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After mission comprising Chief losing Jharkhand, the BJP is Election Commissioner Sunil   desperate to capture power in Arora, Election Commissioners the national Capital, whereas Ashok Lavasa and Sushil rmy Chief General Bipin for the AAP it will be a test to Chandra reviewed poll pre- ARawat on Thursday found see if a string of welfare mea- paredness for Delhi Assembly himself in the thick of a major sures initiated by the Kejriwal elections. The meeting was controversy after his remark on M Government is suffice to buck attended by District Election the violent protest against anti-   !"#! !# the anti-incumbency factor officers, Deputy Commissioner Citizenship Amendment Act The EC has begun a series of Police, Joint Commissioners (CAA) invited backlash from !$ !!# of meetings in preparation for of Police, chairman of New political parties, veterans of the !$# ! &&& the polls scheduled early next Delhi Municipal Council, services and others.   ! 'N year. The first meeting of EC Commissioners of three Speaking at an event here, officials took place on Municipal Corporations, Chief Rawat said, “Leaders do not the Army Chief said, “A leader December 24 and the second Executive Officer of Delhi lead masses in inappropriate is the one who leads you in the one on Thursday. The third one Cantonment and other stake- directions as we are witnessing correct direction, gives you by the Chief Secretary of Delhi holders. The commission also in a large number of universi- the right advice, and then is expected on Monday. held a separate meeting with ty and college students, the way ensures that you care for the During the review meeting, Chief Secretary Vijay Dev and they are leading masses of people you lead.” Rawat added Delhi Chief Electoral Officer the Delhi Police Commissioner. crowds to carry out arson and the leadership is conveyed Ranbir Singh and Special        !    "          ! "         During the meeting, Delhi violence in our cities and through personal example. Commissioner of Police Pravir CEO Singh presented pre- towns. This is not leadership.” “That is what we in the armed Ranjan, who is State Police the CEO of Delhi, there are ber Assembly expires on power due to weak Opposition meetings with party’s Delhi paredness with regard to elec- Rawat was addressing a health forces are proud of,” he said. Nodal Officer, made a presen- 1.45 crore electors in the February 22, 2020. parties — both the BJP and the unit leaders. The party will toral rolls, manpower avail- leadership summit here. Incidentally, Rawat’s state- tation about the general law national Capital as on Banking on a string of Congress. organise a social media work- ability, EVMs/VVPATs, train- The Congress, the CPI(M) ment comes a day after Prime and order situation prevailing December 18. Of them, 79.98 freebies, including free water The BJP is banking on shop on December 26 which ing of all election officials, and and the AIMIM among others Minister Narendra Modi had in Delhi and action being lakh are men and 65.73 lakh and power, the ruling AAP is granting ownership right to will be attended by a represen- SVEEP activities focusing and slammed the Army Chief for denounced the destruction of planned by the Delhi Police to women. The number of trans- confident of repeating its per- people of unauthorised tative from every Assembly targeting low turnout areas for “breaching his institutional public property during the enforce all the measures as gender voters is 707. formance. Last week, the AAP colonies and Prime Minister constituency. From January 2 to increasing the number of voter limit” and “speaking against protests, saying rights go along mandated by the commission. The 2015 elections were released its five years report Narendra Modi’s image. Ahead January 15, the leaders will turnout. constitutional democracy.” The with duty. “I want to ask peo- Officials privy to the delibera- announced on January 12 and card. The AAP Government of the Delhi Assembly polls, the address people through video “The EC also reviewed the CPI(M) demanded an apology ple who resorted to violence in tions said the Delhi Police top the voting was held on has listed quality education, BJP has directed its party lead- broadcast rallies. status of preparation at the level from him for his “indiscretion”, UP to sit at home and ask brass is of the view that law and February 7. The AAP had won free health facility, good gov- ers to hold public outreach pro- The Delhi CEO informed of Districts. All district election claiming his remarks have themselves whether what they order situation in the national 67 out of 70 seats. The BJP had ernance, and subsidised elec- grammes in Assembly con- the EC regarding special mea- officers along with their respec- adverse ramifications for the did is good or not. They Capital is well under control managed to secure just three tricity as its main achieve- stituencies across Delhi. sures taken for facilitating per- tive DCPs gave detailed pre- constitutional arrangement. destroyed buses and public and that the force was prepared seats in 2015 while the ments. Party’s national general sons with disabilities and senior sentations of their district to the Citing the example of property that belongs to the for the elections. Congress had drawn a blank. There is possibility that secretary BL Santosh discussed citizens, including pick and Election Commission,” said protests by a large number of future generation,” he said. As per the presentation by The tenure of the 70-mem- the ruling AAP may return to the programmes during the drop facility from home to officials. university and college students, Continued on Page 4 "   #   !     $   % &' (    

$  !!    residential purposes, 20 per   ! cent for commercial purposes ! % and 10 per cent land for pub- lic facilities. He said the scheme    described the Congress leader       would include housing for as “joothon ka sardar” (master Economically Weaker Sections rime Minister Narendra of lies) and asserted that deten-      (EWS) as well as stations for PModi’s assertion that there tion camps in Assam were set pink and violet Metro lines. He was no detention centre in the up when the Congress was in ccusing the Congress of said 4,526 units will be for mid- country led to a bitter war of power both at the Centre and Asupporting violence during said creation of riverfronts on dle class and 288 for EWS. words between the Congress in the State. the protests against Citizen both banks of the Yamuna and Continued on Page 4 and the BJP on Thursday amid The BJP spokesperson Amendment Act (CAA) in the its beautification, a dedicated disclosure about existence of alleged after apologising to the national Capital, Union cycle track in Delhi to promote such camps in Assam and Supreme Court on the Rafale Minister of Home Affairs Amit green transportation and &  Karnataka. issue, Rahul is now spreading Shah said it is time to punish reduce road accidents, devel- The Congress has also lies on the detention centres. the tukde-tukde gang which opment of JJ clusters are some    attacked the Government over He asserted that the Prime was responsible for the violence of the works to be taken on pri- National Population Register Minister had only said there is in the streets of Delhi with the ority basis.    (NPR) and said that there was no such detention camp in help of the Congress party. Shah said 116 kilometre of a design to bring in NRC in the which Muslims of India will be “There were discussions new Metro lines out of which Q  R garb of NPR. placed after NRC. held in Parliament on CAA and work on 70 kilometre route has     Taking to Twitter, Congress Addressing a Press confer- then no one said anything but already started. Moreover, 18 leader Rahul Gandhi attached ence, Patra showed the official !           $!               when the Bill came out, mis- projects worth 802 crore had n UP Minister on a visit a video clip showing a deten- statement issued by the          %      "              information was spread and been completed under the Ahere on Thursday refused tion centre being constructed Congress-led UPA             &   %     peace was disrupted in the AMRUT scheme in the city. to meet the families of the two in Assam. While accusing the Government in 2011 and         '( "   "()%*     +"  national Capital,” said Shah at Also, he said the Regional Muslim men who died in the Congress, its allies and “Urban ‘White Paper’ on the issue of    "   % a rally in city on Thursday. Rail Transport System between recent protests against the new Naxals” of spreading the foreigners published by the With the Assembly elec- Delhi and Meerut, Panipat and citizenship law, terming them rumour that Muslims will be party-led Government in tions round the corner in Delhi, Alwar was being developed by “upadravi” (vandals). sent to detention centres, the Assam in 2012, and claimed $ R   Q  R the Union Government on the Union Government on a “Why should I go to van- PM had denied presence of any that as per these documents, Thursday announced a slew of fast-track basis. dals’ place? How can those who such centre in the country. detention camps were estab- developmental projects for the Shah said 1,400 crore and are involved in vandalism and “RSS’ Prime Minister lies to lished in the State. overall development of Delhi 30 hectares have been dedicat- put the entire country and Bharat Mata,” Rahul said in the “Rahul Gandhi is joothon )*       and welfare of its people. ed for this scheme, and assured state in arson be social,” tweet in Hindi with the hash- ka sardar. The three detention Speaking on the occasion that the scheme would be com- Minister Kapil Dev Agarwal tag ‘jhoot jhoot jhoot (lies, centres were set up in Assam at    of foundation stone laying cer- pleted well in time. defended his decision to not lies, lies). the time when his party was in     emony of Integrated He noted that this would visit the homes of the two Reacting to Rahul’s liar power both at the Centre and Development of be a mixed use scheme, with 70 Muslim families. jibe at the Prime Minister, BJP the State,” Patra said. he Moon on Thursday Hub city, the Union Minister per cent land earmarked for Continued on Page 4 spokesperson Sambit Patra Continued on Page 4 Tslowly masked the Sun to leave just a burning ring of fire in what was the last solar eclipse of the decade, an astro- + +     ,-.- nomical phenomenon wit- nessed by thousands of scien- tists and spiritualists across     will take all necessary steps, Government, in Banaskantha, India. including spraying of pesti- crops over 8,000-10,000 As the Moon came in uge swarms of Pakistani cides, to contain the attack. The hectares have been damaged. between the Earth and the Hlocusts have descended teams will remain in the State Locusts were first seen in Sun and the three celestial on agricultural fields in Gujarat until the problem is solved,” Suigam, Danta, Deesa, bodies aligned, people gathered and Rajasthan and inflicted officials said. The Ministry is Palanpur and Lakhni tehsils of on rooftops, beaches and other major damage on crops of exploring the possibility of Banaskantha last week. From open spaces as well as plane-                 mustard, castor, fennel, cumin, using drones to spray insecti- there they moved to Satlasana tariums to watch the flaming            cotton, potato, wheat and jat- cides. tehsil in Mehsana district. A solar disc. But overcast skies ropha. Officials said that a team of few days ago a huge swarm, and fog played spoilsport in eter of the Moon falls short of Silchar, the MoES said in a The Gujarat Government experts will conduct survey on spread across 30 to 35 square many parts, particularly north the Sun so it cannot cover the statement last week. on Thursday promised com- the Locust Warning kilometres, descended in India, leaving those in towns latter completely. As a result, The rigours of space sci- pensation for farmers in Oganisation’s report and spray Tharad tehsil and devoured such as Kozhikode in Kerala to the Sun is visible only as a “ring ence and the arcane world of Banaskantha district and other pesticides. Farmers have been mustard, castor, funnel and watch the eclipse unfold in of fire” around the Moon. religion and myths merged as areas of north Gujarat which teams to Gujarat while the Banaskantha, Mehsana, Kutch, directed to deploy various mea- wheat crops, he said, adding clear skies. The obscuration of the Sun they do with every eclipse. has been facing the massive State Government has set up 16 Patan and Sabarkantha dis- sures to deal with the situation, that locusts are still present in The partial phase of the by the Moon at the time of Various temples, including locust attack over the last two teams to keep a watch the tricts in the last few days in including burning tyres in neighbouring areas of Jalore eclipse began at 8 am and the greatest phase of partial eclipse the famous Lord Ayyappa weeks. movement of swarms and to Gujarat, and Jaisalmer, Barmer, fields, playing drums and district in Rajasthan and in the annular phase at 9.06 am. The was around 90 per cent in Temple in Sabarimala, Worried over huge loss of spray pesticide. Jalore, of Rajasthan. clanging utensils, switching on Tharparkar desert of Pakistan. annular phase ended 12.29 Bengaluru, 85 per cent in Padmanabha Swamy temple crops, 27 teams have been Top officials of the “They entered Gujarat table fans near crops and even In Rajasthan, as many as pm, while the partial phase , 79 per cent in at and formed to tackle the problem Agriculture Ministry said mas- from the desert areas of blaring out music from a mini 128 places have been identified ended at 13.36 pm, the , 45 per cent in Lord Krishna temple at of locusts entering various dis- sive swarms of locusts — which Pakistan. This is the second truck-mounted console, an in Jaisalmer, Barmer, Jalore, Ministry of Earth Sciences , 45 per cent in Delhi, Guruvayur were closed during tricts of the State and damag- are mainly tropical grasshop- time in a month that locusts agriculture department offi- Jodhpur under the spell of the (MoES) said. 42 per cent in , 33 per the solar eclipse, believed to be ing crops. The Ministry of pers with strong powers of have invaded the fields in north cial said. locust attack. An annular solar eclipse cent in , 70 per cent inauspicious by some. Agriculture has despatched 11 flight — descended on Gujarat and Rajasthan. 27 team According to the Gujarat Continued on Page 4 occurs when the angular diam- in Port Blair, 35 per cent in Continued on Page 4     ! "#$"%&'           . /0  !! 1   ), Congress and even Samajwadi threat from the NRC to Indians, Bangladesh due to being minor- Party are instigating demonstra- including Muslims, who belong ity could get citizenship in India. hrowing its weight behind tors and supporting arson as to India and thus it should be The Shia Waqf Board chair- 4 $ *  Tthe Union government, Muslim infiltrators from implemented. man further alleged that the Uttar Pradesh Shia Central Waqf Pakistan, Bangladesh and “The CAA and the NRC are involvement of anti-national Board (UPSCWB) on Thursday Afghanistan are their support- being opposed only by those outfits like PFI (Popular Front of   ), reiterated its demand for imme- ers. They fear that if the NRC is people who support infiltrators India) and SIMI (Students’ diate implementation of implemented, their vote bank because of political reasons,” he Islamic Movement of India) in ith the aim to take Citizenship (Amendment) Act will be depleted as these people said. the violence in UP and other health services to the and National Register of Citizens will be thrown out,” UPSCWB Rizvi further said that parts of the country showed the Wdoorsteps of the poor, in the country so that infiltrators chairman Waseem Rizvi said in Hindus or members of other real motive behind these protests Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath could be flushed out. a statement released in communities, except Muslims, and how these outfits wanted to announced that Arogya Mela “Political parties like on Thursday. who were being persecuted in create disturbances in the (Wellness Fair) will be organ- Congress, All-India Trinamool Rizvi said that there was no Pakistan, Afghanistan and country. ised at primary health centres (PHCs) across the state every Sunday from February, 2020. “Medical experts will treat &, (  R !   patients at these ‘melas’ and the programme will continue for  ! !   the next two years,” the chief minister said. Yogi Adityanath also   )!  directed officials to emphasise on making people aware of pre- Aligarh (PTI): AMU Old Boys’ form of protest, even in a demo- vention of diseases. “In this Association secretary Aslam cratic manner, in Uttar regard, the departments con- Khan, on Thursday, said they Pradesh.... We will challenge cerned should prepare a book-   $!             -     would challenge in court the FIR this FIR not just in the Human let in simple language,” he said. registered against those who Rights Commission but also in Speaking at a review meet- in order to increase income of “The Bansagar project was Chalo Abhiyan’, a village-to-vil- took part in a candlelight march courts as holding a candlelight ing of aspirational districts farmers at minimum cost. He inaugurated by Prime Minister lage campaign should be run to on Aligarh Muslim University protest inside an autonomous held in Lucknow on Thursday, said that there should be con- Narendra Modi last year. The find out how many children campus on Tuesday “since it vio- institution does not violate sec- the chief minister directed that nection between market target is to irrigate 20 million were of school-going age and lates the autonomy of the AMU”. tion 144,” he said. every anganwadi centre be demand and production and acre additional land by com- also ensure 100 per cent admis- The march was taken out to AMU proctor Afifullah developed as a pre-school. farmers should be motivated to pleting projects like Saryu sion. protest against the Citizenship Khan said although there was no “If problems related to land use balanced fertiliser as per the Canal,” he said. “Complete the admission (Amendment) Act and express permission for the candlelight arise, the chief development soil tests. He asked officials to “A lot of good work has process six months before com- solidarity with those who lost march, we made no official officer of the district con- take help of local agricultural been done for water conserva- mencement of session. their lives in different parts of the complaint to the police. He, cerned should solve it. There science centres for this. tion under ‘Khet Talab Yojana’ Similarly, ensure that the chil- country during the stir against however, confirmed that the are enough funds for this and “Develop Fatehpur as a and pure drinking water will be dren get copy-books, shoes- the controversial law. On the AMU had received a letter from if needed, borrow funds from district of organic farming and made available to every house- socks and sweaters on time,” evening of December 24, near- district magistrate asking the District Mineral Foundation. also create a lab for product hold under ‘Har Ghar Nal Patel said. ly 2,000 members of the AMU university to take cognisance of Delay in this matter will not be authentication,” the chief min- Yojana’ in a phased manner. So The Governor said that community held a candlelight the fact that the candlelight tolerated,” he said. ister told officials. far 92,000 primary schools the quality of education march and handed over a mem- march could have constituted a Yogi said that as children Praising the good work have been revamped under depended only on the quality orandum addressed to the possible threat to peace on the who enrol in these pre-schools done in aspirational districts, ‘Kayakalp Yojana’,” the chief of teachers. “Therefore, empha- President to a district official. campus. would be of three years age, Yogi said that among the best minister said. sis should be on training of Some 1,200 unidentified sitting arrangements as well as districts of the country, six Speaking on the occasion, teachers. Check the health sta- persons, including students, several modes of entertain- were from Uttar Pradesh. Governor Anandiben Patel said tus of children and women teachers and non-teaching staff ment should be made avail- “Our intention is to bring that UP was second in overall once a year. By creating self- of the AMU have been booked able there. “The district mag- the rest of the districts in this ranking of aspirational dis- help groups of women, make for alleged violation of pro- istrate should review the func- group and achieve the top tricts. “I want UP to achieve the women self-reliant through hibitory orders under Section tioning of schools every position in the overall ranking,” top place and there should be schemes of financial inclu- 144 of the CrPC as they took out month and the CDO every 15 he said. a huge gap between the num- sion,” she said. a candlelight march. days,” he said. On this occasion, Yogi also ber 1 and 2 slots. For this, we The Governor also advised Khan, a senior advocate at Yogi also directed officials informed Governor Anandiben have to work as a team,” she the government to set up a the , in a to install solar panels in prima- Patel about the progress made said. colony for visiting teachers in statement said, “Holding a gath- ry schools and anganwadi cen- so far and briefed her on future The Governor said that remote schools. She said that ering within the campus does tres and develop sports action plan. she would visit every aspira- pregnant women be given not constitute violation of grounds in all villages. The chief minister said tional district for two days assistance on time. Section 144, unless, of course, The chief minister said that irrigation projects pending from the next month to check “The CDPOs and supervi- the university authorities had that there should be emphasis for years were being complet- progress of work. sors should be constantly active registered a complaint in this on drip and sprinkler irrigation ed by paying a lump sum Patel further said that and they should also be mon- regard. “This FIR is yet anoth- system in aspirational districts amount. before conducting ‘School itored,” she said. er attempt to snuff out any ( !          4 %  $O P    ), sial issues. “Bringing CAA and NPR is a conspiracy of the gov- emanding an apology ernment to divide the country *5  Dfrom Chief Minister Yogi on communal lines. There was Adityanath for his “revenge” no need for bringing NPR statement against those who when the Census would be car-   ), protested against Citizenship ried out next year. The decision (Amendment) Act and to implement NPR is just a ormer chief minister and National Register of Citizens, move to create fear among a FSamajwadi Party president senior Congress leader and community,” the Congress Akhilesh Yadav said that the deputy leader of the party in leader said. Bharatiya Janata Party was Rajya Sabha, Anand Sharma, Sharma also felt that there scared of Hindu-Muslim unity sought a probe by a sitting was no need for the CAA at this and therefore it had started a Supreme Court judge into the juncture when already there campaign to divide people on recent violence in UP. were laws to provide citizenship religious line in the garb of “A statement like this is not to Indians residing in other Citizenship (Amendment) Act expected from a person wearing countries. AA and National Register of saffron robe and heading a “The CAA was brought to Citizens. state like Uttar Pradesh.   !    target one community. Besides, Addressing party workers Announcing to take revenge is      . why did the government include and members of Nishad Sangh, against constitutional ethics and  -  4   just three countries and spared Yadav said in Lucknow on so he is not fit to rule the state,” Sri Lanka and Myanmar, when Thursday that the CAA and the Sharma said, demanding an there are migrants from these NRC were against the tenets of unconditional apology from At least 19 people were countries too,” he asked. Indian Constitution. anti-CAA protests across the Yogi Adityanath. killed in violent protests against Sharma said that his party “The BJP government has state. The Congress leader also the CAA in over a dozen dis- would not succumb to any pres- brought this draconian law to “Instead, the government demanded a probe by a sitting tricts of Uttar Pradesh, includ- sure on CAA, NPR, NRC and scare innocent people in gen- should compensate the loss of Supreme Court judge into the ing Lucknow, , Rampur would continue to agitate inside eral and Muslims in particular,” people whose property was killing of protesters during anti- and Muzaffarnagar. Parliament and on the streets. he said. damaged by the police during CAA protests in the state. “There Addressing media persons Terming the statement of “The SP is with the people the violence,” the SP chief said. is a dispute over the killing of in Lucknow on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the state and will fight injus- Leader of opposition in people — whether they were Sharma said that his party was that the government had never tice unleashed against them by Legislative Council, Ahmad killed in firing by the police or also opposed to National said anything on NRC as a lie, the governments in UP and at Hasan, and SP state chief by any other person. Only a Population Registrar (NPR) in the Rajya Sabha member cate- the Centre. I exhort you all to Naresh Uttam also addressed probe by a sitting Supreme its present format. gorically said that the govern- apprise people of the nefarious the party workers. Court judge can unravel the Sharma asked why was the ment raised the NRC issue in designs of the BJP,” he said. fact,” Sharma said. BJP raking up such controver- Parliament at least nine times. Yadav also criticised the BJP government for issuing notices to innocent people on the pretext of causing damage 6   to public property during the .  5        Lucknow (PNS): Congress general secretary Lucknow (PNS): Weeks after a rape to a local railway station to catch a train Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is coming to Lucknow on victim was set ablaze by five men, to Rae Bareli in connection with a case. a two-day visit on Friday. During her stay, Priyanka including the accused, in Bihar area of The victim, who suffered 70 per cent will attend the 135th foundation day function of Unnao (the victim died in a burns, was first taken to the commu- the party on December 28. hospital later), the SIT has completed nity health centre at Sumerpur and was UP Congress administrative incharge Sidharth the investigation and is set to file the later referred to SPM Hospital in Priya Srivastava said here on Thursday that the chargesheet. Lucknow. Congress general secretary would reach Lucknow Superintendent of Police of Unnao, When her condition deteriorated, by flight from New Delhi at 1855 hours on Friday. Vikrant Veer, said that an FIR was filed she was air-lifted to New Delhi’s She will attend the day-long programme at UPCC in this regard on December 5 and the Safdarjung Hospital where she died. headquarters on Saturday. He said at Priyanka case was probed by a Special In her dying declaration, the vic- would attend the foundation day celebrations and Investigation Team. The district police tim had named Shivam Trivedi, then attend the meeting of advisory council and chief said the SIT had collected ade- Shubham Trivedi, Harishankar Trivedi, strategy group. She will also attend PCC meeting. quate evidences against all five accused, Ramkishor Trivedi and Umesh Though the Congress has planned a peace who were earlier arrested and sent to Vajpayee as the persons who set her march from UPCC office to Ambedkar statue, to jail. ablaze. be led by Priyanka, there is little chance that the The five accused had allegedly set On the directions of the govern- party will get permission for it as prohibitory orders the rape victim ablaze by dousing her ment, an SIT was constituted to inves- under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code with kerosene while she was on her way tigate the case. are in force in the city.

