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IN BRIEF Prez keeps word, meets 9 HURT AS FOB AT Maoists run weapon BHOPAL RLY old friend and his family

STN COLLAPSES making units in Bastar AKSHAYA KUMAR and family who visited the inum jubilee celebrations SAHOO | DC Rashtrapati Bhawan on in December last year that DC CORRESPONDENT RABINDRA NATH the jungles. “A gun mak- shells of firearm ammuni- Two Cobra commandos BHUBANESWAR, FEB. 13 February 4. the President met Singh BHOPAL, FEB. 13 CHOUDHURY | DC ing factory has been bust- tions and rockets left were martyred and five Singh’s happiness knew after 12 years. BHOPAL, FEB. 13 ed in Irapalli. Tools used behind by security forces others injured in the In December 2019, no boundaries when he Though Singh then had Nine people including a for making bullets for var- after the encounters to encounter with armed President Ram Nath narrated his feelings to expressed desire to meet woman were on Thursday Maoists’ weapon manufac- ious firearms and rockets reuse them by filling them Maoists at Irapalli, consid- Kovind had a pleasant mediapersons here on Kovind much before his injured when part of foot over turing units in for Under Barrel Grenade up with explosives and ered the bastion of experience while attend- Thursday about his recent arrival and approached bridge (FOB) in Bhopal rail- Chhattisgarh’s Bastar Launchers (UBGL) has other materials, the offi- Maoists’ battalion number ing the platinum jubilee meeting with Kovind the President’s security way station collapsed. region are making rockets been seized. cer said unwilling to be one, on February 10. celebrations of Utkal which lasted over 30 min- officers to allow him to The incident took place on and bullets from the Many empty cartridge quoted. Body of a Maoist identi- University in utes. offer a rose, his request platform number two and empty shells left behind and rocket shells have Naxals have filled their fied as Madvi Hunga, body Bhubaneswar. He could Singh said President was turned down due to three. by security forces after been found at the site. armory by looting guard of Sonu who com- recognise his long-time Kovind told my children security reasons. One of the injured was stated encounters. Besides pipes and tools for firearms such as AK 47 manded company number friend Birabhadra Singh that “I know your father However, Singh’s dream to be critical, a railway A weapon manufactur- making guns, improvised and Insas assault rifles one of CPI (Maoist), was sitting quietly in the audi- and recognised him from came true when President spokesman said. ing unit busted by the 204 explosive devices (IEDs) and UBGLs from security recovered at the ence. his ‘Pagdi’ at Utkal himself recognised him “Nine people were injured in COBRA (commando bat- and mortar bombs have forces in the encounters encounter site. The coun- He asked his officers to University, Bhubaneswar. sitting in the audience the incident. We will investi- talion for resolute action) also been seized at the with them. terinsurgency operation arrange a meeting post I knew him (Singh) by and immediately asked gate the matter and fix battalion personnel at encounter site”, a senior They used to depend on was launched by Cobra the celebrations. heart since the time we his officers to arrange a accountability on the people Irapalli in Chhattisgarh’s CRPF officer posted in their weapon supply chain commandos following During the meeting that were together.” meeting. responsible for it,” railway south Bastar district of Raipur in Chhattisgarh to procure ammunitions intelligence tip off on lasted for 30 minutes, the Birabhadra Singh and “I told him that his deci- PRO I.A. Siddique said. Bijapur three days ago has told this newspaper on and rockets. However, the gathering of large number President had invited Kovind were Rajya Sabha sion to meet me was The victims were mostly pas- brought to light the skill Thursday. supply chains often used of armed Naxals includ- Singh to Rashtrapati members from 2001 to appreciated by media sengers who were standing acquired by Naxals to The seizures have led to to be busted by security ing battalion number one Bhawan. 2005. It was during the which termed the friend- under the ill-fated foot over make firearm ammuni- disclosure that Maoists forces putting Naxals commander Hidma in Kovind kept his word valedictory session of ship to be that of ‘Krishna bridge, Siddique added. tions in their ‘factories’ in used to collect the empty under pressure. Irapalli. and played host to Singh Utkal University plat- and Sudama’,” said Singh.

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SHORT TAKES Top court to hear plea challenging Grave issues on Coronavirus scare: 2 Omar’s detention under PSA today DC CORRESPONDENT Sara Abdullah’s plea chal- M. Shantanahoudar who criminalisation of NEW DELHI. FEB. 13 lenging the continued was part of the bench com- detention of Omar prising Justice N. V. politics in India passengers isolated The Supreme Court will Abdullah is listed before a Ramana and Justice Sanjiv hear on Friday a plea by bench comprising Justice Khanna recused himself From Page 1 Sara Abdullah Pilot chal- Arun Mishra and Justice from participating in the 2,51,447 persons screened so far for the virus: Centre lenging the detention of her Indira Banerjee. matter on Wednesday. The SC verdict on ensuring brother and former J&K The matter has come Because of the recusal by parties disclose criminal DC CORRESPONDENT Chief Minister Omar before the bench of Justice Justice Shantanahoudar antecedents of candidates with agency inputs Abdullah under the Public Mishra and Justice the matter was adjourned comes in the wake of contempt NEW DELHI, FEB. 13 Safety Act. Banerjee as Justice Mohan on Wednesday. petitions filed by lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Kumar One passenger on board Upadhyay and others, drawing SpiceJet Bangkok-Delhi the court’s attention towards flight was quarantined at the non-compliance of its Delhi while two passen- directions on September 25, gers, who arrived at 2018. Kolkata from Bangkok, The court noted that the con- have been placed in isola- tempt petition raises “grave tion for suspected novel issues regarding the criminal- coronavirus (COVID-19) isation of politics in India”. symptoms. Exercising its powers under “On February 13, 2020, Articles 129 and 142 of the a passenger travelling on Constitution, the court man- SpiceJet flight SG-88 dated political parties to give operating between reasons for selecting candi- Bangkok and Delhi was dates with pending criminal suspected of coronavirus cases and why others “without infection. He was on seat criminal antecedents could no. 31F and was the only not be selected as candidates”. passenger in that row. Speaking for the bench, that The said passenger was also comprised Justices S. quarantined by Airport Ravindra Bhat and M. Health Organisation Ramasubramanian, and refer- (APHO) after landing in In this photo provided by Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), one of the Indian ring to the documents placed Delhi,” the SpiceJet said. nationals who were airlifted from coronavirus-hit Hubei province of China’s before the court and submis- At Kolkata airport, a Wuhan, gives final sample to medics before release from the quarantine facility sions by lawyers, Justice passenger named set by up ITBP, at Chhawla in New Delhi on Thursday. — PTI Nariman said over the past Himadri Barman was four general elections, there quarantined on Tuesday, ■ DR VARDHAN said ports, 12 major ports, 65 tion of citizens of India was an “alarming increase” in and Nagendra Singh on that all 645 Indians, minor ports and at 6 land and Maldives from the the incidence of criminals in Wednesday, officials said. crossings and all states Chinese city of Wuhan politics. Both passengers were including 7 Maldivians, have been informed of following the outbreak of From 2004 onwards, the per- sent to Beliaghata ID evacuated from Wuhan the guidelines and pre- novel coronavirus, the centage of MPs facing non- Hospital, a Kolkata air- are likely to be dis- cautionary measures. At Prime Minister's Office serious criminal charges have port official said. charged once all of the airports, a cumula- said on Thursday. been between 12 per cent to 15 Earlier, a passenger them test negative after tive of 2,51,447 persons The letter would be per cent, with 14 per cent of named Anita Oraon had a stay of 14 days. (2,315 flights) have been handed over to the evacu- MPs in the 17th Lok Sabha fac- also showed signs of screened, 3 suspected ation team, including ing such charges. fever during thermal be discharged once all of cases and 161 contacts Air India crew and However, a look at the per- scanning, Kolkata air- them test negative after a have been identified, Health Ministry offi- centage of MPs facing serious port director Kaushik stay of 14 days. 5,491 and 285 passengers cials, by the Minister of charges shows that the num- Bhattacharjee said. “India has extended and crew have been State for Civil Aviation, ber goes up with every general In India, three cases support to the Maldives screened at major and the PMO statement said. election. have been confirmed so in testing samples and minor ports, respectively. Air India had conduct- A five-judge Constitution far in Kerala while two Bhutan in managing A total of 15,991 per- ed an emergency evacua- Bench headed by then Chief Indian crew on board COVID-19. India has sons are being followed tion operations from Justice Dipak Misra (since cruise ship Diamond agreed to support up for 28 days of which Wuhan, the epicentre of retired) had directed political Princess off the Afghanistan in testing 3,058 have completed 28 the novel coronavirus parties to publicise the crimi- Japanese coast have test- samples. India is also days of observation peri- outbreak in China. nal record of the candidates ed positive for the extending help to China od. As many as 497 sus- “Despite being aware of fielded by them so that people COVID-19. Union health by sending essential pect cases have been iso- the aforementioned could make an informed minister Harsh Vardhan items for combating lated. severe situation in the choice while exercising their said three persons who COVID2019 in China as Some of the airlines region, the Air India sent franchise. tested positive for per commitment of the have also temporarily two B-747 aircraft with While directing political par- COVID-19 in Kerala are Prime Minister,” the suspended operations. teams of Air India as ties to give wide publicity stable now. minister said following a Meanwhile, Prime well as teams from about the criminal Dr Vardhan said on meeting of the Group of Minister Narendra Modi Ministry of Health for antecedents of the candidate Thursday that all 645 Ministers (GOM) on this has written a letter of two consecutive days, on being fielded by them, by post- Indians, including 7 issue. appreciation to the Air January 31 and February ing these on their website, Maldivians, evacuated He added that people India crew and health 1, returning the next through the print and elec- from the coronavirus-hit are being screened for ministry officials day,” the statement tronic, media, the court had Wuhan city are likely to coronavirus at 21 air- involved in the evacua- said. said the time has come for Parliament to to enact a law to cleanse the polluted stream of politics by prohibiting people ASSESS RIGHTS with criminal antecedents in the political system. SITUATION IN Observing that the “nation eagerly waits for such legisla- tion” to curb the entry of INDIA, SAY U.S. politicians with criminal antecedents, the court had SENATORS said in 2018 “the sooner the better, before it becomes fatal Washington, Feb. 13: to democracy”. Ahead of President “The time has come that Donald Trump’s maiden Parliament must make a law to visit to India, four influ- ensure that persons facing ential US Senators, who serious criminal cases do not described themselves as enter the political stream,” the “longtime friends of court said in 2018. India”, have sought an assessment of the human rights situation Former TERI chief in Kashmir and religious freedom in the country, Pachauri Journalists use internet on their mobile phones after the government restored saying hundreds of internet services in Srinagar on Thursday. — PTI Kashmiris remain in passes away “preventive detention”. The bipartisan group of Senators, in their letter to Secretary of State CISF to guard Srinagar Mike Pompeo dated February 12, said that India has now imposed the longest-ever internet airport from Feb. 15 shutdown by a democra- cy, disrupting access to VIKRAM SHARMA | DC ■ SOURCES SAID that operating in the medical care, business HYDERABAD, FEB. 13 the personnel have Kashmir valley. and education for seven been drawn from vari- Sources said that the million people. Hundreds of highly ous places and it was personnel have been The Indian govern- R.K. Pachauri trained personnel of the drawn from various ment abrogated Article Central Industrial only after obtaining places and it was only 370 of the Constitution New Delhi, Feb. 13: R.K. Security Force (CISF) their willingness to after obtaining their on August 5, 2019 that Pachauri, a former chief of have started arriving in work in Srinagar that willingness to work in granted special status to The Energy and Resources Srinagar and will grad- they were posted at the Srinagar that they were Jammu and Kashmir, Institute, passed away on ually take over the secu- airport. posted at the airport. In and imposed severe Thursday after a prolonged rity of the “hyper sensi- fact, after the abroga- curbs including on cardiac ailment, Teri director tive” Srinagar airport arriving in Srinagar tion of Article 370, there movement of people as general Ajay Mathur said. from February 15. The and the remaining per- has been excessive well as on mobile tele- He was 79. move will see the end of sonnel will be reach deployment of CISF for phone and internet con- “It is with immense sadness Jammu and Kashmir there shortly. The for- law and order duties. nectivity. The crackdown that we announce the passing police from airport mal takeover will com- “This deployment too drew international criti- away of R.K. Pachauri, the duties. mence on February 15 has been downsized to cism with several coun- founder Director of Teri. The The urgency for the and will be completed enable personnel to be tries expressing con- entire Teri family stands with CISF take over arose within a week from posted at the airport,” cerns over the situation the family of Dr Pachauri in after the Jammu and then. they said. in Kashmir. this hour of grief,” Mathur Kashmir (J&K) admin- Presently, the internal It is learnt that though India has categorically said in a statement issued by istration wrote to the security of the airports the union home minis- told the international the Teri. Ministry of Home is jointly handled by the ter Amit Shah wanted community that its move “Teri is what it is because of Affairs (MHA) to take J&K police and the the CISF to take over the to scrap Article 370 was Dr Pachauri’s untiring perse- over the security of the CRPF personnel. But security of both Jammu an internal matter. verance. He played a pivotal airport at the earliest. once the CISF takes and Srinagar airports Internet is being role in growing this institu- This was in the follow- over, the CRPF will by February 1, which restored in the Valley in tion, and making it a premier ing of the arrest of secure only the outer could not happen due a phased manner after global organisation in the sus- Deputy Superintendent areas of the airport. to shortage of manpow- reviewing the security tainability space,” said of Police (DSP) Sources said that the er. situation. The US law- Mathur, who succeeded Davinder Singh who accommodation for the The CISF deployment makers, describing Pachauri at Teri in 2015. was posted in the anti- women personnel of the for Jammu airport is themselves as “longtime Pachauri was admitted to hijacking squad in CISF, who will be posted expected a little longer. friends of India”, wrote Escorts Heart Institute in the Srinagar airport. He at the Srinagar airport, “With Srinagar air- in the letter that “more national capital where he was caught while ferry- is being finalised and port high on the target than six months after underwent open heart surgery ing top Hizbul should be done within a of terrorists, the per- Indian Prime Minister and was put on life support on Mujahideen command- week, after which they sonnel have been Narendra Modi’s govern- Tuesday, sources said. er Naveed Ahmed Shah will start arriving. trained in anti-hijack- ment unilaterally In 2015, Pachauri was alias Babu in Qazigund Over the last one ing and anti-sabotage revoked the autonomy of accused of allegedly sexually in the second week of month, the CISF head- operations. They are J&K, the government harassing a woman colleague January. quarters in New Delhi also getting trained in continues to block most after which he quit the post. In Sources in the J&K has been struggling to use of bomb disposal internet in the region”. the statement issued by Teri, administration super- gather 800-odd person- equipment and other Signatories to the letter its chairman Nitin Desai vising the CISF nel to be posted at special equipment, are Chris Van Hollen, hailed Pachauri’s contribution takeover told Deccan Srinagar airport, which which Srinagar airport Todd Young, Richard J. to global sustainable develop- Chronicle that the CISF is high on the radar of is already equipped Durbin and Lindsey O. ment as unparalleled. personnel have started various terror outfits with,” sources said. Graham. — PTI NATION pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | 14 FEBRUARY 2020 9

