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Prime Minister NarendraModi has convened a high-
level meeting on Saturday toreview the health of the econ-omy and discuss measure toarrest free-fall of rupee and ris-ing oil prices. The meeting isexpected to discuss measurelikes asking the RBI to raise 30-billion dollar through NRIbond to strengthen the rupee.Ahead of the meeting, the PMheld discussion with FinanceMinister Arun Jaitley on Friday.
Besides the PM and Jaitley,Reserve Bank of IndiaGovernor Urjit Patel, NITIAayog vice-chairman RajivKumar, Prime Minister’sEconomic Advisory Council(PMEAC) Chairman BibekDebroy and Finance SecretaryHasmukh Adhia are expectedto attend the meeting.
Interest rate hike and greaterintervention by the RBI through
selling of dollars are amongother measures that could alsocome up for discussion.
In the past in 1998, 2000and 2013 when the rupee facedsimilar crisis, the RBI hadraised dollar through issuanceof NRI bond. The meeting isalso expected to take up con-
cerns on rising fuel prices.However, experts feel that withlatest data showing that OPEChas raised oil production andthe global demand likely to besubdued in the near future, thevolatility in fuel prices couldstabilise on its own.
Experts feel the
Government should not takeany populist measure like cut-ting down excise on petrol anddiesel which will derail the fun-damental of the economy. Every�2 cut in price of petrol anddiesel would lead to a revenueloss of around �30,000 crore.
Experts feel theGovernment must ensure thatthe fiscal deficit target of 3.3 percent of the GDP in FY19 ismaintained to boost the senti-ments of foreign investors andstop flight of capital from thecountry. Incidentally, foreignportfolio investors (FPIs) havewithdrawn around $7 billionup to August 31. This is a wor-rying signal since the FPI wasnet buyers of equity and debtlast year.
Besides having an impact oncurrent account deficit, thenose-diving rupee has madeimports costlier and led to petroland diesel prices skyrocketing torecord highs. The Current
Account Deficit (CAD), whichis the difference between inflowand outflow of foreign exchange,rose to $18 billion or 2.4 per centof GDP in the April-June quar-ter on account widening tradedeficit.
The Finance Ministry hasruled out any cut in taxes toease the burden on consumers,saying it does not have thebandwidth to lose any revenuewithout developmental spend-ing being cut. The Governmentcan ill-afford this in an electionyear. Opposition parties led bythe Congress have made spi-raling fuel prices and plum-meting rupee a political issueand questioned the efficacy ofthe Government’s economicpolicies. They have beendemanding that the Centrecut excise duty and some of theStates ruled by them includingAndhra Pradesh and WestBengal have announced mea-sures to cut local taxes.
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A19-year-old college girl stu-dent, who was felicitated by
the State Government aftershe topped the CBSE Boardexams two years ago, wasallegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by a group of menin Haryana’s Mahendragarhdistrict.
The girl, a resident ofRewari was forcefully pickedup from a bus stop in Kaninatown, Mahendragarh on herway back from a coachingcentre on Wednesday andwas then taken to a secludedplace where she was gan-
graped after being offered adrink laced with sedatives,said police, adding that theaccused were in a car.
Later, they left her in anunconscious state near a busstop in Kanina, said police.
The family of the victimhas said she has named threeaccused in her complaint, butwhen the incident took place,she sensed that 8-10 peoplecould have been there.
“The three men accused ofraping the student after drug-ging her have been identifiedand would be arrested soon.The accused belong to thesame village as that of the vic-tim,” said Shrikant Yadav,ADGP South Range, Rewari,told the media.
Sharing details of herdaughter’s trauma, the victim’smother said her daughter is ina state of shock after the inci-dent and the accused are still
roaming freely.“Police have failed to take
any action against the miscre-ants. We were made to runfrom pillar to post before ourcomplaint was taken. The FIRwas registered at 1 am as policekept citing jurisdiction issuesmaking us shuttle betweenRewari and Kanina. All wewant is justice,” the mother toldthe media in her village, whichfalls in Rewari district.
Meanwhile, the victim wasadmitted to a hospital inRewari after she complained ofpain in the abdomen.
“The patient was broughthere with complaint of abdom-inal pain and we admitted her.Her X-ray and ultrasound weredone which were normal. Hervitals are stable, though sheappears to be tense. We willalso seek a psychiatric opinion,”said a doctor at civil hospital inRewari.
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Samajwadi Party chief andformer Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav said if the unit-ed Opposition failed to dislodgethe BJP from the Centre in the2019 Lok Sabha polls, theOpposition leaders would beforced to sell ‘pakoras’.
The SP chief said this whileflagging off a ‘Save Democracy,Save India’ cycle yatra inEtawah on Friday.
“If we fail to defeat the BJPin the next general election,then be ready to sell ‘pakoras’near some nullah as the PM hasalready said that methane gasis produced from the gutter andprovides employment toyouths,” Akhilesh said.
The SP president saiddemocracy would come to anend in the country if the BJP wasvoted back to power in 2019.
He said the cycle yatrawould not stop and it wouldspread awareness among peo-ple about BJP’s conspiracy todecimate Indian democracy.
“This yatra will save thenation’s democracy and it willculminate only after dislodg-ing the BJP from power inDelhi in the 2019 poll. Peoplehave seen through the BJP’sconspiracy against democra-cy. They have tested theirtools during the 2017Assembly polls and formed aGovernment here. People willgive the BJP a befitting replyin the 2019 polls,” Akhileshopined.
The SP chief alleged theBJP Government had deniedGovernment jobs to Dalits andbackward class youths and if hisparty returned to power in UPin 2022, the old system ofrecruitment would be imple-
mented. Akhilesh also attackedChief Minister Yogi Adityanathfor suggesting to farmers tostop sowing sugarcane andshift to vegetables.
Hitting out at the BJP, SPgeneral secretary Ram GopalYadav said, “The BJP will useevery trick to win elections, likesplitting political parties andfloating new outfits to splitanti-BJP votes, ahead of the2019 election.”
Ram Gopal said the battleof 2019 would be a very toughbattle for the party cadre astheir survival would be at stake.
As per the original plan,Yadav was to formally kickstartparty’s Lok Sabha election cam-paign from Kannauj onSeptember 19 by riding a bicy-cle and flagging off the over 40-km ‘Haq and Samman Yatra’.
“As party workers are alsoon a cycle yatra, I’m deferringmy yatra. One such cycle yatrais underway from Ghazipur toNew Delhi. I will start the yatraon Khajanchi’s birthday(December 2),” Yadav said.