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The accused, identi- the sources claimed. people seeking their reply for Raj Kumar aka Raju Kashyap of fied as Govind aka Chhotu Meanwhile, the Krishna their involvement in violence, Pan Dariba of Naka, and well Yadav of Kanpur Dehat, is a Nagar police nabbed another but 48 people have been issued acquainted with deceased. resident of Krishna Nagar. under POCSO Act. stalker, identified as Ajay of attachment notices. They will ASP, East, Suresh Chand He was arrested from near a “It surfaced during inves- Para police station area. The be asked to pay for damage to Rawat said, “Raju was arrested hotel following a tip-off. tigation that Govind had been Krishna Nagar SHO said Ajay the public and private proper- from near a hotel in Mawaiyya The Krishna Nagar SHO stalking the girl for a long is a fruit vendor and has his ty during the violent protests in around 3:45 am on Thursday.” said Govind started liking a time. The girl had to change shop in Krishna Nagar. “Ajay Lucknow. He said the police recovered a girl and used to stalk her her job on several occasions, used to harass the girl whose SP (East) Suresh Chand country-made pistol, over Rs whenever she stepped out of but the accused did not give father is also in the business   $!             -0   -       Rawat on Thursday said that 1.7 lakh in cash, and a bike her house. He said the police up. He also threatened the girl of selling fruits. Her mother the officials were still assessing which he and his aides had registered a case for eve-teas- with dire consequences for lodged a complaint after    1 ) 0   ), try’s per capita income at the The chief minister said, the loss of government and pri- used. On the fateful day, the ing and threatening the girl. turning down his proposal,” efforts to assuage Ajay not to time of Independence but it “We are ignorant about the vate property and notices were police had failed to get a trace The accused was also booked sources privy to the investiga- harass the girl failed,” he said. hief Minister Yogi lagged behind the national immense possibilities of pre- issued in accordance with the of the bike. Raju reportedly CAdityanath said that Uttar average over time. sent times due to lack of infor- Supreme Court guidelines. He owned up his crime and dis- out the plan. They laid a trap the pistol and sped off with the of a businessman. Pradesh had the potential to “UP was the most prosper- mation. This economic census added that investigations closed that Manoj’s murder on June 30 night and started cash. The arrest of accused “Shailesh surrendered become an economic super- ous state in the country but tra- will play a very important role against retired IPS officer SR case was executed by him, his trailing Manoj and Ashu when nearly six months after he and before the court with the help power of the country and the ditional enterprises were in advancing concrete eco- Darapuri, Congress leader nephew Vishal, gang leader they were going to Charbagh his gang executed the crime of his sympathisers in Lucknow success of ‘One District One neglected. When we took nomic plans and programmes Sadaf Jafar and Rihai Manch Shailesh Dwivedi aka Praveen station to board Lucknow Mail. exposed police adeptness in police and went to jail. His pro- Product (ODOP) scheme was charge in 2017, the per capita for entrepreneurs, business- leader Shoaib were underway. and Moinuz Jafar aka Manu. They hit Manoj’s scooty and unraveling tricky cases. To tégé Manu later executed the a testimony to this. income of Uttar Pradesh was men and youth.” All the three are currently As per Raju’s confession, he then attempted to loot the bag crack the case, the SSP had Bazaarkhala loot case and was Yogi was speaking at a not so good,” he said. “The economic census lodged in jail. knew Manoj and also that which Ashu was holding. In the formed several teams that nabbed. In the meantime, function after inaugurating the Yogi said, “ Two years ago, would not only collect data but The violent protests had Manoj's friend and Delhi trad- scuffle, Raju was unmasked worked for several days, but in Shailesh’s involvement in Seventh Economic Census by a direction was given to sys- also act as a pillar in advancing erupted at Parivartan Chowk in er Kapil Bajaj aka Ashu used to and Manoj identified him. At vain. Sources said the police got Manoj Bhattacharya murder pressing the button of a mobile tematically evaluate the num- state and country’s emergence Hazratganj, Hussainabad and go back to Delhi after collect- this, Raju incited Shailesh to the lead after the gang leader case became a hot topic in the app at Lok Bhawan in Lucknow ber of street vendors so that as economic superpower,” Yogi Khadra areas and several vehi- ing huge cash from traders in shoot Manoj and the latter surrendered before the court in crime world and the police on Thursday. The chief min- they could be rehabilitated and said. UP’s Finance Minister cles were torched by the pro- Naka market. pumped a bullet into the vic- connection with an old case took note of that. This way they ister said that UP’s per capita the problem of encroachment Suresh Khanna also spoke on testers. Two police outposts Raju passed the informa- tim’s chest. The accused later and nabbed one of the robbers reached Raju and nabbed him,” income was equal to the coun- of roads could be solved.” the occasion. were also set ablaze. tion to Shailesh, who chalked attacked Ashu with the butt of who had deprived the cashier the sources said. +  Q5  .%&.!-.- 8%$*%- 1 #      R    1 ) 0   ), /0 1 )  4 0   44  he department of Botany has no Science Academies. There was a time Pathology, Plant Nutrition and Plant Lucknow (PNS): A woman was Tless distinguished history as com- in the 80’s when nearly five of the fac- Virology. The department offers MSc killed allegedly by her husband and in- pared to other departments of ulty members were fellows of National in Botany, Plant Science, laws for dowry in Faizullahganj locali- Lucknow University. According to Science Academies, which is a very rare Environmental Science and ty of Madiaon. Police lodged a case of head of the department Geeta Asthana, feature,” she pointed out. The depart- Microbiology; and PhD in Botany, and dowry death and started further inves- two faculty members have been con- ment of Botany was started in July Environmental Science. The PhD pro- tigations. Reports said the woman, ferred Padma Shri awards, including 1921. “It was established by Prof Birbal gramme is extended to Lucknow- identified as Rajkumari, was found writer KP Saxena and Biotech Park Sahni, who also established the depart- based research institutes of CSIR, dead at her house on Wednesday CEO Pramod Tandon. ment of Geology. The department DST, and ICAR. Besides, the depart- evening. After the news reached her par- KP Saxena, who wrote the story of was also the first to have a school on ment also has a three-year undergrad- ents, they rushed to the scene and later Bollywood blockbuster ‘Lagaan’ direct- Plant Nutrition in the country and it uate course. LU authorities said that in lodged a case against her husband ed by Ashutosh Gowarikar, studied in was set up by Prof SC Aggarwal,” she association with Academic Staff Kamlesh and other members of his fam- LU’s Botany department. Known for added. LU authorities said the efforts College, the Botany department regu- ily. Victim’s brother Vijay Kumar Rajput his satirical work, Saxena was also of SK Mukerjee, SN Das Gupta & SK larly conducts refresher courses for in- of Sitapur alleged that Rajkumari was known for his TV show ‘Bibi Natiyon Pande and vision of Prof Sahni vision service teachers of the subject being harassed for dowry since marriage. Wali’. Pramod Tandon, who did MSc put the department on international from different universities and associ- !    "        “She had complained to us about the in 1971 was awarded a PhD in 2009, scientific map and it became an inter- ated colleges. crass behavior of Kamlesh and others on is currently the CEO of Biotech Park. national hub of Palaeobotanical Several research projects have been    1 ) 0   ), continue at isolated places over senior citizens are choosing to a number of occasions in the past. She Former HoD S Lavania said the depart- researches. The department has well successfully executed in the depart- east UP. In the state, Basti remain indoors. also feared for her life,” he said. ment boasted of some of the very dis- established and renowned units of ment with financial support from xceeding cold and foggy recorded the lowest temperature Chefs and food experts rec- However, the police contested Vijay's tinguished faculties. “Many of the Bryology, Phycology, Plant Breeding UGC, ICAR, DBT, DST, DOE, MoEF, Econditions continued on at 4.5 degree Celsius. Dense to ommend hot soups to help the claims and said the autopsy report teachers were the fellows of National and Cytogenetics, Mycology and Plant USPL-480-ICAR, UPCST, UPCAR, Thursday with a rather weak very dense fog is likely at many body retain its heat. An expert ascertained hanging as the cause of NHM, UP government and NAIP. In sun making a brief appearance places over the state. The fore- said one can have hot almond death. “The woman committed suicide, 1979, the department was identified as late in the afternoon. The short cast for Lucknow is dense fog in soup or ‘paya shorba’ during and was not killed. Still we have regis- a UGC department for special assis- spell of sunshine made no dif- the morning and cold day con- winters. “Almonds, soaked and tered a case of dowry death against tance. “Thrust areas identified in the ference to the cold weather ditions are also expected during crushed, can be heated and Kamlesh and other members of his fam- IV phase were Bryology, Plant conditions. The maximum tem- the day. The maximum and boiled in water to which some ily,” the police said. Meanwhile, an SUV Physiology & Nutrition, Cytology & perature dropped by 11 degrees minimum temperatures are saffron may be added to make was stolen from outside a house in Plant Genetics, and Plant Virology. In to settle at 11.6 degree Celsius. expected to be around 14 degree a highly nutritious soup that Aliganj on Wednesday night. As per the 1990, it also qualified for support for The minimum temperature Celsius and 6 degree Celsius, helps in cold weather condi- complainant identified as Achal Gupta the development of infrastructure recorded was 6.7 degree Celsius, respectively. tions. One can also opt for nour- of Aliganj (sector B), he had taken the under the COSIST programme. Fiscal which was a couple of notches Met director JP Gupta said ishing ‘paya soup’ which is SUV of his friend Sanjeev Bansal, who support received under these pro- below normal. The weatherman that cold was palpable because made with lamb bones,” he is the owner of a company in Talkatora, grammes, as also under research pro- has forecast cold wave condi- of the foggy conditions. The city said. Other chefs recommend for personal use. “The SUV is registered jects supported from time to time by tions to continue. denizens reeling under the cold vegetable and chicken soups in the name of Bansal’s company. I had different agencies helped the depart- According to the Met wave conditions were seen ensuring nourishment and parked the SUV outside my house on ment in generating facilities for department, cold day conditions loaded with woolens as they keeping one warm. “Soups are Wednesday night. On Thursday advanced research. The department are likely to prevail at many stepped out of their homes. light on the stomach and easy to morning, I found it missing,” he stated has been the recipient of DST-FIST places over the state and cold People are also complaining of digest, and one can have them in the FIR. financial support. wave conditions are expected to common cold and fever while frequently,” a chef said.      ! "#$"%&'

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Abhijeet said the film is for other roles until I got this kept in preventive detention Lucknow (PNS): Facing at mosques and other places of excesses in curbing protests about a soldier, who is badly part, which is that of the main following violence related to criticism for failing to tackle during Friday prayers and in the state capital. injured during ceasefire viola- protagonist. I got this role anti-Citizenship (Amendment) the anti-Citizenship deploy adequate number of Jafar’s family has alleged tions. “The narrative shows because it was the debut of the Act protests, police said on (Amendment) Act stir, UP security forces,” the sources she suffered internal injuries this man in a bunker fighting assistant director of my previ- Thursday, adding that the death Police brass issued alert in all said. because of police action.    1 ) 0   ), for his life until help arrives. It ous film,” he pointed out. toll in police clashes across the districts across the state to Prohibitory orders under Similar allegations have been is an anti-war film and shows atre in Lucknow, where he Asked that being a relative- state was 19. Giving details of enhance security arrange- Section 144 of the Criminal levelled by Kabir’s family too. he Special Task Force (STF) the trials and tribulations of the joined classes under well- ly new face in the industry and the protests that have rocked ments in view of Friday Procedure Code are already in Kabir was arrested when he Tteam will submit the final soldier,” he said. The actor, who known theatre activist Jugal with a new director, did he the country’s most populous prayers. In several districts, force in the entire state while had gone to check on the report of its findings to the DG is from Aliganj, has done his Kishore, who is no more. believe he could make a differ- state since last week, police offi- mobile and internet services Central forces have been report of Jafar’s arrest. office in connection with schooling from CMS. “I am also a qualified engi- ence, the young actor said cials said five people were were slated to be suspended rushed to sensitive places. Meanwhile, the Sambhal Lucknow University’s Law The young actor said he neer from an institute in everyone has to make a begin- killed in Firozabad, four in from Thursday night and on During riots after Friday district administration has department paper leak. A has always often been interest- . My parents told me ning at some point of time Meerut, three in Kanpur, two Friday. In Agra and Mathura, prayers, more than 21 people issued notices to 26 people for senior official of the STF con- ed in acting and would do the- that I could follow the film line without thinking about all that. each in Sambhal and Bijnor mobile and net services have were killed and over 50 injured their alleged involvement in firmed that all the statements and one each in Muzaffarnagar, been suspended from at different places in the state. damaging properties during had been taken and the report Rampur and Lucknow. Thursday. Violent protests were report- protests against the amended was being finalised. This tally does not include Official sources said that ed from Bijnor, Meerut, citizenship law, asking them to The STF has questioned "  death of eight-year-old boy in the state government was not Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, explain their position or pay for many people regarding the  9  Varanasi on December 20. leaving anything to chance for Kanpur, Farrukhabad, the losses. Superintendent of audio clip that went viral. Those    " “The eight-year-old was Friday prayers as large-scale Firozabad, Bulandshahr, Police, Sambhal, Yamuna quizzed included AK Sachan,    not killed in police action but violence erupted after Juma Bareilly and Rampur. However Prasad, said posters of 150 the husband of Dr Richa !"  in a stampede when protesters namaz last week during the in Lucknow, violence took people have been released and Mishra whose audio clip had       were retreating,” a senior police protests against the CAA. place last Thursday, in which 55 have been identified for their got viral. Richa was quizzed for     official said on condition of “District authorities have one person was killed and sev- involvement in violent protests. over three hours but she was    anonymity. One of those been asked to monitor crowd eral others injured. Additional District adamant that it was not her !  ! % injured in Firozabad is in a Magistrate Kamlesh Awasthi voice in the audio clip which    “very critical” condition, he ers and kept 5,558 people in detained by the police during said notices had been issued to went viral. She said she often  said. “During raids at various preventive detention. the protest but later released. 26 people, who were identified had conversations with law     places, police recovered 35 ille- As many as 351 policemen While Kabir is one of the for their involvement in the professors, but the voice in   gal weapons which were used were also injured in the anti- founders of Lucknow anti-CAA protests, and they that audio clip was not hers,   %! during the riots to fire at the CAA protests, he said. Collective and Dastak Manch had been asked to explain their officials said. Prof Satya Prakash     police,” the official said. The 1,113 arrested include and organises the annual Kabir position or pay for the damages Diwedi from the Law depart-  He added that police also social activist and Congress Festival in Lucknow where to property. The assessment of ment of Lucknow University, "    recovered 647 empty cartridges worker Sadaf Jafar and noted various literary forms of damage is going on and till now and principal and manager of " % from various places in the theatre artist Deepak Kabir expressions are used to cele- losses to the tune Rs 11.66 lakh City Law Academy, where the state. The state police cracked who are being kept in Lucknow brate values of secularism, to public property have been examinations were held, were   down on possible troublemak- jail. A journalist was also socialism and democracy, Jafar found, the ADM added. also quizzed in this regard.

