"  '          RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015 -. )%'-&(/012 $%$%, ($!)*+ %$%-   ;.C+"# ;;BD "080;!8: !@#;(!A /.C+B. /):+;#B    90+89+"08+#.. !;+8#.8!+" /#B"# :2(#+;;!7<       " #%5E--" ' F !  +      +    * 0+/03 /4  !"#$% $!#& '(#) ! ! "$% !& 
    

                          

    8+9:+;0 amended SC/AT Act. The worry over caste arith- #$$$% ith several of its leaders metic close to the Lok Sabha #7<         Wopenly expressing con- poll 2019 and the spiraling cerns over the upper caste implications of the SC/ST        anger against restoration of (Prevention of Atrocities) 
   the stringent provision of the Amendment Bill, 2018 passed !"=!#8   
 
Scheduled Caste/Scheduled in Parliament last month to +
  Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) nullify the Supreme Court     

Act, the BJP is set to discuss the order (which had set certain   
  issue in its National Executive safeguards prior to the arrest of      R meeting beginning on Saturday. the accused) has rattled the   >;!   The party is keenly moni- party leadership. 7<2!    toring the needle of the upper Prime Minister Narendra ! 0   !    caste compass in view of the Modi and BJP president Amit :  ( 42   /9;8: upcoming Assembly elections Shah reportedly discussed the 
     in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh implication of the scenario    
  and Chhattisgarh, and next and instructed party leaders n sharp contrast to the rec- safeguarding our nation who year’s Lok Sabha poll. and spokespersons to be cau- #  
 Ionciliatory tone of Pakistan’s fought remarkably in these “The Supreme Court ver- tious and not to offer a “loose      Prime Minister Imran Khan difficult times and stood dict was correct. There should comment” on the issue.  
  towards India, Army chief against such elements,” the be safeguards,” asserted former Though not averse to take      General Qamar Jawed Bajwa Army chief added. Union Agriculture Minister credit for moving and having       has vowed to avenge blood of “We have sacrificed a lot and BJP MP from passed the Amendment Bill, ?     
  the country’s soldiers being but our job is not done. The Muzaffarnagar, Sanjeev Balyan, 2018, by Parliament in August,      shed on the border. war is still ongoing. We have yet denouncing the harsh clauses the BJP is uncomfortable with General Bajwa’s comments to reach the pinnacle of peace. in the Act. Talking to The the response the upper caste- However, the BJP feels that and the Congress without any came while addressing the We have to make Pakistan Pioneer, the BJP leader said the sponsored Bharat Bandh got in while it may have to bear the evidence on the ground. Defence Day ceremony in reach a level where no one can SC/ST Act “is driving fissures the Hindi heartland. brunt of the upper caste anger, The matter was also recent- + ,"     Rawalpindi on Thursday to look at us with an evil intent.” in social integration”. The upper castes have it would help them ly discussed at the meeting of mark the 53rd anniversary of Former Indian cricketer- On the “anger” against alleged rampant misuse of the refurbish their image among the BJP Chief Ministers with the 1965 war with India. He turned-politician Navjot Singh reservation politics, Balyan law which gives police the the Dalits. the Prime Minister. Source also paid respect to “brothers Sidhu earlier came under said the BJP manifesto speaks power to arrest the accused “The expression of anger said the BJP leadership is ask-    
  and sisters in the occupied severe criticism after he hugged of reservation on “economic without preliminary enquiry and agitation by upper caste ing the upper caste MPs and its Jammu & Kashmir who’re writ- General Bajwa during Khan’s basis” and “that should be our and has no provision of antic- against the restoration of strin- leaders to reach out to their ing the history of resistance”. oath-taking ceremony last party line”. ipatory bail. gent clauses in the Act goes on upper caste voters and assure   .+ “We will avenge the blood month. The BJP MP was obvious- The Supreme Court, in its to puncture the Opposition them that the Act would not be flowing on the border,” Geo Sidhu’s photo of him seat- ly articulating upper caste angst order on the SC/ST Act, had propaganda that we are against allowed to be misused on the  8+9:+;0 overturned the March 20 order News quoted General Bajwa, as ed next to President of Pakistan over the “unfair treatment” laid down stringent safeguards, the Dalits,” said a senior ground. on rampant misuse of the saying in the presence of Prime Occupied Kashmir (PoK) meted out to them in the cur- including provisions for antic- BJP leader requesting The BJP Government in he new amendments to the stringent SC/ST Act and held Minister, who had earlier said Masood Khan at the ceremo- rent system. ipatory bail and a “preliminary anonymity and suggesting that UP has already scrutinised TSC/ST law passed by that there shall be no immedi- that his Pakistan Tehreek-e- ny had also created some rip- Earlier party MP enquiry” before registration of by default the BJP’s image is most of the cases under the Act Parliament cannot be stayed at ate arrest on any complaint Insaf (PTI) Government ples back home. Subramanian Swami, a case. The apex court had getting awash (without the and maintained that “right this stage, the Supreme Court filed under the law. favoured good relations with Speaking at the same event, Harshwardhan Singh noted that there had been party asking for it). compensations” would be given said Friday (rpt Friday), as it It had also passed a slew of India and wanted to see lead- Khan said that “Pakistan would Dungarpur, Kalraj Mishra “instances of abuse” of the Act He said the party has, for wherever instances of misuse sought the Centre’s response on directions and said a public ser- ers of the two countries sitting no more participate in some- among several other leaders by “vested interests” for polit- long, been accused of playing were proved after the investi- a batch of pleas challenging the vant can be arrested in cases across the table to resolve all one else’s war” and insisted that have openly slammed the ical or personal reasons. anti-Dalit politics by the Left gation. fresh provisions. lodged under the SC/ST Act disputes, including Kashmir. there was no civil-military The pleas have sought dec- only after prior approval by the “Our armed forces and the divide in the country. laration of the new amend- competent authority. entire nation have learned He said that he was against ments to the Schedule Castes On Friday, a Bench of much during their service to the war from the very begin- 
 
 and Schedules Tribes Justices AK Sikri and Ashok Pakistan. Fear and terrorism ning and his Government’s   (Prevention of Atrocities) Act Bhushan issued notice to the were thrust upon us. Our foreign policy would be in the as ultra vires. Centre and sought its response homes, schools, places of wor- best interest of the nation. Parliament on August 9 in six weeks. ship, recreational sites and “I was against this war  
!"
had passed the bill to overturn Counsel for petitioner national institutions were from the very beginning. “We the apex court order Prathvi Raj Chauhan said the attacked,” General Bajwa said. will not become part of a war concerning certain safeguards bench should at least stay the “Efforts were made to of any other country (in     against arrest under the SC and operation of the new provisions weaken and divide us from future)... Our foreign policy ST law. till the petition is being heard within. But I salute all the cit- will be in the best interest of the The new amendments had by the court. izens of Pakistan and the ones nation,” he said.      & 
R   New Delhi: Sinking  may rate of 65.1 per dollar in 2017, lead the Centre to cater to according to Bloomberg.    another mega expenditure — A weak currency always  
 R  
       foreign debt. According an hurts a country. Be it India or        estimate by the State Bank of any other part of the world.       India, at the current rate, India Very simply, everything gets                 !    "#      / /         will have to shell out an addi- more expensive. This includes $  %!$&    " ' (  )   *!        tional Rs 68,500 crore. luxuries like holidaying over- n a major relief to former   !  The currency has lost more seas, buying imported goods     8+9:+;0 Intelligence inputs provid- IChief Minister Ajit Jogi ahead "     than 11 per cent to the dollar like cars and smartphones, ed by Central security agencies of Assembly polls in the State,   #  $ this year. The rupee fell past 72 studying abroad. This has an wo suspected terrorists, affil- and subsequent investigation the Supreme Court on Friday per dollar to a record low on inflationary tendency and Tiated to the Islamic State of by Delhi Police revealed that upheld the Chhattisgarh High      Thursday, amid a deepening everyday consumables can Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Jammu the duo was using Delhi as a Court’s decision on his caste.     emerging market contagion become more expensive for & Kashmir (ISJK) organisa- transit point, Kushwah said. Counsellor for Jogi in the  !!" #  and the risk of a wider current- you. Vegetables, groceries, and tion, were arrested from near “They were arrested from Supreme Court, Rahul Tyagi   %   &  account deficit. the proverbial ‘roti, kapda the Red Fort by the Special Cell Jama Masjid bus stop near informed The Pioneer that the  '  &  India’s short-term debt makaan’ get costlier. (anti-terror unit of Delhi Police). Red Fort around 10.45pm on Chhattisgarh High Court had    (  obligations, which included Rupee depreciation will The duo hailing from Shopian Thursday. They had arrived in earlier ruled that the decision of        non-resident deposits as well as also have a direct impact on in Kashmir Valley were identi- Delhi on September 4 and High Power Committee about          overseas commercial borrow- home loans. This means it is a fied as Parvez (24) and Jamshid were planning to return back to cancellation of Jogi’s caste cer-    )    ings by companies, totaled bad time to get into one. What’s (19). They were arrested from Jammu. The accused identified tificate was wrong.  (   )  $# USD 217.6 billion in 2017. another area of concern is the Jama Masjid bus stop near as Parvaiz Rashid Lone and It had further ordered the        Assuming 50 per cent has imports. A weak rupee to the the Red Fort, said PS Kushwah, Jamsheed Zahoor Paul, resi- State government to constitute decision about constituting a The Supreme Court during       either been paid in the first half dollar ratio makes imports Deputy Commissioner of Police dents of Shopian, J&K claimed a new High Power Committee new High Power Committee hearing on the case on Friday      of 2018 or was rolled over to costlier for India. Some imports (DCP) Special Cell. to be procuring weapons from on deciding about Jogi’s caste. and nullifying the cancellation had upheld the decision of        next year, the remaining are inevitable. One of the main They were boarding a bus UP on instructions of ISJK Statements and claims of Jogi of caste certificate, social Chhattisgarh High Court and    &'(  $ amount to be repaid would be ones is oil where crude oil to return to Jammu & Kashmir chief Omar Ibn Nazir and should also be incorporated in worker Sant Kumar Netam had ruled that decision about 7.1 trillion rupees computed prices are already on the rise. when they were nabbed around transporting it to Jammu,” the it, the court had ruled, he said. had approached the cancellation of caste certificate   # $  using the average exchange Agencies 10.45 pm on Thursday. DCP stated. Against the High Court Supreme Court. of Jogi was wrong, Tyagi said.     %&' "+   "   ,"+"-./   )     +"    !"      !#  0          #         8+9:+;0 Government’s top officials to 200 trees are yet to be axed in four lane bridges developed on   
     acquire and handover the land Haryana due to non-issuance Murthal, Ganaur and Samalkha        xpressing annoyance over required and also complete of permission from the would be expanded. Now there     Eslow pace of works, Prime the tree feeling work. He also Environment Ministry. Still, would be no diversion anywhere       Minister Office (PMO) has asked the Delhi Government’s the environmental clearance for on the National Highway. The 2 2    directed chief secretaries senior officials to remove some areas in Haryana and major road junctions would be "    / 4    Haryana and Delhi to speed up encroachment and complete Delhi sections is yet to be linked to main roads without L    M$ widening of 70-km long stretch the demarcation of land work received,” sources added. affecting the traffic. of road on National Highway - by September 15. Prime According to GV Shenoy, a If constructed, this would     1, from Mukarba Chowk in Minister Narendra Modi had traffic expert, the widening of be third highway after Eastern     Delhi to Panipat in Haryana. reviewed the progress of the NH-1 will help commuter has- Peripheral Expressway (135 &!( ) (      The Rs 2128.72 crore pro- projects on August 29 and sle free travelling on the stretch. km) and Western Peripheral 0      )   ject was delayed due land expressed annoyance over The construction work has Expressway (135km) that help         acquisition, permission for delay of the project. created problems for motorists to reduce traffic burden on the       &' axing of trees, and encroach- “The PMO has also direct- at several places, mainly at Capital’s road. The Expressways      ments. ed the Ministry of Road, crossings over the drains in are also under construction. All      !  Motorists face regular traf- Transport and Highways Sonepat district. At these the traffic, which is not bound ,!-    $ fic jams due to slow pace of (MoRTH) to coordinate with points, the existing facility of to Delhi will use this road and widening of the stretch. The the State Governments to speed six lanes has been reduced to this will ease out the traffic in   * # road would have 29 minor up the project. It has also just to two lanes and vehicles Delhi. To decongest NH-1 fur- +      bridges, 10 flyovers, five vehic- directed to resolve the issue of get stuck or move at a snail’s ther, the Centre has approved '%',"'      ular under passes, five passen- tree cutting with state govern- pace. Another traffic problem to construct another highway  !   7   gers under passes, 11 foot over ments,” sources said. The high- is being faced at a crossing from NH-1 to Patiala and )   
    
 bridges and 15 major road way would have service lanes point between Kundli and Rai Sangrur from Delhi, which 4   ! 2   $ junctions on the highway. on both sides and it was likely as the construction of a road will go via Pehowa and #     Top sources said the PMO to be completed by April 2019. overbridge is in progress. Kurkshetra. It will be 90-km  7   $ has directed the Haryana “It is estimated as many as Under this project, the old stretch.   ()  (* +, -./+ 

