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T he Congress faces discon- tent in Haryana and Maharashtra over ticket distri- bution ahead of the Assembly polls with the former chiefs of the party’s units in Haryana and Mumbai on Thursday resigning from election com- mittees and deciding to stay away from the campaign. A day after protesting out- side Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s residence in Delhi over alleged irregularities in ticket distribution, former Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar quit the election com- mittees of the party. With its party base having already eroded markedly because of the resignations by several of its sitting MLAs and leaders, the Congress in Maharashtra suffered one more jolt as its former Mumbai unit president Sanjay Nirupam, “I will sit at home and not cam- paign during the elections.” Nirupam is miffed with the Congress leadership for reject- ing his plea that the party should give the election ticket to at least one Muslim candi- date from Versova in north- west Mumbai. Continued on Page 4 P resident Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be part of an all-party group (jatha) that will visit the Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan for the birth anniver- sary celebrations of Guru Nanak on November 9. The trio have accepted the invitation of Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, who clarified that the group would only go to the Kartarpur Gurdwara and not for the launch of the “corridor”. The Punjab CM said the President and the Prime Minister have given consent for attending the 550th Gurpurab celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev, including the historic opening of the Kartarpur Corridor. He also said Manmohan Singh too had agreed to join the first all-party “jatha” (delegation) to the Kartarpur Gurdwara to join the mega event after the opening of the Kartarpur corridor. Amarinder told mediaper- sons that both Kovind and Modi had accepted the Punjab Government’s invitation to be part of the historic celebrations and that the modalities of their visits would be chalked out after the Kartarpur Corridor opening programme was finalised with Pakistan. During his meeting with the Prime Minister, Amarinder also requested his personal intervention to facilitate the political clearance for allowing the special all-party “jatha” to visit Nankana Sahib in Pakistan on the historic occasion. He requested that a group of 21 persons may be allowed to visit Nankana Sahib to organise a “path” (reading of religious scriptures) on the occasion of the 550th Prakash Purb from October 30 to November 3 and bring a “Nagar Kirtan” to Sultanpur Lodhi via Amritsar (Wagah) later in the day. As per the proposed pro- gramme, the “Nagar Kirtan” will arrive at Sultanpur Lodhi in Punjab’s Kapurthala district on November 4. The Punjab CM has also written to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, seeking a formal clearance for the Nankana Sahib delegation visit and the “Nagar Kirtan” to be brought from Pakistan to Punjab, according to an official spokesperson. A day after ending the polit- ical detention of Jammu- based political leaders, the State Government on Thursday hint- ed that leaders from Kashmir could now be released in a phased manner. He, however, didn’t disclose any timeline. Responding to a question on the likelihood of the release of Kashmiri leaders, placed under detention since August 5, Farooq Khan, Adviser to the Governor, said they will be released “one by one after analysis of every individual”. On the other hand, National Conference leaders in Jammu on Thursday convened an emergency meeting at Sher- e-Kashmir Bhawan and passed a unanimous resolution urging Governor Satya Pal Malik to allow a delegation of the senior party leaders from Jammu to meet party president Farooq Abdullah and party vice-pres- ident Omar Abdullah, under detention in Srinagar. National Conference lead- ers also took a detailed review of the political situation in the State ahead of chalking out the future course of action. In Srinagar, situation remained peaceful on Thursday. Heavy rush of vehi- cles was witnessed in several areas as people stepped out and moved around freely to attend to their routine work. However, attendance in the educational institutions remained thin and market places continue to remain shut during most part of the day. In Jammu, provincial pres- ident, NC, Devender Singh Rana presided the meeting. Continued on Page 4 I n the first arrest made in the PMC Bank scam, the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai Police on Thursday took into custody two promoters of the Housing Development and Infrastructure Limited (HDIL) Sarang Kumar Wadhawan and Rakesh Wadhawan and attached property worth 3,500 crore that had been mortgaged to the bank. Within days after the authorities discovered that the PMC Bank’s exposure to the HDIL group was nearly 73 per cent of its total loan book size of 8,880 crore as of September 19, 2019, police arrested Sarang and Rakesh after they “failed” to give a “satisfactory” expla- nation to the questions posed by the EOW officials. Deputy Commissioner of Police Pranay Ashok said, “The EOW of the Mumbai Police has arrested Sarang Wadhawan and Rakesh Wadhawan under Sections 409, 420, 466, 467, 471, read with 120 IPC. They were called for questioning today. The response from them was not sufficient and satisfac- tory. Their role in the PMC scam was sufficient ground for their arrest.” Rakesh Wadhawan is the executive chairman of HDIL, while Sarang Wadhawan is its Managing Director. Ahead of their arrest, the Government had issued a lookout circular against them, directing the immigration authorities to ensure that they do not leave India. Continued on Page 4 T he US on Thursday said that neither Indian nor American Government has stated that there will be a trade agreement in “five minutes” but it does not see any structural reason which might stop both the nations to have a trade agreement “pretty quickly”. “Neither Government said that there will be a trade deal in five minutes. That was not us, wasn’t Minister Piyush Goyal. So, I think that was just speculation. We do think that there is no structural reason why there can’t be one pretty quickly. We know each other’s issues,” said US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. He was replying to a ques- tion about the proposed trade agreement and the need to iron out differences and boost the two-way commerce. Speaking at the Indian Economic Summit, Goyal said, “So it is a more of a question of scheduling time and schedul- ing calls and meetings that will determine how long that will take. But I don’t see any big issue that is holding it back.” He also said the announce- ment of trade deal is not hold- ing back Indian trade or Indian relations either at the geopo- litical level or leaders level or even trade and business level. “But we want to actually take a quantum leap in that, which is the direction in which both the countries and our negotiating team is working,” he said. Continued on Page 4 I ndian security agencies sounded a high alert in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Punjab, and Jammu & Kashmir on Thursday after they claimed that four heavily armed fiday- een of Pakistan-based Jaish-e- Mohammad (JeM) terrorist outfit sneaked into the nation- al Capital to hit targets during the ongoing festive season to take revenge for the abrogation of Article 370. Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla and Intelligence Bureau chief Arvind Kumar attended a high-level meeting in the PMO following the alert. Intelligence inputs from American agencies too have alerted India of possible ISI-sponsored terrorist attacks. In the wake of high grade threat perception, all major airports, ports, vital installa- tions, important Government offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and other places have been put on high alert. Interception of cellphone communication from the India- Pakistan border, arms dropping by drones from across the bor- der into Punjab last month, and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt General Faiz Hameed’s recent tour of Pakistan-occu- pied Kashmir, are three main reasons which prompted Indian security agencies to go on a high alert. The ISI chief had last month toured PoK and held meetings with various outfits, including JeM commanders. The report said on pressure of the ISI chief, JeM mastermind Masood Azhar was released from preventive custody despite being on the UN list of wanted global terrorists. Sources in the MHA said Home Minister Amit Shah has been apprised of the measures taken by the police force. The IB alerted to the Special Cell of the Delhi Police and the police chiefs of adjoining States on Wednesday night. Agencies are concerned about possible activation of sleeper cells for terror attacks during the festivities when there is a high footfall at pub- lic places. According to inputs received earlier by the agencies, the JeM has been plotting sui- cide attacks in Delhi and other installations, including Indian Air Force’s airbases, as a revenge for the abrogation of Article 370. Indian Air Force bases in and around Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh have been put on alert and security has been beefed up in Amritsar and Pathankot in Punjab and Srinagar and Leh. The IB last week said JeM Commander in J&K Abu Usman held a meeting with the overground workers in an apple orchard near Mir Mohallah in Bandipore district and dis- closed that people of the Valley will soon hear a “good news” of a big attack in Jammu and Delhi, sources said. One for- eign terrorist and two Kashmiri militants were also reportedly present in the meeting. While the commander was armed with a sniper rifle, the three other terrorists carrying AK 47 rifles, pistols and grenades, according to the IB inputs. Following the tip-off, the Delhi Police conducted raids at more than two dozen locations, including at Seelampur, Aya Nagar, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi Railway Station, Paharganj and certain areas of South Delhi. Several persons have been detained and are bring grilled to extract leads corroborate the inputs, officials said. “Security has been beefed up across the national Capital. Raids are being conducted by the Special Cell and Crime Branch of the Delhi Police at several locations across the city after the intelligence inputs suggested that three to four members of a terror outfit may have infiltrated into the city,” said a senior police official. Continued on Page 4

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The Congress faces discon-tent in Haryana and

Maharashtra over ticket distri-bution ahead of the Assemblypolls with the former chiefs ofthe party’s units in Haryanaand Mumbai on Thursdayresigning from election com-mittees and deciding to stayaway from the campaign.

A day after protesting out-side Congress president SoniaGandhi’s residence in Delhi

over alleged irregularities inticket distribution, formerHaryana Congress chief AshokTanwar quit the election com-mittees of the party.

With its party base havingalready eroded markedlybecause of the resignations byseveral of its sitting MLAs andleaders, the Congress inMaharashtra suffered one morejolt as its former Mumbai unitpresident Sanjay Nirupam, “Iwill sit at home and not cam-paign during the elections.”

Nirupam is miffed with theCongress leadership for reject-ing his plea that the partyshould give the election ticketto at least one Muslim candi-date from Versova in north-west Mumbai.

Continued on Page 4

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President Ram Nath Kovind,Prime Minister Narendra

Modi and former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh willbe part of an all-party group(jatha) that will visit theKartarpur Sahib Gurdwara inPakistan for the birth anniver-sary celebrations of GuruNanak on November 9.

The trio have accepted theinvitation of Punjab ChiefMinister Amarinder Singh, whoclarified that the group wouldonly go to the KartarpurGurdwara and not for thelaunch of the “corridor”.

The Punjab CM said thePresident and the PrimeMinister have given consent forattending the 550th Gurpurabcelebrations of Guru NanakDev, including the historicopening of the KartarpurCorridor. He also saidManmohan Singh too hadagreed to join the first all-party“jatha” (delegation) to theKartarpur Gurdwara to join themega event after the opening ofthe Kartarpur corridor.

Amarinder told mediaper-sons that both Kovind andModi had accepted the PunjabGovernment’s invitation to bepart of the historic celebrationsand that the modalities of theirvisits would be chalked outafter the Kartarpur Corridoropening programme wasfinalised with Pakistan.

During his meeting withthe Prime Minister, Amarinderalso requested his personalintervention to facilitate thepolitical clearance for allowingthe special all-party “jatha” tovisit Nankana Sahib in Pakistanon the historic occasion.

He requested that a groupof 21 persons may be allowedto visit Nankana Sahib to

organise a “path” (reading ofreligious scriptures) on theoccasion of the 550th PrakashPurb from October 30 toNovember 3 and bring a“Nagar Kirtan” to SultanpurLodhi via Amritsar (Wagah)later in the day.

As per the proposed pro-gramme, the “Nagar Kirtan”will arrive at Sultanpur Lodhiin Punjab’s Kapurthala districton November 4. The PunjabCM has also written to ExternalAffairs Minister S Jaishankar,seeking a formal clearance forthe Nankana Sahib delegationvisit and the “Nagar Kirtan” tobe brought from Pakistan toPunjab, according to an officialspokesperson.

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Aday after ending the polit-ical detention of Jammu-

based political leaders, the StateGovernment on Thursday hint-ed that leaders from Kashmircould now be released in aphased manner. He, however,didn’t disclose any timeline.

Responding to a questionon the likelihood of the releaseof Kashmiri leaders, placedunder detention since August5, Farooq Khan, Adviser to theGovernor, said they will bereleased “one by one afteranalysis of every individual”.

On the other hand,National Conference leaders inJammu on Thursday convenedan emergency meeting at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan and passeda unanimous resolution urgingGovernor Satya Pal Malik toallow a delegation of the senior

party leaders from Jammu tomeet party president FarooqAbdullah and party vice-pres-ident Omar Abdullah, underdetention in Srinagar.

National Conference lead-ers also took a detailed reviewof the political situation in theState ahead of chalking out thefuture course of action.

In Srinagar, situationremained peaceful onThursday. Heavy rush of vehi-cles was witnessed in severalareas as people stepped out andmoved around freely to attendto their routine work.

However, attendance in theeducational institutionsremained thin and marketplaces continue to remain shutduring most part of the day.

In Jammu, provincial pres-ident, NC, Devender SinghRana presided the meeting.

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In the first arrest made in thePMC Bank scam, the

Economic Offence Wing(EOW) of the Mumbai Policeon Thursday took into custody two promoters of theHousing Development andInfrastructure Limited (HDIL)Sarang Kumar Wadhawan andRakesh Wadhawan andattached property worth �3,500crore that had been mortgagedto the bank.

Within days after theauthorities discovered that thePMC Bank’s exposure to theHDIL group was nearly 73 percent of its total loan book sizeof �8,880 crore as of September19, 2019, police arrested Sarangand Rakesh after they “failed”to give a “satisfactory” expla-nation to the questions posed

by the EOW officials.Deputy Commissioner of

Police Pranay Ashok said, “TheEOW of the Mumbai Police hasarrested Sarang Wadhawanand Rakesh Wadhawan underSections 409, 420, 466, 467,471, read with 120 IPC. Theywere called for questioningtoday. The response from themwas not sufficient and satisfac-tory. Their role in the PMCscam was sufficient groundfor their arrest.”

Rakesh Wadhawan is theexecutive chairman of HDIL,while Sarang Wadhawan is itsManaging Director.

Ahead of their arrest, theGovernment had issued alookout circular against them,directing the immigrationauthorities to ensure that theydo not leave India.

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The US on Thursday saidthat neither Indian nor

American Government hasstated that there will be a tradeagreement in “five minutes” butit does not see any structuralreason which might stop boththe nations to have a tradeagreement “pretty quickly”.

“Neither Government saidthat there will be a trade dealin five minutes. That was notus, wasn’t Minister PiyushGoyal. So, I think that was just

speculation. We do think thatthere is no structural reasonwhy there can’t be one prettyquickly. We know each other’sissues,” said US Secretary ofCommerce Wilbur Ross.

He was replying to a ques-tion about the proposed tradeagreement and the need to ironout differences and boost thetwo-way commerce.

Speaking at the IndianEconomic Summit, Goyal said,“So it is a more of a question ofscheduling time and schedul-ing calls and meetings that will

determine how long that willtake. But I don’t see any bigissue that is holding it back.”

He also said the announce-ment of trade deal is not hold-ing back Indian trade or Indianrelations either at the geopo-litical level or leaders level oreven trade and business level.

“But we want to actuallytake a quantum leap in that,which is the direction in whichboth the countries and ournegotiating team is working,”he said.

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Indian security agenciessounded a high alert in

Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Punjab,and Jammu & Kashmir onThursday after they claimedthat four heavily armed fiday-een of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terroristoutfit sneaked into the nation-al Capital to hit targets duringthe ongoing festive season totake revenge for the abrogationof Article 370.

Union Home SecretaryAjay Kumar Bhalla andIntelligence Bureau chief ArvindKumar attended a high-levelmeeting in the PMO followingthe alert. Intelligence inputsfrom American agencies toohave alerted India of possibleISI-sponsored terrorist attacks.

In the wake of high gradethreat perception, all majorairports, ports, vital installa-tions, important Governmentoffices in Delhi, Mumbai,Bangalore and other placeshave been put on high alert.

Interception of cellphonecommunication from the India-Pakistan border, arms dropping

by drones from across the bor-der into Punjab last month, andInter-Services Intelligence (ISI)chief Lt General Faiz Hameed’srecent tour of Pakistan-occu-pied Kashmir, are three mainreasons which prompted Indiansecurity agencies to go on ahigh alert.

The ISI chief had lastmonth toured PoK and heldmeetings with various outfits,including JeM commanders.The report said on pressure ofthe ISI chief, JeM mastermindMasood Azhar was releasedfrom preventive custodydespite being on the UN list ofwanted global terrorists.

Sources in the MHA saidHome Minister Amit Shah hasbeen apprised of the measurestaken by the police force. TheIB alerted to the Special Cell ofthe Delhi Police and the policechiefs of adjoining States onWednesday night.

Agencies are concernedabout possible activation ofsleeper cells for terror attacksduring the festivities whenthere is a high footfall at pub-lic places.

According to inputsreceived earlier by the agencies,

the JeM has been plotting sui-cide attacks in Delhi and otherinstallations, including IndianAir Force’s airbases, as arevenge for the abrogation ofArticle 370.

Indian Air Force bases inand around Jammu & Kashmir,Punjab and Uttar Pradesh havebeen put on alert and securityhas been beefed up in Amritsarand Pathankot in Punjab andSrinagar and Leh.

The IB last week said JeMCommander in J&K AbuUsman held a meeting with theoverground workers in an apple

orchard near Mir Mohallah inBandipore district and dis-closed that people of the Valleywill soon hear a “good news” ofa big attack in Jammu andDelhi, sources said. One for-eign terrorist and two Kashmirimilitants were also reportedlypresent in the meeting. Whilethe commander was armedwith a sniper rifle, the threeother terrorists carrying AK 47rifles, pistols and grenades,according to the IB inputs.

Following the tip-off, theDelhi Police conducted raids atmore than two dozen locations,

including at Seelampur, AyaNagar, Jamia Nagar, New DelhiRailway Station, Paharganj andcertain areas of South Delhi.Several persons have been

detained and are bring grilledto extract leads corroborate theinputs, officials said.

“Security has been beefedup across the national Capital.

Raids are being conducted bythe Special Cell and CrimeBranch of the Delhi Police atseveral locations across thecity after the intelligence inputs

suggested that three to fourmembers of a terror outfit mayhave infiltrated into the city,”said a senior police official.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) released its second

list of candidates for theupcoming Haryana Assemblyelections late on Wednesdaynight. The party has fieldedSudhir Singla from theGurugram constituency,replacing its sitting MLAUmesh Aggarwal.

On Monday, the BJPdeclared tickets for 78 of the 90seats, including 3 constituen-cies in the Gurugram district,denying nominations to threesitting MLAs — BimlaChaudhary from Pataudi, TejPal Tanwar from Sohna andPWD Minister Rao NarbirSingh from Badshahpur.

The BJP has nominatedManish Yadav, State Presidentof Bharatiya Janata YuvaMorcha (BJYM), fromBadshahpur, Satya PrakashJarawta for Pataudi (SC reserve)and Sanjay Singh from Sohna.

The Congress also releasedits list for the upcomingHaryana Assembly electionlate on Wednesday night.According to the list, formerMinister Sukhbir Kataria willbe contesting from the

Gurugram constituency, whileSudhir Chaudhary will contestfrom Pataudi, Kamal Bir Yadavwill contest from Badshahpurand Dr Shamsuddin will con-test from Sohna.

The BJP candidate fromGurugram constituency SudhirSingla is a son of former min-ister late Sita Ram Singla.

Singla is also a practisingadvocate and he joined the saf-fron party in 1982. His fatherSita Ram Singla had foughtfour-time assembly election in1982, 1987, 1991 and 1996and won 1987 the election andserve as a minister underChaudhary Devi Lal govern-ment.

"I am very thankful tochief minister Manohar LalKhattar and senior party leaderwho shown faith in me and Iwas very hopeful that the partywill nominate me fromGurugram constituency. Asthe morale of the party works

his high and will put all ourefforts to win the upcomingelections," Singla said.

He further said that "TheGurugram constituency is anurban seat and to avail betterfacilities like Water, Electricity,Transportation and others willbe his top priorities," Singlaadded.

