millenniumpost.in RNI NO.: WBENG/2015/65962

PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 3, ISSUE 125 | Wednesday, 10 May 2017 | Kolkata | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS pNIFTY 9316.85 (+2.80) pSENSEX 29,933.26 (+7.11) pDOW JONES 21,012.28 (+5.34) pNASDAQ 6,102.66 (+1.90) pRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.63 (+0.32) pRUPEE/EURO 70.38 (+0.2) qGOLD/10GM 28,570.00 (-20.00) qSILVER/K 38,200.00 (-150.00) MAMATA ON TAGORE: A RIVER IS A MOTHER INDIAN SHOPKEEPER ‘TAKING A MY CONSTANT AS IT PROVIDES WATER FIGHTS OFF ROBBER BREAK IS COMPANION IN EVERY TO SURVIVE: SHIVRAJ USING VODKA ESSENTIAL FOR SITUATION PG3 CHAUHAN PG5 BOTTLE, CHAIR PG10 GROWTH’ PG16 TRIBUTE TO THE BARD FIRST SITTING HC JUDGE TO BE SENT TO JAIL BY SC ON CHARGES OF CONTEMPT AAP demonstrates how SC sends Justice Karnan EVMs can be ‘rigged’ in Delhi Assembly to six months in jail AAP hacked ‘look-alike’ gadget, not our EVM: EC MPOST BUREAU ANUP VERMA UNPRECEDENTED NEW DELHI: In an unprec- NEW DELHI: Amid a row over edented order, the Supreme »»The bench also banned the media, both print corruption allegations against Court on Tuesday held con- and electronic, from publishing the contents of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind troversial Calcutta High Court Kejriwal, Aam Aadmi Party leg- judge Justice C S Karnan guilty further orders passed by Justice Karnan islator Saurabh Bharadwaj on of contempt of court and sen- Tuesday sought to demonstrate tenced him to jail for six »»The apex court had on May 1 directed in the Delhi Assembly how months, ordering that he be medical check-up of Justice Karnan by an Electronic Voting Machine Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paying floral tributes to taken into custody forthwith. doctors with police support, as the (EVM) can be tampered with to can be tampered with even after Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata on Tuesday PIC/MPOST A seven-judge constitution rig results. a mock test. bench, headed by Chief Justice judge did not appear before it AAP, which has alleged that “Using codes embedded in J S Khehar, said: “We are of the EVMs had been tampered with the EVMs they can be tampered. India to pump 10,000 crore unanimous view that Justice in the assembly elections in Pun- Votes will go to a candidate in ` C S Karnan committed con- Bengal, said in compliance of fit and fine and the medical police support, as the judge jab and the civic polls in Delhi, whose favour it has been rigged tempt of court, contempt of apex court’s earlier direction, a board does not contradict it,” did not appear before it. both of which it lost, used the no matter which button you in Deep Sea Mission judiciary and the process.” medical board along with the the bench said. The judge had on May 4 day-long special session of the press,” he said. This is the first time that DGP and police personnel had The bench said the con- declined to undergo a men- assembly to demonstrate how Delhi Chief Minister Arvind TITAGARH (WB): India has several countries in this regard. a sitting high court judge gone to Justice Karnan’s place tempt power does not recog- tal health checkup as ordered the voting machines can be Kejriwal on Tuesday dared the embarked on an ambitious Rs He said that the mission is being sent to jail by the but he gave a letter saying he nise who is what, whether he by the supreme court, telling rigged. Election Commission to give 10,000-crore Deep Sea Mission, intended to harness the ocean s Supreme Court on charges of was fit and of a sound mind. is a judge and individual or a a team of doctors he is “abso- The party fielded Bharadwaj, EVMs to the AAP which he said likely to commence by the year resources in a ‘responsible way’ contempt. Dwivedi read out the letter private person and that it is lutely normal” and has a “sta- a former minister, who brought a will change their motherboards end, to explore and mine min- and could turn out to be a trans- The bench, which also to the bench. simple contempt. ble mind”. prototype of what looked like an in 90 seconds. eral wealth beneath the ocean formative step for the prosperity comprised Justices Dipak ASG Maninder Singh told “If we do not send him to The apex court had on EVM used by the Election Com- Meanwhile, the Elec- floor, a top government official and security of the nation. Misra, J Chelameswar, Ranjan the bench that Justice Karnan jail, there will be a blemish that March 10 issued a bailable mission and went on to claim tion Commission on Tuesday said on Tuesday. The project would have a Gogoi, M B Lokur, P C Ghose knows what he is doing and Supreme Court has condoned warrant against Justice Karnan how codes embedded inside an rejected the claim of the Aam Ministry of Earth Sci- huge impact for the benefit and Kurian Joseph, said it was he needs to be punished for the contempt committed by a to ensure his presence before it EVM can be used to manipu- Aadmi Party that its EVMs can ences secretary Madhavan of the country’s deep ocean satisfied that Justice Karnan contempt of court as he has judge,” the bench said. in the contempt case. The war- late results. He did not name the be hacked, saying the machine Nair Rajeevan said that the Rs energy, deep sea fishing and be sentenced for six months passed several orders against It said Justice Karnan can rant had come almost a month BJP but provided enough hints hacked in the Delhi assembly 10,000-crore project was an minerals among others, Raje- in jail. the judges of the apex court. be punished as he has himself after the court had asked Jus- to insinuate that the Bharatiya was a “look-alike” gadget and not interministerial and interdis- evan said. “The sentence shall be Senior advocate K K Venu- declared that he was of sound tice Karnan to appear in per- Janata Party was the beneficiary. an actual equipment used by it. ciplinarity project. The sea water desalination executed and he be taken into gopal, appearing for Regis- mind and the medical board son and explain why contempt “I will show you how the “It is common sense that gad- “It is expected to begin from project of Rs 2,000 crore at custody forthwith,” the bench trar General of Madras High has not contradicted it. proceedings not be initiated machines on which the faith gets other than ECI-EVMs can end of the year,” Nair said. Chennai coast is also taken up said. Court, said that if Justice Kar- Justice Karnan had on against him. of democracy rests can be tam- be programmed to perform in a Speaking on the sidelines under the mission that aims to The bench also banned the nan is sent to jail, it would cre- Monday ‘sentenced’ Chief On March 31, Justice pered with. An ordinary engi- pre-determined way, but it sim- of a programme to mark the eliminate potable water prob- media, both print and elec- ate a blemish of a sitting judge Justice of India J S Khehar Karnan had appeared in the neer like me with just 10-15 days ply cannot be implied that ECI- commencement of ship build- lem for the city. tronic, from publishing the being sent to jail for contempt. and seven other judges of the Supreme Court, a first in of hard work can tamper with EVMs will behave in the same ing by Titagarh Wagons Ltd, he The Exclusive Economic contents of further orders The bench then said there Supreme Court to five years Indian judicial history, and them to ensure that votes go only manner because they are techni- said that a cabinet note on the Zone allotted to India in the passed by Justice Karnan. was no question about the visit rigorous imprisonment. had sought restoration of his to one desired party or candi- cally secured and function under project was under preparation. international waters will be cov- At the outset of the hear- medical board having visited The apex court had on May powers as a condition for his date,” he said in the assembly. an elaborate administrative and Rajeevan said India was ered under the Deep Ocean ing, senior advocate Rakesh him (Karnan). 1 directed medical check-up of re- appearance, but the plea During the demonstration, security protocol,” the Commis- open for technical tie-ups with Mission. MPOST Dwivedi, appearing for West “We are assured that he is Justice Karnan by doctors with was rejected. Bharadwaj claimed that EVMs sion said in a statement. In today’s Death for three convicted of paper raping, murdering Pune techie ... CITY CLASHES OVER CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL 4 NATION SQUALL IN BIHAR KILLS 15 5 EDIT DRIVING FOR REGIMENTATION 8 INTERNATIONAL

INDIAN WOMAN TO BE REPATRIATED 10 MPOST BUREAU while waiting for a transport to return home. BUSINESS PUNE: Three persons were given Her body was recovered two days PV SALES GROW 15% 12 death penalty on Tuesday by a special later from Zarewadi forest area in court for killing 28-year-old software Khed tehsil of Pune district. SPORT engineer Nayana Pujari after abduct- Yogesh, Mahesh and Vishwas, who ing and gang-raping her eight years were given death penalty on Tuesday BOUCHARD BEATS FALLEN IDOL SHARAPOVA 14 ago near here. had been convicted of seven counts Special Judge L L Yenkar awarded of various offences including those death sentence to the trio - Yogesh of kidnapping, gang-rape, murder, FOR ADVERTISING Raut, Mahesh Thakur and Vishwas robbery, misappropriation of prop- kindly contact at 9810195709 Kadam, a day after convicting them erty after hatching a criminal conspir- or in the eight-year-old sensational gang- acy in furtherance of their common [email protected] rape-cum-murder case. intention. While convicting the three on The three, however, had been Monday, the court had let off the acquitted of three other charges FOR SUBSCRIPTION fourth accused who had turned including those of abduction with an kindly contact at 8800854665 approver in the case. aim to commit murder, causing hurt or Pujari, who worked at an IT firm while committing the robbery and the [email protected] in Kharadi was kidnapped on October destruction of evidence as the pros- 7, 2009 evening from Kharadi bypass, ecution failed to prove these charges. Mother sues American Airlines for losing her daughter’s ashes

WASHINGTON: A grieving her client was promised her bags mother has sued American Air- would be the first off the plane. lines for $ 10 million, alleging However, when she arrived to that she was forced to check in Tucson, her bag was nowhere to her carry-on luggage containing be found. her daughter’s ashes which the American Airlines released a airline then misplaced. statement regarding the incident, Iddy Pierre-Canel has filed a saying, “When we need custom- lawsuit against American Airlines ers to gate check a bag, we always claiming that she was forced to ask for customers to remove all check in her carry-on bag on a valuables and important docu- flight from Baltimore to Tucson, ments. Had we known there were Arizona, with her dead daughter’s cremated ashes in the bag, we ashes inside, which was then lost, would have had her remove them NBC- affiliate KPNX-TV reported. ter’s ashes and wanted to keep them close. or found a place for the bag.” Pierre-Canel said her daughter, Carm- “When the plane took off, that’s when “We apologised for losing the items Idrelle Casseus, died at 28 after a battle I realised I didn’t have my bag. They said, and certainly are very sorry for her ter- with unspecified medical problems. ‘Oh, they checked your bag in,’” she said. rible loss. A spokesperson for the airline Pierre-Canel said an American Air- Pierre-Canel said she remembers an also said Pierre-Canel created an itemised lines employee insisted twice that she employee picking her bags up, but she list of what was in that bag,” the statement check in her bag while waiting at the gate said she was under the impression they said. There was an estimated $24,000 on March 5, 2016. were helping her take the bags to her seat worth of belongings in the suitcase, but She was quoted as saying that she since she was distraught. no urn was mentioned on that list. made it clear she was carrying her daugh- Her attorney Lorraine Morey said AGENCIES ICA - 924(19)/2017 2 town Kolkata |Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 mp MILLENNIUM POST |

Contrary to the growing myth of butter being bad for health, the smooth and soft butter is high in vitamins and beneficial saturated fats which improves satiety if consumed in moderation Health benefits of Butter OUR CORRESPONDENT consumed in moderation. In fact, it consists of short chain fatty acid (SCFA) and medium chain fatty acids (MCFA) which are n nutrition, anything taken in excess amount is bad for not significantly stored as fat but easily used as energy. health, even water. Water, if taken is excess, causes “water Butterfat is a concentrated source of energy. It is highly toxicity”. emulsified, which facilitates its digestion. Fat must be liquid or There is a growing belief in the scientific community emulsified at body temperature to be digested or absorbed. It Ithat natural saturated fats like those contained in butter and provides useful quantities of vitamin A which play a vital role in dairy products, as opposed to those in margarine, may actually enhancing the vision, protection of the skin and cell membrane turn out to be better for human kind. Certainly, these fats have and resistance to infection. Also, Vitamin D has an important already been identified as key components of cell membranes, role in calcium metabolism and bone growth. essential for the production of ­certain ­hormones and having an important role to play in the transport and absorption of cer- BUTTERFAT HELPS IN: tain vitamins and minerals. Butter isn’t bad for health; in fact, 4 Suppressing cell growth in human malignant melanoma, it’s healthy, being high in vitamins, beneficial saturated fats, and colorectal, breast, lung, prostate and ovarian cancer cell the sort of cholesterol that is vital for brain and nervous system lines; development and various natural compounds with anti-fungal, 4 Has also protective role against atherosclerosis and anti- anti-oxidant and even anti-cancer properties. In order to func- make, lacks nutritional merit, and damages health. But it has 4 Vitamin K2: Raw, organic, pastured butter and cream con- thrombotic properties; tion properly, human lungs, heart, immune system liver, bones, a longer shelf-life and a higher profit margin than real butter. tains vitamin K2 – a necessary co-factor in Vitamin D syn- 4 Has protective role against type II diabetes and peripheral hormones and cell membranes, vitamin D production, trans- thesis. K2 also ushers calcium out of blood stream and into insulin resistance; port and utilization of important vitamins and minerals, all 5 QUICK BENEFITS OF CONSUMING BUTTER IN bone cells which increases bone density instead of calcify- 4 Has various roles in the humoural and cellular immune require high quality saturated fats – in moderation, of course. MODERATION: ing arterial and heart tissue systems, in anti-inflammatory properties, bone growth etc. At top of the pyramid is organic butter made with raw milk 4 Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA): Raw organic pastured 4 Fat-soluble Vitamins: Butter is a good source of the fat sol- Numerous studies under varying conditions have examined from grass fed cows. The middle level is organic butter with butter has a lot of anti-tumor CLA. It inhibits the growth uble Vitamins A, D, E and K. It is also an excellent vehicle whether specific macronutrients such as fats, carbohydrates, pasteurised milk from grass-fed cows without rBGH, rBST or of cancer cells in the skin, colon, breasts and lungs. It’s anti- for their assimilation. and protein improve satiety or a feeling of fullness following antibiotics. The pyramid’s base is butter made from pasteurised fungus and it stimulates muscle growth while preventing 4 Wulzen Factor: Raw, unpasteurized butter, cream and milk intake. Compared to low-fat meals, a high fat meal empties milk from confined, grain fed, factory farmed, antibiotic and weight gain contain the “Wulzen Factor” an anti-stiffness agent. It pro- more slowly from the stomach. likely rBGH or rBST injected cows. 4 Butyric Acid: Butter contains 4% butyric acid – a short tects against calcification of the joints (osteoarthritis) as A preliminary study involving healthy adults found that Amazingly, the butter at the bottom of the pyramid is still chain fatty acid that research indicates can inhibit tumours. well as cataracts, and the calcification of the pineal gland. dairy fat affected satiety differently than non-dairy fat. In fact, better than margarine. Margarine is merely a lab created plastic It also signals the immune system into action when an infec- Pasteurization destroys this Wulzen Factor. in a study with healthy men in France, a meal containing but- food-like substance, not by any means a real food. It is cheap to tion is brewing Raw, organic butter is a superfood that won’t make one fat if ter delayed the desire for the next meal. DAYINDAYOUT Lipstick guide for What’s on Around Town A REFRESHING START TO MAY Filled with the goodness of fresh fruits, DUSKY BEAUTIES pamper yourself with the most tempting hand-crafted sorbets, for a refreshing WOMEN WITH A DUSKY skin tone treat this summer at 1911 restaurant. may often be in a fix over the shade of lip Exciting combinations like Lemoncello, colour to choose. Floral ones or earthy tones can be interesting choices, sug- Watermelon, Basil and Mango, Rasp- gest experts. berry and Mint sorbets await to please Aashmeen Munjaal, celebrity make- your taste buds. The indulgence extends up artist and Nelofar Currimbhoy, Pres- with the most satiating ice-cream fla- ident of Shahnaz group of companies, vours to choose from like wild berry, fig have shared some tips: and honey amongst other home-made 4  Identify the undertone of your skin, ice-creams to give a divine end to your it can be yellow, blue, grey or pink. 4 When you are applying the base, A ‘SWEET REVOLUTION’ dining experience. make sure it is natural. Don’t overdo WHEN: May 1 – 14 it on face area and apply little bit base WHERE: 1911 restaurant, The Imperial on your lips, but if you feel heavy on your lip area, then you can dab with DABBAWALAS IN DELHI the help of a tissue paper or a sponge. by Tihar inmates Inspired by the world-famous Dab- This will absorb extra base from your bawalas of Mumbai, Tamra, the lip area and only the required base OUR CORRESPONDENT tion of honeybee colonies, acquaintance ‘Sweet Revolution’ given by our Prime award-winning multi-cuisine restaurant will remain on your lips. with apicultural equipments, identifica- Minister. Honey helps boosting immu- at Shangri-La’s – Eros Hotel, New Delhi 4  4  Dusky and dark com- The colour of the lip- nspired by Prime Minister Naren- tion and management of bee enemies nity and purifies blood. Its medicinal brings to its patrons an evocative tiffin plexioned women have stick also depends on dra Modi’s dream projects of ‘Sweet and diseases, honey extraction and value protects the body from major some interesting colour the time of the day and Revolution’ and ‘Skill India’, a five- wax purification, and manage- health problems like heart lunch experience presented with the options like silver, gold, the weather. day beekeeping training course for ment of bee colonies in spring, ailments and can- taste of luxury. Executive Chef Neeraj bronze, copper, choco- Summer lips need to be Iyoung inmates of Tihar jail was kicked summer, monsoon, autumn and Tyagi along with his culinary masters late and dark nudes. The soft. What works well for off on Tuesday at jail No 5. As many as winter seasons. “Our objec- have curated a tiffin lunch by creating same shade can be cho- the day on dusky skin is 50 inmates, with an age group between 20 tive is to make the sweet meal combinations from cuisines across sen in moisture matte long lasting lip gloss in pale and 25 years, participated in the course, nectar available cer,” the world with a local flavour. Savour collection because it shades of brown, champagne started by Khadi and Village Industries to each and he added. gives moisture to your and soft orange. Orange has Commission (KVIC). every family KVIC has the likes of Thailand ka dabba, Desi lips and at the same time, it will made a comeback after years and is all Giving details, V K Saxena, the KVIC for their daily already planned Chineez, Phorner Dabba, Desi Dabba, give a matte look which is in trend the rage these days. Chairman, said that the trainees were consump- to setup 5000 bee Mera Gaon Mera Desh, South ka nowadays. Using a tinted lip gloss as a substi- apprised of the scope and significance of tion, follow- boxes in Delhi alone Dabba and many more in true Mum- Steel grey and metallic shades also tute to lipstick in the day makes the face beekeeping, important considerations ing the call of this year at various gardens, baiya ishtyle! look good on darker skin tone but make look fresh and appealing , specially so and tips to start beekeeping. “After train- farmhouses and colleges, to start WHEN: May 1 – 31 WHERE: Tamra, sure it’s going with your attire. in summers. ing, KVIC will install as many as 500 community honey cultivation, which will Shangri-La’s Eros Hotel 4 Floral lip shades like cherry, pink, 4 Avoid shades of magenta and pink bee-boxes in the jail premises – having subsequently generate employment too. orange, light red, dark peach, wine since they tend to come out too stark large greeneries. These boxes will not only Director General (Prisons) Sudhir TIMING: 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm and mauve can be a good choice for and artificial. produce more than 12,500 kilograms of Yadav, in his address, said that after being 4  (IM)POSSIBILITIES darker skin tone women. For the evening go for a rich maroon. high quality honey and 300 kilograms trained in apiculture or bee farming as A group show of paintings and sculp- 4 Earthy shades can be trusted blindly Pat a coat of dry powder on your lips of good-quality wax every year, rather part of the rehabilitation and reforma- because these shades are the safest and reapply the lipstick. This will it will also boost the flora and fauna in tion programme for the prisoners, the tures of some of the most celebrated for dusky skin. Earthy tones include ensure that your lipstick stays on. and around the prison as the bees fly inmates can learn the skills and utilise it artists of the nation, the exhibition, (im) lip shades like brown, brick, cocoa 4 What looks exotic on dusky skins is a around 2 kilometers. Through pollina- to earn their livelihood when they have possibilities showcase how one can one and burgundy. light splatter of lip glitter. Remember tion, crop production goes 25 percent finished their jail term. “KVIC, which can decipher the word impossibilities. If you are wearing any fluorescent to reach out for the lip line pencil to up,” he said, adding, “Besides, the KVIC has become the torch-bearer of ‘Honey The names showcased has already coloured outfit and want to wear lip give the perfect touch. experts delved upon honey bee species, Mission’ in the recent past, will provide proved that impossible is nothing. shade of your choice then first you need 4 Hues of brown also look good on colony organization, division of labour beehive boxes along with hive stands and to apply that shade on your lips with the the dusky skin like metallic cop- and life cycle of honey bees; manage- other miscellaneous. They will also train WHEN: April 13 – May 13 help of a brush like an underbase. Above per. It looks just ethereal for the ment of honey bee colonies during dif- us on how to go about it,” he said, adding, WHERE: Creativity Art Gallery, Hauz of that if you want to apply a lip colour evenings. For the flame look, carry ferent seasons.” “We will soon harvest and sell our own Khas Village then you can go for shades like tangy the colour theme to the clothes and VK Saxena further said that practical honey. This is part of the reformation and TIMING: 11 am – 7 pm orange, fushcia pink, neon red. eye shadow. IANS training was also imparted in examina- rehabilitation of the inmates.” Although every possible care and caution has been taken to avoid errors or omissions, this publication is being sold on the condition and understanding that information given in this publication is merely for reference and must not be taken as having authority of or binding in any way on the writers, editors, publishers, and printers and sellers who do not owe any responsibility for any damage or loss to any person, a purchaser of this publication or not for the result of any action taken on the basis of this work. All disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of competent court and forums in Delhi/New Delhi only. “MILLENNIUM POST”, Published & printed by Durbar Ganguly on behalf of Front Row Media Pvt. Ltd. from 36/4, Prince Gulam Mohd. Shah Road, Kolkata - 700 033 & printed at Aajkaal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., BP-7, Sector-V, Bidhannagar, Kolkata - 700 091, Editor: Durbar Ganguly, Executive Editor: Arya Rudra, Resident Editor (Kolkata): Tarun Goswami. Email: [email protected], [email protected], Editorial and Marketing Office: Tivoli Court 1A, Ballygunge Circular Road, Block-A, Flat-94, 1st Floor, Kolkata-700 019. For marketing, contact: 9836292306, 9830532306. For editorial, call: 9836072100 city 3 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 mp REMEMBERING RABINDRANATH Mamata on Tagore: My constant companion in every situation