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Chief Minister Raman Singhfelicitated veteran and
renowned sculptors and crafts-men of the country at NationalHandicraft Award Ceremonyorganized by HandicraftDivision of Union TextileMinistry and StateGovernment's GramodyogDepartment here on Friday.
Union Textile MinisterSmriti Zubin Irani presided overthe programme. On the occa-sion, Village Industries MinisterPunnulal Mohle and Raipur MPRamesh Bais were also present.
The State Government'sGramodyog Department offi-cials informed that this isNational Handicraft AwardCeremony has been organizedin Chhattisgarh's capital cityRaipur for the first time.
On special request of ChiefMinister Raman Singh, UnionTextile Ministry decided toorganize this event in Raipur.On the occasion, accomplishedand veteran craftsmen of year2016 were awarded Shilp GuruAward and National Award.
Eight craftsmen received
Shilp Guru Award 2016 name-ly Mohd Matloob of Delhi,Gulam Haider Mirza of Jammu& Kashmir, Roopam Mathru ofOdisha, Gopal Saini of Punjab,Arjun Prajapati and BabulalMarotiya of Rajasthan, andTripti Mukherjee of West Bengal.
The 25 craftsmen, whoreceived National Award 2016 onthe occasion are-- Hema Deviof Bihar, Mamta Devi of Delhi,Mohammad Yakub Khatri ofGujarat, Abraham Hasan Khatri
of Gujarat, Usha J Pawar,Vinita Prakash and Sarojini NYasmi of Karnataka, AnubamKalpana Devi of Manipur,Sukanti Swan of Odisha, DVenkatum of Telangana,Kalpana Chitrakar of WestBengal, Khandu Shrivaslu ofAndhra Pradesh, R Ravindramof Tamil Nadu, Sudheer Fadnesof Delhi, Rajendra Singh Yadavof Uttar Pradesh, Kamaljeet ofPunjab, Sharad Kumar Pradhanof Odisha, Hasan Ahmed of
Uttar Pradesh, Amritlal Sirohiya,Rajendra Kumar, Gajendra Soni,Mohanlal Gujjar of Rajasthan,Tapas Kumar of West Bengal andDhirendra Kumar of Bihar andRiyaz Ahmed Khan of JammuKashmir. Shilp Guru Award wasstarted in year 2002 by CentralGovernment, under whichawardees receive Rs two lakhcash and a gold coin along withshawl, certificates and memento.
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Chhattisgarh has received35,150 ballot units, 29,300
control units and 30,435 VoterVerifiable Paper Audit Trail(VVPATs) so far for upcomingAssembly polls and First LevelChecking (FLC) of them havebeen done, informed State ChiefElectoral Officer Subrat Sahooon Friday.
While addressing a pressconference here, he informedthat the brief revision of the elec-toral roll of the State ended onSeptember 7.
The objections receivedunder it would be disposed off bySeptember 20. Final publicationof the electoral roll would be doneon September 27 according towhich the Assembly Elections-2018 would be held, he informed.
Informing about the recent-ly held brief revision work ofelectoral roll, Sahoo informedthat counter verification of voters above age of 100 yearswere being done and action wastaken accordingly.
Special attention was givenfor registering the Personswith Disabilities (PWD) invoter list and special campswere held to enroll the thirdgender and leprosy affected, heinformed.
Informing that VVPATswere being demonstrated ateach polling booth, Hat-Bazaarof villages, Cinema Halls and inmobile van in urban areas, theCEO informed that it would beused in all the polling boothsof the State in the upcomingAssembly elections.
The official furtherinformed that recently trainingprogrammes were held for thepolice personnel in the state aswell as at the district levels.Similarly Health Departmenthad been instructed to makeavailable special medical facil-ities to the polling teams andsecurity personnel.
They have also been askedto conduct regular meeting ofMedical Board and make necessary arrangement of AirAmbulance, he said.
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Chief Minister Raman Singhwould resume 'Atal Vikas
Yatra' from Saturday(September 15 ).
He would be visiting 15districts of the State tillSeptember 20.
Singh would be addressingpublic meetings, welcome meet-ings along with participation indedication ceremonies and layfoundation stone for differentconstruction related works.
On September 15 and 16,he would be visiting tribaldominated Bastar division’s sixdistricts of Kanker, Kondagaon,Bastar (Jagdalpur), Dantewada,Bijapur and Sukma districts.
He will visit Bilaspur,Raigarh and Koriya districts, onSeptember 18, Korba,Balrampur-Ramanujganj andSurajpur districts and on
September 20 will visit districtsof Surguja, Jashpur andMungeli.
On September 15, hewould leave Raipur and reachBhanupratappur of Kanker dis-trict at 11.40 am by helicopter.
The Chief Minister wouldaddress the public meetingand lay foundation stone forworks worth Rs 170 crore.
Singh would then proceedto Makdi and from there to vil-lage Tarapur of Bastar district.In both places, he wouldaddress public meetings.
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Praising the Dawoodi Bohracommunity for its honesty in
trade, Prime Minister NarendraModi on Friday said the conceptof 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam',the world is one family, givesIndia an identity different fromall other countries.
The Prime Minister wasspeaking at a function held atthe Saifee Mosque.
The community's spiritualhead, Syedna MufaddalSaifuddin, felicitated Modi onhis arrival at the mosque for theevent, 'Ashara Mubaraka', whichcommemorates the martyrdomof Imam Husain, the grandsonof Prophet Mohammad.
"The concept of VasudhaivaKutumbakam is a great strengthof India, making it distinctfrom others. The Bohra com-munity is making the world
aware of this concept throughits work," the Prime Ministersaid in his address.
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam,Modi explained, is an ancientIndian concept which envisagesthe the world as one family.
"We are proud of our past,we believe in our present andare confident of our brightfuture," Modi said.
The Prime Minister high-lighted the GST (Goods and
Services Tax) roll-out and othereconomic reforms carried outby his Government and saidmembers of the Bohra com-munity took maximum advan-tage of these steps as they areknown to carry out their tradeand business world over withhonesty.
"They have set an examplefor other people (with theirhonest trade dealings)," he said.
The Prime Minister also
praised the Dawoodi Bohras, asect within Shia Islam knownfor their trading and businessacumen, for their efforts inmaking the Swachh BharatAbhiyan a success.
Modi recalled MahatmaGandhi's close association withSydena MohammadBurhanuddin, the late spiritualhead of the Bohra community.
"Mahatma Gandhi met theSydena during a train journey
and they became very close.During the Dandi Yatra,Gandhiji stayed in Saifee Villa (abuilding owned by the commu-nity in Dandi, Gujarat) whichwas later dedicated to thenation," the prime minister said.
