c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA CHENNAI I FRIDAY 17 I JANUARY 2020 WEATHER Max: 31OC Min: 18OC Rainfall: Nil NATION | 7 SPORT | 14 TABLOID ASTROGUIDE Lalu in court for last India to take on Stun Siva bags award Vikari: Thai 3 Tithi: Sapthami fodder scam case Australia in 2nd ODI for his acting prowess Star: Chithirai Rahukalam: www.facebook.com/deccannews, www.twitter.com/deccanchronicle, www.deccanchronicle.com Vol. 15 No. 291 Established 1938 | 32 PAGES | ` 3.00 10.30 am to 12 noon Yamagandam: 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm ■ PRAYERS ‘Pak can avoid this global embarrassment time and again’ BULL POWER Fajar: 5.20 am Zohar: 12.23 pm Asar: 3.35 pm Maghrib: 6.01 pm India slams China for Isha: 7.17 pm SUNSET TODAY 6.02 PM SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.36 AM MOONRISE TODAY 10.38 PM MOONSET TOMORROW 11.52 AM going to UN on Kashmir SRIDHAR allegations and present- IIT-M device to KUMARASWAMI | DC India to invite Imran, other leaders ing an alarming scenario NEW DELHI, JAN. 16 lacked any credibility”. produce Sources said no other Following Beijing's rais- for SCO’s annual heads of govt meet country at the UNSC hydrogen fuel ing of the Kashmir issue SRIDHAR Shanghai Cooperation backed China which Chennai: In an effort to com- on Wednesday at KUMARASWAMI | DC Organisation (SCO) means that 14 out of the 15 bat vehicular pollution, resea- Pakistan's behest for NEW DELHI, JANUARY 16 Council of Heads of UNSC members backed rchers in country's premier In- informal consultations at Governmment meeting the Indian position. dian Institute of Technology the UN Security Council New Delhi on Thursday that will be hosted by Sources also said Beijing (IIT) Madras have developed a that ended in a damp confirmed it would invite India later this year, pos- seems to be under tremen- green tech to generate hydro- squib, India lashed out at Pakistan Prime Minister sibly in October or dous pressure from gen fuel from waste and sea- China on Thursday, ask- Imran Khan for the November. ■ Islamabad to keep raising water. Abdul Malek, who com- P7 A bull jumps over a tamer at the jallikattu event in Palamedu, Madurai on Thursday. As pleted PhD from Chemistry ing it to “seriously reflect the issue informally at the many as 600 bulls and 400 bull tamers participated. ■ More on P2 — Kasi Manikandan dept at IIT-M, has planned to on this global consensus, Pakistan” and that “the Pakistan that needs to be UN. This is the third time launch a start up, 'Gen-Madzi draw the proper lessons informal closed-door discussed, it should be China has attempted to Hydro Fuel', to develop hydr- and refrain from taking meeting, therefore, con- discussed bilaterally”, raise the matter. The first TIRUVALLUVAR DAY ogen fuel for vehicles, missiles such action in future”. cluded without any out- adding that “Pakistan can was in August last year, and rockets. ■ P2 New Delhi said the “over- come”. avoid this global embar- soon after India revoked whelming majority of the Hitting out at Islamabad rassment time and again Article 370, when the SC dismisses UNSC members were of as well, India said it “sin- by putting their energy in UNSC informally dis- the view that UNSC was cerely hopes that the mes- something constructive”. cussed the situation in V-P replaces saffron telcos’ plea seeking not the right forum for sage has gone across loud The MEA said “it once Kashmir. The second such issues and this and clear to Pakistan that again highlighted that attempt was made in review of verdict should be discussed bilat- if at all there is any mat- Pakistan's desperate mea- December, but China New Delhi: The Supreme erally between India and ter between India and sures to peddle baseless backed off. Court Thursday dismissed robes to avoid tension review petitions of top telecom firms including NEWS ANALYSIS G. BABU JAYAKUMAR | portrait adorning the Bharti Airtel and Vodafone DC Assembly walls and hence Idea seeking review of its Cong-DMK ‘Trump’s poor knowledge of India, CHENNAI, JAN. 16 accepted by all. earlier order asking them Though the image of to pay `1.47 lakh crore in alliance Just about two months Tiruvalluvar in saffron past statutory dues by heading south? China geography left Modi stumped’ after a controversy broke was first circulated when January 23 saying it did over the draping of a Prime Minister Narendra not find any “justifiable G BABU JAYAKUMAR Washington, Jan. 16: Tiruvalluvar statue in saf- Modi released a Thai trans- CHENNAI, JAN. 16 reason” to entertain them. Donald Trump once left Trump impeachment: fron, the office of the Vice- lation of Tirukural in Will the simmering dif- Prime Minister Narendra President of