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O n the eve of first anniver- sary of note ban, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the demonetisa- tion drive of the Government had achieved its important objectives of reducing cash in the economy, bringing in more individuals in the tax net and dealing a body blow to the black money. "Demonetisation is not a one-stop solution to end cor- ruption. It cannot be, but it did change the agenda. And that changed agenda is that we should go towards less-cash economy. Individual tax payers' number has increased, digital transactions have gone up and terror funding has squeezed," Jaitley said. Claiming that the new direction the economy is mov- ing forward, the Finance Minister said, "We at BJP believe that for the nation's economy and its future, it was necessary to change the status quo. Domination of cash in any economy, especially having 86 per cent of currency as high denomination notes, and exces- sive cash transactions lead to tax evasion. In such cases, the taxpayers have to bear the bur- den of the evaders too." Amid the Opposition's criticism against note ban, the Prime Minister's Office tweet- ed, saying that in the absence of demonetisation, the value of high denomination currency would have been Rs 18 lakh crore or 50 per cent more than it was as of September end this year. "Decreased proportion of high denomination notes in the economy helps thwart cor- ruption and funding of terror- ism," the PMO tweeted. "Thus, high denomination notes have been effectively brought down by about Rs 6 lakh crore -- which is 50 per cent of the current value of high denomination notes in circu- lation," it added. The Government had on November 8 last year announced the scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, totalling Rs 15.44 lakh crore. It constituted 86 per cent of the total cash in circulation. On the country's develop- ment and betterment of aam admi, Jaitley said, "It is unjust that resources meant for the country's development and welfare of the poor should be kept in rich people`s coffers. Though corruption will not end even in less-cash system it will become difficult to indulge in corruption." In a 1,843-word blog, 'A Year After Demonetisation', he said November 8, 2016 sig- nifies the resolve of this Government to cure the coun- try from 'dreaded disease of black money'. "November 8, 2016 would be remembered as a watershed moment in the history of Indian economy," he said, adding that in an overall analy- sis, it would not be wrong to say that country has moved on to a much cleaner, transparent and honest financial system." The benefits may not yet be visible to some people, he said, adding that the next generation will view the post-November 8, 2016 economic development with a great sense of pride as it has provided them a fair and honest system to live in. Besides, he also hinted at pruning the list of items in the highest GST tax bracket of 28 per cent after revenue in the new regime equalises collec- tions previously. Pointing out the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures, he said that the impact of structural reforms is behind us and the early eco- nomic indicators point to an improvement. "The roll out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) would have had some consequences but they will help the economy in the long run," he said. As the GST Council set to approve sweeping changes including lowering tax rates and simpler procedures with a single return filing form for small firms in its next Continued on Page 4 T he twin blow of demoneti- sation and GST proved to be a complete disaster for Indian economy and broke the back of small and medium businesses in the country, said former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh during his visit to his successor Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home-state Gujarat on Tuesday. ''Tomorrow will mark exactly one year since the dis- astrous policy of demonetisa- tion was thrust on the people of India. I say it with immense pain and a sense of deep responsibility, that November 8 was a 'Black Day' for our economy, and indeed our democracy,'' Singh said while addressing members of busi- ness community at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Memorial auditorium in Ahmedabad. Terming the demonetisa- tion as organised loot and legalised plunder, the former Prime Minister went on to say that demonetisation has proved to be mere bluster aimed at reaping political div- idends while the real offenders have escaped. He claimed that because of demonetisation country's GDP growth rate dropped to 5.7% under the new calculations. On GST, the senior Congress leader said instead of learning lessons from the blun- der of demonetisation and providing relief to the poor and the marginalised, farmers and SMEs, the Government chose to inflict on them a badly designed and hastily implemented GST. “This twin blow is a com- plete disaster for our economy. It has broken the back of small and medium businesses in India. In the textile hub of Surat alone, 60,000 looms have been discarded since July. An esti- mate of 21,000 jobs has been lost in just one industry sector in Surat. The impact in the rest of the country is equally bad if not worse,” he said, adding that overall, as our domestic sector is not able to cope with demand and as a result China is benefiting from this situation. Continued on Page 4 H igh toxic fumes emanating out of the stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana and moisture in the air turned Delhi into a veritable "gas chamber" on Tuesday, prompt- ing authorities to announce a slew of preventive measures, including closure of primary schools. Thick blanket of smog that had enveloped the entire Delhi and its adjoining areas impact- ed the visibility levels, affecting flight and train operations. Experts termed it nothing less than a 'health emergency' as air leaded with suspended partic- ulate matter (SPM) permeated living rooms and even the underground metro stations in the city making it difficult to breathe, turning eyes watery. Concerned with the wors- ening air quality, Delhi Chief Minister convened a meeting to take stock of the situation. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced that prima- ry schools in the national Capital will remain closed on Tuesday. The Supreme Court-man- dated Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Aut- hority, empowered to enforce the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), also directed the States in the region to start preparing for implementing measures like 'odd-even' in light of the "crisis situation". The air quality index was in the 'severe', with a score of 448 in a scale of 500, category for the second time this year. Earlier, Diwali fireworks had triggered peak pollution levels on October 20. Annoyed over the sloth attitude of concerned Governments in tacking pollu- tion issues, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) upbraided the Governments of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana to task, seeking to know why steps to prevent steps were not taken despite knowing well in advance that such a situation was likely to arise. The Delhi Government is mulling over shutting schools till the peak pollution levels prevail. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, "Delhi has become a gas chamber. Every year this happens during this part of year. We have to find a solution to crop burning in adjoining states." "Considering high level of pollution, I have requested Manish Sisodia, Education Minister, to consider closing schools for few days," he added. The Indian Medical Association said Delhi is wit- nessing a "public health emer- gency" and appealed to the Government to stop outdoor sports and other such activities in schools to protect the health of children. Later, in a meeting to review the status of air quality, the EPCA announced that all measures under the GRAP's severe category will be imple- mented across the region till further notice. CPCB member secretary A Sudhakar said the intensity of pollution peaked since last night as moisture-heavy winds from Uttar Pradesh and hot winds carrying emissions from stubble burning from Punjab and Haryana have dealt a dou- ble- whammy. "We are not expecting a dramatic change in the next two- three days. Shallow fog and a complete absence of wind are preventing the dissi- pation of pollutants at the ground level," Sudhakar said. The wind speed is cur- rently around 3 metres per sec- ond, said Sudhakar, explaining it is inadequate to disperse particulate matter like PM2.5 and PM10. EPCA chairman Bhure Lal and member Sunita Narain asked the Delhi-NCR Governments to start prepar- ing for measures like odd- even and a complete ban on construction activities if pol- lution aggravates. The measures also include complete closure of brick kilns, hot mix plants and stone crush- ers across the region till further notice and a ban on entry of goods vehicles — not destined for Delhi for the next 20 days — in the city. Sisodia, who is also Delhi's Education Minister, convened a meeting of officials of Education, Health and Environment departments over shutting schools. He directed the Environment Department to submit a report on the city's pollution levels. Continued on Page 4 I n its bid to dissuade people from taking out their private vehicles and tackle pollution crisis, the Environment Pollution - Prevention and Control Authority (EPCA) came out with a series of direc- tives, including jacking up parking fees by four times in Delhi-NCR and slashing of Metro fares during off-peak hours for the next 10 days. Supreme Court mandated green body EPCA on Tuesday said the national Capital was facing a "crisis situation", which is likely to persist for the next few days. EPCA chairman Bhure Lal and member Sunita Narain announced a series of measures under the Graded Response Action Plan. The EPCA instructed Delhi Metro to lower fares during off-peak hours for at least 10 days, introduce more coaches and frequent services. The EPCA's directions to "immediately" slash metro fares and hike parking fees put authorities in Delhi in a spot, but the law is clear that the Supreme Court-appointed body's orders are binding. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said it is yet to take a decision on slash- ing fares temporarily, while municipal bodies argued their standing committees will have to clear the decision on enhanc- ing parking fees first. The body also instructed Delhi and neighbouring States -- Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana -- to strengthen the public transport system by introducing more buses. It ordered municipal bodies in the region to increase parking fees in Delhi-NCR by four times. Amongst the other mea- sures, it directed a fine of Rs 50,000 on road construction agencies violating dust pollu- tion norms in Delhi-NCR. The body asked the Delhi- NCR governments to Continued on Page 4 B esides denting stone-pelting in Kashmir and Naxalism, demonetisation has badly hit flesh trade in past one year, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad claimed here on Tuesday. While listing the impacts of demonetisation in a Press confer- ence, Prasad said the note ban has contained flesh trade. However, to a query as how much decline in the flesh trade has been recorded, Prasad failed to provide the figure. He said he would provide the pre- vious year’s data, but later said it has come to fore that pimps who used to deal in cash have taken a huge dent due to demonetisation. Prasad also said demonetisa- tion was not the first step to root out corruption. “Before demon- etisation, we formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT), which the previous UPA Government did not do despite Supreme Court guidelines... This is work in progress,” he added. Talking about former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s attack on demonetisation, Prasad said, “We have seen Manmohan’s work for 10 years. He rarely used to speak. I have heard him speak on demonetisation. These are not his words... someone else is writing his script," he said. “The UPA rule was full of cor- ruption and I’m proud to say that there has not been a single scam in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rule. India under him is steadily walking towards being corrup- tion free,” he added. Prasad, however, was at a loss of words in explaining Mukul Roy and and Sukh Ram’s son’s addition to party ranks in West Bengal and Himachal respectively. On why a Lokpal has not been appointed yet, Prasad said, “The previous UPA Government had put a provision that the Lokpal can be appointed only after consultation with the Leader of Opposition but the people of country have reject- ed them in such a manner that there is no Leader of Opposition so the matter has gone to the stand- ing committee.” T he four accused in the gang-rape case have been sent to police remand for four days after they were produced in the court on Tuesday. While talking to The Pioneer, SP (Railways) Ruchi Warhdan Mishra said police are still interrogating the offend- ers to find out whether they have com- mitted similar crimes in the past. The details of the four accused is under the process of verification as several details have to obtained in the case but it has been confirmed that the four real accused who had sexually assaulted the victim. Replying to a query regarding the verification she said that accused shed information which has to be verified as the details has to be matched along with other information. Identification documents of the fourth accused have not been verified as the accused has misled by providing dif- ferent names and details to the police. Meanwhile the victim would be provided with a financial aid of Rs 3 lakh and she would be supported in her edu- cation. The Bhopal MP Alok Sanjar has asked the railway officials to remove the shanties from near railway tracks. He claimed that these shanties and bushes act as hideouts for the miscreants. He has also written in the same concern to the district collector. The railways have started to act after witnessing such heinous act as the shanties situated along the railway tracks would be razed. Inspired by Bhopal MP, the DRM Bhopal has also written letter to the district collector to remove the shanties near railway tracks. After the incident the mushrooming shanties were seen as a reason behind the gang-rape. Police suspect that the nabbed accused have been involved in robbery and rape cases in the past but never been caught as the victims might have never reported the incident. RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008

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On the eve of first anniver-sary of note ban, Finance

Minister Arun Jaitley onTuesday said the demonetisa-tion drive of the Governmenthad achieved its importantobjectives of reducing cash inthe economy, bringing in moreindividuals in the tax net anddealing a body blow to theblack money.

"Demonetisation is not aone-stop solution to end cor-ruption. It cannot be, but it didchange the agenda. And thatchanged agenda is that weshould go towards less-casheconomy. Individual tax payers'number has increased, digitaltransactions have gone up andterror funding has squeezed,"Jaitley said.

Claiming that the newdirection the economy is mov-ing forward, the FinanceMinister said, "We at BJPbelieve that for the nation'seconomy and its future, it wasnecessary to change the statusquo. Domination of cash in anyeconomy, especially having 86per cent of currency as highdenomination notes, and exces-sive cash transactions lead totax evasion. In such cases, thetaxpayers have to bear the bur-den of the evaders too."

Amid the Opposition'scriticism against note ban, thePrime Minister's Office tweet-ed, saying that in the absenceof demonetisation, the value ofhigh denomination currencywould have been Rs 18 lakhcrore or 50 per cent more thanit was as of September end thisyear. "Decreased proportionof high denomination notes inthe economy helps thwart cor-ruption and funding of terror-ism," the PMO tweeted.

"Thus, high denominationnotes have been effectivelybrought down by about Rs 6lakh crore -- which is 50 percent of the current value of highdenomination notes in circu-lation," it added.

The Government had onNovember 8 last yearannounced the scrapping of Rs500 and Rs 1,000 notes,totalling Rs 15.44 lakh crore. Itconstituted 86 per cent of thetotal cash in circulation.

On the country's develop-ment and betterment of aamadmi, Jaitley said, "It is unjustthat resources meant for thecountry's development and

welfare of the poor should bekept in rich people`s coffers.Though corruption will notend even in less-cash system itwill become difficult to indulgein corruption."

In a 1,843-word blog, 'AYear After Demonetisation',he said November 8, 2016 sig-

nifies the resolve of thisGovernment to cure the coun-try from 'dreaded disease ofblack money'.

"November 8, 2016 wouldbe remembered as a watershedmoment in the history ofIndian economy," he said,adding that in an overall analy-sis, it would not be wrong to saythat country has moved on toa much cleaner, transparentand honest financial system."

The benefits may not yet bevisible to some people, he said,adding that the next generationwill view the post-November 8,2016 economic developmentwith a great sense of pride as ithas provided them a fair andhonest system to live in.

Besides, he also hinted atpruning the list of items in the

highest GST tax bracket of 28per cent after revenue in thenew regime equalises collec-tions previously.

Pointing out the country'sGross Domestic Product(GDP) figures, he said that theimpact of structural reforms isbehind us and the early eco-nomic indicators point to animprovement. "The roll out ofthe Goods and Services Tax(GST) would have had someconsequences but they willhelp the economy in the longrun," he said.

As the GST Council set toapprove sweeping changesincluding lowering tax ratesand simpler procedures with asingle return filing form forsmall firms in its next

Continued on Page 4

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The twin blow of demoneti-sation and GST proved to

be a complete disaster forIndian economy and brokethe back of small and mediumbusinesses in the country, saidformer Prime Minister DrManmohan Singh during hisvisit to his successor PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’shome-state Gujarat on Tuesday.

''Tomorrow will markexactly one year since the dis-astrous policy of demonetisa-tion was thrust on the peopleof India. I say it with immensepain and a sense of deepresponsibility, that November8 was a 'Black Day' for oureconomy, and indeed ourdemocracy,'' Singh said whileaddressing members of busi-ness community at SardarVallabhbhai Patel Memorialauditorium in Ahmedabad.

Terming the demonetisa-tion as organised loot andlegalised plunder, the formerPrime Minister went on to saythat demonetisation hasproved to be mere blusteraimed at reaping political div-idends while the real offendershave escaped. He claimed thatbecause of demonetisationcountry's GDP growth ratedropped to 5.7% under thenew calculations.

On GST, the senior

Congress leader said instead oflearning lessons from the blun-der of demonetisation andproviding relief to the poorand the marginalised, farmersand SMEs, the Governmentchose to inflict on them abadly designed and hastilyimplemented GST.

“This twin blow is a com-plete disaster for our economy.It has broken the back of smalland medium businesses inIndia. In the textile hub of Suratalone, 60,000 looms have beendiscarded since July. An esti-mate of 21,000 jobs has beenlost in just one industry sectorin Surat. The impact in the restof the country is equally bad ifnot worse,” he said, addingthat overall, as our domesticsector is not able to cope withdemand and as a result Chinais benefiting from this situation.

Continued on Page 4

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High toxic fumes emanatingout of the stubble burning

in Punjab and Haryana andmoisture in the air turnedDelhi into a veritable "gaschamber" on Tuesday, prompt-ing authorities to announce aslew of preventive measures,including closure of primaryschools.

Thick blanket of smog thathad enveloped the entire Delhiand its adjoining areas impact-ed the visibility levels, affectingflight and train operations.Experts termed it nothing lessthan a 'health emergency' as airleaded with suspended partic-ulate matter (SPM) permeatedliving rooms and even theunderground metro stationsin the city making it difficult tobreathe, turning eyes watery.

Concerned with the wors-ening air quality, Delhi ChiefMinister convened a meeting totake stock of the situation.Deputy Chief Minister ManishSisodia announced that prima-ry schools in the national Capitalwill remain closed on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court-man-dated Environment Pollution(Prevention and Control) Aut-hority, empowered to enforcethe Graded Response ActionPlan (GRAP), also directedthe States in the region to startpreparing for implementingmeasures like 'odd-even' inlight of the "crisis situation".

The air quality index was inthe 'severe', with a score of 448in a scale of 500, category forthe second time this year.Earlier, Diwali fireworks hadtriggered peak pollution levelson October 20.

Annoyed over the slothattitude of concernedGovernments in tacking pollu-tion issues, the National GreenTribunal (NGT) upbraided theGovernments of Delhi, UttarPradesh, Punjab and Haryanato task, seeking to know whysteps to prevent steps were nottaken despite knowing well inadvance that such a situationwas likely to arise.

The Delhi Government ismulling over shutting schoolstill the peak pollution levelsprevail. Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal tweeted, "Delhi hasbecome a gas chamber. Everyyear this happens during thispart of year. We have to find asolution to crop burning inadjoining states."

"Considering high level ofpollution, I have requestedManish Sisodia, EducationMinister, to consider closingschools for few days," he added.

The Indian Medical

Association said Delhi is wit-nessing a "public health emer-gency" and appealed to theGovernment to stop outdoorsports and other such activitiesin schools to protect the healthof children.

Later, in a meeting toreview the status of air quality,the EPCA announced that allmeasures under the GRAP'ssevere category will be imple-mented across the region tillfurther notice.

CPCB member secretary ASudhakar said the intensity ofpollution peaked since lastnight as moisture-heavy windsfrom Uttar Pradesh and hotwinds carrying emissions fromstubble burning from Punjaband Haryana have dealt a dou-ble- whammy.

"We are not expecting adramatic change in the nexttwo- three days. Shallow fogand a complete absence ofwind are preventing the dissi-pation of pollutants at theground level," Sudhakar said.

The wind speed is cur-rently around 3 metres per sec-ond, said Sudhakar, explainingit is inadequate to disperseparticulate matter like PM2.5and PM10.

EPCA chairman Bhure Laland member Sunita Narainasked the Delhi-NCRGovernments to start prepar-ing for measures like odd-even and a complete ban onconstruction activities if pol-lution aggravates.

The measures also includecomplete closure of brick kilns,hot mix plants and stone crush-ers across the region till furthernotice and a ban on entry ofgoods vehicles — not destinedfor Delhi for the next 20 days— in the city.

Sisodia, who is also Delhi'sEducation Minister, conveneda meeting of officials ofEducation, Health andEnvironment departments overshutting schools. He directedthe Environment Departmentto submit a report on the city'spollution levels.

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In its bid to dissuade peoplefrom taking out their private

vehicles and tackle pollutioncrisis, the EnvironmentPollution - Prevention andControl Authority (EPCA)came out with a series of direc-tives, including jacking upparking fees by four times inDelhi-NCR and slashing ofMetro fares during off-peakhours for the next 10 days.

Supreme Court mandatedgreen body EPCA on Tuesdaysaid the national Capital wasfacing a "crisis situation", whichis likely to persist for the nextfew days. EPCA chairmanBhure Lal and member SunitaNarain announced a series ofmeasures under the GradedResponse Action Plan.

The EPCA instructedDelhi Metro to lower faresduring off-peak hours for atleast 10 days, introduce morecoaches and frequent services.The EPCA's directions to"immediately" slash metro fares

and hike parking fees putauthorities in Delhi in a spot,but the law is clear that theSupreme Court-appointedbody's orders are binding.

The Delhi Metro RailCorporation (DMRC) said it isyet to take a decision on slash-ing fares temporarily, whilemunicipal bodies argued theirstanding committees will haveto clear the decision on enhanc-ing parking fees first.

The body also instructedDelhi and neighbouring States-- Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthanand Haryana -- to strengthenthe public transport system byintroducing more buses. Itordered municipal bodies inthe region to increase parkingfees in Delhi-NCR by fourtimes.

Amongst the other mea-sures, it directed a fine of Rs50,000 on road constructionagencies violating dust pollu-tion norms in Delhi-NCR.

The body asked the Delhi-NCR governments to

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Besides denting stone-peltingin Kashmir and Naxalism,

demonetisation has badly hit fleshtrade in past one year, UnionMinister Ravi Shankar Prasadclaimed here on Tuesday.

While listing the impacts ofdemonetisation in a Press confer-ence, Prasad said the note ban hascontained flesh trade. However, toa query as how much decline in theflesh trade has been recorded,Prasad failed to provide the figure.He said he would provide the pre-vious year’s data, but later said ithas come to fore that pimps whoused to deal in cash have taken ahuge dent due to demonetisation.

Prasad also said demonetisa-tion was not the first step to rootout corruption. “Before demon-etisation, we formed a SpecialInvestigation Team (SIT), whichthe previous UPA Government didnot do despite Supreme Courtguidelines... This is work inprogress,” he added.

Talking about former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh’s attackon demonetisation, Prasad said,“We have seen Manmohan’s workfor 10 years. He rarely used to

speak. I have heard him speak ondemonetisation. These are not hiswords... someone else is writing hisscript," he said.

“The UPA rule was full of cor-ruption and I’m proud to say thatthere has not been a single scam inPrime Minister Narendra Modi’srule. India under him is steadily

walking towards being corrup-tion free,” he added.

Prasad, however, was at a lossof words in explaining Mukul Royand and Sukh Ram’s son’s additionto party ranks in West Bengal andHimachal respectively.

On why a Lokpal has not beenappointed yet, Prasad said, “The

previous UPA Government had puta provision that the Lokpal can beappointed only after consultationwith the Leader of Opposition butthe people of country have reject-ed them in such a manner thatthere is no Leader of Opposition sothe matter has gone to the stand-ing committee.”

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The four accused in the gang-rape casehave been sent to police remand for

four days after they were produced in thecourt on Tuesday.

While talking to The Pioneer, SP(Railways) Ruchi Warhdan Mishra saidpolice are still interrogating the offend-ers to find out whether they have com-mitted similar crimes in the past. Thedetails of the four accused is under theprocess of verification as several detailshave to obtained in the case but it hasbeen confirmed that the four realaccused who had sexually assaulted thevictim.

Replying to a query regarding theverification she said that accused shedinformation which has to be verified asthe details has to be matched along withother information.

Identification documents of thefourth accused have not been verified asthe accused has misled by providing dif-ferent names and details to the police.

Meanwhile the victim would beprovided with a financial aid of Rs 3 lakhand she would be supported in her edu-cation.

The Bhopal MP Alok Sanjar hasasked the railway officials to remove theshanties from near railway tracks. Heclaimed that these shanties and bushesact as hideouts for the miscreants. He hasalso written in the same concern to thedistrict collector.

The railways have started to act afterwitnessing such heinous act as theshanties situated along the railway trackswould be razed. Inspired by Bhopal MP,the DRM Bhopal has also written letterto the district collector to remove theshanties near railway tracks.

After the incident the mushroomingshanties were seen as a reason behind thegang-rape.

Police suspect that the nabbedaccused have been involved in robberyand rape cases in the past but never beencaught as the victims might have neverreported the incident.

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Seven players in athleticsteam of Campion School

Arera Colony Bhopal exhibit-ed extra-ordinary performanceand bagged five gold medals(Including 4x100 relay) andone silver medal in ‘InterSchool Competitions-2017’held recently at St Joseph Co-ed School, Bhopal MadhyaPradesh.

All the seven Athletes orstudents prepare themselvesfor this tournament under thecoaching and guidance of theirCoach and Physical EducationDepartment HOD JohnsyKoshy, Campionites AbhishekAgrawal, Yuvraj Patel, Saquiband Mishkaat Ansari baggedGold medals in 4x100 mtrsrelay race U-17 age group,Vanshaj Kaushik bagged GoldMedal in 100 mtrs race U-19age group and Yuvraj Shuklabagged Silver medal in 100 mtsrace U-14 age group in thiscompetition.

‘Runners up ChampionsTrophy’ was given to CampionSchool along with Gold, SilverMedals and Certificate of Meritto the entire winner Athletes.More than 500 Athletes of dif-ferent age groups from 30CBSE Schools of Bhopal andnearby cities were participated

in this Inter SchoolCompetition.