SHORT TAKES Finally, bookie Chawla KARNATAKA BANDH EVOKES extradited from UK MIXED RESPONSE BHASKAR HARI SHARMA after his medical test. He and consular access will DC CORRESPONDENT | DC is normal and not under be provided. Safety and BENGALURU, FEB. 13 NEW DELHI, FEB. 13 stress. He will be ques- security will be ensured. tioned in detail now by the The inmate will be kept in The Karnataka bandh called Bookie Sanjeev Chawla, crime branch,” DCP a separate cell,” Mr Goel by various pro-Kannada out- who is the key accused in (crime branch) Ram said. fits demanding a quota for one of cricket’s biggest Gopal Naik said. According to the Delhi Kannadigas in government match-fixing scandals The Delhi-born busi- Police Crime Branch, in and private sector jobs, evoked that involved former nessman was also seen 1999, an extortion case a mixed response across the South African captain wearing an anti-pollution was registered and during state on Thursday. Hansie Cronje, was extra- mask as he stepped out of the probe of the case it Essential services remained dited from London. It is the airport. was revealed that some unaffected while shops and said to be first high-pro- “He will be taken to five persons with the help of business establishments func- file extradition of its kind locations, starting South African skipper tioned normally and so did between the two countries Mumbai, where matches Hansie Cronje were con- schools and colleges. The pro- in 20 years. were played in the series, spiring to fix the India- testers alleged that the ruling Chawla, a 50-year-old and confronted with cer- South Africa Cricket Test BJP had joined hands with the British national, was tain people in order to Series which was to be business class and capitalists evading the arrest for unearth the larger con- played in February- to make the bandh a failure. nearly two decades. spiracy,” the DCP added. March, 2000 regarding They also charged that the After completing the for- While Tihar prison which a case was regis- ruling BJP resorted to police malities, he was taken to director general Sandeep tered. The police said that brutality to quell the bandh in the AIIMS for a medical Goel said Chawla will be they were probing an the state capital. All leaders check-up. Chawla was placed in a separate cell extortion racket in 2000, who were capable of mobilis- “absolutely normal” dur- once he is sent to judicial when they intercepted ing crowds were taken into ing his journey to Delhi, custody. telephonic conversations preventive custody, explained police said. “According to the extra- of Chawla and Cronje, Jayaraj Naidu, President of “He had food twice in the dition treaty, all basic which uncovered this Namma Karnataka Rakshana Sanjiv Chawla at crime branch office in New Delhi on Thursday. — PTI flight. He also had lunch facilities will be ensured plot. Vedike. He said Karnataka should learn from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh where the governments had protect- ed the interests of locals against capitalists. Cong’s Udaipur “We are protesting since the Goli maro hurt BJP: Shah last 102 days demanding a quota for locals in jobs. Our protest will continue. We will plenary may Shah says statements like ‘Indo-Pak match’ should not have been made hold a meeting and decide on staging a hunger strike until New Delhi, Feb. 13: our demands are met,” he Union home minister added. pick new chief Amit Shah on Thursday said statements like ‘goli No CM invited SREEPARNA ■ AFTER RAHUL maro’ and ‘Indo-Pak OPPN WANTS CHAKRABARTY | DC match’ should not have NEW DELHI, FEB. 13 Gandhi’s resignation as been made by BJP leaders KERALA TOP COP party chief, an all-out while campaigning for the war had erupted within for Kejri event Grappling with leader- Delhi Assembly elections REMOVED ship issues at the helm the party between the and that such remarks SANJAY KAW | DC ■ THE AAP has planned DC CORRESPONDENT after its rout in last year’s old guard and the new may have cost the party NEW DELHI, FEB. 13 mobilisation of people for THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. Lok Sabha polls, the guard, and Sonia was dearly. the mega event and all 13 Congress is likely to hold made interim chief He, however, said the Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam an AICC plenary in BJP does not fight elec- Aadmi Party (AAP) on the newly-elected MLAs Congress-led Opposition in Udaipur, Rajasthan, in from any such possibility. tions just for victory or Thursday claimed that of the party have been Kerala on Thursday reiterated April’s first week. He also said the Congress defeat but believes in over a million people from asked to ensure huge par- the demand for removal of Sources said the one-day should look beyond the expanding its ideology across the country had ticipation from their con- state police chief Loknath plenary may address the Gandhi family for a presi- through polls. joined the party within 24 stituencies. Behara in the wake of CAG need for a full-time presi- dent. “Such statements should hours of its stunning win report making startling reve- dent and organisational After Mr Gandhi’s resig- not have been made. Our in the Delhi Assembly ple could give a missed lation about shortage of 25 changes within the party. nation as party chief, an party has distanced itself elections. call to join the party. Early INSAS 5.56 mm rifles and The exact date would be all-out war had erupted from such remarks,” he Contrary to the specula- on Thursday, the AAP’s 12,061 live cartridges during decided at a meeting of within the party between said at a programme. tion that several chief official Twitter handle joint inspection carried out in the Congress Working the old guard and the new Shah was asked a ques- ministers from other announced that over one Special Armed Police Committee to be called guard, and Mrs Gandhi’s tion about a few BJP lead- states will attend Mr million people had Battalion in Thiruvana-ntha- soon, the sources said, taking over as the interim ers raising slogans like Kejriwal’s oath-taking already joined the party. puram and other grave finan- adding it can be anytime chief was meant to be a ‘goli maro’ and talking ceremony at Ramlila The tweet said: “More cial irregularities. after the end of the peace-making exercise. about the ‘Indo-Pak Maidan on Sunday, the than 1 million people have In a letter to Chief Minister Budget Session, which Recently, however, Mr match’ during the Delhi party has made it clear no joined AAP within 24 Pinarayi Vijayan, Opposition will be on till April 3. Gandhi has begun an out- elections campaigning. leaders from the hours of our massive vic- leader Ramesh Chennithala It may be recalled that reach to the nation’s He admitted that the BJP Opposition parties have tory. To join AAP, give a pointed out that CAG report Rahul Gandhi had youth through a series of may have suffered in the been invited and it will be missed call on contained grave charges resigned as Congress rallies on economic polls because of the state- a “Delhi-specific” ceremo- 9871010101.” against DGP and irregulari- president, taking moral issues and unemploy- ments made by some of its ny. The AAP had earlier ties that could pose threat to responsibility for the ment, the first of which leaders. There are indications, claimed almost 11 lakh Union home minister Amit Shah and director general of national security. Under these defeat in the 2019 Lok was held in Jaipur on “It is possible that our however, that the party people had taken part in Civil Aviation Security and Director General of the circumstances Lokanath Sabha polls, after which January 28. performance may have could invite Prime the party’s campaign by Narcotics Control Bureau, Rakesh Asthana, during the Behera should be removed the party remained head- Besides the issue of the suffered because of this,” Minister Narendra Modi giving a missed call to the inauguration of India’s first BIMSTEC conference on from the post of state police less for the next two president’s position, the he said. and the seven BJP MPs number that was shared drug trafficking, in New Delhi on Thursday. — PTI chief with immediate effect. months. After that, for- plenary may also decide Shah said his assessment from Delhi to the oath cer- with people across the The Opposition urged the mer party chief and for- to make some “radical” on Delhi elections went emony. country using multiple CM to recommend a CBI probe mer UPA chairperson changes in the organisa- wrong but asserted that Soon after its historic media outlets. It was a into allegations of financial Sonia Gandhi had taken tional structure. The the result of the polls was victory in the Assembly part of the AAP’s nation- BJP blames bipolar irregularities and fund diver- over as interim president. demand and need for an not a mandate on the elections, the AAP shared building campaign titled sion and NIA probe into mat- While a section claimed overall organisational Citizenship Amendment a mobile number on the “AAP Rashtra Nirman”, ters that posed threat to Mrs Gandhi would restructuring comes Act (CAA) or the National day of counting on where all Indians were national security. The CM, remain as interim presi- amid the huge drubbing Register of Citizens Tuesday requesting peo- invited to join the party. contest for defeat however, said he had not seen dent, another said Rahul the party got in the Delhi (NRC). the letter written by the oppo- Gandhi might make a Assembly elections, He said anyone who it on the basis of merits. one has a right to peaceful New Delhi, Feb. 13: The single seat. The meeting sition leader. comeback at the plenary. where its voteshare wants to discuss issues CAA is neither anti- protest but violence is not BJP increased its vote observed that the party However, Mr Gandhi plunged to a mere four related to CAA with him Muslim nor anti-minority. justified. share in the Delhi fought the February 8 has distanced himself per cent. can seek time from his I am ready to meet anyone, “We tolerate non-violent Assembly polls but lost election with its full MANTRI’S SON’S office. “(We) will give time but discussions need to protests, but vandalism out to the AAP as the con- strength and reached vot- within three days,” he happen on merit. can’t be tolerated. Silent test became bipolar, party ers across the national CAR KILLS 2; added. Unfortunately, nobody protest is a democratic sources said after a review capital, according to CONGRESS NEEDS NEW STYLE OF Strongly defending the wants to come forward right,” he said. of its performance on sources. “In future, the COVER-UP FEARED CAA, which provides for and discuss CAA,” he said. On Jammu and Kashmir, Thursday. party should prepare FUNCTIONING, SAYS JYOTIRADITYA Indian citizenship to per- Shah also said that so far Shah said everyone, BJP president J.P. Nadda itself for bipolar contest DC CORRESPONDENT secuted non-Muslims from the government has not including politicians, are held the review meeting in the national capital,” BENGALURU, FEB. 13 RABINDRA NATH new style of functioning’. Pakistan, Bangladesh and taken any decision on free to visit the newly-cre- with the party’s Delhi unit one of the sources stated. CHOUDHURY | DC Talking to reporters at Afghanistan, the home rolling out the NRC for the ated Union Territory head Manoj Tiwari and “It was felt that though Did the Karnataka police try BHOPAL, FEB. 13 Prithvipur in Tikamgarh minister said there is no whole country and made it whenever they want to general secretary (organi- the BJP’s vote share, to hush up an accident case district under such provision in the new clear that those unwilling and there is no restriction sation) B.L. Santosh. along with that of its involving the son of BJP Describing decimation of Bundelkhand region of law that will take away the to show documents during on anyone's movement. The ruling Aam Aadmi allies, increased by 8 per heavyweight and revenue min- Congress in Delhi Madhya Pradesh, Scindia citizenship of Muslims. the the National Asked about the deten- Party, led by Arvind cent but the contest ister, R. Ashok? Assembly elections as said, “The results of “We have never discrimi- Population Register exer- tion of three former chief Kejriwal, won 62 of the 70 became bipolar which cost Two persons, including a ‘very disappointing’, Delhi elections for the nated against anyone on cise were free to do so. ministers — Farooq Assembly seats in Delhi, the BJP,” the source ninth standard student and a AICC general secretary party are very disappoint- the ground of religion. He, however, said the Abdullah, Omar Abdullah while the BJP bagged the added. For further passenger in the car, were Jyotiraditya Scindia on ing. Party needs to rein- There is no provision in NRC was a promise of the and Mehbooba Mufti — he remaining eight seats. analysing the Delhi elec- killed in the accident which Thursday felt the urgency vent itself with new the CAA which says that BJP in its election mani- said it was a decision of The Congress, which tions, a number of meet- took place on February 10 at for ‘reinventing’ thinking, new ideology citizenship of Muslims festo. Asked about the the local administration to had governed the national ings will be held at the Mariyammanahalli near Congress with ‘new ideol- and new way of function- will be revoked. Don’t just ongoing agitations against slap them with the Public capital for 15 years before party’s office on Friday, Hosapete in Ballari district. ogy, new thinking and ing”. criticise CAA, but discuss the CAA, Shah said every- Safety Act. — PTI the AAP, failed to win a sources said. — PTI Mariyammanahalli resident Ravi Naik and Sachin, a resi- dent of Kereguddadahalli and NIRBHAYA | CASE ■ Convict has claimed that he was tortured by jail staff a friend of Sharath, minister Jaishankar, Guha spar Ashok’s son, have been identi- fied as the deceased. Rakesh, Shivakumar and Rahul who were travelling in the car were over Sardar as minister injured in the incident and SC verdict on Vinay’s petition today DC CORRESPONDENT rubbished by Guha. were shifted to Bengaluru for NEW DELHI, FEB. 13 Jaishankar, then some- treatment. DC CORRESPONDENT nounce its order on Friday the Nirbhaya gang-rape what sarcastically, said it Sources said minister NEW DELHI, FEB. 13 (Feb. 14) and will also hear and murder case, after he External affairs minister may be a “good habit” for Ashok’s son Sharath had been the Centre’s plea for sepa- refused to take a lawyer S. Jaishankar on professors too to read to a resort near the World The Supreme Court, on rate hanging of three con- offered by District Legal Thursday got into a mild books. Heritage Site, Hampi to cele- Thursday, reserved its ver- victs — Vinay, Akshay, and Services Authority spat with historian and Jaishankar tweeted: brate his birthday. It is said dict on a plea by Vinay Mukesh — who have (DLSA) as legal aid. author Ramachandra “Released an absorbing that the accident happened Sharma — one of the four already exhausted all the The court had, on Guha over a claim in a biography of VP Menon while he was returning with death row convicts in legal remedies, including Wednesday, offered a coun- book that India’s first by @narayani_basu. his friends in his Mercedes Nirbhaya case — challeng- mercy petition. sel to Gupta and expressed Prime Minister Sharp contrast between Benz car bearing registration ing the rejection of his The Centre and the Delhi displeasure over the delay Jawaharlal Nehru had Patel’s Menon and number KA 05 MW 0357. mercy petition by government have in the process from his not wanted Sardar Nehru’s Menon. Much Sharath was allegedly in the President Ram Nath approached the top court side. Gupta said he had Vallabhbhai Patel in his awaited justice done to a driver’s seat and lost control of Kovind. challenging the Delhi high removed his earlier Cabinet. truly historical figure. the vehicle near Durga petrol Vinay Sharma has chal- court’s judgment holding lawyer and would need It all began when Learnt from the book that bunk on NH-50 hitting a local lenged the rejection of the that all the four death row time to engage a new one. Jaishankar released a Nehru did not want Patel boy Ravi Naik, who was drink- mercy petition citing flaws convicts in Nirbhaya Gupta is the only one biography of late civil in the Cabinet in 1947 and ing tea. Ravi Naik died on the including lack of “proce- gang-rape and murder among the four convicts servant V.P. Menon, writ- omitted him from the ini- spot while Sachin who was in dural fairness” while con- case will be executed who has not yet filed a cur- ten by Narayani Basu. tial Cabinet list. Clearly, a the seat beside the driver, suc- sidering and rejecting the Nirbhaya’s mother and father at the Patiala House together and not individu- ative petition — the last Menon, as secretary of subject for much debate.” cumbed to his injuries. mercy petition. Court, in New Delhi on Thursday. — PTI ally. Notice to the four con- legal remedy available to a the then states depart- Guha said: “This is a The police allegedly left out A bench comprising victs on Centre and Delhi person that is decided in- ment, had served under myth, that has been com- the name of the minister’s son Justice R. Banumathi, that there was no proce- indignities and torture by government’s plea for sep- chamber. He also has the Sardar Patel when he was prehensively demolished during the investigation and Justice Ashok Bhushan, dural infirmity and every- the jail staff and other jail arate execution of death option of filing a mercy deputy PM and home by Prof. Srinath instead named another per- and Justice A.S. Bopanna thing was followed to the inmates. sentence was issued on plea. minister in 1947. Raghavan... Besides, pro- son, Rahul claiming he was reserved the order with last dot. The court rejected Mr February 11, 2020. The court was hearing Jaishankar referred to a moting fake news about, driving the car. They named solicitor general Tushar Advocate A.P. Singh told Singh’s plea that he may A Delhi court, on applications moved by claim in the book that and false rivalries all friends of the minister’s Mehta producing the the court that Vinay be permitted to peruse the Thursday, appointed an Nirbhaya’s parents and Nehru had not wanted between, the builders of son in the FIR but excluded entire record relating to Sharma was ill-treated in file relating to Vinay advocate to represent the Delhi government, Patel in his Cabinet ini- modern India is not the Sharath. Vinay Sharma’s mercy the jail, was beaten up sev- Sharma’s mercy petition. Pawan Gupta, one of the seeking fresh death war- tially. But this claim was job of a foreign minister.” petition demonstrating eral times, subjected to The court will pro- four death row convicts in rants for the four convicts. EDIT pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | FRIDAY | 14 FEBRUARY 2020 | HYDERABAD 10

