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A head of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s week- long visit to the United States starting September 21, India on Thursday said it meets the cri- teria for the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) status and Washington should take a call on reinstating it. The US recently removed India from the GSP list of beneficiaries which allowed duty-free entry of Indian goods to that country. The con- tentious issue is likely to come up during Modi’s talks with President Donald Trump. Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said there will be two meetings between Modi and Trump and India is clear that despite the international focus on Kashmir, it will not be on the Prime Minister’s agenda and any offer of mediation is not on the table. Gokhale said, “Article 370 is an internal issue. Terrorism is one among many issues. The focus will be on India’s role at global stage, the Prime Minister will present his vision in this regard.” Modi’s packed schedule includes addressing the annu- al UNGA session, meeting Trump and 20 other global leaders in bilateral meetings besides addressing the mega ‘Howdy Modi’ event. On September 24, the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi will be observed at the UN and Modi will be joined by his counterparts from Bangladesh, Singapore, Jamaica and New Zealand besides the Korean President and the UN Secretary General. On the GSP status, Gokhale said India meets the criteria for trade concessions that the United States ended in June. “GSP is a unilateral deci- sion, given by countries to other countries based on cer- tain criteria. We are a devel- oping country, we meet those criteria,” he said. “I do not recall our ever stating that we are not inter- ested in GSP,” Gokhale said at the news conference. Stressing on the impor- tance of trade conces- sions for India, the Foreign Secretary said the US “unilat- erally withdrew that concession; we believe that GSP is something which is important for our indus- try but ultimately it is a mat- ter for the US to take a call on.” Indian exports are worth over 6.3 billion dollars under the GSP and India was the largest beneficiary of the scheme. After the US decision in June, India reciprocated by increasing the tariffs on 28 products imported from the US, including high-value prod- ucts like almonds and fresh apples. The US has protested against it at the WTO. In fact, tension over trade ties between the two countries was simmering for the last two years with the US last year increasing tariffs on its steel and aluminium imports. I f your car is stolen, do check if it is being sold on OLX app. The Delhi Police on Thursday claimed to have arrested a man involved in sell- ing more than a dozen luxury cars stolen from various local- ities in the national Capital. Police said an FIR will be reg- istered against the OLX man- agement. Active since 2014, the accused had succeeded in sell- ing high-end cars by posting their advertisements on OLX app. However, he ran out of his luck a few days ago. Suspecting something fishy after the accused asked for a nominal price of an expensive car, a buyer informed police which swung into action. East Delhi Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Jasmeet Singh said com- plainant Ravi Saxena approached us on July 8 stat- ing that he saw an advertise- ment related to sale of Volkswagen Polo at a very nominal price, to which he responded and purchased the car for 1,70,000 from one Ankit Pruthi, the accused. “Ankit provided the com- plainant with photocopies of registration certificate (RC) and insurance and assured him to deliver the original after transfer of the registration in the name of the com- plainant. But despite repeated requests from the complainant, Ankit did not provide him with the original documents. “Suspecting something was amiss, Saxena approached the State Transport Authority (STA) and he was befuddled to know that the said car regis- tration number belonged to another car model ‘Skoda Laura’,” said the DCP. “Having realised that he had bought a stolen car, Saxena asked Ankit to return his money and take the car but Ankit tried to convince the complainant that it was gen- uine. After a few months, the accused switched off his phone,” said the DCP. “Acting on the complaint an FIR was registered. During the course of investigation, it was revealed that there is a gang operating in Delhi and Rajasthan involved in entrap- ping unsuspecting buyers of stolen luxury cars on very cheap price on OLX platform,” said the DCP. “A police team was tasked to collect tip-off about the gang-members which led to the hideout of kingpin Ankit. On September 14, a trap was laid and Ankit was arrested in Jaipur. He had changed his name from Ankit Pruthi to Ankit Arora to hide his identity. Originally from Delhi, he had acquired a Jaipur address,” said the DCP. “Ankit confessed that he used to change his mobile number after every successful sale. We have recovered three cars and trying to locate other cars. Ankit confessed to have sold over a dozen luxury cars using OLX app. Police recov- ered ‘Volkswagon Vento’ and ‘KUV-100’ from Sikar in Rajasthan. These cars were stolen from Delhi’s Hauz Khas and Mehrauli area,” said the DCP. F lagging the issue of exclu- sions in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam in her meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday pointed out many genuine Indians have been left out of the register, which has excluded 19 lakh people who now face an uncertain fate. Mamata, who handed an official letter in this regard to Shah, however, said the issue of NRC in West Bengal was not discussed but reiterated her stance that it was not needed in the State. Shah had on Wednesday announced yet again the Government’s intention of carrying out the exercise in the entire country. While the TMC supremo maintained that her meet- ings with the Prime Minister and the Home Minister were not political, it has led to speculation that the once- ardent critic of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah is soft- ening her stand. Mamata had called on the PM a day earli- er. “I met the Home Minister to discuss about the NRC in Assam and told him that many genuine Indians were excluded from the list. I have requested him to do the need- ful so that they can be includ- ed in the NRC as they are in distress,” she told reporters after the meeting with Shah. Mamata reportedly con- veyed the Home Minister that genuine Indians belonging to Bengali, Bihari, Gorkha and Assamese communities were excluded from the NRC in Assam and sought his inter- vention to alleviate their mis- eries. This was her first meet- ing with Shah, who assumed the office about three months ago following a Lok Sabha election campaign that saw the two sides launch a no-holds-barred attack on each other. “I have requested him to examine their cases and resolve the issues. The Home Minister has assured that he would look into it,” said the TMC chief. The final NRC, a list of Assam’s residents and pub- lished on August 31, exclud- ed the names of 19 lakh peo- ple. The BJP is on the back foot on the NRC as the exclu- sions have been far less in areas believed to have the maximum illegal migrants. “Even Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that the NRC was not required in his State,” she said. BJP general secretary party affairs in-charge in West Bengal Kailash Vijayvargiya tweeted, “Ab aya oont pahar ke niche ” (now she has realised where she stands.) A couple of days ago, Vijayvargiya had said that Mamata was meeting Modi as a “last-ditch bid” to save Kolkata former police chief Rajeev Kumar, who has gone traceless and the CBI has launched a manhunt to nab him. The Chief Minister said she has come to New Delhi after a long time and after she was given an appointment by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a meeting. “Meeting the Prime Minister and the Home Minister is a constitu- tional obligation. Besides we have international border issues with Bangladesh and Bhutan and State borders with Bihar and Jharkhand. We also have the sensitive ‘chick- en’s neck’ (corridor connect- ing Northeastern States with the rest of the country). So meeting with the Home Minister is in that context necessary,” she said. Mamata also met Congress leader Ahmed Patel and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal later in the day. U nion Minister Babul Supriyo was on Thursday shown black flags and heckled by a section of students at Jadavpur University, who also stopped him from leaving the campus prompting West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to rush to JU along with a large police force. The Governor, who is the chancellor of the university, too faced demonstrations by the students belonging to SFI, Left leaning AFSU and FETSU and AISA, a Naxalite sudents wing, university sources said. They blocked the Union Minister’s way and thumped the bonnet of his vehicle as the policemen kept requesting them to withdraw while the West Bengal Governor was seen helping Babul Supriyo to the vehicle. Dhankhar and Babul Supriyo finally left the campus late in the evening after university teachers stepped in and persuaded the agitating students to lift their blockade, a spokesman of Jadavpur University Teachers Association (JUTA) said. Detailed report on P7 E yeing the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections, the rul- ing Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is leaving no stone unturned to extend its flagship Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinic project in Delhi. Around 140 Mohalla Clinics will be set up by end of this month. The AAP Government has set a target to construct around 800 Mohalla Clinics before the Assembly election process begins in Delhi. The construction 1,000 Mohalla Clinics was one of the AAP’s top promises before the last Assembly polls, but so far 199 clinics are operational. P rime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he is aghast to see that at a time when the people of Jammu & Kashmir are embracing the “new possibilities” in the wake of the abrogation of Article 370 and the entire country is stand- ing with the Government, the Opposition parties are looking for “political benefits”. Castigating the Opposition parties, particularly the Congress and the NCP, for their “questionable” stand on the abrogation of Article 370, Modi said, “I am not getting to see senior Congress and NCP leaders cooperate with us and conduct themselves in a man- ner as they ought to be doing at this juncture.” Making no bones about the BJP’s intention that it would go whole hog Kashmir issue in the new context as a major issue in the Maharashtra Assembly polls, the PM unveiled a new vision of making Kashmir a “paradise” once again. Modi called for “hugging each Kashmiri and creating a “new paradise” in the Valley. Kal tak kahte the Kashmir humaara hai, abhi har Hindustani kahega hume naya Kashmir banana hain, wahan phir se ek swarag banana hain (We used to say till recently Kashmir is part of India. Now every Indian will say we will create a new Kashmir and we will build a paradise once again there). Har kashmiri ko gale lagana hain (We should embrace every Kashmiri),” Modi said. Speaking at a huge rally marking the conclusion of Chief Minster Devendra Fadnavis’ 4,000-km long “Mahajanadesh Yatra” at Nashik, Modi singled out the Congress and the NCP for a vicious attack and said, “The Government has taken such a big decision (on Article 370). This decision was taken to bring out people of J&K and Ladakh from violence, terror- ism, separatism and corrup- tion. We are trying to imple- ment the decision with mini- mum inconvenience to people.” Bhopal: Creating flutters into the political circles of Madhya Pradesh, a high-profile racket has been busted by police in Madhya Pradesh on charges of honey-trapping several senior bureaucrats and politicians for extorting money. Official sources said that besides at least ten IAS officers, the alleged list of victims of the gang includes a former Chief Minister as well. Three women and a man has been arrested from Bhopal on Wednesday while two women were picked up by police in Indore the same day in a covert operation, details of the same were leaked only on Wednesday midnight. The matter has come to light after a complaint was lodged with Indore police recently. A senior police officer from Indore claimed that a well- known person had approached the police recently with the complaint that a woman befriended him and shot his videos and pictures in com- promising position. Later, the woman started blackmailing him with her friends and start- ed demanding money. The Bhopal police had acted on the tip off of the Indore police. One of the women picked up in Bhopal’s Rivera Town had rented out a house of a former BJP MLA and the minister. To add, in a joint action, police teams from Govindpura, Kamla Nagar and Ayodya Nagar had raided three places picking up three women and a man, who is said to be husband of one of the women, identified as Congress IT Cell member. The man was also with the IT Cell and was on Thursday expelled from the party. A senior engineer from Indore Municipal Corporation had approached the police against one of the members of the gang in Indore. Trainee City SP Govinpdura Amit Kumar told the media another agency (ATS) has been interrogating the women. Though he con- firmed the gadgets found with the women have stored some objectionable content. He how- ever declined to reveal much on the case. SR RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008

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Page 1: ˘ˇ - The Pioneer€¦ · kingpin Ankit. On September 14, a trap was laid and Ankit was arrested in Jaipur. He had changed his name from Ankit Pruthi to Ankit Arora to hide his identity

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Ahead of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s week-

long visit to the United Statesstarting September 21, India onThursday said it meets the cri-teria for the GeneralisedSystem of Preferences (GSP)status and Washington shouldtake a call on reinstating it.

The US recently removedIndia from the GSP list ofbeneficiaries which allowedduty-free entry of Indian goodsto that country. The con-tentious issue is likely to comeup during Modi’s talks withPresident Donald Trump.

Foreign Secretary VijayGokhale said there will be twomeetings between Modi andTrump and India is clear thatdespite the international focuson Kashmir, it will not be onthe Prime Minister’s agendaand any offer of mediation isnot on the table.

Gokhale said, “Article 370is an internal issue. Terrorism

is one among many issues.The focus will be on India’s roleat global stage, the PrimeMinister will present his visionin this regard.”

Modi’s packed scheduleincludes addressing the annu-al UNGA session, meetingTrump and 20 other globalleaders in bilateral meetingsbesides addressing the mega‘Howdy Modi’ event. On

September 24, the 150thanniversary of MahatmaGandhi will be observed at theUN and Modi will be joined byhis counterparts fromBangladesh, Singapore, Jamaicaand New Zealand besides theKorean President and the UNSecretary General.

On the GSP status,Gokhale said India meets thecriteria for trade concessions

that the United States ended inJune. “GSP is a unilateral deci-sion, given by countries toother countries based on cer-tain criteria. We are a devel-oping country, we meet thosecriteria,” he said.

“I do not recall our everstating that we are not inter-ested in GSP,” Gokhale said atthe news conference.

Stressing on the impor-

tance of trade conces-sions for India, theForeign Secretarysaid the US “unilat-erally withdrew thatconcession; we

believe that GSP issomething which is

important for our indus-try but ultimately it is a mat-

ter for the US to take a call on.” Indian exports are worth

over 6.3 billion dollars underthe GSP and India was thelargest beneficiary of thescheme. After the US decisionin June, India reciprocated byincreasing the tariffs on 28products imported from theUS, including high-value prod-ucts like almonds and freshapples.

The US has protestedagainst it at the WTO.

In fact, tension over tradeties between the two countrieswas simmering for the lasttwo years with the US last yearincreasing tariffs on its steeland aluminium imports.

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If your car is stolen, do checkif it is being sold on OLX

app. The Delhi Police onThursday claimed to havearrested a man involved in sell-ing more than a dozen luxurycars stolen from various local-ities in the national Capital.Police said an FIR will be reg-istered against the OLX man-agement.

Active since 2014, theaccused had succeeded in sell-ing high-end cars by postingtheir advertisements on OLXapp. However, he ran out of hisluck a few days ago. Suspecting

something fishy after theaccused asked for a nominalprice of an expensive car, abuyer informed police whichswung into action.

East Delhi DeputyCommissioner of Police (DCP)Jasmeet Singh said com-plainant Ravi Saxenaapproached us on July 8 stat-ing that he saw an advertise-ment related to sale ofVolkswagen Polo at a verynominal price, to which heresponded and purchased thecar for �1,70,000 from oneAnkit Pruthi, the accused.

“Ankit provided the com-plainant with photocopies of

registration certificate (RC)and insurance and assuredhim to deliver the originalafter transfer of the registrationin the name of the com-plainant. But despite repeatedrequests from the complainant,Ankit did not provide himwith the original documents.

“Suspecting somethingwas amiss, Saxena approachedthe State Transport Authority(STA) and he was befuddled toknow that the said car regis-tration number belonged toanother car model ‘SkodaLaura’,” said the DCP.

“Having realised that hehad bought a stolen car, Saxenaasked Ankit to return hismoney and take the car butAnkit tried to convince thecomplainant that it was gen-uine. After a few months, the

accused switched off hisphone,” said the DCP.

“Acting on the complaintan FIR was registered. Duringthe course of investigation, itwas revealed that there is agang operating in Delhi andRajasthan involved in entrap-ping unsuspecting buyers ofstolen luxury cars on very

cheap price on OLX platform,”said the DCP. “A police teamwas tasked to collect tip-offabout the gang-memberswhich led to the hideout ofkingpin Ankit. On September14, a trap was laid and Ankitwas arrested in Jaipur. He hadchanged his name from AnkitPruthi to Ankit Arora to hidehis identity. Originally fromDelhi, he had acquired a Jaipuraddress,” said the DCP.

“Ankit confessed that heused to change his mobilenumber after every successfulsale. We have recovered threecars and trying to locate othercars. Ankit confessed to havesold over a dozen luxury carsusing OLX app. Police recov-ered ‘Volkswagon Vento’ and‘KUV-100’ from Sikar inRajasthan. These cars werestolen from Delhi’s Hauz Khasand Mehrauli area,” said theDCP.

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Flagging the issue of exclu-sions in the National

Register of Citizens (NRC) inAssam in her meeting withUnion Home Minister AmitShah, West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjeeon Thursday pointed outmany genuine Indians havebeen left out of the register,which has excluded 19 lakhpeople who now face anuncertain fate.

Mamata, who handed anofficial letter in this regard toShah, however, said the issueof NRC in West Bengal wasnot discussed but reiteratedher stance that it was notneeded in the State. Shah hadon Wednesday announcedyet again the Government’sintention of carrying out theexercise in the entire country.

While the TMC supremomaintained that her meet-ings with the Prime Ministerand the Home Minister werenot political, it has led tospeculation that the once-ardent critic of NarendraModi and Amit Shah is soft-ening her stand. Mamata hadcalled on the PM a day earli-er.

“I met the Home Ministerto discuss about the NRC inAssam and told him thatmany genuine Indians wereexcluded from the list. I haverequested him to do the need-ful so that they can be includ-ed in the NRC as they are indistress,” she told reportersafter the meeting with Shah.

Mamata reportedly con-veyed the Home Minister thatgenuine Indians belonging toBengali, Bihari, Gorkha andAssamese communities wereexcluded from the NRC inAssam and sought his inter-vention to alleviate their mis-eries. This was her first meet-ing with Shah, who assumedthe of f ice about three months ago following a Lok

Sabha election campaign thatsaw the two sides launch a no-holds-barred attack oneach other.

“I have requested him toexamine their cases andresolve the issues. The HomeMinister has assured that hewould look into it,” said theTMC chief.

The final NRC, a list ofAssam’s residents and pub-lished on August 31, exclud-ed the names of 19 lakh peo-ple.

The BJP is on the backfoot on the NRC as the exclu-sions have been far less inareas believed to have themaximum illegal migrants.

“Even Bihar ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar saidthat the NRC was notrequired in his State,” shesaid.

BJP general secretaryparty affairs in-charge in WestBengal Kailash Vijayvargiyatweeted, “Ab aya oont paharke niche” (now she hasrealised where she stands.) Acouple of days ago,Vijayvargiya had said thatMamata was meeting Modi asa “last-ditch bid” to saveKolkata former police chiefRajeev Kumar, who has gonetraceless and the CBI haslaunched a manhunt to nabhim.

The Chief Minister saidshe has come to New Delhiafter a long time and after shewas given an appointment byPrime Minister NarendraModi for a meeting. “Meetingthe Prime Minister and theHome Minister is a constitu-tional obligation. Besides wehave international borderissues with Bangladesh andBhutan and State borderswith Bihar and Jharkhand. Wealso have the sensitive ‘chick-en’s neck’ (corridor connect-ing Northeastern States withthe rest of the country). Someeting with the HomeMinister is in that contextnecessary,” she said.

Mamata a lso metCongress leader Ahmed Pateland Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal later in theday.

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Union Minister BabulSupriyo was on Thursday

shown black flags and heckledby a section of students atJadavpur University, who alsostopped him from leaving thecampus prompting WestBengal Governor JagdeepDhankhar to rush to JU alongwith a large police force.

The Governor, who is thechancellor of the university, toofaced demonstrations by thestudents belonging to SFI, Left leaning AFSU and FETSUand AISA, a Naxalite sudents wing, universitysources said.

They blocked the UnionMinister’s way and thumpedthe bonnet of his vehicle as thepolicemen kept requestingthem to withdraw while theWest Bengal Governor was seen helping Babul Supriyo tothe vehicle.

Dhankhar and BabulSupriyo finally left the campus late in the eveningafter university teachersstepped in and persuaded theagitating students to lift theirblockade, a spokesman ofJadavpur University TeachersAssociation (JUTA) said.

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ing Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) isleaving no stone unturned toextend its flagship Aam AadmiMohalla Clinic project in Delhi.Around 140 Mohalla Clinicswill be set up by end of thismonth.

The AAP Government hasset a target to construct around800 Mohalla Clinics before theAssembly election processbegins in Delhi.

The construction 1,000Mohalla Clinics was one of theAAP’s top promises before thelast Assembly polls, but so far199 clinics are operational.

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Castigating the Oppositionparties, particularly theCongress and the NCP, fortheir “questionable” stand onthe abrogation of Article 370,Modi said, “I am not getting tosee senior Congress and NCPleaders cooperate with us andconduct themselves in a man-ner as they ought to be doingat this juncture.”

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BJP’s intention that it would gowhole hog Kashmir issue in thenew context as a major issue inthe Maharashtra Assemblypolls, the PM unveiled a newvision of making Kashmir a“paradise” once again.

Modi called for “huggingeach Kashmiri and creating a“new paradise” in the Valley.

“Kal tak kahte the Kashmirhumaara hai, abhi harHindustani kahega hume nayaKashmir banana hain, wahanphir se ek swarag banana hain(We used to say till recentlyKashmir is part of India. Nowevery Indian will say we willcreate a new Kashmir and wewill build a paradise once againthere). Har kashmiri ko gale

lagana hain (We shouldembrace every Kashmiri),”Modi said.

Speaking at a huge rallymarking the conclusion ofChief Minster DevendraFadnavis’ 4,000-km long“Mahajanadesh Yatra” atNashik, Modi singled out theCongress and the NCP for avicious attack and said, “TheGovernment has taken such abig decision (on Article 370).This decision was taken tobring out people of J&K andLadakh from violence, terror-ism, separatism and corrup-tion. We are trying to imple-ment the decision with mini-mum inconvenience to people.”

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Bhopal: Creating flutters intothe political circles of MadhyaPradesh, a high-profile rackethas been busted by police inMadhya Pradesh on charges of honey-trapping several seniorbureaucrats and politicians forextorting money.

Official sources said thatbesides at least ten IAS officers,the alleged list of victims of the

gang includes a former ChiefMinister as well. Three womenand a man has been arrestedfrom Bhopal on Wednesdaywhile two women were pickedup by police in Indore thesame day in a covert operation,details of the same were leakedonly on Wednesday midnight.The matter has come to lightafter a complaint was lodged

with Indore police recently. Asenior police officer fromIndore claimed that a well-known person had approachedthe police recently with thecomplaint that a womanbefriended him and shot hisvideos and pictures in com-promising position. Later, thewoman started blackmailinghim with her friends and start-

ed demanding money. The Bhopal police had

acted on the tip off of the Indorepolice. One of the womenpicked up in Bhopal’s RiveraTown had rented out a house ofa former BJP MLA and theminister. To add, in a jointaction, police teams fromGovindpura, Kamla Nagar andAyodya Nagar had raided three

places picking up three womenand a man, who is said to behusband of one of the women,identified as Congress IT Cellmember. The man was alsowith the IT Cell and was onThursday expelled from theparty. A senior engineer fromIndore Municipal Corporationhad approached the policeagainst one of the members of

the gang in Indore.Trainee City SP

Govinpdura Amit Kumar toldthe media another agency(ATS) has been interrogatingthe women. Though he con-firmed the gadgets found withthe women have stored someobjectionable content. He how-ever declined to reveal much onthe case. SR

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Mhow: Indore CommissionerAkash Tripathi visited Mhowtehsil and checked present sta-tus of Government land andGovernment ponds in Mhowtehsil.

Commissioner AkashTripathi visited the Mhowgaonwhere new building of Tehsil isunder construction worth Rs28 crores. People of Mhow arecontinuously opposing theshifting of Mhow tehsil fromcentre of Mhow town to thepresent under construction siteas it is at the extreme corner ofMhow and villagers will find itdifficult to reach at this placealso the congress leaders haveopposed the construction ofthis tehsil and staged a protestmarch against the constructionof the this tehsil new buildingand also the sale of premiumgovernment land of tehsil to theprivate people through housingboard project.

Commissioner AkashTripathi also visited the gov-ernment pond known as

Kakadpura Talab which islocated besides the Mhow-Pithampur four-lane and alsoenquired about the canal whichoriginates from this pond.Locals told that this pondwhich is spread in more than70 acres of land can be used byIndore district tourism depart-ment for picnic spot and boat-ing and also the governmentcan give this pond for fishingto the self help groups.

The Commissioner latervisited the Rasaslpura churchland which is now the govern-ment property after the highcourt order. Indore jila pan-chayat CEO Neha Meena toldThe Pioneer that very soon wewill visit the kakadpura pondbesides Mhow-Pithampurfour-lane.

Indore Housing BoardCommissioner YashwantKumar Dohare, SDM MhowAnshul Gupta and tehsildarMhow Dhirendra Parasharaccompanied IndoreCommissioner. PNS

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Nazeerabad police hasarrested two miscreants

for keeping a 17-year-old girl incaptivity, followed by sexuallyassault on September 13. Thealleged incident had taken plaeafter taking away the girl toGuna.

Police have nabbed twoaccused identified as Hari Omand Santosh who kidnappedthe victim on motorbike andlater Hari’s friend Rahul Giricame with an auto rickshawand dropped Hari and victimwhere she was raped by theaccused for the past six days.

The victim managed toescape on Wednesday andreached at her relatives inGuna and informed about theincident and later approachedpolice. Based on the complaint

police have registered case ofkidnapping and sexual assaultHari while his friends havebeen co-accused in kidnappingthe victim.

Police said that the accusedraped her several times whenshe was kept captive at the for-est in Guna. The place where

she was held captive would besearched. Police have startedsearch for the accused whowent missing after the incident.