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ttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation /0//&&& exercise. “In NPR, a person like allowed to speak on political issues attacks crops such as millet, maize, enthusiasts queued up outside U(UPMRC) is observing Christmas and On October 20, 2012, the me might have a problem -- if a today, it also permits him to wheat, barley, rice, sugarcane, cot- telescopes set up in planetariums New Year with ‘Grand Festival’ celebration, a Congress Government in Assam person like me is asked where your attempt an Army takeover tomor- ton, corn, oats, peanuts and green and other open spaces to watch the seven-day extravaganza. The celebration released the White Paper on the father and mother were born, my row!!,” he tweeted. vegetations. It causes extensive celestial phenomenon unfold. kicked off with a band performance which was issue of foreigners and on its page parents were born in Pakistan. AIMIM chief Asaduddin damage due to its feeding behav- Prime Minister Narendra enjoyed the most by the commuters. UPMRC number 38, it was written that the Where will I get their details,” Owaisi said leadership is about iour. According to reports, swarm Modi was among the enthusiasts officials said that an art exhibition and fash- Central Government has directed Maken said at AICC Press confer- knowing the limits of one’s office. of locusts has damaged cotton and who wanted to view the annular ion show were also organised at the paid area the Assam Government to set up ence. “Then there is another pro- “It is about understanding the idea mango crops in Pakistan this year. phenomenon but the fog blocked of Hazratganj metro station. detention centres, Patra claimed. vision that infringes upon our right of civilian supremacy and preserv- his view. “Like many Indians, I was “Lucknow’s becomes the first metro sys- As per the details available in to privacy. They ask, “if available”, ing the integrity of the institution     &&& enthusiastic about #solare- tem in India to organise a fashion show in its the White Paper, a detention cen- provide Aadhaar number, mobile that you head,” he said. Shah also promised that 30 per clipse2019. Unfortunately, I could premises. A range of classical performances tre each was established in number, Voter ID number, driving Congress leader Digvijay cent area would be marked as not see the Sun due to cloud cover were also organised where young Lucknowites Golpara, Kokrajhar and Silchar by licence number. What is the need Singh also tweeted, “Leaders Not green open public space, which but I did catch glimpses of the participated and showcased their talents. The the then Congress Government, in for licence number, Aadhaar num- Those Who Lead Masses In would help mitigate pollution. He eclipse in Kozhikode and other winners will be awarded on January 1 next year. which 66, 32 and 20 foreigners ber and my phone number in Arson” Army Chief On further noted that public facilities parts on live stream. Also enriched Meanwhile, the recruitment for various were kept respectively. (proving) usual residence,” he Citizenship Protests. I agree in the hub would include a Harit my knowledge on the subject by executive and non-executive posts in UPMR- He said there is no connection added. General Saheb but also Leaders are Bhawan, a cultural centre, a sky- interacting with experts,” he said CL for Kanpur and Agra projects has received between detention centres and not those who allow their follow- walk and basement parking facil- on Twitter. a latest update with respect to last date of sub- the National Register of Citizens.  40 P&&& ers to indulge in genocide of com- ities, among other things. The PM said he enriched his mission of online applications. UPMRC offi- “Rahul Gandhi has no knowl- Rawat is set to retire as the munal violence. Do you agree Speaking on unauthorised knowledge on the subject by inter- cials said that the last date of submission of edge on any subject, but has to Army Chief on December 31 and with me General Saheb?” colonies in national Capital, Shah acting with experts. When a applications for various posts in executive and speak on every subject. His attack is in the race as the country’s first The CPI(M) also slammed said the Union Government’s deci- Twitter user posted a picture of non-executive category has been extended is neither intended on the issue of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), the the Army Chief for criticising the sion to regularise 1,731 unautho- Modi looking up at the Sun and from December 23 to December 31 due to NPR nor CAA but to attack Modi. creation of which was approved by anti-CAA protesters, and said as rised colonies and conferring own- said it was becoming a meme, administrative reasons. The Congress party is unable to the Union Cabinet on Tuesday. the highest officer in uniform he ership rights at a nominal cost has Modi took the remark in his digest how a tea seller became Vice Chief of Army MM Naravane has “breached the limit” of his ensured a dignified life for 40 lakh stride and responded with, “Most Prime Minister,” the BJP is the next Army Chief. institutional role. poor people living in these welcome....Enjoy :)”. spokesperson said. Government Rawat’s comments evoked The Politburo of the party said colonies. The MoES advised people to sources, meanwhile, said detention sharp response from political lead- the General has “directly indulged” He said 13 laws that were a not watch the eclipse with the centres were set up in different ers and others. Former Navy Chief in condemning the student pro- hindrance to this decision were naked eye. According to Arvind parts of the country in full com- Admiral L Ramdas termed as testers who have been opposing bypassed with a single cabinet Paranjpye, director of the Nehru pliance with law and with the “wrong” the Army Chief’s com- the amended citizenship law and decision by Prime Minister Planetarium in Mumbai, more Supreme Court’s cognisance. ments and said people in the the proposed pan-India National Narendra Modi. than 600 people watched the Detention centres or holding armed forces must follow the Register for Citizens. Attacking the Delhi eclipse through a projection box centres or camps are confinement decades-old principle of serving The party asked the Army Government, Shah alleged that 80 set up on the premises. Paranjype, centres where foreign nationals are the country and not any political Chief to apologise to the nation for per cent of welfare schemes however, was part of the Mumbai- confined pending nationality ver- forces. Ramdas said all the three his “indiscretion” which has announced by the Delhi based astronomy group that wit- ification and issuance of travel services have an internal code pre- extremely adverse ramifications for Government remain unfulfilled nessed the eclipse from an aircraft. documents by the Governments scribing that they must be neutral the Constitutional arrangement in and major among them are like Jyotirvidya Pratishthan, a concerned and their deportation and not partisan, adding that the country. “We also demand that providing jobs to 8 lakh youths -based association of amateur to their native countries. Such these rules have been the bedrock the Government takes note of and clean drinking water to every astronomers, said the organisation detention centres were in existence of the armed forces for decades. such a breach and censures the household. Shah also mentioned had set up telescopes on the Z- in various States for the last few “The rule is very clear that we General,” the party said. that Delhi has the worst quality of Bridge of the city but the view of decades and the setting up of such are serving the country and not the Section 21 of the Army Act drinking water in the country. He the eclipse was hindered by cloudy centres was not at all connected political forces and to express any prohibits any Army personnel to said the Delhi Government skies. Though there are many with the National Register of political views as we have heard attend or address any meeting or believes in taking credit of devel- myths associated with eclipses, Citizens (NRC), the sources said. today are quite a wrong thing for to take part in any demonstration opmental works of the Central Paranjype said there has been a Meanwhile, former Minister of any serving personnel whether he organised by anybody for any Government through advertise- change in attitude over the years. State for Home and senior con- is the top gun or at the bottom political or other purposes. It also ments and asked as to why Central “Now people are more forth- gress leader Ajay Maken also rank. It is not proper,” Ramdas told bars them from communicating to schemes for the poor like coming and want to witness the accused the Government of bring- PTI. Taking exception to his com- press or to publish any book relat- ‘Ayushman Bharat and Pradhan event,” he said. The annular eclipse ing the NRC, in the garb of the ments, Lok Sabha MP Manish ing to political question. Mantri Aawas Yojana’ were not of the Sun was visible within a nar- NPR and claimed that questions Tewari said in a tweet, “Since when implemented and always acted like row corridor in the Northern related to the NRC will be asked have Army Chief’s started com- /;  &&& a speed breaker in execution of Hemisphere near the equator. Its in the pre-test forms for the NPR. menting about internal affairs. It Earlier in November this year, Central Government projects, the path passed through Saudi Arabia, Maken said his party will oppose undermines Civil-Military three to four lakh hectare crops Home Minister alleged. Qatar, Oman, UAE, India, north- the Government if it tries to link Relations whose cornerstone is have been destroyed by locusts in ern Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, the NPR with the NRC and alleged that Armed Forces neither com- Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and 3 03 P/&&& Sumatra and Borneo. that it infringes upon the citizens’ ment nor interfere in domestic Madhya Pradesh. The LWO, In Bhopal’s Moti Masjid, The next solar eclipse will be right to privacy. politics. This has been our singu- responsible for monitoring, con- Muslim devotees offered the visible from India on June 21, “The BJP Government is try- lar success going back to 1947.” trolling the locust situation in Namaz-e-Kusuf, a special prayer, 2020. It will also be an annular ing to bring the NRC in the garb Congress spokesperson scheduled desert area (SDA) main- during the solar eclipse. solar eclipse. A narrow path of of the NPR. The BJP Government Brijesh Kalappa too slammed him ly in Rajasthan and Gujarat and While thousands braved the annularity will pass through north- wants to polarise the society,” he and said, “Army Chief Bipin Rawat parts of Haryana and Punjab, has cold to take a dip in rivers in dif- ern part of India. From the rest said. He added that the questions speaking against #CAAProtests is launched efforts on a war footing ferent parts of the country in part of the country it will be seen asked in the NPR pre-test ques- wholly against constitutional to control the locusts, sources accordance with ancient rituals, as partial solar eclipse, the MoES tionnaire are not required for the democracy. If the Army Chief is said. Locust, a kind of insect, students, scientists and space said.    ! "#$"%&'   0   !   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I was also asked if Gogoi of being involved in "ter- worth over 36 crore of a chargesheets filed by CID ees, as Directors and got opened searched the residence of Akhil had met militants when ror activities" and using the retired Gujarat cadre officer Crime, Gandhinagar Zone bank accounts of these compa- arrested RTI activist Akhil he was jailed earlier." passage of the Citizenship Sanjay Gupta and his family on under various sections of nies during 2012-13, it said. Gogoi in Guwahati and seized The NIA team also asked (Amendment) Bill to promote money laundering charge in a Indian Penal Code including These fictitious companies several documents and a laptop for the documents relating to enmity among different groups case of criminal misconduct criminal conspiracy and pro- further raised fabricated/bogus computer. the KMSS orchid environment that was against national inte- and misappropriation of funds visions of the Prevention of bills/invoices to MEGA without The activist, who advises park in Kaziranga but his wife gration. of Metro Link Express for Corruption Act, the ED had any supply of Goods/Services. various farmer organisations, told them that she had no He has also been accused Gandhinagar and initiated investigation under Dummy companies were was arrested when Assam was information about them. of having links with the banned Company Ltd, (MEGA). PMLA against Gupta and oth- awarded contract on pretext for hit by widespread protests The KMSS office in ultra-Left outfit CPI (Maoist). The ED has attached assets ers for misappropriation of supply of goods/services to against the Citizenship Gandhibasti area of the city was Meanwhile, a special NIA worth 36.12 crore held by public funds from MEGA. MEGA and bogus bills/invoic- (Amendment) Act. also raided and nine books, court in Guwahati on Thursday retired IAS officer of Gujarat Gupta was a 1985 batch IAS es were raised. These bogus Agency sleuths searched including one on the life of remanded to judicial custody cadre Sanjay Gupta, his wife officer of Gujarat cadre who quit bills/invoices were certified by Gogoi’s residence in Nizarapara China's revolutionary leader for 14 days. Neelu Gupta along with assets service in 2002 and started his the illegally recruited MEGA area of Guwahati and also Mao Zedong, Marxism, and The special court also held in the name of his Neesa own hospitality business in name officials and payments were seized copies of his PAN card, KMSS leaflets were seized, turned down NIA's plea to Group Companies like Neesa of Neesa Group of Companies. finally approved by him, as the an SBI debit card, an Electoral KMSS president Raju Bora extend his police custody for 10 Leisure Ltd., Neesa He became Chairman of MEGA administrative and financial Photo Identity Card (EPIC) ;       7; 8  !6"   said. days. Technologies, Neesa Agritech in April 2011 and continued till powers were vested in him. and a bank passbook. !  6       The Krishak Mukti Gogoi was arrested by the & Foods Ltd. under Prevention Aug 2013. The proceeds of crime to After the three-hour search Sangram Samiti (KMSS) leader, NIA from Jorhat on December of Money Laundering Act. Investigation under PMLA the tune of 65.73 crore were that began at 7 am, the seized Kumar Chauley, files marked While showing a list of the whose NIA custody was to end 12 when large scale The attached properties revealed that Gupta, during his received from MEGA through items included a certificate of "Credit-Deposit ratio KMSS seized items to reporters in on Friday, was brought from protests against the CAA include flats in Ahemdabad at tenure as Chairman, MEGA, bogus bills/invoices as well as registration by the Registrar of File Misc", "Jail 2015", "Jail Guwahati after the searches, New Delhi and will be pro- going on in Assam under the Dhananjay Towers, Satellite, arbitrarily appointed his close illicit Cash/DD/Cheques Cooperative Societies, a letter Diary 2014" and "NHPC Gogoi's wife Gitashree Tamuly duced before a court here. stringent anti-terror law- Casela Towers, Jodhpur, one associates in various official deposits in the accounts of the from Superintending LSHEP 2015" featured in the said, "They (NIA) wanted to see While being taken to the Unlawful Activities flat at Agarwal Apartment, positions in MEGA who were dummy companies floated and Archaeologist of ASI Milan list. the files in our house and NIA court, Gogoi only inquired (Prevention) Act. 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  (DGDE). Currently, Deepa $.$ &. Bajwa is the Director General efence Minister Rajnath of Defence Estates, the topmost DSingh on Thursday said official of the DGDE.    General in Foreign Policy Meanwhile, the 8th Round most people residing in the "Not only the DGDE, but Bureau. of India-Japan bilateral con- Defence cantonment areas are it is also the responsibility of the ndia and Japan have vowed The two sides exchanged sultations on disarmament, poor and the cantonment officials below it that they Ito deepen maritime cooper- views on various topics of non-proliferation and export boards should ensure that such should go to the cantonments ation and also held consulta- mutual interest in control was held in Tokyo on people do not feel scared in any and listen to people's problems. tions on disarmament, non- maritime domain and identi- December 23. way due to the behaviour of the At a local level, people's prob- proliferation and export con- fied the means for The Indian side was led by board officers. lems are heard, but those trol. further strengthening their Pandey, while Japanese dele- In a Defence cantonment should be heard at this (senior The 5th Round of India- maritime cooperation, a gation was headed by area, public services such as officials') level too. This is my Japan Maritime Affairs Ministry of External Affairs Ambassador Hisajima Naoto, health, sanitation, primary edu- expectation," Singh said. Dialogue was held in Tokyo on statement said. Director-General, cation etc are provided by the "Your department (DGDE) Tuesday with the Indian dele- Both sides reiterated the Disarmament, Non- concerned cantonment board, .     1 9       1    P !   is doing the important work of gation led by Indra Mani importance of the dialogue as Proliferation and Science which is a civic administration  (<'=                 managing defence land with an Pandey, Additional Secretary an important mechanism Department, Ministry of body under the Ministry of area of more than 17 lakh (Disarmament and between the two countries for Foreign Affairs. Defence. must ensure that because of should have the trust that if sibility. It is not just to rule over acres, catering to the land International Security Affairs), consultations on issues of During the consultations, "I was telling Army Chief your behaviour, they should they go to an officer in a can- them (poor people), it is to requirements of the three wings Ministry of External Affairs, mutual interest in maritime the two sides exchanged General Bipin Rawat that most not feel scared," Singh said in tonment area, they would be serve them. This precaution of the armed forces and while Japanese delegation was affairs and agreed to hold the views on issues of mutual inter- people living in the canton- his speech after giving away the given protection. must be taken," Singh said. providing civil and munic- led by Ambassador Yamanaka next round of talks on a mutu- est in these fields, the MEA ments are extremely poor. "Awards for Excellence 2019" to "It is my experience...That The cantonment boards ipal services to over 20 lakh res- A Osamu, Deputy Assistant ally convenient date in India, it said. From the bottom of my heart, the cantonment boards. a poor man's cry is the worst. work under the Directorate idents of 62 cantonment areas Minister, Deputy Director- said. I would like to appeal that you He added that such people God has given you this respon- General of Defence Estates of the country," he added.  2     0   !    .>         . /%.-.// 02   + +         .%5/. >5..%    this year, the official said it has       sought condonation of delay in    nothing to do with the sum- filing the first plea and the our months after coming mary report and the final data he Supreme Court has dis-   appeal in the high court. mother, who was convict- Fout with an estimate that the was to be finalised by the end Tmissed a plea of Delhi  The DU said the permis- Aed and sentenced to life country has over 2,900 tigers, of December. University (DU) on account of sion sought by M/s Young imprisonment for allegedly the apex body tasked with their "There were no discrepan- inordinate delay in challenging    Builders Private Limited for strangulating her baby hours conservation has proposed to cies in the report. It was not a 2011 decision of the DDA     construction of a group hous- after her birth as she was a girl, increase the number of Tiger even a final report. The deci- allowing a private real estate ing society in the University has got relief from the Supreme Cells to perform the task of big sion to expand the Tiger Cell is firm to construct a high-rise in     enclave was violative of the Court which acquitted her by cats' head count more effi- independent of any study done the university campus without Master Plan of Delhi-2021 and saying that it was "totally ciently and transparently. so far. It is a call to improve the any height restriction. was against the larger public unnatural" for the woman to A senior Government offi- efficiency of the system. We Delhi Development The single judge bench interest, "given the fact that the kill her own child. cial told PTI that the National will come out with the final Authority (DDA), on May 12, took note of the "delay and project site in question and its The apex court, while Tiger Conservation Authority report by the end of this 2011, had allowed M/S Young laches" and dismissed DU's vicinity are within the North allowing the appeal filed by the of Justices M M On August 26, 2007 post- (NTCA), a statutory body month. The Ministry will take Builders (P) Ltd to construct a plea on April 27, 2015. Campus of the University and woman challenging the March Shantanagoudar and R mortem was conducted and on under the Ministry of a call on when to release it," Y high-rise group housing soci- The DU did not get its act that it contains various histor- 2010 judgement of the Delhi Subhash Reddy said. August 31, 2007 a case was reg- Environment, has sent a note to V Jhala, one of the lead authors ety in the north campus of together even after dismissal of ical and archaeological build- High Court upholding her In its December 17 verdict, istered against the mother for the Wildlife Institute of India of the tiger estimation report Delhi University. its first plea and filed the con- ings". conviction and sentence, said the bench said it was clear from the alleged offence under sec- (WII), which too comes under and senior scientist from the Out of total three hectares sequential intra-court appeal It also alleged that the there was no "clear evidence on the evidence on record that tion 302 (murder) of the Indian the Ministry, to revamp the WII, said. land, which was earlier given to before a two-judge bench of the location of various ladies' hos- record" to hold her guilty of the immediately after birth, the Penal Code (IPC). Tiger Cell and increase its Tiger Cell is the body Rail Corporation High Court after a delay of 916 tels of the University in close offence. baby was put in an incubator The trial court had deliv- numbers. responsible for the counting of (DMRC) by the Ministry of days. vicinity of the proposed con- "It is true that in the post- with oxygen mask and she had ered the judgment in According to official big cats and has DNA finger- Defence for construction of the The larger bench of the struction site raised "an impor- mortem, doctor has opined neither opened her eyes nor December 2009 and sentenced sources, the country's lone Tiger prints from tiger reserves metro station, two hectares high court declined to condone tant privacy concern". that death (of child) is due to cried. her to life imprisonment after Cell is based in Dehradun and across the nation with their was leased out to the private the delay of over 2.5 years in fil- The top court bench com- asphyxia and there were marks According to the prosecu- holding her guilty of murder- it has been a challenge to source photographic evidence. firm for building the housing ing the appeal to challenge the prising Justices R Banumathi of strangulation, but at the tion, the woman had delivered ing the child. and disseminate information The NTCA and WII had society. judgment of 2015 and it led the and AS Bopanna said it was in same time if totality of evidence the child at a hospital here on The woman had with just one such office. released a summary report of The Delhi University DU to file an appeal before the agreement with the two judge- on record is considered, motive August 24, 2007 and had approached the high court Asked if the move is aimed tiger count in India in July this moved a plea before a single top court. ments of the Delhi High Court is not established and it is allegedly strangulated the baby challenging the trial court's at removing the alleged dis- year with its data showing a 33 judge bench of the Delhi High Assailing the DDA's action which dismissed the plea of the totally unnatural for the appel- as she was a girl after she was verdict. The high court had in crepancies in the tiger popula- per cent rise in the number of Court after a delay of seven to to allow a high-rise building DU on the ground of delay and lant-mother to kill her own handed over to her on the same March 2010 upheld the trial tion estimates released in July big cats in the country. eight years. inside the campus, the DU laches. baby by strangulation," a bench date. court's verdict. $     17%*'$        as the mercury   * was the coldest place recording mum temperature is at least 4.5 Celsius and minus 13 degrees continued its downward trend. a low of 4 degrees notches below the normal. A Celsius respectively. Leh elhi could be in for the sec- Temperatures are likely to drop  ,'   Celsius. Faridkot (4.5), "severe cold day" is when the recorded a low of minus 18 Dond coldest December of further in the coming days. Ludhiana (6.6), Patiala (6.4), maximum temperature is at degrees Celsius, the weather  !  the century even as it may rain This is due to an unusual (     Halwara (5.8). least 6.5 degrees Celsius below office said. Pahalgam, in south in several parts of the country and powerful spell of "Western According to the IMD, the normal, he said. Kashmir's Anantnag district,   as we enter the New Year. Disturbances", interaction with ) +'*; snowfall in middle and high The Drass belt of Kargil was the coldest recorded place "The average mean maxi- lower level easterlies, has made hills of the Himachal Pradesh district became the coldest in the valley, he added. ithin a few months of her mum temperature(MMT) of the J&K, Himachal Pradesh, *'*  between December 31 and place in the twin Union Katra, which serves as the Wswitching from BJP to the December (till December 26) is Uttrakhand, Punjab, Haryana, January 1 is expected. Territories of J&K and Ladakh base camp for pilgrims visiting Congress, former MP Savitri 19.85. The expected MMT for Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, The weather remained dry recording a minimum tem- the Vaishno Devi shrine in Bai Phule on Thursday resigned December 2019 is 19.15. If it and Uttar Pradesh temperatures in some Indian and cold with the minimum perature of minus 30.2 degrees Reasi district of Jammu region, from the grand old party too happens, then it will be the sec- shiver for the past fortnight. cities below 12 degrees temperature settling 2 to 3 Celsius. recorded 3.2 degrees Celsius, and announced that she will ond coldest December of the The rain will bring down the Celsius. degrees Celsius below normal The minimum tempera- the official said, adding that form her own outfit. She ten- century," the India temperature further in these Cold wave intensified in at many places in Himachal ture across Kashmir and Bhadarwah township of Doda dered her resignation on the Meteorological Department regions. Punjab and Haryana as the Pradesh. Low visibility due to Ladakh remained several district was, however, the cold- ground that her "voice is not playing "divisive politics" and said on Thursday. For now, IMD officials said that minimum and maximum tem- dense fog was observed in the degrees below the freezing est place in the region with a being heard" in the Congress. was "misusing money to con- December 1997 holds the the thick cover of smog on the peratures further plummeted in plains and lower hills, includ- point. Night temperatures minimum recorded tempera- Phule had joined the struct temples and statues." record of being the coldest Indo-Gangetic plains and the the two states. Narnaul in ing Una and southwestern part plummeted at most places in ture of minus 2.7 degrees Congress in May this year. "Constitution is under month in the century in north uneven warming of the Indian Haryana was the coldest place of Kangra district, it said. The the region, with Celsius, followed by Banihal at The Congress had hoped that threat under the BJP regime. India since 1901. Ocean has a role to play in this with the mercury dropping to minimum temperature in recording its coldest night at minus 2.2 degrees tempera- her strong Dalit connection BJP wants to do away with The IMD also maintained robust spell of 2.5 degrees Celsius. Shimla and Dalhousie was 1 minus 5.0 degrees Celsius.. ture. would help the party in eastern reservation and I believe that if that north, northwestern and Western Disturbances, the Hisar was also chilling with and 1.7 degrees Celsius respec- The minimum temperature in Kashmir is currently under Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 Lok anyone can stop BJP at the central regions of the country extratropical storms originat- a minimum of 3.3 degrees tively. winter capital Jammu settled at the grip of 'Chillai-Kalan'-the Sabha elections. Phule, how- national level, it has to be the are expected to get rainfall ing in the Mediterranean Celsius. The minimum tem- According to Kuldeep 6.4 degrees Celsius, 1.8 notch- 40-day harshest period of win- ever, failed to garner enough Congress and not the smaller from December 31 to January region causing sudden winter perature also dropped in Srivastava, head of the India es below the season's average. ter when the chances of snow- votes from Bahraich, from parties. This is why I decided 3. rain to the northwestern parts Rohtak (3.4), Bhiwani (4.8), Meteorological Department's The minimum and maximum fall are most frequent and where she was the sitting MP. to join the Congress," she had Severe cold day conditions of the Indian subcontinent, Sirsa (4.3), Ambala (5.3) and regional forecasting centre, a temperatures in Drass were maximum and the temperature Phule had quit BJP in Dec said in May. Prior to BJP, Phule persisted in north and north- which have brought the day Karnal (6). Bathinda in Punjab "cold day" is when the maxi- recorded at minus 30.2 degrees drops considerably. last year, alleging that party was was with the BSP.    ! "#$"%&'  "        !9<