Interestingly the BJP hasnominated Manish Yadav whois fighting his maidenAssembly election fromBadshahpur constituency. Onthe other hand, the Congresshas fielded Rao Kamal BirSingh who is much experi-enced than Yadav.

Singh's family had enteredinto the politics in a British era.His great grandfather RaoRamji Lal was the PrimeMinister of Nalagarh Estate inBritish Government. Singh'sfather Rao Mahabir Singh hadwon assembly elections in 1966from Sohna, 1968 from

Gurugram and 1972 fromGurugram.

Rao Kamal Bir Singh (53)a postgraduate is presently amember in Congress party,Haryana and was the presidentof Janata Dal (United) Haryanafrom 2012 to February 2019.

Singh had also in 2005contested assembly election asan independent candidate fromSohna constituency and in2009 contested assembly elec-tion on BSP ticket from Kosliconstituency in Haryana.

"Badshahpur constituencyis a mixture of the urban and rural seat and I along withmy party workers had visitedseveral villages of theBadshahpur seat. I feel that theyouth of the constituency needsjobs, maker over of Aravalirange, and better infrastructurefor villagers and developingsectors, education and publichealth needs to be improved,"Singh said.

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In a major relief to the work-ing parents, Delhi’s Deputy

Chief Minister Manish Sisodiaon Thursday inaugurated achildren’s crèche at DelhiGovernment Secretariat with anaim to ensure the parents tospend a quality time with theirchildren.

Sisodia said that this is anexcellent model which shouldbe adopted by all workstationsincluding private organisations."With the step, the workingwomen in the Government

offices can spend quality timewith their Children," he said.

The Department of Womenand Child Development underthe leadership of Deputy ChiefMinister came up with the ideaof setting up a crèche on theoffice premises of the DelhiSecretariat, the Governmentsaid in a statement.

"The Government took theinitiative keeping in mind thatmany Government officialsleave their home and sendtheir kids to the private crèch-es, which forces the parents tospend very less time with their

children," it said. Stressing on the need to

adopt this model, SB Shashank,Director of Women and ChildDevelopment said that nowcorporate firms and privateorganisations are being advisedto install crèches at their work-places.

The crèche that is situatedon the 2nd floor of the DelhiSecretariat Building has twofeeding centres, two sleepingrooms comprising four beds, aplayroom, two dressing roomsand a huge living area for thekids and their parents.

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Union Home Minister AmitShah on Thursday said

Article 370 was a barrier in thedevelopment of Jammu &Kashmir and for the unity of thiscountry but with its abrogationthe evil of terrorism would com-pletely be eliminated from theregion. Shah, who was accom-panied by Railway MinisterPiyush Goyal, Union MinistersJitendra Singh and HarshVardhan flagged off Vande Bharatexpress from the New DelhiRailway Station on Thursday.

"I believe that not only Article370 was a roadblock for theunity of this country, but it wasalso the biggest roadblock for thedevelopment of Kashmir. I amsure that after the removal of thisArticle, we will be successful incompletely eradicating terrorismand the ideas promoting terror-ism in the area," he said. Shah fur-ther said that Jammu & Kashmirwill be one of the most-developedregions of the country within thenext 10 years and the journey ofdevelopment has begun withVande Bharat Express, which is setto boost development and promotereligious tourism," he added.

Remembering MahatmaGandhi on his 150th birthanniversary (on October 2), Shahsaid Gandhi gave a philosophy tothe world about how to derivesimple solutions to the biggestproblems. He expressed pride insaying that the Vande BharatExpress was totally "swadeshi" andat par with the latest rail transporttechnology across the world.

"The railways should docu-ment its relationship with

Mahatma Gandhi as it forms a sig-nificant episode in the country'sfreedom struggle," Shah said.

Minister of State in the PrimeMinister's Office (PMO) JitendraSingh said the abrogation ofArticle 370 in Jammu & Kashmirwas a gift for the people of theregion after three decades ofstruggle and the launch of thetrain was another gift, whichwould contribute in building a

new Jammu & Kashmir.The Vande Bharat Express

will cut the travel time betweenDelhi and Katra to eight hoursfrom the previous 12 hours. Thefirst Vande Bharat Express thatruns between Delhi and Varanasiwas inaugurated by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi inFebruary. The New Delhi-Katratrain has a bigger pantry com-pared to the first Train 18.

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Ahoax bomb threat trig-gered panic at Kendriya

Vidyalaya in Gole market areaon Thursday, promptingauthorities to vacate the schoolcampus.

Police said that a teacher inschool had received an SMSthat a bomb was planted in theschool.

According to a seniorpolice official, a complaint wasreceived from one of the schoolteachers that he received anSMS from an unidentified

number that a bomb has beenplaced in the school.

"Acting on the complaint a police and bomb disposalsquad personnel reached thespot immediately. Students andstaff were moved out and theentire school premises werechecked thoroughly. However,no bomb was found," said thepolice official.

"An inquiry is underway.The complaint is being verifiedand police officials are trying toidentify the location of theperson who sent the message,"the official said.

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Now, commuters can travelunlimited in the clusters

buses for just �50 as the DelhiTransport Department (DTC) isplanning to introduce the daily'Common Day Pass' facility incluster buses.

Currently, the daily passesare available and valid in busesrun by the DTC.

Also, the Government hasdecided to issue a single passesfor both Air-conditioned (AC)and Non-AC buses at fixedprice.

The common day passes aresingle day passes issued in everyDTC buses by the conductors.Currently, two different passesare issued for AC and Non-ACbuses for �50 and �40.

Also, these daily passes wereonly valid in DTC buses, butnow once the proposal will be

approved by the Government,the passes will also be valid inbuses under cluster scheme.

The common daily passeswere introduced decades ago butit was again introduced toencourage the people to travel inAC buses.

These buses are majorlyintroduced for tourist purposesand for those commuters who take varioustrips per day for their work andbusiness.

"The benefits of these dailycommon day passes are 'unlim-

ited travel in limited amount' just�50.

Presently, the facility is onlyprovided in DTC buses, butthere are such routes andstretches in Delhi where clusterbus services are more than DTCbuses and the commuters unableto enjoy the daily pass facility.

Thus, a proposal has beenproposed to introduce the facil-ity for cluster buses, "said asenior Government officialrequesting anonymity.

Official also added that thedepartment is also planning to

set up similar fare and ticketingcriteria for all the public trans-port including clusters. "Oncethe proposal will be approved and implementedby the Government, a common pass will be issued forboth DTC (AC and Non AC)and clusters buses at a same fixed price �50," added theofficial.

As per the DTC, approximately 35,000 daily pass-es are issued per day. Besides, theDTC also issues monthly passfor �1000 (AC) and �800 (non-AC), student passes at �100and concession passes for seniorcitizens and physically disabledpersons.

It is also to be noted that free bus ride services for woman will also be startedin DTC and cluster buses ser-vices from 29th October thismonth.

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The Delhi Government onThursday approved a pro-

posal to set a separate ‘sportsuniversity’ in Mundka exclu-sively for sportsperson. A billregarding the proposal has alsobeen passed by Cabinet chairedby Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal. The university whichwill be called as 'Delhi SportsUniversity' will offer degrees tosportspersons par with degreesin other courses at graduate, postgraduate and doctoral level.

Announcing about the ini-tiative, Kejriwal, with his deputyManish Sisodia by his side,said a Bill in this regard wasapproved by the Cabinet onThursday and it would be sentto Lieutenant Governor (LG)Anil Baijal for approval.

The University will groomstudents in particular sport inan early age and Bachelorsdegree in particular game suchas cricket, hockey and others

will be provided. "Delhi Cabinet has

approved the conceptual frame-work, and the Delhi Assemblyis hoping to pass the legalframework in the form of thebill during the winter sessionafter the approval of the DelhiL-G. This is a finance bill,which requires the sanction ofthe Lieutenant Governor beforebeing presented in the assem-bly. If the L-G approves the bill,it shall be presented in the

assembly in the winter ses-sion. The timelines for theestablishment shall be discussedthereafter," said the ChiefMinister.

"This sports university willgrant you a degree in sportssuch as cricket, and hockey. Apassionate sportsperson cannow devote all of his time toplaying and excelling in sports.His graduation, post-gradua-tion, and doctorate degreeswill be in the subjects of sports.

He can show his degrees forvarious related posts whereverrequired. For instance, he canappear for civil services exam-ination because he will be con-sidered a graduate after thisdegree," the chief minister.

Kejriwal also added, "TheDelhi Sports University willalso be allowed to open sportsschools and institute to groomstudents at a particular sport inan early age. The main aim ofthis university is to build andgroom the students who haveexcelled in various sports intheir schools."

To construct the University,90 acres of land has been iden-tified and allotted to constructthe institute in Mundka area inDelhi. The Vice-Chancellor ofthis university will also be asportsperson, said Kejriwal.

"The curriculum of theuniversity and the subjects arein the ideation process and willbe developed as per furtherdeliberations with several

experts. The DSU bill definesthe administrative and legalstructure of the university.Several experts will be involvedat various stages, to design andgive a definite structure to thecurriculum of the courses," headded.

"Most of the students haveto compromise their sports tokeep up with their performancein their main subjects. Some ofthe students that I know arepursuing their graduation fromSOL to manage sports andstudies both. It is a matter ofdisappointment that many stu-dents who have played sportson national levels are nowhereon the same platform as stu-dents who can give their IASexaminations because of theirgraduation degree. The share ofjobs under sports quota is alsolimited. We are hoping to erad-icate that uncertainty of thefuture from the minds ofsportspersons," said DeputyCM Manish Sisodia.

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Describing the abrogation ofArticle 370 as a “long

awaited” step and the “rightthing” to do, External AffairsMinister S Jaishankar has saidit is expected from Pakistan topull out all stops to challengethe decision as it has madedeep investment in fuellingterrorism in Kashmir.

Asserting that the Indiansecurity forces have exercisedhighest degree of restrain inJammu and Kashmir afterAugust 5, Jaishankar told aWashington audience that heexpects Pakistan to continuewhat it has been doing for thepast several decades.

“What do you expect thePakistanis to say (after currentrestrictions are lifted and nor-malcy is restored)… weexpect calm and happiness toreturn,” Jaishankar said onWednesday in response to aquestion during his appear-ance at The HeritageFoundation, a top Americanthink-tank.

“No, they (Pakistan) will

not. They will paint apocalyptic scenarios because one that is their wish and twothat’s actually what their gameplan has been for 70 years,” headded.

He was responding to aquestion on recent remarks bytop Pakistani leadership alleg-ing that India would raise afalse flag and blame Islamabadfor any terrorist attack after therecent security and communication restrictions arelifted in Kashmir.

“I think it’s important tohave a historical context tojudge these remarks. This is nota conversation that began onAugust 5. These are their poli-cies and their actions whichbegan the day Kashmir acced-ed to India with Pakistaniinvaders threatening to burndown Srinagar. Please look atthe history of Kashmir,”Jaishankar said.

As such there is a lot outthere which needs to be takeninto account, he said, notingthat India’s endeavour will beto “manage this as well as itcan”.

“I’m reasonably confidentwe should succeed out there,”he said. “We have also seen a lotof alarmists rhetoric coming(from Pakistan), not just aboutfalse flag, (but also) jihad...Going all the way to nuclearweapons. That kind of givesyou a sense of responsibility ofthe people who are saying,” theminister said.

Responding to anotherquestion on India’s actionplan on getting back Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, Jaishankarsaid that the territory is underillegal occupation of Pakistan.

“The point I was makingwas a very simple one. My sov-ereignty and my jurisdiction islaid out by my maps. My mapshave been there for 70 years,”he said.

“That’s my claim. And nat-urally, if I have a claim, as youwould have a claim, as anybodywould have a claim, we wouldhope one day that if there areterritories in your claim ofwhich you don’t have physical jurisdiction one day,you will. It’s as simple as that,”Jaishankar said.

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Senior Indian lawyer HarishSalve has endorsed India’s

decision to revoke Article 370to withdraw the special statusof Jammu & Kashmir, sayingthe Government has cut theGordian Knot.

He described Pakistan’sreaction to the move as a signof “complete bankruptcy”because Kashmir is an integralpart of India where they were“squatting”.

Tensions between the twocountries have spiked sinceIndia abrogated Article 370 ofthe Constitution to revoke thespecial status of Jammu &Kashmir.

India’s decision evokedstrong reactions from Pakistan,which downgraded diplomat-ic ties and expelled the Indianambassador. Pakistan has beentrying to internationalise theKashmir issue after India with-drew the special status ofJammu & Kashmir on August5, but New Delhi has assertedthe abrogation of Article 370was its “internal matter”.

Salve said, “Pakistan-occu-pied Kashmir is Indian, they

(Pakistan) are squatting there.If there is any disputed territo-ry (in the region), it is PoK. TheKashmir Constitution saysKashmir is an integral part ofIndia, not just the IndianConstitution. Kashmir being anintegral part of India has neverbeen in doubt, except in certainPakistani minds.”

Describing himself as a“long-time votary” of gettingrid of Article 370, the seniorlawyer noted, “I think it was amistake to allow it and a big-ger mistake to allow it to fes-ter. Some time you had to cutthe Gordian Knot and the gov-ernment has done it. The onlyway it could have been done isby one shot.

“The suggestion that itshould have been a discussionis nonsense because even theslightest mention of 370 wouldevoke very trenchant and mil-itant criticism. India has donethe right thing,” Salve, who represented India at theInternational Court of Justice in Kulbhushan Jadhav’scase, said.

In reference to the legalchallenge over the issue, headded: “The Supreme Court ofIndia will hear and decide ifthere was anything wrong. Butthe way it has been portrayedby Pakistan shows their com-plete bankruptcy of the mind.”

Salve was speaking toreporters at the Indian HighCommission in London fol-lowing a landmark judgmentby the Royal Courts of Justiceearlier in the day in favour ofthe Indian government in rela-tion to funds associated withthe Nizam of Hyderabad dat-ing back to Partition in 1947.

As a key member of thelegal team on behalf of India,the lawyer hailed the verdict asan important endorsement ofIndia’s long-held stance againstPakistan in the UK court.

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Asserting that both NewDelhi and Beijing would

like to see their relation become“better and substantive”,External Affairs Minister SJaishankar on Wednesday tolda Washington audience thatIndia will weigh on merit theissues being faced by othercountries with China.

In fact, Jaishankar refusedto join the Trump administra-tion which describes 5G as anational security issue, by say-ing that for India it is a telecomissue and not political one.

“Our intention obviously isto progress our relations withChina. We are very clear onthat and we get the sense thatthey too would like to see therelations become better andsubstantive,” Jaishankar toldThe Heritage Foundationthink-tank in response to aquestion.

“On lot of the issues whichdifferent countries face withChina, frankly, we would weighthe issues on their merit andlargely take a bilateralapproach,” he said responding

to a question.“We actually, essentially

handle China relationship very,very bilaterally. We believethat’s frankly the best way ofmoving forward,” he added.

“Our position on 5G forexample is we don’t see 5G asa political problem. 5G for usis a telecom issue. And we willmake whatever decisions wehave to at the right time on themerits of that particular deci-sion,” Jaishankar said.

“When it comes to China,for me what’s important is I havethis neighbour who’s my biggestneighbour, who’s now the secondbiggest economy in the world,with whom I have a long histo-ry, not always an easy history. ButI would like to make sure thatthis relationship remains...Stability for me is my bottom-line requirement,” he said.

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Mahatma Gandhi’s vision ofpeace and sustainable

development still resonateacross the world which grap-ples with violence in forms ofenvironment destruction todevastation caused by armedconflicts, UN chief AntonioGuterres has said as leaders ofthe world body recalled the“transformational change”brought by him.

This International Day ofNon Violence on October 2marks the 150th birth anniver-sary of Mahatma Gandhi, therenowned global icon of peace,he said.

Guterres said in today’s

turbulent times, “violence takesmany forms: from the destruc-tive impact of the climate emer-gency to the devastation causedby armed conflicts; from theindignities of poverty to theinjustice of human rights vio-lations to the brutalising effectsof hate speech”.

“His (Gandhi’s) visioncontinues to resonate across theworld, including through thework of the UN for mutualunderstanding, equality, sus-tainable development, empow-erment of young people andpeaceful resolution of disputes,”Guterres said in his message forthe International Day of NonViolence, observed on October2.

Delivering the keynoteaddress at a special commem-orative event ‘Climate Action:Gandhian Ways’ organised byIndia’s Permanent Mission tothe UN, President of the 74thSession of the UN GeneralAssembly Tijjani Muhammad-Bande said for the UN, almosteverything that is fundamental,that the international organi-sation stands for, has prefiguredin the work, life and thoughtsof Gandhi.

“It is difficult to say any-thing new about Gandhi. I donot know any school childanywhere in the world, who hasnot been inspired by the res-oluteness of Gandhi, the ideathat the greatest courage is

really to be non-violent. This isthe utter opposite of a machis-mo culture,” that is being seenas the way forward, he said.

Muhammad-Bande saidthe connection betweenGandhi and today’s climateactivism is very clear.

On climate action, he saidthe whole crisis the world isfacing is because it produces inways that are permanentlydestructive.

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Delhi police has arrestedthree armed robbers fol-

lowing a shootout in VasantKunj area on Wednesday night.Police have also recovered twocountry-made pistols alongwith three live cartridges, onefired empty cartridge shell,one button operated knife, a carand house breaking equip-ments from the possession ofthe accused.

The accused have beenidentified as Sunil KumarMeena (34), a resident ofDwarka, Satish Chander aliasTyagi (48), a resident of UttamNagar and Satender Kumar

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From Page 1The senior functionaries, including

the district presidents of the Jammuregion and office-bearers of the provin-cial committee, attended the meeting.

The party leaders expressedanguish over continued detention of thesenior leaders including Dr FarooqAbdullah and Vice President OmarAbdullah, as also the other top leadersof the mainstream political parties.

The resolution strongly con-demned the detention of Dr FarooqAbdullah, a sitting MP and five timesChief Minister besides former UnionMinister under PSA, notwithstandinghis immense and crucial role in thedemocratic polity of the country andcontribution in steering the State topeace, progress and development, brav-ing all odds.

From Page 1Nirupam put out a couple

of tweets expressing his dis-pleasure over the manner inwhich the party had treatedhim. “It seems the Congressparty doesn’t want my servicesanymore. I had recommendedjust one name in Mumbai forAssembly election. Heard thateven that has been rejected. AsI had told the leadership earli-er, in that case I will not participate in poll cam-paign. It’s my final decision,”Nirupam tweeted.

“I hope that the day has notyet come to say goodbye toparty. But the way leadership isbehaving with me, it doesn’tseem far away,” he said inanother tweet.

Meanwhile in a letter toSonia Gandhi, Tanwar alleged

that the Congress in Haryanahad turned into “HoodaCongress” as those who workedagainst the party’s interests inthe last five years have been given prominenceover those who struggled tostrengthen the opposition partyin the State.

“I am writing this letterwith immense pain to informyou that after due considerationand exhausting all availableavenues to get my voice heard.I have not been left with anyother option but to resign fromthe responsibilities you haveassigned me as member of var-ious committees for Haryana assembly elections,”Tanwar said.

He, however, said he willcontinue his duties as primarymember of the Congress party.

From Page 1On why India and the US

were not able to announce thedeal during the recent visit ofModi to the US, Goyal addedthat trade does not decide byonly one transaction.