Meanwhile, a 33-year-oldmarried woman was sexuallyassaulted by her neighbor atRajvaidh colony under Kolarpolice station area; victim wassexually assaulted and exploit-ed for the past one month.

According to the police, thevictim lodged a complaint onWednesday regarding sexualassault by her Prakash Singh.

In her complaint, victimhas stated that the accusedsexually assaulted her onAugust 14 when she was aloneat her house and later sexual-ly exploited her by threateningher of life. The police registereda case under section 376 and506 of the IPC and nabbed theaccused.

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Croma, India’s first and onlyOmni-channel electronics

retailer from the Tata Grouphas opened its store at DB CityMall, MP Nagar. This large for-mat retail store will fulfill all theneeds of today’s customerswith over 9000+ products andmore than 300 world classbrands to choose from.

The new store is spreadover 10,000 sqft and is designedto empower customers lookingfor the latest in electronicsproducts on display. Tech-savvy staff at the store willguide customers and answertheir queries to help themmake the right choice for theirneeds.

Speaking on media personsat the launch, Ritesh Ghosal,CMO, Croma- Infiniti RetailLtd said, “The people of Bhopalcan now get the Croma expe-rience in their very own city!Since 2006, Croma has been atthe forefront to give every cus-tomer a fulfilling experiencethorough access to the latestand the best gadgets. Our vastrange of gadgets coupled withgreat affordability schemes andassured lifetime service aredesigned to help people accesstheir aspirational lifestyle today.We are sure that Bhopal willappreciate the experience ofshopping at Croma.”

The Croma Privileges pro-gramme gives customers theassurance of life-time service,rewards members with LoyaltyDiscounts and attractiveupgrade benefits; it even offershelp with E-Waste Disposal.

Ritesh Ghosal, CMO,Croma- Infiniti Retail Ltdadded, “Ten Million Cromacustomers are already enjoyingthe privileges of being loyal; inour new cities, we are happy toinvite new customers to join infor the token sum of Rs 101 andenjoy the same privileges.”

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Chief Minister Kamal Nath has directedto include Mandideep, Bhopal Airport

and Pithampur Industrial Area of Indore inBhopal and Indore Metro Project.

These directives were given by Nath ina meeting of the Board of Directors ofMadhya Pradesh Metro Rail LimitedCompany held at Mantralaya. The Ministerfor Public Works Department Sajjan SinghVerma and Minister for Urban Developmentand Housing Jaivardhan Singh were presentat the meeting.

The Chief Minister said that the metrorail should be completed soon by reducingits stipulated time frame. He instructed to re-examine the period of construction processin this regard. Nath said that the construc-tion work should be carried out simultane-ously, so that the project is completed soonand the people of Indore and Bhopal couldavail its benefit at the earliest.

The Chief Minister said to take benefitof Metro project experience and the proce-dure adopted in Delhi in the Bhopal-Indoreproject. Use the technique adopted there.This will accelerate speed of our work andwe will be able to come up with solutions in

advance of the obstacles that came up at thetime of construction of the Delhi Metro.

The Chief Secretary SR Mohanty,Additional Chief Secretary Finance AnuragJain, Additional Chief Secretary PublicWorks Malay Shrivastava, Additional ChiefSecretary Energy Mohammad Suleman,Principal Secretary Urban Developmentand Housing Sanjay Dubey, CommissionerUrban Development P Narhari, ManagingDirector Madhya Pradesh Metro RailCompany Swatantra Kumar Singh and con-cerned officials were present at the meeting.

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Solar geyser plants will beinstalled in 1,008 hostels

and ashram schools this year in15 special backward tribal-dominated districts of the State.A provision of �26 crore hasbeen made in the budget ofTribal Welfare Department forthis work. There are 56 juniorhostels, 531 senior hostels, 39collegiate hostels and 382ashram schools in these areas.

Housing allowance is beingprovided to scheduled tribestudents, who were not able toget accommodation in hostelsin the state. As many as 65,304students in the year 2017-18and 28,470 students in 2018-19were benefitted from thisscheme.

Under the scheme, tribalstudents are being given hous-

ing allowance of Rs 2,000 forthe divisional headquarters,Rs 1,250 for the district head-quarters and Rs 1,000 permonth for block or tehsil head-quarters.

In order to increase thequality of education in remotetribal areas of the state, mod-ern technology is being used instudies and teaching. Thiseffort has also improved theeducation level of tribal stu-dents.

A satellite interactive ter-minal (SIT) center has been setup in 50 educational institu-tions of tribal areas. Direct edu-cation and training is beingprovided in these centers bysubject experts through satel-lite. Action is being taken tomerge the scheme with theVirtual Class Room of NIC thisyear.

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Koh-e-Fiza police havebooked three persons

including a woman for dupinga woman to the tune of �43lakh; victim was sold a propertya house in Koh-e-Fiza usingforged Power of Attorney.

According to the police, theaccused Azam MohammadKhan, his wife Farnaaz andIftekhar had produced forgeddocuments to sell a house andduped the victim ShabnamJahan to the tune of Rs 43 lakh.

After the victim found thatshe was cheated she asked forrefund but the accused refusedand later the victim lodged acomplaint with the police.

In her complaint the victimstated that she wanted to buya house in her name and cameinto contact with the accusedwho assured that they would

facilitated her good house inKoh-e-Fiza area. After it wasdecided they showed her ahouse and she agreed to buythe house which was worth Rs43 lakh. On April 26, 2018 thehouse was sold to the victimbased on the power of attorney.Later when the victim went forthe transfer of ownership it wasfound that document on whichthe house was sold was fake.

The victim found that thereal owner of the house wasRavindra Agrawal and neverprovided the document to sellpower of attorney to theaccused.

After the preliminaryinvestigation the police regis-tered a case under sections 420,467, 468 and 471 of the IPCand started further investiga-tion. The documents of theproperty produced for sellingwould be investigated.

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SaeIndia, a professionalSociety of Automotive

Engineers under the Title spon-sorship of Mahindra &Mahindra Ltd, on Thursdaylaunched 13th edition of themuch awaited BAJA series.The finale will be held at theNATRIP, Pithampur nearIndore from January 23 to 26,2020 and at ChitkaraUniversity, Chandigarh fromMarch 6 to 8, 2020.

Nearly 282 entries from 24states were received for BAJASAEINDIA 2020 from collegesacross India, out of which 200teams were shortlisted for con-ventional BAJA and 56 teamswere shortlisted for e-BAJA inthe virtual round. KC Vora, Sr

Deputy Director of ARAI is theChairman of the OrganizingCommittee, with S Balraj asConvener for Pithampur andShoaib Sadiq as Convener forChandigarh. Eminent person-alities from the automotiveand engineering industry willserve in the panel for the latestedition of Baja SaeIndia.

Eight colleges from Indoreare among the 16 entries fromMadhya Pradesh that havequalified to the finale. For thelast few editions of BAJA series,the maximum number ofentries from Madhya Pradeshhas been from the city ofIndore. Colleges from Indorehave won more awards in thefinale since the last few years,including the Pride of IndoreAward.

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The faculty members ofMadhyanchal Professional

University received specialtraining under FacultyDevelopment Programme. Thesecond session was held onThursday.

A two weeks training hasbeen organised for the facultymembers of MadhyanchalProfessional University for newinformation and skill develop-ment.

Teaching skills also changeaccording to the time anddemand of the industry.Students of institutes who keeptheir faculty members updatedwith these skills not onlybrighten the name of the insti-tute during their studies, butalso gain fame by setting upexcellent placements or ownbusinesses. In view of this, aweek-long faculty development

programme is being organizedin Madhyanchal University.

Under the training sessionpractical knowledge is beingimparted to the faculty mem-bers from practical and region-al approach through differentactivities. This training is heldunder N.S.T.E.B.D, and underDepartment of Signs andTechnology (DST) sponsoredby the Government of India.

The programme beganfrom Monday and will contin-ue for two weeks. In which dif-

ferent types of innovativemethods will be practiced forfaculty members. By joiningsuch training sessions, facultymembers return with knowl-edge of the difficulties in set-ting up the industry and howto face them.

The programme will con-clude on September 28.Madhyanchal ProfessionalUniversity Prof. ChancellorAjit Singh Patel said that theuniversity is taking initiative toprovide good jobs to the stu-dents by sending their facultymembers in similar trainingand guiding them in the direc-tion of setting up their ownbusiness.

Vice Chancellor ofMadhyanchal ProfessionalUniversity, NK Tiwari said thatfaculty members wereinformed about various aspectsrelated to innovation and tech-nical and statutory aspects.

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House of a nurse was tar-geted by miscreants at

Kunal apartments under Koh-e-Fiza police station area andvaluables worth �70,000 wereburgled in the night onWednesday.

The victim Sagratna Pawarfound that the door was openlock was broken when shereturned in the morning onThursday from her mother’shouse in Old Subhash Nagar.

On entering the house vic-tim found that the belongingswere lying on the floor andvaluables were missing. Thealmirah having the valuableswas targeted by the miscreants.

The victim approached thepolice and lodged a complaintstating that she had gone to

meet her mother in OldSubhash Nagar in the night onWednesday and when shereturned in the morning ataround 8 locks were found bro-ken and valuables were miss-ing.

Victim left the housearound 10 pm on Wednesday

and stayed at her mother’shouse in the night. On the nextmorning she returned in themorning only to find that thevaluables are burgled.

Among the valuables fivegold finger rings, one goldchain, one pair gold ear ringsand one pair silver ankletswere burgled claimed the vic-tim.

The valuables burgled wereworth Rs 70000. The victim isposted as staff nurse at KamlaNehru hospital. The CCTVcameras would be investigatedto establish the identity of themiscreants.

Based on the complaintafter the preliminary investi-gation the police have regis-tered a case under sections 457and 380 of the IPC and start-ed further investigation.

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The students of MadhyaPradesh School of Drama

(MPSD) learn new styles oftheatre presentations in everynew session. This time, the stu-dents are preparing the play'Bali’. This play will be pre-sented in Folk Oriya Style.

Expert Dal Govind Rath ishere to teach the students ofMPSD about Oriya Style. Thespecial lectures by began fromSeptember 1. On the first day,he just gave an introductorylecture on folk theatre.

Notably, this play is basedon a story by Govind NathMohanti 'Tatv'. The studentsare all set to stage the play onSeptember 20 i.e. Friday.

During the classes, he told

the students that this play willbe performed on Folk Oriyatheatre style. He said that dur-ing the entire presentation theart of ‘Abhinaya’ will play thevital role.

Through the eyes and thebody movements just like thefolk tales, will be presented. It is to be noted thatthe workshop conducted byDal Govind Rath is much ben-

eficial for students. During theentire workshop, the studentswere taught about the folk tra-dition and how to present thecharacter on stage with effi-ciency. Not only this, but dur-ing the workshop, the studentswill be given information onOriya dance form.

The MPSD students willpresent the on September 20at MPSD Auditorium.

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Adaylong seminar on FiberOptic Technology was held

at Radharaman Group ofInstitutions here on Thursday.Professor Indranil Ghosal,Dean of STL Academy was pre-sent as the speaker on theseminar.

Fiber optic technology ismaking significant progressfor use in many aerial andspace platforms. Many of theseapplications involve integrationinto systems that make exten-sive use of optical fibers forhigh-bandwidth signal trans-mission. Many current air andspace platforms that use fiberoptic systems include com-mercial and military aircraft,unmanned aircraft, theInternational Space Station andseveral NASA and interna-tional space exploration sys-

tems. This information wasgiven by Professor IndranilGhosal, Dean of STL Academy,who has more than twodecades of experience in aseminar organized for studentsof Engineering Second Year inRadharaman Group.

He said Fiber optics (opti-cal fibres) are long, thin strandsof very pure glass about thediameter of a human hair.

They are arranged in bun-

dles called optical cables andused to transmit light signalsover long distances. Cladding- Outer optical material sur-rounding the core that reflectsthe light back into the core.

He said that there are hugecareer possibilities in the fieldof fiber optics. If the studentsgo towards in-depth study ofthis subject, they can not onlyget good package jobs in vari-ous fields from research todevelopment but can also makea good career in the field ofself-employment.

Radharaman GroupChairman RR Saxena said thatcompared to the past, there aremany employment optionsavailable to today's youth.

Therefore, they shouldchoose such subjects accordingto their choice and interest inwhich they can show theirbest talent.

Bhopal: On the occasion of the84th death anniversary of thegreat musician Pandit VishnuNarayan Bhatkhande, a musicalevent was organised at RavindraBhavan on Thursday.

Pandit Srinivasa Joshi, son ofBhimsen Joshi performedPanchnad under the musicalcontext.

He began with Ragin Bihag,Bhajan singing (Tum binMori…) and Thumri (Bhairavi)were prominent amongShrinivas Joshi's singing. Helater also presented devotionalcompositions. His singing com-memorates the rites and tradi-tions of a great musician and hisfather. Srinivasa Joshi seemedvery relaxed and always wellaware and conscious of hisexpression.

He was accompanied byManoj Patidar with him on tabla,Majid Khan on harmonium.

After this mesmerising per-formance, Panchanad was per-formed. The presentation of fivewomen artists of the country wasa melodious and unique experi-ence for the music lovers. ShrutiAdhikari of Bhopal on PanchnadSantoor, Shravani Vishwas ofBanaras on Sitar, AnuttamaMurali of Violin Chennai,Mithali Vinchurkar of Mumbaion Tabla and Ranjani SiddhantiVenkatesh of Bangalore onMridangamperformed with clas-sical harmony with both rhythmand string Created a mesmeriz-ing environment.

The maestros performedAlap in Raga Charukeshi, Gat inRupak Taal, Madhyalaya inTirthal, and Drit Lai Gat for theirperformance.

The audience enjoyed alotand were left totally enthralledwith the outstanding perfor-mance of the artists. SR

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Bhopal: Kamla Nagar policehave booked four personsincluding a woman for black-mailing a 23-year-old girl on thepretext of making her fake mar-riage video public.

The victim was blackmailedby her cousins in the name ofmaking her fake marriage videoviral.

In her complaint victimstated that her cousin PoojaSharma came to her and toldthat marriage scene for web ser-ial has to be shot and she had toplay role of bride for which sheagreed and later they took herto Arya Samaj temple where shemet Prakash Sharma, RajendraSharma and SatyaprakashSharma who sedated her andlater shot the scene of marriage.

The victim remainedunaware of the whole incidentas the marriage was recorded.

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police Vijay Sisodia said that themarriage was shot in the monthof March but accused have notdemanded anything from thevictim and few days ago theystarted to blackmail her afterwhich she lodged a complaintwith the police and startedinvestigation.

The accused belong toRewa and Sidhi. The accusedPooja is real sister ofSatyaprakash while Prakash andRajendra are cousins he added.

With the intent to defameher the accused have sharedvideo and photographs with thefamilies which visited the vic-tim’s house with marriage pro-posal and among their relatives.

The police have registereda case under sections 420,328,384, 506 and 120 B of the IPCagainst the four accused andstarted search for the accused. SR

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Rajya Sabha memberDigvijay Singh is receiving

strong criticism over his state-ment that bhagava clad peopleare raping women inside tem-ples. Some posters came up inBhopal in the night calling forpreventing Digvijay Singh'sentry into the temples.

However, unfazed over thecontroversy, Singh shared anarticle on his Twitter handlewith the header 'the saffronclad rapists', on Thursdaymorning.

It started when Singh whileattending a conclave of saintsin Bhopal on Tuesday headremarked that some bhagavaclad men are disrespectingSanatan Dharma adding thatsome clad in bhagava robeswere raping women in temples.

BJP and RSS had reacted

sharply to the statement andone of the MLAs VishwasSarang had called for banningDigvijay Singh from enteringtemples claiming that he hasdisrespected saints.

Incidentally, the posterscalling for ban on Digvijay'sentry into appeared in the Citymysteriously on the interven-ing night of Wednesday and

Thursday. Interestingly thoseputting up posters did notidentify them in the publicitymaterial.

Meanwhile not holdingback after his bhagava remark,Singh shared and article ' thesaffron clad rapists' on hisTwitter handle on Thursdayand the article when clickedoffers a link to Indian NationalCongress website and was per-haps uploaded in August lastyear.

The article has a detaileddata on BJP leaders facing sex-ual assault allegations in lastfew years.

Singh had also sharedanother link of a YouTubechannel ‘Online news India' inwhich a social activistBhupendra Rawat is speakingon sexual assault charges onformer BJP minister SwamiChinmayanand.

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Chief Minister Kamal Nathhas said that Gandhiji's

views, philosophy and princi-ples have to be spread fromhouse to house. Our basic goalshould be to make the youngergeneration understand andadopt Gandhiji's personalityand accomplishments. Nathwas addressing the committeeconstituted for various activi-ties being organized by the

Madhya Pradesh Governmenton the 150th anniversary ofMahatma Gandhi, the Father ofthe Nation at Mantralaya today.

The Chief Minister, KamalNath said that Gandhiji's viewshave always been relevant toour country and will continueto be relevant even today andin future too. He said, in the erathrough which India is passingtoday, it is most importantthat we should spread GandhiJi's principles and the values

established by him among thepeople and make sure thatpeople adopt it. He said that wecannot cover Gandhi Ji’s per-sonality in one year, but ourefforts will always be to spreadGandhi Ji’s views among thepeople. For this permanentprogrammes have to be pre-pared.

Nath mentioned that onthe 150th birth anniversary ofGandhi Ji, all our activitiesshould not be limited only totelevision and publication innewspapers. We have to payspecial attention that his viewsand its relevance to the presenttime should reach youngergeneration, he added.

Nath said that that intoday's meeting, we shouldwork out a comprehensivedraft as to how can we imple-ment our ideas devoted toGandhi Ji. A meeting will beheld again in the last week ofOctober to present the outlineon conducting permanent pro-gramme on Gandhi Ji’s philos-ophy, religious harmony andhis particular thoughts on sec-ularism and national unity.On this basis, we will work tospread Mahatma Gandhi’sviews and principles among thepeople of Madhya Pradesh.

During the meeting, themembers of the Committeegave important suggestions onhow Gandhi Ji’s values of com-munal harmony, national unity,views towards the welfare of allclasses and religions, philoso-phy, principles and valuesshould be spread in cities aswell as villages.

All the Members said inone voice that MahatmaGandhi's thoughts and princi-ples are the most needed intoday's era.

Former Chief MinisterDigvijay Singh suggested forspreading main tools of GandhiJi used by him in the freedom,

through which he generatednew conscience in youth,women, tribals and scheduledcastes along with his philoso-phy for Khadi among the peo-ple on the occasion of 150thbirth anniversary.

He suggested to conductpadyatra focusing JungleSatyagrah in forest areas, pady-atra in rural areas on the con-cept of Gram Swaraj, to nameschools after the name ofMahatma Gandhi and to uselogo of 150th anniversary ofGandhi Ji in all newsletters andadvertisement of the govern-ment and to inscribe his quo-tations in schools.

Besides, he gave sugges-tions to impose ban on peoplespreading hatred in the society,to play Ramdhun and famousprayer “Ishwar Allah TereNaam-Sabko Sanmati DeBhagwan’ of Gandhi Ji, prayerof Gandhi Ji in all government’sprogramme and to give specialpromotion of Khadi produc-tion. He told to make specialefforts to free youth from intox-ication on the basis of GandhiJi’s thoughts. Shri Singh alsotold to publicize Gandhi Ji’sthoughts through social mediaand to include lesson of GandhiJi in text books of high schoolsyllabus.

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On the complaint of physi-cal abuse and sexual

harassment with a minor, spe-cial judge, Protection ofChildren from Sexual Offences(POCSO), Rama Pandey, hasordered the Dalanwala policestation in-charge to file a caseagainst three Bharatiya JanataParty members.

Pleader for the victim,advocate Amit Tomar said,“The victim minor was madevice president of district YuvaPrakoshth in Tehri Garhwal.Due to some minor argumentwith these self-proclaimedleaders of the party, he was sub-jected to physical abuse andsexual harassment at the party’sMahanagar office in Dehradun.He was also threatened bythem. Despite this, the policedid not register the case of thisjuvenile immediately. FromMay 11 till this date, the casehas not been registered due towhich we had to knock thedoors of court.”

According to the minorcomplainant, on April 28, dur-ing the Lok Sabha elections, hewent to the BJP State presidentAjay Bhatt’s home, where hispersonal secretary Om Prakashverbally abused him, snatchedhis phone and told him to getout of the premises.

On May 11, complainant’sneighbour Saurabh Kapur toldhim that he has been called toMahanagar office to return hisphone, but on reaching theoffice, Om Prakash, SurabhYadav and Mahanagar presi-dent Shyam Pant startedthrashing him.

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Amidst the increasing rest-lessness in common people

regarding the Motor Vehicles(Amendment) Act 2019,Regional Transport Officer(RTO) Dinesh Pathoi said thatthe rules have not been madeto harass public or to generaterevenue, but to ensure the safe-ty of all citizens whether theyare driving, riding or simplywalking down the road.

He also said that as per hisknowledge, about 100 applica-tions for starting PollutionUnder Control (PUC) centresare going through the processin State Transport Authority’soffice, so people do not need topanic.

Pathoi said, “There is amessage we want to convey tothe common people that therules are not made to harassthem. Some people also think

that authorities and officers aregetting relaxation and the pub-lic are being forced to followthe rules.

To those people, I want toclarify that if any officer or per-son responsible for enforcingthe traffic law and road safetymeasures is found violatingthe law, there is provision in thenew MV Act that they will bepenalised double the amountthat is being charged from thegeneral public. For example, incase a common man is foundin drunken state while drivingor riding he will be chargedwith �10,000 penalty but if thesame offence was done by anRTO, he or she will be liable topay �20,000.

So, the penalties mightlook heavy to some people, butfor transport and police offi-cials who are responsible toimpose MV Act, it is heavier.”

When asked about the lim-

ited number of PUC centres, hesaid, “Earlier there were only 15or 16 PUC centres because only10 per cent of the people wereactually following rules. Sothere was no requirement formore centres.

Now, that the Governmenthas increased the penalty, peo-ple are rushing to these centres.We agree that the number ofPUC centres operational atpresent is not enough, but weare working on it.

The work to complete theapplication procedure is beingdone as soon as possible.”

It is pertinent to mentionhere that RTO Pathoi will beissuing an order to all enforce-ment officers of the office forstrictly abiding by the trafficrules like wearing helmet andputting on seat-belt, whilechecking. Failing to do so willresult in them paying doublethe penalty.

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Since the imposition ofMotor Vehicles

(Amendment) Act 2019 fromSeptember 1, citizens inDehradun have been runningtowards Pollution UnderControl (PUC) centres,Regional Transport Office andinsurance companies to getthe paperwork done. The salesof helmets have also increasedrapidly but at the same time, alot of parents are still givingtheir juvenile children two-wheelers to ride.

These students can be seenriding two wheelers withoutwearing helmet to and fromschool. When asked about theissue Regional TransportOfficer (RTO) Dinesh Pathoisaid that they have sent a let-ter to education secretaryregarding the matter and haverequested to inculcate the roadsafety measures in the educa-tion of school children.

He also said that theregional transport office willalso be taking strict measuresfrom their end soon.

Pathoi said, “A letter hasbeen sent to the education sec-retary regarding this issue.We are hopeful, that theschools will start conductingspecial classes or teaching stu-dents about road safety mea-sures during the morningassembly. It is essential for ourfuture generation to under-stand that road safety mea-

sures should not be ignoredbut inculcated in our dailyroutines. These measuredshould become a part of ourhabit. Parents also need tounderstand that by givingtheir juvenile a vehicle to driveor ride, you are not onlyputting life of your child atrisk, but also of those who areoperating on the road or justwalking.”

One of the commuters onMohini Road said, “The stu-dents of the school situatednearby park their vehicles not10 paces from the schoolpremises. So, one can assumethat the school authoritiesknow that these underage chil-dren are riding two wheelers.School authorities should alsobe liable for this issue.

The problem is that untilthere is a big accident where

the issue will get highlighted,authorities and parents bothwill never realise the impor-tance of road safety measures.”

It is pertinent to mentionhere that, according to theinformation provided by traf-fic directorate, about 1,866challans have been issued sofar to the minors riding or dri-ving in the State from themonth of January to Augustthis year, while one accidentcase has been reported in thesame offence resulting in thedeath of one person.

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Two people died in two sep-arate road accidents late

night on Wednesday. The firstaccident happened nearMaharana Pratap Sports col-lege and the other accident hap-pened at Niranjapur Mandi.

In the first accident, thedeceased has been identified asSandeep Maithani (30), a nativeof Chamoli. He was a soldier inBorder Security Force (BSF)and had come on holiday to visithis in-laws in Raipur. Accordingto the information provided bythe police, this was a classic hitand run case. Late night, Raipurpolice received informationabout an unidentified vehicle hit-ting a man near sports college.