    Thorat and Nitin Raut of the Congress, Eknath Shinde P  )  ! '( he much-awaited expan- and Subhash Desai of the Shiv Tsion of the Maharashtra Sena and Jayant Patil and council of Ministers will take Chhagan Bhujbal of the NCP (. ( Q place on December 30, took oath alongwith Thackeray Congress sources said on on November 28. Mumbai: Ahead of the A senior party leader said Thursday. According to the power- expansion of the Maharashtra most of the ministries allocat- As many as 36 Ministers sharing formula agreed on by Cabinet next week, the State ed to the party do not have could take oath on that day, the three parties, the Shiv Sena unit of the Congress is “direct connection” with peo- sources added. would have 16 ministers (apart unhappy about the portfolios ple. Currently the Uddhav from chief minister), NCP 14 allocated to it, a party source “Ministries such as animal Thackeray-led Cabinet has six and the Congress 12. said on Thursday. husbandry and textiles which ministers besides Chief of deputy Chief Minister, When asked if NCP chief State unit leaders have we have got should be merged Minister Thackeray. Thorat said, cryptically, “Media Sharad Pawar — seen as the conveyed their resentment to with agriculture and indus- The swearing-in is likely to can run this story.” architect of this unlikely the Congress high command, tries,” he said. take place at the Vidhan As to why the cabinet alliance — was the `remote he added. The much-awaited The issue is likely to be Bhavan (state legislature expansion which was likely to control' of the State expansion is likely to take discussed with Congress gen- complex) here. take place earlier this week was Government, Thorat said the place on December 30. eral secretary Mallikarjun Meanwhile, state Congress delayed, he said the entire state three parties have framed a Currently the portfolios have Kharge who will be in chief Balasaheb Thorat told administration was in common minimum program, been distributed among six Mumbai on December 28 for reporters here that his party's for the winter session of the leg- which guides the Government. Ministers who make up the the foundation day pro- list of the leaders who would islature till last week. The Shiv Sena joined cabinet — two each from the gramme of the party, he said. take oath as ministers was “It takes time to make hands with the Congress and Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress. “If a good deal is not ready. preparations for the swearing- NCP, its traditional adversaries, The Congress has been worked out now, the Congress When asked if the in of so many Ministers,” he after its alliance with the BJP given revenue and PWD, will suffer in Maharashtra,” the Congress was seeking the post said. collapsed. among other portfolios. leader said. PTI @         "  6       @             0?6   +%8- 6   !         >         9    '  

Mumbai: The Maharashtra unit chief and Revenue Gandhi,” he added.             Pradesh Congress Committee Minister Balasaheb Thorat told After the Independence, (MPCC) will take out 'Save reporters here on Thursday. our Constitution was written   ' Bharat-Save Constitution' flag He appealed to the secular under the leadership of Dr march here on December 28, on organisations, party workers Babasaheb Ambedkar. And the nding suspense over three the occasion of the party's foun- and citizens to participate in country is run as per this EState capitals for AP, Chief dation day, to protest against the the flag march. Constitution, the Congress Minister YS Jaganmohan “undemocratic and unconsti- Thorat said it was on leader said. Reddy is in all likelihood to tutional” policies of the BJP December 28, 1885 that the “But the BJP announce at the end of the Government. Congress was founded in Government's unconstitu- Friday’s Cabinet meeting that a The flag march will start at Mumbai. tional and anti- democratic full-fledged capital city will be 10 am from August Kranti In the very first session of policies and decisions are caus- located in . Maidan and end near the the party, it was decided to ing divisions in the society on Citing shortage of funds to Lokmanya Tilak statue at adopt the policy of 'All India the basis of religion. The set up capital city of interna- Girgaum chowpatty, party’s State One Nation' and it vowed to Centre has attacked the basic tional repute at Amaravati, the overcome any discrimination tenets of the Constitution like Friday’s Cabinet meeting will whether based on caste, region freedom of speech, brother- choose setting up of the capi- or religion, Thorat said. hood, democracy,” he alleged. tal in Visakhapatnam. “Keeping up with this The BJP government has Fulfilling the long-pending motto, the Congress started the brought back the divide-and- demand of the Rayalaseema Narayanaswamy. tion of the TD Party would be Independence movement. It rule policy used by the British. region, the State’s High Court The State Government total in the region, which stood was during this movement And so we will have to once is going to be located in may also consider extending as a strong bastion for the that India got independence again start an independence Kurnool. If it is not feasible, in the payment of lease for the regional party in all elections. under the leadership of movement, this time against that case at least the High lands by another five years Chief Minister Lokmanya Tilak and Mahatma the BJP rule, he said. PTI  ;   #    Court Bench will be located in apart from the current five year Jaganmohan Reddy’s decision Kurnool. A clear picture in this lease period. The Government to shift the capital to wo Army jawans were   $ regard will emerge after the is also considering giving devel- Visakhapatnam would be to Tkilled and five others   &  response of the Supreme Court oped lands in Visakhapatnam give no credit to the TDP as far ''"   injured in a mishap that took   ' is out. in lieu of the lands acquired. as the State capital is con- place during bridge construc- Fearing revolt from farm- However, a final decision is not cerned. tion training at the College of   ( ers, the venue of the State yet taken. Even if the YSRCP to set up   ('++ Military Engineering (CME) in   (   Cabinet meeting has been kept The TDP regime’s promise a full-fledged state capital in Pune on Thursday.    secret. Heavy security bando- of free education and free Amaravati, the credit would The jawans were undergo- bust arrangements are made at health for the farmers and invariably go to the TDP ing bridge construction train-  Prakasam barrage and along their families who had pooled because of its efforts at pooling    P   ing at the Pune-based CME, other routes for the meeting to their lands for Amaravati could over 36,000 acres of land from when a tower support col- avoid any untoward incident. not materialise so far. The farmers of 29 villages, includ- lapsed all of a sudden. According to Government YSRCP Government is likely to ing Tulluru, in the capital   + An official defence those killed were two combat sources, the administration of announce their urgent imple- region development authority spokesperson identified the engineers, while those injured the State should be dispensed mentation. limits. One of the advantages case has been registered against 11 people for allegedly kid- two Jawans killed in the mishap included a junior commis- from the steel city from June To compensate for the loss that weighs heavily in favour of Anapping, raping and torturing a 21-year-old girl for more than as Lance Havildar Sanjivan PK sioned officer. 2020 onwards. of the capital city, the Visakhapatnam is the well a year in Vasai taluka of Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said and Naik Waghmode BK, who A Court of Inquiry has The Government has been Government has plans to set up developed infrastructure like on Thursday. The Vasai police on Wednesday registered an offence succumbed to injuries at a been ordered into the incident, contemplating giving good two major industrial parks in sea ports, air ports and its prox- against 11 people and no arrest has been made in this regard, police military hospital. while the families of the jawans package to the Amaravati after Amaravati region to provide imity to national highways, public relations officer Hemant Katkar said. “Troops were undergoing killed in the mishap have been returning the farmers of 29 vil- employment to the locals. A whereas Amaravati is still a vil- According to the complainant, the accused, who are residents bridge construction training at informed. Located at Dapodi lages in the capital development committee will also be consti- lage. of Rangaon and Kalam in Vasai, allegedly kept her in confinement, College of Military Engineering near Pune, the CME is a pre- region of their land. A com- tuted soon to look into the mat- Meanwhile, a grand recep- raped and tortured her, he added. In July 2018, one of the accused (CME), Pune, when the tower mier technical and tactical mittee will be constituted to fix ter. tion is being planned for Jagan allegedly entered into a relationship with the victim, the official said, support collapsed. Six to seven training institution of the the quantum of compensation The decision of establish- who is arriving in adding that the accused along with a few others later abducted the troops were injured. They were Corps of Engineers for the to be given to farmers depend- ing a single capital will set at Visakhapatnam o n Saturday woman. The victim was forced to sign blank papers and affidavits immediately shifted to Military Indian Army. This includes ing on the nature of the land: rest all clamours from various after announcing the state cap- to prove that she had married one of the accused, he said. Hospital (MH), Kirkee and Combat Engineers, Military private land, assignment land, regions, mainly from ital. He will take part in the During her time in confinement, the woman was subjected to Command Hospital (CH), Engineering Service, Border patta land and so on. It will Rayalaseema region, to set up Visakha Utsav. repeated rapes, as a result of which she gave birth to a baby girl, Pune. Lance Havildar Sanjivan Roads Engineering Services negotiate the terms and con- capital city in their region. As part of the celebrations, Katkar said. The abuse lasted till December this year, following which PK and Naik Waghmode BK (BRES) and Survey. ditions of surrender of the The direct fall out of the development works worth Rs the victim registered a complaint with the police, he added. An sustained serious injuries and Among other things, the land with the affected farmers. decision would be nullify the 1290 crore would be launched. offence under sections 376 (rape), 366 (kidnap), 342 (wrongful con- lost their lives during the treat- jawans are trained at CME in The committee will have TDP in its stronghold- the To facilitate the works, the finement) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code ment,” an official statement building mobile bridges that are ministers Buggana North Coastal Andhra. With state government issued a GO has been registered against the alleged accused, who have not been said. used by soldiers to scale diffi- Rajendranath Reddy, Botsa the shifting of the capital to releasing Rs 300 crore for the arrested as yet, he added. Official sources said that cult terrains in the fields. Satyanarayana, Kannababu and Visakhaptnam, the elimina- same.   9) 0        Srinagar: Srinagar recorded the minus 11.4 degrees Celsius on coldest night of the season so far as Wednesday, he said. the mercury continued its down- Pahalgam, in south Kashmir's ward spiral across Kashmir valley, Anantnag district, was the coldest the Met office said on Thursday. recorded place in the valley, The minimum temperature he added. across Kashmir and Ladakh The official said Qazigund-- remained several degrees below the the gateway town to the valley in freezing point on Thursday owing south Kashmir recorded a low of to clear sky, an official of the minus 9.8 degrees Celsius — a Meteorological Department said. decrease of nearly two degrees He said Wednesday night was from minus 9.4 degrees Celsius on the coldest in Srinagar as the min- Wednesday. imum temperature settled at minus The ski-resort of Gulmarg in The night temperature at Kokernag town, also in south, 5 degrees Celsius — 0.7 degrees north Kashmir recorded a low of Pahalgam resort, which also serves recorded a low of minus 6.9 degrees down from minus 4.3 degree minus 11.2 degrees Celsius last as one of the base camps for the Celsius, while Kupwara, in north, Celsius the previous night, leading night-– down from the previous annual Amarnath yatra in south registered a minimum temperature to freezing of water supply lines at night's minus 9 degrees Celsius, he Kashmir, settled at a low of minus of minus 5.6 degrees Celsius, the several places. said. 12.7 degrees Celsius as against official said. 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;  ; ,,  families of those who died in attacked the Narendra Modi was a reality and it would hap- “they (BJP) are sending in stains are washed away. “The Karnataka slammed the BS I will request them not to scare police firing the BJP is threat- Government for misleading pen in the entire country. some agents wearing particu- BJP paints other parties in black Yedurappa Government of that anybody and not to get scared arning the BJP against ening to penalise them and the people by peddling untrue Banerjee who had been lar dresses (read the dresses and takes pride to portray itself State for refusing to compensate by anybody,” condemning the Wplaying with fire Mamata confiscate their properties. This and contradictory statements. taking out large rallies also hit that identify them as Muslims) in white.” the family members of those Centre for asking the students Banerjee on Thursday con- is playing with fire. I would Speaking on the Centre’s out at the Prime Minister for to create trouble from the Vowing to fight for all the who died in police firing. The of various central educational demned the saffron party for its warn the BJP not to play with decision to go ahead with the allegedly hounding out every- peaceful rallies so that they can communities, “because this is Trinamool Congress institutions for vacate their hos- bid to confiscate the properties fire,” she said. National Population Register one in the name of driving fire at the protesters and then Hindustan,” Banerjee said “we Government will send a dele- tels. “We express our solidarity of those who were protesting “In my State too we have she said “it is the same old away the infiltrators. She said arrest them on false charges. will not allow any party to gation to meet the victims’ fam- with the students of Jamia against the Citizenship similar laws to make people pay thing in new wrap… “if you chase out everybody You have to remain alert snatch away our rights... If ilies at Mangaluru she said. Millia, IITKanpur and other Amendment Act and National for destroying public property What we have gathered how will you stay? Will you stay against these people because needed we will lay down our Promising to stand by the universities who are protesting Register for Citizens. but we don’t do that in case of from the untrue, confusing alone in the country?” they are the agents of the BJP lives to protect the movemen- students of various academic against the CAA andthe NRC,” Instead of compensating spontaneous movements. Here and misleading statements In an apparent reference to who want to fail your move- tagainst CAA.” Banerjee who institutions like Jamia Millia she said the protesting students the people who died in police the movement against CAA made by their top leaders we the Prime Minister’s earlier ment.” declared a compensation of  5 Islamia, IIT Kanpur and other are adults and voters and“if they firing during peaceful agita- and NRC is spontaneous and have gathered that there is no reference that the mischief Once again calling the BJP lakh compensation for the fam- places Banerjee said “I will stage any protest, where is the tions the “BJP is threatening to so the BJP is taking a very difference between NRC and mongers could be identified by as a “washing machine” of sorts ily members of those who were always take the side of the stu- harm in it? ... They have arole confiscate their properties,” wrong and oppressive deci- NPR so I have stopped the their dresses Banerjee said, she said by joining that party all killed in police firing in dents in their peaceful protests. to play.” Banerjee said reminding the sion from which they should work of NPR in Bengal because non-BJP Governments too desist because if the non-BJP in the morning their leaders say could apply the same medicine Governments like us start using one thing, in the noon they say against the BJP workers in the same tactic against the BJP the other and yet in the night their respective States. people then what will happen they say something other,” “Some 16 people have died to them? apparently referring to Prime in the police firing in UP, two So I ask them not to play Minister Narendra Modi’s in Karnataka, three in Assam with fire,” Banerjee said. statement that his Government and many others in other states The Chief Minister had not discussed imposition of which we do not have any descended on the streets for the of NRC in India contradicting information right now… fifth day on Thursday. Leading Home Minister Amit Shah’s instead of compensating the a massive anti-CAA rally she repeated assertions that NRC

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  + said that properties of those "They should not be let involved in the violence would away, no one has the right to ending out a stern warning, be seized and auctioned to destroy public property... Any SKarnataka Revenue Minister compensate destruction of one can protest, but if they R Ashoka on Thursday said the public and private assets cause damage to public prop- state government would emu- during the protests over the erty, government should make late Uttar Pradesh and confis- amended citizenship sure that they pay for it," she cate properties of those who law. added. caused damage to public prop- On Wednesday UP offi- Anti-CAA protests had erties during protests against cials had said over 60 people reached its peak in the state last the Citizenship (Amendment) have been "identified for vio- week and turned violent in Act. lence" during last week's anti Mangaluru, resulting in the Everyone has to obey the CAA protests in Rampur and death of two in police firing. law of the land and not give an Gorakhpur and issued notices, Defending the CAA, opportunity for such an action asking them to explain their Ashoka said, India was not a by the Government, he told position or pay for damage charitable lodging place and reporters here. caused to public and private every one has to abide by law "...The way in which Uttar property. of the land. Pradesh Government has Meanwhile, Karnataka BJP "The Act (CAA) that decided to confiscate the prop- General Secretary and Member has been brought in, is erties of those indulging in vio- of Parliament Shobha right.... India is not a chari- lence - if such things (violence) Karandlaje too urged the state table lodging place for those happen again (here), it will be government to identify those from Pakistan and brought in Karnataka also," who caused damaged to pub- Bangladesh to come and stay Ashoka said. lic property during the protests here, there is laws and rules Uttar Pradesh Chief in the state and make them pay here and one has to abide by Minister Yogi Adityanath has for it. it," he said. PTI !! 1  9  + "      A

 ;   NRC across the country? If he numbers who had been cate- has made the statement without gorized as criminal tribes and harging that the RSS and the Prime Minister’s permis- detained in these centres. In CBJP-led Government had sion, I would like to ask the PM Maharashtra alone, 16 per cent hatched a “conspiracy” to if he would seek the resignation of the total population belong to create unrest in the country of Amit Shah or change his these tribes,” Amnbedkar said. through Citizenship portfolios. If you do not don’t “These tribals do not have Amendment Act (CAA) and do both the things, should we any documents or records with National Register for Citizens consider this an them. Even now, you can get to (NRC), Dalit leader and another lie coming from the see thousands of them roaming Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) Prime Minister along the lines on the streets in the state with President Prakash Ambedkar of his  15 lakh in each bank donkeys and horses. on Thursday contended that the account promise made There are also other Advisis CAA and NRC were not only by him during the 2014 Lok who do not have documents. against Muslims but they were Sabha poll campaign?,” Here are the tribals who do not also against 40 per of the Amedkar wondered. know where their fathers and Hindus in the country. Maintaining that NRC and grand fathers died. If you ask Addressing a massive rally CAA would affect large sections them to produce documents, of his Dalits and Adivasis at of people across the country, where will they produce the Dadar in north-central Ambedkar said: “These laws are documents from?,” the Dalit Mumbai to oppose CAA and 100 per cent against Muslims. leader asked. NRC, Ambedkar demanded to But, they are also against 40 per “The RSS wants to contin- know from Prime Minister cent of Hindus across the coun- ue its rule through the BJP in Narendra Modi if he would try”. Contesting Modi’s claim the country. It wants to finish seek the resignation of or that no detention centres had the Opposition. That’s why it change the portfolio of Union been set up to house the illegal has brought CAA and NRC Home Minister Amit Shah for citizens, Ambedkar — grand- after due deliberation. We will making a statement in son of late BR Ambedkar — have to respond to CAA and Parliament for making a state- likened the “existing” detention NRC through agitation. If you ment that NRC would be camps to the ones set up by the do not want to locked up in implemented across the coun- British to house criminal tribes detention centres, then better try. Singling out the RSS and under the Criminal Tribes Act come out and raise voice against ruling BJP for a vicious attack (CTA). the BJP Government at the on the current unrest in the “The British came out with Centre,” Ambedkar told the country, Ambedkar said: “If Criminal Tribes Act in 1871. Adivasis who had turned out in someone has hatched a con- Under this law, the British des- large numbers for the rally. spiracy to trigger unrest in the ignated certain sections of the Thousands of people, par- country over CAA, NRC and tribals as habitual criminals ticularly Dalits and Adivasis, National Population Register and put them in detention cen- participated in the rally (NPR), it is no one else other tres. The tribals were lodged in organised by the VBA. than the RSS and BJP-led these detention camps for years The demonstrators carried Government”. on end. It was then Prime national Tricolour, photographs “If Prime Minister Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who of Dr BR Ambedkar, Mahatma Narendra Modi is saying that released the detained tribals Gandhiji, the Constitution, plac- there has been no discussion on from these camps in 1952” ards proclaiming ‘Reject CAA NRC in Parliament or in his “The detainees were there — Boycott NRC’ and banners Cabinet, how did Union Home in these for more than 75 years. with anti-CAA-NRC slogans. Minister Amit Shah say in Many of them were born and They raised slogans various forums that the died in detention camps. You demanding the withdrawal of Government would implement will be surprised to know the CAA and NRC.    ! "#$"%&'   * 01 0*  !"# $ %&   -./$# $ %& =+24$$,0 ! !   ;     < 8=>            *          830@-! *!5.%......-&.   3        1      $/A -  %O-5/;-&"/-..+$.O-/:%%--                  "               "      567;           567< =     $    2                       O            !              +   !       2                              23 +,-.    -                              2       s the year comes to a close, in this week’s article, let’s take a look back                 ! to see how we have come by. The        2            year 2019 marked the com-                   >  mencement of polling in the world’sA largest democracy. The rhetoric   4  2 ( 42)      ? :  ! espoused by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)                "   led to it winning the elections with a comfort-                  able majority of its own. After the swearing-         in of the Narendra Modi-led BJP Government, the nation saw the appointment "              of Amit Shah as the Union Home Minister.    "               ! This is when things got interesting. Ever since,           "      (   the year has been most obviously punctuat- ed by events with the Home Minister at its ) " S                   , "  ! forefront.      $       !      ! In the years between 2014 and 2019, Shah       "            was primarily viewed as the orchestrator of the BJP’s victories in a few States, some     "              through strategy and others through blatant         "   $     ! subversion of democracy. Each such victory       5656        4       — whether through subversion or strategy — was lauded by certain media organsiations.                   ! Some news anchors came up with the kind       "             of servile praise that would make even the                     ! Korean Central News Agency look on in admi- ration.              " 2 ! After giving another five years to the takes the concerns of its people how the CAA goes against the Recently, the Cabinet gave a                  ! Modi-led BJP Government, we saw Shah rise into account. However, there spirit of the Constitution and the go ahead to the National                        to a much more prominent position, in was no debate or discussion on very idea of India that the Population Register (NPR). administration and in the Government. This Article 370 as to what could have framers of our Constitution and There is widespread fear that the +            $  +   " ($+") is surely distinct from the much more clan- been the best way to take such a the builders of modern India data collected as part of the             4+!2@  4+!@2      destine and behind-the-scenes role that move forward. had envisaged. I will not go into NPR will be the basis of the NRC. +                   Home Ministers have been given while Instead, what we have seen these details again but the per- This squarely provides the working for the party. As the BJP president, and what we continue to see is son leading the CAA and the answer. While the Home            567A   rumours and discussions were already doing an entire State still under lock- one who forced it down our col- Minister and the Prime Minister -           ?          the rounds about just how much power and down. This is a State, where lective throats was the Home may deny any link between the $                    influence Shah held even then. But now, there internet services have been shut *;  * Minister. The standard proce- NRC and the NPR, they have is hardly any debate. He is possibly the most down for almost half a year now  (   dure for the passage of any Bill given us little reason for their                     powerful man in the Government and its and where the local leadership calls for it to be presented before decisions. It is this trust that the        2S 866!      agenda is being driven by the Home Minister. has been silenced through not  (  the Standing Committee. Prime Minister and the Home                   $   The change in dynamics was visible even only the internet embargo but ( * ** However, in the case of CAA, the Minister will need to earn back.             "          before the new Government was sworn in, also through house arrests. From Government did not deem it fit So, it appears that from the most visibly during the Press conference held the reports that have emerged in )( )K to take the views of the date of the infamous Press con- "       @   2        ! by the Prime Minister. If one were to watch the international media and Opposition or of the public. ference — the only one by the         # !        2   the briefing even now, it will be evident that from what we have seen in '' The CAA and the National Prime Minister — till today, the             "      the address was led by Shah. It was incredi- other States, where internet ser-   Register of Citizens (NRC) are BJP and the ruling Government ble to see a Prime Minister, the head of the vices have been shut (such as two sides of the same coin. It was are increasingly being cast in the        2         +  Government, look at the soon-to-be Home Assam and Uttar Pradesh),   *  K  interesting to see the juxtaposi- image of the Home Minister.              