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Face up to cold truth: Subhani Stagflation here to stay inance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had recently told Parliament that green shoots in the Indian economy are clearly visible and the steps taken by the Reserve Bank of India would boost the growth Ffurther. In defence of the government’s economic performance, Ms Sitharaman had cited improvement in foreign inflows, industrial growth, forex reserves, performance of the stock markets and tax collections under the Goods and Services Tax. But little more than 24 hours later, another arm of the same government — the ministry of statistics and programme implementation — literally showed the mirror to the finance ministry through its monthly data which revealed that industrial growth has again shrunk while retail inflation has continued to shoot up to a six-year-high. These two data points show that the Indian economy is still not out of the woods and is firmly in the grip of stagflation. Though industrial growth in December 2019 has shrunk by 30 basis points, the situation would look more disconcerting if one looks at the LETTERS details of the slowing industrial growth. There has been a secular contrac- tion in all user-based segments except primary and intermediate sectors. A year after Pulwama, it’s The production of consumer durable goods, which is a barometer for con- CENSUS EXERCISE sumer confidence in the economy, has contracted by 6.7 per cent. Shrinkage in the production of consumer non-durable goods — by 3.7 per cent — shows that the people have rediscovered thrift in their lives. The I think the Census exer- production of capital goods, which has a direct correlation with the econo- cise is a routine one and my growth and job creation, has contracted by 18 per cent in December. time for outreach in J&K When the production and demand remain muted, one wonders how the should not raise any finance minister could expect higher tax revenue. This reaffirms the con- doubts (TS begins cerns of poor job creation in the country — a profoundly worrisome Census, sparks NRC prospect for a country of 130 crore people, a majority of whom are young. it hugely benefited the domain appeared sound. Components that fuelled retail inflation to a six-year-high of 7.59 per cent NDA government in The mention of PoK and fears, DC, Feb. 13). in January could have a longer lasting impact than those that stoked infla- winning a second term, its re-integration as the However, it would be tion in December. When inflation hit 7.35 per cent in the previous month Syed Ata Hasnain while diplomatically the remaining agenda, and due to rise in vegetable prices, it was not considered a grave threat, as veg- measured Indian the possible review of ideal if senior govern- etable prices would get corrected quickly after higher production. In response only against India’s “no first use” ment officials, preferably January, though, higher vegetable prices remained the biggest contribu- terror infrastructure nuclear doctrine, suc- the CM himself, had tor; the prices of pulses, meat and fish, eggs, spices, personal care products, and drawdown from ceeded in sending out a transport and communication have spiked by more than six per cent. The escalation helped in message of far bolder announced this as the prices of some of these products may not decline very soon. A hike in the maintaining moral intent. times are very sensitive LNG prices, though its impact on consumers was softened by a higher sub- ascendancy. The Indian The continuum into sidy, would also surely impact the government’s finances. n February notice about the strategy narrative about being 2020 is seeing Pakistan and the atmosphere all The Narendra Modi government should not take the economy for grant- 14, 2019, a sui- underlying the Indian one of the oldest victims psychologically on the over the country is so ed and let politics take it hostage. As rating agency Standard and Poor’s cide car bomb choice of target, just as of trans-national terror backfoot with limited said in its assessment, downward pressure on India’s sovereign credit rat- attack on a in the case of the sur- through the Pakistan- options to re-energise surcharged. ings could emerge if the country’s average economic growth over the next OCRPF convoy face-based surgical sponsored proxy hybrid J&K. Two other factors Abbas A. Tyabji four years falls below the forecasted 7.1 per cent or if the general govern- on the newly-rolled out strikes in September war in J&K was received are adding to the cascad- Hyderabad ment deficit (including the Centre and states) rises or if political develop- highway from Srinagar 2016, was the major much more positively in ing effect of the events of ments undermine the economic reform momentum. Let’s hope that the to Qazigund led to a cat- dilemma it caused to the important capitals 2019; first the Financial Prime Minister is listening. astrophic loss of 40 Pakistani leadership. around the world. Action Task Force GARBAGE CHARGES Indian paramilitary per- The targets were purely Militarily, the Indian (FATF) scrutiny, and sonnel returning from terror-related and Army’s robust response second, the rapidly dete- GHMC officials seem to have no leave. It was the largest despite intense links in South Kashmir riorating economy that control over garbage collection Hafiz: Token step by Pak? loss by a single act in the between the Pakistan helped clean up several was bailed out in 2019 agents (Greater Hyderabad resi- 30-year sponsored proxy Army and the West modules. All this gave through a $6 billion IMF dents are paying twice for n October last year, the Paris-based international anti-terrorism watchdog hybrid conflict in Punjab-based terror the Indian government package. The FATF garbage, DC, Feb. 13). They often Financial Action Task Force (FATF) didn’t blackball Pakistan altogether Kashmir. Following its groups, the Indian the political will and the process is leading to try to extort money from house- Ion the terrorism question, placing Islamabad on its “grey” list for a period well-established policy response did not target confidence to take the Pakistan attempting to holds and don’t turn up if they are of four months. This was leniency being shown since FATF is currently being of strategic denial, any military facility. In next steps in J&K, for showcase how much it not obliged. Complaints posted on chaired by China, Pakistan’s best friend. Pakistan was quick to the case of the 2016 sur- which there had been a has done in dismantling the GHMC app are closed by say- The grey list categorisation meant that the so-called improvement in label the attack a “false gical strikes, Pakistan clamour for long. Early terror financing and ing the garbage is cleared without Islamabad’s attitude on terrorism was being noted, but clearly it was far from flag operation” by India. responded with a denial in its tenure NDA 2.0 sponsorship. with the official concerned reading enough. The improvement essentially lay in the Pakistan government taking The Indian response of any such strike hav- decided to act upon its actions like pursuit of about the same. Even if the com- over scores of seminaries that preach the terrorism gospel. FATF called for had to meet a couple of ing taken place. In the long-prepared strategy the case against Jamaat- plaint is reopened, it meets the further action to show Pakistan's commitment to deal with terror funding and parameters. First, it had case of the Balakot for a political initiative. ud-Dawa chief Hafiz same fate. It is ironic that GHMC money-laundering for terrorist purposes. to begin with an action in strike, it assiduously On August 5, with Saeed. What is working is harassing citizens who are pay- With the four-month grace period ending soon, an anti-terror court in the military domain to launched a disinforma- unprecedented security for Pakistan as a silver ing fixed charges. I hope the Lahore on Wednesday sentenced Hafiz Saeed, founder-chief of Jamaat-ud- meet public sentiments tion campaign that there arrangements in J&K, lining, however, is the GHMC will now clear the air and Dawa, the mother outfit of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, and an associate to 11 years of and political necessity. was no impact of the the special constitution- developing situation in give publicity about the amount rigorous imprisonment on two counts of terror funding and money-launder- This was mandatory airstrike. al provisions for J&K Afghanistan, with a to be paid. Otherwise, people will ing, indicating that it was observing the letter of FATF’s instructions. since a lack of response However, with the con- were legislatively potential agreement throw garbage on the streets. Whether the rigorous imprisonment aspect is observed seriously is moot, con- would run hollow to the firmed entry of the IAF annulled and the admin- between the United Kumar Shastri sidering it is Pakistan, although Saeed has been declared a “global terrorist” strategy the Indian gov- into Pakistani airspace, istrative setup of the States and the Taliban, Moula Ali by the UN and the US. ernment had adopted fol- the Pakistani establish- state restructured to brokered by Pakistan. If With the FATF threat looming, a court has meted out punishment, at least lowing the Uri terror ment was forced to carve out two Union ter- that happens, and what- Most residents and shopkeepers for the record. Years of diplomatic demands by India to proceed against the attack, which led to the respond. The dilemma ritories — Ladakh, and ever be the final long- keep their premises clean by dis- terrorist mastermind over the Mumbai 26/11 attacks of 2008, in which 166 surface-based surgical for Pakistan was the Jammu & Kashmir. A term outcome, Pakistan posing off the garbage in the dust- persons were killed, had produced no results. Extraordinarily, the strikes of September 28, choice of targets. Since second round of diplo- will for some time bins allotted in their respective Pakistani courts always found the evidence insufficient. This time they did- 2016. Second, a diplomatic no sponsored terror macy by India ensured return to favour with areas. However, we often see n’t as a negative FATF recommendation can mean cutting off of aid from initiative was necessary facilities exist in India, that the extraordinary the US. The perilous eco- roadsides and dump yards with international outfits. to neutralise the mount- the choice was limited to initiative was seen inter- nomic situation will nec- huge garbage cans filled up and The chief US diplomat for South and Central Asia, Alice Wells, called the ing Pakistani falsehood the military domain. A nationally as India’s essarily again be bailed not cleared by the GHMC person- decision “a step forward” in combating terror funding. Washington needs to which could run away message to the Pakistan internal affair. The man- out but the risk factor of nel. The GHMC must put up guid- please Islamabad as US negotiations with the Taliban in the Afghanistan con- with the cultivation of its public was necessary agement of the security attempting a transfor- ance, caution and warning text are still to be over. India, for its part, must keep up pressure to get justice narrative among the that an adequate domain was ensured mational revival of tur- notices and penalise careless per- for the victims of Mumbai. international communi- response to the Indian through tough mea- bulence in J&K would sons for a clean and healthy ty. Third, the escalation action had been execut- sures. With preparatory play on both Pakistan Hyderabad. had to be tightly under ed. In the bargain, work having gone into and its chief financial Gudipati Shanti Priya DECCAN CHRONICLE Indian control. In such a Pakistan chose to do a this, the Pakistani capa- supporters. With Secunderabad situation, the politico- sham entry by the bility to calibrate its Afghanistan also in a ADITYA SINHA T. 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eading about the Oscars this before Graydon Carter, then the edi- Gilbert Grape. A year later, I cor- Other sponsors — such as Instagram, movie stars, society scandals and week, I couldn’t help think- tor-in-chief, had managed to enlist nered Jim Carrey in the gents and which used to have a photobooth at true crime — with the mantra of ing back to a time when they the Los Angeles Country Sheriff’s was regaled with a ten-minute rou- the event — have pulled out because “diversity, inclusion and equity”, or Ractually meant something. Department to check everyone’s cre- tine about attending a motivational the party’s become so uncool. For the DIE for short. News-stand sales have When I lived in America in the mid- dentials. He needed to do that, too, seminar for celebrities by Tony exhausted stars — there are more predictably declined. At this year’s 1990s, the Academy Awards were because the party was mobbed by Robbins. To this day, it remains the than 50 comparable parties during shindig, she boasted to a reporter described as “the gay Super Bowl” thousands of wannabes, all claiming only party I’ve attended where peo- Oscars week — it has become a ten- that she’d been working to make it Toby Young which, although it sounded flippant, to be on the guest list. In 1996, by ple stood out for not being celebrities. minute photo-call on their way to one more inclusive. A laudable aim, no acknowledged their cultural signifi- which time I was working at Vanity As I worked the room, some of the of the private bashes hosted by doubt, but hardly the way to attract cance. And judging from the number Fair, an enterprising journalist from most famous people on the planet Madonna or Jay-Z. A-listers. of people who watched them, the the Star supermarket tabloid turned would point at me, saying: “Who the One of the reasons the party has In fairness, Jones is a symptom of Oscars were a big deal. In 1998, the up with a pig on a lead, claiming it hell is that guy?” fallen from grace is because it has the problem, not the cause. The rea- Even Oscars year Titanic won Best Picture, 55 mil- had played the title role in Babe, one Now, it’s basically a Lufthansa air- become so insufferably woke. son the Oscars aren’t what they used lion Americans tuned in. This year, of that year’s Best Picture nominees. port lounge. I haven’t been in more Hollywood celebrities talk a big to be, and the after-parties have lost the Oscars attracted an average of The clipboard-wielding door staff than 20 years, but judging from the game in public, but in private they their lustre, is because the entire 23.6 million viewers, an all-time low. looked a bit sceptical, but decided to reports of the dozens of journalists enjoy letting their hair down. There media-industrial complex has been after-parties Not so much the Super Bowl as give her the benefit of the doubt. who attended this year — no need for used to be scantily clad “cigarette captured by an army of sanctimo- Bristol Rovers vs Southend United If you managed to get in, it really hacks to gatecrash now — it’s a cor- girls” roaming the party and there nious finger-waggers. Being lectured on a rainy Tuesday night. was something. Within minutes of porate snore-fest. The food is provid- was no need to ask where the bath- about the evils of dairy farming by a have now lost The parabolic decline of the Vanity arriving in 1994, I introduced myself ed by In-N-Out Burger, while the rooms were — you just followed the bug-eyed environmental clutching a Fair Oscars party makes for a good to Sharon Stone — then the biggest dancefloor is sponsored by Apple. If trail of white powder. Today, the gold statuette isn’t anyone’s idea of a case study in what has gone wrong. I sex symbol in Hollywood — who you aren’t among the thousands to magazine is edited by Radhika fun night out. The zeitgeist has taken gatecrashed the party in 1994, the promptly palmed me off on Leonardo receive invitations, no need to worry Jones, a former editorial director of up residence elsewhere. their shine first year it was held, by pretending DiCaprio, then aged 19. He’d been — you can livestream the party via the New York Times books depart- to be William Cash, then the Times’s nominated for Best Supporting Actor Verizon, one of several phone com- ment, who has replaced the maga- By arrangement with Los Angeles correspondent. This was for his performance in What’s Eating panies who sponsor it each year. zine’s tried-and-tested formula — the Spectator OPED pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | FRIDAY | 14 FEBRUARY 2020 | HYDERABAD 11 Why is anti-Semitism creeping back in US, Europe?

remained a sentiment in two Sympathy for Jews has By the 1980s the Jewish state some Zionist excesses. their considerable clout on powerful strands. One was the given place to an awe and the international Jewry These excesses are being property transactions. direct Christian prejudice had become so powerful that amplified by Donald Trump’s Properties owned by Jews against Jews in Europe, which for the Jewish state. even “reworking” Shakespeare singularly one-sided support before the war were being suc- Saeed Naqvi climaxed with Hitler in The exceptional became a legitimate interven- for anything that Israel’s cessfully reclaimed by the old Germany. The Islamic con- achievements of tion. Rather than discard the Prime Minister Benjamin owners at throwaway prices. quest of Spain in the eighth Jewish people will Merchant of Venice and select Netanyahu demands. The gen- When a Polish law sought to century had led to the flourish- any one of Shakespeare’s plays eral projection of both as heart- deter these transactions, the Wide Angle ing of a composite culture in always shine through, in 1989, director Sir Peter Hall less bullies automatically US state department inter- which Muslims, Christians but individuals chose to tweak Shakespeare accelerates anti-Semitism. vened. Officials in Washington and Jews contributed in equal are being submerged and impart rationalism to Take the “Deal of the Century”, would keep a watchful eye to had pulled out all my consistently posed the ques- measure. The Reconquista, or in unwholesome Shylock’s character. Dustin Mr Trump’s “two-state peace protect Jewish interests. notes on Arvind tion: Was Shylock a victim or a the return of Christian rule in Hoffman virtually reimagined plan” for the Middle East, that Imagine how the Poles would Kejriwal and his Aam villain? 1478, led to the Spanish Zionist excesses. Shylock, toning down his usu- only the duet and their closest respond to such interference. Aadmi Party machine, A pound of flesh closest to Inquisitions, which were rious rate of interest, thereby supporters were ecstatic about. The rise of anti-migrant, anti- when a mail from Antonio’s heart was what harsher on the Jews than on Sephardic Jew like so many enhancing the sympathy factor There will be a corresponding Semitic leaders in Hungary, Warsaw redirected me Shylock had insisted on in the Muslims. Countries from others in the country who held for the moneylender. A sort of spike in ill-will. Germany, Austria and Poland towards a different event of default. He sought Morocco upto the Ottoman key posts. A mandatory annual Christian ganging up against a Do you think American cam- is a depressing list. By their column. I’ll get back to revenge because he had been Empire accorded hospitality to event was the jamboree hosted hapless “professional” was puses are falling over each behaviour, the Trump- IMr Kejriwal next time. The insulted by the Christians; he the persecuted Jews. by His Majesty for Sephardic played up. Shylock’s tragic end other in adoration for Mr Netanyahu duet have only mail said that creeping anti- had had his “Jewish gabardine” The basic conflict, whether in Jews in the diaspora. This sen- is ironically the heart of the Trump and his buddy after he aggravated the situation. Semitism in Europe and the publicly spat upon. But Northern Europe or in the timental reunion was a contin- play’s mirth. signed an executive order aim- At an international confer- United States was being large- Shylock’s grief reaches epic pro- Iberian Peninsula, was always uation of a medieval tradition. The toning down of the ed at combating anti-Semitism ence in Warsaw last year, ly ignored by the mainstream portions when Christians inflict between Christianity and When 50,000 Jews were Shakespearean prejudice on US college campuses. Israeli foreign minister Yisrael media in those countries. The a nasty bit of “Love Jihad” on Judaism, not the least because expelled from Spain after the against Jews was clearly a “This is our message to uni- Katz accused the Polish leader- mind went back to my school- him — his daughter Jessica Christians blamed Jews for Reconquista, Morocco and function of guilt on account of versities — if you want to ship of anti-Semitism. His lan- days when we became first runs away with Lorenzo, a Christ’s death. What has puz- other North African states had the excesses during the Second accept the federal dollars you guage was unbelievably acquainted with the term anti- Christian. Worse, she runs zled me always is the deafening accorded the new “refugees” World War. The remarkable get each year, you must reject coarse: “Poles suckle anti- Semitism because Mr Rayner, away with his “ducats”, the cur- Jewish-Muslim acrimony. I extraordinary hospitality. rise in anti-Semitism in recent anti-Semitism.” What must Semitism from their mother’s the only teacher who was rency those days. “O’ my daugh- shall never forget the day in Even after Jews from this part decades by comparison leaves students do to become good milk.” How would this out- allowed to smoke in class, took ter; O’ my ducats”. I cannot the Royal Palace in Rabat, of the world had made their one aghast. Sympathy for Jews boys entitled to federal funds? burst have registered with the particular relish from the remember a courtroom with Morocco, when I found myself homes in Israel, they remem- has given place to an awe for Abandon the “Boycott, Divest Primetime TV viewers in predicament of Shylock, the such nail-biting suspense as seated in the office of Andre bered how well Morocco had the Jewish state. The excep- and Sanction Israel move- Poland? Jewish moneylender who is when Portia saves Antonio Azoulay, the late King Hasan’s treated them. I have seen pho- tional achievements of Jewish ment”, which has been popular the central figure in William from Shylock’s blade. principal adviser. He was the tographs of King Hasan domi- people will always shine on campuses. The writer is a senior Shakespeare’s Merchant of Anti-Semitism, from much second most powerful man in nate Sephardic drawing rooms through, but individuals are Jewish lobbies in Poland, for journalist and commentator Venice, which he taught. He before Elizabethan times, the kingdom. He was a in Jerusalem. being submerged in unwhole- example, were bringing to bear based in New Delhi Schools of terror: How prisons fuel Ship with coronavirus on board has turned radicalism, create new extremists into a floating prison

