions. Clarity given the challenges on lo- venture between Tata Sons ies. and SIA. SIA will add its ‘SQ’ on whether the same would ing and commercial refriger- units. The two were in lieu of gistics and warehousing designator code to Vistara- In addition, the BRICS be extended under the GST ation firm may go in for a facilities the company had management fronts. He was operated flights beyond Contact Group on Economic regime is expected only by bigger facility at Sri City in closed in Thane and speaking after unveiling an Mumbai and New Delhi to 10 and Trade Issues (CGETI) July, said B.Thiagarajan, Joint Andhra Pradesh. It had pro- Bharuch. Proximity to sea energy efficient air-condi- destinations. SilkAir will add meeting – slated for early Managing Director, Blue posed to set up a facility ports also worked in favour tioner range here in Hydera- its code to Vistara-operated next week in Beijing – will Star, replying to a question each in the two States at a of going for a bigger facility bad on Tuesday. flights beyond Bengaluru and also discuss measures for on whether the company’s total outlay of about ₹300 in Sri City where the com- He said those planning to Kolkata to six destinations. closer cooperation among plans to set up a plant in crore which would have pany had acquired about 30 purchase ACs should do so the BRICS countries for de- Jammu would be dropped. doubled the capacity for acres of land and proposed now as the GST regime TVS unveils BS-IV-ready veloping their respective na- Instead, the air-condition- room ACs to one million to make deep freezers, water would push up the prices. Jupiter scooter tional single window for CHENNAI trade facilitation, official TVS Motor Company, a sources told The Hindu. USFDA to lift leading two-wheeler China, the current BRICS manufacturer, has unveiled chair, wants to push ‘invest- Pace Automation, IBM ally its BS-IV-compliant TVS ment facilitation’ and ‘e- Dragon charge: China has also been leading the discussions on import alert Jupiter. The scooter comes commerce’–related issues, e-commerce at the global level. REUTERS with auto headlamp on on Sun plant the sources said. Beijing’s to help kirana stores e-tail (AHO) and is equipped with proposal for ‘Guiding Prin- things, states that, “Govern- firms to drag governments to sync braking system (SBS). ciples for BRICS Investment ments should avoid protec- international arbitration SBS ensures safety as it PRESS TRUST OF INDIA activates the front brakes Policymaking’ is similar to tionism in relation to cross- without waiting to exhaust NEW DELHI Cloud solution to help make outlets e-commerce ready when the rear brakes are ‘Guiding Principles’ agreed border investment” and that the available local remedies The U.S. health regulator used. The feature, previously by the G20 (group of 20 ma- “investment policies should and seek huge has proposed to lift an im- K.T. Jagannathan revenue streams such as of- available on ZX range, will jor economies of the world) establish open, non-discrim- compensation. port alert on Sun Pharma’s CHENNAI fering micro-banking ser- now be available on the Base Trade Ministers at Shanghai inatory, transparent and pre- Mohali-based manufactur- City-based Pace Automation vices to residents in the variant as well, according to in July 2016 under the dictable conditions for in- Focus on e-commerce ing plant. The drug major Ltd. has partnered with IBM neighbourhood. a company statement. Chinese G20 Presidency, vestment.” China has been leading the has been informed by the to provide a cloud-based The solution helps a kir- they said. India was part of It adds that, “dispute set- discussions on e-commerce U.S. Food and Drug Admin- solution to help native kir- ana merchant log into the in- L&T exits realty JV with that meeting. China has also tlement procedures should at the global level. In Novem- istration (USFDA) that it ana merchants turn into terconnected SmartKirana Pragnya Group been at the forefront of a be fair, open and transpar- ber 2016, the WTO said will lift the import alert im- e-tailers. network. The merchant will CHENNAI proposal for a global pact on ent, with appropriate safe- China had proposed that dis- posed on the Mohali plant Pace is gearing up to de- be provided with a purpose- L&T Realty Ltd., a wholly- ‘investment facilitation and guards to prevent abuse.” cussions at WTO should fo- and remove the facility ploy RetailSmart, an end-to- built point-of-sale terminal owned subsidiary of Larsen & promotion’ at the World China, driving this year’s cus on the promotion and fa- from the Official Action Ini- end integrated solution on comprising two display Toubro, has decided to quit Trade Organisation (WTO)- BRICS agenda, now wants cilitation of cross-border tiated (OAI) status, Sun IBM cloud, to make kirana screens (merchant and cus- L&T South City Projects level, and is making efforts the BRICS nations to separ- trade in goods enabled by stores (small neighbourhood tomer-facing), a printer, Private Ltd., a joint venture Pharmaceutical Industries to ensure that the proposal ately adopt these principles the Internet. “It (China) said stores) e-commerce–ready. Kirana merchants can now card reader, bar code scan- with Pragnya Group. The JV said in a regulatory filing. “We have taken a leap of turn