2    ! Minister before answering questions put major repercussions and reac- ';  tion between the Prime Minister’s A word of warning though    $                 ! before him. This set the tone for 2019. tion of the people of Kashmir to understanding of the NRC and should be in order. The year 2019 Then came one of the first significant such a move can really be    + that of the Home Minister. In has till now been the year of Shah       "            decisions of this Government, the abrogation gauged after the internet block- +    light of the protests against the but he would do well to note that   4    2S           ! of Article 370 and the bifurcation of Jammu ade is lifted. All we can hope is divisive CAA, the Prime Minister the end of the year has seen a                   #  & Kashmir into two Union Territories. that the damage and oppression ) * +' spoke to the nation to presum- political voice emerge: Those of Whatever one’s views on the change in sta- caused by such a move does not  +)*   ably pacify those, who have been India’s young and old : '   :S      B9     5659  tus of Kashmir may be, there can be little result in us losing Kashmir alto- protesting against the Act. Constitutionalists, who have                    debate that this change in status came with gether. I believe that the entire  +(  However, he left the citizens grown tired of the oppressive, little or no discussion or debate with the real episode could have been han-   *  largely confused. divisive and high-handed acts of stakeholders in Kashmir, namely the people dled by involving all stakehold- The Prime Minister said the Government and have decid- of the former State. Instead, what we saw was ers, especially the people, who that the Government does not ed to voice their concern in a   0 that in the blink of an eye, a tectonic change are the most affected. intend to implement a pan-India largely peaceful and democratic in India’s political and Constitutional land- The same brazen approach NRC. However, Shah explicitly manner. The BJP would do well          scapes was thrust down our throats even was followed by the stated on more than one occasion to note that while 2019 may have          before we were given a chance to debate the Government during the passage (including in Parliament) that the been largely about Shah, 2020 niceties. It is good governance and frankly, a of the Citizenship Amendment NRC will take place all across the could well belong to our youth.  $         basic principle of our federal democracy that Bill, now the Citizenship country. So who’s right? Whom (The writer is a former IPS      ' the Central Government, while exercising a Amendment Act (CAA). I have do we trust? Is it the Prime officer, a former MP and current- " decision that affects each citizen of the State, already written in detail about Minister or the Home Minister? ly a member of the AAP) #  ('# )  *                       +     #  /  01              ..-!. % -%5-.;-. ."! 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The Yogi Kutta and also give wrong address Adityanath Government is doing %./ &.$.H J-%.. like 7, Race Course Road.” In her  S              1    the right thing. Those indulging .&.- . 5.& .%.&  % hurry to criticise the Government,                 ** 2S   in rioting, arson and violence  %.-.... 5%-# %/ it is surprising that she is ignorant     damaging public and private . .   -.; . $ 5 - " . %& . of what Ranga-Billa stands for. It properties have no place in a K)-5-%. %.--$& .-5.: refers to two hardcore criminals, "           '#        civilised society. They need to be  %#5.: 5% ;.%-5% who made headlines for the bru-      S            !    ! dealt with strictly. No one has .5.! $.-.% .; /  tal rape-murder of a young girl and    ' , 3               ! stopped these vandals from %% %.-.- %&.: her brother in the 70s. expressing their views and regis- &.-  %. $!8@#--!/& %; Padmini Raghavendra                      ! tering their protest in a democ- /..$&.5-!../%/- . Secunderabad   ' , " $              ratic manner. Causing inconve- -.$%-#     /  #    (/#)   4  /#   5676 nience to the public in general is .-  ... %-.$5.- !5. .5 ./-%.$5-%/-#- %   in no way Constitutional, refer- I;333$.-# $-&.. %%- $ .5-.&;&5$$./..$&.5%        5668       '#     ring to which has become a fash- .- $./ %# .-%5..-- .$5-;&& ./%%#%%5.     ' , " ' ,        5669  8   ,*  ion these days. I hope the educat- .. %-$%.- $&%. .-# % %.-# $--  %.." 5/ Sir — It is ironical that a German (    ,*   2  ' 2  , )   5668  ed masses, at least, do not get mis- 5...-$.$; %-5>5%%&--5 /.-.-# +$.$5-.$"&- student was subjected to such a led by divisive forces, which are %.-;.#5/.;.-. $ .-%.  .- .$--;.": harsh treatment for taking part in   '#           ' 2,      out to disturb the communal $-.--/&--5#  ;%- $ /. 5..&/ %. %.- anti-CAA protest. After all, the        #              harmony of the country. .-/!..-5.;&--5-#  %.&.- . 5.# IIT-M owes its existence to tech-                   4   Rakesh Singh /-/.$-. %..-   nical and financial assistance Lucknow %.%5/..--%..$&:  from the former Government of                    West Germany. The student’s act,  $  S    $            in no way, had the potential of      ,  :            '#  against the Citizenship Amendment This will provide protesting ing controversy over the citizenship even remotely causing any prej- Act and the National Register of agitators, backed by Opposition law, activist Arundhati Roy, the udice to our national interest.                    Sir — The Union Cabinet’s Citizens (NRC) is still to die down, parties and the media, an oppor- torch bearer of the “liberals”, urged Tripti                announcement that the National is certainly ill-timed. It is a surprise tunity to stir the pot of protest and like-minded persons to lie or fur- Via email Population Register (NRC) will be that the Cabinet failed to put off the agitation against the Modi nish fake names when NPR is gen-     !          S !  "  5  +    updated before September 2020, decision for at least a few weeks for Government. As if this was not erated through house-to-house coming at a time when agitation normalcy to be fully restored. enough in the backdrop of the rag- enumeration. Speaking at a protest  !'!> &#!     ! "#$"%&'  4 01 0* 50.!#2,/ 1 )  %3 !#/1.%3       3  3 5  /;3    &   (! /4 ;  0  4      3   0  1    3   0 &    1   41  1 & ... 5%/-/%% L0 ; / 3 L5      %$-.  5%-/."/ -./; +- /;3 5   .5&./$..-%$%- 2   

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Not only does he water each plant him- self after drawing water from the well, he only uses      '$-           self-made manure.          2       ! “It is because of these trees that I am self suf-      "             ficient today. I am not dependent on anyone, not   !   ,           even my sons,” said Dogu proudly.  ,+               Dogu’s journey towards self-sufficiency and             "   dignity may not have been possible had he not been       '$-         able to access his traditional land rights. Being a                  Koraga, a particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG) and the most backward of all tribal groups   *     /           ! 03' *;  *          '$- "      in Karnataka, Dogu faced considerable social and economic deprivations, especially as the commu-        !        ! nity is considered untouchable. Various legislations *  !    like the Karnataka Forest Act, 1963, and the *)  ' '     '$-     !  ! Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, alienated the tribes- K@;333) *(              +    ! men from their sources of livelihood. Ousted from ( * K          the forest land their ancestors had occupied for gen- KL;333) *                 ! erations, the primitive tribal group eked its living from weaving baskets made from bamboo and for-                )  '                est creepers and manual scavenging. his own land would come true. Like lives but have equal decision-making crimination is technically illegal now, What pushed the Koragas further back was the ( *  + * many others, he was reconciled to till- powers, share the household expenses such practices continue where inequal-                 8;333) *   "              custom of anjal, wherein hair, nails and other ined- ing somebody else’s land to earn a living. and even have separate bank accounts. ities and prejudices remain. It has also ible substances are mixed in food and given to them  In 2003, when the Koraga Federation’s But it was not always so. Spending been difficult for some to completely  '$-      3   !     to eat by the upper caste in the belief that their trou-     movement for lands rights led to the allo- a part of his meagre income as a sweep- overcome the trauma. Although Shina   P      Q       ! bles would, thus, be transferred to the Koragas. For ( *  + *; cation of land in Udupi district, Dogu’s er at a hotel on alcohol had pushed Shina still struggles at times with a feeling of   "        !!    generations, the community followed this inhu-    dreams came true. further into indebtedness and poverty. inferiority born out the practice of anjal,              ! man custom. Food leftovers and old clothes thus 0;333) *( It took him one year of hard physi- Life took a turn for the better after the his wife Mamta has been able to break           given was the only way for survival. + )   cal work to make his piece of land, over- uneducated Shina became a part of the these shackles. Having studied till                  But Dogu was able to stand up against anjal run by brambles and weeds, worthy of Koraga Federation in 1999. Not only was Class 8, Mamta, who is also the secre- and rebuild his life, thanks to the Koraga Federation (   cultivation. Jasmine plants, given by the he able to overcome his alcohol addic- tary of the taluk Koraga committee,                 ! )  *                 (comprising community members), Samagra Federation, were the first to be planted. tion with their help but his incomes knows her rights, thanks to various             '$-     Grameena Ashrama (SGA), a local community- As the money earned through the sale improved after he opted for jasmine cul- awareness programmes initiated by      ,4-     "      based organisation, and ActionAid India, a not- of the jasmine flowers increased, Dogu tivation, which offered livelihood reha- the Federation and its partners, SGA for-profit working for the empowerment of the planted vegetables, coconut, areca nut bilitation. Although it took time, once and ActionAid India. This knowledge                   marginalised. Together, they were able to break the and banana. Once a daily wage labour- profits made from selling the jasmine prompted her to register her four-year-              cycle of caste-based oppression and stigma faced er, Dogu made appropriate use of the started trickling in, Shina ploughed a old daughter at the local anganwadi and     "           by the Koragas like Dogu. They supported the com- land he was allotted. It is no wonder then large part of his income back to improve ensure her regular attendance.                munity through a slew of measures to help them that his is considered a model farm. cultivation. This helped increase produc- Although the only Koraga child in that    !          access their right to land and housing and become Ashok Shetty, SGA coordinator, tion and boost profits. anganwadi, Mamta’s daughter has not               economically independent. The initiative has not who saw the land before it was given to His wife Mamta, who received train- faced discrimination that her mother        "         only helped them restore their dignity but has also Dogu, said not many of them had ing from the Government’s Integrated did when she went to school. Thanks                   awakened the community to their right to educa- thought the transformation was possible. Tribal Development Programme under to the enabling environment created by              tion, health, nutrition and livelihoods. “The credit goes to Dogu. It was not easy their livelihood scheme to make and sell the Federation with the help of Mamta               Over the last 10 years, this intervention has to toil on this land without help. But costume jewellery, also pools in a part of and other women of the community. helped secure nearly 49,000 acres of forest land — Dogu showed it was possible and this is her income. “Since both of us work now Community members like Dogu, 3                47,000 acres under community forest rights and why others, who have received land, are and share the expenses, I no longer need Shina and Mamta are the backbone of    "             2,000 acres under individual forest rights, in addi- encouraged to follow his example,” said to take loans to make two ends meet as the Koraga movement to end oppres-              ! tion to 1,000 acres of agricultural land for tribal Shetty. I did before,” said Shina. sion, discrimination and stigma. The                  ! communities. Earlier this month, this remarkable Even Dogu believes that cultivating Both are keen to give their three chil- work put in by the Koraga Federation             "   accomplishment was chosen among 200 global ini- his land gave him the opportunity to dren a good life. They want to make sure and its partners to make the commu-             ! tiatives as the 2019 Gold Award winner by World become his own master. “This farm has that none of them are forced to follow the nity believe in itself and stand up for   !    !     Habitat in recognition of the collective achieve- given me so much. I may not have much callous practice of anjal. Shina knows their rights has brought tangible out- "              ! ment by ActionAid, SGA and Koraga Federation savings but I also don’t have any debts. what effect it had on him as he had comes evident in the land secured and      !        to empower the community reclaim their rights I am happy and live a life of dignity,” he accompanied his parents to collect left- advances in education, nutrition and                  and dignity. This annual award, given in partner- stated. over food as a part of anjal rituals as a gender equality. But the biggest achieve- ship with the UN Habitat, honours transformative Getting their own land has also been child and, later, as an adult. It was only ment is their aspirations for a life of dig-  ?        interventions that support the community to access transformational for 45-year-old Shina after he became a part of the Federation nity and the determination to claim                 !  their rights to land and housing. and his 39-year-old wife, Mamta Koraga. that Shina became aware that anjal had their rights. There is self belief within  ,+             ! Dogu became the first Koraga to benefit from For residents of village Kanjarkatte in been legally abolished under the the community members that they can               this programme in Udipi district where 117 acres Udupi district, the couple are a role Karnataka Koragas (Prohibition of Ajalu be the change. However long the jour-             of land has been secured so far for the communi- model for the community. Not only have Practice) Act in 2000. ney, they are willing to walk.          ty. 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the Supreme Court recognising trans- rights and serves as a proof of recog- to leave home and reside with the com- sons. Further, it only includes five rep- ing the many ways in which transgen- gender rights and decriminalising nition of identity as a transgender per- munity members. Further, rehabilita- resentatives from the community. This der families have been traditionally same-sex relationships. The decisions son. While details of how such certifi- tion centres may not be an ideal alter- is too small a number when compared structured in India. in both NALSA vs Union of India and cates will be issued have been left to the native because often, such establish- to the size of the council. The Act also Deficiencies of the Act, therefore, Navtej Singh Johar & Ors vs Union of delegated legislation, the possibility of ments do not possess the requisite fails to provide cogent methods for make what would have otherwise India marked the culmination of advo- introducing invasive procedures to degree of sensitivity to deal with the grievance redressal. Therefore, while been a welcome legislation, counterpro- cacy initiatives and years of struggle that prove one’s identity may have a detri- issues of transgender persons. one of the functions of the council is ductive, unresponsive and incapable of   +* + the LGBT+ community had to under- mental effect on the right to self iden- In the case of adults, such a pro- to redress grievances of the transgen- meeting the needs of the community. 56 -7-.8-2 go to successfully build their cases. The tification, which has been recognised vision ignores the fact that transgen- der persons, it is unlikely to redress The Act, thus, fails to maintain focus (  +* ) top court’s judgments not only expand- by the top court and High Courts. der persons above the age of 18 are individual grievances with any degree on the concerns of the community and !%$  - espite nation-wide protests, the ed rights but were also cognizant of the It is unclear whether applying for competent to make their decisions. of reasonable efficiency given its com- points to the lack of public consulta- Transgender Persons realities of LGBT+ persons in India. such a certificate of identity is manda- Further, community members have plex composition. While the Act tions in its drafting process. /.&. D(Protection of Rights) Act, Read together, both judgments lay the tory. For instance, will those transgen- rued that while the Act provides for requires establishments to appoint a Considering the progressiveness of the -&.  5 % 2019, received presidential assent on foundation for expanding the citizen- der persons, who already possess iden- punishment for sexual abuse, the complaint officer to redress griev- apex court judgments, law reforms -..; $/% December 5, 2019 and became a law. ship rights of LGBT+ persons. tity documents identifying themselves same is much lesser when compared ances for violation of the provisions, no seem like the obvious next step in real- /. Ostensibly enacted to protect the rights Law reforms post these orders have as such, also have to apply? The Act also to punishment for similar offences in powers have been conferred on the ising equal citizenship rights. However, /.$.#5.-. of the transgender community, the Act not followed up on the court’s orders does not envisage any streamlined the male-female binary in the Indian complaint officer. No details have the Transgender Rights Act indicates seeks to dilute core promises, includ- in responding to the lived realities of appellate procedures in case the certifi- Penal Code. This creates a hierarchy been provided regarding how such an the many pitfalls in enacting legal  ./. ing the right to self identification, which the community. Therefore, while the cate of identity is not issued. This may of condemnation between offences officer would redress complaints. frameworks without fully accounting %/.-%- 5$ was the cornerstone of the Supreme Transgender Persons (Protection of lead to costly and time-consuming lit- against different identities that are The definitions of the Act also indi- for the realities and views of those they %/.%>5... Court’s landmark judgment in NALSA Rights) Act, 2019, should have been a igation in case of denial. otherwise similar in substance. cate a lack of conceptual clarity regard- seek to protect. Any way forward for !. %! ".. vs Union of India. There appears to be step in the direction of progressive law Members of the transgender com- The structure of the legislation also ing the realities of the transgender com- law reform, therefore, must keep the a unique situation, where a supposed- reform, in its current form, it points to munity have also pointed out how pro- renders it difficult to implement and munity. The definition of “transgender LGBT+ community front and centre -. $5.-  ly progressive law meant to further a glaring disconnect between lawmak- visions on the right to residence with does not provide realistic ways to persons” includes “persons with inter- and should proceed on the basis of )-..;!- rights and ensure welfare of the trans- ers and the ground realities faced by immediate families or in the alterna- enforce the rights guaranteed by it. For sex variations”, thereby conflating the extensive community consultations. /%%.5. gender community has not only led to the transgender community. tive, requiring them to reside in reha- instance, the pan-India National two identities. Moreover, the definition After all, rights are only meaningful if  --. disappointment but will also alter For instance, the Act prescribes a bilitation centres, are ignorant of social Council for Transgender Persons is a of “family” by restricting itself to rela- in their operation, they respond to the /5- - 5%% their existing rights. long and complicated process to obtain realities. This because natal families are mammoth body, which is unlikely to tionships of “blood or marriage or realities of the right-holders. LGBT+ rights have made signifi- a certificate of identity. This certificate often sites of violence for young trans- meet with any degree of regularity to adoption”, continues to operate in a het- (The writer is a Research Fellow at 8383# cant strides over the past decade, with is of immense importance as it confers gender persons, thereby forcing them address issues faced by transgender per- eronormative context, thereby ignor- the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)           ! "#$"%&'  : $     5 4   *+!   6=@  5 />?  )@, 8=>       13,614 being raised in 2015 Bank (54 per cent), Ujjivan cent of the total public equi- through 15 issues and 2014 (51 per cent), Indiamart ty markets amount in the     while the domestic market is eflecting the woes of the being the worst at 1,201 Intermesh (34 per cent), year. The street saw 11 com-     expected to wait for cues from Rbroader economy, fund crore from five IPOs, show the Neogen Chemicals (23 per panies mobilising 35,238 enchmark indices nursed the Budget,” said Vinod Nair, raising through IPOs plunged data. The largest IPO in 2019 cent), Polycab (22 per cent) crore through QIPs, which is losses for the third head of research, Geojit to a low 12,362 crore in 2019, was from Sterling & Wilson and Affle (17 per cent). 112 per cent more than Bstraight session on  #     Financial Services. down a full 60 per cent from Solar which raised 2,850 Significantly, unlike in 16,587 crore raised in 2018. Thursday, led by selling in BSE telecom, energy, cap- 2018 when the street mopped crore, while the average issue previous years, only two IPO The largest QIP of 2019 was market heavyweights Reliance ital goods, bankex, oil and gas, up 30,959 crore. size was 773 crore. stocks are trading below the from Axis Bank raising Industries and HDFC Bank Hong Kong (AFP): Asian equities rose on Thursday in subdued teck and healthcare indices The outgoing year saw Only three of the 16 IPOs issue price now with the rest 12,500 crore, accounting for amid expiry of December trading, holding the gains recently spurred by the US-China trade lost up to 1.73 per cent. only 16 initial public offerings that hit the market had a 13 stocks trading between 21 35 per cent of the total QIP derivatives contracts. thaw. Following the Christmas lull across world markets, eyes Metal and basic materials (IPOs) as against 24 in 2018, prior PE/VC investment, a per cent and 170 per cent amount. QIPs were dominat- After tumbling 328.37 are now on US unemployment data and also on Japanese indus- settled up to 0.66 per cent show the data collated by the notable change from previous above the issue price as of ed by banks, NBFCs and real- points during the day, the 30- trial and retail data scheduled for release on Friday. higher. premier database on the cap- years. OFS by such PE/VC December 23. ty companies accounting for share BSE Sensex ended 297.50 Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei index closed 0.6 percent higher Broader BSE Midcap ital market Prime Database. investors stood to 803 crore, For the first time since the 87 per cent (30,688 crore) of points, or 0.72 per cent, lower after a flat start. Shanghai put on 0.9 percent, while Seoul was closed 0.13 per cent lower That the economy is in accounting for just 6 per cent SME platform started five the overall amount. at 41,163.76. It hit an intra-day up 0.4 percent. Singapore, however, was down 0.3 percent. while the smallcap index bad shape — Q2 GDP has of IPO amount. OFS by pro- years ago, the IPO activity InvITs/ReITs also saw low of 41,132.89. “Investor sentiment towards the global economy is improving,” inched up 0.38 per cent. come in at near seven-year- moters at stood at 7,513 declined in 2019 as there were good traction with the year Similarly, the broader NSE said Rakuten Securities chief strategist Masayuki Kubota. On the currency front, the low of 4.5 per cent and there crore, or 61 per cent of total only 50 SME IPOs in the year seeing the first ever ReIT list- Nifty closed 88 points, or 0.72 Hong Kong, Sydney and Wellington were closed for a pub- rupee rupee pared its early is no sign of any improvement IPO amount. collecting a paltry 621 crore ing by Embassy Office Parks per cent, down at 12,126.55. lic holiday. gains and settled lower by 4 going forward — is clear from Seven IPOs got mega as against 141 issues in 2018 raising 3,874 crore. The over- Bharti Airtel was the top “With the... tech sector giants leading the way, investors are paise at 71.31 against the US the fact that as many 47 com- responses of over 10 times worth 2,287 crore and 133 all amount raised through loser in the Sensex pack, drop- showing no fear as the market remains underpinned by the thaw- currency on Thursday. panies who got Sebi nod to (IRCTC at 109 times followed issues in 2017 raising 1,679 InvITs and ReITs was 127 ping 2.23 per cent, followed by ing in the US-China trade squabble and easy central bank pol- Month-end dollar demand raise over 51,000 crore by Ujjivan Small Finance Bank crore and 67 issues raising percent more than in previous Reliance Industries, L&T, Sun icy,” Stephen Innes, chief Asia market strategist at AxiTrader, said and weakness in domestic through IPOs allowed the 100 times), CSB Bank 48 537 in 2016 and 43 issues year. Pharma, HDFC Bank, Maruti, in a report. equities weighed on the same to lapse. times, Affle 48 times, Polycab raising 260 in 2015 and 40 Of the total 81,171 crore, Titan and Kotak Bank. Volumes are typically light during the holiday season, and domestic currency, forex However, driven by offer- 36 times, Neogen Chemicals IPOs collecting 267 crore in fresh capital was 45,937 crore On the other hand, ONGC, the muted activity in Asia followed sleepy Christmas Eve ses- traders said. for-sale and qualified institu- 29 times and Indiamart 2014. or 57 percent and the remain- NTPC, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finance sions in many world markets. “No news being good news, Asia At the interbank foreign tional placements, the street Intermesh 20 times), one issue The OFS to dilute the ing 35,234 crore being offers and M&M rose up to 1.63 per should maintain... gains ahead of a US session likely to be pos- exchange market, the rupee saw 28 per cent growth in was oversubscribed by over promoters’ holding saw a huge for sale. cent. itive,” Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst for Asia-Pacific at had opened higher at 71.26 overall fund raising at 81,174 three times, the balance seven increase from 10,672 crore But the year was bad for According to traders, mar- OANDA, wrote in a note earlier in the day. against the US dollar. During crore in 2019, against 63,651 were oversubscribed between raised in 2018 to 25,811 divestments as against the ket turned volatile on expiry of In oil markets, the main contracts traded higher as the com- the day, the domestic unit crore in 2018 but this is 49 per one and three times. crore in 2019. Of this, gov- budgeted 1,05,000 crore on December futures and options modity remained strong thanks to trade optimism as well as the fluctuated between a high of cent lower than the all-time But from the listing side, ernment divestment account- 17,744 crore or 17 percent (F&O) contracts. OPEC+ output reduction agreement. Brent Crude and West Texas 71.22 and a low of 71.35. The high of 1,60,032 crore raised the year was good with IPOs ed for 5,871 crore or 23 per has been achieved till date. Further, investor partici- Intermediate were both up 0.2 percent. rupee finally settled at 71.31 in 2017, says Pranav Haldea, with strong debut trade. Of cent of the total led by it dilut- According to Haldea, the pation has also thinned on against the US dollar, lower by managing director at Prime the 15 IPOs which got listed, ing its stake in Axis Bank in IPO pipeline continues to account of year-end holidays in week, however consolidation delay in divestments planned 4 paise over its previous close Database Group. seven gave a return of over 10 February worth 5,358 crore, remain strong with 21 com- domestic and global markets, extend on account of F&O this fiscal. of 71.27 on Tuesday. The year 2017 saw 36 per cent, based on closing followed by SBI Life (3,524 panies holding Sebi approval they said. expiry led volatility and con- “Global markets seem to be Brent futures, the global oil IPOs mopping up 67,147 price on listing date. IRCTC crore) and HDFC Life (3,366 to raise 18,700 crore and “Market started-off on a cern over the fiscal math of the in comfort zone fuelled by benchmark, advanced 0.33 per crore, while 2016 saw 26 issues gave a stupendous return of crore). another 13 wanting to Sebi not flat note on holiday-shortened government due to possible hopes of easing trade tension, cent to USD 67.42 per barrel. collecting 26,494 crore and 128 per cent, followed by CSB OFS accounted for 32 per to raise 18,000 crore.