“Trade has to consider thepast, the present, future, thepolitical dynamics, local issues,long term issues, bilateral andmultilateral commitments. Soit’s a very complex story and inthat complexity, we are havingan absolutely wonderfulengagement,” he said.

America is a very powerfuleconomy but also a sensitivecountry, he said, adding thetrade between the countries isrobust as imports from the USto India are growing by nearly30 per cent and exports fromIndia to the US growing bynearly 20 per cent in the lastone year.

“We are at a reasonabletrade level. Certainly ourpotential has not been reached.Both USTR, US CommerceSecretary Ross, me and ourteam are discussing breakingthe USD 500 billion barriers interms of our mutual trade.And the way our trade is pro-gressing, I don’t see any reason

why we can’t do that (USD 500billion trade target) in theyears to come,” he added.

Talking about US concernsover high trade deficit withIndia, Ross said that there wasconfusion about US positionon the trade deficit.

“We do feel that our deficitwas too high and we intendboth to increase total trade andreduce our trade deficit,” hesaid. He said that the deficitwhich arises mainly because ofartificial and protectionist bar-riers that countries havethrown up which is a primary issue that the US isconcerned with.

“We also believe that focus-ing bilaterally we can achievemuch faster results for all coun-tries involved... We made a dealwith Canada and Mexico....Trade deal often takes eightyears or ten years .. .They frequently take so longthat the issues are not evensame at the end of trade nego-tiations,” Ross said.

He said that increasingexports from India would alsohelp India and India has a won-derful opportunity right now totake advantage of trade ten-sions in the world.

From Page 1“The Delhi Police has also inten-

sified patrolling and picketing in sev-eral areas across the national Capital.All airports, Ramlila Maidan, railwaystations, (Durga) Puja Pandals across the city have been puton high alert after the input.Passengers and pandal goers are

requested to report any suspiciousactivity to the nearest Delhi police checkpoint,” the officialfurther said.

Sources in security agencies saidmore than 60 militants have infil-trated in the country through Lineof Control (LoC) and InternationalBorders during last two months

post defanging of Article 370 onAugust 5.

“Moreover, at least 16 new ter-rorist camps have been activated inthe last month across the LoC by the Pakistan army-ISIcombine, sending alarm bells ring-ing in the security establishment,”said a source.

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From Page 1Rakesh and Sarang were placed under

arrest sometime after they appeared before theEOW for questioning in connection with thePMC scam.

“We have identified 44 bank accounts relat-ing to the accused associated with the HDIL.We have also found Rs 100 crore worth sharesin the demat accounts of one of the accused.Appropriate measures are being taken to dealwith these shares,” Ashok said.

HDIL is a listed real estate company, hasplayed a key role in the PMC Bank scam. TheMumbai Police has registered a case against theformer bank management and promoters of theHDIL in the PMC Bank scam case. The bank’sformer chairman Waryam Singh, managingdirector Joy Thomas and other senior officials,along with the directors of HDIL SarangWadhwan and Rakesh Wadhawan, have beennamed in the FIR. HDIL’s promoters hadallegedly colluded with the bank management,to draw loans from the bank’s Bhandup branch.

During the course of the investigations, ithas come to light that the PMC Bank createdmore than 21,000 fake accounts to hide the var-ious loans.

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In a bid to provide safe drink-ing water, the Centre will

soon start a consultationprocess to make compliance ofthe Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS) quality standard manda-tory for tap water. It will beginwith State capitals, nationalcapital and 100 smart cities inthe country. A team of BIS offi-cials has been sent to the statecapitals to collect the samplesof tap water and test if theycomply with the BIS qualitystandard.

According to Union Foodand Consumer Affairs MinisterRam Vilas Paswan, the min-istry will seek views from thestate governments in thisregard. The Centre will thenfigure out the way to make theBIS standard mandatory. “Itcannot be done across thecountry at one go, we will gostep by step,” he added.

Paswan also mentionedthat India’s BIS standard on tapwater is not at par with theinternational standard anddirected the BIS officials tostudy if it can match the glob-al quality norms. Currently, theBIS quality standards aremandatory for only packeddrinking water and 140-oddother products.

On the BIS collecting sam-ples of tap water, the ministersaid that a team of BIS hasalready been sent to state cap-itals to collect the samples oftap water. “This will take amonth. The report will come

by November first week. Wewill get to know which statesupplies safe drinking water atleast in the capital city. Theranking will be given,” Paswanadded.

The BIS that frames qual-ity norms for products and ser-vices and works under theMinistry of Consumer Affairs,has set standards for the drink-ing water but are voluntary innature. With regard to qualityof tap water in Delhi, Paswansaid the preliminary investiga-tion shows that samples col-lected randomly from 11 areasin the national capital do notcomply with the BIS standardand not safe for drinking.

“After looking at the pre-liminary report of tap watersupplied in Delhi, we are think-ing of making mandatory theBIS standards on tap water atleast in the national capital,state capitals and 100 smartcities,” Paswan said.

The Delhi government andJal Board authorities have noreservations on making theBIS standard mandatory for tapwater, he said adding that thesamples include water collect-ed from his house (10, Janpath)and the office in KrishiBhawan.

The lab report was dis-cussed in a meeting with seniorofficials of the Delhi Jal Board(DJB), New Delhi MunicipalCorporation (NDMC), BIS,Union Jal Shakti Ministry andthe Food Safety and StandardsAuthority of India (FSSAI), hesaid.

New Delhi: Heavy rain pounded the national capital onThursday evening, resulting in water logging, traffic con-gestion and brief suspension of flight operations at theDelhi airport.

Hailstorm was also reported in some parts of Delhi,the weather office said. The Regional MeteorologicalCentre of the IMD said there was a low pressure area overHaryana that resulted in heavy rains over the NationalCapital Region. Mahesh Palawat, Vice-President(Meteorology and Climate Change), said there was acyclonic circulation over Punjab and Haryana. Highhumidity coupled with temperatures that have been ris-ing since the last two days led to the formation of clouds,a normal phenomenon in pre-monsoon and post-mon-soon time.

According to the Meteorological Department, themaximum temperature recorded at 5.30 pm was 34.8degrees Celsius, a notch above the normal, and the min-imum was 23.8 degrees Celsius, two notches above thenormal. PTI

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With the objective of pro-viding logistics support

to the troops on the Line ofActual Control (LAC), theBorder Roads Organisation(BRO) has constructed a newroad near Doklam in Sikkimregion. This area saw a 73-daystand-off between the Indianand Chinese armies in 2017when the former protestedagainst the construction of aroad by the Chinese in thestrategically important zone.

The new motorable roadfor moving troops to Dokala,on the edge of the Doklamplateau, was only a mule trackearlier thereby causing delay inmaintaining logistical support.The new road from Bheembase to Dokala was completedlast year, officials said here onThursday.

They also said the BRO isplanning to construct anothermotorable road on the Flag

Hill-Dokala route by March2021. "Currently, Dokala isconnected to India onlythrough 'Tri junction-Bheembase-Dokala' route, which wascompleted in 2018. Therefore,construction on anothermotorable road from Flag hillhas begun," they said.These roads are expected to

streamline the movement ofIndian troops to the sensitiveregion.

The 33.80-km Flag Hill-Dokala road is currently a foottrack. Around 11 km of theroad from Flag Hill has alreadybeen constructed and the restis expected to be complete byMarch 2021, they said adding

the road will be 6-metre wide,out of which 4.5 metre of thewidth would be covered inasphalt, the official said.

On Tuesday, Indian andChinese armies held ceremo-nial Border PersonnelMeetings (BPM) at Nathu La,Bum La, Kibithu and easternLadakh to celebrate theChinese national day. Themeetings took place beforethe visit of Chinese PresidentXi Jinping to India.

Xi is likely to visitMamallapuram near Chennaiin the second week of thismonth for a second informalsummit with Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to work out aroadmap for the bilateral tiesfor the next five years.

The 2017 standoff betweenIndia and China in the Doklamhad begun after the Chinesearmy tried to build a road inthe area disputed by China andBhutan and it was resolveddiplomatically.

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Defence Minister RajnathSingh will fly a sortie in a

Rafale fighter jet on October 8from a French airbase in Paristo gain first-hand experience ofthe aircraft. Singh will travel toParis on October 7 on a three-day visit to receive the first of36 Rafale fighter jets. TheGovernment to governmentdeal was inked with France in2016 and is worth over �59,000crores.

The ceremony to handover the first Rafale jet will takeplace on October 8, the foun-dation day of the Indian AirForce, official sources said hereon Thursday adding afterreceiving the aircraft, theDefence Minister will take asortie in the aircraft.Incidentally, Singh recentlyundertook a sortie in theindigenously designed andmanufactured Tejas light com-bat aircraft in Bengaluru.

Top military brass of

France as well as senior officialsof Dassault Aviation, the mak-ers of Rafale, will also be pre-sent at the handing over cere-mony. In July 2017, the thenIAF Chief Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa, flew a Rafale jet atthe Saint-Dizier airbase duringhis visit to France.

On October 9, Singh isscheduled to hold extensivetalks with top defence brass ofthe French government onways to further deepen defenceand security cooperationbetween the two countries.

Prime Minister NarendraModi visited France in Augustduring which both the sidesresolved to further enhance thealready close defence tiesbetween the two countries.

The IAF has already com-pleted preparations, includingreadying required infrastruc-ture and training of pilots, towelcome the fighter aircraft.The sources said the firstsquadron of the aircraft will bedeployed at Ambala air force

station, considered one of themost strategically located basesof the IAF. The secondsquadron of Rafale will be sta-tioned at Hasimara base inWest Bengal.

A number of IAF teamshave already visited France tohelp Dassault Aviation, themanufacturer of Rafale, incor-porate India-specific enhance-ments on-board the fighteraircraft. The Rafale jets willcome with various India-spe-cific modifications, includingIsraeli helmet-mounted dis-plays, radar warning receivers,low band jammers, 10-hourflight data recording, infra-red search and tracking systemsamong others.

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The trial court on Thursdayfurther extended the judi-

cial custody of former financeminister P Chidambaram toOctober 17, noting that theinvestigation in the INX Mediacorruption case is still pendingand allowed home cooked veg-etarian food for him once in aday. For its part, the SupremeCourt will hear his bail appli-cation on Friday.

"The investigation is stillpending. It is informed that thebail application of the accusedhas been dismissed by theDelhi High Court onSeptember 30. Considering thefacts mentioned in the appli-

cation and that there is nochange in the circumstances asnoted in the earlier orders, thejudicial remand of the accusedis extended till October 17,"said the Special Judge AjayKumar Kuhar in the Order.

The court however allowedChidambaram to have homecooked vegetarian food once aday in Tihar jail, where islodged, after noting that 74-year old Congress leader is suf-fering from multiple ailmentsincluding inflammation of hisdigestive tract.

"From the medical recordshown by the applicant(Chidambaram), it is apparentthat the applicant is sufferingfrom multiple ailments. He is

74 years of age. He is sufferingfrom inflammation of hisdigestive tract. SolicitorGeneral Tushar Mehta, appear-ing for the agency, submittedthat he has no objection toChidambaram being providedwith home cooked food.

"In these circumstances, itmay be conducive to his healthcondition that he is providedhome cooked food once a dayto avoid any further deteriora-tion in his health condition," theJudge noted. However, thecourt clarified that this order isnot to be taken as a precedentas the concession for home foodwas being given in peculiar factsand circumstances and keepinghis medical condition in mind.

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It seems ' desh badal raha hai,ab khadi pehan raha hai.

Khadi store in ConnaughtPlace (CP) has registered itshighest-ever sales in a singleday of �1.27 crore on the occa-sion of Gandhi Jayanti onOctober 2, the birth anniver-sary of Mahatma Gandhi. Thissale was the highest ever sinceIndependence. A customarydiscount sale starts from 2ndOctober every year by theKhadi and Village IndustriesCommission (KVIC) on Khadiproducts across the country.

The Connaught Place storehad broke its previous record ofhighest sale of �1.25 crore onOctober 13 last year.

According to the KVIC, as

many as 16,870 Khadi loversvisited Khadi store at CP onOctober 2 and a total numberof 2,720 sales bills were issued.

“ Of the �127.57 lakh sale,the share of Khadi was �114.11lakh and village industry prod-ucts �13.46 lakh,” it said.

In 2014, the khadi salewas recorded �66.81 Lakhs atthe CP store which increased to�117.08 lakh in 2017.

Reacting on the recordsale, Union Minister for Road,Transport and Highways Nitin

Gadkari , said that he is over-whelmed with this record sale.

KVIC Chairman VinaiKumar Saxena attributed therecord sale is the translation ofhow Prime Minister NarendraModi has communicated hisvision of economic transforma-tion through Khadi clearly, creatively and continually.

“While the sale of Khadiproducts at Khadi India's flag-ship store in Connaught Placewas recorded �1.27 crore on asingle day on October 2 thisyear, this sale is the highest eversince Independence. A cus-tomary discount sale startsfrom October 2 every year byKhadi and Village IndustriesCommission (KVIC) on Khadiproducts across the nation,” theKVIC said in a statement.

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The Pakistan Army contin-ued ceasefire violation by

resorting to heavy mortarshelling and heavy firing tar-geting civilian areas along theIndo-Pak border in Rajouri,Poonch and Kathua districts ofJammu and Kashmir, officialssaid on Thursday.

Pakistan army resorted toheavy weaponry firing andmortar shelling targetingdozens of villages and forwardposts along the Line of Control(LoC) in Shahpur and Gotriya

areas Wednesday night whichcontinued till Thursday morn-ing, they said.

The shelling caused dam-age to a shop while a cowshedwas gutted, the officials said.

The mortar shelling andsmall arms firing from acrossthe border was intense inShahpur, where a number ofshells also fell in the closevicinity of revered shrine offamous Sufi saint Sain BabaMiran Bakash, they said. Ashop was damaged, they added.

The officials added thatthe firing and shelling contin-

ued for about nine hours.In many places, the shells

hit and exploded in moun-tainous areas triggering land-slides which blocked roads,the officials said.

Panic gripped the borderresidents as Pakistani mortarshelling continued through-

out the night. The sounds ofthe explosions were also heardin Poonch town, they said.

Pakistan troops alsoshelled forward areas of Kerialong the LoC in Rajouri dis-trict overnight triggering panicand fear among the residents,the officials said.

Pakistan rangers alsoresorted to firing and shellingtargeting hamlets of Manyariand other villages in Hiranagarsector along the Internationalborder (IB) in Kathua districtlate Wednesday night and con-tinued till Thursday morning,

they said.A cowshed was damaged

after it caught it fire. A fewhouses also suffered damages,they said.

People living in Manyarihamlet spent life in the jaws ofdeath as bullets piercedthrough windows and doors oftheir houses, the officials said.

However, no one wasinjured, they added.

People held anti-Pakistanprotests and demanded thatpeople living along the bor-derline should be shifted to asafer place.

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After remaining at large formore than a month and

armed with a High Court orderfor anticipatory bail, formerKolkata Commissioner ofPolice, Rajeev Kumar onThursday appeared at theAlipore Court which grantedhim bail for two sureties of�50,000 each.

Kumar’s role — as the chiefof the Special InvestigationTeam constituted in 2013 bythe State Government to probethe multi-crore Saradha andother chit fund cases — is beinginvestigated by the CentralBureau of Investigation.

The senior IPS officer andarguably one of the best in thecountry in terms of handlingcyber crimes is currently thefunctioning as the AdditionalDirector General of CID. Hehad been underground eversince the Supreme Court andCalcutta High Court withdrewhis protection from arrest in thecase. Since then the CBI wasafter him visiting his residenceon a multiple occasion andissuing notices of appearancerepeatedly even as his plea foranticipatory bail was rejectedby the lower court.

Subsequently after amarathon hearing in theCalcutta High Court a divisionbench on Tuesday granted himanticipatory bail followingwhich Kumar appeared in thepublic for the first time in manyweeks.

The Calcutta High Courthad on Tuesday given antici-patory bail to Kumar, who iscurrently the additional direc-tor general of the West BengalCriminal InvestigationDepartment.

“He appeared before theAdditional Chief JudicialMagistrate Subrata Mukherjeeand was granted bail as per theHigh Court order,” his lawyerGopal Haldar said.

In February, Kumar wasquestioned by CBI in connec-tion with the case for over fivedays in Shillong on a SupremeCourt order. Both the Left andthe Congress have alleged a

“setting” (adjustment) betweenthe Trinamool Congress andBJP if one looked at the way thedrama around Kumar wasenacted in the past a few weeksor so.

Senior leaders of both theparties questioned the way hecould managed to get bail — ata time when CBI was appar-ently hot in his pursuit —soon after Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee visited Delhiand met Prime MinisterNarendra Modi after a gap ofmore than two years.

“Here we see the CBI hotin his pursuit and there theChief Minister rushes to Delhiand meets Prime Minister andHome Minister Amit Shah andthen in the next hearing in theHigh Court he gets bail,” saidCPI(M) leader Md Salim say-ing “a former Minister of theCongress Party who is neitherin the Government nor in anyGovernment job fails to get bailin a case involving few croreswhereas granted bail on theground that he can influencethe witnesses but Rajiv Kumara top police officer for whomthe Chief Minister sits in adharna gets bail on assumptionthat he cannot influence wit-nesses.”

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The BJP-TMC turf war inBengal has intensified this

festive season, with the twoparties leaving no stoneunturned to outsmart eachother in controlling the city'sbig-ticket Durga pujas andreach out to as many people aspossible during the five-daygala.

The saffron party hasdecided to set up more than10,000 stalls outside puja pan-dals to display books on its ide-ologies and educate masses onthe contentious issues ofNational Register of Citizens(NRC) and Citizenship(Amendment) Bill.

Buoyed by its stupendousperformance in the Lok Sabha

polls, it is now at the forefrontin challenging the decade- longhegemony of the TrinamoolCongress in Bengal's annualextravaganza often comparedto the Rio De Janerio carnival.

The five-day fest in Bengalis no longer just about art, cul-ture and celebrations, as par-ties race to stake claim overpuja committees - considereda key factor in ensuring victo-ry in local body elections.

In the last decade, severaltop ministers and leaders of theruling TMC have been seenpatronising the major pujapandals across the state.

The BJP now is taking thesame route to push its ownagenda, albeit with moderatesuccess.

According to sources, theparty had targeted 14,000 outof 28,000 puja committees inthe state, but managed to gethold of only 6000, mostly insemi-urban areas.

The Bharatiya Janata Partyleaders have faced stiff resis-tance from the TMC, whichcontinues to have an iron fistcontrol over these puja com-mittees.

“The TMC doesn't allowleaders of any other politicalparties to be part of the pujacommittees. The reason is bothpolitical and financial. But stillwe have managed to take partin several pujas as locals arekeen on having BJP leaders inthe committees,” state BJPleader Pratap Banerjee toldPTI.

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At a time when panic overNational Register of

Citizens (NRC) has grippedseveral parts of West Bengal, acommunity Durga puja com-mittee in the city has chosen“refugees” as its theme this year.

Rajdanga Naba UdaySangha puja, one of the awardwinning community pujas inthe city, has placed shuttlecocksand badminton rackets ran-domly in front of the marqueeconveying the impression that“refugees are nothing butshuttlecocks lobbed to eachother's side by two countries”,said the puja committee's pres-ident Sushanta Ghosh.