We must deal with Now, I’m not so sure. We the start of their custody to things as they are. need secure and stable prisons their resettlement in the com- Ian Acheson that are fully in the control of munity. Rafia Zakaria We need a framework the state: and too many pris- All the various arrange- for sentencing and ons now fail this test. We can- ments for the supervision of releasing prisoners not have environments where terrorist offenders “in the and this is in progress. people like Usman Khan and community” (i.e. outside of Sudesh Amman degenerate prison) use structures and ometimes it appears huge unmet needs with mental The quantity of years into killing machines. We agencies that are philosophi- t appears to be a scene ple reported to be infected are as if, over the past 10 health problems. Finally, given to an extremist can’t tolerate a system where cally and organisationally from a film. A large ship crew members. years, the British charismatic hate preachers is less important than the sole product of their time unsuitable for the manage- docked at a faraway har- It is a sad illustration of the government has been are in close proximity to cred- the quality of behind bars is the dehumani- ment of this threat. There Ibour enveloped in grey cruelty of class systems. The Sactively trying to ulous, violent, addicted young the incarceration. sation of themselves and oth- should be one terrorist prison- mist. There are more than crew, most of them from the destroy the whole criminal men in search of meaning and ers. It is increasingly hard to er management service, cov- 3,700 people on the ship, a Philippines and India, prepare justice system. It’s like an evil excitement. make the case for a “good ering individualised treat- thousand of them crew mem- and deliver the three meals that experiment: impose a 20 per The details of Amman’s documentary showed, it needs prison” that puts brawlers and ment programmes, risk bers working hard below each passenger is allotted per cent cut in the prisons budget, incarceration and early life the full attention of staff to gangsters up in close proximi- assessment, release decisions decks and the passenger state- day to their rooms so that the meaning a 26 per cent reduc- are slowly emerging and they struggle to contain 68 street ty to death cultists. and resettlement supervision. rooms. Yet, while the ship is passengers remain sequestered tion in the number of opera- suggest a loner and a misfit, gangs and entrenched use of What would a terrorist People who go into the streets docked, no one is permitted to (as per the instructions of tional frontline staff — then infatuated with death, who psychoactive drugs. prison look like? There are and stab strangers with get off except those who have Japanese authorities). On sit back and see what hap- was eager for martyrdom to Who the hell would work in plenty of examples around the impunity are in no conven- already been stricken. To Sunday, an Indian crew mem- pens. What happened was pre- make sense of a failed and a place like this? Good ques- world to draw from. Many tional way rational. So we retrieve them, health workers ber (there are hundreds of dictable, with disastrous con- futile existence. This is a tion. While the gigantic aren’t good. The main argu- need to step up the surveil- arrive fully suited in white them) recorded a video that sequences for both inmates depressingly familiar profile Grayling-sized hole in the ment for dispersing terrorist lance, treatment and protec- hazard protective gear. A quickly went viral. In the video, and the public. As a previous for lone actor terrorists the staff bucket has lately started prisoners across a number of tion of those whose psycholog- makeshift decontamination he begs the Indian government Conservative home secretary world over, and it is often asso- to fill with emergency recruit- reinforced prisons (as we cur- ical disorders may predispose chamber sprays both patients to rescue the Indian citizens on once said, Britain’s prisons ciated with mental illness. ment of new staff, they emerge rently do) is that this reduces them to strike. No more and health workers as they the ship. Otherwise, he says, became places that “make bad And this matters. The relation- from one of the shortest train- the potency and capability of generic, psychosocial inter- emerge from the ship. the virus that is spreading its people worse”. ship between mental or devel- ing courses in Europe to work the most dangerous. But dis- ventions invented by well- Everyone else must stay on tentacles ever deeper into the Imagine a young man like opmental disorders and terror- in one of the most hostile persal was designed to deal meaning professionals. board, where they have been ship will also claim them. Sudesh Amman arriving in ism is frequently drowned out environments outside a war with serious organised crime And finally: you can’t defeat confined since February 5. There are moral dilemmas prison after his first offence. — either by commentators zone. An Afghan veteran syndicates, not networked Islamism without Islam. We This is the very real story of here. How long should the He was already a drug user, who see conspiracy to obscure prison officer recently said 21st-century jihadists with need an urgent step change in the Diamond Princess, part of thousands on the Diamond known to have a cannabis the ideological origins of the that he had felt safer in hinterlands of supporters in the recruitment, deployment the Princess Cruises Line, Princess, or for that matter the habit. He was mentally unsta- crime, or by those who fear all Helmand. Little wonder then, each of the six prisons they and involvement of moderate which has been docked at millions in Wuhan, be quaran- ble and radicalised by Islamist mentally ill people will get that on the latest figures, over are likely to end up in. and modern Islamic scholars Yokohama harbour in Japan tined for? Is it humane to make propaganda. He entered a labelled as dangerous. half of all prison officers Metastasising the cancer of to take on this fight. Indeed, for the past week. The ship, a random sample of human prison that’s usually over- Such concerns are under- hanging up their keys have violent extremism across our we need to seek the support of which was quarantined after it beings, rendered unfortunate crowded, frequently filthy and standable — but those killed less than two years’ service. prison system doesn’t seem to communities when terrorists was discovered that a passen- through chance and circum- with too few staff struggling by insane terrorists are just When stacking shelves pays be the right response to a are released from prisons, ger who had boarded it at an stance and having to bear the just to keep people alive as dead as those dispatched by more than being the state’s movement whose modus working in partnership with earlier port had been diagnosed cost of ensuring that humanity (themselves included) from “rational” killers. Amman’s punchbag, it’s not hard to operandi is global revolution the various protective ser- with the novel coronavirus, remains relatively safe? one end of the day to the other. former cell mate at HMP understand why. through recruitment of new vices. It needs to be a joint has the highest number of con- Currently, the answer seems Inside, all of his problems are Belmarsh has described him When I wrote my review of blood. effort. firmed cases for a single loca- yes. Videos emerging from not addressed but exacerbated. as someone who was “defi- Islamist extremism in the But in the current environ- What of those who can’t (or tion outside of China. Wuhan, where many have lit- In most prisons there’s a ram- nitely insane and he never hid criminal justice system in ment, it’s unlikely we will won’t) surrender ideas that According to the latest count, erally been locked into their pant drugs economy that his intentions, so it’s crazy 2016, my team and I were move to jihadi jails anytime are completely antithetical to 136 passengers have been found houses (padlocks installed out- destroys lives and drives how he even got out of jail”. unanimous that a prison sole- soon. In the meantime we our national values, even to to have the coronavirus. side by the police) show that much of the violence. It makes Amman’s mother has ly for terrorists was not the must deal with things as they what it is to be human? We According to Japanese health authorities have to use the task of reforming offenders claimed that her son was answer to the threat we iden- are. We need a framework for must find ways to keep the authorities, the passengers will increasingly severe measures near impossible. The money to effectively brainwashed by tified. We took the view that sentencing and releasing pris- door open for them to change. be allowed to leave at the end of to maintain the quarantine. be made from drugs inside is material he viewed online in the only extremists who oners and this is in progress. We’ve no clear idea about the the two-week quarantine peri- The situation on the ship is extraordinary. The predators prison. It’s still possible to be should be separated were the The quantity of years given to relationship between time od on February 19, barring any calmer, but one wonders can access their customer base astonished at this. HMP hate preachers: those likely to an extremist is less important and desistence for this new “special circumstances”. whether it will continue to be without leaving their cells. Belmarsh is a relatively mod- inspire others with extreme than the quality of the incar- generation of terrorists. But There may well be “special so in the event that the passen- Mobile phones actually ern high-security prison hous- ideology. We recommended ceration. Of the 82,000-odd let’s be straight: that open circumstances”. Experts have gers learn they will not be leav- designed and sold for their ing a number of terrorists. It they should be cut off from prisoners, only about 220 are door needs to be behind high expressed concerns that the ing the vessel on February 19. ability to be stored where the has a permanent presence of their targets for as long as terrorists, with hundreds walls and in the confines of virus can spread even from In the meantime, the rest of sun don’t shine have handy counter-terrorism officers they persisted in their activi- more screened after being prison custody. If necessary: asymptomatic individuals dur- us who are lucky enough not to apps to transfer the cash to the within its security and intelli- ties. We were mindful of the deemed at risk of radicalisa- for ever. ing its incubation period. have the virus or face the quar- dealers. It’s also convenient gence department. It is rela- lessons from the past from tion. We need to be more Allowing the passengers and antine should take a moment for the dealers that many of tively well-resourced. But as Northern Ireland, but not assertive in managing the By arrangement with crew to disembark and catch a to consider those in such diffi- the captive consumers have ITV’s Welcome to Belmarsh hamstrung by them. challenge they pose — from the Spectator plane to their homes in cult circumstances. How Australia, Canada, the US and would one pass the endless many other countries might stretches of time; how would mean that anyone who may one prevent a psychological 50 YEARS AGO IN have the virus could carry it to breakdown; who would one Silence is a route towards God their countries. wish to be quarantined with For all of these reasons, the were such a situation to arise? 3,700-plus people remain on These are useful mind experi- the ship. A cruise ship that ments; more practical ones For the spiritual person who alone that a person becomes was supposed to be a vacation include the procurement of has known the touch of God, aware of one’s self and the destination has become a float- face masks, disinfectant and silence and God problems that lie in BKD-Congress (R) ing prison. According to hand sanitiser (which are seem to be identi- there, to uproot caus- accord on ministry tweets and other reports, life manufactured in China and Dominic Emmanuel fied”. Again es of unhappiness on the ship is achingly boring likely to face shortages in the Robert Cardinal and turmoil in the LUCKNOW, FEB. 13. and tedious. Even the best coming days). Sarah in his book subconscious.No The Ruling Congress in Uttar rooms are small, although pas- Meanwhile, the Diamond co-authored with wonder then that Pradesh succeeded in their sengers staying in these rooms Princess remains docked at Nicolas Diat, “The Jesus, despite being efforts to reach an under- at least have access to a bal- Yokohama harbour, taking Power of Silence”, busy teaching and standing with the BKD on the cony and hence fresh air. periodic journeys out to sea so says, “At the heart healing people was formation of a Government in Those who have paid less are it can dispose of the waste- n a world that is getting requirement of these places, of man there is an found “escaping” the State. in interior rooms that have no water that the ship is produc- noisier by the day, surrounded by beautiful innate silence, for God abides into a quiet place to com- Mr. Charan Singh, BKD leader windows at all. In these rooms, ing. As it does so, one cannot including the “silent nature, is strict silence. in the innermost part of mune with God. Practice of and Mr. D.P. Mishra of the it is impossible to tell day from help but wonder if the planet Isound” of the social Small signboards on path- every person. God is silence, such silence would be an Ruling Congress announced night, all of them melding into we live on, one which is afflict- media, the modern person is ways keep reinforcing it. The and this divine silence dwells appropriate preparation to simultaneously tonight that one long, interminable stretch. ed with this disease, is not sim- losing a sense of silence and only sound that one hears, in man. In God we are insepa- enter into the eternal silence “complete accord” had been If the situation for the pas- ply a larger version of the by extension, a sense of the besides the sound of prayer rably bound up with silence. when we breathe our last and reached between the two par- sengers is bad, that of the crew Diamond Princess, some of us divine. Can one really con- and singing of hymns, is that The Church can affirm that be united with God, whose ties in the formation of a who continue to work non-stop more adept than others at nect one’s spirit with that of of birds chirping. It is the mankind is the daughter of a language is silence. Government. below decks is even worse. passing the time until the God’s in a deafening market- peacocks’ scream that wake silent God…”. While the terms of the agree- According to the New York virus takes us. The lucky and place? us up by four in the morning. While mystics and saints Father Dominic ment between the two parties Times, at least two crewmem- the unlucky, the healthy and I have been privileged to In his book, “I want to see emphasise the importance of Emmanuel, have not been made known so bers are assigned to each one the diseased, the poor and the spend the last few weeks at God”, Rev. Marie Eugene silence in one’s search for a founder-member of the far, it is understood that the of the tiny cabins that function rich — all float together until some spiritual centres and writes, “God speaks in God, modern day psycholo- Parliament of Religions, Ruling Congress has, for the as their living space. Three, the arrival of some unforeseen will do so in the next two silence, and silence alone gists suggest silence even as can be contacted at present “agreed to support a sometimes four, people have to end. months too. The basic seems able to express Him. therapy. For, it is in silence [email protected] BKD government headed by share a bathroom. It is no sur- Mr. Charan Singh. prise that at least 10 of the peo- By arrangement with Dawn WORLD pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | 14 FEBRUARY 2020 12