e-tailers. ner and a finger print scan- is engaged in the on a global investment pact and enter into an ‘invest- discussions (on e-com- “This proposed action will development of a residential gains traction before the ment facilitation’ agree- merce) could also include clear the path for Sun faith,’’ said S.G. Chandru, ner. According to Mr. township at Siruseri. Pragnya WTO Ministerial Conference ment. India had recently re- services directly supporting Pharma to supply ap- founder-chairman and ing the cloud infrastructure. Chandru, the sub-systems Group is focussed on (MC) meeting in December jected a proposal by the this, such as payment and proved products from the mentor, Pace Automation. RetailSmart is designed to talk freely with each other property development and 2017 in Buenos Aires (Argen- European Union and Canada logistic services,” the WTO Mohali facility to the U.S. The product, according to help the stores deliver con- and the central processing fund management. L&T tina). The MC meeting is the at the WTO-level for a global said. market, subject to normal him, is entirely designed venient online shopping ex- server in a wireless mode. Realty holds 51% stake in the WTO’s highest decision-tak- investment pact that incor- Incidentally, there is a U.S. FDA regulatory re- and developed by people in perience and enable con- The tie-up with IBM gives joint venture. It has now ing body. porates the contentious In- proposal for setting up a quirements,” it said. The Pace and funded by internal sumers to pay safely using a Pace access to its high-end inked a share purchase The ‘G20 Guiding Prin- vestor-State Dispute Settle- common payment gateway firm inherited the facility accruals. The entire system convenient payment mode. analytical tool, which multi- agreement to sell its entire ciples for Global Investment ment (ISDS) mechanism. to promote e-commerce as part of its acquisition of would be made locally in RetailSmart can also help plies opportunities for scal- stake to Pragnya Group. Policymaking’, among other The ISDS mechanism allows among BRICS. Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. Bengaluru with IBM provid- kirana merchants add new ing up, said Mr. Chandru. 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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 18 LIFE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF A glow-in-the-dark frog found in Argentina The trait exhibited by many ocean creatures was unheard of in amphibians until now

Press Trust of India animals. Many ocean of Sciences. Scientists expec- an ultraviolet flashlight (or Washington creatures exhibit fluores- ted to find red fluorescence black light) on polka dot tree Scientists have discovered cence, including corals, fish, in these frogs from a pig- frogs collected near Santa Did Jane Austen die of the world’s first fluorescent sharks and one species of ment called biliverdin. Fe, Argentina, they were as- arsenic poisoning? frog in Argentina that sports sea turtle. tonished to find the animals LONDON a muted palette of greens, On land, fluorescence was Unique molecules gave off an intense greenish- Famed British writer Jane yellows and reds under nor- previously known in only In some insects, proteins blue glow instead of a faint Austen may have died of mal light, but gives off a The polka dot tree frog. parrots and some species of bound to biliverdin emit a red. Three molecules — hy- cataracts developed due to bright blue and green glow CARLOS TABOADA ET AL scorpions. It is unclear why faint red fluorescence, said loin-L1, hyloin-L2 and hy- arsenic poisoning, suggest in the dark. animals have this ability, al- Carlos Taboada, from the loin-G1 — were responsible researchers at The British The ability to absorb light of in amphibians. Research- though explanations include University of Buenos Aires in for the green fluorescence. Library after examining three at short wavelengths and re- ers found that the South communication, camouflage Argentina. However, in the The molecules contain a ring pairs of her spectacles. emit it at longer wavelengths American polka dot tree frog and mate attraction, re- polka dot tree frog, biliv- structure and a chain of hy- Austen, who died at the age is called fluorescence, and is (Hypsiboas punctatus) uses searchers said in a paper erdin turned out to be a red drocarbons, and are unique of 41, is known to have rare in terrestrial animals. fluorescent molecules totally that appears in the Proceed- herring. among the known fluores- complained in letters about Until now, it was unheard unlike those found in other ings of the National Academy When researchers trained cent molecules in animals. her “weak” eyes. PTI Beauty and the Beast: Disney U.K. cruise ship damages shelves release in Malaysia Indonesian coral reef Thousands petition N.Y. for ‘Fearless Girl’ statue The Muslim-majority nation has censored a “gay moment” in the movie NEW YORK Outrage in the local tourism industry after incident A sculpture of called Agence France-Presse sidekick to antagonist “Fearless Girl” installed in Kuala Lumpur Gaston, is portrayed by New York to champion gender Disney has indefinitely post- comedian Josh Gad as a gay diversity has attracted poned the opening of its film man, making him Disney’s thousands