 /  0
        ./)(0

  .  
   8+9:+;0 the Indo-Bangla the Supreme Court has stayed frontier, BGB Chief the move following petitions SF Director General KK Maj Gen Md said his against the move. :2(;   if it will “cross the century mark BSharma on Friday said the Force is “very much There are about 40,000 under this Government”. Singh West Bengal Government is alert” to prevent refugees settled in different said the Government has “slightly friendly” to the unauthorised move- parts of the country including    earned 11 lakh crore through Rohingyas moving from dif- ment of Rohingyas in Jammu & Kashmir. The taxes on petrol and diesel. The ferent parts of the country to their country and Rohingyas have been involved !&&  common man, who has paid the State and has set up camps towards the border in terror cases including the the taxes, should take to the for 70 families. areas. Bodh Gaya blasts.   8+9:+;0 streets to protest. He said the “…there has not been any the help of NGOs besides sup- “There are a large number INSET Congress will organise State- large-scale influx of Rohingyas port from the local MLA and of Rohingyas along the The first smart fence pilot lmost six years after a level press conferences in over into India (from Bangladesh). MP, Intelligence sources said. Bangladesh-Myanmar border project (Comprehensive ABharat Bandh call given by 90 cities to highlight the fuel Whatever Rohingyas are The BSF had conducted an and all the security agencies Integrated Border Management the BJP protesting the fuel price rise and urged people to already there in the country, are enquiry in conjunction with including BGB are keeping System) that envisages deploy- price hike in the regime of make the bandh a success by also under pressure at some the IB to ascertain the presence them confined to the area allo- ment of laser fences and tech- Manmohan Singh, the participating in it. places; so they are going to of the Rohingyas in West cated to them. But yet, in very nology-enabled barriers to plug Congress too has announced a bandh as they are in Prime Minister during the BJP and NDA partners West Bengal, a State which is Bengal. few cases, they are slipping out vulnerable gaps along India’s massive protest across the Government. Senior party UPA’s tenure had said the rupee had called for nationwide slightly friendly with them,” Denying any large-scale of the camps and we are find- borders is set to be formally country against the incumbent leaders recalled how BJP had is in hospital. The rupee has bandh to demand a rollback of Sharma said in a joint Press influx of Rohingyas fleeing ing them in some other parts launched by Union Home Government as petrol is priced protested and called for Bharat touched an all-time low against the then steepest-ever petrol conference with his from Myanmar to Bangladesh of Bangladesh. Our security Minister Rajnath Singh later exorbitantly at 80 per litre Bandh on May 31, 2012. the US dollar, where is the price hike and termed the UPA Bangladeshi counterpart Maj into India, the BSF DG said, forces are very much alert and this week, the BSF DG said, against the UPA’s 69 per litre. Congress spokesperson Prime Minister now? He is nei- government as an “anti-people” Gen Md Shafeenul Islam, Chief “We are alive to the situation. as we detect them, we get them adding the gadgets will be The DMK has announced RPN Singh said all political ther tweeting nor giving any and a “savage attack” on the of Border Guards Bangladesh. We are aware that a large num- back to our camps again. We deployed along 2,400-km fron- to extend its support to the parties will take to the streets speech. Never has the rupee people. TMC and DMK, then “They (West Bengal ber of Rohingyas are assembled are very keen on keeping them tier with Pakistan and nationwide shutdown on to protest against the rising touched such low levels in the partners in UPA had demand- Government) have set up there in Bangladesh and from in the designated camps,” the Bangladesh in the future. “The September 10 and has com- prices of petrol and diesel that history of the country. The ed a rollback of fuel price hike. camps for Rohingyas coming time-to-time some small BGB DG said. first pilot project of the CBIM mitted for an active part in are hitting the common man country wants to ask him why Congress also reminded from within the country and groups did try to enter India, The joint Press conference system or smart fence is already making it a success. hard and questioned the Prime is he silent? Is the rupee in hos- the Manmohan Singh not from Bangladesh. We got it but I am very happy to say that by BSF and BGB chiefs was in place and working in The Congress said most of Minister’s silence on the issue. pital today?” he asked. Government’s argument that (Rohingyas presence in West we did not let them succeed.” held after conclusion of the Jammu. The home minister the Opposition parties have He said the September 10 Singh alleged that this the hike was effected by petro- Bengal) inquired and there “So, I am very happy to say biannual talks between the two will formally launch it on given their consent to support ‘Bharat Bandh’ protest is “not Government has failed on all leum companies as the pricing were about 70 odd families who the BSF has successfully con- border guarding forces. The September 17... But this is a and its leaders have talked to of the Congress but of the fronts, including “economy, of petrol stands deregulated. had come from various places tained the influx of Rohigyas Bangla delegation was on a six- tentative date. On the eastern the Left parties, the Samajwadi common man”. employment, welfare of the Also demanding a roll back, the within India,” Sharma further and we have not allowed any day visit to India for the talks. side in Dhubri, across the Party, the NCP, RJD and oth- Congress hit out at Prime youth, farmers and every sec- then Shiv Sena supremo late said. intrusion so far. This has also The Centre views the pres- Brahmuptra, we have installed ers, who have extended their Minister Narendra Modi, ask- tion of society”. Bal Thackeray had said a The Intelligence Bureau in been verified by our sister ence of Rohingyas as a securi- technical solutions on a stretch support to the Congress on the ing whether petrol prices He said petrol has touched Bharat bandh is “acceptable” to a report to the Union Home security agencies,” the BSF DG ty threat and considers them as of 55-60 kilometers because issue. On Trinamool Congress, would hit the century mark the 80 mark in Delhi and has the party. Anti-corruption cru- Ministry has said that the 70 asserted. illegal immigrants and not as there is no possibility of erect- the party said it has agreed to under his Government and if breached the 90 mark at sader Anna Hazare too had families have been settled in Replying to questions on refugees. The Centre is in ing a (physical) fence there,” the support but won’t give a call for the rupee was in hospital. “The places like Bhiwandi and asked joined the battle. North 24 Parganas district with movement of Rohingyas along favour of deporting them but BSF chief added.  "  $  1 
$%     !  )     " "        &   "       8+9:+;0 signed in the presence of benefit from the technical   8+9:+;0 tle, tranquil and calm. They   & Minister of State (I/C), assistance activities The pro- give everything and lose noth- ndia and France signed an Ministry of Housing & gramme includes learning etting aside all rumour mills ing. Anyone can drink from Iimplementation agree- Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh and exchange formats with Sdoubting Congress chief them. There is no hatred here.   8+9:+;0 India, saying his military was ment on ‘Mobilise Your City Puri and Alexander Ziegler, other cities across India for Rahul Gandhi’s Kailash This is why we worship these ready to avenge bloodshed of its (MYC) programme in which Ambassador of France in exchanges on best practices. Mansarovar Yatra, his party on waters in India,” he had said on itting out at the Congress for men on the border with ‘khoon ka three pilot cities will be pro- India. MYC aims to extend The details of the project Friday posted images of his visit Twitter. The 48-year-old leader H“criticising” country’s Prime badla khoon’ and in India a vided support to reduce their help to 100 cities globally to activities will be worked out and also shared his fitness data is undertaking the Kailash Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader is thanking Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduce Green House Gas by AFD in consultation with with other details of the Gandhi Mansarovar Yatra in accor- praising Pakistan’s Premier Imran Pakistan,” Hussain said. emissions in urban trans- (GHG) emissions by pro- MoHUA and the three part- scion’s trek to the abode of Lord dance with a wish he expressed Khan, the BJP on Friday accused Sidhu on Friday said he had port. Under the programme, moting sustainable urban ner cities including institu- Shiva. in April when his plane Punjab Tourism Minister Navjot “no words to thank” Pakistan’s new three Indian cities — transport and to promote tions such as the respective “Leaving all the haters *! plunged hundreds of feet dur- Singh Sidhu of insulting India and Prime Minister for opening the Nagpur, Kochi and sustainability in urban special purpose vehicles behind, Congress president ing the campaign for the sought an explanation from the corridor of Kartarpur Sahib on Ahmedabad — will get grant spaces. (SPVs) for smart cities, the Rahul Gandhi sets the pace Karnataka polls. Opposition party for the state- Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary in to the tune of 3.5 million “More funds would be municipal corporations and during his Kailash Yatra. Can On April 26, the plane ments made by its leader. November. “They (Pakistan) are Euros as part of the EU’s provided to India as loan to any transport authority or you keep up?,” the Congress and expected to be back from carrying the Congress chief and “Navjot Sidhu and Congress ready to open the corridor of commitment under the Paris take forward the smart city transport related SPV,” the said on its official Twitter han- his Yatra by end of this week. some others from Delhi to should give a clarification whether Kartarpur Sahib on the 550 birth Climate agreement to and sustainable transport Ministry officials said. dle. The party also posted a pic- The Congress chief also Hubballi airport in Karnataka this is also the line of the party oth- anniversary of Guru Nanak Ji. achieve a “sustainable trans- initiatives in the three cities According to the MoU, ture of a smiling Rahul posing tweeted a video of the hills on developed a technical problem erwise we will consider it a state- There can be no bigger happiness port policy”. These cities are on pilot basis,” said officials the MYC is an initiative in front of the Mount Kailash, his official Twitter handle and and tilted heavily on the left ment by Congress president Rahul than this for the people of Punjab,” the part of the 100 cities of HUA ministry. According combining urban mobility considered the abode of Lord said, “Shiva is the Universe”. side. The plane dipped steeply Gandhi. This has become Congress’ Sidhu was quoted as saying. He selected under the smart to the ministry, based on a objectives and climate con- Shiva, on Twitter along with On Thursday as well, he had with violent shuddering, but nature now-to insult India and its also asked Central Government to city mission in the country. proposal made by AFD in siderations. It aims at pro- details of his trekking details posted a picture of Mount soon recovered and landed Prime Minister and praise Pakistan reciprocate Khan’s gesture. The MYC agreement 2015, the EU has agreed to viding solutions in a fully compiled by popular fitness Kailash, saying, “It is so hum- safely. Three days later he and its leaders,” said BJP spokesman BJP spokesman pointed to was signed by Mukund provide 3.5 million euros integrated manner, analysing mobile app ‘fitbit’. bling to be walking in the announced during a rally that Syed Shahnawaz Hussain. Bajwa’s speech at Pakistan’s 53rd Kumar Sinha, OSD and ex- through the AFD to con- different modes of trans- The fitbit data showed shadow of this giant.” he wanted to undertake the “Navjot Sidhu is a Congress Defence Day on Thursday to crit- officio Joint Secretary in the tribute to specific invest- portation within the urban Rahul having travelled 46,433 He had earlier put out pic- arduous annual pilgrimage to leader and his statement thanking icise Sidhu who was profuse in his Urban Affairs Ministry and ments and technical assis- fabric, with the objective of steps, 203 floors, 34.31 kms tures of the “tranquil and calm” Mount Kailash, which is con- Pakistan is an indication of what praise for Pakistan premier. “We the Regional Director of tance components within the providing people long-term, over 463 minutes, while burn- waters of the lake and said there sidered the abode of Lord the Congress feels about Pakistan. will avenge the blood flowing on Agence Française de MYC in India. sustainable, adequate, reliable ing 4,466 calories. He left the “is no hatred here”. “The waters Shiva in Hindu mythology and On one side General Qamar Javed the border,” reports from Pakistan Développement (AfD), “The pilot cities selected and cost-efficient trans- national Capital on August 31 of lake Mansarovar are so gen- is in the Tibetan Himalayas. Bajwa has spewed venom against quoted Bajwa as saying. Nicolas Fornage. It was as well as the MoHUA will portation opportunities. &. /    '    ()    ,*" 0         /R *+,-",).      8+9:+;0 terpart James Mattis after the   8+9:+;0 
 2+2dialogue.   P# ignifying the growing Incidentally, India and he Centre’s rice procure- Sdefence ties between India Russia also held the first ever Tment has surpassed the tar- $  and US, the armies of two tri-service joint drill this year. get at 38 million tonnes so far  %   # countries will hold a joint exer- Earlier, the three Services used in the ongoing 2017-18 mar- &   % cise ‘Yudh Abhyas’ in to have separate exercises of keting year that will end this Chaubatia, Uttrakhand for 12 their respective units. month. The rice procurement ' days starting from September The two defence ministers target set for this year was 37.5 16. The exercise takes place of India and US also million tonnes. and State agencies have under- days after the maiden 2+2 dia- announced their readiness to According to Food taken procurement operation. logue here on Thursday begin negotiations on an Ministry, the Government had For the current year, the between the external and Industrial Security Annex procured 34.35 million tonnes Government has fixed paddy Defence Ministers of two (ISA) that would support clos- during the last marketing year MSP of ‘common’ grade variety nations covering the entire er defense industry cooperation (October-September), surpass- at 1,550 per quintal, while that range of strategic issues besides and collaboration. ing the target of 33 million of ‘A’ grade variety at 1,590 per cross-border terrorism, India and the US have tonnes set for that year. quintal. According to enhancing defence trade and signed the General Security of “Rice procurement is com- Agriculture Ministry data, the sharing of cutting edge tech- Military Information ing to closure this month. So far, total area planted during the nology. Agreement (GSOMIA) years   1 '  1     2   !  /" + " %2!/+&' (  )   *! we have procured 38 million current kharif season crossed The joint army exercise ago and allows sharing of clas- tonnes. We have purchased the 100-million-hectare mark held every year alternately in sified information from US more than the target set for this this week. And for the first time India and US will see this year Government and American ()*+,- year,” the official said this year, rice planting overtook more than 350 troops from companies with Indian Much of the rice was pur- the area sown in the previous each side practicing various Government and Defence chased from States like Punjab, season. The total area under drill including urban terrorism Public Sector Undertakings Chattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, cultivation, however, is still besides familiarizing them- (DPSU) but not with Indian     "       .  Haryana, Odisha, Andhra marginally lower at 1,023 (lakh selves with weapons and tech- private companies. The ISA is Pradesh and West Bengal. Over hectare) as compared to 1,027 nology of each other’s armies, required to enable this and par-    8+9:+;0 the Rann of Kuchchh after defunct rivers — suggested 33 percent of the country’s lakh hectare covered during the officials said here on Friday. ticularly important as India passing through, Sindh and that the Sarsuti-Markanda total rice production has been corresponding week last year. The Indian team will be repre- opens up defence manufactur- sub-committee of the Bahawalpur Provinces of rivulets in Haryana were the procured at the MSP. Rice planting, on the other sented by a unit of 15 Garwhal ing to the private sector in a big AGovernment-appointed Pakistan. water courses of the “eastern The paddy is procured at hand, was completed on 370 Rifles. The last episode was way. panel for a multidisciplinary According to a section of branch of a Himalayan river” the minimum support price lakh hectare as against 368 held in Joint Base, Lewis- To further defence inno- study of the Saraswati river has historians, on the bank of and the Ghaggar-Patiali chan- (MSP). State-run Food lakh hectare covered in same McChord, US. vation, a Memorandum of called for protection of the sites Sarasvati river existed an nels were the western branch- Corporation of India (FCI) period in the previous year. Meanwhile, during the 2+2 Intent was signed between in Punjab, Rajasthan and ancient civilisation of the world es. dialogue it was decided to the U.S. Defense Innovation Haryana — where it has found Geographical Survey of India known as Harappan Dr BR Mani, DG of the hold the first ever tri-service Unit (DIU) and the Indian scientific evidences about exis- (GSI), Dr GS Bhardwaj was Civilisation. They said that the National Museum, AR exercise off the East Coast of Defence Innovation tence of the ancient river — said to have made a presenta- Yamuna, Sutlej and Ghagghar Chaudhar, geologist at India next year where the Organisation — Innovation from urbanisation and tion before the committee on were all once part of the Kurushetra University from army, navy and air force of two for Defence Excellence (DIO- encroachments. the satellite mapping of the Saraswati, the shrinking of the Centre of Excellence for countries will conduct iDEX) which will look into Officials of the river-like image which could be which is linked to the decline Research on Sarswati, Prashant manouevers focusing on pro- joint projects for co-produc- Archeological Survey of India the Saraswati river. of the Harrapan civilisation. Bhardwaj are among the mem- viding rescue and relief during tion and co-development pro- (ASI), members of the sub- Sources said that the mem- The ASI has excavated var- bers of the sub-committee. natural calamities. “We have jects through the Defense committee on Saraswati for bers at the meeting also delib- ious places like Mugalwali, a The sub-panel is the part of decided for the first time to Technology and Trade research and showcasing erated about the possible steps village near Adi Badri, the advisory committee that carry out a tri services exercise Initiative (DTTI). US has expressed their concern stating that will be needed in near Yamunanagar, Haryana, was set up by the Union on the Eastern Coast with US emerged as one of the biggest that the excavation sites need to future to trace the river, which Bhagwanpura, Kalibangan in Culture Ministry to draw up a in 2019,” Defence Minister weapon suppliers to India be protected for further stud- as per the legend flowed in Rajasthan and Vilaspur so far. comprehensive programme for Nirmala Sitharaman had having sold systems worth ies. areas between rivers Indus and According to a Government the study of the Saraswati basin announced at the joint press over ten billion dollars in the At the meeting, former Ganges; originated in panel report, evidence from and identify 16 sites for conference with her US coun- last couple of years. senior official from Himalayas and descended to palaeochannels — remnants of research and development.   ()  (* +, -./+  #.   /0 
 .