OUR CORRESPONDENT jakhon sukaye jay karunadharay eso. The Chief Minister said that with- KOLKATA: Chief Minister Mamata out Tagore her very existence becomes Banerjee on Tuesday stated that for meaningless. “Tagore has crossed fron- every situation in her life, Rabindra- tiers and been embraced by the people nath Tagore gave her constant company of this world,” she said. and it is his timeless works, songs and Eminent Rabindra Sangeet expo- poems that render immense inspiration nents, including Swagatalakshmi Das- and motivation to her. gupta, Sibaji Chattopadhyay and others, “Tagore is ageless and he is universal. regaled the packed audience with some His thinkings should continue to inspire of the poet’s songs. us,” Banerjee said referring to how she, Hundreds of people thronged the like numerous Bengalis, “continue to venue as the programme was shown on be motivated by Gurudev through his giant screens placed at convenient cor- songs and poems.” ners of the complex. Inaugurating the 156th birth anni- At Tagore’s ancestral home Visitors pay tribute to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at Jorasanko Thakurbari — the ancestral versary celebration of the Bard organ- ‘Jorasanko Thakur Bari’ in north Kol- house of the Tagores — on his 156th birth anniversary in Kolkata on Tuesday PTI ised by the Information and Cultural kata, cultural programmes started early Affairs Department, Banerjee said: in the morning and continued for the “If someone tries to intimidate me, I rest of the day. Students, attired in tradi- SONIKA’S DEATH remember Kabiguru’s Chitta jetha bhoy tional Bengali dresses, sang and danced Youth arrested sunyo uchho jetha shir (Where the mind to the Bard’s compositions. is held without fear and the head is held Rabindra Jayanti was observed in for threatening, high). When a storm approaches, I sing Rabindra Tirtha in New Town where Actor Anindya’s Jhor ke ami korbo mite Dorbo na tar vru- Rabindra Sangeet exponents and trying to bribe kutite, Banerjee said before a packed elocutionists took part in the pro- audience including prominent singers. gramme titled Hey Chiranutan that TMC MP “In moments of solitude, I again began at 7 am. statement remember Jodi tor daak sune keu naa The second session began at 5 pm. OUR CORRESPONDENT ase (Walk the path alone, if none accom- The students of Nava Nalanda School panies you), and when I feel pained I observed the birth anniversary of recorded KOLKATA: The Crimi- remember Mone ki dwidha rekhe gele Tagore on Southern Avenue Boule- nal Investigation Depart- tumi, the CM said in her address. She vard. Several housing complexes also Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee pays tribute to Rabindranath Tagore on the poet’s OUR CORRESPONDENT ment (CID) on Monday night said that Tagore is also her companion organised Rabindra Jayanti where the arrested a youth from Bokaro in moments of depression when she 156th birth anniversary at an event organised by the Information and Cultural Affairs residents participated in various cul- KOLKATA: Police on Mon- in Jharkhand on charges of sings Sudhu tomar bani noy and Jibon department in Kolkata on Tuesday PIC/MPOST tural events. day took the statement of actor threatening and attempt- Anindya Chatterjee in connec- ing to bribe TMC MP Kalyan tion with the car accident in Banerjee. Cong, CPI(M), BJP alliance which celebrated model Sonika According to a CID officer State to induct midday meal volunteers Chauhan was killed. of CID, Banerjee had lodged The investigating offi- a complaint with Serampore on the cards in Pujali? cers are taking statements of police station on Saturday in to ensure proper food supply in schools Bikram Chatterjee some common friends of both this connection. The district OUR CORRESPONDENT over the years, the residents of Bikram Chatterjee and Sonika tion. He was even busy shoot- police had sought help from the Pujali have crossed the floor in OUR CORRESPONDENT to get answers to some ques- ing on Tuesday as well. CID to arrest the accused and KOLKATA: A clandestine alli- 2013 and now, it is a Trinamool tions mainly whether Bikram A Special Investigation gave the phone number from ance between Congress, CPI(M) stronghold. KOLKATA: The state govern- was in an inebriated state or Team (SIT) comprising officers which the MP had received the and BJP, a long-standing allega- Meanwhile, an unofficial ment has taken an initiative not. The police had interrogated from the Tollygunge police sta- call. After tracking the number, tion by the Trinamool Congress alliance has been made between to induct midday meal vol- five of their friends on Monday. tion has been formed to probe the investigating officers came supremo has come true in Pujali the Congress, CPI(M) and BJP unteers, who would ensure Sources said that they claimed into the incident and the offi- to know that the caller was municipality in South 24 Parga- against the TMC. that food items sent by the Bikram’s statement of not being cers now want to question from Bokaro. The caller was nas where elections will be held The trio is highlighting the state government to schools drunk is false. Bikram held a Bikram to verify the statements identified on Saturday night on May 14. involved of TMC leaders in the for midday meals, reaches the press conference after being given by his friends. A day and a team of officers went to There will be election in multi-crore scam in Saradha and intended beneficiaries. released from the private hos- after common friends of actor Bokaro on Sunday. seven municipalities on May 14 Narada. Last week, as many as 80 Partha Chatterjee, the state pital off EM Bypass and claimed Bikram and Sonika claimed With the assistance of local of which four are in the Hills. CPI(M) supporters joined the Education minister, said: “Fol- that he was not in an inebri- that the former was in an ine- police, the CID officers con- These civic bodies are Darjeel- BJP followed by over 100 Con- lowing the direction of Chief REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE ated state while driving the car briated state, forensic experts ducted a raid in the house of ing, Kalimpong, Kurseong and gress workers who also joined Minister Mamata Baner- that night. once again examined the ill- the accused Anurag Tiwari and Mirik. The three other munici- the party. The BJP is going all jee, a new initiative has been taken if the volunteers find with inferior quality products. Incidentally, while giv- fated car that met with the acci- arrested him. He was brought palities where the polls will be out to create a dent in South launched to engage midday that the task has not been While speaking on this ing statement to the police, dent and resulted to the death to Serampore on Tuesday and held are Domkol in Murshid- 24 Parganas. There are around meal volunteers.” properly executed. topic earlier, Chatterjee had his friends claimed that they of Sonika. The forensic experts produced before the court. He abad, Raigunj in North Dinajpur 34 booths in Pujali and around The main task of the vol- Chatterjee said he has attacked the Left Front, alleg- had seen Bikram taking alco- had earlier collected samples was remanded to police cus- and Pujali in South 24 Parga- 28,000 voters. unteers would be to keep a received complaints that rice ing that they had turned the hol that night. Even video foot- from the car. But they felt the tody for further investigation. nas. The Congress and CPI(M) Though the leaders of the watch and ensure that the and eggs sent for midday schools into party offices dur- ages of that night have shown a necessity of collecting certain Sources said the accused youth have inked an alliance and they Congress and CPI(M) have food items allocated by the meals are not reaching the ing their 34 years in power. glass of “alcohol” in the hand more samples which are essen- confessed that he had made the are fighting together against denied any such understanding state government reaches the students. According to the Education of Bikram, a police officer said. tial for the investigation. The calls to the MP. The CID offi- Trinamool. with the “communal” BJP, polit- beneficiaries. Each of the vol- The volunteers will be minister, nothing construc- It is learnt that during the forensic experts also had talks cers also came to know that he After securing secondical experts said the two parties unteers would be responsible visiting the schools and will tive took place during those interrogation of actor Anin- with the investigating officers had offered a bribe to Banerjee position in the by-election of have given candidates only in 12 for keeping track of the situ- make sure that midday meals years, apart from the circula- dya Chatterjee, the police have of the case and they were also to help him get a ticket to fight Kanthi South Assembly constitu- seats and in case their support is ation in a certain number of are served to the students in tion of CPI(M)’s mouthpiece come to know that Bikram had told about the statement given in the Lok Sabha elections. A ency, the BJP has gathered addi- required to form the board, they schools in an area. They will proper quantity and quality. ‘Ganashakti’, as teachers used taken alcohol. A senior police by Bikram and Sonika’s friends. CID officer said that the youth tional momentum and has filed will support the BJP. also be filing reports to the There have been alle- to keep themselves busy knit- officer said that Bikram has Friends of Sonika have is from an affluent family candidates in all the 16 seats in Though there are several fac- concerned authority. gations that the rice sent to ting sweaters. been asked to turn up at Tolly- also raised questions that why and he is an MBA in Human Pujali. tions in the TMC, all have been With volunteers keeping schools by the government The state government had gunge police station at the ear- Bikram had taken Sonika to a Resource. He works in a pri- It was a Congress strong- united. tabs on schools on a daily for midday meals is not being also asked the District Magis- liest. The police have also come private hospital which is situ- vate company. The police are hold and Fazlul Haq was the The Trinamool workers basis, the children will get the given to the students. Some trates to visit schools to check to know that Bikram had been ated around 6 km away from trying to ascertain the exact chairman. are doing door-to-door cam- proper food that the govern- food items allocated to schools whether midday meals are shooting from Monday but he the spot where the accident had reason behind his calls to the Haque, along with his asso- paign and are leaving no stone ment had allocated for them under the scheme also get sold served to students in proper didn’t turn up to the police sta- taken place. MP offering him a bribe. ciates, joined the TMC and unturned to retain the civic body. and stringent steps will be in the market or are replaced quantity and quality. Tagore’s Mongpu bungalow under repair Football for self-confidence, social reform AMITAVA BANERJEE and had to return to Kolkata. Dur- TARUN GOSWAMI girls and develop their team spirit so ing his frequent stays at Mongpu, that they can fight social evils like DARJEELING: The commem- he had composed many memora- KOLKATA: A unique football match child marriages and the like collec- oration of the 156th birth anni- ble literary works, including Chele- among tribal girls organised by tively,” said Dasgupta who visits the versary of the bard saw a shift in bela, Nobojatok, Sesh Kotha, Bangla Shreeja set up by an NRI has sent rip- village once every four months to venue from his favourite Mongpu Bhashar Porichoy, Mongpu, Giribas, ples across the villages of Birbhum, encourage them. to Darjeeling town, due to ongoing Sanai, Akash Prodip and Jonmodin. with more and more numbers show- “Football has helped them to repairs of the bungalow in which In Mongpu, Tagore used to stay ing keen interest in the game as a way build self-confidence among the Tagore used to stay. The bungalow at the residence of Manmohan Sen to boost self-confidence. young ladies and has enhanced their now houses the Rabindra Museum. (husband of Maitreyi Devi) who The football match was held at self-image. It is really interesting that “As the building is currently Development Officer, Tukdah. was the chief chemist of the cin- Motherpur-Jaipur in Ramchandra the parents, particularly the mothers, undergoing repairs, we could not Mongpu is under his jurisdiction. chona plantation. In 1944, this Block under Suri Sadar in Birbhum are inspiring the girls to play foot- have the usual celebrations in Mon- 33 km from Darjeeling town, Mon- house was converted to ‘Rabindra district. Interestingly, over 300 par- ball,” he maintained. Along with foot- gpu this year,” stated Joyoshi Das- gpu was Tagore’s favourite destina- Smriti-bhavan’ that later became ents had come to watch the game, to ball, the girls are given tuitions in gupta, DM, Darjeeling. With the tion. He visited the village on May the ‘Rabindra Museum’ in 2009. It cheer for their daughters and inter- ers from eight villages come to attend received from the state government academics as well. model code of conduct in place 21, 1938, and stayed till June that displays some of the lesser known act with the organisers of Shreeja the coaching classes, which are held under its “Sabuj Sathi” scheme. Forty “Most of the students are weak owing to the civic polls in the Hills year. In 1939, he stayed here from facets of the poet’s life, like Gurudev on Sunday. Villagers also thronged on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays two girls are given training in football in mathematics and we have chalked slated for May 14, celebrations had May 14 till June 17 to return again practicing homeopathy. The exhib- the venue of the match to encour- in the morning and in the evenings at this centre. out a plan to give them coaching in to be toned down. “The bungalow on September 12 the same year and its include paints used by Tagore as age the players. Wearing blue jer- on Saturdays. They are given nutri- Shreeja was set up by Shib Shan- Math along with other subjects,” is undergoing thorough renova- stay till the first week of November. well as a self portrait. People from seys and their names printed on the tious food including milk with corn- kar Dasgupta, a chemical engineer said Dasgupta. Steps have also been tion. The tin roof is being changed. In 1940, he arrived at Mongpu on all walks of life arrived at Mongpu back, girls received football boots and flakes, a seasonal fruit and an egg. from Jadavpur University who is now taken to make these girls economi- Repair work could take around April 21 and his birthday was also to honour the memory of Tagore other necessary gear for the game. They come from different villages settled in New York. “Keeping foot- cally self-reliant. “They have a very three to four months for comple- celebrated here that year. This was and garland his statue in the prem- The girls are given regular coach- to the coaching centre at Motherpur ball at centre stage, the whole inten- bright future if they can be nurtured tion,” added Litan Talukdar, Block his last visit after which he fell ill ises of the bungalow. ing in football by Arup Manna. Play- on their bicycles, which they have tion is to build self-confidence in the properly with love and care.” GUV’S GREETINGS ON BUDDHA PURNIMA Collector’s archive boasts of Tagore’s songs in his own voice KOLKATA: On the eve of Buddha Purnima, Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi conveyed his greetings and prayed TARUN GOSWAMI baje and sung it in Gujarati in the mid it which Hindusthan Records pub- for peace and mutual love. The state government has for 1930s. Hindusthan Record had pub- Along with songs, lished. His Master’s Voice had pub- the first time declared a holiday on Buddha Purnima on KOLKATA: Listening to Rabindra- lish a solo song sung by Rabindranath Tagore was also lished Tagore’s famous recitation Wednesday this year. The Governor, who was admitted to nath’s duet Tomar shurer dhara that — Amar Paran Loye ki khela (record MillenniumKrishnakali. Tagore had cut a songP oshospitalt - with K acuteolk Epistaxisatt (nosea E bleeding),dition is said tot obe carry the Ad with got cancelled as the poet laughed at number H 49). The song in those days interested in reciting Amar sesh paraner kori which HMV stable. On Monday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had the end when the recording was on is was known as Rabibabur gaan and published. This song was made popu- poems and had cut paid a visit to him, wishing him speedy recovery. MPOST an overwhelming experience. not as Rabindra Sangeet. lar byK Debabrataolka Biswas.tta Tel. No. Only. Schedule Date :- 03/05/2017 The Bard’s duet was with Rama Along with songs, Tagore was nearly 20 records Few people know that Narendra- Mazumdar, daughter of his friend also interested in reciting poems and nath Dutta had sung Tagore’s compo- Srishchandra Mazumdar, alias Nutu. had cut nearly 20 records. Hindust- public (record no H 49). sition Satya Magala Premamayo tumi Roma was raised in Santiniketan and han Records, whose owner Chandi Columbia Records published in the house of Pradhan Acaharya of later got married to artist Suren Kar. Charan Saha popularly known as C Tagore’s recitation after his death Brahmo Samaj to celebrate the 57th Tagore cut the record on April 11, C Saha, was one of Tagore’s closest in 1941 Hey more sandhya. It also Maghotsav. 1932. The record that got “rejected” associates and he cut a record Chotto brought out Bharat Tirtha, a recita- Again, during the marriage of was collected by Surajlal Mukhopad- Birpurusher Kahini (Mone koro jano tion by Tagore. The poet had recited Lilabati Devi, daughter of Rajnara- hyay, the famous record collector in bidesh ghure) in 1932. both his poems in All India Radio yan Basu with Krishnakumar Mitra, June 1980. Mukhopadhyay’s archive On the label of the record is writ- shortly before World War II broke out Tagore had composed a couple of maintained by his in-law Amit Guha ten Bengali recitation by Dr Rabin- in 1939. Again, Hindusthan Records songs and Swamiji had sung them has a collection of around 75,000 dra Nath Tagore (record number H brought out his recitation Juhlan along with Sundarimohan Das, records. Tagore’s sister-in-law whose 342). Tagore was present in the HMV (record no H 812). Andha Chunilal and Kedarnath Chat- name was not printed on the cover of studio when Gahar Jan was cutting famous poem Hriday amar nachere The poet liked his poem Sonar- topadhyay. Two of these songs were Kolkatta Tel.: 033-2215 1850 e-mail : [email protected] the record had translated his famous one of his songs despite ill health. In ajike moyurer moto nache re and Hin- tari whose famous lines are Gagane Dui Hridayer Nodi and Subhodine Bengali song Mor bina othe kon shure early 1930s, Tagore had recited his dusthan Records brought it out for garaje megh nahi borosha and recited Esecho dohe. TJM/TTL/17/ENG 4 city mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 Clashes between groups over Rain in districts lowers temp, boosts hope in city open consumption of alcohol OUR CORRESPONDENT KOLKATA: After experienc- ing a persistent dry and hot OUR CORRESPONDENT weather, some parts of South A large contingent of police was Bengal witnessed heavy rainfall KOLKATA: Repeated clashes pressed at the area to bring the on Tuesday. The regional meteo- since last night between a sec- rological centre (RMC) said that tion of residents of two neigh- situation under control. But the rain was accompanied by storm bouring localities at Charu residents of both the areas started and would continue till Thurs- Market left two policemen and pelting more stones finding police day. “Some parts of South Ben- some local people injured. gal have witnessed heavy rainfall Preliminary investigation entering the area. Two policemen accompanied by squalls. This revealed that a clash broke out received injuries when they tried to is actually nor’wester. Rainfall when residents of Jhaldarmath has also been recorded in the area resisted some youth from bring the situation under control. districts like Nadia, Hooghly the adjoining Dompara area Later, more policemen reached the spot and some parts of Midnapore, from openly consuming alcohol. and brought the situation under control Howrah, South and North 24 PTI The youth were found sit- Parganas,” said a meteorologist ting on the railway tracks that on Monday night at RMC on Tuesday. pass through the area and con- “Our latest Radar Obser- Rain creates havoc in Hills suming alcohol. They pelted some houses in the area. Fur- hyay raised a pertinent question: vation indicated that thunder- stones from the railway tracks niture and valuables in many “Why were the police with- storm accompanied by squalls DARJEELING: The cyclonic winds and thunder- at people from Jhaldarmath area houses were damaged too. drawn after last night’s clash as and hailing with the maximum showers uprooted a tree near the Melli Check as the latter were raising their Policemen from different there was tension in the area? wind speed reaching between Post in South Sikkim damaging a truck and killing voices against open consump- police stations including Charu The situation would not have 60 and 70 km per hour has the driver on the spot. The incident occurred at tion of alcohol. A resident of the situation under control. But morning as some members of Market, Bhowanipore and Tolly- taken a worse turn this morning struck some parts of districts,” Jhaldarmath received injuries the residents of both the areas both the localities got engaged gunge rushed to the spot. The (Tuesday) if there would have the meteorologist added. The 7.30 am when the goods truck was plying from on his head as they pelted stones started pelting more stones find- into a clash. Local people alleged police had to chase the mob by been police posting.” temperature of the city, how- Jorethang in Sikkim to Siliguri. The tree was at them and it aggravated the ing police entering the area. that no police pickets were raising their batons to bring the He maintained: “The police ever, is high for quite some time uprooted in the storm and fell on top of the truck. situation. Two policemen received inju- posted in the area despite trou- situation under control. Police hardly take action despite for constant influx of hot winds 26-year-old Pranesh Rai, the driver, lost his life. In Hundreds of people from ries when they tried to bring the ble on Monday night as a result arrested some of the accused receiving complaints of open from South which made the another incident, an unidentified man in his mid- both the localities came out situation under control. of which, once again clashes persons and raids are on in consumption of alcohol and weather remain uncomfortable. of their houses and it led to Later, more policemen broke out between residents search of others. gambling on the railway tracks “Cyclonic circulation was 40s slipped and fell on the tracks and was run repeated clashes among them. reached the spot and brought of the neighbouring localities. Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, that passes through the area. I spotted over Assam and adjoin- over by the Darjeeling Himalayan Railways steam They pelted stones and threw the situation under control on They once again threw stones the state Power minister and have directed the police to take ing areas. Intermittent rainfalls loco joy ride leading to his death. MPOST empty glass bottles at each other. Monday night. at each other. local MLA, went to the spot stringent measures in this con- will continue over Bengal and A large contingent of police However, tension erupted The situation turned worse on Monday morning. Lashing nection and to arrest everyone Sikkim. Few parts of North- ing and late nights are com- of days. Till date, Kolkata has was pressed at the area to bring again in the area on Tuesday when they started attacking out at the police, Chattopad- behind the incident.” East India, Gangetic West Ben- paratively pleasant. This means not witnessed much rainfall gal including Kolkata may also that the weather cools down as in the month of May and this receive isolated rains along with quickly it heats up, which is the recent prediction of rainfall will few pockets of Coastal Odisha,” only good news that I get from definitely be welcomed by the Miscreants attack locals in 25-year-old TMC worker the meteorologist added. a television,” said a South Kol- residents. Temperatures in the kata resident. “In 2014 and way back in last 24 hours were above Kolkata received around 50 2009, Kolkata didn’t receive shot at, hacked to death normal and the discomfort in mm of rainfall, which is lower any rainfall in May. So citizens Birbhum over liquor protest the day time weather made the than average for the ongoing should keep up their hopes as OUR CORRESPONDENT moment,” said a police officer. citizens suffer. time, in the month of May. No more than 20 days are left in OUR CORRESPONDENT However, police sources “The weather of early morn- rainfall was seen in last couple the month,” said a weatherman. Local residents had on Monday KOLKATA: A 25-year-old revealed that the victim’s mother KOLKATA: Some people from organised a rally in the area protesting youth was shot and then hacked lodged an FIR against some Khukudiha village of Suri in to his death by some miscre- local youth. Chakrabarty’s name Birbhum who protested against the sale of illicit liquor. This had ants at Chanditala in North 24 appeared in the FIR, on the basis 6-yr-old dead, 3 injured after the illegal selling of liquor were infuriated the local thugs who often Parganas Shyamnagar on Mon- of which police detained him for attacked by local miscreants on day night. interrogation. “Chakrabarty will Monday. The accused also ran- frequent the illegal liquor dens Sujoy Haldar, the victim, be arrested soon as it is just a trailer rams into pavement sacked the houses of the protes- a local Trinammol Congress matter time,” the source added. tors and beat some of them up, by the screams of the victims. among the locals. On the basis worker was called up by some “We really do not know OUR CORRESPONDENT life of the six-year-old boy. causing serious injuries. Nearly 10 persons were injured of the complaint lodged by the people when he was return- that why Haldar was killed. Cops went to the spot and the demonstration Local residents had on in the attack. victims, the police have started ing home. Police learnt that He apparently had no enemies KOLKATA: A six-year-old boy was killed and was withdrawn after senior police officers inter- Monday organised a rally in the Later that night, the mis- a case against the perpetrators. Haldar was shot from point as residents of this area liked three injured when a trailer ran them over on a vened and assured necessary steps to avoid such area protesting the sale of illicit creants again attacked and ran- They have also started conduct- blank range and then the kill- him,” said Shambhu Hazra, a pavement near Fancy Market in Kolkata Port accidents in the area. liquor. This had infuriated the sacked the homes of some of ing raids to nab the culprits but ers hacked him with a sickle to neighbour. area in the wee hours on Tuesday. Dara Prasad, the driver of the offending local thugs who often frequent the protestors. They also hurled are yet to make any arrests. confirm his death. The investigators learnt that The incident led to tension in the area as trailer, was caught by the locals and was later the illegal liquor dens. When bombs in an attempt to terrify Local people alleged that the After initiating the investi- Haldar was taken to Chandi- locals blocked the road in protest against the handed over to the police. The vehicle has also some of these people were the people so that no one would area is often frequented by anti- gation, police detained a local tala crossing, where he was shot incident that led to huge traffic congestion. been seized. returning home after attend- dare to raise a voice against the social elements who buy liquor resident in connection with the twice as he fell on the road. The A police officer said the accident happened A police officer said it had not become pos- ing the rally, the goons suddenly selling of illicit liquor again. from the shop. After the inci- case. One Banty Chakrabarty assailants hacked him in differ- after the trailer suddenly lost control and went sible yet to ascertain the exact reason behind the attacked them. The incident triggered ten- dent, local residents claimed was detained by the police who ent parts of his body to confirm over the pavement at around 2 am on Tues- road accident but it seems that a certain snag had They were beaten up mer- sion in the area. A huge contin- they are now afraid to go out gave some important clues to his death. day where, like any other day, few people were developed in the trailer for which the driver had cilessly till locals and passers- gent of police and combat forces of their homes after sun-down. the investigators, police sources The assailants quickly fled sleeping. failed to control the vehicle or it was plying at a by came to their rescue. The rushed to the spot after being Despite repeated pleas to the said. “We are presently interro- from the spot and Haldar’s body The police also came to know from locals that reckless speed. The police have, however, ruled attackers, however, had fled informed about the attacks. authorities, no action was taken gating Chakrabarty as he gave us was lying there in pool of blood. the trailer, bearing registration number of Naga- out the possibility of the driver falling asleep. by the time the local people A police picket was set up at against the accused, according some clues. But we cannot share Police recovered a country made land, was loaded with heavy minerals and was Footages of surveillance cameras in the area reached the scene, attracted the village as anxiety prevailed to the locals. other details of this case at this gun from the spot. coming out of the port area. The driver lost con- are being scanned to ascertain the exact reason trol over the vehicle on Circular Garden Reach behind the accident. Road and went on to the pavement. It may be mentioned that parking of trailers The trailer stopped only after mowing down and heavy vehicles along major thoroughfares in Titagarh Wagons starts building ships for Navy a portion of the railings on the pavement and the port area had been a major problem. Steps hitting a light post. Hearing the cries of the vic- have already been taken to check the menace. OUR CORRESPONDENT ing of ships. Madhavan Nair Rajeevan, cant part of Central government’s Make tims, locals rushed to the spot and took the four In another road accident, a 55-year-old secretary, Ministry of Earth Science, in India campaign,” said Chowdhary. injured persons, including the six-year-old boy man, identified as Dilip Bauri, was killed after KOLKATA: Titagarh Wagons Limited, a Commodore Suprobho K De, Naval offi- “Due to the height of Howrah Bridge Md Sahil, to a private hospital at Ekbalpore. Sahil being hit by a pickup van on National High- flagship company of the Titagarh Group, cer-in-charge of West Bengal, Satheesh which is a limiting factor for passing big was declared brought dead and three others were way 2 at Jamuria in Asansol on Monday morn- started the construction of two 1,000 T C Shenoi, Director, National Institute of ships, we will build the lower bodies of given necessary treatment. ing. The victim was an agriculture worker and Fuel Barges for Indian Navy and two Ocean Technology were among the other the ships at the Titagarh factory and Soon after the news of Sahil’s death spread local people put up a road block for around two Coastal Research Vessels for National guests present during the ceremony. will complete the ship at Kulpi,” Chow- in the locality, hundreds staged a demonstration hours on the national highway protesting against Institute of Ocean Technology at their “The fuel tankers for India Navy are dhary added. protesting against the accident that claimed the the accident. Titagarh Shipyard. being specially designed to enable INS The founder and executive chairman The company is planning to develop Vikramaditya, which is Indian Navy’s also informed that the company is in the a shipbuilding factory at Kulpi in South of the ship will be made here including flagship aircraft carrier to refuel. By process of acquiring 50 acre land at Kulpi. Oil mill gutted in fire, locals allege malpractice 24 Parganas. Jagdish Prasad Chowdhary, steel fabrication and engine settings. The entrusting the construction of these These four ships are the first tenders won the founder and executive chairman, upper portion of the ship including mast four highly complex and technologically by Titagarh Wagons post the company’s KOLKATA: A fire broke out at an oil mill near Khanna More late on Monday Titagarh Wagons Limited said: “We are will be made at Kulpi.” advanced vessels with us, the Indian Navy venture into ship building business verti- night, triggering tension in the area. Around eight fire tenders were deployed thinking ahead in this business as this is Chowdhary was talking to Millen- and National Institute of Ocean Technol- cal in the beginning of this year. In Feb- a beginning. We are taking land at Kulpi. nium Post after the steel cutting cere- ogy have reposed great faith and trust in ruary, the company reported at BSE and to douse the flames. Local residents spotted smoke billowing out of the oil Apart from manufacturing wagons in mony at Titagarh Wagons shipbuilding Titagarh Group’s capabilities and dedica- NSE that it has signed the contract from mill. Thick black smoke soon covered the entire locality. Initially, the locals Titagarh, we’ll also start manufactur- division on Tuesday where the com- tion towards innovation and diversified National Institute of Ocean technology participated in the rescue operation. After being informed of the incident, fire ing ships here. But only the lower body pany officially commenced manufactur- portfolio. We are happy to be a signifi- under the Ministry of Earth Science. tenders were rushed to the spot and firefighters kept the flames from spread- ing to the surrounding areas. Local residents alleged that the business was American national being run without a proper license. The oil mill was completely gutted in the State Fire department mulls fire. Police and the fire brigade suspect that an electrical short circuit might have caused the incident. Preliminary investigation reveals that there was arrested from airport no fire fighting mechanism in the oil mill. The exact cause of the fire and the for molesting minor using drones to detect source extent of the damage are yet to be ascertained. OUR CORRESPONDENT OUR CORRESPONDENT REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE mine the source of a fire in build- ings situated in congested areas. In Class XII student kills self KOLKATA: Police have arrested an American cases of major fires, drones will help national from Kolkata airport on charges of officials to get a glimpse of the scene molesting a minor girl. inside the affected buildings, which The accused, Anthony Paul Rozario (58) was will enable them to determine the after best friend’s suicide arrested by the police while trying to board a number of fire tenders needed to flight to the USA at around 1.30 am on Monday douse the flames. In case of a fire OUR CORRESPONDENT and Research (IISER), Kolkata. in his friend’s footsteps. night. An FIR was filed against the accused at in a high-rise building, a drone can Sagar was a second-year stu- In his writings, he had apol- Haridevpur police station. He has been booked easily be used to determine the ori- KOLKATA: A meritorious stu- dent at the institution. He had ogised to his parents for taking under various sections of the Indian Penal Code gin of the flames. dent studying in Class XII at committed suicide on May 1. such a drastic step. Police have and Section 6 of the POSCO Act. Senior officials of the state Fire Fatehpur High School in Nadia According to the prelimi- come to know that the victim The family members of the victim had and Emergency department will committed suicide late Mon- nary investigation, police sus- had suffered a mental break- lodged a complaint with the police station on decide what types of drones and day night. pect that Saumitra could not down after receiving the news May 4. camera technology can be used Saumitra Dhali, the victim, bear the shock of his friend’s of his best friend’s untimely The accused had allegedly molested a 7-year- for this purpose. The department had consumed poison on Sun- sudden death and hence had death. Investigators believe old girl. After committing the crime, he had fled is planning to take the help of day night at his house in Fateh- decided to end his own life. that the deceased had been suf- his rented house in the city where he was staying drones as the process of identify- pur area of Haringhata, Nadia. The deaths of two meritori- fering from depression for the at the time. The police have come to know that ing and extinguishing a fire often He was immediately rushed to ous students within the span past seven days, ever since he the accused was trying to flee to his own country. OUR CORRESPONDENT caught fire. Firefighters can expand gets delayed due to the inability JNM Medical College and Hos- of a single week have caused had received the fateful news. On the basis of certain information they had their ability to assess a fire or rescue of firefighters to properly assess pital in Kalyani, where he died a pall of gloom to descend Police have recovered the received, a team of officers from the Kolkata KOLKATA: As a part of its mod- operations with the help of drones the situation without the required on Monday night. over their village. Police have body and have sent it for post- police visited the airport on Monday night. They ernisation process, the state Fire which will be able to provide a technology. The incident happened just recovered the personal diary mortem. According to the pre- arrested the accused on the basis of the girl’s and Emergency department is plan- clearer picture of what is happening The fire engines also face dif- a week after his best friend of the victim, where Saumitra liminary investigation, police allegations when he reached the airport to take ning to use drones to detect the inside the building. Equipped with ficulties in reaching some spots from the same village, Sagar had apparently mentioned that suspect that excessive emo- his flight. sources of fire. cameras, the unmanned devices situated in congested areas. It was Mondal had committed sui- Sagar was the greatest inspira- tional attachment to his late It was learnt then that the accused works as a Apart from identifying the would not be restricted by the city learnt that senior officials of the cide by hanging himself from tion in his life. In the diary, he friend might have prompted cook in the US. Police are now investigating the source of a fire, the drones will also traffic and will also be able to fly department will soon hold a meet- the ceiling of a toilet on the fifth had also written that it was dif- Saumitra to end his own life. purpose of his visit to the city and have started a be used to determine if humans over high rise buildings. ing for the implementation of the floor of his hostel at the Indian ficult for him to forget Sagar. The authorities have started a probe on the matter. are stranded in a building that has Fire fighters often fail to deter- new scheme. Institute of Science Education Hence he had decided to follow detailed probe into the matter. 5 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 mp nation A river is a mother as it provides Framework of Samajwadi Secular Morcha being worked out: Shivpal water to survive: Shivraj Chauhan OUR CORRESPONDENT In an interview with SIMONTINI BHATTACHARJEE, Madhya Pradesh CM LUCKNOW: The framework of the Samajwadi Secular Mor- Shivraj Singh Chauhan talks about what’s topmost on his government’s agenda cha is being worked out and a formal announcement in What is the reason behind the Pradesh, northern part of the country, with as it is not only a clean-up drive, it this regard will be made soon, change of fiscal year to January- and even in the western part. So, I per- is also a major social issue. Many envi- senior Samajwadi Party leader December and how the Madhya sonally feel that people make the dis- ronmentalists and experts are involved Shivpal Singh Yadav said on Pradesh government will implement crimination and we are trying to make into the drive and major social policies Tuesday. it? people aware through various cam- are connected to it. Shivpal refused to com- paigns and schemes as “Ladli Scheme” ment on whether the SSM will The current fiscal year was formed where we feel daughters must be edu- How the clean-up drive Narmada eventually part ways with the by the British government according to cated and empowered. Our govern- Yatra would impact other similar cam- Samajwadi Party or be an outfit their convenience. On the other hand, ment has facilitated them with proper paigns, like Namami Gange? operating within the SP. during previous governments the bud- education, book, cycles to travel to their “The framework of the stiff challenge to the commu- at a relative’s house. Shivpal get session used to be concluded in May. schools, etc. But above all, people need A river is a mother as it provides Samajwadi Secular Mor- nal forces.” held discussions on forming After that due to two-three months’ long to change their perception that not only water to survive. Narmada is our cha (SSM) is being currently “It will try to follow and the new secular front. monsoon, the work couldn’t be done. sons are “Kuldeepak”, daughters can also mother. So, it is our duty to save the worked out and a formal imbibe the principles of Ram He, however, did not So, the entire cycle used to take time. be pride of a family. river. In every sector, the water is being announcement in this regard Manohar Lohia, Acharya Nar- explain what the new front However, now under Modiji’s gover- Moreover, we have connected the used. The government is in talks with will be made at the appropri- endra Dev, Jai Prakash Nara- would do- whether it would nance, states have started getting money scheme to Narmada Yatra also, where experts, and other stakeholders to con- ate and auspicious time,” he yan, Charan Singh and other contest polls against the SP by April, 1. But still it is not an ideal year we worship little girl child. I personally tinue the drive. told PTI. socialist veterans,” he said. or strengthen it by bringing for us to work. If states start working touch their feet as I consider a daughter The government would also initi- Sources in the SSM said it SSM sources said senior socialists under one roof. from January, there will be a vast span or a woman a devi. On the other hand, I ate the clean-up drive of Tapti, Son and will remain a part of the SP. SP leaders Bhagwati Singh Shivpal had been saying to continue till June 15 and the money We have connected ‘Nasha Mukti’ with think it will impact society as the Chief Kshipra by next year. As far as Namami “It is a foregone conclusion,” and Beni Prasad Verma (for- that he would soon launch a would be utilised in a proper way. So, we the Yatra. We have banned alcohol Minister himself is worshiping a girl Gange is concerned, the Centre and the an SP leader said. mer Union minister) are also campaign to unite “samajwa- will be talking to the Centre to imple- shops situated within a radius of five child. So, I think it would change the UP state government collectively are “The SSM is a forum of in touch with senior leaders of dis” (socialists) to bring them ment January-December financial year. kilometers from the banks of Narmada. psychological order of the society. trying to start the drive. It is more diffi- different like-minded politi- the morcha. on a single platform. The state government is also planning cult and different from Narmada Yatra cal parties. The idea of morcha “Even some senior office “Akhilesh had promised to Will it change the crop pattern of to conduct various programmes against In many cases you have been as Ganga is more polluted and various was approved as there are many bearers of front organisations hand over the party to ‘netaji’ the state? addiction and make people aware of its directly monitoring various schemes, industrial hubs and cities are situated like-minded political parties of the SP are in touch with the (Mulayam). He should do so bad effects. like Narmada Yatra. Do you think it on the banks of the river. But I hope which are ready to extend their SSM,” another SSM leader said now and we all will strengthen Certainly! We have made a report I think it is the root of social distur- impacts voters directly? the Centre is taking the issue seriously. support to us to fight the com- requesting anonymity. the SP. I had also given him on changes in the crop pattern. We bance and the state government would munal forces,” he said. On May 5, Shivpal had three months’ time. Otherwise, are thinking of inter-cropping. But the soon implement a total ban on alcohol Along with a Chief Minister, I am After the recent Sukma attack in “The morcha will also prove declared in Etawah that his I will constitute a new secular change will be done by convincing peo- in various phases. It cannot be done also a global citizen and I have cer- Chhattisgarh, how is your government its political utility in amalga- brother Mulayam Singh Yadav front,” Shivpal had said. ple, not forcibly. There will be a growth at one time but will happen in vari- tain responsibilities towards soci- ensuring proper security in the state? mation of smaller parties in the will head a secular front to be The SP had witnessed a bit- in crop production. The price of crops ous phases. ety. As a CM of a state, only building future, unlike political parties,” formed by him. ter feud between Shivpal and will be better. roads, bridges and other infrastruc- The state is now more secured and he said. “For social justice, Sama- nephew Akhilesh in the run After Haryana, Madhya Pradesh ture is not my only duty. Ensuring the has better law and order situation. We Senior socialist leader Rag- jwadi Secular Morcha will be up to the Uttar Pradesh Assem- What are the other new policies? has also listed its name for a signifi- future of the youth and the children of have taken a number of measures to hunandan Singh ‘Kaka’, while formed. Netaji (Mulayam) will bly polls. cant change in sex ratio. Elaborate my state is also a part of my job. So, I combat terror activities, Naxal move- commenting on the relevance be its national president,” Shiv- Shivpal had earlier replaced We are now mainly focusing on the schemes of the state government? used to be involved directly with vari- ments and to provide security to women of the morcha said, “The SSM pal had told reporters. Akhilesh as the state unit chief social welfare schemes and with the ous programmes. in the state. We have revived the state’s will endeavour to bring all the The warring uncle of Akh- following which Akhilesh ongoing Narmada Seva Yatra we are also People are aware of the sex ratio Narmada Yatra is a six-month long defence system too. If required more socialist leaders from UP under ilesh made the announcement removed his uncle from the connecting all schemes with each other. between men and women in Madhya programme that I have been involved policies will be introduced. one umbrella, so as to pose a after a meeting with Mulayam state cabinet. Squall in Bihar Five parties spent kills 15; blistering heat continues 60% of total income in many parts OUR CORRESPONDENT in 2015-16: ADR NEW DELHI: At least 15 people were killed in a squall which hit Bihar this morning while most parts of the coun- try reeled under sizzling heat which affected normal life at several places. Heatwave conditions pre- vailed in the national capital with the mercury touching 44 degrees Celsius in some parts of the city. The Safdarjung observatory, whose recording is considered official for the city, registered a maximum temperature of 42.8 degrees Celsius, four notches OUR CORRESPONDENT above the season’s average. BJP and Congress Areas under Palam, Lodhi NEW DELHI: Five national have not yet Road, Ridge and Ayanagar parties—BSP, NCP, CPM, CPI observatories recorded max- and Trinamool Congress— submitted their imum temperatures of 44.2 have declared total income of audited reports degrees Celsius, 42.3 degrees Rs 200.76 crore for 2015-2016 Celsius, 42.6 degrees Cel- but nearly 40 per cent of this to the Election sius and 43.5 degrees Celsius, amount remained unspent, Commission respectively. says a report. Bihar witnessed a drop BJP and Congress have not even after six in temperatures after rainfall yet submitted their audited months from across the state. A squall hit reports to the Election Com- the due date for the state this morning killing mission even after six months at least 15 people. from the due date for submis- submission, ADR Two persons died in Lakh- sion, Association for Demo- report released on isarai, Aurangabad, Madhu- cratic Reforms (ADR) said in bani and Begusarai districts its report released on Tuesday. Tuesday said each while it claimed one life “The due date for submis- each in Patna, Nalanda, Pur- sion of annual audited accounts nea, Darbhanga, Supual, Ara- for the parties was October 31, On the other hand, CPI ria and Munger districts, an 2016. AITC, CPM and BSP declared the least income of official said. were the only three national Rs 2.176 crore, a mere 1.08 per Rain and storm also parties to submit the audit cent of the total income of all destroyed standing crops, dam- reports on time,” the Delhi- the five parties during 2015-16. aged houses and uprooted trees based think-tank said. The total income of BJP in at least 11 districts. CPI submitted its audited during 2014-15 was highest Chief Minister Nitish report on November 17 -- 16 among all national parties. Kumar has expressed grief over days after the due date for sub- The party had declared a total the loss of lives and announced mission, while NCP submit- income of Rs 970.43 crore but is ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh to the next ted its report on March 1, four yet to submit its copy of Income of the kin of the deceased. months after the due date. Tax returns for 2015-16 to the The squall was followed by Total declared expendi- ECI, ADR said. 10.5 mm rains in Patna which ture of national parties was Rs Income of INC was second led to drop in maximum tem- 122.39 crore during 2015-16. highest during 2014-15 at Rs peratures to 28.6 degrees Among the parties, BSP 593.31 crore but it is also yet to Celsius. has declared a total income of submit a copy of its IT returns Bhagalpur received 0.9 mm Rs 47.38 crore during 2015- with the ECI. rainfall and Purnea 32 mm. 16, but spent only 25 per cent Between 2014-15 and In Himachal Pradesh, thun- (Rs 11.90 crore) of the total 2015-16, the income of AITC derstorm and squall hit Shimla income, the report said adding increased 180.68 per cent (Rs and surrounding areas this eve- AITC declared a total income 22.26 crore) from Rs 12.32 ning leading to sharp fall in of Rs 34.57 crore and spent 39 crore during 2014-15 to Rs temperatures. per cent (Rs 13.35 crore). 34.58 crore during 2015-16, The storm blew off roofs of NCP is the only party while that of CPI increased kachha houses and uprooted which has spent 19 per cent 17.93 per cent (Rs 33 lakh) trees at some places. Manali more than its total income dur- from Rs 1.84 crore to Rs 2.17 and Bhuntar received 3.6 mm ing 2015-16. While the party crore. and 2 mm rains respectively. s income was Rs 9.14 crore, it The report further said that The mercury dropped incurred a total expenditure of between 2014-15 and 2015-16, by 3.6 degrees at Una which Rs 10.84 crore. the income of NCP decreased recorded a high of 39 degrees CPM has the highest by 86.49 per cent (Rs 58.51 Celsius. income amongst the national crore) from Rs 67.65 crore dur- Meanwhile, temperatures parties with a total income of ing 2014-15 to Rs 9.14 crore remained above the 40-degree Rs 107.48 crore during 2015- during 2015-16, while that of mark in most places of Raj- 16. This forms 53.34 per BSP decreased by 57.68 per asthan with Churu being the cent of the total income of cent (Rs 64.58 crore) from Rs hottest place in the state with national parties together dur- 111.96 crore to Rs 47.38 crore. 46.4 degrees Celsius followed ing 2015-16. Total income of political by Sriganganagar at 45 degrees BSP has declared second parties from known donors Celsius. highest income of Rs 47.38 was Rs 4.75 crore, which is 2.37 Some parts of the state also crore, which is 23.60 per cent per cent of the total income of witnessed dust storm and light of the total income of the five national parties during 2015- rain, the local MeT department national parties. 16, ADR said. said. 6 nation mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 Have faith in forces, nation’s NEET dress code: Four honour won’t be harmed: HM teachers suspended Why isn’t Rana Pratap called ‘the Great’ like Akbar OUR CORRESPONDENT KANNUR: Four teachers were OUR CORRESPONDENT on Tuesday suspended pend- I am surprised that historians called ing inquiry for allegedly forc- JAIPUR: The countrymen ing students to take off their should trust the armed forces Akbar as great but not Pratap. What clothes, including inner wear,as which have shown their capa- shortcoming did they notice in Pratap that he part of strict measures to stop bility by carying out the sur- cheating in a national medi- gical strike against terrorists, was not referred to as ‘the Great. I have no cal entrance examination on Union Home Minister Rajnath objection to Akbar being referred so but I Sunday. Singh said today. Jamaluddin K, the princi- Speaking in the backdrop would appeal to historians that a correct pal of TISK English Medium of the recent killing of Indian assessment of Pratap should be there in the school, one of the centres soldiers along the Line of Con- where the National Eligibility- trol, the minister asserted that history of the country. Our historians made a cum-Entrance Test was held in the nation’s honour would not huge mistake in not giving Maharana Pratap Kannur district, said that four Pb govt withdraws ‘controversial’ be allowed to be harmed under women teachers have been dress code for teachers any circumstances. his due in Indian history and this error should suspended pending inquiry “People should keep trust be rectified though he is yet to receive any on the forces. Indian soldiers complaint. CHANDIGARH: Facing flak for its order direct- successfully executed opera- In a shocking incident, a ing female teachers not to wear “jeans, tops and tion against terrorists on Paki- Akbar being referred so but I said. student was forced to remove bright suits”, the Punjab government on Tuesday stani soil after (Uri) attack and would appeal to historians that The minister also paid trib- her bra before being permit- withdrew the directive while suspending two gave a strong message to the lic gathering after unveiling rians called Akbar as great but a correct assessment of Pratap utes to leaders who took part in ted to appear for the test, while world that if needed, Indian a statue of Mewar ruler Rana not Pratap. What shortcoming should be there in the history of the first war of independence in another girl had to change employees of the education department in this soldiers can hit terrorists on Pratap in Pali district of Raj- did they notice in Pratap that the country, Singh said. 1857 and said Maharana Pratap her jeans as it had pockets regard. The state education department had on their soil,” Singh said. The hon- asthan. Singh said that under he was not referred to as ‘the Addressing a public gath- and Shivaji had inspired them. with metal buttons. The issue Monday, in an order, imposed the dress code on our of the country would not the leadership of Prime Minis- Great’,” the minister said. ering after unveiling Pratap’s “Our historians made a echoed in the Kerala Assembly government school teachers, especially females, be harmed under any circum- ter Narendra Modi, India has Singh said the Mewar ruler statue on his 477th birth anni- huge mistake in not giving today, with treasury and oppo- asking them not to wear jeans, tops and bright stances, the Minister said. “We emerged as a strong nation. was a true statesman. versary in Pali district of Raj- Maharana Pratap his due in sition benches condemning it. have destroyed their posts after Stating that Maharana He scarified his throne asthan, Singh said the Mewar Indian history and this error Responding to concerns suits as the outfits have a “bad” effect on stu- entering their territory and Pratap did not get his due place and leisure and fought for self ruler was a true statesman. should be rectified, he said. expressed by members of the dents. MPOST are proud of our soldiers and in history, Singh urged histori- respect, presenting an exem- He scarified his throne The statue of Maharana House on the issue, Chief army and have immense faith ans to re-evaulate the contribu- plary example of valour, he and leisure and fought for self Pratap was unveiled at village Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the girl student removing her The chief minister had in a in them,” Singh said. tion of the Rajput warrior. said. respect, presenting an exem- Kharokada in Pali district, 280 he would bring the matter to inner wear would be examined Facebook post yesterday said He was addressing a pub- “I am surprised that histo- “I have no objection to plary example of valour, he kms from here. the Centre’s notice and that legally after registering a case. “forcibly implementing such the police have been asked to “A woman police official has regulations in the name of dress examine the incidents. been directed to meet the stu- code cannot be accepted by any Sushil Modi questions Gujarat Dy CM Nitin Patel denies Vijayan said the incident of dent and her parents,” he said. civilised society”. Amma camp hits BRIEFS Nitish’s silence on SC incident involving his son back at OPS team NATION for ‘cross-over’ PGIMER PROBE FINDS NO DOCTOR order on Lalu OUR CORRESPONDENT remark MADE ‘PELTING STONE’ REMARK OUR CORRESPONDENT while he has sent K C Tyagi AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Dep- OUR CORRESPONDENT CHANDIGARH: The doctor accused of calling a to stand in support of Delhi uty Chief Minister Nitin Patel patient from Kashmir and her son “stone-pelters” was PATNA: Senior BJP leader Chief Minister and AAP leader on Tuesday denied reports Sushil Modi today questioned Arvind Kejriwal, who has been that his son was not allowed CHENNAI: AIADMK on leave the day the alleged incident took place, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish accused of being involved in to board a flight as he was (Amma) faction on Tuesday the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Kumar’s silence on the apex graft. drunk and termed it as “totally hit back at the rebel O Panneer- Research (PGIMER) here said today after a probe into court’s order in a fodder scam “Nitish Kumar has compro- misleading.” selvam camp by claiming that the matter. Dr Jagat Ram, the Director of Chandigarh’s case involving Lalu Prasad, mised with the RJD chief for “There was no such inci- many from the rival group were PGIMER, said an internal inquiry into the incident found but said if he severs ties with the sake of the CM’s chair. It dent,” he said, when asked making efforts to join the rul- no doctor misbehaved with the patient and his family the RJD and requests to join was on his and erstwhile JD(U) about his son Jaimin Patel ing side. “Many (in the rival member in the hospital last Thursday. “Dr SK Gupta, hands with the BJP, it will be chief George Fernandes’ direc- allegedly being not allowed to camp) are making efforts to considered. tion that party leaders Rajiv board a Qatar airways flight on come over here. That will hap- the head of the neurosurgery department, questioned In a major setback to the Ranjan Singh Lallan and Shiva- Monday as he was drunk. totally false. He had gone to the wife called our home and it pen soon,” Finance Minister D all consultants and resident doctors of the department RJD supremo, the Supreme nand Tiwari had filed a sec- “The message doing rounds airport with his wife and chil- was decided that they should Jayakumar said. but everyone denied making any such remark,” Dr Ram Court had yesterday held that ond petition in the Patna High on social media (which was dren. However, he had some come back from the airport,” Reacting to a comment of O said. “The head of the department has offered help he has to face separate trial in Court against Lalu Prasad dur- picked by local news website) is health problem after which his Patel said. Panneerselvam loyalist S Sem- to the patient and has assured that he will look after each of the cases in which he is ing the NDA rule in the state,” malai that a majority of minis- the diagnostics if needed,” he added. Javaid Ahmad an accused in the multi-crore he said. ters were in a “mood” to switch fodder scam and if found guilty, Sushil Modi, who is also over to their side, he said it may Malik had alleged that he brought his mother Nasree- he may be punished separately. the leader of opposition in the India, Netherlands hold have been to try and halt cross- na Malik, 55, for treatment to PGIMER s neurosurgery “The Supreme Court order state Legislative Council, said over from their side and placate department on Thursday but they left the hospital after will pose a major problem for Lalu Prasad’s political innings their followers. the doctor misbehaved with them. MPOST the Grand Alliance govern- is “almost over” after the SC Semmalai, a former minis- ment (in Bihar) and it will not directed the trial court to con- talks to ramp up ties ter, had yesterday told report- KERALA TO BRING BILL TO REGULARISE be able to complete its term,” clude the proceedings in nine ers at Salem that a majority of Sushil Modi told mediapersons. months from now. OUR CORRESPONDENT ministers were “disillusioned” PRIVATE HOSPITALS, LABS’ OPERATIONS Asked if the JD(U) can The end of the RJD lead- and were in touch with them. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala government will have ties with the BJP, he said, er’s political career will trig- NEW DELHI: External Affairs Claiming that the cross- soon bring in a bill to regulate private hospitals and “Let Kumar first come out of ger a fierce “war of supremacy” Minister Sushma Swaraj on over will happen to the Amma medical laboratories in the state. Titled ‘Kerala Clinical the Grand Alliance and then within Prasad’s family, he said, Tuesday held wide-ranging camp, Jayakumar, also hold- Establishment (Registration and Regulation) Bill 2017’, request the BJP. It (BJP) will adding it would ultimately talks with her Dutch counter- ing the Fisheries portfolio, said then consider it.” would lead to the party’s doom part Bert Koenders on step- Semmalai’s ‘cross-over’ com- the new bill would be presented in the state assembly Pressed about the expected and a fall of the Grand Alliance ping up bilateral engagement ment was like aiming to “plug soon, state Health Minister K K Shylaja told the House time when the alliance would government before completion in a range of areas, including the leak in a boat with salt.” in a written reply on Tuesday. The minister said at break, Sushil Modi, who was of its term. trade and investment, water, He said the party workers present there are no proper mechanism to regularise one of the petitioners in cases Senior RJD vice-president and education. were united and government operations of such private establishments in the state. related to the fodder scam dur- Raghubansh Prasad Singh dis- Swaraj and Koenders delib- will complete its term in 2021. “The new bill is drafted envisaging regularisation of ing Lalu Prasad’s rule, said, “I missed Sushil Modi’s claims erated on the entire gamut of The AIADMK (Amma) fac- operations of private hospitals, laboratories, scanning am not an astrologer... But one saying, “Whenever there is an bilateral issues and agreed to tion had recently described as thing is for sure - the Grand attack from outside the Grand take initiatives to strengthen “opportunism” rival O Pan- centres and such establishments through adequate Alliance government will not Alliance, it faces it with ‘chat- ties in a number of sectors. neerselvam camp’s demand for law,” she said. Steps are on to introduce the bill in the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj meets her Netherlands be able to complete its five-year tani ekta’ (rock solid unity).” Relations between India a CBI probe into former Tamil assembly, the minister added. On the revenue received counterpart Bert Koenders in New Delhi on Tuesday term.” Prasad’s old friend and for- and the Netherlands have PTI Nadu chief minister Jayala- by government from private hospitals, Shylaja said Rs Questioning Nitish Kumar mer MP Shivanand Tiwari said largely been shaped by engage- lithaa’s death as a precondition 3,000 is charged to issue pharmacy license. MPOST silence on the matter, the BJP the BJP “knew that it would not ment in trade and investment. is today one of India’s largest aluru on Sunday and met Kar- for merger talks. The merger leader said the chief minister be able to have its sway across Dutch ships had come calling trading partners in the Euro- nataka’s Minister for Large and talks have failed to make any BELGIAN AMONG 8 KILLED IN is not speaking on the apex the country till Lalu Prasad is to Indian ports around 400 pean Union. Medium Scale Industries R V headway with the OPS faction court’s order against his ally t h e r e”. years ago. The Netherlands Koenders’ arrived in Beng- Deshpande on Monday. sticking to their demands. SEPARATE MISHAPS IN RAJASTHAN Sikar: Eight persons, including a foreigner, were killed and 11 others injured in separate road accidents in Rajasthan on Tuesday. Five persons, including two No junk food sale in Maharashtra school canteens women, were killed and ten others injured when a van MUMBAI: Vegetable khicdi, Rajma- ment had set up a Task Force under ment decided to impose a ban on junk toffees, chocolates and candies, jalebis, collided with a jeep in Fatehpur area.The victims were rice and idli-vada will be among the the chairmanship of Director, National food in school canteens, the GR said. imartis, all kinds of sweets, cakes, bis- returning to Churu from Salasar Balaji temple when dishes that will replace pizza, noodles Nutrition Institute, Hyderabad to pro- The GR also calls for creating cuits, buns, pastries, jams and jellies. the mishap occurred, police said. In another accident, and pastries in school canteens across mote consumption of healthy food by awareness among children about The food items that are allowed a Belgian national and a driver were killed when Maharashtra as the state government children in schools and to ban sale of consuming nutritional food. Schools to be sold are rotis made of wheat, their car collided with another vehicle in Tijara area has banned sale of junk food in school junk food. should counsel students on this, it parathas, multi-grain rotis, rice, veg- cafeterias. ated soft drinks, pizza, burger, cakes, The task force in its report said that said. etable pulavs, rice with cereals and in Alwar. The deceased was identified as Emmanuel The Maharashtra government yes- biscuits, buns, pastries, etc., which can junk food containing high levels of fat, The broad list of 12 banned food pulses, rice and black gram, halva Salle (40), a citizen of Belgium, and his driver Nakul terday imposed a ban on sale of `High not be sold. salt and sugar and very little nutri- categories covers fried food items like made out of wheat with channa, sweet Yadav. They were coming from Delhi when the incident in Fat, Salt and Sugar’ (HFSS) food at It also gives a list of 20 items that tional content leads to obesity, dental potato chips, sherbets, ice gola, car- daliya, rice with rajma, idli-vada sam- occurred near Abhunpura village, the police added. In school canteens across the state. can be sold, which include wheat roti, diseases, diabetes and heart ailments bonated soft drinks, non-carbonated bar, kheer, firni, milk and milk prod- Banswara district, a pick up van fell off a bridge which A Government Resolution (GR) vegetable pulav, idli-vada, coconut in later life. soft drinks, rasgullas, gulab- jamuns, ucts like curd, lassi and buttermilk, left one Salim (38) dead and one injured. MPOST listed 12 categories of foods which water and jaljira. Taking note of recommendations pedha, kalakand, noodles, pizza, vegetable sandwich, vegetable khichdi, cover potato chips, noodles, carbon- The GR said the Union Govern- of the Task Force, the state govern- burger, tikka, pani- puri, all kinds of coconut water, shikanji and jaljira. Hunting festival remains ‘bloodless’ 15 members of two wedding JAMSHEDPUR: The annual hunting Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary on Monday. “We did not leave any space for the parties die in separate accidents festival of the tribal community was The forest department has set up hunters to kill animals with deployment observed in a ‘bloodless and symbolic’ check posts at all entry points to pre- of adequate force, about half a dozen manner in and around Dalma Wildlife vent hunters from entering the sanctu- DFOs and over 200 of our daily wagers, OUR CORRESPONDENT gone district this morning, nine district from Icchawar town in Sanctuary for the third consecutive year, ary with arms to kill the animals. to guard entry points to ensure no one members of a family, including Sehore. The container- truck officials said on Tuesday. However, majority of the tribals could enter with arms,” the DFO said. DHAR/SHEOPUR: Fifteen the groom, were killed when a hit the car at the Ganpati ghat An awareness campaign launched were now convinced and agreed to However, he said, if the media could people, including a groom, container-truck hit their car, an section of the highway in Khar- by the forest department to observe observe the festival without harming provide exact information of the loca- were killed and 22 injured, in official said. gone. Eight persons died on the the hunting festival in a symbolic man- animals, Bhaskaran said. tion and the time of killing, action two separate road accidents, Two persons were injured spot while one succumbed to ner seemed to have paid dividend as it Asked about reports published in would be taken against persons involved both involving wedding par- in the incident. They have been his injuries later, Dharampuri’s remained bloodless for the third con- section of the media with photographs in hunting animals. Meanwhile, a tribal ties, in Madhya Pradesh today. taken to Indore for treatment, tehsildar R S Guha said. secutive year, Divisional Forest Officer of hunted animals like wild boar and organization “Adivasi Sengel Abhiyan” In the first accident, which the official said. The groom, Mukesh Jaat (Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary), V Bhas- peacock during the festival yesterday, (ASA) demanded action against those took place on the Agra- Mum- The marriage party was on (30), was among those who karan said here. The hunting festival Bhaskaran insisted that the festival was involved in the killing of innocent ani- bai National Highway in Khar- its way to Sirsi village in Dhar died. ‘Bishu Parv’ or ‘Sendra’ was observed in bloodless. mals. MPOST 7 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 mp nation Basic rights of woman SC seeks states’ views on judges’ cannot be violated in the centralised recruitment name of personal law: HC OUR CORRESPONDENT The bench, while asking the various NEW DELHI: Concerned over state government to file their replies or rising vacancies in subordinate judiciary and huge pendency of suggestions on the proposals clarified, cases, the Supreme Court today “our endeavour is not to touch the sought the views of state gov- ernments on a central selection federal structure, but we want to mechanism for judicial officers explore whether a singular agency can as it decided to examine the proposals of its committee on hold the examination for filling up the judicial reforms. vacancies in lower judiciary in various “The Union Government is on board and it has made us states” conscious to fill up the vacan- cies in subordinate judiciary. lier issued by Supreme Court cases in the period between MPOST BUREAU We have held detailed con- --’Indian Judiciary Annual July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. The court made sultation and deliberation and Report 2015-2016’-- a whop- Referring to a meeting ALLAHABAD: In a signifi- it clear that decided that through a judicial ping 2.8 crore cases are pend- held by representative of gov- cant order, the Allahabad High order, we should crystalise it,” ing in district courts across ernment and Justice Adarsh Court has held that divorce by fatwa, issued by a bench headed by Chief Jus- the country which are short of Kumar Goel, who is also Chair- a Muslim man cannot be in a whatever body, tice J S Khehar said. The bench, nearly 5,000 judicial officers. man of Arrears Committee of manner which may infringe while asking the various state The report had suggested Supreme Court on April 8, the his wife’s fundamental rights not emanating government to file their replies same and where state public It said an individual can- help of states on a regular basis. increasing the judicial man- letter of Secretary (Justice) said guaranteed under the Consti- from any judicial or suggestions on the proposals service commissions or con- didate seeking to apply for Moreover, if there is challenge power “manifold” -- at least the timely filling up of vacan- tution and that the personal clarified, said “our endeavour is cerned high courts were hold- examination will get an added to the process of selection, it seven times -- to overcome cies in the subordinate judi- law can always be superseded system is not not to touch the federal struc- ing tests for filling up the posts, advantage of applying for mul- could be done at one place,in the crisis by appointing about ciary was highlighted as an area by legislation. binding on anyone ture, but we want to explore will continue to do so. tiple states. the Supreme Court. 15,000 more judges in the com- of concern. Justice Surya Prakash Kes- whether a singular agency can “The only thing which will “Union government is on “The challenge, if any to ing years. The senior officer suggested arwani, in his order which including the hold the examination for filling change is the agency holding board and we are also mak- the selection process, could be Another apex court report options like alternative method began with the Sanskrit verse person who had up the vacancies in lower judi- the examination and it will be ing effort to fill up the vacan- dealt at one place, in Supreme -- ‘Subordinate Courts of India: of recruitment and said “in this “yatra naryastu pujyante ciary in various states”. a common test for filling up cies and for this purpose we Court, unlike now. At present A Report on Access to Justice regard, it was proposed that a ramante tatra devata” (gods asked for it It said the Centre has sug- the vacancies in each states like would pass judicial direction,” several litigations are pend- 2016’-- also highlighted that Centralised Selection Com- reside where women are wor- gested various options to fill NEET. It won’t be something it said, adding that by an ear- ing in various high courts due nearly 15,000 more judges mittee for direct recruitment shipped), said that all citizens, tended that following the up the vacancies and one such like All India Judicial Service,” lier order in All India Judges to which the entire process is would be required in next three of Higher Subordinate State including Muslim women, have divorce, Jamil had rendered his suggestion is a Central Selec- the bench said. The apex court Association case, the post and stalled,” it said asking the states years to overcome this critical Judiciary be constituted under fundamental rights which can- wife “free to lead her life in the tion Mechanism. was hearing a case taken up on rank of judges were brought in to file their suggestions if any situation. the Chairmanship of the Chief not be infringed under the garb manner she wants” and even The bench, also compris- its own after a letter was writ- uniformity. by June 30 and posted the mat- It had said that district Justice of India and his nomi- of personal law. obtained a “fatwa” whereby the ing Justices A K Goel and A ten to secretary general of the The apex court said this ter for further hearing on July courts across the country were nee and with the representation The order, dated April 19, Mufti City, Agra “has affirmed M Khanwilkar, said the selec- apex court by Secretary (Jus- would expedite the process of 10. grappling with a backlog of from High Courts and other 2017, assumes importance as the talaqnama”. tion process will remain the tice) Snehlata Shrivastava. filling up the vacancies with the According to a report ear- 2,81,25,066 civil and criminal experts as may be necessary. it comes in the backdrop of the However, the court turned raging debate over ‘triple talaq’. down the application observing “The personal law operates that it did not “find any good Powerful IED under the authority of legisla- reason to interfere with the Govt notices to BJP, Cong, ‘Corruption, black money, tion, subject to constitutional impugned summoning order recovered by limitation, and not under the or the impugned proceedings”. AAP on overseas funding religion. The personal law can The court made it clear flourishing after note ban’ security forces always be superseded by legis- that “fatwa, issued by whatever OUR CORRESPONDENT Regulation Act (FCRA). lation,” the court said. body, not emanating from any The officials made it clear NEW DELHI: The CPI(M) today alleged that in Chhatisgarh It was passed on a petition judicial system recognised by NEW DELHI: The ruling that these were “not show Prime Minister Narendra Modi has failed to filed by Aaqil Jamil and two law, is not binding on anyone BJP, the Congress, AAP and cause notices” and a deci- achieve the stated objectives of demonetisation RAIPUR: Security forces on others, who had moved the including the person who had a few other political parties sion in this regard would be as corruption, black money and terrorism have Tuesday averted a major mis- court challenging summonses asked for it”. have been asked by the Cen- taken only after the replies “flourished” over the last six months. hap by recovering a power- issued by an Agra court in In the concluding part of tre to furnish details about were received from the politi- Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on ful IED (improvised explosive connection with a case filed by its 40-page order, the court the source of their overseas cal parties. November 8 last year announced demoneti- device), allegedly planted by Jamil’s estranged wife under remarked: “a society that does funding. The AAP, which was sation, saying it will combat corruption, black naxals, in Chhattisgarh’s insur- the Dowry Prohibition Act and not respect its women, can not The Ministry of Home served the notice last week, money, terrorism and counterfeit currency. gency-hit Kanker district, relevant sections of the Indian be treated to be civilised”. Affairs, in separate com- had alleged that the Central The Left party wondered why the govern- police said. The IED, weighing Penal Code. “All citizens, including Mus- munications, has asked the government’s move was a ment has not revealed the data on the money 10 kg, was recovered during a The petitioners’ conten- lim women, have fundamental political parties to give details clear case of “political witch that has returned to the banking system. search operation undertaken by tion was that the proceedings rights”, the court pointed out, of their sources of funding, hunt” and that it was very “Six months after demonetisation, corrup- (NPAs). a joint team of security forces initiated by the CJM’s court at adding “under the garb of per- including those from abroad “dangerous” for democracy. tion, black money and terrorism: three claims This, he alleged, has happened at a time when in Badgaon police station lim- Agra were “null and void” since sonal law, individual or collec- or foreign business enter- “It is a clear case of politi- Modi made of having ended - flourish at a stron- India’s informal economy, which employs over its, Kanker Additional Super- the complaint was registered tive rights of the citizens” could prises, official sources said. cal witch hunt. All the agen- ger pace (sic),” CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram two third of the countrymen and accounts over intendent of Police Jaiprakash by Jamil’s wife a few days after not be infringed. The sources, however, cies at the Centre’s disposal Yechury tweeted. half of its GDP is left “ruined” due to scrapping Badhai said. The explosive was he had divorced her “by say- The Supreme Court is all set said this was part of the rou- have been unleashed against “Six months on, still no data on how much of the notes. planted to harm security per- ing thrice that I divorce you to begin on May 11 its hearing tine communication sent to the Aam Aadmi Part, its money in old currency notes has returned to the Yechury targeted the government over the sonnel who had used the same Sumaila Afgani”. on the constitutional validity of political parties every year to government in Delhi and its system. Legalisation of counterfeit currency?” BJP’s electoral promise of generating one crore track. MPOST The petitioners had con- triple talaq. ascertain whether the outfits ministers, which is very dan- he questioned. jobs a year, terming it as a “jumla” (catchphrase). have violated the provisions gerous for democracy,” the Yechury alleged that the Centre has let off “The only movement on jobs has been back- of the Foreign Contribution party had said in a statement. “big fish” bank loan defaulters, an apparent ref- wards, as number of jobs continue to decline,” erence to creation of non-performing assets he said. MPOST Venu Rajamony appointed India’s Ambassador to Netherlands OUR CORRESPONDENT