He was taken to the com-munity health centre at Raipurfrom where due to his criticalcondition, he was referred toMahant Indiresh Hospital, wherehe succumbed to his injuries.

In the second accident, thedeceased has been identified asAsgar (65), a resident ofHaridwar. He reportedly came tovisit his daughter and was in ane-rickshaw with his son-in-lawat the time of accident.

As per the information pro-vided by local police, Patelnagarpolice station received informa-tion that a private car hit an e-rickshaw at Niranjanpur Mandi.

Due to the impact of the col-lision, the e-rickshaw flippedover, causing one passengersevere injuries.

He was taken to the nearesthospital, where he was declareddead. The car and the driver arein police custody.

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Jamshedpur Durga PujaKendriya Samiti (JDPKS),

the apex body which monitorsDurga Puja, has asked pujacommittees to ensure installa-tion of CCTV cameras in pujapandals for strict vigil. " Wehave asked all puja committeesfor ensuring incident freeDurga Puja.

The Puja organisers havebeen also asked to make prop-er provisions for meeting anyfire mishap," said Ram BabuSingh, general secretary ofJDPKS.

He said that all communi-ty pujas irrespective of theirbudget will have to installCCTV cameras and constant-ly monitor and record themovements of the public.Notably, JDPKS which is mon-itoring the Pujas in steel city formany years now earlier used toask only prominent pandals

that drew massive crowds toinstall CCTV camers, but sincelast year the body is asking evenmodest puja committees forinstalling the safety gadget.

The city for last severalyears has been witnessing theswell in the strength of the pujarevellers and at the same timemany of the puja pandals havebeen installing CCTV's forobvious purpose without anyintervention of the law enforc-ing agencies.

Most big-budget pandals,such as the ones by ThakurPyara Singh Dhurender SinghClub and Sonari Central DurgaPuja Committee, already useCCTVs.

However, Sabuj KalyanSangh and JamshedpurSarbojanin Durga PujaCommittee (Bengal Club),which also attract people inlarge numbers, are not well-monitored.

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Cases of either ill mainte-nance or no maintenance

of parents and senior citizensare on the rise in povertystricken Palamu.

Officer in charge of aremote police station Manatu60 Kms away fromDaltonganj Santosh KumarSingh said, “There is hardlyany day here when aggrievedparents & senior citizens donot come to our police stationfor our intervention in mat-ter of their ( read parents/senior citizens) being neglect-ed and humiliated and aremercilessly left to their fate.”

The grievances of par-ents are that their sons do notcare for their food, medi-cine, comfort and basic dig-nity of their normal livingsaid police officer Singh. “Wehave an ASI of police Kamlesh

Pd Sinha who acts as a coun-selor and tries hard to con-ciliate between the children(read sons & daughters) andthe parents.

There are hard nut sons,who do not yield to concilia-tion and for such hardenedsouls we have some threaten-ing tones to tame them,” saidSingh.

Sources said complaintsof this nature from parents &senior citizens used to reachthe Kangaroo courts of theCPI Maoists cal led JanAdalats in the past but with asharp decline of Maoists’influence and control overrural masses these complaintsof suffering parents andsenior citizens now reachpolice stations in the leftwing extremist hit districtPalamu.

Secretary of Palamu dis-trict legal services authority(DLSA) Ashok Kumar said,“There is Maintenance andWelfare of Parents and SeniorCitizens Act 2007 for suchparents and senior citizens,who are meted out raw deal-ing and treatment.” Kumarsaid, “Not many parents andsenior citizens know aboutthis legal protection for them.

There is an utter lack ofawareness about this Act andits provisions which safe-guard their right to lead anormal life.” He agreed therewould be done legal aware-ness camps on this vital issue.Kumar said if a parent has noson and adult daughter ordaughters then it enjoinsupon the daughter to main-tain her parent and she can-not shirk this moral and legalobligation to parent.

The DLSA Secretary saidthat aggrieved parents seniorcitizens can seek legal pro-tection for their maintenancefrom sub divisional magis-trate ( read SDO) but this isnot known to large number ofpeople.

The Act has defined par-ent as father or motherwhether biological, adoptive,step father/ step mother andsenior citizen as one who hasattained the age of sixty yearsand above.

Ill maintenance or denialof maintenance of parentsand senior citizens is a cog-nizable offence and bailabletoo but the SDM is empow-ered to issue warrant againstthe offending children whoneglect their parents etc.

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Avery unique conservation exercisehas been put in practice in

Kendrapada district involving weaver-birds, humans and palm trees. Muchenthusiastic response has been shown bypeople from many villages which in thecoming years will address many problems.

For these, functions were organised invarious villages located in Kendrapada,Patamundei and Mahakalpada blocks.Certificates were also distributed amongparticipants in the programme‘Weaverbirds Odisha Count 2019’. TheWild Orissa organised them, speciallylaunched for conservation of weaverbirdsand their habitats.

As part of the programme, the peoplewere sensitised about the requirements ofweaverbird species and their conservation.

It may be recalled that in an unprece-dented mobilisation of human resourcesfor the cause of wildlife conservation in theIndian context, 560 persons participatedvoluntarily in surveying and countingweaverbirds in the just-concluded OdishaWeaverbird Count 2019 conducted by theWild Orissa along with the Odisha Chapterof Indian Bird Conservation Network.Three species of weaverbirds, belonging to

the family Ploceidae, are found in Odisha,viz., Baya Weaver Ploceus Philippinus,Streaked Weaver Ploceus Manyar andBlack-Breasted Weaver or Black-ThroatedWeaver Ploceus Benghalensis.

The number of birds found is BayaWeaver Ploceus philippinus (15,331),Streaked Weaver Ploceus manyar (3,000),Black-Breasted Weaver Ploceus beng-halensis (35).

The total weaver birds counted during2019 in Odisha was 18,366, an increase of6,690 over 2018, which is an all time recordfor the State as well as the highest for anyState in the country this year!

Kendrapada reported only 300 BayaWeaver birds and 140 nests this year.

The census showed as to how dam-aging cyclone Fani has been on the breed-ing habitats of weaver species. Cutting ofpalm trees and date palm trees and toddyextraction from date palm trees by peoplewas a reason as to why weavers faced prob-lems in nest building.

Urban and semiurban areas in Odishaare becoming devoid of such trees due towhich weaverbirds are finding it difficultto nest due to non-availability of propertrees.

Being a species which predominant-ly inhabits human-dominated landscapes,it is extremely important to have local peo-

ple's support for their conservation. Withthese findings what was attempted inKendrapada district by the Wild Orissa wasunique: To engage and mobilize people ina similar manner as during the countingexercise and to plant and adopt palm trees.Planting palm trees was a traditionalpractice in villages in Odisha, but now dis-continued over years due to emphasis onurbanisation and development.

The important question of palm treesbeing able to mitigate against an everincreasing human deaths by lightningstrikes gained credence. 1,256 humandeaths due to lightning have taken placein Odisha in the last three years, most ofthem (about 85%) in the May-Septemberperiod, accounting for about 27 per centof the total number of ‘disaster deaths’.

Serious discussions, communicationand sincerity in efforts witnessed peoplefrom all walks of life, viz., elected repre-sentatives, teachers, students, agricultur-ists, small business, small entrepreneurs,fishermen, homemakers, etc., to involvethemselves with the story of palm trees,humans and weaverbirds. People wereexplained the interconnectivity and link-ages between weaverbirds, human beingsand palm trees and the need for survivalfor each of them.

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BRAHMAPUR: President ofIndia and Armed ForcesSupreme Commander RamNath Kovind would awardPresident’s Colours to theArmy Air Defence Corps dur-ing a ceremonial parade to heldat the Gopalpur MilitaryStation here on September 28.

The President’s Colours isthe highest military honour forarmed forces organisation.Selection for the ward is basedon corps’ performance and achieve-ments during both peace andhostilities. The selected organ-isation is honoured for meri-torious services rendered bythem for a period of 25 offi-cers. General Bipin Rawat, LtGeneral Ashwani Kumar, LtGeneral AP Singh and otherhigh ranking officers will wit-ness the ceremony.

Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal and ChiefMinister Naveen Patnaik arelikely to grace the occasion. PNS

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With less than two monthsto go for historic 550th

prakash purb of Guru NanakDev, Punjab Chief MinisterCapt Amarinder Singh onThursday took stock of ongo-ing construction work forKartarpur corridor, while sanc-tioning �75.23 crores forwidening and strengtheningof the major roads leading tothis iconic town.

The Chief Minister alsoapproved Rs 3.70 crores for theconstruction of a HeritageStreet and Food Street for themega event, while issuing aseries of directives to variousdepartments for ensuring time-ly completion of all develop-ment works for the celebration.

At the same time, theShiromani Aklai Dal ridiculedthe Chief Minister for “forcibly”making “on-the-spot and fakeannouncement” of projectsworth �75 crore. “Theannouncements were madewithout realising that the com-pletion of these projects injust about seven weeks, includ-ing the construction of quali-ty roads leading to the main sitebefitting the sanctity and sig-nificance of the occasion,would be impossible and non-practicable,” said SAD MLA

and former minister BikramSingh Majithia.

Accompanied by hisCabinet colleagues, the ChiefMinister inspected theKartarpur Corridor construc-tion works at the Indo-Pak bor-der, including the IntegratedCheck Post (ICP) constructionproject, where he interactedwith the construction workers.

He was apprised about theupcoming passenger terminalat ICP, which would have totalcapacity of 5000-10000 andwould be fully equipped withultra-modern facilities.

Chairing the third meetingof Dera Baba NanakDevelopment Authority(DBNDA), constituted toensure holistic developmentof historic town associatedwith the first Sikh Guru, theChief Minister directed all topofficials to ensure timely com-pletion of the various projectsrelated to the 550th prakash

purb celebrations.Capt Amarinder asked the

Principal Secretary CivilAviation to take up the issue ofspecial chartered flights fromLondon and other Europeancountries to Amritsar for facil-itation of the devotees settledabroad.

He also asked the con-cerned officials to take up withthe Indian Railways the issue ofincrease in frequency of specialtrains to the city during the his-toric occasion.

Reviewing the status ofthe work connected with therequisite basic amenities, logis-tics and infrastructure works inthe adjoining 12 villages, CaptAmarinder directed the offi-cials to ensure timely arrange-ments to facilitate the millionsof devotees expected to con-verge at the historic city for thehistoric event.

During the meeting, theChief Principal Secretary toCM Suresh Kumar said thatthough works to the tune of�450 crores had been initiatedat Sultanpur Lodhi, Batala andGurdaspur, it was necessary tokeep in place a contingencyplan to ensure that the devoteesexperience no problems duringtheir visit. The official pro-gramme for the main eventshould also be released soon, hesuggested.

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Rajnath Singh on Thursdaybecame the first Defence

Minister to fly in the indige-nously designed and built Tejaslight combat aircraft (LCA)Tejas. A "thrilled" Singhdescribed the 30-minute expe-rience as "one of the mostmemorable events my life." Heeven controlled and flew theaircraft for full two minutes inthe two-seater jet which under-took the sortie at the HindustanAeronautics Limited (HAL)air-port in Bengaluru.

Incidentally, his predeces-sors George Fernandes andNirmala Sitharaman had flownin MIG-21 and SU-30 respec-tively. But no Defence Ministerso far had flown in the Tejaswhich is now in the process ofinduction in the IAF with abatch of 40 jets. The inductionwill boost the air defence capa-bilities of the force.

After the sortie, Singh saidhe chose the aircraft because itwas built indigenously anddescribed the flying experienceas thrilling. "Flight verysmooth, comfortable, I wasthrilled. It was one of the mostmemorable events of my life,"said the 68-year-old Singh afteralighting from the aircraft.

"This is an indigenousplane. So, it came naturally tome to fly in Tejas and experi-ence the flying. It was also tocheck under what conditionsdo our fighter pilots fly these

aircraft. This is why I flew inthis aircraft," the Minister said.

Wearing a G suit, holdinghis helmet under his arms andsporting aviator glasses, Singh looked every inch afighter pilot.

Visibly impressed by theperformance of the planewhich over the years cameunder lot of criticism due torepeated delays thereby addingto the cost of the first indige-nously designed fighter jet,Singh said, "I want to congrat-ulate HAL, DRDO and sever-al agencies concerned. We have reached a level wherewe can export fighter planesacross the world...Countriesin South East Asia have showninterest in purchasing Tejasaircraft," he said.

An official said theMinister also "controlled" andflew the aircraft for around twominutes. However, the minis-ter said he was following

orders."But those two minuteswere memorable," he said. Ina tweet, Singh said: "The 'G-Suit' and 'Tejas': It was a mem-orable experience. Thank you@IAF_MCC @HALHQBLR &@DRDO_India for this proudmoment."

"Special thanks to AVM, NTiwari, who is also the ProjectDirector, National Flight TestCentre, ADA (AeronauticalDevelopment Agency) for thesortie," he said. Air ViceMarshal Tiwari, who is the alsothe Project Director, NationalFlight Test Centre, AeronauticalDevelopment Agency (ADA),Bengaluru, flew the aircraft.

Talking about his experi-ence of flying with the DefenceMinister, Tiwari said, "RakshaMantri (Defence Minister) wasflying the aircraft in the air (for2 minutes), and he liked it. Wewent all the way up to 2 to 2.5g.But I was showing him moreavionics and sophisticated sys-tems that we have on board likelaser designation pod, usingwhich you can pick up targetseven from 20-25 km away."

When a person is standingstill on earth, the amount offorce exerted by earth's gravi-tational field is "one g". Fighterpilots have to bear higher num-ber of g's as they fly at highspeed and altitude.

Tiwari said the Ministerwas very happy with the flyingquality, "the smoothness, thecontrols, and the way the air-craft was flying".

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Union Minister PrakashJavadekar on Thursday

claimed there is no financialcrisis in India and theGovernment has taken all nec-essary steps and fundamentalsof economy are strong.

"To make the economystronger, the Government hastaken all measures and I wantto say that the fundamentals ofthe country's economy arestrong. We are not in any cri-sis. Some reactions from non-banking financial companies(NBFCs) are there. But we areaddressing all issues," he told apress conference at his resi-dence here.

As to the Congress's attackon the Government for havingthe upcoming event 'HowdyModi' in Houston, USA despitean economic slowdown,Javadekar said the Congresswould never get such an oppor-tunity like Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

"The stadium is alreadyhouseful for the 'Howdy Modi'event. Congress has never gotthis much popularity and willnever get. I can only say thatgrapes are sour," said Javadekar,who is the minister of infor-

mation and broadcasting andenvironment and climatechange.

The Minister also took aswipe at former MadhyaPradesh Chief MinisterDigvijay Singh for his "saffron-clad rapists" remark, sayingeven the Congress does nottake him seriously.

"Even Congress does notgive importance to him. Whyshould we react? We have seenhis mentality after the Mumbaiterror attacks. Since then he hasbeen making such statements,"he said.

Singh on Tuesday made acontroversial remark at anevent in Bhopal that people insaffron clothes were commit-ting rapes, even in temples. Acase has reportedly been lodgedagainst the Congress leaderfor making such an allegation.

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Ending the suspense over theappointment of the new

IAF Chief days before incum-bent BS Dhanoa retires onSeptember 30, the Governmenton Thursday announced thatpresent Vice Chief Air MarshalRKS Bhadauria will be thenext Air force Chief. He is thesenior most officer afterDhanoa. However, he was set toretire the same day as Dhanoaafter attaining the age of 60.Bhadauria will now head theIAF for two years.

An experienced fighterpilot, Bhadauria had led thenegotiations with Franceregarding the Rafale fighter jetdeal. It is a Government togovernment contract for buy-ing 36 jets worth over � 60,000crores. The first plane will behanded over to IAF in Franceon October 8 and the entirefleet of jets will be inducted by2022.

As the Deputy Chief of IAF,Air Marshal Bhadauria playedan important role during thecontract negotiations for 36Rafale jets. Due to his role inthe negotiations, the first Rafalebuilt by Dassault Aviation forthe IAF, a two-seater variant,which made its maiden flightlast year in France is designat-ed with his name as RB-008.The RB-008 is an instrument-ed aircraft and will be used toincorporate, test and validatethe 13 Indian SpecificModifications (ISE). It will alsobe the 36th aircraft to be deliv-ered to the in 2022, 67 months

after the contract was signed.Bhadauria was commis-

sioned into the fighter streamof IAF in June 1980, and hasheld various Command, Staffand Instructional appointmentsat various levels including thepresent one as Vice Chief of AirStaff.

He has over 4,250 hours ofexperience on twenty six typesof fighters and transport air-craft with the unique distinc-tion of being an ExperimentalTest Pilot, a Cat 'A' QualifiedFlying Instructor and a PilotAttack Instructor.

During his nearly four-decade career, Bhadauria com-manded a Jaguar squadronand a premier Air ForceStation. He was also the ChiefTest Pilot and Project Directorof the National Flight TestCentre on Light CombatAircraft (LCA) project. He wasextensively involved

in the initial prototypeflight tests on the LCA.

Present IAF Chief andChairman Chiefs of StaffCommittee (CCSC) Air ChiefMarshal BS Dhanoa will passon the CCSC baton to ArmyChief General Bipin Rawatwho would then be the seniormost Service Chief. GeneralRawat retires in December.

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The Singh brothers, Digvijay and Lakshman,on Thursday put the Congress in a spot with

their statements. While Digvijay alleged that"people donning saffron robes were committingrapes", a remark from which the Congress dis-tanced itself, his brother Lakshman asked for-mer party chief Rahul Gandhi to apologise tothe farmers as the promised loan waiver to themhas not materialised so far.

However, the Congress was more embar-rassed due to the remark of Lakshman, a partyMLA. "Farm loans were not waived even aftereight months, let alone ten days," LakshmanSingh said.

Rahul Gandhi, speaking at a farmers' rallyat Mandsaur in June 2018, had promised loanwaiver within 10 days of the Congress comingto power in the then BJP-ruled state. InNovember 2018 assembly elections, the Congressousted the BJP from power and formed gov-ernment after 15 years.

"Farmers are going to banks with waiver cer-tificates issued by the state government. But thebanks are refusing to waive the loans, saying theyhaven't received money from the government.Rahul Gandhi should return to the same plat-form where he had promised to implement loanwaiver within ten days if elected to power, andapologise to the people," said Lakshman, a five-time MP and currently MLA from Chanchoda..

"This (apology) would make his (Rahul's)

stature taller. He should also clarify how longit will take to waive all farm loans, as promised,"added Lakshman. The Kamal Nath governmentin the state needs to arrange Rs 45,000 crore tofulfill the promise of loan waiver and it may takeup to two years, he claimed.

His elder brother, Digvijay kicked up a rowby saying that people donning "saffron robes"are committing rapes which are taking place in"temples", and thus defaming the SanatanDharma (ancient religion). Some anonymousposters have also come up in Bhopal against him,demanding a ban on his entry to Hindu religiousplaces. He said that such acts are "unforgivable".

Though Singh did not take names, his com-ments come close on the heels of a SupremeCourt-appointed Special Investigation Team(SIT) probing allegations of rape levelled againstBJP leader Swami Chinmayanand by a law stu-dent in Uttar Pradesh.

The Congress said a criminal should bepenalised on the basis of the crime committedand should not be judged by the clothes wornor the religion followed.

"We heard about the comment. I don't knowin what context it was made. But, the partythinks that criminals do not get affected by therobes they don. Criminals are independent ofwhat they wear, what their beliefs are." "A crim-inal is a criminal and should be seen by the crimecommitted and not by the clothes worn or reli-gion one belongs to," Congress Secretary PranavJha told the reporters.

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In its bid to create awarenessacross the country on the

"positive impact" on strippingJammu & Kashmir of its auton-omy accorded to it by Article370 , the BJP has planned 10meetings of its senior leadersand Union Ministers in theState, including a large gather-ing in Srinagar, the State Capital.

The Modi-Governmenthas done away with Article 370and Article 35-A, pertaining tothe exclusive residency rights ofthe Kashmiri natives, by a voteof Parliament on August 05.

The 'Jan- Jagran Abhiyan'

(public awareness campaign)launched for the purpose wouldtake National party leaders,MPs, MLAs and Ministers todifferent parts of the countryincluding Jammu & Kashmir.

Under the programme, theparty has decided to organise370 small indoor meetings and35 big meetings, signifyingArticle 350 and Article 35 A,across the country, includingsix in Jammu and Kashmir.

BJP President Amit Shahwould lead party campaign inMumbai on September 22.Defence Minister RajnathSingh and other UnionMinisters will take part in the

party's rally on the eve ofMaharaja Hari Singh's 125thbirthday on Sunday at Jammu.

Besides the general public,these meetings will target opin-ion-makers and influential per-sonalities from different walksof life. Two meetings have beenheld in Udhampur and Kathuain Jammu & Kashmir and goingby the response, it has beendecided to organise four moresuch meetings, party leaderssaid. Union Minister JitendraSingh had addressed the meet-ings in Kathua and Udhampur,the source said, adding thatthree more meetings are sched-uled for this month.

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The Centre is consideringproviding insurance cover

of � 4 lakh each to over 40,000panch and sarpanch in Jammu& Kashmir due to their vul-nerability to terror threats.The Union Home Ministry isalso planning to educate theleaders of the lowest level of theelected bodies on the centrallaws and other facilities to beapplicable and available inJammu & Kashmir after theabrogation of Article 370 pro-visions.

"We are examining theproposal to provide insurancecover of �4 lakh to all Panchand Sarpanch in Jammu &Kashmir," a senior Home

Ministry official said. The move comes after a

delegation of panch andsarpanch of Jammu & Kashmirmet Union Home MinisterAmit Shah recently andrequested him for the insurancecover due to the terror threatsto them.

The delegation hadsought an insurance cover ofRs 2 lakh each to the Panchand Sarpanch, but the centralgovernment is planning togive them the cover of Rs 4lakh each, the officials said.The panchayat elections inJammu & Kashmir were heldlate last year in which over40,000 Panch and Sarpanchwere elected to these localbodies.

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The Agriculture Ministryhopes to get the Parliament's

nod to two long-pending Billson pesticide management andseeds in the next session. ThePesticide Management Bill thatwill replace the InsecticidesAct, 1968 seeks to regulate the

pesticide sector by fixing pricesand setting up of a regulatoryauthority while the Seeds Bill,which will replace the Seeds Act1966, seeks to regulate the pro-duction, distribution and sale ofseeds. The Bill was put on holdin 2015 after it drew flak onenabling provision for geneti-cally modified crops.

Minister of State forAgriculture Parshottam Rupalaon Thursday said that the gov-ernment is pursuing them veryseriously. I hope they will bepassed in the next session ofParliament. The government isconcerned about sale of spuri-ous seeds and pesticides. TheseBills aim to address this issue

as well, he said at an event. On the draft of the Pesticide

Management Bill, officials inthe agriculture ministry said,the government would consti-tute an authority which shall fixthe price at which notified pes-ticides are to be sold. Currently,there is no mechanism to reg-ulate the pricing and farmers

are at the mercy of companies.The new law will be in line withthe international norms beingpractised by global leaders.

As per the proposed law,pesticide companies will haveto pay a huge penalty of Rs25,000 to Rs 50 lakh - up to awhopping 70 times than theexisting provision of Rs 500-

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New Delhi: Security forcesdeployed in the anti-Naxalcombat grid have launched amassive operation to find outand defuse IEDs as over 260troops have either been killedor injured in these blasts in thelast about three years, officialssaid Thursday.

They said the decision hasbeen taken after it was seen thatMaoists were increasingly rely-ing on Improvised ExplosiveDevices (IEDs) to target secu-rity force personnel deployed inthe Left Wing Extremism(LWE) combat grid.

As per the latest dataaccessed by PTI, over 73 secu-rity personnel have been killedin IED blasts in various statesover the last three years timewhile more than 179 have beeninjured.

The data pertains to the

period between 2017 andAugust this year.

The maximum such fataland non-fatal casualties havetaken place in the centralIndian state of Chhattisgarhthat is stated to be the worst-Naxal violence-affected state bysecurity forces, owing to thehigh casualty rate of forces.

"A massive operation isbeing conducted to seek anddestroy IEDs in various LWEaffected states. The CRPF, othercentral armed police forces(CAPFs) and state police forceshave been sensitized about thethreat posed by these con-cealed bombs," a senior secu-rity official based here said.

The number of IED blastincidents has also been more-or-less the same overthe last three years' time peri-od, he said.

The data shows that whilea total of 43 such incidents tookplace in 2017, they rose to 79

last year and over 51 have been recorded till Augustthis year.

Similarly, 6 civilians werekilled in these Naxal triggeredblasts in 2017, 8 last year and three have lost their livesthis year.