IN BRIEF Haftar forces Senate vote to rein in Prez Super Tuesday: ban UN flights Use of forces against Iran only if Congress okays: Resolution Poll in 12 states United Nations: Eastern Libyan forces have said they Washington, Feb. 13: Washington, Feb. 13: would not allow the United The US Senate is schedul- Nevada votes next and PREZ PRIMARIES Nations to use the only func- ed to vote Thursday on a then South Carolina. But tioning airport in the capital resolution calling for Pr- top Democrats vying for ● Alabama. Tripoli, hours after the UN esident Donald Trump to their party’s presidential Security Council passed a res- “terminate the use of US nomination are already ● Arkansas. olution demanding the war- Armed Forces for hostili- looking ahead to the big- ring parties commit to a “last- ties against Iran” unless gest prize on the primary ● California. ing ceasefire”. The self-styled those actions are autho- calendar: Super Tuesday, ● Libya National Army (LNA) rised by Congress. the slate of contests when Colorado. led by renegade military com- Trump rejects the meas- more than a dozen states ● mander Khalifa Haftar has ure, arguing it would be go to the polls. Democrats Abroad. been trying to capture the dangerous to limit his Senator Elizabeth War- ● Maine. capital city from the interna- war-making power, and ren is holding a town hall tionally recognised govern- ahead of the vote he urged on Thursday night in the ● Massachusetts. ment since April. The UN ear- the Republican-majority Washington suburb of lier warned flight restrictions Senate to oppose it. Arlington, Virginia, a day ● Minnesota. were hampering humanitarian “It is very important for before Senator Bernie Sa- and mediation efforts in the our Country’s SECURITY nders makes two North ● North Carolina. oil-producing country emb- that the United States Sen- Carolina stops, then hits roiled in a conflict between ate not vote for the Iran Texas. ● Oklahoma. loose alliances from western War Powers Resolution,” Pete Buttigieg, the for- and eastern Libya since 2014. Trump said on Twitter. mer mayor of South ● Tennessee. The LNA, which is backed by “We are doing very well Bend, Indiana, will camp- Egypt and the United Arab with Iran and this is not aign in California betwe- ● Texas. Emirates, has been trying the time to show weakne- en fundraisers in San Fr- since last April to take Tripoli ss.” Trump tweeted, “Ame- ancisco and Silicon Vall- ● Utah. but has failed to breach the ricans overwhelmingly ey. All four states vote Ma- ● city’s defences. support our attack” on Ir- rch 3, along with a crush Vermont. anian Gen. Qassem Solei- President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania with Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno and his wife Rocio of others, from Alabama ● mani, killed in a Trump- Gonzalez at the White House, Washington. — AP to Colorado and from Ma- Virginia. Sudan deal with ordered drone strike last ine to Utah, as well as Wa- month at the Baghdad air- Kaine, the resolution’s sp- rren’s home state of Mas- USS Cole victims port. “If my hands were onsor, told the Senate: sachusetts and Sanders’ a signal that they are still tied, Iran would have a “The resolution before the Pro-Prez group raises $60m native Vermont. More in the fight. Khartoum: Sudan’s transition- field day,” he said. “Sends body today is about Cong- than 1,300 delegates to the And for everyone, it’s a al government said Thursday a very bad signal. The De- ress reclaiming its rightf- Washington, Feb. 13: tees. The RNC and the Tr- paign manager, Brad Pars- Democratic National Co- chance to prove they wo- it has reached a settlement mocrats are only doing ul role in decisions about Pro-Trump groups raised ump campaign provided cale, said Democrats’ “sh- nvention are at stake, n’t cede this swath of del- with families of the victims of this as an attempt to emb- war. The resolution is pre- more than $60 million in the figures to The Associa- ameful impeachment hoax about a third of the total. egate-rich states to Mich- the 2000 attack on USS Cole arrass the Republican Pa- tty simple. We should not January and have more ted Press. The January and dumpster fire prima- The focus on Super Tue- ael Bloomberg, the billio- in Yemen, in a bid to have the rty. Don’t let it happen!” be at war with Iran, unle- than $200 million on hand haul coincided with most ry process” have contribu- sday comes at a pivotal naire former New York African country taken off the Senators will vote on the ss Congress votes to auth- for this year’s general of the Senate’s impeachm- ted to the “record-breaki- point in the campaign. mayor who has spent mo- U.S. terrorism list and improve resolution with the possi- orise such a war.” He add- election, shattering fundr- ent trial, which resulted in ng financial support” for For Sanders and Buttigi- nths building his campa- relations with the West. bility that five Republica- ed, “While the president aising records on the path the Republican president’s Trump’s reelection. eg, who have emerged in ign around Super Tuesd- The settlement is the latest ns will join the 47 Democr- must always have the abil- toward a goal of raising $1 acquittal earlier this mon- “With Trump’s accom- strong positions after co- ay. He campaigned in Ten- step from Khartoum to end its ats in the 100-member cha- ity to defend the United billion this cycle. th. RNC Chairwoman Ron- plishments, our massive ntests in Iowa and in New nessee on Wednesday and international pariah status. mber to approve the meas- States from imminent att- The Republican National na McDaniel said, “We alr- data and ground oper- Hampshire, the travel gi- will be in Texas and Nor- Earlier this week, Sudan’s pro- ure. It is certain to face a ack, the executive power Committee and President eady have 500,000 volunte- ations and our strong fun- ves them an opportunity th Carolina on Thursday. visional rulers said they had Trump veto, with support- to initiate war stops there. Donald Trump’s campaign ers trained and activated, draising numbers,” Pars- to show their national ap- “All bets are off this agreed to hand over longtime ers of the resolution unli- An offensive war requires have raised more than and this record-breaking cale said, “this campaign peal and woo larger conc- cycle,” said Texas De- autocrat Omar al-Bashir to kely to muster a two-thi- a congressional debate $525 million since the start support is helping us grow is going to be unstoppable entrations of nonwhite mocratic strategist Colin the International Criminal rds vote to override it. and vote.” — Agencies of 2019 together with two our grassroots army even in 2020”. voters. For struggling ca- Strother. Court to face trial on charges Democratic Senator Tim joint-fundraising commit- more.” Trump’s 2020 cam- — AP ndidates like Warren, it’s — AP of war crimes and genocide during the fighting in the western Darfur region. Also, US CARRIES OUT Sudan’s interim leader, Gen. Terminal 21 inauguration Abdel-Fattah Burhan, earlier Treason: Mush AIR STRIKE IN this month met in Uganda with Israeli Prime Minister SYRIA, 1 KILLED Benjamin Netanyahu, who announced that Israel and takes on Pak SC Syria, Feb. 13: US war- Sudan would normalize rela- planes carried out at tions after decades of enmity. Islamabad, Feb. 13: least one airstrike in Pakistan’s self-exiled for- Syria’s northeast Hasa- mer dictator Pervez Mus- kah region. The airstrike Funding: Harvard, harraf on Thursday chal- reportedly comes after lenged the Supreme Court an incident at a check- Yale under probe Registrar’s decision of point where US soldiers refusing to entertain his allegedly killed one civil- Washington: The U.S. Depar- appeal against the special ian. The incident serves tment of Education says it is court sentencing him to to highlight the complex opening an investigation of death for high treason, situation in Syria, with Yale and Harvard universities according to a media the Assad regime and for failing to disclose hun- report. Musharraf filed Russian forces battling to dreds of millions of dollars in the petition against the reclaim Idlib. However, gifts and contracts from for- special court’s decision Pervez Musharraf Turkey’s state-owned ne- eign donors. The two Ivy Le- despite his death penalty ws agency named Anad- ague schools have been sin- was quashed by the La- olu declared that there gled out in a federal crack- hore High Court (LHC) on BILAWAL APPEARS were two airstrikes. down on institutions of higher January 13, the Express TV footage aired on learning for allegedly not rep- Tribune reported. The BEFORE NAB Syrian channels displays orting foreign donations of special court in Islam- residents responding to more than $250,000, as req- abad on December 17 last SHAFQAT ALI | DC United States troops uired by law under Section handed down the death ISLAMABAD, FEB. 13 along with a man con- 117 of the Higher Education penalty to the 74-year-old fronting American sol- Act. The Department of retired general, now ba- Pakistan People’s Party diers and requesting Education said Yale failed to sed in Dubai, after six (PPP) chief Bilawal them to leave the village. disclosed a total of $375 mil- years of hearing a high- Bhutto Thursday appe- The US-led coalition lion in foreign money and profile treason case aga- ared before the National fighting the Islamic State that it was concerned that inst him. Accountability Bureau Buddhist monks during a ceremony to reopen the Terminal 21 shopping mall at Nakhon Ratchasima in Thailand on has said that its troops Harvard may not have fully The Pakistan Muslim (NAB) Rawalpindi in the Thursday. —AP opened fire after they complied with reporting League-Nawaz govt led by JV (Joint Venture) Opal came in contact with hos- requirements. “This is about former PM Nawaz Sharif case. The anti-graft body tile forces, though the transparency,” Secretary of had filed the treason case handed over a question- coalition statement has Education Betsy DeVos said against the former army naire comprising 32 que- made no reference to any in the statement. “If colleges chief in 2013 over the stions to the PPP chair- Pak Taliban leader killed in blast airstrike in the region. and universities are accepting imposition of an extra- man and summoned Providing a succinct foreign money and gifts, their constitutional emergency reply within two weeks. summation of the com- students, donors, and taxpay- in Nov. 2007, which led to According to details, Peshawar, Feb. 13: A ■ SHEHARYAR was not immediately clear — is widely believed to plex political reality of ers deserve to know how the confinement of a Bilawal Bhutto recorded senior Pakistani Taliban who was behind the back the bloody insur- Syria is the regime of much and from whom.” number of superior court his statement before a commander was killed by MEHSUD, chief of a killings. They have come gency in Afghanistan. President Bashar al- judges in their houses four-member team head- a bomb in eastern militant faction as the US and the Afghan Islamabad denies the Assad, who has found and sacking of over 100 ed by Director General Afghanistan, militant and which is part of the Taliban — which is sepa- accusation. itself in disputes with judges. However, last mo- NAB Rawalpindi Irfan intelligence sources said umbrella TTP, was rate from the TTP — Pakistan has been bat- both the United States 75 YEARS OF nth Musharraf ’s trial in Naeem Mangi. He was on Thursday, the latest appear close to a break- tling a homegrown Isla- and Turkey. Such is the the high treason case was inquired whether he is such incident to target the the target of the through on a deal for an mist insurgency for over a drive of the Syrian auto- declared as “unconstitu- the director of the Zar- group in recent days. remote-controlled American troop with- decade, with thousands of crat who wishes to DRESDEN tional” by the LHC, lead- dari Group of Comp- Sheharyar Mehsud, blast. drawal from Afghanistan. civilians and security per- restore draconic Power ing to the annulment of anies. Bilawal Bhutto chief of a militant faction Islamabad has helped to sonnel dying in extremist and control over all of the death sentence agai- insisted to submit writ- which is part of the um- facilitate the gruelling attacks, especially after Syria. BOMBING nst the former president. ten replies of various brella Tehreek-e-Taliban the incident said Mehsud talks, which have stretc- the TTP began their cam- Dresen (Germany), Feb. 13: The LHC declared that questions. He was handed Pakistan (TTP, or Paki- had fled to Afghanistan in hed over more than a year. paign of violence in 2007. Germany’s president is leading the formation of the spe- over a questionnaire stani Taliban), was the 2016. The blast comes Pakistan was one of only But overall levels of extre- commemorations Thursday cial court was “unconsti- afterwards. The PPP cha- target of the remote-con- nearly two weeks after three countries to recog- mist-linked violence have marking the 75th anniversary tutional” and that the irman talked to reporters trolled blast in Kunar two other key TTP leaders nise the Afghan Taliban dropped dramatically in of Dresden’s bombing by allied treason case against after appearing before province, a TTP com- —Khalid Haqqani and regime, and its shadowy recent years, with 2019 forces at the end of World War Musharraf was not pre- the NAB and said he is mander in Pakistan said. Qari Saifullah Peshawari military establishment — seeing the fewest deaths II, an event that has become a pared in accordance with being politically victim- A Pakistani intelligence — were killed in a clash particularly the Inter- since 2007 —the year the test for the way the country the law. —PTI ized. —PTI official who confirmed with security forces. It Services Intelligence (ISI) TTP was formed. —AFP Representation only handles its Nazi past. Historians say up to 25,000 people perished during the ■ three-day bombardment from COSTLY | RENOVATION Roof & dials destroyed in May 1941 air raid, repair bill increases by millions of pounds February 13-15, 1945, by Ame- rican and British planes. That is comparable to the death toll in other large German cities. But the man-made firestorm, Nazi bombs damaged Big Ben more than thought vividly captured by American author Kurt Vonnegut in his London, Feb. 13: The bill ■ IAN AILLES, director-general of the House added. book “Slaughterhouse Five,” to repair London’s iconic The work is to repair the and the destruction of large Big Ben clock tower has of Commons, said the task of restoring the clock faces and mecha- parts of the baroque city have increased by millions of Elizabeth Tower “had been more complex nism, cracks in the tower’s become a rallying point for pounds after the discovery than we could have anticipated”. masonry and corrosion in those seeking to portray of World War II bomb the roof, as well as to Germans as victims in the war. damage, pollution and restore the edging around The myth that as many as half asbestos, Britain’s parlia- the clock faces to its origi- a million civilians were killed ment said Thursday. first time ever on the 177- Commons, said the task of nal 19th-century colour. in the bombing has been pro- The cost of renovating year-old structure. How- restoring the Elizabeth A lift will also be moted by far-right activists for the Elizabeth Tower hous- ever, the efforts to restore Tower “had been more installed as an alternative decades. Most recently their ing the famous clock, the tower “to its previous complex than we could to the steps up the tower, case has been taken up by mem- which began in 2017, is splendour” remain on tra- have anticipated”. and the lights illuminating bers of the nationalist Alterna- now set to rise to nearly ck for completion in late “With a 12m square (130 the clock will be replaced tive for Germany party, which GBP 80 million ($104 mil- 2021, according to officials. square feet) footprint and by low-energy LEDs. The has grown into a significant lion, 95 million euros). A spokesperson for the a prime location right in renovations have meant force in German politics since The extensive damage House of Commons Com- the middle of a busy work- Big Ben — whose chimes its founding seven years ago. requiring an extra GBP mission, which is oversee- ing Parliament, under- feature on British televi- The party, which goes by the 18.6 million was only ing the project, called the standing the full extent of sion and radio news bul- German acronym AfD, has revealed once the project spiralling costs “very frus- the damage to the tower letins — has been largely moved steadily to the right over team was able to begin trating”. Ian Ailles, direc- was impossible until the silent since 2017. the years. Picture for representation. intrusive surveys for the tor general of the House of scaffolding was up,” he — AFP WORLD pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | 14 FEBRUARY 2020 13

IN BRIEF Bezos sets record 254: China’s highest single day deaths $165m home buy Authorities adopt a new diagnosis method after fatalities from the deadly coronavirus reach 1,367 San Francisco: Billionaire Amazon chief Jeff Bezos has Beijing/Wuhan, Feb. 13: JAPAN WOMAN WITH purchased a Los Angeles- China on Thursday repor- area estate for $165 million, ted 254 fatalities from the setting a new record for the coronavirus outbreak — VIRUS DIES AS CRUISE region, The Wall Street Jo- the highest in a single day urnal reported on Wedn- and double than the previ- SHIP CASES SOAR esday. Bezos bought the ous record high — taking Warner Estate from media the toll to 1,367, as author- Yokohama, Feb. 13: Jap- mogul David Geffen, accord- ities adopted a new diag- an on Thursday reported ing to the Journal. It said the nosis method amid con- the first death of a person deal topped a Los Angeles- cerns that the crisis is no- infected with novel coron- area home price record set where near slowing down avirus, as the number of last year when Lachlan Mur- contrary to official projec- cases on a quarantined cr- doch paid around $150 mil- tions. China’s central Hu- uise ship offshore soared lion for a Bel-Air estate seen bei province, the epicentre over 200. in “The Beverly Hillbillies,” a of the virus outbreak, re- The woman in her 80s 1960s television show. The ported 242 deaths and nea- was tested for the virus af- Warner Estate spans nine a- rly 15,000 fresh cases on ter being hospitalised, cres (3.6 hectares) in Beverly Wednesday, said Mi Feng, and was confirmed positi- Hills. It is a Georgian-style a spokesperson with the ve after her death, Health compound with a floor once National Health Commis- Minister Katsunobu Kato owned by Napoleon, guest sion. Twelve fatalities told a news briefing. How- houses, a tennis court, and a came from other provinc- ever, it was not clear if the nine-hole golf course. es, including two in Hen- virus or other complica- an, and one in Tianjin, tions had caused her dea- Hebei, Liaoning, Heilongj- th, Kato warned. “The Mars: Salt water iang, Anhui, Shandong, relationship between the Guangdong, Guangxi, Hai- new coronavirus and the may form annually nan, and the Xinjiang Pro- death of the person is still duction and Construction unclear.” In addition to Washington: Salt water may Corps, respectively. the cases on the ship and form on the surface of Mars The total deaths from the a quarantine officer, Jap- for a few days annually, more than two-month-old an has confirmed 28 other according to a study. Rese- virus outbreak as report- infections — mostly am- archers at the Planetary ed on Thursday stood at ong evacuees from Hubei. Science Institute in the US 1,367, with the total numb- The Diamond Princess noted that liquid water is dif- er of confirmed cases mo- cruise ship off Yokohama ficult to come by on the Red unting to 59,804, health of- has become the single Planet, because ice rapidly ficials were quoted as say- largest cluster of cases dissipates into the atmos- ing by the state-run Xin- outside China, with 218 phere long before it reaches hua news agency. The Ph- testing positive for the its melting point. This is ilippines reported the first COVID-19 virus. — AFP because the atmospheric death outside China from Masked passengers are seen on the deck of the Diamond Princess docked at Yokohama port, near Tokyo, on Thursday. — AP pressure on Mars lies near the virus. So far 445 cases the triple point pressure of have been reported from ● China’s central Hubei water molecules (H2O), the about 26 countries includ- province reported 242 minimum pressure necessary ing three from India. deaths and nearly for liquid water to exist, they Beijing mobilises masses in people’s fight said. “Mars has plenty of cold 2 officials replaced 15,000 fresh cases. ice-rich regions and plenty of Amid growing public ang- ● Beijing, Feb. 13: Banners She said she follows the warm ice-free regions, but er over the handling of the The total number of rallying the nation behind INDIAN AND PAKISTANI STUDENTS IN WUHAN PANIC directives of the neigh- icy regions where the tem- crisis, the ruling Commu- confirmed cases a cause and panicked citi- bourhood committee -- perature rises above the nist Party of China repla- mounted to 59,804. zens who hide in their Beijing, Feb. 13: Indian made desperate pleas to stan government came un- which enforce the orders melting point are a sweet sp- ced two high-ranking offi- homes and report on each and Pakistani students in the Indian government to der heavy criticism for not of the