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194.65 192.75 192.75 TATAMOTORS 175.90 176.45 174.10 174.60 -0.90 INDUSINDBK 1524.80 1529.50 1504.80 1514.15 DEEPAKNI 368.00 376.40 362.80 371.95 REPCOHOME 319.15 322.65 314.55 317.40 APLLTD 550.00 554.00 544.85 546.20 INFY 732.00 734.55 726.55 729.50 -3.90 HDFCLIFE 627.80 638.80 622.95 635.55 MARICO 334.10 340.10 334.10 339.25 SUZLON 2.02 2.06 1.95 2.01 SONATSOFTW 306.40 310.70 305.40 306.00 HINDALCO 216.75 217.60 214.30 214.95 -1.30 INFY 734.00 734.70 727.00 729.25 QUESS 499.85 505.70 478.60 480.15 ABFRL 229.00 233.30 226.80 231.45 MRPL 41.00 41.00 40.55 40.65 TCS 2216.40 2229.00 2195.20 2202.00 -13.60 SUNPHARMA 432.95 432.95 420.85 422.30 SRTRANSFIN 1150.35 1167.10 1150.35 1153.90 TORNTPHARM 1857.35 1857.35 1831.50 1846.55 BLUESTARCO 784.80 792.40 780.60 790.00 GRASIM 739.60 745.80 734.00 734.00 -4.50 BANKBARODA 100.10 100.35 98.65 99.00 BANKINDIA 69.30 71.60 68.65 70.90 TRENT 524.00 526.00 515.25 526.00 IEX 142.10 143.45 140.55 140.55 ITC 238.90 239.40 236.35 236.95 -1.80 TITAN 1205.10 1213.60 1190.35 1192.55 OMAXE 157.00 162.55 151.30 156.55 HINDZINC 212.00 214.45 211.85 211.90 FDC 207.55 210.40 206.35 206.50 WIPRO 252.00 252.40 249.55 250.30 -1.95 DLF 229.90 229.90 225.55 226.75 M&MFIN 325.00 325.00 319.60 321.60 EIDPARRY 201.10 203.80 196.90 200.00 ZYDUSWELL 1440.55 1449.40 1438.00 1444.00 DRREDDY 2896.55 2914.75 2860.00 2870.00 -25.95 SAIL 41.10 42.75 41.10 42.40 MAHINDCIE 160.50 179.10 160.35 170.70 MIDHANI 158.75 159.90 154.90 156.85 ALLCARGO 96.50 97.15 95.65 96.90 INFIBEAM 48.00 55.90 47.45 54.95 ADANIPOWER 61.30 61.30 59.90 60.05 KEI 452.00 468.00 452.00 465.35 CERA 2684.00 2687.05 2654.00 2659.60 TITAN 1209.95 1213.75 1190.60 1193.00 -11.10 HDFCAMC 3220.00 3230.00 3180.45 3222.30 DIVISLAB 1817.00 1834.65 1810.10 1814.95 ITDC 319.95 321.50 314.75 314.75 LAKSHVILAS 17.55 18.15 17.10 17.65 POWERGRID 187.30 187.50 184.05 185.35 -1.80 HINDALCO 216.85 217.60 214.50 214.70 BALKRISIND 954.30 964.65 953.30 961.15 GODREJPROP 942.00 953.00 936.55 951.60 TCIEXP 755.75 759.00 747.80 747.80 BRITANNIA 3090.00 3118.00 3054.15 3061.50 -29.55 GAIL 119.75 120.35 117.70 118.10 ACC 1469.00 1469.90 1449.65 1452.75 PNBHOUSING 431.25 436.20 426.75 427.95 MAHSCOOTER 4454.85 4496.00 4408.15 4412.10 KOTAKBANK 1711.05 1715.00 1689.70 1695.00 -16.55 MCX 1151.05 1169.50 1148.65 1159.85 SIEMENS 1538.70 1539.00 1517.35 1521.35 IPCALAB 1152.00 1160.00 1127.00 1148.00 WESTLIFE 340.40 347.00 340.00 341.30 ULTRACEMCO 4097.00 4125.00 4048.75 4055.00 -42.35 SRF 3332.55 3426.65 3331.15 3419.05 NESTLEIND 14582.00 14700.00 14550.00 14563.35 IDFC 35.45 36.00 35.10 35.50 RAMCOCEM 753.00 756.70 749.00 749.65 VTL 942.60 970.85 937.55 953.70 CIPLA 478.70 482.55 472.25 473.45 -5.25 SBILIFE 998.00 999.80 987.90 990.00 BATAINDIA 1714.45 1721.15 1700.00 1715.70 MINDAIND 354.00 365.65 346.70 348.90 TIINDIA 483.70 499.50 470.00 489.75 VAIBHAVGBL 775.00 813.95 773.00 801.00 IOC 127.00 127.50 124.60 125.90 -1.50 ADANIENT 209.40 211.00 205.60 208.80 DBL 400.00 406.10 392.70 397.50 JISLJALEQS 8.07 8.41 7.87 8.40 FSL 40.60 40.75 40.10 40.20 GAYAPROJ 80.05 80.05 77.95 77.95 MARUTI 7334.00 7343.45 7222.00 7237.25 -90.55 AXISBANK 739.00 740.45 733.80 736.15 GODREJAGRO 509.00 509.60 502.00 503.90 PRESTIGE 347.75 348.40 332.35 333.00 GHCL 178.45 184.05 178.45 180.55 JYOTHYLAB 149.05 149.30 147.50 149.00 GAIL 119.70 120.35 117.60 118.00 -1.75 PNB 63.55 63.75 62.55 62.80 PVR 1810.00 1831.45 1810.00 1818.00 BAJAJHLDNG 3436.10 3500.00 3409.80 3409.80 JMFINANCIL 89.55 89.80 87.00 87.65 JKLAKSHMI 274.20 275.20 272.90 273.00 HDFCBANK 1289.70 1291.85 1264.65 1269.85 -19.30 TATAELXSI 850.00 851.40 811.15 815.60 APOLLOHOSP 1383.50 1387.55 1372.00 1380.00 PGHH 11466.00 11790.85 11402.60 11488.90 PRSMJOHNSN 60.35 62.85 58.65 59.85 BLUEDART 2202.10 2203.20 2166.05 2190.00 LT 1299.65 1306.70 1277.00 1279.30 -21.70 UBL 1287.00 1295.10 1240.30 1271.00 HAVELLS 653.90 653.90 639.60 640.80 VIPIND 418.00 423.55 415.15 416.60 JINDALSAW 71.05 72.05 70.50 71.15 GET&D 147.65 150.80 146.65 147.15 ADANIPORTS 368.80 370.60 362.10 362.10 -6.50 M&M 531.00 536.25 527.25 528.45 SUNTV 449.95 450.00 444.20 445.20 NOCIL 97.05 101.35 96.40 99.35 WELSPUNIND 47.85 48.35 47.40 47.90 SUPREMEIND 1122.65 1129.00 1120.00 1123.45 SUNPHARMA 430.90 431.40 420.65 421.90 -7.90 HEROMOTOCO 2446.35 2454.85 2426.00 2440.80 RADICO 316.00 321.55 311.60 317.85 INDHOTEL 144.85 145.55 140.85 143.25 CENTRALBK 18.35 18.35 17.45 18.00 SADBHAV 112.05 113.00 111.10 112.15 RELIANCE 1541.65 1552.95 1510.15 1515.80 -30.65 ITC 239.45 239.50 236.40 236.80 TATAPOWER 56.00 56.30 55.00 55.10 DCBBANK 170.00 171.20 166.40 166.55 PARAGMILK 137.00 141.50 135.00 138.15 SYMPHONY 1150.90 1165.80 1144.40 1144.40 BHARTIARTL 455.30 456.50 446.00 448.05 -9.10 HINDUNILVR 1947.90 1952.00 1939.20 1945.10 CASTROLIND 131.00 131.20 128.55 129.05 MASFIN 814.65 882.40 809.00 879.00 JSL 37.90 38.30 37.00 37.00 KALPATPOWR 396.00 403.25 393.05 400.50 YESBANK 51.00 51.60 48.25 48.95 -2.25 INFRATEL 259.00 260.25 251.60 254.60 GLENMARK 350.10 352.05 346.00 346.00 ITI 94.30 95.25 92.65 93.00 ABBOTINDIA 13105.40 13220.95 13004.80 13025.00 ORIENTELEC 195.95 197.75 192.90 196.20 EICHERMOT 21992.80 22200.00 21924.85 22026.35 CHAMBLFERT 144.95 152.00 143.45 147.10 GRANULES 130.00 130.85 122.40 122.95 TCNSBRANDS 609.00 615.00 590.00 599.55 KNRCON 231.45 231.75 229.65 230.40   ONGC 126.85 129.45 124.55 128.05 AMARAJABAT 721.75 724.30 704.00 712.05 SUVEN 304.50 304.90 300.45 302.50 COCHINSHIP 398.00 399.00 388.40 394.80 ARVINDFASN 382.50 382.50 373.00 377.85 NMDC 124.55 127.00 124.25 126.25 JAMNAAUTO 47.50 48.00 46.30 46.50 FINEORG 1914.35 1928.50 1880.00 1896.00 JSWENERGY 69.50 70.05 69.35 69.70 SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGE HINDPETRO 262.00 264.55 258.00 258.85 IRB 68.20 68.20 66.25 66.45 SANOFI 6884.15 7001.75 6764.95 6964.70 FLFL 401.15 402.50 395.00 400.05 NIFTY NEXT 50 28409.10 28435.25 28259.75 28280.25 -102.60 CANBK 225.10 225.30 219.70 220.30 JSLHISAR 67.75 70.00 66.60 68.00 TATACOFFEE 92.00 92.30 91.50 91.65 SUPRAJIT 184.60 189.50 181.20 184.00 MARICO 334.90 340.35 334.30 339.75 6.15 NCC 53.95 54.10 52.65 52.90 ASHOKA 98.80 99.20 96.90 98.25 WELCORP 132.20 132.35 130.35 131.40 AKZOINDIA 1951.90 1951.90 1929.00 1930.35 HDFCLIFE 627.90 639.00 623.10 636.60 11.30 TATACHEM 685.50 688.35 665.00 668.50 COROMANDEL 515.85 526.25 515.85 525.55 JAGRAN* 62.40 64.45 62.00 63.80 VSTIND 4208.15 4213.25 4174.35 4190.00 PAGEIND 22059.90 22540.00 21873.45 22273.30 342.85 PEL 1652.00 1655.90 1623.45 1648.00 DEEPAKFERT 90.30 94.20 89.40 93.85 GSPL 217.00 217.50 214.40 214.80 LAURUSLABS 369.90 370.30 362.75 365.20 NMDC 124.90 127.05 124.20 126.25 1.50 UNIONBANK 58.50 58.55 54.05 54.45 KAJARIACER 511.00 517.00 510.30 514.00 RALLIS 169.75 172.00 168.10 169.20 CHENNPETRO 112.15 112.25 110.25 110.25 INDIGO 1304.95 1339.20 1298.05 1320.00 13.05 SPICEJET 95.60 98.40 94.95 96.25 IRCON 392.15 407.20 392.15 403.60 TVTODAY 242.20 245.45 239.65 239.85 TNPL 165.90 166.05 165.00 165.60 PIDILITIND 1384.10 1396.00 1377.00 1389.50 12.60 UPL 569.50 577.25 566.70 568.95 PGHL 4208.80 4233.00 4120.00 4158.70 SOUTHBANK 10.39 10.40 10.29 10.31 FINOLEXIND 544.45 544.55 540.30 542.45 BANDHANBNK 499.70 504.80 495.90 501.90 3.50 BAJAJFINSV 9314.00 9392.35 9297.55 9351.50 JKTYRE 71.85 73.15 71.25 71.85 TIMKEN 883.25 899.90 879.60 893.00 GALAXYSURF 1463.00 1471.90 1422.65 1433.40 SHREECEM 20298.95 20429.25 20189.45 20400.00 130.70 IOC 127.00 127.45 124.70 125.20 CESC 742.10 747.40 729.00 731.90 CHALET 337.05 341.95 331.20 339.40 UNITEDBNK 8.78 8.90 8.58 8.90 DMART 1908.00 1926.00 1908.00 1918.30 10.90 BHEL 43.50 43.65 42.40 42.50 CEATLTD 1000.50 1001.00 981.00 985.40 MMTC 19.05 19.10 18.65 18.80 CCL 193.30 196.45 189.10 192.25 HDFCAMC 3220.00 3230.00 3180.20 3225.00 13.80 BANDHANBNK 500.00 504.85 496.05 501.50 AEGISLOG 172.50 188.00 167.50 174.10 BAYERCROP 3674.00 3680.00 3618.30 3618.30 NETWORK18 25.05 25.40 24.30 25.05 HINDZINC 212.00 214.50 211.90 212.25 0.80 JUSTDIAL 584.95 585.80 570.75 572.00 MEGH 48.95 50.50 48.30 49.80 FCONSUMER 23.40 23.50 22.90 23.00 GARFIBRES 1151.00 1176.55 1151.00 1161.50 SRTRANSFIN 1149.90 1167.60 1147.90 1157.00 3.00 DISHTV 13.54 13.59 13.08 13.19 MINDACORP 91.05 99.65 90.85 96.25 ALKEM 2000.95 2048.50 1999.00 2042.55 ANDHRABANK 17.40 17.50 17.20 17.25 BOSCHLTD 15400.20 15523.00 15231.00 15399.95 36.20 TATAGLOBAL 316.00 319.55 312.10 313.30 BALMLAWRIE 128.25 131.70 127.30 128.40 GODREJIND 422.70 427.95 418.65 424.85 TIMETECHNO 51.10 51.10 50.10 50.55 BIOCON 288.00 291.20 286.70 289.20 0.60 BEL 100.25 100.70 98.35 98.80 IDBI 37.45 37.50 36.95 37.10 THYROCARE 543.85 550.60 540.10 541.70 SHK 107.10 109.35 106.75 108.90 MOTHERSUMI 146.45 148.90 145.75 146.70 0.20 CGCL 200.00 201.40 197.80 199.00 RVNL 23.00 23.10 22.75 22.95 KTKBANK 72.75 72.75 71.65 71.80 HERITGFOOD 350.45 350.45 340.00 343.00 PGHH 11400.00 11800.00 11380.00 11450.00 7.50 CIPLA 479.50 482.85 472.75 473.30 BEML 975.00 983.50 965.75 969.45 RELCAPITAL 13.85 14.10 13.70 14.10 IOB 10.17 12.13 10.00 11.26 SHILPAMED 281.55 282.00 271.00 273.75 NHPC 24.10 24.20 24.00 24.00 0.00 LICHSGFIN 422.00 428.20 421.30 425.95 BAJAJ-AUTO 3227.15 3239.35 3203.40 3227.70 GUJGAS 224.40 225.30 222.70 224.00 LEMONTREE 64.05 64.50 63.35 64.20 CENTRUM 19.95 20.00 19.50 19.60 DABUR 457.70 461.20 456.70 456.85 -0.85 NTPC 115.75 118.00 114.05 116.55 DELTACORP 207.00 207.75 204.00 204.50 CHOLAFIN 302.95 303.30 300.00 300.70 SCHNEIDER 62.80 64.45 62.45 63.90 ORIENTCEM 67.00 71.00 66.60 71.00 PEL 1654.00 1655.00 1623.45 1645.05 -3.30 ASIANPAINT 1800.85 1818.90 1798.10 1808.65 FEDERALBNK 85.65 86.00 85.20 85.70 TRIDENT 7.00 7.00 6.75 6.90 CYIENT 415.10 416.95 407.50 408.80 AIAENG 1630.00 1659.95 1630.00 1653.65 DIVISLAB 1815.00 1833.00 1808.75 1812.00 -4.90 MOTHERSUMI 146.90 148.85 145.75 146.75 LUPIN 770.00 770.55 755.15 757.45 MPHASIS 871.80 896.95 870.00 888.10 HIMATSEIDE 121.20 125.95 120.20 123.30 NBVENTURES 67.60 68.00 67.35 67.35 MCDOWELL-N 592.00 596.30 581.70 589.70 -1.60 RNAM 343.80 351.00 340.55 348.70 RELINFRA 26.60 26.70 25.45 26.70 HSCL 57.80 57.80 55.60 56.50 TATAMETALI 624.20 631.50 622.00 622.50 GULFOILLUB 820.05 834.85 811.40 834.70 PFC 111.95 112.65 110.80 111.50 -0.45 ABCAPITAL 95.05 100.80 94.15 98.10 RAYMOND 659.00 659.00 635.50 638.35 METROPOLIS 1409.95 1409.95 1363.15 1384.05 ESSELPRO 174.90 174.90 168.80 168.95 PNCINFRA 193.00 194.00 191.60 192.00 SBILIFE 998.25 999.70 988.10 990.55 -4.20 KOTAKBANK 1713.95 1715.00 1690.10 1694.05 MANAPPURAM 172.00 173.20 171.80 172.95 AMBER 1057.00 1086.55 1035.05 1081.00 CAPPL 311.95 311.95 301.25 302.00 JCHAC 1917.80 1918.05 1904.10 1913.70 CADILAHC 259.35 260.60 256.30 257.20 -1.25 GRAPHITE 306.80 309.00 303.75 304.80 VOLTAS 651.50 654.75 645.50 651.70 EMAMILTD 308.40 309.85 303.00 304.05 GICHSGFIN 161.40 162.65 159.00 159.00 WABCOINDIA 6360.05 6385.95 6360.00 6360.00 L&TFH 115.00 115.50 113.95 114.35 -0.60 ADANIGAS 156.60 159.95 154.35 155.00 SUNDRMFAST 438.75 484.55 436.85 464.80 NIACL 141.90 141.95 137.30 138.25 NHPC 24.15 24.20 23.95 24.00 GEPIL 692.00 704.10 692.00 700.00 ACC 1464.40 1470.00 1448.10 1451.70 -8.90 ASHOKLEY 80.00 80.50 79.20 79.40 RCF 44.35 47.00 43.85 46.20 GREAVESCOT 130.00 132.15 128.10 131.00 GUJALKALI 396.00 398.65 390.75 398.65 MAHSEAMLES 372.00 375.65 366.75 375.65 ASHOKLEY 79.95 80.50 79.20 79.40 -0.50 WHIRLPOOL 2298.95 2494.75 2255.60 2434.90 BOMDYEING 73.35 74.70 73.05 73.65 GESHIP 297.00 302.50 291.00 299.35 NILKAMAL 1255.00 1259.00 1226.80 1228.60 VMART 1652.80 1652.80 1612.20 1620.00 DLF 228.60 229.10 225.55 227.15 -1.50 PCJEWELLER 23.40 24.25 23.35 23.60 RECLTD 136.60 139.05 136.60 138.60 DHFL 15.70 15.80 15.00 15.80 EIHOTEL 140.30 142.00 136.00 136.30 SOLARINDS 1050.15 1065.25 1050.10 1054.50 BAJAJHLDNG 3450.00 3500.00 3410.25 3415.20 -26.15 RAJESHEXPO 689.75 689.75 674.50 680.35 STRTECH 112.00 114.00 111.70 112.50 UCOBANK 16.10 17.80 15.75 16.80 INOXWIND 34.35 35.90 34.00 34.15 MAGMA 52.60 53.00 52.05 52.50 BANKBARODA 100.30 100.35 98.55 99.10 -0.80 DIXON 3740.00 3954.85 3730.20 3914.20 AUBANK 784.35 827.35 783.85 819.15 GSFC 67.65 70.30 67.30 69.20 OFSS 2894.00 2896.75 2820.00 2834.60 TEAMLEASE 2506.50 2530.00 2484.50 2500.00 GODREJCP 691.30 691.55 679.25 685.65 -5.65 UJJIVAN 337.60 340.25 334.75 336.90 RESPONIND 91.35 95.00 91.15 94.10 ALBK 18.70 18.80 16.75 17.75 HEIDELBERG 179.00 179.00 176.35 176.50 SHOPERSTOP 345.45 345.45 339.95 341.60 ICICIGI 1430.00 1440.40 1410.55 1420.00 -11.90 JUBLFOOD 1573.10 1601.55 1567.50 1598.20 JAICORPLTD 91.10 93.10 89.75 90.15 ERIS 467.65 467.65 456.05 458.25 MHRIL 235.00 235.00 228.00 229.00 DBCORP 132.60 133.30 131.50 133.10 PETRONET 271.95 273.20 269.25 270.00 -2.35 BLISSGVS 150.35 153.10 147.65 148.80 DABUR 466.00 466.00 457.00 458.15 PHOENIXLTD 787.15 816.00 782.25 800.65 WABAG 172.50 172.50 169.70 170.25 KPITTECH 90.45 90.45 88.45 89.30 GICRE 229.30 232.25 225.25 226.20 -2.20 ULTRACEMCO 4097.00 4123.05 4050.00 4061.10 COLPAL 1485.70 1485.70 1456.60 1458.95 3MINDIA 21645.00 21687.15 21410.00 21410.00 ASTRAL 1142.15 1162.45 1135.00 1151.00 CARBORUNIV 321.05 323.55 320.40 321.90 AUROPHARMA 463.40 466.60 458.05 460.50 -4.55 BHARATFORG 486.15 493.65 483.25 491.80 IBREALEST 60.50 60.60 58.60 59.65 ATUL 4025.00 4056.65 4007.00 4040.00 VINATIORGA 1918.60 1921.95 1900.85 1909.20 GPPL 85.10 85.10 84.20 84.20 HAVELLS 649.20 651.00 640.00 641.60 -6.50 MINDTREE 782.50 795.80 770.00 791.70 GODREJCP 698.95 698.95 680.40 685.45 PHILIPCARB 113.50 114.65 113.15 113.95 NATCOPHARM 576.45 576.45 571.40 574.00 SIS 931.55 947.60 930.00 945.70 SIEMENS 1536.15 1541.35 1516.00 1520.25 -15.45 TATAMTRDVR 72.70 74.10 72.45 72.80 GMRINFRA 21.35 21.55 21.05 21.20 CROMPTON 246.10 246.70 242.40 242.90 GMDCLTD 61.75 63.30 61.45 62.15 RATNAMANI 1027.00 1036.80 1023.50 1034.00 COLPAL 1478.00 1478.00 1456.00 1458.60 -15.60 PIIND 1461.45 1469.00 1460.00 1461.00 APOLLOTYRE 163.00 163.95 161.05 161.25 GICRE 229.50 232.50 225.60 226.50 GILLETTE 6614.10 6636.90 6593.00 6620.00 SFL 1325.00 1325.00 1282.00 1282.00 ICICIPRULI 502.00 502.40 492.50 494.60 -5.35 WOCKPHARMA 248.90 254.70 246.00 250.40 MRF 63602.05 63665.70 62982.20 62986.00 INDIACEM 70.30 70.80 70.10 70.30 THERMAX 1049.85 1057.50 1039.55 1054.60 VRLLOG 267.05 267.20 264.30 264.75 LUPIN 767.00 771.00 755.05 756.90 -8.25 DMART 1909.00 1925.00 1909.00 1917.35 NAUKRI 2576.15 2579.50 2511.15 2532.05 SYNDIBANK 29.05 29.30 25.80 27.05 BAJAJCON 234.10 235.90 231.85 231.85 MAHLIFE 394.20 395.00 389.80 389.80 AMBUJACEM 196.60 197.45 193.60 194.40 -2.15 COALINDIA 198.70 201.00 195.20 197.70 ISEC 383.55 383.95 362.50 363.95 MOTILALOFS 735.90 735.95 720.00 720.00 TEJASNET 79.00 85.70 79.00 82.45 INDOSTAR 174.05 175.00 172.10 172.10 BERGEPAINT 521.50 521.50 512.55 514.00 -6.20 ESCORTS 620.20 624.85 614.15 617.15 NESCO 674.90 678.00 656.00 663.00 IFCI 6.93 6.94 6.51 6.55 IFBIND 694.00 718.90 693.45 703.00 STARCEMENT 89.00 89.40 88.40 88.50 PNB 63.40 63.75 62.60 62.70 -0.80 L&TFH 115.40 115.55 114.00 114.45 LALPATHLAB 1475.00 1500.00 1475.00 1498.00 J&KBANK 30.15 30.80 29.75 30.50 OBEROIRLTY 522.30 523.25 514.75 520.50 SKFINDIA 2129.60 2138.45 2129.10 2130.00 CONCOR 575.00 575.70 566.00 567.80 -7.40 BERGEPAINT 519.20 521.80 512.45 513.50 CADILAHC 259.50 260.50 256.30 256.90 CENTURYPLY 162.00 162.75 159.45 159.60 VARROC 410.00 421.00 410.00 418.40 LAOPALA 145.90 145.90 142.40 144.25 OFSS 2891.30 2904.00 2814.00 2835.90 -39.75 NBCC 34.95 34.95 33.50 33.75 MGL 1055.00 1059.75 1042.00 1044.30 MAXINDIA 77.35 78.55 76.55 76.70 IBULISL 83.45 85.00 79.90 80.75 SCHAEFFLER 4474.20 4570.00 4474.20 4555.00 HINDPETRO 261.00 264.65 257.85 258.20 -4.25 AUROPHARMA 465.10 466.00 458.50 459.70 ADANITRANS 335.05 338.00 330.05 333.30 CREDITACC 770.30 772.45 764.90 770.45 NLCINDIA 54.05 54.30 52.75 53.45 KPRMILL 664.80 665.00 653.85 653.85 UBL 1285.00 1296.00 1268.00 1270.00 -29.40 BALRAMCHIN 174.00 177.25 171.80 175.15 EDELWEISS 112.80 118.30 112.35 114.50 SUDARSCHEM 406.80 407.20 397.35 401.85 MAHABANK 12.00 14.16 11.78 12.78 ZENSARTECH 172.20 172.75 171.25 172.70 NIACL 140.50 142.00 137.05 137.70 -4.20 IGL 431.50 434.25 426.50 427.80 SPARC 162.40 162.40 155.00 155.60 KEC 298.40 298.40 293.70 294.75 GSKCONS 8315.85 8367.40 8315.85 8350.00 TVSSRICHAK 1653.00 1685.65 1650.85 1670.40 IDEA 6.30 6.45 5.95 6.10 -0.20 NIITTECH 1610.20 1619.35 1602.00 1607.55 SUNTECK 431.20 431.20 422.10 426.15 RELAXO 634.00 634.00 613.05 616.85 TTKPRESTIG 5736.75 5745.35 5605.00 5660.45 CHOLAHLDNG 496.50 499.95 495.70 499.95 IBULHSGFIN 312.00 319.80 293.70 294.75 -15.30 BRITANNIA 3091.10 3116.55 3055.05 3061.50 BOSCHLTD 15425.00 15518.30 15255.00 15371.00 DHANUKA 387.25 406.50 387.00 400.00 ASTERDM 156.60 157.30 153.00 154.00 SHRIRAMCIT 1381.35 1387.00 1370.35 1387.00    ! 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The demonstrators also torched the new head- lobbying for Assaad al-Aidani, ASuu Kyi’s political party claimed at least 20 lives, author- oppose the entire political class quarters of a pro-Iran militia in the governor of Basra — anoth- was killed in Rakhine state after ities said Thursday. and have vented their anger Diwaniyah. er unpopular choice with planning a show of support for Typhoon Phanfone, with against leaders who are nego- Iraq has been rocked by demonstrators. the leader’s defence of winds of 195 kilometres (120 tiating to nominate an estab- protests since October 1, “We don’t want Assaad the Myanmar against genocide miles) an hour, tore roofs off lishment insider as the next prompting Prime Minister Iranian!” shouted protesters in allegations at The Hague, a houses and toppled electric prime minister. Adel Abdel Mahdi to resign last Kut, a southern city. spokesman said Thursday. posts as it cut across the “The government is month. The protesters want a tech- The National League for Philippines on Wednesday. hostage to corrupt parties and After dwindling, the street nocratic premier who has had Democracy’s Ye Thein, party With the internet and sectarian divisions”, said one campaign has gained new no involvement in the political chairman in Buthidaung town- mobile phone networks still cut activist, Sattar Jabbar, 25, in the vigour in recent days to rally system set up after the US-led ship, had been held for weeks off in some badly damaged southern city of Nasiriyah. against widespread corruption invasion that toppled dictator by the Arakan Army, insur- areas, a full assessment of Smoke and flames from and a political system seen as Saddam Hussein in 2003. gents fighting for more auton- Phanfone’s damage was not burning tyres in Nasiriyah, beholden to neighbouring Iran. Around 460 people have omy for ethnic Rakhine immediately possible on Basra and Diwaniyah blocked Government offices and been killed and 25,000 wound- Buddhists. Thursday morning. 1    "      &     "         major roads and bridges across schools remain closed across ed in nearly three months of The rebels said he was But at least 20 people had C         ! the Euphrates all night, AFP almost all of Iraq’s south. clashes between protesters and killed in military attacks on been confirmed killed in vil- correspondents said, before Pro-Iranian factions have security forces. Christmas day but the claim lages and towns in the Visayas, could not be verified and NLD the central third of the made to clear away the damage. more than 7,300 people dead or ferries and plane services sus- spokesman Myo Nyunt said the Philippines, according to dis- It’s pretty bad,” Jung Byung missing in 2013. pended. group bore responsibility. aster agency officials. Joon said via Instagram mes- “It’s like the younger sibling Among those killed Ye Thein was detained on Phanfone also hit senger. of Haiyan. It’s less destructive, Phanfone was a police officer December 11 ahead of demon- Boracay, Coron and other “Everything within 100 but it followed a similar path,” who was electrocuted by a strations backing Suu Kyi’s holiday destinations that are meters of the airport looks bro- Cindy Ferrer, an information toppled electric post while high-profile opening state- famed for their white-sand ken. There are a lot of frus- officer at the Western Visayas patrolling. ments at the UN’s top court the beaches and popular with trated people at the airport as region’s disaster officer, told The Philippines is the first same day. foreign tourists. flights have been cancelled. AFP. major landmass facing the “We, all members of NLD, The airport at Kalibo, “Taxis are still running but Tens of thousands of peo- Pacific typhoon belt, and is hit are very sorry for the loss,” Myo which services Boracay, was it’s windy and still raining so no ple in the mostly Catholic by an average of about 20 Nyunt told AFP. “His gathering badly damaged, according to a one wants to leave the airport, nation had been forced to major storms a year. to support her was righteous Korean tourist who was strand- including me. “ Though much evacuate their homes on Many of the storms are and it was not a crime.” The ed there and provided images weaker, Phanfone tracked a Wednesday, ruining Christmas deadly, and they typically wipe Arakan Army has carried out to AFP. similar path as Super Typhoon celebrations. out harvests, homes and infra- a series of daring kidnappings, “Roads remain blocked, Haiyan — the country’s dead- Many others were not able structure, keeping millions of bombings and raids against but some efforts have been liest storm on record which left to return to their families, with people perennially poor. the army and local officials in Rakhine state. 