NEW DELHI: Press Secretary to President Pranab Mukher- jee and senior diplomat Venu Rajamony has been appointed India’s Ambassador to the Netherlands. Rajamony will also be India’s Permanent Represen- tative to the Organisation for Prevention of Chemical Weap- ons based in The Hague and cover the International Court Rajamony’s last posting of Justice, the Permanent Court abroad was as Consul General of Arbitration and other inter- of India in Dubai from 2007 national organisations based to 2010. in the Netherlands, an official He served as Joint Secretary, release said. heading the Multilateral Insti- He is expected to take tutions division of the Depart- up the new assignment next ment of Economic Affairs in month. the Finance Ministry. Rajamony joined the Indian Rajamony has been Press Foreign Service in 1986 fol- Secretary to the president since lowing a two-year stint as staff August 2012. His responsibili- correspondent of the Indian ties included advising the pres- Express newspaper. ident on matters pertaining to Fluent in Chinese, he has the media and overseeing the served in the Indian Mission public interface of the Rashtra- in Hong Kong and done two pati Bhavan. terms in the Indian Embassy Besides projecting the pres- in Beijing. idency in social media, he has Rajamony also served in the also contributed in efforts to Indian Embassy in Washington preserve, restore and improve DC as spokesperson and min- the architecture and interiors ister in charge of Press, Infor- of the Rashtrapati Bhavan by mation and Culture from 2005 making it more accessible to to 2007. the public and establishing new He was Director (Chef de museums facilitation of docu- Cabinet) in the Office of For- mentary films and publications. eign Minister Yashwant Sinha The library of the President from 2002-2004. House was renovated during Rajamony also worked his tenure. It houses over 2,000 in the Indian Mission to the old and rare books. United Nations in Geneva as The Netherlands is one of officer responsible for human India’s leading trade and invest- rights and humanitarian mat- ment partners. Total bilateral ters from 1996 to 1999. trade stood at Euro 4.9 billion