ruling Communist ot that is nearly impossible cials in Hubei province, ● So far 445 cases other: China's Communist China’s Hubei province, evacuate them after the evacuating them. A numb- Party -- to the letter. to find,” said Norbert Scho- where coronavirus first have been reported Party has deployed an old the epicentre of the coron- university announced pla- er of Pakistani students They have been the ones rghofer, a senior scientist at emerged in late December from about 26 coun- toolkit to battle a new avirus outbreak, have ns to convert the gym into too have complained that applying discipline Planetary Science Institute. in provincial capital Wu- enemy. Authorities have made desperate pleas to a hospital. India has alre- the dormitories are being around registration and han. Xinhua reported that tries, including three tapped their propaganda their governments to evac- ady evacuated 647 Indian converted into hospitals self-quarantine for people former Shanghai Mayor from India. powers to wage what uate them after Chinese nationals, mostly students with virus patients. Pakis- returning from hard-hit Ying Yong, 61, a close ally President Xi Jinping has officials decided to con- from Wuhan and Hubei. tani daily Dawn reported areas. But she admits that OXFORD AMENDS of President Xi Jinping, dubbed a "people's war" vert their university gym- Ten Indians could not boa- Prime Minister Imran amid the constant messag- has been appointed as the ■ “NOW WE need to against the new coron- nasiums and dormitories rd the two special flights Khan on Wednesday direc- ing from the government, new Hubei party secreta- avirus that has killed into makeshift hospitals due to fever. Indian officia- ting the Foreign Office to she is now "terrified" ‘YID’ TO INCLUDE ry, replacing Jiang Chaol- cooperate as requir- more than 1,300 people and amid a big surge in infec- ls say 80 to 100 Indians are take every possible step to about the virus. iang. The leader of Wuhan ed. Our whole Wuh- infected nearly 60,000. tion cases. still left in the area. help Pakistani students Outside her residence, a city, Ma Guoqiang, 56, has an, it’s a ‘War’ peri- Xi has paid tribute to Three Indian students About 1,000 Pakistani st- stuck in novel coronavirus banner with large white SPURS FANS been replaced by Wang Zh- "comrades... on the front- studying at Hubei Unive- udents are currently in (NCV)-hit Wuhan city of characters on a red back- London, Feb. 13: The Oxford onglin, 57, the party secre- od. Hope everyone line" while state media has rsity of Chinese Medicine Hubei province. The Paki- China. — PTI ground has been hung, English Dictionary has updat- tary of Shandong’s provi- understands. And, heralded the importance calling for the epidemic to ed its definition of the word ncial capital Jinan. Jiang, knows the situati- of patriotism in tackling be brought under control. “Yid” to include “a supporter 61, is the highest-ranking on,” says a Hubei the outbreak in a cam- mobilise the masses. Beijing since January 23. go out, so I'm not going "Track, alert, isolate and of or player for Tottenham political casualty so far in paign reminiscent of Zhao Yiling has not left "The committee said you out. I obey," said the 57- treat as quickly as possi- Hotspur Football Club”, pub- the virus outbreak. — PTI University notice Chairman Mao's cries to her apartment in eastern have to be patient and not year-old housewife. ble," it reads. — AFP lishers announced Wednesday. The word has often been deployed as a term of abuse against Jews but a section of Spurs’ support has taken to using it in terrace chants. Virus cannot pass from Fear more harmful than the virus North London club Tottenham have traditionally drawn a sig- Beijing, Feb. 13: Even as from its head office on nificant number of fans from the number of new coron- Wednesday after a con- the area’s local Jewish commu- pregnant mom to baby avirus cases being detect- firmed coronavirus case nity and this has led to ed each day are dropping, in the building, according anti-Semitic abuse from Beijing, Feb.13: Resea- ■ fears over the outbreak to sources. rival teams. rchers have found that the European Union health ministers agreed refuse to cease. The viral Emphaising his adminis- The OED, regarded as the deadly coronavirus dis- to boost preparations and organise a coordi- infection has so far killed tration’s preparedness to leading dictionary of British ease (COVID-19) cannot be nated response to prevent the virus that over 1,100 people in China deal with cases, Lee English, has also added the passed from mother to emerged in China, from further spreading — the epicentre of the out- appealed to citizens to closely related word “Yiddo” child late in pregnancy, a break — with 97 more remain calm and not give among a number of changes study has revealed. across Europe. deaths recorded Wedn- in to rumour-mongering. and new entries made in According to the study, ■ “Fragmentation of effort will make us esday. Despite the death “Having overcome SARS January. published in the journal toll, the novel coronavirus once, we know that we can The dictionary’s publisher, The Lancet, there is cur- all collectively more vulnerable. Unity on epidemic, later renamed pull through this too,” he the Oxford University Press rently no evidence that our part would also support China’s efforts by the WHO as COVID-19, says in the video in a com- (OUP), said in a statement the COVID-19 causes to contain the virus, and mitigate any is not a life-threatening ill- forting tone, explaining issued Wednesday the word is severe adverse outcomes ness. how the virus isn’t as fatal labelled as “offensive and in neonates or that it can further transmission within and into the Most of the infections as it is made out to be. derogatory”. pass to the child while in EU,” said European health commissioner are in Hubei in China, SARS infected 8,000 peo- “As we state at the closely the womb. Stella Kyriakides. though the daily tally of ple the world over and related word YID... Tottenham In the study, there were new cases detected in the resulted in over 800 Hotspur Football Club is tradi- two cases of fetal distress, province fell when com- deaths, which gives a mor- tionally associated with the but all nine pregnancies infected with COVID-19) whether intrauterine infe- pared to previous days. Paul Molesky (L) gets a DNA swab test in his cabin tality rate of roughly 10 Jewish community in north resulted in live births.The testing positive for ction is possible,” said Hubei recorded 2,097 new room on the Diamond Princess, anchored at a port in per cent. and east London, and the term research also revealed COVID-19 infection within study lead author Yuan- cases Monday, compared Yokohama, near Tokyo on Thursday. — AP So far, with more than is sometimes used as a self-des- that symptoms from 36 hours of birth, which zhen Zhang, Zhongnan to 2,618 a day earlier. The 40,000 cases and a little ignation by some Tottenham COVID-19 infection in prompted questions about Hospital of Wuhan Unive- total number of cases the epidemic which result- Singaporean Prime over 1000 deaths, the mor- fans,” the OUP statement pregnant women were whether the virus could rsity in China. have now hit 44,653, ed in around 800 deaths 17 Minister Lee Hsien Loong, tality rate for nCoV is added. “We will ensure the con- similar to those reported be contracted in the “Nonetheless, we should including 2,015 new cases years ago. Like the 2019- in a video message to his roughly 0.2 per cent. text for this connection is very in non-pregnant adults, womb. continue to pay special on Tuesday, the lowest nCoV or Wuhan virus, citizens, has underlined Seasonal influenza, mean- clear in both definitions.” and no women in the “It is important to note attention to newborns daily rise in new cases severe acute respiratory how “fear can do more while, has a mortality rate The words derive from the study developed severe that many important clin- born to mothers with since January 30. syndrome (SARS) is also harm than the virus of 0.1 per cent. “So, in Yiddish term for Jew pneumonia or died. ical details of this case are COVID-19 pneumonia to In comparison to the caused due to a type of itself.” Singapore has terms of mortality, the but are thought to have been The new study comes missing, and for this rea- help prevent infections in SARS epidemic of 2002- coronavirus, called the reported 47 cases of coron- new virus is much closer taken up as an insult dur- after the news of a new- son, we cannot conclude this group,” Zhang added. 2003, the novel coron- SARS coronavirus (SARS- avirus. Its biggest bank, to influenza than sars,” ing the 20th Century. born (born to a mother from this one case —Agencies avirus is less fatal than CoV). DBS, evacuated 300 staff Lee said. —AP

GOOD | NEWS ■ Signals end to months-long crisis that claimed 33 lives nationwide INDONESIAN VOLCANO SPEWS LAVA, ASH Oz bushfires contained: Firefighters Sydney, Feb. 13: All the mals while destroying more “After what’s been a truly blazes in Australia’s hard- than 2,500 homes. The cri- devastating fire season for hit state of New South sis cloaked major cities like both firefighters and resi- Wales have been brought Sydney in smoke for weeks dents who have suffered under control, firefighters on end, saw towns cut off through so much this sea- said on Thursday, signall- and prompted the deploy- son, all fires are now con- ing the end of a months- ment of the military to res- tained in New South long crisis that claimed 33 cue stranded citizens. Wales,” New South Wales lives nationwide. The fires were exacerbat- Rural Fire Service Deputy “As of this afternoon, all ed by prolonged drought Commissioner Rob Rogers fires in New South Wales and worsened by climate said in a Twitter video. have now been contained,” change in the country’s “Not all fires are out, a Rural Fire Service hottest and driest year on there’s still some fire activi- spokesman told AFP, as record. But days of rainfall ty in the far south of the fresh rainfall helped extin- the heaviest in 30 years state but all fires are con- guish blazes that have have extinguished the tained so we can really burned along the east coast largest fires and brought focus on helping people since September. “It is very those that remain under rebuild.” In the Australian good news.” Blazes control. Beleaguered volun- Capital Territory around scorched more than 10 mil- teer firefighters have Canberra firefighters are lion hectares in the coun- fought the blazes day-in- still trying to bring one fire try's east and south, killing day-out in what has been under control, but the blaze at least 33 people and an described as Australia's was not said to be threaten- The fires had affected millions of Australians. — AFP estimated one billion ani- “black summer”. ing. —AFP Molten lava streams down the crater of Mount Merapi on Thursday. — AFP pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | 14 FEBRUARY 2020 14 ■ Murthy son-in-law is viewed as "next prime minister" S&P swears by Textile industry quick India story, Chancellor of Exchequer leaves rating seeks basic means BITES Sunak is ardent Brexiteer unchanged before mega parks INDICATORS % FC BUREAU NEW DELHI, FEB 13 ■ More than Sensex 41,459.79 -0.26 ALEX MORALES, his Chief Special Adviser Nifty 50 12,174.70 -0.22 JOE MAYES & TAKING REINS FROM PAK-ORIGIN JAVID Dominic Cummings than Anticipating the coun- half the parks S&P 500* 3,375.74 -0.11 JESSICA SHANKLEMAN Javid's." try's economic growth to FEB. 13 "His voting history gradually recover over under SITP Dollar (`) 71.32 -0.02 shows he's an ardent the next two to three Pound Sterling (`) 92.59 -0.03 Who is Rishi Sunak, the Brexiteer, supports reduc- years, global ratings yet to take off man who in a stunning tions in corporation tax, agency Standard and Euro (`) 77.52 -0.45 turn of events was cuts to capital gains tax Poor's, on Thursday, Gold (10gm)* (`) 41,484▲266 0.64 appointed UK Chancellor and he's gone on the affirmed India's sover- SANGEETHA G Brent crude ($/bbl)* 56.18 0.39 of the Exchequer less than record as favouring infra- eign rating at 'BBB-' with CHENNAI, FEB. 13 a month before the first structure investment," the stable outlook. It further IN 10-Yr bond yield 6.423 -0.049 budget of Boris Johnson's note said. "So this is either said the gross domestic The government will be US 10-Yr T-bill yield* 1.619 -0.008 new government? going to be a meeting of product, or GDP, growth announcing plans to devel- The former Goldman minds or Sunak will be the is expected to improve to op 10 mega textile parks * As of 9:30 pm IST Sachs banker and son-in- Prime Minister's yes man 6 per cent during 2020-21, for promoting exports in law of Infosys co-founder living in Number 11." 7 per cent in the next fis- its new National Textile Narayana Murthy is 39 He's frequently been sent cal and 7.4 per cent Policy. However, not even and has been viewed as a out by the government to thereafter. half of the textile parks Integrated Textile Parks Voda Idea rising star in the do the morning round of "Despite a notable approved in 2005 have been (SITP) approved during Conservative Party, with TV and radio interviews, a deceleration in India's completed yet. the 10th Five Year Plan in the ConservativeHome clear sign that he's seen by economy in recent quar- Moreover, it is also felt 2005 has met with limited losses widen to website anointing him Number 10 as a solid per- ters, we believe its struc- that the industry badly success. While 59 textile "the next prime minister" Rishi Sunak with spouse Akshata Murthy and daughters former. Notably, he tural growth outperfor- needs processing parks parks were sanctioned `6,439 crore earlier in the year. In July His voting history shows he's an deputised for Johnson in mance remains intact. rather than mega parks at under SITP by the Vodafone Idea reported widen- he was made chief secre- ardent Brexiteer, supports reductions televised leadership Real GDP growth is this stage. Ministry of Textiles, only ing of losses to Rs 6,438.8 tary to the Treasury--the debates during the elec- therefore likely to gradu- The 10 mega integrated 22 have been completed. second most important job in corporation tax, cuts to capital tion campaign. ally recover toward textile parks will be devel- The rest are under various crore in the December quarter gains tax and he's gone on the record as against Rs 5,004.6 crore in the in the finance ministry. A Hindu and son of a longer-term trend rates oped in 1,000 acres of land stages of completion, as year-ago quarter due to higher His appointment, and the favouring infrastructure investment doctor and a pharmacist, over the next two to three closer to the ports. This per the ministry data. dramatic circumstance in Sunak attended years," S&P said in a will give plug-and-play Delay in obtaining land finance costs and depreciation. CAPITAL ECONOMICS Its total income fell by 5% to Rs which his predecessor Winchester College, one of statement. facilities, including safe- and other statutory clear- 11,380.5 crore. Finance costs quit, have created a stir the country's most presti- "We expect India's guard measures in the ances from state govern- surged 30% to Rs 3,722.2 crore and raise questions abut benefits of Brexit, includ- the EU; but they are still gious private schools, economy to continue to labour laws, textile secre- ments and slow fund while depreciation went up by the direction of economic ing striking new trade subject to all EU law". before studying at Oxford outperform peers at a tary Ravi Capoor said on mobilisation by the textile 23% to Rs 5,877.4 crore. The policy on the heels of deals, improving regula- Sunak entered Parlia- and Stanford Universities. similar level of income, Thursday during a meet- parks are some of the rea- telco’s losses are substantially Brexit. tion and being free of EU ment in 2015, elected to After graduating, he despite a recent slow- ing of the Confederation sons behind the slow lower than Rs 50,922 crore suf- Pakistan-origin Sajid state aid rules. represent Richmond in worked for Goldman down in real GDP Indian Textile Industry progress of the parks. fered in the September quarter. Javid also had a back- "It's time to shout about Yorkshire. Theresa May Sachs, before spending growth. Supportive mon- (CITI). "The government had ground in finance but goes that idealistic and hopeful appointed him as a junior about three years at bil- etary, fiscal, and cyclical According to Sanjay initially announced fund- down in history as the vision for post-Brexit minister and he went on to lionaire activist hedge factors should support Jain, former chairman of ing for the land. But later shortest-serving finance Britain," he wrote. back Johnson in last year's fund manager Chris economic recovery, with CITI, scale of production on, it removed that incen- minister in the country "Opportunities like these leadership campaign in a Hohn's TCI Fund real GDP growth averag- is a major problem for the tive. This also made sever- since 1970. He was seen as are what Brexit means to joint piece in The Times. Management. Later he ing 7.1 per cent in fiscals Indian textile industry. al private entities develop Homecoming for fiscal hawk. Under the us." That earned him a promo- moved on to join his TCI 2020-2024," it said. "Large integrated parks cold feet on the parks," new guy, there may be Sunak co-founded a 1-bil- tion to the cabinet when colleague Patrick Pointing out that can provide the scale at said Jain. Rajiv Bansal as what Citi calls a "Trump- lion pound global invest- Johnson won. Degorce's hedge fund India's fiscal position which other textile pro- He said perhaps some of style stimulus." This ment firm and specialised The pound rose on the Theleme Partners. remains precarious, ducing countries work. It the existing parks could be debate comes after a in investing in small news, on expectation that Sunak married to with elevated fiscal will also help the industry transformed into mega Air India CMD decade of austerity under British businesses before the new chancellor will Akshata Murthy, the deficits and net govern- attract foreign direct textile parks, but all parks the Conservatives. his entry into politics. He loosen the purse strings. daughter of Narayana ment indebtedness, the investment. However, I am cannot be upgraded. Sunak is a more pro- strongly believes that According to a research Murthy. They have two agency, said, "Fiscal not sure whether this is a According to him, a big- Brexit chancellor than small businesses in the UK note by Capital daughters together. On his deficits have exceeded priority, as we had mixed ger necessity for the tex- Javid, who campaigned for would flourish as a result Economics, his previous own website, Sunak lists the government's plan success with the textile tile industry is processing Remain back in 2016 of Brexit as the "vast votes in Parliament "sug- his hobbies as keeping fit, and there may be some parks already approved by parks, with government (Sunak was a Leaver). In majority of British busi- gest his views are perhaps soccer, cricket and the limited consolidation the government in the funded or subsidised com- 2017, he co-authored an nesses (94 per cent) don't more aligned with those of movies. over the next few years." past," he said. mon affluent treatment article highlighting five have anything to do with the Prime Minister and — Bloomberg The Scheme for facilities.

