Palaniswami Wins Trust Vote After Violence by DMK Mlas

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Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Allahabad . Malappuram . Mumbai Pranab grounded UPA Palaniswami wins trust vote plan to privatise Air India after violence by DMK MLAs Divestment was suggested as part of bailout package Only 11 vote against govt. after eviction of DMK members, Congress walk-out Somesh Jha NEW DELHI B. Kolappan Chennai The United Progressive Al- The two-day-old AIADMK liance (UPA) government government, led by Chief had finalised a plan to Minister Edappadi K. Palan- privatise Air India five iswami, won the confidence years ago, but it did not vote in the Tamil Nadu Legis- take off as the then Finance lative Assembly on Saturday Minister, Pranab Mukher- after violence in the House jee, vetoed it. that ended with the eviction Today, the ruling Na- of all DMK members and a tional Democratic Alliance walkout by their allies — the (NDA) government is non- IUML and Congress. From committal on privatising the AIADMK, 122 members the debt-ridden airline. voted in favour and 11 dissid- The privatisation pro- ents voted against the SUNDAY SPECIAL motion. The House, which met at 11 a.m. had to be adjourned posal came on October 28, twice due to pandemonium 2011, when a Group of Min- AI should ly on: Minister as DMK members shouted isters in the UPA govern- slogans, demanding that vot- Chaos in House: DMK MLAs surround Speaker P. Dhanapal during the conidence motion ment sat down to decide Somesh Jha in an interview, citing the ing be deferred or that a moved by Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Saturday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Air India’s fate and approve New Delhi airline’s huge debt as its secret ballot be conducted. a bailout package for the “I would like Air India to biggest issue, despite the Speaker P. Dhanapal later Aboobucker and rebel AI- carrier. survive and fly Indian skies ₹30,000-crore bailout put the motion to vote by di- ADMK legislator from Some Cabinet Ministers Stalin meets Governor, proudly. That’s my wish — package. “It has a big debt. vision and declared it passed Mylapore R. Natraj deman- favoured the plan, based whether in the public or You put it on the market in favour of Mr. Palaniswami. ded that the voting should on recommendations private sector,” Civil Avi- and no one will buy it.” In the 234-member not be conducted in a hurry. made by a group of arrested after protest Uncertain Twilight: ation Minister Ashok Ga- AI WILL HAVE NO BUYERS, House, one seat was vacant They said since the AIADMK bureaucrats. Between Two Worlds japathi Raju told The Hindu SAYS RAJU Ī PAGE 10 (of former Chief Minister Jay- legislators in the Sasikala Dennis S. Jesudasan that the Speaker adjourned Starting today, this series is a alalithaa), DMK president M. camp were allegedly con- Aloysius Xavier Lopez the House. But around 1.30 Beyond GoM’s mandate four-part exploration of Karunanidhi could not vote fined in a resort for 10 days, Chennai p.m., over 500 policemen Mr. Mukherjee as Finance The October 2011 recom- level of growth rate, divest- India’s burgeoning problem due to ill-health and one AI- they should be allowed to On a day of swift and sud- entered the House and Minister rejected the idea, mendations in the turning the airlines to a stra- of providing for its elderly. ADMK MLA P.R.G. Arunku- meet voters in their respect- den developments, DMK evicted us. They harassed on the ground that privat- around plan and financial tegic partner could be con- The irst part examines mar, boycotted the proceed- ive constituencies before de- working president and and beat us. The Assistant ising Air India was beyond restructuring plan were sidered,” the group said, in societal and familial attitudes ings, after having escaped ciding on their vote. Leader of the Opposition Commissioner of Police the mandate of the GoM, submitted by a group of of- a recommendation to the towards them. from a private resort near Mr. Stalin said the MLAs M.K. Stalin emerged from gave instructions to bundle NATION Ī PAGE 9 according to documents ficers of the Union Finance GoM on Civil Aviation DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Chennai. had been lodged in a resort the House with his shirt us out from the House,” Mr. obtained under the Right Ministry, after a spell of headed by Mr. Mukherjee The 11 members who like prisoners and hence open and claimed it had Stalin alleged, flanked by his SECTION 2 Ī 14 PAGES to Information (RTI) Act continuous losses. in October 2011. voted against the govern- they were not in a position to been torn, even as several of party MLAs, including the SUNDAY MAGAZINE Ī 8 PAGES and reviewed by The “Once Air India is able to ment belonged to the rebel vote in a free manner. his party MLAs were evicted DMK Deputy Floor Leader. LITERARY REVIEW Ī 4 PAGES Hindu. achieve an appropriate CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 camp led by former Chief “There should be a secret by the Speaker. “We are now proceeding Minister O. Panneerselvam. ballot or the proceedings Alighting dramatically to the Raj Bhavan,” Mr. should be adjourned for a from his car outside the As- Stalin said, before he left the CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Call for secret ballot week so that the members sembly premises, Mr. Stalin Assembly premises. As soon as Mr. Palaniswami could breathe freely,” he made gestures to show He reached the Raj Dirty picture moved the motion of confid- said. journalists how his shirt was Bhavan around 3.30 p.m. ence, AIADMK dissident S. But the Speaker made it torn in the melee. “We may and submitted a memor- Semmalai urged the Speaker clear that he would abide by have done some mistake andum to Governor Ch. to take up a privilege notice the Assembly Rules 19(1) and knowingly or unknowingly. I Vidyasagar Rao. on MLAs “being kept in con- conduct the voting as per his apologised to the Speaker (With inputs from finement at a beach resort.” powers, though Mr. Stalin ar- and pleaded with him to T.K. Rohit) The Leader of the Opposi- gued that he could adjourn conduct secret voting. But tion M.K. Stalin, Congress the proceedings under Rule he did not budge.” CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Legislature Party leader K.R. 122 of the House. “We refused to accept his SECRET VOTING IMPOSSIBLE, Ramasamy, Mr. Pan- position and staged a SAYS SPEAKER; SASIKALA’S VOW neerselvam, IUML legislator CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 dharna for an hour. After FULFILLED, SAYS CM Ī PAGE 10

Pak. lists Saeed under tough law

Press Trust of India Islamabad Mumbai attack master- mind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has been listed under Pakistan’s Anti-terrorism Act (ATA) by the provincial Punjab government, a tacit acknowledgement of his links to militancy. Dawn News reported that the Punjab government had included Saeed Not pretty: A canal in Dallupura, East Delhi, is choked with polythene bags and other waste, making a mockery of concerns and one of his close aides, expressed by environmentalists over rising pollution in Delhi. - PHOTO: V. SUDERSHAN Qazi Kashif, in the fourth schedule of the ATA. Three other men were CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC added to the list — Abdul- lah Obaid from Faisalabad, and Zafar Iqbal and Abdur Valley youth vent rage through hip-hop Rehman Abid from the Markaz-i-Taiba, Muridke. Saeed and the others Bands making music videos with street violence in Kashmir as the theme were placed under house arrest on January 30 in Peerzada Ashiq with cancer, poverty and Lahore amid angry Srinagar social evils as issues. protests from his party and Come February 23, the Gradually, the conflict and political allies. The five tragedy of the 1991 Kunan the ever growing protests men were identified by the Poshpora “mass rape” will changed the course of his Interior Ministry as “active be remembered in a hip-hop music. members of the JuD and song composed by a Falah-i- Insaniyat [FIF],” Srinagar youth, Aamir Ame, Cricket fan the report said. 23, who has teamed up with Two incidents played a The Ministry directed a Nigerian rapper, Shady Joe, life-changing role for this the Counter Terrorism De- and a Mizoram resident, rare Indian cricket partment to “move and Vsumi. supporter from Srinagar’s take necessary action” The song, We are gonna Habba Kadal area. against them. The names rise, is dedicated to the 20 to Music of anguish:: Aamir Ame is an MBA student. “During the 2008 street of Saeed and 37 other JuD 30 women of Kunan- agitation, I was stopped by and FIF leaders had earlier Poshpora, two adjacent Over half-a-dozen hip-hop dedicated a hip-hop album, the Army personnel at also been placed on the villages of Kupwara, who bands have come up in Dead Eyes, to the victims of Bemina and reprimanded Exit Control List. were allegedly raped by Srinagar in the past few pellet shotguns, especially to for wearing a printed cargo The ATA empowers the Armymen on February 23, years, their music videos his friend who was hit in pants. Why? All I wanted government to mark a per- 1991. dominated by violent scenes both eyes in Budgam in was to look unique. Is that a son as “proscribed” and to from street stone-throwing August 2016. crime? place that person on the No justice battles. The music was a runaway “In 2015, my father was fourth schedule on an ex- The case, which is yet to see “Surviving in struggle hit on social media in the operated upon for brain parte basis. The mere list- any justice, is one of the from the day of birth; I know Valley. tumour. In his last stage, I ing of a person in the many grouses of the Valley we will rise rippin’ chest of A student of Master of would see his face growing fourth schedule of the ATA youths who are taking to the earth,” reads the lyrics of Business Administration in pale whenever pepper shows that he is linked hip-hop and rap to give vent the song. Kashmir University, Mr. Ame grenades and smoke with militancy in some to their anger. Earlier this year, Mr. Ame started rapping in 2009, shellsexploded,” he said. way, the report said. CM ND-ND EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 2 CITY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE A basketball academy ignites hope in Noida village

Started in August 2014 with just ive children on a half-court, Dribble Academy today boasts over 100 students who are morphing into disciplined student athletes

Damini Nath English teacher goes NOIDA through reading compre- From dreams of making it in hension exercises. the big leagues to staving off While the teacher told boredom after school, a bas- one group of students a ketball academy in Noida’s story about Clifford, a car- Gejha village is giving chil- toon dog, another bunch of dren from underprivileged children were warming up families something to look on the court. forward to. Then, splitting up into Started in August 2014 smaller groups, it was time with just five students on a to practice lay-ups and half-court, Dribble Academy shooting. has now expanded to a point where its founder, Pradyut Scholarship awarded Voleti, says he has trouble Among those practising that accommodating all students day was 12-year-old Shaily at the daily training ses- Upadhyay, who was one of sions, which have been split the first few students to join into three batches. the academy in 2014. Last year, she won a five- Lack of infrastructure year basketball scholarship “I started the academy in to attend Shiv Nadar School Gejha because there was no in Noida. such infrastructure in the With her father working village. The government as a driver and a home- school here lacked facilities maker mother, Shaily says forsports.Iwantedtogive the doors that basketball the children an opportunity opened for her would have to channelise their energy,” not been possible before. says Mr. Voleti, an interna- “Now, my goal is to rep- tionally-educated basketball resent India and play in the skill development trainer. Women’s National Basket- Located on the premises ball Association (WNBA). I of the National Education think I can do it. Sometimes Mission Public School in Ge- I get angry with myself on jha village, the court, which the court if I’m unable to was donated by a well- perform. But, then I stop wisher, comes alive every af- and think, and try again,” ternoon. she says. Anywhere between 130 to 200 children, aged between Basketball not only goal four and 15 years and includ- Like her, the other students ing 70 girls, make their way of Dribble Academy are aim- here, past open drains ing high. clogged with garbage. The And, basketball is not the sound of basketballs boun- Perfect shot: Children from underprivileged families, aged between four and 15 years, come to only goal. cing off the court and chil- practice on the court located on the premises of the National Education Mission Public School in Twelve-year-old Kanchan dren cheering makes the Gejha village. PHOTOS: SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY Pal, who has been attending court, surrounded by bright the academy for a year, says: murals and motivational many of the academy’s stu- is in many Indian villages. “I used to get bored at home <> Drug abuse is a messages on the walls, re- dents come from homes By giving the children some- after school. But, now I have problem in the semble a world away from where domestic abuse and where to go after school, something to do. I like bas- village. By giving Gejha. alcoholism are the norm. they are kept away from it,” ketball, but I want to grow Most adult residents of Getting out on the court says Mr. Voleti. up to be a police officer and the children the village work in the every day after school is not Incidentally, a document- help poor people.” somewhere to go nearby high-rise apartments just about honing their bas- ary based on the academy Mr. Voleti says that apart after school, they as domestic helps and ketball skills, but also about by Varun Tandon is slated usually-warm February day, tising, they went into a academy wants to “nurture from learning the sport, the are kept away chauffeurs. offering them a stress-free for release soon. the children began arriving classroom that looks onto student athletes”, which is children have also learnt to from it environment, he says. at the court around 3.30 the court for the mandatory why the children have a one- become more disciplined. Pradyut Voleti Stress-free environment “Drug abuse is also a Not just sports p.m. But before they could one-hour academic session. hour class where a docu- “They have become lead- Founder, Dribble Academy According to Mr. Voleti, problem in the village, like it Earlier this week, on an un- start warming up and prac- Mr. Voleti says the mentary is screened or an ers,” he says.

Meet on Warm weekend in Capital ‘Free MRI, CT scans at 21 labs in city’ issues Maximum temperature was 30.1 °C, six notches above normal Patients referred by govt hospitals or State-run polyclinics to beneit, says Jain concerning Staff Reporter Staff Reporter Even in AIIMS, one NEW DELHI NEW DELHI <> streetkids has to pay The Capital experienced un- Delhiites can now undergo anywhere between usually warm weather on major tests like PET, CT Staff Reporter ₹3,000 and ₹5,000 NEW DELHI Saturday, with the mercury scan, MRI, etc, free of touching 30.1 degrees charge in 21 private labs to get an MRI done Children of the Street Rock Celsius, which was six across the city, said Health Satyendar Jain Square (CSR2), a collective notches above normal. Minister Satyendar Jain here Health Minister response to the issues con- The minimum temperat- on Saturday. fronting street kids in In- ure too was higher than “Nowhere in the country sions, especially the DNA dia, brought together rep- usual at 14.1 degrees Celsius, are these tests conducted unit of the Forensic Science resentatives from the which was three degrees for free. Even in AIIMS, one Laboratory, Rohini. government, donors, civil above normal, according to has to pay anywhere Madhulika Sharma, FSL society, community organ- the Meteorological between ₹3,000 and ₹5,000 director, announced setting isations, corporate houses Department. to get an MRI done,” said up of 11 forensic mobile and students to examine Mr. Jain while addressing teams to gather samples the role of Corporate Social Haze likely on Sunday the 22nd Foundation Day of from across 13 districts of Responsibility (CSR) in re- The warm weather is expec- the Forensic Science Labor- Delhi. habilitating such children. ted to continue on Sunday, atory (FSL), Rohini. The meet, organised with the Met Department Healthy step: Satyendar Jain made the announcement at the Lack of experts with support from FHI 360 forecasting 30 degrees Agreement with labs 22nd Foundation Day of the Forensic Science Laboratory in At present, there are two and UNAIDS, was aimed at Celsius and 15 degrees as the He added that patients re- Rohini. FILE PHOTO: SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY forensic mobile teams that identifying ways to ensure maximum and minimum ferred either by the 30 Delhi cater to the 13 districts. all street kids are covered temperatures, respectively. government hospitals or the proof like Aadhaar cards, ra- with an annual family in- Due to the lack of ex- under service action plans Sunday is expected to see 23 State-run polyclinics in tion cards or driving licence come of up to ₹3 lakh, and perts, police teams collect and to establish acceptable partly cloudy skies, with the city could avail these fa- to avail the facilities. those living in the city for samples from crime spots guidelines on child safety, mist or haze possible in the cilities. The Delhi govern- three years could undergo and hand them over to the security, and development morning. ment, meanwhile, has Announcement last year MRI and CT tests free of cost FSL staff. indicators. On Friday, Delhi recorded reached an agreement with In December last year, the at seven private labs. Ms. Sharma added that maximum and minimum the laboratories concerned. AAP government had an- Mr. Jain also appreciated one more Regional Forensic Most vulnerable section temperatures of 27 degrees The beneficiaries will be nounced that patients un- the efforts made by the Science Laboratory, Bind- Luke Samson, director of Celsius and 15.4 degrees, Fading winter: Sunday is expected to see partly cloudy skies, with required to show income dergoing treatment at 10 forensic experts in bringing apur (Dwarka), would be- NGO Sharan, said: “India respectively. possibility of mist in the morning. PHOTO: SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY certificates and residential government hospitals, those down pendency in all divi- come functional soon. faces a huge population challenge with poverty and CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC unplanned parenting al- lowing child vulnerability to manifest through the is- Experts from city ofer a helping hand to world’s heaviest woman sues facing street kids, who number around 17 million as per a recent UNICEF es- Team to help prepare blueprint for 36-year-old Egyptian woman’s treatment and identify what triggered the weight gain timate. The mobilisation of CSR resources will make it Bindu Shajan Perappadan from complications since genetic variations with a environment may lead to period of time, genetic test possible to address this is- NEW DELHI childhood, which include strong link to obesity can polygenic obesities. results can be useful in sue more comprehensively A team of medical experts Type-2 diabetes, be determined easily. Doctors agree that removing some amount of than with time-bound in- from Delhi-NCR are doing hypertension, These tests enable genetic screening is emotional stress attached ternational donor grants.” their bit to help 36-year- hypothyroidism, physicians to customise gaining prominence when to weight control and in Dr. K.K. Upadhyay, old Eman Ahmed from restrictive lung diseases, therapy for obese patients. it comes to diagnosis and relieving stigma,” said a former head, CSR-FICCI, Egypt, who is the world’s gout, among others. At CORE, Eman will go treatment of obesity. note issued by the group. said that with new CSR heaviest woman alive. The result of the gene through clinical Those treating Eman paradigms coming in, a lot Eman, who currently study, which is being done interpretations for agree that identification of Test results in 4 weeks of money was available weighs around 500 kg, is free of cost at CORE monogenic obesity, as a single defective gene and Eman, meanwhile, has with the corporate sector. currently in Mumbai to Diagnostics, will identify advised by her doctors,” mutation profile would be been put on a low-calorie, Child care being a major seek help with weight which of the 91 types of said Zoya Brar, MD and useful when it comes to high-protein diet by her area of concern, corpor- reduction. genes isolated with founder CORE Diagnostics. personalising therapy and doctors. ates should spend money obesity-related syndromes treatment options. Eman’s genetic test here to contribute to na- Conducting gene tests are posing a challenge for Specific variants at work results are expected to be tion building, said Dr. From helping in preparing Eman, said doctors. Genetic changes or Identifying disorders out within the next four Upadhyay. a blueprint for her variations in several genes “From the medical weeks. “Street children are the treatment to Monogenic obesity contribute to obesity by perspective, it also helps Her lipid profiles are most vulnerable section in understanding what “Research shows that increasing appetite. doctors predict associated indicative of a positive society. I hope this work- triggered the weight gain, genes can control appetite, However, in rare cases, a risks and prepare before chance of losing at least 80 shop will help develop a the experts are responsible formation of fat tissue, specific variant of a single conducting a bariatric kg in the next one month, plan that voices their con- for a series of genetic tests internal body gene leads to inherited surgery, as is the case with and more than 150 kg cerns and protects them,” that will give doctors a temperature, and also obesity in families Eman. Knowing which within a year, given the said Dr. Anindya Chatter- broad view on how to regulate insulin. In recent (monogenic obesity). genetic disorders a person fact that many new drugs jee, Regional Director, Asia work with the patient. times, advancement in More often, a complex is at risk from will allow are available to treat Regional Office, Interna- Owing to her abnormal molecular genetic testing interplay between multiple appropriate lifestyle monogenic disorders, the No small task: Eman Ahmed, who weighs around 500 kg, is tional Development Re- BMI, Eman has suffered has ensured that rare genes and the modifications. Over a note added. currently in Mumbai to seek help with weight reduction. FILE PHOTO search Centre (IDRC). 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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017 CITY 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Two arrested with ₹6 lakh Paralytic charred to death in house ire Family was away at a function when a short-circuit outside room caused blaze Staff Reporter New Delhi Iqbal — who was formerly a the blaze seemed to have so,” said a neighbour. in fake currency notes mechanic and had four chil- been triggered from the win- According to other neigh- A 46-year-old paralytic pa- dren — was bed-ridden due dow of his first floor resid- bours who were later inter- tient was charred to death to paralysis for several ence due to a short circuit in viewed by the police, the Held from north-east Delhi; all ₹100 notes said to have been sourced from Pak after a fire broke out at his months. His family was away an adjacent electrical wire spreading fire caught the res- residence in north Delhi's at a function when the incid- before spreading to some idents of adjacent floors off- Staff Reporter Chandni Mahal here on Fri- ent happened. curtains and then onto wool- guard forcing them to rush New Delhi day evening, the police said. len clothes on his bed and to to the roof to save them- Two men, allegedly a part of According to the police, Doused in 45 mins the room where he lay. selves. According to the DFS, a “well organised” racket of the victim, who was identi- According to the police, however, no one else was in- counterfeit Indian currency, fied as Iqbal, was reported Iqbal's neighbours noticed No one else injured jured in the blaze. were arrested by the Delhi dead soon after a blaze en- the blaze and called the “Iqbal was bed-ridden for “The fire tenders were Police special cell with fake gulfed his first-floor resid- Delhi Fire Service (DFS) con- several months and could delayed as the roads leading notes with a face value of ₹6 ence around 11:40 p.m trol room to report it. Three not move and that seems to up to the location are rather lakh, the police said on Sat- where he lay helpless on his fire tenders were rushed to be why he couldn't help or narrow; but once there, they urday. All of the notes were bed. the spot and the blaze was save himself. His family was doused the flames within of the ₹100 denomination. The police were told that brought under control in 45 away and some of us tried to minutes, only to find that Identified as Sanjeev (31) apart from suffering from minutes, fire officials said. break into the house after we Iqbal had been charred to and Arvin (35), both of several health-related issues, Witnesses later said that saw the fire but couldn't do death,” said a police officer. whom are residents of Kair- ana in Uttar Pradesh, were arrested on the morning of February 17 from Sonia Vihar Minister in north-east Delhi, said San- jeev Kumar Yadav, Deputy secretary’s Commissioner of Police (spe- Cashing in: The two accused cial cell). were produced at the police car stolen headquarters on Saturday; Supply in UP, NCR (right) police with the seized Staff Reporter New Delhi According to the police, both fake currency notes. PHOTOS: SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY the accused indulge in circu- An Innova car rented by lating Fake Indian Currency the additional Personal Notes (FICN), which they re- cult to identify them as Secretary of Union Trans- ceived from eastern UP- FICN,” said Mr. Yadav. port Minister Nitin Gadkari based sources. They then According to the police, was stolen from outside his supply these notes to pro- the arrests came in pursu- residence in New Delhi’s spective buyers in different ance of a dedicated drive Pandara Road on Friday States, particularly within launched by the special cell night, the police said. different districts of UP and against racketeers indulging assemble near the Traffic seated inside. According to a senior the NCR. in circulating FICN. In a sim- Signal, Nanaksar Gurudwara police officer, Manoj Ku- During questioning, the ilar operation on January 27, in Sonia Vihar at about 6 or 7 Finely printed mar, the Minister's addi- duo revealed that their east- the special cell had un- a.m in a Haryana registration According to the DCP, after tional PS, reported the ern UP-based sources pro- earthed a module from Santro Car and deliver FICN about 20 minutes of waiting, matter to the local police cured the notes from Nepal, which FICN in denomination to some buyers,” Mr. Yadav Arvin moved towards the soon after learning that the with the source being of ₹2,000 amounting to claimed. car. Members of the raiding vehicle had been stolen Pakistan, and that the supply ₹19.22 lakh was recovered. party then overpowered around 11 p.m. and circulation of FICN has According to the DCP, it Police raid both the accused. The bag significantly increased over was during the same drive This led the police to consti- carried by Arvin was found Case registered the last two to three months, that the special cell mounted tute a raid team and lay a to have FICN of ₹100 denom- Around 11 p.m, Mr. Ku- Mr. Yadav said. technical and manual trap. At about 6:35 a.m, the ination amounting to ₹2 lakh mar’s staff members ap- “Due to the circulation of sources, leading to the arrest police claimed, a Santro car and the search of the bag prised him of the missing high-value new currency of the accused duo. was located coming from the carried by Sanjeev was vehicle after which the po- notes in India, the general “In that process, specific Tronica City side before halt- found to contain FICN in the lice were informed. A team public normally doesn't information was received ing near the traffic signal. same denomination amount- rushed to the location and verify the genuineness of that a racket comprising One of the accused Arvin, ing to ₹4 lakh. received a formal com- currency notes of ₹100. The criminals of various districts who was driving, came out “The recovered notes are plaint from him. A case recovered currency notes in Uttar Pradesh are involved of the car carrying a bag on printed finely and very much was registered at the Tilak are apparently so fine that in in circulating fine quality his shoulder and waited resemble genuine currency Marg Police station and day-to-day dealing, it is diffi- FICN and its members would while Sanjeev remained notes,” Mr. Yadav added. probe is under way.

One held for DELHI TODAY Talk: P.N.Vijay on "Teachings of Gita - Chapter 5 Yoga bike thefts of Renunciation" at Ramana Kendra , Lodhi Road, 5 p.m. Music: Purandaradasa Tyagaraja Music Festival. Staff Reporter Carnatic vocal recital by S.R. Vinay Sharva. Accompan- New Delhi ists: G.Raghavendra Prasath (violin) and Kumbakonam N. Padmanaban (mridangam) at Lecture Room-II (Base- ment), India International Centre, 6:00 p.m. A 29-year-old MBBS dro- Music: Morning Ragas: Hindustani vocal recital by Ul- pout, who allegedly used has Kashalkar at Amphitheatre, IHC, 10:30 a.m. Music: "Swar Prabhat - Bhor ki raag raagniya" a morn- multiple aliases and fake ing of Hindustani Classical Music. Artists: Gunindra documents to sell stolen Nath Ojha, Assam – Borgeet; Viraj Amar, Ahmedabad - two-wheelers to unsuspect- Hindustani Vocal; T. R. Dhandapani, Delhi - Taal Vaadh Kachahri; Sunil Kaant Gupta, Mumbai - Hindustani ing shoppers on web Bansuri at Meghdoot Theatre, Rabindra Bhavan, Coper- portals, was arrested, the nicus Marg, Mandi House, 7:30 a.m. Paintings: “Binary Strokes” - paintings show by Sanjay police said on Saturday. Kumar and Sunil Kumar at Open Palm Court Gallery, The accused, Identified India Habitat Centre (IHC), 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. as Sarfaraj Ahmed alias Photography: `Enigma - Street stories of Delhi’ - solo photography show by Ahmed Firoz, at Delhi 'o’ Delhi Anand Srivastava alias Foyer, India Habitat Centre (IHC), 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Amit Ghosh alias Ankit Art: 16th All India Water Colour, 14th All India Tradi- Sharma, has sold more tional Art & 9th Portrait Show at All India Fine Arts & Craft Society (AIFACS), 1 Rai Marg, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. than 50 stolen motorcycles Exhibition: “Vision and Vista” - group show of paint- through websites like OLX, ings and sculptures at Creativity Art Gallery , 6, Ground Quikr, and Click India over Floor, Hauz Khaz Village, 11 a.m - 7 p.m Exhibition: `Color Spectra' - Group painting and the last two years, said sculpture Exhibition at Artizen Art Gallery, Pearey Lal Surender Kumar, DCP Bhawan, Bhadur Shah Zafar Marg, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m Culture: Shri Vishnu Sahasranama Satsangam - 29th (Southwest) adding that 18 Anniversary Celebrations. Chanting of Sri Venkatesa high-end motorcycles and Suprabhatham and Sri Vishnusahasranama Stotram at scooties have been re- Community Hall, Near Block 53-Sector-4 DIZ Area, Gole covered from the posses- Market, 7 a.m. (Mail your listings for this column at sion of the accused so far. [email protected]) EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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IN BRIEF CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Weather-beaten Final arguments in Maruti violence case conclude Court ixes March 10 for pronouncing judgment

DCW seeks Rijiju’s Ashok Kumar intervention Gurugram NEW DELHI More than four years after The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has sought Maruti’s HR manager Awan- Union Minister Kiren Rijiju’s ish Kumar Dev was killed intervention into the and several executives were detention of foreign injured in a large-scale viol- nationals and alleged ence at the company’s plant violation of their human in Manesar, the final argu- rights at a beggar home, ments in the case concluded Nirmal Chhaya Complex, at a court here on Saturday. here. DCW chief Swati Additional District and Ses- Maliwal has written to Mr. sions Judge R.P. Goyal fixed Rijiju asking him to direct the March 10 for pronouncing Foreigner Regional the judgment in the case. Registration Office to Winds of chaos: One Maruti employee was killed and several “cooperate”. PTI ‘Assault by workers’ others were injured in the violence at the company’s plant in Responding to the defence Manesar in 2012. FILE PHOTO 2 murder accused held; counsels’ contention that weapons seized murder charge was not their evidence with regards ation Parade (TIP) was not GURUGRAM made out against the ac- to the mode and manner in done, the prosecution said it Two persons, who were cused workers, the prosecu- which the fire was lit. was not required as the ac- wanted in over two dozen tion said Dev had died after cused were known to the cases of robbery, extortion being assaulted by them. In Source of fire witnesses. Responding to ar- and attempt to murder in the a rebuttal to the defence “They have deposed that the guments that the FIR was city, have been arrested, counsels’ contention that fire was lit outside M1 Room not reliable, the prosecution The accused have been the prosecution had failed to and it spread through the contended that complainant identiied as Aman (19) and prove as to who had lit the ceiling,” said special public Deepak Anand was ob- Rohit (21). Two country- fire, the prosecution main- prosecutor Anurag Hooda. serving the incident from made weapons were tained that witnesses had On the charges of the de- the CCTV cameras in the se- recovered from them. PTI Wreaking havoc: An uprooted tree lies on Copernicus Marg in New Delhi on Saturday. PHOTO: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR given a consistent account in fence that the Test Identific- curity room.