The 'Swachhata Pakhwada'(cleanliness fortnight) will belaunched on September 15and will culminate on October2 on the occasion of GandhiJayanti, he said.
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The Supreme Court Fridaydirected the Centre to con-
sider framing separate rules forgranting disability certificatesto leprosy patients for availingreservation and various welfarebenefits.
A bench comprising ChiefJustice Dipak Misra andJustices A M Khanwilkar andD Y Chandrachud issued a slewof directions to the Centre andall States for eradication of lep-rosy and rehabilitation of thosesuffering from it.
"Medical staff in privateand Government hospitals besensitised to ensure that leprosypatients do not face discrimi-nation," the bench said.
The apex court furthersaid that awareness campaignshould be launched so that lep-rosy patients are not isolatedand allowed to lead a normalmarried life. The court alsoasked the Centre and States toframe rules that public and pri-vate schools do not discrimi-nate against children from lep-rosy affected families.
The apex court had onJuly 5 directed the Centre to filea comprehensive action plan toensure eradication of leprosyfrom the country, saying the"curable" disease cannot beallowed to affect the people.
The bench was hearing a
PIL filed by advocate PankajSinha alleging that the gov-ernment was not taking ade-quate steps to eradicate the dis-ease.
Additional SolicitorGeneral Pinky Anand, appear-ing for the Centre, had said thatthe Government was not tak-ing an "adversarial" stand onthe PIL that has raised theimportant the issue. Earlier, thebench had asked the Centre toplace on the record the 'Draft
Implementation Programme'for eradicating leprosy from thecountry.
The bench was informedthat Delhi, Andhra Pradeshand Chhattisgarh were lep-rosy-endemic states and effortswere needed to eradicate thedisease from these states.
The Centre had said anonline programme was beinglaunched to detect the patientsand their treatment.
Sinha, in his plea, has
alleged that leprosy affectsover 1.25 lakh people annual-ly in the country. "Despite aneffective cure, namely Multi-Drug Therapy (MDT) whichhas been available since 1981,that can completely cure 99per cent of leprosy bacteria,due to apathy of the Centreand State Governments, peo-ple are still suffering from thesaid disease, which is treatedas a social stigma," the petitionhad said.
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Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharamanhas ruled out any engagement with
the Opposition on issues relating to themulti-billion dollar Rafale fighter jet deal,saying they do not deserve to be involvedafter throwing muck on a very sensitiveissue concerning India's defence pre-paredness.
Sitharaman said the Governmentdecided to go for procuring only twosquadrons of Rafale jets as an emergencymeasure in the wake of China and Pakistansignificantly ramping up their air powerby inducting stealth fighters.
"Is there any point of calling them andexplaining? They are misleading the coun-try with something which was not evenagreed to during the UPA Government.You are throwing an allegation saying thereis a fraud. You did not care for operationalpreparedness of the air force," she told PTIin an interview.
The Defence Minister was askedwhether the Government will engagewith Opposition parties the way the thenPrime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2005had taken the Opposition into confidenceand addressed their apprehensions topave way for finalising the nuclear dealwith the US.
"It (Rafale deal) is an inter-govern-mental agreement. You (Opposition) have
asked us questions and I have givenanswers to them in Parliament. Then whatam I calling them for? What am I goingto tell them when I call them?" she said.
The Defence Minister also assertedthat the Rafale deal cannot be equated withthe Bofors issue at all as was beingattempted by the Opposition, as she hasrid the Defence Ministry from middlemenentirely.
Led by Congress, Opposition partieshave been attacking the Modi Governmentalleging it is procuring 36 Rafale jets fromFrance at an exorbitantly high cost.
Congress has said the UPA finaliseda price of �526 crore per fighter whilenegotiating a deal to buy 126 Rafale jets,but the current Government is buying eachaircraft at �1,670 crore when the weaponsand avionics onboard the jets will be ofsame configuration.
Sitharaman said the weapon systems,avionics and other key add-ons to theRafale aircraft will be "much superior" incomparison to what was negotiated by theUPA.
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India continued to rank low in theHuman Development Index
(HDI), but climbed one step to 130in a list of 189 countries in the lat-est United Nations DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP) report onaccount of rise in life expectancy,education and per capita income.
India's HDI value for 2017 is0.640, which put the country in themedium human development cate-gory. Norway, Switzerland, Australia,Ireland and Germany lead the rank-ing, while Niger, the Central AfricanRepublic, South Sudan, Chad andBurundi have the lowest scores in theHDI. Within South Asia, India'sHDI value is above the average of0.638 for the region, with Bangladeshand Pakistan — both with similarpopulation size — being ranked 136and 150 respectively.
Between 1990 and 2017, India'slife expectancy at birth increased by10.9 years, mean years of schoolingincreased by 3.4 years and expectedyears of schooling increased by 4.7years. India's Gross per capita incomealso increased by about 266.6 percentbetween 1990 and 2017. Accordingto report, between 1990 and 2017,India's HDI value increased from0.427 to 0.640, an increase of near-ly 50 percent. The report was releasedby the United Nations DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP) on Friday.
India's HDI for 2017 was 0.640.However, when the value is dis-counted for inequality, the HDI fallsto 0.468, a loss of 26.8 percent dueto inequality in the distribution of theHDI dimension indices. The averageloss due to inequality for mediumHDI countries is 25.1 percent and forSouth Asia it is 26.1 percent. TheHuman inequality coefficient forIndia is equal to 26.3 percent. Thereport said 26.8 percent of India'sHDI value is lost on account ofinequalities — a greater loss than formost of its South Asian neighbours(the average loss for the region is 26.1percent).
"This confirms that inequality
remains a challenge for India as itprogresses economically, though theGovernment in India and variousState Governments have, through avariety of social protection measures,attempted to ensure that the gains ofeconomic development are sharedwidely and reach the farthest first,' itsaid.
The report says India has a gen-der inequality index ( GII ) value of0.524, ranking it 127 out of 160 coun-tries in the 2017 index. In India, 11.6percent of parliamentary seats areheld by women, and 39.0 percent ofadult women have reached at least asecondary level of education com-pared to 63.5 percent of their malecounterparts. For every 100,000 livebirths, 174 women die from preg-nancy related causes; and the ado-lescent birth rate is 23.1 births per1,000 women of ages 15-19. Femaleparticipation in the labour market is27.2 percent compared to 78.8 formen.
The report further points outthat a child born today in Norway,which is top in the list, can expectto live beyond 82 years old and spendalmost 18 years in school. While achild born in Nigeria, lowest in theHDI list, can expect only to live to60 and spend just five years inschool.