Senior bureaucrat Rajiv Bansal, Yes Bank delays quarterly results JLR drives who headed Air India for three PE funds put more Damanis to sell months in 2017, was on Thursday appointed as the car- MUMBAI, Feb. 13: Management, OHA (UK) former board member. It is in new rier’s chairman and managing 2.3% in Avenue Troubled lender Yes Bank and Silver Point Capital. also contending with a rise director, a personnel ministry money into malls said it will delay disclosing “Given that the current in bad loans and, for two order said. Bansal, a 1988-batch for over 3K cr its October-December capital raising process has quarters, has been trying Discovery IAS officer of Nagaland cadre, ` earnings by at least a the bank’s fullest attention, to raise $2 billion in fresh is at present additional secre- SANGEETHA G India as a seasonal phe- month, and that it was in it would like to inform the capital. Sport tary in the Ministry of CHENNAI, FEB. 13 nomenon and hope that RAVI RANJAN PRASAD talks with potential exchanges that it will pub- Yes Bank, whose shares Petroleum and Natural Gas. He enthusiastic government- MUMBAI, FEB. 13 investors for a cash infu- lish its unaudited financial have slumped more than 85 replaces Ashwani Lohani, who Despite the slowdown in backing to the retail sector sion, sending its shares up results for the quarter and per cent in the last 10 MICHAEL GONSALVES completed his one-year extend- consumption, private equi- will cause the tide to turn The promoters of almost 6 per cent in nine month period ending months, recently appoint- PUNE, FEB. 13 ed tenure on Thursday. ty funds are quite opti- in the near future. Avenue Supermart that Thursday’s trade. Dec. 31, 2019 on or before ed global investment bank mistic about the long-term Apart from the top cities, operates the DMart Yes Bank, in a regulatory March 14, 2020,” the bank Cantor Fitzgerald headed Jaguar Land Rover prospects of mall proper- tier- II and III cities are superstore chain would filing late on Wednesday, said in the filing. by former Deutsche Bank (JLR), the Tata Motors- ties. PE funds’ investment also on the radar of many sell a 2.28 per cent in the said it had received non- The earnings delay chief executive Anshu owned British luxury into retail real estate grew PE funds which see these stake company through binding expressions of comes as the bank fends off Jain to ramp up its effort to marquee, on Thursday almost three-fold in 2019 cities actively driving the an offer for sale on interest from JC Flowers, criticism of its corporate raise capital. launched the heavily GMR Infra’s net over the previous year. retail business, going for- February 14 and 17. Tilden Park Capital governance levelled by a — Reuters refreshed Land Rover Retail real estate grabbed ward. At least 36 per cent The OFS will fetch Discovery Sport SUV to loss shrinks to $970 million PE funds in of retail-focused funds Radhakishan S. Damani boost sales in a 2019 against $355 million went to cities like , Gopikishan S. Damani, depressed economy. `279 crore in Q3 in the previous year, regis- Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Shrikantadevi R. Edelweiss FoF to invest in US tech firms JLR is the only luxury tering a growth of 173 per Bhubaneshwar, Chandi- Damani and Kirandevi car brand to record GMR Infrastructure Ltd's con- cent. Overall PE inflows garh, Nagpur and Mohali. G. Damani more than Rs growth in India in 2019. solidated net loss for the into Indian retail touched JLL says rising incomes, 3,000 crore at the floor FC BUREAU will invest in underlying Radhika Gupta, CEO, Its sales last year grew 9 December quarter narrowed to $2.8 billion in the five years increasing awareness and price, fixed at Rs 2,049 MUMBAI, FEB.13 fund, JP Morgan US Edelweiss Asset per cent at 5,000 cars in Rs 279 crore against Rs 542 between 2015 and 2019. high aspirations in tier- II per share. Technology Fund, an Management, said,"Most of India compared to 4,596 crore in the year-ago quarter. “Investors are betting big and III markets spell a big Avenue Supermart Edelweiss Mutual Fund actively managed 20-year- these companies draw units in 2018 to beat Audi Consolidated gross revenues on selected Grade A mall opportunity for retailers. shares closed 2.31 per has a new fund offer, old fund. The new fund their revenues from across and become the third were higher at Rs 2,196 crore projects which have high These locations are unex- cent up at Rs 2,539.60 on Edelweiss US Technology offer opens on February 14 the world, hence have lim- largest after Mercedes- against Rs 1,958 crore a year scope of business prof- plored and real estate cost the NSE on Thursday. Equity Fund of Fund, and closes on February 28. ited country specific risks. Benz and BMW. ago. Revenues from the air- itability. Despite the con- here is 30-40 per cent lower In a stock exchange fil- which will be investing in The fund aims to provide This fund enables All luxury carmakers ports segment stood at Rs sumption slump, many than that in metros. ing, the company said technology companies in access to emerging tech- investors to be a part of in India recorded de- 1,615.2 crore against Rs 1,358.3 malls are doing excellent By industry estimates, the OFS would be for the United States like nologies in early stages of some mega trends in tech- growth last year. Market crore while the power vertical business today - and the market size of tier- II sale of up to 1,48,00,000 Netflix, Synopsys, adoption. "This is the first nology and get access to leader Mercedes' sales garnered Rs 207.2 crore against investors are keenly vying and III markets would equity shares and date Microsoft, Tesla, Advanced time that Indian investors expert research of the fell 11 per cent to 13,786 Rs 145.7 crore. for such projects,” said grow from $5.7 billion in of the opening of the Micro Devices, Analog will be able to take expo- JPMorgan Investment units in 2019, BMW's Shobhit Agarwal, MD and 2018 to $80 billion by 2026. offer for non-retail Devices, ServiceNow, sure to these emerging Team." sales dropped by 13 per CEO, Anarock Capital. Around 50-60 per cent of investors is February 14 PayPal Holdings and technologies across differ- The fund will be bench- cent at 9,641 units, Audi's According to Anarock, expansion by modern and and for retail Alphabet (Google's parent). ent sectors, through the marked against the Russell 29 per cent to 4,594 units PE funds see the ongoing trade is taking place in investors, February 17. It will be the first fund of underlying fund," Edel- 1000 Equal Weighted and Volvo Cars' 15 per consumerism slump in tier- II and III markets. fund or feeder fund that weiss Mutual Fund said. Technology Index. cent to 2,253 units. Apollo Hospitals The second-generation Discovery Sport, which made its global debut in net jumps 80% May 2019, is offered in Fund crunch leaves military purchases a pipe dream two variants—S and R— to `90 crore Dynamic SE at Rs 57.06 lakh and Rs 60.89 lakh Apollo Hospitals Enterprise ANURAG KOTOKY & plagued by red tape. While equipment and not enough chase of 126 fighter jets in respectively at pan India reported a 80.36 per cent rise BIBHUDATTA PRADHAN New Delhi is the world's ammunition. 2015 and instead bought 36 showroom. in consolidated net profit at Rs FEB. 13 fourth-biggest military India's spending in the Rafale jets separately. In In India, the new SUV 89.96 crore for the December spender, its air force, navy year starting April 1 will be 2018, it began the process to competes with BMW X3, quarter from Rs 49.87 crore in Global companies from and the army are still $47.34 billion, of which buy another 114 aircraft. Mercedes-Benz GLC, the year-ago quarter. Lockheed Martin to equipped with weapons $16.2 billion is for capital Aiming to develop a Audi Q5 and Volvo Consolidated revenue from Sweden's Saab AB are that are largely obsolete. expenditure and of that, robust military industrial XC60. operations stood at Rs 2,911.74 offering military hardware "The defence procure- about 90 per cent is devoted base, the Modi government Built on the Evoque crore against Rs 2,495.04 crore. from submarines to heli- ment procedure needs to existing obligations and has revised defence pro- Transverse Archi-tec- The board has declared an copters to the Indian gov- major, thorough reforms, committed liabilities. That curement procedures, ture, which makes it interim dividend of Rs 3.25 per ernment as part of its $250 not just an update," said leaves little to meet pushed for long-term ready for shift to electric equity share of Rs 5 face value billion defence modernisa- Jon Grevatt, the Asia- demands for weapons pur- strategic partnerships power in the future, the for the financial year ending tion programme. But bure- Pacific defense industry chases and modernisation. between Indian companies new Discovery Sport March 31, 2020. aucratic delays and a fund- analyst with Jane's, adding The political leadership is and global equipment man- comes with BS-6-compli- ing crunch has made future the complex approval and defence minister has missed that window of aware of the need for mod- ufacturers, further eased ant 2.0-litre petrol and deals next to impossible. processes and lack of Rajnath Singh extolling the opportunity, at least seven ern weapons. The mainstay overseas investment regu- diesel Ingenium Printed & Published by Airbus SE won a $1.7 bil- finances are the main drag need to modernise, collabo- executives said, asking not for Indian Army's artillery lations and diversified engines. T Venkateswarlu on behalf of Deccan lion contract to supply on military modernisation. rate and export out of to be identified. are the Swedish-designed weapons suppliers. 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What's left is spent stalled over price and qual- global defence companies at speeds under 18 kmph Financial Chronicle ® is prohibited. ernment's challenge to Executives heard Prime implementation has been on past purchases, leaving ity guarantees, the govern- remains a non-starter. with the engine off. transform an industry Minister Narendra Modi poor. The prime minister the forces with obsolete ment scrapped the pur- —Bloomberg GAMES pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | 14 FEBRUARY 2020 | 15

SHORT TAKES Royal confusion in Bangalore side Dress rehearsal DC CORRESPONDENT TWEET HYDERABAD, FEB. 13 TALK Virat Kohli No fight for The social media handle Finding opening combination, lone spinner on of the Royal Challengers @imVkohli Bangalore took the crick- Posts disappear and agenda as India meet NZ XI in warm-up match spot with eting world by storm by removing their profile the captain isn’t Sikhs wear Kobe Bryant Hamilton, Feb. 13: Shaw: Gill picture and posts from informed. t-shirts during a prayer meet Clarity on opening combi- various social media plat- @rcbtweets, let me organised for the Los Angeles nation, a call on whether Hamilton, Feb. 13: forms, including know if you need any Lakers legend at Gurdwara Ravichandran Ashwin’s Promising India bats- Facebook, Instagram and help. Nanaksar in Fresno city, variations can trump man Shubman Gill Twitter on Thursday. California, USA. Ravindra Jadeja’s all- insists he is not compet- The RCB skipper, Virat Yuzvendra Chahal round skill-sets will be ing with fellow young Kohli was himself taken the focus for India in gun Prithvi Shaw for the aback and took to Twitter @yuzi_chahal Tribute to Kobe at their three-day warm-up opener’s slot in the first to express his surprise at Arey @rcbtweets, game against New Test against New the recent development. what googly is this? Zealand XI starting here Zealand but if he does The 31-year-old tweeted, Where did your pro- USA Gurudwara on Friday. get the opportunity, he “Posts disappear and the New York: Several Sikhs wear- After the harsh reality will not “let it go waste”. captain isn’t informed. file pic and ing Kobe Bryant t-shirts in the check of 0-3 drubbing in With a double hundred @rcbtweets, let me know Instagram posts go? US state of California organised the just-concluded ODI and a century against if you need any help.” a prayer meeting for the basket- series, a red-ball warm-up New Zealand ‘A’ here, The social media han- Ab de Villiers ball legend who was killed in a game will be the most Gill has made everyone dles, including Twitter, helicopter crash outside Los welcome distraction for take notice despite Shaw Facebook and Instagram, @ABdeVilliers17 Angeles last month. Virat Kohli and his men being firmly back in the of the RCB have also Folks at @rcbtweets, The meet was organised in as a precursor to the two- mix for the upcoming removed their display what’s happened to Gurdwara Nanaksar in Fresno match Test series starting two-match series start- and cover pictures while our social media city on Monday, ahead of a next week. ing in Wellington from the name has been memorial service for Bryant and India could not have February 21. changed to just ‘Royal accounts? ?? I hope his daughter Gianna on asked for a better practice “Obviously, our Challengers’. Their offi- it’s just a strategy February 24 at the Staples game as the opposition careers started at the cial handle —@royalchal- break. ????” Center in downtown Los team is full of New same time but there is lengersbangalore — on Angeles. Bryant was a house- Zealand senior and A no fight as such,” Gill the popular photo-shar- hold name in every Sikh home, team players, including said on Thursday when ing platform shows just dium integration at home according to basketball media leg-spinner Ish Sodhi, all- R. Ashwin (second from left), who joined the team ahead of the Test series, poses with asked about his take on six posts. matches, digital and other outlet Ball Don’t Stop which rounder Jimmy Neesham Mayank Agarwal and India's support staff at the Blue Springs Waterfront. — TWITTER his competition with the The recent develop- highly visible media plat- posted on Twitter a picture of and wicketkeeper Tim former India U-19 cap- ments have come into forms, a release had stat- the Gurdwara showing Sikh wor- Seifert, in its ranks. TEAMS tain. effect after the ed. shippers praying for the basket- The inclusion of first Both Gill and Shaw are Benglauru-based fran- Earlier AB de Villiers ball legend. “Sikhs praying for team white ball pacers INDIA: Virat Kohli (cap- 20 and considered the chise signed Muthoot and Yuzvendra Chahal Kobe and the victims at the Scott Kuggeliejn and tain), Mayank Agarwal, stars of the future after Fincorp as their title too expressed their shock temple. This hits home. Kobe Blair Tickner will be the Prithvi Shaw, Cheteshwar a splendid runs in age- sponsor for IPL 2020. The over the developments. Bryant was a household name in kind of test which both Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane group cricket. “Both of Virat Kohli-led side on “Arey @rcbtweets, what every Sikh home. Your grandpa Prithvi Shaw and us have done well in our Tuesday, announced a googly is this? Where did and grandma didn’t know what Shubman Gill will relish (vice-captain), positions. It’s up to the three-year partnership your profile pic and hoop was, but they knew Kobe. as they make a case for Wriddhiman Saha (wick- team management, who with Muthoot Fincorp Instagram posts go?” They know how special he was,” their inclusion in the etkeeper), Hanuma they will play. It’s not as Ltd — a part of the Chahal tweeted on his it said in a tweet. playing XI for the first Vihari, Ravindra Jadeja, if there is a fight. Muthoot Pappachan way back from New KOBE, DAUGHTER BURIED Test starting in Jasprit Bumrah, Whoever gets the chance Group — also known as Zealand. Meanwhile, Kobe Bryant and his Wellington on February Mohammed Shami, will try to make the most Muthoot Blue. “Folks at @rcbtweets, daughter Gianna were buried 21. Umesh Yadav, of the opportunity and As per their partnership what’s happened to our last week near their family Shubman will be itching Ravichandran Ashwin, not let it go waste,” the agreement, there will be a social media accounts? ?? home in Newport Beach, to show his skipper that 20-year-old said ahead of “jersey-front” logo place- I hope it’s just a strategy California, in a private ceremo- he is ready for the big Rishabh Pant, Navdeep the warm-up game ment, which will be break. ????” a baffled ny. A death certificate states debut which is eagerly Saini, Shubman Gill. against New Zealand XI. prominent on the playing South African star de that Kobe was buried last Friday anticipated among his NEW ZEALAND XI: Daryl Having played in New and training jersey, in-sta- Villiers wrote. at Pacific View Memorial Park in growing legion of fans, Mitchell (captain), Finn Zealand for the last six Corona del Mar, US media despite his international Allen, Tom Bruce, Dane weeks as part of the A reported. career being two-match Cleaver, Henry Cooper, team, Gill feels that if old. A flat track like the New Zealand’s short-ball one at Seddon Park will Scott Kuggeleijn, James factor can be nullified, it Ngidi stars in SA’s also be a test for the two Neesham, Rachin would go a long way in Fazal’s ton helps frontline spinners with Ravindra, Tim Seifert, Ish Indian team had a bonding session at the Blue Springs helping the team. “I one-run victory Ashwin and Jadeja get- Sodhi, Blair Tickner, Will Waterfront near Hamilton on Thursday. — BCCI think their bowling ting a chance to test the Young. 13th men: Jake attack has been taking a East London, South Africa: Fast likes of Daryl Mitchell, Gibson (Friday) and Scott lot of wickets with the Vidarbha go top bowler Lungi Ngidi took three Tom Bruce and Seifert in Johnston (Saturday and short ball, especially wickets in his last two overs as action. Sunday). Neil Wagner. If you see DC CORRESPONDENT South Africa snatched a one-run A good show on a flat the last series they HYDERABAD, FEB. 13 BRIEF SCORES win in the first Twenty20 deck can improve played against In Hyderabad: Hyderabad 272 in against England at Buffalo Park. Ashwin’s chances of top- Australia, when nothing Resuming at 239/7, all 94.5 overs (Rahul Buddhi 52, Jason Roy and Eoin Morgan hit pling Jadeja even though LIVE on was happening in the Hyderabad could manage Prateek Reddy 83, Yash Thakur TV 4/55, Rajneesh Gurbani 3/48, half-centuries for England and the proposition looks dim wicket, they were really to add was just 33 runs as Aditya Thakare 3/70) vs Vidarbha they looked well on the way to at the moment. New Zealand XI vs India relying on the short ball. they were bowled out for STAR Sports 1, HD 242/4 in 75 overs (Faiz Fazal chasing South Africa’s 177 for 8. For the New Zealand XI, on “As batsmen, if we 272 on Day Two of their (batting) 126, Ganesh Satish 65, But the match changed in the there is Dane Cleaver, could take that out of elite Ranji Trophy Group Ravi Kiran 2/19). last three overs as England lost who has had scores of 196 FROM 3.30 AM the picture and not give ‘A’ match against In Nadiad: Andhra 177 in 84.2 six wickets for 24 runs to finish and 53 in the two A ‘Tests’ wickets to the short ball, Vidarbha being played at overs vs Gujarat 354-6 in 94 overs (Parthiv Patel 57, Axar Patel 89, on 176 for nine on Wednesday. against India. He would one in the squad a chance it will be really helpful the Rajiv Gandhi Chirag Gandhi (batting) 80, England needed just seven to like to impress the selec- to have a decent hit for us,” he observed. International Stadium in Shoaib Md Khan 3/78). win off the last over but Ngidi tors and get into the first between 50 to 100 balls “Wind (Breeze) factor Hyderabad on Thursday. In Rajkot: Tamil Nadu 424 in 128.4 dismissed Tom Curran and team for the Test series. and bowlers getting into is very important, espe- In reply, Vidarbha skip- overs (N. Jagdeesan 183, Jaydev Moeen Ali while conceding only India’s red-ball overseas the groove with a spell or cially when you are bat- per F. Y. Fazal led the run Unadkat 6/73) vs Saurashtra five runs. Adil Rashid was run warm-up games in the two. ting. The bowlers do a riot as he remained 107/3 in 41 overs (Avi Barot (bat- ting) 38, Arpit Vasavada (batting) out off the last ball, trying for past few years have most- The hosting Boards also lot of planning depend- unbeaten on 126. The 11, M. Siddharth 1/9, Sai Kishore an improbable second run ly been two-day affairs often put up a rag-tag out- ing on the breeze. It was southpaw managed to hit 1/20. which would have tied the with the home team bat- fit which is a strategic not that easy to consis- as many as 15 fours and In Bengaluru: Baroda 85 & 208/5 scores. — AFP ting on one day and visi- move to deny visiting tently pull and hook the three sixes. in 67 overs (A. Pathan 90, Deepak tors on the