Absconding proclaimed ofender arrested NEW DELHI Women protest against A man, who was declared a DGCA stokes controversy over longer light time proclaimed ofender in a murder case and had been liquor shop near school Petition moved in Delhi High Court says increased light time puts safety of crew, passengers at risk absconding since 2013, has been arrested from Hathras ‘People drink in open, cause troubles’ Akanksha Jain a case of an emergency?” the flight. If the DGCA says New Delhi district of Uttar Pradesh. asked the petitioner. 12 hours is the flight time, Rajender Singh, 31, was Staff Reporter ance to every passer-by,’’ New Delhi Has the Director General of He said a flight time of 11 can this court say it should arrested by the Crime Branch said area resident Leena Civil Aviation (DGCA) over- hours had been increased to be 11 hours 30 minutes?” on February 14. He had Several women have been Dabiru. looked an important aspect 15 hours and that of 11-16 allegedly murdered one sitting in protest for nearly a Also, when ragpickers of flight safety — crew fa- hours to 18 hours. ‘No compromise’ Sartaj over a trivial issue. PTI week now demanding the come in the morning to col- tigue — by increasing flight A flight time period starts “Everybody is bound by closure of a government-run lect the empty bottles, they time and cutting down on when a cabin crew member safety rules. Nobody wants Man held at IGI with liquor shop that is located in drink the leftover alcohol. rest period? The question is required by an operator to to compromise safety be- cancelled ticket front of a municipal school The protesters said the rag- has come up for considera- report for duty and ends cause ultimately, we all NEW DELHI in Sector 3, Dwarka. pickers even consumed tion before the Delhi High when that person is relieved travel. I am sure the DGCA A man was arrested at the IGI drugs. Court. of his/her duties. will amend the rules, if need Airport here on Saturday for Students molested The women said the gov- be,” added the court. allegedly using a cancelled The protesters, who mostly ernment should immedi- ‘Safety rule violated’ Up in the air: Flight time means the total time from the ‘DGCA to decide’ Additional Solicitor Gen- ticket to gain entry into the work as domestic workers, ately relocate the shop. A petition before Justice moment an aeroplane moves for taking of till it comes to The court said, “The DGCA eral Sanjay Jain assured the international terminal area to said people who came to They further said that the Sanjeev Sachdeva chal- rest. FILE PHOTO: BLOOMBERG has the power to prescribe court that he would have the see of a friend. Sukhjit S., a purchase liquor at the shop police should provide pro- lenged the Civil Aviation Re- the flight time.” issue examined and incor- resident of Ludhiana in molested the female stu- tection to the residents quirement, 2016, by stating an aeroplane moves for the ing flight time put the safety “Now, the issue is porate new rules, if need be. Punjab, told CISF men that he dents of the school. against anti-social elements. that it violated the “basic purpose of taking off till the of crew and passengers at whether the number of “If any constructive sug- had used a cancelled air “Men start drinking in the They also demanded that safety standard”. moment it finally comes to risk. hours of flight time pre- gestion comes, we will in- ticket to Bahrain to get into open as soon as the shop the ragpickers who con- Flight time means the rest at the end of the flight. “If the crew is fatigued, scribed enhances the safety corporate it,” he told the the terminal area. PTI opens. They pose a nuis- sumed drugs be counselled. total time from the moment The petition said increas- how efficient will they be in or undermines the safety of court. CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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IN BRIEF Fresh compensation J&K car tries Rajasthan govt rolls back to run over for 2016 Jat stir victims cops in agriculture power tarif hike To be paid out of CM’s Relief Fund Pathankot PTI Tejashwi Prasad criticises PTI Govt to increase subsidy to ill the gap, to cost the exchequer ₹500 crore Chandigarh Chandigarh Modi for poll promises The Haryana Government A search operation was on HAJIPUR/PATNA Mohammed Iqbal power discoms and alleged on Saturday announced a Saturday launched in Pun- Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Jaipur fresh compensation, this Prasad Yadav on Saturday that it had signed memor- jab’s Pathankot district criticised Prime Minister Rattled by the intensifying andums of understanding time for “innocent per- after a car bearing the re- Narendra Modi for his agitation of farmers, the for obtaining loans on the sons”, who were injured gistration number of government’s “non- Bharatiya Janata Party gov- condition of revision in during the 2016 Jat reserva- Jammu and Kashmir al- cooperative” attitude ernment in Rajasthan on Sat- tariff. tion stir. legedly tried to run over towards Bihar. Mr Modi had urday rolled back the in- During the last couple of The compensation an- police personnel on patrol announced a special package crease in power tariff for months, massive demonstra- nouncement comes ahead Torched motorcyles in duty. during Bihar Assembly polls agricultural consumers and tions were held at places of the proposed Balidan Di- Rohtak during the Jat The patrol party of the but it did not get any announced that it would in- such as grid sub-stations and vas to be observed in the agitation in 2016. FILE Pathankot police tried to PHOTO: PTI mention in the Budget, Mr crease subsidy on connec- power discom offices in the State tomorrow in memory stop the silver-coloured Yadav said. PTI tions to fill the gap, which Shekhawati region and else- of those who lost their lives third week today. Maruti Alto K-10 at a check will cost the exchequer ₹500 where. Farmers’ leaders, in- during last year’s agitation. The All-India Jat Aarak- barrier in Sujanpur but the 7 kg heroin seized near crore. cluding former CPI(M) MLA “While any person who shan Sangarsh Samiti occupants tried to run over Indo-Pak border Amra Ram, had projected had sustained a bullet injury (AIJASS), the main body the cops, Pathankot SSP AMRITSAR Press conference the hike as a “thoughtless re- will be paid ₹ 1 lakh, those spearheading the fresh stir, Nilambari Jagdalay Vijay The BSF personnel have The decision, announced by vision” which had intensi- who suffered a fracture not has said that they will de- said. seized 7 kg heroin, worth ₹35 Minister of State for Energy fied agricultural distress and due to any bullet injury will cide the course of the agita- She said the occupants, crore, from near Kakar border Pushpendra Singh at a hur- brought peasants to the be paid ₹50,000,” Chief tion tomorrow. believed to be four or five out post along the Indo-Pak riedly called press confer- verge of ruin. Minister Manohar Lal Khat- “February 19 would be in number, escaped and border, officials said. Seven ence here, will benefit about tar announced here on observed as ‘Balidan Divas’ the vehicle was found packets of the drug wrapped 11.50 lakh farmers, who were No check on load Saturday. at different places in the abandoned at Badrali vil- in yellow plastic insulation being mobilised by the Op- Mr. Singh said the State gov- An amount of ₹25,000 country in memory of those lage during the search tape were seized, the official position Congress and the ernment would bear the bur- will be given for those who who lost their lives during operation. said. PTI CPI(M)-backed All-India den of the hike, which was sustained other minor injur- last year’s agitation,” AIJASS “We have registered an Kisan Sabha in different announced by the State Elec- ies, he said. president Yashpal Malik FIR against unknown ac- Wanted Maoist cadre parts of the State. Sikar next week. resulting in an increase by tricity Regulatory The compensation said. cused under relevant pro- killed over land dispute After a huge kisan sam- The agricultural power ₹35. Commission. amount will be paid out of Besides seeking quota in visions of the law,” Ms JAMSHEDPUR melan organised at the tariff was increased on He also announced that the Chief Minister’s Relief education and government Nilambari said. A wanted Maoist, Lukru Krishi Upaj Mandi in Sikar on September 22 last year by To be adjusted no vigilance team would Fund and the Deputy Com- jobs under the OBCs cat- She said the police were Sardar, was killed allegedly February 2, the kisan sabha ₹0.25 per unit for metered Mr. Singh said the farmers check load on farmers’ missioners have been direc- egory, the Jat’s demands in- questioning the locals by a fellow villager, Thumpu had announced a march to connections, hiking the rate would continue to pay old meters if they are working ted to immediately release clude release of those jailed where the car was found. Sardar, over a land dispute in Jaipur during the State As- from Rs.0.90 per unit to ₹1.15 rates and the excess money fine and the agricultural con- the payment. during last year’s agitation, “Nothing suspicious has Pawdadih village in East sembly’s upcoming Budget per unit. For unmetered paid by them would be ad- sumers would now be al- The fresh round of Jat withdrawal of cases slapped been found from the Singhbhum district, the session. The Congress was power connections, the re- justed in the next few electri- lowed to get their connec- agitation in Haryana seeking during the protest and gov- search of the car. The se- police said. Thumpu killed also planning to hold a vised flat rate was ₹120 per city bills. He blamed the pre- tions shifted at the district reservation in education ernment jobs for the kin of curity agencies are on the Lukru with a stone, the DSP massive rally of farmers and horsepower against the vious Congress government level against the panchayat and government jobs among those killed and injured hunt to arrest the ac- said. PTI agricultural labourers in earlier ₹85 per horsepower, for the losses incurred by level permitted earlier. other demands entered its while taking part in the stir. cused,” she said.

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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017 NORTH 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Students with PoK degrees left in the lurch Medical Council of India refuses to recognise their MBBS degrees, has disallowed them to write revalidation exam

Peerzada Ashiq Srinagar College in Muzaffarabad; Mo- PoK currently. can trade onions, etc., why htarma Benazir Bhutto The protest by Kashmiri can’t we exchange stu- Over 30 students from Shaheed Medical College in students in 2016 had forced dents?” said Mr. Qadri. Jammu & Kashmir have been Mirpur; and Poonch Medical the PoK authorities to shift 18 Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led left at a crossroads after the College in Rawalakot. All students to medical colleges Hurriyat spokesperson Medical Council of India were set up after 2011. in Karachi and Punjab. Shahid-ul-Islam told The (MCI) refused to recognise For years now, about 20 “I am left with no other Hindu that the Hurriyat “will the MBBS degrees acquired students are sent to medical option but to prepare for the look into the matter”. from medical colleges loc- colleges in Pakistan annually Professional and Linguistic ated in Pakistan Occupied on the recommendation of Assessments Board test in Quotas for Kashmiris Kashmir (PoK). separatist leaders and relat- the United Kingdom. It’s an “There are quotas only for Speaking to The Hindu ives of divided families in the extremely costly affair and Kashmiri students across the from Muzaffarabad, the Cap- Kashmir Valley. The children not all students can afford it. LoC and in Pakistan. I appeal ital of PoK, an MBBS student of slain militant commanders I am an only child and my to the SAARC nations to in- said, “I enrolled at the Azad are also offered seats in parents are based in Srin- tervene in the matter and en- Jammu Kashmir Medical Col- Pakistani medical colleges. agar, but I don’t want to sure that no student is vic- lege in 2012. After complet- practice in Pakistan,” said timised. At least education ing my degree, I applied to Student protest another student. should remain above polit- the MCI for degree validation High and dry: Over 30 students from colleges such as the The PoK-based medical col- Srinagar-based lawyer ics,” said Mr. Islam. and entry examination. I was Poonch Medical College in Rawalakot, Pakistan-occupied leges, which are affiliated to Babar Qadri blamed the Hur- A bus service between J&K disallowed to write the Kashmir, have been left in the lurch. both the University of Azad riyat for the mess. and PoK was allowed by In- examination.” Jammu and Kashmir, and the “Most students have been dia and Pakistan in 2005 and not PoK, were recognised. in this situation should be Pakistan Medical & Dental recommended by the Hur- trade links restored in 2008 Meritorious student “I am a meritorious stu- held accountable,” the stu- Council, have reserved 6% riyat and their careers are in as part of the confidence- The student, a resident of dent. I secured an MBBS seat dent added. seats for students on this jeopardy now. I appeal to the building measures. The links Srinagar, was informed by in Pakistan against my Class There are three medical side of the Line of Control governments on both sides have made it easier for stu- MCI officials that only MBBS X (94%) and Class XII (92%) colleges in PoK —Azad (LoC). Over 50 students from of the LoC to recognise each dents to travel across for degrees from Pakistan, but marks. Those who landed us Jammu and Kashmir Medical J&K are pursuing medicine in others’ degrees. When we studies. Fresh snowfall in parts of HP MeT oice has warned of heavy rains or snow at places in mid and higher hills

PTI Gulmarg in north Kashmir grees Celsius while nearby and other high altitude New Delhi was the only recorded place Leh town recorded a low of areas had 10 cm to 15 cm of High altitude areas of Hi- in the valley where the night —1.3 degrees Celsius. snow. machal Pradesh saw a fresh temperature was below the Mercury rose by few The weather remained spell of snowfall on Saturday freezing point at minus 0.8 notches across Himachal dry in the region but sky re- while intermittent rainfall degrees Celsius, still mark- Pradesh as minimum tem- mained partially overcast lashed wide parts of Jammu ing an improvement of 0.2 peratures stayed five to eight and local MeT office warned and Kashmir even as min- degrees Celsius compared to degrees above normal while of heavy rains or snow at imum temperatures in the the previous night, he said. maximum day temperature isolated places in mid and north continued to rise. rose to 31.0 degrees at Una higher hills tomorrow. The minimum temperat- Kargil coldest in Shivalik foothills adjoin- Cold weather conditions ure in Srinagar was recor- He said there were no re- ing Punjab. abated in most places in ded at 6.5 degrees Celsius ports of snowfall from any Punjab and Haryana as min- against the normal 1.0 depart of the region so far. Dry weather imum temperature today grees Celsius during this Kargil in frontier region of High altitude tribal areas again hovered a few notches time of the season. The city Ladakh was the coldest re- saw fresh snowfall and above normal. Chandigarh recorded 1.4 mm of rainfall corded place in the state Keylong and Udaipur in La- recorded a low of 14.7 de- during the night, a MeT with a temperature of —3.0 haul and and Spiti districts grees Celsius, six notches spokesman said. degrees Celsius against the recorded 5 cm and 7 cm of above normal limits, a MeT The famous ski resort of previous night’s —4.8 de- snow while Rohtang Pass Department official said.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 8 SOUTH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CLOSEBY Probe against Chandy begins Actor kidnapped, abused Driver held, special team formed; Pinarayi promises action Former Kerala CM suspected of helping a realtor appropriate prime public land Staff Reporter also investigating whether forcibly entered the actor’s G. Anand Generals, VACB, KWA, and Kochi the accused have any links luxury car and began abus- Thiruvananthapuram Revenue Department, not to The Kochi city police on Sat- with ‘quotation’ gangs (con- ing her. Half-an-hour later, The Vigilance and Anti-Cor- accord building sanction to urday arrested the driver of tract killers),” an officer of the car was stopped again ruption Bureau (VACB) on the realtor on the ground a popular south Indian film the Ernakulam Rural Police and Martin entered the van. TTD loses around Saturday opened a criminal that public land was in his actor on charges of abduc- said. Soon, one more person ₹200 cr. in laddu sale investigation against former “illegal possession.’’ tion and sexual harassment The Nedumbassery police entered the car and joined TIRUMALA Kerala Chief Minister Oom- on Friday night. have registered a case the gang. Tirumala Tirupati men Chandy and former Manipulation of records The police identified the against the suspects on the The suspects got off near Devasthanams suffered a Chief Secretary Bharath An earlier inquiry conducted arrested as Martin, a native charges of kidnapping, rape, Padamugal and escaped in heavy loss in the sale of its Bhushan. They were suspec- by VACB Director Jacob of Koratty in Thrissur. Pre- and criminal intimidation, the van. Martin took the famous ‘laddus’. The loss for ted of unlawfully helping a Thomas, at the behest of the liminary investigation re- and under relevant Sections actor to a director’s house, the financial year is expected realtor appropriate prime Kerala Lokayukta, had detec- vealed that Martin was part of the IT Act. who alerted the police. to cross ₹200 crore. Sources public land to construct a ted manipulation of revenue of a conspiracy to kidnap The actor underwent a said the steep rise in the price high-rise condominium in records to favour the builder. her. The police identified Car intercepted medical examination at the of ingredients that go into Thiruvananthapuram. In trouble: A ile picture of former Kerala Chief Minister His report strongly hinted Sunilkumar aka Pulsar Suni, The incident took place Kalamassery medical college the making laddus, the Legal Advisor, VACB, C.C. Oommen Chandy. PTI that connivance at the a history-sheeter from Per- around 9.30 p.m. on Friday and gave a statement in subsidy it enjoys, and The Hindu stagnant selling price have Augustine told “highest level of the execut- umbavur in Ernakulam, as a when a gang led by Pulsar camera at the magistrate contributed to a huge deficit, that both the suspects stood forged documents as original help the realtor develop the ive” had facilitated the un- key accused in the case. A Suni allegedly intercepted court. and loss of ₹8 per laddu, on formally accused of having ones, and manipulation and land and slyly add 22 cents of abashed “land grab.” search is on for five more the actor’s car on National State Police Chief Loknath the sale price of ₹25. abused their official position theft of revenue records. prime public land to his am- The delay in registering an persons. Highway 544, near Param- Behera has constituted a to confer undue pecuniary The case centred around bitious enterprise. FIR in the case despite the During investigation, the bayam. The victim had fin- special team led by Crime advantage to the builder, T.S. Administrative Reforms In the process, Mr. Advocate General’s legal police traced records of ished shooting in Thrissur. Branch IG (South Zone) Telangana acquires land Ashok. Commission chairperson Chandy and Mr. Bhushan opinion to do so had ex- phone conversations and As per the complaint, the Dinendra Kashyap to invest- for Kaleswaram project Ashok is also an accused V.S. Achuthanandan’s com- had “overstepped” their con- posed the VACB to harsh cri- text messages between Mar- accused followed the actor igate the case. MEDAK in the case along with two plaint in 2012 that the sus- stitutional bounds and ticism in court. Inquiry Com- tin and Pulsar Suni. in a van, engineered a minor Chief Minister Pinarayi Vi- The Medak district Kerala Water Authority pects had illegally changed “usurped” the authority of missioner and Special Judge “The duo had made over collision with her car and jayan said none of those in- administration will acquire as (KWA) officials. The suspects the orientation of a 1960s the KWA. They had also “dis- A. Baharudeen had asked 40 phone calls between picked up an altercation volved in the attack on the much as 2,000 acres of land have been accused of con- sewerage main that bisected regarded” cautionary re- whether the AG’s word car- them, besides sending sev- with the car driver. In the actor would be allowed to for various requirements spiracy, forgery, use of the builder’s property to ports filed by the Accountant ried no weight in the agency. eral text messages. We are melee, two gang members escape punishment. including that of the Kaleswaram irrigation project. Collector Bharati Hollikeri recently held a meeting with oicials and Land for thematic Black and unquiet lows the Periyar in Kerala instructed them to speed up the process. About 900 acres each in Toopran and Narsapur cities in Amaravati are needed for Kaleswaram, Chemical pollution of river and vast tracts of paddy land has been a matter of concern for decades which involves building barrages and reservoirs. Tourism City gets the largest chunk S. Anandan the face muffling the urge to istance from locals clamour- KOCHI throw up, uncomplaining ing for a slew of measures to V. Raghavendra basis of urban development The wind blowing over the inter-State workers go about arrest river pollution — the Pinarayi should give up VIJAYAWADA models. Officials of the A.P. newly-built Pathalam regu- their routine, unloading river downstream turned Home, says Chennithala Three days ahead of the Capital Region Development lator-cum-bridge in Kochi, fresh truckloads of bone. black and flowed with a pun- ALAPPUZHA likely submission of concept Authority (APCRDA) and yet to be formally opened to gent odour. Kerala Leader of the designs of Amaravati by Municipal Administration traffic, carries with it the gut- Clammy waters Chemical pollution of the Opposition Ramesh London-based Foster + Part- and Urban Development De- wrenching stench of putrefy- “They make animal fat for Periyar and the vast tracts of Chennithala said on Saturday ners, the Andhra Pradesh partment have studied ing animal bone. The smoth- the toilet soap industry and paddy land in the region has that the State had become a hotspot for political murders government allotted land these models in China, ering stink emanates from an fertilizer from bones,” says been an issue environmental and it was high time Chief for nine thematic cities on Europe, Eurasia, Middle animal bone processing unit, environmentalist Purushan activists have been fighting Minister Pinarayi Vijayan gave Saturday. East and South America. one among eight such units Eloor, who is part of the Peri- for decades now. “Various up the Home portfolio. This lent clarity to sector- in the Edayar industrial area, yar Malineekarana Virudha studies have ascertained that He was addressing a wise infrastructure, to be ‘Walk to work’ concept a few metres down the Samithi, an anti-pollution Lifeline in peril: The Periyar is highly polluted by eluents the river system has been gathering in Haripad, where created in the capital city The cities will be in con- bridge on the banks of the council, pointing to the two from around 250 industrial units in the Udyogamandal sullied with discharge of he launched a 12-hour spread over a mammoth 217 formity with the interna- Periyar river — the lifeline of greasy furnaces located Industrial Estate in the Eloor-Edayar region. THULASI KAKKAT heavy metals and radioactive satyagraha opposing sq km. tionally acclaimed, fused the region — that is visibly in some 50 metres from the material. But ever since we ‘atrocities against women Government, Finance, grid model of development. the throes of death. river. “One such unit was re- pecking on slivers of meat our every now and then. raised a hue and cry, several and terror unleashed by Knowledge, Justice, Health, A huge chunk of the pop- Mounds of animal bones cently made to forfeit its from bone pieces hovers Most recently, when the firms have taken stringent goondas’. He said the Sports, Tourism, Media and ulation will ‘walk to work’ in various stages of decay oc- bank guarantee for draining about. shutters of the Pathalam reg- pollution control measures, government was unable to Electronics — these are the and have most of its daily cupy the company’s effluents into the river,” he The air is thick along this ulator-cum-bridge built to but the goal of ‘zero dis- stop goondaism and police cities the government pro- needs available within a premises, in the open and in says. stretch of the Periyar, its prevent the ingress of saline charge’ still remains at bay,” could not act independently. poses to construct on the walking distance. a shelter, and as you cover A swarm of flies and birds clammy waters changing col- water were raised —amid res- says Mr. Purushan.

Work on the water bodies with 20 tmc ft capacity likely to commence this year

Swathi Vadlamudi pared the project report of water per day (MLD) to the questions an official under HYDERABAD Keshavpur reservoir. city. Dissenting voices are the condition of anonymity. Work for the next generation “We want to commence being heard against the Further, pumping expendit- of twin reservoirs for Hy- the work this year, if the gov- mega reservoirs, as they are ure will be huge, as against derabad’s drinking water re- ernment agrees. A total of feared to lead to replace- the supply through gravity quirements might com- 1,572 hectares will have to be ment of the GO 111, which from the existing twin reser- mence this year, more than a acquired for the Ke- prohibits high-rise construc- voirs. century after the Os- shavapuram reservoir, of tions in the catchment areas “Water from Gandipet mansagar and Himayatsagar which 1,200 hectares will be of Osmansagar and Himayat- costs ₹3 per kilo litre, while lakes were conceptualised private land, and 372 hec- sagar. The city as of now is from Godavari, it costs ₹45 by the legendary engineer tares, forest land. We have being supplied with 372 mil- per KL,” he says. M. Visvesvaraya. written to the government lion gallons of water per day However, Mr. Dana Kis- While the existing twin with the project details,” in- (MGD) — which amounts to hore justifies the decision reservoirs together can hold formed the Managing Dir- 1,691 MLD — almost entirely saying the reservoirs are be- 6 tmc ft of water, the future ector of HMWSSB M. Dana from the Krishna three ing planned 30-40 years twins are being planned for Kishore. phases and Godavari ahead of time, keeping in holding a whopping 20 tmc Phase-I. Forty more MGD view the future drinking wa- ft of water each. Dissenting voices (182 MLD) of water is sched- ter requirements. One reservoir being The project cost for Ke- uled to be supplied to the “There is no link between planned at Keshavapuram of shavapuram reservoir alone peripheral areas once the GO 111 and the new reser- Shamirpet will draw its wa- is pegged at ₹7,700 crore, pipeline laying works are voirs. Osmansagar and Hi- ter from river Krishna and which may be borne by the complete. There is enough mayatsagar reservoirs are no the other, at Devalamman- government. If not budget- capacity to store 40 TMC of match to these two in stor- agar of Choutuppal, will ary allocations, option for water which is not being age. They are being built ex- have Godavari as its source, payment on annuity mode to fully exploited as of now. clusively for year-long stor- officials from the Hyderabad private financiers too is be- “Water can be pumped age, in the event of Krishna Metropolitan Water Supply ing explored, Mr. Dana Kis- into the existing reservoir at and Godavari going dry dur- and Sewerage Board (HM- hore informed. Requiring Singur, which as of now, re- ing drought years, and the WSSB) informed. Water and three years for completion, ceives water only through reserves in Nagarjunasagar Back in business: A trader displaying a ‘fez’, also known as ‘Rumi Topi’, at his shop in Hyderabad. After losing its appeal in the past Power Consultancy Services the two will be able to rainfall. What is the need for depleting,” Mr. Dana Kishore couple of decades, the headgear is now again worn at important social events and is considered a status symbol. G. RAMAKRISHNA (WAPCOS) has already pre- provide 750 million litres of the new reservoirs now?” says.

Raviprasad Kamila the second season of in his possession —from Task force nabs notorious smuggler from Tamil Nadu UJIRE October. This way, all other parts. B.K. Deva Rao has dedicated varieties are saved every “Many varieties grown Staff Reporter five acres of his agricultural year. His son, B.K. elsewhere in the country can TIRUPATI land in the serene Parameshwar Rao, an also grow in Dakshina In a major breakthrough, Mittabagilu village of coastal electrical engineer who quit Kannada,” says Mr. Red Sanders Anti Smuggling Karnataka to just one BHEL, Bengaluru, is also a Parameshwar Rao. Task Force personnel re- purpose — preserving farmer. Pointing to a Manipuri covered 193 red sanders different varieties of paddy. Till 1979, Mr. Deva Rao variety, he says the grain is logs, seized four vehicles The varieties he preserves grew 40 varieties of paddy. It light blue in colour. and nabbed nine smuggling have grown over a period of was from then that he A doctor gave him a operatives, in three incid- three-and-a-half decades to started using chemical Thailand variety called ents in Chittoor and Kadapa 154. In his village, about 16 fertilizers till 1988 as the “Jasmine,” he says. The JB 1 districts of A.P. on Saturday. km from Ujire in Dakshina government introduced variety, from which “tasty The logs, weighing over Kannada, Mr. Deva Rao is hybrid varieties. kadubu” is made, is no five tonnes, are estimated to among a few in the country longer available. “Kulenji fetch more than ₹15 crore in Huge catch: Task force oicials unload the seized red sanders to take up conservation on Rich stock pille,” large and strong, and the international market, logs in Tirupati on Saturday. K.V. POORNACHANDRA KUMAR such a large scale. As the focus shifted to “samunga,” the best for making it a significant catch hybrid varieties, traditional making flattened rice, are in the recent times. ing of 153 logs and nabbed Karakambadi road, task No chemical manure ones lagged. The stock came also not available any more, The task force officials, one of the most notorious force officials intercepted A septuagenarian, he is down to nine. During this according to him. who have been receiving tip- smugglers, M. and prevented loading of red proud that he grows paddy Natural farming: B.K. Deva Rao of Mittabagilu village, time, he observed that the Some of the varieties he offs on smuggling activities Chandrasekhar alias Madar- sanders logs. They re- on 42 small plots without Dakshina Kannada, in his farm. RAVIPRASAD KAMILA soil had turned hard due to has preserved are “Meese in Seshachalam forests, apakam Sekhar, hailing from portedly spotted about 20 using any chemical manure the use of chemical Bhatta”, “Kalame”, formed five special teams to the Tiruvallur district of smuggling operatives who, and sprays. Among his satisfaction. The government paddy in two seasons. About fertilizers. He switched to “Atikaya”, “Raja Kayame”, conduct combing operations Tamil Nadu,” said task force upon seeing the combing collections are traditional support for farming is 125-130 varieties are natural farming and, after “Suggi Kayame”, “Tonnur”, at vulnerable entry and exit DSP S.V. Sreedhar Rao. party, abandoned the logs and hybrid varieties. certainly not enough,” says cultivated in the first season 2000, started collecting “Navara”, “Gandhasale”, points. “In the first incident, In the second incident in and fled. Officials nabbed K. “I grow paddy and Mr. Deva Rao. of May-June and the rest — varieties that he had lost — “Aden Kelte”, “Gidda we managed to seize a major the forest areas abutting Up- Perumal (39), hailing from conserve them for my Mr. Deva Rao cultivates 25-30 varieties — are sown in and the ones which were not Bhatta” and “Shasthitka." dump of red sanders consist- adhyaya Nagar on the Tiruppattur in Vellore. CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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UNCERTAIN TWILIGHT | BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Challenge of ageing with dignity

India’s rapidly ageing population may soon outweigh the demographic dividend of a young workforce. Unless attitudes towards the elderly improve and the government increases resources for their care, India is staring at the prospect of a generational socioeconomic crisis. This is the irst of a four-part series