Ghosh, a TrinamoolCongress leader and chairmanof Borough Number 13 of theKolkata MunicipalCorporation, said that an ironfencing, erected at the mar-

quee, symbolises “the bound-ary which separates countriesgeographically but not its peo-ple”.

“There will be a giantmodel of a bird to show thatpeople are fettered by bound-aries and can become refugeesafter partition but not otherliving beings who are far moreliberated than human beings,”theme artist SubrataBandyopadhyay said.

The puja committee hadstarted preparations since Julyand with 50 people workingday and night at the place torecreate the effect with woodand fibreglass, Ghosh said.

Asked whether showcasing“refugees” as theme in a pujapandal will invite controversy,Ghosh said, “We have sought toprotect refugees in the themeand certainly you can't ignoreNRC if you take up the issueof displaced people these days.”

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India and Bangladesh arelikely to sign an MoU for a

new waterway to connectGomati river in Tripura andMeghna river in Bangladeshduring the four-day trip ofBangladesh Premier SheikhHasina beginning fromThursday, Chief MinisterBiplab Kumar Deb said.

Hasina will meet PrimeMinister Narendra Modi dur-ing her visit, he said.

Deb is leaving for NewDelhi on Thursday to meet theBangladesh prime minister,officials said. BangladeshPremier Sheikh Hasina willmeet our Prime MinisterNarendra Modi during herfour-day trip beginning todayand a wide range of bilateralissues would be discussed,”Deb said at a function here.

If the MoU is signed bythem a new protocol routebetween Bangladesh and Indiawill be opened by connectingGomati and Meghna rivers. Itwould facilitate carriage ofgoods from Ashuganj port on

Meghna river in Brahmanbariadistrict of Bangladesh toSonamura in Sipahijala districtof Tripura, he said.

Movement of vessels onGomati river for providingwaterway connectivity toTripura would be possible onlyafter the inclusion of the stretchbetween Sonamura in Tripura'sSepahijala district andDaudkandi in Comilla districtof Bangladesh as part of theIndo-Bangladesh Protocolroute, Deb said.

The Chief Minister had inJune sought the permission ofthe shipping ministry throughan official letter for construc-tion of a temporary jetty onGomati river and declaration ofthe stretch of it from Sonamurain Tripuras Sepahijala districtto Daudkandi in Comilla dis-trict of Bangladesh as water-way connectivity of the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol route.

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Several cars were gutted and goods worth lakhs weredamaged when amassive fire broke out inside the base-

ment of upmarket Baisakhi mallin Salt Lake in the north-eastern fringes of Kolkata. Though six fire tenders werepressed into service thick smokeprevented the fire per-sonnel from entering the mall, State FireMinister SujitBasu who rushed to the spot within minutes said. “Itseems that most of the cars, perhaps a dozen of themmight have been burnt,” said a mall official adding the“fire happened due tosome welding work going there.”

The fire was far from being controlled whenreports last came in.

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Alocal court here onThursday extended the

judicial custody of formerUnion Minister SwamiChinmayanand till October 16.

A law student has levelledrape charges against the BJPleader.

His counsel Om Singh saidthe BJP leader was produced inthe court through videocon-ferencing from the jail becauseof security reasons and CJMOmvir Singh extended his judi-cial custody by 14 days.

Another counsel of theBJP leader, Puja Singh, told PTIthat the court was told abouthis medical condition and itwas requested that the leader

be provided Category A facil-ities in the jail as he had beena Union Minister.

He was made to sleep onthe floor and given food like acommon prisoner, he said,adding that the Shahjahanpurjail did not have proper facil-ities.

He should be shifted toanother jail in the State, PujaSingh said.

Om Singh said the SITprobing charges against theformer Union Minister had

moved an application in thecourt of the CJM for a per-mission to take voice samplesof Chinmayanand and the lawstudent. The plea will be takenup on Friday.

The former UnionMinister was booked underSection 376-C of the IPC, acharge short of rape, on thecomplaint of the 23-year-oldlaw student.

The woman has beencharged with extortion follow-ing a complaint byChinmayanand's lawyer thatshe and three others weredemanding money from theleader.

The district court hasalready rejected bail applica-tions of both.

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If you fancy ethnic traditionalcraftworks such as Andhra

Pradesh's Kalamkari hand paint-ing and Bihar's Sujni handembroidery or for that matteryou are keen to explore the tra-dition craftsmen, it's time tohead to a four-day festival beingorganised here by AsianHeritage Foundation.

Themed 'Nayi Taleem', theevent at T-112, Aam Bagh, inMehrauli is part of the founda-tion's pioneering project, Jiyo!.The festival has brought togeth-er traditional knowledge systemsand novel design practices withan amalgamation of performingarts, stakeholder consultations,

artisan-designer round tables,leading edge conversations andthe mass spinning of charkha bythe mohalla women, said theorganisers.

Around 60 artisans fromacross the country are show-casing their traditional skills incraft and culinary besides musicand dance.

The JIYO Initiative has arecognizable presence for the lastten years in Odisha, MadhyaPradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar,Andhra Pradesh and Telanganaand holds an important stake-holder consultation on theWorld Handmade TextileBiennales, being planned bythe foundation to position theliving heritage of India on theglobal stage, said the organisers.

This will be achievedthrough aggregation and show-casing of unique and innovative

design-led development initia-tives in five centres of handmadetextiles in Ahmedabad, Varanasi,Pochampalli, Jaipur andSrinagar. The curtain raiser to

the World Handmade TextilesBiennales was held on March5th here. It was inaugurated bythe Textile Minister Smriti Irani.

Supported by The WorldBank and Japan Social

Development Fund, the JIYOhas impacted more than 3000beneficiaries, established 22 self-sustaining community-basedorganizations , set up protocolsfor production and Internationalparticipation in prestigious exhi-bitions i.e. International Folk Lifefestival, Santa Fe and Maison &Objet Paris. Bawanbuti handloom weaving, Sikki basketryand hand painted Madhubanifrom Bihar, Sabai natural fibrebasketry, Metal casting - Dokraand hand weaving in Kotpadfrom Odisha, Jharkhand's culi-nary skills in Gumla and Hazaribagh andBamboo artisans besidesMadhya Pradesh's block print-ing textiles in Bagh, beadworkJewellery in Jhabua, Gond handpainting and Mandla pottery arealready catching the fancy of thevisitors.

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The Madras High Court onThursday allowed the Tamil

Nadu and Central Governmentsto erect banners to welcomePrime Minister Narendra Modiand Chinese President Xi Jinpingfor their informal meet here nextweek.

The court said it has noobjection to installation of banners to welcome the two dig-nitaries.

The court had earlier bannederection of hoardings on road-sides and recently pulled up the

government for not effectivelyimplementing its order followingthe death of a woman techie.

A division bench of JusticesM Sathyanarayanan and NSeshasayee, however, made itclear that the state has to followall existing rules in connectionwith installation of such banners.

The bench also said no polit-ical parties will be allowed toinstall such banners.

The State Government hadon Tuesday sought the court'spermission to erect bannerswelcoming Modi and Xi Jinping,who are slated to meet at

Mamallapuram, about 50 kmfrom here, for their second infor-mal meet from October 11-13.

The petition filed by com-missioner of municipal adminis-tration said authorities were notgiving permission for putting upsuch structures throughout thestate.

The petitioner had said Modiand Jinping would be holdingbilateral talks in the tourist town.

The petitioner said it was cus-tomary for the Ministry ofExternal Affairs to welcome a vis-iting dignitary by way of banners.

Stating that the state and the

central governments proposed toput up the banners at designatedplaces to welcome the top digni-taries, the petitioner asked thecourt to pass suitable orders onthe proposal.

Reacting to the government'smove, Makkal Needhi Maiamfounder Kamal Haasan had onWednesday faulted it for seekingthe court's approval to erect ban-ners to welcome Modi and XiJinping.

The actor-politician appealedto Modi to “act as a pioneer” andput an end to the “banner cul-ture.”

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The BJP Government inKarnataka is mulling intro-

ducing the National Register ofCitizens (NRC) in the State,Home Minister BasavarajBommai said on Thursday.

“There is a very big talkgoing on regarding the imple-mentation of NRC acrossIndia. Karnataka is one of thestates where across the borderpeople are coming and settlingdown. There are lot of issueshere. Therefore we are collect-ing all the information, wewill discuss with the UnionHome Minister and then goahead,” Bommai told reporters

here.Union Home Minister

Amit Shah had recently assert-ed that the NRC exercise willbe conducted throughout Indiaand all illegal immigrantsthrown out of the countrythrough legal means.

The Mamata Banerjee-headed TMC Government inWest Bengal had avowed thatthe NRC exercise will not beallowed in the State. OnWednesday Bommai had toldreporters in Haveri that twomeetings were held on rollingout the NRC, which has beenaccepted by a few states.

He had said, “I've askedsenior officials to study the

law.In Bengaluru and otherbig cities, foreigners have comeand settled. It has come to ournotice they indulge in crime,and some of them have beenarrested as well.

We will take a clear deci-sion (on NRC) this week.”

When it was in the oppo-sition, the BJP had been rais-ing its voice on increasingnumber of Bangladeshimigrants in Bengaluru. InAssam, the only state in thecountry where the exercisewas carried out to update theNRC, names of over 19 lakhpeople were omitted from thefinal list which was publishedon August 31.

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DMK president M K Stalinon Thursday demanded a

CBI probe into the NationalEligibility cum Entrance Testimpersonation scam to bringout the truth behind the murkyepisode now being investigat-ed by the CB-CID of TamilNadu police.

The Government was amute spectator and announceda CB-CID probe for an “eyewash,” and it will not renderjustice, he alleged here.

Asserting that his partyremained committed to thestand that NEET should bedone away with, he said newsreports indicated that over 50 candidates might havesecured admission throughfoul means like impersonation.

Stalin, the leader of oppo-sition in the state assembly, saidas per reports the scam alleged-ly involved some officials andmiddlemen from not onlyTamil Nadu but other states aswell.

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Over 100 journalists tookpart in a silent protest on

Thursday and asked theGovernment to lift the com-munication blockade whichhas been put in place since theabrogation of provisions ofArticle 370.

They said the communi-cation blockade, which wasput in place on August 5 andis set to enter its third month,has severely affected the work-ing of journalists in Kashmir.

More than 100 journalistsworking in international,national and local media out-lets took part in the silentprotest which started fromKashmir Press Club.

“The communicationblockade, which is set to enterthird month now, has severe-ly affected the working of jour-nalists in Kashmir. Even thelocal newspapers have not beenable to publish properly whiletheir internet editions are

defunct,” president of KashmirPress Club Shuja ul Haq said.

He said all the media asso-ciations have come together topress the government to lift thecommunication blockade sothat they can freely dischargetheir professional duties.

Holding placards, some ofthe protesting journalists latercarried out a peaceful marchfrom Polo View to PressColony on Residency Roadhere. The journalists later dis-persed peacefully.

Jammu and Kashmir gov-ernment has established amedia facilitation centre in aprivate hotel here.

However, the journalistsfeel that the facility is inade-quate as there are only 10computer terminals for near-ly 400 strong press corps.

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Shiv Sena’s youth wing presi-dent Aditya Thackeray on

Thursday began his journey inelectoral politics on Thursday, ashe went in a huge processionfrom his Bandra residence to theelection office in south-centralMumbai in a show of strengthand filed nomination papersfrom Worli constituency for theState Assembly polls.

In an affidavit filed alongwith his nomination, Aditytadeclared assets worth over �16crore and stated that no policecomplaints or court cases hadbeen lodged against him.

Before leaving his familyresidence “Matoshri” in north-west Mumbai, 29-year-oldAditya portrait of his grandfa-ther and late Shiv Sena chief BalThackeray When he arrived inprocession at the election office,

Aditya was greeted by his beam-ing Shiv Sena President-fatherUddhav Thackeray, motherRashmi, and younger brother

Tejas.Chief Minister Devendra

Fadnavis called Aditya andwished well for the elections, as

he proceeded towards the elec-tion office at Worli.

The procession taken out byAditya was in a way road show

of sorts. The party workers,accompanying him, carriedplacards with photos of Aaditya,his father Uddhav and lategrandfather Balasaheb, as itmade its way through bothposh and poor localities ofWorli. Many of the party work-ers had photographs of Adityaprinted on the back of their T-shirts.

Meanwhile, the affidavitfiled by Aditya along with hisnomination became a talkingpoint in the state political circles.In his affidavit, he has declaredassets worth over �16 crore. Asper the affidavit, Aditya has bankdeposits of �10.36 crore, immov-able properties worth �4.67crore, bonds/shares/mutualfunds of approximately �97lakh, jewelleries worth around �1 Crore, other investmentsworth �10.22 lakhs and cash inhand �13,344.00.

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The spectre of a flood loomslarge on rural Patna and

adjoining areas with an alarm-ing rise in water levels ofPunpun river, understood tobe a delayed fallout of the tor-rential rainfall that batteredBihar over the weekend killingat least 73 people, an officialsaid on Thursday.

Plying of trains has beenstopped as a precautionarymeasure on Punpun Bazar-Parsa and Biharsharif-Benasections on account of inun-dation of a couple of bridges.

"Movement of trains on thetwo sections has been stoppedsince 4.30 pm. Six trains havebeen cancelled, four short-ter-minated while five otherswere running on divertedroutes," ECR Chief PublicRelations Officer RajeshKumar said.

According to the Biharwater resources department,Punpun river which joins theGanga about 25 kms down-stream south of Patna, wasflowing at 53.57 metres, farabove the danger mark of 50.60 metres and just slight-ly below the highest level everrecorded - 53.91 metres in1976.

Rural Patna district admin-istration said water began gush-ing into several villages of

Punpun block villagers to rushto safer places.

"Two teams of the StateDisaster Response Force eachcomprising 15 personnel andequipped with four boats -have been dispatched toPunpun and Dhanarua blocksfor rescue operations. The sub-divisional officer and blockdevelopment officers con-cerned have been put on alert,"Patna District MagistrateKumar Ravi said.

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His name missing fromBJP’s lists of candidates

declared for the October 21 Maharashtra Assembly polls tillnow, senior party leader Eknath Khadse on Thursday said he will follow the orders give tohim.

Speaking to reporters in

Jalgaon district’s Muktainagarconstituency, Khadse said, "Ihad told workers and others inthe past too that I will contestthe election if my health was ingood shape."

Khadse, who representsthe Muktainagar segment inthe assembly, did not respondto a question whether he waswilling to contest the Assemblyelection.

Asked about media reportsthat he has been offered gov-ernor’s post by the party,Khadse said he was "clueless"about it.

"I am the worker who fol-lows orders of the party. I haveobeyed the party over the past40-42 years.

The orders may have beenbitter for me, against my will,but I have followed the orders.

"There is not a single exam-ple of me not following partyorders.

So, I will follow the deci-sion party makes," the formerminister added.

The BJP has till nowannounced three lists of its can-didates for the Assembly polls.

The party is yet to name itscontender from theMuktainagar seat.

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Continuing his tirade againstthe Union Ministers and

MPs from Karnataka over "fail-ure" to get Central grants forflood ravaged north Karnataka,BJP MLA from BijapurBasanagouda Patil Yatnal onThursday said he would meetPrime Minister NarendraModi and take up the matter.

"I will write to the PrimeMinister today itself and seekan appointment with him tobrief him about the flood situ-ation, Patil told reporters inVijayapura.

He said other leaders fromNorth Karnataka can join himif they wish. He asked theunion ministers to get to theirwork and meet the prime min-

ister. Go and do your job andmeet the Prime Minister.

You all are UnionMinisters. Why are you sittingin Hubballi and Bengaluru?Go to Delhi and get �10,000crore from the Centre, Yatnal said. Yatnal reminded the MPs thatBJP did not come to power justby fluke but by the hard workof workers like him, chief min-ister B S Yediyurappa and for-mer Union Minister Ananthkumar.

A former Union Minister,Yatnal has been vocal againstthe BJP leadership, includingUnion Ministers and MPs from Karnataka, for thepast few days over gettingCentral grants to carry outrelief works in NorthKarnataka.

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The Uttar PradeshLegislature is on Thursday

night all set to create history ofsorts by holding 36-hour-longuninterrupted sessions of bothHouses amidst a boycott byrival parties, even as some oftheir MLAs chose to attend theproceedings.

The simultaneous sittingswitnessed Aditi Singh(Congress), Shivpal Yadav(Samajwadi Party) and AslamRaini (BSP) come out againsttheir respective party’s decisionof staying away and address theHouse. Two others, includ-ing Nitin Agarwal (SP) and

Anil Singh (BSP), who havealready switched sides but tech-nically continue to be membersof their respective parties, attended the proceed-ings.

UP Chief Minister YogiAdityanath, who had onWednesday f layed theOpposition for its boycott,terming it not just an "insult" tothe Father of the Nation butalso a "contempt" of the House,continued his attack onThursday, saying they don’thave faith in "democratic val-ues" and ideologies ofMahatma Gandhi.

The 36-hour special ses-sion of the Uttar Pradesh leg-

islature to mark the 150thanniversary of MahatmaGandhi began at 11 am onWednesday.

"The Opposition is boy-cotting the special sessionorganised to mark the 150thbirth anniversary of MahatmaGandhi. They are those whodon’t have faith in democraticvalues and ideologies ofMahatma Gandhi," Adityanathsaid in his address in the UPLegislative Council onThursday.

The chief minister hadaddressed the assembly onWednesday.

He charged that for theOpposition, "power" is a medi-

um for "vyaktigat loot khasoot"(personal loot) and has noth-ing to do with public welfare.

The chief minister, whowas in the assembly till 1 am onThursday, highlighted theworks done by his govern-ment to achieve sustainabledevelopment goals.

"In our government, theincentives are now perfor-mance-based. Those who workwill be taken care of and thosewho don’t are kept on ourradar," he said.

Nearly 100 BJP memberswere in the House overnight aspart of the special session. TheUttar Pradesh Assembly has atotal strength of 403.

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Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party(Lohia) founder Shivpal

Yadav on Thursday hinted thathe would not merge with theSamajwadi Party, which hasoffered to withdrawthe disqualification petition

against him in the stateAssembly.

Leader of Opposition andSP leader Ram GovindChowdhury had given a peti-tion to the Assembly speakerfor disqualification of Shivpal

Yadav last month.He had later said that if

Shivpal merged his party withSP, the petition could be with-drawn.

"Why is the SP talkingabout withdrawing its peti-tion," Shivpal told reportersafter his address in the stateAssembly when asked aboutSP’s offer to merge his partywith it.

"I have given a number ofchances to the SP but now Ihave made my party," headded.

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Five candidates withdrewtheir nomination papers for

bypolls to 11 Assembly seats inUttar Pradesh, leaving 110 can-didates in the fray, the office ofstate’s Chief Electoral Officersaid in a statement here onThursday.

Two candidates each with-drew their nominations fromPratapgarh Assembly con-stituency and Ghosi Assemblyconstituency, respectively. Onecandidate withdrew nomina-tion from Gangoh, it said.

With the withdrawal of thecandidature, the total numbercontestants in the fray from 11seats stands at 110, the state-ment said. The maximumnumber of candidates 13 eachare from LucknowCantonment and Jalalpurassembly constituencies, fol-lowed by 12 in Ghosi, and 11each in Gangoh, Pratapgarhand Balha (SC).

Nine candidates each arein the fray from Govindnagarand Manikpur.

Besides, seven candidateseach will contest the bypollsfrom Rampur, Iglas (SC) andZaidpur (SC).