.%& 

23456 
78

    / / function. ways measuring a total of 950 &6.& - % ((8% ( National Highways (NHs) in of their Detailed Project The Union Minister will kms would be developed under 950!-: (-'6 Chhattisgarh is at 23.4 kms per Reports (DPRs). he Union Minister for Road lay the foundation stone of 92 Bharatmala project in && ..'-, & -6 .'6 % 1000 square kms out of the It may be recalled that TTransport & Highways, kilometre Raipur – Durg Chhattisgarh. ',& -("'6,/;Durg District . Raipur – Durg Road on NH 53 and considers declaration of depending upon requirement The Ministry has declared Raipur and Vishakhapatnam approved “In-Principle” for ting up of manufacturing clus- Chief Minister Raman at a cost of  48 crore. State Roads as new National of connectivity, inter-se prior- about 30,268 km of new last year. their declaration as new NHs in ters in Chhattisgarh is Singh will preside over the Notably, roads and high- Highways from time to time ity and availability of funds. National Highways (NHs) The total density of the country subject to outcome immense, officials informed. R '    Q "3  *4+R          "    5560
 # 4
 "  :        4$H 
   D   #    "  :            #                    7+2+#/      $  +    emetara District Collector     / /  $ %#     Band Electoral Officer  #       
$ %$ & %  / . Mahadev Kavre has issued  #      "#   $ crucial Election % $ &  $ #   show cause notice to 114  #              
 
   ACommittee meeting of 0  #  #   Government employees out of     Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress  / .##/&$ $$# 3,754 in the district for not Committee (CGPCC) was held attending election training in  #   #             here at State Congress Office present in the Election four development blocks , "  !
" =; ! (    Rajiv Bhawan on Friday. Committee meeting along with 
 
   =    Senior leaders of the party AICC In-charge of .. %:;!=%- )-6. '6(
%=!6.)%8-*!.  +4?  +      :  
    deliberated in the meeting in Chhattisgarh, P.L. Punia, '6*% +4'6 @  6('6   
  
    : detail about the list of ticket CGPCC Chief Bhupesh Baghel, aspirants for the upcoming Leader of Opposition T.S. 
, &("'6,. '6'6,     / / integrate with the Central accessible to the citizens in his             Assembly polls. Singhdeo, President Election Government and Chhattisgarh or her locality, through com-    
       
 The meeting agreed on Campaign Committee, according to an official press hhattisgarh Government is Government’s ‘e-Governance’ mon service delivery outlets and       
  
$ preparing a single name panel Charandas Mahant, Members release issued on Friday. Cpreparing to take the next Application. The ‘e-District ensure efficiency, transparency  +
  N"  ; !  H&&O on several seats to be sent to the of Parliament, Tamradhwaj Notably, a total of 27 big leap in e-Governance 2.0’ would also integrate with and reliability of such services                 party’s Central Election Sahu, Chhaya Verma and other employees were absent in through its proposed launch of Jansamvad for addressing at affordable costs to realize the !
;
   "  ; !   Committee (CEC). senior office bearers CGPCC. development blocks Bemetara, 'e-District 2.0' application which grievances / concerns of citi- basic needs of the citizens”. H&& The meeting was later fol- The meeting was presided over 35 in Berla, 30 in Saja and 22 aims at electronic delivery of all zens besides integrating with To realize this vision, 27  +  :   ""  $ lowed by one-to-one talk by the by CGPCC Chief Bhupesh in Navagarh during training. public services at district and Digi-Locker and for integration Central, State and Integrated Screening Committee Chief Baghel, sources informed. The Collector found this sub district levels, progressive- of already issued certificates Mission Mode Project (MMPs)  "       2!:    7 Bhubaneswar Kalita with Party sources further while inspecting training in the ly while maintaining the conti- The existing e-District along with 8 support compo-  /
   #     !  senior leaders of the party. informed that the CEC will development blocks. nuity of existing e-District application would be enhanced nents have been identified and     $ Veteran Congress leader of finalize the first list by mid The employees who application, officials informed. for state wide rollout of ‘e- approved, to enable and facil- the State and AICC General month while a complete list attended were also being Like e-District, ‘e-District District 2.0’ project. itate rapid introduction of e-  +  0     !;2  $ Secretary (Administration), would be released by the trained on usage of VVPAT 2.0’ aims at electronic delivery The Integrated Service Governance in the country, Motilal Vora was especially month end. machines. of all public services at district Delivery Framework released with focus on electronic service ization’ to e-enable the delivery istration leveraging / sub district level, progressively. by DeitY would be leveraged delivery. of these services through Information, Communication Currently, a total of 126 for developing the application The ‘e-District’ is one of the Common Service Centres and Technology. The services are available from e- architecture for the State. MMPs identified under NeGP, (CSCs)/Lok Sewa Kendra Government of Chhattisgarh %## #
+#,+#  District Portal. Later on, new The Central Government which is aimed at strengthen- (LSKs), in a sustainable manner. believes that the automation of services could be added has approved the National e- ing the District administration The Chhattisgarh e- workflow and internal process- depending on the requirements Governance Plan (NeGP) in to provide Government ser- District project is an important es of different departments   ,# #- ###Q'/ and the felt needs, they stated. pursuance of its policy of intro- vices, in a cohesive manner enhancement of the State’s e- would considerably reduce the The Application for ‘e- ducing e-Governance on a leveraging ICT, to the citizens. Governance implementation troubles of the citizens in their District 2.0’ will be the most massive scale. The project aims to target programme, in which majori- interface with the government     / / critical component. The NeGP vision aims to certain high volume services and ty of the G2C services are machinery in their day to day The ‘e-District 2.0’ would “Make all Government Services undertake ‘Back end computer- delivered by the district admin- life, officials stated. MDC Ltd will put all its Nefforts to roll out the first HR coils from its upcoming 3 +1,+  MTPA Nagarnar Steel Plant in Bastar by March 2019, officials informed.       The progress of construc- tion activities of steel plant in 3  4"  the year 2017-18 is noticeable in various fronts, they    informed. At present, progress of civil     work, structural and equipment /78: erection are at an advanced stage and progressing in full ue to inclement weather, swing. Dthe Chopper carrying The steel plant project is Chhattisgarh Chief Minister getting ready for its commis- Raman Singh failed to land at sioning of various units pro- village Amlipadar in Gariaband gressively, for which opera- district and returned to state tional power supply system is capital on Friday. already energized during first The public meeting of the week of March 2018, they Chief Minister was immedi- informed. ately cancelled at the venue. In order to facilitate the and Bacheli, Pellet Plant at first phase is being executed Doubtful weather condition commissioning activities of Nagarnar and Vizag. from Bacheli to Nagarnar in was already prevailing at steel plant, procurement action The Slurry Pipeline Bastar region of Chhattisgarh Amlipadar and when the for initial requirement of var- between Bacheli to Nagarnar is at an estimated outlay of Rs Chopper of Chief Minister ious raw materials, spares, con- being executed by NMDC and 4,000 crore; and the second reached there, the pilot decid- sumables, etc., are also under from Nagarnar to Vizag is phase will be executed from ed not to land and decided to process. envisaged to be executed in Nagarnar to Vizag in Andhra return to Raipur. NMDC already is in the SPV mode. The works for Pradesh at an outlay of Rs 6,000 Meanwhile official sources process of implementing an Bailadila to Jagdalpur segment crore, officials informed. further informed that the rest ambitious project of laying (140 Km) has been taken up. Notably, to transport pellet of the day’s programme of the Slurry Pipeline from Bailadila This project is challenging in feed concentrate from Bailadila Chief Minister remained as to Jagdalpur and further upto terms of obtaining various to Vizag via Jagdalpur, the scheduled and later, the Chief Visakhapatnam, officials clearances and permissions company will have the pipeline Minister proceeded to informed. from statutory bodies and com- laid along the highways with a Bagbahra region of The capacity of the pipeline plexity of the route, officials provision of partial off-take to Mahasamund district where is 15 MTPA and this will be informed. feed its proposed 3 MTPA another public meeting was to associated with facilities like The company is executing Steel plant coming up at !  7 0        " 0  + "  
 "     "  be held. Beneficiation Plant at Kirandul the project in two phases. The Nagarnar. '     
      .+  0%%#102#,#+ # 

    / / area include assisted natural quantum of land ( 20,716 )
+ #)
#  regeneration and plantation in hectares) for afforestation with arge scale encroachment the degraded forest areas. fund allocation of  23.39 + #,, #,+ Land mining activities have The State Government in crores. not been reported in forest November last year had facil- The students, officials and     / / area in recent past in itated online facility to seek employees of various univer- Chhattisgarh, the Central permission for tree cutting sities and colleges were asked anata Congress Chhattisgarh Government has informed. for projects purposes from to plant one lakh saplings in J(JCC) (J) has decided to field The cutting of forest has the Revenue and Disaster 2017-18 as a part of the Shakuntala Sahu from Patan not been reported by the Management Department, 'Hariyar Chhattisgarh Assembly seat against members of Forest Protection officials informed. Mission', officials informed. Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee, it informed. The funds released by the A circular in this regard Committee President Bhupesh Notably, as per the infor- Centre for the afforestation was issued to all the Vice- Baghel for the upcoming mation received from the programme amounts to  Chancellors of universities and Assembly polls in the State. Chhattisgarh Forest 17.39 crores during 2017-18 Principals of various colleges. A decision regarding the Department, total notified for- financial year, officials A minimum of 500 same was taken by party’s Core Shakuntala Sahu as the candi- est area in the Chhattisgarh is informed. saplings were to be planted in Committee meeting held here date from Patan, the party had 59772.40 sq. km. The mea- The Central Government each educational institution on Friday, party sources dissolved all the working com- sures taken to develop, had also approved 20,716 tion drive in Chhattisgarh 2016-17 under ‘Green India During 2016-17, the under the 'Hariyar informed. mittees of the Assembly seg- upgrade and conserve forest hectares of land for afforesta- during the financial year Mission’. Centre had approved the same Chhattisgarh Mission'. Apart from declaring ment, sources said.

                                                                                                                                               !        "                                            #            $ % S                      '                "       (          

                  P      Q "" #  $  %   #  &''( ) *  #  % ' +,-.//0  '1/00"2 ...3.4/50/     #  *   67' 8 9    8  % ' +,-.//: ;  &< < /""+,/""/,::    &< =+3" ) 4 $&>;9 ?     $ +./"3/" @(( < /"./+,A0-A// B ,A0--// 6<      % 6< )       ()  (* +, -./+ 1

39 "      ./(    5     6     $$ 5"    

  70 78+!9/

ension prevailed at TLingipur under the Dhauli police station here on Friday after supporters of a BJD mem- ber, Rabi Patra, staged a road blockade protesting attack on their leader. The incident took place during a demonstration by + 1                 9 O3 ; <  P /   1   "    )       BJD members in the area as part of the BJD’s State-wide stir against the rising fuel prices on 0
     the day. Patra alleged that during the protest, members of a rival O'   / )"  >5 group called him to a corner and suddenly opened a couple of rounds of fire at him. However, he managed to escape unhurt. Patra told the police that he was targeted over past enmity. Following the incident, Patra’s supporters blocked the Bhubaneswar-Puri road fic for some time. rushed to the spot and pacified tridges were recovered from the     ious ways for effective imple- demanding immediate arrest of Getting information, the the crowd, following which the spot and the situation was under #;8/ mentation of the policy in the the accused. The blockade led zone ACP and the Dhauli and road blockade was withdrawn. control. An investigation was on State by making all Government to disruption of vehicular traf- the Lingaraj police stations IICs Police said some empty car- into the incident. he Chhattisgarh departments as stakeholders TGovernment will soon and implementing MoUs signed implement the ‘National Bio previously with all investors. Fuel Policy 2018’ in the State. It was also informed in the This was informed in the meeting that a Biofuel Complex 16th meeting of Chhattisgarh will be established in Durg. Biofuel Development Authority Discussions were also held chaired by Chief Secretary Ajay on setting up a Singh at the Mantralaya here. laboratory for testing The meeting discussed var- biofuel in the State. 9) '%)*
   &  


Chandigarh: INLD, Haryana’s main Opposition party will observe ‘Haryana Bandh’ on September 8, Saturday on the issues of non-construction of Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal and scrapped Dadupur Nalvi irrigation project. “The party has geared up for the state bandh and various trade unions have assured us their support on Saturday,” said Abhay Chautala, Leader of opposition in Haryana Assembly and INLD’s senior leader while talking to the mediapersons here. He said INLD-BSP com- bine will continue its protest till the construction of SYL canal and withdrawal of decision of de-notification of Dadupur Nalvi irrigation project.   ()  (* +, -./+  $%3

    45 $ P1  O
  )4  5   N     $  O4     P"     * * *  0  ; 
 6'.( .'6- 8!       (  !+. ; Kim told the South Korean       envoys that he is willing to take )          8+9B./( Kandepi, she said on Facebook,  ;.8:.8 outh Korean President stronger steps if his “goodwill”  (     when she announced the SMoon Jae-in said Friday measures are met in kind,         25-year-old Indian finan- names of the victims. She met n Indian-origin woman that he is pushing for “irrevo- according to chief envoy Chung       Acial consultant was among Kandepi at the Hindu temple of Adescribed as a “bogus cable progress” in efforts to rid Eui-yong. Kim has repeatedly 4     
  three people killed when a Cincinnati, Cincinnati.Com immigration lawyer” has been North Korea of its nuclear said he wants a step-by-step       gunman opened fire in a bank reported. jailed for five years’ imprison- weapons by the end of this year disarmament process in which  $ building in the US city of “How do you tell parents ment after being found guilty as he prepares for his third each of his actions is recipro- Cincinnati before police shot who live 10,000 miles away that of six counts of fraud by false summit with North Korean cated with corresponding out-    *15 him dead on Thursday, in the they will never see their son representation. leader Kim Jong Un. side concessions.   A    latest mass shooting incident in again because of a senseless Harvinder Kaur Thethi, Earlier this week, Moon North Korea, which says its A"'.  J$   America. shooting in a foreign country?” from the West Midlands region sent special envoys to We will get it done togeth- nuclear program is aimed at  ?   +   Pruthviraj Kandepi, who she wrote. The other two vic- of England, had been convict- Pyongyang to help resolve the er!” Moon said the outcome of countering U.S. Military #    hailed from Guntur district of tims were identified as Luis ed by Southwark Crown Court nuclear stalemate. After return- his envoys’ Pyongyang trip threats, has demanded the      Andhra Pradesh, was killed Felipe Calderon, 48 and in London in July for falsely ing home, the envoys said was “much more than what was United States jointly declare an 4    $#?  when 29-year-old Omar  " ? Richard Newcomer, 64. claiming to be a barrister, solic- Thursday that Kim still has expected.” The next step in end to the 1950-53 Korean War,  KD&  ,H& Enrique Santa Perez from the @ A"     Five people were shot, itor and a UK Home Office faith in US President Donald nuclear diplomacy is uncertain. which was halted by an 2# )  -     town of North Bend, Ohio, some multiple times, in the official with the ability to Trump and reaffirmed his Negotiators seem deadlocked armistice, not a peace treaty. KL$     opened fire at the headquarters community. An official of the incident, police said, adding progress immigration applica- commitment to a nuclear-free over whether North Korea During his meeting with !     $ for the Fifth Third Bank near Telugu Association of North that the gunman was killed in tions. Korean Peninsula, although he truly intends to denuclearize as the South Korean envoys, Kim Fountain Square in downtown America (TANA) said that a shootout with officers. Despite being unqualified expressed frustration over it has pledged numerous times said an end-of-war declaration     Cincinnati, police said. Kandepi was working with the It appeared the victims in any of these fields, she went skepticism about his sincerity. in recent months. North Korea wouldn’t weaken the U.S.- * *   India’s Consul General in bank as a consultant. had no connection to each on to obtain GBP 68,000 from Trump later responded by has dismantled its nuclear and South Korean alliance or lead *'@'6,      New York Ambassador Arrangements were being other. It was not immediately vulnerable people in tweeting, “Kim Jong Un of rocket engine testing sites, but to the withdrawal of the 28,500 
    
" Sandeep Chakravorty told PTI made to send his body to clear if any knew the gunman, payment for immigration relat- North Korea proclaims ‘unwa- US officials want more serious, U.S. Troops stationed in      that the Consulate is in touch India, he added. media reports said on the lat- ed services, which were vering faith in President concrete action taken before South Korea to prevent an   )    with the police, Kandepi’s fam- Hamilton County Coroner est mass shooting incident in promised but not delivered, the Trump.’ Thank you to North Korea obtains outside North Korean attack, according <? !  ; " $ ily as well as members of the Lakshmi Sammarco knew the US. court was told. Chairman Kim. concessions. to Chung.         *'@'6, "   1   "  "   &"/ *7* ,+ ###          )       
 3    +,# #          6           $  (7 ; comes at a sensitive time in the  !;27: progress of the country. ; 2 "   17-year war. The grinding con- His significant comments  0B&"   S Defense Secretary Jim flict has seen little progress by  7+<8 itary communications equip- maritime freedom in the Indo- n an unusual move, Pakistan came two days after visiting US  &&D&   UMattis met with top Afghan Afghan or US forces against the ment from the US and will also Pacific region Hua said, “About IArmy chief Gen Qamar Secretary of State gave a pep #  !  ; "  leaders during an unannounced Taliban, the country’s largest wary China on Friday wel- help get real-time encrypted the security navigation in the Javed Bajwa has batted for talk to Bajwa on the impor-  " O!  visit to Kabul on Friday, adding militant group. Six US soldiers Acomed the first 2+2 information from the US. sea, we uphold the legal rights democracy and the need for tance of strong democratic 
$ his weight to a flurry of diplo- have been killed in Afghanistan Dialogue between India and Asked about China’s reac- entitled in the international law strengthening of institutions in institutions in Pakistan. matic efforts to bring the Taliban so far this year, the most recent the US but remained silent on tion on the Indo-US talks and and we also hope parties can do the coup-prone country, as he The army chief said that for      * to the negotiating table. happening on Monday in an the landmark security pact COMCASA agreement, Chinese real things to ensure freedom shared the dias with Prime the country’s stability and ; #   His trip comes a little more apparent insider attack. under which Indian military Foreign Ministry spokesperson of navigation.” Minister Imran Khan. progress, democracy is of utmost 6, 6,8 (   than a year after President Don- Ghani told Mattis that pre- will have access to critical and Hua Chunying said, “I have seen During the the 2+2 talks, Addressing the Defence importance. “Democracy can-     EH ald Trump unveiled a revamped venting so-called “green-on- encrypted American defence the reports about the 2+2 con- India and the US expressed and Martyrs Day ceremony not blossom without observing 
       strategy for Afghanistan that saw blue” attacks, in which Afghan technologies. sultation between the United commitment to work togeth- organised by the Army at its the democratic traditions in       him commit thousands of addi- soldiers turn their weapons on The Communications, States and India.” er and in concert with other headquarters in Rawalpindi true spirit and without the 
     tional US forces to the war-torn international troops with whom Compatibility, Security “China is happy to see the partners toward advancing a on Thursday, Bajwa said that strengthening of institutions,” he          country on an open-ended basis. they are working, was a “top Agreement (COMCASA) was normal development of bilat- free, open, and inclusive Indo- continuation of democracy was was quoted as saying by Dawn    N2  O Mattis, on his fourth visit to national priority”. They also signed on Thursday after the eral relations between the US Pacific region. must for development and newspaper.   
  $ Afghanistan since becoming discussed other issues including 2+2 talks External Affairs and India and hopes that they defence chief in January 2017, the peace process, security ref- Minister Sushma Swaraj and will do more to contribute to has met with President Ashraf orms, upcoming Parliamentary Defence Minister Nirmala regional peace and stability in Ghani and the new US com- and Presidential elections, and Sitharaman had with US the process of developing bilat- mander for American and Pakistan, according to a state- Secretary of State Michael eral relations,” she said. She, NATO forces, General Scott ment from the Presidential Pompeo and Defence Secretary however skirted any response Miller. His arrival in Kabul palace. James Mattis. to the question on India and The COMCASA will allow US signing the COMCASA. India to receive high-end mil- On the India-US call for (  (     ()  (* +, -./+ COMMENT & ANALYSIS   ()  (* +, -./+ 