"On average, a child born todayin a country with low human devel-opment can expect to live just over60 years, while a child born in acountry with very high human devel-opment can expect to live to almost80,"said Achim Steiner UNDPAdministrator.
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Union Home Ministry hasapproved allotment of
�3,000 crore for women safetyprojects in eight metro citiesincluding Delhi. The projectinclude setting up of womenpolice patrol teams, techno-logical installations like panicbuttons, smart-LED streetlights, transit dormitories forwomen and children, one-stopcrisis centers, forensic andcyber crime cells in the select-ed metros under the WomenSafe City Project. It will imple-mented in Delhi, Mumbai,Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru,Hyderabad, Ahmedabad andLucknow from 2018-19 to2020-21, a senior HomeMinistry official said Sunday.
Safe city proposals amount-ing to �2,919.55 crore wereapproved under the 'NirbhayaFund' recently, the official said.�663.67 crore has been ear-marked for Delhi, �252 crorefor Mumbai, �425.06 crore forChennai, �253 crore for
Ahmedabad, �181.32 crore forKolkata, �667 crore forBengaluru, �282.50 crore forHyderabad and �195 crore forLucknow, the official said.
The project takes a com-prehensive view of womensafety, with the states adoptinga mix of solutions based ontheir requirements. It envisagesdeployment of all-womenpatrol teams such as SHE-teams and well-equipped emer-gency response vehicles called'Abhayam' vans to ensure quickand effective response system.
The proposed infrastruc-ture includes development of
safe zone clusters in hot crimezones, smart LED street lighting,CCTV cameras connected tomodern command and controlcentres, security enablers inpublic transport, installation ofpublic panic buttons, provisionof toilets for women within safeeco-systems and transit dormi-tories for women and children.
Police stations are plannedto be equipped with womenhelp desks and other servicessuch as counsellors. This willmake police stations moreaccessible to women for lodg-ing complaints and gettingother assistance. One-stop cri-
sis centres are also plannedalong with forensic and cybercrime cells.
An integrated approachhas been followed whiledesigning the physical infra-structure to be added toenhance safety of women andchildren in public places and toinstil a sense of security inthem, another official said.The safe city proposals havebeen prepared jointly by therespective police and munici-pal commissioners of each city.
The project is being imple-mented in consultations withthe ministries of women andchild development, urbandevelopment and electronicsand information technologyand respective municipal andpolice commissioners. The costof the project would be sharedbetween the CentralGovernment (from Nirbhayafund) and respective states inthe ratio of 60:40. In case ofDelhi, the Home Ministry willallocate an additional amountof �240.11 crore.
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Unrelenting in his attackon the issue of Vijay
Mallya, Congress presidentRahul Gandhi on Fridaytrained his guns directly atPrime Minister Narendra Modisaying it was the CBI whichaided the fugitive tycoon's"great escape" by changing the"detain" notice to "inform" andthis was "inconceivable" thatthis was done without PrimeMinister Narendra Modi'sapproval.
Taking to twitter, Rahulwrote "Mallya's Great Escapewas aided by the CBI quietlychanging the "Detain" noticefor him, to "Inform". The CBIreports directly to the PM. It isinconceivable that the CBI, insuch a high profile, controver-sial case, would change a look-out notice without the approvalof the PM."
On Thursday, Rahul haddemanded resignation ofFinance Minister Arun Jaitley,accusing him of "colludingwith" Mallya and "allowing the
criminal toflee". Later inthe evening, hesought Jaitley'sresignation.
Meanwhile,senior Congressleader RandeepSingh Surjewalalatched on tothe CBI'sr e p o r t e dadmission that it made an"error of judgment" in dilutingthe Look Out Circular againstMallya in 2016 from detain toinform. He also pointed to thedelay by a consortium of banksled by the State Bank of Indiain moving the Supreme Courtagainst the liquor baron despitebeing advised to do so bysenior advocate DushyantDave.
"The question is simple,nation wants to know whowas the architect, executor,benefactor and protector in thiscase," Surjewala asked, hintingthat both banks and investiga-tive agencies were asked to goeasy on Mallya at the behest of
the Modi Government. Surjewala, quoting media
reports, said that Dave hasstated that he advised 17 bankson how to approach the apexcourt to seize Mallya's passportin February 2016 beforeMallya's departure to the UK,but a petition was filed onlyfour days after he fled
"On 19 Aug 2014, SBIissued a notice stating VijayMallya is a willful defaulter. OnSept 2014, United Bank ofIndia also stated same. By2015, SFIO & CBI registeredcomplaints against him. Sohow can CBI now say that theyhad no proof of his fraud," hequestioned.
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The Supreme Court onFriday agreed to hear on
September 17 a plea filed bya petitioner in nikah halalaand triple talaq case, seekingprotection after facing acidattack on Thursday atBulandshahr in UttarPradesh.
A bench of Chief JusticeDipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwikar and D YChandrachud considered theplea of Shabnam Rani, whowas attacked allegedly by herbrother-in-law and has been
hospitalised. She has alsosought better health care.
The top court directedAdditional Advocate Generalof State of Uttar Pradesh,Aishwarya Bhati, to takeinstructions in the matter.
"Let this matter be list-ed on Monday, September17, 2018. Let a copy of thisapplication be served onAdditional AdvocateGeneral of State of UttarPradesh Aishwarya Bhatiwho shall take instructionsin the matter. Registry isdirected to reflect the nameof . Aishwarya Bhati in theCause List. Be it clarified,only interlocutory applica-tion shall be taken up and
not the main matter," thebench said.
The court asked advocateAshwini Kumar Upadhyay,counsel for Rani, to submit acopy of the petition to theUttar Pradesh Government.Rani was yesterday report-edly attacked with acid inBulandshahr and it is beingalleged that her brother-in-law and his friend wereinvolved in the incident.
She was rushed to thelocal hospital and her con-dition is said to be stable.
Numerous petitionshave been filed in the apexcourt challenging the preva-lent practices of nikah halalaand polygamy among
Muslims saying it was viola-tive of fundamental rightsguaranteed under theConstitution.
While polygamy allowsa Muslim man to have fourwives, 'nikah halala' dealswith the process in which aMuslim woman, who wantsto re-marry her husbandafter divorce, has to firstmarry another person andget a divorce from the sec-ond person after the con-summation. In her pleaagainst nikah halala andpolygamy, Rani had allegedthat her husband divorcedgiving her triple talaq andforced her to perform nikahhala with her brother-in-law.
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Tamil Nadu GovernorBanwarilal Purohit has for-
warded the State Government'srecommendation for releasingconvicts in the Rajiv Gandhiassassination case to UnionHome Ministry for its opinion.Home Ministry officials onFriday said that the judicialdivision of the Ministry willexamine the legal positionsand will take a view as per law.