Voting will be held onOctober 21 from 7.00 am to6.00 pm. The counting will bedone on October 24.

The Election Commissionhad recently announced thatbypolls to 11 aAsembly seatsin the state will be held onOctober 21. The bypolls werenecessitated after some MLAswon the Lok Sabha electionsand resigned as members of theState Assembly.

Assembly constituencieswhich will vote in bypolls areGangoh,

Rampur, Iglas (SC),Lucknow Cantonment,Govindnagar, Manikpur,Pratapgarh, Zaidpur (SC),Jalalpur, Balha (SC) andGhosi.

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NCP president SharadPawar said on Thursday

the ruling BJP has no solutionsto burning problems inMaharashtra like farmer sui-cide and drought, and hence itis raising emotional issues suchas Article 370 and Ram mandirin the campaign for theOctober 21 assembly elections.

Targeting the BJP-led NDAgovernment, he said centralagencies like the ED and CBIare being used to harass polit-ical opponents.

He was talking to reportersafter participating in a rallyorgansied after filing of nom-ination by NCP candidate andsitting MLA Jitendra Awhadfrom the Mumbra-Kalwa seg-ment.

Asked about the SupremeCourt ruling with regard to

Chief Minister DevendraFadnavis’s 2014 poll affidavit,Pawar said the matter wassub-judice but he should havegiven details of criminal casesagainst him.

Two days ago, the SupremeCourt had set aside theBombay High Court orderwhich gave Fadnavis a cleanchit in a case of suppression ofcriminal matters in the 2014poll affidavit.

He said the ruling BJP hasno solutions to burning prob-lems in the state like farmer

suicides and drought, andtherefore it is raising emotionalissues like Article 370 andRam Mandir in the election.

Asked about the ED caseagainst him and his nephewAjit Pawar in a bank scam, theformer Union minister saidofficials of the financial probeagency have "directions fromabove".

About Shiv Sena youthleader Aaditya Thackeray filinghis nomination from the Worliassembly seat, the Marathastrongman said it was a demo-cratic process.

"I wish him all the best," theformer Maharashtra chief min-ister said. On several NCPleaders leaving the party in thelast few months, Pawar said,"They would have realisedthere was no future for them inthe party and were looking foralternatives."

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Altogether 20 contestantsare left in the fray for

bypolls in four Assembly seatsin Assam, an official of thestate election commission saidon Thursday, the last day forwithdrawing candidature.

None withdrew the nomi-nation for the four constituen-cies — Rangapara, Sonari,Ratabari and Jania — sched-uled to go to polls on October21, Assam Joint Chief ElectionOfficer Pranjal Choudhurysaid. Rangapara has five can-didates, Sonari two, Ratabarifour and Jania nine,Choudhury told PTI.

The four seats had fallenvacant following the election ofthe sitting MLAs to Lok Sabhaearlier this year. The ruling BJPhas named three fresh faces anda former Congress MLA forthe by-polls in the four con-stituencies.

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Altogether 15 candidates,including Sikkim Chief

Minister Prem Singh Tamangaka Golay are in the fray for theby-polls to three seats in thestate after two candidates with-drew their nominations onThursday.

The by-polls to the threeseats, Martam Rumtek, Pollok Kamrang and Gangtok will be held onOctober 21. Thursday was thelast date for withdrawal ofnominations and two inde-pendent candidates -SonamTashi Bhutia and ChewangDadul Bhutia - withdrew theirn o m i n a t i o n sfrom the Martam RumtekAssembly constituency in eastSikkim district, the collector of the district, RajYadav, said.

The Poklok KamrangAssembly seat in South Sikkimis all set to witness a triangu-lar contest as Chief MinisterGolay, a Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) can-didate, will lock horns withMoses Rai of SikkimDemocratic Front (SDF) andYadhu Kumar Rai of Sikkim Republican Party(SRP). At present, Golay is nota member of Sikkim LegislativeAssembly. Six candi-dates are trying their luck fromthe Gangtok Assembly seat.Legendary footballerBhaichung Bhutia of theHamroi Sikkim Party ((HSP)is one of them. The MartamRumtek and Gangtok assemblyseats are reserved for theindigenous tribal communi-ties such as the Bhutias and theLepchas, while PoklokKamrang is a general seat.

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Karnataka Kannada andCulture Minister C T Ravi

on Thursday said the BJP-ledGovernment at the Centre hasno plans to impose Hindi, as heasserted that Kannada issupreme in the State.

"Central Government isnot imposing Hindi and itwon’t do it also. Our party’sprinciple is that impor-tanceshould be given toregional languages," Ravi saidto reporters here, he said,"Kannada has its own abilityand in Karnataka Kannada issupreme... Link language isdifferent matter and it was leftfor people to decide whetherone needs to learn it or not."

Union Home MinisterAmit Shah last month pitchedfor Hindi as a common lan-guage for the country, whichhad reignited the debate on theissue, and drew flak from var-ious organisations and politicalparties in the southern states.

Seeking to defend Shah’sstatement, Ravi said it was anopinion that Hindi can be alink language in the country, as"we have accepted English asthe link language internation-ally". It had nothing to dowith imposition.

"This opinion is not new asseveral leaders in the past likeNehru and Indira Gandhi haveadvocated this. It is not a mat-ter of politics," he said, notingthat a good per cent of peoplein the country naturally speakHindi. Following the contro-versy over Shah’s statement,Karnataka Chief Minister B SYediyurappa too hadrecentlyasserted that Kannada is theprincipal language in the stateand its importance will neverbe compromised.

Ravi said, eleven years afterKannada got classical languagestatus, steps were now beinginitiated towards formally ini-tiating activities including set-ting up of Centre of Excellencefor Studies in ClassicalKannada, currently functioningat a quarters in Mysuru, andblamed inaction on part of suc-cessive governments for it.

After meeting experts onthe issue, he said thoughKannada was given the classi-cal language status in 2008,because of initial confusionsincluding litigation and the location to set the upthe Centre of Excellence forStudies resulted in not reach-ing the that should have been achieved in tenyears.

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Hit by a slew of desertions ahead of the October 21Maharashtra Assembly polls, the Nationalist

Congress Party on Thursday saw a legislator of a rul-ing party joining it.

Shiv Sena MLA from Palghar, Amit Ghoda,joined the NCP at the party’s headquarters here in thepresence of senior leader Ajit Pawar and Nawab Malik.

Amit won by-poll from Palghar in February 2016following the death of his father and sitting Sena MLAKrishna Ghoda.

On Wednesday, former BJP MLA ManikraoKokate joined the Sharad Pawar-led party. Kokate isset to contest the Assembly polls from Sinnar in Nashikdistrict. Congress MLA Bharat Bhalke joined the NCP on September 30. Bhalke willcontest from Solapur’s Pandhapur. Former BJP legis-lator Vijay Ghodmare switched allegiance to the NCP on September 14 and is the opposition party’scandidate from Hingana constituency inNagpur.

On the other hand, former Maharashtra ministersGanesh Naik and Sachin Ahir, Satara MP UdayanrajeBhosale, MLAs Shivendrasinh Bhosale, VaibhavPichad and Sandip Naik and others quit the NCPrecently to join the ruling BJP or Shiv Sena.

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Nitesh Rane, former Congress MLAand son of former Maharashtra chief

minister Narayan Rane on Thursdayjoined the BJP and will contest theOctober 21 state Assembly polls fromKankavli seat in coastal Konkan.

Nitesh won the 2014 Assembly pollsfrom Kankavli seat in Sindhudurg districton Congress’ ticket by defeating the thenBJP MLA Pramod Jathar.

Narayan Rane, who founded theMaharashtra Swabhiman Party in 2017after parting ways with the Congress, hasspoken of merging the outfit with the BJP,with whose support he is now a RajyaSabha member. he former state chief min-ister was earlier in the Shiv Sena, whichhe quit in 2005 and joined the Congress.

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assembly seats inRajasthan.

The bypolls to Khinvsar(Nagaur) and Mandawa(Jhunjhunu) Assembly con-stituencies will take place onOctober 21.

Thursday was the last dayfor nomination withdrawal.

One independent candi-date withdrew his nomina-tion, election officials said.

Now, a total of 12 candi-dates will contest the elections,they said.

The ruling Congress hasfielded former MLAs RitaChaudhary and HarendraMirdha from Mandawaand Khinvsar seats, respec-

tively.The BJP has fielded Sushila

on the Mandawa seat.

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This week we celebrated MahatmaGandhi’s 150th birth anniversary.The Father of the Nation is a herofor me as I am sure he is for mil-lions of people across the world.

His birth anniversary served an opportunetime to examine and reflect how his valuesand principles, the primary pillars of ourfreedom movement, are being imbibed andpractised by the country. As our nationalconscience, he lived by certain values thatI am sure he hoped his children would liveby, too. One such ideal was the importancehe gave to “truth.” To him, “truth” was sosignificant that it found a place in the titleof his autobiography, The Story of MyExperiments with Truth. On this subject,Bapu gave us many memorable quotes butone of them that is my favourite is: “An errordoes not become truth by reason of multi-plied propagation, nor does truth becomeerror because nobody sees it.”

This October 2, 2019, was also the daywhen Prime Minister Modi announcedrural India as “Open Defecation Free”(ODF). When I heard of this claim,Gandhiji’s quote on “truth” popped up in mymind. Bapu’s words in the quote mentionedabove perhaps stood in starker contrast thanusual because of something else that hap-pened later last month. A little less than aweek before the Prime Minister’s bombas-tic claim, two young children from the Dalitcommunity were beaten to death in a vil-lage in Madhya Pradesh, allegedly for defe-cating in the open in the field of a highercaste community.

This horrific incident, where two younglives were quickly extinguished, shouldhaunt us for days to come. Imagine a situ-ation where you are driving on the road withyour children, moving from one city toanother, and no toilet facility is available formiles. This at a time when one of your chil-dren is unwell and needs to relievehimself/herself. Though not ideal, youdecide there is no option but to stop in asecluded field so that your child can getsome relief. For a moment, think of the fearand shame that would grip you, that of beingspotted. Now imagine the fear that grips mil-lions of Indians who have to deal with thistorment every day. And then, you are toldthat India is ODF.

Bhavkedi, the village where the twoyoung children were killed, was declared andrecorded as ODF. Therefore, according tothe Government, every household in this vil-lage has a toilet, which has been built underthe broad aegis of the Swachh BharatAbhiyan (SBA). However, the kids’ deathshows that whatever the statistics, the truthappears to be quite different.

The “truth” is that the success of thescheme is being exaggerated to protect animage that has been created. Multiplereports have highlighted that the con-struction of toilets under the SBA has nothelped create durable sanitation facilities.

Cleanliness has not improveddespite the construction of toi-lets because other than thephysical construction of thetoilet, other requirements suchas running water and a viabledisposal system are absent.

Another reason why India’ssanitation facilities have notimproved really is because whileconstructing toilets may lookgood on paper, the problem ofopen defecation cannot be tack-led unless we address issues sur-rounding caste system and focuson changing people’s mindset.The reason why theGovernment has picked build-ing toilets as a target rather thanactually building compositesanitation facilities is because itis easier to market and talkabout the former than actuallymeasuring whether sanitation inthe country has improved at all.

There has been no discus-sion about the close linkbetween caste system andimproving sanitation as part ofthe SBA even though this isundeniable. This because clean-ing of toilets is typically consid-ered to be impure by large sec-tions of society and is reservedfor the lower castes. It is thismindset that must change toensure the success of any sani-tation drive.

In fact, a popular digital

portal put it rightly when it saidthat SBA had actually worsenedthe oppression faced by Dalitsin three ways. First, the increasein the number of toilets withoutthe requisite improvement insanitation infrastructure such asplumbing and septic tanks hadincreased the need for people toclean out toilets manually. Sincethe upper caste was unwilling todo so, this task fell on theDalits which, therefore,increased the prevalence ofmanual scavenging amongthem.

Second, Dalits are oftenexcluded from the public wel-fare system, including grants tomake toilets under the SBA. Inaddition to this, as per newsreports, pressure on officials toensure constructions of toiletshas led to a situation where indi-viduals are being threatenedwith refusal of access to the pub-lic distribution system.

Third, despite having theability and the option to con-struct toilets, the right to defe-cate in the open itself is a priv-ilege of one’s caste and, therefore,Dalits have a lesser right to doso. They are then faced with aCatch-22 situation. Neither arethey privileged enough to haveaccess to funds to build toiletsor have the right to defecate inthe open without the fear of

being killed. The issue is not that we have

not been able to ensure bettersanitation for Indians. This is ahuge, complicated problem, onethat requires committed effortsand a clear plan of action. Theproblem, however, is thatinstead of looking at groundresults and actually measuringthe success of the SBA, we patourselves on the back, listeningonly to those things that makeus happy.

By avoiding rigid examina-tion, we are only fooling our-selves. The long-term impact ofthis approach, where the pursuitof truth takes a backseat to thehum of propaganda, will be cat-astrophic. This was recentlyechoed by former Reserve Bankof India Governor RaghuramRajan, too, who said that sup-pressing criticism will lead tomistakes and that it should beavoided by Governments.

The words of Bapu thenring just as “true” today aswhen he said: “Truth does notbecome error merely becausenobody sees it.” The tragedy willbe that by the time we actuallydo see the “truth” for what it is,we may have lost more innocentsouls due to willful ignorance.

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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Whither Gandhi?(September 2). Whether it wasdesign or destiny that propelled

Gandhi to the forefront of theIndian freedom movement isanybody’s guess. Whatever saidand done, his overwhelmingpresence was the vital glue thatbrought the freedom fighterstogether, regardless of theirpolitical or communal differ-ences, to continue their fight.

They spoke in one voice.Gandhiji will be revered as thefirst exponent of non-violence.At the same time, the contribu-tion of other patriots like SubhasChandra Bose, Bhagat Singhand Veer Savarkar cannot beoverlooked. The Mahatma wasone of those great men who lived

and died for the redemption offellow men from poverty, polit-ical freedom, human dignityand for the salvation of hismotherland. The spirit ofGandhiji’s sacrifice, however,has gradually begun to fadeaway from the minds of the cur-rent generation on account of

the adaptation of Western ideas.How this can be countered willbe interesting to see as Gandhianideals are timeless and have adistinct place in the world.

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Sir — World Animal Day, whichis celebrated on October 4 everyyear, is a special day for animal lovers. October 4 is alsothe feast day of St Francis ofAssisi, who loved all creatures,big and small. It is also an occa-sion to acknowledge the diverse roles that animals play inour lives.

We must acknowledge andbe thankful to them for the waythey enrich our lives. All effortsmust be made to conserve themand preserve their habitats sothat they can coexist with us onthis planet. It is time we realisethat we all depend on nature andits creatures to survive. Weshould show respect to all.

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In a flurry of announcements made onSeptember 20, 2019 (also described in mediacircles as a third Union Budget in less than

three months), Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman handed out a bonanza to the Indiancorporate sector.

The most pleasing announcement pertainsto the steep reduction in the rate of corporate taxfor new entities incorporated from October 1,2019 in the manufacturing sector, that start pro-duction before March 31, 2023 from the exist-ing 25 per cent to 15 per cent. After subsumingsurcharge and cess, the effective incidence of taxwill be lowered from the existing 29.15 per centto 17.01 per cent — a drop of 12 per cent. Suchcompanies won’t have to pay Minimum AlternateTax (MAT) that is levied on book profit of firmswhich have no taxable profit, courtesy exemp-tions and incentives.

This is a bolt from the blue as in the road-map laid down in the Budget speech for 2015-16, the then Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, hadproposed reduction in the corporate tax to 25 percent (at present, the benefit of this rate is avail-able only to start-ups and firms having an annu-al turnover lower than �400 crore even as com-panies with a turnover higher than this thresh-old pay 30 per cent). There was absolutely no hintwhatsoever about the rate being reduced to anylevel less than 25 per cent even for start-ups.Sitharaman has broken this barrier.

The second announcement relates to anequally significant reduction in the tax rate onexisting companies from 30 per cent to 22 percent. However, this is subject to the firm surren-dering all incentives they are availing under theexisting dispensation (once exercised, the firmis not allowed to change the option subsequent-ly). With surcharge and cess, the effective tax willwork out to 25.17 per cent down from the exist-ing 34.9 per cent — a drop of almost 10 per cent.These firms will also be exempt from MAT.

Existing small and medium enterprises(SMEs) with a turnover of less than �400 crore,currently pay tax at the rate of 25 per cent. Theytoo will have the option to switch to 22 per cent.Inclusive of surcharge and cess, the effective taxincidence will fall from 29.15 per cent to 25.17per cent. The crucial point to note here is thatunder the new regime, existing big companieswill pay tax at the same rate of 25.17 per cent asSMEs. The companies who decide to continuewith the existing dispensation of tax at the rateof 30 per cent with a view to fully utilise theincentives and exemptions that go with it, willalso get covered under the new 22 per cent taxregime, starting from the sunset date of thoseincentives. For the period they remain under thesubsisting regime, they will be liable to pay MATbut at a reduced rate of 15 per cent down fromexisting 18.5 per cent.

There couldn’t be a more attractive packagefor someone keen to undertake fresh investmentin India — be it a domestic investor or a foreigncompany with an Indian partner. The effectivetax rate applicable in such cases at the rate of17.01 per cent being the lowest among all majorcountries (US 21 per cent, Organisation forEconomic Co-operation and Development aver-age 21.4 per cent, China 25 per cent), makes Indiathe most attractive destination. This may even

prompt companies wanting to relocatefrom China in the light of the worsen-ing trade relations between WashingtonDC and Beijing, to look at India as a toppriority.

For existing investment, the offer iscompelling. Around 2,50,000 compa-nies out of 8,40,000 that filed taxreturns for 2017-18 had paid tax at aneffective rate of 25 per cent or higher.Out of the top 21 companies listed onthe Bombay Stock Exchange, the effec-tive tax rate for 10 is in excess of 25 percent (remaining 11 pay less in view ofthe domineering effect of exemptionsand incentives). These companies willstand to gain by switching over to the22 per cent tax regime. However, muchwill depend on the treatment of MATcredit accumulated in the books of thecompanies concerned.

Though companies are keen thateven after a switchover, they must beallowed to set off MAT credit againstfuture tax liability, the ordinance issilent on this. If the Governmentreplies in the negative, then the optionof immediate switchover loses its sheen.Then, the firms would prefer to wait fora couple of years till such time the accu-mulated MAT credit in the books isfully adjusted (this is permitted underthe existing scheme of things). While,one has to wait and see how the legalbrains in the establishment wouldreact to this, prima facie theGovernment may not be inclined topermit this balancing. This is becausethe new 22 per cent tax (plain vanilla)regime has to be free from the past bag-

gage that included a plethora of exemp-tions, incentive, MAT et al. Further con-sidering that under the new regime, noMAT is levied, then to allow an adjust-ment of the accumulated MAT creditwill be incongruous.

The decisions have been taken inthe backdrop of a significant deceler-ation in the Gross Domestic Product(GDP) growth and a dismal job sce-nario. These are intended to reverse thetrend and put the economy on a highgrowth trajectory by boosting privateinvestment and aggregate demand.Will things pan out in the mannerintended? Much will depend on howthe surplus in the hands of companiesresulting from tax cuts (about �145,000crore annually being the equivalent ofrevenue loss to the Government) isapportioned among them and equally importantly, how it is spent.Broadly, two strands come out quiteclearly.