www.dailypioneer.com Love actually: When we change too %/#1I  * )             “homosexuality is not a disorder.” death…. Destruction of individual identity nomic, social and cultural rights for the com- Popular media, like Bollywood and partic- dens of caste hierarchies to deal with. In June 2018, the World Health would be tantamount to crushing of intrinsic munity, to allow them a share of mainstream ularly streaming platforms, are also reshaping What is needed is a practical awareness drive #             1 Organisation’s (WHO) 11th revision of the dignity that cumulatively encapsulates the val- opportunities by valuing their mind and skill sets the way we look at “otherness”, as humans before that begins with the primary school network,                International Classification of Diseases (ICD- ues of privacy, choice, freedom of speech and beyond their physical orientation. And while we their physicality. These have happened without counsellors and trained teachers. Creating safe 11) removed all trans-related diagnoses from the other expressions.” In fact, Chief Justice Dipak have big names from the community doing sem- Governmental intervention. But we still need spaces for the LGBTIQ to talk about their issues, mental disorders chapter as “evidence is now Misra even quoted Goethe: “I am what I am, so inal works, what is needed is empowering the laws to protect rights. The Government, on its providing them support and encouraging them   2  !2.C+   8#    clear that it is not a mental disorder, and indeed take me as I am.” While empowering the most commonest among them as a stakeholder in the part, needs to deal with issues of a civil union to look at themselves beyond their sexuality as                  /8(  classifying it in this can cause enormous stig- muffled voice, the Court also reminded that the country’s economic development and social — What should be the rights of a partner? capable individuals is the next step. Otherwise, # ma for people who are transgender.” Government should have followed the spirit as institutions such as education, families and Would a marriage be allowed? Would all exist- we will have ghettoised set-ups which are detri-                  /&$& Homosexuality was removed as a mental dis- laid in the Constitution confidently instead of health care. ing legal spousal clauses apply to them? What mental rather than being absorptive. There     $0 
         order in 1970 from the ICD. assigning the role to the Court as the purvey- A World Bank study on stigma and exclu- should be the rights of inheritance? What about should be a layered legal redress system pan-
              oon after the Supreme Court’s verdict Perhaps, that’s the reason why the Supreme or and executor of justice. “Majoritarianism con- sion for LGBTIQs in India, collecting data from insurance benefits? India where LGBTIQs can claim protection            $9      decriminalising homosexuality, India’s Court’s ruling striking down Section 377 was a stitutionally is untenable. The Constitution is a 2006, shows that 41 per cent of Indians would As of now, medical insurance is a nebulous from bullying, violence and ostracisation. first transgender college principal clarion call not just to the Government to do dynamic document, having the primary objec- not want a homosexual neighbour and 64 per area when it comes to transference rights to There should be a dedicated mental health              Manabi Bandopadhyay said it was like what it had been mandated to do — protect a tive of establishing a dynamic and inclusive soci- cent believe that homosexuality is never justi- same-sex partners. What about discrimination service for the most deadening psychological                 $ getting a marriage offer after retirement. citizen’s right, even if it is of just one — but an ety. We have to vanquish prejudice, embrace fied. This negative attitude has probably dimin- and typecasting at the workplace and ensuring battles that LGBTIQs face in their reintegration AndS in faraway Aligarh, Irfan wondered whether appeal to society at large to be accommodative inclusion, and ensure equal rights.” This is just ished over time with popular images of their participation in the larger labour market? attempts. Human rights can only work if we are            O  he would be finally treated as a partner of Prof of its pluralistic worth. In fact, the ruling went not a comment on the aggressive muscularity LGBTIQs as influencers and thought leaders too. The assimilation of LGBTIQs has a long battle conscious about our duties as fellow humans.            $ Ramchandra Shrinivas Siras, who was alleged- way beyond the scope of the immediate subject of mainstream discourse but an appeal to intro- Corporate India has already begun showing the ahead beyond the urban consciousness. In the Decriminalising them is just a fraction of the 9  (  8#        ly murdered for a consensual same-sex relation- to address the prevailing societal mindset of spect and self-correct pre-conceived notions of way. The Tata group and IBM have expanded hinterland and the vast countryside, where they battle won. We must look beyond their physi-         9      ship with him. Wronged and compromised for homophobia, paranoia and a presumed extinc- minoritysm. It is a desperate call to ethical their diversity portfolio to include the commu- continue to be castaways or seen as nature’s aber- cality to the soul within. That is why our years, they are asking the big question, will the tion by anything and anybody “other than us.” benevolence. nity, private educational institutions like the Shiv ration, a law that allows them to proclaim who mythologies and epics talk about shape-shift-           O   
"  decriminalisation change the way we perceive This larger context of a reality check is ampli- The Court, while emphasising that history Nadar school have awareness modules, hotel they are may prevent them from a jail term but ing and sex-changing capabilities of divinity,       $#   " O     the LGBTIQ community? Will the inclusion be fied by the Court’s observations that “majori- owes apology to the LGBTIQ community for chains like The LaliT have included LGBTIQs can it protect them from alienation and non- metaphorically urging us to look beyond the fix- <    ! (        "     whole-hearted and absolute without adequate tarian views and popular morality cannot dic- unwarranted ostracism, even delineated the role in all services, from front desk to night clubs, inclusion in community affairs? ities of the material world and value the true core legal protection? Though now they have the right tate constitutional rights.” Or that “no one can of the Government in normalising humanity and the Lakme Fashion Week featured them for Affirmative action is needed to first alter of being. But try invoking the allegories embed-        $7 2 !   0  to be jubilant, they weren’t full-throated about escape from their individualism. Society is now over sexual preferences, advising it to give wide the first time on the ramp with designers like the perception among the disadvantaged sec- ded in epics and myths now and risk being 2              it as they had worries on a day when extremist better for individualism…Autonomy of an publicity about LGBTIQs in the media and con- Shantanu & Nikhil even putting out a mar- tions of the community that they are not just trolled as a non-believer. Yet it is in these texts   
     $7  "   viewpoints still insisted that they could be toxic individual is important. He or she cannot sur- ducting awareness drives for Government offi- ketable line of clothing. In fact, The LaliT’s beggars and sex workers but can be masons, car- that we need to seek solutions and find our in a society and needed psychological redress. render it to anyone… Identity is equivalent to cers. Therein lies the bigger challenge beyond Keshav Suri sees a huge potential in the penters and of employable worth. Apart from anchor for a just and healthy society.               ?  This despite the Court’s explicit observation that divinity... Denial of self-expression is inviting remedial justice, that of ensuring access to eco- tourism economy too. stereotypes, they, too, have the additional bur- (The writer is Associate Editor, The Pioneer)       ;A               ?         $# 
       
    
 !3) !3#      $#
   
                 Rahul Gandhi is the biggest buffoon. He is Instead of thanking the Congress, he (Rao)   $              ?      an asset for us, the more he comes (to has behaved in a manner which is Contrasting fate of two warriors   $#    
 
    Telangana) the more seats we will win. unbecoming of a Chief Minister.
  ?  + +!
;      —Caretaker Telangana Chief Minister —Congress leader   
             $ K CHANDRASHEKHAR RAO ANAND SHARMA Sadly at a time when the US was eulogising its warrior-statesman Senator John McCain, there was no respect  # S                shown towards India’s legendary saint-soldier, LT Gen Hanut Singh, whose premises were sealed in Dehradun $        
              #               $     
 a political career that was marked 9B88+ by his trademark uprightness,                       *9  year, the Delhi Government launched parent- their children. Spending time does not mean ongoing combat commitments McCain had stood up for resolute- $     (            ing workshops in Government schools for indulgence. Sessions need to focus on imbib- (like the Armed Forces of the ly and dignifiedly was one where 9:;<         ?@@@@@    Facial biometrics guardians of children appearing for class 10 ing values like saying ‘no’ for instance; man- United States or India). he slammed his own partyman #      1  S =       and 12 board exams. The aim was to provide aging performance; courtesy; goal setting; Within the comity of Donald Trump from taking pot-   AA@@@@  9:;<   BA                        a conducive environment at home. time management; discipline; interpersonal such forces, this culture is sus- shots at a fallen soldier, Captain                    While I applaud the initiative, the ques- behaviour; ethical behaviour et al. tained by celebrating examples of Humayun Khan, about whom (=  (          9:;< C  (            tion is: Why be selective? Why only Organising such sessions should not be its heroic past, individual gallantry McCain said, “memory of his sac-   1   %           Government schools and parents of those stu- ing on to their children, who are more aware considered as another burden for schools. and the saga of unimpeachable rifice will make us a better nation $                 
   
     
   ? dents who were appearing for board exams of their rights than duties. It hardly crosses These should be looked at as constructive leadership. Beyond the ultimate — and he will never be forgotten”. 1        $       were included in the programme? Is it that their mind about giving; they rather expect. mechanisms to ease things, leading to better victory or defeat of battles, it is raw Soldiers have institutionalised  
  7        ;                1     9:;< #   only children of Government schools are Here comes the need to educate the parents, performance. There should be a series of ses- courage and valour of the combat- memories and they do not waver and its military, in the finest tra- but only fade away. However, Lt of Lt Gen Hanut Singh in                 involved in all sorts of unexpected/anti-social who in turn will make concerted efforts and sions where parents have to participate in ants that are revered for posteri- from their scriptures or beliefs, the ditions as a dashing cavalier, feted #!!:#0# Gen Hanut Singh’s unique charac- Dehradun.     (             (          $+        activities? Is it that low performance of stu- become a part of the growing up process of compulsorily. At the same time, schools ty. Hence, a Vietnam is no less most supreme among them being hero and an unforgettable General. ter, rectitude and uncompromis- Chief Minister Harish Rawat          R    S                       K     dents in many private schools is not an issue? their children. should not be looking at these sessions as an sacred as an Iwo Jima, or in the defending their country above The legend, who commanded !.;:+/!:.8.# ing probity elevated him within would be personally conversant While not questioning the intention of such While we are thinking of our younger end of their role. More often than not, it is Indian context, a 1962 as a 1971. all. the famous Poona Horse (only the pantheons of Indian military with the sensitivities involved in .    1   %                   
   workshops, the only concern is whether they population and planning to move to the next observed that schools, in their bid to concen- Recently, two war heroes from Sadly, around the same time, regiment to have won two Param :+7 #.8;B):+ history. the matters of military, as like most    $      ?@  "    
             would yield immediate results. The most level with them, this mindset is not very pro- trate on the study part, forget to ingrain young these lands met with starkly con- a reverse narrative was under way Vir Chakras) in the decisive bat- 9B$0.9+C+/ A fellow clansmen of Lt Gen others in Uttarakhand, he too # S   D@@@@        S          $.              intriguing part of these initiatives is that they gressive for society. Parents need to be more minds with invaluable values or beliefs and trasting fate. The United States in India when the nation forgot its tle of Basantar in 1971, had his Hanut Singh from the Marwar belongs to a military family. 2  E             are not continuous and mandatory. actively involved in their wards’ growing up. compel them to face the competitive world. witnessed unprecedented scenes of own iconic and almost mythic regiment acknowledged by none region of Rajasthan, Major Shaitan However, in India, political          $#     ;#+8+/;08 #             Performance in board exams is impor- A commercial mindset does not apply when In the end, it is felt that both national mourning, unfiltered ‘saint-soldier’, Lt Gen Hanut Singh, other than the Pakistanis as Singh had fought ‘to the end’ in a tides and commercial compul- # =    $            ( $  
   :B      tant but a desperate bid may not be fruitful. it comes to a parent-child relationship. A lot teachers/schools and parents as partners will grief and the dignity of a sponta- as his abode in Dehradun was ‘Fakhr-e-Hind’ (Pride of India) for !80>! 8N + fierce display of unparalleled sions often combine to regress the     S =        !  D@@@                  
  An attempt must be made to make such of time and effort is required to imbibe the be able to bring in a sea change in the mind- neous outpouring, following the sealed by an ignorant, apathetic his battle daredevilry. courage, leadership and exem- sacrosanct into forgotten commit- workshops/training programmes part and right set of values. Love and affection do not set of the youngsters. It is immaterial whether death of its Vietnam war hero and and insensitive municipal corpo- Much later, as a senior officer, "0/"#+/ plary patriotism in the Battle of ments. Much has been politically    1    $         (    $8
          parcel of all schools. Such type of training ses- mean indulgence only out of guilt feeling. the student is in Government or private Senator, John McCain, whose ration. his imprint and professionalism as Rezang La in 1962. invoked in the name of the ‘Indian           =      "               
K       sions/workshops should be organised by More shocking, there is another set of par- school. This has become a burning need now memory cuts across societal and The legendary Maha Vir a ‘soldier’s-general’, brilliant tacti- /+"## :+8: In a quirk of fate, Major soldier’, yet it is these insensitivi- /     S           $+
 ?        schools, Government as well as private, ents, who supports their children for all their especially because of all the misdeeds often political divisions in the frac- Chakra (MVC) awardee, who cian and the greatest field com- Shaitan Singh (Param Vir Chakra) ties that raise questions about the )                more often than not. I feel there is a dire need wrongdoings. And by the time they realise it, carried out by the juveniles. Society can never tured nation. assumed folklore while in service mander were burnished — some- 8".2/.2!8 was from the Kumaon Regiment real intent, extent and respect for   #          #    =             
      for schools to co-opt parents in the upbring- it’s too late. They do not think twice before be a better place to live if parents think it is The thoroughbred soldier and itself, had passed away in his thing that the equally legendary /.7#B+;+C#+: and goes down in the glorious sol- the uniformed fraternity.  1  S R   S      $           $#     
 ing of their own wards. blaming the teachers and educational insti- the responsibility of the schools and vice-versa. son of an Admiral, Naval Aviator ashram in Dehradun in 2015. ‘Thinking General’ K Sundarji dering traditions of Uttarakhand As Abraham Lincoln famous-       5    6                       Parents entrust the entire responsibility tutions when the same child goes astray. For Instead, going hand-in-hand will go a long John McCain was shot down while Unsurprisingly, it was in the acknowledged by entrusting Lt 029#08#0+ as a proud ‘Kumaoni Officer’. It is ly said, “A nation that does not             
     $ for the child’s learning and development to example, ask a student to re-do his/her work way. Better performance can only be expect- flying over Hanoi and was a ‘abode of gods and soldiers’ that Gen Hanut Singh with the com- 8#0+.8!.) this reciprocal dignity, appropri- honour its heroes will not long        $   1     schools. Can parents absolve themselves of for better output, parents will come running ed after continued collaborative efforts by Prisoner of War (PoW) who was this ascetic and spiritually-inclined mand of 2 Corps. This contributed ations and soldiering ethos that endure”, holds true in all ‘lands of  #    73   7 !)      FD@@ ( 7?            $ all responsibility by simply paying the fees? to the teacher complaining that due to work both parents and teachers. No quick-fix solu- tortured in custody for over five soldier spent his last years. The to mechanised doctrines in the were invoked by the titular head the free’, be it the US or India. 8:82;#/B     7  3      $      9        
      The parents’ mindset of “we pay the fees and pressure, the child has gone into depression. tion will help the cause. years. His physical disabilities, veteran community has been evolution of Armoured Corps of the famed Marwar Rathores, (The writer, a military veteran, thus have the right to expect” is proving How many parents inculcate reading (The author is working as Associate owing to his military services, aghast and protested to what they and Mechanised Infantry that 0!#./B Gaj Singh, in his plea to the Chief is a former Lt Governor of (  %         $   (   
$            counter-productive for society at large. habits among their children? They would Professor at The NorthCap University, never diminished the soldier’s saw as an affront to the memory stand the test of time. Minister of Uttarakhand to respect Andaman & Nicobar Islands and     1     )                       Something scarier is that this attitude is pass- rather give them access to Facebook. Parents Gurgaon) instincts as he blazed his way into of the man who served the nation It is said soldiers do not die the memory and protect the abode Puducherry)       1  S     $!            0             73                 #.#0++:#./       7 !)S         $ G (                  (          
                  #     $#                be temporary — a long haul lies ahead. safe route mainly because the gay    ical rulers at the Centre and States $                         $9     O     M Ratan community is too small for them to / 