"The Naxals are now notgetting into one-to-one battlewith forces as their combatstrength has depleted along

with their weaponry andammunition. The sustainedoperations by the CRPF andother forces have surely takena huge toll on them.

"They are hence looking tohit the security forces throughIEDs which ensures that theydo not have to face the forces,"CRPF Deputy InspectorGeneral (DIG) MosesDhinakaran said.

The Central Reserve PoliceForce is the lead security forcefor anti-Naxal operations in thecountry and has deployed closeto a lakh troops for this task invarious states.

The force has recoveredover 1,500 IEDs during thesame time period, the data said,with 830 being in 2017, 425 lastyear and the rest during thisyear. Small teams comprisingexplosive detection dogs andpersonnel equipped with deepsearch detectors have beendeployed for the latest opera-tion, an official based inChhattisgarh said.

"We do not have gadgets orequipments that can detect ahidden IED in all cases but vul-nerable areas have beenmapped and an extensive driveis on to seek these bombs outand destroy them in a con-trolled manner," theChhattisgarh-based officeradded. PTI

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The 16-year-old girl haschallenged the high courtorder, saying that as per theMohammedan Law, once afemale attains the age of puber-ty, that is 15 years, she is independent to take deci-sions for her life and is com-petent to marry any one of herown choice.

When the matter came upfor hearing before a bench ofJustices NV Ramana and Ajay Rastogi, the counselappearing for the State, sought time to file a responseon the petition.

"Let the chief secretaryappear (in court). Then hewill understand the seriousness of the matter," thebench said in an oral observation.

Later, the bench sum-moned the home secretary

of Uttar Pradesh and directedhim to personally appear beforeit on September 23.

The top court noted in its order that despite grantingtime to the state's counsel for filing reply on the plea, the lawyer has not receivedproper instruction from the department concerned.

"We are forced to compelthe appearance of SecretaryHome (of Uttar Pradesh) toappear personally before uson Monday (September 23),"the bench said. PTI

.$�����������������������������+/���������������0�� ���������������New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Thursday refused tokeep in abeyance the non-bailable warrant (NBW) issuedagainst the superintendent ofdistrict jail of Gautam BuddhNagar in Uttar Pradesh forreleasing an accused fromprison despite the apex courtorder cancelling his bail.

The matter was mentioned

before a bench comprisingJustices N V Ramana and AjayRastogi and the counselappearing for the jail superin-tendent said the officer wouldappear before the court onSeptember 23 as directed by thetop court, but the NBW shouldbe kept in abeyance till then.

"Let him come (before thecourt)," the bench said.

The lawyer, while sayingthat the superintendent hadcommitted a mistake, againurged that the NBW be kept inabeyance.

"No. Let him appear.Nothing will happen till then.You are admitting that you haveviolated the order. I am notgoing to change my order,"Justice Ramana said. PTI

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It’s almost been two months since PrimeMinister Narendra Modi upset thePakistani applecart by amending Article370 of the Constitution and dividing theerstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir

(J&K) into two Union Territories. To suggestthat the Pakistani leadership has gone ballis-tic, as it finds itself scrambling to come up witha coherent policy to counter Modi’s initiative,would be an understatement. Of course, with-in the Valley, stringent security measures thathave been in place since August 5, have notjust prevented any display of collective angerbut have also made it extremely difficult toassess how the average Kashmiri will respondonce restrictions are lifted.

There is little doubt that the biggestimpediment to the integration of the State intothe Indian Union has been Article 370, whichcame into effect on January 26, 1950, whenthe Constituent Assembly approved and pro-mulgated the Constitution. In effect, theArticle kept the question of J&K joining theUnion of India ambivalent. This despite thefact that the Maharaja of J&K had signed theDocument of Accession unconditionallyand had willingly accepted the State’s integra-tion into the Indian Union, as was his rightto do. This ambivalence, along with the man-ner in which the Central and StateGovernments have acted over the years, hasconfused and strained the loyalties ofKashmiris towards the country.

The irony is that while Pakistan is nowobjecting to the abrogation of Article 370 andcalling it illegal, its position on this issue wasdiametrically opposite in 1951. This can beinferred from the Pakistan Government’s let-ters No S/2119 and S/2145, addressed to thepresident of the United Nations SecurityCouncil (UNSC), which though not availablein the public domain, implies just that. Thestatement of the then UNSC President to theSecurity Council made at that time read:“Members of the Security Council, at its 548thmeeting held on May 29, 1951, have heardwith satisfaction the assurances of the repre-sentative of India that any ConstituentAssembly that may be established in Srinagaris not intended to prejudice the issues beforethe Security Council or come in its way. Onthe other hand, the two communications tome, as President of the Council, from the rep-resentatives of Pakistan, set forth in docu-ments S/2119 and S/2145, contain reportswhich, if they are correct, indicate that stepsare being taken by the Yuvaraja of J&K to con-voke a Constituent Assembly, one functionof which, according to Sheikh Abdullah,would be ‘a decision on the further shape andaffiliation poof Kashmir’. It is the sense of theSecurity Council that these reports, if correct,would involve procedures which are in con-flict with the commitments of the parties todetermine the future accession of the State bya fair and impartial plebiscite conducted underUnited Nations auspices.”

If the contents of the letters do confirmwhat is suggested, then Pakistan must certain-ly be asked to justify the change in its stance.

What this will prove is thatPakistan’s actions are lacking inconsistency and are hypocritical,to say the least. Not that the issueof hypocrisy is in doubt given itsblatant disregard for UN resolu-tions. One may recall that bothIndia and Pakistan had acceptedthe United Nations SecurityCouncil Resolution (UNSCR)No 80 of March 14, 1950, thatcalled for plebiscite. This was con-ditional as the first step in thatprocess was the withdrawal ofPakistani forces within fivemonths. That Pakistan refused towithdraw from the territories ithad illegally occupied and con-tinues to subjugate till date is notdisputed.

Moreover, it went further inthis regard by taking unilateralsteps to cede territories to China,separated Gilgit and Baltistanadministratively from Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and carriedout extensive and widespreaddemographic changes in thisregion, thus reducing theKashmiri population to a minor-ity. In these circumstances, thevalidity of the resolution is inquestion.

Not surprisingly, Pakistan isnot the only one left tongue-tiedand confused by recent events.Opposition parties back home,both at the national and Statelevel, such as the Congress andits allies along with the Left, theNational Conference, and thePeoples Democratic Party(PDP), too, found themselves ina similar predicament. Of course,one can sympathise with the

confusion within the Kashmiriparties given the fact that theirfirst-rung leadership remains indetention or “protective cus-tody”, whichever way one maylike to term it. Yet, their confu-sion appears to have been bornout of a sense of apathy, tunnelvision and a refusal to undertakeany change in status quo, despitebeing fully aware that substan-tive political steps needed to betaken if the cycle of violence wasto be broken and insurgencystamped out. Their inactionclearly showed that not only didthey accrue benefits from the“business of insurgency” butwere also apathetic to the con-sequences of their actions on thelocal population, the Army, theCRPF and local police, whocontinued to pay in blood.

The parties also ignored thefact that the BJP had included theabrogation of Articles 370 and35A in its election manifesto andthat these issues were findingincreasing prominence in thepublic discourse. Given the PrimeMinister’s track record in suchmatters during his first tenure,they cannot be fully blamed forbeing lulled into a sense of com-placency. Opposition parties havesubsequently also had to dealwith the overwhelming supportthis action received within thecountry, leaving aside some ele-ments in the Kashmir Valley, whoin any case will never be pleasedwith whatever the CentralGovernment does.

“Mainlanders”, as Indiansfrom outside the Valley are

referred to by the locals, are most-ly at a loss to understand the angstof the average Kashmiri. The airof entitlement and superioritythat pervades the Valley is utter-ly incomprehensible, given thefact that it is the taxpayers’money that has been utilised overthe decades to feed their egos andlifestyles.

Facts will speak for them-selves: With just one per cent ofIndia’s population, the Statereceived 10 per cent of all Centralgrants between 2000 and 2016. Incomparison, Uttar Pradesh, thataccommodates 13 per cent of thepopulation, received just 8.5 percent of these grants within thesame period. Not that this infu-sion of funds has done anythingfor the average Kashmiri, espe-cially when one sees that the netper capita State GDP increasedfrom approximately �40,000 toonly around �60,000 during2012-17.

In comparison, in a hill Stateof similar size, Himachal Pradesh,the per capita net GDP grewfrom �80,000 to �1,20,000 with-in the same period. Therefore, theaverage taxpayer is certainly enti-tled to ask where has all themoney gone? Who is to be heldaccountable and why wasn’t thisstep taken three decades ago, ifnot earlier? Many have expresseddoubts that the abrogation ofArticle 370 has played into thehands of the separatists. Bydestroying the credibility of theleadership of the mainline polit-ical parties within the State, it willbe the militants who will fill the

vacuum left behind. That supportwould be contingent on thebelief that the CentralGovernment will usher in demo-graphic changes that will impingeon their culture, language and theway of life.

This need not be so if theregion is given a special statusunder Article 471, as has beendone for other States likeHimachal Pradesh, Uttarakhandand some in the North-East.However, what is undeniable isthat every Kashmiri, whetherhe/she admits it or not, is fullycognisant that status quo overthese past decades has only heldthem hostage to unending vio-lence and a scramble to eke outa living. They also know that overthe years, the only ones to havebenefitted were the politicians,the separatists and those runningthe administration as they wereall complicit in ensuring thatrequired checks and balancescould be avoided.

Well, if Prime Minister Modican implement even half of whathe has promised, there is littledoubt that J&K will undergo amassive transformation for thebetter. Therefore, the choicebefore the people is crystal clear.The only thing one can no longerdo is to sit astride both boats andblame the consequences on circumstance or fate.

(The writer, a military veter-an, is a consultant with theObserver Research Foundationand a Senior Visiting Fellow withThe Peninsula Foundation,Chennai)

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Sir — Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanathdeserves commendation fordoing away with the four-decade-old illogical practice of payingincome tax of Ministers from thepublic exchequer. One wonderswhy and how the anti-publicpolicy was adopted and why it isstill prevalent in Madhya Pradesh,Chhattisgarh, Haryana,Uttarakhand and HimachalPradesh. These States must alsoabolish the practice.

At the very least, the PrimeMinister can advise the BJP-ruled States to do so and hopethat the remaining would followout of a sense of shame. Salaries,perks, privileges and post-retire-ment benefits, including pen-sion to all those in the legislature,should be taken up by the Centre,rather than leaving them at thediscretion of State Governments.

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Sir — India has done well to banthe sale of electronic cigarettes.

With 106 million adult smokers,the country ranks second only toChina in the world, making it alucrative market for companiesmaking vaping products such asUS-based Juul and Philip Morris,who manufacture the heat-not-burn tobacco device.

Essentially, the ban can cut offa huge future market from e-cig-arette makers at a time when the

number of people smokingworldwide is seeing a decline.

As expected, the Associationof Vapers India, which representse-cigarette users, attacked theGovernment’s decision, saying itwould deprive millions of smok-ers of a safer solution to cut backon smoking. They say vaping is farless harmful than smoking tobac-co. But many tobacco-control

activists are of the view that theusage of such devices could lead tonicotine addiction and push thepeople towards the consumptionof tobacco. With this ban, muchmore holistic work is needed tobring down the overall tobacco usein India. Clearly much more needsto be done for a smoke-free nation.

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Farooq, now a threat”(September 18). It is unfortunatethat former Jammu & KashmirChief Minister Farooq Abdullahwas arrested and his home turnedinto jail under the draconianPublic Safety Act, which entailsdetention of up to two years for“posing a threat to State securityand territorial integrity.” His arrestspeaks more about theGovernment than about a manwho, until now, was the face of themoderate Kashmiri.

He and his son, OmarAbdullah, may have much answer-ing to do about their record of gov-ernance in Jammu & Kashmir butnone can question their fealty tothe Constitution. It is known thatthis 82-year-old man is no threatto Indian territorial integrity orState security. It is astonishing thatthe court has accepted it withouteven questioning the Centre forusing a draconian Act against a keypolitical leader.

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There is a performance zone in which weall thrive. When handling critical projects,teams not only require resources but also

need to work in an environment free from dis-tractions and disturbances so that they canachieve their objectives. It is always the last lap,“minutes of terror” rather, that defines the dif-ference between success and failure.

A calm, sedate environment and resoluteattention to micro-details are not only requiredbut also expected. After investing so much effortin planning, if things go wrong, the team hasto take all the negative consequences in theirstride. Particularly when it is something as crit-ical as a space mission that is on the global radar,apart from being a matter of immense nation-al pride.

Something similar happened recently withthe Chandrayaan-2 mission at the Indian SpaceResearch Organisation (ISRO), an institution thecountry takes immense pride in. After the spaceagency lost communication with the Vikramlander ahead of the touchdown, the visuals ontelevision sets were of bewildered and disap-pointed faces in the mission control room,which was crowded with clunky cameras andpeering eyes.

A frustrated look here, a distracted coun-tenance there, the devastation and tension waspalpable and writ large on the faces of the staff,desperately trying to make contact with theVikram during the final act. In their hearts, theywere probably also praying to be left alone todo their jobs since a complication had arisen.It was not as if they didn’t know failures, the suc-cess of their launches has come through them.And perhaps, they are best equipped to handletheir lows but not at the expense of beingpanned by the world.

The price of encroaching upon mental andphysical spaces — no matter how slightly or rev-erently — comes at the cost of the team’s opti-mal functioning. It can handicap its focus onthe crucial work at hand.

The sanctity of the operation control roomcannot be violated. No external gadgetry or per-sonnel should ever make way into the sanctumsanctorum. What if a short circuit happened dueto faulty equipment brought in? There’s alwaysthe possibility of a camera battery catching fireor some such mishap. Where would that leadus? It was surprising to see such a risky act play-ing out freely in front of our eyes in the mis-sion control room itself. The operation controlcentre is kept out of bounds to non-essentialstaff, personnel and gadgets. In the entirescheme of things, mission control rooms occu-py a highly sanitised, secure, safe and seclud-ed space, be it airports, ports or railway net-works. And here we are talking about a spacemission! Second, the world can wait. There isa difference between witnessing history and his-tory being “made.” The witnessing part can wait.Let’s first focus on making the history. Let’s getthe job done first. Successful execution shouldbe the only priority, as compared to the ritualsof receiving visitors and posing for the cameras.

There should be a provision for deferred livebroadcast of such major events once the mis-sion has been accomplished. It is not a soccermatch for the public to enjoy; it is a highly

nerve-racking scientific operationbeing played out at the far end of thegalaxy. What is the point of adding tothe pressure in an already highly-charged environment while our scien-tists are still remotely choreographingand delicately manoeuvering a spacemission in the vast expanses of outerspace?

The media circus surroundingthe coverage of the event was as usualclichéd. But what came as a new lowwas some media personnel harangu-ing the scientists to bring none otherthan the ISRO chief to face theirqueries during a press conference. Thatwas when the mission was still underway and operational issues were stillbeing sorted! It also clearly shows howthe space organisation has been leftwanting in handling their communi-cations protocols.

Barring a few exceptions, sciencejournalism died long ago in the coun-try. No wonder television channelsthought it fit to send “politicalreporters” in droves to cover this spe-cific event. The media’s wall-to-wallcoverage was as usual clichéd. The corecompetencies of our television anchorsto take on character-acting and drama-tisation with ease comes quite natural-ly to them, just like a fish takes to thewater.

It would have saved the day if themedia and invitees were only allowedafter the operations were definitivelycomplete and a recorded minute-by-minute account was relayed to them,sans nail biting suspense, which only

a handful of staff should be privilegedto access and witness first, in a stud-ied controlled environment setting. Itwould also have saved the techniciansand scientists a lot of unwanted atten-tion and pressure.

Also, in the light of the partial fail-ure of the mission and the subsequentemotional breakdown of the chief, itwould have saved ISRO a lot of embar-rassment and heartbreak too.

The presence of top bosses, be itpolitical or executive, might lift up theteam’s spirit but it can also add unduepressure and divert attention andtime. When there is a delicate andexpensive mission waiting to be exe-cuted, a few milliseconds are all thatit takes to make a difference betweensuccess and failure. Had India success-fully landed the craft, it would havebeen the fourth nation in the world toland a vessel on the Moon’s surface,and only the third to operate a robot-ic rover there. The Chandrayaan-2mission, which cost roughly $140million, was intended to study the per-manently shadowed moon craters,thought to contain water deposits, con-firmed by the Chandrayaan-1 mission11 years ago. However, that was not tobe.

Whatever the loss, national prideor monetary, let us not patronise sci-entists by thumping their backs or wip-ing their tears. They need none of that.Perhaps none other than the scientif-ic community knows it better and isaccustomed to accepting failures withgrace and humility before they hit

upon success. That this is so was veryevident from the encouraging and gra-cious responses of space scientists fromcountries, who have been part of fail-ures and successes of missions like this.It is part and parcel of their daily rou-tine and high stakes space missions.We just need to maintain a measured,respectful and dispassionate distancefrom those who are executing theirwork. It is their sole and primaryresponsibility to the nation to performand maintain the integrity of theprocess without fixating on results.Nothing should come in their way. Weshould leave them to their devices andlet their work speak eloquently.

Lastly, with such high stakes, it isalso unseemly to see a lack of well-trained professional communicationapparatus to handle such events. ISROcould have handled the media in amore nuanced manner. It is time thatcommunications become a key com-ponent for the organisation in all itsfuture endeavours.

Let us hope research organisationsdo not fall prey to or are smitten bymedia coverage but are only concernedwith delivering feats that open up thenext frontiers of science whichChandrayaan-2 was destined to do. Letus leave the scientific communityalone; they know their job and theycan deliver without falling into the trapof making everything into a televisedspectacle.

(The writer is a seasoned commu-nications professional and manage-ment consultant based in New Delhi)

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The civil services have con-tributed immensely to nation-building since India’s

Independence, yet they are criti-cised for resisting changes, stiflinginnovation and being oblivious toexternal realities. There is also agrowing perception that there’s alack of performance accountabili-ty and that misdeeds of civil ser-vants often go unpunished. Toaddress these challenges, theGovernment, in the last five years,has initiated a series of reforms thathave impacted almost all sections ofthe bureaucracy.

Keeping the sanctity of therecruitment process in the civil ser-vices is a must to ensure that fresh-ers do not develop a cynical attitude.The Government realised that per-sonality tests or interviews did notadd any value to the recruitmentprocess at the lower levels ofbureaucracy. Instead, they onlycreated a subjectivity which oftenled to corruption and nepotism.Hence, it decided to discontinuewith the interviews in the recruit-

ments for Group C and Group Bnon-gazetted posts. Many StateGovernments also followed suit.The results have been quite encour-aging as the candidates have beenpleasantly surprised for havingbeen selected on merit withoutresorting to payment of bribes orusing undue influence.

The Fundamental Rule 56-Jand All-India Death-Cum-Retirement Benefit rules providethat the Government can prema-turely retire any civil servant aftergiving three months’ notice.However, for years, these provisionsfor screening of deadwood were notbeing implemented. These rules arenow being implemented and athorough screening of servicerecords of officials by a committeeis helping identify non-performers.This exercise has sent a message thatthere is a premium attached to bothperformance and probity.

It was also noticed that thecadre-allotment policies were weak-ening the all-India character of theservices and were detrimental to the

spirit of cooperative federalism.The officers were being allottedcadres based on choice. This result-ed in officers landing either in theirhome or adjoining cadre, thus fos-tering inertia and a hesitation toserve on central deputation in theGovernment. In fact, the serviceswere slowly being converted intoglorified State services.

The Government brought areformed cadre allotment policy in2017, based on a roster for fiveregions in which all the cadres wereclubbed, thus ensuring that the all-India character of the services wasrestored. It also encouraged officerswho have served in cadres otherthat their domicile, to opt for cen-tral deputation.

It was also noticed that fresh-ly-recruited IAS officers got impor-tant field-level posts like that ofDistrict Magistrate, Chief ExecutiveOfficer of Zila Parishads andMunicipal Corporations for thefirst 10 to 12 years of their service.However, they often lacked thenational perspective while serving

at the grassroots and this hamperedtheir effectiveness. To address thisissue, since 2015, freshly-recruitedIAS officers are being deputed asAssistant Secretaries in theGovernment of India for threemonths immediately after theiracademy training and just beforethey go back to their respective Statecadres for field postings. Experiencehas shown that this innovationhelped young officers imbibe anational perspective that helpedthem address local issues holistical-ly and with confidence.

Further, the performance ofcivil servants was measured primar-ily through the elaborate system ofPerformance Appraisal Reports(PARs). It was realised that due tothe complete disclosure of PARs tothe officers assessed, there waswidespread grade inflation. Officerswere being over-assessed and ratedoutstanding, notwithstanding theirperformance. PAR had become apublic relations exercise with super-visory officers reluctant to givelower rating for fear of strained rela-

tions at the workplace. This had anadverse impact on the empanelmentof officers at the Joint Secretary,Additional Secretary and Secretaryor equivalent levels. It became dif-ficult to distinguish high perform-ers from others. The Government,therefore, implemented the processof Multi Source Feedback (MSF) or360 degree appraisal, which is usedalong with the PARs to assess thesuitability of officers for higher posi-tions in the Government. This wasalso recommended by the SecondAdministrative ReformsCommission, as well as theSurendranath Committee onPerformance Appraisal Reforms.

This intervention created rip-ples in bureaucratic circles as thefeedback about officers wasobtained from peers, subordinatesand seniors on various personalityattributes. The success of this inter-vention will, however, be judged bythe resulting inclusion of errors inthe reformed empanelment process,since the exclusion errors can becorrected by subsequent reviews.

There was also a demand forlateral infusion of talent from out-side to enrich Government policyprocesses. The high echelons of pol-icy-making are primarily mannedby officers from three sources. TheIndian Administrative Services(IAS), other participating All Indiaand Central services and theCentral Secretariat Services (CSS).The Government decided to bringin talent from outside through lat-eral recruitment at the JointSecretary Level. Ten such positionswere thrown open and recruit-ment were done through the UnionPublic Service Commission(UPSC). It will be interesting towatch their contributions and amal-gamation in the working of theGovernment. This reform is likelyto generate a healthy competitionamong peers, fostering profession-alism, efficiency and competenciesin the policy-making process.

While these reforms wereaimed at bringing in accountabili-ty in performance and conduct, theGovernment also addressed rising

concerns related to the policy paral-ysis resulting from risk aversenessamong the civil services.Significantly, the risk awarenesswas brought on by multiple inves-tigations by anti-corruption agen-cies in various cases. The amend-ments in the Prevention ofCorruption Act, 1988 passed in2018 has provisions that are aimedat protecting honest and well-meaning civil servants. The provi-sion of prior approval for initiatingany investigation and deletion ofSection 13 (1) d(iii) of the Act werea result of the Government’s resolveto send a message that bonafidecommercial decision will be defend-ed and civil servants may go aheadwith bold decision making in pub-lic interest. These reforms areexpected to bring in the desiredaccountability, professionalism andcompetencies in the civil services tomeet modern day challenges.

(The writer is PrincipalSecretary, Medical, Health & FamilyWelfare Department, in UttarPradesh Govt.)

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Nashik: In a jibe without nam-ing ally Shiv Sena, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onThursday said the SupremeCourt is hearing the RamMandir case and asked "someloudmouths" to refrain frommaking statements on the issue.

"I am amazed at the 'bayanbahadurs and badbole' (loud-mouths) on the Ram Mandirissue. Every one in the countryrespects the Supreme Court.The apex court is hearing thecase. I want to tell these peoplewith folded hands to have faithin the judicial system," Modisaid at a rally here.

Shiv Sena has beendemanding construction of theRam temple and asking theModi Government to take stepsin that direction like it did onArticle 370 in Jammu &Kashmir.

Sena chief UddhavThackeray on Mondaydemanded that the Centre takea "courageous decision" tobring in a law to build a RamTemple in Ayodhya.

"It has been our demandfrom last year that a special lawmust be brought in and Ram

Mandir should be built... Theissue has been going on since1992. How many years shouldwe wait? We are hearing thatthe issue is in the final stages inthe court. We appeal to thecourts to give it decision on theissue.

"However, beyond that weexpect that Centre should notwait for court order and use itpowers. The Centre took acourageous step in abrogatingArticle 370. It is out request thatthe Centre would do the samefor Ram Mandir issue," theSena chief had told reportershere.

Modi said the first 100-daytenure in his second innings asthe PM focussed on promise,performance and delivery."There is a push for develop-

ment, a message of India'sglobal power, welfare of peopleand efforts for employmentopportunities," he said.

"�20,000 crore were put infarmers' accounts so far out ofwhich �1,500 crore was inaccounts of farmers inMaharashtra," he said.

Chief Minister DevendraFadnavis thanked Modi forthe trust reposed in him in2014 when he was made theCM.