Campion School PrincipalFr Athnas Lakra SJ, and VicePrincipal Fr Ajay KumarKerketta SJ, has CongratulatedPhysical Education

Department HOD and CoachJohnsy Koshy Sir and all thestudents and for making Schoolproud and give best wishes fortheir bright future and upcom-ing performances in Nationalcompetition.

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To let students know aboutcyber threats, a seminar

was held at Women’sPolytechnic College here onTuesday. A seminar on CyberSecurity Issues, Awareness andLegality by Society of AMTAGfor Cyber Ethics was organisedby Computer ScienceDepartment of the college.

The seminar was held insupport of District LegalServices Authority, Bhopal.Cyber Security Expert AkshayBajpai who also serves DistrictLegal Services Authority(District Court), Bhopalinformed the students aboutvarious ethics of cyber securi-ty.

He told the students aboutthe different modes of cybercrimes, virus attacks, socialnetworking security, passwordprotection, financial fraudsand its legal scenario with rel-evant case laws.

Akshay told students howto stay secure while dealing incyberspace. He provided somevital tips to students and facultymembers to maintain securitytips of WhatsApp, Instagram,Gmail and Facebook. He alsogave a few examples including

the case laws against AadhaarCard frauds and more.

As many as 60 studentswere present in this session.The students also asked theirqueries about cyber cullyingand harassments. These youndstudents listened to the lecturewith rapt attention. Andexpressed the feeling of satis-faction. The students were alsoinformed about where to file acomplaint about such threatsand frauds. It must be writtenhere that cyber crime hasgrown rapidly in recent pastand the need of the hour is tocheck it at any cost so thattheir(cyber criminals) activitiescould be nipped in the bud.

Akshay told them to file acomplaint to cyber cell if anysuspicious activity occurs withthem regarding cyber crime,while complaint for lost ofmobile phone would be filed incrime branch at lost and foundmobile phone unit. He alsohighlighted the recent trends incyber crime and its repercus-sions.

On this eve, Head of theDepartment of ComputerScience Pooja Manghnani,Snehlata Yadav, YachanaBhawsar, Rajesh Sisodiya andDK Chourishi were present.

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Kamla Nagar police havebooked two persons for

duping a property dealer to thetunes of lakhs of rupees byforging documents. Theaccused persons had sold halfacre land in the year 2009.

The victim Vinod Sharmais a property dealer and lives inAkriti Garden Nehru Nagarand in the year 2009, the twoaccused Mohammad Iqbal andMohammad Ehtesham Badwaihad cheated him near Airportby forging documents.

Later, the victim foundthat the land was owned byRambharose Agrawal andlodged a complaint with thepolice regarding the fraud. Thepolice have registered a caseunder section 420 of the IPCand have started further inves-tigation.

Meanwhile, Kotwali policehave booked a miscreant whoduped a BMC employee at SBIbranch at Marwari road onMonday.

Police said that the victimBejulal Lohat (52) had gone towithdraw his salary from SBIbranch at Marwari road wheresomeone offered to fill formand after he withdrew moneymiscreants asked him to count-

ing the money and duped himof � 8000.

The victim approached thepolice and lodged a complaintwith Kotwali police. In hiscomplaint, the victim stated thathe had gone to withdraw salaryfrom his bank account onMonday where he took help tofill withdrawal form and whenhe asked the accused to help incounting, while counting hetook � 8000 from the cash andtold the victim that his salarywas � 8000 less and told the vic-tim to ask to the cashier for pro-viding lesser amount of cashand following which the victimwent to the cashier wherecashier told that he had pro-vided correct amount and whenthe victim turned to check theaccused he was found missing.

The victim used to visit thebank with his son but onMonday, he went alone and wasduped by the miscreant. Thepolice have registered a caseunder section 420 of the IPCand have started further inves-tigation.

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One of the most importanttasks that a backstage team

has to learn is to make properand beautiful stage properties,informed expert HemantDeolekar.

He was addressing a the-atre workshop ‘Theatritics 17’which is based on backstagecraft. The workshop is basedon the opportunities a back-stage team of theatre worldreceives. The workshop alsohighlights about the challengesthe team has to face and over-come.

Here on Tuesday, markingthe sixth day of the workshop,experts talked about how tomake stage craft and also howto handle it. The light weightproperties should be handledreally carefully while the heavy

weight properties have to betaken a special care.

Talking about the stagecraft, experts highlighted aboutadding colour and mood to thescene. While interacting withthe theatre participants theexperts said that stage craft isvery important as half of thethings are understood withthe help of proper stage craft.It adds charm in the scenes andadds a realistic feel to the act,added Deolekar.

Later, the participants weretold about different materialswith which the stage craft isprepared. The 13-day work-shop is open for all the theatrelovers and will continue tillNovember 14.

While informing about theworkshop, Deolekar said thatthe participants will also be toldabout music, dance, writing,

motif, stage-building, light-handling and more will beused in experimental dialogue.The workshop is all aboutbackstage craft wherein thetheatre aspirants will learnabout what all happens behindthe scenes of a play. Frommake-up to costumes and fromset props to music everythingwill be a part of this theatreworkshop.

It is to be noted that theworkshop will be conducted byfamous theatre personalitiesof the city including ShwetaKetkar, Hemant Deolekar,Sudeep Sohni, Ankit Parochand Saurabh will guide the par-ticipants. Apart from theoret-ical knowledge, the partici-pants will also be a part of thepractical exercise that will beheld during the 13-day work-shop, he added.

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Passing Out ceremony of theTechnical Entry Scheme

(TES) 30 Course from CadetsTraining Wing, MilitaryCollege of TelecommunicationEngineering (MCTE), Mhowwas conducted on Tuesdaywith full military pomp andgrandeur.

The Ceremony, presidedover by the Chief Guest,Lieutenant General RajeevSabherwal, Vishisht SevaMedal, Commandant, MilitaryCollege of TelecommunicationEngineering marked the cul-mination of three years oftraining of the GentlemenCadets (GCs) of TES-30Course and their transforma-tion into young dynamic offi-cers of the Indian Army.

The medals were awardedby Lieutenant General RajeevSabherwal, Vishisht SevaMedal, Commandant, MilitaryCollege of TelecommunicationEngineering. In a motivatingaddress to the GentlemenCadets, Lieutenant GeneralRajeev Sabherwal, VishishtSeva Medal, Commandantcongratulated the Passing OutCourse on successfully com-pleting the training andreminded them of what theNation expects from them,especially in view of the rapidtechnological advancements,prevailing counter insurgencyenvironment and the stellarrole the

Army has been playing toensure the territorial integrityof our Nation. The Coursehad the unique opportunity totrain with four GentlemenCadets from Vietnam.

Wing cadet quarter masterSergeant Arvind Walia was theproud recipient of the General

Officer Commanding in Chief(GOC-in-C) Army TrainingCommand (ARTRAC) Goldmedal and GOC-in-CARTRAC Trophy for standingFirst in the overall order ofmerit. Foreign GentlemenCadet Cao Thanh Trung fromVietnam was the recipient ofthe GOC-in-C ARTRAC Silvermedal and the GOC-in-CARTRAC Bronze medal was

received by Gentlemen CadetSiddharth Negi.

Karan Platoon won thecoveted GOC-in-C ARTRACBanner for standing Firstamongst the four platoons.These cadets will now proceedto Officer Training Academy(OTA), Gaya for their allot-ment of arms and final com-missioning as officers in theIndian Army in Dec 17.

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The tribal traditions are theidentity of our society,” said

Professor Mithila PrasadTripathi. She was addressing thefirst day of a two-day Nationalseminar on tribal traditions andcultures. The national seminar isbeing organised by TribalResearch and DevelopmentInstitute, Bhopal. It was inaugu-rated the Hotel Lake ViewAshoka here on Tuesday.

It is to be noted that thenational seminar is being organ-ised to understand different tra-ditions and cultures of varioustribes across the country. Underthe national seminar, the par-ticipants will also be told aboutthe different languages and art ofthe tribes of the country.

The event was inauguratedby Professor Mithila PrasadTripathi and Mahipal SinghRathore from Rajasthan.Mahipal Singh Rathore was thechief guest of the programme.

While addressing the inau-gural session, Professor MithilaPrasad Tripathi said that the trib-al culture has its uniqueness.From the ancient era, tribal cul-ture has been nurturing the tra-ditions and cultures of Indiansociety, she added further.Elaborating further, she high-lighted about the art, music,dance and other creative formsof the tribes of India. She saidthat tribal people worship natureand so they are close to it.

Later, Mahipal Singh talkedabout the tribal culture. He saidthat the warm hospitality andsimple ways of living are some ofthe traits of tribal people of India.Head of the institution SNMishra talked about the tradi-tions of tribal people in detail.

Prior to the seminar, tribalartists Sukhnandan Ahke andVasant Kawde from Betul per-formed Gond music. It was fol-lowed with a welcome song inBaiga language performed byBhagwati Rathudia.

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Adelegation of 45 studentsfrom 17 countries visited

IGRMS on 7th November,2017. The delegation was wel-comed by Director, IGRMSProf Sarit Kumar Chaudhuriwho gave them the initial infor-mation about IGRMS anddiverse variety of Indian cultureand the elements binding themtogether.

Later, they were showndocumentary film on IGRMSand taken to various open airand indoor exhibition ofMuseum, where they were

guided by the senior curator ofthe museum Arun Kiro, SuryaKumar Pandey, PS Rao, RKJhariya, Ashok Sharma, Shri-kant and N Sakmacha Singh.

These participants areundergoing training at NationalInstitute for Entrepreneurshipand Small BusinessDevelopment (NIESBUD),Noida under the ITEC/SCAAPfellowship, sponsored by theunion Ministry of ExternalAffairs, New Delhi. The dele-gation visited museum as anintegral part of their trainingprogramme to study the Indiansmall Industry Environment,

Indian Culture and customs.The visit to the IGRMS gavethem an idea about the diversevariety and unity of Indian cul-ture.

Besides, the Indira GandhiRashtriya Manav Sangrahalayais organising the next chapter ofits popular series, CuratorialTalk Show on Wednesday from3.30 pm at Rock Art ShelterConference Hall. In thisCuratorial Talk, ConservationAssociate of Manav Sangra-halaya, Shubhendra KumarSingh will speak on ‘Conser-vation of Ethnographic Objects:The Techniques and Ethics’.

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Today’s world cinema is a declaration ofhuman freedom. These are the extraor-

dinary stories of ordinary people,” said arenowned film critic Ajit Rai.

Ajit was addressing an event ‘Samvad’organised by Bharat Bhavan here on Tuesday.He spoke on ‘World Cinema, India andtoday’s time’ at Antarang Hall.

While addressing the audience, he saidthat today’s world cinema is giving is show-ing new hope with ideas and philosophyahead of sex and violence. Elaborating fur-ther, he said that today India's participationin world cinema is very poor. “We have notbeen working enough to get a space in worldcinema,” he added.

He cited the example of the world'slargest Cannes Film Festival, saying that after1994 none of the Indian films have beenselected in this official selection. “Our filmsdo not even have a percentage of the totalfilm market in the world. Indian artists can-not reach the main red carpet. Many Indianfilmmakers show movies to their friends ina ten-seat rental tuition claiming that theirfilms were shown at the Cannes FilmFestival,” he added.

Adding to it, Rai said that this film fes-tival has become the Olympics of cinema.Giving example of Iranian filmmaker Asghar

Farhadi who has boycotted Oscar awards Raisaid that such courage is not seen in anyIndian filmmaker. Talking about MatthewBrown's British film ‘The Man Who DieInfinity’ based on the famous Indian schol-ar S. Ramanujan, Ajit Rai said that we can-not make world-class films on any Indian tal-ent. The main reason is that now India's bestgeniuses are not been involved in film pro-duction. He discussed about various films ofworld cinema of last year and spoke aboutthe genius International filmmakers.

Various youngsters aspiring to enter theindustry participated in the lecture. Theyasked about their queries to Ajit Rai.Notably, Ajit Roy is the only Hindi review-er of Hindi who has been participating inalmost all important film festivals in theworld for the last ten years.

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The last day of the 33rdInter-College Youth Festival

was filled with a lot of enthu-siasm and fervour. Other thancompeting with each other,the students of different col-leges and universities made alot of friends and created infi-nite memories at the youth fest.

Here on Tuesday, the festmarked its last day whereinfinale of various competitionswas held. During the closingceremony, Jai Bhan SinghPawaiya, Minister of HigherEducation was present as thechief guest. Surendra Patwa,Minister of Culture andTourism, and Chairman ofMadhya Pradesh PrivateUniversity RegulatoryCommission Akhilesh Pandeywere present as a special guests.

The Rangoli competitionwas the attraction of the day. InRangoli competition, 24 par-ticipants of the university pre-sented traditional and the art oftheir state, added flavours oftheir culture that made theirRangoli art extraordinary.

It was a mesmerising sightto watch as the students pre-sented their tradition and cul-ture through the rangoli art.

Another competition wasquiz competition wherein thestudents showcased their IQlevel. The quiz competitionwas held in two rounds, firstwas the written round and thesecond was the oral round. Thestudents confidently partici-pated in the competitions.

Universities from Nagpur,Bhopal, Rampur and othercities were a part of the com-petition.

After the final rounds ofvarious competitions, a formalfelicitation programme washeld. Souvenir based on the lit-erary, cultural and creativeactivities of the 33rd InterUniversity Youth FestivalNavanmesh was also releasedin this function by ViceChancellor of AISECTUniversity Santosh Choubey.

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Renowned poet and senior jour-nalist Rakesh Pathak has been

selected for the Hemanth MemorialPoetry Award. This award has beengiven to him by the HemanthMemorial Trust, New Delhi for hispoetry collection, ‘Basanth ke PaheleDin Se Pahele’.

The announcement in this regardwas made by Bharath Bharadwaj, thecoordinator of the Award Committee.He said that the poems by RakeshPathak have depth in them. Pathakhas served in many newspapers insenior positions. He is also the authorof three published books.

Santosh Srivastava, the chair-person of the Hemanth Foundationand Dr Pramila Verma, the secretarysaid the award will be presented toPatakh in Mumbai during the firstmonth of 2018.

The previous recipients of thisnational-level award includeBoghsatwa, Sanjay Kundan, WazdaKhan, Alok Srivastav, Hari Mrudul,Leena Malhotra, Ekanth Srivastava,Hare Prakash Upadhya, YateendraMishra, Krishna Mohan Jha and RitaDas.

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House of a Junior Engineerwas targeted and gold and

silver jewelries worth Rs 3lakh were burgled from Sehgalapartments under Koh-e-Fizapolice station area on Monday.

Police said that the victimShahroz Siraz Ahmed had goneto work and when he returnedin the evening the valuableswere found missing and sub-sequently, the victimapproached the police andlodged a complaint with theKoh-e-Fiza police.

In his complaint, the victimstated that he had gone towork and when he returned thedoors were found open and thevaluables were found burgled.

The victim claimed thatgold and silver jewelries worthRs 3 lakh were burgled. Victimworks as Junior Engineer withBSNL.

Meanwhile, valuablesworth Rs 2 lakh including Rs30000 cash were burgled fromHousing Board ColonyLaharpur under Katara Hillspolice station area on Monday.

According to the police, thevictim Pradeep Saakle hadgone to Mandsaur and when hereturned the house was foundburgled.

A complaint was lodgedwith the police and in hiscomplaint the victim statedthat he had gone to Mandsauron October 3 and when he

returned on Monday the housewas found burgled. The totalloss in the burglary was aroundRs 2 lakh.

Based on the complaintand after the preliminary inves-tigation, the police have regis-tered a case under section 457and 380 of the IPC and havestarted further investigation.The victim works with a hos-pital and had gone for somework on October 3.

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AMumbai-based womanwas detained after she was

found carrying four live car-tridges at Raja Bhoj airport inthe morning on Tuesday; shewas scheduled to board aMumbai-bound Air Indiaflight.

A woman passenger iden-tified as Shweta Maane wasdetained by CISF personnelduring security check aftercartridges were found in herbag.

Soon after the woman wasfound carrying cartridges,security alert was sounded andsecurity was tighten checkingwas intensified.

The nabbed woman washanded over to Gandhi Nagarpolice station. During ques-tioning, she told the police thather grandfather worked aspoliceman in Goa and wasawarded with the cartridgeswhich she was carrying.

Her grandfather died and

the cartridges remained in herbag and that were found at theair port.

She had come to the city toattend a marriage and wasscheduled to return by train butas she was not able to get reser-vation confirmed, she bookeda flight ticket through AirIndia.

The police have registereda case under sections 25 and 27of the Arms Act against Shwetaon the charge of carrying car-tridges without license andhave started to verify the detailsprovided by her.

Meanwhile, Kolar policehave nabbed a 27-year-old manand recovered half kilogramCannabis from his worth Rs25000 on Monday.

Police said that MaanSingh was nabbed from GareebNagar and recovered drugsworth Rs 25000 from his pos-session. The police have regis-tered a case under section 8 and20 of NDPS and have startedfurther investigation.

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Newly posted IGP, Bhopalzone, Jaydeep Prasad on

Tuesday said police personnelrequire sensitisation in han-dling the serious offences likesexual assault and gang-rapecases.

As it is State capital, therewould be new challenges toface every day; awareness of thepeople has increased this leadsto higher level of expectationand to meet them is a chal-lenge, Prasad told the mediapersons.

He further said in the pre-sent scenario, one area whichrequires utmost attention ispolice sensitisation which hasto be addressed with gravity.

Apart from other crimesthe cyber crime is fastest grow-ing area of concern as latesttechnology is used widely tocommit crime and skill totackle the tricks in the need ofthe hour.

He claimed that capacitybuilding and supervision aretwo most important things

which would be enhanced andnothing would be left to createuntoward incidents.

Replying to a query onstress police force due to hec-tic and reckless working sched-ule, IG Prasad said that it is truethat rest is required but attimes the requirement of theduty gives less space.

He stated that stress man-agement, health managementand fitness during workinghours would be used to makethe policemen working withoutstress.

Non-core things as cor-porate and other Governmentdepartments could be out-sourced to lessen the burden,he said, adding that the mostimportant area which requiresattention is crimes againstwomen, which not onlyrequire strict action against themiscreants but also sensitiza-tion of police personnel andofficial.

The frequent offencesreported daily have to beaddressed as these lead tomajor offences, he said.

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In the capacity of India regionmember, Madhya Pradesh

Assembly Speaker SitasharanSharma participated in the exec-utive committee meeting ofInternational CommonwealthParliamentary Association(ICPA), on November 3 and 4 atDhaka in Bangladesh.

Speakers from other coun-tries including Australia,Cameroon, Britain, Africa andothers participated in the meet-ing held in the chairmanship ofBangladesh parliament SpeakerShirin Choudhary.

Later, on November 5, 6 and7, in the general council meeting,process for election of executivecommittee’s chairman was com-pleted. Later, a dinner was host-ed where Bangladesh PrimeMinister Shekh Hasina, speakersfrom different countries, IndianLok Sabha Speaker SumitraMahajan, General Secretary ofLok Sabha Anoop Mishra andMadhya Pradesh assemblyPrincipal Secretary AwdheshPratap Singh remained present.

Notably, ICPA is an inter-national organization. This asso-ciation comprises speakers from180 countries and helps in goodgovernance and developmentof high values of democracy.

State assembly SpeakerSitasharan Sharma, DeputySpeaker Rajendra Kumar Singhand Principal Secretary Awdheshpratap Singh are in Dhaka toattend the meeting and wouldreturn to Bhopal from Dhaka viaKolkata on Thursday at 10 pm.

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medals.The wrestling champi-

onship was held at Rohtak,Haryana from November 1 to5. After showcasing an impres-sive performance at wrestling,the players met State Ministerof Sports and Youth WelfareYashodhara Raje Scindia onTuesday at TT Nagar Stadium.

It is to be noted that thecompetition, Shivani Pawarwon the medal under 50kg cat-egory and Pooja Jat bagged themedal under 53kg category.Bring the name of the state bybecoming the best player

On meeting the players

Yashodhara Raje Scindia con-gratulated bronze medal win-ner Shivani Pawar and Pooja Jatand appreciated their perfor-mance. Scindia while encour-aging the players said thatbecause of their excellent talent,they were selected in the acad-emy and so they have bring lau-rels to the State by becomingthe best players and winningmore and more medals infuture.

She greeted the players fortheir outstanding performancesin the Senior NationalWrestling Competition andwinning medals. On this occa-

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Madhya Pradesh WrestlingAcademy players Shivani

Pawar and Pooja Jat exhibited

a wonderful performance atNational All India UniversityWrestling Competition. Theplayers brought laurels to theState by bagging bronze

sion, Director of Sports andYouth Welfare DepartmentUpendra Jain and WrestlingAcademy's Coach VinayPrajapati were also present.

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With a view to connect thepublic with the basic ser-

vices of the Legal ServiceAuthority, a cycle rally hasbeen organised. The nationallevel rally will be fromNovember 9 which is cele-brated as the Legal ServiceDay.

The rally named ‘connect-ing to serve’ will be for ten days.In this connection, the Gwaliorchapter of the Authority willorganise a rally from theDistrict Court premises onThursday at 8 am.

According to the secretaryof the Legal Service Authority,the cycle rally has been hold

under directions from theDelhi Authority to createawareness among public espe-cially the economically back-ward people about legal assis-tance, legal clinic, Front officeand helpline numbers etc.

The rally in Gwalior willcommence on the 9th ofNovember with the assistanceof the paralegal volunteers andsocial activists. Commencing atthe District Court premises therally will go through DD Mall,Phoolbagh, Padav, RailwayStation, Bus stand, KutumbApartments, University junc-tion, Juvenile Court, ViceChancellor’s residence,University Road, AG OfficeBridge and Chetakpuri before

returning and concluding at theDistrict Court premises.

Besides, a camp will beheld at Hazira on November 11to create awareness about legalmatters. Apart from this, anessay and painting competitionwill be held at the GovernmentCollege, Railway Colony;Government College, Fort Rodand MLB Law College onNovember 14.

A door to door campaignwill be held from November 9to 14 by lawyers of the panel.A desk too will be organised atthe court premises to assist thepeople seeking legal aid. Acamp will be held on the 18thto give assistance to the pris-oners of the Central jail.

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BHEL Shop Allotment Policyand Model License

Agreement-2014 released byBHEL Corporate Office hasbeen termed as unbiased, trans-parent and due process in a judg-ment by Madras High Court.

Challenging the policy, awrit petition was filed beforeJabalpur High Court by a fewshop holders of the BHEL Publicpremises, which has been reject-ed by the court. The earlierlicence owning shop-holderscan now renew their licences inline with the new shop policy.The monthly license fee of shopsin Bhopal is being revised as perthe prevailing Collector Rate inthat area.

Categorising the shops asgeneral and essential the licenserenewal rate has been revisedkeeping the Collector Rate inconsideration.

License fee of 322 shops of10 feet X 10 in various areas hasbeen revised from, �116 to �170per month, 102 shops from�190 to � 307 per month, and 87shops from �290 to Rs 395 permonths is fixed as maximumlicense fee. Similarly, in therange of shops under the gener-al business of 10 feet X 10 feet invarious markets, fee has beenincreased from �1160 to �1700per month, 122 shops from�1900 to �3070 per month and294 shops from �2900 to �3950per month. The license fee hasbeen fixed at slab of �3950 Max.

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British physicist StephenHawking has warned that

the human race will perish onEarth as growing populationand massive power consump-tion would turn the planetinto a sizzling fireball in lessthan 600 years.

To ensure the survival ofour species for another millionyears, humans must "boldly go

where no one has gone before,"Hawking said.

Our planet will turn into aball of fire because of our soar-ing energy consumption as thepopulation soars, the world

renowned scientist said in avideo appearance at theTencent WE Summit inBeijing.

Hawking appealed toinvestors to back his plans to

travel to the closest star outsidethe solar system, with the hopethat a habitable planet might beorbiting it, 'The Sun' reported.

Alpha Centauri is one ofthe closest stars to our solar sys-tem, located four billion light-years away. Scientists believethat it may host planets thatcould foster life, just like Earth.