Narayan Lakshman by the Government of India also cut both ways among simply as a burden that can P.V. Srividya and State Governments. the elderly in India. At the be shrugged off. Chennai/Krishnagiri New Life Home Malliga, a vo- This is particularly true in The New Life Home for Govt. interventions lunteer, says that in many rural India. In Krishnagiri in- senior citizens in Krishnagiri Among these the Central families the younger genera- come insecurity, migration is a refuge for those among Government has since 1992 tion seems inclined to keep and displacement for work, the elderly who have run out been implementing its Integ- elderly mothers at home to smaller tenements, and lack of options in life. rated Programme for Older take care of the grandchil- of tangible State social secur- Govindammal (75), was Persons, which aims to dren or do household ity infrastructure seemed to rescued less than two kilo- provide senior citizens with chores; yet they are less in- be feeding into a collective metres from the home, from basic amenities such as shel- clined to keep fathers. compassion deficit. a cattle pen on a tiny plot of ter, food, medical care and Paradoxically, women While accounts of neglect land owned by her son and entertainment sometimes end up worse off varied there, it was evident daughter-in-law. “We found opportunities. because in many of the patri- that many among the elderly her emaciated. We doubted Perhaps the most relevant archal-patrilineal families es- yearned for families and to if she would survive then,” policy for the poorer sec- pecially in rural areas, the re- play a role in their lives by said Uma Maheshwari, a su- tions amongst the elderly is sponsibility for care and way of care and nurture for pervisor at the home. the Ministry of Rural Devel- nurture falls to the women of their grandchildren. Others During the first four opment’s Indira Gandhi Old the family, which in turn has hoped to lead lives that months after Govindammal Age Pension Scheme. This cast women both as victims offered respect and inde- moved in, her daughter-in- ensures for below poverty and perpetrators of aban- pendence, and wanted to get law visited once a month to line households, a monthly donment. As long as wo- away when it was denied. collect her old age pension of pension of Rs.200 is given men’s leisure-less labour From a policy perspective Rs. 1,000. But soon, when for each person in the age freed men of any such re- it remains a concern that the her pensions stopped com- group of 60-79 years and Rs. sponsibility towards aged framing of state intervention ing in, so too did those pur- Greying prospects: An old man on a railway platform in Hosur. N. BASHKARAN 500 for those above 80 years members of the household, for senior citizens in terms of poseful visits. and above. men’s workplaces and the familial care and neglect res- “At least she came, the son bus stand. “I wasn’t given marking a dramatic jump conundrums of ensuring Various other Government government establishment ults in the exclusion of desti- never visited once,” says food, and I wasn’t allowed to from the 6% level that the fig- they receive quality health- of India ministries offer con- could afford to plod on in the tute persons. Ms.Maheshwari. sell semiya too. So, I got out,” ure is at now. care and accommodation. cessions and similar schemes same patriarchal modes. “The State sees them as In another the corner of Velu Chettiar says, with Combined with the fact Those who move from the that promote access to re- Yet as women’s roles have destitutes, beggars and not the home, 80-year-old Velu pride. that we already have the world of active work to a resources by the elderly, in- in recent years expanded as senior citizens who were Chettiar was busy wrapping second largest elderly popu- tired life, often with depend- cluding the Ministries of outside of home-making abandoned and in need of home-made semiya in small Ageing population lation in the world, such pro- encies upon family mem- Health and Family Welfare, there has not been an accom- care.” says Revathi Mohan, packets. He would go out and These are common stories jections beg the question of bers, face numerous Finance, and Departments of panying recognition that the trustee of Narendra Nam- sell them door-to-door, mak- among the growing cohort of how the country’s nascent uncertainties and sometimes Revenue, Railways, and Civil men would now have to play bikkai Natchathiram, an in- ing Rs.2 for every packet that elderly Indians, even more infrastructure and traditional a harsh reality of Aviation. While most of these a larger role in caring for the tegrated home for children he sold for Rs.10. so among the destitute popu- social values will cope with deprivation. initiatives look good on pa- aged than they used to, and and destitute old women in The supervisors fondly lation. While India still has a the enormous stress that is Among them, senior cit- per, reality can sometimes that men’s workplaces and Hosur, about 57 kilometers call him the “semiya thatha.” demographic distribution likely to come from the need izens fortunate enough to be less encouraging. In the the government subsidy sys- from Krishnagiri. Hence, Velu Chettiar’s story though, that is still relatively skewed to provide for our senior cit- have worked in the organ- Krishnagiri home around 11 tems would have to do more and violence faced by the these government-supported is riven with harsh realities: toward the youth, compared izens’ welfare. ised sector receive pension of the 13 women and men in to support this. elderly in India. homes are not encouraged to he walked out on his sons to developed countries, its In a sense our attitudes to- and other retirement bene- New Life home were rescued These usually stem from rescue the poor among the after being slighted by them, population is ageing fast. ward the elderly, which in fits after retiring at between from within a 3-kilometer ra- Changing attitudes the perception of senior cit- elderly, who inevitably get is all he will reveal. The vo- By some estimates approx- many cases deny them a life 60 and 65 years of age, yet dius of the main town, yet Looking beyond these struc- izens as not deserving of re- pushed to beggary on the lunteers from the home imately 20% of Indians will of dignity in their twilight for the others the only suc- there is not one government tural factors, an attitudinal spect and dignity, as vulner- streets. found him packing semiya be elderly by 2050, defined years, pose as much a chal- cour is the nominal old-age run home in the district. shift may be necessary to able targets for predation for under a candle light in the as aged 60 years and above, lenge as the economic pension coverage provided Gender differences can mitigate the neglect, abuse financial or other needs, or TOMORROW: A ROOF ABOVE IN BRIEF Jumbo patrol for Corbett Enquiry sought into 9 trained elephants from Karnataka will go to the tiger reserve in Uttarakhand Bastar fake encounters R.Krishna Kumar MYSURU The giants from the forest The killing of two tribals has become a political issue camps of Nagarahole in Karnataka’s dry plains are Pavan Dahat ready for the long journey to NAGPUR Jim Corbett National Park, in The alleged fake encounter the Himalayan foothills, deaths of two tribals in the Priyanka in Hyderabad where they will form an elite restive Bastar region of south to treat son’s eye injury patrol group. Chhattisgarh has snowballed HYDERABAD They are nine trained ele- into a political issue in the Priyanka Vadra and her phants, set to aid in combing State as all the Opposition husband Robert made a quick operations in the tiger re- parties have threatened a trip to the city on Saturday, serve around the park. protest if an impartial in- to get their son, Rehan, Their relocation comes quiry is not conducted into treated for an eye injury after a request was made by the case. suffered in a ball hit, during a the Uttarakhand Govern- Chhattisgarh Police cricket game. ment to Karnataka two years claimed to have killed “two The couple came to L.V. ago. Maoists” in an alleged en- Prasad Eye Institute to seek The identification of ele- counter in the Purungal- Snowballing protest: Ajit Jogi leading a protest march to the medical opinion for their phants, assessment of their Dokapara area near the Chief Minister's residence in Raipur on Saturday. 16-year-old son. health and obtaining clear- Dantewada-Bijapur district ance from the Centre took al- border on January 29. bury the bodies. have been raped before be- Teacher’s suspension most two years. The convoy Elephant country: Karnataka has 126 elephants in camps and nine are to be sent to the The alleged Maoists were “Sukmati was Bhima’s sis- ing killed,” Ms. Sori told The condemned is expected to be flagged off Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand. M.A. SRIRAM identified as Bhima Kadati ter-in-law. Both of them went Hindu. JAIPUR next week. and Sukmati Hemla. to meet Bhima’s brother Ba- The Congress party, led Civil rights groups with water, through Andhra phants get acclimatised. Per- raja are males. Two other The police also claimed to man Kadati in Kirandul (a by Dantewada MLA Devati condemned the suspension of a faculty member, Dr. Two drop-outs Pradesh, Telangana, Maha- sonnel from the hill State are elephants which were ini- have recovered a rifle and town in Dantewada) on Janu- Karma, also jumped into the Rajshree Ranawat, of Jai Out of 11 elephants chosen rashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Ut- already in Karnataka, living tially selected – Maneka and some other weapons from ary 28, and on the way back villagers’ protest and appoin- Narain Vyas University, initially, two have been tar Pradesh and on to Ut- in the elephant camps. Madakari – have been them. they were picked up by the ted an inquiry team to probe Jodhpur, in connection with a dropped on health grounds, tarakhand. Tunga (15 years old) and dropped on health grounds. However, local villagers al- security forces. They were the matter. complaint against Prof. said Mr. Dilip Kumar Das, “En route, we will stop her calf (1.8), Karna (6), The patrol members are leged that both the deceased killed on January 29. The vil- Former Chhattisgarh Nivedita Menon of Jawaharlal Chief Conservator of Forests every 300 km for rest,” said Bheeshma (9), Gajaraja (10), now housed in jungle camps were “common civilians”. lagers told me that both of Chief Minister Ajit Jogi’s led a Nehru University, who was and Director, Project Ele- Mr. Das. The elephants will Kenchamba (20), Shivagange at Mattigodu, Doddaharvey The villagers approached them had no connection protest march by the Chhat- accused of making “anti- phant, Karnataka. be accompanied by mahouts (25), Kapila (32) and her calf and Dubare – all located the tribal activist and Aam with the Maoists. Both the tisgarh Janata Congress to national” remarks at a The elephants will travel and kavadis or assistants (1.8) made it to the list. around Nagarahole, one of Aadmi Party leader Soni Sori bodies are yet to be buried. Chief Minister Raman conference. The JNV 2,400 km, in a truck convoy, who will stay in Uttarakhand Of the nine elephants, the best-known reserves in and other political parties The condition of Sukmati’s Singh’s residence in Raipur University suspended Dr. carrying fodder and tankers for a few months till the ele- Karna, Bheeshma and Gaja- the South. for support and refused to body suggests that she may on Saturday. Ranawat for not appearing before a fact-inding panel. Hindi novelist Ved Army chief CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC BJP woos tribals ahead Catching them young of Gujarat polls visits injured AHMEDABAD Prakash Sharma dies With Assembly polls less than CRPF oicer 10 months away, the Gujarat BJP is wooing tribals, who In all he wrote over 176 novels PTI make up 15% of the Mohammad Ali New Delhi population and are inluential Meerut in over 35 seats including 27 Army chief General Bipin ST reserved seats. Popular Hindi novelist Ved Rawat on Saturday visited Keen to ofset the Patidar Prakash Sharma, counted injured CRPF Commanding factor, the ruling party took among the highest-selling Officer Chetan Kumar out a 1,500 km yatra in tribal Hindi writers in the country, Cheetah and enquired areas across 15 districts. Led died on Friday in Meerut. about his health at the by CM Vijay Rupani and State According to his family AIIMS Trauma Centre here. president Jitu Vaghani, the members, the 62-year-old Kumar had sustained Adivasi Vikas Gaurav Yatra writer was not keeping well grievous injuries in an en- ended at Ambaji on Saturday. and had developed an infec- counter with militants in tion that led to his demise. North Kashmir on Febru- Police ind kidnapped Famous for novels with Ved Prakash Sharma ary 14, following which he child after 9-day search unique titles like Dahej Mein was airlifted to AIIMS, MUMBAI Revolver (Revolver as posed to have sold more where he is battling for life. Police scanned CCTV footage Dowry), Widhva Ka Pati than eight crore copies. General Rawat visited across the city and near (Husband of a Widow) and While literary critics saw his Kumar in the afternoon railway stations to locate a Dulhan Maange Dahej (Bride writing as “pulp fiction,” and enquired about his kidnapped two-and-a-half Asks For Dowry), Mr. Sharma saw himself as part health from the doctors at- year old girl, after a wrong Sharma started his writing of the tradition of detective tending on him, AIIMS time stamp misled them in career at the age of 14 and fiction which was started by sources said. On Friday, the investigation. initially ghost written novels great Indian writers like Union Minister Kiren Rijiju The child had gone missing for others. Devki Nandan Khatri, Ibn-e- visited the Centre to en- from near her house in Nirmal But it was Vardi Wala Safi and Ved Prakash Kam- quire about the condition Nagar earlier this month. Gunda (Goon in Uniform), boj. In all he wrote over 176 of the injured CRPF officer. After nine days of efort, they published in 1993, that gave novels. Mr. Sharma had also His condition remained found Shifa Sheikh in a slum him the big break. The written scripts for about “critical” after which he near King’s Circle in the novel, based on atrocities half-a-dozen Hindi films and was admitted to the custody of a woman, and her committed by a cop, broke a few of his novels were premier hospital earlier Diferent role: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan teaching students at the Sanjay Gandhi School as part of his alleged kidnapper was away. many records and is sup- made into films. this week, they said. government’s education initiative in Bhopal on Saturday. 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FROM PAGE ONE Sasikala’s vow Secret voting impossible: Speaker fulilled, says Palaniswami wins Palaniswami Dhanapal says the Tamil Nadu Assembly rules allow only a voice vote or division conidence vote Special Correspondent T. Ramakrishnan Chennai Chennai Less than an hour into the fresh reinforcements to AIADMK party general sec- proceedings, the DMK legis- evict them. The marshals, Defending his decision in retary Sasikala’s vow has lators trooped into the well who were led by a few the Assembly on Saturday, been fulfilled, Chief Minis- of the House and began rais- senior police officers in Speaker P. Dhanapal asser- ter Edappadi K. Palan- ing slogans, saying “We white uniform (watch and ted that there was no provi- iswami declared on Sat- want adjournment, we want ward staff’s uniform), then sion in the Tamil Nadu Le- urday after the winning the secret ballot”. Suddenly evicted the protesting gislative Assembly Rules to vote of confidence in the some MLAs turned violent MLAs. Many, including Mr allow secret voting on a mo- Assembly. and ransacked the table of Stalin, who was encircled by tion of confidence. Mr. Palaniswami, along the Speaker and of the As- his party colleagues, were He had rejected pleas for with his Cabinet col- sembly Secretary A.M.P. bodily lifted and removed secret voting by the Dravida leagues, visited the me- Jamaludeen. They also dis- from the House. Several Munnetra Kazhagam, the morials of Jayalalithaa, lodged the microphone on MLAs were also dragged out rebel group of the All-India MGR and Anna on Marina the Speaker’s table and tore as they resisted eviction. Anna Dravida Munnetra to pay floral tributes after Assembly Rule books, pa- The House also witnessed Kazhagam, the Congress the trust vote. pers and files, and hurled some DMK members attack- and the Indian Union them at the Speaker. This ing the watch and ward staff Muslim League because he ‘People are happy’ prompted Mr. Dhanapal to and hurling chairs at them. had to go by what was “With the government get- adjourn the House till 1 p.m. In the melee, a few mem- provided in Rule 99 [which ting the majority in the As Mr Dhanapal was es- bers including former Minis- deals with the method of confidence motion, Am- corted to safety, some DMK ter I. Periyasami, lost their taking votes]. Under the ma’s rule has blossomed legislators were seen pulling dhoties. Once all the DMK Rule, a motion could be ad- once again in Tamil Nadu. him towards them. Later, MLAs were evicted, the opted either through voice All the MLAs are happy two MLAs K.K. Selvam and eight Congress MLAs and vote or division. Consider- and people are also B. Ranganathan were seen lone IUML member walked ing the importance of the happy,” he said. People sitting on the Speaker’s out in protest. motion [vote of confidence], and the media would have chair, in contravention of he had opted for a division. seen the DMK’s arrogance the rules. Division method in the Assembly on televi- Later Mr. Dhanapal com- The Speaker then opted for ‘Sinister plan’ sion channels. They tried plained that his shirt was division method of voting Announcing the voting res- to disrupt the proceedings torn. Throughout the pan- and the entire House was di- ults, Mr. Dhanapal told the but failed. With the new demonium, the AIADMK vided into six blocks with House that DMK MLAs parti- government in place, the Ministers and MLAs re- only the Sasikala and Pan- cipated in the day’s pro- vow taken by Chinnamma mained passive onlookers. neerselvam factions of the ceedings with the “plan” of Out of the House: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader M.K. Stalin sitting on a fast near the Gandhi statue in Chennai on Saturday had been fulfilled, he said. When the House recon- AIADMK participating in the bringing disrepute to the in protest against the happenings in the Assembly. S.R. RAGHUNATHAN AIADMK deputy general vened at 1 p.m., the DMK process. After the bell rang House. He charged them secretary TTV Dinakaran, MLAs once again opposed thrice, Assembly secretary with showing disrespect to his version of what tran- who accompanied Mr. Pa- the confidence vote, and in- Jamaludeen called members the office of the Speaker and spired. OPS camp rebufed rival’s attempt laniswami, echoed his dulged in another round of of the block one by one. his community of On the marshals evicting opinion. violence. The Speaker then First he counted those Arundathiars. DMK MLAs during the Before going to adjourned the House till 3 who supported the govern- Referring to the outcome second break, a seasoned le- at rapprochement in Assembly Bengaluru to serve a four- p.m. ment and followed it by of the voting, the Speaker gislator of the ruling party year jail term after being In the meantime, the those who opposed the con- said even if members of the said he saw nothing wrong T.K. Rohit members were evicted from ter and leader of the convicted in the dispropor- DMK legislators staged a fidence vote. Finally, he as- DMK [who were evicted be- as the Speaker had ordered B.Kolappan the Assembly and the Con- party.” tionate assets case, Ms. Chennai dharna inside the House certained if anyone wanted fore the division was taken their removal before he ad- gress and IUML members In the morning, Health Sasikala had taken a vow at and the Speaker ordered the to remain neutral. None up], the Congress and the journed the House for the In the middle of the stand- walked out, the two camps Minister C. Vijaya Baskar Jayalalithaa’s memorial. watch and ward staff, with took a neutral stand. IUML [who had staged a second time. off in the Tamil Nadu As- were engaged in talks to end was seen talking to Mettur Mr. Palaniswami said the walkout before the division] sembly on Saturday, the the impasse. MLA S. Semmalai, who is government’s priority had voted against the mo- Disqualification process rival camps in the AIADMK in Mr. Panneerselvam’s would be tackling the tion, it would still have car- It is learnt that disqualifica- were involved in talks for a Sets condition camp, on the floor of the drinking water crisis, the Stalin meets Rao, ried with an absolute major- tion proceedings can be initi- rapprochement on the floor “There was an attempt at Assembly. Talks continued worst in 144 years. ity as 122 members had ated against the 11 rebel of the House. rapprochement from their in the afternoon outside. Both the leaders ac- voted in favour. MLAs only when the ruling Multiple sources con- side. It came between 2.30 However, the efforts fell cused the rival faction of held after protest On the incidents in the party formally gives a peti- firmed to The Hindu that the p.m. and 3 p.m. [just before through as the condition to colluding with arch rival House earlier in the day, he tion to the Speaker. Sasikala camp tried hard to the voting],” said a source. make Mr. Panneerselvam DMK to topple the AIADMK In the memorandum, the towards Marina. Later said though he did not wish If the rebels stand disqual- find a solution to the fac- “However, it was conveyed the leader was not accept- government. DMK complained about the speaking to reporters, party to talk about them, he was ified, their seats will become tional feud and spoke to to them that a coming to- able to Sasikala’s camp. “The MLAs have proved eviction of MLAs from the spokesperson T.K.S. Elan- forced to comment as the vacant and by-elections will various members in O. Pan- gether was ruled out until Eventually, Edappadi K. Pa- today that they are Amma’s Assembly and sought post- govan said they had ap- Leader of Opposition [M.K. have to be held within six neerselvam’s camp. they accepted Mr. Pan- laniswami won the vote of true cadre,” Mr. Palan- ponement of the session to prised the Governor of what Stalin] had told the media months. Shortly after the DMK neerselvam as Chief Minis- confidence. iswami said. enable a secret voting. transpired in the Assembly. “Therefore, we request “We have told him how the the Governor to restore opposition leaders were at- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC democratic values and or- tacked in the Assembly, der postponement of the As- more than 30 of our MLAs On the draw Surendra Parties in Haryana and sembly session for conduct- sustained injuries. We asked ing secret voting on the him to take necessary ac- Confidence Motion,” the tion.” Punjab set for face-of representation said. At the Marina, Mr. Stalin While Mr. Stalin met the staged a protest near the Governor, other DMK MLAs Gandhi Statue, alleging foul INLD threatens to dig the Sutlej-Yamuna canal for its share and party cadre sat on a play by the AIADMK before dharna and blocked the he was arrested along with Vikas Vasudeva a political misadventure and Chandigarh Sardar Patel Road outside other MLAs. Talking to re- of trying to take advantage Raj Bhavan protesting the al- porters, the DMK leader Political parties in Punjab of their proximity to the leged attack on Mr. Stalin in said, “The police forces and Haryana are set for a Badals. He also alleged that the Assembly premises. entered the Assembly Hall, face-off on the issue of shar- the Chautalas were pinning Around 3.50 p.m., DMK unleashed violence against ing water from the Sutlej- their hopes for realising Rajya Sabha MPs Kanimozhi MLAs and evicted us. They Yamuna Link (SYL) canal their mischievous agenda on and Tiruchi Siva also claim to have succeeded in after Haryana’s Indian Na- the silent connivance of the reached Raj Bhavan. getting the confidence of the tional Lok Dal (INLD) de- Badals on the issue. House. This is against the clared that it would march On the other hand, SAD Arrested at Marina constitutional values. We towards Punjab on February secretary and spokesman Around 3.45 p.m, Mr. Stalin will continue the protest in a 23 to dig the canal. Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema left Raj Bhavan and headed peaceful manner.” INLD leader Abhay asked political parties from Chautala has announced Abhay Chautala Haryana not to indulge in that party workers would activities that could provoke march towards Punjab after and Punjab Congress presid- the people of Punjab on the Pranab grounded gathering at Ambala’s grain ent Captain Amarinder emotive issue of the SYL AI will have no buyers: Raju market to dig the SYL canal Singh on Saturday said the canal. “to get its share of water”. Centre and the State govern- “The SYL issue is dead, plan to privatise AI Somesh Jha the airline on the market Civil Aviation Minister. The Punjab Congress and ment in Haryana should take once for all, as the Punjab New Delhi and no one will buy it,” Mr. However, the present the Shiromani Akali Dal all necessary steps to pre- Assembly as well as the SAD- “Going by the Terms of rid itself of half its work- “I would like Air India to Raju added. government’s approach (SAD) have reacted sharply vent any violation of Pun- BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) Reference of the GoM, clos- force”, if it was to compete survive and fly Indian skies In 2000, the then NDA has been different. At the to this move by the INLD. jab’s borders by the INLD. government of the State has ing down or privatisation of with others. proudly. That’s my wish – government decided to sell deliberations on the Na- While the SAD has urged “Abhay Chautala’s inflam- passed resolutions for the Air India were not the op- whether in the public or the 51% of equity of Indian Air- tional Civil Aviation Policy, political parties from Hary- matory statement has the restoration of the land ac- tions available,” Mr. Turning into NPA private sector,” Civil Avi- lines, with a 26% stake going sources say, Prime Minister ana not to indulge in activit- potential of further escalat- quired for the project. As the Mukherjee said, accepting The need for a revival plan ation Minister Ashok Ga- to a strategic partner. It also Narendra Modi requested ies that provoke the people ing the tensions already land acquired for the project all recommendations other in 2012 arose from the mer- japathi Raju told The Hindu decided to allow disinvest- the Civil Aviation Ministry of Punjab on the SYL issue — triggered by the ongoing Jat has been restored to the ori- than the one on privatisa- ger of Air India Limited and in an interview, citing the ment of 60% in Air India, to keep Air India privatisa- the Congress has demanded agitation in Haryana,” said ginal owners, it is now in the tion. Indian Airlines Limited in airline’s huge debt as its running international oper- tion out, at an inter-minis- action by the Haryana gov- Capt. Amarinder. possession of the farmers of However, Petroleum Min- 2007, after which the car- biggest issue, despite the ations, with a 26% foreign terial meeting in 2015. The ernment against the INLD to the State,” he said. “Such ister S. Jaipal Reddy rier suffered losses till 2010- ₹30,000 crore bailout entity stake. However, the policy released in June prevent the eruption of an ‘Mischievous agenda’ statements will lead to ten- differed, and said, “The air- 11. The group of officers package. move was shot down by 2016 made no mention inter-State crisis. Capt. Amarinder accused sion in both States and incite line needs to confront real- warned in 2011 that if a fin- “It has a big debt. You put Sharad Yadav, who was the about the airline’s future. Former Chief Minister the Chautalas of indulging in violence...” he said. ity,” suggesting that the ancial restructuring plan privatisation option should was not put in place, Air In- be retained. “As regards dia would default by March privatisation of airline, 2012 and become a non-per- while today there are no forming asset (NPA). Army chief ‘politically motivated’, says ex-PDP MP takers, some day a view “This might result in must be taken that beyond a cross default clause being in- point, it is no longer pos- voked internationally, which Tariq Hameed Karra joins Congress, alleges that PDP-BJP alliance in Kashmir is implementing only the ‘RSS agenda’ sible to support the airline ,” would create an immediate he said. requirement for govern- Special Correspondent Mr. Karra’s former party, She said Mr. Karra had not This comes against the The then Civil Aviation ment to repay guaranteed New Delhi the PDP, is an alliance part- said that the Army chief’s backdrop of General Rawat’s Minister Ajit Singh felt that aircraft loans. Since Air In- Former People’s Democratic ner of the BJP in Jammu and statement was “politically statement snowballing into a privatisation of Air India dia is owned by the govern- Party MP Tariq Hameed Kashmir. motivated”, but that “the major controversy with the with its debt was no solution ment, any default would be Karra joined the Congress on statement was being used BJP and other parties indul- and the recommendations akin to a sovereign default,” Saturday, but he plunged his Soni’s stand politically by Dr. Jitendra ging in a political slugfest. of the group of officials the Note for the Cabinet new party into a controversy Asked if the Congress sup- Singh. When Jitendra Singh Earlier, Mr. Karra joined “must at least be given a fair Committee on Economic Af- by describing Army chief ported Mr. Karra’s remarks, tries to politicise and accuse the Congress, alleging that trial and acted upon.” fairs dated March 2012 said. General Bipin Rawat as party general secretary and the Congress of supporting the PDP-BJP alliance in P. Chidambaram, who The CCEA later approved “politically motivated” for in-charge of Jammu and those involved in terrorist Jammu and Kashmir was im- was Home Minister, was not a plan to infuse ₹ 30,231 promising “tough action” Kashmir affairs Ambika Soni activities, he is deliberately plementing only the “RSS supportive of the turn- crore as equity into Air India against those supporting ter- distanced herself from his re- trying to politicise the agenda.” He had submitted around plan. “The Home till 2020-21. rorists in Jammu and marks, while accusing the situation.” his resignation from the Lok Minister commented that Cut to the present: The Kashmir. BJP of politicising the Army The Congress had always Sabha in September 2016 this analysis seemed to be Centre has given ₹23,993 “As far as the Army chief’s Rahul Gandhi welcomes Tariq Hameed Karra into the Congress chief’s statement. stood against terrorism and protesting against the alleged under the assumption that crore as equity support to statement is concerned … it in New Delhi on Saturday. SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR “The Army chief’s state- had sacrificed its top leaders excesses committed by se- the competitors would Air India since 2011-12. The is a politically motivated ment has been politicised by to terrorism, she said. “Not curity forces in silencing stand still. He expressed his airline’s losses stood at statement,” he said, even as should not be politicised; Modi [because he is] politi- the BJP and [MoS] Jitendra once but many times, the widespread protests after the regret and said he was un- ₹3,587 crore in 2015-16. Air he accused Prime Minister neither should anything be cising [the situation] and his Singh, and we agree with Congress has said that it has killing of Hizbul Mujahideen able to support this plan,” India, with over 140 planes, Narendra Modi of “politi- said that could adversely af- Ministers are politicising for him on this. It is wrong and zero tolerance to terrorism militant Burhan Wani. the minutes of the meeting has been missing its profit- cising” an independent insti- fect its morale. the sake of the party. Unfor- unfortunate for the ruling in any form. And the best On Saturday in the capital, in 2011 recorded. ability targets (see chart) tution such as the Army. To a Pressed further, Mr. Karra tunately, for our Prime Min- party to politicise things con- people to handle terrorism he met Congress chief Sonia Mr. Chidambaram felt since the first year of equity question, Mr. Karra said the said, “I linked the Army ister, his party is paramount, nected with the Army,” Ms. are members of the armed Gandhi and vice-president that “the airline needed to infusion. Army was an institution that chief’s statement with Mr. not national interest.” Soni said. forces,” Ms. Soni said. Rahul Gandhi. CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017 NEWS 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF It’s D-Day for SP-Cong. team For Ayodhya voters, Ram 2.41 crore voters to decide fate of 826 candidates in third phase of U.P. polls temple is a non-issue Omar Rashid LUCKNOW They, however, seem to be divided on caste lines BJP urges EC to take The Samajwadi Party has all at stake in the crucial third Vikas Pathak action against Rawat phase of the Uttar Pradesh AYODHYA DEHRADUN Assembly elections, voting The temple town of Ayodhya The BJP on Saturday approached the Election for which will be held on seems divided on caste lines Commission alleging that Sunday. during these elections, with Chief Minister Harish Rawat Not only will the party, the Ram temple not being had disposed of files relating now led by Chief Minister an issue for its residents. to mining leases and liquor Akhilesh Yadav, have to de- The quietness of the town and bar licences in violation fend its strongholds in and is broken only by the move- of the model code of around Etawah, it has a lot to ment of pilgrims who throng conduct. The party urged the lose in the overall numbers. the place to visit the small Commission to take action temple built by the Ram Jan- against Mr. Rawat. PTI Yadav stronghold mabhoomi Nyas (Trust), In the last elections, the SP near which stones and pil- Girl gang-raped by secured a thumping man- lars of various sizes are neighbours, two held date in these districts, win- stored for the construction BHOPAL ning 55 out of 69 seats. of a temple in the future. A 15-year-old girl was While its ally, the Congress In December 2015, the allegedly gang-raped by her had a mere two seats, the VHP and the Bajrang Dal re- two neighbours at Krishak SP’s key opponents, the BSP newed their clamour for a Nagar locality here, the and the BJP also performed Poll set: Oicials carry voting machines on the eve of the third phase of the U.P. Assembly Ram temple. Things, how- police said. The incident took dismally, winning six and elections, in Lucknow on Saturday. RAJEEV BHATT ever, have been quiet ever Building blocks: The Ram Janmabhoomi Trust has stored place on Friday night and the five seats respectively. This since. material for constructing a temple. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT accused have been arrested, the police said. The girl was third phase is thus as much Singh. Incidentally, while Mr seats. These districts also Lucknow Cantonment on a Talk about the Ram going to buy snacks around 9 about the Yadav family Mulayam Singh has refused have substantial pockets of BJP ticket against debutant temple here and an interest- Party was in power,” Naresh SP. The BJP has fielded Ved pm when the accused waylaid prestige as it is a litmus test to campaign for the SP-Con- Muslims, Brahmins, Baniyas Aparna Yadav, the younger ing caste divide emerges — Yadav, part of the group of Prakash Gupta, who was the her. PTI for the SP-Congress alliance. gress alliance, he held a rally and Pasis. daughter-in-law of Mulayam Hindus opposed to the BJP young milk-sellers, says. BSP candidate here the last The voting in this phase in support of his brother. Many of the districts in Singh. say the party just used the is- “What has the BJP done time and had lost. ‘Rahul hopped on cycle will span 12 districts, includ- this phase also fall along the In Sarojini Nagar, another sue as a political tool apart from talking?” A group of upper caste after khaat sabha lop’ ing the major urban centres Internal feud much-hyped Lucknow-Agra member of the Yadav family, without any intention to The conversation is inter- men — all Brahmin and JALAUN (U.P.) of Kanpur and Lucknow, and With the internal feud alive Expressway, a key plank of Mulayam Singh’s nephew build a temple, while pro- rupted by an aged Subhash Thakur — sitting on chairs Union Minister Rajnath Singh the SP’s core support region and apparent disattisfaction Akhilesh Yadav’s develop- Anurag Yadav will make his BJP voices say the matter is Verma, who belongs to the just outside a construction took a dig at Rahul Gandhi on of Kannauj, Etawah, Main- within the ranks over selec- mental model. debut. The SP’s sitting MLA in court and the BJP or the OBC caste of Kurmi, as he re- site root for the BJP. Saturday, saying the puri and Farukkhabad. The tion of tickets — sitting MLAs In the State capital, the SP and minister Sharda Pratap Union government can do minds the young men that Congress vice-president had districts of Hardoi, Auraiya, close to Mr Mulayam Singh is confronted with obstacles, Shukla was denied a ticket nothing on it. the BJP cannot do anything Upper caste stance to ride the ‘bicycle’ Barabanki, Sitapur Unnao and Mr. Shivpal Yadav were but Lucknow also offers and is contesting as an RLD “The BJP just talks about as the matter is in court. Asked if a section of Brah- [Samajwadi Party’s symbol] and Kanpur Rural will also denied tickets — the SP faces some exciting battles. Curi- nominee. With 4.9 lakh the Ram temple, but does “I will vote for the BJP. It mins and Thakurs will not when his much-hyped ‘khaat vote in this phase. A total of the task of maintaining its ously, the Muslim voters in voters, Sarojini Nagar is also nothing about it,” says Su- is the best party for the move towards Bahujan sabha’ failed to draw crowds. 2.41 crore voters, including hold over Etawah-Mainpuri, Lucknow Central seat are in the largest constituency in greev Yadav, a young milk- country,” he says. Samaj Party and the Sama- “However, the bicycle he is 1.10 crore women, will de- which has dense population a dilemma as both the SP this phase. seller at a tea shop just a jwadi Party, respectively, as riding, is punctured,” Mr. cide the fate of 826 of Yadavs. Mr Mulayam and Congress have fielded SP sitting MLAs in kilometre away from the Support for BSP in the previous elections, Singh said at a meeting. PTI candidates. Singh’s great-grandson, Tez candidates. Sitapur’s Biswan seat, Ram- Nyas’ temple site. A few minutes’ drive from Ram Chandra Shukla, a The shadow of the family Pratap Singh, is the MP from pal Yadav, Mahendra Singh Asked if the temple here is the Muslim settle- Brahmin says: “Even if we ‘Lack of innovation hit feud will loom over Mr Mainpuri. Rebel factor in Sevata and Auraiya’s should come up, he answers ment of Haibatpur, where cast our vote for others, the Ambassador brand’ Akhilesh Yadav with his The SP’s prestige will also If the incumbent SP MLA Pramod Gupta were also with a counter-question: the BSP seems to be more BSP and SP will not believe KOLKATA uncle Shivpal Yadav, politic- be at stake in Kannauj, the and minister Ravidas Mehro- denied tickets and are now “Which Hindu will not want popular. it. They will say we voted for Union Minister of State for ally wounded and isolated, Lok Sabha seat of Dimple Ya- tra will once again battle it rebels. In north Lucknow, SP a temple at Ayodhya?” “Under the BSP, law and the BJP. Then why not just MSME Giriraj Singh, during an defending his territory in Et- dav, wife of Akhilesh Yadav. out on the cycle symbol, minister and aide of the CM, Mr. Yadav and his friends order is maintained and ri- consolidate behind the event, said on Saturday that awah’s Jaswantnagar. The The SP, which holds all three Congress State general sec- Abhishek Mishra will battle it are all praise for Chief Minis- ots and crime are con- BJP?” “lack of innovation” in bad blood betweenthe two seats in the district known retary Maruf Khan is also in out against an influential ter Akhilesh Yadav, saying trolled,” says Safaat Ali, clear The temple town of Ayod- Hindustan Motors was the was evident with the Chief for its perfume and potatoes, the fray after he refused to trader Niraj Vora, who stood that unlike Mayawati, who about his preference. hya was considered a bas- reason behind the iconic Minister holdingrallies in Et- is said to be on a sticky withdraw his nomination. second last time as a Con- works “only” for her own In Ayodhya, the BSP can- tion of the BJP since 1991, Ambassador car brand being sold to European auto major awah-Mainpuri but not cam- wicket on at least two. They will be pitted against gress candidate but will now caste, he works for every- didate is a Muslim: Bazmi but this bastion —which has Peugeot. Owners of the C.K. paigning for his uncle. In fact Mr Akhilesh Yadav’s ap- former MP Brijesh Pathak, have a stronger chance on a one. He says SP’s candidate Siddiqui. This may partially symbolic value for the party Birla group inked a deal with he went a step further and in peal, along with demonetisa- who switched from the BSP BJP ticket. Tej Narayan Pandey, the sit- explain the Muslim support, — was finally breached by the car-maker Peugeot SA of a vieled attack urged the tion, will be tested in the to the BJP last year. In the 2012 polls, the 12 ting MLA, will win the elec- similar to the scene in Sul- the Samajwadi Party when Europe earlier this month to people of Etawah to teach urban centres of Kanpur and In another hotly con- districts in this phase recor- tion here. tanpur, some distance away Mr. Pandey defeated the sell the brand. Production of Shivpal Yadav a lesson for Lucknow, where the SP had tested seat, Rita Bahuguna ded 59.96% while in the 2014 “Stones for a Ram temple where Muslims seem to BJP’s sitting MLA Lallu Singh the car was discontinued in creating a rift between him done reasonably well last Joshi, who rebelled against Lok Sabha polls, it was mar- here also arrived one year prefer the BSP — with a by just over 5,000 votes in 2014. PTI and his father Mulayam time, winning 12 out of the 19 the Congress, will defend ginally down to 58.43%. ago when the Samajwadi Muslim candidate — to the 2012. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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WHO “Two-minute warning,” an aide would is at Mr. Spicer’s passive-aggressive media, which he wages through his must write more about how the Demo- PQpq announce through a half-opened blue briefings that the tenor of this combat is tweets. Mr. Spicer is the hand-to-hand crats are not letting the policy initiatives door that separates the White House’s most often set. Little wonder that com- combatant in Mr. Trump’s war on me- of the President take off. West Wing office rooms from the press edy show Saturday Night Live’s most dia. The press secretary is never tired of Mr. Spicer worked with various Con- briefing room, any moment after 1.30 talked about offering recently is Melissa reminding reporters of their irrelevance gressional committees before being ap- Sean pm every weekday. TV reporters would McCarthy’s impersonation of Mr. Spicer, and the fact that the President has a way pointed communications director of the call their broadcast centres and cam- signalling his arrival in Washington, DC. of reaching out to the American people Republican National Committee in 2011, eras would focus on the blue door, Why did the President wait so long through digital platforms, bypassing the a position he held until he was appoin- Spicer, which would open again in two before sacking his National Security Ad- reporters. ted press secretary. He was a critic of minutes. Sean Spicer would then viser? Will the President issue a new ex- Mr. Trump in the early days of the cam- emerge, a thick binder in hand, and ecutive on travel restrictions? Will NATO Turning the tables paign, but that’s evidently all in the his master’s half-a-dozen aides in tow. For the next be dismantled? What will happen to the If the U.S. tradition of daily briefings past. one hour, he would be his master’s nuclear deal with Iran? Will the U.S. em- by the President’s spokesperson was de- Yet, for all the put on aggression, Mr. voice <> There’s been a lot of talk in voice. His master is the President of the bassy in Israel shift to Jerusalem? Has signed to hold the executive account- Spicer, an old-world Republican with a the media about the United States, and he is the White the President paid his taxes? Questions able, Mr. Spicer has turned the tables. sense of humour and the reputation of House Press Secretary. are many, and new ones are added with “There’s been a lot of talk in the media being soft-spoken, is not always con- responsibility to hold Donald Donald Trump has chosen to save his every tweet from @realDonaldTrump about the responsibility to hold Donald frontational. If one looks keenly, it isn’t Trump accountable. We’re choicest tweets for the media. His chief whose personal handle remains as fer- Trump accountable. And I’m here to tell difficult to see him suppress a smile going to hold the press strategist, Steve Bannon, has articulated tile as ever. Many in this city of power you that it goes two ways. We’re going after reprimanding a reporter, which is accountable, too. the terms of confrontation that are de- intrigues do not covet Mr. Spicer’s job as to hold the press accountable, as well,” not rare. That perhaps makes him espe- fining the public engagement of this ad- most questions that he faces starts with he told reporters the day after the Pres- cially tempting fodder for TV comedi- ministration more unambiguous by call- the preface: “The President has ident assumed office. ans, and his habit of chewing 35 pieces ing the media the opposition. tweeted/said….” Since then, Mr. Spicer has said the of gum by noon, and swallowing it all, is Whether the war is on media or on But answering such questions is only media is not adequately informing the particularly helpful to caricature. facts, Mr. Spicer is deployed for the one part of Mr. Spicer’s job. Mr. Trump American public of the terror threats hand-to-hand combat every day. And it has said he has a running war with the that the nation faces; he thinks the press Varghese K. George