other day. teams a chance to check ball (in windy condi- At stumps, the visitors Hooda 50, M. Prasidh Krishna Devoid of first-class sta- out against quality bat- tions during the A were 242/4, trailing the 2/29) vs Karnataka 233 in 72.5 overs (Karun Nair 47, Abhimanyu Clarke splits with tus, the matches have ting or bowling line-up. series).” hosts by just 30 runs, from Mithun 40, S Sopariya 5/83). wife on $40m deal been about giving every- — PTI Wriddhiman Saha (right) and Prithvi Shaw. — PTI 75 overs. Melbourne: Former Australia captain Michael Clarke and wife Kyly Boldy have split after more Jemimah is Tendulkar vs than seven years of marriage on SCR chug into a USD 40 million divorce settle- ment, according to media raring to go Lara in road reports here. The couple has also agreed on arrangements to Sam semifinals co-parent their four-year-old at World Cup safety match daughter Kelsey Lee. “After liv- DC CORRESPONDENT Saints simply couldn’t ing apart for some time, we HYDERABAD, FEB. 13 stop SCR’s forward Vijay Sydney, Feb. 13: India Mumbai, Feb. 13: Two have made the difficult decision Kumar, who forayed into top-order batswoman of the biggest names in to separate as a couple, amica- South Central Railway the opponent’s citadel at Jemimah Rodrigues is world cricket — leg- bly,” Clarke and Kyly were quot- (SCR) subdued Saints 79- will to score a whopping raring to go at the T20 endary Sachin ed as saying in a joint statement 41 in the quarter-finals of 30 points. Santosh Mani, World Cup starting here Tendulkar and West in the ‘The Australian’ newspa- the third Samuel Vasanth the tall Railway point on February 21 and feels Indian Brian Lara — per. “With the greatest of Kumar memorial invita- guard, was also hard to that the opening match will once again be up respect for each other, we’ve tion flood-lit prize money contain, sinking a trio of against Australia will be against each other for a come to the mutual conclusion basketball tournament at three pointers in his indi- one of the most impor- noble cause. that this is the best course for YMCA Secunderabad on vidual contribution of 19. tant games of her The two champion us to take while committed to Thursday night. At half- Height and experience career. players will clash the co-parenting of our daugh- time, the winner led 42-25. held Customs & GST in Matches between India against each other in the ter.” The couple, both 38, mar- The railway side showed good stead in the next last and Australia have been opening game of the ried in 2012. Their daughter was all the qualities of a eight encounter as it got keenly contested. The ‘Unacademy Road Safety born in 2015, months after he champion squad, coached the better of Young Men’s two teams are coming off World Series’, a T20 tour- announced his retirement.an by former junior interna- Guild 92-84. That pivot the tri-nation T20 series nament, when India Instagram post, Clarke indicated tional K. Vishal Kumar. In Venkat Reddy had as final on Wednesday Legends will take on he was preparing to become the first quarter, it laid many as four tip-ins when Australia won by West Indies Legends at the new co-host of Big Sports the foundation of a sound showed the proximity the 11 runs. But, they both Sunpreet Singh (IPS), Deputy Commissioner of Police (LB Nagar), Hyderabad, fires a Wankhede Stadium here Breakfast show this year along- defence, separating itself Customs men had to their had one win each in shot to inaugurate the South Zone Big Bore shooting competitions at Aman Sanghi on March 7. side former rugby league great by a slender margin at 17- rival’s backboard. their contests in the Shooting Range in Sanghi Nagar as Amit Sanghi (left), Telangana Rifle Association As per the series sched- Laurie Daley. — PTI 13. But that was how close round robin stage. ule released on THE RESULTS president and Gusti Noria (right), Telangana Rifle Association vice-president look on. it allowed Saints to come. (all quarterfinals) “Playing a World Cup... Thursday, a total of 11 Quarter II was about SCR 79 (Vijay Kumar 30, Santosh the first match in matches will be played State cycle polo consolidation, as SCR Mani 19, Kaushik 10) bt Saints 41 Australia and for me the in the tournament. logged 25 against Saints’ (Pratik Gona 11) HT: 42-25; first time playing (a The series will feature Customs & GST 92 (M. Vijay trials on Sunday 12. It pumped up the pace Kumar 41, Venkat Reddy 15, M. World Cup) in Australia. South Big Bore shoot on some big names in crick- in the subsequent ses- Harish Chowdary 17) bt Young Nothing is more exciting et from India, Australia, DC CORRESPONDENT sions, recording 20 Men’s Guild 84 (Prudhvishwar than India in Australia, DC CORRESPONDENT Andhra Pradesh, Tamil lanes with CCTV cameras, Sri Lanka, West Indies HYDERABAD, FEB. 13 against its adversary’s Reddy 24, Chris Veeresh and Sai so it will be a match we HYDERABAD, FEB.13 Nadu, Karnataka and pitt system and viewers and South Africa like Krishna 19) HT: 43-41; Eagles Club eight while in the last 10 63 (Aman 24, Venkat 14, Abhishek all will be keen to play Kerala compete. gallery. Tendulkar, Virender The Telangana State Cycle Polo minutes it registered 18 13) bt Nizam Basketball Academy and just excited,” Over 150 shooters in 34 This event will also National Rifle Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Association is organising a against Saints’ 8. 44 (Majid 30) HT: 48-27. Jemimah said in an disciplines will compete serve as the qualifiers for Association of India vice Zaheer Khan, Brian selection-cum-coaching camp International Cricket at the 1st South Zone Big the 63rd National president and Telangana Lara, Chanderpaul, for both boys and men at the Council press release. Bore shooting competi- Shooting competitions in Rifle Association presi- Brett Lee, Brad Hodge, Mini Stadium at Shamshabad on The two teams have tions that got underway at the Big Bore event. dent Amit Sanghi Jonty Rhodes, Muttiah , Saturday. FIVE BASKETBALL OFFICIALS some of the best batters the certified Aman Sanghi Located 25 kilometres informed that the South Tillakaratne Dilshan Selected cyclists will represent in their line-ups. India’s 300m Big Bore Shooting from Hyderabad, the Zone competition is the and Ajantha Mendis. the state at the 40th Junior FROM STATE MAKE FIBA CUT Smriti Mandhana and Range, Sanghi Nagar, Aman Singh 300m Big qualifying round for the Two of these 11 match- Boys and 2nd Veteran National Harmanpreet Kaur have Ranga Reddy District on Bore Range is the first pri- 63rd National Shooting es will be played at Cycle Polo championships to be Hyderabad: P. Peter Santhosh Divakar and K. Prem proven records against Thursday. The competi- vate certified shooting Competitions in Big Bore Wankhede, four in Pune, held in Nagpur from February Kumar Yadav from Telangana state have made it to the Australia, while Ellyse tion that was inaugurated range in India. It is con- Events, 2020. The South and Navi Mumbai each. 28 to March 2. FIBA panel of referees, riding on top performances in Perry, Meg Lanning and by Sunpreet Singh (IPS), struct as per prescribed Zone event provides a per- The final game will be Interested players should con- the tests organised by the international basketball Alyssa Healy of the Deputy Commissioner of standards and guidelines fect platform for the played at Brabourne tact the secretary on association. Mohd Nayeemuddin, S. Ashwin Kumar hosts have enjoyed excel- Police (LB Nagar), of the National Rifle shooters to train as well as Stadium here on March 9848734766 or 9394755939 for and Gavin Sohail Khan have also been selected as lent form in the past Hyderabad, will see shoot- Association of India. The gain confidence, Mr 22. further details. Table Officials for the next two years. year especially. — PTI ers from Telangana, Range has 12 operational Sanghi said. — PTI GAMES pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | FRIDAY | 14 FEBRUARY 2020 16

SHORT TAKES Manpreet named Panghal is best in 52kg category Player of the Year New Delhi: World silver-medal- Doubles trouble list Amit Panghal (52kg) has been ranked number one by the Becomes first Indian to win IOC’s Boxing Task Force ahead of next month’s Olympic India lose to Malaysia after doubles pairs flop international hockey honour Qualifiers, making him the first Manila (Philippines), Lausanne, Feb. 13: Indian pugilist in over a decade Manpreet to achieve the global top posi- Feb. 13: Doubles special- National men’s team cap- Singh tion in his category. ist Satwiksairaj Rankir- tain Manpreet Singh on In 2009, Olympic bronze- eddy’s absence proved Thursday became the first medallist Vijender Singh did it crucial as the Indian Indian to win the for the first time after he men’s team suffered a 1-4 International Hockey opened India’s account at the loss against a young Federation’s (FIH) Player world championships with a Malaysian side in their of the Year award, capping bronze in the 75kg division. second Group B match of a memorable 2019 season The 24-year-old Panghal the Badminton Asia Team in which he led the side to holds the numero uno position Championships here on Olympic qualification. with 420 points. “It is a great Thursday. The 27-year-old midfield- HOCKEY IS NOT feeling and obviously means a With Satwik pulling out er, thus, became the first lot to me because it will help the event due to an ankle from the country to win NATIONAL GAME, me in being seeded at the qual- sprain, India were forced the accolade since the ifiers. Being World No. 1 also to field two scratch pairs awards were introduced in SAYS RTI REPLY gives you a renewed sense of — M.R. Arjun and Chirag 1999. confidence,” Panghal said. Shetty and Dhruv Kapila He beat competition from Mumbai, Feb. 13: The “I hope to secure an Olympic and Lakshya Sen, both of Belgium’s Arthur van Union Ministry of Youth spot in the first qualifier itself,” whom lost their respective Dorren and Lucas Villa of Affairs and Sports has added the diminutive boxer ties. Argentina, who came sec- said that the Centre has from Rohtak. — PTI Kidambi Srikanth was ond and third respectively. not declared any sport as the only shuttler to regis- Manpreet polled a total of the ‘national game’ of the ter a win as world no. 11 B. 35.2 per cent of combined country. Sai Praneeth and H.S. votes, which includes The ministry said this Sandhu ousts Prannoy too went down in National Associations, in response to an RTI the other singles in media, fans and players. query filed by a school Fadte in quarters straight games at the Van Dorren, on the other teacher from Dhule dis- Chennai: The experienced Rizal Memorial Sports hand, got combined vote trict of north Harinder Pal Sandhu quelled Complex. share of 19.7 per cent while Maharashtra. the youthful exuberance of After this loss, India fin- Villa polled 16.5 per cent in There is a popular per- Yash Fadte, beating him in ished second in the group his favour. ception that hockey is the straight games on Thursday to and will now take on Manpreet, who had national sport of India. storm into the semifinals of the Thailand in the quarterfi- represented India at The RTI query had men’s singles in the 77th Senior nals on Friday. 2012 London and 2016 sought to know when was National Squash Championship India locked horns with Rio Olympics, has hockey declared as at the ISA courts here. Malaysia and with Satwik enjoyed a long career India’s national game. Meanwhile, Delhi’s Sanya Vats, a missing, the onus was on in the national team Mayuresh Agrawal, former junior star, ousted the Praneeth to give India a since he made his who teaches in V.K. Patil seasoned and higher seeded good start but the world debut in 2011. He now International School in Urwashi Joshi of Maharashtra in championships bronze has 260 international Sindkheda tehsil of the women’s singles. medallist lost 18-21, 15-21 appearances under his Dhule district, has Sandhu, seeded in the 3-4 to world no. 14 Lee Zii Jia. belt. Last year, Manpreet received the reply letter bracket, gave a lesson in Chirag and Arjun then led India to victory in the from the ministry dated stroke-play to the young Goan lasted just 31 minutes India’s Kidambi Srikanth in action during his men’s sin- ASIA TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS FIH Olympic Qualifiers, January 15, 2020. (seeded 5/8), winning 11-7, 11- 2, before going down 18-21, gles match against Cheam June Wei of Malaysia. ● securing their Tokyo He said he had filed the 11-7 to book a spot in the last 15-21 to world no. 8 With Doubles specialist Satwiksairaj Olympics spot. query after his students four. The top seeds in the men’s Malaysian combination of 17 pair of Ong Yew Sin Malaysia a comfortable 4- Rankireddy pulling out the event due to Talking about the last asked when hockey was and women’s sections respec- Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi and Teo Ee Yi, losing 14- 1 victory. an ankle sprain, India were forced to season, Manpreet said: “If declared as the national tively — Saurav Ghosal and Yik as India lagged 0-2. 21, 14-21 in 27 minutes as It will take a extraordi- field two scratch pairs — M.R. Arjun and you look at our year, we did game of the country. Joshna Chinappa — had no Former world no. 1 Malaysia took an unas- nary effort from India to well in every tournament “The government has trouble in advancing to the Srikanth then struggled sailable 3-1 lead. get across Thailand. Chirag Shetty and the second team had we participated in. Be it not declared any semifinals. — PTI past 23-year-old Cheam In the third singles, Thailand boosts of qual- Dhruv Kapila and Lakshya Sen, both of the FIH Series Finals in sport/game as the June Wei, a 2014 Youth Prannoy was no match for ity players such as World whom lost their respective ties. June or the test series in National Game of the Olympic Games gold Leong Jun Hao, a 2017 No.12 Kantaphon Belgium where we played country, as the objective EB settle for draw medallist, 14-21, 21-16, 21- World Junior Wangcharoen, three-time ● Kidambi Srikanth was the only shuttler the hosts as well as Spain of the government is to 19 to make it 1-2 after the Championships silver world junior champion to register a win as world No.11 B. Sai and beat them. encourage/promote all against Punjab FC first three ties. medallist and a 2017 Asian Kunlavut Vitidsarn and Praneeth and H.S. Prannoy too lost. India “Our biggest goal in 2019 popular sports disci- However, makeshift pair Junior Champion, as he 2018 Japan Open runners- was to book our berth at plines,” the reply from Kalyani, West Bengal: Already of Dhruv and Lakshya went down 10-21, 15-21 in up Khosit Phetpradab in finished second in their group and will the Olympics,” India cap- the ministry stated. out of the reckoning for a play- couldn’t get past world no. 34 minutes to hand the singles. — PTI take on Thailand in the quarterfinals. tain added. — PTI — PTI off berth, East Bengal settled for a 1-1 draw against Punjab FC in their I-League clash here on Thursday. Liberian forward CORONAVIRUS | SCARE Ansumana Kromah gave East Bengal a ninth minute lead with his powerful long range strike to give the home side a domi- United signing Ighalo nating start. However, they failed to hold on to their lead with attacking midfielder Girik Khosla producing a fine finish trains away from side after being set up by Sergio Barboza in the 40th minute. London, Feb. 13: Odion problems re-entering the East Bengal kept making Ighalo, Manchester Odion United Kingdom. inroads with a flurry of attacks United’s January sign- Ighalo Both The Times and in the second-half but Punjab ing from China, has been The Daily Mirror report- FC defence managed to hold training away from the ed Ighalo had been told on to settle for one point from club’s facilities as a pre- to stay away from the their away fixture. The easiest caution due to the coron- club’s Carrington train- second-half chance for the red- avirus outbreak, British ing centre — where hun- and-gold came in the 74th media reported on dreds of staff work — as minute with Kromah in the Thursday. he went through a 14-day frontline once again but it was The 30-year-old quarantine period. Anwar Ali who managed to pull Nigerian international The former Watford off a goal-line clearance. striker joined United on star — who has not Second-placed Punjab now loan until the end of the played a competitive have 18 points from 12 matches, season on January 31 — match since December 6 while East Bengal (12 points transfer deadline day — — has instead been put from 12 matches) managed to from Chinese club through his paces by a jump one spot to ninth place on Shanghai Shenhua. personal trainer at the goal difference with NEROCA. He is due to meet with Chelsea as they have GB Taekwondo — PTI his United team-mates been away at a training Headquarters in for the first time this camp in Spain — Ighalo Manchester, not far from weekend ahead of did not travel because of rivals Manchester City’s JAMSHEDPUR, Monday’s clash with fears he might have ground. — AFP HYDERABAD IN BILBAO DEFEAT A STALEMATE Ruiz helps Napoli GRANADA IN Hyderabad: An injury-time goal from Sumeet Passi helped edge past Milan COPA FIRST LEG Jamshedpur FC eke out a 1-1 draw against Hyderabad FC in Milan, Feb. 13: Fabian ● Fabian Ruiz Bilbao (Spain), Feb. an Indian Super League match Ruiz scored the only 13: Captain Iker at the GMC Balayogi Stadium goal as Napoli shocked broke through Muniain scored the here on Thursday. Inter Milan 1-0 in their after 57 minutes to only goal as Athletic Nestor Gordillo’s 39th-minute Italian Cup semifinal, help Napoli beat Bilbao defeated strike looked to be enough for first leg tie in the San Inter Milan 1-0 in Granada 1-0 in the first the hosts to get only their sec- Siro on Wednesday. their Italian Cup leg of their Copa del ond win of the season, but The Spanish midfield- Rey semifinal on Passi’s late equaliser put paid er broke through after semifinal game. Wednesday. to the hopes of Hyderabad 57 minutes to get Muniain, 27, had been team. Gennaro Gattuso’s side Padelli denying Piotr red-carded in his With this draw, Hyderabad back to winning ways Zielinski just before the team’s 2-1 defeat to Real continue to be at the bottom of after their 2-3 league break in front of a Sociedad in La Liga at the league table after 17 games defeat at home to lowly crowd of nearly 60,000 the weekend. with seven points, while Lecce last weekend. in northern Italy. However, he was the Jamshedpur are now seventh Ruiz picked up a Conte sent on Cristian toast of the city on with 18 points. Giovanni Di Lorenzo Eriksen after 65 minutes Wednesday when he Hyderabad FC had the first cross, beating three and the Dane threatened latched onto a cross chance of the game from a cor- Inter defenders to curl but David Ospina held from Inaki Williams ner-kick in the fourth minute. in past a helpless firm in the Napoli goal. just three minutes Marcelinho’s delivery was head- Daniele Padelli. Napoli, who last won before the interval to ed onto the post by Adil Khan “This is the real the trophy in 2014, now score the game’s only before a panicked defence Napoli. Big compli- take a slim advantage goal. cleared the danger. ments to my lads,” said into the second leg at Athletic coach Gaizka Jamshedpur struggled to Gattuso, whose side are their Stadio San Paolo Garitano named the make an impact in the final 11th in the Serie A table. on March 5. same team which third of the match. But he warned: “The derby certainly shocked Barcelona in — PTI “There’s no reason to took away a lot of ener- the quarter-finals last smile, we still haven’t gy,” said Conte. week and they will con- achieved anything yet.” “But we’re talking sider themselves unfor- Regd. No. H/SD/509/2018-20 Antonio Conte’s side about Napoli, who beat tunate not to have won Printed and Published by T. looked sluggish days Lazio, Juventus, by a greater margin on Venkateswarlu on behalf of Deccan after their thrilling 4-2 Liverpool. Wednesday after hav- Chronicle Holdings Limited. Printed derby win over AC “It’s a team of sub- ing two strikes ruled at Deccan Chronicle Press situated Milan which put them stance despite its posi- out for offside. at Plot No. 9 Alwal Village, Vallabh Nagar Taluk, Medchal Malkajgiri top of the Serie A table. tion in the standings.” The second, scored off Dist. Telangana and Published at 36, Both sides had their The final will take a fine volley in the 61st S.D. Road, Secunderabad-3. chances in the first half place in the Stadio minute by Ander Capa, RNI Registration No. 3081/1957. with Lautaro Martínez Olimpico in Rome on needed an intervention Editor: Aditya Sinha nodding wide with May 13. — AFP by VAR. — AFP