Hawking is backingBreakthrough Starshot, a ven-ture to reach this system with-in two decades using a tiny air-craft that could travel at thespeed of light.

"Such a system could reachMars in less than an hour, orreach Pluto in days, passVoyager in under a week andreach Alpha Centauri in justover 20 years," said Hawking.

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The logic of history backs theBJP in Himachal Pradesh

going by the fact the hill Statehas only once returned anincumbent Government. Thedebate here is not about theoutcome, but on whether bothupper and lower regions of theState will vote the same way.And that is where the largest ofthe 15 districts in the State,Kangra, with 15 assembly seats,is expected to play a key role intilting the poll balance.

Both the BJP and theCongress are mindful of the"Kangra factor" that kept theBJP out of power in 2012 bygiving the Congress 10 out ofthe 15 seats from the district.The BJP won just three ofthose seats.

The upper Himachal ---Shimla, Lahaul Spiti, andKinnaur --- has traditionallybeen the Congress strongholds,while the lower Himachal com-prising Hamirpur, Bilaspur,Chamba, Kangra and Una havebeen BJP's strongholds. Thelower Himachal has bulk ofAssembly seats --- 46 out of the68 constituencies. There is alsoan indication that voters ofupper and lower HimachalPradesh may, to an extent, thistime switch their party prefer-ences.

Kangra has turned out tobe the focal point of BJP'selection campaign in the Statewith all factional leaders,including former ChiefMinister Shanta Kumar(Kangra MP) from the regionseemed to have thrown theirweight behind party's ChiefMinisterial candidate PremKumar Dhumal. The BJP CMcandidate has said that partypresident Amit Shah has sentin "strong message" to end in-fighting in the party as his ownefforts to end factional feud hasalso borne fruit.

Besides Kangra, Mandiwith 10 and Shimla with eightAssembly segments are amongthe 12 districts of the State that

may have decisive impact onthe poll results.

As one travels from Una,Hamripur, Kangra toDaharmshala, the Congresscampaign is hardly visible,whereas the BJP is going all outwith its slogans "Aabki bar 60ke par" and "Abki bar BJPsarkar".

While Prime MinisterNarendra Modi held a string ofpublic rallies in the State lastweek, the last being in Una,Congress vice-president RahulGandhi moved in on Mondaywhen he addressed publicmeetings at Sirmour, Chambaand Kangra.

There are several instanceswhere candidates contestingon the Congress tickets have aBJP past or vice-versa. AtKangra, sitting MLA PawanKajal, a builder by profession,is a former BJP man, while theBJP candidate SanjayChoudhury is formerCongressman. Kajal had wonon as an independent candidateas he was not allotted Congressticket last time. "There areestimated 70,000 voters inKangra, the seat was lost by theBJP four times and they willlose it again," said AnupKumar, a supporter of theCongress candidate.

At Dehra segment, ViplavThakur, Rajya Sabha member,

is a Congress candidate takingon BJP's Ravinder Singh (sit-ting MLA) with an indepen-dent candidate Hoshiar Singhtoo in the fray. "Formerly in theBJP, Hoshiar Singh, who ispopular, may cut in BJP votes,"says Anshul Sharma, a profes-sional marketing animal feed.

However, it is a BJP bastionas party's Ravinder Singh hadwon the election in 2012 by amassive margin. The Congresswas in the third position, whilean independent candidate wasthe runner-up.

Interestingly, the taint ofcorruption has seemingly notdiluted the acceptability ofVirbhandra Singh with the hillpopulace.

Asked about BJP's chargesof conversions of Hindus inKerala and West Bengal,Kulwant Singh, a Rajput inUna, says, "The polarisingissues would benefit the BJP.Demonetisation, Goods andServices Tax (GST), and risingprices are being talked aboutbut unemployment seems to bein the top of the mind of mostof the voters."

There are over three lakhState Government employees,who could impact poll resultsin the urban Assembly seats.The Congress Government hasnot fulfilled their demand foran upward wage revision.

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port his claim he pointed outthat while in the first half of FY2016-17 India's import fromChina stood at Rs 1.96 lakhcrore. During the same periodin FY 2017-18, the import fromChina increased to Rs. 2.41 lakhcrore. He said unprecedentedincrease of imports by morethan 45,000 crore which is a 23per cent increase in a year canbe attributed largely to demon-etisation and GST.

Training his guns on PMModi's remark that nothingwas done in 70 years rule ofCongress, he said the lifeexpectancy at the time ofIndependence in 1947 was 31years which has increased to 71years. He went on to say that lit-eracy increased from 18 to 76per cent, and India became self-sufficient in food production.He further said that from a slowgrowing economy, India wasamongst the fastest growingeconomies. ''I wish PM findsmore dignified way to convincepeople for votes without deni-grating the country," he added.

GST was envisioned by theUPA Government and it wassupposed to simplify taxation inthe country with a single taxcooed at 18 per cent, but cur-rent GST was great departurefrom that vision, he said, addingthat it has transformed into acomplicated mess, with multi-ple slabs and rates as high as 28% along with additional cesses

He also criticised Modi'sdream project Bullet train say-ing that nation's existing pas-senger rail network is lan-guishing and needs to beimproved on speed as well assafety point of view. The formerPrime Minister denied thatModi as a Chief Minister hadever met him to discuss issueof Narmada dam.

"Modiji never met me forNarmada project. In fact, whenWorld Bank stopped aid for theconstruction of dam in 1992 asa Finance Minister, I intervenedand we ensured that the projectgets all the money required," hesaid.

Responding to Modi'srepeated jibes that the Congresshated Gujaratis, he saidMahatma Gandhi, Sardar Pateland even former PrimeMinister Morarji Desai wereCongressmen and alwaysreceived their due respect fromthe party. Replying a query onthe leadership quality ofCongress vice-president RahulGandhi, he said Rahul was ayoung leader who would proveto be a dynamic and competentleader in future.

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sources from the FinanceMinistry also said, "Tax rates onabout 200 items are likely to belowered from 28 per cent slab to18 and 12 per cent, dependingupon the item concerned.Besides there are slew of changesincluding single return filingform for small businesses."

"The PMO is steering theproposed changes aimed atreducing tax and complianceburden for millions of smalltraders, ease rules and cut rateson many goods and services thatcurrently fall under the 28 percent slab," sources said.

As far as cash-less economyis concerned, the note ban move

of has helped Government to agreat extent and it is furtherworking to launch the secondphase of promoting digital pay-ments from January. "A com-mittee under Directorate ofAdvertising and Visual Publicity(DAVP) is working on plans tostart promotion of digital pay-ments from January onward," anofficial source said.

"Information &Broadcasting Ministry alongwith Meity (IT Ministry) areinvolved in firming up thisplan," it added.

Under the GST that wasimplemented from July, over1,200 products and serviceshave been fitted into one of thefour tax slabs -- 5, 12, 18 and 28

per cent. The rates were basedon the principle of keeping thetotal tax incidence at almost thesame level before the new indi-rect tax regime kicked in as alsokeeping revenue collections neu-tral.

However, Jaitley said, "Wehave been gradually bringingthem down. The whole idea is,as your revenue collections neu-tralise we must prune it andthat's the pattern in which theCouncil has so far been func-tioning. I see that as a futureguide as far as the Council isconcerned."

The GST Council is sched-uled to meet on November 10and may consider loweringtax rates on a host of goods

such as handmade furniture,plastic products and daily useitems like shampoo. TheCouncil last month approvedan Approach Paper to be fol-lowed by the fitment commit-tee while deciding on futurerate revisions.

Jaitley further said con-sumers are noticing the taxpaid on goods they buy in theGST regime as previouslyexcise duty was embedded inthe price of the product. TheGST regime has subsumedmore than a dozen central andstate levies including exciseduty, service tax and VAT. Hesaid the product, in the previ-ous regime, didn't show you arepaying so much excise duty.

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ordered issuance of over 9,000face masks for its personneldeployed to guard the IGIAirport, the Delhi Metro andother Government Ministriesand installations here.

The Indian MedicalAssociation (IMA) issued anadvisory and conveying to theauthorities how poisonous thecity air has become to breath.

In a letter to the DelhiGovernment, the IMA wrotewhen Air Quality Index (AQI)levels cross 200, it is "general-ly advised" that time spentoutdoors be restricted. "Henceall outdoor sports, marathonsand other outdoor activities inschools should be stopped.Children are more prone toharmful effects of air pollutionas their lungs are still growing,"the letter said.

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sures like odd-even and banconstruction activities if pol-lution aggravates.

The measures also includecomplete closure of brick kilns,hot mix plants and stone crush-ers across the region till furthernotice.

When contacted, EPCAmember Sunita Narain said theorders are legally mandated.The decisions have been con-veyed to the chief secretaries ofStates who will in turn ensure

their implementation, she said."All these measures

are part of the GRAP. These arelegally mandated and will nothave to be cleared by anystanding committee," she said.

In fact, it was theEnvironment Ministry whichempowered the EPCA througha gazette notification to enforcethe Graded Response ActionPlan (GRAP) to combat airpollution in the Delhi-NCRregion.

However, Preeti Agarwal,North MCD mayor said, "The

matter (to enhance parkingfees) will be first brought to theHouse (of the corporation).Unless it is cleared, we cannotimplement it."

The NDMC officials saidthey cannot immediately com-ment on implementation of thedirective on hiking parkingfees.

"The plan will have to beplaced before the council whichwill deliberate on its feasibili-ty. Then only we will be able tocomment on the issue," a seniorNDMC official said.

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It’s not a poll time inChhattisgarh as yet. However,

the State unit of the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) is alreadybuckled up for ‘Mission 2018’.

‘We are gearing up for pollpreparations’, said BJP StatePresident Dharamlal Kaushik.

He further informed thatorganizational activities in theparty are already in momentumand district and Mandal levelunits are regularly conductingthe meetings all over the State.

Talking to The Pioneer,Kaushik said that the party tar-getting 41 assembly seats whereit doesn’t have its MLAs and willmake more efforts to win themback in the polls.

He said the ministers in theState Cabinet, Members ofParliament f and Chairpersons ofBoards and Corporations havebeen given the charge of assem-bly seats where the party does-n’t have its MLAs. “Special atten-tion would be given to these seatsand the In-charges appointedhave been asked to increaseorganizational activities there”, hesaid. Every possible effort wouldbe made to regain these seats inthe electionsslated in Nov-Dec2018. The BJP is eyeing 65 plusseats in the coming elections andthe organization would now bemade more active keeping in theview that the elections are nowclose, he said.

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The railway track developmentin the Bhupdevpur-

Gharghoda-Dharamjaygarh sec-tion under East Rail CorridorProject is expected to get com-plete by December 31, 2018, offi-cials informed.

Notably, the Centre hassigned a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) each withthe States of Odisha, Jharkhandand Chhattisgarh for criticalcoal connectivity projects toimprove transportation .

Agreement for World Bankloan of US $ 1100 million forEastern Dedicated FreightCorridor (DFC) (Phase-2) havealso been signed, they stated.

Freight train with speed of

maximum 100 kms per hour willpass through Chhattisgarh in theEast-West Corridor (Kolkata-Mumbai).

The train will traversethrough the States of WestBengal, Jharkhand, Odisha,Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra asthe Ministry of Railways hassanctioned implementation ofEastern Dedicated FreightCorridor (EDFC) and WesternDedicated Freight Corridor(WDFC) with freight trainspeeds of maximum 100 Kmph.

The Central government’sapproval for construction of 165km long third railway linebetween Anuppur and Katni inMadhya Pradesh is expected tofacilitate additional coal trans-portation traffic from parts of

Chhattisgarh.The coal transporation traf-

fic from IB valley, Korba area,East Corridor and Gevra -Pendra Road Project inChhattisgarh would be chan-nelized through the aforesaidroute to the respective destina-tions, officials stated.

The Centre has approved theproject at a cost of Rs 1595.76crore. The project is likely to becompleted in 5 ¼ years spanningover 12th and 13th plan period.

The Cabinet Committee ofEconomic Affairs, chaired by thePrime Minister Narendra Modi,has approved construction of sixRailway lines and a Railwaybridge to cater to both increasedpassenger and freight needs invarious areas of the country.

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The Supreme Court hearingthe legal tussle between the

Delhi Government andLieutenant-Governor onTuesday said that it is “practi-cally impossible” to contem-plate, under the Constitutionalscheme, a situation where the L-G's concurrence is requiredon every executive decisiontaken by the Delhi Government.

The observation came in thewake of a submission made bythe Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)Government questioning theinterference by L-G in all itsadministrative decisions. Senioradvocate Gopal Subramaniamwho appeared for the DelhiGovernment pointed out that ondecisions as innocuous asreforming Delhi Governmentschools, opening Mohalla clin-ics, or night shelters, the admin-istration of the State was helplessto implement any social welfaremeasure without getting L-G'snod. The L-G derives this powerto obtain his “concurrence” fromthe proviso to Article 239AA(4)of the Constitution.

The five-judge Bench head-ed by Chief Justice Dipak Misrasaid, “the provision as weunderstand is to bring somekind of harmony between theL-G and the Chief Minister. The

difference of opinion betweenthe Government and L-G can'tbe a day-to-day affair.”

Although the Centre is yetto argue on the issue, the Bench,also comprising Justices AKSikri, AM Khanwilkar, DYChandrachud and AshokBhushan, said, “The balancemust be there between L-G andthe administrative head. TheChief Minister and otherMinisters also have been givena role under the Constitution. It'sdefined where they cannot makelaws. That's where interventionof L-G comes in. But interven-tion does not mean every timeI must concur with the decision.”

Justice Bhushan added, “Itwould be practically impossibleto contemplate that concur-rence was meant to be in eachand every matter.” Following theCourt's observations,Subramanium got buoyedpointing out how the L-G exer-cises direct control over bureau-

crats by calling for files andtelling them to obey his orders.

The AAP Government'ssubmission that it enjoyedLegislative and Executive con-trol over the Capital was reject-ed by the Delhi High Court. Itinterpreted the provision toArticle 239AA(4) to mean thatthe decision communicated bythe Government to L-G mustmeet his concurrence for allmatters other than police, lawand order, and land.

The apex Bench observed,“In case of a difference of opin-ion, the L-G has ultimate powerto refer the matter to Presidentof India. He cannot supplant theadministration. He may say Idon't agree and refer. This is anoverriding power given to L-G.But can this difference of opin-ion be on each and everyadministrative decision? Afterall, both are constitutional func-tionaries.” The arguments willcontinue on Wednesday.

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It may be a “no wave” election,but the Congress in

Himachal Pradesh is looking atan “honourable defeat” ratherthan a second consecutive termfor Virbhadra Singh, popular-ly known as Raja Sahib in thehill State.

As campaigns ended onTuesday, the debate in theCongress circles was limited tohow many seats would the partyconsider as “honourable defeat”.There was unanimity that if thegrand old party won 25 of the 68seats, the honour of the partyand its leadership would remainintact and its cadres would havesomething to look for in thefuture.

The BJP, on the other hand,is excited, thrilled and is antic-ipating a massive win. HamirpurMP Anurag Thakur told ThePioneer that the party was on itsway to get 54 seats. He cited sev-eral numerological statistics forthe Number 9 which is lucky forparty's Chief Ministerial candi-date Prem Kumar Dhumal. Thisincluded the time when his

name was announced as CMface of the party, the date of birthof Dhumal and many aspectsrelated to the 73-year-old twotime Chief Minister.

“Numerology is one thing.But the sheer absence of gover-nance in the last five years fromthe Himachal hinterland was themain factor which is propellingthe BJP and has given it a majormomentum,” the MP said. “Justgo and see the developmentindices-roads, drinkingwater…and you will realise howbadly the Government has per-formed,” said the three-timeMP, who is himself addressingeight-nine meetings in a day.

What is helping the BJP isthe involvement of veteranShanta Kumar in the Kangraregion which has 16 seats. In the2012 Assembly polls, Kumar wasnot happy with the ticket dis-tribution and did not campaigneffectively and BJP won just 3seats.

“This time, he is wholeheartedly involved and therewould be a four-fold jump in thenumber of seats in the Kangraregion,” a senior party leader,adding “dramatic improvement

in Kangra itself would take usbeyond the magic number”.

The lower hills, consideredto be the bastion of BJP due tothe political charisma of Dhumaland Thakur, is behind the partyas usual. People in the belt fromPunjab border of Himachal,which is from Una to the inte-riors of Hamirpur, do not evenhide their political inclinations.“Just see this fluttering flag andyou will realise which way thewind is blowing,” said, NafeSingh, a 45-year-old shopkeep-er of Bhota, pointing towards theLotus flag of the party on top ofhis shop. His friend PremSharma too echoed the samesentiments. “We are sniffing a

wave here for the party”, Sharmaadded.

The BJP has carpet bombedthe entire State with a series ofpolitical rallies of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi where he hascontinuously targeted Virbhadrafor corruption and inefficiency.This has found traction evenamongst the Congress sympa-thisers. Then several rallies byHome Minister Rajnath Singh,UP Chief Minister YogiAdityanath, Union MinisterSmriti Irani and others in everynook and corner of the State hasbuilt the momentum.

“It's a BJP Government inthe Centre and we need a BJPGovernment in the State too to

reap the benefits. It's not a ques-tion of merely change ofGovernment. It will benefitevery Himachali,” said Monu, a25-year-old driver who claims heis not committed to any partybut would vote as per the situ-ation. “And undoubtedly, thistime, the situation demandsthat a BJP government comes topower,” he added.

In the upper hills, Shimladistrict and the apple belt, thearea from where Virbhadra hailsfrom, there is a no antipathy towards the six-timeChief Minister. “He is a doer andis popular in the belt. He will winhands down in Arki despitechanging his constituency,” saidMahesh Inder a 60-year-oldsmall dhaba owner on the mainArki road. Himself a BJP sym-pathiser, Inder has apprecia-tion for the work style of “RajaSaheb”. “He is accessible and alsohas the charisma associatedwith royalty in this part of theState,” summed up the dhabaowner. His son, who assists himin work, nods in agreement.

But Virbhadra Singh isfighting a lonely battle-all alone.The support from the party has

been minimal. “He is putting in15-16 hours a day in cam-paigning and that too mainly byroad,” summed up an aide.

In the Congress Bhawan onCart Road in Shimla, the mood is still upbeat as there areareas designated for campaign insocial media, researchers are sitting and analysing speech-es and the young cadres and pro-fessionals are trying their best tocounter the BJP juggernaut.

“We are giving a tough fightin each and every seat. You namea seat and we are there,” saidHarish Bafna from AICC inNew Delhi, coordinating elec-tioneering in the hill State. Ateam of researchers and AICCobservers spread in all 68 con-stituencies is briefing their boss-es in Shimla on the develop-ments to prepare a counterstrategy.

But in the State, there is agradual agreement that the lastpolitical battle for VirbhadraSingh would simply be a farewellfunction for him and his dreamof becoming the Chief Ministerfor the seventh time wouldremain in the realm of dreamonly.

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Terming the NDAGovernment’s demoneti-

sation move as the biggestscam of the century, theCongress has geared up formassive protest across thecountry to observe November8 as Black Day. The party hasalso written to otherOpposition parties to join thedemonstration schedules atmajor headquarters and Statecapitals on Wednesday.

In the national Capital, theCongress will form a humanchain during the day encirclingthe outer circle of ConnaughtPlace.

“Last year, the PrimeMinister, on November 8, tookan ill-conceived and hasty deci-sion of demonetisation. Tohighlight the Government'sfailure with regard to thescheme, 18 Opposition partieswill hold protests in their ownform in various StateAssemblies and in Parliament,”AICC chief spokesmanRandeep Surjewala said.

The Congress last weekwas joined by TrinamoolCongress member and RajyaSabha MP Derek O' Brien andrebel Janata Dal (U) leaderSharad Yadav to announce thedecision.

The Congress will alsosubmit memorandum to PrimeMinister's Office demandingfamilies who lost their mem-bers during demonetisation bepaid �25 lakh as compensationand the next of kin be given ajob.

“The people of the countryhad put their faith in the PrimeMinister, but they have beenbetrayed. There were no ben-efits of demonetisation, butonly losses. There was unem-ployment, development cameto a standstill and farmers arefeeling harassed,” said seniorparty leader and Uttar PradeshCongress chief Raj Babbar.

The decision to hold thenationwide protests was takenat a coordination committeemeeting held on Monday.“Eighteen Opposition partieswill hold protests and observeBlack Day across the country intheir own way,” said Surjewala.

The party said the ill con-ceived demonetisation claimed

120 lives due to problems aris-ing out of demonetisation intheir life. The party remarkedthat India was brought onto thestreets due to the PrimeMinister's sudden announce-ment on November 8 last yearto demonetise higher curren-cy notes.

“The Government claimedthat unemployment, funds toterrorists and black moneyproblems would be solved dueto demonetisation but nothingof that sort has happened.Within weeks, new notes werefound with militants, unem-ployment has not reduced. Infact, the Government, whichhad promised 10 crore jobs hasresulted in making another 10crore people unemployed,” theparty said in a statement.

On the day when formerPM Manmohan Singh reiterat-ed demonetisation to be biggestloot and plunder, Congresshailed Singh that he had pre-dicted the drop in the economypost-demonetisation. “Evidenceto Singh's prediction is that theRBI's statement that 99 per centof the old currency notes is backin circulation. The black moneyproblem has also not beensolved,” Surjewala said.

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The indigenously designedand manufactured Nirbhay

— a long range sub-soniccruise missile — was success-fully test fired by the DefenceResearch and DevelopmentOrganisation (DRDO) onTuesday at the Integrated TestRange (ITR) at Chandipur,Odisha.

The missile has the capa-bility to loiter and cruise at 0.7Mach, at altitudes as low as 100metres and the flight testachieved all the mission objec-tives completely from lift-off tillthe final splash, officials saidhere adding it boosted theconfidence of all scientistsassociated with the trial. Thetest was significant as four tri-als had failed or were abortedafter technical defects.

The missile fired by theITR range on Tuesday cruisedfor a total time duration of 50minutes, achieving the range of647 km, the DRDO statementsaid adding the missile took-offin the programmed mannerand all critical operations vizlaunch phase, booster deploy-ment, engine start, wingdeployment and other opera-tional parameters were demon-strated through autonomousway point navigation.

The guidance, control andnavigation system of the missileis configured around the indige-nously designed Ring LaserGyroscope (RLG) and MEMSbased Inertial NavigationSystem (INS) along with GPSsystem, the statement added.The missile was tracked with the

help of ground based radars andother parameters were moni-tored by indigenous telemetrystations developed by DRDO.

Defence Minister NirmalaSitharaman hailed the successof the DRDO scientists andsaid she was optimistic that thissuccessful trial will take Indiato the select league of nationspossessing this complex tech-nology and sub-sonic cruisemissile capability. ChairmanDRDO Dr S Christopher alongwith other senior scientistsand user representatives fromArmy witnessed the launchand congratulated the team.

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As security forces reported-ly killed nephew of

Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)chief Maulana Masood Azharon Monday in an encounter inKashmir, Army chief GeneralBipin Rawat said here onTuesday “it does not matter ifhe is Azhar's nephew or anyoneelse.” The aim of the forces is toneutralise terrorists “irrespec-tive” where they came from,Rawat said adding the recoveryof a US-made M-4 rif le during the encounter clearlyindicates that terrorists are getting support from across theborder.

Reiterating that the mainobjective of the security forcesis to contain terrorism inJammu & Kashmir, Rawat saidhere on the sidelines of a func-tion “it doesn't matter if he isMasood Azhar's nephew oranyone else.”

Allegedly responsible formasterminding the terroristattack on Pathankot airbase lastyear besides several other inci-dents, Azhar is based in

Pakistan. India has repeated-ly made efforts to list Azhar asa global terrorist under the UNanti-terror laws but China hasblocked the move.

Azhar was released alongwith two other terrorists —Sheikh Omar and MushtaqZargar — in exchange for pas-sengers of IC-814 IndianAirlines plane, which washijacked and taken toKandahar on December 31,1999.

Meanwhile Rawat's com-ment on US-made M-4 carbinehinting that Pakistan had sup-plied it to terrorist assumes sig-nificance as this weapon isused by US-led NATO forces inAfghanistan and Iraq.Pakistan's Special Forces alsouse this rifle and officials herebelieve that Pakistan Armysupplied the rifles to JeM.