WHAT WHAT IS IT It is an unusual line-up, Indian Air Force, and the Light Utility porters of arms. According to data from tinue for years to come, until indigen- PQpq ABOUT not very easily seen else- Helicopter developed by Hindustan Stockholm International Peace Re- ous military research and development where in the world. The Aeronautics Limited was on display for search Institute (SIPRI), between 2006- pulls out of the present depressing real- majestic Russian Sukhoi-30, the highly the first time. However, the real attrac- 10 and 2011-15, India’s arms imports in- ities. Defence Minister Manohar Par- advanced French war-plane Rafale, and tions were the aerobatics teams. The In- creased by 90%, and it was the world’s rikar says India requires over 400 single The the American warhorse F-16, all streak- dian Air Force’s ‘Surya Kiran’ aerobatic largest importer of weapons and milit- and double-engine fighter aircraft in the ing across the sky, with an occasional team made a comeback after six years, ary equipment in 2013, 2014 and 2015. near term. There is also a requirement sonic boom signalling their friendly for the first time flying Hawk Advanced With no great success in designing in- of over 1,000 helicopters. A significant lowdown banter over Bengaluru. Jet Trainers (AJT). Yakovlev aerobatic digenous war machines, India has come number of them will have to be bought Every two years, in February, most of team, Skycats, from the UK, and the to depend upon foreign manufacturers from abroad. the global manufacturers in the Sarang helicopter display team also put for most key components of a modern WHAT NEXT Ideally, Aero India is on the Aero aerospace industry assemble in the up impressive shows. military. In a feeble show of its growing where India should be south Indian city to parade their finest HOW DID IT Started in 1996, Aero In- indigenous capability, IAF chief Air displaying its indigenously developed products. Their aim — to entice one of HAPPEN dia is among the world’s Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa took to the aerospace platforms. There is no reason India show the world’s biggest military spenders, biggest aerospace shows. sky in a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Te- why it cannot — India is already a lead- which is also home to several dozen rich This year’s was the 11th edition, featur- jas trainer on day one of the show. ing space power, and it has significant who count private aircraft and heli- ing 549 exhibitors compared with 644 Some of the most expens- budget and huge appetite for fighters, WHY DOES copters among necessities of life. This companies in 2015. The exhibition ive items ever bought by helicopters, UAVs and other aerospace IT MATTER year’s show, at the Yelahanka Air Force began on a low key, but as India opened the Indian government platforms. Sadly, more than a century Station, was significantly focussed on in- up its purse strings after the Kargil con- with taxpayer’s money after the first aircraft took to the skies, digenous platforms — it was also a fait flict to become a major buyer in the are those on display at the Aero India. India is yet to design its own credible accompli because of the dull global in- global arms bazaar, companies began to For example, each Rafale fighter that aircraft. Thanks to that appalling reality, terests compared to the previous years. flock to Bangalore for Aero India and to the IAF will get from France is worth Aero India will, for a long time to come, India’s first indigenous Airborne Early New Delhi, where Defexpo showcases over ₹1,500 crore. Almost 14% of the remain the exhibition where the world’s Warning and Control System (AEW&CS), land and naval systems. Central government spending goes to aerospace giants will show off to India. called Netra and mounted on a Brazilian In the past decade, India has the military. The present trend of India Embraer 145 jet, was handed over to the emerged among the world’s biggest im- being a major importer of arms will con- Dinakar Peri

WHY What happened after Jayalalithaa’s ary Sasikala as head of the AIADMK le- appadi K. Palaniswami as the Chief Min- AIADMK members say Mr. Dinakaran PQpq death? gislature party and picked her to be the ister instead of Ms. Sasikala, a master is an amiable man and has a connect * Chief Minister and AIADMK general Chief Minister. Mr. Panneerselvam stroke, in terms of acceptability among with the cadre. Mr. Palaniswami, long- secretary Jayalalithaa died on December signed a letter resigning as Chief Minis- the party cadre. The next day, before time party faithful K.A. Sengottaiyan 5, 2016, without naming a successor, ter to give way to Ms. Sasikala as he was she left for Bengaluru to begin a four- and senior MP M.Thambidurai are also The just like her mentor M.G. expected to. Two days later, however, year jail term, she readmitted two of her likely to play a key role in shaping the Ramachandran. All hell was expected to Mr. Panneerselvam, invoking the spirit nephews who had been removed from future of the AIADMK. break loose, but that did not happen. of Jayalalithaa, did the unthinkable — he the party — T.T.V. Dinakaran and S. Ven- AIADMK The party made a safe choice with O. rebelled. He claimed he had been katesh — into the AIADMK fold, making Will the AIADMK be able to serve Panneerselvam, who had served as a forced to resign by Ms. Sasikala and her Dinakaran the deputy general secretary. out the remaining four years of its stop-gap Chief Minister twice before, to family members. He formed a rebel unit Mr. Panneerselvam has vowed to bring tenure? is still in pick up the reins again. and invited AIADMK MLAs to join him down this ‘anti-people’ government and In an out-of-the way, post-midnight to take forward the vision of restore Jayalalithaa’s legacy in the State. * Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao swore swearing-in ceremony early on Decem- Jayalalithaa. in Mr. Palaniswami as Chief Minister, a crisis ber 6, Mr. Panneerselvam took the oath Who is likely to lead the party in based on the letter of support he pro- and became the Chief Minister for the How did AIADMK party members the absence of Sasikala? Who are duced from 124 MLAs. Mr. Palaniswami third time. react? the next rung of leaders? Can they and his Cabinet have tough times ahead. take the party forward? Their primary challenge will be to keep What are the circumstances of * Mr. Panneerselvam’s rebellion shook the flock together that has, for years, Panneerselvam’s rebellion? up the AIADMK, but the bulk of the * Sasikala created the impression that been charmed to discipline by the cha- MLAs stayed with Ms. Sasikala. About 10 * As Ms. Sasikala waited for an invita- her proximity to Jayalalithaa over three risma of its larger-than-life leaders MGR * Mr. Panneerselvam ruled the State, MLAs and 12 MPs joined Mr. Pan- tion from the Governor to form the gov- decades gave her the moral right to take and Jayalalithaa. Mr. Palaniswami won which saw several turbulent events, in- neerselvam. Though he enjoyed public ernment, the Supreme Court delivered forward her agenda for the State. By pla- the vote of confidence with 122 votes on cluding a severe cyclone and the support, he did not have the numbers. the final verdict in the disproportionate cing Mr. Dinakaran as deputy general a day when the Assembly witnessed massive jallikattu protests, for two assets case, convicting her. The party secretary, she hopes to maintain a hold great violence. months. Then, the general council of What will be the impact of Ms. appeared to be ready for such an even- on the party by proxy, as she serves out the party elected interim general secret- Sasikala’s conviction? tuality. Overnight, the party chose Ed- her sentence. Ramya Kannan

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WHERE Moscow took centre-stage for a six-na- Council Taliban sanctions committee to Pakistan’s security establishment, and Tehran apart. Mr. Trump is yet to spell PQpq tion conference on Afghanistan’s secur- delist key Taliban figures. Russian offi- its $51-billion investment in the China- out his plans for troops in Afghanistan ity future in the region, hosting India, cials now freely use the Good Taliban/ Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) de- and amid all the confusing signals out of Iran, Pakistan, China and Afghanistan, Bad Taliban narrative once adopted by pends on it. For the past few years, Washington, Russia’s new confidence in on Wednesday, and cutting out the U.S., the U.S. to push for talks between China has been investing in Afgh- planning Afghanistan’s future following Moscow Europe and NATO from its delibera- Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s govern- anistan. Last year, a high-level Taliban its own recent successes in the Syrian tions. What makes the conference, and ment and the Taliban even as the delegation from Qatar visited Beijing for conflict denotes a desire to undermine its location, significant is Russia’s lead- Afghan National Army faces terror at- talks, and China has emerged as an im- American presence. takes the ership, 30 years after Soviet troops tacks and fights pitched battle with portant interlocutor in the peace pro- For India, each of these signals is be- withdrew from Afghanistan. The meet Taliban guerrillas. cess. China has also played a role in ing viewed very closely, especially given follows from a previous conference two While the Kremlin denies it, several nudging Moscow towards Pakistan in its own stakes in Afghanistan, where it lead on months ago when Russia invited only international reports hold that Russian search of a solution for Afghanistan’s has both development projects and a Pakistan and China, drawing protests President Vladimir Putin met Taliban military exercises with Pakistan, conflict. strategic partnership. National Security from Afghanistan and India. The trilat- leaders at a secret meeting in Tajikistan Pakistan’s military signed up for Mi-35 Adviser Ajit Doval made a special trip to Afghanistan eral initiative, however brief, denoted a in December 2015. helicopters from Russia, and according Shia-Sunni faultline Moscow in January, and Prime Minister major shift in Russia’s thinking on Afgh- to reports, the Pakistan Air Force signed That leaves Iran, which is often seen to Narendra Modi will attend a conference anistan, in particular on its security fu- Part of solution an agreement with Russia’s Rosoboron- be a silent stakeholder in Afghanistan in St. Petersburg later this year, where ture. Unlike India and Afghanistan, which be- export for the refurbishment of its fleet security, given the Shia-Sunni faultline. regional security issues will be promin- lieve Pakistan is part of the problem, of Ilyushin Il-78 air-to-air refuelling Furthermore, Iran is keen on connect- ent. After all, a shift in the centre of Legitimate stakeholder and voiced their concerns at the Mo- tanker aircraft originally procured from ing the CPEC with its own initiatives on gravity from the West to Eurasia and To begin with, Russia now believes the scow conference, Russia and China be- Ukraine. The new ties won’t put a dent the Chabahar port and the International Washington to Moscow on Afghanistan’s Taliban is a “legitimate stakeholder” in lieve it is part of the solution. After dec- in traditional Russia-India defence ties North-South Transport Corridor. Iran future could set off major tremors in the the conflict, that must be engaged, and ades of shunning military ties with worth billions, but they add to the strain and India have cooperated on these as Indian subcontinent as well, along the is the “lesser evil” than Islamic State/ Pakistan, Moscow has doubled down on in them, given India has pulled away well, but the impending storm from the bitter faultlines between India and Da’esh forces in Afghanistan. To this increasing engagement with closer to Washington for military U.S., where President Donald Trump Pakistan. end, Russia and China have been co- Rawalpindi. procurement. appears to be preparing for a tough line operating closely at the U.N. Security In 2016, Russian forces held their first China is already engaged deeply with on Iran, could push New Delhi and Suhasini Haidar CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017 COLUMNWIDTH 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE We need democracy because people can be wrong It’s the only political system that allows us to regularly check the mistakes we make, bloodlessly, and correct them

ways right, claims the capitalist Right nation or an age. Sometimes it appears when their disastrous consequences be- today, tweaking the Leftist argument that intelligence, on its own, merely come finally clear to us. This is far more cleverly. provides a person with an easier ability difficult, and costly, to do in any other Between them, they justify demo- to make excuses for his or her mistakes, kind of (autocratic) regime, whether jus- cracy as a form of political organisation and hoodwink others in the process. tified in worldly or ‘divine’ terms. based on human beings being basically So if people — whether as individual THE CONTROVERSIAL INDIAN ‘always right’. Very little in the past — or group, entrepreneur or consumer, Living with one’s opponents from the picnics at public hangings out- tribe or republic, nation or political Democracies are not necessary because Tabish Khair side London jails to the genocides of party, king or voter — seem to make hor- people are always right: if we were cer- is an Indian novelist and academic who colonisation and Nazism — justifies such rible mistakes much of the time, what tain of being right all the time, we would teaches in Denmark confidence in people being always right. hope is there for democracy? Why be- not need any political organisation at Over centuries, people have been hor- lieve in democracy at all? all, let alone a democracy. We would be The people are always right. No? Ah, ribly wrong at times. Actually, one can argue that the main gods. Democracy is necessary because but then they vote for leaders like Don- justification of democracy is exactly people — groups and individuals — can ald Trump and… Oh well, we can add to Majority’s mistrust this: that anyone — ordinary voter or be wrong. Hence, in a democracy one the list, internationally and nationally! Way back in 1882, Henrik Ibsen, the monarch — can be wrong about any learns to live with one’s opponents, not Does this mean that democracy is a great Norwegian playwright, wrote An given matter. The ability to make mis- exile or murder them. This is a political mistake? No, quite the contrary! But we Enemy of the People (adapted into a film, takes is human — neither power nor version of the fact that in life we always have to hack away at some stubborn Ganashatru, by Satyajit Ray in his last riches nor education can eradicate it, live with others — or with the Other, the

centuries-old shrubbery in order to see years) around one aspect of this percep- GETTY IMAGES though self-awareness might help. A self who is not and cannot be (by defini- the foundation of this clearly enough. tion, arguing that one needs to be mor- king or dictator can make a mistake as tion) entirely yourself. One of the greatest myths about ally and intellectually ahead of ‘people’ sus, you risk getting crucified. tions, but they spare little thought (and well as the majority of voters in an elec- Democracy is the only political op- democracy — started largely by the Left in order to be right. Ideas and ‘truths’, But even this argument is faulty: a lot no money) for the plight of women tion who vote in a party or a leader with tion that allows us to mitigate the effects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Ibsen suggests in this play, get dated, ha- of intelligent people can go horribly forced into unhappy pregnancies or the bad plans. But in a democracy, after a of our own mistakes, and the mistakes and continued with a twist by the Right bitual and platitudinous, and hence the wrong. Cleverness does not necessarily future of poor, abandoned and un- period, during the next elections, such of others. Democracy is necessary not into the 21st — relates to the most com- majority, which lives habitually by save you from mistakes, and even ethics wanted children. mistakes can be corrected. because the people are always right, but mon rationale behind it. The people are grasping on to platitudes, tends to mis- can be twisted in painful ways: there are History is full of brilliant people — A democracy, in other words, allows because human beings are often wrong. always right, claimed the Left in the trust the truly ethical and intellectual many in the U.S. who claim to be ‘pro- ‘great’ leaders, scientists, thinkers, plan- us to regularly check the mistakes we We forget this only at great peril to past. The market, or the consumer, is al- individual. In other words, if you are Je- life’ and hence will criminalise abor- ners — who helped destroy a village, a make — bloodlessly — and correct them ourselves and others. Can your baby clear the Walk like a Mughal in patriotism test? the Qila that was Patanjali probiotic or anthem on rote: what’s the best way to bring up a patriot? Envisaged as a piece of paradise, the Qila-e-Mubarak has borne the brunt of history

“But I’m worried. No play school will my son would have timed his birth to through Sir Syed Ahmad’s mind when quets were placed during the day and admit toddlers who act like anti-na- coincide with Independence Day. But he described it in his book on Delhi’s camphor candles lit at night. The cas- tionals.” Lord Muruga decided that he must monuments, Asar-us-Sanadid: “This cading water over these candles and I felt sorry for him. I genuinely did. start serving the nation ASAP.” garden is a sign of God’s Divine Grace flowers created an unbelievable Perhaps he was expecting some sort of “You must be one proud dad,” K and rejuvenates the heart of the on- feeling. reassurance from me. Something like, said. looker and makes him ecstatic and Let’s keep walking and enter the ALLEGEDLY ‘Don’t panic, he’s still young, there’s “You bet,” I said. “But the credit is WHERE STONES SPEAK cheerful… The gardens of Heaven Mehtab Bagh, or moonlit garden. For enough time for him to mend his ways, not all mine. Patriotism runs in our come up in front of the eyes. The heavenly evenings and nights, the G. Sampath etc’. family genes. My father is a nationalist. Rana Safvi height of the trees can make men en- scent from the flowers overpowered is the Social Afairs Editor, The Hindu, Instead, I said, “Yes, it will be a ter- My grandfather fought for India’s is a historian, author and blogger vious of its stature and every flower the senses and the camphor lamps and the author of two books rible tragedy if he fails to get admission freedom.” documenting India's syncretic culture can make a fair maiden blush and its and candles from the Sawan and in kindergarten. I am lucky, though. “You grandfather was a freedom tendrils put to shame the beloved’s Bhado’n pavilions made one dreamy The other day, I got into one of those Lord Muruga has blessed me with a fighter!” On April 17, 1648, Shah Jahan ‘illumin- curls.” and languorous. This was planted exchanges that newly minted parents son who was born patriotic.” “He outraged every single day of his ated’ the new Qila (fort) he had The sound of gently running water, only with those flowers, bushes and often get into with other newly minted “You mean that London-based life over British rule, and viciously ordered to be built on the banks of the the flow of a thousand fountains and trees which had white blossoms. They parents. Exchanges where, under the economist?” trolled anyone who spoke in support Yamuna in Delhi with his ‘blessed the heady smell of camphor incense exaggerated the effect of moonlight. guise of offering helpful counsel, you “That’s Meghnad, not Muruga,” I of the British.” presence’ and celebrations began. rejuvenate me. In my mind I can see Perhaps the Badshah walked here bludgeon your interlocutor with the said. “Never mind.” “So sweet! I’m sure he went to jail The Qila-e-Mubarak, or blessed fort with his begums, the prince and prin- superiority of your own offspring and for this.” as it was named, was indeed like an cesses dreamt of crowns and palaces. parenting strategies. “Not a traditional jail,” I said. “I have octagonal flower in full bloom and Initially I wasn’t good at these heard my father say that his father was had taken 10 years to build. The mas- Back to reality jousts. I’d crawl back home with my like a prison warden. That technically ter architects Ahmed and Hamid had I am rudely awakened from my dream self-esteem in tatters, convinced that makes his own home a jail, if you see envisaged it as a piece of paradise and by loud voices. Who is this who my son would grow up to be a drug ad- what I mean.” perhaps that is why the famous Per- shouts out and disturbs the emperor’s dict who would marry an underpriv- K’s attention began to wander to- sian couplet was inscribed here: Gar entourage in the Bagh? Oh! It’s a ileged girl from an anti-national family wards his toddler, who was kicking his firdaus bar ru e zameen ast/ Hamin group of tourists and I am back with a and spend the rest of his nasty and BMW around even though it was ast-o, hamin ast-o, hamin ast (If there thud in the 21st century. There is no brutish life wallowing beneath the painted in the tricolour. is a paradise on earth/ It is this, it is Mughal Bagh, just some very English- World Bank poverty line. But lately “My baby would never do that,” I this, it is this). looking manicured lawns and shrubs. I’ve improved. said, deeply offended. This was in keeping with the para- During the 1857 uprising, this Qila Last week, my encounter with K, “I am sorry,” he said. “He hasn’t disiacal theme with rivers and gar- saw much action by the Indian sepoys my neighbour and competing parent, started speaking or I would have made dens that were laid in the Qila by the who had risen up against the British was a no contest. I bumped into him in him apologise.” architects. A Nahr-e-Bahisht, or East India Company rule. As a result, the building corridor, where he was I wasn’t impressed. stream of paradise, originating near once the British crushed what they trailing behind his one-year-old, who “Every Indian parent has a respons- Shah Burj and designed to flow into termed a mutiny, they exiled the was trailing behind a BMW X2 (toy ver- ibility to bring up his child as a pat- the row of palace buildings in beauti- Mughal emperor and demolished sion). riot,” I said. “I don’t mean to lecture fully carved channels, connecting 80% of the Qila. He said to me, “You know, the only you, but we all know that patriotism them to the gardens, further In 1902, the remnants of Bagh-e- thing that worries me is my son’s CHAKRAVARTHY D. begins at home.” heightened the effect. This was inter- Hayat Baksh was found buried deep in patriotism.” And then, the generous soul that I spersed with marble fountains of out- debris: that is, those portions which “What do you mean?” “What do you mean your son was am, I shared with him some of my best standing beauty, inlaid with jewels had not become part of the roads,

