VRGR '%&((!1#VCEB R BP A"'!#$#1!$"#0$"T utqBVQWBuxy( 3 4 E) 4 %: %: : &'/<=0 ;8 3 .&; #< #=> ; $ , 0.12 *+,- &.$/ 588 ) &6 )) 3162 3 6)&+ N) @ 3 ) ) 0 A, '6& 4,, 1 6 ,6),& 5&84 B6 8 6) ( ))8,B,84C & 6 ' 3) 6 B3 8 4,B3)O !" "8+ * # ,,8,)->#,?0D $ %'( $) 5 6 4 2 ) # 6,5 4,80 BSP, which has announced its intentions to go it alone and is xactly a month from now, also cut up with the principal EBJP-ruled Maharashtra and Opposition party for having Haryana will go to polls — the engineered a defection of six of first election since the Lok its MLAs to join its camp in Q Sabha elections and the Rajasthan. Government’s key decisions In both the States, the BJP on Article 370 and triple talaq. is expected to espouse the ! " While the polls in the two cause of nationalism among the States will be held on October masses by pitching its “strong” 21, the counting of votes will be decision to abrogate the special # $ held on October 24. The term status to Jammu & Kashmir % & $ of the 288-member under Article 370. It would also ! " " # ! ' ( $ Maharashtra Assembly ends point to its another “bold” $ % & on November 9 and that of the decision of banning the triple " ' ! $( 90-member Haryana Assembly talaq practice among Muslims * $ expires on November 2. The to reach out to the women from campaign in Maharashtra, the dates for Jharkhand Assembly the minority community. Congress-NCP are taking up polls will be announced later. Soon after the announce- issues of farmers’ suicide, agrar- + $, $ Faced with a string of high- ment of the poll schedule, ian crisis and the rising graph + Q profile desertions from their leaders of the ruling coalition of unemployment, highest in camps to the ruling combine in exuded confidence of winning last 40 years, as its main attack- % - Maharashtra, the Congress and a second consecutive term in ing points against the BJP- # 6,5 4,80 , the NCP have joined hands Maharashtra with Devendra Sena alliance in the State. once again after five years and Fadnavis asserting he will be In contrast, the BJP, which he Election Commission + Q . have stitched up a seat-sharing back as the Chief Minister. State has netted a number of NCP Ton Saturday announced deal in their bid to stop the BJP- BJP chief Chandrakant Patil leaders, has attacked Sharad the bypolls for 64 Assembly Shiv Sena from returning to said given the response to the Pawar, saying his period of seats spread across 17 States " $$ + power. But then, the BJP and “Mahajanadesh Yatra” of dominance is over. “Breaking and Union Territory of $ " $ Q , the Shiv Sena too have come Fadnavis, the BJP-Shiv Sena and making parties” kind of Puducherry, besides the / P Q together after 2014 to ensure alliance is likely to get more politics practiced by the NCP Samastipur Lok Sabha con- " + they retain power. The two saf- than 220 seats. chief is now catching up with stituency in Bihar. The bypolls ( fron parties are likely to With the BJP taking centre his party with the passage of will be held along with $ announce their seat-sharing stage even in the Lok Sabha time, said Fadnavis in Mumbai, Assembly polls in Haryana $ deal this week. The Congress polls contested in 2014 and Maharashtra. The Shiv Sena among them. The Congress stepping up his campaign. and Maharashtra on October " and the NCP had been in 2019, the Congress’ hold in its has retained its base in Konkan. and the NCP have decided to The BJP, which won 122 21. Karnataka, where resig- . power for three consecutive strongholds of Vidarbha, The BJP and the Shiv Sena contest 125 seats each out of the seats in the 2014 Assembly nations of 17 rebel MLAs led terms before they lost to the Marathwada and Mumbai had swept the Lok Sabha polls total 288 seats in the polls. polls, had a vote share of 27.81 to the collapse of the JDS- BJP-Sena combine in 2014. region has weakened. Similarly, in the State winning 41 of the While Prime Minister per cent, well ahead of the Congress Government in July, " In Haryana, the Congress the NCP is struggling to retain total 48 seats. The NCP and the Narendra Modi would again be Congress’ 17.95 per cent. will see bypolls on 15 seats. is exploring a tie-up with the its pocket-borough of western Congress won only five seats the main face of the BJP poll Turn to Page 4 Detailed report on P5 $ $ $ )*P ,! " Q 7.8 continue its stellar work for Sivan said after / / +, ! 