In 1996, he was elected rap- in 2016. There are about 200 - 896(12)/2017 ICA porteur of the UN Commission Dutch companies, including on Human Rights represent- Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever, ing India. Philips and KLM in India. 8 editorial mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 EDITORIAL Driving for regimentation Tackling LWE Less to show in investment, growth and jobs nion Home Minister Rajnath Singh has acknowl- mid the cacophony about edged that States affected by the Maoist menace, S. “revolutionary” moves and also known as Left Wing Extremism (LWE) in SETHURAMAN electoral boosts, the Modi official circles, should take “ownership” in leading Government has hardly counter-insurgencyU operations with the necessary support of Amade any effective impact on economic central armed police forces (CAPFs). This suggestion comes growth and jobs or ensured social har- soon after the dastardly Maoist attack on a Central Reserve mony in its first three years, even as its Police Force unit on April 24 in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh, focus turns increasingly on how to fur- which claimed the lives of 25 security personnel. As argued ther fatten its majoritarian hold over the in these columns, State governments have to lead the line in country in 2019. this battle against militants, and the Centre must confine itself At best, it has proceeded on the well- to a supporting role. Just days after the attack, Singh on said trodden path of jobless growth without that the Centre would review its strategy to tackle left-wing a revival of domestic investment to be extremism. Leading counter-insurgency experts have raised able to lift the economy out of a quag- some rather uncomfortable concerns about the events leading mire, growth being struck at or around up to the massacre of 26 CRPF personnel from the 74th Bat- 7 per cent. It has no doubt refurbished talion. “The 74 Battalion personnel also seem to have made The investment some of the social welfare schemes, serious tactical mistakes. It appears they were having lunch poorly implemented by its maligned together and huddled in one place. This explains the heavy recovery is likely predecessor UPA regime, with benefits casualties suffered by them. Forces sent for counter-insurgency to remain modest to targeted recipients. must have first-class leaders, first-class weapons and first-class External environment or “global training. The CRPF in Sukma appeared to be lacking in the and uneven uncertainties” had less to do with our required level of training and leadership. What is particularly across sectors slowdown at a time oil prices remained galling is that it was in Sukma, on March 11 that 12 members relatively low and both fiscal and cur- of another CRPF road-opening party were killed in an IED as deleveraging rent account positions could be held explosion. Apparently, no lessons were learnt,” wrote Prakash takes place and within manageable limits. Govern- Singh, retired DG BSF and DGP of Uttar Pradesh and Assam, ment’s inability to secure investment in a recent column for a leading Indian news daily. Senior CRPF industrial capacity revival or enlarge the role of public officers have in fact argued that the attack was reminiscent of utilisation picks investment in infrastructure is as much Representational Image the April 2010 attack when 74 men died in Dantewada dis- to do with stagnation as the delayed trict, besides issuing complaints of a chronic lack of equipment up. A stronger projects awaiting clearances - a hang- to the “boldest demonetisation” Prime Government’s recent moves, some caused by cash shortages in the wake and gear. In his meeting with Chief Ministers from 10 LWE- recovery will also over - and the crisis in the banking Minister Modi had foisted on the nation designed to bypass Rajya Sabha, the of demonetisation are expected to grad- affected States on Monday, the Home Minister also made a ref- system. on November 8 last, unmindful of mis- highest court in the land is looked upon ually dissipate in 2017 as cash short- erence to the need to improve critical facilities for the jawans depend on the More recently, there have emerged ery it cast for the vast majority of cash- to pronounce its opinion through a ages ease, IMF notes. Growth would stationed in the Red Corridor and the need to follow standard levels to which hopeful signs of a vigorous movement, dependant poor and small traders. full Bench which could also help to be depending on a favourable monsoon operating procedure. “The residential camps of security forces weaknesses besides preparing GST for introduc- The people at large are now paying put the Apex Court’s credibility above and continued progress in resolving should be well equipped with power and water facility and bet- tion in July, on resolute action to enable the price of that botched move, which reproach. The areas where Aadhaar supply-side bottlenecks. ter connectivity. We need to ensure that security forces must in India’s bank banks to bring down stressed assets has been justified on several and chang- is necessary should be specified and The investment recovery is likely adhere to the Standard Operating Procedure,” he said. There and corporate (NPAs) without fear or favour and RBI ing counts. First to get hold of ‘black incorporated into legislation. to remain modest and uneven across was also a reference to stepping up the intelligence gathering has also moved in with effective mech- money’, apparently unsuccessful, then Liberals view with alarm the Gov- sectors as deleveraging takes place and capabilities to counter the LWE problem. One CM who was balance sheets anisms with oversight panels. These checking tax evasion, partly fruitful ernment’s overreach and look to the industrial capacity utilisation picks up, not present at the meeting was Mamata Banerjee. The Centre are addressed are designed to shield bankers in cases and welcome, and later as one reform forthcoming Supreme Court decision the Outlook points out. A stronger only needs to look at how her government diffused the Mao- where write-offs of non-recoverable designed to make India a “cash-less to clarify whether the checks and bal- recovery will also depend on the levels ist menace in West Bengal. Mere assertions from the Home loans become necessary. RBI is empow- society”. But what has caused greater ances of Constitution stand or not. The to which weaknesses in India’s bank and Minister that Maoists are anti-development, albeit correct, are ered to oversee solutions to bring down worry for people is the Government’s underlying fears are such moves of the corporate balance sheets are addressed. not enough. Maoists have merely filled the vacuum left behind the “unacceptably high” levels of non- requirement for every individual, in executive would lead to regimentation In a study of the demonetisation by the State. What Banerjee did was to reclaim the State’s role performing loans (NPAs) with public rural or urban areas, literate or other- on a national scale where the citizen’s episode, IMF says the economic reper- in these regions once afflicted by crippling poverty, and posi- sector banks of over Rs 6 lakh crore, wise, falling in step for Mr Modi’s digital rights would be subsumed by the “pub- cussions from the currency withdrawal tively engage with local communities at the heart of this battle. though primarily, the banker himself is economy in a “New India”. That is, every lic interest” cited by any public author- remain a key domestic risk in India, in When she first took office in 2011, the state was in the encouraged to make decisions. citizen should get himself “Aadhaar- ity. That should be possible with BJP in part as the near-term adverse economic grips of Naxal violence. Reports indicate that from 2009 to A major take away from UPA is empowered”, possessing the biometri- control of most states in India. impact of accompanying cash shortages 2011, the state suffered more than 500 deaths, which included undoubtedly the Goods and Services cally verifiable identification. Economic prospects for fiscal 2018 remains difficult to gauge. Its impact both security personnel and civilians. A little more than a year Tax (GST), which BJP and Finance Issues such as the manner of this are still mixed. The push on GST and on the informal economy and cash- later, the entire Naxal movement in the State was vanquished. Minister Arun Jaitley abhorred while Government enforcing its fiats and pri- actions in the banking sector can help based sectors, relatively large and most The strategy was two-pronged. On the one hand, she engaged in opposition, but in power, they have vacy rights of citizens are now before to some extent in the revival of invest- affected by the cash crunch, is likely to with those civilians who had earlier borne the brunt of both embraced it with great fervour. The the Supreme Court, whose earlier order ments and growth which is projected be understated because these sectors are the Indian State and the insurgents and gained their confi- Prime Minister sees it as “One Nation, on not making Aadhaar mandatory at 7.2 per cent again by IMF in its Asia- either not covered in the official statis- dence in ways that many politicians, especially the erstwhile One Tax” (whatever his other attributes for every scheme has been cynically Pacific Regional Outlook on May 9. tics or are proxied by the formal sector Left Front government had failed to garner. This was a process for this “One Nation”). The Modi Gov- ignored by the Government. With con- Growth would rise to 7.7 per cent in activity indicators. IPA that began during her time in the Opposition. When she took ernment regards GST as the biggest tax stitutional questions including fun- 2018/19. The temporary disruptions (The views expressed office, however, she was firm in exterminating the threat of reform since independence ranked next damental rights at stake in the Modi (primarily to private consumption) are strictly personal.) LWE, while in the process gaining the trust of the civilians in the areas. At the forefront of this battle against these insurgents dear was the State police, who had gathered the important infor- Quote martial MUCH TO NOURISH EDITOR millenniumpost.in mants on the ground. She did leave the door open for rebels to return to the mainstream instead of using the brute force The grave matter about malnourished children and stunted growth that bears a Log on to write letters to the of the state. The West Bengal government incentivised many When it comes to editor or send them to Naxals into surrender by providing viable jobs and entrepre- literal nourishment, permanent effect on their lives is one that needs immediate attention. No amount of neurial opportunities, thus allowing them to become a part of government policies will reverse the condition of thousands of children affected by [email protected] the mainstream. Over 300 LWEs have surrendered till date, of the food we eat, life You can also send your which 205 have found jobs as Special Home Guards. Besides begets life malnutrition. Beginning in prenatal stage, care for children begins with welfare for comments to The Editor, employment, those who had surrendered also received the their mothers. Women and child welfare is an area that lies trapped in the cobwebs necessary financial assistance for medical aid, housing and Millennium Post, education for their children. Unlike most leaders, Banerjee of oppressive socio-economic conditions. Improvement in the social sector is the Pratap Bhawan, 5 Bahadur Shah understood that the erstwhile Maoist-affected areas of West VICTORIA MORAN beginning of addressing these issues. Via email Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110 002 Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura districts (popularly known MITALI SHARMA as Junglemahal) suffered from severe neglect. The State had completely abandoned these areas, with negligent develop- ment and the people barely surviving without the most basic amenities. Her government initiated a whole host of welfare Ballooning bad loan crisis projects in the Maoist strongholds, prioritising the supply of potable water, electricity, and announcing that everybody in the area was entitled to 16 kg of rice, every month, besides setting up primary health care facilities. Former Maoists who Focus on Q results, not long-term growth has created India’s NPA conundrum had returned to the mainstream were providing intelligence to the State police, who conducted targeted raids. The State also ndia’s NPA problem has a flip side recruited locals in desperate need of a job from the area to act to it: the issue of rising corporate as informants to supply information. In coordination with the AMIT debts. local communities and CAPFs, the State police managed to KAPOOR The IMF, in its latest Global neutralise the top Maoist leadership. Other senior leaders of IFinancial Stability Report, warned the insurgent group took up Banerjee’s offer to return to the that rising corporate debts were a risk mainstream with an effective surrender policy in place. to growth in emerging markets and What her government understood was that it was impos- pointed out that India’s debt is one of sible to dismantle the Maoists without understanding the the highest among these economies. socio-economic realities that had paved the way for their rise In fact, in 2016-17, trading in corpo- in the region. As a senior West Bengal government official told rate debt securities at BSE and NSE leading news daily: “Bring people out of poverty, encourage shot up by 44 per cent. There is a deep them into the mainstream, without judgment, without con- underlying problem within the system demnation, without thrusting the national flag instead of the that is causing this issue of rising debt, Lal Salaam – and it is possible to make it impossible for Mao- which is so commonplace in corporate ism to thrive.” The Centre could take note. Today, Indian practices that it is often overlooked: The goal of “maximising shareholder value”. firms are In a recent speech at the University burdened with of Virginia, Infosys co-founder N.R. Credibility at stake unmanageable Narayana Murthy said that “good gov- ernance is all about maximising share- Representational Image n a significant blow to Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu corporate debt holder value”. The statement was not Prasad Yadav, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered always passed around as truism till a schemes and stock options. ever they could to keep the stock prices being taken for productive purposes. that he will stand trial for every individual charge in the due to such few decades ago. The phenomenon The 1970s also witnessed the finan- up and the shareholders happy. There On the contrary, despite troubling 30-year-old fodder scam. The former Bihar Chief Minis- misaligned goals. first arose in the developed world and cial and banking deregulation of the was a rise in dividends paid out to times, Indian corporates were gener- Iter was convicted in one of the five fodder scam cases in 2013. Firefighting India merely imported these corporate American economy, which would help shareholders and repeated stock buy- ously handing out dividends. Between He was then sentenced to five years in prison, leaving him practices. hostile takeovers in the next decade by backs to reduce the supply of shares 2011 and 2016, the country’s top listed disqualified to contest any election. Although the embezzle- the NPA issue In the immediate post-War era, allowing the risky trade in junk bonds in the market and artificially prop up companies had tripled their dividend ment of crores in government funds earmarked for fodder the role of shareholders was restricted, -- a corporate or government bond their prices. payments while their profits rose by had begun back in the late 1970s, it was only in 1996, when will not help and the managers of large corpora- that the bond-rating agencies consider The shift towards shareholder value merely 50 per cent. They were quite the real scandal broke, during his tenure as Bihar Chief Min- the economy tions enjoyed relative autonomy. The being below “investment grade”. orientation of firms has resulted in a honourably sticking to Narayana Mur- ister, after a few state officials blew the whistle. The corrup- in the long financial sector was strictly regulated, Managers responded to the “share- short-term strategy of boosting share thy’s idea of good governance. tion scheme involved the fabrication of “vast herds of fictitious and limits were imposed on the move- holder revolution” by a marked shift in prices rather than a focus on long-term This is not to argue that sharehold- livestock” for which fodder, medicines and animal husbandry run if inherent ment of capital. Corporations tended their strategy. William Lazonick and growth of the firm with real investment ers are not an important constituent of equipment was supposedly procured. More than the sheer corporate to retain the profit they earned, and Mary O’Sullivan famously wrote in for non-financial firms. Indian com- a firm, but the obsession with such a amount of money syphoned off and the duration, what caught the people they employed -- and they 2000: “In the name of creating ‘share- panies also began pursuing this self- metric creates the wrong incentives for the attention of the national media was the role of a corrupt practices reinvested this profit in accumulating holder value’, the period following the destructive strategy, which ties to the managers. They are forced to focus on nexus that involved politicians, businesspeople and bureau- maintain status physical and human capital. hostile takeover movement witnessed corporate debt problem that they are boosting quarterly results rather than crats. It took the judiciary an extraordinary amount of time In the 1960s and 1970s, this strategy a marked shift in the strategic orienta- currently facing and eventually to the enhancing long-term growth; satis- to arrive at a decision on these cases. Powerful and influential quo of “retain and reinvest” hit a roadblock tion of top corporate managers in the country’s ever-widening NPA crisis. fying shareholder needs rather than politicians entangled in corruption cases continue to benefit due to a massive growth of corpora- allocation of corporate resources and During the boom years of 2004-08, those of its customers and employees. from the courts taking decades to pass judgements. The most tions. Through mergers and acquisi- returns away from ‘retain and reinvest’ India’s corporate profit as a percent- Today, Indian firms are burdened with recent example is that off former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister tions, corporations grew too big with and towards ‘downsize and distribute’.” age of GDP rose from 4.5 per cent to unmanageable corporate debt due to J Jayalalithaa. It took the judiciary a little more than 20 years too many divisions in different kinds Under the new regime, top man- 7.1 percent, as per RBI data. Post-cri- such misaligned goals. Firefighting the to find her guilty of possessing disproportionate assets, and of businesses. Following this, there agers downsize the corporations they sis, profits immediately started fall- NPA issue will not help the economy when they did, she had already passed away. Corruption in occurred two institutional changes control, with a particular emphasis on ing, eventually reaching 4.5 per cent in the long-run if inherent corporate public life has a detrimental effect on the entire democratic that aligned the management’s interests cutting the size of the labour forces they in 2014. However, between 2004 and practices maintain status quo. IANS process, sabotaging the very state institutions that are meant with that of the shareholders: Devel- employ, in an attempt to increase the 2014, corporate debt-to-equity ratio (Amit Kapoor is chair, Institute to serve the people. The court must expedite the trial process opment of new financial instruments return on equity. It has been empiri- consistently rose from 0.68 to 1.1. In for Competitiveness, India. involving elected representatives charged with corruption to like junk bonds and tender offers that cally shown that “reduction in force” value terms, corporate debt increased The views expressed are strictly retain the people’s faith in democracy. The credibility of the allowed hostile takeovers and changes announcements have a positive effect by 8.1 times while net profit had merely personal. Chirag Yadav, a researcher judicial system is at stake. in compensation of managers who on share prices. Rational pursuit of climbed 3.2 times. with the Institute for Competitiveness, were offered performance-related pay these managers led them to do what- It is quite clear that the debt was not has contributed to the article.) 9 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 mp in focus Communists looking beyond Macron No party has formed a Parliamentary majority has yet. In five weeks, the French people will have a new opportunity to decide on their future, writes Pierre Laurent