“He can stand on his own, as you born patriotic?” practices of patriotic parenting. and pietra dura in the palace complex RANA SAFVI which the British had built for their can see. But every time I expose him to “You should have seen the expres- “Thank you so much,” he gushed, and silver fountains in the gardens. convenience inside the Mughal Qila. the national anthem, he plonks down sion on the doctor’s face when she crumpling himself into a ball of gratit- Ugly army barracks replaced the on his bottom and refuses to stand pulled the baby out of my wife’s belly.” ude. “If it weren’t for you, my son Transported to history the Nahr-e-Bahisht flowing over the Mehtab Bagh and its fountains si- up.” “Why, did the baby have two would grow up to be an anti-national”. Now close your eyes and come for a marble niches in the two identical pa- lenced forever. Its nahr, waterfalls, “Don’t delay,” I said. “Take him to a heads?” “No need to thank me,” I said. “I’m walk with me in the Qila that was. The vilions built facing each other in the water channels, flower and footpaths good doctor.” “No, his very first cries, when he just doing my patriotic duty.” winter sun is pouring in, and this is Bagh-e-Hayat Baksh. The northern pa- for roaming in the garden were all “We did,” he said. “We took him to started breathing, were ‘Bharat Mata ki Í don’t mind sharing my patriotic just the right time to walk in the Bagh- vilion is Sawan and the southern one destroyed. Whatever we see today are Dr. Chandramouli. He is the top pae- Jai!’” parenting techniques with readers e-Hayat Baksh, or life-bestowing is called Bhado’n. They were so the portions that were preserved and dophile in the city.” “Wow, I am so envious!” blessed with sub-optimally patriotic garden. The Bagh is planted with fra- named because they recreated the ef- repaired by George Curzon. He re- “Paediatrician,” I corrected him. “Well, it helped that my wife made babies. Write to me with your baby’s grant and colourful flowers, flowering fect of monsoons when the Nahr-e- planted lawns and trees in the portion “Dr. Chandramouli has prescribed him listen to the national anthem name, gender, and date of birth, and bushes and trees. Bahisht flowed through them and not occupied by the barracks. him a Patanjali probiotic that acceler- every day for four hours right through you shall have it emailed to you for a The dew is still damp under our onto the gardens. The Qila-e-Mubarak is now the Red ates the growth of patriotic feelings.” her pregnancy.” modest processing fee. feet and the flower buds are slowly There are small arched niches Fort, a symbol of India’s independ- “Is it working?” “She did?!” PS: In the larger national interest, I opening up, giving out their fra- made in the pond and the chutes of ence, from where the Prime Minister “It’s only been two days,” K said. “Actually, given another 50 days, accept only cashless payments. grance. I can imagine what went this building in which flower bou- addresses the nation every August 15. What the courts miss in the Constitution A distinctive feature of Indian secularism is that it rejects the ‘wall of separation’ but demands that the state keep a ‘principled distance’ from all religions

fication accords privileged recognition the affairs of religion. Likewise, it per- ligion does not play any role in the gov- to one religion, which violates the prin- mits religious considerations to some- ernance of the country is simply wrong. ciple of equality. After all, one implica- times enter governance. Unlike the Second, if hierarchical caste struc- tion of any privileged recognition is rhetoric and ideology of the American ture and patriarchy are intrinsic to the lesser recognition to other religions, re- wall of separation, in India legitimate doctrine and practice of religions, then ducing them to secondary status. This principled intervention of the state in the constitutional ban on untouchabil- THE PUBLIC EYE is blatantly discriminatory. Besides, religion and vice versa is constitutional. ity, the opening of temples to all Hindus such privilege encourages other forms The two are distanced but not com- regardless of their caste and gender, Rajeev Bhargava of disabilities in the non-religious social pletely separated. and the past/ future judicial reform of is a political theorist at the Centre for the and political domain, inducing a vi- Hindu/ Muslim Personal Law demon- Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi cious cycle of discriminations that can- Religion in governance strates that the state can legitimately not be tolerated in democracies. This, For a start, state intervention does not impinge on religion. It can do so also if Indian secularism continues to be mis- the judge concludes, “necessarily im- always prohibit but rather facilitates the religion or caste-based communalism understood. Its nuance, complexity plies that religion will not play any role free exercise of religion. The recogni- disrupts social harmony. Indian secu- and distinctiveness remain painfully in the governance of the country”. The tion of a religious community is a posit- larism is hostile not to religion but to elusive. “encroachment of religion into secular ive act on the part of the state. Granting caste- and religion-based communal- Consider the recent Supreme Court activity of the state is strictly rights to religious minorities (Article 25 ism. The same values — freedom, equal- judgment, Abhiram Singh v. C.D. Com- prohibited”. and 26) is a form of state intervention. ity and social harmony — that prohibit machen, pertaining to the Representa- Thus, religious minorities can set up the state from encroaching upon reli- tion of the People Act, Section 123(3) in Flip side of the same coin and maintain their own educational in- gion also allow it to intrude in it and

which one of the learned judges, Justice A second feature of Indian secularism, GADE SATWIK stitutions, something large religious permit the entry of religious considera- T.S. Thakur, correctly notes that the the judge says, is that it does not reject communities routinely do without the tions into the state. courts must remain sensitive to India’s religion. A secular state does not entail ligation to not encroach upon the free ation misses the truly distinctive fea- need for special rights. Moreover, all re- In short, a distinctive feature of In- constitutional ethos to which secular- the denial of “reality of an unseen spirit exercise of religion. In short, a state is ture of Indian secularism. While the ligious groups, small or large, have dian secularism is that it rejects the ism is integral. Citing S. Radhakrishnan or the relevance of religion to life or secular if religion and state power are judgment fittingly rejects the identifica- equal opportunity to avail of subsidies ‘wall of separation’ but demands that and several court judgments, Justice that we exalt irreligion”. On the con- ‘kept apart’, strictly separated from tion of a secular state with any one par- by the state to run their schools and col- the state keep a ‘principled distance’ Thakur then expounds the meaning of trary, the state must guarantee every- each other and when this separation is ticular religion or non-religious philo- leges. Similarly, the Indian state decides from all religions. It requires that the secularism: a secular state must not one the freedom to practice, profess required to protect inter-religious sophy, it injudiciously concludes that which special days associated with reli- state has a value-based engagement identify with any one religion or be con- and propagate their religion. This is the equality, non-discrimination, and the this implies that neither religion nor gion are to be declared national holi- with or disengagement from religion. trolled by it. It is neither pro-this or that flip side of the same coin. The prohibi- fullest possible exercises of religious state can play any role in each other’s days. All such decisions are based on re- Indian courts must endorse and es- god nor anti-god. tion on ‘mixing state power and reli- freedom. affairs. But the Indian Constitution al- ligious considerations and are integral pouse principled distance and drop the This is spot on because such identi- gion’ entails that the state is under ob- Though partly correct, this interpret- lows the state to play a legitimate role in to governance. Therefore, to say that retired rhetoric of strict separation.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 14 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CAPSULE IIT Madras’ irst step to cheaper cancer diagnostic alternative It has high sensitivity and speciicity and is much cheaper too Heat conducting rubber Carnegie Mellon University R. Prasad large-scale studies, we could in researchers have developed future replace monoclonal an- thermally conductive rubber A team of researchers from the tibody with SNAP-tag fusions to (thubber) that can stretch to Indian Institute of Technology select ligands for diagnostic ap- six times its initial length and (IIT) Madras has developed a plications. It will also be much NIO begins ingerprinting is electrically insulating. Key is cheaper yet reliable alternative cheaper,” says Prof. Rama S. a suspension of non-toxic, for diagnosing leukaemia and liquid metal micro-droplets. Verma from the Department of The liquid state allows the colorectal cancer. Like mono- Biotechnology, IIT Madras, and tar balls to track oil spills metal to deform with the clonal antibodies which are one of the corresponding au- rubber at room temperature. currently used for cancer dia- thors of the paper. gnostics, the fusion protein de- As a DAAD fellow, Dr. The technique will help ix responsibility veloped by the researchers has Choudhary carried out a part high specificity and sensitivity. of the study at Fraunhofer In- K.S. Sudhi ics of the oil spill or tar balls, it would The results were recently pub- stitute of Molecular Biology, be easy to track them back to the lished in the journal Molecular Aachen, Germany. Environmental forensic analysts are source, said a communication from Diagnosis & Therapy. chasing tar balls in sea coasts to trace NIO. Long term potential the source of marine oil spills. The facility at NIO, which was set up Stem cell factors “In the long term, these The slicky job of forensic experts recently with the support of the DST, The researchers designed re- probes could potentially be working in the environment sector has been extensively used to analyse combinant fusions of a ligand used for diagnosing and staging came to focus last month following the the source of tar balls deposited on the Altered fat content (stem cell factor) to a protein of cancer and in the follow-up leakage of huge quantities of crude oil west coast of India, said S. Prasanna Ku- tag (SNAP-tag). The ligand management of the disease,” into the sea off Ennore coast near mar, Director, NIO. Researchers have succeeded in binds to a particular receptor Dr. Choudhary says. According Chennai. The samples collected from the editing two FAD2 genes that (c-kit) that is present in more to Prof. Verma, it would even Samples collected from the Ennore coast or water is subject to a series of contribute to the fat contents than normal numbers on some be possible to find out early spill will be fingerprinted at the Na- chemical analyses to determine its of soybean oil using the new Put to test: Swati Choudhary (left) and Rama Verma tested the cancer cells. stages of cancer as the tech- tional Institute of Oceanography (NIO), characteristics for comparison with CRISPR-Cpf1 technology. binding capacity of the fusion protein to receptors. These genes are part of the To quantitatively determine SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT nique has high sensitivity. Goa, shortly. crude. The analysis can generate huge pathway that converts fats: the amount of ligand that is Since c-kit receptor is over- Tracking the source of oil pollution data bank on fingerprint results, which oleic acid into the bound to the receptors, the re- target receptor system. The c- cificity was comparable to the expressed in other cancers through fingerprinting is significant as ultimately will be useful towards mitig- polyunsaturated linoleic acid. searchers used a commercially kit receptor is a pathological currently used monoclonal an- such as gastrointestinal stromal it could identify the polluters and thus ation of oil pollution. By editing, the percentage of available fluorescent material and diagnostic marker for a tibodies,” she says. “We then tumours, small cell lung can- fix responsibility. The Institute has been collecting and oleic acid in soybean increases, (O6-Benzylguanine) that the variety of cancers,” Dr. Swati carried out a pilot study to test cer, ovarian cancer, breast can- It will help in evaluating the spills fingerprinting the tar ball samples from making the oil healthier. protein tag binds to. The fluor- Choudhary from the Depart- whether these proteins could cer and melanoma, the SNAP- and devising methods for averting the west coast since 2010. Besides the escent material bound to the ment of Biotechnology, IIT be used for diagnostic pur- labelled protein could theoret- them. scientific identification of the source of protein can be detected using a Madras and the first author of poses. We tested it on 16 peri- ically be used for diagnosing oil pollution, the fingerprinting would fluorescent microscope or flow the paper says in an email. “It pheral blood samples from these cancers. Source determination reveal the residence time of the oil cytometry. is a proof-of-concept study.” leukaemia patients and four “By replacing the stem cell Crude oil explored from each well residues/tar balls in water and the de- “We report the first evidence Using c-kit positive and neg- colorectal biopsy specimens.” factor with different ligands has specific characteristics. A compar- posit of the balls on the coast. The NIO that SNAP-tag could be used for ative cell lines, the researchers “The sensitivity is as good as that targets other cancer cells, ison of the characteristics of oil spills or has so far analysed the tar balls collec- outside the body (ex vivo) de- first tested the capacity of the commercially available mono- the technique can be used for tar balls with the crude oil will reveal ted from Gujarat, Mumbai and Goa. Re- tection of enriched biological protein tag to bind specifically clonal antibodies. If sensitivity identifying other cancers as the location from which the oil origin- searchers plan to cover Karwar and markers using SCF/c-kit as the to the c-kit receptors. “The spe- and specificity are high in well,” Dr. Choudhary says. ated. After identifying the characterist- Mangaluru coasts. KURT STEPNITZ KURT Stretchable electronics Michigan State University researchers have developed the first stretchable integrated The reign of English as the language of science circuit made entirely using an inkjet printer. From the ink, the researchers successfully Gems of knowledge and wisdom become readily available to a wider world of scientists upon translation created the elastic material, the circuit and the organic Several historical events have courses in the US universities, and iversity, ecology, and conservation light-emitting diode, or OLED. made this so. A major one is the many German ones use English activities undertaken by local The next step is combining the migration of scientists from for teaching! English reigns su- practitioners, and reported in circuit and OLED into a single Europe and the Soviet Union, dur- preme today as the language of their languages. For example, “the pixel. ing and after the two world wars, science and technology all over agency Wetlands International of to the two English-speaking na- the world. Argentina has produced over 20 tions, UK and USA, that welcomed technical publications on the con- SPEAKING OF SCIENCE them. Another is the result of col- Beyond English servation and management of wet- D. Balasubramanian onisation of large chunks of the “Is there Science beyond Eng- lands over the last 20 years, but world, notably the Indian subcon- lish?” asked Drs R. Meneghini and only two are available in English- tinent, by Britain, and the intro- A L Packer a decade ago in the …..Such knowledge generated by Depending on which source you duction/imposition/gift/call-what- journal EMBO Reports. They start practitioners is often overlooked access, there are anywhere from you-will of English to the local their paper by pointing out that as ‘grey literature’ but forms a vital 17,000 to 28,000 academic journ- population. This allowed access to over the past 25 Nobel Prize win- part of the evidence base”. Con- als around the world and 2.5 mil- a cornucopia of material to the co- ners in Literature, only nine wrote servation biologists who ignore Ceres chemistry lion articles published in them lonial subjects, many of whom their masterpieces in English. The them because they are not in Eng- Complex aliphatic organic every year. Of these, anywhere took to learning and mastering remaining 16 had to wait to get lish may end up reinventing the compounds, which are carbon between 15% and 35% of the journ- English, and entering the larger their work translated in to English wheel. This would be true of other compounds that form chain als are not in English language. In world of science thereby. (An in- to gain the attention of the disciplines such as psychology, so- structures, have been this connection, three researchers teresting reversal of this was by Swedish Nobel prize committee! ciology and medicine. detected on Ceres, the largest from Cambridge, UK, have pub- the Arabs who learnt and trans- (Note, too, that Tagore got his No- Initiatives to increase the qual- object in the asteroid belt. lished a paper in the (English lan- lated Sanskrit texts into Arabic and bel Prize in literature after his Reach of language: Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize ity and visibility of non-English Together with other guage) journal PLOS Biology, Persian thousands of years ago. poems were translated into Eng- only after his work was translated into English. FILE PHOTO publications might help to break compounds detected earlier, titled: “Languages are still a major Also interesting is the fact that two lish.) As the authors mentioned down language barriers in sci- this supports the existence of barrier to global sciences”. Indian scientists, Satyen Bose and earlier note, “The translators brilliant translation of the Sanskrit her clue in a centuries-old manual entific communication. One way, complex prebiotic chemistry on it at some point, according They point out that research Meghnad Saha translated scientific faced the arduous task of transfer- text into English by Dr M.S. of clinical practice and emergency suggested in the February 4 issue to an article in Science. publications in languages other papers of Einstein and others, ring the splendor of the original Valiathan. Likewise, the transla- remedies, written in Chinese by of the magazine The Economist is than English lose out. This is par- from German into (not Bengali text into a different semantic, syn- tion by Drs K.S. Shukla and K.V. Ge Hong of the East Jin dynasty. the use of machine translation us- ticularly relevant and worrisome, but) English for their students). tactic and sometimes cultural con- Sarma, who did the same with Most of Dr You’s papers, including ing computers and technological since in such papers, a lot is repor- I still recall how in graduate text to make it appeal to a wider Aryabhatiya, the work of the fifth the one that identified the anti- tools, designed specifically for ted on biodiversity, ecology and school at Columbia University, audience”. So it is with science century mathematician - astro- malarial molecule, are in Chinese. chosen areas. Without such recog- related subjects. And many of New York, in the mid-1960s, we too. Gems of knowledge and wis- nomer Aryabhata. And we came nition and wider availability of these journals do not find any had to learn Scientific German, dom - be they in Sanskrit, Chinese, to know of Kautilya’s Artha Sastra, Biodiversity local science, we would be poorer. place in standard link sites. Like it French or Russian. And my Spanish or Swahili - became avail- thanks to its discovery and first This is the point that the three As The Economist writes, local or not, English has willy-nilly brother had to go through three able to the wider world of scient- translation into English by R. Cambridge authors emphasise in languages would be used socially turned out to be the lingua franca months of German language ists only upon translation. Many of Shamasastry during 1905-09. Tak- their PLOS Biology paper. They and at home, but not for serious

GETTY or the language of science and course before his degree in Ger- us learnt for the first time the ing a more recent instance, Dr. Tu point out how important scientific work. That would be a shame. technology. many. Gone are those days. Today, genius of the ancient Indian doc- You You, who received the Medi- information and research can be Charge without wires And how has this happened? you don’t need these language tor Charaka only upon reading the cine Nobel Prize in 2015, found lost in areas such as in biod- [email protected] Scientists from Disney Research have found a way to CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC charge electrical devices Question Corner without using wires. The Pleating membranes into compact forms CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC method involves inducing electric currents in the Whiteness of ice back and forth and most of metallised walls which in turn The technique of folding could be used for making nanoscale capacitors the light comes out making generate uniform magnetic Why does water turn white on it bright and white. The fields that penetrate the Shubashree Desikan The field acts by setting freezing? phenomenon is called interior of a room. This up “cameras” and “laser ■ R. Deepika, Chennai diffuse reflection and a technology could make A team of researchers, which traps” whose positions may similar reason makes milk electricity as accessible as includes faculty from TIFR be adjusted by a feedback White light or the sunlight, appear white. This also Wi-Fi. Centre for Interdisciplinary mechanism to give a bias to as we usually call it, is a suggests that a perfectly Sciences, Hyderabad, has the fluctuations of atoms. combination of seven periodic arrangement of proposed a novel method to More precisely, this biases colours. When this light water molecules can be ODD & END fold micron-sized sheetlike the so-called non-affine fluc- falls on objects, they may transparent. Scattering is objects to spontaneously tuations – basically, those absorb a part of it and wavelength-dependent Mismatched eyes help crumple into a compact fluctuations of the compon- others may be reflected or which makes glaciers look squid survive space. There are many pos- ent atoms that are not simply transmitted or scattered. blue. ■ Duke University sible applications, for ex- rotations and uniform The complimentary colour Dr. Rabin Rajan researchers have gathered ample folding soft mem- stretches about their mean is perceived as the colour of J. Methikkalam, IIT Madras the first behavioural branes for use in nanoscale positions. This is used to cal- the object. Therefore, a evidence that cockeyed capacitors. They suggest us- culate the forces to be ap- white object reflects or This week’s questions squids’ (Histioteuthis ing a special type of force plied locally to enact the scatters all colours equally. heteropsis) eyes evolved field to catapult the soft ob- phase transition into a A snowflake is one such What is the reason for there to spot two very different ject from a flat to a pleated The team: Surajit Sengupta, (second from left) and the team have proposed a scheme to pack pleated structure. object. being more mosquitoes in the house after sunset? sources of light available compact form by inducing a membranes compactly using a special ield. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT However, a slab of ice or in the deep sea. The one “first-order phase transition” Stable models simply an ice cube at the ■ T.S. Karthik, Chennai large eye is adapted to – the sort of transition that ful –some examples include a soft membrane fold into a cases, it is useful if, some- With current technology it restaurant looks more Why does the immune system gaze upwards, searching we see when water freezes. compact packing of a sail or compact shape at small sizes how, the sheet folds all by it- is possible to create various transparent, unlike snow. not attack blood that has for shadows of fellow sea a foldable solar panel that ranging from the micro- self, spontaneously, into a structures, but it is not al- This is due to the difference creatures against fading been transfused? Miura Ori pleats can be used in a spaceship. metres to nanometers. At specified structure,” says ways possible to ensure that in the periodic sunlight, while the small We are familiar with the In biology, we encounter that size Brownian motion, Surajit Sengupta, Professor they are stable. “This theor- ■ A.P. Saradhi, eye is adapted to gaze arrangement of water down, scanning deeper way folding paper methodic- many systems where chem- caused by the thermal fluc- and Dean, TCIS, Hyderabad, etical work suggests how one molecules in these two Visakhapatnam ally can be used to make ical reactions require a large tuations in the medium, usu- and one of the team mem- such stable arrangement, water for bioluminescent forms of ice. Why are tube lights beautiful origami shapes. surface area, but it needs to ally play a highly disruptive bers, in an email. made the way they describe, flashes, according to a In snowflakes, the cylindrical in shape? press release. The large While such objects are fun to be compactly folded into a role. “Imagine that you need The team proposes a way could have a ‘pleated struc- crystallographic planes size of the upward-facing make, they are also ex- small volume – like a mito- to produce origami struc- in which applying an ex- ture’. This work is a nice ex- made of water molecules ■ Gattu Sai Tejaswi Rao tremely efficient and com- chondria. In other cases, a tures from sheets at very tiny ternal field will cause an ample of how computer sim- eye vastly improves are random in orientation Why do LED bulbs consume sensitivity to dim sunlight pact. A definite type of fold, folded shape has to expand length scales and for soft ob- elastic membrane to spon- ulations can guide the design and they have different less current coming from above, while or pleat, called the Miura Ori from a compressed two-di- jects and in the presence of taneously fold itself into of materials with special shapes and sizes. When the the small size of the tessellation is a way of mak- mensional form into three Brownian motion caused by pleats. The resulting struc- properties,” says Gautam white light falls on such ■ K.S . Booja Nivethitha, downward-facing eye can ing “flat foldable” forms – dimensions, as when a leaf thermal fluctuations. Normal ture could be of different Menon of Institute of Math- flakes, it gets reflected, Coimbatore easily spot bioluminescent forms that pop-up when re- unfolds. manufacturing techniques types and is determined by ematical Sciences, Chennai, flashes against a dark leased. Such a folding tech- In this context, it becomes will be very difficult under the magnitude of the field who is not involved in this background. Readers can send their questions/answers to nique can be immensely use- useful to know how to make those circumstances. In such and the external strain. research. [email protected]

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017 BEING 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DR HUMERUS KESHAV Vaccine hope for Zika Pre-clinical assessment experiment using vaccinated mice shows protection against testicular damage

Rohit P.S. six months after return from an area with zika. These precautions mid concerns that the zika were affirmed by a February 14 virus may be transmitted study published in the New Eng- Athrough infected semen, land Journal of Medicine, which new findings suggest that a poten- found that zika RNA can persist for tial vaccine, which works by ring- as long as 125 days, after onset of fencing the virus and appears to symptoms. protect the testes from infection, in mice, may be on the anvil. Vigilance in India Though historically known as a Zika is said to be endemic in India, virus causing no more than a mild with many believed to be buffered AROUND THE WORLD fever and rash, the 2015 epidemic by antibodies against the virus. caused a global scare as it was However, given that the zika-carry- linked with microcephaly, a con- ing Aedes mosquitoes are widely Pop in B vitamins genital anomaly resulting in an ab- spread in India, Bangladesh, Supplementing treatment for normally small brain in newborns Pakistan, the Indian government schizophrenia with high-dose of zika-infected mothers. has surveillance-programmes in B-vitamins, including B6, B8 and place for the virus, apprehending B12, can signiicantly reduce Damaging effects infections due to the vector’s pres- symptoms of schizophrenia more Passing on the virus to a pregnant ence. Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, than standard treatments alone, woman through sex or impregna- Director General of the Indian GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK PHOTO says a study published in tion with infected semen is a major Council of Medical Research Psychological Medicine. The concern vis-à-vis microcephaly, (ICMR) says those efforts have now research is funded by the Medical Research Council and the says Karuppiah Muthumani, from become part of the country’s regu- University of Manchester. Lead author Joseph Firth, based at Madurai, who is now a member of Finding: “One of the most deinitive demonstrations of zika’s damaging efects on the testes was highlighted last lar vigilance exercise. the University’s Division of Psychology and Mental Health, the Vaccine Centre at the Wistar year in the journal Nature.” GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO “The number of labs that can says: “Looking at all of the data from clinical trials of vitamin Institute in Philadelphia, U.S., an test for zika has consistently grown and mineral supplements for schizophrenia to date, we can see international leader in biomedical productive organ and, by exten- ment, vaccinated mice were able sera in treating zika, which could to 35. We have also tied-up with that B vitamins efectively improve outcomes for some research with special expertise in sion, preserving fertility, is not just to conserve their testes as they had lead to therapies for post-exposure Monash University in Australia to patients.” Schizophrenia afects around 1% of the population cancer research and vaccine devel- aimed at infection control, Dr. no viral RNA in the organ following prophylaxis, were already shown bring in an innovative vector con- and is among the most disabling and costly long-term opment. Dr. Muthumani is at the Muthumani says. One of the most exposure to zika,” he says. The in the team’s first paper describing trol method,” she says. conditions worldwide. Currently, treatment is based around the centre of an international collabor- definitive demonstrations of zika’s team found that testicular size, the vaccine in the November edi- Interestingly, India’s own efforts administration of antipsychotic drugs. The researchers ation that produced a vaccine, the damaging effects on the testes was weight, sperm count and motility tion of the journal, NPJ Vaccines. at vaccine development were an- reviewed all randomised clinical trials reporting efects of vitamin or mineral supplements on psychiatric symptoms in first to be approved for clinical tri- made last year in the journal remained conserved in vaccinated While the World Health Organ- nounced before that of others at people with schizophrenia and found that B-vitamin als by the U.S., and now undergo- Nature. mice. isation deemed the outbreak to be the peak of the outbreak last year. interventions which used higher dosages or combined several ing human trials in the U.S., The publication by Jennifer More significantly, initial experi- over last November, it still sends ICMR is collaborating with the vac- vitamins were consistently efective for reducing psychiatric Canada and Puerto Rico. All docu- Govero of Washington School of ments have shown that serum out advisories on the need to re- cine maker and efforts are under symptoms, whereas those which used lower doses were mented cases of sexual transmis- Medicine and others, showed ex- from immunised animals, when frain from non-essential travel to way to test the vaccine in clinical inefective. — Eurekalert sion, over 40 in the U.S. alone, are tensive damage to the organ, epidi- transferred to unvaccinated mice zika-affected areas if pregnant or trials later this year, adds Dr. reported to have originated from dymis and a subsequent reduction infected with zika, helped in re- contemplating pregnancy, and, in Swaminathan. men. in testosterone levels. stricting testicular damage. The ef- case of men, to abstain from sex or Predicting autism Efforts to protect the male re- “During our pre-clinical assess- ficacy and prospects of immunised avoid unprotected intercourse for [email protected] Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in infants with older siblings CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC with autism, researchers from around the U.S. have been able to correctly predict 80% of those A hotspot for health care Thirty minutes infants who would later meet criteria for autism at two years GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO of age. The study, published in to a healthy heart Nature, is the irst to show it is possible to identify which infants — among those with older siblings with autism — will be ven a single workout diagnosed with autism at 24 months of age. This research Ecould be good for the project included hundreds of children from across the country heart. That’s the conclu- and was led by researchers at the Carolina Institute for sion of a fascinating new Developmental Disabilities (CIDD) at the University of North study in mice that found Carolina. — Science Daily that 30 minutes on a treadmill affects gene Watch the palm oil Gretchen REYNOLDS activity within cardiac cells in ways that, over Scientists at the German Diabetes the long haul, could slow the aging of the animals’ Center (Deutsches Diabetes- hearts. Zentrum, DDZ) and the Although the study involved mice, the results may Helmholtz Center in Munich help to explain just how, at a cellular level, exercise im- (HMGU) have found that even a proves heart health in people as well. one-of consumption of a greater There’s no question that, in general, physical activ- GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO amount of palm oil reduces the body’s sensitivity to insulin and ity is good for hearts. Still, researchers have remained causes increased fat deposits as well as changes in the energy puzzled about just how exercise alters hearts for the metabolism of the liver. The results of the study provide better. Exercise is known to improve our blood pres- information on the earliest changes in the metabolism of the sure, pulse rate and cholesterol profiles, all of which liver that in the long term lead to fatty liver disease in are associated with better cardiac health. overweight persons as well as in those with type 2 diabetes. But many scientists who study the links between ex- They arrived at this after an investigation on healthy, slim men, ercise and heart health have pointed out that these who were given at random a lavoured palm oil drink or a glass changes, considered together, explain only about half of clear water in a control experiment. The palm oil drink the reported statistical reductions in cardiac disease contained a similar amount of saturated fat as two and death. cheeseburgers with bacon and a large portion of French fries or Other, more complex physiological modifications two salami pizzas. must simultaneously be taking place within the heart itself during and after exercise, these researchers have speculated. Father’s diet Contours of a booming industry:The health tourism market is booming in Turkey with the number of medical tourists impacts son travelling there for plastic surgery, hair transplants, nose surgeries and organ transplants doubling in the past two years. Focus on telomeres Clients, predominantly from Arab and European countries, often come in tour groups. Turkey’s Health Ministry is looking to A study from Monash University And recently, researchers at the University of Maryland boost the numbers of medical tourists to two million and eyeing a revenue target of $20 billion by 2023 by introducing has found that the diet of a father in College Park and other institutions have begun to can afect the son’s ability to tax-free health-care zones targeted at foreign patients. Picture shows a patient being prepared for a hair transplant wonder whether some of these changes might involve out-compete a rival’s sperm after procedure at a clinic in Istanbul. GETTY IMAGES telomeres. Telomeres are tiny caps on the ends of chro- mating. Based on experiments mosomes, often com- carried out in the fruit ly, which GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO A single, moderate pared to the tips of shares many similar pathways <> and characteristics with human genes, the study highlights the workout shoelaces, which help to importance of the paternal environment on future generations, An ill-conceived plan beneicially alters prevent fraying and dam- even a long time before ofspring were produced. The analysis, telomere biology age to our DNA. Young published in Biology Letters, has found that males raised on Chhattisgarh’s move to stop open camp sterilisation services is debilitating in the heart cells have relatively long either high or low protein diets, but who spent their adulthood telomeres. As a cell ages on an intermediate diet, produced sons who had large There is no stress or cam- or undergoes significant stress, its telomeres shorten. If diferences in gene expression, which most likely contributed to paign on male contracep- they become too abbreviated, the cell stops working the resulting diferences in sperm competitiveness. Moreover, tion,” says Ms. Nandi. well or dies. the immune response genes are less active in sons of low- Since the discontinuation Aerobic exercise, in particular, affects telomeres. In protein fathers, while metabolic and reproductive processes are of open camps, sterilisation past studies, master athletes have been shown to have increased in sons of fathers on a high protein diet. — Science rates in Chhattisgarh for longer telomeres in their white blood cells than sedent- Daily. ary people of the same chronological years, suggesting Jyotsna Singh both men and women have dropped drastically. Ac- that at a cellular level, the athletes are more youthful. cording to Chhattisgarh’s But while it is easy to obtain and look inside white Risk factor in omen in Chhattisgarh Health Department data, blood cells, far less has been known about telomeres substance abuse Ware now facing a new 1,35,407 were sterilised within cardiac cells. So for the new study, which was published this Drug use in adolescence is often crisis. Over 27 months after between April 2012 and month in Experimental Physiology, the Maryland re- linked to later substance-abuse in 13 women died and 65 took March 2013. The number searchers and their colleagues turned to young, adulthood. A new study suggests ill at a State-run mass steril- dropped to less than half in that a key risk factor is a isation camp, the State gov- 2014-15, with only 52,082 healthy female mice. (They chose females because they combination of a weak working ernment has now discontin- availing the services. The tend to run more readily than males.) The researchers GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO memory and diiculties with ued all sterilisation number continues to be wished to see what happens inside heart muscle cells impulse control. These risk factors services. The botched event low. after a single workout. So they taught some of the an- predispose to progressive drug use in younger years and focussed attention on In- “We have put the entire imals how to run comfortably on small treadmills and subsequent dependence, report researchers in the journal dia’s dark history with fam- burden of family planning then returned them to their cages for several days so Addiction. The study focussed on alcohol, marijuana and ily planning services. on women, but it is equally that their bodies would lose any aerobic conditioning. tobacco use, the most commonly used drugs by adolescents. a men’s issue. The govern- Other mice remained sedentary as a control group. Then the runners were placed back on the tread- For young people with diiculties in impulse control, After recommendations One-sided: “There is no stress on male contraception.” ment does not convince intervention programmes that focus on simply stopping early mills, where they ran at a tolerable intensity (in mouse Open camps, an important File picture shows some of the women who underwent and cajole men into steril- drug use don’t go far enough. Working memory refers to the terms) for 30 minutes, a workout designed to simulate part of family planning ser- sterilisation surgery at a camp in Bilaspur, in 2014 REUTERS isation the way it does for ability to concentrate on a task without being easily distracted. vices were discontinued as women. The tragedy in Ch- moderate exercise in people. Researchers took tissue Youth with a weak working memory tend to have problems per the recommendations As a result, women have have started the services,” hattisgarh was a wake up samples of the animals’ hearts either immediately after controlling their impulses and thus appear to be at greater risk they had finished running or an hour later, and also of continuing drug use. — Eurekalert of a judicial commission turned to private clinics, if says Sulakshana Nandi, na- call. It showed that there is headed by retired district they can afford the ₹8,000- tional joint convenor, Jan high demand, especially gathered samples from sedentary mice. judge Anita Jha. “We have ₹10,000 bill. Government- Swasthya Abhiyan, India- among women, despite bad The scientists looked for changes within the anim- DEMYSTIFYING SCIENCE complied with all the re- run family planning ser- chapter of People’s Health quality services. The gov- als’ cardiac cells in the levels of certain proteins that commendations of the judi- vices require going to neigh- Movement. ernment should have re- are known to directly prevent telomeres from shorten- ing. They also looked at the activity of other genes that What is Zealandia? cial commission. The doc- bouring Jharkhand and sponded by providing qual- tor who performed [the] Madhya Pradesh. “Instead No focus on men ity services to men and help to keep DNA in good repair. These genes release It’s a new geological continent and consists of a chain of islands surgeries has been termin- of providing quality steril- It has been a long-standing women, rather than with- proteins that are thought to help cells adapt to the which include New Zealand and New Caledonia. Zealandia ated and representatives of isation services in the after- demand of the health drawing the existing ser- physiological stress of exercise and, in the process, also spreads out over 4.9-million-square kilometres of continental the pharmaceutical com- math of so many deaths, movement in India that vices. It’s as if the govern- indirectly maintain telomere health. crust and was once a part of Australia. It broke of from It turned out that immediately after a single 30- Antarctica about 100 million years ago, and then from Australia pany which supplied [the] the government [has] reopen camps be discontin- ment is saying ‘either you medicines are in jail. In sponded by discontinuing ued. However, they have to take bad services or noth- minute jog, the runners’ heart cells were noticeably about 80 million years ago. It may have been completely different from those of the animals that had not moved. submerged about 23 Ma ago and most of it, which is 93% compliance with the Su- the services. Health facilit- be replaced by adequate fa- ing’,” says Poonam Mut- preme Court and the com- ies, including district hos- cilities at CHCs and district treja, Executive Director of In particular, they showed higher levels of the proteins remains submerged beneath the Paciic Ocean, according to the directly related to telomere length. These findings in- indings that have been published by The Geological Society of mission’s report, open pitals [have] stopped steril- hospitals. It needs to be ac- the Population Foundation camps have been discontin- isations. Tribal areas have companied by awareness of India. dicate that a single, moderate workout beneficially al- America. Sea-loor samples show that Zealandia consists of ters telomere biology in the heart, says Andrew Lud- light continental crust and not the dark volcanic rocks that ued in Chhattisgarh,” says suffered the most. It is only on male contraceptive low, who was a doctoral candidate at the University of make up nearby underwater plateaus. A piece of sealoor called Subrat Sahoo, principal two years later that some methods such as condom Jyotsna Singh is a New Delhi- Maryland and lead author of the study. NYT the Cato Trough still separates Zealandia and Australia health secretary, Chhattis- community health centres use and vasectomy. “We do based freelance journalist, by 25 kilometres. garh. [CHC] and district hospitals not see either happening. reporting on health policies