They also said it was thefirst time that a US madeweapon was recovered inKashmir and fear that at leastten such rifles were smuggledinto the state by terrorists whoinfiltrated from across the Lineof Control(LOC).

New Delhi: India and Belgiumon Tuesday explored ways tofurther strengthen bilateral tiesincluding trade during talksbetween visiting Belgian KingPhilippe and Prime MinisterNarendra Modi here. TheBelgian royal couple arrived inthe country on a seven-daystarting Sunday. It is his firstState visit to India following hisascension to the throne in 2013.

Ahead of the meeting withModi, External Affairs MinisterSushma Swaraj called on the vis-iting dignitary.

Modi and the Belgian king,who is accompanied by sixMinisters and a high poweredbusiness delegation comprisingCEOs of 86 Belgian companies,held talks in Hyderabad House.

India is Belgium's secondlargest export destination and

third largest trade partner out-side EU, according to officialdata. In 2016-17, bilateral tradeamounted to USD 13.28 billion.While exports from India toBelgium accounted for USD5.65 billion, imports fromBelgium accounted for USD6.62 billion.

“Swaraj called on HisMajesty The King Philippe ofBelgium. Engaging conversationon expanding warm and friend-ly bilateral relations,” ExternalAffairs Ministry spokespersonRaveesh Kumar tweeted.

The visit will furtherstrengthen the historical strongties between the two countries,the Ministry had said ahead ofthe visit. Philippe and his wife,Queen Mathilde, were accord-ed a ceremonial reception atRashtrapati Bhavan. PNS

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Aday after China objected toDefence Minister Nirmala

Sitharaman's visit to forwardareas in Arunachal Pradesh,Army Chief General BipinRawat brushed aside the criti-cism and said here on Tuesdaythe Defence Minister goes toareas across the country wheretroops are deployed and it actsas motivation for the soldiers.

His observation came inthe backdrop of China sayingon Monday that Sitharaman’svisit to the disputed sector onthe border “is not conducive topeace and tranquility.”

The Minister on Sundayvisited the forward Army postsin the remote Anjaw district ofArunachal Pradesh borderingChina to take stock of defencepreparedness. Defending hertour, the Army chief said theDefence Minister undertakesthese visits to meet soldiers andunderstand various issues. “Ithink visits by the DefenceMinister are always a source ofmotivation,” Rawat said on thesidelines of an event here.

Incidentally, it was the firstvisit of Sitharaman toArunachal since she assumedcharged as Defence Ministertwo months back. Chinaclaimed she visited a disputedarea as it believes Arunachal tobe part of South Tibet and rou-tinely objects to top Indian offi-cials visit there.

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Swaraj Abhiyan leadersPrashant Bhushan and

Yogendra Yadav on Tuesdayaccused CBI Special DirectorRakesh Asthana of acceptinghuge money from controversialcompany Sterling Biotech,booked by CBI for bribingIncome-Tax officials and �5000cr bank fraud.

Producing certain portionsof the bribe payout diariesseized from the company in thepress conference here, Bhushanand Yadav said the diary entriesexpose that Asthana tookaround �3.5 crore from theSterling Biotech.

In the Press conference, theleaders said the Government'sdecision to celebrate 'Anti-BlackMoney Day' is just a joke, citingmany cases of black money trailby corporate, including therecently leaked 'Paradise Papers'.

Bhushan alleged that Asthanawas Police Commissioner inSurat in 2011, when he regular-ly accepted money favours fromthe Gujarat based SterlingBiotech and Sandesara Group ofcompanies.

Blaming the governmentfor promoting Asthana asSpecial Director, Bhushanpointed out that his tenure inthe agency is untenable, whenthe CBI has registered twoFIRs against the company. FirstFIR was registered against

many senior Income-Tax offi-cers whose name was in thebribe payout Diaries, whereAsthana's name was alsoinvolved.

Bhushan also said in manycases Modi Government is notat all acting and claims on anti-corruptions were just fake.“The Government must roll-back retrograde changes inpolitical funding laws, insistedmake new laws to check blackmoney,” said the SwarajAbhiyan leaders.

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New Delhi: A day before thedemonetisation anniversary,the National InvestigationAgency (NIA) on Tuesdayseized over �36 crore in demon-etised currency notes, linked tofinancing of terrorist and sep-aratist activities in Jammu &Kashmir, and arrested ninepersons.

Seven people were inter-cepted by an NIA team inConnaught Place area onMonday when they were car-rying 28 cartons filled withdemonetised �1,000 and �500notes in four vehicles — BMWX3, Hyundai Creta SX, FordEcoSport and BMW X1, anNIA spokesperson said.

They were brought to theNIA headquarters for ques-tioning, he said, adding that�36.34 crore in demonetisedcurrency notes was seized fromthem. Later in the evening, twoother members of the gang wereapprehended. “After initialquestioning, nine people werearrested today in the Jammuand Kashmir terror fundingcase and they will be producedin a special NIA court tomor-row,” an official said.

The arrested persons areDelhi residents PradeepChauhan, Bhagwan Singh andVinod Shreedhar Shetty,Deepak Toprani of Mumbai,Ejajul Hassan of Amroha,Jaswinder Singh of Nagpur,and Jammu & Kashmir-resi-dents Umar Mushtaq Dar(Pulwama), Shahnawaz Mir(Srinagar) and Majid YousufSofi (Anantnag).

The spokesperson said thatagency got an input about theiractivities while investigating acase relating to the financing ofterror activities in Kashmir.

During the probe, he said,it emerged that people andentities linked to separatistsand terrorists were still in pos-session of a significant amountof demonetised currency notesthat could not be converted intonew ones.

“Surveillance was mountedon such persons and entities.This led to unearthing of a con-spiracy wherein a gang of suchpersons were making anattempt to convert this demon-etised money into valid cur-rency notes,” the official said.

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Both China’s Supreme Leader XiJinping and Prime MinisterNarendra Modi have claimedvictory over Doklam. It is partof a gentleman’s agreement cob-

bled together on August 28 not to contra-dict each other over Doklam. The disen-gagement at Doklam was just a tacticalpause to allow Xi to hold the Bimstec sum-mit and then be crowned King Xi at the19th Party Congress. Coercion and a strat-egy of presenting a fait accompli did notwork against Bhutan thanks to India butit did in the Spratly Islands in the SouthChina Sea due to non-intervention by adeclining US which is supposed to be thenet security provider for the region. Xi,declared mentor and core leader, andheaped with titles and honorifics that willfill a page, and his thoughts and princi-ples for ‘socialism with Chinese charac-teristics for a new era’ enshrined in theconstitution by name, will return with thePeople’s Liberation Army (PLA) instrength soon; not necessarily to Doklambut elsewhere along the disputed borderdue to the centrality that China assigns towhat it considers its territorial integrity.

It is only a matter of time before Xi’sportrait adorns Tiananmen Square and hisvisage replaces Mao Tse-tung’s on Chinesebanknotes. The cult of personality couldwell supersede the cult of the party. Still,in the restructuring of the governing anddecision-making architecture it was not allXi’s way. The Politburo StandingCommittee (PSC), the highest leadershipcouncil which was expected to change insize neither rose to nine nor dropped tofive but stayed at seven members. Therewere surprises — chiefly, the omission ofthe rising star and Xi ally, the 57-year oldChen Miner, who was expected to performa pole vault rising from CentralCommittee to PSC. Some other Xifavourites were also excluded — includ-ing Wang Qishan, the crusader for Xi’santi-corruption campaign. In the final lineup, two nominees each were formerPresidents’ (Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin)men, leaving two Xi loyalists and, includ-ing Xi, making the Great Seven. With nosuccessor in sight, it could be ChairmanXi for life.

Unlike the PSC, Xi was able to stackthe reduced Central Military Commission(CMC), from 10 to six members, with hisfavourite Generals. Two prominent mendealing with India have been promoted.General Zhao Zonqi, Western ArmyCommander responsible for the entireIndia front, was elevated to the CentralCommittee. The seasoned diplomat andSpecial Representative for border talkswith India, Yang Jeichi, was elevated to the25-member politburo. The CMC, whichis headed by Xi, is led by Gen Xu Qiliang

and includes other reformers like LiZuocheng who will head the joint staffdepartment. It seems Xi had little diffi-culty in reconstituting the officer corps byinclusion of persons with a zeal forreform and loyalty to him and removingthose who did not qualify through theprocess of ‘economic reform’, a euphemismfor corruption charges.

Border intrusions like Depsang,Chumar and Doklam — the first twolinked to state visits of top leaders — andthe history of uncertain civil-militaryrelations in China have prompted Xi torecover and retain tight control over thePLA, iterating it as the armed wing of theChinese Communist Party and makingloyalty to the party essential to ensure thatthe power flowing from the barrel of thegun is duly authorised. The People’s Dailycarried full page advertisements about loy-alty of the PLA to the Chinese CommunistParty. A clear separation of power and itscontrol and use is being attempted by Xi.He embarked on military reforms and haspurged the officer corps, especially at high-er command levels, appointing as many as135 generals of his choice. 60 Generalswere relieved and nearly 5,000 officerspunished. Macro and micro reforms wereundertaken. The reformed military depart-ments like General Staff, Logistics,Equipment and Political were placeddirectly under the CMC. The seven mili-tary regions are restructured as five the-atre commands consisting of 13 grouparmies with five group armies disbanded.The focus of realigning the PLA is on mod-

ernisation and streamlining — by 2020,incorporating joint commands; by 2035,ensuring an info-technology based PLAand by 2050, a world — class military.

China watchers say that Xi does nothave a grand strategy for resurrectingChina’s ancient power which is describedas the China dream of rejuvenation —Making China Great Again. So far, Chinahas amassed economic wealth throughdouble-digit growth for the last threedecades and has a GDP of $12 trillion andwill likely overtake US economy in sizeby 2025. Xi realises that China is a wealthycountry which needs a strong Armywhich is combat-ready. The PLA lackscombat experience — the last war itfought was with Vietnam in 1979 withonly two officers now in the CMC hav-ing fought as company commandersthen. The challenge is to match USprowess in military technology, thoughChina’s feats in technology and innova-tion are pretty impressive especially inspace, aviation, cyberwar, UAV and sub-surface capabilities.

Xi in his three-and-a-half-hour-longspeech at the party congress with JiangZemin seated on his left yawning andcounting time, said China was not a threatto any country. The question remainswhether China’s peaceful rise — hide yourstrength; bide your time — is over nowgiven an assertive and ambitious globalstrategy. Despite the US’s inward-lookingpolicy and declining profile, it will notyield easily to a rising China. The GreekGeneral Thucydides said as established

power will resist a rising power — thegrowth of the power of Athens and thealarm which this inspired in Sparta madewar inevitable. In 5th century BC therewere no nuclear weapons as the ultimatedeterrent. China’s dream of a unipolar Asiahas revived the US-Japan-India-AustraliaQuadrilateral, killed in 2007 by Australia.Beijing’s envoy to Washington, CuiTiankai, has warned against attempts tocontain China through sale of US militaryhardware to India or the formation of an‘exclusive club in the Indo-Pacific region’.India has to weigh up the utility of strate-gic fence-sitting with the likely un-peace-ful posturing by PLA. Should New Delhiconsider a strategic alignment not analliance? As US Secretary of State RexTillerson said recently, China while risingalongside India, has done so less respon-sibly, at times undermining the interna-tional rule-based order.

India should quietly shift the focusof its military modernisation programmefrom the Pakistani threat and prepare tocounter China, which is rapidly con-structing military-civil infrastructure.Doklam was on terrain highly advanta-geous to India. PLA can create adversesituations along the LAC in disputedpockets where it will present a faitaccompli. While India can sometimesprevent an intrusion, it does not have theresources to vacate aggression.

(The writer is a retired Major Generalof the Indian Army and founder memberof the Defence Planning Staff, currently therevamped Integrated Defence Staff)H

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Sir — This refers to the article, “Acentury after the rising” (November6) by Kushan Mitra. How archaiccapitalism made poor children workas chimney sweeps in the UnitedKingdom after the industrial revo-lution (who can forget OliverTwist?), gives us enough reasons totip our hats to the RussianRevolution on its centenary this year.

We need to acknowledge that amodern welfare state, that ensuressocial security for its citizens, is moreinclined to a socialist state than apolice state. This is the reason whythe Constitution has absorbed thespirit of socialism in its veryPreamble as well as in the DirectivePrinciples of state policy. But whymust we be socialist? SwamiVivekananda had given a very clearanswer, “I am a socialist not becauseI think it is a perfect system, but halfa loaf is better than no bread.”

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Sir — The arrest of freelance car-toonist G Bala for caricaturingTamil Nadu Chief MinisterEdappadi Palaniswami,Thirunelveli District Collector(a glorified clerk) and city policecommissioner was deplorable. Itwas an overreaction that couldhave been avoided. There wasnothing distasteful or obsceneabout the cartoon critiquing theState Government for its unfor-givable failure to save the lives ofa family of four that immolatedthemselves. The cartoon was acartoonist’s response to a heart-

rending tragedy.A cartoonist is no respecter of

persons. It is rightly said that a car-toon is worth a thousand words.Clearly, those who were behindBala’s arrest had no sense of humourto appreciate the cartoon and takeit in the right spirit. The defamationcase registered against the cartoon-ist was to demoralise him and deterothers from drawing cartoons that“demean” public figures.

Lampooning politicians andother wielders of power is the verysoul of the craft of cartooning.Cartoons like the one Bala drew area norm in free societies. Bala’s casehas once again underlined thatthere is still far less freedom ofexpression than democracy needs.

G David MiltonMaruthancode

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Sir— This refers to editorial,“Don’t debut with a dud”(November 4). Kamal Haasan’sHindu terror remark, without ten-able evidences, is outrageous andunacceptable. Such pernicious ref-erence is not expected from a film-maker like him. It really hurts thesentiments of the majority com-munity which constitutes 80 percent of the entire population. Itseems that he is well influencedand inspired by Left secularistsfrom Kerala, ruled by the commu-nists. The nation expects satisfac-tory clarification of his remark. Itis well-known to him, who are theterrorists in our country.

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On this day a year ago,the nation was shakenas Prime MinisterNarendra Modiannounced banning of

�1,000 and �500 currency notes. Thenation continues to debate whetherit was a good decision or not. A casheconomy was forced to virtuallycome to a standstill for the promiseof a digital economy, for which thenation was not fully prepared. Somenew digital payment modes madeenormous profits while transac-tions became expensive with com-missions of 1 to 2.5 per cent pertransaction.

The poor hoped that it was allfor achhe din despite their toil in ser-pentine queues before the banks formeagre �2,500 and later �4,500 incash. The ATMs were not opera-tional as the new currency notes didnot fit the dispensers. Reportedly,over 1,000 citizens lost their liveswhile standing in queues. As thenote-change process stoppedabruptly on December 31 instead ofin March, it sent another shockwave.The poor lost again. Many stillholding banned notes queued upbefore the Reserve Bank of India.Small businesses, daily wagers, farmlabourers, shops, restaurants, farm-ing activities, barbers and grocers…all came to a virtual halt. Many smallentrepreneurs shut their establish-ments. Still, hopes on and the stockof Prime Minister Narendra Modiwere on a high. Everybody thoughtthat it was a surgical strike on theblack money. The hope was that acleaner polity and society wouldemerge. Uttar Pradesh voted over-whelmingly for the Prime Minister'sparty in this expectation.

A year after, hunt for blackmoney is getting more intense. Theincome-tax department is focusing onlarge cash deposits, failing to under-stand that all the cash deposited wasnot black; in fact, it has started aninspectorate system and that again hasimpeded normal business activity. Itappears the political wisdom wasoverwhelmed by bureaucratic machi-nations. Those at the end of such raidsfind that many are unnecessarilyharassed. Even village mahajans andfarmers are not being spared. They allsay that the issue gets “settled” for aprice. Demonetisation adverselyimpacted many farm markets. Potatoand vegetable growers were hit hardas the wholesalers did not have cash.The rural economy is yet to come upto the pre-note-ban level. Potatogrowers from UP to West Bengalremain at the receiving end. Ruralmasons today are prepared to workfor half their wages of around �500a day that they were getting a year ago.The country has yet to be monetized.And many who had old notes areawaiting a Supreme Court decision toexchange their money. They ask ifsaving in cash was a crime. There arewomen who had saved out of theirhusbands' or sons' tax-paid income.Amounts saved varied. In some afflu-ent families it was up to �50 lakh andin the not-so-affluent in several thou-sands. These women want to knowwhy they should be punished in termsof inviting harassment for first keep-ing and then being forced to exchangelegal tender.

The Government says that it haspaid dividend in tax earnings. It

increased the number of taxpayers from 63.7 lakhin 2015-16 to 80.7 lakh in 2016-17. About �10 lakhcrore more was earned too, it adds. The EconomicSurvey (Volume II), however, says that all thisincrease cannot be attributed to demonetization andis part of the natural-trend increase in new taxpay-ers. The Survey that says the new numbers are com-parable to the pre-demonetisation period; post-demonetisation it notices an addition of about 5.4lakh taxpayers, one per cent of all individual taxpay-ers. The addition to the reported taxable income was�10,600 crore. “The average income reported of thenew taxpayers was �2.7 lakh, “not far above the taxthreshold of �2.5 lakh”. It means only those at thelower end of the income threshold have joinedthe taxpayer bandwagon, may be as they nat-urally graduated to the tax-paying level or justto avoid harassment. Though the latestGovernment figures show some improve-ments in economic activity, still the fear ofslow GDP growth lurks. The official figuresof low inflation are a bit different fromactual prices, particularly of vegetablesand edible items, fuel, textile and other essential commodityprices.

The linking of Aadhar has alsobecome an issue including that ofbanking security. The move hasbeen challenged and the SupremeCourt is seized of the matter. TheUIDAI is also a bit alarmed andhas suggested a payments systemregulator to allay digital theftfears. Many irregular digital pay-ments have been reported acrossthe country. People resent manyrestrictions like the recent IndianRailway proposal to restrict oneAadhar to 12 tickets, linking ofphones, bank accounts and virtu-ally every movement. TheGovernment forgets that such linkagesachieve little though cost on governanceincrease manifold. The 12 crore Aadharauthentications cited by the Governmentbefore the apex court burdens the exche-quer. The internet is not free.

Even worse, despite banks getting hugeJan Dhan deposits they are unable to man-age such funds. It has resulted in a drastic cutin deposit interest rates, though not so muchin lending rates. Senior citizens, women andother vulnerable sections feel that banks arepauperizing them. Despite an atrocious risein bank charges — the numbers of freecheque leaves have been halved, levies onminimum deposits, higher transactioncharges for money transfers — the banksremain in bad health. Their NPAs since 2008are over �12 lakh crore; almost half has beenwritten off. The Economic Survey (Volume I)says that largest beneficiaries of the lendingboom post 2008 were 50 large business hous-es. These are the issues, many of which werehanded down to the Government by the pre-vious regime, that need tackling.Demonetisation only added to the banking costof replacing the old notes. It is a huge opera-tion and the country is spending over �30,000crore for such replacement, recalibration ofATMs and remonetisation.

Except for a miniscule tax amountaccruing to the Government, the gains ofdemonetisation are limited. It also raises thequestion whether cash flow in the system forfaster economic activity is more importantrather than slowing down economic activ-ity through expensive and, to an extentexclusive, digital payments. Digital paymentfacility is a necessity for the modernworld, of course, and we must be take slowand steady steps on that path, but it shouldnot be the sine qua non for a country likeIndia where there is a great disparity intransaction methods and access to technol-ogy. Even Western economies are driven bycash. Cash should not be treated as unholy.

(The writer is a senior journalist)

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Power Ministers, bureaucratsand technocrats from differ-

ent States and Union Territorieswill converge to hold brainstorming sessions in Rajgir onFriday and Saturday. The UnionMinister of State for Power &Renewable Energy and BiharChief Minister Nitish Kumar willaddress the inaugural address atthe International ConventionCentre.

This is the first time thatBihar is hosting such a con-ference for which Bihar EnergyMinister Bijendra PrasadYadav had extended invitationat the last meeting in Delhi last

May. Bihar has made tremen-dous progress in this sectorduring the past few years andits efforts have been appreci-ated by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi publicly.

Minister Yadav andPrincipal Secretary PratyayaAmrit on Tuesday informedthat on the first day of the two-day conference works in Bihar inpower sector would be project-ed and thoroughly discussed.Nitish would also inaugurate, layfoundation stone and unveilvarious energy schemes worth�8,823 crore. They include 400KV grid sub stations atBakhtiarpur, Naubatpur andJakkanpur, 220 KV grids at

Raxual, Korha, Karmnasha andDumraon and others. The foun-dation for grid sub stations of 400KV at Sitamarhi, Saharsa andChandauti would be laid whichare being commissioned by thePower Grid Company.

Yadav suggested that Centreshould formulate a policy forinstallation of roof top solarenergy equipments at primary,middle and high schools apartfrom the panchayat buildings.Amrit said that 11 State Ministerswould be taken to Adhaura inKaimur and Bhikna Thodi inWest Champaran by helicoptersand be showed how power hasreached the hillocks and theriverine areas for the first time.

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The birthday festivities ofKamal Haassan, the ageing

superstar of Tamil films turnedout to be an anti-climax as theactor failed to give any insightinto the political party which hewas planning to launch. “I am inpolitics and I will launch a polit-ical party. But I am yet to finalise

the manifesto or the name of theparty. My dream is to create agood Tamil Nadu,” Haasan toldreporters at Chennai on Tuesday.

The day happened to be the63rd birthday of the actor who ison a collision course with theAIADMK Government in TamilNadu. Though he had declaredthat he would announce thedetails of his proposed politicalparty on his birthday, the actor

developed cold feet by Tuesdayand refused to divulge any detailsabout the political entity.

Haasan said he wouldundertake a State-wide tourfrom January next year. “I wouldlike to interact with the people ofthe State and understand theirproblems. Once I complete theinteraction, I’ll have an ideaabout the kind of party which Ishould launch,” he said.

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In poll bound Karnatakasnooping and phone tapping

seems to be making news. AfterWater Resources Minister MBPatil, it’s now the turn ofKarnataka Power Minister DKShivakumar to allege his phone

too has been tapped. However,the Minister did not name any-one in this episode.Shivakumar, a powerfulCongress Minister said hisphone had been tapped and hewas ‘followed where ever hewent’.

“My phone has been

tapped, too,” Shivakumar toldreporters on Tuesday. “I’m beingfollowed every day. I’m beingpursued wherever I go,” he said.

It is quite surprising thatShivakumar made this allega-tion just the day after WaterResources Minister MB Patilcomplained to Chief Minister

Siddaramaiah that his and hisfamily members phone havebeen tapped by the CentralGovernment.

However, a powerfulVokkaliga Congress leaderShivakumar did not specifywho was tapping his phone.“Many agencies are authorisedto tap phones. How can I saywho did it,” he said. “But suchattempts are on ever since Icame to power.”

Income Tax sleuths author-ities raided Shivakumar's homefor three consecutive days inAugust, even as the Congressstrongman was hosting over 40party legislators from Gujaratwho camped in a resort outsideBengaluru.

Shivakumar and his familymembers were summoned bythe IT department on Mondayfor an ongoing probe.

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Looking to replicate trans-port modes in popular

European locales in Franceand Italy, Union Minister forRoad Transport & Highways,Shipping and WaterResources, RiverDevelopment & GangaRejuvenation Nitin Gadkarispelled out the need to moveaway from conventional andpolluting road transport torail, water and electric modesof commuting.

Gadkari, who was in Goato conduct a review meeting ofall major ports and otherUnion shipping Ministryagencies, also said that therewould be an increased focuson creation of liquid cargo-handling infrastructure inexisting ports.

The Union Minister forRoad Transport, Highways

and Shipping said that Indiashould emulate France, whichhas excelled at using elec-tronic modes of transport,like rope-ways, cable-cardsand funicular runways.

“France alone has around5,000 rope-ways, cable carand funicular runway... Wecan undertake thousands ofprojects in hilly areas. Insteadof using diesel, we can useelectricity,” Gadkari toldreporters after chairing thereview meeting at a SouthGoa resort.