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Netanyahu was in the nearby which after two inconclusive ing it of breaching the 1948 UN national elections in March “We are imbued with the city of Ashdod campaigning for elections is headed toward a hina, Russia and Iran will (  ( genocide convention in its after Netanyahu failed to do so spirit of victory,” lawmaker Yoav the second general Israeli elec- third unprecedented national Chold joint naval drills start- operations against the twice in two repeat elections this Kisch, Saar’s campaign manag- tion of the year. vote in less than a year. ing Friday in the Gulf of Oman, Rohingya. year. er, told Israeli Army Radio. Polls close at 11 p.m. and Netanyahu’s main rival, for- Beijing said, at a time of height-    referendum. Backed by the 57-nation Despite the shadow of cor- “This candidacy is good for the results are expected early Friday. mer military chief Benny Gantz ened tensions since the US Most opinion polls indicate Organisation of Islamic ruption indictments hanging party and I believe can also Netanyahu faces charges of was also unable to form a gov- withdrew from a landmark top Brussels official has writ- a slight majority in favour of Cooperation, Canada and the over him, Netanyahu remains bring the change and the hope bribery, fraud and breach of ernment and while the two nuclear deal with Tehran. Aten a “love letter” to Britain remaining in the European Netherlands, Gambia sought popular among Likud members for a revolution in the Likud.” trust in three corruption cases professed eagerness to form a Set to take place from expressing his grief at its decision Union today. emergency measures to prevent and the fiercely loyal party, Netanyahu has portrayed in which he is accused of trad- unity government, they dif- December 27 to 30, the military to leave the European Union - But parties supporting a sec- further violence against the which has only had four lead- Saar an inexperienced, while ing legislative or regulatory fered on its composition and exercises aim to “deepen and stressing it was always wel- ond Brexit referendum that could Rohingya, pending a fuller ers since its inception in the depicting himself as a security favors in exchange for lavish who would lead it, deepening exchange and cooperation come back. “I know you now. reverse the first one got drubbed case that could take years. 1970s, has stood firmly behind buff and master of internation- gifts or favourable media cov- the stalemate. between the navies of the three And I love you. 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Timmermans wrote that for- escape on a laid-back Down later alludes to Brexit again losing large swathes of their all. The Dutchman’s letter con- mer prime minister David Under holiday. with the lyrics “negotiating habitat, traditional tourism The US reimposed crip- cluded with the words: “We’re not Cameron’s decision to call the The three-minute adver- tricky trade deals is a shock- drawcards have featured heav- pling sanctions on Iran in May going away and you will always 2016 EU membership poll was a tisement, which premiered er”. ily in global media coverage of last year after withdrawing be welcome to come back.” The mistake. “Was it necessary to ahead of the queen’s televised Tourism Australia said the the disaster. Some internet from the international deal prospects of Prime Minister force the issue? Not at all. But you Christmas Day address in Aus$15 million ($10 million) users noted an incongruity aimed at tackling the Islamic Boris Johnson reversing his deci- did. And the sad thing is, I see it Britain, begins with a primly campaign was its largest between the reality of the Republic’s nuclear programme, sion to take Britain out of the is hurting you,” he wrote. dressed Minogue apparently at investment in the British mar- bushfire crisis and the adver- prompting Tehran to hit back European Union on January 31 “And I fear more will follow,” Sandringham, the monarch’s ket for more than a decade. tised images of clear blue skies with countermeasures. are close to nil. Johnson won a Timmermans cautioned. country home, before the set “At a time of uncertainty in and healthy marsupials. 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     * sphere. A devastating, 7.0- of violence in the country, it teenage in the world”. reformer Kailash Satyarthi), It would take two years the areas deemed necessary for work had been achieved, but a magnitude earthquake hit the said. The young girls’ educa- and became a UN Messenger of until the WHO was able to a landmark conclusion: miti- new vision was needed. This he devastating Haiti earth- island on January 12, 2010 The violence erupted fol- tion activist Malala and two Peace in 2017, with a special declare the PHEIC over, by gation, in order to keep tem- came in the form of the 2030 Tquake, beginning of the killing hundreds and thou- lowing demonstrations which other girls were shot by a focus on girls’ education,” the which time it had recorded peratures no more than 2 Agenda for Sustainable Syrian conflict, girls’ education sands of people (220,000 were part of a broader pro- Taliban gunman while taking report said. 28,616 cases of Ebola in degrees Celsius higher than Development, which was offi- activist Malala Yousafzai’s according to Haitian democracy movement across the bus home from school in In 2014, it was the time Guinea, Liberia and Sierra pre-industrial levels; adapta- cially launched in 2016, and inspiring work, the Paris cli- Government figures), and caus- North Africa and the Middle October 2012. when the UN tackled the worst Leone, and 11,310 deaths, the tion, so that countries can deal was designed to build on the mate deal and launch of the ing severe damage to buildings, East that led to the downfall of “The attack made waves Ebola outbreak in history, it review said. better with the impacts of cli- Millennium Development UN’s 2030 Agenda were some it said. long-standing regimes in around the world, and was said. The decade also brought mate change; and support, with Goals and complete what they of the big global stories that A week after the tragedy, Tunisia and Egypt, which widely condemned: on Human The deadly, highly conta- with it hope for climate action finance available for the most were not able to accomplish,” it unfolded in the last decade, the Security Council autho- became known as the Arab Rights Day that year, a special gious virus spread rapidly through concerted interna- vulnerable, and poorest said. according to the UN’s ‘Decade rised an increase of 3,500 Spring. tribute to Malala was held at through Guinea, as well as tional efforts when in nations. The review said the agen- in Review’ report. peacekeepers for Haiti, on Eight years on, “the conflict the Paris headquarters of the neighbouring Liberia and December 2015, the Paris UN chief Antonio Guterres da set out a plan of action for The report states that the top of the 9,000 already in the would still be ongoing, pro- UN Educational, Scientific and Sierra Leone, to become known Agreement on climate change has made the climate crisis one people, the planet and pros- teenage years of the 21st cen- country to help with recovery, voking a major refugee crisis Cultural Organization as the Western Africa Ebola was adopted. of the central pillars of his man- perity, including the eradica- tury are nearly over and, as the reconstruction and stability with hundreds of thousands of (UNESCO), pushing for action Outbreak. Some 6,000 deaths For the first time, practi- date, instituting several initia- tion of poverty, described by world prepare to enter the efforts. civilian deaths, and a major to ensure every girl’s right to go were recorded that year, and cally all countries of the world tives that ensured the issue was the UN as “the greatest global 2020s, the UN News takes a The decade also saw the humanitarian disaster: over 5,6 to school, and to advance girls’ whole communities paralysed pledged to combat the climate given fresh momentum and challenge, and an indispensable look back at some of the “big beginning of the Syrian conflict million people have fled Syria education as an urgent priori- by fear, it said. crisis and adapt to its conse- focus, particularly in 2019, the requirement for sustainable stories on our global patch” that in 2011. The UN said in its since 2011, and some 6,6 mil- ty. By August 2014, the WHO quences, which include the report said. development”. took place between 2010 and review report that in April lion are thought to be displaced “Malala’s activism and pro- had declared the outbreak a existential threat of global It was in the decade that In 2020, there will be just 2019. 2011, the then Secretary- within the country, according file have only grown since the Public Health Emergency of warming. will end in five days that a blue- 10 years left to achieve the The decade began with an General Ban Ki-moon phoned to the UN refugee agency, assassination attempt. She won International Concern The deal was adopted fol- print for a better future was Goals and implement the immense disaster in Haiti, Syrian President Bashar Al- UNHCR”, it said. several high-profile awards, (PHEIC) to ensure a halt to the lowing two weeks of negotia- adopted, it said. Agenda, and the UN has already among the poorest Assad to tell him that he was Then in 2012, Malala including the 2014 Nobel Peace spread of the disease to other tions at the COP21 UN climate “By 2015, the target year launched a Decade of Action to countries in the Western hemi- “greatly disturbed” by reports became the “most famous Prize (with Indian social countries. change conference, covering for the goals, much positive speed up the process.    ! "#$"%&'  :         5    2     !R   !   , 

he Turkish parliament will   * petition was filed “because on December 16, the chief country to regulate the Tin January vote on a our legal team thoroughly, justice cautioned the gov- appointment, reappointment, motion to send troops to he Pakistan government comprehensively, and closely ernment that “unbridled extension and tenure of a four Syria to support the UN- Ton Thursday filed a reviewed all aspects of the power or position, like star general who is also the backed government in Tripoli, review petition against the decision and concluded that unstructured discretion, is army chief. The verdict also President Recep Tayyip Supreme Court’s decision there are several legal gaps in dangerous”. said that there was “legal Erdogan said Thursday. “We about legislation on the the verdict. Prime Minister Imran vacuum” and it could only be will present the motion to extension of service of Army “With due respect to the Khan had extended Gen bridged by an Act of the send troops (to Libya) as chief Gen Qamar Javed judiciary, the government Bajwa’s tenure through a noti- Parliament which should be soon as parliament resumes” Bajwa. A three-member apex wants rectification of the fication in August, but the done within six months. on January 7, Erdogan said in court bench headed by then faults and thus decided to file Supreme Court suspended it However, the court a speech in Ankara. chief justice Asif Saeed Khosa the review petition,” she said, on November 26 due to warned that in the absence of “God willing, we will pass on November 28 granted a adding that the review peti- irregularities in the manner legislation on the matter it in parliament on January 8- six-month extension to Gen tion is being filed ultimately of extension. within six months, the insti- 9 and thus respond to an invi- Bajwa after being assured by in the higher public interest. After three days of tutional practice of retire- tation” from the Tripoli-based the government that Awan told the media that heightened uncertainty, Chief ment of a General on com- Government of National Parliament will pass a legis- the option of legislation Justice Khosa announced that pletion of the tenure of three Accord (GNA), he said. lation on the extension/reap- through the parliament was Bajwa would remain the years “shall stand enforced”. Erdogan’s comments pointment of an army chief intact even after filing the Chief of the Army Staff Exercising judicial come after the Turkish par- within six months. review petition. (COAS) for another six restraint, the court said it was liament on Saturday ratified a The ruling came in the The petition argues that months during which the giving an opportunity to the security and military cooper- nick of time as Gen Bajwa, 59, the apex court’s verdict did country’s Parliament would federal government to carry ation deal with the govern- P   1          "      !   78 was set to retire at midnight not take into account “impor- legislate on the Pakistan out appropriate legislation ment of Fayez al-Sarraj. But a   %          "  "              on November 28. tant constitutional and legal” Army chief’s extension/reap- through an Act of Parliament separate motion is needed to -"     . +"    %    -"         In the review petition points. It says the court has pointment. within a period of six months send boots on the grounds.  M  N     % ! filed by Attorney General itself “been giving extensions Justice Khosa in his on the COAS. Erdogan on Wednesday Anwar Mansoor, the govern- to additional and ad-hoc judgement note said “it has The unprecedented paid an unannounced visit to National Army are vying for the GNA, while Haftar has Haftar’s side, while the UN ment has urged the apex judges”, making a case for the been a shocking revelation to action by the apex court Tunisia with his defence min- control of the North African received support from Egypt, has also accused the strong- court to form a larger bench government to exercise this us that the terms and condi- shook the high echelons of ister and spy chief to discuss country. the United Arab Emirates man’s forces of recruiting to hear the case and set aside discretion as well, the Geo tions of service of the COAS, power. ways of reaching a ceasefire in Erdogan has in recent and Russia — all of whom fighters from Sudan. the earlier judgment. It also News reported. the tenure of his office, exten- The powerful military, Libya. weeks vowed to increase mil- have tense relations with “They are helping a war- requested the court to keep Furthermore, the peti- sion in the tenure of his which has ruled Pakistan for The conflict plunged itary support to the GNA if Turkey. lord. We are responding to an the proceedings in-camera. tion argues that the court did office or his reappointment more than half of its 70 plus Libya into violence and eight needed as it battles Haftar, Moscow last month invitation from the legitimate Firdous Ashiq Awan, the not base its decision on the have remained unregulated years of existence, has wield- years later, pro-GNA militias who launched an offensive in denied reports in the New government of Libya,” Special Advisor to the Prime judgement in the judges by any law so far.” ed considerable power in and strongman Khalifa April to seize the capital. York Times that it had sent Erdogan said Thursday. “That Minister for Information and extension case. The court observed that deciding matters concerning Haftar’s self-styled Libyan Turkey and Qatar back had mercenaries to fight on is our difference.” Broadcasting, said the review In its detailed judgement no law was present in the security and foreign policies. *5 %.. " 2     "-I.&-       "  !  4 B   /-.   86   , 

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Afghan soldiers, the defense Afghanistan and abducted 26 pro-democracy protesters The last month had seen a Swathes of the population ministry said, blaming the activists, members of a peace clashed inside shopping malls. relative drop-off in violence are seething against Beijing’s Taliban for the attack. movement, a police spokesman Protesters spent the after- and protests after pro-democ- rule and the semi-autonomous Shortly after the bomber said Wednesday. noon on Thursday marching racy candidates won a landslide city’s administration as they detonated the car laden with The insurgents staged the through multiple malls chant- at local elections. push for greater democratic explosives, a group of insur- ambush in the district of Bala ing anti-government and anti- But with Beijing and city freedoms and police account- gents stormed into the com- Buluk in Farah province on police slogans. leaders refusing further con- ability. pound, setting of a shootout Tuesday. The Taliban forced the Riot police swooped on cessions, rallies and clashes The protests were initially with Afghan forces. six-vehicle convoy to a halt, dozens of black-clad protesters have reignited over the sparked by a now-abandoned There was no immediate then got into the cars and in one mall in Tai Po district Christmas period. attempt to allow extraditions to claim of responsibility for the drove them and the activists to using pepper spray as well as Christmas Eve saw some of the authoritarian mainland. attack in Balkh province, the an unknown location, said the blue dye to mark suspects, the worst violence in weeks as They have since morphed ministry statement said. Three provincial police spokesman said an AFP reporter on the protesters and police fought into a popular revolt against Afghan soldiers were also Mohibullah Mohib. scene. running battles for hours in a Beijing’s rule, with spiralling wounded in the explosion and According to Mohib, a Police made multiple busy shopping district. fears that the city is losing some the ensuing “terrorist attack,” it police operation is underway to arrests. Sporadic and less severe of its unique liberties. said. locate and free the activists Hong Kong has been bat- clashes broke out again inside Among the demands being The provincial governor’s whose convoy was going vil- tered by more than six months malls on Christmas Day. made by protesters are an spokesman, Munir Farhad, said lage-to-village to rally for peace. of protests that has upended the On Wednesday, Hong inquiry into the police, amnesty fighting inside the compound However, Bismillah financial hub’s reputation for Kong’s pro-Beijing leader for the more than 6,000 people continued for hours before the Watandost of the People’s Peace     "          ; "%C     "  "    stability and helped tip the city Carrie Lam said violent pro- arrested, and the right to elect attackers were repelled. Movement of Afghanistan, to   4      !    " (F   "    %! into recession. testers had “ruined” Christmas. Hong Kong’s leader. The Taliban have been which the activists belong, said         +                  active in Balk in recent days. that 27 of their members were   %    /                     They targeted an army check- abducted by the Taliban in the    + +    % ! point in the province’s district Farah assault. The different .. %-!5-&5/ of Dawlat Abad on Tuesday, figures could not immediately killing at least seven Afghan be reconciled. He added that phone lines stage near-daily attacks target- Movement of Afghanistan soldiers and wounding six The Taliban, who have were down in the region, mak- ing Afghan and U.S. forces, as started on Friday, first in south- --.21-$ .$- 5% other members of the security been active in Farah, have not ing communication and getting well as government officials — ern Helmand province, a forces — three soldiers and claimed responsibility for the information from the area dif- even as they hold peace talks Taliban heartland. three intelligence agents. abductions. However, ficult. with a U.S. envoy tasked with At a similar series of peace   ,  inside when the accident hap- local police chief Dolly Gumara Taliban spokesman Watandost also said that trib- The Taliban today hold negotiating an end to the 18- rallies in October, the Taliban pened on Monday just before said Wednesday. Zabihullah Mujahid claimed al elders in the province imme- sway or control practically half year conflict, America’s longest abducted six activists from the t least 35 people were killed midnight. Traffic accidents are com- responsibility for that attack, diately launched an effort to of Afghanistan and are at their war. movement in eastern Logar Awhen a bus plunged into a Spokesman for a local res- mon in the Southeast Asian saying also that the insurgents negotiate with the Taliban to strongest since the 2001 U.S.- The latest rallies by the province but released them ravine in Indonesia, officials cue team in South Sumatra archipelago, where vehicles are captured four Afghan troops release the abducted activists. invasion. They continue to activists from the People’s Peace the same day. said in a new toll Thursday, Taufan, who only goes by one often old and poorly main- and seized weapons and making it one of the most name like many Indonesians, tained and road rules regular- ammunition form the check- deadly bus accidents in recent said Thursday that of the 35 ly flouted. point. ($-$-- years. people killed, 16 were male and In September, at least 21 The Taliban now control or &0  !   