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 16 NON FICTION SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The story of a language and its evolution BOOKSHELF Writing the biography of a 2,000-year-old language with 80 million speakers can be a mineield. Shulman treads it like a ballerina

A.R. Venkatachalapathy terms of performance (dance and of the cultural and social horizon music) marks the highpoint of mein this time, there is an efflores- In this sea-girt world dieval Tamil. cence of Tamil Islamic writing. Two things The three centuries of Chola Bizarrely, Shulman argues that Rise from the hills, rule from about 850 CE constitutes Tamil modernism derives from Are worshipped by the noble, the imperial moment when a ‘new “the spectrum of Tantric praxis Civil wars: A History in Ideas And dispel darkness. cultural ecology’ that is vastly dif- and preaching.” An otherwise David Armitage One ferent from the earlier literary cul- spectacularly erudite scholar, Shul- Yale University Press Is the luminous, blazing sun. ture is born. Shulman contends man seems out of depth in dealing ₹1,287 The other that Tamil is not contained by the with modern Tamil literature rely- What is the ‘root’ of a civil Is peerless Tamil. geographical range of Cholas. ing as he does on a small clutch of war? When can a war be o goes an old poem. Nearer Rather it far exceeds it and influ- writers. called a ‘civil’ war? It’s a our times, the poet Bharathi- ences South Asia, South-East Asia complicated issue because so Sdasan declared that Tamil was and China, and becomes an inter- Dazzling comparisons many opposing parties are born with the sun, the moon, the national language used by mer- There is much to learn and not a involved: ruler and rebel, sky, the stars and the seas. Few chants and monks. This new lan- little to argue with in this book. suferer and outsider. As ‘war’ would dare to attempt the bio- guage finds expression in the great Clearly a linguistic-nationalist un- erupts in many places from graphy of such a language. But Kamban, the author of derstanding of Tamil will not do. Somalia to Syria, the Balkans when the world’s foremost Tamil Ramavataram, the Tamil Ramay- The point that Tamil cannot be to Burundi, historian David scholar gives it his best shot one ana. Shulman also brings in het- seen in isolation is well taken. The Armitage gives us a sense of cannot but take notice. David Shul- Steeped in history: The inscription at Big Temple in Thanjavur. D. KRISHNAN erodox sects, Buddhists and Jains, dazzling comparisons across lan- the history of civil war and man does not disappoint; he into the story as they define the in- guages that Shulman provides will how it shapes our world, dazzles us with his labour of love. stories. One is the evolution of the landscapes that animate this liter- ner borders of the language. Spe- hopefully have a salutary effect on starting with the Greeks and Based in the Hebrew University Tamil language itself. The other ature. For Shulman “chronology cial attention is given to the gram- Tamil scholars. Arguable, the ex- Romans and leading up to the of Jerusalem, Shulman is steeped story is the making of the stagger- is... a useful diversion from real matical and prosodic texts clusive focus on Sangam literature 21st century. in many languages including, at ing corpus of literary texts. work”, and he describes the forma- produced in this period, although has impoverished our understand- last count, at least four Indian lan- tion and accretion of legends his silence on Nannul, the single ing of the very rich corpus of Tamil guages. His collected writings — The beginnings around the Sangam or academy of most important grammar after literature. still growing — would put to shame The first chapter, Beginnings, sur- Tamil poets. And then he follows it Tolkappiyam, is inexplicable. It warms Tamil pride to see Shul- the 19th century poet veys the evidence and provides a up with a discussion of Tirukkural man survey an amazing volume of Meenakshisundaram Pillai whom historical linguistic overview of the and the epic Silappatikaram. Con- Cultural controversy international scholarship on he admires so much. Writing the language. This overview, as in trary to conventional accounts Until this moment, the reader is Tamil. However, while his biblio- biography of a language with a other chapters, is in dialogue with which situate early Tamil literature largely with Shulman, as he deftly graphy is not short of indigenous ‘documented existence’ of over the internal history of the language in the Pandya polity, Shulman provides engaging translations of Tamil scholars, surely he would 2,000 years, with a thriving com- rich as it is in myth and legend. brings in the northern Pallava state some fine poems and treats intern- have benefited from engaging with munity of 80 million speakers Shulman does not dismiss them, ■ Tamil: as well. While conceding that alist accounts with respect and scholars such as Vaiyapuri Pillai, spread across the world, can be a but rather treats them with great David Shulman Tamil literary tradition crystallised brings them into argument with ex- V.Sp. Manickam, Mu.Vai. Ara- Black Edge: Inside minefield. Rather than tread intellectual respect and sees these Harvard University Press autonomously, he also credits ternal scholarly analysis. However, vindan and Y. Manikandan. Information, Dirty Money gingerly, Shulman dances like a visions as complementary. He ₹2,478 Sanskrit sources and influences. as Shulman grapples with the But my biggest argument is with and the Quest to Bring Down ballerina. The scholar and the aes- shuffles between the two and often Shulman terms the great devo- formation of Tamil modernity, a thread that runs through the the Most Wanted Man on thete rub shoulders in this eleg- negotiates an intellectually thrill- tion of Tamil expressive texts, and tional outpourings of the Vaish- things become somewhat contro- book. Shulman asserts that a pure, Wall Street antly written book that is struc- ing compromise. In writing this, considers in detail the breathtak- nava Alwars and Saiva Nayanmars versial. Shulman implausibly ar- autonomous Tamil never existed. Sheelah Kolhatkar tured, incongruously in my view, Shulman introduces a master arguing corpus of classical Sangam po- the ‘Second Budding’. In his view, gues that a Tamil modernity If this was the case, why, even in Penguin RandomHouse like a Carnatic style kriti. Tamil: A ment that runs through the book: etry. The category of akam greatly these constitute the “single most emerges in the unlikely site of Ten- his own analysis, at every moment ₹1,183 Biography is both synthesis and in- that there never was an ancient fascinates Shulman and he powerful contribution of Tamil kasi in the deep south in the in its long history, is Tamil continu- New Yorker staf writer and terpretation, a must-read for any- Tamil that existed in a pure form provides his analysis as a story south India to pan-Indian civilisa- mid-16th century. In his view, the ally resisting and wrestling with former hedge fund analyst one interested in the world’s great independent of Sanskrit. from the inside. He sensitively de- tion.” The canonisation of this cor- roots of 19th century Tamil prose Sanskrit to maintain its distinction Sheelah Kolhatkar tells the languages and literatures. In the next chapter, ‘First Bud- scribes the poetic conventions, es- pus of writings, both in graphic lie in what he calls ‘the Tenkasi — a cross that no other Dravidian/ story of billionaire trader Shulman writes two intertwined ding’, Shulman begins his explora- pecially their setting in specific terms (scriptualisation) and in Renaissance’. Given the widening Indian language wants to bear? Steven A. Cohen and the rise and fall of his hedge fund SAC Capital. The book, which has been hailed as a legal thriller, tracks how Cohen The unknown Gandhi made his millions on Wall The end of ideology Street and what happened when he was investigated by A diatribe against the cultural decline in America also ofers a way out In a Swedish writer’s portrayal, Feroze Gandhi is at the FBI for insider trading. the heart of the freedom struggle Shelley Walia Smita Gupta Gandhi saw was seen by annah Arendt rightly he man who gave his everyone when he became declared that we are Tname to India’s most cel- MP in the country’s first gen- Hliving in ‘dark times’ ebrated political family, the eral elections in 1952 — and when there is a need to em- Gandhis, is rarely men- again in 1957 — from Rae- phasise the value of educa- tioned. Now, in his book on bareli, which his daughter- tion to the world that we en- Feroze Gandhi — Indira in-law, Sonia Gandhi, now gineer for future Gandhi’s husband, Rajiv and represents. The Congress generations. “Education,” Sanjay Gandhi’s father, and and Nehru dominated Par- she said, “is the point at Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi’s liament then, and Feroze, Hidden Figures which we decide whether we grandfather — Swedish ■ Feroze: The Forgotten now the Prime Minister’s Margot Lee Shetterly love the world enough to as- journalist Bertil Falk seeks to Gandhi: son-in-law, a mesmerising HarperCollins sume responsibility for it fill that gap. Bertil Falk speaker, took on the role of a ₹499 and by the same token save Interestingly, what began Roli Books one-man opposition, expos- This book is set amid the civil it from ruin which, except as a newspaper article 40 ₹390 ing wrong-doing. rights movement and is the for renewal, except for the years ago, is now a full- The Nehrus, of course, true story of NASA’s African- coming of the new and fledged, painstakingly re- of the poor. Born into the had the most profound influ- American female young, would be inevitable. searched biography, with Parsi faith, his family didn’t ence on Feroze. A chance mathematicians who played a And education, too, is where parallel accounts by eyewit- approve of his political activ- meeting with Indira’s crucial role in America’s space we decide whether we love nesses of the same incid- ities. The book quotes a mother, Kamala Nehru, in programme. Segregated our children enough not to ents. The book not only meeting between Feroze’s Allahabad led eventually to from their white counterparts, these ‘coloured expel them from our world fleshes out what is generally mother Rattimai Gandhi and his marriage with Indira. computers’ used pencil and and leave them to their own known about Feroze Mahatma Gandhi in 1931 in The initial years of the mar- paper to write the equations. devices, nor to strike from Gandhi, but places him at which she begged him to riage were happy, but differ- their hands their chance of the heart of the freedom urge her son to return to his ences emerged after Inde- undertaking something new, Standing up to prejudice: Protests against Donald Trump have been widespread. REUTERS struggle as it played out in studies. Gandhi’s response pendence. Indira moved something unforeseen by us, Allahabad, the city in which was: “... If I could get seven into the PM’s official resid- but to prepare them in ad- both he and Indira spent boys like Feroze to work for ence at Teen Murti Marg vance for the task of renew- cialists like Bernie Sanders to ignorant masses swept by their childhood. me, I will get Swaraj in seven with her sons, and Feroze to ing a common world.” retard the American war delusion and deception at The portrait that emerges days.” At 21, he had already his MP’s flat. But he was a It is in this context that against itself. the hands of a very ‘toxic’ is of a man, who possessed been jailed thrice, making loving father, who kept in Henry Giroux’s recent book Though it seems that the dominant system: “The call charm, intelligence, enduring friendships with touch with his sons till his America at War with Itself possibility of a democratic for gun rights conveniently tenacity, a sense of humour people like Lal Bahadur untimely demise in 1960 at can be seen as a diatribe state does not exist under side steps and ignores criti- as well as a commitment to Shastri. age 48, largely a result of his against the decline in cul- the present circumstances, cising a popular culture and truth and improving the lot The spark that Mahatma own neglect of his health. tural values in the U.S. and Giroux does lay out his plan corporate controlled media Arthur and Sherlock particularly the demise of re- for a more justifiable future which uses violence to at- Michael Sims volutionary pedagogies that of cohesion, freedom and so- tract viewers, increase televi- Bloomsbury might give impetus to radic- cial welfare to fight off the sion ratings, produce Holly- ₹1,455 alism endangering the status right-wing movement that is wood blockbusters, and sell Extraordinary lives After his colourful portrayal ■ quo. The sharp shift in America at War more emboldened and video games that celebrate of Henry Thoreau (The with Itself: American culture is appar- brazen than ever before. first-person shooters.... Such The stories of 12 mothers and their extreme form of protest Adventures of Henry Thoreau) Henry A. Giroux ently more towards abusive He comes to grips with violence serves not only to and the story about E.B. Sudipta datta forms of power visible in San Francisco: City Lights the impending threat to produce an insensitivity to that the protest was perhaps White, the creator of predatory capitalism, citizen $16.95 American society, spelling real life violence but also futile, as things remain Charlotte’s Web (The Story of surveillance, domestic viol- out a strategy to counter the functions to normalise viol- n July 15, 2004, 12 moth- much the same. But Kangla Charlotte’s Web), acclaimed ence, gun-massacres by transformation. Change is decline and fall of the most ence as both a source of Oers or Imas, walked to Fort was vacated by the As- literary historian Michael school children, and a the sustenance of a society powerful nation in the pleasure and as a practice the Kangla Fort in Imphal, sam Rifles, and the Armed Sims looks into the world of deeply post-truth scenario of which does not allow the world. for addressing social issues.” home then to the Assam Forces (Special Powers) Act Arthur Conan Doyle and his true lies and spark of revolution to be ex- The book is a provocative Rifles, stripped bare and (AFSPA) withdrawn from creation, Sherlock Holmes, misrepresentation. tinguished. Giroux, the pub- Seeking solutions challenge to the existing fun- held up banners saying, ‘In- seven Assembly constituen- and the history of the lic intellectual, is optimist A broad and emphatic an- damentalisms that define dian Army Rape Us’. They cies in the Imphal municipal detective stories genre. Timely critique enough to give a legitimacy swer to this threat is possible the fascist politics and cul- were protesting against the area. Giroux stands up against this to debate and free speech, only if America reinvents its ture of the contemporary rape and killing of 32-year- ■ The Mothers of Manipur: Manipur was brought un- toxic social environment something that the educa- democratic institutions in- nightmare of history when old Thangjam Manorama on Teresa Rehman der the AFSPA in 1980 after with its all-pervasive author- tion system in the country is vesting them with the neces- the rise of Trump becomes a July 11 by Assam Rifles Zubaan Books being declared a ‘disturbed itarianism, bellicose nation- bent upon destroying. sary features of civil rights, sign of the dismal fate of troops who had picked her ₹325 area’ due to the Naga insur- alism, xenophobia and eth- There is a deep sense of common good of all and democracy where racism, up from home on charges of gency in its hill districts. Last nocentrism that has fear that haunts American hope in the resistance to the patriarchy and class become being associated with a ively from the region tells us year, the Supreme Court, engulfed America. society which seems to have authoritarian corporate the hallmarks of a dark age. banned militant outfit, the the stories of these 12 seem- while hearing petitions de- The survival of American lost its historical or mythical mindset of self-serving polit- “Trump is merely the symp- People’s Liberation Army of ingly ordinary women who manding an inquiry into democracy, therefore, de- consciousness. And prob- ics. tom. He is the barometer of Manipur. That image of the carried out an extraordinary 1,528 deaths in counter in- pends on the understanding ably, that is the reason it The renovation of its edu- our current political, cul- protest, by mothers, all protest. Ima Ibemhal recalls surgency operations and re- and critique of the political finds itself in the quagmire of cation system could be an- tural and social climate.” To Meira Paibis (women torch- the day of protest as a day of lated incidents in Manipur, A Great Place to Have a War: and cultural dynamics of a Trumpism, an upheaval that other means of infusing a stand against this culture, bearers of Manipur) and communion with god: “A ruled that “accountability is America in Laos and the state and the structural will gradually throw up sense of legitimacy to the cri- Giroux suggests ‘insurrec- some over 60 years old, was message had to be delivered a facet of the rule of law”, Birth of a Military CIA formations that have fash- enough opposition to the tique of the existing electoral tional democracy’, found in shocking as much as it was to the world. Manorama’s and that the army cannot es- Joshua Kurlantzick ioned a public responsible right-wing world of authorit- politics that we have been social and political move- powerful in a State which rape and killing was an as- cape investigation into ex- Simon & Schuster for bringing an ultra-nation- arianism. Periods in history witness to. To control educa- ments like Black Lives Mat- had seen many forms of res- sault on the dignity of wo- cesses. But despite reports ₹1,444 alist, a morbid misogynist undoubtedly bring us to tion is to ensure the end of ter, the Occupy insurgency, istance to the high-handed- men in Manipur and should of human rights violations The U.S. waged a secret war and a rabid racist to the such dark junctures when ideology. community building, civic ness of the armed forces in never ever recur.” and army excesses, AFSPA in the tiny South-east Asian White House. The book the world accepts the post- The withering of demo- education and historical their daily lives. In 2000, Each of the Imas vividly continues to be in place in country of Laos between couldn’t be more timely es- truth scenario that prevails cracy, the criminalisation of memory. Irom Sharmila began her ex- recounts her act of defiance, the rest of the state. The 1961-1973, making it one of pecially in the prevailing upon the public to accept civil society, the corporate His agenda is indeed a ro- traordinary hunger strike, saying she did it for the wo- Imas still carry a dream in the largest covert operations volatile environment of the discourse of the elites impunity and the passion for bust and insightful response that would continue for 16 men of Manipur. Ima their hearts — that AFSPA in American history. Relying hate-mongering. with its subterranean agen- incarceration are some of to the ongoing onslaught on years, to protest against the Nganbi, the only one who will be repealed soon. So on extensive interviews and Out of this development das of power and profit. the issues that he censures. democratic public spheres as massacre at Malom where 10 speaks English, remembers does Khumaleima, Manora- declassiied CIA documents, arises the will to change with It is at such moments that And more than directing his experienced in the ‘violent people died in an alleged shouting: “We are all Manor- ma’s mother: “Only when it Joshua Kurlantzick writes how this operation changed the emphasis that revolu- the dialectics of history anger at the ‘dark times’ that cult of strong-arm masculin- fake encounter. ama’s mothers. Come and [AFSPA] goes will I be sure the CIA forever, making it a tions have always been the counter the unilateral right- the nation is passing ity’, a manifestation of a so- Journalist Teresa Rehman rape us.” Some like Ima that my daughter’s soul will military power. sine qua non of historical wing ideology, spurring so- through, he denounces the ciety at war with itself. who has reported extens- Ramani Devi, however, feel rest in peace.” CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Shreyas leads India-A reply ‘Ready to bowl with new ball’ Mitchell Marsh says he has done it for Western Australia The batsman’s unbeaten 85 gives Aussie spinners a taste of what’s in store Amol Karhadkar Amol Karhadkar Once the spinners came MUMBAI MUMBAI on, Wade started employing Mitchell Marsh is expected Shreyas Iyer gave the Aus- the sweep at will, while to be a vital cog in Australia’s tralian bowlers the first hint Mitchell Marsh began to first-choice XI during the of what lies in store for them open his shoulders. forthcoming Test series in over the next six weeks as The sweep shot eventually India considering his expert- the Mumbai batsman’s un- brought about Wade’s dis- ise with the reverse-swing ‘Laker Test’ centurion beaten knock of 85 helped Richardson dies missal as he top-edged Her- and the ability to bat with India-A make a solid reply wadkar, who had to continue the tail. LONDON after the visitors declared shouldering the responsibil- The all-rounder threw his Peter Richardson who made a their first innings at 469 for ity of an off-spinner with K. hat in the ring for the new- century for England in the seven. Gowtham unable to bowl, to ball bowler’s slot, should 1956 Ashes Test in which Jim Riding on Shreyas’ nearly offer Pant an easy catch be- Laker took a world record 19 Australia opt to go into a run-a-ball innings (93b, 7x4, fore lunch. Test with three spinners. Big burden: Mitchell Marsh knows that he has to pull his wickets has died aged 85, his 5x6), India-A finished the former county Kent Pant had taken the gloves “Yes, I’ve done it in the weight both with the bat and ball. AFP second of the three-day announced on Friday. from Ishan Kishan halfway past, not for Australia [in game at 176 for four. With wicket would be nothing like faced in Hyderabad. Richardson accrued five into the opening session. Tests], but I’ve taken the Rishabh Pant at the crease that, but we’ll wait and see. “I think they (Australians) centuries in the 34 Tests he After the break, Mitchell new ball for Western Aus- and Ishan Kishan yet to We spoke to the umpires are way better than them. played between 1956 and Marsh started playing more tralia and for Australia in come in, the India-A bats- and they said all first-class Bangladesh, I could predict 1963. AFP aggressively, hitting a huge white-ball cricket, so I’m men can still hope to run the games here, it nibbles what ball they could bowl. six off Shahbaz Nadeeem. certainly comfortable with Australians close on Sunday. around a bit for initially and And here, there’s also a bit Soon after, he failed to get that,” said Marsh, who BCCI General Manager Despite Shreyas’ belliger- then it flattens down,” he of sledging that keeps hap- the elevation right off the opened the bowling against resigns ence, the Australian bowlers said. “That’s exactly what pening (from) behind and left-arm spinner and holed India-A in the absence of NEW DELHI: — sans frontline pacers happened. I thought there that also keeps playing on out to substitute B. Indrajith two of Australia’s key R.P. Shah, one of the three Mitchell Starc and Josh was a little bit of turn for our your mind,” he said. at mid-off. pacers. General Managers of BCCI, Hazlewood, who have been The scores: spinners, which is nice.” When asked to elaborate resigned on Saturday from “I practice with the new rested — can take heart from Australians — 1st innings: David on the quality of Australian ball every now and then, so his post, citing age. their performance. On a bat- Warner c Kishan b Saini 25, Matt Shreyas’s praise spinners, Shreyas said: “I Shah was considered to be ting paradise, pacers Jackson Renshaw c Kishan b Saini 11, Steven if that opportunity arises, I’ll Shreyas Iyer is on a roll. think they are really good, one of the big decision Bird and Mitchell Marsh kept Smith retd. out 107, Shaun Marsh be ready,” he said. The Mumbai batsman fol- especially Lyon, because he makers in board’s commercial the openers in check. retd. out 104, Peter Handscomb c It will happen only if Aus- lowed up on his scintillating was bowling a little faster interest. Shah said that it was Panchal b Pandya 45, Mitchell tralia is handed a rank hundred in a tour game through the air and it was purely a personal decision No freebies Marsh c sub b Nadeem 75, Mat- turner. The strip for the against Bangladesh earlier really amazing playing inter- taken four months back. PTI And even after being thew Wade c Pant b Herwadkar 64, warm-up game at the Bra- this month with an un- national players for the first clobbered by Shreyas, spin- Glenn Maxwell (not out) 16, bourne Stadium had a tinge beaten 85 against the Aus- time. In domestic, they ners Nathan Lyon and Stephen O’Keefe (not out) 8; Extras of grass, which is unlikely to tralians. (spinners) give a bit of flight. Stephen O’Keefe retained (b-5, lb-2, nb-6, w-1): 14; Total (for be on offer during the Test The stylish batsman rated Over here, I was barely get- seven wkts. decl. in 127 overs): 469. their discipline, depriving series. Marsh admitted the Nathan Lyon and Stephen ting any flighted delivery. I Fall of wickets: 1-33, 2-55, 3-211, Australians realised that. the batsmen of freebies. 4-290, 5-305, 6-434, 7-454. O’Keefe higher than the had to step out and convert Lyon, especially, struck India-A bowling: Ashoke Dinda “I would imagine the Test Bangladesh spinners he them into big shots.” the right balance of bowling Classy: Shreyas Iyer struck seven fours and ive sixes in his 21.2-1-78-0, Hardik Pandya 22-3- full without offering too 93-ball knock. PTI 84-1, Navdeep Saini 19.4-7-42-2, much loop. It resulted in him Shahbaz Nadeem 33-1-126-1, Akhil Francophones seethe over extracting appreciable well. He made his intentions played in his delicate Herwadkar 15-0-64-1, Shreyas Iyer English slogan bounce, which was instru- clear by hitting the first ball touches behind the wicket. 12-0-57-0, Priyank Panchal 4-0-11-0. Sharath does a Houdini mental in the dismissals of he faced, from Lyon, over India-A: Akhil Herwadkar c & b PARIS the India-A openers. wide long-on. He struck two Trouble-free progress Lyon 4, Priyank Panchal c Hand- Guardians of the French While left-hander Akhil more sixes off Australia’s Earlier in the morning, scomb b Lyon 36, Shreyas Iyer (bat- The Indian escapes from Drinkhall’s grip language are up in arms after Herwadkar top-edged one lead spinner. the Australian lower middle- ting) 85, Ankeet Bawne lbw b Bird the French national Olympic straight to the off-spinner, He also had little difficulty order continued to bat 25, Hardik Pandya c Wade b Bird 19, Rakesh Rao Rishabh Pant (batting) 3; Extras NEW DELHI committee adopted an Priyank Panchal got one in in hoisting the left-arm spin without trouble against the (lb-4): 4; Total (for four wkts. in 51 English slogan ‘Made for the last over before tea that of O’Keefe twice over the India-A bowlers. It was a match that meant a Sharing’ to back France’s bid overs): 176. lot more to Sharath Kamal rose sharply and the right- fence against the turn, once Mitchell Marsh and Mat- Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-63, 3-120, to host the Games in 2024. than Paul Drinkhall. With a Academie Francaise hander could only offer each over mid-wicket and thew Wade exercised cau- 4-172. The , small but vociferous crowd official custodian of the Peter Handscomb a dolly at long-on. tion against the pacers, espe- Australians bowling: Jackson Bird forward short-leg. He also used the depth of cially against Navdeep Saini 11-7-15-2, Mitchell Marsh 9-2-26-0, firmly behind him, Sharath language, said it was no was under the pressure of better than a pizza advert. Shreyas, meanwhile, was the crease really well against who continued to impress Nathan Lyon 17-3-72-2, Stephen REUTERS playing the spinners really both the spinners as was dis- with his nippy bowling. O’Keefe 14-1-59-0. expectations although he faced a higher-ranked rival. From holding a match- point to staring at one, Rajpoot wins a Sharath almost let the crowd East cruises to the title down. In a tense finale to a battle of attrition lasting an Relieved: Sharath Kamal tosses his racquet in celebration after thriller for Central hour, Sharath chased down managing to overcome Paul Drinkhall. Jaggi and Virat power the team home against West Drinkhall in a seven-game India hosted an ITTF Pro match at 11-10 in the decider. G. Viswanath thriller for a place in the Tour event in 2010 here, “I thought I had a good MUMBAI semifinals of the $150,000 Strikes a last-ball boundary of Shah Sharath had reached the chance when I led 8-5 but World Tour India Open table East Zone took the field with semifinals. then I netted a service-return G. Viswanath tennis tournament here on three wins under its belt and (for seven wkts. in 20 overs): 181. and things got difficult. The Mumbai Fall of wickets: 1-28, 2-37, 3- Saturday. “It was good for the crowd also played its role thrashed West Zone by eight 73, 4-100, 5-149, 6-169, 7-170. crowd but as good for me,” wickets to win the Syed Ankit Rajpoot’s last-ball In a match that lacked ral- and backed Sharath. I now Central Zone bowling: Ankit lies but left the crowd said Sharath with a smile hope he makes it to the Mushtaq Ali Inter-Zone boundary off left-arm spin- Rajpoot 4-0-28-2, Aniket Chaud- happy, the World No. 62 after just about managing to final.” Twenty20 league at the ner Rahil Shah provided a hary 4-0-36-2, Amit Mishra 4-0- scripted an 11-4, 10-12, 9-11, beat Drinkhall. “We know The results: Wankhede Stadium here on thrilling finish to a match of 45-0, Karn Sharma 4-0-31-2, each other’s game so well. Saturday. purely academic interest, Sohraab Dhaliwal 4-0-36-0. 11-6, 9-11, 13-11 victory against Men singles: Quarterfinals: 1- a player ranked 20 places As you saw, we both did not Virat Singh, with an un- after East Zone had clinched Central Zone: Naman Ojha c Dimitrij Ovtcharov (Ger) bt 5-Yuya higher. allow each other to play our Oshima 7-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-8, 4-11, 6- beaten 58, and Ishank Jaggi, the Syed Mushtaq Ali inter- Milind b Shah 0, A.N. Khare st. normal game. We both Zonal Twenty20 league de- Karthik b Swaroop Kumar 39, Har- 11, 12-10; 3-Koki Niwa (Jpn) bt Jiang who made an attractive 56, Fourth straight win played from close to the Tianyi (Hkg) 11-9, 10-12, 11-1, 11-8, feating West Zone in the first preet Singh c Vijay Shankar b Shah starred in the chase. On match-point, when table, served short and kept 11-8; 11-Sharath Kamal bt 6-Paul match here on Saturday. 92, A.T. Rayudu (run out) 11, Ma- For West, Sheldon Jackson hesh Rawat c Karthik b Vijay Drinkhall failed to keep the the other guy guessing. Drinkhall 11-4, 10-12, 9-11, 11-6, 9-11, (52) got going, but once he The man-of-the-match for Shankar 2, Akshdeep Nath c ball on the table, Sharath “It was quite strange that 13-11; 14-Tomokazu Harimoto (Jpn) Central, though, was Bhatia departed in the the 15th over, The best: East hammered West by eight wickets to clinch the Karthik b Milind 4, Karn Sharma c tossed his racquet in the air, even when I was ahead, I got bt 8-Robert Gardos (Aut) 4-11, 11-7, West did not have the sturdy who made 92 off 51 balls. 11-8, 8-11, 12-10, 11-6. Mushtaq Ali Trophy on Saturday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Milind b Warrier 1, Sohraab Dhali- more in relief, and then the feeling that I was doing men to play the big shots. The scores: wal c Bhui b Ashwin 10, Amit clenched his fist to mark the the chasing. Even on the last Women singles: Semifinals: 4- The scores: South Zone: Vishnu Vinod c Matilda Ekholm (Swe) bt Doo Hoi 4-92, 5-145. out) 9; Extras (lb-4, w-2): 6; Total Mishra (not out) 13, Ankit Rajpoot moment of triumph. It was point, I had to choose just West Zone: Sheldon Jackson c Dhaliwal b Choudhary 31, Maynak Kem (Hkg) 11-8, 11-7, 5-11, 11-9, 8-11, (for two wkts. in 13.4 overs): 153. (not out) 5, Extras (b-2, lb-1, w-4): Sharath’s fourth straight vic- one corner before he Virat b Ojha 52, Parthiv Patel lbw b East Zone bowling: Suryakant Agarwal c Dhaliwal b Choudhary 5, 11-3. Quarterfinals: Doo Hoi Kem 7, Total (for eight wkts. in 20 tory over Drinkhall in six served. Luckily, I had Pradhan 17, Aditya Tare c Arun Pradhan 4-0-28-1, Pritam Das 4-0- Fall of wickets: 1-61, 2-141. Ricky Bhui c & b Karn Sharma 17, overs): 184. bt 5-Jiang Huajun (Hkg) 11-6, 6-11, matches since the 2008 Aus- guessed it right.” Karthick b Das 1, Deepak Hooda b 25-2, Writtick Chatterjee 3-0-27-0, West Zone bowling: Irfan Dinesh Karthik c Akshdeep Nath b Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-67, 3-90, 11-7, 11-8, 13-11; Matilda bt 7-Jieni Ghosh 19, Prerak Mankad b Das 20, Sayan Ghosh 4-0-32-1, Amit Verma Pathan 2-0-17-0, Shardul Thakur 3- Karn Sharma 35, Vijay Shankar c trian Open. Shao (Por) 11-8, 11-8, 11-7, 11-5; 8-Ng 4-111, 5-116, 6-130, 7-147, 8-178. Costly miss Rujul Bhatt (not out) 36, Irfan 2-0-18-0, Pragyan Ojha 3-0-18-1. 0-31-2, Ishwar Chaudhary 2.4-0- Ojha b Rajpoot 40, Pavan Desh- South Zone bowling: Rahil The triumph earned Wing Nam (Hkg) bt 3-Georgina Pota Pathan (not out) 2, Extras (lb-1,w-1) East Zone: K.B. Arun Karthick c 32-0, Shaurya Sanandia 2-0-26-0, pande (not out) 33, Swaroop Ku- Shah 3-0-20-2, Sandeep Warrier 4- Sharath a battle against 13- Drinkhall was under- (Hun) 11-9, 11-6, 12-10, 8-11, 11-3; 6- 2, Total (for five wkts in 20 overs) Parthiv b Thakur 24, Virat Singh Dharmendra Jadeja 2-0-17-0, Prerak mar (run out) 7, M. Ashwin c Dhali- 0-52-1, Chama Milind 4-0-32-1, M. year-old Japanese sensation standably disappointed at Sakura Mori (Jpn) bt 11-Mak Tze 149. (not out) 58, Ishank Jaggi c Parthiv Mankad 1-0-10-0, Rujul Bhatt wal b Rajpoot 2, C.V. Milind (not Ashwin 4-0-43-1, Swaroop Kumar Tomokazu Harimoto. It may messing up a forehand re- Wing (Hkg) 11-6, 13-11, 10-12, 11-6, Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-36, 3-76, b Thakur 56, Manoj Tiwary (not 1-0-16-0. out) 2, Extras (lb-5, w-4): 9, Total 3-0-20-1, Vijay Shankar 2-1-14-1. be recalled that the last time turn after serving for the 11-7. TV PICKS Joey Mawson leads the ield F1 drivers have to sweat it out: Newey Australia v Sri Lanka: 2nd T20I, STAR Sports 2 & Sports Reporter HD2, 1.50 p.m. Chennai New season will make sport more challenging, says Red Bull technical boss Serie A: Sony ESPN & Joey Mawson put on a dom- ESPN HD, 5 & 11 p.m. S. Dipak Ragav inant display to win race two was indeed easy for La Liga: Sony Six & Six Chennai someone like Verstappen to HD, 4.30 & 11.30 p.m.; Sony of the final round of the MRF One of the thrills of watching get up to speed quickly, un- ESPN & ESPN HD, 1.30 a.m. Challenge 2016 to lead by 27 points over Harrison Newey Formula One is the sight of a like with the more physical (Monday) cars of the 1980s. India Open TT: STAR in the championship, with driver trying to tame a wild Sports 4 &HD4, 6.50 p.m. just two races to go. powerful machine while For the last three years, I-League: TEN 2, 7 p.m. Earlier in the day Newey, driving on the edge for 90 the interesting storyline in F1 HIL: STAR Sports 2,3 & in front of his father and F1 minutes. However, in recent has been the rivalry between HD2 & 3, 7.10 p.m. design guru Adrian Newey, times there has been a feel- teammated Nico Rosberg FA Cup: Sony Six, 7.20 & beat Mick Schumacher to ing that the cars have be- and Lewis Hamilton. 9.30 p.m. & 1.15 a.m. win the opening race of the come easy to drive and the Going into 2017, with Red (Monday) sport was no longer the pin- Bundesliga: SS Select 2 day. Proud moment: Mick Schumacher, Harrison Newey (centre) and Bull having closed the gap on nacle of motor racing. HD, 7.45 & 9.45 p.m. In the MRF 1600 champi- Ralf Aron with Arun Mammen after Race 1 on Saturday. Mercedes last year, the NBA: All Star Game: Sony onship Karthik Tharani But according to the tech- rivalry between Verstappen ESPN, ESPN HD, Sony Six & pipped Anindith Reddy to started on reverse grid pole (Momentum Motor Sports) nical boss of Red Bull Racing and teammate Daniel Ric- Six HD, 6.30 a.m. (Monday) win the opening race of the position alongside Mawson. (12:32.250); 3. Arya Singh (DTS Ra- and legendary F1 designer, ciardo could be the one to cing) (12:37.468). Speed merchants: Red Bull Racing’s Adrian Newey snapped day. With Newey cutting the gap Adrian Newey, the new sea- watch out for and Newey is Rookie Cup (Six laps): Rithvik with son Harrison at the MRF Challenge in Chennai. The Championship for down to just 12 points, it was son promises to make For- hoping things won’t go south Thomas (Wallace Sports) Harika, the MRF Challenger 2016 important that Mawson had mula One cars the monsters two or three years, watching When you watch you might like it did when Sebastian a good start. He did just that (12:31.682); 2. Bhushan Thareja they used to be. television and when the think ‘yup, with a bit of prac- Vettel and Mark Webber will be decided on Sunday in (Momentum Motor Sports) front of cricketing legend, as he flew to the first corner The 2017 season will see drivers come on the radio, it tice I think I can do it.’ were racing for Red Bull. Padmini in ahead of Ticktum and Aron. (12:32.250); 3. Arya Singh (DTS Ra- Sachin Tendulkar, who will cing) (12:37.468). Indian Junior new set of rules kick de- doesn’t sound as if their “You’d be wrong of course “In Daniel and Max we tie-breaker be at the MMRT in Chennai. The results: Touring Cars (Race one, Eight signed to make cars faster heartbeat is raised at all,” but that’s not the point. So have a very good pairing. Newey, who had shown MRF Challenge (Race one): 1. laps): 1. K.P. Hisham (DTS Racing) and harder for drivers. said the 58-year old who has cars need to be more Daniel is very calm, a very TEHRAN: D. Harika and Pad- tremendous pace in practice Harrison Newey (23m:25.718s); 2. (18:04.888); 2. Kamlesh Parmar Newey is in the city with designed title-winning cars difficult.” quick driver but smooth and mini Rout will have to play on Friday, followed it up by Mick Schumacher (23:29.961); 3. (Team N1) (18:14.762). Super his son Harrison, who is tak- for Williams, McLaren and One of the main reason has a very good feel for the Stock: 1. Varun Anekar (Race Con- qualifying on pole position Ralf Aron (23:34.870); Race two: 1. ing part in the MRF Chal- Red Bull. car. Max is obviously very ex- the tie-break rapid games cepts) (17:01.187); 2. RP Rajarajan for the debate on cars being against their rivals on for the finale. He set a Joey Mawson (23:21.673); 2. Ralf lenge and won the first race easy was due to the success citing exciting to watch. Aron (23:30.696); 3. Daniel Ticktum (Performance Racing) (17:04.577); More difficult cars Sunday in the women’s 1:30.253 to beat Schumacher on Saturday. of his team’s young star Max (23:32.466). MRF 1600: 1. Karthik 3. Sree Venkata Teja (Performance “In terms of them being World chess championship by over a tenth off a second. Tharani (13:40.482); 2. Anindith Racing) (17:25.719). Esteem Cup: 1. “I think the cars will cer- He added, “I think a fan Verstappen and his meteoric team-mates, it’s good for us here. The Indians had to Championship leader Joey Reddy (13:40.787); 3. Raghul Ran- Narendran (RAD Racing) tainly be a lot faster. The seeing on TV should be in rise which saw the Belgian- because they bring slightly settle for draws against Mawson had a tough session gasamy (13:42.240). Formula LGB (16:53.793); 2. Anant Pithawalla idea of the new regulations awe and must be thinking ‘I Dutch driver become the different things to the team Georgian Sopiko Guram- and managed to qualify only 1300 (Race one, Six laps): 1. (Team N1) (17:00.975); 3. Sudanand was to make the cars more can’t do that.’ At the moment youngest debutant (in 2015) from an engineering stand- shvili and China’s Tan in seventh position. Prashanth K (Wallace Sports) Daniel (Red Rooster Racing) physical to drive. We’re all F1 is in bit of danger of not and a race winner (in 2016). point and from an overall Zhongyi respectively. In Race two, Ticktum (12:25.429); 2. Bhushan Thareja (17:17.153). used to now, over the last having that physicality. Newey concurred saying, it perspective the excitement. 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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 18 SPORT SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Rio weighed down by a herd of white elephants Six months after South America’s quadrennial extravaganza, promises remain unfulilled