On the MahajanadeshYatra undertaken by him toreach out to masses ahead ofthe Assembly polls, Fadnavissaid, "In the yatra, I have putforward my report card to thepeople. There is no corruptionallegation (against me) in thelast five years. PTI

Kottayam (Ker): TheSabarimala women's entry issue,a major plank of Oppositionparties during the Lok sabhaelection, is back in focus with theCongress and BJP raising it totarget the ruling LDF in thecampaign for the byelection tocoming Pala Assembly con-stituency.

The two Opposition partiesaccused the LDF Government ofimplementing the SupremeCourt verdict permittingwomen in menstrual age tooffer prayers at the LordAyyappa temple in Sabarimalain a "hurried manner".

The September 23 bypoll inPala is considered an acid test-for the Left which faced humil-iating defeat in the Lok Sabhapolls with the Congress-ledUDF sweeping 19 of the 20 seats.

Syrian Catholic communi-ty and Hindus account for mostof the electorate in the segment,where the by-poll has beennecessitated by the demise of

KC(M) founder leader and for-mer Finance Minister KM Manion April 9.

Senior Congress leader A KAntony, campaigning for UDFcandidate Jose Tom Pulikkunnelon Wednesday, alleged ChiefMinister Pinarayi Vijayan turnedSabarimala "a battle ground" inthe guise of implementing theapex court verdict.

"The Chief Minister dis-played his arrogance inSabarimala and his immatureactions turned it a battleground,"

the former union ministeralleged.

He challenged Vijayan todeclare his current stand on theissue in the wake of his partyadmitting its mistake in han-dling the women entry issue.

Vijayan, currently touringthe constituency campaigningfor LDF candidate Mani CKappen, did not respond toAntony's allegations.

But his ministerial colleagueand senior CPI(M) leader MMMani attacked Antony, accusing

him of speaking in the tune ofthe BJP.

Mani on Thursday alleged itwas the Congress and the BJPwhich turned Sabarimala a bat-tle ground during the pilgrimseason last year.

Targeting BJP also on theissue, Antony has asked whetherthe ruling party at the Centrewas ready to protect the faith ofLord Ayyappa devotees aspromised by it during theParliament elections and bringan ordinance.

Responding to Antony'sposer, BJP leader and UnionMinister V Muraleedharan saidthe BJP will fulfil the pollpromise made by the party in itsmanifesto on Sabarimala.

Talking to reporters in Palaon Thursday, the Minister ofState for External Affairs, saidthe pleas seeking a review of theSupreme Court verdict, liftingthe traditional ban on entry ofwomen in the age group of 10-50 into the temple, was currently

under the consideration of theSupreme Court.

Similarly, theRamajanmabhoomi-BabriMasjid issue is also being heardby the apex court,Muraleedhahran, who is in Palato campaign for BJP candidateN Hari, said.

"Let us wait for the courtverdict...The promise we havemade in our manifesto will beimplemented," he said.

In its Lok Sabha poll man-ifesto, the BJP has said its gov-ernment would make everyeffort to ensure that the subjectof faith, tradition and worshiprituals related to Sabarimalawere adhered to.

A five-judge Constitutionbench of the Supreme Court onSeptember 28 last year by a 4:1verdict allowed entry of womenin Sabrimala temple, says ban-ning their entry into the shrinewas gender discrimination andthe practice violates rights ofHindu women. PTI

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Mumbai: Latching ontoPrime Minister NarendraModi's remark that "someloudmouths" should have faithin the Supreme Court over theRam temple issue, the NCP onThursday hoped he will stickto his words and respect ver-dict the court will deliver onthe sensitive matter.

NCP chief spokespersonNawab Malik said his partyhas always been of the viewthat the apex court's verdict inthe Ram Janmabhoomi-BabriMasjid land dispute mattershould be respected andaccepted by all.

Addressing a rally inNashik, around 200km fromhere, on Thursday, Modi,without naming BJP's ally,the Shiv Sena, said the courtis hearing the temple caseand asked "some loudmouths"to refrain from making state-ments on the issue.

"I am amazed at the 'bayanbahadurs and badbole' (loud-mouths) on the Ram Mandirissue. Everyone in the coun-try respects the SupremeCourt. The apex court is hear-ing the case. I want to tellthese people with foldedhands to have faith in the judi-cial system," the prime min-ister said.

Reacting to the PM'sremarks, Malik said, "We arealso saying that the SC's deci-sion should be respected andaccepted. Hope the primeminister will stick to his wordsand implement and respectthe decision the SupremeCourt will give."

Sena chief UddhavThackeray on Mondaydemanded that the Centretake a "courageous decision"to bring in a law to build aRam temple at the disputedsite in Ayodhya in UttarPradesh.

The SC on Wednesdaysaid parties to the Ayodhyaland dispute case can amica-bly resolve the matter throughmediation if they want to andadded it wants day-to-dayhearings in the case to be con-cluded by October 18. PTI

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presented by a descendant ofShivaji Maharaj, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onThursday targeted NCP chiefSharad Pawar over the latter'sremarks on Pakistan.

Launching the BJP's cam-paign for next month'sAssembly elections inMaharashtra, Modi also saidthe State suffered due to polit-ical instability in the past andlauded Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis for pro-viding a "stable Government" inthe last five years, despite BJPnot having a complete major-ity on its own.

On the decision of revok-ing provisions of Article 370 inJammu & Kashmir, Modi saidthis was the wish of 130 croreIndians.

"The decision has beentaken to save the Kashmirisfrom the cycle of violence, ter-ror and separatism. They suf-fered for 40 years due to Delhi's(previous Congress-ledGovernments) wrong policiesand 42,000 people were killed,"he said.

Instead of supporting theGovernment on the decisiontaken in national interest,Opposition leaders are makingcomments for their selfishpolitical interests, Modi said.

"When the country is unit-ed over the decision on

Kashmir, Congress and NCPleaders have not cooperated,"he said.

Without naming RahulGandhi, Modi said theCongress leaders are makingcomments which are beingused by other countries andterror outfits against India.

"I can understand the con-fusion of the Congress. ButSharad Pawar? I feel bad whenan experienced leader like him

makes wrong statements forvotes. He said he likes theneighbouring country. Butevery one knows where the ter-ror factory is," Modi said.

Addressing a rally here aspart of the conclusion of the'Mahajanadesh Yatra' under-taken by Fadnavis to reach outto masses ahead of the Assemblypolls, Modi said Maharashtrahad not progressed as it shouldhave. PTI

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Mumbai: Prime MinisterNarendra Modi distortedNCP chief Sharad Pawar'scomments about Pakistan,the party said on Thursday.

Modi should either provethat Pawar praised the rulersof the neighbouring countryor apologise, NationalistCongress Party spokespersonNawab Malik said here.

Hours before, Modi,addressing a rally in Nashik inMaharashtra, targeted Pawar.

Alleging that Congressleaders' comments were beingused by other countries andterror outfits against India,Modi said, "I can understandthe confusion of the Congress.But Sharad Pawar? I feel bad

when an experienced leaderlike him makes wrong state-ments for votes.

"He said he likes theneighbouring country. Buteveryone knows where theterror factory is," the PMsaid.

Hitting back, Malik saidthat Modi twisted Pawar'sremark.

"Modi has shown that thecountry's Prime Minister canbe a liar. He said Pawar likesthe rulers of Pakistan. ButPawar had clearly said in hisspeech that the rulers, armyofficers in Pakistan are anti-India, but the people there arenot anti-India," Malik toldreporters. PTI

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Nashik: Accusing the UPAGovernment of not being seri-ous on national security, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onThursday said the Congress-ledregime had in 2009 ignored thedemand of 1.86 lakh bulletproof jackets for security per-sonnel.

In the BJP-led regime, notonly have the requirements ofour forces been met but bul-letproof jackets made in Indiaare now being exported to 100countries, Modi said.

Addressing a public rallyhere, Modi said, "Today, we aremanufacturing our own bul-letproof jackets and these jack-ets made in India are nowbeing exported to over 100countries."

"Two mighty helicoptershave recently been inducted.Very soon the Rafale fighter jets

will join the IAF. We have takenthe long pending decision tohave a chief of defence staff forbetter co-ordination betweenthe three forces," he said.

The attitude of the previous(Congress-led) Governmentwas never good when it cameto security preparedness andthis has to be rememberedagain and again, Modi said.

"In 2009, a demand for1.86 lakh bulletproof jacketswas made. Till 2014, ourjawans were fighting on theborders without bulletproofjackets. Time passed and theCongress Government sup-ported by NCP never paidattention to this demand. Butwhen the BJP-led NDA cameto power, we revived theprocess and made sure that thejackets are manufactured inIndia," he said. PTI

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Srinagar: Incidents of miscre-ants threatening shopkeepersand vandalising private vehicleshave been reported from manyplaces in Kashmir Valley wherenormal life remained disruptedfor the 46th day on Thursdayfollowing abrogation of Article370, officials said.

They said private cars havecome under stone-pelting atmany places as the miscreantswant to enforce shutdown.

Authorities have taken noteof these incidents and follow upaction has been taken, the offi-cials added.

Markets remained closed inthe Valley and public transportoff the roads, they said.

They said some of the shopsopen for few hours early in the

morning and late in the evening,but remain shut during the day.

Public transport was off theroads, but private cars wereplying in many areas of the cityand elsewhere in the valley,they said.

Few autorickshaws andinter-district cabs were also seenplying in some areas in civil linesof the city, they added.

The officials said Internetservices remained suspendedacross all platforms.

While landlines across thevalley were functional, voicecalls on mobile devices wereworking only in Kupwara andHandwara police districts ofnorth Kashmir, they added.

The efforts of the state gov-ernment to open schools have

not borne any fruit as parentscontinued to keep children athome due to apprehensionsabout their safety.

Most areas of the valleywere restrictions-free, but thedeployment of security forcescontinued on the ground tomaintain law and order, the offi-cials said.

Restrictions were firstimposed across Kashmir onAugust 5 when the Centreannounced its decision to abro-gate Article 370 of theConstitution and bifurcate thestate into two Union territories.The restrictions were lifted inphases from many parts of thevalley as the situation improvedwith the passage of time.

Authorities have beenimposing restrictions in vulner-able areas of the valley everyFriday, apprehending that vestedinterests might exploit the largegatherings at big mosques andshrines to fuel protests. PTI

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Several kilometre long ‘wall ofdefence’ (protective sand

bundh) being constructed by theBorder Security Force (BSF)between forward villages ofSamba and Kathua, to plug the'active' infiltration routes alongthe International border acrossJammu frontier, is giving sleep-less nights to Pakistani rangerson the other side of the border.

As the work on the ambi-tious project was gatheringmomentum and taking shape,perturbed Pakistani rangersdecided to target the workersengaged in the constructionwork on the Indian side of theborder fence.

So far, no loss of life andproperty has been reportedfrom any where in the region.

To instil confidence amongthe local residents in the area,Deputy Commissioner, KathuaDr Raghav Langer on Thursdayvisited Manyari village alongwith the team of seniorGovernment officials and tookstock of the ground realities.

He directed the executingagencies, engaged in the task ofbunker construction, to expeditework on 'war footing' and installmotors to clear the water loggingfrom inside completed bunkers.

Senior BSF officials ofJammu frontier also visited theforward border outposts in thearea to review the ground situ-ation. Deputy Commissionerdirected the police officers to sta-tion bullet proof mobile bunkersin the area to safely evacuatelocal residents in case of any exi-gency. Local villagers alsoappealed to the senior officers toensure safety and security of bor-der residents in case of freshescalation in the coming days.Deputy Commissioner assuredthem that the entire districtadministration has been sani-tised and activated to respond tothe emerging situation in the

border areas.Senior BSF officers on their

part claimed repeated attemptswere being made, for last threedays, by the Pakistani rangers toescalate the tensions along theInternational border as well inthe run up to the UnitedNational General AssemblySession.

Prime Minister NarendraModi and his Pakistani coun-terpart Imran Khan are sched-uled to address the world lead-ers on September 27.

Apparently, the recent inci-dents of 'unprovoked' ceasefireviolations by the Pakistanirangers in Hiranagar sector isalso seen as a direct fall out ofthe progress made to execute theproject on ground zero.

According to BSF authori-ties, the area which is being cov-ered under the 'protectivebundh' is often used by the infil-trators in the past to sneakinside the Indian territorypreferably via water bodies andrivulets in the area.

The same route, accordingto NIA report submitted to theUnion Home Minister inOctober 2018, was exploited bythe over ground workers of thePakistani based terror outfits tosmuggle arms and ammuni-tion along with small batches ofinfiltrators via road link toKashmir valley.

A local villager who attend-ed the meeting with the seniorofficers said, "the protectivebundh is being constructedinside the Indian territory, wellshort of barbed wire fencingclose to the International border,even then the Pakistani rangersare trying to provoke BSFauthorities to retaliate stronglyand not allowing them to livepeacefully in the area". The vil-lagers claimed they were livingunder constant fear of fresh esca-lation in the area and demand-ed safety of their live stock andhomes and hearths.

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Ahmedabad: Five members ofa family died of suffocationinside a well where sewage col-lected in Patan district of Gujarat,the police said on Thursday.

The incident took place atGujarvada village in Sami tehsiltwo days ago. The StateGovernment announced a com-pensation of Rs 4 lakh each forthe surviving members of thefamily. The deceased were iden-tified as Ranjanaben Sindhav(40), Ratabhai Sindhav (58),Ratabhai Nadoda (58), RajabhaiSindhav (65) and AjabhaiSindhav (45). Ranjanaben fellinto the well — which wasbeing used as a kind of septictank — when she accidentallystepped on its brick cover on theevening of September 17, apolice official said. PTI

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The Congress on Thursdayaccused the Yogi Adityanath

Government of supporting rapeaccused former Minister SwamiChinmayanand and questionedthe "silence" of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and seniorwomen leaders of the rulingparty on the absence of anyaction against him.

Congress leader andGeneral Secretary of UPPriyanka Gandhi Vadraslammed the BJP Governmentand the police in Uttar Pradeshsaying they were repeating the"negligence" shown and "pro-tection" given to the accused inthe Unnao rape case.

Her allegations came a dayafter the student, who has lev-elled rape charges against for-mer Union Minister SwamiChinmayanand, threatened toset herself on fire if the BJPleader was not arrested imme-diately. The student also askedif the Government was waitingfor her to die even after herstatement was recorded beforea magistrate.

Congress alleged by takingno action against the accused inthe rape case it has become clearthat the BJP is standing withChinmayananda and is notinclined to provide justice to thevictim, who has come out in theopen with details of the crime.

"This is a very serious issue.

It has become very clear that thisGovernment has a very non-serious approach to tackleincreasing crime againstwomen. The Government has acompletely blind eye towardscrime against women and theyare instead protecting theirleaders," she told reporters, ask-ing whether this case will alsogo the way the Unnao rape casehas gone," said Congressspokesperson SharmisthaMukherjee.

Mukherjee said Modi gov-ernment is talking about 'BetiBachao, Beti Padhao' on onehand, while on the other handit is "busy protecting thosecommitting crimes againstwomen".

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The Election Commission(EC) has appointed 110

IRS (Indian Revenue Service)officers of the Income Taxdepartment as expenditureobservers for the forthcomingAssembly polls in Maharashtraand Haryana.

According to the EC, theobservers will be tasked withchecking the use of blackmoney and other illegalinducements during the elec-tion process in these two states.These officials have been calledfor their first briefing by the ECon September 23. Haryana has90 Assembly seats and

Maharashtra has 288. The EC has asked the

Central Board ofDirect Taxes(CBDT) to relievethe officers fromtheir charge so that they can beput on poll duty, the sourcessaid. The CBDT is the policy-making body for the taxdepartment.

These officers of the IndianRevenue Service (IRS) will bedeployed in various Assemblyconstituencies of the two statesas part of the EC's overallmechanism to ensure a level-playing field for the candi-dates and voters, the sourcessaid. They will ensure that

stringent and effective enforce-ment action is undertaken

based on intelli-gence inputs andc o m p l a i n t sreceived through

C-Vigil app and voter helplineagainst those who are trying toinduce voters by distributingcash and liquor among othersto vitiate the poll process.

The EC has also directedthe CBDT to ensure that itsinvestigation wings in thesepoll-bound states, adjoiningstates and that in Delhi be pre-pared to deploy extra mea-sures to check physical andelectronic movement of sus-pected funds.

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Mangaluru: A case has beenregistered against three peopleincluding a Bajrang Dal leaderon charges of delivering a“communally provocative”speech during a function atPuttur last month.

The case was registeredagainst the trio following acomplaint from a member ofPuttur town committee ofPopular Front of India (PFI).

The complainant allegedthat the Bajrang Dal leader inhis speech had said that noteven a small piece of land

would be provided for Muslimsto offer namaz in the countryif they failed to chant 'BharatMatha Ki Jai' and 'Jai SreeRam.' Such a statement hasbeen made in order to incitecommunal passions, heclaimed. PTI

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In a major security lapse,Union Minister Babul Supriyo

was on Thursday heckled,pushed and clawed by studentsof Left wing parties protestingagainst his attending of a sem-inar organised by the rightwing students' groups includingthe Akhil Bharatiya VidyarthiParishad at Jadavpur University.

While Vice-ChancellorSuranjan Das refused to call inpolice, a helpless police forcestood as mute spectators for thewant of "instructions fromabove" leaving Supriyo to hisfate and protective hands of afew CRPF personnel who hada trying time to shield him froman aggressive crowd of severalhundred slogan-shouting stu-dents.

The V-C showing his inabil-ity to call police on moralgrounds and offered to resigninstead took shelter in the hos-pital bed along with his pro-ViceChancellor PK Ghosh.

Even as the melee contin-ued for more than five hours,Governor Jagdeep Dhankar had

to intervene by rushing into theuniversity campus where hetoo was blocked for a good onehour even as he tried to rescuethe Minister.

And it took some instanttact of DCP Praveen Tripathiwho managed to hoodwink thestudents and get the Governorand the Minister out of themess. Just as the drama threat-ened to continue overnight theconvoy of the Governor whohad by that time pulled Supriyoinside his car turned back andsped away taking advantage ofan un-blockaded rear.

This even as a large numberof ABVP and Durga Vahini sup-porters armed with rods andbamboos raided — JU premis-es ranked amongst one of thefive best universities of thecountry, academically --- and

smashed the students' union,ransacked the interiors andtorched things including com-puters, bycycles posters, andalmirahs.

While the Left studentsgheraoed the Minister some ofthem pulling by his hair andeven slapping him, demandedapology from Supriyo for abus-ing them and threatening themwith dire consequences forshouting "go back slogan" andshowing black flags the singer-turned politician shouted "if youwill not achieve anything by thisundemocratic show.

If you want to be a decentpolitician then follow yourleader BuddhadebBhattacharjee."

He later alleged "they beatme, kicked me, scratched me …but for that I won't say scream.

Rather I will demand thesestudents to be criminallybooked or and rusticated."

Even as a furious Governorpersonally called up ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee andChief Secretary Maloy Deycommunicating his concern forSupriyo, a Press release issued bythe Raj Bhavan, faulted theState for falling law and ordersituation.

If that alleged unlawfuldetention and assault on theUnion Minister was a seriousreflection of the law and orderof the State and on the conductof the law enforcing agencies.

The drama that continuedfor more than five hours start-ed earlier on Thursday noonwhen Suypriyo, accompanied bydesigner-turned-BJP leaderAgnimitra Paul entered theUniversity campus to address aseminar.

While swarms of Left stu-dents shouted "go back" sloganshe entered into heated argu-ments with them provokingthe students to reply back inequal measure. One of themcomplained "he not only abusedus but also threatened us withdire consequences saying 'I canteach you all lessons within twodays. There was no need for himto react to such slogans and sim-ply gone ahead with his pro-gramme because such slogansare a regular affair Jadavpur."

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The Central Bureau ofInvestigation on Thursday

compared senior IPS officerand former Kolkata PoliceCommissioner Rajiv Kumarwith international terroristDawood Ibrahim in the AliporeCourt saying Kumar, the presentAdditional Director General ofCID, was hiding from theAgency like the Pakistan-baseddon.

The CBI lawyers were argu-ing in the court to seek a non-bailable warrant against Kumar.

When the Court asked as towhy they were seeking warrantwhen they had enough power toarrest him the CBI counsels said“he is fleeing like DawoodIbrahim and the StateGovernment is not sharing anyinformation about him with theCBI.”

Even as the Court reservedits order for a subsequent day in

a daylong Hindi film-like dramathe CBI sleuths ran from oneplace to another in search of theformer Kolkata top cop — him-self one of the best cyber crimeinvestigators in the country.

The CBI vainly searchedhim in the IPS quarters, the IPSofficers’ mess and even insidethe kitchen of a renownedSouth Kolkata hotel enteringmost of these premises frombackdoors.

Finally the Agency sleuthssent yet another notice to thetop officer’s official address ask-ing him to report for interro-gation on Friday.

Kumar has been evadingthe investigation since Fridaywhen the Calcutta High Courtwithdrew protection from arrestgranted to him in the case.

CBI wants to quiz Kumarregarding his role as the chief ofthe Special Investigation Teamin the multi-crore Sharada chitfund case in 2013 before theSupreme Court handed over thecase to the CBI upon allegationsof wayward investigation.

The central probe agencyalso sent a letter to West BengalDirector General of Police(DGP) Virendra, seeking hisactive contact number.

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As party chief MK Stalincalled off the proposed agi-

tation against ‘imposition ofHindi’ late Wednesday follow-ing an assurance from GovernorBanwarilal Purohit that therewon’t be any such move fromthe Centre, the facade of unityin the Opposition front hascome under strain.

Stalin, who had a meetingwith the Governor, told jour-nalists that Purohit told him thatHome Minister Amit Shah’sspeech has been misquoted andmisunderstood. “Since theGovernor told us that the HomeMinister’s speech had been mis-quoted , we thought it better notto go ahead with the agitation,”said Stalin. As per the earlierplan, the DMK and allies wereto hold Statewide demonstra-tions all over Tamil Nadu onFriday against the move by theCentre to impose Hindi. TheCongress, a trusted ally of theDMK, went one step ahead anddeclared that the party cadre

would show black flags againstAmit Shah when he visits theState next time. But VCK, anoth-er alliance partner of the DMK,expressed the party’s reserva-tions over the move by Stalin tocall off the agitation. “We standby our decision to agitate againstthe communal Government atthe Centre,” said TholThirumavalavan, MP andfounder of the party. This roundof agitation has fizzled out as theDMK has understood the follybehind wasting time andresources over such issues, saidGovindarajan Satyamurty, polit-ical commentator based inCoimbatore. “All parties exceptthe AIADMK and the DMK arenon-entities in the State,” he said.

A senior Congress leaderhad told The Pioneer onWednesday itself that agitationagainst Hindi would be matterof past in a few days time.” Doyou think the Congress woulddare to show black flags atAmit Shah if the DMK is notaround to help them,” asked theleader who did not want thename to be quoted.

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Pakistan Army on Thursdaynight initiated 'unprovoked'

ceasefire violation along theLine of Control in Shahpur andKerni sectors of Poonch.

Defence PRO in Jammusaid, "at around 8.00 pmPakistan Army initiated freshceasefire violation by firing ofsmall arms & shelling withMortars in Shahpur & Kernisectors, of district Poonch".Indian Army is retaliatingbefittingly, he added.

Several civilian areas werealso targeted by the Pakistanarmy during intense shelling inthe forward area.

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centre of a raging protest overfelling of trees for a Mumbaimetro depot, cannot be given aforest tag "just because it hasgreenery", the Maharashtra gov-ernment told the Bombay HighCourt on Thursday.

Government counselsAshutosh Kumbhakoni and AnilSakhare made this submissionwhile seeking dismissal of a peti-tion filed by an NGO namedVanshakti, which demandedthat the Aarey area in suburbanGoregaon be declared a forestand an ecologically-sensitivezone.

Activists are opposing theproposed felling of over 2,600trees in Aarey to make way forthe metro car shed and demand-ing relocation of the depot,which is part of the Metro IIIproject.

"Aarey cannot be declaredas forest just because there is

greenery there. Aarey wasformed in the past as a milkcolony and to keep cattle andhorse stables," Sakhare told adivision bench of Chief JusticePradeep Nandrajog and JusticeBharati Dangre.

Kumbhakoni told the courtthat another bench of the highcourt had in October last yeardismissed a similar petitionfiled by an activist, ZoruBathena, seeking forest tag forAarey.

In the petition, Bathenahad challenged the proposedconstruction of a Metro car

shed at Aarey. "The high courtbench, while rejecting that peti-tion, noted that it was erroneousto term Aarey a forest,"Kumbhakoni said.

An appeal against this orderof the high court has been filedin the Supreme Court, where itis pending hearing, the govern-ment counsel said.