As per the 2013 landmarkjudgment of Supreme Court,the Governments should con-
sult the prosecution beforetaking a decision of prematurerelease of convicts. In RajivGandhi assassination case, CBIis the prosecution and the stateGovernment has no role, saida senior official, adding thatrecently Centre has alreadyexpressed its view to SupremeCourt on the same matter.
After the Centre's deci-sion, certain convictsapproached Supreme Court totake a decision under Article161 of the Constitution whichempowers Governors to releaseconvicted persons.
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the people afflicted with leprosyhailed the Supreme Courtjudgement on Friday, calling it"momentous" and one whichhas given due recognition tothe rights and challenges facedby the sector."
They regretted that it wasindeed a shame that India stillhas large numbers of new casesand accounts for the highestglobal burden of the cripplingdisease, despite availability oftreatment and cure since 1980.
Vinita Shanker, Director ofthe Sasakawa India leprosyFoundation, welcomed themuch-awaited order sayingthat the judgement is along thelines of the principles andguidelines of the UN HumanRights Council to which Indiais a signatory.
"It is a matter of pride thatthe highest authority of the
country has focused on an areabegging for attention over thelast so many decades. The chal-lenge now is to ensure that atime-bound program alongthese directives is initiated by thedifferent concerned ministriesand departments," she said.
Shanker stressed on theneed for a mass awarenesscampaigns to spread awarenessabout leprosy. Also, "commu-nity based rehabilitation andprevention of discrimination inschools are necessary to notonly take care of those whohave been affected and ostra-cized but also of their childrenwho suffer even when theydon't have the disease( as isoften the case)," she added.
The problem lies in boththe good medical care reachingthose affected as was as in thesocial stigma that is stillattached to leprosy. Its directivefor ensure availability of drugsin PHC, in providing recon-structive surgery and in not iso-
lating those affected by send-ing them to sanatoria, is righton the dot, according to theactivist.
"Highlighting the need forgenerating a greater awarenesson the issue of leprosy, its cur-ability and free treatment toaddressing the issue of stigmaand discrimination the Courthas given a host of directionsto both the Central and Stategovernments," said Dr MaryVerghese, Executive Director ofThe Leprosy Mission TrustIndia, an NGO working in thefield of leprosy since over 144years.
Suresh Dhondge, a lep-rosy afflicted person and pro-gramme manager in TLMTI,said that the judgement wouldhelp the community live withdignity while Dr V V Pai,director at Bombay LeprosyProject, said: "hope now thegovernment stress on activecase finding to prevent latediagnosis or deformity."
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Prime Minister NarendraModi will launch the three-
week-long 'Swachhata Hi Seva'movement on Saturday. Modiwill interact with cross-sectionof people from 18 locations onthe inauguration of the move-ment intended for moreawareness and greater publicparticipation of the cleanlinesscampaign, which will run up toOctober 2, the 150th birthanniversary of MahatmaGandhi.
"The people with whomPM will interact includeschool-children, jawans, spir-itual leaders, members of milk
and agricultural cooperatives,media persons, localGovernment representatives,railway employees, Self HelpGroups, and Swachhagrahis,among others," said the
Government in a statement.Many sports stars and film per-sonalities across the countrywill join the interaction withthe Prime Minister.
The 'Swachhata Hi Seva'
movement, which aims at gen-erating greater public partici-pation towards Swachhta, isbeing organised in the run upto the fourth anniversary of theSwachh Bharat Mission, onOctober 2 which will alsomark the commencement ofthe 150th year celebrations ofMahatma Gandhi, added thestatement.
Earlier, describing thismovement as "a great way topay tributes to Bapu," thePrime Minister, in a videomessage to the people, hadexhorted people to be "part ofthis movement and strengthenthe efforts to create a SwachhBharat."
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The Central Governmentwould provide technical
and financial assistance for thedevelopment of an ‘ArtificialBeach’ on both sides of PtRavishankar Reservoir forwhich the ChhattisgarhTourism Board (CTB) shouldsend the proposal to theTourism Ministry, said K JAlphons, Union Minister ofState (Independent Charge)for Culture and Tourism onFriday.
The Minister made theannouncement while acceptingthe demand raised by StatePanchayat and RuralDevelopment Minister AjayChandrakar.
Alphons was in the districtto launch the Central govern-ment’s ‘Tribal Tourism Circuit’under its Swadesh DarshanScheme.
The Minister unveiled aplaque to launch the ‘TribalTourism Circuit’ inChhattisgarh.
The circuit comprises --Jashpur-Kunkuri-Mainpat-Kamleshwarpur-Maheshpur-Kurdar-Sarodhdadar-Gangrel-Kondagaon-Nathiyanavagaon-Jagdalpur-Chitrakote- andTirathgarh.
Appreciating the workdone by Chhattisgarh TourismBoard (CTB), Alphons saidthat the Cottage at the touristsite is having good architecturaldesign and termed the sur-
rounding of reservoir as ‘God’sown Paradise’.
He jokingly said one cancome and write poems and lit-erature in this quite place.
The Minister said that
Chhattisgarh is the second cir-cuit after Manipur to belaunched. There are 74 projectsunder Swadesh DarshanScheme to be developed at acost of Rs 6000 crores and 30
projects would be completedthis year.
The tourism sector hasgenerated around 14.62 millionjobs in the country during thelast four years. Last year, Indiantourism sector grew by 14%
while global growth was 7%including increase of revenueby 20%. The ambitions havebeen kept high in tourism withearning target of 100 billion,Alphons said.
He also spoke on the
Cleanliness Mission taken upby Prime Minister NarendraModi which has spread aware-ness regarding cleanliness evenamong the children.
He also spoke on otherflagship programmes of theCentral government, like LPGdistribution, free electricity topoor, construction of housesfor all by 2022 and others.
The Minister appreciatedthe initiatives taken byChhattisgarh Government forpublic welfare.
Earlier, Panchayat andRural Development MinisterAjay Chandrakar said thatChhattisgarh does not haveany sea beach, so on banks ofGangrel Dam, should be devel-oped as ‘Artificial Beach’ so that
domestic tourists can have thefeel.
He urged the TourismMinistry to sanction the projectby providing technical andfinancial assistance.
The Minister also laidstress on the ‘Ram-gamanMarg’ proposal.
State Culture and TourismMinister Dayaldas Baghel gavethe welcome address.