Considering the steeper drop ineffective incidence of tax on biggercompanies (turnover �400 crore) fromthe existing 34.9 per cent to 25.17 percent, they will get a bigger slice of thebonanza as against SMEs for whomeffective tax is lowered from 29.15 percent to 25.17 per cent. Given the pri-ority all along assigned by the NarendraModi Government to the latter, therewas a strong case for reducing the taxfor them to 15 per cent on par with thatapplicable to new investment (if, ear-lier SMEs were on par with new units,why should the parity not be main-tained now?)

SMEs have a share of about 29 percent in the GDP but account for 40 percent of the total employment. Therefore,leaving more money in the hands ofthese enterprises will be more advan-tageous, especially when it comes to cre-ating jobs and boosting demand in thecountry. But reducing the tax ratealone won’t help, more so when a largenumber of them are incurring lossesand facing closure. They need supportby way of credit, timely payment andrelease of Goods and Services Tax(GST) refunds.

The other crucial aspect is how bigcompanies spend the surplus. Ideally,this should be invested in creation of anew capacity or increasing utilisationof the existing capacity, as this will givea fillip to growth and employment.They may also pay back loans tobanks, which will enable the latter toincrease credit availability for a widerimpact. They should go for distributionof dividend only as a last resort.

To conclude, the near overhaulingof the corporate tax structure, with afocus on making it “competitive” and“simple” is a great leap forward. It haslifted the sentiment and laid the foun-dation for increasing investment,growth and employment. But, thisshould be complemented by measuresto plug loopholes in tax collection,increase farmers’ income and boostinfrastructure development to ensurethat the growth is inclusive and sustain-able.

(The writer is a New Delhi-basedpolicy analyst)

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No doubt that Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s week-longvisit to the US shows the

strengthening of ties between Indiaand America. In a packed week ofengagements, he participated inboth bilateral and multilateral sum-mits, including addressing theUnited Nations General Assembly(UNGA) and the Climate ActionSummit.

What was Modi’s agenda?Before leaving for New York, thePrime Minister said, “Through myparticipation in UN events, I willshowcase our success in realisingthe Sustainable Development Goals.At the Climate Action Summit onSeptember 23, I will highlight

India’s robust action to address cli-mate change in line with globalgoals and our international commit-ments. I am confident that my visitwould present India as a vibrantland of opportunities, a reliablepartner and a global leader and willalso help impart new energy to ourrelations with the US.”

Has Modi succeeded in hisagenda?

The “Howdy Modi” event,attended by a 50,000-strong Indiandiaspora in Houston, dominated thePrime Minister’s US visit as hewowed the Americans. The show ofstrength at Houston was meant fortheir respective domestic audiencefor both Modi and Trump. Modiutilised this trip for his own image-building exercise as an emergingglobal leader. The Houston eventwas a glittering performance thatassured the American establish-ment, business community and theIndian-Americans that Modi was aman of vision. Modi consolidatedhis position as a rockstar as Trumpcompared him to the famousAmerican singer and actor Elvis

Presley. Second, bothTrump and Modiexhibited their excel-lent chemistry bypraising each other.While Modi saideverybody on theplanet knew Trump,the latter returned thecompliment by callinghim the “father of thenation.” Modi evencampaigned forTrump by remindingthe Indian-Americans“Ab ki baar Trumpsarkar.”

Third, the profileof the Indian diaspora also gotraised as the 50,000-strong Indian-Americans cheered Modi lustily.They were proud of Modi who wassharing the dais with the AmericanPresident. He has projected “BrandIndia,” as an emerging global powerthrough “Brand Modi.”

With a larger objective in mind,the Prime Minister had engagedseveral leaders from small and bigcountries on the sidelines of the UN

meet, pushing for greater engage-ments with larger groups of coun-tries. For the first time, Modi heldplurilateral top-level interactionswith the leaders of the PacificIsland States and leaders of theCARICOM (CaribbeanCommunity and Common Market)group. He attended 40 meetingswith various leaders and groups cul-minating in his address at theUNGA. At the UN Climate Action

Summit, Modi out-lined India’s environ-mental and climateaction policy, partic-ularly its solar energyand the domestic pol-icy on water andtransport.

As for invest-ment, the PrimeMinister made a highpitch, inviting majorAmerican firms tocome and invest inIndia, promising allfacilities in his meet-ing with their ChiefExecutive Officers

both in Houston and New York.The results of this will be known inthe coming months, whether theywould put their money in an econ-omy, which is on the slide.

The visit began in Houston withIndia and the US cementing theirenergy ties, with India’s State-runPetronet LNG Ltd signing a pact tonegotiate the sourcing of aroundfive million tonnes per annum(mtpa) Liquefied Natural Gas

(LNG) from US developer TellurianInc. While some trade deal wasexpected in the bilateral meetingwith Trump, it did not materialise.Trade deficit is one of the irritantsbetween the two countries as the USPresident has been demandingmore access to Indian markets.The US is India’s largest trade part-ner and Trump wants New Delhi toeliminate tariffs on informationand communication technologyproducts and removal of price capson medical devices, besides otherthings. India, on the other hand,wants the US to reinstate theGeneralised System of Preferencesrevoked by Washington threemonths ago.

On the diplomatic side, Modiled India by explaining the irksomeKashmir issue to global leaders inhis meetings with them. Claimingthat things were coming back tonormal, he blamed Pakistan for thecross-border terrorism. At theUNGA, Modi made a statesman-like speech while Imran Khan pre-dictably internationalised theKashmir issue. Modi focussed on

India’s role towards development,peace and security, with no mentionof Article 370. “Fellas, work it out,”was the advice given by Trump toModi and the Pakistan PrimeMinister. Trump called them his“great friends” and gave a strongpush to get the two to talk. WhileTrump talked of dialogue, hisadministration talked of humanrights and return to normalcy inKashmir. The international com-munity is still watching Kashmiris.Like it or not, Kashmir has come onthe global radar.

While the visit is being toutedas successful, trade irritants contin-ue to remain and the Kashmirissue is now internationalised,despite all efforts by New Delhi todownplay it. On the whole, Modihas risen in the eyes of theAmericans as this visit has not onlystrengthened him at home andabroad but also reinforced the viewthat the Indo-US relationship hasbecome an all-weather partner-ship.

(The writer is a senior journal-ist)

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E-commerce major Flipkarton Thursday said it has

signed a memorandum ofunderstanding (MoU) withUttar Pradesh Khadi & VillageIndustries Board (UPKVIB)as part of the former's 'Samarth'initiative.

Flipkart Samarth is aimedat enabling artisans, weavers,and craftsmen from diversebackgrounds and rural parts ofthe country to set up their busi-ness on Flipkart, a statementsaid.

"UPKVIB and Flipkart willwork together to help weaversand artisans sell Khadi fabricsand village industries productsacross Flipkart's pan-India cus-tomer base of over 160 million,"it added.

New Delhi: The PrimeMinister's Office on Thursdayheld a meeting of Secretaries todiscuss the draft national logis-tics policy, which aims at pro-moting seamless movement ofgoods across the country andreducing high transaction costof traders, an official said.

Secretaries from differentdepartments, including com-merce, steel, revenue, chemi-cals, and corporate affairsattended the meeting, the offi-cial added.

The draft national policywas floated by the logistics divi-sion of the commerce ministry.The ministry will give a pre-sentation on the draft policy inthe meeting.

The government wants toformulate the policy as the sec-tor's growth is critical to boostexports and economic growth.

The cost of logistics forIndia is about 13-14 per cent ofits gross domestic product(which is over USD 2.5 trillion)and it is far higher as comparedto other countries. PTI

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As many as 10 commercialreal estate developers and

operators have the potential toraise as much as Rs 1.5 lakhcrore through the real estateinvestment trust (REIT) routeby monetising 184 million sqftspace, the report said.

According to a report bythe rating agency Crisil, theseassets, with annual lease rentalsof around Rs 17,000 crore,represent around 30 per cent ofGrade A properties acrossmajor micro-markets in thecountry.

"Our analysis shows thatthe top 10 commercial realestate developers and operatorsin the country can raise asmuch as Rs 1.5 lakh crorethrough the REIT route bymonetising 184 million sqftspace assuming a capitalisationrate of 8.5 per cent and stakedilution of 75 per cent," thereport said.

The agency said the port-folios with annual rentals ofover Rs 1,000 crore, translatinginto a minimum asset valuationof Rs 10,000 crore, can absorbhigher transaction costs andcomply with regulations, andare more likely to use thisoption.

"While investor interest inthe residential segment isdeclining fast because of lim-ited property price appreciationand inability to monetise assets,REITs can be a potentialinvestment option, providingassured and ongoing returns.

REITs, which invest pri-marily in completed, income-yielding real estate assets, aresimilar to mutual funds, andcan be listed and traded onstock exchanges," Crisil said.

Through REITs, privateequity firms can divest at theportfolio level instead of indi-vidual assets. This would syncbetter with their typical exittimelines of 7-10 years.

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Madhya Pradesh andPunjab on Thursday

raised concerns over delay inrelease of GST revenue andother funds by the Centre tothe states, saying it was adverse-ly affecting their functioning.

Chief Minister of MadhyaPradesh Kamal Nath criticisedthe way the GST Councilobserving that it has no intel-lectual understanding of theground situation.

He said that as most of theBJP-ruled states sign on dottedlines at the GST Councilmeetings.

"GST council consists ofstates. The states are falling inline with the central govern-ment because they may be runby one party. If they are fewstates and rest are being run byone party then they come tosign on dotted lines. It is pre-determined. There is noengagement. There is no intel-lectual understanding of the sit-

uation. It's all in theories. All onpaper. We must recognise andwe cannot shut our eyes tothis," he said while speaking atthe 'India Economic Forum'meeting.

Nath said the GST is notbeing executed properly andseveral amendments were beingmade in quick succession.

"I don't think in history ofthe world, there has been somany amendments in a singlepolicy," he said adding that "itwas rolled out in a manner thatthe central government was notprepared for it and they had nottaken all facts into considera-tion. If it was very good thingsince beginning, why did youneed these plethora of amend-ments?”

Sharing similar views,Punjab Chief MinisterAmarinder Singh said it wastold to them that GST collec-tions would be distributedamong states every month, butthen "we are told every quarterand then it is every 5 months".

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The initial public offering ofIndian Railway Catering

and Tourism Corporation(IRCTC) was a huge hit amonginvestors as it got subscribed111.91 times on the final day ofbidding on Thursday.

The Rs 645-crore IPOreceived bids for 225 croreshares against the total issuesize of 2 crore scrips, accordingto the data available withexchanges till 1845 hours.

The category meant forqualified institutional buyers(QIBs) was subscribed 108.79times, non-institutionalinvestors (NIIs) was subscribed354.52 times and retailinvestors was subscribed 14.65times, according to merchantbanking sources.

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Wipro Chairman RishadPremji on Thursday

stressed the need to ensure thatInternet services are "equi-table" and local language con-tent is made available so that"digital divide" is not created.

Speaking at the IndiaEconomic Summit, Premjispoke of the fast pace at whichIndians had embraced theInternet and were using theweb for services like enter-tainment, making financialtransactions and education.

"...I'm not too worriedabout the pace at which thisadoption happens...I'm veryoptimistic. What I worry aboutis that it is equitable... Weneed to make sure that we donot leave people behind inthis revolution of change," hesaid.

Premji explained that onearea of focus should be onmaking content available inlocal languages, apart frommovies and audio.

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The Indian rupee recoveredfrom the day's lows and set-

tled higher by 20 paise at 70.87to the US dollar on Thursday,helped by weakening of thegreenback overseas and easingcrude oil prices.

However, sustained for-eign fund outflows and sell-offsin domestic equities put pres-sure on the forex market, some-

what capping the rupee gains. At the interbank foreign

exchange market, the rupeeopened weaker at 71.22 a dol-lar. It fell further to the day'slow of 71.35, before recoupinglosses to touch a high of 70.86.

The local unit finally set-tled at 70.87, up 20 paiseagainst its previous close.

The Indian rupee onTuesday had closed at 71.07against the US dollar.

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The Government will keepthe reform momentum

going with more suchannouncements in the future tobring back the economy on ahigher growth track, thoughissues related with productiv-ity efficiency persist, NITIAayog CEO Amitabh Kantsaid on Thursday.

Going back to 2005 and tillnow, close to about 300 millionpeople have been pulled out ofpoverty. In the last five years,the economy has grown atabout 7.5 per cent.

India's growth was at about8.1 per cent in the last quarter of2017-18 and fell to 5 per cent inthe June quarter of 2019-20, Kantsaid at the World EconomicForum's India EconomicSummit-CII event here.

"And since then both theRBI and the government havetaken a series of measures totake India back to a high growthtrajectory. The RBI has droppedthe repo rate by about 110basis points to 5.4 per cent. Butthere is limitation to monetarypolicy and therefore the gov-ernment stepped in and took aseries of measures," Kant said.

The governmentannounced a series of econom-ic boosters including capitali-sation of public sector banks,merging some of them, packagefor exports, and bringing downcorporate tax rate, he said.

"I think many more struc-tural reforms are in the offing.The government has pushedfor public sector disinvest-ment. I can tell you we havepushed for asset monetisationin a very big way. Our belief isthat instead of green-field pro-jects, investors must come intobrown-field projects," he saidfurther.

The step to bring down thecorporate tax rate was to alignit with global standards, he said,adding the government mustbe a facilitator, a catalyst andshould keep itself out of busi-ness.

"Our belief is that insteadof green-field projects,

investors must come intobrown-field project... And gov-ernment will put many of theseassets out in the marketplacefor many of you people toinvest," he said.

He noted that agriculture,mining, coal are among the sec-tors where the government ispushing for mega reforms andpeople will see many of thesereforms unfolding in the com-ing months.

"The key really is to worknot merely on monetary poli-cy but also bring in rapidstructural reforms in economyso that we create the pace forlong-term growth...And takeIndia to a rate of growth of 9-10 per cent per annum for athree-decade period which willenable us to lift a vast segmentof our people above the pover-ty line," he said.

Reacting to panel mem-bers' concerns on productivityrates he said, "Our productiv-ity rates have to go up and thisrequires major-major struc-tural reforms. One of the keythings that the governmenthas really pushed for is makingIndia easy and simple,".

Among others, Kant alsohighlighted that India has gonedigital in a big way, and theindirect tax has become allcashless and paperless.

"We have jumped up about65 positions in the WorldBank's ease of doing businessranking and our target is toreach the top 50 in the next twoyears and top 20 in the next fiveyears and push this relentless-ly," Kant added.

What the government ispushing for is no longer apolitical hot potato, he said.

"We are pushing for publicsector disinvestment in a veryradical way. NITI Aayog hasrecommended over 55 publicsector companies for disin-vestment and I can tell you thatthe government itself hasapproved over 26 of them fordisinvestment...You will havesoon a very very vast numberof public sector companiesgetting privatised," Kant saidfurther.

Mumbai: The internationalCredit Rating Agency Moody'son Thursday warned of down-grading Bharat PetroleumCorporation (BPCL) to Ba1, ifthe government goes aheadwith privatisation by selling itsstake to private entity.

Currently, being a state-owned enterprise, BPCL has aBBB- rating which is on parwith sovereign rating. Ba1 rat-ing will be equal to its current

baseline credit assessment.Last year, government had

sold its entire stake in HPCLto state-owned ONGC butthe oil marketeer still enjoysBBB- rating consideringONGC ownership by the gov-ernment.

Moody's said the proposedstake sale in BPCL wouldremove the company's linksand prompt bond redemption,a credit negative. PTI

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President Donald Trumpraged against impeachment

on Wednesday, tweeting that theprocess was “BULLSHIT” andcalling for the lead investigatorin Congress to be charged with treason.

Trump — accused of lean-ing on Ukraine’s president to digup dirt on one of his main 2020election rivals — fired the swear-word at Opposition Democrats.

Adam Schiff, the Democratleading the impeachment probein the lower chamber ofCongress, told reporters there isa “real sense of urgency” to pressforward.

Trump fought back withlanguage that would once havebeen inconceivable for a presi-dent, including his claim lateTuesday on Twitter that this is“not an impeachment, it is aCOUP.”

While meeting with FinnishPresident Sauli Niinisto in theWhite House, Trump said Schiffwas “a low life” who should bearrested for “treason.” Trump

insists that he did nothing wrongin a phone call with Ukrainianleader Volodymyr Zelensky andon Wednesday got support fromRussia’s President VladimirPutin, who said he saw “nothingcompromising” in the conver-sation.

Given Trump’s controversialhistory with Putin, it was unlike-ly that the Kremlin leader’sbacking would do much tocalm waters back in Washington.

After keeping pronounce-ments mostly to Twitter over thelast week, Trump used his pressappearance with Niinisto to letrip in front of the cameras, call-ing his treatment “a disgrace.”

Trump is accused of havingpressured Zelensky to help himby opening a corruption inves-tigation against leadingDemocratic presidential candi-date Joe Biden in a July 25 phonecall.

He is alleged to have sug-gested that military equipmentUkraine sought to beef up itsdefenses against Russia would becontingent on him getting thatfavor.

A whistleblower, so far onlyidentified as someone from theintelligence services, went to theauthorities with concerns aboutthe phone call, triggering theimpeachment inquiry.

Trump has likened thewhistleblower to a spy andcalled for his or her identity tobe made public, although by lawwhistleblowers are protected.He has also retweeted a warningthat his removal from officecould trigger “civil war.”

Schiff on Wednesday calledTrump’s comments about thewhistleblower a “blatant effort tointimidate witnesses.”

The State Department’sinspector general was due tobrief congressional committeesWednesday on what it said weredocuments “related to the StateDepartment and Ukraine.”

It was not clear what thatwould entail, but the StateDepartment is closely caught upin the probe, with Secretary ofState Mike Pompeo confirmingWednesday previous reportsthat he listened in during theZelensky call.

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Paris: A man wielding a knifestabbed and killed four officersat the police headquarters inthe heart of central Paris onThursday, before being shot dead.

The premises were cor-doned off after the lunchtimeattack in the historic centre ofParis, usually thronged withtourists, and a dozens of policeand emergency vehicles hadconverged at the scene, AFPjournalists reported.

At least one metro station inthe vicinity of the building,which is close to Notre-Damecathedral and other major touristattractions, was closed. Sourcestold AFP the attacker was shotdead by police in the courtyardof the building, where he wasemployed.

The man worked in anadministrative capacity but it wasnot immediately clear what hisprecise work role was.

An emergency message wasbroadcast over loudspeakers atthe courthouse next door,announcing “an attack” at the

police headquarters and statingthe area was “under surveillance”.Interior Minister ChristopheCastaner, who was due to visitTurkey later on Thursday, post-poned his trip to visit the sceneof the attack.

“People were running every-where, there was crying every-where,” said Emery Siamandi,and interpreter who was in thebuilding when the attack hap-pened. “I heard a shot, I gatheredit was inside,” he told AFP.“Moments later, I saw police offi-cers crying. They were in apanic.” Investigators suspect aworkplace dispute sparked thedeadliest attack on police inFrance in years, sources said, butthere were no immediate furtherdetails. The Paris prosecutor is atthe scene, but anti-terror agen-cies have not been involved atthis stage.