    
   . 
 should be courageous enough for pre-     Sir — This refers to the editorial, Via email count on for any significant contribu- Sir — Telangana Chief Minister K mature elections, so that the phenom-          O  O     $ “Change for good” (September 7). tion in terms of votes. Not to mention      L8    ! 4        $#
     Chandrasekhar Rao has taken a bold enon of simultaneous elections may 1                #               The Supreme Court’s verdict decrim- the obvious orthodox and regressive      M , LH-                 
    and calculative move by dissolving the move a step forward. Premature dis-    3         1 "              #!  4(  $!<>      ?          $ ( 4       1                     $0 
  
 !  inalising homosexuality is welcome. mindset. But the battle is only half-won. State Assembly prematurely. solution should also be for Lok Sabha The British-era law, treating same sex Sir — This refers to the editorial, There are bigger challenges. There is a   :  :    $0 
     
           Evidently, Rao has taken this and other Assemblies. If political     1   $                        
 relationship as criminal, was archaic. “Change for good” (September 7). need for an awareness drive to educate  
      
 <      >
           bold step sensing his return to power rulers are so confident of their pop-     /    $              
 $
  
  It is true that even as the LGBTQ The Supreme Court did what politi- the ignorant or conservative masses to    
                       with a possible landslide victory, like ularity and work, they should also                     
          
 community is celebrating the apex cians could not in so many years. In a change/upgrade their mindsets. The      
    $   $       4     $#( 4    the one witnessed in the national exhibit courage as K Chandrasekhar                court’s order, the Indian middle-class complex country like India, decriminal- need is to bring societal change. "   H  7   .  <   L   M   'HH     &HH       Capital in 2015, where the Aam has done. $   1  S   S                  $   
  
  or a majority of the Indian people will ising Section 377 is indeed a progres- Though the judgment is much lauded,                    HH       Aadmi Party registered an unprece- Madhu Agrawal  E 
  # ) ,#)-   $2 
         $      $                      4     $9 continue disliking homosexuality. For sive decision. Calling it historic would it’s time to wait and watch as to how dented political victory, winning 67 Delhi      
 O             them, it is the nature’s aberration and be an understatement. The verdict is society perceives the decision.        4   ,LLH     
    #'-&6  6@ out of 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly. not its mainstream dispensation. Thus, bound to impact thousands of lives pos- Bal Govind <    -$            0   To pave the way for gradual mov-    "    .                   $ the celebration of the LGBTQs can only itively. Politicians chose to opt for the Noida ing towards simultaneous polls, polit- %..-.='6B,! '%58!   ()  (* +, -./+ 6

     . 
3 +"    .'" 
$ C+ "   O5 #  #% cient witness statements against the Bishop but they are not      &
& %$ arresting him. Nothing will happen as far as the present 8    *#
    #P police chief – DGP Loknath Behera – remains in that posi-   #  7+8; /     # (."0 tion. In this situation, the only "0+88 #0+;.(!70:+ #B !+(+/08#+:#0## way before us seems to be to o give impetus to trainer senior Catholic nun who approach the court,” said a Taircraft National Aerospace ike a husband who doubts 9!8.#/.+/.8#0+ Ahas accused Latin Catholic brother of the victim. Laboratories (NAL), Bengaluru Lthe fidelity of his wife, the /#.)7<#.:+ #+#! Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Pointing out that the probe and Mesco Aerospace Ltd., AIADMK came out on Friday 8#.8;;+:+/#.#2; the Jalandhar Diocese of rap- in the case had started 72 days New Delhi have signed an accusing the BJP of having ille- 8: )./2++#80+;: ing her several times or her ago, the family said the police agreement for the design, gitimate relations with the 7B#0+:2(90"00! family may approach the Kerala had already recorded the state- development, production and DMK. Thampi Durai, the Lok 8.#7.#0+/+:#.8C#+ High Court on Monday in the ment of the nun six times marketing of two seat Hansa- Sabha Deputy Speaker who is #0+:2($N9++O+"# context of the police’s alleged while the only action taken in NG aircraft. NAL which comes the AIADMK’s face in New !.2+(8:.).;#"; reluctance to arrest him even as used to call the nuns to his Kottayam district, 13 times in the case of the accused was that under CSIR is expected to Delhi, lambasted the Hindutva :+"+8"BO0+!: more nuns of the diocese have room even after evening in the two years. He had raped her the probe team had recorded ease the availability of indige- party of having secret under- former president of the BJP for reportedly told the investigators name of prayer sessions held as first on May 5, 2014 when he his statement once and that too nous aircraft for pilot training standing with the DMK. the memorial meeting held in about the bad experiences they part of the programme which had visited Kerala for taking in a “very generous manner” at to obtain private pilot and Speaking to reporters at honour of Karunanidhi? The ing closer to the BJP. Though have had from the prelate who, was launched in the diocese in part in a Church programme in his diocesan headquarters in commercial pilot licenses Karur, his home constituency, AIADMK was not invited for Stalin in his address to the they said, used to embrace 2014 but only one nun would Thrissur, she had said. Jalandhar. According to a press release Durai questioned the propriety the so called apolitical meet- General Council on August 28 them forcibly. be allowed at a time. The pro- Meanwhile, the rape victim The family thinks that the issued in Bengaluru on Friday and timing of the CBI raids on ing,” charged Thampi Durai. had declared that his top prior- A nun of the same diocese, gramme had triggered wide- or her family is likely to file a police, who have already come the aircraft will be ready for the houses of the AIADMK He said the BJP’s handling ity was in teaching the BJP a les- who has already abandoned spread protests from within the petition in the High Court on across a nearly two dozen first flight in the next 11-13 Ministers and the State Police of the Karunanidhi death was son by sending it packing from her religious habit after being congregation and even several Monday against the alleged contradictions in the state- months and will be certified Chief in connection with the clear proof of it’s new found New Delhi, veteran political fed up with the bishop’s priests in the diocese had come reluctance of the Kerala Police ment given by the accused, under DGCA for commercial gutkha scam. “The date in love for the DMK. “Both the commentators pointed out that allegedly perverse behaviour, is out against it. to arrest the Bishop, who hails have been “questioning” the flights by March 2020. Post cer- which the CBI raids took place Houses of Parliament were these are muscle flexing seen said to have told the police One of the nuns who have from a Syro-Malabar Catholic victim again and again with tification, the HansaNG shall is noteworthy. People in Tamil adjourned without conducting before alliance formation. team probing the rape charge abandoned their religious habit family in Thrissur, despite the the intention of finding con- be manufactured by Mesco Nadu knew that M K Alagiri, any business. The Centre “Even Karunanidhi had against him that he used to has reportedly told the police fact they have collected ample tradictions in her statements Aerospace under a license elder son of Karunanidhi was declared a day of mourning described the BJP as a com- touch the nuns, members of that she had faced bad behav- evidences and witness state- that could be interpreted in agreement. Mesco Aerospace holding a rally in Chennai and national flag flew half munal party of the highest order the Missionaries of Jesus con- iour from the part of the ments against him. the Bishop’s favour so that his would also set-up service cen- against his younger brother mast. This is unheard of in the and declared that he would not gregation that came under his Bishop during such prayer There were rumours that arrest can be avoided or tre for Hansa and undertake and DMK President M K past,” said Thampi Durai. have anything to do with such control, in immoral manner sessions. Even the Mother the nun herself might hold a delayed further. maketing of HansaNG in India Stalin. The CBI raids were The Lok Sabha Deputy a political party. Within two and embrace them forcibly. General of the congregation Press conference on Sunday to The charge against the and abroad. As per the recent held on that day itself only to Speaker hinted that it was not months he made a volte face and As per reports, a minimum had admitted to the police that disclose details of her allega- Bishop, the disrepute and market reports, the immediate divert the attention of the gen- proper on the part of BJP to aligned with the same BJP,” said of 18 nuns had given up their the programme, A Day with tions in a bid to mount pressure shame it has brought to the market potential for 2 seat air- eral public from the rally staged depute its national leader to Raveenthrhan Thuraisamy, service in the congregation the Shepherd, had to be sus- on the police. The victim’s Catholic Church and the craft in India is about 70-80 air- by Alagiri,” charged Durai. Tamil Nadu for a meeting held political commentator. due to the bad experiences they pended after a couple of ses- family is convinced that the police’s alleged reluctance to craft. The targeted selling cost He said the CBI could have by the DMK which has not He also pointed out that the had had from the Bishop, espe- sions due to objections. probe team headed by DySP K arrest the accused have sowed of the aircraft would be around conducted the raids on some bothered to invite the AIADMK. group fighting in Congress in cially during a Church pro- In her complaint to the Subhash wants to arrest the unhappiness among a large 80 lakhs for the basic version other days. “There is every pos- “We expect some kind of polit- the State has reached alarming gramme he himself had imple- police, the senior nun, now 47, Bishop at the earliest but the section of the Catholic laity in and 100 lakhs for fully loaded sibility of a secret deal between ical decency,” he said. proportions with factions owing mented, ‘A Day with the had said Bishop Franco action is being delayed due to Kerala. Catholic organizations version, the release said. the BJP and the DMK. We have The AIADMK’s outburst comes allegiance to TNCC president Shepherd’, which necessitated Mulakkal (54) had raped her at pressure from their superiors in Kochi have been preparing  % . ## our own doubts about it. Why at a time when there are reports Thirunavakarassar and former the nuns to spend whole days a guest house attached to St and political bosses. to stage protests against the  // 8   $ # did the BJP sent a senior most in the vernacular media about chief EVKS Elangovan fighting with him. Francis Mission Home, her “The police have collected Bishop and the police in the  
$  Minister who happens to be a the possibility of the DMK com- it out in the street. It is said that the Bishop convent at Kuravilangad in strong evidences and suffi- coming days.  # :   
 ##%   *5'))*  % / #<  C             %  $# /  / 0#$ .
  /  &$ #  8:08/ reservation for his communi- Andolan Samiti (PASS) is fast- (    ty, was admitted to a ing since the past 14 days with The Hansa-NG can also be ollowing complaints regard- Government hospital by his his demand to avail reserva- used in bird reconnaissance at Fing breathlessness, the 25- supporters on Friday early tion for his Patidar community  3
 
airfield, cadet training, coastal year-old Patel quota stir leader evening. in Government jobs and edu- surveillance and hobby flying Hardik Patel, who is on indef- The convener of pro-quota cational institution under in the country. CSIR-NAL has inite fast agitation seeking outfit Patidar Anamat OBC category as well as waiv-  
0/
built totally 14 production ver- er in farmer debts. From sion 2 seat aircraft of Hansa-3 Thursday onwards he has   A 0B:+/7: scene of how the umbilical cord from 2001 to 2010 out of which stopped taking water and as of newly born boy was cut by two 11 were delivered to DGCA, result of it his health started he sub human conditions, men with a blade. The video said one aircraft to IIT-Kanpur and deteriorating speedily. Tutter lack of basic health care that both the mother and baby two aircraft are with CSIR-NAL Hardik’s close aide Manoj and absence of accessible roads were safe. “With nobody coming out of which one has been Panara said that PAAS sup- in the tribal areas of north to our help despite our appeals leased to M/s Mesco Aerospace porters decided to admit their coastal Andhra Pradesh dis- we are forced to carry our seri- Ltd. during Aero India 2017. leader after he began to com- tricts were brought into focus by ously ill and pregnant women According to press com- plain about breathlessness. It (             3  3  %33& a youth who used his mobile like this”, the youth could be seen muniqué the pilots who have was necessary to give him treat- C   ,              phone to shoot a shocking scene making an appeal for help. flown Hansa-3 aircraft have ment before he lost conscious- 3   )   *! of how a pregnant lady had to The visuals show the narrow expressed that the aerody- ness and went into coma, stat- deliver in forest midway her jour- and difficult covered with mud namics, power and controls ed Panara while talking to claimed adding that he will con- Hardik, who has been on ney on the shoulders of men. and stones on which the group harmony makes flying very media persons. PAAS support- tinue fast agitation from hos- indefinite strike, had stopped The video which has gone had to walk carrying the woman. comfortable and the aircraft has ers admitted Hardik in the pital and would not take either consuming water from viral on the social media and Officials of Integrated Tribal got excellent flying character- hospital against his wish, he water or solid food. Thursday evening after his was also being shown on TV Development Agency say that istics. They suggested a few According to deadline for State Government channels all over, shows how the bout 15 hamlets in Saluru did not upgrades/modifications to Panara, Hardik stopped to initiate talks with him end woman Muthamma was carried have road connectivity. Though Hansa-3 aircraft by imple- consuming water after without any response. The in a make shift palanquin (a Government sanctioned 5.5 menting latest technologies his deadline for the State Government on its part piece of cloth hanging from a crore last year to lay a 9.8 kms and enhancing its roll and to State Government to only once spoke on the fast in bamboo pole carried by men long stretch of road, no con- make it more useful as a train- initiate ‘talks’ with him past 14 days, with industry folk on their shoulders) as there tractor came forward to take up er aircraft. ended on Thursday minister in Vijay Rupani gov- was no road to connect their the work in difficult terrain and Now CSIR-NAL jointly evening. On the other ernment dubbing Hardik’s agi- hamlet atop a hill to the hospi- work could not be completed. with Mesco Aerospace Ltd will hand State Government tation as “Congress-led”. The tal seven kms away. The inci- Vizianagaram is one of the modify Hansa-3 aircraft by representative and bedridden PAAS convener also dent happened on Tuesday last three north coastal Andhra dis- incorporating new technologies Gujarat’s Minister for reacted from hospital in social in Maasika Valasachintala under tricts parts of which are called and bring out Hansa-NG (New energy Saurabh Patel media that the BJP led Saluru mandal of Vizianagaram agency areas inhibited by the Generation), which will satis- said that PAAS never Government was ignoring district of Andhra Pradesh. tribal people. While the indus- fy the requirements of flying came before the State demands of Patidar as well as When only half the dis- trialised and prosperous port clubs for obtaining PPL Government for dia- farmers issues. tance was covered on foot city of Visakhapathanam shows (Personal Pilot License) & CPL logue, in fact it was Sources in the Sola civil through difficult terrain the the brighter side of the region, (Commercial Pilot License) by leaders of Patidar hospital where Hardik has been pains became unbearable for the poor and neglected tribal the young generation. organisations (religious admitted said that a team of 10 Muthamma and she was forced areas and the sufferings of their NAL director Jitendra and social) took initia- doctors including a nephrologist to deliver in the open forest inhabitants remain unreported Jadhav said this new aircraft tive and trying to medi- was attending the pro-quota with the help of a couple of and ignored. The incident developed here is going to ate between PAAS and leader. Patel’s blood and urine women. With the woman sit- involving Muthamma was norm change the complexity of flying the State Government. samples have been taken to ting in the background, the trib- rather than exception in the for the trainee pilots and will The Minister also made check whether the fast has had al youth explained her ordeal region. The health care facility have all the modern systems a remark that Hardik’s any impact on kidneys or liver and how their frequent appeals in the region is so pathetic that incorporated in it. Manoj agitation was inspired of Hardik, who is said to have to the Government for a road every year seasons diseases like Pandey, COO of the Mesco by the Opposition lost around 20 kg of weight dur- were ignored over the years. malaria and brain fever claim a Aerospace signed the collab- Congress party. ing the last one fortnight. The video also ha a chilling large number of lives. orative agreement. 0"  .)  >
   .