The Minister said that therecently formed Indian PortRail Corporation had beenasked to conduct a study of allglobally existing safety andconstruction norms for suchprojects and recommend aframework of laws for thecountry.

For Goa, Gadkari laid outa vision of Venice, saying like

in the fairy-tale Italian city,Goa should also look at con-necting its airports to a water-way, so that tourists could hopoff a plane and then take a boatto their respective hotels.

Gadkari also said that theShipping Ministry would lookat creating infrastructure forthe burgeoning liquid cargoimport, especially those likeLNG, LPG, methanol, CNGand edible oils and setting upof logistic parks at majorports.

"At the meeting, wedecided to focus on creationof liquid cargo handling infra-structure. Chennai, Paradipand Vizag will also have majorlogisgics parks," Gadkari said.

Transportation of liquidcargo was bulky, unsafe andenvironmentally unfriendly, hesaid, adding that there was aneed to shift transportation ofliquid cargo by waterways.

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RJD chief Lalu Prasad creat-ed sorts of flutter in the

political spectrum by appoint-ing a self styled tantrik as hisparty’s spokesman but theOpposition mounted attack onhim for invoking witchcraft inpolitical affairs.

In course of organisation-al election, Lalu announced theappointment of Chitrakootbased Shankar Charan Tripathias RJD’s national spokesman.Tripathi had earlier been pre-senting programme on Jyotishand forecasts on a private newschannel. Forecasting break upof JD(U)’s alliance with the BJPvery soon, Lalu declared, “I willdefeat my enemies with thehelp of tantra-mantra. Tripathiwill help me to counter theattacks from extremists.”

However, Tripathi who was

earlier a deputy commissionersales tax in Uttar Pradesh hadbeen accused of sexuallyexploiting his daughter-in-law.She had filed case with womenpolice station at Faizabad (UP).

Chief Minister NitishKumar refused to comment ontantrik but Deputy CM SushilKumar Modi sarcastically retal-iated, “Lalu should haveappointed tantrik as party chiefand not just spokesman. Hespent his entire life in makingjokes and nothing serious canbe expected from him.”

It is believed that Lalu dis-carded wearing white kurtaand now dons colourful attireat the advice of Tripathi andalso changed the direction ofthe entrance.

“Jail is in his kundali andno tantrik can save him,” saidJD(U) spokesman SanjaySingh.

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Aday after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi called on

DMK patriarch and formerChief Minister M Karunanidhiat his Chennai residence, polit-ical Tamil Nadu saw the firstrepercussions of the event.

On Tuesday, MK Alagiri,elder son of Karunanidhi andwho is a former Union Ministerfor Chemicals and Fertilisers,sprang a surprise by writing anemotional letter profuselythanking Prime Minister Modifor the pleasant visit to his par-ents and highly praising him forhis vision and commitment tothe nation.

In a letter filled with emo-tions and gratitude, Alagiri, whowas not present when the PMcalled on the ailing Karunanidhiat the latter’s Gopalapuram res-idence on Monday said he wasoverwhelmed by the PM’s con-cern and care to his parents.

The PM had also called onDayalu Ammal, Karunanidhi’swife who is also not in the bestof health. Alagiri said he couldnot be present at Gopalapurampersonally to receive the PM ashe was not aware of the visit.

“I would like to personallythank you for your pleasantvisit to my parents. I am reallyoverwhelmed by your greatestconcern and care to them. As Iwas unaware about your visit, Icould not personally receive youthere in Chennai,” writes Alagiriwho is based in Madurai.

“Your personal visit andyour invitation to my parents tostay with you would certainlyrejuvenate their health,” saidAlagiri who was expelled fromthe DMK in early 2014 by thecartel led by MK Stalin, hisyounger brother.

Alagiri, known as the face ofthe DMK in southern TamilNadu, also waxed eloquence onPM Modi for his ‘vision andcommitment’. “I would like todeeply appreciate your vision andcommitment for taking thecountry into new heights,”Alagiri signed off the letter withthese words.

The letter by Karunanidhi’selder son is in stark contrast tothe response by Stalin, the patri-arch’s younger son. Within min-utes of the Prime Minister leav-ing the Gopalapuram residenceof Karunanidhi, the DMK issueda statement asking the partycadre to wear black badge onWednesday as a mark of protestagainst the demonetisation ofhigh value currency notes lastyear.

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There are not many specificsto support the theory that the

now-an-year-old demonetisa-tion is responsible for all the illsallegedly continuing in the State’svital sectors like construction butKerala society in general stillseems to be unwilling to agreethat the crisis brought about byit has ended.

Politicians, except thosebelonging to the Sangh Pariwar,and most businessmen, espe-cially in the field of construction,real estate and retail trade areaccusing the CentralGovernment of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi of slammingthem with two blows in one year— The one-year-old demoneti-sation and four-month-old GSTimplementation.

“We will see a lot of talk onTV shows about demonetisationon Tuesday and Wednesdaywith BJP leaders praising Modiand the Centre for the exerciseas they celebrate the anniversaryas anti-black money day and theOpposition parties denouncingit as just a black day. But the com-mon man in Kerala needs nolessons on this,” said GireeshKumar, a stocks analyst.

Experts say several sectors inKerala are yet to recover from thefall they had suffered after thedemonetisation of November 8last year. “To those who argueabout the benefits of demoneti-sation, I would say that I haven’t

been able to provide job for 60per cent of my usual workers forthe past one year,” general man-ager of Kochi-based constructionfirm said.

Sunny Mani, a Thrissur-based provisions retailer, said thatGST had complicated the prob-lems brought about by demon-etisation. “I am not an economistto speak on long-term benefits.I have suffered a loss of a mini-mum of sales worth a minimum�1.5 crore in the past one year.GST came to destroy me justwhen things were starting toimprove since demonetisation,”he said.

Sudhakaran, a manpoweragent in Muvattupuzha, per-haps the place with the highestdensity of migrant workers inKerala, said that more than 40per cent of the workers from out-side had left the place in the threemonths since demonetisation.“Some have indeed come backbut the fact is that they are notgetting jobs the way they used toget before the note-freeze,” hesaid.

State Finance Minister TMThomas Isaac of the CPI(M),himself an economist, is of theopinion that the slowness thenote-freeze had caused in theeconomy has not yet faded away.He is still lamenting about the fallthe growth in the State’s tax col-lection had suffered after demon-etisation. The fall was to the tuneof �2,000 crore in a small Statelike Kerala, he says.

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Nearly 1,600 villages of theState which were deprived

of welfare schemes sinceIndependence would be broughtinto the mainstream of devel-opment. This was assured byChief Minister Yogi Adityanathat a public gathering after unveil-ing HCL Foundation’s biggestcorporate social responsibilityproject coined ‘Samudaay’ inLucknow on Tuesday.

Yogi said that investmentsby big companies like HCLwould boost the State’s industrialsector and generate greateremployment opportunities forthe youth. Hailing the efforts ofcompanies like HCL, the ChiefMinister said that the companywas working in rural sector tohelp improve living standards ofvillagers and also help the State

Government in facilitating basicneeds like health, education andshelter.

“It makes me proud thatHCL, which started its journeyfrom Uttar Pradesh and is nowa global conglomerate, has cho-sen the State for its biggest CSRproject. I am confident that thespirit with which the project isbeing implemented will cer-tainly help the last man,” Yogiasserted. The CM added thatHCL was planning to invest�1,500 crore in the State whichwould accelerate the pace ofdevelopment in Uttar Pradesh.Talking about ‘Open DefecationFree’ (ODF) programme, hesaid that six districts have beendeclared ODF so far and theGovernment was taking mea-sures to make at least 30 moredistricts ODF by the end of theyear. “Educated and responsible

people of the society shouldspread awareness about devel-opment initiatives of the StateGovernment,” he suggested.

Claiming that 45,000 vil-lages had been electrified so far,Yogi said that with the help ofsolar energy, the Governmentwas aiming at electrifying theentire State by the end of 2018.The CM also laid the foundationstone for Malhapur Solar EnergyMini Grid 26.3kW. Welcomingthe CM, Chief Executive Officerof HCL Corporation andChairperson of the CSRCommittee Roshni NadarMalhotra said, “The HCLFoundation believes that positivesocial change can be brought byinnovative and creative modelsof development. We feel thatthrough the ‘Samudaay’ modelit will be possible to develop ablueprint that is sustainable,

scalable and replicable through-out the world.” Director ofProject Samudaay, NavalpreetKaur said, “The HCL will helpus bring a positive impactthrough its various interventionsin areas of education, liveli-hood, health, infrastructure,wash and sanitation and agri-culture.” Samuday is a ruraldevelopment initiative to createmodel villages, which hastouched lives of around 6 lackpeople in the State so far.Currently, the project is beingimplemented in three blocks ofHardoi.

Since its launch, ‘Samudaay’has impacted around six lakhpeople in 90,000 householdsacross 720 villages through var-ious interventions in education,agriculture, health, water, sani-tation and hygiene, infrastruc-ture and livelihood.

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The takeover on Tuesday ofthe Sree Parthasarathy

Temple at Guruvayur inThrissur district by the MalabarDevaswom Board, one of thethree major Government-con-trolled temple administrationbodies of Kerala, has triggeredstiff protests from Hindu reli-gious outfits and devotees. TheHindu Aikya Vedi will observea dawn-to-dusk shutdown inThrissur district on Wednesdayto protest against the takeover.

The Devaswom Board,which had been trying to takecontrol of the temple’s admin-istration for the past few years,completed the takeover proce-dures through its ExecutiveOfficer at about 4:00 AMTuesday under tight securityprovided by scores of police-men in the context of the con-cern that Hindu outfits anddevotees might block the effort.

The board officials hadreached the premises of thetemple in Guruvayur, a placeknown for the famous LordKrishna Temple, early Tuesdaymorning to ensure that protestsdid not hamper the effort.Hindu outfits and devoteesalleged that the assistancerequired for the takeover wasprovided to the Devaswomauthorities by local CPI(M)leaders.

“Certain top police officialsthemselves told us informally

that there was pressure fromthe CPI(M). This makes it fur-ther clear that the takeover ofthe temple was in accordancewith a CPI(M) agenda,” said anAikya Vedi leader. He also saidthat several temple committeeshad already passed resolutionsprotesting against the takeoverand calling for its cancellation.

Officials of the DevaswomBoard had tried to take over thetemple on September 21.However, they had failed intheir attempt that day despitethe presence of a huge posse ofpolice personnel due to protestsfrom the temple committee,Hindu outfits and devotees.The officials had arrived at thetemple on Tuesday even beforethe devotees had started reach-ing there for worship.

While Devaswom Boardofficials claimed that the tem-ple was taken over as per courtorders, Aikya Vedi leaderstermed the action as illegal asthey said the High Court wasto take up their petition seek-ing police security onWednesday. “The board is mis-leading the people. They arequoting some non-existentcourt order,” said an AikyaVedi leader.

KP Sasikala, State presidentof the Hindu Aikya Vedi, saidthat the takeover of the templewas proof of the anti-Hinduposition of the CPI(M)-ledLDF Government whilesources in the outfit saidprotests would continue.

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India’s most wanted militantand Jaish-e-Muhammad chief

Masood Azhar’s close relativewas among three militants killedin a fierce gun battle in southKashmir. A soldier was alsokilled in the 4-hour gunfight thatalso led to maiden recovery of aUS-made carbine colt rifle. Policesaid they would take up the mat-ter with Pakistani authoritiesthrough appropriate channels tohand over the body of theirnational.

The encounter took placelate on Monday evening and theidentification of the slain mili-tants revealed that one of themwas Talha Rasheed, nephew ofJaish chief and ideologueMaulana Masood Azhar, whohad infiltrated to Kashmir inAugust along-with a large groupof fidayeen. Masood Azhar has

himself been active in southKashmir in early 1990s before hewas arrested. He was laterreleased in exchange of passen-gers of a hijacked Indian place in1999. He later floated Jaish-e-Muhammad.

Besides Rasheed, MehmoodBhai, ‘divisional commander’ ofJaish and a local terroristWaseem Ganai of Pulwama werekilled in the encounter at AglarKandi village of Pulwama, 45kilometers from Srinagar. A 44-Rashtriya Rifles soldier SepoyVrahma Pal Singh (30) ofBulandshahr UP was also killedin the gunfight. Police said Talhawas active in south Kashmirregion for the past more thanthree months after he infiltratedinto Kashmir leading a group of

fidayeen terrorists. Jaish outfitconfirmed his presence after hewas eliminated.

Sources said Mehmood Bhaiand Talha had planned therecent attacks in Pulwamaincluding an atrocious attack onDistrict Police Lines that lefteight soldiers dead. This is thesecond incident when close rel-atives of top-ranking militantideologues were killed inKashmir. In January, securityforces shot dead Abu Musaib,nephew of Zaki-ur-RahmanLakhvi, the mastermind ofMumbai terror attacks during agunfight in Hajin village ofnorth Kashmir’s Bandipora dis-trict, which has off late emergedas the main hub of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba terrorists.

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Reiterating that forced con-versions were taking place in

Kerala, National Commission forWomen (NCW) acting chair-person Rekha Sharma onTuesday stated that someextremist groups were behindsuch conversions that involvedimmoral methods and black-mailing even as State Women’sCommission chairperson MCJosephine sought to enter into awar of words on the issue.

“All kinds of immoral meth-ods are being used for some con-versions… These girls are beingtaken away from their parents,from their country by someorganisations. They are gettingfunds. What are the sources of

these funds?” Sharma askedwhile talking to newsmen inKozhikode on Tuesday. All con-versions were not based on freechoice or love for another reli-gion, she said. The NCW actingchief ’s statement was in indirectreference to the cases of Akhilaalias Hadia, the 25-year-oldHindu woman from Kottayamwho had embraced Islam, andseveral other Hindu girls whohad converted to Islam alleged-ly under several kinds of pres-sure. Sharma had visitedAkhila/Hadia on Monday at herfather’s house where she ispresently lodged.

Sharma said that severalconversions with suspiciousbackgrounds had taken place inKerala recently.

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ANadia court on Tuesdayheld one of the six accused

guilty in the 2015 Ranaghat nunrape case. All but one of theaccused found guilty hail fromBangladesh. Dacoity-cum-rapewas committed at a Christianmissionary school in Ranaghatin some 70 km from Kolkata. A71-year-old nun was allegedlygang-raped by the accused whoalso looted �12 lakh, the prose-cution said. The court foundNazrul Islam guilty of rape androbbery while others — MilanSarkar, Gopal Sarkar, Md Salimand Ohidul Khaledar — wereheld guilty of dacoity and crim-inal conspiracy, the prosecutionlawyer said.

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Expelled CPI(M) RajyaSabha member Ritabrata

Banerjee was on Tuesday sub-jected to a grueling six-hoursgrilling by the Bengal CrimeInvestigations Departmentsleuths for his alleged involve-ment in a sexual exploitationcase slapped against him by awoman from Balurghat inSouth Dinajpur district.

The woman who claimedto be his ex-girl friend had ear-lier filed criminal complaintsagainst the MP in Delhi andBalurghat where she claimedthat the accused had exploitedhim sexually on a false promiseof marriage though the high-profile politician who was

expelled from his party forunacceptable lifestyle and anti-party activities said that hehad only helped the woman oncertain occasions when sheapproached him as a people’srepresentative and that he hadinitially helped her financially.

However, when he stoppedher paying as her greedincreased she tried to framehim in false case, sources closeto the MP said challenging thecomplainants charges that shewas taken to a number ofplaces including the MP’s flat inDelhi where both had enteredinto close relationships.

Some photographs thattended to buttress the accusa-tions were subsequently postedin the social media.

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In an open letter to people ofpoll bound Gujarat, Prime

Minister Narendra Modiurged to embrace develop-ment over communalism andreject those who are promot-ing dynastic politics by givingopportunity to BJP to serveGujarat.

The BJP cadres are dis-tributing the letter to electorsas part of Maha SamparkAbhiyan — door-to-doorcampaign — launched by BJPpresident Amit Shah onTuesday from his erstwhileAssembly const ituencyNaranpura in Ahmedabad.

“Gujarat and developmenthave become synonymousover the past two decades.People are getting 24X7 elec-tricity, high agriculture

growth, security for everyone,even females can go out in themidnight without any fear.Gujarat is the soil of oppor-tunities for those who want togrow. There are opportunitiesin every field ranging frombusiness, education, employ-ment etc,” said the letter writ-ten in Gujarati.

Modi also claimed that inthe past 22 years Gujarat hascreated its own identity notonly in India but across theglobe under the successiveBJP. The people of India havegiven me responsibility toserve the nation three yearsago.

During that period, livesof crore of people changedfollowing pro-people initia-tives of Central Government,”said PM Modi in the letteradding that his Government

has created developmentopportunities for every oneranging from tribal, poor,underprivileged, women,Dalits, farmers, fishermenand youth.

Without naming theopposition party, he trainedhis guns on Congress party inthe letter saying that in thepast some elements spreadpoison of communalism inGujarat just for their politicalinterest, such elements haveagain activated for the samepurpose.

For the bright future ofyoungsters and to give newheight to Gujarat, it is every-body’s responsibility to stayaway from communal anddynastic elements, he says. Inthe end he said that develop-ment was the only solution ofall the problems.

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A“hitherto kept underwraps, but now confirmed”

meeting between Shiv Senapresident Uddhav Thackerayand NCP chief Sharad Pawaron Tuesday triggered an intensespeculation in Maharashtrapolitical circles, sending wavesof anxiety in the ruling BJP.

Talking to mediapersonsafter his two-day “ChintanBaitak” (Brain-storming meet-ing) at Karjat in Raigad district,Pawar confirmed that Uddhavand Sena spokesperson SanjayRaut had met him 10 days agobut hastened to add to that he didnot discuss about the changingpolitical equations in the State.

“Uddhav Thackeray andRaut had come to meet me. Theimpression that I got from themeeting with them was thatUddhav is not happy with beingin the ruling saffron alliance. Hedid not tell me that he plannedto withdraw support to the BJP-led saffron alliance Governmentin the State. But, let me tell youthat in the event of Shiv Senawalking out of the saffronalliance Government, we willnot extend support to any one(read BJP),” Pawar said.

Elaborating on his meet-ing with the Sena chief, Pawarsaid: “Our (NCP’s) stand isclear that we have no plans tosupport any one. We are allfor continuing our relationswith like-minded parties. Idid not discuss anythingabout political equations inthe State”.

Coming as it did at a timewhen relations between theBJP and its ruling alliancepartner Shiv Sena have souredbeyond redemption, Pawar’sconfirmation about his meet-ing with Uddhav set the catamong pigeons. The confir-mation about the meetingbetween Uddhav and Pawarcomes within days after theSena chief met called on WestBengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee during the latter'svisit to Mumbai.

If anything, the develop-ment may compel the Sena toconsider seriously carrying outits oft-repeated threat of quit-ting the Devendra FadnavisGovernment.

Though he is not admit-ting, there is strong possibil-ity of Pawar having discussedwith Uddhav the scenariothat will emerge once theShiv Sena withdraws to itssupport to the BJP-ledGovernment in the State.

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November 8, 2016 would beremembered as a watershedmoment in the history of

Indian economy. This day signifiesthe resolve of this Government to curethe country from “dreaded disease ofblack money”. We, the Indians, wereforced to live with this attitude of“chalta hai” with respect to corruptionand black money and the brunt of thisattitude was faced particularly by themiddle class and lower strata of soci-ety. It was a hidden urge of the larg-er section of our society for a longperiod to root out the curse of cor-ruption and black money; and it wasthis urge which manifested in the ver-dict of people in May 2014.

Immediately after taking upresponsibility in May 2014, thisGovernment decided to fulfil thewish of the people in tackling themenace of black money by consti-tuting SIT on black money. Ourcountry is aware that how even adirection from the Supreme Courton this issue was ignored by the thenGovernment for number of years.Another example of lack of will tofight against black money was thedelay of 28 years in implementationof Benami Property Act.

This Government took decisionsand implemented the earlier pro-visions of law in a well-consideredand planned manner over threeyears to meet the objective of fightagainst black money. These deci-sions span from setting up of SITto passing of necessary laws for for-eign assets to demonetisation andto implementation of GST.

When the country is participat-ing in “Anti-Black Money Day”, adebate was started that whether theentire exercise of demonetisation hasserved any intended purpose. Thisnarrative attempts to bring out posi-tive outcomes of demonetization inshort-term and medium-term withrespect to stated objectives.

RBI has reported in their AnnualAccounts that Specified Bank Notes(SBNs) of estimated value of �15.28lakh crore have been deposited backas on 30.6.2017. The outstandingSBNs as on 8th November, 2016 wereof �15.44 lakh crore value. The totalcurrency in circulation of all denom-inations as on 8th November, 2016was 17.77 lakh crore.

One of the important objective ofdemonetisation was to make India aless cash economy and thereby reducethe flow of black money in the sys-tem. The reduction in currency in cir-culation from the base scenarioreflects that this intended objective hasbeen met. The published figure of“currency in circulation” for halfyear ending September, 2017 is �15.89lakh crore. This shows year on yearvariation of (-) �1.39 lakh crore;whereas year on year variation for thesame period during last year was (+)�2.50 lakh crore. This means thatreduction in currency in circulationis of the order of �3.89 lakh crore.

Why should we remove excesscurrency from the system? Whyshould we curtail cash transactions?It is common knowledge that cashis anonymous. When demonetiza-tion was implemented, one of theintended objectives was to put iden-tity on the cash holdings in the econ-omy. With the return of �15.28 lakhcrore in the formal banking system,almost entire cash holding of theeconomy now has an address. It isno more anonymous. From thisinflow, the amount involving suspi-cious transactions based on variousestimates ranges from �1.6 lakhcrore to �1.7 lakh crore. Now it iswith the tax administration andother enforcement agencies to usebig data analytics and crack down onsuspicious transactions.

Steps in this direction havealready started. Number of SuspiciousTransaction Reports filed by banksduring 2016-17 has gone up from61,361 in 2015-16 to 3,61,214; theincrease during the same period forFinancial Institutions is from 40,333

to 94,836 and for intermediaries reg-istered with SEBI the increase is from4,579 to 16,953.

Based on big data analytics, cashseizure by Income Tax Departmenthas more than doubled in 2016-17when compared to 2015-16; duringsearch and seizure by the Department�15,497 crore of undisclosed incomehas been admitted which is 38% high-er than the undisclosed amountadmitted during 2015-16; and undis-closed income detected during sur-veys in 2016-17 is �13,716 crore whichis 41% higher than the detection madein 2015-16.

Undisclosed income admittedand undisclosed income detectedtaken together amounts to �29,213crore; which is close to 18% of theamount involved in suspicioustransactions. This process willgain momentum under “OperationClean Money” launched onJanuary 31, 2017.

The exercise to remove theanonymity with currency has furtheryielded results in the form of:

��56 lakh new individual tax pay-ers filing their returns till August 5,2017 which was the last date for fil-ing return for this category; last yearthis number was about 22 lakh;

��Self-Assessment Tax (volun-tary payment by tax payers at thetime of filing return) paid by non-corporate tax payers increasing by34.25% during April 1 to August 5in 2017 when compared to the sameperiod in 2016.

With increase in tax base andbringing back undisclosed incomeinto the formal economy, the amountof Advance Tax paid by non-corpo-rate tax payers during the current yearhas also increased by about 42% dur-ing 1st April to 5th August.

The leads gathered due to datacollected during demonetisation peri-od have led to identification of 2.97lakh suspect shell companies. Afterissuance of statutory notices to thesecompanies and following due processunder the law, 2.24 lakh companieshave been de-registered from thebooks of Registrar of Companies.

Further actions were taken underthe law to stop operation of bankaccounts of these struck off compa-nies. Actions are also being taken forfreezing their bank accounts anddebarring their directors from beingon board of any company. In the ini-tial analysis of bank accounts of suchcompanies following informationhas come out, which are worth men-tioning:

��Of 2.97 lakh struck off com-panies, information pertaining to28,088 companies involving 49,910bank accounts show that these com-panies have deposited and with-drawn �10,200 crore from 9thNovember 2016 till the date of strikeoff from RoC.