Director General TourismSatyajeet Rajan also appreciat-ed the work of resort and saidthat there are a total of fourprojects in the country and twoare being implemented inNagaland, one in Telangana butChhattisgarh is the first tribalcircuit to be inaugurated incountry.
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NMDC Ltd has bagged pres-tigious 'Rajabasha Award'
and second prize in PSU cate-gory of ‘C’ Region at a functionheld at Vignan Bhavan in NewDelhi on Friday as a part of‘Hindi Day Celebrations’, acompany press releaseinformed.
The said award was pre-sented by Vice President ofIndia M. Venkaiah Naidu andreceived by Usha Singh,Executive Director (Personneland Administration) in pres-ence of Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh, Union Ministerof State (Home) HansrajGangaram Ahir, Minister ofState (Home) Kiren Rijiju,Secretary, Official LanguageDepartment and other digni-taries.
NMDC is always commit-ted for implementation ofOfficial Language Policy ofGovt. of India. In recognitionof these efforts, NMDCreceived many prestigiousawards in the field of Rajbhashasuch as “Rajbhasha Samman”1st prize from Ministry ofSteel, Govt. of India and
“Rajabhasha Shield-First prize,Best Magazine award forNMDC’s house magazine“Khanij Bharati”, it informed.
The company regularlyconducts RajbhashaConferences/Seminars, publi-cation of “Khanij Bharati” reg-
ularly competitions and Hindi workshops for theemployees of other PSUs inHyderabad under TOLIC apartfrom conducting Hindi workshops and Hindi compe-titions for the employees ofNMDC at Head Office,
Hyderabad and all Projects &Plants of NMDC, the pressrelease informed.
NMDC encourages itsemployees for more and moreusage of Hindi in their officialworks through monthly Hindiincentive schemes.
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Five girls and a boy would beparticipating in the School
National Games scheduled atJharkhand in U-17 categoryand in Andhra Pradesh inUnder-14 category of Archeryduring the coming months,stated Trilochan Mohanta,Havaldar , General Duty (GD)of Indo-Tibetan Border Police(ITBP) who received specialaward for promotion of sportsin insurgency infested areasand also ‘Atal Drishti Patra’.
He was felicitated by ChiefMinister Raman Singh duringthe State Sports Award deco-ration ceremony held at AtalBihari Vajpayee Auditorium, PtJawaharlal Nehru MedicalCollege premises on Thursday.
Motivated by the work ofCommandant, Surinder Khatri,a national level Archer himself,Trilochan Mohanta has nowfully dedicated himself since2016 of his posting inKondagaon 41st Battalion ofITBP to promotion of sports inthe insurgency areas.
Around 100 children from
Kolavan, Mardapal, Rangapal,Kakori, Mungapadar and othervillages nearby the camps inKondagaon district, all schoolgoing girls and boys are beingtrained in Archery.
Last year, around 40 play-ers in different categories wonthe State-level event while in2017 and seven players playedin national events. Five archersin School National Games andtwo in open games while the sixare scheduled to play, he said.
The children aged under14under 17 and under 19 includ-ing senior category players arealso being imparted training incompound and recurve bowwhile government has provid-
ed around 21 Indian Bows.He said that he had per-
sonally spent around Rs fivelakh for purchase of one com-pound bow and five recurvebow to train the children.
“Yes, now I am facing dif-ficulty in training the childrenas the number of children hadincreased while the compoundand recurve bow are less innumber. The training isimparted for two hours from6.00 am to 8.00 am while inevening it is from 4.00 to 6.00pm,” he said.
The other factor is thattribal children are now gainingconfidence but shortage ofequipment along with diet atpresent is an existing barrier.ITBP has a limitation so we areworking within the frame-work. State ArcheryAssociation has not yet extend-ed any help for the children,Mohanta said.
Last but not the least, healso has apprehensions thathis job being transferable, willthe efforts made in promotingsports in insurgency areas go invain, if transferred?
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Prime Minister NarendraModi states that the
Government will not run busi-ness, which is the reason itoffloaded the hospitality busi-ness, mainly ITDC AshokaHotels, while retaining only theNew Delhi property but not forlong, said K J Alphons, UnionMinister of State (IndependentCharge) for Culture andTourism.
He was in Dhamtari onFriday to launch the ‘TribalTourism Circuit’ underSwadesh Darshan Scheme at PtRavishankar Reservoir premis-es.
The Chhattisgarh TourismBoard would have to privatisethese cottages so as to pave wayfor construction of 100 morecottages so that the venture
becomes viable, otherwise theState government would havebe regularly infuse funds in theventure, Alphons said.
On question of retainingthe villages in ethnic form inTribal Circuit, he said no onecan stop modernization of vil-
lages comparing the state ofKerala.
He said each village ofKerala has all urban facilities,similarly, the villages wouldtransform; now only one thingconnects all, is the internet. So,nothing will stop. “Yes,Chhattisgarh will be retainingfew ethnic tribal villages main-ly in districts of Kondagaonand Jashpur,” he pointed out.
“‘Ram-gaman-Marg’ is aproposal given by differentstates including Uttar Pradesh.It can bring in domestic touristsbut not foreign.
For accepting the propos-al, there should be requiredfunds; how much footprints isexpected and it should provideenhanced experience to thetourists,” Alphons said.
“The target is to increasedomestic tourist traffic but
also maximise foreign touristtraffic. It makes no sense, ifresources are deployed andthere is no result. There shouldbe viability,” he pointed out.
Even every state cannot begiven similar projects; itdepends on resources availablewith the Ministry and State-wise requirement.
Recently it was found thatJharkhand and Punjab did nothave any tourism project onwhich they were asked to sendproposal and was acceptedafter necessary modification.One state cannot be allocatedmaximum projects. So equityhas to be maintained, he added.
In Chhattisgarh, the reli-gious circuit of MaBambleshwari at a cost of Rs 50crore has been asked for finalproposal after due modifica-tion, he said.
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Chhattisgarh Chief MinisterRaman Singh on Friday
said that AICC President RahulGandhi is visiting temples afterfearing Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.
The Chief Minister wasreferring to Rahul Gandhi’svisit to Kailash Mansarovarand proposed visit to theprominent temples ofChhattisgarh.
The AICC has sought theroute map of several prominenttemples in Chhattisgarh so is toinclude it in Rahul Gandhi’svisit to state.
The Chief Minister said atleast in the name of elections,those people who never visit-ed temples, atleast have begunto visit the temples.
Union Minister for TextilesSmriti Zubin Irani said that ifany political party is asked, itwould say they see the God inthe people.
But it is a happy momentthat the person who has goneto tour the country, due to BJP,is forced to have a visit and prayat the temples.