n the evening of May 7, Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the far- right National Front was roundly defeated in France’s Presiden- Itial election. 66.1 per cent of French voters refused to elect a party, which promotes ideas of hatred and divi- sion, a nationalist project that is rac- ist and xenophobic, and public policy It is not Emmanuel that is violently discriminatory and belligerent. Macron, the The French Communist Party was candidate chosen proud to have worked with resolve to defeat the far right, for we know by the world that the National Front project con- of finance and tinues to threaten the democracy of the French Republic and our unity. elected President, But today, we are not in the mood who will follow to celebrate. Our country is living through dark days. This second this path of round, once again, sounds a serious progressive alarm for all citizens who feel strongly about protecting our democracy and policies. He wants preserving equality. Marine Le Pen to commodify obtained a score of 33.9 per cent, which is over 12 percentage points everything in more than her first-round score. society. His This is the result of the “normali- sation” of extreme right ideas; we election is a are more determined than ever to feeble one. fight them. This is also the result of decades of complacent political alter- Millions of voters nation to the detriment of the public who cast ballots interest, and of successive adminis- trations’ betrayal and abandonment for Macron were of the people. Tonight, we share the above all seeking deep-seated anger of the millions of to block Marine Le people who felt ambushed by this sec- ond round. An ambush organised by Pen the worn-out, perverse workings of the Fifth Republic. In the future, we do not want to have to be obliged to vote by default to defeat the far right. We never want to see the far right in French President-elect Emmanuel Macron such a position again. For this reason, we must build Macron in the hope of avoiding a run- unemployment and social precarity, the ultra-reactionary projects of the United, we can win in many dis- (The writer is the national sec- up to the victory of a genuine politi- off between conservative candidate by giving employees new powers in right and the far right.It is in this tricts. Without unity, our electoral retary of the French Communist cal change that will free France from François Fillon and Le Pen. Only a businesses and central banks more spirit that we approach the legislative gains will be limited and leave room Party (PCF), the largest force in the clutches of financial markets, that minority of citizens actually support power over financial markets. elections to be held on June 11 and for more MPs from Macron’s “En the “La France Insoumise” (France will put “humans first,” that will attack his program, which promises seri- The attack on pensions and the 18. The French Communist Party is Marche!” movement, the right, and Unbowed) coalition that backed left- the domination of finance by grant- ous social and democratic regression. privatisation of Social Security have fully engaged. No party has formed the far right. We have a major shared wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon ing new powers on all levels, opening What remains to be done is the been proposed in Macon’s program a Parliamentary majority has yet. In responsibility to voters of the left and in the first round of the country’s the path to a new society of happiness, construction of an alternative for the through the elimination of social five weeks, our people will have a new from the environmental movement. Presidential election last month. solidarity, justice, environmental pres- social, environmental, and democratic contributions; we will set up a plan opportunity to decide on our present These voters are eager for a united After centrist independent Emman- ervation, peace, and equality. transformation of public policy and to defend and develop Social Security. and our future. front. To achieve this, we need a broad uel Macron and far-right nationalist It is not Emmanuel Macron, the the formation of a new majority to Macron has called for a €60-bil- On the strength of the votes of national agreement, fair and repre- Marine Le Pen had advanced to the candidate chosen by the world of carry it forward. As of tomorrow, and lion ($65.6 billion USD) cut in pub- millions of citizens for Jean-Luc sentative, under a single banner that second round run-off, the PCF called finance and elected President, who throughout the five-year Presidential lic spending and the elimination of Mélenchon in the first round of the unites all: La France Insoumise, the for broad unity to defeat Le Pen will follow this path of progressive mandate, the Communist Party will be 120,000 civil service positions; we Presidential elections on April 23, and Communist Party, Ensemble, and the while also remaining critical of the policies. He wants to commodify mobilised to push ahead, along with offer a plan for revitalising local public with all the forces that supported his Left Front. This corresponds to the austerity program pursued everything in society. His election is all forces of the left that are willing. services in all fields. Authoritarians candidacy and those that may join hopes and aspirations of the major- by Macron. The article is an edited a feeble one. Millions of voters who The announced destruction of use executive orders; we will fight for us, we can go far towards electing ity of voters who cast their ballots for version of Laurent’s immediate cast ballots for Macron were above the French Labor Code will dimin- democratic rule. We will be present in a National Assembly that will truly Jean-Luc Mélenchon on April 23. The commentary on Sunday’s result. all seeking to block Marine Le Pen. ish workers’ rights; we will fight for all battles against the anti-social pro- represent us and constitute a new Communist Party is ready to enter It was originally published in In the first round, many voted for job security and training to eliminate gram Macron is promoting, against majority for action. into such an agreement. IPA L’Humanite newspaper. )

tweet As politicians spar, Delhi cries for governance RETWEET Reporter’s Notebook Frequent breakdown of Delhi Metro is index of breakdown of governance SITARAM YECHURY @SitaramYechury ast Sunday was extraor- cautioned others not to take dinary from “news the Yellow Line. Six months after SIDHARTH point of view”, what- “Train breakdown on Delhi MISHRA ever that may mean. Metro Yellow Line shuts down demonetisation, LThe prologue for the same was service from Gurgaon to Delhi. corruption, black written the night before when Why would we plan for break- Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minis- downs. Never gonna happen money and terrorism: ter Manish Sisodia announced (sic),” @abhidabhi tweeted. three claims Modi sacking Cabinet colleague “Fault in Delhi Metro Yel- made of having ended Kapil Mishra for “having failed low line no trains to Gurgaon - flourish at a stronger to deliver on the water front.” (sic),” @kanvanand tweeted. Mishra responded by saying “Snag hits Delhi Metro’s Yellow pace that he will hold a “reveal all” Line, thousands of passengers press briefing the next day. stranded at stations between Indian politics has come to Jahangirpuri and HUDA City RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD witness a fair degree of dra- Centre (sic),” @zafarabbaszaidi @rsprasad Delhi has been matics ever since Anna Hazare tweeted. hit badly by launched his anti-corruption The building and operation movement in 2011. Delhi in of Delhi Metro have so far been the political the past six years has proven cited as a classic case of coop- Now, 114 crore people brinkmanship to be the laboratory of drama- eration governance between tised politics. Thus, no won- the Centre and the Delhi Govt. in India have #Aadhaar, between the der that Mishra on Sunday The hell which broke loose on it has made a remark- BJP-ruled Centre first travelled with “evidence Mehrauli-Gurgaon road on able record since its of corruption” to the Lieuten- Sunday could also be cited as a and municipal ant Governor, then went to classic case of mal-governance inception. #DigitalIndia bodies and the Mahatma Gandhi’s last resting Representational Image due to lack of cooperation and place and then dropped, what coordination between the two AAP-controlled many media headlines called, on what went into making the hours, as the exit limit of their Huda City Centre to Sultan- entities. city government. the “bombshell”. huge mass of people walk down tokens and cards expired, and pur, Sultanpur to Qutab Minar, While the Ministers in the With the script delivered, it the road. “The Metro service the mechanical gates were not and Qutab Minar to Badli. As Delhi Government should have SHASHI THAROOR The sooner was time for media, especially has broken down and the peo- accordingly calibrated to allow a result, train services were made the Metro accountable @ShashiTharoor politicians return television, to go as cantanker- ple are walking as there are no an easy departure. resumed on the line and con- for the breakdown; the Cen- ous as possible. The same eve- alternate means of transport,” This led to a queue at the tinuous service on the affected tre could have asked the Delhi Pathetic to see the to their basic job ning your reporter had to visit said a passerby as he pulled his customer service desks, where section was restored as soon Police why the huge jam was of governing the Gurgaon for a prescheduled attaché on its wheels. As we the tokens had to ‘fixed’ and as OHE repair work was over.” left at the mercy of just half-a- depths to which some city, the earlier meeting. The meeting was fixed inched towards Sultanpur sta- then rush to the exit doors If the Metro was working dozen cops in the long stretch will sink to attract for Sunday as the long distance tion, the scene of the milling to get out of the hell. A bet- normally what were a thousand to be managed. The mishap TRPs. I have nothing to the release from between the eastern fringe of crowd on the roads in the peak ter response management or more people doing on the immediately gave opportunity civic hell for the the NCR and Gurgaon was summer heat should ordinarily could have saved the commut- streets? Why were the young to the auto rickshaw and taxi hide from the police & thought to be covered in short have put leaders of all political ers from spending time on the mothers cuddling their infants drivers to turn into their well- the courts but nothing denizens of the time given the thin traffic on parties to shame. stations, which in the absence in the summer heat desperately known ‘devil avatar’ to fleece the weekends. Queries revealed that Delhi of urinals and water points looking for a lift? Why were the distressed commuters. to say to such people. national Capital It was not to be as there Metro’s Yellow Line services — had turned infernal on Sun- people queuing up at the con- Delhi has been hit badly was a huge jam between Qutub that connects the city to Gur- day afternoon. Definitely, com- sumer service windows to get by the political brinkmanship Minar and Sultanpur on Meh- gaon — was hit for over five muter safety and comfort has their tokens fixed to get out of between the BJP-ruled Cen- Liana Maeby rauli-Gurgaon road, the arte- hours. The anomaly started not remained a priority with the station? Metro could give tre and municipal bodies and @lianamaeby rial connect between the around 3 pm and the service the current honcho of Delhi such misleading information the AAP-controlled city gov- national Capital and its pros- was restored only around 8 pm. Metro, Mangu Singh, as was as the media remained glued ernment. The sooner politi- perous suburb. We wondered Media reports next day said the case with his predecessor to the “developing political sit- cians return to their basic job about the reason for the jam that the service came to a grind- E Sreedharan. uation” in the city. In case the of governing the city, the ear- and then saw a large number of ing halt as an overhead power Most hilarious was the Metro officials want to issue a lier the release from civic hell Sally Yates handles people walking down on from line between Qutub Minar and press statement issued by the counter, before doing so they for the denizens of the national condescending men so the opposite carriageway, the Green Park metro stations was Delhi Metro on the situation, could refer to the outburst Capital. trickle of people slowly con- ruptured, bringing the train to which said, “The overhead by the commuters on social (Sidharth Mishra is well you’d almost think verted into a flood of human- a halt. How the metro misman- equipment team repaired the media. President, Centre for she’d been doing it her ity making us realise a major aged the situation was evident affected section. In the mean- As a newspaper reported Reforms, Development & whole life. mishap. from the fact that the com- time, normal services were the next day, angry commut- Justice and Consulting Editor, The reporter in me pulled muters were stranded inside maintained on the whole line ers took to social media to vent Millennium Post. The views down the window to check trains and stations for over two by running trains in loops from their frustration while some expressed are strictly personal.) 10 world mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 Indian shopkeeper Indian woman to Exit polls in S Korea forecast be repatriated fights off robber using after formalities: vodka bottle, chair Pakistan win for liberal Moon Jae-in ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday said that an Indian SEOUL: Exit polls in South Korea by setting up large-scale woman who sought refuge in Korea forecast that liberal can- aid shipments to the North the Indian High Commission didate Moon Jae-in will win and by working on now-stalled here after arriving in Pakistan an election on Tuesday to suc- joint economic projects. to marry, will be repatriated ceed ousted President Park Hong, an outspoken for- after all legalities are completed. Geun-hye. mer provincial governor who Uzma, 20, had sought ref- Official results weren’t pitched himself as a “strong- uge at the Indian High Com- expected for hours, but the man,” described the election as mission in Islamabad last week exit poll of about 89,000 voters a war between ideologies and and asked to be repatriated to at 330 polling stations, jointly questioned Moon’s patriotism. India after coming to know that commissioned by three major After voting, Hong said the Tahir Ali, a resident of Khyber- television stations and released election was a “war of regime Pakhtunkhwa whom she mar- just after polls closed, showed choices between people, ried, was already married with Moon receiving 41.4 percent whether they decide to accept four children. of the vote. a North Korea-sympathizing During a court hearing on His two main rivals, con- leftist government or a govern- Monday, Uzma alleged that servative Hong Joon-pyo and ment that can protect the lib- Ali had forced her to enter a centrist Ahn Cheol-soo, were erty of the Republic of Korea,” marriage contract at gunpoint expected to garner 23.3 per- South Korea’s formal name. and subsequently subjected her cent and 21.8 percent, respec- Park’s trial later this month to physical and sexual abuse. LONDON: A brave 40-year- tively, according to the exit poll, on bribery, extortion and other He also confiscated her doc- old Indian-origin shopkeeper ‘I picked up a which had a margin of error corruption charges could send uments, she claimed, adding in the UK fought off a knife- bottle of vodka of 0.8 percentage points. Such Moon Jae-in, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party of Korea, poses for photographs as he her to jail for life if she is con- that she was not under any sort wielding robber using very polls are merely a snapshot of watches a television report on an exit poll of the presidential election in Seoul victed. Dozens of high-profile of pressure while recording unusual ‘weapons’ — a bottle for him and the stated intentions of certain figures, including Park’s long- her statement. Foreign Office of vodka and a chair. voters. for engagement with North election commission finishes arrested in March over corrup- time confidante, Choi Soon- Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria Anil Velji leaped into action turned around to The final opinion surveys Korea, saying that the hard-line the vote count and declares tion allegations. The new South sil, and Samsung’s de facto said that Uzma’s case was cur- when the raider burst into his put it in the till, released last week showed approach favored by conser- the winner tomorrow morn- Korean president will still serve leader, Lee Jae-yong, have been rently being heard in court and convenience store in Old- Moon, the Democratic Party vative governments did noth- ing. This forgoes the usual out a full, single five-year term. indicted along with Park. she will only be able to return ham, Greater Manchester, and I heard a noise candidate, had about a 20 per- ing to prevent the North from two-month transition because “I gave all my body and soul Moon frequently appeared once all legal requirements are lunged at him with a knife. behind me and centage point lead over his expanding its nuclear bomb today’s vote was a by-election (to the election) to the very at anti-Park rallies and the cor- complete. With his teenage son by his the man had two main challengers. A win and missile programs and only to choose a successor to Park, end,” Moon, 64, told reporters ruption scandal boosted his Zakaria added that the side, Velji attempted to fend off by Moon would end a decade reduced South Korea’s voice whose term was to end in Feb- Tuesday after casting his bal- push to re-establish liberal rule. Indian Ministry of External his attacker with the spirit bot- pulled out a knife of conservative rule in South in international efforts to deal ruary 2018. lot in Seoul. He called for reforms to reduce Affairs had also requested the tle before falling to the ground. and was coming Korea and could result in with its rival. Following months of pro- Moon was chief of staff social inequalities, excessive Foreign Office for details of He kicked the man from the sharp departures from recent The winning candidate will tests by millions and impeach- for the last liberal president, presidential power and cor- Uzma’s marriage to Ali. floor as he continued to come at me behind the policy toward nuclear-armed be officially sworn in as South ment by lawmakers, Park the late Roh Moo-hyun, who rupt ties between politicians The next hearing of Uzma’s towards him, and managed to counter’ North Korea. Moon has called Korea’s new president after the was removed from office and sought closer ties with North and business leaders. AGENCIES case is on July 11. AGENCIES pick up a chair behind the shop counter and fight back. Quickly the man retreated knife, my 16-year-old son was Six-year-old girl raped and and fled the scene with Velji right there with me. I tried to India opposes ‘repackaging’ of giving chase with a piece of hit him with the bottle of vodka killed in Pakistan’s Punjab wood, Manchester Evening and tripped over, I kicked him News reported. from the ground and then LAHORE: In a gruesome incident, a six-year- old Velji shared this footage picked up a chair behind the discarded options for UNSC reforms with police after the incident counter and defended myself girl was raped and killed by unidentified assailants on April 23 at the Premier Con- with it. I hit the panic button UNITED NATIONS: India has opposed Pakistan is also a member. in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The incident took venience on Manchester Street. and the man ran off,” he added. introducing new categories for consider- One option offered by the group place in village Chak 10-NB in Sargodha district He was quoted as saying The police came within a ation in inter-governmental negotiations focused on expansion of two-year non- some 200km from Lahore, the capital of Punjab. that the man had entered the minute of his hitting the button on expansion of the UNSC, saying it is permanent seats and the other for intro- Deputy Superintendent of Police Abbas Shah store a few minutes earlier and but it was too late and the rob- “unacceptable” that “discarded” options on duction of a new category of longer term had been ‘eyeing up’ the spirits. ber had fled. Neither Velji nor increasing the UN body’s membership are members who can be re-elected. said that the Grade-I girl student was returning “I asked him what he was his son were injured, except for being repackaged as new offerings. “In the interests of interactivity can it from school on Monday when unidentified men interested in, he told me he a few bruises. “The unrepresented and underrepre- be clarified, for example, how does Africa’s kidnapped her and took her to a deserted place didn’t have enough money for “My son was in shock and sented want parity. Offering them com- quest for being represented in the perma- where they killed her after committing rape. the expensive stuff and kept couldn’t sleep for a few days. fort in terms of length of serving on the nent category be satisfied by giving lon- The perpetrators dumped her body in the fields. looking,” Velji said. We’ve only been here five Council is inadequate. These options nei- ger term representation through a new “I kept serving customers months and nothing like this ther reflect the new political realities nor category,” Akbaruddin said. With African Some farmers found the body and alerted the po- as he did, he was waiting for has ever happened before. It s address the crisis of legitimacy that con- states already being represented in the lice. “We have sent the body for autopsy. We have them to leave and the shop to the first time in my life I have fronts the United Nations Security Coun- favour of the introduction of any catego- non- permanent category on a continu- also taken a couple of suspects in the area into be empty. I picked up a bottle ever been in a fight or scuffle, cil, India s Permanent Representative to ries which have been examined and dis- ing basis, Akbaruddin asked are they to custody on the complaint of the girl’s father,” Shah of vodka for him and turned but it has definitely made me a the UN, Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin carded in the past.” “Options whose sell by be perpetually satisfied with serving longer said, adding that doctors have confirmed rape. around to put it in the till, I stronger and less fearful per- said on Monday. date has long been over and are now being terms and not breaking through the barrier heard a noise behind me and son,” he said. Participating in the informal meeting repackaged as new offerings are unaccept- of being unrepresented in the permanent The bereaved family and village people also held the man had pulled out a knife A spokesman for Greater on Inter- governmental Negotiations on able, he said. category. Akbaruddin cautioned against a demonstration and blocked the main road to and was coming at me behind Manchester Police con- the question of equitable representation He questioned new options outlined member states creating an impression that protest. They called for early arrest of the culprits the counter,” he said. firmed they were aware and increase in membership of the Security by Italy s representative on behalf of the conditions are being put on any aspect of and demanded their public hanging. AGENCIES “It was a six-inch kitchen of the incident. AGENCIES Council, Akbaruddin said India is “not in United or Consensus Group, of which the expansion process. AGENCIES China removes envoy’s offer of renaming CPEC from transcript RUSSIA MARKS WWII VICTORY 10 children die Indian man in BEIJING: In a diplomatic offered to rename the CPEC nectivity in the region. statement of Ambassador in bus crash US for nearly 2 embarrassment, China has which passes through Pak- “It has no connections to or Luo Zhaohui while attending Putin urges world to removed the remarks of its istan- occupied Kashmir, impact on sovereignty issues. an activity in India,” Chinese BEIJING: Ten South decades to be envoy in India offering to insisting it was an economic Even we can think about Foreign Ministry spokesman Korean kindergarten rename the China-Pakistan cooperation and connectivity renaming the CPEC. China Geng Shuang told media here fight against terror pupils and two others Economic Corridor (CPEC) enhancement project devoid of and India have had successful replying to a volley of ques- deported from the transcript of his “sovereignty issues”. experience of delinking sover- tions on why the key line MOSCOW: President Vladi- Moscow would “always be on were killed when a speech posted on the Chinese He also pushed for New eignty disputes from bilateral expressing China s willing- mir Putin on Tuesday warned the side of the forces of peace school bus crashed LOS ANGELES: An Indian embassy website. Delhi’s participation in the relations before,” he had said in ness to rename the $50 billion Russia could defeat any aggres- and with those who choose and burst into flames man who fled persecution in Chinese ambassador to New ‘One Belt One Road’ (OBOR) closed-door address to a think- CPEC was dropped. sors but insisted that the world the path of equal partnership.” in a tunnel in eastern his country and has been in Delhi Luo Zhaohui’s remarks project. Referring to the CPEC, tank last Friday. “According to my under- come together to fight “terror- Under Putin, celebrations of China on Tuesday. The the US for nearly two decades that “Even we can think about which is part of OBOR, he said Meanwhile in Beijing, standing, the Chinese embassy ism” as Moscow marked 72 the Soviet Union’s immense was detained in California renaming the CPEC” has been China has no intention to get China s Foreign Ministry par- in India released information years since victory in World sacrifice in World War II has children were aged after losing his latest appeal removed from his speech involved in the sovereignty and ried questions over the Chinese about the Ambassador s atten- War II. become a key rallying point for between four and sev- over a deportation order. copy posted on the Chinese territorial disputes between embassy removing the much- dance and relevant activities. If Soldiers and military hard- society with authorities fiercely en and lived in the city Gurmukh Singh, who is embassy website. India and Pakistan and that the publicised offer of renaming the you are interested I suggest you ware paraded across Red seeking to control the histori- of Weihai in Shandong married to an American cit- Seeking to allay India’s con- project is for promoting eco- CPEC from Luo’s speech. use the internet for more infor- Square in Moscow as the coun- cal narrative. “This monstrous izen and has two US-born cerns, ambassador Luo had nomic cooperation and con- “You just mentioned a mation,” Geng said. AGENCIES try held its annual pomp-filled tragedy was not prevented pri- province where the daughters, was taken into celebration of the defeat of Nazi marily because the criminal accident happened, a custody on Monday by fed- CORRIGENDUM Germany in 1945. “The lessons ideology of racial superiority South Korean con- eral agents after failing to get of past war force us to remain was tolerated, because of the sular official said. The a stay in his case, his attorney It is informed to the bidders that some key dates for participating in the process alert and the armed forces of disunity of the world’s leading and family said. of tendering for the tender no. 36782 for the work “Construction of New Judicial Weihai propaganda Complex (Tower of Justice) District Gurgaon (Hon’ble CM Announcement)” are Russia are capable of warding countries,” Putin said. There “is The 46-year-old Sikh taxi hereby changed as detailed below on administrative grounds. The pre-bid meet- off any potential aggression,” no, there was no, and there will department said on a driver from India’s Punjab ing scheduled for 08.05.2017 will now be held on 19.05.2017 at 11.30 hours. The website that 12 people other terms and conditions will remain unchanged. Putin said as he presided over be no force that can conquer state sneaked into the United the parade. our people,” he added. had died and another States without a visa through Sr. PWD B&R Stage Contractor Stage Start date Expiry date and no. and time time “Today life itself requires us “We will never forget that person was seriously the border with Mexico in to increase our defensive capa- the freedom of Europe and 1998. He later applied for 1. - Online bid preparation 04.03.2017 29.05.2017 upto injured. Officials did & submission (Bidder 17.01 Hrs. 17.00 Hrs. bility, but for an effective fight long-awaited peace across asylum, citing religious per- stage) against terrorism, extremism, the planet was won namely not immediately give secution. But his family and 2. - Manual submission of 30.05.2017 30.05.2017 upto neo-Nazism and other threats by our fathers, grandfathers the nationality of the lawyer say he failed to prop- additional documents 09.00 Hrs. 17.00 Hrs. it is necessary to consolidate the and great-grandfathers.” The two others killed and erly pursue the case and was 3. Date & time of open- Control Transfer of 31.05.2017 31.05.2017 whole international commu- Victory Day military parade the injured person, ordered deported. ing of technical bids bids 09.00 Hrs. upto17.00 Hrs. nity.” The Kremlin strongman is also a major chance for Singh married a US citi- media reported. AGENCIES PRDH-Advt. No:-1081/11/3711/1718/49677 Superintending Engineer, insisted that Russia was “open Putin to showcase Russia’s zen in 2010 but his depor- Daed: 09/05/2017 Gurugrarn Circle. for such cooperation” and that military might. AGENCIES tation case resurfaced when he applied for a res- idency visa in 2012 given his new status. UN: Upto 245 missing after 2 He was subsequently jailed for about five months but after rights activ- Mediterranean shipwrecks ists posted his bail, he was released and his case has GENEVA: UN agencies say up improving, which the UN says since been going through to 245 migrants and refugees will only entice more smug- the appeals process. are missing and feared dead gling boats to launch from law- His family said in the past following two recent ship- less Libya. Many people who several years, he had been wrecks of smugglers’ boats in take the central Mediterranean checking in with the office the Mediterranean Sea. route between Libya and Italy of Immigration and Customs UNHCR says one of its are migrants from Africa seek- Enforcement (ICE) on a reg- partner agencies, the Interna- ing to flee from political perse- ular basis pending the out- tional Medical Corps, reported cution or find better economic come of his appeals against a shipwreck on Sunday off the opportunities in Europe. the deportation order. Libyan coast in which 163 a rubber dinghy carrying 132 Overall, UNHCR said that Alexis Perez Nava, with people are missing and feared people on Friday sank in the more than 1,300 people have Resilience Orange County, a dead. The UN agency said Mediterranean after several disappeared and are believed to group helping with his case, one woman and six men were hours of sailing. Some 50 sur- have died this year while cross- said Singh was detained yes- rescued by the Libyan Coast vivors were rescued and taken ing the Mediterranean from terday after the 9th Circuit Guard. The refugee agency to Pozzallo, Sicily. The ship- North Africa to Italy, and some Court of Appeals denied a also said some 82 people are wrecks come as the weather 43,000 migrants and asylum- request to quash the depor- missing and feared dead after warms and sea conditions are seekers reached Italy. AGENCIES tation order. AGENCIES world 11 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 mp Trump picks Kim hurls insults British PM Theresa May vows Indian-American for key post in at Obama, Kerry, energy price cap if re-elected energy agency Clinton & others PYONGYANG: In another life, LONDON: British Prime North Korean dictator Kim Jong Minister Theresa May pledged Britain’s withdrawal could make it Un’s propaganda chief could on Tuesday to cap household have had a heck of a career as energy prices if she is re-elected ‘impossible’ to tackle trafficking an insult comic. on June 8, sending stocks tum- The latest screed from bling with the biggest market LONDON: Britain’s withdrawal from the EU could Pyongyang’s unnamed prince intervention since the sector of prose (or princes — it’s was privatized almost 30 years dramatically curtail efforts by UK police forces to unclear how many write these tackle slavery and human trafficking, making it ago. Energy bills have dou- Neil Chatterjee gems) was delivered Monday bled in Britain over the past harder and in some cases “impossible” to protect in response to Sen. Cory Gard- decade to about 1,200 pounds victims from abuse, leading charities, the police WASHINGTON: US Pres- ner, R-Colo., asserting Kim Jong ($1,500) a year, putting the big- and security experts have warned. The loss of ident Donald Trump on Un was a “whack job.” Like pre- gest providers in the sights of Tuesday nominated Indian- vious statements, it bucked all ment said, was somebody who politicians and voters who are EU regulations, funding from Brussels and the American Neil Chatterjee to norms for engaging in interna- “does not even have the basic already battling rising inflation jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice could a key administration posi- tional repartee: “It is a serious appearances of a human being.” and limited wage growth. scupper 20 years of work with European partners tion in the Federal Energy provocation that Gardner, like a Earlier that year, an unidenti- May, from the center-right in tackling the trade in women and children for Regulatory Commission, an psychopath, dare to bear the evil fied North Korean spokesperson Conservative Party, has previ- sex, they say.Much of the UK’s existing legislation agency charged with over- that dares our highest dignity,” called ex-Secretary of State John ously praised free markets. But seeing America’s power grid the statement said, according Kerry a “wolf donning the mask she has also warned that she that addresses trafficking is derived from Brus- and deciding on multibil- to a translation. “It is America’s of sheep” who had a “hideous would intervene in industries sels and campaigners warn it is the survivors of lion-dollar energy projects. misfortune that a man mixed in lantern jaw.” Kerry’s predecessor, deemed to be dysfunctional. abuse who stand to suffer most from Britain’s exit The While House said with human dirt like Gardner, Hillary Clinton, was described in She said on Tuesday a move from the bloc. Legal experts have voiced particu- Trump intends to nomi- who has lost basic judgment and 2009 as “by no means intelligent” to cap energy standard vari- nate Neil Chatterjee, 40, of body hair, could only spell mis- and a “funny lady.” “Sometimes able tariffs would help about 17 lar concerns about safeguards offered by existing Kentucky as a Member of fortune for the United States.” she looks like a primary school- million families. “Like millions suppliers rose to a record high as much as 3 percent. UK legislation in the form of the Modern Slavery Federal Energy Regulatory The real-world reference girl and sometimes a pensioner of working families, I am fed last year and the big six provid- Analysts at RBC Capital Act, which they say fails to give adequate protec- Commission for the term point behind some of the put- going shopping,” an unnamed up with rip-off energy prices,” ers held 99 percent of the mar- Markets said the main rea- tion to victims, and the loss of EU justice powers expiring June 30, 2021. downs, most of which are dis- North Korean source said. she wrote in the Sun newspa- ket just five years ago, showing son for Tuesday’s share price that strengthen cross-border investigations and Chatterjee, who is energy seminated by the state-run The reclusive regime has per, the country’s biggest sell- competition is improving. But reaction was that May said policy advisor to US Sen- Korean Central News Agency, is also made former South Korean ing title. “I expect (this) to save an investigation by the com- the cap would apply to all policing arrangements. Tamara Barnett, who w ate Majority Leader Mitch unclear. Gardner, for instance, President Park Geun-hye a pop- families on poor value tariffs as petition watchdog in 2016 said standard tariffs, rather than works for the Human Trafficking Foundation, said McConnell, has played an has a full head of hair. ular target, alternately naming much as 100 pounds.” households had overpaid 1.4 just those customers deemed “time and again lawyers are compelled to use EU integral role in the passage of But KCNA has been dealing her as a “senile granny,” a “tail- The British market is billion pounds a year in the as vulnerable, as previously law to defend victims of trafficking”. AGENCIES major energy, highway and out hits against US and interna- less, old, insane b—,” and “a dominated by six big provid- previous three years due to expected. The industry has farm legislation, the White tional politicians for years, per- traitor for all times.” On the last ers - Centrica (CNA.L), SSE uncompetitive standard tariffs. argued that a price cap would could go up under Theresa regulator free to let them rise, House said. fecting a style that’s veered from description, North Korea may (SSE.L), Scottish Power (IBE. Shares in Centrica wipe out competition and May’s plans, the Business Sec- if international prices went up. Prior to serving McCon- jaw-dropping to shockingly have scored a late victory. Geun- MC), Npower (IGY.DE), E.ON (CNA.L), which owns house- damage investment. retary has admitted – despite The concession came as the nell, he worked as a princi- racist. Among the worst insults hye was forced out of office amid (EONGn.DE) and EDF Energy hold energy supplier British Centrica Chief Executive the party’s pledge to save fami- trade association Energy UK pal in Government Relations directed at former President an influence-peddling scandal. (EDF.PA) - which account for Gas, fell as much as 5 percent in Iain Conn said last month the lies £100 a year. tore into the Prime Minister’s for National Rural Electric Barack Obama, North Korea in Kim’s staff was no easier on about 85 percent of the retail early trading, adding to the 10 plan suggested some in May’s Greg Clark acknowledged plans, warning it would pre- Cooperative Association and 2014 branded him a “juvenile former President George W electricity market. The num- percent fall recorded since the government did not believe that the flagship policy to ‘cap’ vent people saving money by as an aide to House Repub- delinquent,” “clown” and a “dirty Bush’s administration: Bush was ber of consumers switching start of the year. SSE (SSE.L) fell in free markets. Energy prices bills would leave the energy switching provider. AGENCIES lican Conference Chair- fellow.” Obama, the KCNA state- called a “hooligan”. AGENCIES woman Deborah Pryce of Ohio. He began his career Russian foreign fighter in Washington, DC, with the Climate envoys meet in Bonn House Committee on Ways and Means. beheaded for spying: IS A Lexington, Kentucky native, he is a graduate of but all eyes on Washington BEIRUT: The Islamic State St Lawrence University and group says it has beheaded a A gruesome the University of Cincin- Russian agent who had infil- video released nati College of Law. Chat- BONN: Climate negotia- large during the 11-day meet- fuel emissions. But the nego- trated IS ranks as a fighter to terjee needs to be confirmed tors return for talks in Bonn ing to work out the nuts and tiations risk being hamstrung spy on the militant group. late on Monday by the Senate before he can Tuesday under the cloud of bolts of implementing the over fears that the world’s A gruesome video released purports to show be sworn in as member of Donald Trump’s threats to international deal, which number two carbon polluter late on Monday purports to Federal Energy Regulatory pull America from the hard- Trump’s predecessor, Barack will pull out and throw the show the man, described as the man, described Commission. fought Paris Agreement, as Obama, was instrumental in pact into disarray. “There’s no a captain in a Russian intelli- as a captain Last week, US lawmak- the president prepares to hold bringing about. David Balton, question that if the US with- gence department that spies on ers had expressed concern a special meeting to discuss the US deputy assistant secre- draws it is going to create dif- “terrorists.” His name was only in a Russian over vacancy in this impor- US participation. tary for international environ- ficulties... in the negotiations,” given in Arabic. intelligence tant federal regulatory com- After months of uncer- mental affairs, said Monday: Paula Caballero of the World The video shows the alleged mission. “I’d like to see tainty, the US president “The last thing I heard is that Resources Institute think- spy being interrogated by a department that some names now. It’s very appeared closer to a decision the president, our president, tank said as climate envoys masked man, at which point he spies on ‘terrorists’ frustrating that we are here on whether he intends to keep has indicated that he plans to met for their first session since says he was sent to Syria to spy at May 3 and there hasn’t a campaign promise to with- make a decision some time Trump took office. on IS top military commander Obama did not end military been a quorum at FERC for draw Washington from the over the next couple of weeks, The US did send a delega- Omar al-Shishani who was operations in Iraq. In the video months now,” said Senate climate-rescue pact, whose but not this week.” tion to the talks, led by Obama- killed last year in a US airstrike, posted on YouTube, Foley was- Energy Chairwoman Lisa practicalities are being haggled A total of 196 countries era negotiator Trigg Talley, and later, on his knees some- seen kneeling next to a man Murkowski. over during UN talks in Bonn. are now parties to the cli- who declined to comment on where in the desert where he dressed in black. Foley read a “We can’t do much of Trump and his top cli- mate deal, clinched in 2015 their brief. A State Depart- is killed by a Russian-speaking message, presumably scripted anything in the energy space mate and economic aids will after years of tough bartering, ment official told AFP: “We man. Thousands of fighters from by his captors, that his “real until there is a functioning kick-off discussions in ear- which Trump threatened to are focused on ensuring that the former Soviet Union have killer’’ is America.“I wish I had quorum at the FERC. First, nest today in the US, a senior “cancel”. The May 8-18 Bonn decisions are not taken at these joined IS in Syria and Iraq. more time. I wish I could have we need to get names so that administration official said, meeting is meant to start meetings that would preju- In 2014, a video released by the hope for freedom to see my we can actually act as a com- adding that “they are meet- drafting a guide for member dice our future policy, under- ISIS showed the beheading of family once again,” he can be mittee. Believe me, I am urg- ing tomorrow at 1.30 pm”. countries to execute the pact, mine the competitiveness of US journalist James Foley and heard saying in the video. ing anybody who will listen Uncertainty over America’s which seeks to brake global US businesses, or hamper our threatened the life of another He was then shown that they need to get moving future has already loomed warming by curbing fossil broader objective.” AGENCIES American if President Barack being beheaded. AGENCIES on it,” she said. AGENCIES Irish beach Dooagh China tests new guided US-Pak relationship like a reappears 33 years missile in ‘critically ill patient’: Rice after vanishing Bohai Sea WASHINGTON: The US’ the Secretary of State under the relationship with Pakistan is Bush administration. BEIJING: China on Tuesday like a “critically ill patient” as Rice, author of the new said it has successfully tested one has to just try to keep it book ‘Democracy: Stories a new guided missile in the alive for the next day, former from the Long Road to Free- Bohai Sea near the tense Secretary of State Condoleezza dom’, made the remarks while Korean peninsula to raise Rice has said. responding to a question on the operational capability of Rice also asserted that Pakistan. its armed forces and “effec- Pakistan was not the “stalwart “There is no doubt that tively respond to threats” to fighter” against particularly the Pakistan has got internal issues. national security. Taliban in that area between I still think that Pakistan is The People’s Libera- Afghanistan and Pakistan. not the stalwart fighter against tion Army Rocket (Missile) “The relationship with Pak- Condoleezza Rice particularly the Taliban in that Force tested the new mis- istan is kind of like a critically area between Afghanistan and sile in the Bohai based on ill patient. You know, you get up “That’s how I thought about Pakistan,” she said. annual training programme, every day, you take the pulse, Pakistan when I was there. “But Pakistan is a lit- the defence ministry said in you deal with whatever fever It’s a relationship you’ve tle bit more stable than it’s a brief statement.The mis- has set in overnight and you got to have but it is tough,” been in a number of years. sile was designed to “raise just try to keep it alive for the said Rice, who served as the So maybe there’s something,” The 300 metre beach near the tiny operational capability” of next day,” Rice told MSNBC. National Security Advisor and Rice said. AGENCIES the armed forces to “effec- village of Dooagh on Achill Island tively respond to threats” vanished in 1984 when storms stripped to national security, it said, it of its sand, leaving nothing more adding that the test had “achieved an expected result.” than a series of rock pools However, the statement did not specify when the missile IRELAND: A beach that was told the Irish Times newspaper, was tested. It just said the test swept away more than 30 years recalling how the popular beach was carried out recently. The ago from a remote island off the once sustained four hotels and ministry has not released any west coast of Ireland has reap- a number of guesthouses on further information about peared after thousands of tons the west coast of the island of the missile, state-run CGTN of sand were deposited on top 2,600 people. reported on Tuesday. of the rocky coastline. “Achill already has five blue- The Bohai Sea is a body The 300 metre beach near flag beaches, so we are hoping of water off the coasts of the tiny village of Dooagh that in time it will be awarded Tianjin municipality, Shan- on Achill Island vanished in a sixth.” dong, Hebei and Liaoning 1984 when storms stripped The island, the largest off provinces. The test was car- it of its sand, leaving noth- the coast of Ireland, forms ried amid China’s vociferous ing more than a series of rock part of the Wild Atlantic Way, protests over US deployment pools.But after high spring a tourist trail stretching from of THAAD interceptor mis- tides last month, locals found the south of the country to siles in South Korea, whose that the Atlantic Ocean had the north-west that has ben- powerful radars could see returned the sand. “It’s enor- efited from a tourist boom in through most part of China mously significant,” Sean Mol- the European Union’s fastest- including its missile develop- loy of Achill’s tourism office growing economy. AGENCIES ment programme. AGENCIES 12 business mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 10 May, 2017