��Many of these companies arefound to have more than 100 bankaccounts – one company even reach-ing a figure of 2,134 accounts.

Simultaneously, Income TaxDepartment has taken action againstmore than 1150 shell companieswhich were used as conduits by over22,000 beneficiaries to launder morethan �13,300 crore.

Post demonetization, SEBI hasintroduced a Graded SurveillanceMeasure in stock exchanges. Thismeasure has been introduced in over800 securities by the exchanges.Inactive and suspended companiesmany a time are used as harbours ofmanipulative minds. In order toensure that such suspicious compa-nies do not languish in the exchanges,over 450 such companies have beendelisted and demat accounts of theirpromoters have been frozen; theyhave also been barred to be directorsof listed companies. Around 800companies listed on erstwhile region-al exchanges are not traceable and aprocess has been initiated to declarethem as vanishing companies.

Demonetization appears to haveled to an acceleration in the finan-cialisation of savings. In parallel,

there is a shift towards greater for-malisation of the economy in the nearterm aided by the introduction ofGood and Services Tax (GST). Someof the parameters indicating such shiftare given below:

��Corporate bond market hasstarted reaping the benefits of addi-tional financial savings and trans-mission of interest rate reduction. Thecorporate Bond market issuancegrew to �1.78 lakh crore in 2016-17,the year on year increase was �78,000crore. With other sources of issuancein capital market the incremental vari-ation is almost �2 lakh crore in2016-17 while that was �1 lakh crorein 2015-16.

�� This trend is further sub-stantiated by the surge in primarymarket raising through public andrights issues. There were 87 issuesof public and rights for raising equi-ty involving amount of �24,054crore during FY 2015-16; in the firstsix months of 2017-18 itself thereare 99 such issues amounting to�28,319 crore.

��Net inflow into Mutual Fundsduring 2016-17 increased by 155%during 2016-17 over 2015-16 reach-ing 3.43 lakh crore; Net inflows inmutual funds during November 2016to June 2017 was about �1.7 lakh croreas against �9,160 crore during thesame period in the year before;

��Premia collected by life insur-ance companies more than doubledin November 2016; the cumulative col-lections during November 2016 toJanuary 2017 increased by 46 per centover the same period of the previousyear. The premium collections wit-nessed 21% growth for year endingSeptember 2017 over the corre-sponding period of previous year.

With a shift to less cash econo-my, India has taken a big leap in dig-ital payment during 2016-17. Someof the trends are given below:

��110 crore transactions, valuedat around �3.3 lakh crore and anoth-er 240 crore transactions, valued at�3.3 lakh crore were carried outthrough credit cards and debit cards,respectively. The value of transactionfor debit and credit card was �1.6 lakhcrore and �2.4 lakh crore respective-ly during 2015-16.

��Total value of transaction withPre-Paid instruments (PPIs) haveincreased from �48,800 crore in2015-16 to �83,800 crore in 2016-17.Total volume of transactions throughPPIs have increased from about 75crore to 196 crore.

�� During 2016-17, NationalElectronic Funds Transfer (NEFT)handled 160 crore transactions val-ued at �120 lakh crore, up fromaround 130 crore transactions for�83 lakh crore in the previous year.

With higher level of formalisa-tion, it has brought out related ben-efits to workers who were denied ofsocial security benefits in the form ofEPF contribution, subscription toESIC facilities and payments of wagesin their bank accounts. Large increasein opening of bank accounts for work-ers, enrolment in EPF and ESIC areadded benefits of demonetisation.More than 1 crore workers wereadded to EPF and ESIC system post-demonetisation which was almost30% of existing beneficiaries. Bankaccounts were opened for about 50lakh workers to get their wages cred-ited in their accounts. Necessaryamendment in Payment of Wages Actwas done to facilitate this.

The reduction in incidences ofstone pelting, protests in J&K andnaxal activities in LWE affected dis-tricts are also attributed to the impactof demonetisation as these miscreantshave run out of cash. Their access toFake Indian Currency Note (FICN)was also restricted. During 2016-17,the detection of FICN for �1000denomination increased from 1.43lakh pieces to 2.56 lakh pieces.

At the Reserve Bank’s currencyverification and processing system,during 2015-16, there were 2.4pieces of FICNs of �500 denomina-tion and 5.8 pieces of FICNs of�1000 denomination for every mil-lion pieces notes processed; whichrose to 5.5 pieces and 12.4 pieces,respectively, during the post-demon-etisation period. This shows almostdoubling of such detection.

In an overall analysis, it wouldnot be wrong to say that country hasmoved on to a much cleaner, trans-parent and honest financial system.Benefits of these may not yet be vis-ible to some people. The next gen-eration will view post November,2016 national economic develop-ment with a great sense of pride asit has provided them a fair and hon-est system to live in.

NEW DELHI: The Departmentof Telecommunications (DoT)is planning to finalise the newtelecom policy by February2018, CommunicationsMinister Manoj Sinha said hereon Tuesday.

“We are trying to comeout with the new telecompolicy by February 2018. Highlevel working groups havestarted working towards it. Weexpect to finalise the drafttelecom policy by Decemberand place it for public com-ments,” Sinha told reporters ata press meet.

Talking about BharatNet,the flagship project of the gov-ernment to provide broadbandservices in rural and remoteareas, the minister said telecomservice providers (TSP) havecome forward for utilising theBharatNet connectivity.

Under BharatNet pro-gramme, the government plans

to provide broadband connec-tivity to 2.5 lakh gram pan-chayats (GPs).

“Airtel has shown interestin 10,000 GPs for taking 1Gbps connectivity on leasewhile Reliance Jio, Vodafoneand Idea are interested in tak-ing 100 Mbps connectivity onlease in about 30,000, 2,000and 1,000 GPs respectively,”the minister said.

“The rolling out of servicesby TSPs in these GPs is expect-ed to trigger the village leveleco-system thereby wideningthe extent to cover more andmore number of GPs in nearfuture. This will give an impe-tus to broadband facilities inrural India,” he added.

The minister said as onNovember 05, 2017, opticalfibre cable (OFC) connectivi-ty has been achieved in 103,275GPs by laying fibre for 238,677km. Sinha said in order to pro-

vide affordable broadband ser-vices in rural India, a newattractive and affordable tariffstructure has been decidedwith “the principle of more youuse, less you pay”.

This tariff structure isexpected to be reflected in thetariffs to be charged from theconsumers by the serviceproviders.

“For asymmetrical band-width between block to GPsthe charges per annum variesfrom Rs 700 per Mbps for upto 10Mbps and Rs 200 perMbps for 1 Gbps. However,for symmetrical bandwidthbetween block to GP, chargeshave been prescribed as Rs1,000 per Mbps up to10Mbps, and Rs 500 perMbps for 100 Mbps perannum. Tariff for any inter-mediate Bandwidth shall becalculated on pro-rata basis,"the minister added. IANS

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Global tech giant Microsoft’s CEO SatyaNadella on Tuesday said mixed reality, arti-

ficial intelligence and quantum computing arethree path-breaking technologies that will“shape” the world in coming years. Nadella isin Delhi, as part of a two-day visit to India topromote his book Hit Refresh.

Stating that the computing history has sofar been about enhancing the man-machineinterface, Nadella articulated that ultimatecomputing experiencewill be “mixed reality”that blends the real andthe virtual world.

In a free-wheelingconversation with for-mer cricketer AnilKumble, Nadella spokeabout matters close tohis heart - his family,cricket and the poten-tial that new-age tech-nologies hold for organ-isations and the societyat large. On Mondaythe 50-year old India-born CEO was inHyderabad visiting the company's campus.

“The currency of our times will be the abil-ity to collect data but, more importantly, to rea-son over it to create intelligence,” he said refer-ring to AI as one of the three technologies thatwill "shape the years and decades to come”.

Nadella also cited examples of how the com-pany's ‘HoloLens’ is being used across sectors likeeducation. HoloLens is a holographic computerdesigned by the Redmond-based company thatallows users to interact with digital content to getan immersive experience.

Recounting his own experience, Kumble saidthat he had tried the HoloLens and “walked onMars and it felt great”.

‘Teleportation’ is no more just Star Trek,Nadella said to a packed hall. “If you takeMicrosoft 43 years into our existence and I lookat it every five years, we have had some new exis-tential threat,” he said.

He added that while people wrote that somecompany would “kill” Microsoft, it hasn't hap-pened because the US based company “must bedoing something right to stay relevant, to con-tinue to question the status quo”.

“But it's hard not easy,” Nadella admitted.Another defining technology, albeit with alonger term horizon, is quantum computing thatwill allow people to deal with harder challengesof computation, Nadella said.

Earlier in the day, Microsoft also showcased‘Ruuh’ a chatbot that uses AI to engage with users.It has already been deployed on Skype andFacebook. Launched about nine months ago,‘Ruuh’ has already had over 17 million conver-sations. A Microsoft executive said, “Whether itis that you are just nervous about an exam orexcited about a new job, Ruuh just like a friendis always there to chat with you”.

Ruuh was inspired by a similar chatbot by thecompany in China. “We decided to bring this toIndia. It turns out that something that is good inone country and bringing it into another coun-try which is conversational is very different andchallenging...So we said let's build an Indian socialbot and we named it Ruuh,” Nadella said.

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15.2 per cent year-on-year,during the first seven monthsof the current fiscal.

The collection, whichincludes personal incometax and corporate tax, rep-resents 44.8 per cent of thetotal budget estimates of�9.8 lakh crore in directtaxes for 2017-18.

“The provisional figuresof Direct Tax collections up toOctober, 2017 show that netcollections are at �4.39 lakhcrore which is 15.2 per centhigher than the net collectionsfor the corresponding periodof last year,” a finance ministrystatement said.

Gross collections (beforeadjusting for refunds) haveincreased 10.7 per cent to�5.28 lakh crore during April-October, 2017. Refundsamounting to �89,507 crorewere issued during the sevenmonth period.

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NEW DELHI: The Income TaxDepartment is set to issue notices toabout one lakh entities and individuals,who deposited huge cash in banks postdemonetisation and whose tax returnshave been picked for detailed probe intosuspected discrepancies, official sourcessaid on Tuesday.

Issue of notices will begin this week,they said. In the first tranche, notices willbe issued to 70,000 entities who deposit-ed over �50 lakh in cash in banks butchose not to file tax returns or respondto the relevant Income Tax Departmentadvisories, the sources said.

These notices will be issued underSection 142 (1) of the I-T Act (inquirybefore assessment), they said. Similarly,about 30,000 scrutiny notices will beissued to those whose deposits and taxreturns were found to be starkly“deviant” from their past behaviour ortheir accounts showed huge monetarytransactions post demonetisation, theyadded. As many as 20,572 tax returns

have been selected for the scrutiny pro-cedure by the department post demon-etisation, declared by the governmenton November 8 last year.

The rest of the scrutiny notices willbe issued in due course, they added. Thisaction will be followed by the taxmanissuing similar notices by next monthto those individuals and entities whohave made deposits between �25 lakhand �50 lakh post demonetisation.

These activities, they said, are partof the 'Operation Clean Money' that wasinitiated by the tax department inJanuary this year to check black moneygeneration post the note ban.

According to official data, accessedby PTI, 17.73 lakh suspicious casesinvolving �3.68 lakh crore have beenidentified by the taxman in 23.22 lakhbank accounts post demonetisation.

Responses from 11.8 lakh people for16.92 lakh bank accounts have beenreceived by the department throughonline medium till now. PTI

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NEW DELHI: Banks have loweredtheir lending rates by about 1 percent post demonetisation, the PrimeMinister's Office (PMO) said onTuesday, citing “multiple benefits” ofthe scrapping of old high-valuecurrency notes.

On January 1, State Bank of Indiasurprised the markets by slashing themarginal cost of funds based lendingrate (MCLR) by 0.9 per cent. Otherbanks followed suit. “Loans gotcheaper since lending rates declinedby around 100 basis points”, said thePMO in a tweet while highlightingthe “multiple benefits of demoneti-sation”. The PMO further said realestate priced declined. Revenues ofurban local bodies (ULBs) across thecountry increased almost 3 times asconsumers were allowed to pay theirdues in the demonetised currency.

The revenues of ULBs in UttarPradesh increased 4 times while thatof Madhya Pradesh and Gujaratwere up almost 5 times. PNS

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An error on the part of USAir Force to enter the Texas

gunman’s past criminal recordin a national database may haveenabled him to pass back-ground checks and buyweapons that he used to wreakhavoc in the church SutherlandSprings, killing 26 people andwounding 20 others.

Despite having been court-martialled in 2012 for domes-tic assault on his wife and step-son leading to a 12-month con-finement and bad-conduct dis-charge from the service in 2014,Kelley managed to buy a mili-tary-style rifle and three otherguns in the last four years,reports said.

The discovery promptedthe Air Force to order an inter-nal investigation as to how itfailed to submit to Kelley’scriminal history to the FBI as

required under service rules. Conceding that Kelley was

prohibited under federal lawfrom buying or possessingfirearms after his 2012 convic-tion, an Air Force spokeswomansaid the Inspector-General ofthe force has been ordered toconduct a complete review ofthe Kelley case.

As for the motive behindthe Sunday morning massacre,investigators now believe that itmay have been possibly due toa “domestic situation”. Theyspoke of the gunman’s angeragainst his estranged wife’smother who usually attendsthe First Baptist Church inSutherland Springs, but wasnot present at the time when hewent on the rampage on Sunday.Kelley, it turned out, had beensending “threatening texts” tohis mother-in-law.

“This (mass shooting) wasnot racially motivated, it wasn’tover religious beliefs. There

was a domestic situation goingon within the family and the in-laws,” Freeman Martin of theTexas Department of PublicSafety told reporters.

President Donald Trump,facing renewed questions on thegun control issue at a news con-ference in Seoul, once againasserted it was not a question ofstrong gun laws, pointing to thefact that gunman Kelley wouldhave carried on with the mas-sacre if he had not been chal-lenged by a “very brave” armedresident of local community.

“Just remember, if thisman (armed resident) didn’thave a gun or rifle, you’d be talk-ing about a much worse situa-tion in the great state of Texas,”he said, adding that Chicago,despite having “the strongestgun laws in our nation” was hav-ing the highest gun violence.“Chicago is a disaster. It’s a totaldisaster,” he said, targeting theDemocratic bastion.

Offering similar commentson gun control in Tokyo, wherehe suggested it was more anissue of the gunman’s mentalhealth, Trump had gone to say:“Fortunately, somebody elsehad a gun that was shooting inthe opposite direction, other-wise it would have been, as badit was, it would have been muchworse.”

Democratic Senator ChrisMurphy, however, slammedTrump’s contention, tweeting:“Let’s be clear – nobody‘stopped’ this shooting. 26 peo-ple, including little kids, are deadin one of our country’s worstmass killings.” He said the localresident that Trump referred todid not fire at the gunman untilthe carnage inside the churchwas over. Texas’s RepublicanGovernor Greg Abbott toldCBS News there was evidencethat Kelley had mental healthproblems and had been denieda state gun permit.

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President Donald Trumpexpressed "great confi-

dence" in Saudi leadersWednesday amid an ongoinganti-corruption push, writingin a tweet, "They know exact-ly what they are doing."

In a two-part Twitter mes-sage sent from Tokyo, Trumpsaid he has great confidence inKing Salman and the crownprince, adding some of thearrested people "have been 'milk-ing' their country for years!"

The Trump administrationhad been quiet about theunprecedented arrests of dozensof Saudi Arabia's most powerfulprinces, military leaders andministers, which are widely beingseen as a consolidation of powerby the nation's 32-year-old crownprince, Mohammed binSalman.The crackdown beganSaturday with little warning.

Among those taken intocustody were Prince Alwaleedbin Talal, one of the world's rich-est men, and two of the late KingAbdullah's sons. The Saudi gov-ernment has described the actionas a sweeping effort to combatcorruption.Mohammad BinSalman, who has been workingto implement reforms in the oil-rich state, has developed a closerelationship with White Housesenior adviser Jared Kushner.

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Saudi Crown PrinceMohammed bin Salman

accused Iran Wednesday of"direct military aggression"against the kingdom by sup-plying Yemen's Huthi rebelswith ballistic missiles, statemedia reported.

"The involvement of Iran insupplying missiles to the Huthisis a direct military aggressionby the Iranian regime," theSaudi Press Agency quoted thecrown prince as saying duringa telephone conversation withBritish Foreign Secretary BorisJohnson.

This "could be consideredas an act of war," PrinceMohammed said.

Saudi forces on Saturdayintercepted and destroyed aballistic missile near Riyadhinternational airport, report-edly fired from Yemen by theHuthi rebels.

It was the first reportedHuthi missile launch to reachRiyadh and threaten air traffic,underscoring the growingthreat posed by the conflict onSaudi Arabia's southern bor-der.

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North Korea poses aworldwide threat that

requires worldwide action,President Donald Trump saidin Seoul Wednesday, but insist-ed "we are making a lot ofprogress" in reining in therogue state.

The US leader, standingalongside his South Koreancounterpart Moon Jae-In, reit-erated he was prepared to usethe full range of Americanmilitary might in order to haltPyongyang's march towardsbecoming a full-fledged nuclearpower.

But he added: "It makessense for North Korea to cometo the table to make a deal thatis good for the people of NorthKorea and the people of theworld.""North Korea is a world-wide threat that requires aworldwide action."I think weare making a lot of progress,"he said, adding that ChinesePresident Xi Jinping -- whomhe has often claimed holds thekey to disarming the North --has been "very, very helpful".

After a relaxed few daysTokyo, Seoul is a more com-

plicated stop for the mercurialUS president.Trump's rela-tionship with the liberal-lean-ing Moon has been cool, andthe former real estate magnatehas railed at South Koreanmoves to engage its neighbour-- something he has previous-ly labelled "appeasement".Buthe began his diplomatic dayvowing to "figure it all out" with"fine gentleman" Moon, despitetheir differences on thenuclear-armed North.

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South Korea has agreedto buy US weapons

worth "billions of dollars" toguard against threats fromnuclear-armed North Korea,US President Donald Trumpsaid Wednesday.

After a summit with SouthKorean President Moon Jae-In,Trump also said the US -- theSouth's key security guarantor-- had agreed to remove awarhead weight limit on Seoul'sballistic missiles.

Trump arrived in Seoul onTuesday for a two-day visit aspart of his Asia tour amid hightensions over North Korea'sweapons drive.Trump said theSouth -- a key Asian ally whichhosts 28,500 US troops -- wouldbe buying a large amount of USweapons "whether it's planes,whether it's missiles, no matterwhat it is".

"South Korea will be order-ing billions of dollars of thatequipment, which for themmakes a lot of sense and for usit means jobs,” he said.

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US President Donald Trumpis not among the around

100 heads of state and govern-ment invited to next month'sclimate summit in Paris, aFrench presidential aide saidWednesday.

"For now, PresidentDonald Trump is not invited,"he said, while noting that rep-resentatives of the US govern-ment would attend.

Trump announced hisdecision to withdraw theUnited States from the historic2015 Paris Agreement on lim-iting carbon emissions in June.

The pact calls for cappingglobal warming at "well under"two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and 1.5 C ifpossible.Around 800 organisa-tions and public stakeholderswill be on hand for theDecember 12 event to be heldon Ile Seguin, an island in theSeine River southwest of Paris.

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Stepping up pressure onMyanmar, the UN Security

Council has come out with aunanimous statement asking itto end the military campaign inRakhine state and ensure thesafe return of MuslimRohingya refugees driven fromtheir homes.

The 15-membered powerfulwing of the UN also demandedsafe, unhindered access for itsagencies and their partners toprovide humanitarian assis-tance. Britain and Francedropped a push for the SecurityCouncil to adopt a resolution onthe situation to appease council

veto power China, a supporterof Myanmar's former rulingjunta.The Council instead unan-imously agreed on a formalstatement. It is only for the thirdtime in nearly a decade that theUN Security Council adopted apresidential statement onMyanmar.

As a result of the allegedatrocities by security forces inBuddhist-majority Myanmar,more than 600,000 individuals,vast majority of whom areRohingya Muslims, have fledto neighbouringBangladesh.The unrest in trou-bled Rakhine began after dead-ly attacks on police stationsacross the state.

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dealing with the threat posedby nuclear- armed NorthKorea, US President DonaldTrump said on Tuesday, a daybefore he heads to Beijing.Pyongyang was "a worldwidethreat that requires a worldwideaction", according to Trump,but he said that Xi "really hasbeen very, very helpful".

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Iran Wednesday dismissed accu-sations by Saudi Arabia's crown

prince that it had launched a"direct military aggression" after amissile fired by Tehran-backedYemeni rebels was intercepted nearRiyadh.

Iranian Foreign MinisterMohammad Javad Zarif, speak-ing by phone with his Britishcounterpart Boris Johnson,said "the allegations by Saudiofficials were contrary to real-ity and dangerous", a foreignministry spokesman said.

Zarif also slammed"provocative actions by theSaudi government in theregion", spokesman BahramGhassemi added.

Huthi rebels in Yemen, thetargets of a two-year Saudi- ledbombing campaign, fired amissile Saturday that was inter-cepted and destroyed nearRiyadh international airport.

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The UN Wednesday urged theSaudi-led coalition to end a

blockade which has halted theflow of humanitarian suppliesinto Yemen, further threateningsome seven million people fac-ing famine-like conditions.

"If these channels, theselifelines, are not kept open it iscatastrophic for people who arealready in what we have alreadycalled the world's worsthumanitarian crisis," aspokesman for the UnitedNations humanitarian officeOCHA, Jens Laerke, toldreporters in Geneva.

Relief supplies into Yemenhave been blocked since thecoalition sealed off the coun-try's borders following a mis-sile attack last weekend byYemen's Huthi rebels that wasintercepted near Riyadh air-port.

"Fuel food and medicineimports must continue to enterthe country," Laerke said. "Thisis an access problem of colos-sal dimensions".

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India posted 67/5 in their allotted eightovers in the third and final Twenty20International (T20I) at the Greenfield

International Stadium here on Tuesday.With heavy rain lashing the city, the start

was delayed by a couple of hours and thematch was reduced to an eight overs a sideaffair.

Fast bowler Tim Southee bowled well forNew Zealand with figures of 2/13 in his twoovers. Leg-spinner Ish Sodhi copped somepunishment from the Indian batsmen, butultimately ended up with figures of 2/23. Fastbowler Trent Boult also bagged a wicket.

Asked to bat first by the Kiwis, the hostsran into trouble in the third over whenSouthee sent back openers Shikhar Dhawanand Rohit Sharma off consecutive deliveries.

Indian skipper Kohli had a promisingstart, smashing leg-spinner Ish Sodhi for aboundary and a six off back to back balls

before falling later that same over whileattempting to send another delivery into thestands.

Sodhi bagged another wicket in his nextover when Shreyas Iyer mistimed his shot andholed out to Martin Guptill at long off.

With Hardik Pandya and Manish Pandeyseeming dangerous with the bat, it seemedthat India will go past the 70-run mark.

But Boult produced an excellent final overto contain the hosts to a manageable total.

Pandey was caught at the boundary by anexcellent fielding effort by Colin deGrandhomme and Mitchell Santner whileattempting to hit a Boult delivery out of thepark. Santner had made the initial catch buteven as he was falling to the ground he lobbedthe ball to de Grandhomme.

���������INDIA: 67/5 (Manish Pandey 17; TimSouthee 2/13, Ish Sodhi 2/23) vs NEWZEALAND.

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MC Mary Kom (48kg)remained on course for a

fifth Asian Championships goldafter making the finals along withSonia Lather (57kg) while fiveother Indians settled for bronzemedals at the continental show-piece here on Tuesday.

Former world champion LSarita Devi (64kg), PriyankaChaudhary (60kg), LovlinaBorgohain (69kg), Seema Punia(+81kg) and Shiksha (54kg)signed off with bronze medalsafter losing their respective semi-final bouts.

Mary Kom started the daybrightly for India, defeating Japan'sTsubasa Komura in a unanimous5-0 verdict to make the summitclash for the fifth time in her sixappearances at the event.

Should she go on to win theFinal, which will be against NorthKorea's Kim Hyang Mi who gotthe better of MongolianNandintsetseg Myagmardulam,the Indian would be claiming herfirst Asian gold medal in the48kg category.