She said that one has to
understand that politics in thecountry is based on develop-ment and if any party does pol-itics by defining development,then it is only the BJP.
Meanwhile, ChhattisgarhPradesh Congress Committee(CGPCC) President BhupeshBaghel while reacting to thecomment of Chief Ministersaid that what type of ‘Hindu’national party is it whichobjects to Congress PresidentRahul Gandhi going to thetemple. How the Chief Ministeris seeing politics while climb-ing the steps of temple, he said.
Baghel said that BJP lead-ers are sitting without work and
so watching the movement ofCongress President. They (BJP)should turn the pages ofCongress history before mak-ing any comment. It isCongress leader Sardar VallabhBhai Patel who started the ren-ovation of Somnath temple. Itwas President Shankar DayalSharma who dedicated thetemple to the nation.
Congress party followspath of Father of NationMahatma Gandhi. BJP doesnot have the right to play pol-itics on religion. It is an indi-vidual’s privacy to follow anyfaith and no one can questionit, he said .
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The Congress party hasalleged that mining scam
worth millions of rupees in theState is taking place by issue ofillegal (duplicate) royalty slips.
In a press conference heldhere at Rajiv Bhawan on Friday,Congress party’sCommunication Wing In-charge Shailesh Nitin Trivediciting the information receivedby the party under Right toInformation (RTI), levelled theallegations.
“The game of duplicateroyalty slip was going on allover the State since past 15years”, Trivedi alleged. A case ofone Mining Contractor ofRajnandgaon Santosh Agrawalcame to fore and no action wasbeing taken even though com-plaints were lodged to relevant
authorities at a higher level, hesaid. Neither an FIR was lodgednor any special enquiry teamwas constituted, Trivedi said.
Trivedi demanded that theChief Minister should order aspecial audit over the incomefrom royalty and clearance
from the royalty. He alsodemanded stern action againstthe guilty by ordering a judicialprobe.
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The BJP government is ded-icated to improving the lot
of poor in the State. The datapresented by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi states that infour years, economic conditionof five crore people haveimproved, said Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) State PresidentDharamlal Kaushik.
He was addressing the BJPState Working Committeemeeting held at Ekatma Parisarhere on Friday.
In Chhattisgarh, after ChiefMinister Raman Singhassumed office in 2003, it wasbeing considered as a BIMARUstate and labour migration washigh which had become syn-onymous to the state. But BJPgovernment considered theproblem and now no one sleepson an empty stomach nordeaths are occurring. The mes-sage of ‘Antyodaya’ has beenput in place on the ground forwhich full credit goes to ChiefMinister, Kaushik said.
He said, “Our target is notobtaining power but providingrights to the poor, exploitedand the denied, for which workhas to be done.”
Kaushik recalled the con-tributions of former PrimeMinister late Atal Bihari
Vajpayee and his Hindi speechin the UN on the occasion of‘Hindi Diwas’.
Prime Minister NarendraModi is following Atalji’s foot-steps and once again put Indiaon economic growth map.
On BJP National President
Amit Shah, he said it is the hardwork of party’s NationalPresident that BJP Governmentis in 20 states .
In Chhattisgarh, the partywould form government for thefourth consecutive term. Newrecord of registering 65 plus
seats would be established.Each booth with furtherstrength should work and itshould be the target, Kaushiksaid.
Last time it was 13 lakhparty members and this year itis 27 lakh members. The mes-
sage of public oriented welfareschemes has to be disseminat-ed among people and it istime for hard work. It is theresponsibility of party workersto achieve the target, he said.Later, the Committee paid trib-utes to departed souls.
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The Supreme Court onFriday ordered a high-level
probe to take the erring cops totask for causing “tremendousharassment” and “immeasur-able anguish” to ISRO scientistNambi Narayanan in the 1994espionage case and asked theKerala Government to coughup �50 lakh compensation forcompelling him to undergo the“immense humiliation”.
Terming the police actionagainst 76-year old ex-scientistof Indian Space ResearchOrganisation (ISRO) as a “psy-cho-pathological treatment”, abench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra saidhis “liberty and dignity”, basicto his human rights, were jeopardised as he was taken into custody and, even-tually, despite all the glory of thepast, was compelled to face“cynical abhorrence”.
“There can be no scintilla ofdoubt that the appellant, a suc-cessful scientist having nation-al reputation, has been com-pelled to undergo immensehumiliation.
The lackadaisical attitude ofthe State police to arrest anyoneand put him in police custodyhas made the appellant to suf-
fer the ignominy. “The dignityof a person gets shocked whenpsycho-pathological treatmentis meted out to him.
A human being cries for jus-tice when he feels that theinsensible act has crucified hisself-respect,” the bench, alsocomprising Justices A MKhanwilkar and D YChandrachud, said.
Welcoming the judgement,the former scientist said inThiruvananthapuram that theKerala police had “fabricated”the case and insisted that thetechnology he was accused tohave stolen and sold in the1994 case did not even exist atthat time.
“The Supreme Court hasclearly stated that it was an ille-gal arrest. It also identifies andacknowledges the sufferingand humiliation I have gonethrough.
“The highest court of thecountry has accepted what Isaid. They (Kerala police) fab-ricated the case.
The technology they said Istole and sold did not even existthen,” he said responding to theorder,” he said.
The espionage case, whichhad hit the headlines in 1994,pertained to allegations oftransfer of certain confidential
documents on India’s spaceprogramme to foreign coun-tries by two scientists and fourothers, including twoMaldivian women.
Narayanan hadapproached the apex courtagainst a Kerala High Courtjudgement that no action need-ed to be taken against formerDGP Siby Mathews, who wasthen heading the SIT probeteam as IGP, and two retiredsuperintendents of police K KJoshua and S Vijayan, whowere later held responsible bythe CBI for the scientist’s ille-gal arrest.
Today, while awarding Rs50 lakh compensation to bepaid by the state government ineight weeks, the top court saidthis was being given to com-pensate for his suffering, anx-iety and the treatment metedout to him.
It also allowed him tosimultaneously pursue hispending civil suit for furthercompensation.
The bench said the “repu-tation of an individual is aninsegregable facet of his rightto life with dignity” and reject-ed the plea of Kerala govern-ment that dueto the lapse of time no inquiryand subsequent actions need-
ed to be taken against erringofficials.
It accepted Narayanan’splea that the authorities whowere responsible to cause sucha “harrowing effect” on hismind, should face the “legalconsequences”.
“We think that the obtain-ing factual scenario calls forconstitution of a Committee tofind out ways and means totake appropriate steps againstthe erring officials,” the benchsaid.