"Let the apex court decidethe issue now. The high courthas already given its verdict.When the matter has beenalready heard and concluded bythe high court, it need not beentertained again," Kumbhakoniargued.

On a query made by thecourt earlier on whether the pro-posed Metro car shed could beconstructed in suburbanKanjurmarg instead of Aarey,Kumbhakoni said the land beingtalked about was not availablefor the project due to "technicalreasons".

Another government coun-sel, Shrihari Aney, told the courtthat even assuming the land atKanjurmarg was available, itwould "not be possible" to con-struct the proposed Metro carshed there.

"The said car shed is for theMetro III line connecting Colabain south Mumbai to Seepz in thewestern suburbs," Aney said."Hence, the car shed needs to bein Aarey. It is not feasible to havethe car shed at Kanjurmargwhich is located kilometers away(from Aarey)."

The Aarey colony, measur-ing 1,287 hectares and locatedadjoining the Sanjay GandhiNational Park, is known as amajor green lung of the metrop-olis.

Several Bollywood person-alities and politicians have alsoextended their support to theactivists protesting against thefeeling of trees in Aarey. PTI

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Mumbai: Armed with bannersand placards, a group of studentsfrom schools and colleges onThursday staged a protest out-side megastar AmitabhBachchan's residence here overhis tweet supporting theMumbai Metro project.

As many as 22 studentswere detained when they squat-ted on a road near Bachchan'sbungalow in suburban Juhuand engaged in slogan shouting,police said.

The 76-year-old Bollywoodicon, himself a face of severalenvironmental campaigns, isfacing flak from certain quartersfor coming out in support of theMetro project. His stand has not

gone down well with activistsopposing the proposed felling ofover 2,600 trees in Aarey Colony,a green belt, to make way for aMetro car shed.

Earlier on Tuesday,Bachchan in a tweet said, "Friendof mine had a medical emer-

gency, decided to take METROinstead of his car...Came back very impressed..Said was faster, convenient and most efficient..Solution for Pollution..Grow more trees..I did in my garden..Have you." PTI

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Srinagar: Statements mobilisingpeople against the state and the"tremendous potential" to createpublic disorder in the Valley areamong the charges listed againstformer Jammu & Kashmir chiefminister Farooq Abdullah, whohas been booked under thePublic Safety Act.

The 81-year-old Lok SabhaMP from Srinagar, under deten-tion since August 5 when theCentre revoked the state's spe-cial status, has also been accusedof making speeches glorifyingterrorists and separatists.

The PSA order againstAbdullah, accessed by PTI, cites

seven instances from 2016onwards when he spoke infavour of the separatist HurriyatConference and terror groups.

Abdullah, the first chiefminister to be booked under thestringent PSA, was arrested onMonday under the PSA and hisGupkar Road residence declareda jail.

The National Conferencechairman and three-term ChiefMinister has been booked underthe 'public order' provision of thePSA under which a person canbe kept in jail from three to sixmonths without a trial, officialssaid. On repealing of Article 370

and 35-A of the Constitution,which provided special status forpeople of the state on jobs andresidency, the PSA order accus-es Abdullah of issuing state-ments aimed at mobilising peo-ple against the State.

It says he could have debat-ed the issue rather than threat-en the integrity of the countryand glorify militancy.

The order also accuses himof propagating "secessionist ide-ology" besides posing a threat tolife and liberty of the people.

Abdullah, the order states,"has tremendous potential forcreating an environment of pub-

lic disorder within the district(Srinagar) and other parts of theValley". It accuses him of beinga person seen as fanning theemotions of general massesagainst the country.

The order, which states thatAbdullah's residence "G-40Gupkar Road" has been declareda subsidiary jail, has also beenaccused by the state adminis-tration of issuing statements inconflict with law that wereaimed disturbing public order.

The PSA has two sections -- 'public order' and 'threat tosecurity of the state'. The formerallows detention without trial for

three to six months and the lat-ter for two years.

The PSA is applicable onlyin Jammu & Kashmir.Elsewhere in the country, theequivalent law is the NationalSecurity Act (NSA).

Separatists and Abdullah'spolitical opponents in theValley have termed him avehement supporter of state'saccession with India.

He was also criticised lastyear for raising the slogan,'Bharat Mata ki Jai', during acondolence meeting for for-mer Prime Minister AtalBihari Vajpayee. PTI

Patna: Despite its best efforts,the police has not been able tocurb mob lynching incidents inthe state.

According to data provid-ed by the police headquarters,14 people have been beaten todeath, while 45 people havebeen injured in mob lynchingincidents during the last twoand a half months. During thistime 39 incidents of moblynching were registered inthe state.

Bihar police headquartersis conducting awareness cam-paigns regarding such inci-dents in sensitive areas. Seniorpolice officials have acknowl-edged that there have been noincidents of child abductionbut people take to mob lynch-ing due to rumours. However,the police are sensitising peo-ple about such incidents alongwith giving a stern warning tothose involved in the lynch-ings.

Rumours about childabduction have increased somuch that parents are now ina panic.

Locals in MadipurChitragupta Nagar inMuzaffarpur thrashed twowomen on suspicion of child

abduction. By the time policereached the spot and savedthem from the crowd, they hadboth suffered severe injuries.

A similar incident tookplace in Samastipur district,where a mentally disabledwoman was beaten up on sim-ilar suspicion by a crowd.Some people from the crowditself saved her from the mob.

Such cases have beenreported from Patna as well asother areas of the state.

A man, identified asShatrughan Sinha, a resident ofSitamarhi, was beaten to deathon September 9 in WestChamparan district.

On September 8, a 22-year-old man was beaten todeath following rumours ofchild lifting.

Police has registered FIRsagainst 348 named accusedand 4,000 unidentified per-sons.

"Police is taking strictaction against those involved inmob lynching incidents. Weidentify the accused from thevideo footage of the incidentsand take action against them,"said Additional DirectorGeneral (police headquarters)Jitendra Kumar. IANS

Mumbai: The Maharashtra gov-ernment and the BMC cannottreat project-affected people as"guinea pigs" and make themstay in heavily polluted suburbanMahul on the assurance that airquality in the area may improvein the coming years, the BombayHigh Court said on Thursday.

A division bench of ChiefJustice Pradeep Nandrajog andJustice Bharati Dangre made thestrong observation while hear-ing the applications of a groupof people displaced following thedemolition of their "illegal"houses.

The bench noted that thepollution situation has notimproved in Mahul since 2015.

Some 15,000 families weredisplaced after their "unautho-rised" houses near the Tansapipeline were ordered to bedemolished by the high court.

The HC had, while direct-ing for the demolition, saidencroachments on the Tansawater pipeline posed a risk to thelives of lakhs of residents if anyuntoward incident were to occur.The Brihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC) had shift-

ed the displaced people to ahousing colony in Mahul, apolluted area that is home torefineries and chemical units.However, several familiesrefused to move to Mahul,claiming that the air qualitythere was very poor and posedhealth risks.

The applications beingheard by the bench were filed bysuch families. The court hadthen asked the BMC to providealternate accommodation tothose persons or pay them rentso that they can themselvesfind a place to stay.

The bench on Thursday,after perusing a chart of stud-ies carried out by variousexpert bodies on the air qual-ity in Mahul, noted that the sit-uation has not improved in therecent past. "The situation doesnot appear to be very rosy.From 2015 till now, expertbodies have been monitoringbut the air quality has notimproved. "In such a situation,can we make these persons staythere? You cannot treat themas guinea pigs," Chief JusticeNandrajog said. PTI

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Amid clamour for rate cut byvarious industries, the all

powerful GST Council willhold a crucial meeting onFriday to decide on tax mod-eration, keeping in mind therevenue position and the needto boost sagging economicgrowth.

The GST Council, headedby Union Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman and com-prising representatives of allstates and Union Territories(UTs), will have its 37th meet-ing in Goa in the backdrop ofeconomic growth hitting a six-year low of 5 per cent for the firstquarter of the current fiscal.

There have been demandspouring in from various sectors- from biscuits to automobilesand FMCG to hotels - to reducetax rates in the wake of eco-nomic slowdown.

The argument propagatedhas been to boost the con-sumption and domesticdemand by reducing Goodsand Services Tax (GST) ratesfurther.

However, many of thestates are of the view that itwould not be tax prudent toallow GST rate reduction at thisstage, as the compensation cessfund, which is utilised to com-pensate the states under theGST Act in case the revenue isbelow the targeted growth rate,has turned negative.

Meanwhile, according tosources, the GST Council’sFitment Committee, whichcomprises revenue officials ofboth Centre and States, hasrejected demands for a cut intax rate on items ranging frombiscuits to car, owing to tightrevenue position.

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After surprising everyonewith four successive rate

cuts this year, Reserve Bankgovernor Shaktikanta DasThursday said “there is moreroom” to do so given thegrowth deceleration and stableinflation that is likely to staybelow target for a year or so.

However, the governor wasquick to add that there is littlefiscal space for the governmentto unveil any countercyclicalmeasures to boost the sagginggrowth and the only way torevive the growth engine is tofront-load the budgeted capex,hinting that only an easymoney policy can help salvagethe situation.

Since assuming chargemid-December, the Das-ledrate- setting panel has deliveredfour successive rates cuts, withthe fourth one last month beingthe most surprising and uncon-

ventional one as he chose todeliver a 35 bps repo cut.

With that the RBI hasdelivered a cumulative 110 bpsrepo reduction since February,yanking down the key bench-mark rate to a nine-year low of5.40 percent.

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Automobile dealers’ bodyFADA on Thursday urged

the GST Council to take adefinitive decision on GST ratein its meeting scheduled to beheld on Friday.

In a letter written toFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman, FADA PresidentAshish Harsharaj Kale saidcustomers have deferred theirbuying decisions in anticipationof GST rate cut.

“In anticipation of GSTrate cuts on automobiles, cus-tomers who were willing to buyautomobiles at this juncturehave put their purchase deci-sions on hold, which is but nat-ural, in anticipation of a pricereduction.

“Our concern is that thefestive season, which is justaround the corner, should notbe missed, as it is for a very lim-ited period wherein maximumamount of auto sales happen,”Kale said in the letter.

New Delhi: Saudi Oil MinisterPrince Abdulaziz bin Salmanon Thursday assured his Indiancounterpart DharmendraPradhan of meeting all oil sup-ply commitments to India asthe Kingdom looks to restoreproduction from its facilities topre-strike levels very soon.

Pradhan spoke to his Saudicounterpart on phone and dis-cussed in details supply plan inthe aftermath of a massiveattack on the Kingdom’s crudeoil facilities that wiped out asmuch as 5 million barrels perday of output.

“They have again assuredthat all supply commitments toIndia will be met,” said SanjivSingh, chairman of Indian OilCorp (IOC).

Saudi Arabia, which isIndia’s second-largest oil sup-plier, sells close to 2 milliontonnes of crude every month. PTI

New Delhi: Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman on Thursday said public sec-tor banks will hold meetings with NBFCsand retail borrowers in 400 districtsbeginning next week to provide credit toborrowers, including homebuyers andfarmers.

The public meetings will be held intwo tranches. The first will be heldbetween October 3 and 7 in 200 districts,while the remaining 200 will be coveredOctober 11 onwards, a finance ministryofficial said.

Sitharaman said the idea is to ensuremaximum credit disbursal during thefestive season. Diwali, which falls inOctober this year, is considered as thebiggest shopping season of the country.

During the public meetings, credit willbe provided for retail, agriculture, MSMEand housing sector, among others.

The Minister also announced thatbanks have been asked not to declare any

stressed MSME loan as non-performingassets (NPA) till March 31, 2020.

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not to declare any stressedloan account of MSMEs asNPA till March 2020 andwork on recasting their debt.

At a press conferenceafter meeting PSU bankheads, Finance Minister

Nirmala Sitharaman saidthere already exists a cir-cular from the ReserveBank that provides forstressed loan accounts ofMSMEs not being declarednon-performing assets(NPAs).

She said banks havebeen asked to follow thatcircular and not declare

any stressed MSME loan asNPA till March 2020 andlook at recasting their debt.

This would help theMSME sector, she said.

Also, banks have iden-tified some NBFCs thatthey can lend to so that liq-uidity and credit is madeavailable to those seekingmoney, she said.

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Commodity market partici-pants on Thursday asked

Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman to consider steps toreduce transaction cost to makeIndian markets international-ly competitive and improveease of doing business.

The participants soughtreduction in overall cost oftransaction for equity as well ascommodity markets and alsoflagged issues related to LongTerm Capital Gains Tax(LTCG), shrinking trading vol-ume, increased regulatorycompliance and closing downof several brokerage houses,Commodity ParticipantsAssociation of India (CPAI)President Narinder Wadhwatold PTI after their meetingwith the minister.

Sitharaman has been hold-ing similar meetings since lastmonth with representatives ofvarious sectors, including bank-ing, automobile and realty inorder assess the problems facedby them as the governmentlooks to undertake steps to arrestthe slowdown in the economy.

CPAI is the apex pan-Indiaassociation of participants incommodity exchanges andcommodity derivative seg-ments.

Wadhwa said Sitharamanassured them that whateversteps can be taken, would belooked into by the government.

He said the commoditymarket volume has shrunkdrastically from �90,000 croreper day a year ago on an aver-age basis to �35,000 crore perday now.

“So we have asked theminister to take steps to reducecost of transaction for com-modity and equity market,”Wadhwa said.

Mumbai: The rupee dropped10 paise to close at 71.34against the US dollar onThursday as heavy selling indomestic equities, unabatedforeign fund outflows and ris-ing crude oil prices keptinvestors edgy.

Forex traders said investorsalso turned cautious after theUS Federal Reserve dimmedhopes of further rate cuts.

At the interbank foreignexchange market, the local unitopened on a strong note at71.36 and shuttled between ahigh of 71.06 and a low of71.37. It finally finished at71.34, lower by 10 paise over itsprevious close of 71.24.

“Since the morning, rupeehas been tracking the move incrude. Overnight drop in oil ledrupee to appreciate. However,the escalating tensions inMiddle East limited the gainsin rupee,” said Rahul Gupta,Currency Research Head,Emkay Global FinancialServices Limited. PTI

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Factory investment in 2017-18 hit a three-year low of Rs3.31 lakh crore in actualterms, according to the annu-al survey of industries by theStatistics and ProgrammeImplementation Ministry.

Factory investment mea-sured in terms of gross fixedcapital formation (GFCF) wasRs 3.79 lakh crore and Rs 3.69lakh crore in 2015-16 and2016-17, respectively, provi-sional estimates of the surveyfor 2017-18 showed.

The previous low of GFCFin actual terms was recorded atRs 3.23 lakh crore in 2014-15.

The Gross Fixed CapitalFormation is a barometer ofinvestment in any sector or seg-ment. However, the surveyshowed that the number of fac-tories increased to 2,37,684 in2017-18 from 2,34,865 a year ago.

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Benjamin Netanyahu's mainchallenger Benny Gantz on

Thursday presented himself asthe next prime minister, hoursafter the embattled Israeli pre-mier urged the Blue and Whiteleader to join him in forminga unity Government to avoid athird election.

With nearly 97 per cent ofthe votes counted on Thursday,Gantz's Blue and White partywon 33 seats while Netanyahu'sLikud secured 31 seats inIsrael's 120-memberParliament.

Gantz, 60, said he intendsto form and lead a "broad, lib-eral, unity government."

"After an election that wasforced on Israel, (people) votedand made a clear choice. Thepeople voted for unity andKahol Lavan won the election.It's the biggest party," he added.

He said the Israeli peoplewanted a unity governmentafter the last election too andvowed to form a "broad, liber-al unity government."

"In order to form a unitygovernment, one can't comewith political blocs and spins,"Gantz said, referring to theright-wing religious bloc'smove to recommendNetanyahu as the next primeminister after no clear winneremerged in the unprecedentedrepeat polls.

"You come with responsi-bility and seriousness. I attendto act accordingly," Gantz wasquoted as saying by theHaaretz. Gantz said he will notaccept any dictates. "There willbe no shortcuts."

His comments came after69-year-old Netanyahu said hewanted to form a right-winggovernment, but the resultsshowed it was not possible. Hecalled on Gantz to meet him "atany hour today" in order tohold discussions for a unitygovernment.

"Benny, it's on us to estab-lish a wide unity governmenttoday. The nation expects us,the both of us, to work togeth-er. Let's meet today.

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Iran's foreign minister warnedThursday that any attack on

his country over a drone-and-missile strike on Saudi Arabia'soil industry will result in "all-out war," further pushing uptensions across the PersianGulf.

The comments byMohammad Javad Zarif repre-sent the starkest warningoffered yet by Iran in a longsummer of mysterious attacksand incidents following thecollapse of Iran's nuclear dealwith world powers, over a yearafter President Donald Trumpunilaterally withdrew Americafrom the accord.

Zarif 's comments alsoappeared to be in response toUS Secretary of State MikePompeo, who a day earlierwhile travelling to Saudi Arabiareferred to the attack as an "act

of war." Asked by CNN what would

be the consequence of a US orSaudi strike, Zarif said: "All-outwar."

"We won't blink to defendour territory," he said.

Pompeo wrote a tweet earlyThursday after his meetingwith Saudi Crown PrinceMohammed bin Salman inJiddah over Saturday's droneand cruise missile attack on acrucial oil processing facilityand oil field.

Yemen's Iranian-backedHouthi rebels have claimedthe attack, but the US allegesIran carried out the assault.

Pompeo called the attacks"unprecedented."

"The US stands with#SaudiArabia and supports itsright to defend itself," Pompeosaid.

"The Iranian regime'sthreatening behaviour will not

be tolerated." Pompeo did not elaborate.

President Donald Trump hasbeen noncommittal on whetherhe would order US military

retaliation. He separately said

Wednesday he is moving toincrease financial sanctions onTehran over the attack, without

elaborating. Iran already is subject to a

crushing American sanctionsprogram targeting its crucial oilindustry.

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US Secretary of State MikePompeo on Thursday

said he preferred a "peacefulresolution" to a crisis sparkedby attacks on Saudi oil infra-structure, as Iran warnedagainst "all-out war".

Pompeo has blamed Iran for the weekend assaulton two facilities which wiped out half of Saudi oilproduction, dismissing itsdenials and condemning the"act of war".

The rhetoric has raisedthe risk of an unpredictableescalation in the tinderboxregion where Saudi Arabiaand Iran are locked in adecades-old struggle for dom-inance.

Visiting the United ArabEmirates, Pompeo howeversaid his country would prefera "peaceful" solution to thecrisis.

"We'd like a peaceful res-olution," he said.

"I hope the IslamicRepublic of Iran sees it the

same way," he told reporters after talks with theleaders of the United ArabEmirates.

Iran's Foreign MinisterMohammad Javad Zarif ear-lier warned any US or Saudimilitary strike on Iran couldcause "all-out war."

"We don't want war, we don't want to engage in amilitary confrontation," he told CNN in an interview aired Thursday. "Butwe won't blink to defend ourterritory."

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War-weary Afghanistan washit with its third straight

day of bloody carnage Thursday,as a Taliban car bomb flatteneda hospital and killed 20 peoplein the south, while nine othersdied in a drone strike in the east.

The surge in violence, withcivilians paying the heaviestprice, has come after USPresident Donald Trump calledoff talks with the Taliban thatcould have seen Washingtonbegin withdrawing troops, andas the country gears up for apresidential election.

The insurgents respondedto Trump's declaration that thetalks were "dead" earlier thismonth by promising to contin-ue fighting, and have vowed totarget the September 28 polls,Afghanistan's fourth presiden-tial election since the hardlineIslamist group was ousted frompower in 2001.

Thursday's bloodshedbegan near dawn, when theTaliban killed at least 20 peopleand wounded 90 after a car

bomb destroyed a hospital inthe southern Afghan city ofQalat.

Hours later, reportsemerged of an overnight dronestrike in eastern Nangarharprovince said to have killed atleast nine civilians who hadbeen camping in the moun-tainous region as they collectedpine nuts.

The US is the only memberof the international coalition inAfghanistan that provides airsupport in the conflict, butthere was no immediate state-ment from its forces inAfghanistan, the United Nationsor NATO.

The strike came just hoursafter four people were killed onWednesday when unknowngunmen and a suicide bomberstormed a government buildingin nearby Jalalabad, capital ofNangarhar province. OnTuesday, the Taliban killed near-ly 50 people in two separateattacks —one on a campaignrally for President Ashraf Ghaniin the central province ofParwan, and the other in Kabul.

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Former British PrimeMinister David Cameron

revealed Thursday that heasked Queen Elizabeth II tointervene in the Scottish inde-pendence referendum, riskingthe irritation of the nominallyneutral head of state.

Cameron, who led the suc-cessful campaign for Scotlandto stay in the United Kingdomin the 2014 referendum, said heasked if she could offer even a"raising of the eyebrow" toindicate her opposition toindependence.

He told the BBC he spokewith the queen's private secre-tary, "not asking for anythingthat would be in any wayimproper or unconstitutional,but just a raising of the eye-brow, even, you know, a quar-ter of an inch — we thought

would make a difference." A few days before the vote,

the queen told a member of thepublic in Scotland that shehoped "people would thinkvery carefully about the future"— comments that made head-lines. Scotland voted by 55 percent to stay in the UK.

In a BBC documentary tomark the publication of hismemoirs, Cameron said that"although the words were verylimited, I think it helped to puta slightly different perceptionon things".

Buckingham Palace toldAFP it would not comment onhis remarks, but a royal sourcetold the BBC they had causedsome displeasure.

"It serves no one's interests"for conversations between themonarch and her prime min-isters to be made public, thesource was quoted as saying.

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British Prime Minister BorisJohnson has been accused

by European Union officials offailing to negotiate seriouslyand branded the "father of lies"by a lawyer in the UK SupremeCourt, as his plan to leave theEU in just over six weeks facedhurdles on both sides of theChannel.

In Strasbourg, France, theEuropean Parliament said onWednesday it would be thefault of Britain, not the bloc, ifthe UK crashed out of the EUwithout a divorce deal on thescheduled October 31 departureday.

In London, Johnson's gov-ernment battled to convince theUK's top court that the primeminister's decision to suspendParliament for five weeks withBrexit looming was neither ille-gal nor improper. The govern-ment's opponents claimJohnson illegally shut down thelegislature to prevent lawmak-ers from scrutinising his Brexitplans.

Government lawyer JamesEadie told 11 Supreme Courtjustices that the decision tosend lawmakers home untilOctober 14 was "inherently andfundamentally political innature," and not a matter for thejudiciary. He said that if thecourt intervened it would vio-late the "fundamental constitu-tional principle" of the separa-tion of powers.

But a lawyer for lawmakerschallenging the shutdownaccused the government ofbeing "unworthy of our trust.""We've got here the mother ofparliaments being shut down bythe father of lies," said attorneyAidan O'Neill.

He urged the judges to"stand up for truth, stand up forreason, stand up for diversity,stand up for Parliament, standup for democracy."

The judges, for their part,wondered why Johnson hadrefused to provide a swornstatement to the court about hisreasons for the suspension.

"Isn't it odd that nobody hassigned a witness statement to

say: 'This is true. These are thetrue reasons for what wasdone'?" said one of the judges,Nicholas Wilson.

The developments were thelatest in a rocky week forJohnson, who pulled out of anews conference with the primeminister of Luxembourg onMonday because of noisy pro-testers nearby. On Wednesdayhe was berated by the father ofa sick child over funding cuts toBritain's health service as he vis-ited a London hospital.

Johnson took power in Julywith a vow that Britain will leavethe EU on Oct. 31 "come whatmay." He promised to break astalemate that saw the Brexitagreement struck between theEU and Johnson's predecessorTheresa May rejected threetimes by Britain's Parliament,prompting May to resign.

Many lawmakers believe ano-deal Brexit would be eco-nomically devastating andsocially destabilising, and haveput obstacles in Johnson's path,including legal challenges to theParliament shutdown.

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Beijing on Thursday accusedWashington of "adding fuel

to the fire" of Hong Kongunrest after leaders of the city'spro-democracy movementappealed directly to US law-makers to exert pressure onChina.

Activists from the semi-autonomous city testifiedbefore a congressional com-mission in support of US leg-islation aimed at defendingcivil rights in Hong Kong,which has been convulsed byweeks of huge, sometimes vio-lent rallies.

Foreign ministryspokesman Geng Shuang saidat a press briefing Thursday thatthe US should "stop supportingviolent radical forces and HongKong independence separatists,and stop adding fuel to the fireto the words and deeds thatdamage the prosperity and sta-bility of the Hong Kong SpecialAdministrative Region."

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Two classmates of a Hindudental student have been

detained by the police inPakistan's Sindh province aftershe was found dead in her hos-tel room, a media report saidon Thursday.