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Scores of Afghan civilians fire in the Chilean tourist port city of assault in the country for five years, Guterres condemned the Christmas Eve Alam with 27 on board but away in the river. as Thursday’s accident. The bus are also killed in the crossfire Valparaiso burned through two hillside plunged the nation into mourning over attack and offered his “deep condolences” some survivors told police At least eight of the pas- smashed into two cars, causing or by roadside bombs planted neighbourhoods. Christmas and sparked messages of sol- to the families of the victims, his there were around 50 people sengers killed were children, a truck to roll. by militants. The fire broke out Tuesday, blazing idarity from the United Nations and Pope spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a across Rocuant and San Roque hills and Francis. statement. continued to burn on Wednesday, though Thirty-five civilians, including 31 “The Secretary-General conveys the with less intensity. About 200 homes were women, and seven soldiers were killed solidarity of the United Nations to the 2       “affected” by the fire in a matter of hours. Tuesday in simultaneous attacks which government and people of Burkina There were no deaths from the fire that lasted for several hours in the northern Faso,” he added, emphasising the UN’s had burned 150 hectares (370 acres), town of Arbinda and a military base, the continued support for the Sahel region though 12 volunteer fire fighters were army said, adding that 80 assailants were in their efforts to fight terrorism and vio-       injured. Interior Minister Gonzalo Blumel killed. Around a dozen soldiers were also lent extremism. said while “there has been a lot of progress killed in an attack overnight on In his traditional Christmas message, in controlling the fire,” it was “not con- Wednesday in Hallele in the same volatile Pope Francis denounced attacks on   ,  an ad on social media and, to buy food for their kids or pay church charities or helping trolled.” Authorities had not yet evaluat- northern province of Soum, security Christians in Africa and prayed for vic- show transparency, created a their rent,” Shkeir said. each other, forgiving debts or ed the extent of the damage to the affect- sources said. tims of conflict, natural disasters and dis- anic set in on a WhatsApp spreadsheet to track the money. The despondent friend handing out food. Those means ed homes, some of which were destroyed Burkina Faso, bordering Mali and ease on the world’s poorest continent. Pgroup used to organize As Lebanon’s protest “said he had no money and have already been getting while others sustained varying degrees of Niger, has seen frequent jihadist attacks The pontiff urged “comfort to those Lebanese protests when one movement enters its third what is the revolution doing stretched thin. damage, the National Emergency Office in which have left hundreds of people who are persecuted for their religious member said he intended to kill month, the economic pinch is about it and asked why the The protests — and the 24- Santiago said. dead since the start of 2015 when faith, especially missionaries and mem- himself because he can’t pro- hurting everyone. Layoffs are politicians are not paying atten- hour news cycle focused on The blaze started in grassy and wood- Islamist extremist violence began to bers of the faithful who have been kid- vide for his kids. increasing, salary cuts are the tion,” Shkeir said. They were them — have brought a surge ed areas and rapidly advanced to populated spread across the Sahel region. napped, and to the victims of attacks by The desperate call came on norm, banks are capping with- able to convince him not to kill of help by rallying public atten- neighbourhoods in Valparaiso, about 120 “A large group of terrorists simulta- extremist groups, particularly in Burkina the heels of the suicide of a drawals and prices are quickly himself, though he refused to tion to the suffering. kilometers northwest of Santiago. neously attacked the military base and the Faso, Mali, Niger and Nigeria”. father of two that had stunned rising. The euphoria that take any donations. Shkeir and Campaigns to collect food, “We were preparing for parties when civilian population in Arbinda,” the In Brussels, the head of the European the public and raised alarm marked the first days of the his group continued their cam- winter clothes and helplines for the fire started. It all happened so quick- army chief of staff said in a statement. Council Charles Michel tweeted: “Inates over how dire Lebanon’s eco- protests is being replaced with paign, giving money, food, people in economic and emo- ly, we weren’t able to get anything out,” said “This barbaric attack resulted in the in Niger yesterday, Arbinda in Burkina nomic conditions have become. gloom. clothes and supplies to 58 fam- tional distress are popping up Fabian Olguin, 28, who lives on Rocuant deaths of 35 civilian victims, most of Faso today... Martyr towns, victims of a So Mohamed Shkeir, one of With the entrenched polit- ilies so far this month, includ- everywhere, intensified by the hill. “Horrible, terrible to see the homes them women,” President Roch Marc rampant terrorism that threatens us all. dozens of members in the ical class failing to chart a way ing one family reduced to using Christmas spirit. of my neighbours on fire, my home... Christian Kabore added on Twitter. The European Union stands by Africa in group, sprang into action. The out, Lebanese are resorting to candles because they can’t Stores have offered dis- Unfortunately we are all homeless,” a Government spokesman Remis its battle against terrorism.” 23-year-old architect student what they’ve done in previous afford electricity. counts and set up boxes for tearful Silvia Puga said. Dandjinou said 31 of the civilian victims Niger’s President Mahamadou along with friends launched a wars and crises: they rely on Over recent years as donations of clothes or money. The cause of the fire, and that of a were women, and that around 20 soldiers Issoufou also expressed his “solidarity” campaign appealing for dona- each other, not the state. Lebanon’s economy worsened, Ads on TV urged Lebanese to smaller blaze, was under investigation. and six civilians were wounded. and, speaking “in the name of the tions — for the man and for “We got to a situation people turned to familiar ways pack bags of donations instead “There are indications that this fire The president has declared 48 hours Nigerien people” offered his “condolences others suffering. They posted where people are not able to to cope, like mosque and of suitcases for travel. could be intentional,” Blumel said. of national mourning. for all civilian and military victims.”    ! "#$"%&'  ) :

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boundaries. His opening partner Jay Bista too fell on 13 as Mumbai were in a spot of bother at 37-2 and it soon became 45-3 after cri- sis man Siddesh Lad fell cheaply for 8. After that Test specialist Ajinkya Rahane (3 batting) alongside skipper Suryakumar Yadav (15 batting) held the fort and ensured that there was no further dam- age. They will need to bat as long as possi- ble on the third day.      /@Bengal were bowled out for 289 before bad light halted play on the second @ ;   P        day against Andhra. There were three interruptions before B !  +  Bengal innings folded in 104 overs at 1:35pm. Poor visibility eventually forced the !!5   !   day’s proceedings to be called off with / 3 @ !     *  @ "       Andhra yet to bat in their first innings. India captain Virat Kohli has been ;@       0  "    Only 101 minutes of play was possible named in the Cricketers of the decade list 1    +   "  on the day, during which 21 overs were alongside four others by the Wisden   +     "   was the eighth batsmen to be dismissed. bowled, as Bengal lost their remaining six Cricketers’ Almanac. Pacer M Ravi Kian took all four wickets in wickets in 48 runs after resuming at 241/4. Apart from Kohli, South African duo of    the morning. Left-handed opener Abhishek Raman Dale Steyn and AB de Villiers, Australia’s was dismissed for 112 in the second ball of Steve Smith and women’s all-rounder Ellyse shant Sharma bowled a sharp spell to      the day, adding just two runs to his Perry also found a place in the list of five polish off the tail after Simrajeet Singh's 5 @Railways skipper Karn Sharma led overnight total. cricketers of the decade. Ifour-wicket burst, putting Delhi on the from the front, as he hit a gritty century and Raman was cleaned up by Stephen and Kohli, who has scored 5,775 more inter- cusp of an innings victory against helped his team take a massive 152-run first after four overs in the morning the match national runs than anyone else in the last 10 in their Ranji Trophy group A innings lead against Mumbai on the second was held up for 20 minutes. years, has arguably been the best batsman encounter. day of their Elite Group B game at On resumption at 9.27am, Bengal over the last decade. After scoring 284 in their first innings, . were unable to get a partnership going as The 31-year-old Indian was named cap- Delhi dismissed Hyderabad for 69 in just  > ! In their second essay, Shahbaz Ahmed became Stephen’s fourth tain of the Wisden Test team of the decade, 29 overs with Ishant (4/19 in 10 overs) and Mumbai were struggling at victim. The pacer returned figures of 4/78. while also featuring in the ODI XI. Simarjeet (4/23 in 10 overs) sharing the  .* ?@<*  64/3, as the 41-time domestic Then, due to solar eclipse, the match was “He is genius has been to rise, time and spoils on day two. 4,2$2 champions, are still trailing by again held up for two hours, as Bengal had again, to the challenge. Between the end of Left-arm seamer Pawan Suyal (2/25 in 88 runs. an extended lunch break stretching till 11.48. the England tour in 2014 and the second Test 8.4 overs) bowling from a four-step run-up It was due to Sharma’s heroics with the With the light playing hide and seek, against Bangladesh at Kolkata in November, also did his bit. Having enforced follow-on bat (112 not out) and a valiant 72-run knock Bengal kept losing wickets as their last four Kohli averaged 63, with 21 hundreds and 13 on another curtailed day due to solar eclipse, by Arindam Ghosh, that the Railways were wickets could add just nine runs. fifties,” Wisden wrote. Delhi reduced the visitors to 20 for 2 in their able to go past the 250-run mark, after they In Group C, opener Shantanu Mishra “It left him with a unique set of statistics second essay with seam bowling all-rounder were teetering at 43/5 at one stage. remained unbeaten on 54 to help Odisha — the only batsman to average at least 50 in Kunwar Bidhuri grabbing both the wickets. Left-handed Sharma and Ghosh secure a first innings lead over all three international formats. Even Steve Hyderabad still need to score 185 runs played cautiously and kept frustrat- Uttarakhand. Smith was moved to remark recently that to avoid innings defeat with two days left ing the Mumbai bowlers, as they Resuming on 98/3, Odisha there is no one quite like him.” in the game. stitched a 116- run stand for the lost Biplab Samantray for 37 “In many ways, there isn’t. Since the The conditions were conducive for                        1 9 sixth wicket. after he was trapped by Pradeep retirement of Sachin Tendulkar and the grad- seam bowling as all Delhi pacers needed to      * "  ! ?       Sharma, in his unbeaten Chamoli (2/36) in the third over ual waning of MS Dhoni, no cricketer in the do was pitch in the right areas and the lat- knock, hammered 15 fours and of the day. world has operated under such daily pressure eral movement did the rest. other end drew the first blood, breaching enough to scare the batsmen. Some of the four sixes, while Ghosh hit 12 Mishra stayed on even as as Kohli.” “My job was to support Ishant bhaiya opener Akshath Reddy’s defence. lower-order Hyderabad players were retreat- boundaries. wickets kept on falling at the other In the past decade Kohli has hoarded by bowling tight lines. Initially, he was beat- Simrajeet then trapped his Reddy’s ing towards leg-stump in order to avoid get- Their stand not only pulled the end on a day when only 16.2 overs were 7,202 runs in Tests including 27 hundreds, ing the batsmen but they took less risks opening partner Tanmay Agarwal leg ting hurt by Ishant’s deliveries. Railways out of trouble, but also put them possible, helping Odisha go past while in the shorter formats the Indian skip- against him. Perhaps, they thought they can before and Hyderabad never recovered from “They are not a below-par side just that in a good position. Uttarakhand's first innings total of 117. per has amassed 11,125 runs in ODIs and attack me more and I got those wickets. the loss. there was help from the wicket,” said In Mumbai’s second innings, young At the Palam A Stadium in New Delhi, 2,633 runs in T20s. Ishant bhaiya’s brief was simple, pitch the The Hyderabad players looked intim- Simarjeet, son of a former national level prodigy Prithvi Shaw, who had failed in the medium pacer Manishankar Murasingh Kohli, who averages more than 50 in all ball in right areas,” Simrajeet told reporters. idated by the pace and bounce generated by hockey player. first innings, again was unable to convert returned brilliant figures of 7/63, as Tripura formats is third in the list of leading run-scor- Initially, Ishant’s was beating the bat at Ishant. He didn’t go full tilt but a percent- Earlier, Delhi lost their last four wick- his start. bundled out Services for 173 for a first ers of all time with 21,444 runs, behind will but not getting the edges. Suyal on the age effort, bowling within himself, was ets for 15 runs after Shikhar Dhawan (140) He fell on 23 after slamming four innings lead of 47 runs. Ponting (27,483) & Tendulkar (34,357). PTI )     ', % )  !(  ( * !( 1 1     ing up and used to play shots in the need to produce results, that's the air, we were taken out of the nets, game. You score 100 off 50 balls or 200 .  8 ( laying flamboyant shots is not a which was not right because eventu- balls, it doesn’t matter, it still is a hun- P“crime” if they translate into results, ally you want the results,” said Rohit. dred.    reckons batting maestro Rohit “If the guy is giving you results by “I mean if the guy is confident in Sharma, who says youngsters should playing the big shots, there is nothing his skills, I would back that skill. There ore than 80,000 fans packed have the freedom to express them- wrong in that. As a young kid, grow- should not be any restriction on how Mthe Melbourne Cricket selves. ing in this generation, you want to play these young players want to bat. They Ground on Thursday in the Rohit started his international shots. You want to look good (while should be allowed to bat freely, that’s largest single-day crowd for a Test career as a middle-order before batting) but again it is very important how they will produce results.” match between the two nations, becoming one of the best openers in what they think of their game and The India opener also wished the and one of the biggest against any the limited overs game. what understanding they have about defending champions and India U-19 country. The 32-year-old had a memorable the game,” he added. team the best for the upcoming World The Boxing Day Test is the 2019 when he scored 10 hundreds “What we need to be careful of is, Cup in South Africa. highlight of the cricket calendar across formats, including five in the if the player is doing mistakes again “Our team looks very strong as in Australia and routinely attracts World Cup. and again, then he needs to be told always. We won the last time. I throngs of spectators, with the Rohit shared his experiences of his how he should go about it next time. wouldn’t say that we will win this year 91,112 who watched England in early days as a cricketer during an I mean playing shots is not a crime.” as well. I am sure about one thing — 2013 the record. interaction with the young trainees at Rohit emphasised that backing the they are going to play really hard. They The 80,473 who attended on his own cricket academy, here on young players is important to make have got great coaching staff. Of !   "               Thursday was second biggest Thursday. them confident about their game. course, it’s a big platform and in big for a non-Ashes fixture on “There is nothing harm in play- “I would encourage that to play platforms, India team generally tends    (   8 1 Boxing Day, behind only the ing big shots, trying to play a flamboy- shots if they want to but at the same to do well. I hope they bring the Cup  .* =@<*  85,661 who witnessed Australia ant cover drive. When we were grow- 1               time they need to understand that they back home,” he added. aster batsman Steve Smith $,07$C0=2+,B play the West Indies in 1975. Mground out an unbeaten 77 New Zealand are playing on Thursday as he zeroed in on yet their first Boxing Day Test in another century, putting Australia day-night clash in Perth by 296 Australia since 1987 and Cricket ! '+ $     " in the driving seat after the open- runs. Australia chief Kevin Roberts ing day of the second Test against It was a bold decision by said the huge crowd pointed to New Zealand. Williamson to bowl on a pitch that the popularity of the sport in A      In the Black Caps’ first Boxing has traditionally been docile and both countries.   !  I Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket favoured the batsmen. “Thanks so much to the ng the ball across right-handed Ground since 1987, skipper Kane And it appeared to pay divi- Australian and New Zealand batsmen, with some Williamson won the toss and dends in a sizzling opening over fans who made history at the (! .   ) 1 balls swinging back in 0  (< 50 opted to bowl, and it looked to be from Trent Boult, back after miss- MCG today,” he said.  .* @<*  and others moving a good decision with Joe Burns out ing two Tests with a rib injury. “The atmosphere was bril- $,07$C0=2+,B away. first ball and David Warner just After three testing balls to liant from ball one and reflective Stuart Broad,    before lunch. Warner, his fourth clattered into of the great rivalry between our recovered from illness, which But first Marnus Burns’ middle stump, with the two nations on the field, and the prevented him from bowling in ricketers from India and Pakistan are unlikely Labuschagne, the world’s leading opener out for a golden duck to close relationship we have off it.” his team’s two warm-up match- Cto feature together in the combined Asian XI run-scorer for 2019, and then huge roars from the large New The previous day one record es, took three for 52. team that will take on World XI in the two official Smith smacked half centuries to Zealand contingent in the 80,000- for an Australia-New Zealand James Anderson, playing in T20 matches in Bangladesh, BCCI joint secretary seize back control and leave them strong crowd. Test in Melbourne was 51,087. his 150th Test — the first special- Jayesh George said on Thursday. on 257 for four, frustrating the dis- “Obviously we would have ist bowler to reach the milestone The matches are scheduled to be held in March ciplined New Zealand bowlers. liked a few more wickets on our have them a couple more down. — took a wicket with the first ball next year a part of celebrations to commemorate the Along with the fidgety Smith, tally,” said Boult. “I think the over- “On the positive, they haven’t of the match when Dean Elgar birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Travis Head was not out 25, des- heads (cloudy conditions) and the got too far ahead of the game. nudged what looked no more Rahaman, Bangladesh’s father of nation. perate for runs after a lean spell. way the pitch played in the first Hopefully we get a couple (of than a leg side loosener to wick- The BCCI, though, will release five of its play- Labuschagne made 63 with Colin hour or two, it’s annoying not to wickets) early tomorrow.” etkeeper Jos Buttler. ers for the two official games. de Grandhomme taking 2-48. Elgar’s fellow opener Aiden “There were some discussions in this regard dur- The signs are ominous for Markram also fell to a loose shot, ing the Pink Ball Test in Kolkata. It looks unlikely New Zealand with superstar Smith ! P '<  +  clipping Curran to midwicket. that India and Pakistan players will feature in the scoring centuries in his past four Zubayr Hamza, batting at same Asian XI team. It will depend on Sourav as he  /5   @ Tests in Melbourne, and a fifth Leading Australia standing player of his era, he’s ?  !     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I think we did pret- ers for his country in Test crick- going to finish his career in the Sfor England, while Quinton de De Kock played some risky made 33 and helped De Kock add is clashing with the first Asia XI match. ty well today. et. very top bracket of batsmen Kock played a crucial innings of strokes early in his innings but 87 for the sixth wicket, while India and Pakistan have not played any bilater- “The plan will obviously be to On the first day of the through the history of the game,” 95 for South Africa on the first was more circumspect after his Vernon Philander, who finished al cricket for the past seven years and compete score as many as we can (on Boxing Day Test, he went past he added. day of the first Test at SuperSport initial flurry of strokes. on 28 not out, shared in a seventh against each other only at the global or continental Friday),” he added. “But after get- former Test captain Greg Ricky Ponting holds the Park on Thursday. Having been 64 not out off 69 wicket partnership of 47. meets. ting sent it, I think you’d take 257 Chappell’s tally of 7,110 runs with record for being the leading South Africa were 277 for balls at tea, De Kock needed 59 Ben Stokes was off the field The relation between BCCI and PCB could turn for four at the end of the day. One a comfortable single in the 51st run-getter for Australia in Test nine at the close, providing jus- balls to add 31 more runs before for two extended periods after for worse after Ehsan Mani’s comment that Pakistan more good partnership would be over, moving into 10th position cricket. In 168 matches, Ponting tification for captain Joe Root’s fellow left-hander Curran had lunch and again after tea, suffer- is a safer country for touring teams compared to nice and sort of set the game up on Australia’s list of all-time Test scored 13,378 runs. He is fol- decision to bowl first. him caught behind. ing from dehydration. Stokes India. for us.” run-scorers. “I would think he’ll lowed by Allan Border (11,174 in But it could have been a lot Curran took four for 57 and was in the England team despite “We have proved Pakistan is safe, if someone isn’t The visitors need to win to be in his peak for another three 156), Steve Waugh (10,927 in better for England — and worse was the best of the England his father, Ged, remaining in a coming then they should prove that it’s unsafe. At square the three-match series of four years,” Chappell told 168), and Michael Clarke (8,643 for South Africa. The hosts were bowlers, keeping a fuller length Johannesburg hospital with a this time, India is a far greater security risk than after crashing in the opening cricket.com.au. “He’s the out- in 115). IANS in deep trouble at 111 for five than his team-mates and slanti- serious illness. Pakistan,” Mani told reporters in Karachi.