  $ !#8/ men and officers in south father of Hizbul Mujahideen       Kashmir region to deter securi- 'Operational commander' Riyaz he Governor administra- ty forces from taking on relatives Naikoo from a police station in    the diary maintained by the Ttion changed the police of terrorists in their pursuit. Awantipora. The unofficial swap "0+88 gutkha manufacturer were leadership in Jammu & After the abduction spree, the has not gone down well with the wrong. “My name does not Kashmir amid growing inci- authorities released several close top brass in Union Ministry of wo days after the figure in the FIR filed by the dents of violence and ahead of relatives of terrorists including home affairs, sources said. TCentral Bureau of CBI,” he said. When he was proppsed polls for local urban Investigation officials asked about a noting in the bodies and panchayats. raided his house in diary seized by the Income Dilbagh Singh, a 1987 Chennai’s Anna Nagar Tax Department raid from batch Indian Police Service residential area, S George, the residence of Madhava officer with several counterin- former Commissioner of Rao that stated that 15 lakh surgency assignments under Police, said that he had no was paid to a former police his belt on Friday took the role n the multi-crore commissioner on Christmas baton from outgoing police gutkha scam. Day, George said he does not chief Shesh Paul Vaid who was “I was not the know anything about it. transferred to hold the charge Commissioner of Police “Someone might have col- of transport commissioner. when the pay-offs as alleged lected that money by falsely Singh is already holding by the petitioner happened stating that it was for me. I the post of DGP Prisons and in Chennai. The petition don’t know anything about it,” has been ordered to hold states that huge amount of said the former police com- charge of Director General of cash was handed over to the missioner. J&K police in addition to his Commissioner of Police in Meanwhile D own duties. The order to this three specific dates. But Jayakumar, Tamil Nadu effect was issued by State Home had been transferred out of Minister for fisheries, who Department through Principal the COP’s post much before is also the spokesman of the Secretary Home late on that and was brought back Government, said that there Thursday evening. only towards the end of was nothing strange about The change in police lead- 2016,” George told reporters the CBI raids on the resi- ership was in circulation since at his house on Friday. dences of Minister Vijaya the beginning of this month The former super cop Bhaskar, police chief T K when a major crisis erupted after of Chennai said reports Rajendran and former militants abducted nearly a about his name figured in Minister Ramana. dozen close relatives of police-   ()  (* +, -./+ = ? 0!0 0 ..  9 5R      

  A 0B:+/7: to dissolve the Assembly was between the TRS and the taken. Election Commission. Referring  
   ith Telangana acting CEC Rawat has also to the claims of KCR that he was %#+ #, #+ WChief Minister K expressed his displeasure and talking to the Election Chandrasekhar Rao virtually termed KCR’s statement as Commission, Reddy questioned announcing the election dates “preposterous and uncalled for”. its propriety before the dissolu- he told the voters. for the State Assembly, the The questions has come up tion of assembly. "What they #  ,#+ 7 "  "As Congress leaders are Opposition parties were up in because the Telangana assembly were talking", he asked. unable to see the development in arms and the Election was dissolved even though 8 Pointing out that as per the     the state they should get their Commission of India has also months of its present term were schedule the electoral rolls # #)+#'' eyes tested and tested", KCR said. expressed its displeasure. remaining. Timing of the polls revision should continue till Meanwhile other parties Soon after the Telangana has become crucial because an January Reddy asked how elec-   A  0B:+/7: have also stated chalking out Legislative Assembly was dis- early election was being seen as tion can be possible before that.   8+9:+;0 standing," Rawat said while the plans for their campaign. solved on Thursday afternoon advantageous to the State's rul- CPI general secretary S hitting out at the sources day after the dissolution of Andhra Pradesh Chief to pave way for early polls, KCR ing Telangana Rashtra Samiti. Sudhakar Reddy after meeting he Election Commission which claimed that Telangana Athe State Assembly, blessings meeting” KCR sought Minister and Telugu Desam expressed confidence that the The speed with which the CEC in New Delhi today said Ton Friday decided to send Assembly Elections might Telangana Rashtra Samiti pres- the support from the people for national president N election in Telangana would be State Governor ESL that only Election Commission a team of officials to not necessarily be held along ident and care-taker Chief a second term to ensure con- Chandrababu Naidu will arrive held in October along with four Narasimhan accepted the rec- can announce the schedule of the Hyderabad on September 11 with other four states. Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao tinued development of the State. in Hyderabad on Saturday to other States and results will ommendation of the cabinet election. "How Chandrashekhar for making an assessment of "ECI will review the kicked off his party’s election “Congress is responsible for review the preparations by the come out in December first and the way all the legal and Rao can say when the elections the poll preparedness of the ground level preparedness campaign with first meeting in our decision to go to polls ahead Telangana unit. His visit week. administrative formalities were would be held. We have con- machinery in the State where status with CEO Telangana Husnabad even as the of schedule. Congress leaders assumes significance in view of While the main completed to issue a notifica- veyed our strong objection over the ruling Telangana Rashtra and make up its mind about Opposition parties were fray- levelled baseless allegations speculations that TDP may Opposition Congress alleged tion of the dissolution by the it". Telangana Jana Samiti pres- Samiti has sought early elec- timing of elections for ing to catch up with him. which endangered the stability reach an electoral understand- that there was a nexus between Legislature Secretariat has also ident Kodandaram demanded tions by dissolving the assem- Telangana to be announced in KCR who has a fad for and development of the state and ing with the Congress party TRS and the CEC, Communist raised many an eyebrows. that the state should be put under bly. After a meeting with EC due course. Whenever a astrology, Vastu and numerolo- there was a threat of officials get- BJP national president Party of India delegation led by State Chief Electoral Officer president's rule as there were officials, the Chief Election House is dissolved prema- gy and goes strictly by the advise ting demoralised"he said. Amit Shah will visit the state on national general secretary Rajath Kumar was summoned fears that election under KCR as Commissioner (CEC) OP turely, as per Hon'ble of Pundits chose Husanabad in Recounting the work of his September 15 and was expect- Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy by the Election Commission to carre taker Chief Minister will Rawat said the EC would assess Supreme Court's guidelines Siddipet district for sentimental government over the last four ed to kick off his party's cam- met the Chief Election Delhi to discuss the prepara- not be fair. if the polls in the State could laid down in 2002, ECI is reasons as he had launched his years including faster economic paign from Mahbubnagar. Commissioner OP Rawat and tions for election including the State BJP leaders including be held along with four others, required to initiate immedi- successful 2014 campaign from development and 24 hours free Congress leader and UPA lodged protest against KCR’s status of ongoing revision of floor leader G Kishan Reddy dismissing "astrological pre- ate steps for holding elections the same place. Earlier he wor- power supply to farmers he chairperson Sonia Gandhi was statement. electoral rolls. Telangana met the governor Narasimhan dictions" over the dates. The for constituting Legislative shipped at a temple in his own said, "the results of our efforts, expected to visit on September KCR had also said that all Congress president N Uttam and urged him to keep an eye CEC also stated that the Assembly on the first occa- constituency Gajwel. development and welfare 16 and assess meetings in the aspects were discussed with Kumar Reddy alleged that there on KCR and ensure that he Commission will assess the sion and in any case within 6 Addressing the “people’s schemes are before your eyes", Karimnagar and Nizamabad. the ECI officers before decision seems to be a match fixing doesn't misuse his power. possibility of holding the polls months from date of prema- along with Rajasthan, Madhya ture dissolution of the Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Assembly," Rawat said. Mizoram. Some media reports on C    '+ 
    /P " "  "  9 "In view of the dissolution Friday said that Rawat of the state legislative assembly appeared to hint at the possi- 

 0 %
 of Telangana, the Commission bility of early elections in 1    3 /   "   "  "  has decided to send a team of Telangana. The CEC hinted   (.;(# ECI officials to assess the sit- that elections in Telangana Kolkata: Bengal Chief Minister against the harassment they are   #  7+8; / said in an international con- uation in the state regarding may be called along with the Mamata Banerjee has called being subjected to in the name hree days after a major clave on “Towards Clean and poll preparedness. A team of polls due in four other states in upon the Bengali speaking pop- of NRC. Indicating that NRC Tbridge collapsed in Kolkata’s T city Bengaluru being one Low Carbon Mobility: ECI officials headed by Umesh December this year, a report ulation of Assam to rise up would become one of the Majherhat area killing three Iof the fastest growing cities Addressing affordability and Sinha, Senior Deputy Election said. against the Central counter electoral issues for the persons and injuring 26 others, in the world will be intro- scaling up of sustainable trans- Commissioner, will be visiting According to officials, the Government’s nefarious designs TrinamHit the streets against two of them critically — and ducing zero emission buses port, the new assessment orga- Hyderabad on Tuesday, 11 EC will also assess about how to throw them out of the north- NRC: Didi tells Assam Bengalis throwing a major portion of soon to reduce air pollution. nized by Centre for Science and September 2018 and will give many EVMs and VVPATs eastern State. She was speaking TMC in Bengal particular- about 10 lakh strong South-east- With a fleet of over 7000 Environment (CSE), New the report to the election com- need to conduct Telangana against the alleged victimization ly in places (read border districts) ern Kolkata traffic out of gear buses Bangalore Metropolitan Delhi, Bengaluru is the only city mission after the completion of assembly polls. The EC will of Bengalis in the name of where the BJP has been trying to perhaps for a few years — a sec- Transport Corporation in India recently signed an the visit," the EC said in a state- also assess whether is it possi- preparing the National Register rouse passion against alleged ond bridge, a small one caved in (BMTC) buses will be part of agreement for the soot free ment. ble for the EC to conduct of Citizens (NRC). “infiltration from Bangladesh,” at Phanshidewa block in Siliguri the soot-free urban bus fleet buses on the road. The commission met a these polls along with 4 other Assuring all cooperation if Banerjee said “the Bengalis of in North Bengal, sources said. campaign launched in 2015 He said the agreement day after the Telangana gov- states whose assemblies expire they hit the streets against the Assam should come out in the The bridge covering a small sources said. Reacting to the acci- by The International Council was signed between BMTC ernment headed by K in December/January. NRC regime she said has told a open. We will remain by their river caved in from the middle dent North Bengal Development on Clean Transportation Managing Director V Chandrashekar Rao dissolved The Congress and some Bengali newspaper that the side. Take out rallies and tell the taking down along with it a Minister RN Ghosh said the (ICCT), a non-governmental Ponnuraj and ICCT in asso- the assembly and the governor other opposition parties cried Bengali-speaking people of people of the country what loaded truck injuring the driver bridge was built in the Left international research organ- ciation with the International acted on the cabinet decision foul over the development, Assam will have to generate a ordeal you are being subjected to who was rushed to the North Front era way back in 1995 and isation based in San Association of Public to end the tenure of the assem- calling it the result of a "dubi- countrywide public opinion in the name of NRC.” PNS Bengal Medical College Hospital, badly required repair. Francisco. The congested Transport (UITP) India office bly whose term was there till ous pact" between Rao and Bengaluru has been a victim in Bengaluru a week ago to June next year. Prime Minister Narendra of growing urbanization and reduce the air pollution. As Earlier in the day, CEC Modi. Speculation was rife )5'* government plans to control per the agreement for the Rawat rejected the claims over the last few weeks about the growing next three years, ICCT will made by sources that the likelihood of Rao going for air pollution. offer technical guidance to Telangana Assembly an early election as he did not The Soot-free campaign is BMTC on fleet modernisation Elections may not be held want national issues raised  
 
  @     also being implemented by with the induction of electric along with four other states. during the next year's Lok ICCT in Abidjan, Accra, Addis buses with an objective of "We'll assess if Telangana Sabha polls to overshadow Ababa, Bangkok, Bogota, achieving zero emission, air elections can be held with local factors, which the ing her in a separate cell where the pills which caused the illness when she had applied for bail Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Dar pollution and help improve other 4 states. Any astrolog- Telangana Rashtra !   she was under round-the-clock and that the jail authorities and in 2016. es Salaam, Dhaka, Istanbul, quality of life in city. Besides ical predictions (over dates) Samiti(TRS) feels, are in its CCTV surveillance. “If the pre- doctors at the State-run JJ On its part, the CBI had Jakarta, Johannesburg, Lagos, technical guidance, ICCT also made by anyone is notwith- favour.      sent prison cell is not adequate, Hospital could provide her ade- told the court that releasing Lima, Manila, Mexico City, will help BMTC to attract then the authorities are at liberty quate medical care. The agency Indrani on the two un-found- Nairobi, Santiago, Sao Paulo, finance for procuring tech-    to shift her to a different cell or had also informed the court that ed grounds would be prejudi- and Sydney. nology, building depots provide further security in the Indrani’s health was fine and that cial to the Prosecution's case. Ray Minjares of the ICICT among others. L    present cell,” the Judge said. she was being given necessary Alluding to Indrani’s hospi- treatment whenever required.    M talisation, the CBI had argued While not lending much of that the court that the accused credence to the claim of “ill-    2 27 interacted with fellow inmates in health” made by the accused, the court after hearings and one the Judge noted that she had special CBI court on Friday of them might have given her also cited similar health reasons Arejected the bail applica- tion of Indrani Mukherjea, the key accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, after dis- missing her claims about her “ill-health” and the threat to her life in the prison as “exagger- ated and unacceptable”. While hearing her bail plea on the grounds of “ill-health” and alleged threat to her life, CBI Judge JC Jagdale said that Indrani was much safer inside the prison than outside, while he said that the accused had also made a similar claim when she had applied for bail in 2016. Indrani, who has been lodged at Byculla women prison ever since she was arrested in August 2015 for the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora, had applied for bail mid last month, citing “ill-health” and threat to her life. While citing two instances of her hospitalisation for drug overdose, she had alleged that someone in the prison was trying to “poison” her. While rejecting Indrani’s bail plea, the Judge said that Indrani was exaggerating the issue and said that, as per the prison authorities, she had been given adequate security by lodg-   ()  (* +, -./+ / >

 %  %   &$ #    # & /## $ & . #   $< / %  %$$ #@   $ %% #$ %  
  '# 
#  # /% % . 4@# #   /#      / $ ## %
 4<   # &  $ ##   %<  $ . %
# / 5677 & >3< @  $ %  $$ &  @  % # ## #< % #$ & .  % 4< # % A/  %<
%  $$&&   $$ $ % .  .##  & $  $$ # % $!  # /# % # ##%  %/      /) 
%<# %   !4 * / %  % <  %   $ /' # 

1   
  )   5 # ##     AB.    * $  #     !.    9
 
"     "   ; $,.!.".-   4      8+9:+;0 gas emissions and dependency E'K # H.    
03  4,  on fossil fuels. An estimated  