Nimrita Chandni, a final-year student of Bibi Asifa

Dental College in Larkana dis-trict and a social activist, wasfound lying on a cot by herfriends on Monday with a ropetied to her neck.

The two suspects, bothclassmates of Chandni, weretaken into the custody by thepolice after tracing the call datafrom the deceased's cell phone,Geo News reported.

Her room was locked frominside. Police have not yetascertained whether she com-mitted suicide or was mur-dered.

The girl hailed from Ghotkidistrict, which recently wit-nessed riots after a school prin-cipal from the minority Hinducommunity was booked oncharges of alleged blasphemy.

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India has become a leader inthe global fight against a

youth e-cigarette epidemic bytaking a "historic" decision toban such nicotine and tobaccoproducts, a US-based top advo-cacy group has said.

The Government onWednesday banned produc-tion, import and sale of e-cig-arettes and similar products,citing health risk to people,especially youth. An ordinancewill be brought in to make it anoffence, entailing jail term of upto three years as well as fine.

The decision was taken bythe Union cabinet headed byPrime Minister NarendraModi.

President of Campaign forTobacco-Free Kids Matthew LMyers said India's decision toban the sale, manufacture,import and advertising of e-cig-arettes nationwide was a "boldeffort" to protect youth fromthe risk of nicotine addiction.

He praised theGovernment for taking suchdecisive action to prevent ayouth e-cigarette epidemic inIndia.

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Philippine health officialsdeclared a polio outbreak in

the country on Thursday, near-ly two decades after the WorldHealth Organisation declared itto be free of the highly conta-gious and potentially deadlydisease.

Health Secretary FranciscoDuque III said at a news con-ference that authorities haveconfirmed at least one case ofpolio in a 3-year-old girl insouthern Lanao del Surprovince and detected the poliovirus in sewage in Manila andin waterways in the southernDavao region.

Those findings are enoughto declare an outbreak of thecrippling disease in a previouslypolio-free country like thePhilippines, he said.

The World Health Organisation and theUnited Nations Children's Fund expresseddeep concern over polio'sreemergence in the countryand said they would supportthe government in immunizingchildren, who are the most sus-ceptible, and strengtheningsurveillance.

"As long as one single child remains infected, children across the countryand even beyond are at risk ofcontracting polio," UNICEF Philippines repre-sentative Oyun Dendevnorovsaid.

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Paris Saint-Germainlaunched their latestquest for Champions

League success with a state-ment win over Real Madridon Wednesday, while a lateAtletico Madrid comebackfoiled Juventus asManchester City eased tovictory in Ukraine.

French giants PSG havefailed to make their mark inEurope, crashing out of theChampions League in thelast 16 each of the past threeyears despite the huge sumsof money spent by theirQatari owners.

With Neymar suspend-ed and Kylian Mbappe andEdinson Cavani sidelinedby injury, Angel Di Mariastepped up in their absenceby grabbing two first-halfgoals in a 3-0 triumph at theParc des Princes.

Thomas Meunier addedthe third late on as Madrid,who beat PSG on the way tolifting the trophy in 2016

and 2018, were soundlybeaten in their Group Aopener with Eden Hazardkept quiet on his full debut.

“There’s no messagesent, but we dominated thisgame very well,” PSG captainThiago Silva told RMCSport.

“We have to play likethis all the time, in theleague as well, with charac-ter and hunger.”

Real, the 13-timeEuropean champions, arestill favourites to advancefrom a section that includesClub Brugge andGalatasaray, who drew 0-0 inBelgium, but the nature ofthe loss underscored thework that lies ahead forcoach Zinedine Zidane.

Diego Simeone’sAtletico clawed their wayback from two goals down inthe final 20 minutes to res-cue a 2-2 draw at home toJuventus in Group D.

The anticipated clashbetween Cristiano Ronaldoand Joao Felix, the teenager

touted as the heir toRonaldo’s throne, took abackseat to a Atletico rous-ing comeback after second-half goals from JuanCuadrado and BlaiseMatuidi put Juve in control.

Stefan Savic noddedhome from point-blankrange to give Atletico hope

and substitute HectorHerrera headed in a cornerin the final minute to snatcha point.

“I think we played wellbut we have a bitter taste inour mouth now because wefelt we had the game in ourhands,” said Juventus bossMaurizio Sarri.

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wrestler Daulet Niyazbekovunder controversial cir-cumstances after sealinghis Tokyo Olympicsquota along with RaviDahiya, who made hispresence felt in a star-studded field at theWorld WrestlingChampionships, here onThursday.

Bajrang’s frustrated coachShako Benitidis kicked thecoach’s block in anger after the65kg bout ended 9-9 followinga nerve-wracking six minutes.

Since Niyazbekov wasgiven a bigger throw of fourpoints in the bout, he was

declared the winner.In the fiercely-fought bout,

the referee gave ample time totiring Niyazbekov to catch hisbreath and he was not given

caution at least thrice.Instead Niyazbekov

was awarded four pointswhen it was Bajrang whoeffected a throw at theedge of the circle.

“I challenged it andthey should have given at

least two points to Bajrang forthat hold,” said coach Benitidis.

Several times, Bajrangraised his hands in frustrationbut to no avail.

The last edition Silvermedallist Indian will now fightfor the Bronze today.

“It was clear that the matchairman favoured the home

wrestler,” said a coach who didnot wish to be named.

Ravi, who felled a few starson his way to the 57kg semifi-nals, lost 4-6 to reigning worldchampion Zaur Uguev ofRussia and will also fight for theBronze.

Ravi also made it to theTokyo Olympics in the 57kgafter stunning ArsenHarutunyan, the 61kgEuropean champion fromArmenia and 2017 worldchampion and world numberthree Yuki Takahashi of Japan.

Meanwhile, India’s cam-paign in the women’s compe-tition folded following PoojaDhanda’s defeat in the Bronzemedal bout and first roundexits of Sakshi Malik and DivyaKakran.

Pooja could not match hislast year’s Bronze winning per-formance as she lost the 59kgBronze medal play-off 3-5 to2018 Asian champion XingruPei.

There was no end to thewoes of Rio Olympic Bronzemedallist Sakshi Maik, who losther opening round 7-10 toNigeria’s Aminat Adeniyi. Shewas knocked out of the tour-namernt after the Nigerianlost her quarterfinal bout.

Sakshi waited too long toattack while her powerfulopponent moved quickly.

In the 68kg, Divya Kakrancould not do much againstreigning Olympic championSara Dosho from Japan, losingthe bout 0-2.

Dosho later lost her quar-terfinal bout, closing repechagedoors on Divya.

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The Indian men’s doubles pairof G Sathiyan and Achanta

Sharath Kamal sailed into thequarterfinals of the 24th ITTFAsian Table TennisChampionships with easy winover Mahfoodh Sayed Murtadhaand Rashed Rashed of Bahrain atYogyakarta, Indonesia onThursday.

The Indian duo beatMurtadha and Rashed 11-8, 11-6, 11-3 in a lop-sided affair.

In the quarterfinals, Sathiyanand Sharath Kamal will be upagainst Chinese pair of LiangJingkun and Lin Gaoyuan.

Earlier in the day after receiv-ing first-round bye, the Indiansgot the better of Jordan’s AboYaman Zaid and Aldmaizy Zeyad11-4, 11-7, 11-7 in the round of32.

But the other Indian pair ofHarmeet Desai and AnthonyAmalraj, after enjoying a bye inthe round of 64, lost to ChineseTaipei’s Liu Hsing-Yin and PengWang Wei.

Harmeet and Amalraj foughthard before losing 11-5, 7-11, 11-3, 8-11, 6-11 against their accom-plished Chinese rivals.

It was curtains for India inthe women’s doubles as the pairof Manika Batra and ArchanaKamath and Madhurika Patkarand Sutirtha Mukherjee bowedout the tournament.

The pair of Manika andArchana had an easy round of 64outing, beating the Kazak duo ofLavnova Anastassiya andKhusseinova Gulchekhra 3-0 butlost in the next round to Koreancombination of Yang Haeun and

Jeon Jhee 6-11, 9-11, 7-11.Madhurika and Sutirtha fol-

lowed suit as they lost to Doo HoiKem and Lee Ho Ching of HongKong 9-11, 5-11, 11-13 afterclearing the round of 64 hurdleagainst Macau’s Tao Chong andLei Wai Mei 3-0.

In the mixed event, the pairsof Sharath Kamal-Manika andSathiyan-Archana lost in theround of 32.

While Korean pair of LeeSangsu and Jeo Jhiee accountedfor Sharath and Manika 11-9, 11-8, 11-7, China’s Wang Chuqinand Sun Yingsha beat Sathiyanand Archana 11-7, 11-9, 13-11.

In men singles, SharathKamal, Sathiyan, Amalraj,Harmeet and Manav Thakkarhad all received first-round byesand registered 3-0 wins overtheir respective rivals in theround of 128.

Only Harmeet dropped agame against PanagitgunYanapang of Thailand beforeovercoming his rival 11-9, 6-11,11-5, 11-5.

All the Indian men’s singlespaddlers will play their round of64 matches later in the day.

In women singles, Archanaenjoyed the random bye in theround of 128 while others had toplay their first round matches toenter the round of 64.

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City bounced back from defeatby Norwich at the weekendwith a comfortable 3-0 victoryagainst Shakhtar Donetsk inKharkiv.

Riyad Mahrez slammedhome a rebound after IlkayGundogan hit the post, and theGerman international smackedin a second before GabrielJesus sealed the points on 76minutes.

“When you win the man-ager makes the right decisions,when you lose the wrong deci-sions. We lost one game in eightmonths and we will not doubtwho these players are. It is a joyto be their manager,” coach PepGuardiola told BT Sport.

City are second to DinamoZagreb in Group C after theCroatian champions made it anight to forget for competitiondebutants Atalanta with a 4-0rout.

Dinamo failed to score asingle goal as they lost all sixmatches on their last groupstage appearance in 2016-17.

However, Marin Leovacgave them a 10th-minute leadand Mislav Orsic bagged ahat-trick as Dinamo got off toa dream start ahead of a trip toCity on October 2.

Bayern Munich neededlate goals from RobertLewandowski and ThomasMueller to make sure of victo-ry against Red Star Belgrade inGroup D.

Kingsley Coman’s bulletheader gave Bayern a first-halflead but the German champi-ons were forced to wait until the80th minute beforeLewandowski ended Red Star’sthreat.

Substitute Mueller volleyedin a third in stoppage time.

Last year’s finalistsTottenham blew a two-goallead to draw 2-2 at Olympiakos.

Harry Kane’s penalty and afine Lucas Moura strike putSpurs 2-0 up after 30 minutesin Greece, but Daniel Podencecut the deficit shortly before thebreak and Mathieu Valbuenalevelled from the spot in thesecond half.

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India would be aiming to bet-ter their best ever show when

Amit Panghal (52kg) andManish Kaushik (63kg) stepinside the ring against toughopponents in pursuit of summitberths in the World Men’sBoxing Championship heretoday.

India have never had twosemifinalists at the marqueeevent for amateur boxers and inthat respect, the two Haryanaboxers have already scripted his-tory.

But if both or either of themmanages to make the finals, itwould be a gigantic step forwardfor the sport in the country.

The task, however, is easi-er said than done.

Panghal has in his wayKazakhstan’s Saken Bibossinov,who stunned Armenia’sEuropean Gold-medallist andsixth seed Artur Hovhannisyanin the quarterfinals.

Kaushik, on the other hand,faces the most accomplishedboxer in his weight category —Cuban top seed Andy GomezCruz, who out-punched Russia’seighth-seeded Ilia Popov in thelast-eight stage.

“Now begins the tough job.We have already delivered onbettering the medal count andnow we aim to better theircolour,” Indian Boxing’s HighPerformance Director SantiagoNieva said.

“I am happy but I won’t becompletely happy till the timeboth of them reach the finalsand they surely can, both ofthem,” added the country’s chiefcoach C A Kuttappa.

They are up against toughchallengers but that in no way

makes them automatic under-dogs.

Panghal, the pint-sizeddynamo from Rohtak, is thereigning Asian Games andChampionships Gold-medal-list and has back-to-back goldmedals at one of Europe’s old-est tournament — the StrandjaMemorial.

Kaushik, the shy man hail-ing from the cradle of Indianboxing Bhiwani, is aCommonwealth Games Gold-medallist and is a two-timenational medal winner.

Both are employed with theIndian Army and both haveshown a soldier’s grit in somedraining bouts so far.

QUALIFIERS SEALEDAmit Panghal (52kg) and

Manish Kaushik (63kg) havealso made the Indian boxingsquad for next year’s OlympicQualifiers owing to their medal-winning show.

The Boxing Federation ofIndia (BFI) had made it clearthat boxers who win medals atthe world championships will beautomatic picks for the Olympicqualifiers scheduled in Februaryin China.

“Yes, Amit and Manish willbe going to the qualifiers. Therewill not be any trials in theirweight categories now,” IndianBoxing’s High PerformanceDirector Santiago Nieva said.

The rest of the squad will bepicked on the basis of camp per-formance, points accumulatedat international events and insome cases, trials.

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with a party at a restaurant are all thingswe enjoy doing.

Many distinct types of food can endup making you sick. You must know thatfood that contains dangerous bacteria orviruses may not necessarily look, smell ortaste any different from food that is safe.Food-poisoning causing bacteria areeither in the food to begin with or aretransferred to the food during storage,preparation, cooking or serving.

When eating out, you must pay spe-cial attention to how these high-risk foodsare being prepared, cooked, stored andserved in eateries. Vigilance is key here,so always keep your eyes out for poten-tial hazards.

Firstly, eating at home is much lessexpensive than eating in a restaurant.Obviously, when we eat at home we dothe preparation, cooking and serving ofthe food ourselves and, therefore, do notneed to pay the labor costs of cook, wait-er and other restaurant staff. Similarly, wehave no other overheads to pay for suchas restaurant rent and high utility bills. Afurther cost saving is that we shop for theingredients of our home-cooked mealsourselves and can choose those which arecheaper in price.

Secondly, eating at home is much bet-ter for our health and general wellbeingthan dining outside. At home, whencooking for ourselves, we can ensure thatwhat goes into our meals is not bad forus. We can control the amount of oil weuse. We can control the amount of salt weuse and we can balance our diet to suitour own individual needs. When we eatat a restaurant, none of these things arepossible. At home we can also cook justenough food to satisfy us. In a restaurantwe are often given too much or too littlefood on our plate.

Finally, eating at home is much morecomfortable than having dinner or lunchin a public place. At home, we can bemore relaxed than in a restaurant. We canwear comfortable, casual clothes; evenpyjamas. We can sit in a comfortable posi-tion on our favorite chair, on the sofa oron the floor. If we wish, we can watch TVor a video, or listen to a radio program.None of these can be done at a restaurant.Furthermore, at home we do not have toworry about disturbing other diners andcan talk and laugh as loudly as we wantwithout fear of upsetting people sittingnearby us.

There are so many reasons to cook athome, it’s surprising that we aren’t alldoing it at least some of the time. Forstarters, research shows that regularly eat-ing home-cooked meals as a family islinked to healthier and happier kids, and

teens who are less likely to use alcohol,drugs, or cigarettes.3

Adults also reap considerable bene-fits from eating home-cooked meals.Research finds that people who eathome-cooked meals on a regular basistend to be happier and healthier and con-sume less sugar and processed foods,which can result in higher energy levelsand better mental health.4 Eating home-cooked meals five or more days a weekis even associated with a longer life.

Those mental health benefits increaseconsiderably when we eat home-cooked

meals with other people. In fact, commu-nal meals can make us feel happier evenoutside of meal times. That’s partlybecause social connections reinforcedover meals can help us cultivate a senseof belonging and even reduce symptomsof depression. Sharing the joy of homecooking also preserves cultural knowl-edge and history as we pass recipes fromgeneration to generation.

If you fall into the trap of thinkingyou’re too busy to cook, evaluate whetherthat’s really the case. Take a week to writedown how long you spend browsing theinternet, watching TV, or playing gameson your phone. Tally it all up, and you’llprobably find you have more free timethan you realised. Use some of that downtime to cook delicious meals.

Don’t feel pressured to get fancy justbecause you’re in charge of a meal. If youlike chicken-stuffed duck breast coated intruffle oil, then go for it. But there’s noneed to reinvent the meal. If pizza is moreyour style, then make yourself a home-made option. By preparing meals you liketo eat, you’ll be more likely to stick withhome cooking.11

Cooking doesn’t need to be a soloaffair. Invite your partner, kids, or friendsinto the kitchen to cut down on the timeand energy required to make a meal andto make it fun. Cooking together is a greatway to solidify relationships, share foodknowledge, and make new discoveries in

the kitchen.Food is a cornerstone of culture.

Reconnect to your family history byexploring recipes from your own cultur-al heritage. If you’re not sure where youcome from, use this as an exciting oppor-tunity to find out.

Growing your own produce andherbs is a sure-fire way to feel more con-nected to the food you eat. There’s noth-ing more satisfying (or nutritious) thanmaking a salad from greens and vegeta-bles you grew yourself. While you’re at it,consider learning how to preserve foodfor the winter and compost leftovers.Kicking up your home cooking is just onebenefit of investing in your land.

Seek out different cookbooks andrecipe sites – or even invest in a few class-es – to expose yourself to diverse cook-ing styles and discover ways of cookingthat work best for you.

Deciding to make most meals athome doesn’t mean you can’t ever enjoyeating out again. Schedule meals out –once a week, once a month, or whateverschedule works for you – so that cook-ing at home never feels like a chore.

Whether you’ve never cooked a mealin your life or you want to get back to thekitchen after a busy schedule drew youaway, give a few of these tips a try, andcommit to a few small lifestyle changes.You’ll be on your way to living a health-ier, happier life.

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We have been watching the father-son duoSunny and Karan Deol for a while. At thepress conference that preceded the inter-

views, they made sure to answer each question, somehumorously and others, a little seriously. When areporter asked Sunny to deliver one of his famous dia-logues, he pushed his son forward and said, abhi bach-chon ki baat karte hain (We must talk about the kidsnow). Even when all the those who were assembledrequested him again, he stood his ground before ask-ing Karan to sing a song from his forthcoming film.As often happens, even when it concerns parents whoare nowhere near the arc lights, Sunny too placed hisoffspring in focus. So despite performances from hispast films having made a strong impression on peo-ple’s hearts, the actor-turned-director does not seemto be hankering for more attention.

When questioned about taking a backseat for hisson’s debut, Sunny said, “I am not bothered about suchthings because I am not insecure. Even when I start-ed my career I was beyond all this. I want to tell young-sters to be confident and proud of who they are.Success and failure are a part of life because every onecannot have the same pace. You should enjoy everymoment because life happens but once. There is nopoint creating more stress for no rhyme and reason?”

Karan is making his debut with Pal Pal Dil KePaas. It is a love story set in snowy regions of HimachalPradesh. Directed by Sunny, the film revolves aroundthe journey of two youngsters who are in love andready to face any hurdles to be together.

Working with a family member and that too ason is special for anyone. But in such cases it is impor-tant to maintain a balance between the personal andthe professional. “It was a great experience. Jaisihumari family hai, humlog beta baap door-door hi rehtehai, dost nahi hote. (The kind of family that we have,my son and I usually stay apart. We are not friends).It took three years to prepare for this film. Duringthis journey both of us spent a lot of time with eachother. I will always cherish these years,” said Sunny.While talking about his son, the slight smile that con-sistently hovered on his lips revealed his love.

But a father launching his son naturally gives riseto the loud whispers about nepotism especially inBollywood with two opposing camps arguing for andagainst it. When asked about the same, Sunnyanswered really promptly as if he was anticipating thequestion. “Had people not favoured nepotism, theywould have asked some questions from the heroinetoo during the press conference. But they did not.Every question was directed at either me or my son.This itself explains the mindset of the people. I believe,every child’s journey is based on his/her capabilities.It has nothing to do with what their parents havedone,” said he.

Of course when your father is the director, it isinevitable that most people would allege that Karanwould get a stronger role. But Karan dis-agrees, “It’s a perception. When yousee the film, you will realise thatboth the characters are equal-ly strong. They are support-ing each other.”

Sunny explained thathe had not planned thatKaran should debut ina film directed by himand would have pre-ferred some otherdirector. But thatdidn’t materialise.For lack of options,he decided to takeon the mantle onhimself.

From an actorSunny who hasdisplayed hischarismatic per-sonality, to a direc-tor, he believes thatthere is no suchthing as “challenge”in life. Acting anddirecting are pro-fessions that he hastaken up and bothneed preparation.He said, “There arepeople who speakout their problemsloudly but one

should not. I have understood that mushkile sabke paashai, mai koi alag thodi hu. (Everyone has some prob-lems, I am no different). If you don’t have problems,you will remain in your comfort zone and not moveforward. I would encourage the youth not to fall preyto that.”

The first hurdle was the kind of film that Sunnywanted to make. The senior Deol had decided thathe wanted to make a film but was not sure about thestoryline. “I hired Jassi and Ravi (writers) and we dida lot of brainstorming before coming up with an idea.As the germ of an idea made its presence felt, I realisedthat this was something I always wanted to do. I want-ed to understand today’s generation and bring forththeir perspective. We often try to put the youth in apre-determined mould rather than understandingwhat they want to do. There was a time when we fol-lowed traditional practices, but we cannot enforce thesame on our kids. Today’s youth is very different,” saidSunny. However, one thing which made the film dif-ferent was that he had not put any restrictions beforethe shoot began as Sunny wanted the story to findits own path.

The film has been shot in villages near Manaliwhere survival is tough. The actors had to go throughphysically and mentally challenging hurdles whichwere in addition to the fact that both of them areyoung and naive. Karan has played the role of a

Himachali boy which was not easy for a boy whogrew up in urban Mumbai. So, prior to the

shoot he spent three to four monthsanalysing and understanding howpeople live in that region. He said, “Itwas tough because it’s a differentlifestyle altogether. It took time toadjust to that place. I had to wake upearly and trek in the cold weather. Itwas very taxing physically. Post trekI had to rappel and do rock climbing.I used to crash as soon as I hit the bed.

Dad took us to a place where there washardly any civilisation. It was very

tough to bring out emotions as the highaltitude presented another set of

challenges.” But the actoris glad that he went

through the gru-elling experience ashe now has a senseof accomplish-ment. He addedthat he has founda new love andaffection for hiscity.

While Karanwas balancingthe role of anactor, his fatherhad to look atall the aspects ofthe film ratherbeing focussedon just acting.Sunny said thathe was lookingfor the bestsinger becausemusic plays avital role. “Mymusic is verynew and story-driven. I believethat a song

s h o u l dalways gowith the flowof the story

rather than putting it just for the sake of it. I am fondof doing new and interesting things as remakes areboring,” he said.

But looking back at his chequered career, evenpeople who hadn’t been born when Ghayal wasreleased in 1990, are well versed with his famous dia-logue, “Jab yeh dhai kilo ka haath kisi pe padta haina, toh aadmi uthta nahi utth jata hai?” The Gadaractor is known for his strong roles. Irrespective ofwhether it is a comic or a serious role, it was his pow-erful personality that made an impact. He said, “Nomatter what the role was, the way I portrayed it madeit different. I tried to infuse all my roles with a per-sonal touch so that it looked natural.” Recalling anincident from his film Ziddi he said, “There is a scenewhere people tell me, ‘tumhari behen ko usne chedhdiya.’ I believe that if someone does this in reality mainhaath ukhad dunga. Because I wanted the scene tolook natural I said that those were the dialogues Iwanted to mouth. When people heard this, they start-ed laughing wondering how could someone do this.But I did that scene. That’s my belief, as an actor. WhenI take up something I do it with honesty.”

There is another role that Sunny has taken uponhimself, that of a member of Parliament fromGurdaspur. On foraying into the field of politics, hesaid that it is one more profession he wanted to dojustice to. “People know that if I take up anything inlife I take it to a high point where it should have been,”said he.

During the whole session Karan seemed quitenervous. When asked about the same, before we couldeven complete the sentence Sunny defended him. Hesaid (pointing towards the lead actors of the film)“They have come to a point where what happens ona Friday will dictate their tomorrow. They areunaware whether it will be smooth, hard or filled withopportunities.”

When asked about the plethora of emotions thatKaran was going through, he said, “I feel nervousand excited. I am eagerly waiting for the responseto my film.” As he answered the questions his facebegan to turn red clearly revealing how frightenedhe was. He added that his anxiety won’t let him sleepuntil the film releases. Pointing towards Sunny hesaid, “I can understand now what he must be goingthrough with every release.” The thought that firstimpression is the last has Karan worried.