of petitions, Beauty and the Beast in first ever out LGBT demanding it remain there Malaysia after censors in the character. permanently. Created by U.S. artist Kristen Visbal, the Muslim-majority nation re- bronze girl stands defiant, portedly cut out a “gay mo- Trouble in Singapore directly challenging the ment” in the movie. The film has also come un- “Charging Bull” statue that is The cuts came after the der fire from religious figures a symbol of Wall Street. AFP movie ran into trouble in in neighbouring Singapore, Russia, which slapped an with Christian clergy attack- adults-only rating on the film ing Disney for deviating from last week following pressure “wholesome, mainstream by an ultra-conservative law- values”. maker who was pushing for “Parents are therefore a ban. strongly advised to provide The film’s director, Bill Taking a stand: A Beauty and the Beast poster in downtown guidance to their children Condon, has revealed that it Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. REUTERS about this re-make of Beauty contains Disney’s “first ex- and the Beast,” said Bishop clusively gay moment”, al- — which indicates that some Thursday. Notices posted at Rennis Ponniah, president of Big Bang Theory sparks though some critics have material may be inappropri- the chain’s cinemas in Kuala the National Council of new prequel series said the reference is ex- ate for pre-teens. Lumpur said the film’s re- Churches of Singapore. Rich biodiversity: Raja Ampat has long been a top attraction for intrepid travellers but broken LOS ANGELES tremely mild and fleeting. lease had been “postponed Harussani Zakaria, the corals mean a loss to ecology and the economy. AFP/INDONESIA MARINE SECURITY AGENCY/BAKAMLA CBS TV announced on Malaysian Censorship Board Postponed indefinitely by Disney until further senior mufti for Malaysia’s Monday that it has given the chairman Abdul Halim Ab- The Malaysian release of notice”. northern Perak state, said Agence France-Presse tourists aboard on a bird- Was a 12-year-old at the green light to Young Sheldon, Sorong a prequel of its award- dul Hamid told The Star the movie, featuring Harry Disney’s office in Singa- the film would “sow the watching expedition. wheel?” Stay Raja Ampat, a winning comedy series The newspaper that the film “has Potter star Emma Watson, pore was not immediately seeds of destruction and A British-owned cruise ship The boat, which was car- website that links tourists up Big Bang Theory. . The new been approved... with a was postponed by Disney able to confirm the censor- negative behaviour in our so- has smashed into pristine rying 102 passengers and 79 with homestays, said on its show, expected to premiere minor cut”. earlier this week pending ship decision or say when ciety”. “We must guard coral reefs, causing extens- crew, became grounded on Facebook page. later this year, will star Iain The cut focussed on a “an internal review”, accord- the film would be released. ourselves from Western be- ive damage in a remote the reefs and had to be re- “Anchor damage from Armitage as a nine-year-old “gay moment” in the film, ing to theatre chain Golden In a departure from previ- haviour, which has gone corner of Indonesia known floated by a tug boat before ships like these is bad version of nerdy genius said Abdul Halim, adding Screen Cinemas, which was ous depictions of the fairy astray,” he said. “This movie as one of the world’s most continuing on its journey. enough, but actually Sheldon Cooper. AFP that it had been rated PG-13 set to show the film from tale, Le Fou, the sycophantic must be banned.” biodiverse marine habitats, grounding a ship on a reef researchers and officials Big impact takes it to a whole new said on Tuesday. The accident has damaged level.” Raja Ampat in eastern In- an estimated 13,500 sq.m. of Environmental group Grand Bazaar of donesia has long been a top coral reef, which could cost Conservation International Boaty McBoatface goes attraction for intrepid travel- up to $16.2 million to re- said that the ship had gone lers and avid divers, home to store, according to Ricardo into an area that it should Istanbul to get a facelift palm-fringed islands sur- Tapilatu, a marine re- not have entered. rounded by an underwater searcher from the University “This is a very, very big Agence France-Presse from joke to polar explorer is expected to take four kaleidoscope of coral and of Papua who headed a loss for us,” Victor Nikiju- Istanbul years to complete, but offi- fish. team assessing the impact. luw, the marine programme Atop Istanbul’s iconic Grand cials add that there will al- But the 4,200-tonne Cale- There has been outrage in director at Conservation In- Bazaar — the scene of a high- ways be work needed at the Two-month mission set to begin in Antarctica donian Sky slammed into the the local tourism industry ternational Indonesia, said. speed motorbike chase in Grand Bazaar because of its reefs at low tide around Kri, which relies on Raja Ampat’s “Even when (the reefs) the 2012 James Bond film historic identity. HANNAH OLIVENNES one of hundreds of small is- natural wonders for its grow back, they will not be Skyfall — a full force drive to London lands in Raja Ampat, earlier survival. as pristine as they were be- revamp it has begun. Historical space