India commit- Thailand, Friday's tweet of Putin cements ferences between the Modi flabbergasted after ted a faux pas by carrying Modi had no images and Congress and DMK in he told him that India and US House sends an image of the Tamil saint just said: 'I bow to the great power as Russian Tamil Nadu flare up China didn't share a bor- poet in saffron robes, along Thiruvalluvar on his into a conflagration der, revealing the US historic case to Senate with a tweet remembering Pillariaripatti near Than- Jayanti. His rich thoughts Duma votes for PM and scorch the allian- President's “woefully” Washington: The US him on his ‘Jayanthi Day’. javur was smeared in cow and literary works give ce? The question ran- Moscow: Russian lawmak- poor knowledge of geogra- House of Representatives The photograph was dung, under cover of dark- strength to millions. He kles in the minds of ma- phy, according to a new passed a resolution and immediately taken down, ness, and later on draped in inspires us to work toward ers are set to quickly appr- ny even as the state's ove the appointment of a book authored by two first three years as submitted the articles of after tweeple pointed to the saffron by a leader of a social equality, justice and political class gears up Pulitzer Prize-winning President, the impeachment against Do- objectionable colour of Hindutva outfit. compassion.' However, the new prime minister Thurs- for the 2021 elections to American journalists. Washington Post reported nald Trump to the Senate Tiruvallur's attire. A note During those days, sever- tweets of Tamil Nadu BJP day, a day after President the Assembly and also Vladimir Putin kicked off for the next set of civic The 417-page book, 'A on Wednesday. The busi- for a historic trial to re- was put out that it was al BJP acolytes circulated stalwarts, particularly H an unexpected reshuffle of elections to the urban Very Stable Genius', writ- nessman-turned-politi- move him from office, a posted by mistake, but not visuals of the digitally dre- Raja and S Ve Sekar, had his inner circle that could local bodies and the ten by Philip Rucker and cian won the US presiden- move described by the before the goof-up had cre- ssed Tiruvalluvar, which images of the poet in saf- keep him in power well left-out rural local bod- Carol D Leonnig, detailed tial election in 2016 and unfazed President as “an- ated another round of flut- was viewed as a cultural fron robes. past the end of his term in ies, which are expected similar vivid incidents assumed the position on other con job” by the Op- ter on Twitter. invasion as the official im- BJP Tamil Nadu also put 2024. Mikhail Mishustin, to happen soon. ■ P4 from Trump's tumultuous January 20, 2017. ■ P13 position Democrats. The state was rocked by a age of poet was constructed out a tweet that gave a reli- the chief of Russia's tax series of events last Nov- by scholars based on his gious twist to Jallikattu. It service, met with lawmak- ember relating to the dress explicit philosophy, evi- said, 'When Lord Shiva to- ers from various factions in of the cultural icon who denced from his writing, ok the form of a hunter and the State Duma ahead of gave Tamil one of its best which is primarily secular. wrestled with Arjuna with the confirmation vote in Nirbhaya convicts the Kremlin-controlled Children being radicalised in literary treatises. It started So the painting by a view to testing his stre- lower house. with digitally dressing up Venugopal Sharma, in ngth, Arjuna had the privi- shifted to jail Tiruvalluvar in saffron which Tiruvalluvar is lege of embracing God. Ba- COUNTER POINT since in all earlier images draped in white with no sed on that episode, Hindus Kashmir: Chief of Defence Staff no. 3 for hanging he had been only in white. sacred thread, was used in embrace the bull, which is Then, a controversy the postal stamp released a form of Nandhi that is PAWAN BALI | DC “You can start isolating New Delhi, Jan. 16: All raged. First, his statue at in his memory and for the Lord Shiva's vehicle.” NEW DELHI, JAN. 16 these people gradually. the four death-row con- And then start a counter- victs in the Nirbhaya Chief of Defence Staff radicalisation program- gang rape and murder (CDS) Gen Bipin Rawat me by identifying people case were shifted on on Thursday suggested who have been radicalis- Thursday to Tihar prison that highly radicalised yo- ed to what degree. You complex's jail number ‘Brave’ Davinder ung people in the country got to segregate them in three where their hang- could be put in de-radical- degrees and then look at ing is set to take place, a isation camps as a way to start countering radicali- those who have been co- jail official said.