Right from the black and white era whenDharmendra became a part of the industry, to Sunnyand Bobby, the Deols have made a mark inBollywood. Naturally, with such a family back-ground, the baggage is heavier. Karan said, “Peopleare keenly looking out for your negatives to put youdown. They don’t see that it’s my first experience asan actor. I can’t be perfect from the word go justbecause I come from a particular family. With timeand experience, I will polish myself and grow as anactor. I want to push my family name forward andhopefully with this film, I will be able to do that.”

The film has a plethora of emotions ranging fromexcitement, sadness and romance, it was not easy forKaran to portray one and switch to another instant-ly. For an experienced actor that would be easy buttough for a beginner. He shared that during an emo-tional scene Sunny made sure that the atmosphere ofthe set facilitated it.

Crediting all his learnings to his father, Karan said,“No other director would have pushed me the way daddid. When I went home after shoot, he taught me howto get into the mood for a scene instantly. As he knowsmy personality he was aware how to bring out a par-ticular emotion. It is important for a director to knowa person, especially a newcomer so that s/he can bemoulded in a desired way. Because he is an actor him-self he understands all the facets better. And it was mydad, so yes it was a really emotional journey.”

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Actor Brad Pitt opened up abouthis struggles with alcoholismand the efforts he made in

order to face his problems. He said,“Initially, I didn’t know how to dealwith my painful feelings. But I don’teven want to run from anything,instead want to sit and feel it. I wantto get through the rough night. AndI found, in doing so, you just comeout of it with a more profoundunderstanding of yourself and grate-fulness for those in your life.”

In an interview with ChristianeAmanpour, chief anchor for CNN, hediscussed his new film Ad Astra, hisbattle with alcoholism and the MeToo movement. Space epic Ad Astratackles a range of topics. Pitt talkedabout the film’s focus on loneliness,father-and-son relationships, mas-culinity and vulnerability. He said thatthere his love for the sci-fi genre madehim sign this film. “I didn’t want todo it until I figured we could dosomething that would add to a suc-cessful genre. And I think James Grayhad a really interesting take that wehadn’t seen before. It just seemed thesubject matter of, I guess, finding selfat this age in my life, it seemed inter-esting,” said Pitt and went on to add,“When you get older, you just gettired of everything. And we wantedto get on with this film in that way.We all carry great pains and majorregrets. We have all experienced lossand loneliness. And we’re good atpacking that away, not dealing withit, some are really good at gettingthrough it and coming out the otherside in a more well-rounded and con-fident manner. So we just wanted tolike get it out there.”

The two went on to discuss thesummer hit Once Upon a Time in

Hollywood and Pitt’s breakout role inThelma and Louise.

Amanpour spoke to Pitt about theMe-Too movement and his earlypart in calling out Harvey Weinsteinin the 1990s. When then girlfriendGwyneth Paltrow was propositionedby Weinstein, Pitt confronted themedia mogul. Asked about the inci-dent, Pitt downplayed his own role inthe movement but gave credit to itsimportance. He said, “At thatmoment, I was a boy from the Ozarkson the playground and that’s how weconfronted with things. And I want-ed to make sure nothing happenedfurther because Paltrow was going todo two films. I think that the inter-esting thing is that we, Hollywoodspecifically, but the work place, menand women’s dynamic is being recal-ibrated in a very good way, and it’slong overdue. And I do think that’s animportant story to tell.”

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Maggie Beer did not let alack of formal trainingcome in the way of her

metamorphosising into a leg-endary cook and author.Whenever she makes an appear-ance as a guest judge onMasterChef Australia it tends tocreate a lot of excitement amongthe contestants as they realisethat they would be mentored byone of the country’s most cher-ished and respected chefs.

Beer’s career extends overfive decades and she has been apart of the the much-loved showsince the very beginning. Sheworked at a Scottish sailingschool during a European trip inher early twenties where she says,“I used the entire larder for thefour-month season in eightweeks because I am a very gen-erous cook and that’s the onlyway I know how to do it.” Afterrelocating from Sydney to theBarossa Valley, Beer, with herhusband Colin, established theFarm Shop in 1979 which mor-phed into the Barossa PheasantFarm Restaurant later. It becamewell-known for serving locallysourced pheasant as well as apate.

When questioned about herjourney to becoming one of theworld’s most famous chefs, shelaughs and says, “I call myself acook and not a chef. I grew upin a family where food andcooking were very important. Istarted learning about food sincethen. My parents cooked every-

thing from scratch. We had ourown farm and that helped me alot in understanding the ingre-dients.” Growing up as she did,the chef always had an inclina-tion towards food and cookingso she started with some of herfarm produce which markedthe beginning of her career.

Along the way she has devel-oped her own food philosophy.“I see myself as a country cookand a produce-driven cook, Icannot waste any product oringredients. My philosophy is tomake every dish in such a waythat the ingredients are usedproperly and efficiently,” shesays.

Talking about her experienceat Masterchef she says, “Themost beautiful thing about theshow is the excited young peo-ple who have a dream that theyare following. It is good to seehow dedicated they are in pur-suing their passion. They give apart of themselves to the show.They come with an eagernessand ability to learn and do it veryquickly too. So I love their open-ness to learning.”

The chef has not visitedIndia for a long time. She says,“When I was 21, I stopped inNew Delhi for some time on myway to Europe. And consideringthat I will turn 75 in January, thatwas a long long time ago.

As for Indian food, she is inlove with the spices and legumes.“I love things like dough,vignettes and tamarinds. I love

the Dosa too because it is atremendous blend of so manyflavours and at the same time it’sso crisp,” added she. “I don’t cookall these as I stick toMediterranean,” she laughs andadds, “But I have tried and tast-ed all of them when others cookhem for me.”

Like any other chef, Beer toohas her favourites when puttingtogether a meal. “There aresome ingredients that I cannotdo or live without, extra virginolive oil being one. But my rou-tine is that we have a big veg-etable garden and it’s about fol-lowing the seasons, going to thepantries, looking at the organicproduce, getting the right seeds...and more. And my routine isthinking at the last momentwhat am I going to have for din-ner? So I look at the garden andI see all the beautiful and amaz-ing things. It’s a very relaxed rou-tine even though I work verylong hours. In that routine, I graband feel a lot of new experienceseveryday. So my routine is just tobe seduced by whatever looks themost beautiful and make it intoa dish,” she says with a laugh.

Despite being a much-renowned chef, she believes thatcooking is not looked upon as acelebrated career even now.There are people still strugglingwith their passion “My advice isto understand that hard workcan lead you to dizzying heights.And your dream is only likely tobe fulfilled if you’re truly pas-sionate about it. You want tolearn and keep evolving. Youshould be ready to absorb every-thing that’s been put in front ofyou. If you have a real interest incooking, it is one of the mostrewarding things to do,” shesays.

Despite cooking for somany years and having gathereda plethora of experiences, thereare some dreams which contin-ue are yet to be achieved. “Myone dream is that I make beau-tiful ice creams, which are real-ly very special, super premium.We make them commerciallyand export to China. So my onedream is to be able to exportthem to India as well. I havealways wanted to explore thecountry and by exporting ourice creams, I’ll get its people totaste our produce as well,” shesays.

However, Beer has not letherself be confined to just cook-ing but is extending her domainby way of her foundation. “InAustralia, food health is not asimportant and sometimesneglected. So we have a lot of agecare homes that need to getmuch more beautiful food. It canbe institutionalised. And I kindof accept that. So I am trying tochange the food to give it awhole new flavour and also apleasure to the residents in agecare homes who are no longerable to cook by themselves. Sothat actually keeps me busy.”

(The season 11 of the showairs on Star World.)

It’s that time of year again, when freshapples are piled high at farmer’s markets.

If you are lucky enough to live near anorchard, you can take the day and pick yourown bushel of apples. But whether you arepicking them at the market or off a tree,there are many great things to do withapples that don’t include making a pie.Besides apple pie, some ideas you might nothave thought of:

� Cut apples into matchstick-size strips andadd them to your favorite kale salad for atart and crunchy addition.� Saute chunks of peeled apples in butter,season them with a touch of sugar and apinch of salt, and serve them with any eggdish to brighten up breakfast. In the South,these are sometimes “fried” with bacon fatand called “fried apples,” but I prefer but-ter. Sauteed apples are also great in pan-cakes. Let them cool, and add to yourfavorite pancake batter. If you are a fan ofcinnamon like I am, add a pinch and they’lltaste like apple pie.� Make an apple upside-down cake, andadd cranberries for a festive touch. Use yourfavorite pineapple upside-down cake recipebut substitute apples.� Make a gourmet open-faced tartine, akasandwich with brie cheese and apples.Brush the bread with your favorite jam —think fig, apricot, raspberry, etc. and topwith apples, brie and walnuts. Melt undera broiler and enjoy!� Make a faux sauerkraut for fall sausagesby cooking down grated apples, slicedonions and fennel. Finish with a pinch ofcaraway seeds and a couple of tablespoonsof butter for richness.� Cook apples slowly until they melt intohomemade applesauce. Begin by peelingand coring the apples, and add the juice ofa large lemon, and a little sugar and cinna-mon. Put the lid on the pot and slowly cookon the stovetop. When they have cookeddown to the texture of chunky applesauce,taste and season as you like.� If you have a juicer, make your own applejuice and serve it cold or hot.

� Make your own apple butter. Cookabout 5 pounds of apples with ½ cup ofapple cider until they are deep brown andhave a creamy, “buttery” consistency. Seasonwith your favorite autumn spices. No sugarnecessary. You can do this easily in a slowcooker or a pressure cooker. The slow cook-er is the slow, all day method and the pres-sure cooker is the fast method.

Reminder: If you get a bunch of apples,keep them in a cool place. I have had suc-cess keeping them for months in the crisperdrawer of my refrigerator. If you picked yourown and went a little crazy, and have toomany to fit in your refrigerator, wrap eachapple individually in paper — unprintednewsprint paper works well — and store inthe garage or basement where it is cool. Becareful of any rotting apples, because the oldsaying “One bad apple spoils the bunch” istrue.

My favorite thing to make with extraapples is my Grandmother Odom’s AppleCake. The recipe doesn’t call for any liquidbecause the fresh apples give up their juiceas the cake bakes, and that creates liquid inthe batter. It’s a simple cake to make and ispositively addicting. In fact, anytime I havea prickly relationship with someone, Imake them my grandmother’s cake and itchanges our relationship! I call it The Powerof Grandmother Odom’s Apple Cake.

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Most bowlers find it tough tocontain batsmen in deathovers but young India pacer

Deepak Chahar relishes the challengein the Twenty20 format.

With India giving youngstersopportunities ahead of the T20 WorldCup next year, 27-year-old Chahar hasimpressed in the three games he has gotsince making his debut in July last year,taking six wickets at 11.50.

Used to opening the bowling forChennai Super Kings in the IPL,Chahar has shown he can be equallyeffective in the death overs.

“I don’t know how I developed it(bowling at the top) but you have to doit when you are playing for India. It ischallenging with only two fielders out-side the circle. But I have startedthinking sub-consciously that I willneed to bowl three overs with two field-ers outside the circle,” said Chahar, whowas India’s standout bowler in theirseven-wicket win over South Africa onWednesday.

In his opening spell of three overs,Chahar swung the ball and picked upthe wicket of Reeza Hendricks beforereturning in the 18th over to remove aset Temba Bavuma with a well dis-guised slower ball.

“Earlier I used to bowl more in thedeath overs and find it easier becausein Powerplay you have only two field-ers outside the circle and after that youhave the protection of five fielders. Youcan use variation also in death overs,”he said.

Chahar said he focuses on out-guessing the batsman.

“How I bowl depends on the bats-men. In the death overs, the batsmanis expecting yorkers or a slower ball butif you can also bowl a bouncer orknuckle ball, it can surprise him. Youto have to keep guessing the batsman,”

said the Rajasthan pacer.He feels bowling on flat wickets in

Chennai during the IPL has made hima better bowler.

“There is no off the wicket helpwhen you are playing in Chennai. Butwhen we were playing in Pune last tolast year, there was help both off thewicket and in the air. But in Chennai,the swing is there for maximum oneover as there is no grass. So, I got con-fidence that if I could do well there, Icould do well elsewhere too,” he said.

Chahar has grabbed his chances sofar but knows he is far from cement-ing his place in the side ahead of theT20 World Cup in Australia.

“There is one whole year left forthat. I play each match as if it is my lastfor India. At this time Indian cricket isat the top. If you want to play you haveto do well in almost every game.There is a lot of competition and maybe that is why Indian cricket is at thetop.

“There is no guarantee that you willget your place back even if you arereturning from an injury.”

Talking about Virat Kohli’s match-winning knock of 72 not out, Chaharwas all praise.

“He is just next level and all class,”he said.

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Test specialist TembaBavuma, who had a decent

outing in his debut in the short-est format.

South Africa looked set for180 when skipper Quinton deKock (52) and Bavuma (49)were in the middle before thesouthpaw’s dismissal put thebrakes on the scoring rate, lim-iting the total to 149 for five.

“The first 10-12 overs weplayed really well. I think wecould not really get going aftera good start and lost the gamebetween 12th to the 15th over,”Bavuma, who has played 36Tests, said after the seven-wick-et loss to India.

“When David came in the13th over, we were in a strongposition, 180 seemed very muchgettable at the halfway stage. Iwas not really able to get thatmomentum and others as well.I don’t think we were complete-ly outplayed,” said Bavuma whomissed out on a well-deservedfifty by one run in his attemptto accelerate.

The 29-year-old from CapeTown said India are formidable

but not unbeatable as the Proteasaim to level the series inBengaluru on Sunday.

“They are formidable butnot unbeatable. It was just onephase with the bat where we letourselves down and a qualityside like India made us pay.

“There will always bemoments in the game which wecan win and it is about beingaware of those moments andmaking sure we are in the rightmental space to win thosemoments,” said Bavuma.

Playing his first limited-overs game for South Africa inalmost two years, Bavuma madeit count.

“It was good to be out there.Facing the white ball again. It hasbeen a while. It was a pleasingeffort but did not do much to theresult of the game. Last (domes-tic) season was a big season forme in white ball cricket. Therewere not many Tests and thatallowed me to play white ballcricket.

“I got the opportunity tocome back to the national fold.It helped me understand whatmy gameplan is in white ballcricket,” he explained.

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Captain Tim Paine has pre-dicted a "very exciting era"

for Australian cricket after theteam retained the Ashes againstEngland, while revealing hebroke his thumb in the final Test.

The series was drawn 2-2,with Australia keeping the urnas the Ashes holders despite los-ing the last Test at the Oval by135 runs.

"I'm looking forward toAustralia seeing how far we'vecome this summer," Paine saidin a column for The Australiannewspaper, referring to upcom-ing home Tests against Pakistanand New Zealand.

"Last year we were a bit lostand were finding our way," headded after the side struggled inthe wake of the ball-tamperingscandal in South Africa.

"I know we have found itnow and I am confident thisgroup is the beginning of a veryexciting era in Australian crick-et. "We've got the best bowlingattack in the world and the basisfor a great batting line-up."Australia retaining the Asheswas built on the back of an

incredible series by former skip-per Steve Smith, who scored 774runs in just seven innings, andan impressive bowling attack ledby Pat Cummins and JoshHazlewood.

Paine called Smith "a freak"while also praising MarnusLabuschagne as having "a hugefuture" after he too enjoyed astellar tour with the bat. But herevealed the last Test was a strug-gle for himself and fast bowlerPeter Siddle.

"My thumb was brokentowards the end of that Test butit is not displaced, so I should beright to get back into trainingearly," said Paine, while praisingworkhorse Siddle who was bat-tling a hip injury.

"He has copped a bit of crit-icism for not bowling as well as...We know he can, but the teamknows just how heroic he was.

"A lot of other peoplewouldn't have bowled again inthe match, but he pushed on

because he didn't want to leaveJosh Hazlewood and PatCummins to do extra work."Coming off a long overseastour and with five home Testsstarting from November 21,Paine said he needs to rest andwill not play the domestic BigBash League Twenty20 compe-tition this season.

"Being captain is drainingand I think I should take everychance to recharge my batteries,"he said.

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Rookie teenager ShafaliVerma, who has been

picked in India’s T20squad, would be the cyno-sure of all eyes when theBoard President’s XI takeson the South Africawomen in a warm-upmatch here today.

The 15-year-oldShafali was named in theIndian women’s team forthe T20 series againstSouth Africa following hergood performance in the

Women’s T20 challengeearlier and at the age-group level this year.

The diminutiveHaryana-girl would like tomake optimum use of thewarm-up game and getruns under her belt if sheis given an opportunity inthe playing XI.

The first warm-upgame will be held onFriday at the LalbhaiContractor stadium here

followed by the secondmatch on Sunday.

Apart from Shefali,pacers Mansi Joshi andPooja Vastrakar have alsobeen named in the T20squad and a good outingon Friday would also boosttheir morale before themain tournament beginshere on Tuesday.

On the other hand, theSouth Africa women willalso be aiming to start

their Indian tour on awinning note. They wouldbe keen to use these gamesto assess the conditionsand get acclimatized tothe hot and humid weath-er. All the T20s will beplayed in Surat while theODIs will be played inVadodara.BPXI: Sushma Verma(captain & wicket-keeper),Devika Vaidya (vice-cap-tain), Vanitha VR, ShafaliVerma, Priya Punia, JasiaAktar, MDThirushkamini, Madhuri

Mehta, Tarannum Pathan,Sushree Dibyadarshini,Tanuja Kanwar, BhartiFulmali, Mansi Joshi,Renuka Singh, PoojaVastrakar.SA women: Sune Luus(Captain), Anneke Bosch,Tasmin Brits, Nadine deKlerk, Shabnim Ismail,Sinalo Jafta, AyabongaKhaka, Lara Goodall,Lizelle Lee, NonkululekoMlaba, Tumi Sekhukhune,Nondumiso Shangase,Mignon du Preez and LaraWolvaardt.

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Reigning world champion PV Sindhumade an early exit from the China

Open but B Sai Praneeth kept the Indianflag fluttering with a hard-fought straight-game win to reach the men’s singles quar-terfinals here on Thursday.

Sindhu, an Olympic Silver medallist,squandered a first-game advantage to godown 12-21, 21-13, 21-19 to Thailand’sPornpawee Chochuwong in a women's sin-gles pre-quarterfinals that lasted 58 min-utes here.

Praneeth, who had claimed a Bronzemedal at Basel, edged out China’s Lu GuangZu 21-19, 21-19 to set up a meeting againstIndonesian seventh seed Anthony SinisukaGinting.

Ginting beat India’s Parupalli Kashyap23-21, 15-21, 21-12 in a thrilling contest.

Doubles specialist Satwiksairaj

Rankireddy also had a dismal day ashe suffered twin defeats, losing boththe men’s doubles and mixed dou-

bles pre-quarterfinals.In men’s doubles, Satwik

and Chirag Shetty, ranked 15thin the world, ran out of steam after

a decent start against fourth-seed-ed Japanese pair of Takeshi Kamuraand Keigo Sonoda and went down19-21, 8-21 in the second-roundmatch that lasted 33 minutes.

This is the second time Satwikand Chirag have lost to the combi-nation of Kamura and Sonoda thisyear. They had lost to the world No4 pair at the Japan Open in July.

Satwik then paired up with hismixed doubles partner AshwiniPonanappa but the duo couldn’t getpast Yuki Kaneko and MisakiMatsutomo, losing 11-21, 21-16,

12-21 to the Japanese pair.Ashwini also tasted defeat in

women’s doubles after she and herpartner N Sikki Reddy lost 12-21, 17-21 to second seeded Japanese pair ofMisaki Matsutomo and AyakaTakahashi.

Sindhu, who came into thematch with a 3-0 head-to-head leadagainst Pornpawee, dominated thefirst game as she lead 7-1 early on butthe Thai shuttler reduced the deficitto 10-11 at the break.

However, Sindhu reeled off eightstraight points after the interval tojump to 19-10 and eventually sealedthe first game comfortably.

The decider started on an evennote as both the shuttlers foughthard, moving together till 6-6 whenSindhu surged ahead to enjoy a 11-7 cushion at the break.

However, Pornpawee keptbreathing down Sindhu’s neck andslowly moved to 15-19. From there,the Thai shuttler blasted six straightpoints to leave the Indian shocked.

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Virat Kohli's record as theRoyal Challengers

Bangalore skipper might havebeen below-par but the team'snewly-appointed Director ofCricket Mike Hesson ruled outany change in leadership for theunder-performing franchise inthe next IPL edition.

Despite stars like Kohli, ABde Villiers and Chris Gayle (forbetter part), RCB has not wonthe IPL since the event's incep-tion. Kohli has led the team inseven of those seasons. Hessonnipped questions on Kohli con-trolling the team and change incaptaincy in the bud.

“We don't have that percep-tion that Virat controls things.But may be he has had his learn-ings from the past (mistakes)while moving forward,” Hessonsaid on Thursday.

Hesson said Kohli has beenon the same page as him andchief coach Simon Katich.“There has been no questionmark over Virat's captaincy dur-ing last couple of weeks (of dis-

cussions),” Hesson clarified“..We have been very much

aligned and he has been morethan happy to take our advicefrom our experience," the formerNew Zealand coach added.

RCB’s questionable recruit-ment has come in for a lot ofcriticism but Hesson assuredthat this time they are lookingat specific players and not hun-dreds of options.

"There will be big focus onrecruitment. Once auction gets

completed, the work starts then,not a week before the tourna-ment starts. We would have clar-ity in roles that players need toperform," he said.

On recruitment of domes-tic players, Hesson said there arespecific players they would belooking at and not just statisti-cal highlights during theMushtaq Ali or Vijay HazareTrophy.

“During Vijay Hazare andMushtaq Ali Trophy, we wouldlike to see players we want to fitin. It's more about finding outhow players build contextaround performance, condi-tions and pressure situations," hesaid.

Hesson also agreed that theteam needs to consider consis-tent performances and not oneodd innings before selectingplayers.

“Form is a factor but we needto be more holistic in terms of

how we talent scout. We look atfour-year period as then they areready to deliver when put underthe pump. It doesn't happen afterone good season,” he said.

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Indian icon Sachin Tendulkar lauded SteveSmith for his exemplary batting, saying the

former Australia skipper’s “organised mind-set” and “complicated technique” set himapart among his contemporaries.

Tendulkar praised Smith, the numerouno batsman in Tests right now, for his fan-tastic comeback in red-ball cricket in the just-concluded Ashes series.

“COMPLICATED TECHNIQUE butan ORGANIZED MINDSET is what sets@stevesmith49 apart. Incrediblecomeback!#ENGvsAUS,” Tendulkar postedon his Twitter handle.

Smith has a unique batting style, whichis both unorthodox as well as genius andTendulkar tried to explain the Australian'sgame in his social media post.

“In the first Test, the English bowlers triedto get him caught behind the wickets withslips and gully in place,” Tendulkar explained.

“And Smith just shuffled across andexposed his leg stumps to cover the line, andwas selective and smart in his approach.

“At Lord’s, they had leg-slip for him onoccasions and a few short-pitched deliveriesagainst Jofra Archer got him in trouble as hetried to cover the line with the weight on hisback-foot.”

Smith was hit by a vicious Jofra Archerbouncer in the first innings of the secondAshes Test at Lord’s. The blow was so severethat he didn’t come out to bat in the secondinnings and also missed the next Test atHeadingley. Tendulkar went on to explainwhat Smith did wrong when he was hit bythe bouncer.

“The most important thing for any bats-

man is to keep the head position forwardand wait leaning forward or marginally in-line,” said Tendulkar, the only player to fea-ture in 200 Tests.

“Smith got into bad positions and that’show he probably got hit.

“In the final two Tests, he was leavingthe ball while leaning forward, and lookedin better positions. He worked on his tech-nique very smartly. That is why I say,’ com-plicated technique, but extremely organisedmindset .”

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Sri Lanka’s cricket board onThursday said it will go

ahead with its tour of Pakistandespite fears that players couldbe the targets of terror attacksduring the six-match visit.

Sri Lanka Cricket secretaryMohan de Silva said theyreceived the all-clear from thedefence ministry to leave forPakistan on Tuesday afterestablishing that there was nothreat to the national team.

Sri Lanka Cricket added ina statement that the governingbody was assured the Pakistanarmy would coordinate securi-ty set at a level usually reservedfor a head of state.

“Sri Lanka Cricket wishesto announce that the forthcom-ing tour of Pakistan will goahead as planned, followingassurances given by the govern-ment of Pakistan that it willprovide maximum security,”the statement said.

De Silva added that heand “our office bearers will alsobe accompanying the team”.

Reports last week of a pos-sible terror attack were referredto the defence ministry forinvestigation.

The six-match tour, due tostart on September 27, was puton hold last week after the SriLanka prime minister’s officewarned the board it hadunspecified information abouta possible attack against itsplayers.

The Pakistan CricketBoard (PCB) said it was notaware of any information relat-ing to the safety of the SriLankan team, but reiterated itscommitment to providingsecurity.

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