R K Mahajan, Rural electrification programme on track Mahender Over 13,000 villages have been electrified out of a total of 18,452 and process will be completed in targeted 1,000 days Singh appointed CBEC members NEW DELHI: The rural elec- power requirement would be trification programme is pro- fulfilled solely by solar energy, PowerGrid gets unified licence NEW DELHI: Senior ceeding swiftly, with over the statement said. A similar bureaucrats R K Mahajan and 13,000 villages electrified out effort can be made to make cer- to offer telecom services Mahender Singh have been of a total of 18,452 and is on tain localities kerosene-free, he appointed as members in the track for completion within the told the meeting. NEW DELHI: State-owned Power Grid Corpora- Central Board of Excise and targeted 1000 days, a meeting Modi emphasized that tion has been granted unified licence with na- Customs (CBEC). chaired by Prime Minister Nar- manufacturing of solar equip- tional long distance and Internet service provider Mahajan is the director endra Modi here was told on ment should be given pri- general of Central Excise Tuesday. ority, to drive employment authorisation to provide telecom services. The Intelligence and Singh is the The meeting was also told generation, and derive maxi- power transmission utility provides its telecom director general (audit). that the total renewable gen- mum benefit from the renew- towers and optical fibre cable infrastructure (for The Appointments Com- eration capacity has crossed 57 able energy drive. Internet services) to service providers and other mittee of the Cabinet has GigaWatts, with an increase of Under Pradhan Mantri firms for commercial use. This is a separate approved their appointment 24.5 per cent being registered Awaas Yojana, a remarkable as members in CBEC, an in the last fiscal year. progress has been achieved in segment of revenue for the company. "The order issued on Monday by The figures were pre- rural areas, the statement said. Department of Telecommunication has granted the Department of Personnel sented when the Prime Min- IT and space-based appli- a unified licence to PowerGrid with national long and Training stated. ister reviewed progress of key cations are being extensively distance (NLD) and Internet service provider- Both of them are Indian infrastructure sectors includ- used to monitor progress of the Category A service authorisation for providing Revenue Service (Customs ing petroleum and natural gas, scheme. Over 32 lakh houses and Central Excise) officers. power, renewable energy and have been completed in rural telecom services. The licence is valid for 20 Central Board of Excise housing. areas in FY17. years," PowerGrid said in a BSE filing on Tues- and Customs, the apex pol- The meeting, which came The Prime Minister day. A senior official said PowerGrid has been in icy-making body for indirect soon after the review of con- enquired about the training the business of telecom infrastructure for busi- taxes, has only two members nectivity-related infrastructure and skills being given to rural ness to business services. Earlier, the company – Ananya Ray and S Ramesh sectors in the last week of April, masons, who were involved – against the sanctioned lasted for about three hours, with this scheme. had two separate licences of infrastructure pro- strength of six. and was attended by top offi- The Pradhan Mantri Ujj- can benefit the most from this with 41 GigaWatts transmis- Seeking a consolidated vider-1 (IP-1) and national long distance-1 (NLD- With the appointment of cials from PMO, NITI Aayog wala Yojana has benefited 1.98 process, the statement said. sion capacity being added approach to various schemes, 1), which is due to expire. Now, the company has Mahajan and Singh, only two and all infrastructure Min- crore below poverty line (BPL) He said that setting up of from May 2014 to April 2017. such as electrification, IT net- got a single unified licence. The official said the posts are left to be filled up. istries of the Government of households so far and the con- 2nd generation bio-ethanol The capacity addition in solar works and housing, the Prime Senior Indian Revenue India, said a PMO statement. tribution of gas to the primary refineries should be expedited. energy in financial year- 17 was Minister called for a focused company has also built it optical fibre network Service (IRS) officer Vanaja In course of the presenta- energy mix has risen to 8 per Regarding electrification, the highest-ever, at 81 per cent, approach on the 100 worst per- through overhead cables using its huge network N Sarna is the CBEC's tion made by CEO NITI Aayog, cent, it said. the meeting was told that over the statement said. forming districts in each case, of power transmission infrastructure across the chairperson. it was noted that remarkable Eighty one cities are being 22 lakh rural BPL households Solar and wind tariffs have the statement said. country. During April-December of 2016-17, the The board and its officials progress has been made in covered under City Gas Dis- were electrified in 2016-17, and now achieved grid parity, with He directed that future company had received an income of Rs 371 crore are key stakeholders in the several sectors, including gen- tribution networks. over 40 crore LED bulbs were rates now well below Rs 4 per reviews should focus on prob- implementation of the Goods eration of renewable energy, The Prime Minister called distributed in the same period. Kilowatt-Hour. lems at the district-level, so from the telecom segment, 29 per cent higher and Services Tax, which is affordable and rural housing, for greater emphasis on etha- The total inter-regional The Prime Minister called that the progress of poorly per- than the year-ago period. The firm is mainly into slated to be rolled out from LED bulbs etc, the statement nol blending, and evolution of transmission capacity has for establishment of some forming districts can be better power transmission business. PTI July 1. PTI said. mechanisms so that farmers been significantly enhanced, model solar cities, where the monitored. PTI BSE Greenex Jaitley hints at sops for local index method Govt forecasts record food to be changed manufacturing in defence from June grains output of 273.38 mt TOKYO: Defence Minister OUR CORRESPONDENT Arun Jaitley has hinted that In the context of defence, Govt is the NEW DELHI: From June Production of Crops incentives are being worked only buyer and, therefore, people will onwards, float-adjusted market NEW DELHI: With the gov- out to encourage domestic man- valuation for a six-month period ernment predicting record Total 2015-16 251.57 ufacturing in the defence sector establish units only if there is a likelihood will be taken into account for foodgrain production in 2016- Foodgrains 2016-17 (3rd advance estimate) 273.38 so as to cut imports of combat of their getting business and, therefore, our deciding the constituents of 17, it seems the production esti- (Record) planes, ships and submarines. S&P BSE Greenex index. The mates would help in containing Major Crops in 2016-17 He said the government is policies have to be tuned to this reality revised methodology would food inflation as well as reduc- working on a policy that will replace the existing practice of ing the import dependency for Rice (Record) 109.15 incentivise companies to set up only after orders are secured. to manufacture a given per- defence has been encouraging. considering the market valu- essential grains. Wheat (Record) 97.44 manufacturing bases in India. "Now, in the context of cent of his product (in terms India is the world's largest ation for a three-month time While releasing the third "We have so far liberalised defence, government is the only of value) in the buying coun- arms importer, spending some frame. The index is operated advance estimates of produc- Coarse Cereals 44.39 (Record) our rules as far as investment buyer and therefore, people will try. This may also be through 1.8% of its GDP on defence. It by Asia Index, an equal ven- tion of major crops for 2016- Maize 26.14 (Record) 3rd advance is concerned... our companies, establish units only if there is a technology transfer. imports about 70%of defence ture between S&P Dow Jones 17, the Agriculture Ministry Pulses 22.40 (Record) estimates, both defence PSUs and private likelihood of they getting busi- "Our policies have to be equipment, a proposition Indices LLC and BSE. has estimated total foodgrain in million sector companies have already ness and therefore, our policies tuned so that we are able to which the government wants to According to the new meth- production in the country at Gram 9.08 tonnes started entering into arrange- have to be tuned to this real- incentivise people that it is change. With its growing global odology, "float-adjusted market 273.38 MT, which is 8.7 per cent ments with international majors ity," he said. Asked if the pol- worthwhile to setup manufac- clout, India -- which has topped capitalisation and value traded up from the previous record Tur 4.60 (Record) with the object of establish- icy under consideration would turing bases in India," he said. the Stockholm International data used for the rebalancing production of 265.04 MT in Urad 2.93(Record) ment of manufacturing units lead to any change in the offset He did not elaborate on the Peace Research Institute's list is based on six-month refer- 2013-14. Oilseeds 32.52 in India," he said. policy, he said there will be no policy in works or whether it of largest defence importers for ence period". The changes will In a major relief, the out- But with government being change. will include tax incentives and the last seven years – is looking be applicable in June when the put of price sensitive pulses has Soyabean 14.01 the only buyer, manufacturing Under defence offset, a for- state support. Jaitley said the at self-reliance in aerospace and rebalancing of the S&P BSE jumped to 22.40 MT, which is 37 Groundnut 7.65 units generally will be set up eign supplier of equipment has response to Make in India in defence industry. PTI Greenex index takes place. PTI per cent increase from previous year. According to foodgrain Castorseed 1.55 production estimates, the Agri- Vijaya Bank Q4 net profit SBI to raise funds via FPO/QIPs; culture Ministry’s revised total Cotton 32.58 (Million bales of 170kg each) estimated foodgrain production Sugarcane 306.03 of 273.38 MT is more than one Source: Ministry of Agriculture KBK Infographics rises 3-fold to `204 crore million tonnes of what it had to appoint 6 merchant bankers estimated in its second advance this year too, the ministry gency measures on time in case NEW DELHI: State-owned Vijaya Bank on estimate in February (271.98 had last month set a target of prediction of normal monsoon Tuesday reported a nearly three-fold jump in NEW DELHI: The country's The issue size may vary exchange filing, the bank said MT). According to an official foodgrain production at 273 goes wrong. Though the IMD net profit to Rs 204 crore for the fourth quarter largest lender SBI on Tuesday based on various factors a general meeting of the share- in the agriculture ministry, the MT for the 2017-18 crop year has predicted normal monsoon ended March 31, 2017. The bank had posted a said it plans to raise funds from including but not limited to holders of SBI will be held on figure of overall foodgrain pro- and expressed confidence of this year, it will be able to come capital markets in the current management discretion and June 15 to elect four Directors duction has been revised on the maintaining farm sector growth out with an update of time and net profit of Rs 71.31 crore in the January-March fiscal but did not specify the the decision of the sharehold- to the Central Board of the basis of the ground report of the rate of over 4 per cent during region-specific distribution of quarter of 2015-16 fiscal, Vijaya Bank said in a amount. ers," SBI said in a public notice. bank. record production of wheat. the period. rainfall early next month. regulatory filing. Total income of the bank rose to State Bank of India, which The bank said it proposes to Meanwhile, the government After witnessing a good The target for next crop year Keeping such uncertain- Rs 3,504.73 crore in the January-March quarter last month merged with itself select and appoint up to 6 mer- will continue to support pub- rainfall during monsoon 2016 (2017-18) was made after the ties in mind, Union Agricul- as against Rs 3,228.48 crore in the year-ago five associate banks and the chant bankers with requisite lic lenders based on require- and several other policy initia- recent prediction of normal and ture Minister Radha Mohan Bharatiya Mahila Bank, will experience who together will ments as was announced by the tives of the government, the well-distributed monsoon rain- Singh had on Monday wrote period. The board of the directors of the company raise funds through follow-on be designated as Book Run- Finance Minister in his Budget ministry had in February esti- fall (during June-September to the chief ministers of states\ have recommended a dividend of Rs 1.50 per public offer/qualified institu- ning Lead Managers (BRLMs). speech, said an official. mated the total foodgrain pro- period) by the India Meteo- UTs for review of the state of share or 15 per cent for 2016-17. For entire 2016- tional placement to expand SBI has already taken board In the Budget 2017- duction at 271.98 MT, which rological Department (IMD). preparedness in managing 17 fiscal, the bank's net profit nearly doubled to business. It has sought appli- approval for raising up to Rs 18 speech on February 1, was 6.94 MT more than the The ministry had, how- weather related contingency, if cations from merchant bankers 15,000 crore through various Finance Minister Arun Jaitley previous record production of ever, on Monday asked states any, in advance so that the pos- Rs 750.45 crore as compared to Rs 381.80 crore for managing the issue. means public offer and over- announced capital infusion of foodgrain of 265.04 MT dur- to review their preparedness sible adverse impact of sub-par in the previous fiscal. PTI "The bank intends to tap seas issuance of shares during Rs 10,000 crore for the current ing 2013-14. for the upcoming kharif season rainfall on the farmers can be capital markets via a QIP/FPO. the current fiscal. In a stock fiscal. PTI Hoping similar monsoon so that they can take contin- mitigated. PV April sales in top gear, grow by 15% in domestic market Auto cos to invest `1 lakh cr to meet NEW DELHI: Passenger vehi- ger vehicle segment during the Motorcycle sales were up 31.4 per cent in its domestic cle sales in India started the new month," SIAM Deputy Director marginally at 10,29,972 units scooter sales at 79,443 units as fiscal 2017-18 in top gear post- General Sugato Sen told report- as against 10,24,895 units a year against 60,455 units sold in April new green norms ing 14.68 per cent growth in ers here. earlier. 2016, becoming the number two NEW DELHI: Indian auto sec- nies is almost Rs 1 lakh crore," April, propelled by robust per- Elaborating further, he said Market leader Hero Moto- player in the category. tor is expected to invest around Society of Indian Automobile formance from market leader the segment saw a push mainly Corp sold 5,21,909 units during Hero MotoCorp dropped to Rs 1 lakh crore for upgrad- Manufacturers (SIAM) Exec- Maruti Suzuki India. due to Maruti growing over 23 April as compared to 5,17,019 third position with sale of 63,746 ing products to meet various utive Director (Technical) K According to data released per cent during the month as in the previous fiscal -- a mar- scooters during the month, as upcoming regulations related K Gandhi told reporters here. by the Society of Indian Auto- supplies commenced from par- ginal increase. compared to 83,506 units in the to emissions, safety and fuel The investment as a whole mobile Manufacturers (SIAM), ent Suzuki's Gujarat plant lead- Honda Motorcycle and same period of last year, down efficiency, according to indus- would go into developing new domestic passenger vehicles ing the firm to also de-congest Scooter India (HMSI) over- 23.66 per cent. try body SIAM. platforms, emission norms, (PV) sales rose to 2,77,602 units production at its other facili- took Bajaj Auto to occupy the Sales of commercial vehicles From October this year, all safety upgrades and fuel effi- in April from 2,42,060 units in ties as well. second spot with bike sales of were down 22.93 per cent to new models will have to meet ciency norms, he added. the same month last year. MSI had received a total 1,83,182 units last month as 41,490 units in April, SIAM said. offset and side crash test norms, "Already investments have Domestic car sales posted of 10,000 units from its parent against 1,50,711 units in the The drop in sales in the seg- which will become manda- started as nobody wants to the biggest monthly growth in Suzuki's Gujarat-based plant in same month of the previous fis- ment during the last month was tory for all models by 2019. By come up with a new BS IV one-and-half years at 17.36 per 2016-17. This fiscal, the com- cal, a growth of 21.54 per cent. biggest since January 2009 when 2018 new models will have to platform, which cannot be cent to 1,90,788 units as against pany expects supply of around Bajaj Auto posted sales sales had declined by around meet pedestrian safety norms upgraded to BS VI," he added. 1,62,566 units in April last year. 1.5 lakh units. of 1,61,930 units as against 67 per cent. while all models will have to The industry will have to The previous highest growth in Despite a bright start to 2,00,433 units in April 2016, "After-effects of demonetisa- meet the criteria by 2020. The develop a whole package meet- the segment was recorded in the new fiscal, SIAM, however down 19.2 per cent. tion still remain in the segment. most important change will be ing safety, emissions and fuel October 2015 when sales grew stuck to its earlier growth fore- cent followed by home- grown wheeler segment, total sales in Scooter sales in April were Besides, there has been a pre- the Bharat Stage VI emission emission regulations, Gandhi by 21.8 per cent. cast of 10-12 per cent for the Mahindra & Mahindra in the April increased by 7.34 per cent at 5,86,886 units compared to buy in the months of February norms that will kick in from said. Besides, various com- Mini segment cars and com- PV segment. Last month, MSI third spot with 19,325 units, to 16,74,796 units compared 4,68,368 units in the previous and March due to the coming April 2020. ponents like advanced after pact sedans led sales growth in continued its domination of down 14.7 per cent. to 15,60,308 units in the year- fiscal, up 25.3 per cent. into force of BS IV emission The first phase of fuel -effi treatment systems which need passenger cars segment during the domestic PV space selling Honda Cars India overtook ago month. Segment leader HMSI norms from April," Sen said. ciency norms has started to be installed in BS VI vehi- the last month. 1,44,081 units at a growth of Tata Motors to take the fourth "In two-wheelers segment, posted sales of 3,68,550 units Vehicle sales across cate- already from this year and the cles will have to be imported "Factors like commissioning 23.10 per cent. spot with 14,480 units, up 38.09 scooters are doing pretty well. during the month as against gories registered an increase second phase will commence initially, he said, adding of new manufacturing plants, Rival Hyundai Motor India per cent, while Tata Motors sold In fact, even in rural areas, 2,63,324 in April 2016, up 39.96 of 6.82 per cent to 20,30,476 in 2022. such devices would require new model launches led to was a distant second with 44,758 14,066 units during the month, people are increasingly going in per cent. Chennai-based TVS units from 19,00,848 units in "The figures which we are to be developed for Indian strong growth in the passen- units at a growth of 5.68 per up 15.01 per cent. In the two- for scooters," Sen said. Motor Co posted a growth of April 2016. PTI getting from member compa- driving conditions. PTI business 13 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 mp Air India to fly to Los Angeles, EESL plans £100 million investment in Britain Stockholm, Nairobi this year NEW DELHI: Power Minis- ter Piyush Goyal will this week formally announce 100 million pounds investment to be made Pushing 'very very by state-run Energy Efficiency Service Ltd (EESL) in the UK. "On May 13, 2017, Piyush hard' for in flight Goyal will launch and extend the EESL's affordable light- ing scheme UJALA (UK Joins wi-fi: Aviation Secy Affordable LEDs for All) to consumers in UK. The Minis- NEW DELHI: The Civil Avi- ter will also formally announce ation Ministry is pushing the EESL s investment of 100 "very very" hard to introduce million pounds in the UK over wi-fi facility on board flights, the next 3 years," Power Minis- a senior official said amid the try statement said. proposal hanging fire for a long He will be visiting Austria time. and the United Kingdom from Indian Electrical and Elec- ness Roundtable on Energy Air passengers would be May 10-13 for an Energy Dia- tronics Manufacturers Associ- organised by Ficci and UK able to use Internet and even logue with both the countries. ation (IEEMA) will also sign a Trade & Investment (UKTI) in make phone calls from flights The EESL investment is Memorandum of Understand- London on May 12. The Minis- once the proposal gets green pushing it very very hard. being made to create space in ing with British Electrotech- ter will also witness the listing NEW DELHI: National car- signal. Second meeting of the CoS the 6.4 billion pounds energy nical & Allied Manufacturers of NTPC s bonds at London rier Air India will launch flights Air India would start its flights to Worldwide, many airlines headed by the Cabinet Secre- efficiency services market and Association (BEAMA). Stock Exchange on the same to three new destinations in Washington from July 7, Stockholm are already offering wi-fi for tary on the subject will be held to implement low-carbon, Goyal will participate in day. NTPC is a fairly regular the US as well as to Stockholm, passengers but they have to shortly," he told PTI in a recent energy efficiency and renew- Investors Meet organised by issuer of Offshore medium- Nairobi and Tel Aviv this year, from August 15 and Los Angeles from switch off the facility once they interview. able energy solutions in both industry body Ficci and Aus- term notes (MTN). The current its CMD Ashwani Lohani said September 1 to be followed by Tel Aviv, enter the Indian airspace. One of the key concerns public and private sectors. trian Federal Economic Cham- issuance is the second Masala on Tuesday. Dallas and Nairobi sometime later While the Ministry has from the security aspect per- The company has already ber (WKO) on Wednesday. Bonds offering by NTPC Making it the fifth non- been pitching for the facility, tains to monitoring data and begun its operation in the UK Further, the Minister will within a 12 months period. stop destination in the United during the year 2017 itself certain issues, including those voice transmission. To permit by acquisition, worth 6.8 mil- deliver key note address at The first Masala Bonds issu- States, a direct service would pertaining to security, have on board wi-fi services, amend- lion pound, of two operating Vienna Energy Forum 2017 on ance in August 2016 was for Rs start to Washington from July ber 1 to be followed by Tel Aviv, ing from certain airports in the been delaying a final decision ments would be required to companies running energy Thursday, after which he will 2,000 crore ($300 million) as is 7, followed by a flight to Los Dallas and Nairobi sometime Middle East and North Africa. on the matter. provisions of Indian Telegraph savings performance agree- be have dialogue with Direc- the current one ($310 million). Angeles from September 1 and later during the year 2017 itself. Citing terror concerns, the The Department of Tele- Act, 1885 and Indian Telegraph ments in education and leisure tor General of UN Industrial Both the Masala Bonds are of 5 then to Dallas. Air India spreads its wings US in March had imposed communications has already Rules. sectors. Development Organisation years tenor. The airline, which is work- far and wide," Lohani said in a restrictions on travellers to moved a proposal for providing Presently, wi-fi services and The acquisition is effected (UNIDO) to explore prospects The latest Masala Bonds ing on ways to revive its for- Facebook post. the US from certain countries in-flight connectivity for voice, phone calls are not allowed on by EPAL, a JV of EESL and of better business opportunities 2017, carry a coupon of 7.25 tunes, would commence Washington would be the in the Middle East and North data as well as video services flights flying over the Indian EnergyPro Limited, an advi- in the energy sector. per cent payable annually with service to the Swedish capital airline's fifth non-stop des- Africa, whereby they are not and the same is before a Com- airspace. Wi-fi facility for fliers sory company specialising in Goyal will also participate reoffer yield of 7.28 per cent Stockholm from August 15. tination in the US after New allowed carry large electronic mittee of Secretaries (CoS). can be provided either through Energy Efficiency. in a Ministerial Panel Discus- (tightest yet by any Indian Air India Chairman and York, Newark, Chicago and devices as cabin baggage. Without providing any ten- air-to-ground technology or Goyal will unveil EPAL s sion on 2030 Development Issuer). The NTPC Masala Managing Director Ashwani San Francisco. The move to As part of expanding its tative time frame for permit- satellite connectivity and the branding during the event. The Agenda for Energy , focusing Bonds would be the 1st MTN Lohani said it would also start fly to more destinations in flights to the US, Air India ting such a facility on board latter will be expensive. EESL will also formalise its col- on the SDG7: Energy Access, and 1st Masala Bonds to list on flights to Tel Aviv (Israel), Nai- the US also comes against the would also be inducting seven flights in the Indian airspace, Globally, some airlines are laboration with Cenergist to Energy Efficiency and Renew- the new International Securi- robi (Kenya) and Dallas (the backdrop of the carrier seeing Boeing 787-9 planes. Civil Aviation Secretary R N also providing on-board wi-fi strengthen its LED pipeline. able Energy. He will also talk ties Market (ISM) US) this year. higher demand on the flights Services to the US account Choubey said the CoS would services free of cost for a stip- EESL will sign three MoUs about International Solar Alli- The Minister will be accom- "To Washington from July to America after the Trump for nearly 20 per cent of the be meeting shortly to discuss ulated time and then the pas- with High Commission of ance and RE Invest on the panied by senior officers of 7, Stockholm from August 15 administration imposed national carrier's total annual the matter. sengers are billed depending India at London, Cenergist occasion. Besides, he will par- the Ministry of Power on the and Los Angeles from Septem- restrictions on flights originat- revenues. PTI "In fact, our ministry is on their use. PTI and Calvin Capital respectively. ticipate in the UK-India Busi- 4-day tour. PTI Daughter Nisaba to fill Kareena to be S Chand trims Dabur Amla IndiGo to buy 50 ATR planes, early gains; ends Adi's shoes at Godrej hair oil face eyes regional aviation market nearly 1% up on NEW DELHI: Homegrown debut trade Consumer Products FMCG major Dabur has roped NEW DELHI: IndiGo plans to in Bollywood actor Kareena purchase 50 ATR turbo-prop Fourth quarter profit dives NEW DELHI: Trimming early NEW DELHI: Veteran indus- Kapoor Khan as the new face of aircraft and start operations gains, shares of textbooks pub- trialist Adi Godrej on Tues- its hair oil brand Dabur Amla. with these planes by year end as lisher S Chand and Company day handed over the baton of She would now appear on the no-frills airline looks to tap by 25% to `440 crore ended nearly 1 per cent higher Godrej Group flagship firm the front label of the 75-year- the regional aviation market. NEW DELHI: over the issue price of Rs 670 Godrej Consumer Products to old brand, which would make This would be the first IndiGo's parent InterGlobe Aviation in its debut trade on Tuesday. his daughter Nisaba, who at 39 it more contemporary, Dabur time that the leading carrier on Tuesday reported a nearly 25 per cent decline After listing at Rs 707, up years is among the youngest India said. would be acquiring ATR 72-600 "Assuming that both the in profit at Rs 440.31 crore in the fourth quarter 5.52 per cent, the stock gave women to head a large-sized "Kareena's vibrant persona, planes, which generally have a intended final purchase agree- ended March 2017 as higher expenses took a toll up most of its initial gains and Indian firm. pan-India appeal and her confi- seating capacity for 70 people. ment are reached, IndiGo plans on its bottom line. The country's largest airline ended at Rs 675.85, a gain of Adi Godrej, 75, will become dent attitude makes her a great While announcing the to launch its turbo-prop oper- 0.87 pr cent on BSE. During the Chairman Emeritus after lead- fit for our brand," Dabur India quarterly results on Tuesday, ation at the end of calendar in terms of market share had a profit after tax of day, it touched a high of Rs 707 ing the company for 17 years DGM - Hair Oils, Rajat Nanda IndiGo said it has signed a term 2017 and expects to induct up Rs 583.78 crore in the same period a year ago. and a low of Rs 658. On NSE, as Nisaba, currently Execu- said. sheet with Avions de Transport to 20 ATR aircraft by December The carrier had revenues from operations to the company's stock went up by tive Director of the company, Actor Kareena Kapoor Regional GIE (ATR) for pur- 2018," the release said. the tune of Rs 4,848.22 crore during the latest 0.89 per cent to settle at Rs 676. assumes the new role of Exec- Khan said, "I am really excited chasing 50 ATR 72-600 aircraft IndiGo President and January-March quarter. In the year-ago period, It commands a market utive Chairperson on May 10, to undertake this new journey with the "flexibility to reduce Whole Time Director Aditya valuation of Rs 2,344.88 crore 2017. Nisaba is the second with them. Hair is very pre- the number of aircraft deliver- Ghosh said that in support the same stood at Rs 4,090.68 crore, according on BSE. On the volume front, among three children of Adi cious for each and every girl ies based on certain conditions". of UDAN mission, "we are to a release. On the back of steep rise in fuel 22.26 lakh shares of the com- Godrej. Eldest daughter Tanya and hence they deserve only The term sheet is subject to embarking on a journey to build costs, the company's total expenses in the fourth pany were traded on BSE and Dubash is Executive Director initiated in 2007 under which the best." reaching a mutually satisfactory a nation-wide regional network quarter of last fiscal jumped nearly 31 per cent to over one crore shares changed and Chief Brand Officer of the GCPL accelerated domestic Dabur Amla Hair Oil, a Rs final purchase agreement with and connect cities that have not Rs 4,523.04 crore. The total expenses stood at Rs hands on NSE during the day. Godrej Group, while young- organic growth through inno- 850 crore brand, is one of the ATR and the engine manufac- benefitted from the growth in The price band for the offer, est son Pirojsha Godrej is the vation and consolidation and largest in Dabur's portfolio. PTI turer, it said in a release. Indian aviation". PTI 3,458.20 crore in the same period a year ago. PTI open from April 26-28, was Executive Chairman of Godrej at the same time went global by set at Rs 660-670 a share. The Properties. investing in emerging markets IPO saw solid investor demand Adi Godrej said he would outside of India. and was oversubscribed 59.49 continue to serve the GCPL During the period, GCPL's As Jio soars, Airtel Q4 net income crashes 72% times. Board. Vivek Gambhir will con- market capitalisation increased The portion for Qualified tinue as Managing Director and 20-fold from Rs 3,000 crore to NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel on December, it extended the free- Institutional Buyers (QIBs) was CEO, GCPL said in a statement. Rs 60,000 crore. Currently, Tuesday registered a sharp 72 For the full financial year 2016-17, bies up to March 2017, much oversubscribed 44.27 times and "The foundations of GCPL almost half of the company's per cent decline in consolidated to the dismay of other opera- that of non- institutional inves- are extremely strong. This is an revenue comes from overseas net income at Rs 373.4 crore net income fell by 37.5% to tors which alleged that such tors a staggering 204.65 times. opportune time to transition to a markets. In the fiscal ended for the fourth quarter ended `3,799.7 crore while revenue was offerings not only hit their prof- Retail investors category new Chairperson, who will lead March 31, 2017, GCPL posted March 2017, hit by "sustained itability but were against the was also oversubscribed 6.07 the company in its next phase of total income from operations of predatory pricing" by newcomer lower by 1.1% at `95,468.4 crore regulations. times. JM Financial Institu- growth," Adi Godrej said. Rs 9,608.08 crore as compared Reliance Jio. compared to the previous fiscal Even after the launch of its tional Securities, Axis Capital GCPL is the flagship firm of to Rs 8,753.06 crore in 2015-16. Net income stood at Rs paid services post March, Jio and Credit Suisse Securities the diversified Godrej Group Nisaba has also been cred- 1,319 crore in the same period ments had to be made just to years," he said. continues to be aggressive, offer- (India) Pvt were the merchant which has presence in consumer ited with institutionalising a year ago. Total revenue fell 12 a row. The telecom industry as a carry the incoming traffic on For the full year 2016-17, ing data at rock-bottom prices bankers to the offer. Last year, goods, real estate, appliances, design-driven thinking in the per cent to Rs 21,934.6 crore, whole also witnessed a revenue our network". net income fell 37.5 per cent while voice calls are free. the company had acquired and agriculture sectors, among company and she directly leads from Rs 24,959.6 crore in the decline for the first time ever on "The net result of this was to Rs 3,799.7 crore while reve- The telecom industry, which 74 per cent of the outstand- others. In the last decade, Nisaba product development. She has same period last fiscal. a full-year basis," Bharti Airtel a revenue decline of 7.1 per nue was lower by 1.1 per cent at owes close to Rs 4.60 lakh crore ing share capital of Chhaya has played key role in GCPL's also been hands on in identi- The earnings numbers came MD and CEO (India and South cent in the fourth quarter even Rs 95,468.4 crore compared to to various financial institutions Prakashani Pvt. strategy and transformation and fying and developing in-house in after market hours. Asia) Gopal Vittal said. as Ebitda margins got eroded the previous fiscal. Reliance Jio, and banks, has alleged that the The company offers 53 con- has served on the GCPL Board talent for the group with an "The sustained predatory Pointing towards the "tsu- by 2.9 per cent. 2016-17 saw a backed by India's richest man predatory pricing by the new sumer brands across knowledge of Directors since 2011. oversight of the Group HR func- pricing by the new operator nami" of incoming voice traf- muted top line growth of 3.6 per Mukesh Ambani, had launched operator continues to hurt, products and services, includ- She was the brain behind tion for Godrej Industries and has led to a decline in revenue fic from the "new operator", cent as against the double-digit its inaugural free voice and data besides impacting the finan- ing S Chand, Vikas, Madhubun, the company's Project Leapfrog associate companies. PTI growth for the second quarter in Vittal said "significant invest- growth witnessed in preceding plan in September last year. In cial health of the sector. PTI Saraswati and Ignitor. PTI CORPORATE KALEIDOSCOPE Discovery to launch its first Hindi entertainment channel NEW DELHI: Broadcasting firm Discovery Communications on Tuesday said it will launch its first Hindi entertainment chan- nel 'Discovery JEET' in India later this year. Discovery is scaling up investment in over 200 hours of local content originals which will premiere on this new channel, Discovery Communications said. Commenting on the development, Discov- ery Networks Asia Pacific President and MD Arthur Bastings said: The expansion into general entertainment with JEET redefines how Dis- covery will connect and interact with new young Office of the Service Tax Delhi-I Commissionerate, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance (CBEC) audiences across the heartlands of India. The conducted a “School Awareness” programme on May 9, 2017 in Modern School, Barakhamba Road for Oil India Limited, India’s second largest National Exploration & Production Company has recently bagged new channel would be available for audiences in imparting knowledge about the rationale of taxes and their role in nation building, thereby helping them the Golden Peacock National Training Award 2017 and Golden Globe Tigers Award 2017 for industry the metros, tier II and tier III cities. PTI to become responsible citizens of the future excellence in Training 14 sport mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 10 May, 2017