Rio de Janeiro: Rio’s Olympic competitions took place sees breath. istry next week and we hope organisers promised there’d few visitors. At the base of Rio’s prob- to be able to use these install- be no white elephants after Construction equipment lems is uncertainty over who ations in the second the crowds and athletes went is scattered about, former will even run the installa- quarter,” said Agberto Jeev survives home. Unfortunately, six rows of seats are piled up, tions. The Olympic Park was Guimaraes, executive dir- play-off months later there’s a herd and sewage holes are left expected to go into the ector at the Brazilian PERTH charging through Brazil’s half-uncovered. hands of a private manage- Olympic Committee. Jeev Milkha Singh won a run-down second city. As for the Olympic swim- ment company, but no one Arguably the biggest leg- unique play-off in the third From the dead grass at the ming warm-up pool, where was interested. So the acy promise was dramatic- round on Saturday to ensure world famous Maracana Sta- just half a year ago Michael Brazilian sports ministry had ally reducing pollution in Sunday action at the ISPS dium to the unsold apart- Phelps prepared to raise his to take over. Guanabara Bay, the sewage- HANDA World Super 6 Perth. ments in the 31 towers of the medal tally to an Olympic re- The Arena of the Future infested bay where sailing Jeev was tied 20th with Athletes’ Village that were was meant to be broken up events took place. seven others and went into a cord of 28, it’s now a dank, meant to become a new lux- play-off as only five spots mosquito-filled hole. and transformed into four Brazilian officials initially ury neighbourhood, you were available to make it 24. schools — another bright idea promised to cut out 80% of In the ensuing play-off for don’t have to look far to see No summer swimming in the optimistic legacy the untreated sewage pour- five places, Jeev was among the unfulfilled promises of One of the most popular plans. ing into the waterway. four who parred the 18th in South America’s first sporting legacies promised However, this has not That didn’t come close to the first play-off hole and Olympic Games. was to turn the Deodoro ca- happened and the new happening and now that the went into Sunday action. PTI Even a year before the noe slalom course into a gi- mayor, elected after the media attention has largely Games started, a top official ant swimming pool. This was Olympics, says more time is ended, there are doubts in the mayor’s office, Pedro sure to be popular with the needed to check the budget. about the future of even tent- Aditi slips Paulo, promised: “We will poor residents of northern “As a citizen, I’m very wor- ative efforts to reduce the to tied 56th leave no white elephants.” Tip of the iceberg: The sorry state of the Olympic Aquatic Stadium is just one instance of a bright Rio during the city’s scorch- ried. I’ve learned not to trust sewage and garbage. ADELAIDE Right before the August 21 idea in the city’s optimistic legacy plans gone wrong. AFP ing summers. politicians. If these schools “Rio’s legacy plan is Aditi Ashok suffered a closing ceremony, then nightmarish four-hole streak But instead the park is don’t get built it will be a true good,” said Christophe Dubi, mayor Eduardo Paes re- achievements. The transport as a success. of eerie abandonment. Open in blustery conditions with closed. And although the fiasco,” Gustavo Martins, the the International Olympic four bogeys between the peated the assurance. system in the often-chaotic But the Olympic Park, to the public only on week- mayor’s office says project’s original architect, Committee’s executive dir- sixth and ninth holes on the City and sports officials Rio was badly in need of help partly built on land formerly ends, the vast area where “everything is being done to said. ector. front as she carded five-over point to a new metro line and these costly infrastruc- occupied by a deeply rooted swimming, gymnastics, bas- reopen it as soon as pos- “We’re going to have a “But it has to be carried 78 in the third round of the and bus network as lasting ture projects are widely seen local community, is in a state ketball and other popular sible,” few are holding their meeting with the sports min- out.” ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open golf on Saturday. Aditi is now TENNIS tied-56th in her first appearance in a LPGA event in 2017. American Lizette Thulasi looking to regain her touch Salas shot a superb 2-under Suraj edges past par 71 to take a two-stroke lead at 10-under 209 into Hit by a series of injuries, the 25-year-old shuttler’s ranking has plummeted from 34 to 146 Sunday’s final round. PTI Sai Saran Reddy Stan Rayan with The Hindu on Saturday. Thulasi was on a dream run. Indonesia, but I lost all four KOCHI Special Correspondent After being at the Gopi A few months after winning of them in the first round.” meet Singh 6-4, 6-2. bronze medals with the In- Jorhat Suraj Prabodh bt Sai Saran Reddy They play the same sport, chand Academy and Na- That cost her something but for the last few years P.C. dian team at the 2014 Suraj Prabodh pipped Sai 7-5, 5-7, 7-6(3); Siddharth Vish- tional camp for nearly 10 like ₹ 3 lakh and with her fin- Saran Reddy 7-5, 5-7, 7-6(3) in Thulasi had not seen much Incheon Asian Games and at wakarma bt Anvit Bendre 2-6, 6-1, years, Thulasi is back home ancial reserves sinking fast, the first qualifying round of 7-5. of her younger brother’s the Uber Cup, she reached in Kochi. The 25-year-old is Thulasi was hungry for a the $15,000 ITF men’s Futures her best world ranking. Anurag Nenwani bt Taha Kapadia badminton. trying to rebuild her career change. The thigh injury in tennis tournament at the 6-3, 2-6, 6-2; Paramveer Singh Ba- But now, she gets to watch and regain her touch which That was a phase when November and the two- Jorhat Tennis Club on jwa bt Ishaque Eqbal 4-4, retd.. her brother Akshay every saw her climb to a career- she was playing many inter- month break that came with Saturday. Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam bt Ex-Man United star Yorke day at the Rajiv Gandhi in- best 34 in the world rankings national tournaments, pay- it brought her to Kochi for Top seed Vijayant Malik Fahad Mohammed 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. denied entry to USA door stadium here and also in February 2015. Hit by a ing from her own pocket. rest and recovery. was locked one set apiece 1-6, Anirudh Chandrasekar bt Abhin- offers him many tips. Her series of injuries, her ranking 6-3 with wild card Vasisht ansu Borthakur 7-5, 6-1; Lawrence LONDON “But the money spent, Thulasi said her long stay dad also drops in frequently. has now dived to 146. Cheruku when play was aban- Bataljit (Aus) bt Koonwar Gupta 6-0, Former Manchester United some ₹ 2.5 lakh then, was at the Gopi chand Academy striker Dwight Yorke said he P.C. Thulasi. STAN RAYAN doned for the day. 6-1; Alexis Canter (GBr) bt Prajwal “This is my home, here I Guiding her at the Re- worth it because I was able made her stronger but with was “made to feel like a The results: Qualifying singles Dev 2-6, 6-0, 6-3. have all my people around. gional Sports Centre here are only disappointment. “After many world stars around, it criminal” after being denied to climb the rankings and I (first round): Tarun Anirudh Chil- Ansu Bhuyan bt Anshuman Gulia There [in Hyderabad], I was two seasoned stars — Sanave entry to the United States. was also getting prize- winning the senior National was only natural that players akalapudi bt Gautam Anand 7-5, 6-1; 6-2, 6-2; Adriaan De Jager (Ned) bt a sort of outsider,” said Thu- Thomas and Joy T. Antony — money,” explained Thulasi. title last April, I played four like her were not getting Jayesh Pungliya bt Mingkhi Talom Jatin Dahiya 6-4, 6-3. The 45-year-old from both men she can count on. Trinidad and Tobago said he lasi, the 2016 National bad- She tried the same strategy international tournaments in much attention from Gopi 6-0, 6-3; Tejas Chaukulkar bt Rohan Faisal Qamar bt Suresh Dhak- was prevented from entering minton champion, in a chat Just a couple of years ago, last year too but there was Vietnam, Chinese Taipei and Chand. Gogoi 6-0, 6-0; Kunal Anand bt Jag- shineswar 6-4, 1-6, 6-2. the US on Friday due to having played in a charity match in the Iranian capital Tehran in 2015. AFP Vijays Joy runs with a good chance Cyclone wins main event MUMBAI: Cyclone, ridden by 1m, 51.22s. ₹245 (w), 46, 11 and 41 Mrs. Shapoor P. Mistry rep. Manjri India wins silver HYDERABAD: Vijays Joy has an (1) Aneel 60, 2. Monte Rose (6) A. Kumar 52.5 and 12. Time Is Luck 86 & above (Cat. I), 4-45: 1. Vijays Neeraj Rawal, won the Thum- (p). SHP: ₹36, FP: ₹476, Q: ₹87, Horse Breeders’ Farm Pvt Ltd & NEW DELHI The Indian women’s edge over his rivals in the H. P. A. Vikrant 59, 3. Mountain Of Light (1) P. Gaddam 52. Joy (1) Md. Ismail 65, 2. belina Million, the main event of Tanala: ₹2,905 and ₹3,735. Fa- Ms. Nazak Chenoy. Trainer: Nazak team on Saturday won a Mistry Memorial Cup (1,200m), (3) Akshay Kumar 59, 4. War Cry 1. DAHLOIS, 2. PENUMATCHA'S Gaarswood (4) Koushik 62, 3. Saturday’s (Feb. 18) evening races. vourite: Star Of Harmony. Own- Chenoy. the main event of the races to be (2) Beuzelin 57.5, 5. Symbol Of PRIDE, 3. BRILLIANT Carlton (8) Sai Kumar 58, 4. Ex- silver at the Asian Rugby The winner is owned by Mr. San- ers: M/s. Hemant S. Dharnidharka 7. THUMBELINA MILLION Sevens Trophy at Vientiane, held here on Sunday (Feb. 19). Gold (7) B. R. Kumar 57, 6. Reful- ARTILLERY CUP (Div. I), clusive Wind (2) Suraj Narredu jay Kolse rep. Greenleaf Racing & & Dinesh G. Virwani. Trainer: Im- gent (4) N. Rawal 55.5, 7. Angels 57, 5. Rio Rojo (10) N. Rawal 57, 6. (1,000m), Cl. III, rated 40 to 66: Laos. GREENER PLATE (2,400m), 4- 6 (1,600m), 5-y-o & over, rated Breeding Pvt Ltd (OPC), M/s. Rajiv tiaz Sait. CYCLONE (Neeraj) 1, Minstrel Bay (5) A. S. Pawar 54.5 and 8. Baashagar (11) K. Mukesh Kumar 4. FEDORA PLATE The team participated under 1 y-o & over, rated 26 to 50, 1-15 46 to 70 (Cat. II), 3-45: 1. Blue S. Ghule, Haren S. Malkani & In- (1,000m), Cl. V, Heights (P.S. Chouhan) 2, p.m.: 1. Pentagon (1) Koushik 60, 2. Moonflash (8) G. Naresh 54. Eyed Babe (8) K. Mukesh Kumar 56, 7. King Of Pop (6) N. S. derraj Anand. Sanjay Kolse trains rated 1 to 26: PACIFIC DUNES (San- the aegis of the Indian Rugby 1. MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT, 2. WAR Rathore 53, 8. Rahuls Pet (3) Arakawah (A. Gaikwad) 3 and Mt Sher Afgan (6) B. R. Kumar 58.5, 3. 60, 2. Limitation (12) Aneel 59.5, the winner. tosh) 1, What A Nice Girl (Sandesh) Tianmen (S. Amit) 4. 2-1/2, Snk, 1- Football Union (IRFU), the Upon A Star (2) G. Naresh 57.5, 4. CRY, 3. ANGELS BAY 3. Gayle Force (6) N. Rawal 58, 4. Beuzelin 53, 9. Double Charter 1. NOBLE OPINION PLATE 2, Headlines (A. Gaikwad) 3 and (7) I. Chisty 52.5, 10. City Of 3/4. 58.49s. ₹37 (w), 14, 61 and 41 governing body for the sport Vijay's Harmony (5) Deep Shanker OCEANIC PLATE (Div. II), Rebellion (11) Md. Sameeruddin (2,400m), Cl. III, rated 40 to 66: Devoted (Shelar) 4. Not run: Blaze Dreams (9) Kunal Bunde 50 and (p). SHP: ₹74, FP: ₹308, Q: ₹ 276, in India and supported by 55, 5. Ayur Joythi (3) K. Mukesh Ku- (1,200m), 5-y-o & over, rated 26 57.5, 5. Khoshgel (10) Md. Ismail RAEES (C.S. Jodha) 1, Uncle The Track, Apple Betty and Tanala: ₹2,141 and ₹917. Favourite: 4 11. Vijay Sakhi (5) S. S. Tanwar Scrooge (A. Gaikwad) 2, Flying Hunayn. 2, 2-1/4, 2-1/4. 59.08s. ₹57 Societe Generale, the mar 54.5, 6. Bullish Approach (7) to 50 (Cat. III), 2-45: 1. Midnight In 56.5, 6. Grand Canyon (2) A. A. Queen Credible. Owners: Mr. San- Sai Kumar 54.5 and 7. Sea Change Vikrant 55.5, 7. Silvassa (7) 50. Dragon (Sandesh) 3 and Sanam (S. (w), 26, 13, 57 (p). SHP: ₹28, FP: financial partner of Rugby Paris (9) Md. Sameeruddin 60, 2. jay Kolse rep. Greenleaf Racing & (4) Deepak Singh 54. Western Express (5) Ajeeth Kumar Beuzelin 54, 8. Agusta Bomb- 1. VIJAYS JOY, 2. RAHULS PET, 3. Amit) 4. 5-1/2, 5-1/2, 2. 2m, 32.58s. ₹131, Q: ₹32, Tanala: ₹1,355 and Breeding Pvt Ltd (OPC), M/s. Rajiv India. PTI 1. BULLISH APPROACH, 2. VIJAY'S 57.5, 3. Ice Cave (2) N. S. Rathore shell (5) Kuldeep Singh 52.5, 9. EXCLUSIVE WIND ₹28 (w), 18 and 12 (p). SHP: ₹30, ₹726. Favourite: What A Nice Girl. S. Ghule, Haren S. Malkani & In- HARMONY 56, 4. Blaze Of Glory (4) K. Mukesh Gunner (4) A. S. Pawar 52.5, 10. FP: ₹50, Q: ₹10, Tanala: ₹90 and Owners: Mr. Dilip Thomas rep. Ra- derraj Anand. Trainer: Sanjay Green Striker (3) Ajeeth Kumar OCEANIC PLATE (Div. III), ₹39. Favourite: Uncle Scrooge. jagiri Rubber & Produce Co Ltd. WILKINSON PLATE (Div. III), Kumar 55, 5. Yet Another (7) Ar- (1,200m), 5-y-o & over, rater Kolse. Joshna enters (1,200m), maiden 3-y-o only shad Alam 55, 6. Wonder Star (8) A 52, 11. Perfection (9) Akshay Ku- 9 Owners: Mr. & Mrs. Hoosain S. Trainer: Bezan Chenoy. 2 mar 51.5 and 12. Apache Gal (1) 26 to 50 (Cat. III), 5-15: 1. Golden Nensey & Mr. Saif H. Nensey. 5. STYLECRACKER NIGHT MARKET 8. STYLECRACKER NIGHT MARKET quarterfinals (Cat. II), (Terms), 1-45: 1. Arrow Ar- M Tograllu 54, 6. Proud Image (6) Angel (5) Deepak Singh 60, 2. TROPHY Div. I (1,400m), Cl. V, G. Naresh 53, 8. Globetrotter (3) Gopal Singh 50.5. Trainer: Imtiaz Sait. TROPHY Div. II (1,400m), Cl. V, CLEVELAND row Arrow (10) Aneel 55, 2. Esco- Pamella (9) P. Gaddam 57, 3. Ro- GO rated 1 to 26: SIMONA (Santosh) 1, Md. Ismail 52 and 9. Brioni (1) Ak- 1. LIMITATION, 2. BLUE EYED 2. R.J. KOLAH TROPHY (1,000m), rated 1 to 26: GO MARISA bar (8) Beuzelin 55, 3. Golden mantic Fire (3) G. Naresh 56.5, 4. ORACLE Knight’s Quest (Parmar) 2, Night India’s top-ranked player shay Kumar 51. BABE, 3. GRAND CANYON Maiden, 3-y-o only: (San- (Ajinkya) 1, Rare Silver (Santosh) 2, Hope (7) Akshay Kumar 55, 4. Re- Pretty Star (8) B. R. Kumar 55.5, tosh) 1, Kramer (Mosin) 2, Sham- Time Of My Life ( J.Chinoy) 3 and Fury (Vishal) 3 and Kiss From A Joshna Chinappa, seeded 1. MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, 2. ICE CAVE, OCEANIC PLATE (Div. I), cumbentibus (4) Suraj Narredu 55, 5. Onak Onk Onk (1) Sai Kumar wari (Parmar) 3 and My Precious Oscillation (Sandesh) 4. 1-1/4, 1-1/4, Rose (A. Gaikwad) 4. 1/2, 1-3/4, third, entered the 3. BRIONI (1,200m), 4-15: 1. Act In Time 5. Sam The Brave (1) I. Chisty 55, 6. 7 55, 6. Awesome Show (4) Md. Is- (P.S. Chouhan) 4. 2-3/4, 1-1/4, 1-1/2. 1/2. 1m, 25.73s. ₹371 (w), 70, 31, Nose. 1m, 25.21s. ₹54 (w), 19, 38 (3) B. R. Kumar 60, 2. Garib Par- quarterfinals of the San Vinto (6) S. Sreekant 55, 7. Turf ARTILLERY CUP (Div. II), mail 54.5, 7. Trustful (6) N. S. 58.75s. ₹89 (w), 25, 29 and 30 (p). and 17 (p). SHP: ₹122, FP: Rs, 1,613, and 37 (p). SHP: ₹83, FP: ₹244, Q: war (9) K. Mukesh Kumar 58, 3. Cleveland Classic, a $50,000 Legend (3) K. Mukesh Kumar 55, 8. (1,600m), 5-y-o & over, rated 46 Rathore 54, 8. Hunter's Pride (2) SHP: ₹111, FP: ₹2,281, Q: ₹1,188. Q: ₹1,332. Tanala: Carried for- ₹78, Tanala: Carried Forward. Fa- 5 Azazil (7) Ajit Singh 56, 4. In Good Strike (5) Khurshad Alam to 70 (Cat. II), 3-15: 1. Legend (2) Sai Akshay Kumar 52.5 and 9. Tanala: ₹13, 507 and ₹5,788. Fa- ward. Favourite: Oscillation. vourite: Cristo Boss. Owners: M/s. PSA event here on Friday, Command (4) Md. Ismail 55.5, 5. 53.5, 9. Kohinoor Lucy (12) Deepak Kumar 60, 2. Bharat King (7) B. R. Beauty Flash (7) Khurshad Alam vourite: My Precious. Owners: Ms. Owner: Mr. Naib Kaur. Trainer: S. Aditya P. Thackersey, Chetan with a 11-9, 11-4, 11-5 win Bouncer (8) Kunal Bunde 55, 6. Singh 53.5, 10. La Romance (9) Kumar 58.5, 3. Little Smart Heart 51.5. Nazak Chenoy & Mr. & Mrs. Waheed. Shah, Kishore P. Rungta & Gautam over qualifier Hollie Ajeeth Kumar 53.5, 11. Rose Petal Coral Springs (6) G. Naresh 54.5, (5) Suraj Narredu 57.5, 4. Dahlois 1. ONK ONK ONK, 2. HUNTER'S Shapoor P. Mistry Horse Breeders’ 6. A. CAMPBELL TROPHY Sengupta. Trainer: Sanjay Kolse. (2) G. Naresh 53.5, 12. Sweet Pistol 7. Nelly (2) Akshay Kumar 53.5, Naughton of Canada. (6) I. Chisty 57, 5. Kalinda (10) PRIDE, 3. PRETTY STAR Farm Pvt. Ltd. Trainer: Nazak (1,200m), Cl. II, rated 60 to 86: LU- 8. My Choice (5) Arshad Alam Jackpot: 70 per cent: ₹1,87,442 (1 She will now face Emily (13) Kiran Naidu 53.5 and 13. With- Deepak Singh 56, 6. Poll Promise Chenoy. CAS (P.S. Chouhan) 1, Alishas Pet rosemakeup (11) Ajit Singh 53.5. 52.5 and 9. Racing Ikon (1) C. P. Day's best: DAHLOIS tkt) and 30 per cent: ₹8,926 (9 Whitlock, the fifth seed from (8) C. P. Bopanna 55, 7. Cloud Dan- 3. G2 GOLD CUP (1,800m), Class IV, (S. Amit) 2, Ancient Glory tkts). 1. TURF LEGEND, 2. SAM THE cer (11) Md. Ismail 54, 8. Canberra Bopanna 52. Double: MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT - RELENTLESS PUR- (Sandesh) 3 and Korol (C.S. Jodha) England. 1. GARIB PARWAR, 2. ACT IN rated 20 to 46: BRAVE, 3. ESCOBAR (3) Kuldeep Singh 53, 9. Brilliant LIMITATION SUIT ( J. Chinoy) 1, Star Of Har- 4. 1/2, Sh, 1-1/4. 1m, 10.31s. ₹24 (w), Treble: (i) ₹14, 740 (carried for- TIME, 3. RACING IKON The other Indian in the fray, SOUTHERN GLORY PLATE (4) Akshay Kumar 52.5, 10. Golden Jkt (i): 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5; (ii): 5, 6, 7, 8 & mony (Suraj Narredu) 2, Simon 15, 17 and 13 (p). SHP: ₹61, FP: ₹74, ward). (ii) ₹803 (31 tkts). Sachika Ingale, could not 3 (1,400m), 4-y-o & over, rated 26 Arrow (9) K. Mukesh Kumar 52.5, H. P. MISTRY MEMORIAL CUP 9; Tr (i): 1, 2 & 3; (ii): 4, 5 & 6; (iii): Says (A. Gaikwad) 3 and Book Q: ₹223, Tanala: ₹127 and ₹59. Fa- Super jackpot (100%): ₹1,88, 636 cross the qualification phase. to 50 (Cat. III), 2-15: 1. Own Battle 11. Penumatcha's Pride (12) Ajeeth 8 (1,200m), 4-y-o & over, rated 7, 8 & 9; Tla: all races. Thief (Parmar) 4. Hd, 2-1/2, 3-3/4. vourite: Lucas. Owners: Mr. & (carried forward). DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Elysee may score Bowling Sandeep wins in SUDOKU Nationals in the Vivono Million from today record time Kamesh Srinivasan RACE WALKING MUMBAI: Trainer S.K. Sunderji’s Royal Sapphire (5) C.S.Jodha 58.5, (4) Ajinkya 57.5, 5. Fribourg (6) Principal Correspondent NEW DELHI ward Elysee should score over her 4. Suerte (-) (-), 56, 5. Golden Nadeem 56.5, 6. Glorious Eyes Bengaluru rivals in the Vivono Million, the Horde (4) Shelar 55.5, 6. Petronius (12) C.S.Jodha 56.5, 7. Hunting Sandeep Kumar clocked a tional record 1:20:21.00 in main event of the races to be held (1) Neeraj 55.5, 7. Philadelphia (13) Pleasure (10) Trevor 56, 8. A total of 145 bowlers will National Record 3 hours 55 the London Olympics. here on Sunday. Sandesh 55.5, 8. Adams Beginning Comic Timing (13) Neeraj 54.5, be seen in action at the minutes 59.05 seconds in Rails will be placed 3 metres wide (12) S.Amit 54.5, 9. Beyond Forces 9. Smart Vision (7) Bhawani 53, Devender and K. from 1400m to 1200m and 11 (10) Merchant 54.5, 10. Name Of 10. Impossible Dream (3) Pra- Amoeba 27th National ten- winning the 50 kilometre Ganapathi made it a sweep metres from 800m upto the win- The Game (8) Dashrath 54.5, 11. deep 51.5, 11. Kalina (11) Mer- pin bowling championship, gold in the Max Bupa Na- of medals for Services be- ning post. Panatela (11) Bhawani 54.5, 12. chant 51.5, 12. Kookaburra (9) organised by Tenpin Bowl- tional race walking champi- hind Irfan. MANAPPURAM FINANCE LTD She’s A Tiger (7) Santosh 54.5, 13. Mosin 51.5 and 13. Royal Éclair ing Federation (India), Untitled (2) Hanumant 54.5, 14. (8) Santosh 51.5. onship at the Vinay Marg 1 TROPHY (2,000m), Cl. II, rated commencing here on Priyanka takes gold 60 to 86, 2-00 pm: 1. Mathaiyus (1) Princess Athena (6) Vishal 54 and 1. LADY IN RED, 2. HUNTING here on Saturday. Trevor 59 and 2. Caesars Star (2) 15. Divine Spark (3) S.K.Jadhav PLEASURE, 3. IMPERIAL Sunday. The 30-year-old Sandeep, In the women’s 20 kilo- 51.5. Parbat 57.5. HERITAGE who beat Jitender Singh and metre walk, Priyanka of Oil MATHAIYUS 1. HOUSE OF COMMONS, 2. PHIL- Star-studded field ADELPHIA, 3. PETRONIUS AMATEURS RIDERS’ CLUB Chandan Singh of the Ser- and Natural Gas Corpora- Y M CHAUDHRY MEMORIAL Defending champion 8 TROPHY DIV.I (1,000m), Cl. vices in clinching the gold tion (ONGC) grabbed the 2 TROPHY (1,600m), Maiden, 3- DR GOVIND R GURBAXANI ME- IV, rated 20 to 46, 5-30: 1. Al- Dhruv Sarda (Delhi), Asian MORIAL TROPHY (1,600m), Cl. for Haryana, had set the gold with a time of y-o only, 2-30: 1. Afrique (4) 5 most Magical (6) G.Amit 62, 2. Championship silver Sandeep 55, 2. Art Of War (3) III, rated 40 to 66, 4-00: 1. Batman Rock In Rio (1) Dashrath 61, 3. earlier mark of 3:56:22.00 in 1:37:58.32, comfortably Dashrath 55, 3. Gdansk (5) (6) Trevor 59, 2. Volantis (5) Neeraj Pollyana (4) Ajinkya 60, 4. Al- medallist Shabbir Dhankot ahead of Shanti Kumari and 57, 3. Glorious Opinion (3) S.J.Sunil 2014. C.S.Jodha 55, 4. Pure Zinc (2) fredo (8) Santosh 59, 5. Fringe (TN), Commonwealth Rani Yadav of the Railways. J.Chinoy 55, 5. Wildcard Warrior 55, 4. Streetjammer (2) J.Chinoy Benefit (15) Joseph 59, 6. medallist S.A. Hammed 54.5, 5. Vice Admiral (1) Sandesh Arduous race National record holder (6) S.Amit 55 and 6. Zenon (1) Tre- Blitzkrieg (9) Parbat 57, 7. Lo- (Delhi), local favourite vor 55. 54.5, 6. Jazzmyn (7) S.Amit 51.5 gano (5) Pereira 57, 8. El Tycoon With the 20 kilometre Khushbir Kaur, who had re- and 7. Eiger’s Tiger (4) Dashrath 51. Akaash Ashok Kumar are 1. PURE ZINC, 2. ZENON (13) C.S.Jodha 56.5, 9. Regal Shot walk also being conducted gistered the best time of 1. VOLANTIS, 2. JAZZMYN (12) P.S.Chouhan 54, 10. Royal some of the big names who LIONS CLUB OF BOMBAY HOST concurrently, the field was 1:31:40.00 in May 2014, did Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku TROPHY (2,000m), Cl. V, rated VIVONO MILLION (1,200m), 3- Blood (3) Shahrukh 54, 11. will compete in the men’s 3 Dubrovnik (2) Mosin 53.5, 12. Ko- thin and only 14 finished the not start the race. 01 to 26, 3-00: 1. Koal (5) S.Amit 61, 6 y-o only, 4-30: 1. Elysee (7) category. 