"It is a very special medal forme like all others I have wonbecause every medal has a storybehind it," Mary Kom said.

"I am delighted to be in thefinal. I was expecting a tough fightbut I managed to figure Komuraout early enough. I am alreadylooking towards the final but I amnot going to think too much andput pressure on myself," she said.

"I will just go out and do mybest, just like I have done so far inthis tournament."

The 35-year-old Rajya SabhaMP, who is also a former Olympic

bronze-medallist and a five-timeworld champion, returned to herpreferred weight category after fiveyears of competing in 51kg, whichwas made an Olympic category in2012. Once again, it was a bout

fought largely on defensive tactics.The Japanese boxer seemed toowary to go near the Indian, whohad to quite literally lunge atKomura for her right hooks toconnect.

Mary Kom's patience withKomura's tactics ran out in thesecond round and she increasedthe pace and ferocity of her ownattacks to unsettle the Japanese.

The shell guard to stave offKomura's feeble right straightsensured that the Manipuri hard-ly took any blow in what turnedout to be a lopsided contest.

Sonia, in contrast, had tosteer past a very aggressiveYodgoroy Mirzaeva, who lackedaccuracy in placement of punch-es but not persistence.

Mirzaeva's wild swings wereeasy to deflect for the Haryana-boxer, a former silver-medallist atthis event, but it was nonethelessa draining contest given theUzbek's relentless attempts at con-necting something.

In the end, Sonia was unani-mously adjudged the victor and

will be up against China's YinJunhua in the summit clash onWednesday.

However, things went down-hill for India after that as AsianGames bronze-medallist Saritawent down to China's Dou Dan inthe semifinals.

Shiksha too ended with abronze medal after being out-punched by Chinese Taipei's for-mer youth world champion LinYu-Ting in the semifinals.

Also signing off with bronzemedals were Priyanka andLovlina. Priyanka lost to KoreanOh Yeonji, while Lovlina wentdown to Kazakhstan's ValentinaKhalzova. In India's last bout of theday, Seema, who got a directentry into the semis courtesy thesmall size of the draw, lost toKazakhstan's Guzal Ismatova toend with a bronze medal.

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Former India coach Anil Kumble,known to give it all on the field,

attributed his approach to a disciplinedupbringing that eventually got him theunpopular tag of a "headmaster" later inhis illustrious career.

Kumble, in a chat with MicrosoftCEO Satya Nadella, talked at lengthabout his childhood learnings thatwent a long way in him becoming achampion cricketer.

Patiently listening at the other endwas Hyderabad-born Nadella, a self-pro-claimed cricket fan. When Nadellaasked Kumble about the values heinherited from his parents, Kumble said:"The self belief. It comes from the val-ues that you inculcate, looking up toyour parents and grandparents."

"My grandfather was a headmasterin school and I know that term (head-master) kept coming back to me later inmy career. Some of them here willunderstand (what I am talking about),"said Kumble drawing a gentle laughfrom the audience.

Kumble, who earned the reputationof a hard taskmaster, quit as India coachin June under controversial circum-stances, citing his untenable relationshipwith India captain Virat Kohli.

Since then, India's leading wicket-taker has maintained silence on the issue

and so has Kohli.The conversation between Kumble

and Nadella revolved around MicrosoftCEO's book titled 'Hit Refresh', releasedrecently. Both talked at length about the'Hit Refresh' moments in their lives.

Kumble said the Australia tour in2003-04, when India managed to drawthe four-Test series, was the time hefaced the challenge of reinventing him-self.

"As a cricketer, you have to hitrefresh literally at the end of the everyseries. Challenges from one series toanother are different. But I would liketo mention the Australia tour in 2003-04 when I was at the crossroads of mycareer.

"I was competing for a place in theeleven (with Harbhajan Singh). Peoplehad started talking about my retirementas I was in my 30s. I got an opportuni-ty in the Adelaide Test which wefamously won.

"I was expensive on day one butcame back to take a five- wicket haul. Iunderstood the need of doing somethingdifferent. So I started bowling a differ-ent type of googly, something I hadlearnt during my tennis ball days. Thatis when I realised I can make subtlechanges to improve my game."

Asked about the defining momentin Indian cricket, Kumble picked theWorld Cup win in 1983 and Australia'stour of India in 2001 when the hostsbounced back to win the series 2-1.

"The best part of playing in the 90swas that we almost won everything athome. But if you have to pick one hitrefresh moment, it was the Australia-India series in 2001. I did not take partin that due to injury.

"That was the time when the teamrealised its true potential. Since thenIndian cricket has gone from strengthto strength and we are number one atthe moment," he added.

Kumble also opined that cricket haslagged behind in using the cutting-edgetechnology in not only making the sportmore fair and exciting but also instrengthening the fan-athlete connect.

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Grandmaster MR Lalith Babu fromAndhra Pradesh came through

with flying colours to lead the pack withseven points at the end of the tenthround of the Khadi India NationalPremier Chess Championship in Patnaon Tuesday.

With Arvaindh Chithambaram andthe three other players, who shared thesecond spot, quickly drew their respec-tive games, Lalith Babu realised that hiswin against lowly rated Sammed Sheteof Maharashtra would put him in anenviable position. He prevailed overShete with comparative ease. Aravindhis the lone player with 6.5 points on thesecond position. Three more rounds arestill there.

Lalith Babu deployed Caro Kanndefence and faced no hiccups untilmove 37, by which time the queens andmany pieces were exchanged. ThoughLalith had four pawns, they were indi-vidual islands compared to three con-nected pawns of Sammed in the centre.A weak 42nd move by Sammed result-ed in the loss of a knight and a bishopagainst a rook. The rest was routine.The debutant Sammed has faced fivelosses in a row.

RR Laxman of Railways handledthe Slav defence adopted by his teammate Himanshu Sharma comfortably.After exchanging the queen on 29thmove, Himanshu lost a pawn after ninemore moves. When Himanshu had thechoice of either losing his bishop or res-ignation, he preferred the latter.

Railways international master SNitin chose the Fischer Sozin attack ofthe Najdorf variation in Sicilian defenceagainst the joint leader Aravindh.Najdorf variation has been the favouriteone played in this tournament.

It was also preferred by BorisGelfand in the World championshipFinal against Vishwanathan Anand in2012.

After opening up the king side inthe early part of the game, Aravindhcastled on the queen side. The rooks andpawns ended in a tame draw.

Immediately after Aravindh fin-ished the game, his team mateKarthikeyan followed him out of thehall with an agreed draw with Odisha'sGrandmaster Debashis Das. ThoughKarthikeyan had a rook in lieu ofDebashis' knight in the end game, thelatter forced a draw by repeated checkswith his queen to the exposed king ofKarthikeyan.

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Olympic medallists SainaNehwal and PV Sindhu will

battle for supremacy in thewomen's singles final of the SeniorBadminton NationalChampionship after scoring con-trasting victories here on Tuesday.

Saina, who is currently rankedWorld No 11, hardly broke a sweatas she defeated fifth seed AnuraPrabhudesai 21-11, 21-10 whileWorld No 2 and top seed Sindhuwas surprisingly stretched byRuthvika Shivani before prevail-ing 17-21, 21-15, 21-11 in thesemifinals.

In the men's singles, it will bea clash between World No 2Kidambi Srikanth and giant-killerHS Prannoy in a repeat of theirsemifinal battle at the FrenchOpen Super Series a little over aweek ago.

Second seed Prannoy over-came Subhankar Dey 21-14, 21-17, while top seed Srikanth saw offyoung rising shuttler LakshyaSen 21-16, 21-18.

The possibility of a Sainaversus Sindhu clash was highafter the star shuttlers confirmedtheir participation in the tourna-ment.

Saina hasn't competed at theSenior Nationals since winningback-to-back titles in 2006 and2007, while Sindhu too gave thedomestic tournament a miss afterwinning the 2011 and 2013 edi-tions.

The two, who are employeesof Bharat Petroleum CorporationLimited (BPCL), have met twicein international competitions.Their first meeting was at the 2014Syed Modi International beforethey played each other in IndiaSuper Series this year.

While Saina prevailed in2014, Sindhu had the last laugh inDelhi.

A lot has happened betweenthose two battles with Sainabecoming the World No 1 in 2015,while Sindhu rising to the pinna-cle of world badminton afterclinching the silver at RioOlympics.

Saina, who had won thebronze at London Games, hadsuffered a career-threatening kneeinjury to crash out early from theRio Games and spent the next fewmonths recovering and scriptingher way back to the top.

Sindhu, meanwhile, scaled

new heights in international bad-minton after winning the 2016China Open, India Open andKorea Open this year, besideswinning the silver at the GlasgowWorld Championship.

Saina, 27, who had won thesilver in 2015 WorldChampionship, bagged a bronzeat the Glasgow edition to showthat she was getting back to herbest.

The men's singles Final is alsoexpected to be a close affair.

Srikanth and Prannoy haveplayed four times in their inter-national career but it was the for-mer who had the last laugh on thelast three occasions. The only timePrannoy had beaten Srikanth wasway back at the 2011 Tata Open.

Srikanth has been in the formof his life as he clinched four titlesafter reaching five finals this sea-son to join the likes of two-timeformer Olympic champion LinDan, three-time Olympic silvermedallists Lee Chong Wei andcurrent Olympic gold medallistChen Long.

Prannoy too have been in fineform as he reached the semifinalsat Indonesia Super Series Premierand French Open Super Series toachieve his career-high ranking ofWorld No 11. He had outwittedChong Wei twice and defeatedChen once during this season.

Among others, mixed doublescombo of Satwik Sai Raj R andAshwini Ponnappa will face topseeds Pranaav Jerry Chopra andSikki Reddy N after they emergedwinners following the retirementof their semifinal opponentsSanyam Shukla and SanyogitaGhorpade midway in the firstgame.

Top seeded women's doublespair of Sikki Reddy N andAshwini Ponnappa will meetSanyogita Ghorpade and PrajaktaSawant in the Final.

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According to NationalSkill DevelopmentCorporation (NSDC),

skilled workforce in beautyand wellness sector wouldgrow thrice as much, from 40lakh in 2013 to 1.42 crore in2022, making it the fastestgrowing job creator. To meetthe huge demand of skilledprofessional in this industry,Beauty & Wellness SectorSkill Council, a not for prof-it organization byConfederation of IndianIndustry (CII), in collabora-tion with NSDC organisedthe biggest job fair recently.

Over 1000 trained andcertified beauty professionals,hair stylists, makeup artists,yoga and fitness professional,nail technicians & spa thera-pists got placement in over 25companies includingGeetanjali, Lakme,Talwarkars, Urban Clap, Toni& Guy, Nail spa, JCKRC,Orane etc. The job fair wasinaugurated by the chairper-son of the sector skill councilVandana Luthra with AnandMohan Jha from NSDC;Sougata Roy Chaudhary fromCII along with the renownedexperts of the industry DrBlossom Kochhar, aromather-apist and founder of AromaMagic brand; Gurpreet Seble,an International Educator andNail Expert; Sangita Chauhan,cosmetologist, aromathera-pist and naturopathist and

owner of Exclusive SalonMakeup, to name a few.

Speaking on the occasionLuthra said: “It is our earnestendeavour to ensure skillingto our young and deservingtalent of the country. This jobfair is just the perfect culmi-nation of all our efforts unit-ing industries to provideample employment opportu-nities to the youth. The coun-cil aims to make this job fairthe right platform to matchtalent to demand. With itssuccess, we hope to increasethe frequency of these fairs tohelp in placements of manystudents.”

The aim of this job fairwas to establish an effectiveand efficient eco-system fordevelopment and impartingof skills in Beauty andWellness industry includingcontent and curriculum,courses, information data-bases, delivery systems, stan-dardisation of the accredita-tion and certification processto enhance the employabili-ty of the Indian workforceglobally. Three banks —Vijaya, IndusInd, Muthootfinance were a part of this jobfair to provide candidateswith the loans to start as anentrepreneur. The field has ahuge opportunity for entre-preneurship and this will bethe right platform to make thecandidates aware of theopportunity available.

+������� ����(�� ����������;�!On the occasion of the

97th Foundation Day ofJamia Milia Islamia (JMI),Prof AK Bakhshi, vice-chan-cellor, PDM University wasrecently invited by the JMI todeliver a talk for its studentsand teachers on ‘E-Learningand MOOCs in HigherEducation’. Prof TalatAhmad, vice-chancellor, JMIfelicitated Prof Bakhshi andhailed his outstanding contri-butions in the field of educa-tion.

While addressing thegathering, he said thatMOOCs are going to changethe face of education in thecountry. He emphasised onthe basic philosophy ofMOOCs ie 4As (Anyone,anytime, anywhere and anynumber of times) which isgoing to be very useful for the

learners. He ensured thatonce MOOCs become popu-lar, it will help in solving theproblem of low accessibility inhigher education in India byincreasing the gross enroll-ment ratio (GER). ProfBakhshi urged the need of aVirtual University in India.

Giving tips to the stu-dents, Prof Bakhshi told themthat whatsoever line of studythey have chosen, they shouldstrive to excel in it by their

sincerity, self-discipline, anddedication by remaining veryfocused and that the ultimatekey to their success lies inhow they manage their time.

Prof Bakhshi told teach-ers of JMI that their teachingshould reflect the amount ofthinking they have done ontheir subject. Instead of rotelearning, the teachers shouldfocus on encouraging think-ing, innovation and creativi-ty amongst students.

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Management Bangalore(IIMB), along with theConsulate General of the Stateof Israel in Bengaluru, recentlylaunched the Israel Centre atIIMB. The launch, by the ChiefGuest Daniel Carmon,Ambassador of Israel to India,marks 25 years of India Israelpartnership and boosts thedevelopment of business andacademic ties between the twocountries. “The goal of IsraelCentre at IIMB is to forge aca-demic relationships betweenIIMB and institutions in Israelso that there is mutual learningfor impact on Indo-Israeli busi-ness relationships in thedomains of innovation, technol-ogy, start-ups and scaling up oforganisations,” Prof GRaghuram, director, IIMBangalore, said.

Expressing his thoughtsabout the upcoming Israel cen-tre at IIMB, Carmon said: “Thevision of the agreements

between our academic institu-tions materialising into realcentres of learning and rap-prochement is a big part of thefruition of our growing partner-ship. Real learning takes placeeverywhere. It is thereforeimportant to venture out tocentres of learning, whereverthey may be, to behold thefuture of our relations takingroot and branching out in newdirections,” he added.

“The centre will be a lead-ing research and networkingplace that will provide students,researchers and business man-agers and firms with deepunderstanding of Israeli andIndian business, supporting andpromoting diversified body ofresearch and teaching related toIndo-Israeli business,” ProfAbhoy K Ojha, chairperson ofthe Centre and senior facultyfrom the OrganizationalBehaviour and HumanResource Management(OBHRM) at IIMB, said.

The Salwan Media Ventures is all set to hostthe 7th edition of its annual One Globe

Forum on February 9 and 10, 2018 at NewDelhi. The forum will deliberate on andexplore ideas around the intersection of tech-nology, innovation, smart cities, skills, region-al collaboration and education and their role inbuilding a 21st-century knowledge economy.

One Globe Forum, through its award cer-emony, will also recognise and honour theorganisations, entrepreneurs and startups thathave contributed to building a 21st-century

knowledge economy through Digital India,Make in India, Smart Cities, Entrepreneurshipand Social Impact. The Forum is putting togeth-er an eminent jury and details of the awardnominations will be announced shortly. OneGlobe Forum allows its delegates to networkwith a multitude of senior government officials,decision makers and thought leaders fromacross the globe. The forum includes panel dis-cussions, spotlight sessions, chats, Governmentofficials, academic professionals, policymakers,influencers and entrepreneurs.

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For decades there has been aconsiderable amount of atten-tion focussed on traditional

career choices. In the recent past,there has been a shift in the mental-ity, and more and more unconven-tional career options have been pur-sued. Chartering the alternativeroute is the latest norm for anyonewho dares to think-out-of-the-box orwishes to create a niche space forthemselves in the world. Some of themushrooming career choicesinclude:

�����A$����'����Stand-up comedy, being at a very

nascent stage in India, is slowly gain-ing traction in India.

And if you have what it takes youcan make a very lucrative career instand-up comedy. These days, count-less youngsters are looking to moveout of the regular9-5 desk job to pur-sue different career options.

A good comedian doesn’t have toworry about a dearth of work con-sidering that a developing economyknows how to laugh at itself. Someof the multiple opportunities avail-able to comedians include providingentertainment at corporate clientparties and meetings, sourcing jobsat comedy clubs, participating in var-ious comedy shows on television, etc.

Being successful in this field could open up multiple avenues with the possibility of worldtours on international platforms aswell.

�������'����'��Despite cricket being given pri-

mary attention in India, other sportslike football, hockey, kabaddi, bad-minton, etc. are slowly gainingground. There is a market for them,as many of these sports are becom-ing popular with media hype andteam ownership to support them. Tobring quality workforce into thisindustry, some universities and col-leges have recently started SportsManagement and Sports Marketingcourses for those interested.

'����������Another alternate career choice

is that of microfinance - which notmany are aware of. The term "micro-finance" describes the range of finan-cial products from microloans andmicrosavings to micro-insuranceproducts and more, that microfi-nance institutions (MFIs) offer totheir clients.

Rural India is abundant withmicrofinancing options to pursue,that aid in financially uplifting thepoor and those that remain empow-ered.

This serves as the perfect careerchoice for an individual who islooking to shift from the tradition-al banking space, and consider ruralfinancial career options.

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The Harvard KennedySchool invites applicationsfor Bacon EnvironmentalFellowships. These fellowshipsare open to applicants enteringtheir first year of study in anyof the Harvard KennedySchool’s masters’ degree pro-grammes.

Eligibility: Excellent acad-emic credentials and a demon-strated focus on developingleadership abilities to impactenvironmental public policyand practice. CPL seeks adiverse cohort of fellows withemerging leaders from the gov-ernment, business, and NGOcommunities dedicated to pre-serving and enhancing ourshared environment. Fellowswill participate in a robust co-curricular programme offeredby the Center for PublicLeadership. The fellowship willbe open to all admitted master’sdegree programme studentsand will not discriminate on thebasis of race, gender, sexual ori-entation, religion, age, disabil-ity, or national origin. EntranceRequirement: Applicants musthave previous degree. EnglishLanguage Requirement:Applicants whose first lan-guage is not English are usual-ly required to provide evidenceof proficiency in English at thehigher level required by theUniversity.

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file, not to exceed 150words. Include the following

highlights: An introductorysentence including your name;the degree you are pursuing atHarvard Kennedy School;where you are from and whereyou currently reside; anoverview and highlights ofyour relevant work/profession-al experience; significant lead-ership achievements includingawards or certifications; andeducational credentials withthe degrees earned and institu-tions attended. A documentcontaining written responses tothe following two essayprompts: Discuss a topic youare passionate about as it per-tains to preserving and enhanc-ing our shared environmentand your experiences as itrelates to this topic. Include spe-cific examples in your response(750 words or less).

The purpose of this fellow-ship is to provide financialsupport and leadership devel-opment experiences for peoplewho are committed to careersin environmental public policy.Many people are interested inenvironmental issues, but thisfellowship is limited to thosewho are committed to servingas environmental leaders ingovernment, NGO or busi-ness. Please state your commit-ment in 200 words or less.

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that the demand for AI-proficientprogrammers is skyrocketing, witha requirement of nearly 4,000 suchcandidates in Bangalore alone.Another study indicated that thedemand for IoT programming tal-ent increased by 304 per centbetween 2014 and 2017. Withmachine learning algorithms and AIadding to the depressed job marketin India and in many places aroundthe globe, having programmingskills, especially in writing machinelearning, IoT or AI algorithm pro-grams would increase the demandfor you in the job market.

As more and more companiesstart using AI processes to their con-ventional business models, thedemand for AI-proficient profes-sionals is guaranteed to go throughthe roof.

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of AI is its inability to feel fatigueor get bored — something nohuman being is immune to. Innearly every job, there is some pro-portion of drudgery or repetitivework — e-mailing responses andgenerating reports of the work youdo are some of the most commonforms of this. If you possess theright AI skills, you can utilise it towrite code that will do the drudgework for you and leave you free to

enjoy the creative aspects of yourwork. Human operators are one ofthe biggest sources of error in com-plex systems, especially due toboredom. Automating theseaspects of your work will preventerrors, make you more efficient,enable you to focus on the workthat matters more, and is likely toimprove your job performancemanifold.

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in full force, businesses operatingon more conventional processesand models would need to trans-form their systems to integrate AIinto them. Creating AI or machine

learning systems to do such workwould require a deep knowledge ofhow these processes currentlyoperate. For example, creating asoftware to do legal research wouldrequire a thorough understandingof the different sources of law, therelative value of different sources,and how to glean the relevantprecedent from the information.Thus, these companies will needpeople who are fluent both in pro-gramming AI as well as the skillsand information pertaining totheir domain. Possessing AI pro-gramming skills in addition todomain-specific knowledge andskills would leave you in a primeposition to undertake this kind ofwork.

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a matter of time before nearly allconventional modes of workbecome intrinsically linked to AIand machine learning. However,even though machine learningsystems already have the capacity,they have not yet been applied toall forms of work, or in certaincountries.

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start-ups leveraging AI andmachine learning algorithms dri-ving lending and risk assessment,a vast majority of loans today are stillapproved by human beings.Learning how to program AI-lever-aging platforms can be fused withyour knowledge of any domain tocreate new solutions for existingcompanies.

Instead of working for a com-pany to try to make them catch up,you could set up your own enter-prise to compete with them in thatfield or sell to an entire industry areadymade AI solution that willbring them up-to-date with thecurrent state of AI. Instead of beinga casualty of the change, you canlead it to achieve true success.

AI programming continues tobe a cutting-edge application in thetechnological space, but there existvarious resources that can help youlearn how to do so. Several institu-tions provide courses on AI pro-gramming, with flexible options thatallow you to learn over weekends,especially e-learning institutions. Dotake care to find a world-class insti-tution with expert faculty fromwithin the industry, to get the mostfor your time and money.

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Indraprastha Apollo Hospitalprovided a new lease of life

to a 2-year 11-monthold tod-dler from Dhaka, Bangladeshwho developed acute liver fail-ure. Aman Jawad Uddin devel-oped jaundice at end of Augustwhich progressively got worse.Due to worsening jaundice,vomiting and irritability, hewas admitted in a hospital atDhaka on 11 September.

A diagnosis of acute liver fail-ure due to Hepatitis A was made.His condition deteriorated tosuch an extent that he developedcoagulopathy (prothrombin timeincreased to 70 seconds, normalis 13 seconds) and went in to acoma. The family was told thatthe child needed an urgent livertransplant. The family contactedApollo Hospitals and an aircraftwas immediately arranged.

The Indian HighCommission issued a visa inrecord time. A storm developedover Dhaka on the morning ofthe air rescue and the team wasdelayed by 4 hours. The childreached Apollo Hospital in theafternoon and on assessment, adecision for an emergency livertransplant was made. Treatmentwas initiated to protect his brainfrom cerebral edema. His moth-er Tanjim Raha's liver was foundto be appropriate for donationand 36 hours after arriving inDelhi on September 20, the childunderwent a living related livertransplant.

The liver transplant was suc-cessful and by the 5th day after theoperation, his encephalopathyhad improved. He started recog-nising his parents and speaking.Dr Anupam Sibal, Group MedicalDirector, Apollo Hospitals Groupand Senior PediatricGastroenterologist and

Hepatologist, Indraprastha ApolloHospitals spoke about the case, “Itwas a very critical case because thechild was already in Stage 3Hepatic Encephalopathy. Thismeant that his liver was notremoving the toxins from hisbody which were damaging hisbrain function. With his condi-tion deteriorating fast, an emer-gency liver transplantation wasthe only treatment to save the lifeof the boy. We were very happythat Aman made a remarkablerecovery and he was dischargedin 3 weeks.” Dr Neerav Goyal,Senior Liver Transplant Surgeonat Apollo Hospitals Delhi, said,"Thechild was very sick. We puthim on dialysis immediately tostabilise his condition.