“Did he snap, or was theresome other reason? It’s still tooearly to say,” Loic Travers, headof the Alliance Police union forthe Paris region, told BFM tele-vision. AFP

Islamabad: A major right-wing religious party in Pakistanannounced on Thursday that itwill begin its ‘Azadi March’ onOctober 27 to oust the “incom-petent” Government of PrimeMinister Imran Khan, blaminghim for the economic woes ofthe cash-strapped country.

This was announced byJamiat Ulema-i-Islam -Fazl(JUI-F) chief Maulana FazlurRehman, two days after theleadership of top Oppositionparties, PML-N and PPPopposed any “solo flight” forthe ouster of the Governmentand decided to hold a confer-ence of all parties to developconsensus among them.

They agreed that the“incompetent and incapable”Government of Khan’s PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) that hascompleted one year in powermust be ousted.

“The Government is theresult of a fake election,”Rehman, flanked by his closeparty aides, told a Press con-ference on Thursday.

“We will gather at D-Chowk,” he said, adding, “Weare not ones to disperse easily.”D-Chowk, also known asDemocracy Chowk, is a largesquare located in Islamabadwhich is often used for politi-cal rallies and public gather-ings.

“The country is under eco-

nomic crisis due to the gov-ernment’s incompetency,”Rehman said.

“The current Governmentis the result of a fake electionand fake results,” Rehmansaid.

The JUI-F chief said that allOpposition parties had reject-ed the July 25 elections and hadcalled for fresh elections.

He said that JUI-F delega-tions from across the countrywould converge on the federalcapital on October 27 to “ridthe country of incompetentGovernment” of PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf which, accord-ing to him, has destroyed theeconomy.

“As a result of this illegalGovernment and its incompe-tencies, the country’s economyhas sunk traders have shutdown businesses as a result ofheavy taxation. The Muslims ofPakistan are in anguish over thestate of religion in the country,”he was quoted as saying by TheExpress Tribune newspaper.

The Pakistan government’sbiggest challenge was to save aneconomy facing a balance ofsevere payments crisis.

Within the first eightmonths, Khan has made visitsto long-time allies China, SaudiArabia, the United ArabEmirates and Qatar, securingsome $9 billion in loans toshore up the economy. AFP

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British Prime Minister BorisJohnson met his senior

Ministers on Thursday beforesetting out on a delicate missionto convince sceptical EU lead-ers to back his new Brexit plan.

Johnson is racing againsttime and facing headwindsacross European capitals as hetries to rally support for a newapproach to settling the three-and-a-half-year crisis.

His failure to get both theEU and his own fractured par-liament to back his way forwardwill result in either a crash exitfor Britain or a third Brexitdelay this year.

If he succeeds, Johnsoncould embark on an evenlonger and more complex stageof the process, working tonegotiate a new trade agree-ment with the EU. UK BrexitSecretary Steve Barclay said allsides had to start real talks on

Johnson’s outline by the week-end to have any chance to geta deal in time for an October17-18 EU leaders’ summit inBrussels.

“We need to move forwardat pace, intensively,” he toldBBC radio. “The response fromthe (EU) Commission is thatthey recognise that this was aserious proposal and I think allsides want to see a deal.

“All sides recognise thatthe alternative to no-deal is dis-ruptive.” Johnson was due to setout his vision in parliament onThursday morning after meet-ing cabinet ministers inDowning Street. Johnson’s com-plicated proposals for preserv-ing a free-flowing border acrossthe island of Ireland after Brexitwere met with a guarded recep-tion in Brussels and Dublin.“There is progress, but to befrank a lot of work still needs tobe done,” EU’s lead Brexit nego-tiator Michel Barnier said.

European Commissionchief Jean-Claude Juncker useda call with Johnson to shareconcerns about what he said

were “problematic points”.In Dublin, Prime Minister

Leo Varadkar said the docu-ments “do not fully meet the

agreed objectives” for keepingIreland’s border with Britishprovince Northern Irelandinvisible.

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Brussels: It is up to Britain, notBrussels, to address problemsthe EU sees in the UK’s latestBrexit proposal, a spokes-woman for the EuropeanCommission said on Thursday.

“As we have said there areproblematic points in theUnited Kingdom’s proposal andfurther work is needed. But thatwork needs to be done by theUnited Kingdom and not theother way around,” spokes-woman Natasha Bertaud told amedia briefing.

The British Government on

Wednesday submitted its pro-posal for a new withdrawalagreement from the EuropeanUnion to back up PrimeMinister Boris Johnson’s vow topull his country out of the blocon October 31.

While the EU has cau-tiously said the document con-tained some progress on thesticking point of NorthernIreland it also had problems.

Those are understood tofocus on the reliance on UKgood will and untested tech-nology to prevent a border

springing up anew betweenthe British province and EUmember Ireland, and a provi-sion periodically allowing partof the Northern Ireland assem-bly to veto the agreement.

Johnson’s ministers havesuggested that, having handedover the Brexit proposal, theball was now in the EU’s court.

But the spokeswoman said“we would disagree.” She added:“We would remind you that it’sthe UK leaving the EuropeanUnion and not the EuropeanUnion leaving the UK. AFP

London: Northern Ireland’sbusiness leaders on Thursdaylashed out at British PrimeMinister Boris Johnson’s newBrexit plan as costly andunworkable.

Johnson’s strategy wouldtackle the Irish border issue bytaking Northern Ireland —part of the United Kingdom -— out of the European Union’scustoms union but keeping italigned with EU member

Ireland’s rules and regulationsfor goods.

“The Prime Minister’s longawaited proposal is hugelydisappointing,” said AodhonConnolly, director of theNorthern Ireland RetailConsortium industry body.

“It is clear that he has notlistened to the needs of theNorthern Ireland businesscommunity or NorthernIreland households.”

The plan would effective-ly create two temporary eco-nomic borders —includingone in the Irish Sea betweenmainland Britain andNorthern Ireland.

The proposal would createan “all-island regulatory zone”on the island of Ireland cover-ing all goods including agrifood.

This means NorthernIreland sticking with EU goodsregulations to ensure they are

the same on both sides of theborder. The move aims toeliminate all regulatory checksto trade in goods across theborder. Yet Connolly labelledthem unworkable and costlyfor companies.

“This will lead to com-plexity, delays, tariffs, VATand cost rises that will makeNI goods less competitive andsqueeze our household bud-gets,” he added. AFP

Washington: Tushar Atre, anIndian-origin tech millionaire,was found dead in his girl-friend’s car hours after theowner of a digital marketingcompany in the US wasallegedly kidnapped from hisposh California home, accord-ing to media reports.

Atre, 50, owner of AtreNetInc, a web design company thatcaters to Silicon Valley corpo-rate businesses, was inside hishome on Tuesday morningwith several other people whenmultiple suspects broke into hishouse and abducted him in hisgirlfriend’s white BMW, the LosAngeles Times reported.

Hours after authoritiesbegan searching for Atre, police

reported finding a BMWstolen from his house and abody near the vehicle.

The investigation tookofficials to a property in amountainous, heavily wood-ed area where they found thewhite BMW and Atre’s body.

Investigators are trackingmultiple suspects in con-nection with the kidnap-ping of Atre.

“We are looking into allaspects of his life,” said SgtBrian Cleveland, aspokesman for the Sheriff ’sOffice. “All doors are open.”

Investigators don’t knowthe suspects’ relationshipwith Atre.

PTI

Houston: Thousands of peo-ple from all walks of lifeturned out for the day-longceremonies here onWednesday to honour slainIndian-American police offi-cer Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal,who was shot dead on dutyduring a traffic stop.

Dhaliwal, 42, was the firstSikh sheriff ’s deputy in HarrisCounty with a population ofover 10,000 Sikhs. He madenational headlines when hewas allowed to grow a beardand wear a turban on the job.

He was gunned downwhile conducting a routinemid-day traffic stop in north-west of Houston on Friday.

The fallen deputy’s funer-al included processions, a tra-ditional Sikh funeral and a lawenforcement funeral with a21-gun salute from fellowofficers and a helicopter fly-over.

As ‘Amazing Grace’ wasplayed on the bagpipes, mem-bers of Harris County Sheriff ’sOffice (HCSO) folded theAmerican flag that covered hiscasket and Sheriff Ed Gonzalezpresented it to Dhaliwal’swidow who clutched it to herheart. PTI

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Facebook on Wednesday wasdealt a major blow in the

EU’s top court, which ruledthat national courts in Europecan order online platforms toremove defamatory contentworldwide.

The decision will be seen asa victory for EU regulators,who are ambitious to see UStech giants meet tightenedEuropean standards over hatespeech and offensive content.

Last week, the same courtdecided that Google was notlegally compelled to apply theEU’s strict “right to be forgot-ten” rules globally, in a victoryfor the search giant. In a close-ly watched judgment, theEuropean Court of Justice saidEU law “does not preclude”courts from ordering “theremoval of information or toblock access worldwide,” astatement said.

The latest case was broughtoriginally to an Austrian court

by Greens party politician EvaGlawischnig-Piesczek, whorequested the removal ofFacebook posts that the judgesfound defamed her and couldbe seen by users of the socialnetwork around the world.

The complaint also con-cerned messages from fictitiousaccounts, which according tothe Greens, had calledGlawischnig-Piesczek a “cor-rupt” person and which thesocial network refused todelete.

Seoul: A powerful typhoon haslashed southern South Korea,leaving nine people dead andfive others missing.

Typhoon Mitag broughtstrong winds and heavy rainfallto the southern part of thecountry on Wednesday andThursday.

The interior ministry saysthe nine dead included six peo-ple who were buried by land-slides. It says seven people wereinjured in typhoon-related inci-dents. A ministry report says thestorm knocked out power to48,670 homes and flooded hun-dreds of homes and other build-ings. AP

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Having been brought up in ahome where my father has

a staunch relationship withchicken and my mother withvegetarian food, light on heartand her conscience, I have neverchosen sides. Moreover, it’s rathernatural on my part to gorge onmeals that don’t have an ounceof animal flesh in it. But DivaSpiced in Greater Kailash I haddone little to spare my feelingsand my vegetarian friend’s, whohad incessantly done severalrounds with the menu to findsomething that would be agree-able to both her hunger andmorals.

The one plausible outcomeof having toured various restau-rants and cafés is that youbecome immune to the dishesthat may sound bizarre.However, the rule to never judgea book by its cover falls short inits promise when it comes to thisplace. The dishes look exactlyhow they sound, no cover of pre-tence, even less to hide.

The menu, though well-thought of, was quite limited. AsI skimmed through the items onthe two-paged menu, I pickedthe dumplings, first, filled withChinese greens, water chestnut,sesame and one with chicken,basil and ginger. The waterchestnut dimsums, were theideal comfort food. They weregood enough, nothing less ormore but got me into the thickof things.

The chicken dumplingsscrambled several levels higherthan the vegetarian ones, doughyskin and chewable, brought ablurry reminder of the ones Iused to eat after school. Yetthere was a wholesomenessdespite the low spire quotientwhich worked and would makeme order the dish again when Ireturn.

We ordered two drinks —cucumber mojito and peachsoda. The peach soda went downa bit stronger and was more of anaccompanying mocktail, whichyou need after the food preced-ing it to be drowned. Definitelynot something I would callous-ly drink as I wait for my dishesto arrive. The cucumber mojitowas a delight — fresh and perky.

One of the best dishes of thenight, as good as it could get, wasthe Kadhi samosa. I have neverhad something like it beforeand for once, during the dinner,I had no qualms about the taste.The curry, the kadhi, treadedalong the consistency of waterbut kept up with its sour under-lying taste of yoghurt. The greenchutney and pomegranates werean assured addition to maintainthe authenticity of the dish. Thesamosa, drenched and consumedby the curry, tasted every bit likehow it is supposed to taste. An

item I would recommend formaking two exceptionally vari-ant items into an unusual yetamazing dish.

The next was ginger and soysteamed chicken with sesamebeans and wok-tossed quinoa.The east Asian taste was ever-present. Of course, the chickensat on oyster and light soy sauce.The quinoa was tossed with soysauce, garlic and Chinese greens.However, for someone whoslurps spicy ramen in one go, thechicken turned out to be bland.And if spicy food is not yourfavourite, then this deserves a try.Personally, I would steer clear ofit if I come back.

We had the water chestnutdimsums repeated and alongwith that, we ordered the old-fashioned ‘chowmein.’ I will bereserved on the last dish becauseI don’t think there are many waysto make chowmein. It tasted justright. The absence of spicinessmakes the place a go-to optionfor those who prefer mild food,of course, and expat.

What I did fancy about therestaurant is the tableware, min-imalistic with profound sophis-tication. The dinner was a quietaffair on a Tuesday evening andit’s a place when you come afteroffice to take a break from pil-ing work. Its relaxed atmos-phere can make one feel home.We ended our quick dinner withchocolate mousse with saltedcaramel and the matchameringue. There is less thatcould go wrong with chocolateand I was happy with my instinctto order this dessert. It didn’t dis-appoint.

All in all, we relished itscourse, which is an unrestrainedreflection of the market it islocated in.

How did you conceptualisethe show, Mother’s Menu?What inspired it?

Motherhood is a beautiful journeyand this has been my inspiration. Ahealthy and a balanced diet duringpregnancy is essential to supportoptimal growth and development ofthe foetus. It’s also important for thephysiological changes that a moth-er undergoes. Mothers can have a lotof questions in their mind, especial-ly during the period. And Mother’sMenu is going to be a perfect guidewhere we aim to help to-be-moth-ers to follow a healthy schedule, notjust through delicious recipes butalso proper advices from nutritionand fitness experts and my person-al experiences.

We will tell new and healthyrecipes for expectant mothers, post-natal nutrition for both the moth-er and the baby and kids betweenthree to nine years.

How do you aim to remove themisconceptions and notions aboutfood-eating habits during preg-nancy and childbirth?When a woman announces herpregnancy to her family and friends,she is loaded with suggestions andadvice, even from anonymous peo-ple. The overload of informationfrom all quarters can be confusingat times and some of it might noteven be relevant to the person con-cerned. Some people just give awaypopular myths, leaving it on theexpecting mother to rely on them.

On the show, we have busted suchmyths in our segment called SachyaSuspicious. We also share someeasy home remedies coming fromour nutrition expert in the NanhaNuskha segment.

What are some of the new recipesand dishes that you explored whilecreating the show?Although most women are awarethat healthy-eating is important

during pregnancy, it can become achallenge as expectant mothers faceproblems such as food aversions,sudden cravings, nausea, vomiting,tiredness, constipation, and heart-burn. Taking cue from this, we havecurated recipes, which can help amother to ease out of these chal-lenges and have a relaxed andhappy pregnancy.

As the show proceeds, we havedeep dived into recipes for new-

borns and toddlers in a way that ispacked with nutrition and taste forthese young eaters. Which cuisine have you taken ref-erences from to develop therecipes?The recipes showcased on the showare inspired by the wide variety ofregional and traditional cuisinesfrom India along with some of myfamily recipes. I have also featuredsome recipes that have been relished

by my sons during their early years.

What was the research work thatwent into the making of this show?Some anecdotes from your expe-riences...A lot of research has been donebefore selecting the recipes to beshowcased on the show. However, allof them have been tried and testedand carefully selected by our nutri-tion expert, making them suitabletrimester wise. We have researcheda lot to present tips for child nutri-tion and recipes as well, keeping inmind aspects like brain develop-ment.

We have included meals whichare high in protein, and have theessential fats and iron. The showoffers tips for a balanced diet withsome fun ideas for children’s lunchboxes.One of my personal experiences thatI drew inspiration from is thatwhen I was pregnant, I faced fre-quent morning sickness.

Hence, my grandmother wouldalways ask me to consume smallmeals instead of large ones. She

would make sure these small mealsare packed with required nutrition.And I have brought this learning tothe show. I have also selected recipesthat I enjoyed during my pregnan-cy or have seen my children enjoy-ing in their growing up years.Where have you sourced yourmaterial and ingredients from?All ingredients used in the showhave been freshly sourced from thelocal markets. We have tried to useingredients that are easily availablein most parts of India so that theycan be easily replicated by the view-ers.

How do you think the under-standing of nutrition and food-choices during pregnancy hasevolved over the years? Also, con-sidering the ‘go online and google’world that we are living in, how dowe verify information?With the current world that we areliving in, where social media hasbecome our first reference for infor-mation, understanding of nutri-tion has evolved massively as com-pared to what it was about 15-20

years ago. Mothers today are moreaware and conscious of the foodchoices they make and hence, theyalso seek the right information.However, women’s increasing accessto delusional information, comingfrom various informal onlinesources, could significantly impactpregnancy and food-eating habitsduring the time. And a growingdependence on the medium couldhave adverse effects. It’s better toconsult doctors or nutritionists atthe time rather than trying outuncertified or unrecommendedschedules and recipes themselves.This is also where a show like ourscomes to the rescue.

Do you think a chef ’s genderaffects the taste of the food in anyway? How is women’s cooking dif-ferent from that of men?I don’t think we can evaluate thetaste of food based on gender. I’msure there is no way you could guessif it is a male or a female chef whohas prepared the food in the restau-rant. There are certainly some pre-conceived myths. However, there isno way one could find a differencebetween two same dishes made bya woman and a man. Though yes,when it comes to ‘Maa ke haath kakhaana,’ I feel the food is the mostspecial of all as it is made with somuch love and care. It is always thetastiest, dil se jo banta hai (After all,it is prepared by heart).

(The show airs on Monday andTuesday at 2.30 pm on Living Foodz.)

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When I was a young man, Iused to sneak away in my

mother’s Maruti 800 on morethan a couple of occasions. If mymother knew what all I did to hercar or in her car, she wouldn’t havebeen happy. But every morning, itwould be parked outside the house,without anyone’s informationabout how it had spent the night.And I’m sure parents today worryabout their teenage sons anddaughters sneaking away in thefamily car just like I used to do. Butyou see, now parents have aninteresting new tool to managetheir teenage delinquency throughtechnology. As cars are increasing-ly becoming moving computers, itwas almost obvious that theywould get connected to the inter-

net of things, so say hello totelematics.

The big thing for manufactur-ers nowadays is providing an appfor your smartphone to connect toyour car. These applications cangive you all sorts of alerts straightfrom your car to your phone. Andthese are not just your standard‘your fuel is running low’ systemssuch the new Mercedes Me, SuzukiConnect and Hyundai Blue linkamong others can alert you to awhole host of things much to youryoung son’s or daughter’s chagrin.For example, most of these appshave a geofencing alert, that is, youget an alert if your car leaves a par-ticular radius from what you haveset. So if you have set a 10 kmradius around your house and your

car leaves that zone, your phonewill ping. There are speed alerts aswell, so when your son comeshome and claims he didn’t cross 50,you might even have the evi-dence. The telematic apps arepaired directly to your phone andthe cars on-board diagnostics sys-tem and are transmitted using a e-SIM card, so data will not get cor-rupted and while a teenager mighthave the need to lie, why would acar lie?

The fact is that if I was ateenager today, I would be veryunhappy with all this tech. But then

again, this tech also has severalpositive safety and security fea-tures. On the Hyundai Blue linksystem on the new Venue (andother cars), you can immobiliseyour car remotely if it has beenstolen (or snuck away by yourdaughter). All telematic systemsgive you near real-time locationsand driving information. There aresome privacy concerns that I haveabout how the information — cancar companies share this informa-tion with the government withoutmy consent or knowledge?Mercedes-Benz India says their

new Mercedes-Me system com-plies with European UnionGeneral Data ProtectionRegulations (GPDR) norms tomaintain your privacy which can-not be violated without a courtwarrant. It would be helpful if othermanufacturers came out with suchstatements as well.