JHULAN GOSWAMI BECOMES THE LEADING YUKI, BALAJI ADVANCE; RAMKUMAR BOWS BRAZIL ARE WORLD CUP FAVOURITES: BIELSA WICKET-TAKER IN WOMEN’S ODIS OUT OF KARSHI CHALLENGER RIO DE JANEIRO: Former Argentina and Chile manager Marcelo Bielsa has declared Brazil favourites to win next year’s NEW DELHI: Former Indian women’s cricket captain Jhulan Go- KARSHI: Davis Cuppers Yuki Bhambri and N Sriram Balaji World Cup in Russia. Brazil have won eight World Cup quali- swami has become the leading wicket-taker in Women’s ODIs advanced to the second round of the USD 75,000 Karshi Chal- fiers in a row and became the first team to qualify for football’s going past Australian Cathryn Fitzpatrick record of 180 wickets lenger but other Indians in the fray stumbled at the first round showpiece tournament - other than the host nation - after a 3-0 on Tuesday. Goswami took 3 wickets against South Africa dur- itself, here. Yuki ended the campaign of compatriot Prajnesh defeat of Paraguay in March. “As an Argentinian, I don’t want ing the ongoing Women’s Quadrangular Series in South Africa Gunneswaran with a 6-4 6-2 win in an all-Indian first round Brazil to win, but they are going in that direction,” Bielsa said. taking her career tally of wickets to 181 in 153 matches . contest at the hard-court event. Feeling Blue: Chelsea on brink of title as Boro sink LONDON: Cesc Fabregas record in the Premier League diately set about laying waste a shot between Guzan’s legs for sparkled as Chelsea moved to era. to Middlesbrough’s defensive his 20th goal of the campaign. within touching distance of the Boro return to the Cham- plans with a succession of accu- Chelsea’s second goal, in the Premier League title and con- pionship after one season back rate, strafing passes. 34th minute, sprang from simi- demned Middlesbrough to rel- among the elite, joining Sun- He seemed particularly lar circumstances, instigated egation with a breezy 3-0 home derland in sinking into the sec- taken by the space behind Boro by Cesar Azpilicueta’s prob- win. ond tier just as fellow northeast right back Fabio da Silva. ing pass from the inside-right Fabregas made sure Chel- side Newcastle United are cel- Alonso twice received channel. sea capitalised on Tottenham ebrating their return to the top passes from his countryman in From a prohibitive angle at Hotspur’s 1-0 defeat at West level. that area in the early stages, see- the back post, Alonso drilled Ham United on Friday by set- “I’ve just come away from ing a half-volley pushed onto a shot towards goal and saw ting up goals for Diego Costa a silent dressing room,” Boro the bar by Boro goalkeeper the ball ricochet of Guzan’s left and Nemanja Matic, with Mar- manager Steve Agnew told Sky Brad Guzan and then drilling thigh and bounce into the net. cos Alonso also finding the net Sports. a dangerous cross across goal. Fabregas was at it again on Monday. “It’s a terrific club and it’s Fabregas side-footed wide shortly after with a raking pass It left Chelsea seven points about how we reflect over the from an Eden Hazard cut- that freed Victor Moses, whose clear of Spurs at the sum- summer. We need to make back and Costa came within shot obliged Guzan to save with mit and means they will be sure Boro bounce back very inches of bundling in Hazard’s his legs. crowned champions for the quickly.” low cross before the hosts went Boro’s bus had been delayed second time in three seasons Chelsea were missing ahead in the 23rd minute, with on its way to the ground, but if they win at West Bromwich N’Golo Kante -- named the Fabregas inevitably the source. to their dismay, there was little Albion on Friday. Football Writers’ Association Fabio, stretching, man- slow-moving traffic to be found “At this stage it was impor- Footballer of the Year earlier aged to get his right foot to inside Stamford Bridge. tant to win and exploit Tot- Chelsea’s Marcos Alonso scores a goal past Middlesbrough’s Goalkeeper Brad Guzan during the English Premier League match between Chelsea in the day -- due to a thigh the former Barcelona mid- Chelsea resumed their tenham’s defeat,” said Chelsea injury, but the Frenchman’s fielder’s chipped pass, but suc- assault on the visitors’ goal in and Middlesbrough at Stamford Bridge stadium in London PIC/AP/PTI manager Antonio Conte. absence was to prove a bless- ceeded only in hooking the ball the second half, Pedro grazing “Now, another step to the must try in the next game to take maximum points at The egated Sunderland mean Con- Fabregas has now assisted ing in disguise. straight at Costa. the bar from Hazard’s lay-off title. We have to rest well and become champions.” Hawthorns, subsequent home te’s side have plenty of margin 10 or more goals in six different It brought Fabregas into the The Spain international and Azpilicueta pinging a shot prepare for West Brom. We Should Chelsea fail to games against Watford and rel- for error. English top-flight seasons — a team and the Spaniard imme- cushioned the ball and tucked narrowly over. AGENCIES Mamata hails Bouchard beats fallen idol Sharapova in Madrid Jhulan’s IPL Preview: MADRID: Eugenie Bouchard matched her fighting talk with achievement Lions, DD left to some thrilling tennis to shock Maria Sharapova 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief in the second round of the Minister Mamata Banerjee on Madrid Open. Tuesday congratulated India play for pride Bouchard called Sharapova pacer Jhulan Goswami for “a cheater” last week and was becoming the leading wicket- also critical of the Russian’s wel- taker in women’s ODI. come back to the sport after Goswami, who hails a 15-month doping ban with from Nadia district in Ben- a series of wildcards for big gal, has surpassed Austra- events. lian Cathryn Fitzpatrick to The world number 60 become the leading wicket- admitted she was extra moti- taker in Women’s ODI cricket, vated to face her former idol taking her haul to 181 wickets and it showed as she showed from 153 outings. “Congratu- (Left) Eugenie Bouchard celebrates after defeating Maria Sharapova. signs of the form she has lost lations to Jhulan Goswami for over the past few years since Bouchard shakes hands with Sharapova PIC/AP/PTI becoming the top wicket taker reaching the Wimbledon final Kerber has had an inconsis- 6-3, 6-3 by Latvia’s Anastasija in Women’s ODIs #cricket We in 2014 in a bruising near tent season and her fragile form Sevastova. are proud of you,” Mamata three-hour contest. was on show in the course of In the men’s Madrid Mas- tweeted. Bouchard battled back from the first two sets. ters there were comfortable 4-2 down to claim a topsy- game from 2-2 to level at one The Canadian jumped for The German romped wins for Thomas Berdych, turvy first set and she edged set all. joy after delivering the final through the opening set in 27 Grigor Dimitrov and Nick The last time the two sides met, Rishabh Pant and Sanju Samson a marathon 11th game before Both players struggled to blow before the two exchanged minutes but then had to save Kygios. guided Delhi to a seven wicket win serving it out for just her sec- hold serve in the deciding set as a very frosty handshake at the six break points for her only However, 15th seed Gael KANPUR: Their campaign tournament. ond set in five meetings with a total of 14 break points were net. game in the second. Monfils bowed out in a wild done and dusted after being The last time both this Sharapova. squandered. Bouchard will face top seed Siniakova served for the match against French com- knocked out of the play-off teams faced each other, it was However, adversity brought However, Bouchard held Angelique Kerber, who fought match at 5-4 in the deciding patriot Gilles Simon 0-6, race, Gujarat Lions and Delhi the Daredevils who had the last out the best in the five-time her nerve when serving for the back from 5-3 down in the set, but Kerber should impres- 6-0, 7-6 (7/0). Andy Murray Daredevils will look to salvage laugh when they beat Gujarat Grand Slam champion as match at 5-4 as she saw off two deciding set to overcome Kat- sive fight to win the last four begins his quest for a third The 34-year-old former pride when they clash in the by seven wickets at home. Sharapova found the precision break points and an unfortu- erina Siniakova 6-2, 1-6, 7-5 games. title in Madrid on Wednes- captain took three wickets Indian Premier League here on It was a special innings by to match her power in the sec- nate let cord on her first match earlier on Monday, in the third World number three Karo- day when he faces Romanian against hosts South Africa Wednesday. young Rishab Pant, who had ond set, reeling off four straight point. round. lina Pliskova was dumped out Marius Copil. AGENCIES during the ongoing Women’s With eight points from blown away the Lions with a Quadrangular Series to achieve 11 games, Delhi had held on 43-ball 97 to script one of the the landmark. a faint hope of qualifying for best chases in IPL history. Need panels like SAIL Archery Cadets to represent India in int’l meet With 271 International the play-off but once Sunrisers Sanju Samson, who blasted wickets (Tests, ODIs and Hyderabad defeated Mumbai a 61 off 31 balls, has been Lodha Committee NEW DELHI: Two ranking cadets were in fray. T20I), Goswami, who was Indians to move into 15 points, their best batsmen with 374 cadets of SAIL Eklavya Both the cadets have once the fastest bowler in it was all over for Zaheer Khan’s runs but rest of the batsmen for NSFs, says Archery Academy, Indra- been forked out on the basis women’s cricket, has been men. With four wins and seven have failed to make much of a chand Swami and Nomula of their commendable per- the mainstay of India women losses, Delhi have been hugely contribution. Lavanya have been selected formance in Selection Trial bowling unit since her debut inconsistent this season. The Gujarat, on the other hand, Sushil Kumar to represent India in the held at New Delhi dur- in 2002. 2012 semifinalists had con- have been dealing with injuries International Archery ing April 15-17. Along with Goswami is also the all- jured hopes of making it to the as their most successful bowl- NEW DELHI: India’s great- Championship. Indrachand and Lavanya, time leading wicket-taker in knockout stage after pulling off ers Andrew Tye had to leave est ever Olympian Sushil After a tough competition two more archers, Sne- women’s cricket. After win- sensational wins over Sunrisers at a crucial juncture and now Kumar strongly feels that pan- among 39 well seeded archers hal Divaker and Kamal ning the ICC Women’s Crick- and Gujarat at Kotla. opener Brendon McCullum els similar to one headed by from all over the country Ind- Kishore of SAIL Archery eter of the Year 2007 she But their inexplicable capit- have also been sidelined due Justice RM Lodha to clean up rachand wrests the 3rd posi- Academy took part in the captained India. She was con- ulation in their last home game to a hamstring strain. the BCCI mess, is required to tion and has been selected selection trial. In 2016 Ind- ferred with the Arjuna Award against Mumbai, who bundled Seamer Basil Thampi bring in more accountability for the 4-member men team rachand won Gold Medal in in 2010, and the Padma Shri them out for a mere 66 while have carried the bowling on and transparency in function- in Modern Recurve category. ASIA Cup Stage -1 and Bronze two years later. chasing 213 to win, broke a lot his shoulder with 10 wick- ing of National Sports Federa- The team will represent India Medal in Asia Cup Stage -2. N Goswami is no of hearts. ets, while their celebrated all- tions (NSF). in the World Cup Stage-1, Lavanya also participated in mug with the bat Gujarat too have been rounder Ravindra Jadeja has “I don’t mind if we have a World Cup Stage-2 Archery World Cup Stage-1 in March as well and averages 25.72 in hurt by their lack of depth in been offcolour. Lodha Panel for all National Championship going to held In Modern Recurve cat- stage-3 to be held at Salt Lake 2015. Their coach Rajen- Tests and has two fifties to her bowling and they are now at Skipper Suresh Raina Sports Federation (NSFs). It at Shanghai [China] from egory for women N Lavanya City [USA] from June 20 - 25 dra Guiya and Kalapna Guiya name. the sixth spot with four wins has scored bulk of the runs will only help increase the May 16 - 21 and Antalya has been selected for the this year. toiled hard to hone their In ODIs, the Bengal- and eight losses. For the two for his team while Dinesh accountability and transpar- [Turkey] from June 6 - 11 this women team to represent The selection competition skill to the highest level for born girl has 919 runs to teams now, it would be a bat- Karthik too has contributed ency of the associations. The year respectively. country in the World Cup was tough as country’s 21 top the competition. MPOST her name. AGENCIES tle for not finishing last in the significantly. AGENCIES coaches need to be account- able. We are in need of quali- fied coaches,” Sushil said during Specialised training for a Sports Conclave organised by No World Series of Boxing for Vikas, Boxing Federation the Railways Sports Promotion World C’ships-bound boxers Board (RSPB). In fact RSPB secretary Rekha NEW DELHI: The seven allists, Kavinder Singh Bisht of India disciplinary panel to seek explanation Yadav, who has represented the Indian boxers, who have qual- (52kg), Manoj Kumar (69kg) institutional unit during var- ified for the World Champi- and Satish Kumar (+91kg) ious BCCI meetings, agreed onships, will be put through qualified for the world event NEW DELHI: Indian boxer that cricket board’s impressive “specialised” training to pre- after winning their respective Vikas Krishan, who forfeited Vikas, a former World Championships infrastructure is pretty much pare them for the August- Sep- box-offs. his semi-final bout in the bronze-medallist and an Asian in place. “Much maligned that tember showpiece, focussing “The national camp will go Asian Championships, won’t the BCCI is, one has to admit primarily on strength and ahead as usual but their would be allowed to compete in the Games gold-winner, had given a that they have put in a nice sys- endurance. be special focus on these seven World Series of Boxing and will walkover to Korean Lee Dongyun in tem in place,” RSPB secretary Indian boxers came up with to prepare them for the World have to explain his no-show to said during a panel discussion. a reasonably strong show at the Championships. These seven a disciplinary committee of the the middleweight (75kg) semifinals in India won three medals at the continental showpiece in Tash- boxers would be put through national federation. Tashkent, Uzbekistan last week 2008 Olympics and doubled its kent, notching up four med- rigorous training to improve Vikas, a former World tally in the 2012 edition but the als to go with the seven world their endurance and stamina,” Championships bronze-med- two-time medallist feels that the championship berths. Boxing Federation of India allist and an Asian Games gold- we have to find out if it is genu- team, which returned to the nation couldn’t cash in on the The World Champion- president Ajay Singh said. winner, had given a walkover ine,” Singh said. country in the wee hours on glass ceiling that was broken ships is scheduled to be held “The coaches will chalk to Korean Lee Dongyun in the Vikas was to turn up for the Tuesday. after Abhinav Bindra’s first indi- from August 25 in Hamburg, out a strategy to ensure that middleweight (75kg) semifi- British Lionhearts in a WSB “If he wants to meet me, vidual gold medal and his own Germany. they peak at the right time,” he nals in Tashkent, Uzbekistan encounter scheduled for May he is welcome to come over. bronze. “I think we couldn’t cash While Shiva Thapa (60kg) added. last week. 11. His semifinal bout at the I will speak to him but he in on our performance in Bei- and Sumit Sangwan (91kg) Set to be given a seven- The reasons for his deci- Asian meet was to be held on will certainly have to explain jing Olympics. Although we got claimed silver medals, Amit day break after a hectic four sion were not known at the May 6. his actions. A certain disci- six medals in London, we didn’t Phangal (49kg) and Vikas months of training and com- time of the forfeiture and Box- into the matter. committee of BFI will seek The Haryana-pugi- pline needs to be maintained. improve as a sporting nation. Krishan (75kg) fetched bronze petition, the boxers will reas- ing Federation of India (BFI) “He is certainly not going an explanation from him on list was conspicuous by his The disciplinary committee The planning and preparation medals at the Asian meet. semble for the national camp President Ajay Singh today to compete in the World Series the matter. He has apparently absence in a breakfast hosted will decide the next course of left a lot to be desired.” AGENCIES Apart from the four med- later this month. AGENCIES said there would be an enquiry of Boxing. Plus a disciplinary claimed that he was injured but by the BFI President for the action,” Singh said. AGENCIES sport 15 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 mp MoU not FEDERATION CUP binding, BCCI Maxwell’s quickfire 44 take tells PCB Robin’s