Boaty McBoatface is back, this month after taking the “How can this happen? fore,” he added. The centuries-old mar- “The Grand Bazaar is a his- but this time it’s serious. The ketplace has already under- torical place. It’s not pos- high-tech remote-operated gone a security upgrade sible to complete the restor- yellow submarine, bearing a after a spate of terror attacks ation from today to name that began as a joke, in Istanbul. For the bazaar’s tomorrow,” said Okan Erhan will begin its first mission traders, the primary con- Oflaz, Deputy Mayor of the this week through a deep cern now is not the restora- Fatih municipality where it current that starts in Antarc- tion but lack of tourists. is located. One of the largest tica and goes through the Round-the-clock workers and oldest covered markets Southern Ocean. are on shifts to renovate the in the world, the Grand Boaty will navigate bazaar, which topped the Bazaar was a trade hub dur- through underwater water- list of the world’s most vis- ing the Ottoman Empire. falls and rapids on a two- ited destinations in 2014. Construction of the mar- month mission, collecting The roof renovation is es- ketplace began in 1455, two data to help scientists under- Climate concerns: Boaty will collect data to help scientists timated to cost 10 million years after the Ottomans stand how global warming understand how global warming affects oceans. NYT Turkish lira ($2.7 million). seized Istanbul, then known affects oceans. Work began on July 14 last as Constantinople, from the It will depart on Friday months and include travel- graphers via a radio link. year — only one day before a Byzantines, under the reign aboard the James Clark ling thousands of miles un- The British National Oceano- coup attempt to oust the of Sultan Mehmet II — Fatih Ross, a British polar re- der ice while reaching graphy Centre says it hopes government, but the work the Conqueror. search ship, from Punta depths of about 5.6 km to Boaty will be able to make went on. Over its long history the Arenas, Chile, and will head measure seabed properties the first under-ice crossing The restoration of the en- structure has suffered quake to the Southern Ocean. on an oceanic scale. It can of the Arctic Ocean. tire bazaar is likely to cost and fire damage. Today it is The robot submarine’s then rise to the surface to 200 million Turkish lira and in dire need of a facelift. missions can last for several transmit data to oceano- New York Times News Service Study finds vulnerability in a range of devices Accelerometers can allow hackers to take control of smartphones, wearables or even automobiles

John Markoff just shut down the phone, tacker to remotely control SAN FRANCISCO said Kevin Fu, an author of vehicles are an unnerving A hacking that would allow the paper, who is also an as- possibility. someone to add extra steps sociate professor of electrical Still, computer security to the counter on your Fitbit engineering and computer researchers said the discov- monitor might seem harm- science at the University of ery was not a sky-is-falling less. But researchers say it Michigan and chief executive bug but rather a revealing points to the broader risks of Virta Labs, a company window into the cybersecur- that come with technology’s that focuses on cybersecur- ity challenges inherent in embedding into the nooks of ity in health care. “You can complex systems in which our lives. think of it as a musical virus.” analog and digital compon- A group of computer se- ents can interact in unexpec- curity researchers at the Uni- Remote access ted ways. versity of Michigan and the The flaw, which the research- Mr. Fu has researched the University of South Carolina ers found in more than half cybersecurity risks of med- say that they have found a of the 20 commercial brands ical devices, including a vulnerability that allows from five chipmakers they demonstration of the poten- them to take control of or tested, illustrates the secur- tial to wirelessly introduce surreptitiously influence ity challenges that have fatal heart rhythms into a devices through the tiny ac- Viruses everywhere: A speaker plays a malicious music file to emerged as robots and other pacemaker. celerometers that are stand- fool an inertial sensor into observing a false reality. NYT kinds of digital appliances Accelerometers are instru- ard components in con- have begun to move around ments that measure accelera- sumer products like “malicious” music file from pilot a radio-controlled toy in the world. tion and are frequently man- smartphones, fitness monit- the speaker of a smartphone car. With dozens of startups ufactured as silicon ors and even automobiles. to control the phone’s accel- “It’s like the opera singer and large transportation chip-based devices known as In their paper, the re- erometer. That allowed them who hits the note to break a companies pushing to de- microelectromechanical sys- searchers describe how they to interfere with software wineglass, only in our case, velop self-driving cars and tems. added fake steps to a Fitbit that relies on the smart- we can spell out words” and trucks, undetected vulnerab- fitness monitor and played a phone, like an app used to enter commands rather than ilities that might allow an at- New York Times News Service CM YK