The good thing about many ofthese new telematic solutions isthat some of them are compatiblebackwards with previous genera-tion models as well. SuzukiConnect currently available onNexa vehicles can be retrofitted to

older Nexa cars as well, and theMercedes-Me system can be fittedon almost all Mercedes-Benz carssold from 2007 onwards.

This was almost inevitable inmodern life. Two decades ago, Imight have said, ‘if only cars couldtalk, the stories they would tell.’Well, technology and mobile net-works have given your car the abil-ity to talk, well at least, tell youwhere they are and how they’rebeing treated.

(For your car queries and ques-tions, ping Kushan on Twitter@kushanmitra)

An empty, tilted earthen pot with adead crow at its opening is the firstthing one comes across as one

enters the Arambagh Durga PujaGround. Opposite to it is a giant grey tapwith a few empty buckets in a queuebelow it. Beneath it, is mother earth, outof which emerge tiny green hands ask-ing for help. A few empty plastic bottlesare hanging in the background, strikinga contrast between the water crisis andan abundance of plastic around us. Theartwork represents the scarcity of waterand how it is an alarming need of thehour.

While in Kolkata, women in red andwhite sarees could be found crowding thestreets, soaking in the pujo-pujo atmos-phere, the pandals in the capital are mak-ing the festival a cause-oriented one,moving away from their static tradition-ality towards more unconventionalthemes. The puja organisers have notonly worked on the decor, idols and pan-dal, they’ve brainstormed to come outwith a distinctive, appealing and relevanttheme. This helps them garner people’sattention easily and also serves as a medi-um to send out a social message loud andclear. There are competitions held for thebest pandals and themes. This raises theexcitement level of the associations,craftsmen and viewers.

Arambagh Puja Samiti is famous forits innovative theme every year. In 2017,it won the National Award for its pandal.Abhijit Bose, its chairman, proudlyboasts about the same. He says, “In 2017,we were asked to preserve our idol inPragati Maidan. It is the first of its kind.”

Since the depleting water level is amajor issue wrapping the world current-ly, he feels that this was the best themefor the year. He says, “We have workedon this for a year. This is the burningissue. We don’t realise it now but our sur-vival is going to be very tough in the com-ing years. This is the best gift we can giveto our future generations.” The way thetheme has been elaborated is a treat tothe eye. Plays and seminars have alsobeen organised on the same to inspire theyouth.

He has also worked on themes likesorphan kids, rape survivors and the atroc-ities on them. Bose says, “Isn’t it interest-ing to work on such themes? They are thereal Durgas. They should be worshippedand empowered.”

Though there are eco-friendly mur-tis every year but this time a special atten-tion has been given to the type of clay andorganic colours. It is to ensure that thecelebrations and environment go hand inhand.

The footfall at the Arambagh pandalis two to three lakh. Hence, Bose want-ed the theme to make a lasting impact onthe people. Talking about the budget, hesays that it has been reduced by �10 lakhthis year due to the low markets. From�45 lakh last year, it’s only �35 lakh thistime.

Before completing his part, he makessure that he apprises us of the fact thathe welcomed late President APJ AbdulKalam in his pandal in 2013.

Another organiser and foundermember of Paschim Vihar BengaliAssociation, Mahadeb Das says that healong with his organisation has workedon diversified theme to commemoratetheir 37th year.

Since it was the 150th birth anniver-sary of Mahatma Gandhi, they thoughtthere could be nothing more relatablethan this. The other themes are relatedto water conservation and plastic ban. Hesays, “We hope that our creative thoughtswill force the society to think and actupon these issues.”

This year an attempt has been made

to maintain an eco-friendly environmentwithin the pandal area, including con-struction of artificial ponds inside thecampus to immerse the idols. He says,“Eco-friendly materials like hogla patta,trees and decorative plants have beenused. Plastic plates have been banned. Ateam is assigned to collect all the recy-clable waste everyday and hand it overto the authorities concerned.”

Contrary to what Bose had said, Dassays that their budget has increased thistime. They have been sponsored for thefood and other mega events. This indi-cates that we cannot ignore the fact thatas the level of the celebrations is gettingelaborate each year, it is paving way forhigh commercialisation.

Talking about the security, since thepandal witnesses a heavy footfall, he says,“To maintain public safety and securi-ty, we have installed CCTV cameras inand around the pandal. We have alsomade arrangements for systematic carparking and safe drinking water for alldevotees.”

The oldest Durga Puja of the city,that is of the Kashmere gate also alignswith sustainable measures. Like everyyear, even this time the pandal has sim-ple yet unique designs. And the themehas been kept traditional.

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Sanjay Kapoor, who was recentlyseen playing Sonam Kapoor’s father

in The Zoya Factor, says the best act-ing opportunities are coming his waynow, after all these years.

“When I was young and startingoff in the nineties, most characters inmainstream cinema were stereotypical,and not like the way things are today.So, initially I grabbed all the opportu-nities that came my way. However, nowI am getting exciting offers,” he said.

Starting his career in 1995 with thedud Prem, Sanjay has done films likeRaja, Sirf Tum, Auzaar, Mohabbat, andKoi Mere Dil Se Poochhe.

“In the nineties, typecasting wouldhappen to all actors. Now, we have bet-ter opportunities to showcase versatil-ity,” he added.

He said that with maturity he gainsmore experiences of life. This hashelped him evolve as a performingartist. “For some time, I avoideddoing films just to be seen. Perhaps,that is why new offers are coming myway now. Filmmakers can imagine mein certain characters because my tal-ent has not been utilised completely,”said Sanjay, who tried film productionin 2009 with Kya Time Hai Yaar andin 2014 with Tevar.

The actor added that success inBollywood depends upon talent as wellas luck. When questioned how muchof his career owes itself to luck? he said,“I won’t say that my acting assignmentsare based on just luck. But I would saythat being casted in the Netflix filmLust Stories was because of the righttiming. The production team of thefilm was looking for an actor for therole of Salman, and they were sittingat the club where I went for my dailyworkout. As I passed by them, theynoticed me and approached me for thefilm. Of course, I finally got the rolebecause of my acting skills but it alsohappened because I was at the rightplace at the right time.”

In recent times, Dilbar Dilbar, hissong from the 1999 film Sirf Tum, wasrecreated for the film Satyamev Jayateand was picturised by Norah Fatehi.The new version was a huge hit.

What would you say about thetrend of recreating old hit songs? “Ithink I was fortunate to be a part offilms that had superhit songs such asDilbar and Akhiyaan milaoon kabhi.Those songs not only made my careerbut the remix version of Dilbar has alsomade Norah famous. I think that ishow destiny works — unplanned,” hesaid with a smile. —IANS

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US Open champion Bianca Andreescupaid Naomi Osaka the ultimate compli-

ment on the eve of their first match, sayingthe Japanese player’s game has similaritieswith that of Serena Williams.

Two of the most exciting talents in ten-nis clash today in the quarter-finals of theChina Open in Beijing.

Ahead of what could be the start of along rivalry, the 21-year-old Osaka called the19-year-old Canadian Andreescu “an amaz-ing player” and said “I have to learn from her”.

Andreescu, on a winning streak of 17matches, returned the praise with gusto.

“I know she’s an aggressive player. Shehas similar traits to Serena as well,” said theworld number six.

“Big serve, big groundstrokes. She movespretty well, too.”

Andreescu, whose ascent has been so fastthat she did not even feature at the ChinaOpen a year ago, added: “She’s doing incred-ible, especially at such a young age as well.

“It’s nice to play another player that’s closeto my age.

“We’re kind of like the next generation.I’m really excited.”

The Canadian playing her first tourna-ment since US Open win, thrashed qualifi-er Jennifer Brady.

The teenager started with intent, break-ing Brady’s first service game on the way toa brutal 6-1, 6-3 win in 68 minutes.

But Osaka, a former world number one,is also in form, yet to drop a set in threematches in Beijing and fresh from winningthe Pan Pacific Open in Japan.

The two-time Grand Slam championsaid she was “angry relaxed” after a domi-nant 6-4, 6-0, win over unseeded AmericanAlison Riske.

Osaka, ranked four, reeled off 10 gamesin a row to seal victory.

“I’m relaxed, but I’m a little bit angry,it’s an angry relaxed,” said Osaka when askedwhat was behind her recent success in Japanand now China.

Also into the last eight in hot and hazyBeijing was reigning champion CarolineWozniacki, another former world numberone. She faces Daria Kasatkina.

Another in action today is currentwomen’s number one Ashleigh Barty, whoplays the seventh seed Petra Kvitova.

MEN'S HOLDER EXITSIn the men’s draw, the title-holder

Nikoloz Basilashvili was on course to pulloff a surprise against Stefanos Tsitsipas.

But the 21-year-old Tsitsipas, rankedseventh, came back to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 andwill play big-serving John Isner in the quar-ter-finals.

Isner sent down 21 aces in defeatingBritain’s Dan Evans in two sets.

Also today, former number one AndyMurray steps up his return from a career-saving hip operation when he plays top seedDominic Thiem.

It is the three-time Grand Slam cham-pion’s first ATP singles quarter-final for ayear.

Alexander Zverev, the second seed,eased into the next round with a 6-3, 6-1 vic-tory over another teenage Canadian, FelixAuger Aliassime.

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maiden Test hundred into a bril-liant double before the Indianspinners tightened the noosearound the exhausted SouthAfricans on the second day ofthe series opener here onThursday.

Playing his first Test inIndia, Agarwal showed remark-able concentration andendurance for his monumental215 off 371 balls that allowedthe hosts to declare their firstinnings at 502 for seven in 136overs.

In response, South Africawere staring down the barrel atclose of play, losing AidenMarkram (5), Theunis de Bruyn(4) and night watchman DanePiedt (0) under floodlights to be39 for three in 20 overs, trailingIndia by 463 runs.

Ravichandran Ashwin pro-vided the breakthroughs bygetting through the defences ofMarkram with a classical off-break that turned sharply. Hethen had De Bruyn caughtbehind before Ravindra Jadeja

crashed through Piedt’sdefences.

While dayone was all

about RohitSharma (176off 244), thesecond dayc e r t a i n l ybelonged toA g a r w a l ,

who madefull use of

friendly battingconditions.

Barring leadpacer VernonPhilander, the SouthAfrican bowling put

up an ordinary show with theirthree specialist spinners failingto get much out of the dry andslow surface.

Rohit and Agarwal, whobegan the day on 115 and 84respectively with India at 202 forno loss, converted their open-ing partnership into a recordbreaking one with a 317-runstand before lunch.

With their massive stand,they surpassed Virender Sehwagand Rahul Dravid to recordIndia’s highest partnership forany wicket against South Africa.

Agarwal stole the showafter Rohit’s departure andkeeping the requirement of theteam in mind, increased theintensity of his innings. His firsthundred came off 204 ballsand second off 154 balls.

The Bengaluru-basedcricketer, whose previous fourTests were in Australia andWest Indies, collected 23 foursand six maximums, most ofthem coming against the spin-ners.

He batted for the majorityof the afternoon session, whichwas extended by 30 minutes tomake up for overs lost due torain on the first day.

Agarwal’s memorableknock came to end when hesmashed a full ball from DeanElgar towards deep mid-wick-et and a diving Piedt took a div-ing catch.

At tea, India coasted to 450for five, scoring 126 runs in thesession at the loss of four wick-ets.

Earlier, South Africa struckthrough pacer VernonPhilander first ball after lunch,raising hopes of a South Africanfightback. Cheteshwar Pujara(6) was the man dismissed,

bowled off a Philander beautythat moved away just enough torattle his off-stump.

Captain Virat Kohli (20)joined Agarwal in the middleand looked in sublime touchduring his short stay.

He was disappointed to getout after getting set. A regula-tion ball stopped on Kohli,who ended up offering a sim-ple return catch to debutantSenuran Muthuswamy, givingthe South African his firstinternational wicket.

In the morning session,Agarwal completed his maidenTest hundred while RohitSharma made 176 on his open-ing debut.

Rohit, who too hit 23 foursand half a dozen sixes likeAgarwal, was eventually dis-missed in the 83rd over. Atlunch, India were 324 for onein 88 overs with the host scor-ing 122 runs in the session at4.28 runs per over.

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David Goffin advanced to the JapanOpen quarterfinals after squeezing by

Denis Shapovalov 7-6(7/5), 7-6(7/2) onThursday.

Both men kept all of their servicegames — with Shapovalov nailing 10 acesagainst third-seed Goffin’s four — in theclose match that lasted nearly two hours.

Goffin, winner here in 2017, used hisfootwork to survive two break pointswhile the big-serving Canadian kept upthe pressure.

Goffin will now face Chung Hyeon,who pulled an upset victory againstsixth-seed Marin Cilic 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.

“It was tough. We were both reallysolid on our service games,” Goffin saidof his match.

In the rest of the tournament, wildcard Taro Daniel defeated JordanThompson 6-4, 7-6(7/3).

He will next face Australian qualifi-er John Millman, who defeated LloydHarris 6-3, 6-2.

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Indian women’s team producedanother authoritative performance to

comfortably defeat South Africa by fivewickets in the fifth T20 International,taking an unassailable 3-0 lead in thesix-match series.

With two games being complete-ly washed out, the series was extend-ed from five to six matches and Indianeeded to win on the day to seal theseries.

Off-spinner Deepti Sharma (2 for19) and left-arm spinnner RadhaYadav (3/23 in 4 overs) bowled bril-liantly to restrict the Proteas womento 98 for 8. They got able support fromleg-spinner Poonam Yadav, who gaveaway only 15 runs in her 4 overs andgot a wicket.

The chase was an easy one andskipper Harmanpreet Kaur (34 not out

off 32 balls) was in her element as theWomen In Blue won 17.1 overs.

Harmanpreet’s innings had fourboundaries and added crucial 50 runsfor the fourth wicket with Deepti (16).

The Indian captain finished thematch with an exquisite drive offseamer Ayabonga Khaka to finish theproceedings and also completed 2000runs in the shortest format.

“I am very happy with the perfor-mance of our team, especially the spin-ners. They read the pitch very well andbowled accordingly. The primary rea-son for playing more spinners isbecause of the nature of the wicket. Onpersonal front, I am happy to havescored runs,” Harmanpreet said afterwinning ‘Player of Match’ award.

Earlier Deepti kept a tight leashupfront while Radha and Poonam putthe brakes in the middle overs to setthe platform for the batters.

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Champions League holdersLiverpool came out on top of

a 4-3 thriller with Salzburg onWednesday after throwing awaya three-goal lead at Anfield beforeMohamed Salah’s winner, whileLuis Suarez fired Barcelona to acomeback victory over InterMilan.

Salah won the Group Ematch for Liverpool with hissecond of the night in the 69thminute, denying Salzburg a pointafter teenage sensation ErlingBraut Haaland had stunned theReds when he completed anincredible fightback with his 18thgoal of the season.

The hosts looked to be cruis-ing in the 36th minute whenEgyptian Salah had added togoals by Sadio Mane and AndyRobertson, but Hee-ChanHwang’s brilliant strike shortlybefore the break gave Salzburghope.

Two goals in four sec-ond-half minutes fromTakumi Minamino and19-year-old substitute Haalandleft the home crowd stunned.

However, Salah spoiled theirevening with his sixth goal of theseason in all competitions, puttingLiverpool level with Salzburg onthree points, one behind Napoliafter their disappointing goal-less draw at Genk.

BRAVE INTERSuarez saved Barcelona’s

blushes at the Camp Nou afterLautaro Martinez had scoredearly for Inter, who then failed tocapitalise on their first-half dom-inance in the Group F clash andlost 2-1.

Barca moved up a gear in the

second half and weredeservedly levelwhen Suarez crashed

home a superb shotjust before the

hour mark, andthe Uruguayan

was at his sharpest towin the match with six min-utes remaining.

Lionel Messi, a surprise inclu-sion from the start, suddenlywarmed up and skipped past twochallenges before laying onSuarez, whose perfect first touchallowed him to sink Inter anddraw Barca level on four pointswith group leaders BorussiaDortmund.

“Those are a big three points,”said Suarez, who has recovered

from a frustrating start to theseason with three goals in hislast two games.

Dortmund came out ontop at Slavia Praguethanks to a pair ofcounter-attacking strikes

from Achraf Hakimi,whose clinical finishing led

Lucien Favre’s side to a 2-0 win inthe Czech Republic.

The 20 year-old — on loanfrom Real Madrid — burst ontoJulian Brandt’s pass in the 35thminute and charged towards thegoal, skipping past Petr Sevcikand goalkeeper Ondrej Kolarbefore rifling home the opener,and repeated the feat in the 89thminute with a neat left-foot fin-ish that made sure of the win.

AJAX SHINE AGAINAjax took control of Group

H with a big 3-0 success atValencia that put them top witha perfect six points and showedagain that they could yet repeatlast season’s heroics.

Hakim Ziyech opened thescoring for the Dutch champi-ons with an incredible dippingstrike on just eight minutes, andQuincy Promes doubled theirlead 11 minutes before half-timewith his second in as manyChampions League games, pun-ishing Daniel Parejo for smash-ing a penalty high over the bar.

Donny van de Beek sealedthe points for last season’s semi-finalists when he finished abeautiful passing move in the67th minute, putting Erik tenHag’s side three points clear ofValencia and Chelsea, who wona tough encounter at Lillethanks to Willian’s 78th-minutevolleyed winner.

Tammy Abraham had givenFrank Lampard’s side a deserved22nd-minute lead with his firstever Champions League goalbefore more slack set-piecedefending al lowed VictorOsimhen to level not long after,but the Ligue 1 outfit are bottomwithout a point after twodefeats.

Zenit St Petersburg topGroup G after seeing off Benfica3-1 in Russia, level on fourpoints with Lyon after their 2-0 win at RB Leipzig.

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�Mayank Agarwal on Thursday became thefourth Indian batsman to convert his maid-en century into a double hundred.

�He is now the fourth Indian batsman afterKarun Nair, Vinod Kambli and DilipSardesai to convert their maiden Test tonsinto a double century. Nair had scored 303against England in 2016, Kambli hadscored 224 against England in 1993 andSardesai had scored 200* against NewZealand in 1965.

�The 28-year-old individual score of 215 isthus far the highest score by any batsmanin Test cricket this year, surpassingAustralian star Steve Smith’s 211 which hescored in the fourth Ashes Test.

�It took the 28-year-old Agarwal, who madehis debut against Australia in Melbourne inDecember 2018, eight innings to register hismaiden Test century. He also became the86th Indian batsman to score a hundred inTest cricket.

�Mayank, was also involved in a record break-ing 317-run opening partnership withRohit Sharma. The pair became the thirdIndian batting pair to stitch together a part-nership of 300 runs or more in Tests. Rohit,who was opening the innings for the firsttime, scored 176 while Mayank contributedwith 137 during their historic partnership.

�The record-breaking partnership was alsothe 12th highest opening partnership inTest cricket.

�Newly promoted Test opener Rohit Sharmahas taken to the role like fish takes to waterand in the process, he equalled RahulDravid’s record of most number of consec-utive fifty-plus scores in Tests at home.Dravid had scored six straight fifty-plusscores in Tests at home between 1997 and1998. Rohit too, now has six consecutivefifty-plus scores at home in the longest for-mat of the game after his 176-run knockagainst the Proteas.

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