KARACHI: The BCCI has rejected the PCB demand for KXIP to 167/6 against KKR birthday brace compensation for not honour- ing the MoU signed between MOHALI: Captain Glenn Maxwell came out and he them saying that it was not Mexwell hit a quickfire 25-ball did not do much initially, scor- boosts EB binding. 44 as Kings XI Punjab scored ing ones and two from his first The Pakistan Cricket 167 for 6 in their IPL match nine balls he faced before tak- Board Chairman Shaharyar against Kolkata Knight Riders ing his chances. He hit two Khan confirmed on Tues- here on Tuesday. consecutive sixes off de Grand- day that they have received a Needing to win to stay homme in the 12th over. response from the BCCI on the afloat in the tournament, There was comparative lull notice sent to BCCI last week Kings XI made a wobbling for a couple of overs before demanding USD 6.4 million start after they were being put Maxwell cut loose with two as compensation for not play- into bat but made a late recov- consecutive sixes off Kuldeep ing with Pakistan in bilateral ery to put up a respectable total Yadav in the 16th over. But the series as outlined in the MoU. at the PCA Stadium here. same over, Maxwell was sent “We have a got a reply From 63 for 3 at the half- packing with Woakes taking a from BCCI and they have way mark, Kings XI took 104 superb catch near the bound- raised some points. One of runs from the final 10 overs. ary running from long-off. CUTTACK: Robin Singh struck Robin from the front and Wed- them is they don’t consider Kings XI lost wickets at Maxwell hit one four and twice to help East Bengal defeat son Anselme from the wing. the MOU a binding legal regular intervals as they failed four sixes in his 25-ball 44. Chennai City FC 2-0 to register Chennai recouped from agreement between the two to stitch any big partnership. After the captain’s depar- their first win in the 38th Fed- soaking pressure and with Boards. Secondly, they have Their highest partnership was ture, Wriddhiman Saha was eration Cup football tournament Soundarajan’s team committing pointed out that permis- the 61 for the fourth wicket stumped while chasing a wide here on Tuesday. in midfield, East Bengal were sion of government is neces- between Maxwell and Wrid- ball while Swapnil Singh (2) Chennai City FC slumped to kept at bay. Entwined in a battle sary for any Indo-Pak series dhiman Saha (38). was out while going for a big their second defeat of the tour- of possession, with neither side and since their government is Maxwell, Saha and Manan shot. nament and find themselves at dominating the match, it took a not giving them permission, Vohra (25) got the starts but For KKR, Woakes (2/20) the bottom of the table. mistake from Chennai City FC Umesh Yadav of Kolkata Knight Riders during the IPL match against Kings XI Punjab in Mohali they can’t play with us,” Shaha- could not convert them to big PIC/PTI and Kuldeep Yadav (2/34) Robin scored in the added to open the goal gates. ryar said. scores. in the fifth over with his short 41 for 2 then. straight drive, before he was were the most successful bowl- time of the first half and in the Robin capitalised on a Khan said the BCCI had Opener Vohra looked delivery kissing the batsman’s The home side were 42 for out at Kings XI score of 56 ers while Umesh Yadav and 76th minute to guide East Ben- sloppy clearance from the also raised the issue of secu- promising with a couple of gloves for Robin Uthappa to 2 after the powerplay overs and for 3. Marsh fell to a gem of a Narine got one apiece. gal to a hard-earned win. East Chennai City FC defence and rity problems in Pakistan fours off Sunil Narine at the do the rest behind the stumps. they were further in trouble as delivery off Chris Woakes. It Brief Scores Bengal pressed for an early goal scored from inside the box to which is why it couldn t tour start of the innings. He then Next over, Martin Guptill Shaun Marsh (11) departed was a full and straight deliv- Kolkata Knight Riders vs and almost took the lead in the give East Bengal the lead going the country. hit two more boundaries off fell LBW to Narine as the bats- after a promising start. The ery and Marsh played the line Kings XI Punjab: sixth minute when Narayan Das’ into half-time. The PCB chief insisted that Umesh Yadav to up the ante. man missed the delivery while Australian played two delec- only to see it seam back in late KXIP: 167/6 (Glenn Maxwell header was cleared off the lines Chennai City looked more the MoU was a proper con- But Yadav had the last trying to sweep over backward table shots off Colin de Grand- to beat the inside edge before 44, Wriddhiman Saha 38). after Karanjit Singh had come comfortable on the ball once tract signed in 2014 as India laugh as he dismissed Vohra square leg and Kings XI were homme, including a glorious crashing into off stump. KKR: Woakes (2/20). AGENCIES out of the line to punch clear a the second half kicked-off and had sought support for the Big dangerous cross. Seven minutes attacked with fluidity. Three governance and financial later, Karanjit was in the thick In the 53rd minute, model system. Goenka rejects rumours of of action again as he parried Debabrata Roy’s free kick rat- “The MoU was signed with Star Sakshi to lead Indian Robin’s left-footed shot from 25 tled the crossbar. the knowledge of the ICC. We buying stakes in Rajasthan Royals yards. Clear goal-scoring chances will send them another let- The Red-and-Gold brigade became rare for both teams as ter and if they don t respond KOLKATA: Rising Pune Supergiant owner San- challenge at Asian C’ships turned on the style and piled both sides trod with caution. The positively to our compensa- jiv Goenka rubbished speculations that he has pressure on the Chennai defence play became largely confined to tion demand or to play series NEW DELHI: Rio Olympics Indian to have won a yellow which will conclude on May line, courtesy of attacks led by the midfield. AGENCIES then we have completed already bought stakes in Rajasthan Royals after bronze-medallist Sakshi Malik metal there. 14. our homework to take the IPL orgainsers made it clear that his side and will be the star attraction and This is the first major While all eyes would be on our case to the ICC Gujarat Lions will not get extensions for the 2018 spearhead the Indian chal- competition for the Indian Sakshi, she may find it a bit disputes resolution committee,” season. The Kolkata-based industrialist, however, lenge at the Asian Wrestling wrestlers this year and tough against some of Asia’s he added. did not rule out such a possibility. “What kind Championship, starting here the country will field best grapplers in women’s “Let me clear that the PCB’s on Wednesday. a strong 24- member team 58kg freestyle category as this case is strong and we will go of a statement is that. The answer is ‘no’,” was In the absence of some of for the Championship with is her first major outing after to the last stage to win at the Goenka’s reply when asked about the speculation. the leading grapplers such as eight each in freestyle, the Rio Games. AGENCIES

ICC level since it is our right Asked if it’s a possibility next season, Goenka, who Yogeshwar Dutt, Sushil Kumar women and Greco-Roman millenniumpost.in to demand justice.” co- owns Atletico de Kolkata in the Indian Super and the famous Phogat sisters categories. millenniumpo NO H ALFst TR U THS He also insisted that League, said: “Maybe.” IPL chairman Rajeev -- Geeta and Babita -- the onus During the competition, there was no clause in MoU will be on the likes of Sakshi, 112 freestyle, 103 Greco- LOST & FOUND about seeking government Shukla has said that Pune and Gujarat will have Olympian Sandeep Tomar and Roman and 83 female wres- clearance and as it was it to go through a proper fresh bidding process to Bajrang Punia to help India tlers will be vying for 24 I UTTAM SINGH S/o was India s responsibility to play in next year’s IPL Chennai Super Kings and improve on its last year’s per- gold and silver along with 48 Harbans Singh, T-7 INA get permission from their Rajasthan Royals, who were banned in 2015 after formance at the showpiece bronze medals. Market, New Delhi have government and not the head- serving a two-year suspension period for 2013 event. Some of the top grap- lost Original documents ache of the PCB. India had bagged a total plers from Iran, Uzbekistan, spot-fixing will feature in 2018 edition of the IPL. of property Shop No. T-7, “We even were willing to go of nine medals including a Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, INA Market, New Delhi-23 and play at any neutral venue Indian tennis great Mahesh Bhupathi, who was gold, three silver and five Japan, Korea, China and so where does this security seated next, came in Goenka’s defence “He owns bronze when the tournament Mongolia, besides India will under the name and style of M/s Papu Auto. If any issue crop up. India has played another team. Why are you putting him in a posi- was held in Bangkok, Thai- be fighting for top honours at international bilateral matches land last year. Sandeep (mens’ the KD Jadhav wrestling arena body find pl contact Mob. tion like this in front of the media?” AGENCIES at neutral venues.” AGENCIES 57kg freestyle) was the lone at the five-day long event, 9210113935 FIBA revises earlier rule banning headgears

MUMBAI: World basket- match at the FIBA Asia Cup with a few conditions, accord- ered speed on social media, ball governing body FIBA has in Wuhan, China, in 2014, was ing to BFI. as #LetSikhsPlay and #FIBAAl- revised its earlier rule banning taken at the FIBA s first Mid- Three years ago FIBA relied lowHijab began to trend. Sev- players from wearing headgear, Term Congress on May 4, said on Rule 4.4.2 of the Official Bas- eral change.org petitions a move that will enable India’s a release from the Basketball ketball Rules 2014, as approved calling for a rule change gar- Sikh players to wear turbans Federation of India. by the FIBA Central Board, to nered hundreds of thousands of and play in the upcoming FIBA The FIBA Congress, con- outlaw the use of turbans on signatures, BFI said. Basketball World Cup 2019 stituted by representatives the ground that the rule explic- The decision to ban head- Qualifiers in China. from 139 National Federa- itly states that the use of “head- gear was also criticized by play- The decision to over- tions, unanimously ratified gear, hair accessories, and ers from the Islamic and Jewish turn the controversial earlier the FIBA Central Board’s jewellery” is not permitted, community, because it meant rule that forced India’s Sikh decision to allow players to BFI said. that they would not be allowed players - Amjyot and Amr- wear headgear , a term that The decision evoked to wear hijabs or yarmulkes itpal Singh - to remove their is intended to include tur- a strong public reaction while taking the court, accord- turbans before the opening bans, hijabs and kippah, across the world, gath- ing to BFI. AGENCIES Real Madrid skipper Ramos slams Atletico Madrid’s comeback campaign

MADRID: Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos on Tuesday responded to Atletico Madrid’s motivational campaign on Twitter, which promotes a comeback in the second leg of the Champions League semifinals at the Vicente Calderon, after Real Madrid won the first leg 3-0 at home. Ramos highlighted in a pre-match presser that he was bewildered by Atlet- ico’s campaign, which hints, accord- ing to the defender, that the only players capable of sacrifice and exert- ing effort are the Rojiblancos, reports Efe. “There’s a perception that all of us (at Real Madrid) were born in Beverly Hills,” Ramos said, insisting that Los Blancos have values too and are capable of hard work. “The campaigns, the tweets and all the things that (Atletico) want to generate are respectable, but it doesn’t change anything for us. We will continue with humility,” he added. Ramos recalled the “electric” atmo- sphere at the Santiago Benabeu stadium in the first leg, and said that playing away from home will not affect his teammates, who will focus only on providing a good performance, disregarding other dis- tracting factors. Atletico Madrid will host neighbours Real Madrid in the second leg of the Cham- pions League semifinals in hopes of mak- ing a historical comeback after Cristiano Ronaldo demolished Atletico’s goal with D.G.I.P.R.2017/2018/477 a hat-trick in the first leg. AGENCIES 16 mp Entertainment MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 10 May, 2017

NEW DELHI: Meri Pyaari Bindu is being touted as her second stint in Bollywood but actor Parineeti Chopra says she was never really away from films. The 28-year-old actor, whose last Bollywood out- ing was 2014 film Kill Dill, says her break from the big screen was well-planned. “It was not that I had gone anywhere. It is just that I wanted to build a house and I wanted to work ‘TAKING on my fitness. I had six back-to-back releases so I needed sometime off and that is what I did. I genu- inely had so many other things to do that there was no time to shoot a film,” Parineeti said. The actor says her time away from films gave her a new per- A BREAK IS spective and it is something that she would recom- mend to every artiste. “I really feel an artiste should take a break to grow. It helps you to be a little reflective. It makes you understand yourself better.” ESSENTIAL FOR Parineeti says she is motivated and feels she is doing the “best work” of her career. “I believe it is all because of the time I took off from films,” she says. She also believes that she has matured as a performer and understands the intricacies of act- ing better now. “I am much more comfortable as an actor now. I understand the technicalities bet- ter. You have to keep learning every day as films are evolving everyday. But definitely I am more at ease GROWTH’ and know myself a little better as a performer,” she says. For Parineeti, box office success matters a lot Parineeti says she is motivated and feels as it is a sign that the audience have liked the film. “Success and failure do bother me. We don’t she is doing the “best work” of her career make films for ourselves, we make it for the audi- ence. We do want our films to work and want because she took a well-planned break people to get entertained by us. It is very important for me as an artiste.” Meri Pyaari Bindu is directed from films after her 2014 filmKill Dill by debutante Akshay Roy. Parineeti says she had a great time on the sets as only a fresh mind like him could have done justice to the story. “Working with Akshay was wonderful. I met him after signing the film. He is very confident. I thought he had the heart and the personality to After make this film in a right way.” The actor says she decided to do the film as she found the story “cool” and felt people will enjoy watching it. Dangal, I The Yash Raj Films project is produced by Maneesh Sharma and also stars Ayushmann Khurrana. The movie is set to hit the theatres this was back to Friday. PTI square one: Fatima

NEW DELHI: She savoured over- night popularity and visibility as wrestler Geeta Phogat in Dangal, but actor Fatima Sana Shaikh says she had to start from scratch when it came to landing a role in Thugs of Akshay discusses Hindostan, a Yash Raj Films (YRF) production starring Amitabh Bach- chan and Aamir Khan. “It feels unreal,” Fatima gushed with excite- Toilet: Ek Prem Katha ment on getting to play a YRF hero- ine so early in her career. “It is a huge project and with one of the best production houses. with PM Modi And plus there’s Amitabh sir and AK (Aamir). I feel very fortunate,” added NEW DELHI: National the actor, who feels this new oppor- Award winning actor Akshay tunity is “god-sent”. She admits Kumar on Tuesday put a nothing came without her share of smile on Prime Minister struggle – even though she has been Narendra Modi’s face with working with the best of talent since Jimmy Kimmel responds to the title of his next film Toi- childhood. She played the baby girl let: Ek Prem Katha. Akshay Bharti in Chachi 420 with Kamal met Modi here. Garima Wahal said that the toilets in every home for bet- Haasan, and then in Dangal, she criticism of health care views He tweeted, “Met PM movie was conceptualised ter health and sanitation. had Aamir play her onscreen father. Narendra Modi and got much before Modi became Directed by Shree Nara- Thugs of Hindostan gets bigger LOS ANGELES: After mak- Republicans in Congress had the opportunity to tell him the PM. The movie delves on yan Singh, co-produced with Amitabh and Aamir sharing ing headlines with a healthcare second thoughts about repeal about my upcoming ‘Toilet- the need for toilets for san- by Akshay Kumar and screen space for the first time. And argument that he sparked fol- and replace, they realised that Ek Prem Katha’. His smile at itation in the country, and Neeraj Pandey, the film will for Fatima, getting the film was “as lowing his newborn son’s open- what is right is right – and I just the title made my day,” engrossed in conversation Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhi- this message is conveyed via star Akshay Kumar and difficult” as getting Dangal. “Chachi heart surgery, popular TV saved health insurance in the the actor wrote along with with Modi. It was earlier said yan. But the film’s dialogue a love story. Modi has been Bhumi Pednekar in the lead 420 happened when I was a child, host Jimmy Kimmel returned United States of America! Oh, a photograph featuring him that the film was based on writers Siddharth Singh and campaigning for the need for roles. IANS and then I had to struggle again, to ‘The Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ I didn’t? I didn’t save it? They I gave so many auditions. All this and responded to the criticism voted against it anyway? I really has come to me, but it came to me that came his way. Along with need to pay more attention to with a lot of effort... The struggle providing an update about his the news.” He also mentioned Channing reveals his ‘highest hope’ for daughter never ends. son’s health, he responded to the online backlash he received “After Dangal, I was back to critics who called him a “Hol- for his stance on accessible LOS ANGELES: Channing est hope for her is just that she has heels in love. “Before I experienced square one. For ‘Thugs...’ also, I had lywood elitist” for discussing health care, “including from Tatum encouraged his three-year- the fearlessness to always be her it, I wouldn’t have known how to to go through multiple rounds of health care.He returned from members of the media”. old daughter, Everly, to always authentic self, no matter what she ask for it. Now I know it’s what auditions till I got the film. So, we paternity leave to his late night “I can’t even count the stay true to herself as the actor thinks men want her to be,” Tatum I was always craving. And that’s can do several films, but every film show on Monday, reports hol- number of times I’ve been penned a powerful letter for her. wrote in the essay for Cosmopoli- what I want for my daughter – to be will be like a first – at least it is so for lywoodreporter.com. called an ‘out of touch Holly- The 37-year-old star opened up tan. The actor says he wants his expectation-less with her love and me because you start from scratch,” Last week on ‘Jimmy Kim- wood elitist, creep’ this week... about his hopes for Everly’s future daughter to be like his wife, Jenna not allow preconceived standards added the 25-yar-old. That’s why, she mel Live!’, the host had revealed Anyway, I’d like to apologise admitting he does not “want her Dewan Tatum, “who knew exactly to affect her, to ask herself what she says, the effort is always to give one’s that his son William Kimmel for saying that children in looking to the outside world for what she wanted in life and she wants and feel empow- 100 per cent. “For me, this life... Act- was born on April 21 with a America should have health answers” when it comes to rela- didn’t have to look for it anymore.” ered enough to ing and films... is very sacred. I have serious heart issue. His mono- care. That was insensitive – tionship and men. “I remember feeling this incred- act on it.” PTI struggled for long and so, I value logue prompted an outpouring it was offensive – and I hope “I tried to imagine the things ible rush – it was the sexiest thing things. Even if I have to give multi- of support but also some neg- you can find it in your heart I’d want her to read that would she’d ever done for me. I felt ple auditions, it is okay,” said Fatima. ative reactions on social net- to forgive me,” Kimmel said help her understand men and sex strength, because in that moment, Fatima’s look in her new project will works and in the media. He sarcastically. and partnership better, and at that she had accepted every part of be different – as one can see from said, “One week ago tonight, I He also assured viewers moment, I realised a strange thing. me, the good and the bad. That some leaked images from her look made an emotional speech that that his son Billy is doing well, I don’t want her looking to the out- radical authenticity of hers was test for the movie. IANS was seen by millions, and as a and thanked everyone for their side world for answers. “My high- what made me fall head over result of my powerful words, support. IANS Priyanka calls for protection of child victims of sexual abuse UNITED NATIONS: Drawing atten- was in Chitungwiza, south of Harare, line’ also offers 25 com- tion to the harrowing traumas of child Zimbabwe, where she met a 13-year- munity-based drop victims of sexual violence, UNICEF’s old girl who was repeatedly raped by her in centres throughout Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra uncle and threatened her if she revealed the country. “I was has called for an increased support for the abuse. astonished by the such children and raising awareness that The girl had become pregnant but number of calls underage sex can lead to unwanted teen with the help of her mother and neigh- that were com- pregnancy or HIV. bours, the incident was reported to the ing in during the Bollywood actor Chopra, who has police and the uncle who abused her was brief time I was been the ambassador since December last arrested, tried, and jailed for 10 years. there,” she said. Justin Bieber excited about year and a United Nations International “As a society, it is on us to provide and “The counsellors, Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) take care of our children as citizens of all volunteers, told me India Ambassador for 10 years, visited the world, to educate children at a young that many calls come PERFORMING IN INDIA Zimbabwe this week where she met child age that it’s not OK to be inappropriately from children in hyster- ics MUMBAI: Grammy award India you are next. Amit Bhatia show is expected to have survivors of sexual violence and heard touched and that under-age sex can lead because they had been raped or abused. winning singer Justin Bieber you ready? Purpose Tour Sta- more than 45,000 fans turn- their harrowing stories. Through her trip, to unwanted teen pregnancy or HIV,” They were so scared,” she added. is excited about performing in diums,” Bieber tweeted early ing up for the singer’s live she advocated for increased support for Chopra said. Chopra said the model of ‘Child- India, and can’t wait to bring on Tuesday. performance. The tour is to child victims of sexual violence. Chopra, 34, also visited ‘Childline line’ should be replicated by countries his Purpose World Tour to the He is expected to land in promote his fourth album, the “No woman, and most definitely no Zimbabwe’, the country’s 24-hour service that have high rates of violence against country on Wednesday. Bieber India on Tuesday itself, in critically-acclaimed ‘Pur- child, should ever have to experience for children who have been abused, vio- children “because it is a safe place for was in Dubai to perform on time to gear up for his much- pose’, in which he has experi- sexual violence especially from someone lated or exploited. Besides providing free, children to turn to and know that their May 6, and he had a great time awaited performance at the mented with more adventurous they trust for protection, such as a fam- confidential, multilingual counselling to call will be answered by a compassionate there too. “Dubai is incredible... DY Patil Stadium here. The electronic sounds. IANS ily member,” she said. Chopra’s first stop children aged 18 years and under, ‘Child- person.” PTI