9': about seven and a half years, Chandrayaan, ISRO’s next pri- O ISRO Chairman K Sivan said ority is Gaganyaan mission. M on Saturday. “We have set a target of O +" 4# As the prospects of re- achieving it by December 2020; 7 5 (0 ( 6,5 &:30,66 establishing contact with and the second unmanned M “Vikram” lander have virtual- mission is targeted in July $ 2* $ ! " he Chandrayaan-2 orbiter’s ly ended after the conclusion of 2021. By December 2021, an 8 & "# Tensemble of eight scientif- 14 Earth days, ISRO said it will Indian will first be carried $ % Q ic instruments is performing take up a study to ascertain by our own rocket to space,” 7%%% very well and is expected to what exactly happened to it. Sivan said. 2+ "## "R$ / $ , " " $ % &'! & ' $ ( )$ &"' * 345 $ $ / * " ' 6 $ * # 0 )6 % #( % ) ndian-Americans in Houston " () *+ Iare all set to welcome Prime $ 2+ $ * ,)-! Minister Narendra Modi for $ % ' % % Q ./! ) +$ , the mega “Howdy, Modi” event -! ' $ on Sunday, to be attended by ! $( ) 7 -". 50,000 audience, the largest 7$ / $ gathering ever for an elected over 1,500 volunteers working $ P Q #.-#/ foreign leader visiting the US, round the clock to make it a % #0 other than the Pope. memorable event. % + The three-hour “Howdy, Meanwhile, the US and +#1 P 3" Modi!” event in which India are racing to negotiate a 8 $ "" President Donald Trump will limited trade deal that Trump ./4 &'! 0$ join Prime Minister Modi is Modi can sign at the UNGA in / being organised at the sprawl- New York, people familiar with / 1 2 ing NRG Football Stadium, the talks said. 9$ $ 3 with an impressive history of A car rally was organised at + $ $ / shows that starred Beyonce, the NRG stadium, where more )$ / Metallica, U2. than 200 cars participated, flut- " 4 * Indian Ambassador Harsh tering flags of both India and $ V Shringla previewed the event the US to signify the friendship at NRG Stadium, where prepa- between the the two countries. *#7 1 (% #0 rations were in full swing with Turn to Page 4 % 6 $ $ Q( R) "R $ 2% ( ' 2+ "" + # 6,5 4,80 + $ # 6,5 4,80 oya Akhtar’s “Gully Boy”, " Zfeaturing Ranveer Singh as $ # ! n a bid to prevent a wildlife an aspiring rapper, has been " Ismuggler of West Bengal selected as India’s official entry from claiming ownership of in the International Feature 6 three chimpanzees and four Film category at the Oscars, the / 8 marmosets (long-tailed South Film Federation of India (FFI) American monkeys) recovered announced on Saturday. 9 from him, the Enforcement “India’s official entry for $ $ Directorate (ED) has, for the Oscars this year is ‘Gully Boy’. " first time, attached the endan- There were 27 films in the run- gered animals under the ning this year but it was an Prevention of Money smuggler was trying to take unanimous decision " :"' Laundering Act (PMLA). them away on forged papers. to select ‘Gully Boy’,” FFI sec- $ The wild animals have An attachment by the ED retary general Supran Sen + been kept in Alipore Zoological renders an asset out of bounds told PTI. Garden in Kolkata. ED sources for its owner and it can be fur- The movie, which was + said smuggler Supradip Guha ther confiscated by the agency released across the country on will be probed under the after the Adjudicating February 14, also features Alia " $ $ money laundering case. Authority of the PMLA, a Bhatt, Vijay Raaz, Kalki + The ED said the first-of-its- quasi-judicial body, approves Koechlin, Siddhant Chaturvedi, + kind attachment under the the attachment within 180 days and Vijay Varma. Ranveer said ( PMLA “enabled” zoo authori- of seizure. it is a proud moment for the + ties to retain the animals as the Turn to Page 4 entire team. +, --. -/01 0$)+ & , ! .@ . " !) 0$ / 6 $ $+@,3>$. F 6 5" 4 :A1< A !) ##/ #.-< : ""' : :!-# - .4?/ 3.!-/D.. O s is luck or hard work that gets one ahead in life? Lots of people out there will tell you that it / % , Iis luck. Some may say