0/ rime Minister Narendra 2,000 EVs were sold last year.  $2 :
 PModi on Friday pitched for “My vision for the future of :  ,0/- 
  investments in electric vehicles mobility in India is based on 7 + !   &E    2 27 for a public consultation eased In the cross-currency trade, across the value chain from bat- Cs — Common, Connected, 0/2"    pressure on the local currency. the rupee recovered against the teries to smart charging as he Convenient, Congestion-free, )./:#. :#+ 7    $ he rupee on Friday staged Benchmark Brent crude euro to settle at 83.25 from unveiled a mobility road map Charged, Clean and Cutting .9+/#/8!.)#9/+ Ta turnaround to close high- oil was trading at USD 76.74 a 83.70 yesterday. with common public transport edge,” he said.    *    $   er by 26 paise at 71.73 against barrel in early Asian trade. The home unit, however, as the cornerstone, saying bet- Stressing the need to wide- 8/+";;+:"/!  4P:
   the US dollar, snapping its The battered rupee lost a remained weak against the ter mobility can boost growth. ly use common public trans- ; ,:;-8    seven-session losing streak after whopping 189 paise in the last Pound sterling to end at 93.19 “Congestion-free mobility port to drive mobility initia-  8+9:+;0 :,7     heavy intervention by the seven trading sessions which per pound as compared to is critical to check the eco- tives, the Prime Minister said   -  
    Reserve Bank. resulted in the worst sell-offs in 93.08 and also eased against nomic and environmental costs that focus must also go beyond ord India on Friday said it / 4  !
 (  Weighed down by trade the forex history. the Japanese yen to close at of congestion,” he said address- cars to other vehicles. Fis recalling 7,249 units of C   8 8   concerns and rising crude The rupee resumed high- 64.70 per 100 yens from ing the Global Mobility “We must leverage the full petrol EcoSport to update the :  ! H&% prices, the Indian currency er at 71.95 from overnight 64.69. Summit ‘MOVE’ here. potential for vehicle pooling to powertrain control module   !  +" breached the 72 mark to trade level of 71.99 at the inter-bank The 10-year G-Sec yield Stating that common pub- improve private vehicle utili- (PCM) software. "   !  at 72.04 to the dollar in morn- foreign exchange (forex) mar- also softened to end at 8.03 per lic transport must be the cor- sation,” he said. “Convenient In a statement, Ford India   H&%  ing trade. ket on bouts of dollar selling by cent. nerstone of mobility initia- mobility means safe, affordable said it is voluntarily inspecting "   P2  :  ,"2:-:;:!!  /    However, heavy interven- state-run banks. The Indian currency stands tives, he said focus must go and accessible for all sections of 7,249 EcoSport petrol vehi-   P   !   .  :;$ tion by the RBI predominant- However, intense volatility out as one of the most vulner- beyond cars to other vehicles the society.” cles, manufactured between ly resisted the rupee’s sharp pushed the rupee to break the able and worst performing such as scooters and rickshaws. He said it must be ensured November 2017 and March  *   P  #  depreciation and helped it 72-mark to hit a low of 72.04 currency in Asia this year so far “Clean mobility powered by that public transport is pre- 2018, to update the PCM soft-       O; 7   !         rebound from record low lev- on an intraday basis. with a steep 13 per cent fall in clean energy is our most pow- ferred to private modes of ware. C    2    ,2 - E$EL  els. But, the local unit quickly value against the resurgent erful weapon in our fight travel as it would result in fewer The software update action  C  2 "        Some calm returned to bounced back to trade in pos- dollar bulls. against climate change.” traffic jams and lower levels of is in line with company’s con-     "  !  /   
 $. forex front with sentiment itive terrain following central Hardening concerns over With CEOs of global auto stress for commuters. tinued commitment to ensure     ? L       8   soothed by positive comments bank intervention. It later slowing capital flows and a majors in attendance, Modi “We should champion the quality of its vehicles and will 0     ,80-     8   0 $ and confidence-building mea- touched a session high of 71.65 wider trade deficit could said the government is keen on idea of ‘clean kilometers’,” he eliminate any remote chance of !  02"          sures from the government before ending at 71.73, reveal- stretch the funding of India’s “investments across the value said adding Indian entrepre- sudden deceleration or battery     C    $ after what was described as ing a gain of 26 paise, or 0.36 current account gap due to chain from batteries to smart neurs and manufacturers are drainage, it added. carnage. per cent. lower-than-expected goods charging to electric vehicle now poised to develop and In July, Ford had <    $   Steady crude oil prices and The Financial Benchmarks and services tax collections manufacturing”. deploy break-through battery announced recall of 5,397 units 8+#/,8#"+ #  a relief on the trade front as the India private limited (FBIL), increased volatility uncertain- The government is targeting technology that would mean a of EcoSport to rectify faulty /   -/P:  US did not slap duties on USD meanwhile, fixed the reference ty in the midst of Trumps electric vehicles to account for 15 pollution-free clean drive, lead- front lower control arm and 8#";   200 billion of Chinese goods rate for the dollar at 71.9009 geopolitical mess and conta- per cent of all vehicles sales in five ing to clean air and better liv- driver and front passenger seat 2     after the passing of a deadline and for the euro at 83.6744. gion spreads. years in a bid to curb greenhouse ing standards for people. recliner locks. ,2 -  "   + P # ,"+#-     02E   *    P $ $     
      53#, ,#'8   
 P      2 29)  
       A *    ,:- ,C- $   8+9:+;0 ity of a residential project while Magicbricks.  # #6  #5 #  *    an alarming 84% of real estate Many buyers ignore the 80";   s more and more end users consumers are clueless about construction quality as it is not     2    Alook for completed homes the due diligence and just possible for a common   Subsequently, the bank had     ,2 - to buy and occupy, only 16% of wished to know the process to man/buyer to check the con- replied to the regulator on 70+; Indian homebuyers know how check the quality of their house, struction materials used in a February 1, followed by repre- "     "  to check the construction qual- revealed a recent poll by particular building.      sentations on oral submission       Lack of awareness is the during personal hearing on April 0    4 biggest challenge in checking     14 before the Committee of  2 27 L ! H&% the construction of quality of Executive Directors of the RBI. "  . buildings. Homebuyers must  8+9:+;0 “The reply as well as oral arkets remained in better )   $ go through jargon such as seis- submission made by the bank Mform for the second straight mic compliance, structural he Reserve Bank of India in the personal hearings and session on Friday, with the Sensex      $    D safety certificate, earthquake Thas imposed a 1 crore also additional documents fur- closing over 147 points higher as /C  :  =0/8;"  ;   
     resistant building but have no penalty on Union Bank of nished have not been found auto shares zoomed on sus-    ! +  $ means of ensuring that hous- India for failing to detect and adequate by RBI leading to tained buying by domestic insti- /C  :  =0/8;"  ; 8
     es are of good quality. report fraud on time. imposition of penalty of 10 tutional investors amid the rupee  +            !      Explains V. Suresh, Vice- “This is to inform that million,” UBI said. staging a recovery. /  7"  !   +    Chairman of the National Reserve Bank has imposed a However, the bank said The rupee was trading 0    HJHE! H&%$ Building Code, the reference penalty of 10 million on the that the amount of the penal- higher by 29 paise at 71.70 document for all buildings in bank for delay in detection ty is not material considering (intra-day) against the dollar at *   *  $  India, there are four major and reporting of fraud. The the size of the bank. the forex market. The domes- 70+;; 9   components to quality of con- penalty has been imposed in The bank further said it tic unit had hit a fresh life-time     !  struction: exercise of powers vested in received communication from low of 72.11 before settling at "2:70+;   O Structural RBI under ...Banking RBI on imposition on penalty 71.99 Thursday. "  .8: $ Non-Structural Regulation Act,” Union Bank on September 6. Trading sentiment got a :   7   Finishing and of India said in a regulatory The bank has taken neces- massive lift following the gov-      Services filing on Friday. sary preventive measures and ernment’s decision to exempt 70+;    Structural includes ele- RBI had issued a show cause has implemented a compre- electric vehicles (EVs) and   $#      
      ments such as column, beam, notice to the bank on January 15, hensive corrective action plan automobiles run on alternative        =      slab etc where you need a 2018 asking why a penalty not to strengthen internal controls fuels from permit requirements           safety auditor to give you a be imposed on Union Bank of and to ensure that such inci- in a bid to boost such vehicles   
  
   $ report. India under the Act. dents do not recur, it added. in the country.   ()  (* +, -./+ #  >>

%/)< $      *$F  $   &R    philadelphia: # 9         H     4  8      > /  2              729 "    #  $ # &'  4  9   2 
                 ?    +  O
       J        >         &KKK 7  8   " $ 9           
                "     $9   4    2       &H           $# 9     #              H&L 9""   "  $

       G ciliacin:    : 2        2    
    :             #  $ 2  >                           4   4      7  :  7 < $7      )  /   :      
 E   2             2         Q7 )Q$ Q:   !           :    2      >7)>Q      $

 H*       ; $  % &    3   +          *   harare: R     7 2       4   +    8             %!!9#)#6#!$# !!6      $2   
                         
 $!#33#:#!4"# "6)   +    $#&            "  
          # &%           #H   R             $  E      $Q>
         C (                $       
$4 >     
  .
             Q    $ 2        9  " ?        #
                        'E   )  $      (  $   $$Q #LL  "   &J&#  >  # +           &'       < *               
  ''$%%L london: +      0  (                    J  $ !  >8  ;    !     @    3   +     " D5 "      ?
*   9 ">   $(    +         7         ;.8:.8      9 "$#     At the break, Cook was unbeat- sion at all, as Mohammed Shami (0- opted to bat. Cook and Jennings brought up (                /    en on 66 runs, while Ali was batting 27) beat him on umpteen occasions Cook as given a 'guard of honour' only their second 50-partnership this +     $(       pener Alastair Cook hit a on 23 not out having faced 102 balls. but simply didn't find the edge. by the Indian team as he walked out series off 107 balls, and went on to put 
  8    DQ7    $ patient half-century in the Post lunch, India toiled hard and Cook was more solid at the other to bat in his final Test. up their best opening stand in five   $Q(    +       final match of his career as tightened their lines as the pacers got end, and duly reached his 57th half- Opening bowlers Bumrah and Tests — 60 runs. Their previous O 7   9 "   ;   &K%J    England reached 123 for one at tea on some seam movement. Jasprit century off 139 balls to a rousing Sharma found some movement in the highest was 54 at Trent Bridge. 2 $ the opening day of the fifth and final Bumrah (0-31) and Ishant Sharma (0- reception from the packed crowd. In initial overs, but the wicket turned out Jennings though couldn't go on Test against India at the Oval on 17) bowled threatening spells, and doing so he put on 50 with Ali off 158 to be best for batting in this series so for longer, as he edged Jadeja to leg    $        Friday. could have easily accounted for both balls for the second wicket stand. far. slip in the 24th over with KL Rahul london: 8 "       2    !  
    )   The 33-year-old Cook, who is batsmen. Despite India's toils the break- The early movement disappeared adding another catch to his tally.             
  8   playing his final Test for England after In the 31st over, Ajinkya Rahane through didn't come, even as England very quickly as Cook and Jennings Ali and Cook then batted out the  
 $!             which he will retire from international dropped Cook (on 37*) at gully off scored at a slow pace with only 55 made a sedate start. Hanuma Vihari remaining session until lunch, with             <
       cricket, had eight hits to fence in his Sharma. Three balls later, Virat Kohli runs coming in the two-hour session (0-1), who earned his maiden Test cap India hardly creating any threatening   $7  !            177-ball unbeaten innings as he dropped Ali (on 2*) at third slip off with 100 coming up in only the 59th replacing Hardik Pandya, was also in chances.   "    / 2   "      shared 60 runs with opening partner Bumrah. over. action as he came on to bowl first- England have already taken an   !   $#K  !   Keaton Jennings (23) and then forged Ali also survived an lbw shout in Earlier, England made their best change in the 14th over. unassailable 3-1 lead in the series with 2  DQ9 
  $$$      $ an unconquered 63-run stand with 33rd over off Bumrah, with India's start of the series, reaching 68-1 at It was his solitary over though, as wins in Birmingham, Lord's and 9   #C     )   $Q Moeen Ali (23) for the second wick- DRS appeal being turned down. In lunch after skipper Joe Root won his Jadeja (1-36) and Shami took over Southampton. India won the third    >           et. fact he was lucky to survive this ses- fifth consecutive toss of the series and bowling duties after the drinks' break. Test at Nottingham.  >      $  5;) #%"" OEC<(?

 :0(

angladesh have added batsman BMominul Haque to their squad for the Asia Cup as backup to several play- !  / "     (" *   ers carrying injuries, selectors said on Friday. "He is a top-order batsman, who can %*);<(% play as an opener or in (the) one-down position. So we thought his inclusion /P        might be useful in the tournament," said *;)<<!$&9 Habibul Bashar. But the Bangladesh Cricket Board Opener Tamim Iqbal has an issue insisted on playing him in the tourna-  :8: ; with his finger while uncapped left-han- ment, putting his surgery on hold until der Nazmul Hossain hurt his left thumb October when they host Zimbabwe. ndia Blue thrashed defending champion India during a recent training session. "We are Shakib in a recent interview with the IRed by an innings and 187 runs in the final hopeful they will both play. But we English-language Daily Star said that he Friday to win the Duleep Trophy at NPR thought Mominul might play just in case is only 20-30 percent fit, a statement that College ground here. they feel any problem," Bashar added. was quickly dismissed by Bangladesh Spinners Deepak Jagbir Hooda (5 for 56) and Bangladesh are Pool B alongside Sri coach Steve Rhodes. Saurabh Kumar (5 for 51) needed just 10.5 overs Lanka and Afghanistan in the six- "I don't believe he is 20-30 percent on the fourth day to bundle out India Red for nation Asia Cup, which will run from fit. I think he is a lot fitter than that," 172 in the second innings. September 15-28 in the United Arab Rhodes said in Dhaka on Thursday. Overnight not-out batsmen Ishan Kishan !       "     "  E +"+  1"  )   Emirates. "He is not fully fit. But if he plays and Writtick Chatterjee fell in the space of 10 runs The Tigers also have some fitness anything like he played in the to left-arm spinner Saurabh Kumar and Hooda nals. India eventually defeated "I don't know that word. In Asian Games, that's a big concerns regarding all-rounder Shakib Caribbean, then that will be a massive respectively. Pakistan for the Bronze in the any team the biggest psychol- learning curve for the players, Al Hasan, who was keen to skip the Asia asset to Bangladesh cricket," Rhodes The talented, young Kishan could only add play-off. ogist is the coach and you coach and the staff," Harendra Cup to have a surgery on a finger. said. five runs to his score of 25, while Chatterjee The setback didn't just yourself. If I'll not motivate said. moved from 13 to 15 before being caught by cost the team a shot at a sec- myself then no one in the "...That should not be Ricky Bhui off Hooda. ond successive Gold but also world can motivate (me)," said repeated, that is more impor- Off-spinner Hooda picked up the wickets of direct qualification to the 2020 Harendra. tant, whatever happened we M Prasidh (7) and Ishan Porel (6) to finish things Olympics. He said it is the coach's job can erase that bad memory C!13?*?2*?) off for India Blue. Asked if the side needed to ensure that the players' when we do well in the World Earlier, Saurabh had Mihir Hirwani (5)  2 27 help to deal with pressure sit- emotional needs are under- Cup," Harendra told reporters caught behind by Smit Patel. uations with professional help, stood and addressed. here referring to the premier Left-arm spinner Swapnil Singh, who took he Indian hockey team's Harendra was dismissive. "...Rather than going and tournament in December. !33)+?'*!'@'*37+2 5 for 58 in India Red's first innings, bowled only Tperennial problem of con- "Why do you need psy- getting the help from a psy- The coach and the entire three overs and went wicketless in the second. ceding late goals has raised chologists?" he asked. chologist, who has no clue team, along with legends such Swapnil had a pretty good match as he scored concerns about nerves but If gaining confidence is the about the team and sports, no as Ajit Pal Singh, Ashok  8+9:+;0 the mixed 4x400m relay race during the 69 in India Blue's only innings apart from the men's coach Harendra Singh aim, then you can even consult clue about how the players Kumar, Dilip Turkey, Dhanraj Asian Games due to 'obstruction' by a five-wicket haul. Nikhil Gangta was named man Friday rejected the idea of a commoner and take motiva- behave," he explained. Pilley and Sandeep Singh, was print sensation Hima Das has pulled Bahraini runner. She was also seen of the match for his superb knock of 130. getting a psychologist on tion from him. The word psy- As for the team's overall at the Friday event. Sout of the IAAF Continental Cup as limping after running the 4x400m relay board, saying the word has a chologist itself carries a nega- Asiad performance, Harendra "They (the team) have a lot the Athletics Federation of India wants race in Jakarta. "negative vibe" to it. tive vibe and the players feel described it as a bad memory of positive things and if we her to give rest after a hectic season which "There is no injury to Hima. Athletes        The men's team fetched a that they are doing something and a learning curve. move forward with that posi- saw her become the junior world 400m need good recovery time after a hectic rather disappointing Bronze at wrong for which they need to "Look at the positive side, tive mindset. We are mental- champion. season. She is very young, she has just    E * " )  the recently-concluded Asian consult a psychologist," he look at the data and then ly and physically capable of The prestigious tournament is to be started her career and we have to preserve Games after losing in a shoot- said on the sidelines of the move to the World Cup, turning (things around)," the held in Czech Republic from Saturday. and manage her workload lest she is  $  With big guns K Srikanth and HS out to Malaysia in the semifi- team's jersey launch. Whatever happened at the coach said. Hima was initially among seven burnt out," the coach said. Prannoy battling poor form, Sameer Verma Indian athletes who were to take part in The 18-year-old from a village near emerged as the best-placed Indian in the race for the season-ending IAAF event in Ostrava Dhing in Assam started running only in a place in the BWF World Tour Finals with two- on September 8 and 9 but has now been late 2016 but has quickly risen to be the thirds of the season completed.  .  /   