A liver transplant in a childwith acute liver failure is moredemanding than a standard livertransplant. Aman's clotting wasseverely damaged and that pro-vided extra challenges". The firstsuccessful liver transplant in Indiawas performed at Apollo HospitalsDelhi in 1998. Since then morethan 2900 liver transplants havebeen performed at Apollo ofwhich 235 have been in children.Sanjay the first child in India tohave been successfully trans-planted in India at the age of 18months in 1998 is now a medicalstudent leading a normal life.

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Surrendering early gains,benchmark Sensex tum-

bled 360 points to end at33,370.76 on Tuesday as waryinvestors booked profits amidfears of a flare-up in crude oilprices following the shake-down in Saudi Arabia. The 30-share index hit an all-timehigh of 33,865.95 intra-day,before slumping to 33,341.82in late afternoon deals onacross-the-board sell-off.

The index finally settled at33,370.76 points, down by360.43 points, or 1.07 per centover its last close. The broad-er NSE Nifty too dived by101.65 points, or 0.97 percent, to close at 10,350.15.Both the key indices sufferedtheir biggest single sessionfall since September 27.

Oil prices climbed 3.5 percent overnight to quote above$64 a barrel, the highest since

early July 2015, as Saudi Arabia’scrown prince cemented hispower with an anti-graft crack-down which sparked fears offresh geopolitical tensions anddisruption in crude supplies. Aspurt in oil prices can trigger afresh bout of inflation and spoilthe fiscal maths of net energyimporters like India. A weak-ening rupee, which depreciat-ed by 39 paise to 65.07 againstthe dollar during the day, toodampened investor sentiment.

“Political disturbance inSaudi is triggering high volatil-ity in the crude prices, which isnegative for India leading todepreciation in INR.Additionally, continuous nega-tive observations by USFDA onhigh quality Indian pharmacompanies are leading to adowngrade for the sector,” saidVinod Nair, Head of Research,Geojit Financial Services Ltd.

Drug firm Lupin was theworst performer in the Sensex

pack, crashing 16.84 per cent toclose at its 52-week low afterthe company said it hasreceived warning letter from heUS health regulator for itsmanufacturing facilities in Goaand Indore. Rival Cipla toofaced selling pressure andslumped 7.18 per cent.

Other laggards includedSBI, Bharti Airtel, RIL, SunPharma, ONGC, Tata Steel,Tata Motors, Bajaj Auto and

Asian Paints. However, gainsin software exporters suchas Infosys, TCS and Wiproon strengthening dollarcushioned the fall. Foreignportfolio investors (FPIs)bought shares worth a net�576.27 crore Monday, asper provisional data releasedby s to ck exchanges .D om e s t i c i ns t i tut i on a linvestors (DIIs) sold sharesworth a net �263.84 crore.

Globally, other Asian mar-kets led by Japan's Nikkei hit25-year highs, tracking recordclosing on the US boursesamid strong corporate earn-ings. Key indices in HongKong, Singapore, Japan,China, Singapore and Taiwanended higher by 0.50 per centto 1.73 per cent. Europeanmarkets were also trading inthe positive zone. Germany’sFrankfurt and France’s ParisCAC 40 moved up by 0.33 percent in late morning deals.

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phase of promoting digital pay-ments from January, accordingto an official source. “A com-mittee under DAVP (Directorateof Advertising and VisualPublicity) is working on plans tostart promotion of digital pay-ments from January onward,” anofficial source told PTI.

“Informat ion andBroadcasting ministry alongwith Meity (IT ministry) areinvolved in firming up thisplan,” he said. The logo andjingle are being designed andthe next meeting of theDAVP panel is expected to beheld within a week to submitthe plans, he said.

“There is a proposal thatevery ministry should come upwith its plan to promote digitalpayments,” he added. Since thedemonetisation of high valuecurrency in November last year,the Government has been push-

ing for digital payments to movetowards a less-cash economy aswell as enhance tax base. Therewas sudden spike in number ofdigital transaction with partic-ipation from private sector firms.

As per RBI data, 933 croreelectronic transactions havetaken place in the country,amounting to �12.13 lakhcrore, between November 2016and September 2017. The elec-tronic transaction volume

peaked in December 2016 to95.75 crore. In value terms itpeaked to �1.49 lakh crore inMarch 2017. As per the offi-cial data, there were 87.7 croreelectronic transaction inSeptember 2017 involving totalamount of over �1.24 lakhcrore. The RBI data showsincreasing trend in UPI(unique payment interface)based transactions.

The volume of transactionson UPI increased to over 3 crore,involving �5,290 crore, inSeptember this year, from 3 lakhvolume and � 90 crore inNovember last year. Mobilebanking volume reached alltime high in September to 8.6crore from 7.23 crore transac-tions. The value declined mar-ginally to �1.12 lakh crore �1.24lakh crore in November 2016.There was fluctuating trend intransaction volume and valueon pre-paid instruments likemobile wallet. The transac-tion value was all-time high inSeptember at �2,760 crore.

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NEW DELHI: After a shaky firstyear of existence, GSTN CEOPrakash Kumar on Tuesday saidthe company handling the ITbackbone of GST has put inplace a robust tax filing system thatcan withstand last minute rush.The Goods and Services TaxNetwork (GSTN), which went liveon November 8 last year, has overthe year improvised the system tohelp lakhs of businesses to paytaxes and file returns under thenew GST regime every month.

Speaking to PTI, Kumardescribed the past one year as a‘challenging task’ as the portal hadto account for all the business trans-actions that happened after the GSTrollout and ensure timely availabilityof utilities on the portal. “Doing aproject of this magnitude has beenexciting and challenging. When westarted developing the system, weknew this was an opportunity tochange and we needed a system

which we can scale up going for-ward,” said Kumar, who is an IITgraduate and a former bureaucrat.

So far, more than 72 lakh busi-nesses which were earlier registeredwith excise, service tax or VAT havealready migrated to the GSTregime, while over 30 lakh newbusinesses have come into the taxnet. More than 13 lakh taxpayersfiled their GSTR-3B return forAugust on the last day, September20. Similarly, for GSTR-1, load on

the network was close to 7 lakh.Since the roll out of GST on July1, the GSTN portal has handledover 2.26 crore returns and col-lected revenue to the tune of �2.78lakh crore for the exchequer.

This is mammoth consider-ing that the rules relating toreturns were finalised nearly amonth before the roll out of thenew tax regime and there wasalmost no time left for conduct-ing tests on the portal. PTI

NEW DELHI: The Governmentis scouting for asset valuers tocarry out the valuation for 100 percent stake sale in CentralElectronics Ltd (CEL).Incorporated in 1974, CEL isunder the administrative controlof Ministry of Science andTechnology. The CPSE is wholly-owned by the government andhad a net worth of �50.34 crore ason March 2017. Govt had earlierthis year cleared a 100 per centstake sale in CEL via strategic salewith transfer of managementcontrol.

The firms willing to act as assetvaluer can submit their bids byNovember 28, 2017, to theDepartment of Scientific andIndustrial Research. The selectedfirm would value land and buildings,furniture, civil infrastructure andplant and machinery of CEL, theDSIR said while inviting applicationfrom firms. The properties would beneeded to be valued by any one ora combination of the followingmethods- comparison method;income capitalisation, discountedcash flow, cost approach method, orreplacement valuation. PTI

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NEW DELHI: Finance MinisterArun Jaitley on Tuesday said theGovernment will consider eachcase brought out by ‘ParadisePapers’ on its ‘individual merit’.

The Minister told reportersthat the government probe intothe leaked documents from aBermuda-based global offshorelaw firm, detailing financialholdings abroad of over 714Indian entities and individuals,will follow the process similar tothe one undertaken in 'PanamaPapers' investigation

“It will be found out thatwho are those people with total-ly illegal accounts and who haveplausible defence.... Every casewill be considered on its indi-vidual merit,” he said. To a ques-tion, the finance minister said hewould not comment on indi-vidual cases as there was a legal

process in place to find out ifaccounts were legal or not. Asimilar probe was undertaken byinvestigators into the PanamaPapers, he said.

While some have illegalaccounts, some others have saidthat they have followed due pro-cedure, he said. Official sourceshad said yesterday that a multi-agency group (MAG) probingthe Panama Papers leak willalso look into the 'ParadisePapers'.

Dubbed as Panama Papers,an investigation of a stockpile ofrecords from Panamanian legalfirm Mossack Fonseca by theInternational Consortium ofInvestigative Journalist had lastyear named several world leadersand celebrities who had alleged-ly stashed away money abroad inoffshore companies. PTI

BRUSSELS: The EU on Tuesdaypushed for Europe to draw up ablacklist of tax havens after the‘Paradise Papers’ revealed loop-holes used by Apple and Nike aswell as celebrities such as FormulaOne champion Lewis Hamilton.While seeking to minimise taxesis not necessarily illegal, revelationsfrom the 13.4 million leaked doc-uments, released since the week-end through international media,have already proved embarrassingto figures as diverse as U2 singerBono and Queen Elizabeth II.

US tech giant Apple is the lat-est company to become embroiledin the leak, with the documentsexposing how the iPhone makershifted profits from one haven toanother to minimise taxes. Appleused offshore law firm Applebyto move tens of billions of dol-lars from low-tax Ireland toBritain’s Channel Islands whenDublin began tightening its taxlaws in 2015, according todocuments cited by the NewYork Times and BBC. AFP

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Here's a look at the two-leg Europeanand intercontinental playoffs matches, aswell as how African qualifying is shapingup:___

SWEDEN vs. ITALYFour-time champion Italy has partic-

ipated in every World Cup since failing toqualify for the 1958 tournament, whichcoincidentally was held in Sweden.

But Italy has showed poor formrecently, ever since a 3-0 loss to Spain inSeptember. After that match, Italy edgedIsrael 1-0, drew 1-1 with Macedonia andbeat Albania 1-0.

While Sweden didn't qualify for thelast two World Cups, it impressed in qual-ifying with a win over France and finishedahead of the Netherlands.

"We are winners just by being here,"Sweden coach Janne Andersson said.

The first leg will be in Sweden onFriday, with the return match on Mondayin Italy.

Sweden went unbeaten at home inqualifying at Friends Arena and strikerMarcus Berg scored eight times in ninematches.

���������������Northern Ireland is within reach of its

first World Cup in 32 years after hitting itstarget of second place in a group won bydefending champion Germany.

Switzerland, ranked No. 4 in August,finds itself in a tense playoff despite ninestraight wins to start qualifying.

On Monday, Switzerland coachVladimir Petkovic was still looking backto the 2-0 loss at Portugal last month, say-ing he had imagined playing a "nicefriendly" game this week. He acknowl-edged his team was too passive againstPortugal, and challenged players he did notidentify to take more responsibility now.

The Swiss need to forget about thatmatch before the first leg Thursday atWindsor Park, where only Germany hasbeaten Northern Ireland in a competitivematch in the past four years.

Switzerland has a nine-game winningstreak at home in tournament qualifiers,and hosts the return on Sunday in Basel.

��������������Greece is bidding to reach a major

tournament again after an embarrassing

qualification campaign for the 2016European Championship.

Without defender Kostas Manolas,who is banned from the first leg, theGreeks will play at Croatia on Thursdayand then host the return match on Sunday.

Manolas is out because FIFA sus-pended him for trying to manipulate hisdisciplinary record by deliberately earninga yellow card against Cyprus on Oct. 7. Thedecision compounded problems for coachMichael Skibbe, who is missing midfield-er Petros Mantalos and striker TasosDonis because of injury.

Croatia is set to miss defensive mid-fielder Milan Badelj for both matchesagainst Greece.

The Croatians and the Greeks were inthe playoffs for the 2014 tournament inBrazil. Croatia eliminated Iceland 2-0 onaggregate, while Greece beat Romania 4-2 on aggregate.

��'�������������Being in the playoffs for a major tour-

nament is nothing new for Ireland.This will be the team's ninth time, and

they have lost five of them - includingagainst France ahead of the 2010 WorldCup when Thierry Henry clearly handledthe ball in the build-up to the crucial goal.

The first leg will be in Denmark onSaturday. Ireland will host the second legon Tuesday.

Ireland has effectively already won oneplayoff - by beating Wales 1-0 in its finalqualifier - and will likely rely on the coun-terattacking tactics that worked so well inCardiff.

While there are no real stars in theIreland team, Denmark has a standout inChristian Eriksen - one of European soc-cer's best playmakers over the past fewyears at Tottenham. He scored eight timesfrom midfield in qualifying.

The Danes' 4-0 win over Poland ingroup play highlights their potential andthey are also higher in the FIFA rankings,

at No. 19 compared to Ireland's No. 26.The managers — Martin O'Neill and

Age Hareide — are former teammates atEnglish club Norwich.

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avoid when it switched from Oceania tothe Asian Football Confederation after the2006 World Cup: A last-ditch interconti-nental playoff in the Americas for a spotat soccer's marquee event.

Australian players traveled from threecontinents to assemble in Honduras thisweek to prepare for Friday's first leg. Thereturn match will be in Australia onWednesday.

It was a similar scenario when theAustralians played Uruguay for a place atthe 2006 tournament. Uruguay won 1-0 inMontevideo, and Australia leveled it upwith a 1-0 win in Sydney before advanc-

ing 4-2 on penalties. It ended a longdrought for the Socceroos, who had failedto advance from the last playoff stage in1986 (against Scotland), in 1994 (againstArgentina), in 1998 (against Iran), and in2002 (against Uruguay).

Tim Cahill, the only player still activefrom that playoff series in 2005 and nowAustralia's all-time leading scorer, is indoubt because of an ankle injury.

���������������$New Zealand will return to the scene

of one of its greatest triumphs when it hostsPeru on Saturday.

In 2009, New Zealand beat Bahrain 1-0 in front of a crowd of 35,000 at theWellington Regional Stadium to qualify forthe World Cup for the second time. It hadpreviously qualified in 1982, the same yearin which Peru made its last World Cupappearance. The return leg will be in Peruon Wednesday.

Rory Fallon, who scored NewZealand's winning goal in that match eightyears ago, has been recalled to the AllWhites after a one-year absence. He is cur-rently playing for Dorchester in the sev-enth tier of English soccer. That win overBahrain briefly put soccer center-stage ina rugby-mad country and Saturday'smatch will likely do so again. The matchis a sellout.

Peru, ranked No. 10, starts as the over-whelming favorite against 122nd-rankedNew Zealand but have a significant set-back, with striker Paolo Guerrero ruled outafter failing a doping test. Guerrero scoredsix goals in qualifying.

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will be decided on the final group gamesin qualifying, when Ivory Coast could missout and Congo could qualify for the firsttime since 1974.

Two of the five groups are settled, withNigeria and Egypt already through.

Tunisia and Congo will tussle for aplace from Group A. Tunisia has a three-point advantage, so Congo needs to beatGuinea and hope Tunisia loses at home toLibya. If that happens, the World Cup placewill go to the team with the best goal dif-ference. Morocco and Ivory Coast face astraight shootout in Group C whenMorocco travels to Abidjan. Ivory Coastmust win to sneak through to the WorldCup and deny former coach Herve Renard,now with Morocco.eady appealed againstFIFA's decision.

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Strike bowler Mitchell Starc became the firstman to take two hat-tricks in the same first-

class game in Australia today as he hit ominousform ahead of the Ashes Test series againstEngland.

The left-arm paceman became only theeighth player in first-class cricket history -- andthe first in 39 years -- to achieve the feat as hespearheaded New South Wales to victory overWestern Australia in the Sheffield Shield.

Having removed Jason Behrendorff, DavidMoody and Simon Mackin in WA's firstinnings to complete his first career hat-trick,Starc then got both Behrendorff and Moodyagain off the final two deliveries of his 15th over.

Jono Wells then edged Starc on the first ballof his next over to Australia and NSW captainSteve Smith at first slip to end the match.

Starc finished with the match figures ofseven for 97 in NSW's 171-run victory.

He also took a career-best 8-73 for NSWagainst South Australia under lights at AdelaideOval and looks in ominous touch ahead of theTest series.

Australia take on England in the first of fiveAshes Test matches in Brisbane, starting onNovember 23.

Australian leg-spinner Jimmy Matthewsremains the only player to take two hat-tricksin a Test match after he did it against SouthAfrica in Manchester in 1912.

���)������$����$�Injured Moeen Ali and Steven Finn remain

unavailable for England's second tour game inAdelaide, coach Trevor Bayliss said on Tuesday,missing the chance to prepare for the day-nightAshes Test in the city.

Bayliss said all-rounder Ali (side strain) andfast bowler Finn (knee), who also missedEngland's drawn opening tour game in Perth,

will sit out the four-dayer under lights againsta Cricket Australia XI, starting on Wednesday.

"Finn is still not right, we won't know abouthim for another couple of days yet," Bayliss toldreporters here today.

"Mo Ali is more precautionary now, we willjust leave him out of this one and make surehe's right."

Bayliss also said he was uncertain over one

batting spot and another fast bowling optionfor the first Test starting in Brisbane onNovember 23.

"We have probably got a batting spot tofinalise and probably a fourth pace position sothere's a little bit of competition from withinwhich is good," Bayliss said.

England have one further four-day warm-up game in Townsville from November 15before the first Test.

Bayliss said the team was focused onbecoming familiar with the day-night condi-tions and playing with a pink ball ahead of thesecond Test at Adelaide Oval.

England have only played one day-nightTest, which they lost to the West Indies lastAugust.

"We have got this (Adelaide) game to seewhat happens with the pink ball and for ourguys to experience it with a view obviously tothat (day-night) second Test," Bayliss said.

"If the ball moves around a little bit more,that is what we like to see more of.

"Our batters are more used to playing onwickets that do a bit more sideways and obvi-ously the bowlers bowling on it as well, more-so than the Australian guys."

Former Test fast bowler Ryan Harris,coach of the CA XI team, said he wants to sendthe tourists to Brisbane low on confidence andwith as little insight as possible into battingagainst the pink ball. "We are not here to makeit easy for England," Harris said.

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After being one game awayfrom going home early in the

tournament, Jack Sock won theParis Masters on Sunday to qual-ify for the season-ending ATPFinals in London.

Sock beat Filip Krajinovic 5-7, 6-4, 6-1. It is easily the biggesttrophy so far in the 25-year-oldAmerican's career.

Before coming to Paris the16th-seeded Sock didn't eventhink of London.

But after winning his firstMasters title, he will be makingthe short trip to England to com-pete against Roger Federer andthe other six who made it fromthe ATP race.

"Coming in this week I hadno idea I could even makeLondon. It wasn't in my head,"Sock said. "Incredible week. Hardto describe, honestly. I don'tthink it's really hit or soaked inyet."

Especially as on Wednesday,his mind was drifting way offsomewhere.

Deep into the third set againstBritain's Kyle Edmund - a toughopponent in the second round -Sock trailed 5-1.

"I was thinking about my hol-idays ... I'm proud of myself forfighting and getting through,"Sock said. "To come back fromthe deficit I was down and to havethis trophy next to me now hasbeen an incredible achievement."

Fast forward to Sunday andhe now walks away from Pariswith a check worth nearly $1 mil-lion and a jump up the rankingsto No. 9. Sock already knows howhe is going to approach the finals.

"I'm going to swing big andplay my game, like I always do,"he said. "Just enjoy the moment."

This was his fourth careertitle.

He sealed victory on his firstmatch point when Krajinovic, aSerbian qualifier ranked No. 77,sent a backhand long. Sock fellonto his back with his hands onhis face, then jumped into theseating area to celebrate with histeam.

"I had some anxious sleep lastnight," Sock said. "I was able tofind that groove in the second andthird (sets)."

He is the first American win-ner here since Andre Agassi in1999; and the first Americanwinner of a Masters tournament

since Andy Roddick at Miami in2010.

"I've had a rough seasonpretty much since, since March,"Sock said. "I just wanted to playsome good tennis my last weekand go start my offseason."

With a wry smile, Sock saidhe would be celebrating with "justa water on the rocks."

Krajinovic was the first qual-ifier in a Masters final since JerzyJanowicz, also here, in 2012.

After losing, the 25-year-oldSerb sat slumped in his chair,shaking his head in disappoint-ment.

He had only played finals onthe challenger circuit before, win-ning all five of them, and camethrough the qualifying rounds.He seemed to run out of energyin the third set.

"I was not aggressive enough,"Krajinovic said. "He started toplay better and better and I did-n't serve well."

Still, he will climb to No. 33next week.

"From (qualifying) I beat somany good guys, better rankingthan me," Krajinovic said. "So it'sall positive coming home, final-ly having holidays after playing somany matches this year."

The first set was even, withKrajinovic looking a little sharp-er than Sock, who is also 25.

Sock was 30-40 down in the12th game, and Krajinovic had hisfirst set point. He took it whenSock went for a typical cross-court winner on forehand andwhipped his shot into the net.

He responded well, uppinghis level in the second set as themomentum started to turn. Socksecured a crucial break in thethird game of the decider with asuperb forehand winner on therun, and then held for 3-1.

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West Ham disregarded a string offailed coaching stints by David

Moyes by hiring him as manager ona short-term contract Tuesday, gam-bling that his Premier League expe-rience will get the team out of rele-gation trouble.

Moyes didn't last a year at any ofhis last three clubs — ManchesterUnited, Real Sociedad andSunderland — in a bruising periodsince 2013 that tarnished the repu-tation of a manager once regarded asamong the best in British soccer.

His relative success at Evertonfrom 2002-13 has persuaded WestHam to give Moyes another oppor-tunity at the highest level, despite thelikelihood of fan disgruntlement atthe appointment.

He was handed an initial six-month contract and his chances ofstaying on as manager depends onkeeping West Ham in the world'smost lucrative league.

The team is in third-to-last placeafter 11 games.

"I don't know any manager whohasn't gone through negative periods,especially in the game today," Moyessaid. "I hope it gives me great strength

and understanding of what isrequired."

The fact that the 54-year-oldMoyes has taken charge of 499 gamesin the Premier League — only threemanagers have had more — count-ed in his favor as West Ham lookedfor a replacement for Slaven Bilic,who was fired Monday after 2 1/2years in charge.

"We need somebody with expe-rience, knowledge of the PremierLeague and the players in it, and webelieve David is the right man to turn

things around and get the best out ofthe players at the club," West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan said. "He ishighly regarded and respected with-in the game, and will bring freshideas, organization and enthusiasm."

Those were qualities he couldn'tdeliver at United or Sunderland,though.

After leaving Everton, Moyeslasted only 10 months as AlexFerguson's hand-picked replacementat United before getting fired. He wasfired by Spanish team Real Socieded

a day before completing a year incharge. Then came a 10-month spellat Sunderland, during which hefailed to keep the team in top divi-sion. He resigned at the end of lastseason and was criticized for his neg-ativity.

Moyes pointedly targeted WestHam's supporters in a video messagethat presented him as manager.

"I'm looking forward to seeingthem get right behind the team, andmy team also," Moyes said. "Weneed their support. We need every-body with us. It's a big job we havein hand now but I'm sure witheverybody together, we can get theright results between now and theend of the season."

It could be a difficult introduc-tion for Moyes, not even countingWest Ham's problems on the field.

One of his first tasks might be toget Javier Hernandez on his side.Moyes largely froze out the Mexicostriker during his time at United, withHernandez since accusing theScottish coach of "not taking me intoaccount."

Then there's his working rela-tionship with managing directorKarren Brady, who spoke out afterMoyes was caught on microphone in

April telling a female reporter that she"might get a slap" for the questionsshe asked during an interview.

"If it's wrong to be a bit racist, it'salso wrong to be a bit sexist," Bradysaid at the time.

Amid the ongoing debate aboutwhether he has been rewarded forfailure or if he deserves anotherchance because of his time at Everton,Moyes knows getting results on thefield is the priority. His first game incharge — his 500th in the PremierLeague — will be against Watfordafter the international break.

Moyes must improve West Ham'sform at the Olympic Stadium, theteam's new home since leaving UptonPark at the end of the 2015-16 sea-son.

West Ham has lost its last twohome games in embarrassing fashion,against Brighton (3-0) and Liverpool(4-1). The team has been prone tocollapsing after going behind - it hasalready lost by at least a three-goalmargin on four occasions this season— and lacked any real identity underBilic. "I wanted a job that would giveme a real good chance (of success),"Moyes said. "I wanted a big fan base,a big club, and West Ham fitted thebill."

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