2. Danse Debonaire (8) Dashrath Neeraj 57, 2. Juggernaut (1) modo Dragon (10) K.Kadam arduous race. The results: 60.5, 3. The Other Song (7) Dashrath 57, 3. Texas Gold (3) 53.5, 13. Britain (14) A.Gaikwad In the women’s section, 52.5, 14. Lilac Time (11) In the 20 kilometre walk, Men: 20km walk: 1. K.T. Irfan 1: Bhawani 60.5, 4. Ritz (1) J.Chinoy J.Chinoy 57, 4. Goldie’s Pet (6) Tre- defending champion Sa- 22:43.48; 2. Devender 1:22:43.59; 58.5, 5. Windhoek (2) S.J.Sunil vor 55.5, 5. Miss Moneypenny (2) Raghuveer 52.5 and 15. Pad- beena Athica (TN) will be in which Gurmeet Singh was 57.5, 6. Dazzle N Daze (6) Parbat Sandesh 55.5, 6. Solo Mission (4) makosa (7) Merchant 51. disqualified and the ace of 3. K.Ganapathi 1:22:57.86. 1. ALFREDO, 2. ALMOST MA- gunning for her 10th title. 56, 7. Star Scholar (3) Vishal 56 and P.S.Chouhan 53 and 7. Bottega the Rio Olympics Manish 50km walk: 1. Sandeep Kumar 8. Pracs (4) Parmar 49.5. Louie (5) C.S.Jodha 51.5. GICAL, 3. POLLYANA Other top women bowlers 3:55:59.05; 2. Jitender Singh 1. DANSE DEBONAIRE, 2. PRACS, 3. 1. ELYSEE, 2. MISS MONEYPENNY Day’s best: VOLANTIS include Sumathi Rawat did not start, national 4:02:11.58; 3. Chandan Singh RITZ SURAJ ESTATE DEVELOPERS Double: HOUSE OF COMMONS – Nallabantu (Telangana) and record holder K.T. Irfan 4:04:18.41. LADY IN RED AMATEUR RIDERS’ CLUB 7 TROPHY (1,400m), Cl. IV, rated Karnataka State champion clinched the gold with a Women: 20km walk: 1. Priy- 4 TROPHY DIV.II (1,000m), Cl. IV, 20 to 46, 5-00: 1. Zanzibaar (2) Jackpot: 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Treble: (i) Judy Alban. time of 1 hour 22 minutes anka 1:37:58.32; 2. Shanti Kumari rated 20 to 46, 3-30: 1. Riot Of Col- S.J.Sunil 59.5, 2. Zoom Zoom (1) 5, 6 & 7. 6, 7 & 8. Tanala: 2, 3, 4, 43.48 seconds. ours (9) Ayyar 59, 2. House Of Vishal 59.5, 3. Lady In Red (5) 5, 6, 7 & 8. Super Jackpot: 3, 4, 5, The total prize money 1:38:38.70; 3. Rani Yadav Commons (14) Trevor 58.5, 3. Sandesh 58.5, 4. Imperial Heritage 6, 7 & 8. on offer is ₹7.50 lakh. Irfan had clocked his na- 1:38:51.30. CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017 SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Gameiro inspires Atletico to big win Juventus routs Palermo Comes of the bench to score a hat-trick in the space of ive minutes Barcelona: Kevin Gameiro LA LIGA came off the bench to score a hat-trick in the space of five minutes to fire Atletico Mad- trick in the league as a rid to a 4-1 win over strug- substitute. gling Sporting Gijon in La Colombia striker Adrian Liga on Saturday that kept it Ramos scored two goals for Casillas all praise in fourth spot. Granada to fuel its 4-1 rout of for Buffon Real Betis on Friday. Yannick Carrasco had PORTO Ramos, who hadn’t scored Spain’s Iker Casillas labelled given Atletico the lead 12 in his previous three seconds into the second half fellow goalkeeper Gianluigi matches for Granada, joined Ruthless: Paulo Dybala showed no mercy to his former Buffon as one of the greatest but Sergio Alvarez gave the Granada in January on loan employer, Palermo, scoring two and creating one. AFP of all time. “I think Italian impressive home side a de- from Borussia Dortmund. football won’t have another served equaliser in the 49th That deal involved a future Agencies goalkeeper like him. He’s his 19th league goal of the minute. Sporting continued move to Chinese club Milan considered one of the best of to cause Diego Simeone’s season in the 63rd minute, Chongqing Dangdai Lifan Juventus went 10 points all time. Ours is a healthy side problems after drawing latching onto Dybala’s delic- that will be formalised at the clear at the top of Serie A on rivalry. He is part of the level and Alvarez missed a ately weighted pass between end of the season. Friday with a 4-1 win over history of this game.” UEFA.COM gilt-edged chance to put it two defenders. Granada and Chongqing struggling Palermo in a per- ahead when he sent a half- Higuain repaid the favour Dangdai Lifan are both fectly-timed boost ahead of volley over the bar from to his international team- owned by Lizhang Jiang, a its Champions League trip close range. mate one minute from time Shanghai-based business- to Porto next week. with a cheeky backheel al- For the second week in a man, who watched the Paulo Dybala, who lowing Dybala to slot the row, however, Atletico dug match from the Los Car- moved to Turin after three ball home. deep to rescue the points menes Stadium stands while seasons at Palermo in 2015, The results: Bundesliga: Bor- from an unconvincing dis- on a visit to the Spanish city. was close to scoring as early ussia Dortmund 3 (Bruma 20-og, play. Antoine Griezmann had Following Mehdi Carcela- as the fifth minute when he Piszczek 48, Dembele 59) bt a goal harshly ruled out for Gonzalez’s opener in the clipped the post with a left- Wolfsburg 0; Mainz 0 lost to Wer- offside but laid on the pass der Bremen 2 (Gnabry 16, Delaney 18th minute, Ramos headed footed free kick. for Gameiro’s first strike, the in a second 10 minutes later 23); Hertha Berlin 1 (Ibisevic 21) Alves reckons Barcelona former Sevilla player calmly after Hector Hernandez Higuain strikes drew with Bayern Munich 1 (Le- rounding Ivan Cuellar to put wandowski 90+7); Hoffenheim 2 can make a comeback found him with a cross. Claudio Marchisio put Ju- TURIN Atletico ahead in the 80th. (Kramaric 64, 90+3) bt Darmstadt Andreas Pereira added a ventus ahead in the 13th Juventus’s Dani Alves third before Ramos’ solo ef- 0; Eintracht Frankfurt 0 lost to In- Gameiro ruthlessly killed minute, finding the net after golstadt 2 (Bregerie 26, Gross 69). believes Barcelona’s off Sporting with two quick- fort to finish off his own re- “machines” are capable of goalkeeper Josip Posavec Serie A: Friday: Juventus 4 fire strikes, latching on to a bound put the result beyond could only parry Gonzalo (Marchisio 13, Dybala 40, 89, producing a stunning pass from Thomas Partey to doubt in the 64th. turnaround in their Higuain’s close-range shot. Higuain 63) bt Palermo 1 (Chochev score in the 81st minute and The results: La Liga: Saturday: Champions League last-16 tie Higuain added a third and 90+3). taking advantage of another Sporting Gijon 1 (Alvarez 48) lost to with PSG. “In football, Atletico Madrid 4 (Carrasco 46, through ball from Griez- anything can happen. If Gameiro 80, 81, 85). anyone can produce a mann to complete his treble. Friday: Granada 4 (Carcela 18, comeback, it’s the Barca Rising star: Atletico Madrid’s Kevin Gameiro justiied his selection ahead of Fernando Torres The Frenchman is the first Ramos 28, 64, Pereira 33) bt Real A hard-fought machines.” OMNISPORT by scoring a hat-trick against Sporting Gijon. AFP Atletico player to score a hat- Betis 1 (Petros 75). AGENCIES goalless draw Bagan rides on ‘Have an under-16 event in HIL’ Nandakumar Marar MUMBAI I-LEAGUE In the last few years Amitabha Das Sharma <> Hockey India did a Djelaluddin Shariyar’s goal- RANCHI ine save in the 82nd minute hun Bagan, leaping up to tip Balwant’s brace good job by away Sandesh Jhingan’s Floris Bovelander became a allowed Mumbai FC (MFC) introducing HIL header off a corner kick. Amitabha Das Sharma better of Bagan defender key name in the develop- walk away with a hard- Bengaluru kept the de- KOLKATA Eduardo and set up Milan ment of hockey in India they can explore their talent fought goalless draw in its fensive formation in the face Mohun Bagan returned to with a low cross. The Ma- when his country, the Neth- in the sport so that one day Hero I-League home match Guardiola rules out of probing by the home winning ways after two bar- nipuri midfielder outsprin- erlands, signed a partner- become the best player of against an aggressive return to Barcelona side, denying space through MANCHESTER ren draws, downing visitors ted his marker E. Anas to ship of association couple of the state if not for the Na- Bengaluru FC (BFC). the middle and forcing Manchester City manager Pep DSK Shivajians 3-1 here on find the net with a deft tap. years ago. tional team,” Bovelander The Afghan defender Mumbai to attempt raids Guardiola says he will never Saturday. Bagan coach Sanjoy Sen The Dutch great, who says adding that he expects blocked an effort by Sunil down the flanks. Farukh go back to Barcelona as its The hosts were in arrears made a couple of changes, owns both the Olympic the results to come in four Chhetri from near the left Choudhary connected off coach amid growing after Shivajians went ahead introducing Katsumi Yusa men’s hockey gold and the years after the academy post. Daniel Lalhlimpuia one such attack from the uncertainty about Luis midway through the first and Prabir Das on the wings, World Cup title, is offering Floris Bovelander. starts functioning. fired wide with an empty right, Reagaan Singh’s Enrique’s future. “No, I will half through Milan Singh. in an effort to spark his side dreams of a great revival Putting a lot of faith on goal in front after goal- floater resulting in the ball never go back to Barcelona to However, Balwant Singh into action. through an ambitious tie up association with Tata Trusts. HIL, Bovelander said India’s keeper Laxmikant Kattimani be coach there. My period clearing the defence, but struck twice in two minutes The ploy seemed to work with Tata Trusts’ project — “In the end the main result in the Rio Olympics is charged out to deal with a there is gone,” said the the try was blocked. to give Bagan the lead in the as Balwwant restored parity Collectives for Integrated point was being enthusiastic also an indication of the up- long pass and looked on 46-year-old Spaniard. AFP opening session. in the 42nd minute, cashing Livelihood Initiatives. about hockey. The children swing. helplessly. Bengaluru, now in fourth Katsumi Yusa scored a in on a poor clearance by Bovelander says hockey in here are nice and friendly. “In the last few years Bengaluru created after its fourth draw in nine chances in the second half games, was denied a clear Granada creates late penalty in the second Shivajians goalkeeper Sub- India can regain its lost glory Of course at home the equip- Hockey India did a good job but was forced to share shot at target in the first half La Liga history half to make it 3-1, helping it rata Paul who failed to con- only if it has a proper youth ment is better and they play by introducing the HIL and join East Bengal (21 points) points after the players in and chose to control the MADRID trol a Pritam Kotal cross. development programme in on artificial pitches with shin getting some good foreign at the top of the standings. Two minutes later, Bal- place. guards. But in terms of will- coaches to develop the West- striking position were not flow of moves in its own half Granada made La Liga history and turned on the heat in by naming a team of 11 Shivajians, which held want met another Kotal “It would be a good idea ingness to learn and atti- ern style of play. The World successful in finishing off the second after Vineeth different nationalities as it Bagan to a goalless draw in cross with a side volley to to have an u-16 tournament tude, there are a lot of simil- Cup in 2018 (to be held at moves. C.K. Vineeth, com- thrashed Real Betis 4-1 on their earlier encounter in put Bagan in the lead before attached to the Hockey India arities than differences,” Bhubaneshwar) will also add ing on as substitute after and Eugenson Lyngdoh Friday. The lone Spaniard January, started quickly off the break. League (HIL) as that would Bovelander told The Hindu to the development of the half-time, got past defenders came on as substitutes. Hector Hernandez was joined the blocks. It almost scored Yusa made it 3-1 from the surely boost the youth devel- in a chat over Skype in the sport here,” Bovelander and went on to shoot wide. Chhetri was closely by Guillermo Ochoa (Mexico), in the 21st minute, but spot after Bagan earned a opment,” Bovelander sug- Trusts’ office at Khunti. said. Kattimani came under marked right through till he Adrian Ramos (Colombia), Bagan custodian Debjit penalty when substitute Jeje gests. The two districts adopted “I think there are hardly pressure in the first half turned around his marker to Sverrir Ingi Ingason (Iceland), Majumdar charged out to Lalpekhlua was brought The Dutch Olympic cham- by the Trusts for develop- four or five countries which when Udanta Singh raced shoot past Kattimani. The Gaston Silva (Uruguay), thwart an attempt from down inside the Shivajians pion asserted that there is ment will offer the initial had both the men’s and wo- away from his own half, fol- roar went up for a goal, only Martin Hongla (Cameroon), midfielder Juan Quero. box by defender Gourmangi not much difference in the batch of students for the up- men’s teams in the lowed a clearance, and for the Afghan defender to Mubarak Wakaso (Ghana), Shivajians continued to Singh. “willingness and attitude” coming Tata Hockey Olympics. And with both In- found Allwyn George in pos- dash across and clear. Andreas Pereira (Brazil), dominate the exchanges between the kids in his Academy in Jamshedpur, dian men and women play- ition. The latter’s attempt Mumbai’s second draw in Dimitri Foulquier (France), While Bagan took its tally was blocked. Uche Agbo (Nigeria) and with regular attacks and to 21 points from nine country and children in two which is scheduled to be ing in the last Olympics 10 games took it to the Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalez found the target three matches, Shivajians re- districts of Khunti and West launched in May this year. (2016), it was a good devel- The Mumbai goalkeeper eighth spot, above Minerva (Morocco) in the match. minutes after the half-hour mained on 10 from as many Singhbhum where his “The Academy will give opment,” is how Bovelander continued his form from the Punjab and Churchill AGENCIES mark when Quero got the games. academy is working in close these players a place where holds out hope. previous game against Mo- Brothers. Lancers steamroller Warriors Plea to increase Yuki cruises to glory Complaint Uthra Ganesan Wins his 12th Futures singles title against CHANDIGARH pension of medallists Jaypee Punjab Warriors Churchill ended its home engage- Vijay Lokapally The government also added ments of the Hockey India New Delhi the Commonwealth Games Nevin Thomas League on a losing note, go- A group of Olympians has and World Cup winners to CHENNAI ing down 7-0 to Kalinga Lan- been knocking at the gov- the pension scheme at the Chennai City FC has filed cers on Saturday, to languish ernment’s door with a plea behest of Mr. Gill. an official complaint with at the bottom of the table to increase the pension “It is nine years now and the All India Football Fed- and in real danger of missing amount sanctioned to them times for the pension eration, accusing Churchill out on a playoff spot. under a scheme launched scheme to be reviewed,” Brothers of vandalising the It was a continuation of a more than two decades ago. said a former Olympic gold away dressing room at the dismal season for the de- The Olympians, prefer- medallist. “The pay com- Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium fending champion, boasting ring to remain unnamed, mission has looked into the in Chennai, after the team’s of three National captains have sent a series of interests of government em- I-League match on Feb. 14. and a slew of big names in its presentations to the Union ployees and freedom fight- Champion: Yuki Bhambri dispatched Sriram Balaji in quick AIFF confirmed that it ranks, that began with a 10-4 Sports Ministry and high- ers but the sportspersons time. FILE PHOTO had received a complaint humiliation against Dabang Happy bunch: Lancers players celebrate Lalit Upadhyay’s strike lighted the fact that the pen- feel left out,” he added. and was looking into the Mumbai and never picked against Jaypee Punjab Warriors. AKHILESH KUMAR sion amount needs to be en- Harbinder Singh, mem- Special Correspondent lenger level. matter. “We found the taps up pace since. Even in the hanced, keeping in mind ber of the gold winning In- CHANDIGARH After the successful Davis and the flush in washroom three wins its scored, two earned eight penalty Kalinga ahead in the 9th the inflation. dian team at the 1964 Top seed Yuki Bhambri out- Cup outing against New Zea- broken after the match. were contests won more be- corners but failed to conver- minute. The pension scheme was Olympics in Tokyo, had played second seed Sriram land in Pune, Yuki was busy There is no way someone cause of the opposition’s ted any, including three A second PC in the 24th introduced in 1994. ₹2000 made a fervent appeal in Balaji 6-2, 6-2 in the final of winning the individual and else could have done that mistakes than JPW’s back-to-back in the dying minute found its mark and for Olympic gold medallists 2014 on behalf of the the $15,000 ITF men’s Fu- team titles for Oil and Nat- because only the away excellence. seconds of second quarter. an unmarked Lalit was put and ₹1500 for Asian Games Olympians to then Sports tures tennis tournament at ural Gas Corporation team had access to the On Saturday, the host Lancers, which finished through by Billy Bakker in were sanctioned. The pen- Minister Sarbananda the CLTA Stadium on Sat- (ONGC) in the Petroleum area,” said the team’s sec- seemed to be going through runner-up last season, was a the 34th minute to calmly sion scheme was reviewed Sonowal, during the Na- urday. It was a flawless per- tennis championship in As- retary Vikram Murali. the motions, with little or no team with a plan and had slot the ball in — with eight in 1999 and ₹500 were ad- tional Sports Day celebra- formance by the 24-year- sam last week. “We spoke to stadium co-ordination among its the personnel to execute it. Punjab players defending in- ded to the two categories. tion event at the National old, except when he Even though there will be authorities about the dam- players and hardly a couple Upadhyay, Dharamvir and side the circle — in the 34th Ten years after the Stadium. dropped serve in the fourth a series of Futures tourna- age and they gave us an es- of shots at the goal, that Adam Dixon were sharp in minute to make it 5-0. scheme was launched, the It is understood that game of the second set after ments over the next few timate of Rs. 40,000. We went wide. The defence was the attack, assisted by cap- Dharamvir rounded up the sporting fraternity was de- there are 32 Olympians who having taken a 3-0 lead. weeks in India, Yuki was have claimed compensa- in shambles and the offence tain Moritz Fuerste playing tally five minutes later. lighted at the decision of the fall in the category of gold Balaji, 26, converted the candid in saying that he had tion through the AIFF,” ad- non-existent. When names far upfront. While Kalinga ended its Sports Ministry to double medal winners and they third breakpoint in that enough of it. ded Murali. like Mark Knowles and In the defence, Dipsan league stage with 28 points the amount to ₹5000 for an have made a request to the game, on a double-fault by He had won a similar Fu- “We have already sent a Robert van der Horst make Tirkey and Amit Rohidas and is all set to finish in the Olympic gold medallist and Sports Minister Vijay Goel. Yuki, but did not get any tures title in Hong Kong by show-cause notice to elementary trapping mis- were stubborn as a wall, top-four, JPW may find even ₹4000 for an Asiad winner. The sportsmen believe other chance to break serve the end of last year, after Churchill and are awaiting takes and Sardar Singh loses hardly letting any balls a victory in its last match, to Within four years of the that a favourable response before or after. missing more than six their reply,” said Akshay possession to a youngster through. The few times they be played in Delhi, inad- increase, the then Sports from the Sports Minister It was the third victory months to a tennis elbow. Rohatgi, senior manager, I- like Lalit Upadhyay, it’s clear missed, goalkeeper Andrew equate to make the cut with Minister M.S. Gill once would help them tide over for the 369th ranked Yuki “I am done with the Fu- League Operations and that the team has big prob- Charter was up to the task. coach Dancer admitting as again brought good news their financial issues. over Balaji in the profes- tures. I will be training in Club Licensing. lems to solve. Dixon failed to stop a much after the game. for the sportsmen when he “I understand the signi- sional circuit in as many Delhi for the next 10 days. I Churchill has rubbished JPW lost its third player push in his team’s first pen- The result: Kalinga Lancers 7 enhanced the pension ficance of their request. meetings. plan to compete in three the allegations and its team this season with Armaan alty corner but made up for (Adam Dixon 2 FG, Lalit Upadhyay 2 amount to ₹10000 per They are national heroes It was also the 12th Fu- Challengers in China next manager Denzil Ferrao said Qureshi, who was hit on the it by chasing the ball and FG, Dharamvir Singh 2 FG, Moritz month for the Olympic gold and I will do my best to con- tures singles title for Yuki, month,” said Yuki, who was “Our players were not in- shin against Delhi, ruled out slotting it past two defenders Fuerste 1 PC) bt Jaypee Punjab medal winner and ₹8000 sider their request,” Goel who has five singles and six ranked a career-best 88 in volved. We will reply to the of the remaining games. JPW and the goalkeeper to put Warriors 0. for the Asian Games winner. told The Hindu. doubles titles at the Chal- November 2015. AIFF.” CM ND-ND YK