   replaced by Australia's Anneliese Rubbie new Indian sprint sensation in a short Sameer, who had clinched the Swiss Open as the second runner from Asia-Pacific. span of time. earlier this year, remained in the hunt to qual- The Continental Cup is competed She created history by becoming the ify for the USD 1,500,000 season-ending event  0B:+/7: Commonwealth Games Silver medallists Tak Ching and Ng Wing Yung, seeded fifth, among four teams — Europe, Africa, first Indian to win a track Gold in World as he is currently in the sixth place in Race to Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty on Saturday. America and Asia-Pacific — in 18 events Junior Championships in Finland in July. Guangzhou Rankings. ndian shuttlers Sameer Verma and RMV outclassed India's Tarun Kona and However in women's singles, Sri each in both men and women's sections In the just-concluded Asian Games, she However, Srikanth, who had an exception- IGurusaidutt set up a semifinal clash after Malaysia's Lim Khim Wah 21-13, 21-10 to Krishna Priya Kudaravalli and Rasika and the mixed 4x400m relay. The top two broke two national records in a span of al season last year, languished at 41st place as his staving off spirited challenge from their sail into the last four. Raje bowed out after suffering defeats in athletes in the season's rankings from two days in the women's 400m (51.00 best finish this season was a semi-final at the respective opponents in the men's singles Fourth seeds Arun George and the quarterfinals. each of the four regions take part in the and 50.79 seconds) race though she had Malaysia Open. competition of the $ 75,000 BWF Tour Sanyam Shukla also entered the final four While Jia Min of Singapore ended Sri Continental Cup. to be content with a Silver behind Salwa Prannoy, who had a topsy-turvy year with Super 100 tournament here Friday. with a 21-17, 21-15 win over Hong Kong's Krishna's run in the tournament with a 21- "Yes, Hima is not running in the Naser (50.09) of Bahrain. a series of injuries, was at the 42nd place. Top seed Sameer, who had clinched the Chan Tsz Kit and Yeung Shing Choi to set 12, 21-12 win, Raje was outwitted 19-21, IAAF Continental Cup. The AFI has Hima was also part of the Gold win- In women's singles, Olympic and World Swiss Open this year, had to dig deep into up a semifinal clash with Satwik and 8-21 by Sim Yu Jin of Korea in another decided to give her rest. She has run so ning 4x400m relay team and silver-win- Championship Silver medallist P V Sindhu was his reservoir to outwit compatriot Pratul Chirag. quarterfinal clash. many races this year from the ning mixed 4x400m relay quartet. firmly at the second place, while Saina Nehwal Joshi 16-21, 26-24, 21-7 in a match that last- The top Indian mixed doubles pair of The mixed doubles pairs of S Sunjith Commonwealth Games to the World Neeraj Chopra (men's javelin), was at 27th. ed 55 minutes. Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy and Sruthi KP and Arjun MR and Juniors and the Asian Games. It is not Arpinder Singh (men's triple jump), The BWF World Tour Finals will be held Gurusaidutt, a former Commonwealth defeated Hong Kong's Yeung Ming Nok Maneesha K also crashed out of the con- good to make her run so many races," a Mohd Anas (men's 400m), Jinson from December 12 to 16 at Guangzhou, China Games Bronze medallist, recovered from and Ng Tsz Yau 22-20, 14-21, 21-17 in a test. Second seeded men's doubles pair of top coach said on Friday. Johnson (men's 800m), Sudha Singh and only the top eight players in each of the five a game down to outwit Malaysia's Lim Chi 52-minute match to also progress to the Arjun MR and Ramchandran Shlok and The coach, however, ruled out any (women's 3000m steeplechase) and P U disciplines of the HSBC Race to Guangzhou Wing 13-21, 22-20, 21-11 in a 59-minute semifinals. women's doubles pair of Pooja D and injury to Hima, though reports had said Chitra (women's 1500m) are the Indians Rankings will qualify to compete in the season quarterfinal match. The world no 24 Indian pair will face Sanjana Santosh also failed to cross the she sustained minor side strains during taking part in the Continental Cup. finale. PTI Among other Indians in fray, another Hong Kong combination of Chang quarterfinal hurdle.   ()  (* +, -./+ #  >

/<<"$!&$!"%) "   ' 4 !  9    8 .     

 8+9B./( Williams came agonizingly close to the 23-time major winner with a 6-2, 6-4 win matching Australian Margaret Court's all- over Madison Keys, the runner-up in 2017. ix-time champion Serena Williams time record of 24 major titles at Wimbledon, When asked on court what she told her- swept aside Anastasija Sevastova on but fell to Angelique Kerber in the final. self as she served for the match, she said: SThursday to reach a ninth US Open It was the high point of a return that "Don't double fault". final, where she'll face Japanese trail blazer began in March and has not surprisingly "Why," asked the interviewer. "Serena," Naomi Osaka. been, at times, erratic. replied the charismatic Osaka. Williams, seeded 17th as she seeks to But once again Williams has shown she "I love you, Serena," she added before add to her 23 Grand Slam titles for the first can rise to the occasion on the game's biggest adding "I love you, mom; I love everybody". time since the birth of her daughter Olympia stages. Osaka, the 20th seed, has met and last year, needed just 66 minutes to dispatch Another US Open title — four years defeated Williams once — at Miami in the 19th-seeded Sevastova 6-3, 6-0. after her sixth — would be not a culmina- March. That win came just a week after she Osaka, seeded 20th, became the first tion but a springboard, she said. had lifted her first top-level trophy at the Japanese woman to reach a Grand Slam final "I just feel like there's a lot of growth still prestigious Indian Wells event in California. with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over American to go in my game, that's actually the most Saturday will be the fulfilment of Madison Keys — last year's beaten finalist. exciting part," she said. Osaka's childhood dream of facing Williams Williams called her return to the US "Even though I'm not a spring chicken, in a Grand Slam final. Open final for a ninth time "incredible" given I still have a very, very bright future." "It still feels a little bit, like, surreal. Even that she was undergoing surgery for life The players that have faced her so far when I was a little kid, I always dreamed that threatening blood clots this time last year in Flushing Meadows say the current I would play Serena in a final of a Grand in the wake of giving birth. Serena is tough enough — perhaps as good Slam," she said. "To come from that, in the hospital bed, as ever. "Just the fact that it's happening, I'm very not being able to move and walk and do any- "It's tough to say," said Anastasija happy about it. At the same time I feel like thing, now only a year later, I'm not train- Sevastova after Williams swept past her 6- even though I should enjoy this moment, I ing, but I'm actually in these finals, in two 3, 6-0 in the semi-finals. "She played finals should still think of it as another match. in a row," said Williams, who also reached history along with men's semi-finalist Kei in Wimbledon. She's playing finals here. I "Yeah, I shouldn't really think of her as, the final at Wimbledon. Nishikori as the first Japanese man and think this year is not bad for her." like, my idol. I should just try to play her as "To come this far so fast .... I'm really woman to reach the last four at the Slam. Eighth-seeded Karolina Pliskova, who an opponent." The contrast on Saturday can- looking forward to the possibilities." "It still feels really weird because I've briefly rose to number one last year, fell to not be greater. Williams lost out in the semi-finals of her never beaten Madison before," she said. "I'm Williams in the quarter-finals, two years after Serena will be playing in her 31st last two US Opens, in 2015 and 2016. just glad I was able to get through this shocking her in the semis. Grand Slam final and ninth at the US Open But with six titles in New York she needs match." "I don't feel any difference," Pliskova said where she is a six-time champion. just one more to surpass Chris Evert for most of Williams's game. "She's playing with the When the American, 16 years her all-time — and she needs just one more O    F same power. She can still serve well. I think senior, won her first US Open in 1999, Grand Slam title to equal Australian Serena Williams once again targets a maybe she's back on the level where she Osaka was not yet two years old. Margaret Court's all-time record of 24. record 24th Grand Slam singles title at the was." Whatever happens in the final, Osaka Osaka, 20 and in the last four at a Slam US Open on Saturday. said she will remain a fan of the American for the first time, admitted she was driven Win or lose, the US great says she's just O #  F      who is chasing a record-equalling 24th by the idea of facing Williams. getting started in the latest phase of her Naomi Osaka told US Open title oppo- major, just a year after giving birth and Asked how she managed to save all 13 career. nent Serena Williams "I love you" just undergoing four post-natal surgeries. break points she faced, Osaka said: "I was "I'm still on the way up," said the 36- moments after she became the first Japanese "When you just come back and then you just thinking I really want to play Serena." year-old, who is playing her seventh tour- woman to reach a Grand Slam final. make the finals of two slams, I think that's 'Asked to elaborate, Osaka seemed stunned. nament since the birth of daughter Olympia The 20-year-old breakout star of the really amazing," added Osaka in reference "Because she's Serena — what do you on September 1 2017. "There's still much tournament swept into the record books and to Williams's runner-up spot at Wimbledon mean!" said Osaka, who had already made more that I plan on doing." Saturday's championship match against in July. '   ; . +
- #,#+ %<*

 ;,#% +  2!#+/:2 began his career. The most-capped Dutch $   <   )/. esley Sneijder turned player of all time, who won Wout for the his first cap in 2003, leaves ith Cristiano Netherlands for the 134th behind a team trying to  2 8"0 WRonaldo absent and and final time on Thursday rebuild after failing to qualiy Luka Modric in action, as Memphis Depay's brace for Euro 2016 or the last orld Cup winners France were held Portugal and Croatia drew secured a 2-1 friendly win World Cup. Wto a 0-0 draw by Germany in a flat 1-1 in a friendly Thursday. over Peru here. Koeman is trying to start to the new UEFA Nations League on In its first game since On an emotional night build a side capable of mak- Thursday, as Gareth Bale starred in a big reaching the World Cup at the Johan Cruyff Arena, ing it to Euro 2020 built win for Wales. final, Croatia got on the Dutch coach Ronald around Liverpool centre- The heavyweight showdown at the board with forward Ivan Koeman handed over the back Virgil van Dijk and also Allianz Arena between the last two win- Perisic's goal and defend- 7" 1      captain's armband to featuring young Ajax starlet ners of the World Cup looked like the per- er Pepe equalized before 1  "  "       Sneijder, who is now 34. Matthijs de Ligt. fect game to mark the opening night of the halftime. Sneijder, the former Real They fell behind against new international competition. 1   "% &  ',0 $        The Portuguese had most of the scoring chances but Madrid and Inter Milan the Peruvians through a However, on a rainy night in Bavaria, could not break through the Croatian defense at Algarve playmaker who moved to Al Pedro Aquino goal early on, the meeting of the last two world cham- sensational strike from outside the box in Stadium in southern Portugal. Gharafa of Qatar earlier this but Lyon forward Depay pions never really sparked into life, the 18th minute of their League B Coach Fernando Santos did not call up Ronaldo say- year, took the microphone equalised on the hour mark although the French were grateful to goal- encounter in Cardiff. ing the player needed more rest following a busy summer and encouraged fans to join before netting the winner keeper Alphonse Areola for a couple of fine It was a 30th international goal for Bale, that included a transfer from Real Madrid to Juventus. him for a beer on their way seven minutes from time. saves in the second half. who is Wales' all-time leading goal-scor- Modric, a finalist with Ronaldo and Salah for the FIFA out of the stadium. Koeman later confirmed Areola was starting in goal in place of er. Tom Lawrence had already given player of the year award, was substituted in the second half. A star of the Dutch team he would make "several the injured Hugo Lloris, winning his first Wales the lead before that, and 17- Portugal was eliminated by Uruguay in the round of 16 that got to the 2010 World changes" for Sunday's trip to cap in the only change made by year-old Ethan Ampadu set up of the World Cup. Croatia lost the final to France. Cup final, Sneijder received face World Cup winners France coach Dider Deschamps Aaron Ramsey for the third goal Defending European champion Portugal will make its a warm ovation from the France in their first match in compared to the side that started before half-time. UEFA Nations League debut against Italy on Monday. 50,000 fans at the home of the new UEFA Nations E   G        "    "" the World Cup final win over Ireland's 1-0 win in Cardiff Croatia will open at Spain on Tuesday. Ajax, the club where he League. "            " *"    Croatia in July. last October had ended The Paris Saint- Wales' World Cup dream, Germain goalkeeper but Martin O'Neill's side intervened brilliantly to were dreadful this time. deny Marco Reus and keep out a Bale set up Connor %      * '. ,   Matthias Ginter header, while Antoine Roberts for the hosts' Griezmann's well-struck shot that fourth after the break, was saved by Manuel Neuer was as before substitute Shaun  "089.8 (628.5) and Manini Kaushik (621.2) then close as France came. Williams pulled a goal produced a sensational performance to "I know that we are getting back for the Irish after here was no stopping the golden run total 1880.7 for a Gold with a world greedy, but a draw in Germany is a robbing Ramsey of pos- Tof India's junior shooters with record to boot. good result," Deschamps told French session. Hriday Hazarika claiming the 10m air The score by Elavenil, a junior television channel TF1. "We wanted to put rifle top honours before the women's world cup Gold-medallist, was also a The Netherlands in a performance in team combined for a new world record new junior world record. are the other team front of the fans and and Gold at the ISSF World The men's team, comprising in Group 1 of put out a statement," Championships here on Friday. Hazarika, Divyansh Panwar and Arjun League A, and Bale told Sky Sports. Elavenil Valarivan also won the Babuta, finished fourth with a combined Ronald Koeman's team travel Wales go to Denmark on individual Silver in women's 10m air total of 1872.3. to Paris on Sunday, when the Sunday, with the Danes expected to rifle, going down narrowly to China's There was disappointment for the French will turn out at home for the field a full-strength side in that game double senior World Cup Gold-medal- country in the senior men's 50m rifle first time since their glorious campaign in after sending out a team of lower- list Shi Mengyao, in the final. three position competition as none of the Russia. league and futsal players in a 3-0 Elavenil shot 249.8 to Shi's 250.5. Indians in fray managed to make the cut The top sides in each of the four groups friendly loss in Slovakia on The 17-year old Shreya Agrawal won the for the finals. in League A will advance to a mini final Wednesday. Bronze with an effort of 228.4 in the Asian Games Silver-medallist tournament in June next year, with the Also in League B, final. This is the tournament's 52nd edi- Sanjeev Rajput was the lowest placed overall Nations League title at stake before Ukraine came from tion. Indian at 58th with a score of 1158. the Euro 2020 qualifiers begin. behind to win 2-1 in the Four podium finishes on the sixth Swapnil Kusale was 55th with a score Below the elite league, there is pro- Czech Republic with day of competition took India's tally to of 1161 while Akhil Sheoran took the motion and relegation and also a potential Oleksandr Zinchenko scoring 18, their best-ever showing in the 44th position with 1167. path to the European Championship for the decisive goal in stoppage time. International Shooting Sport !         C  C   0 5     " !) E +P  The Indian team, comprising the those who do not make it via the traditional In League C, Fulham's Stefan Johansen Federation's (ISSF) premier tourna- trio, ended 11th with a total of 3503. qualifiers. scored twice as Norway beat Cyprus 2-0, ment. The country's previous best was the yellow metal after prevailing in a 23rd shot meant that at the end of the In women's 25m pistol, teenager and Bulgaria won 2-1 in Slovenia. the six medals won during the 49th edi- shoot-off at the prestigious tourna- allotted 24 shots, both Hazarika and Manu Bhaker was the best-placed Indian     The first ever goal of the new Nations tion in Zagreb, Croatia. ment. Nekounam found themselves tied at after the first precision stage of qualifi- Bale scored a stunning goal as an League was a stunner, scored by Giorgi Hazarika, the lone Indian to quali- As the individual shots began, 250.1 points each. cation, shooting an impressive 294 out impressive Wales beat the Republic of Chakvetadze in distant Astana, as Georgia fy for the men's final with a score of Hazarika strung together a fantastic In the shoot-off, Hazarika had the of 300 to be among the joint top four Ireland 4-1 in Ryan Giggs's first competi- beat Kazakhstan 2-0 in Group 1 of League 627.3, was tied with Iran's Mohammed series of high 10s and by the end of the last laugh with a 10.3 to the Iranian's scores. Asian Games champion Rahi tive match as manager. D. In the same league, Arsenal's Henrikh Amir Nekounam on 250.1 once the field 20th shot, he was leading the field by 0.5. 10.2. Sarnobat was lying 27th with 289 while Bale followed up his fine start to the Mkhitaryan had a penalty saved as his was pruned to the regulation top eight. He held on to the lead till the 22nd In the women's 10m air rifle, the Asiad Bronze medallist Heena Sidhu season with Real Madrid by curling in a Armenia beat Liechtenstein 2-1. But the 17-year-old Indian clinched shot from Nekounam. Then a 9.4 for his team of Elavenil (631), Shreya Agarwal shot 284 to be in 61st position.