It ordered setting up of athree-member committeeheaded by its former judgeJustice D K Jain to take appro-priate steps against the erringofficials and directed theCentre and the stateGovernment to nominate oneofficer each in the panel. Theseat of the committee would bein New Delhi.
“The criminal law was setin motion without any basis. Itwas initiated, if one is allowedto say, on some kind of fancyor notion,” the bench said.
“We are of the view that theappellant was arrested and hehas suffered custody for almostfifty days.
His arrest has been seri-ously criticised in the closurereport of the CBI. From the
aforesaid report, the harass-ment and mental torture facedby the appellant is obvious,” thebench said.
The bench said the “entireprosecution” initiated by thestate police was “malicious andit has caused tremendousharassment and immeasurableanguish” to Narayanan. “It canbe stated with certitude” thatthe fundamental right of lifeand personal liberty ofNaryanan was “gravely affect-ed”.
The CBI, while giving cleanchit to the scientist, had saidthat Siby Mathews had left“the entire investigation to IBsurrendering his duties” andordered indiscriminate arrest ofthe scientist and others withoutadequate evidence being onrecord.
It also had its political fall-out with a section in theCongress targeting then chiefminister late K Karunakaranover the issue, that eventuallyled to his resignation.
The case had caught theattention in October 1994when Maldivian nationalRasheeda was arrested inThiruvananthapuram forallegedly obtaining secret draw-ings of ISRO rocket engines tosell to Pakistan.
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The Supreme Court onFriday modified its order
that provided for setting up ofa committee to deal with dowryharassment complaints byprotecting the provision ofpre-arrest. The top court hadon April 23 reserved its verdicton a batch of pleas seekingrevisiting of a judgement thathad reduced the severity of theanti-dowry law on the offenceof subjecting a married womanto cruelty by spouse and in-laws.
“We have protected pre-arrest or anticipatory bailprovision in dowry harass-ment cases,” said a bench headed by Chief Justice DipakMisra and comprising Justices
AM Khanwilkar and DYChandrachud.
The Supreme Court, whilemodifying the verdict given byits two-judge bench, said thatthere is no scope for the courtsto constitutionally fill up thegaps in penal law.
“There should be genderjustice for women as dowry hasa chilling effect on marriage onthe one hand, and on the otherhand, there is right to life andpersonal liberty of the man,”the bench had said whilereserving its verdict.
The bench was hearing aplea filed by an NGO ‘Nyay-adhar’, an organisation formedby a group of women advocatesof Maharashtra’s Ahmednagardistrict, seeking sharpness insection 498A, claiming thatthe otherwise “helpful instru-ment” in the hands of victimwomen has become “valueless”.The plea suggested that out ofthe three members in familywelfare committees, at leasttwo should be women andone should have done Masters
in Social Work. It had also suggested recording of facts atthe time of counselling and saidthe committee should also consider the economic status ofthe parties.
A two-judge bench of theapex court in July last year hadvoiced concern over the “abuse”of section 498 A (subjecting amarried woman to cruelty)and passed a slew of directions,including that no arrest should“normally be effected” withoutverifying allegations as viola-tion of human rights of inno-cents cannot be brushed aside.
The bench had observedthat many such complaints arenot bonafide and “uncalled forarrest” may ruin the chances ofsettlement.
The top court had issuednotices to Ministry of HomeAffairs, Ministry of Womenand Child Development andNational Commission ofWomen and sought theirresponses while disagreeingwith the July 27 verdict of thesmaller bench.
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BJP MLA Manvendra Singh,who is the son of ailing for-
mer Finance Minister JaswantSingh, is expected to take deci-sion on taking a politicalcourse “away from the BJP” onSeptember 22 at ‘ SwabhimanRally’ near Jaisalmer-Barmer.
Anticipating ‘rebellion’ bythe MLA, Rajasthan ChiefMinister Vasundhara Rajeundertook her ‘Gaurav Yatra’campaign for the upcomingAssembly poll in the State and
did not visit the Manvendra’sconstituency. The CM wrappedup the second leg of her Yatraon September 2 at Pachpadrain Jodhpur-Barmer districtwhere Congress also held itsrally.
Pachpadra, a town inRajasthan’s Marwar region, hasturned into a political testingground for the BJP, Congressand the influential Rajputcommunity to whichManvendra belongs to andderives total support.
It is in Pachpadra that
Manvendra also seeks to holdshow of strength in‘Swabhiman rally’ onSeptember 22 and possiblymake the major announce-ment about his political future.“ The rally is to unite allbeyond caste and communityand self-respecting people, “ hesaid.
The rally planned as acounter by Rajputs against the‘Gaurav Yatra’ of the ChiefMinister, according to sources,would be attended by peoplefrom ‘chhattees quom’ (all
communities) who woulddecide the final step to betaken by the former BJP MPand present MLA from ‘Sheo.’
According to sources,Manvendra is toying with theidea of either contesting assem-bly poll as an Independent orto cross over to another partyincluding the Congress.
Manvendra, an erstwhilejournalist, is reluctant to dis-close his cards. The posterspasted around in the regionhave Jaswant as the main faceand marked by the complete
absence of BJP leaders. “It is the rally of all respect-
ing leaders who were disre-garded by the BJP,” a politicalleader close to Jaswant said andpointed to “the total dissatis-faction” in the Rajput com-munity against the BJPGovernment in the State.
A former member ofParliament from Barmer from2004 to 209, Manvendra wassidelined and suspended fromthe primary membership of theparty after he sought to cam-paign for his ‘rebel’ father con-
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The son of a Delhi Policesub-inspector was arrested
on Friday after a video inwhich he is seen beating a girlwent viral. Police action cameafter Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh took cognisanceof the video and asked DelhiPolice Commissioner AmulyaPatnaik to take action againstthe accused.
A complaint was receivedfrom a woman late onThursday night at Tilak Nagarpolice station in West Delhi,alleging that her estrangedmale friend Rohit Tomarshowed the video to her — inwhich he was seen assaultingthe woman — and threatenedher that she will meet the sameconsequences if she did notcondescend to his marriageproposal.
The cases against theaccused — one of criminalintimidation and molestationand the other of rape — wereregistered based on the versionof two women at Tilak Nagar
and Uttam Nagar police sta-tions. “Accused Rohit Tomar(21), son of Delhi Police sub-inspector Ashok Singh Tomar,was arrested by Tilak Nagarpolice staff on Friday. An FIRwas registered in Dwarka dis-trict’s Uttam Nagar police sta-tion by the woman who wasbrutally beaten up in the video.The video which went viral onsocial media was shot in WestDelhi’s Uttam Nagar onSeptember 2 and was shot bythe accused’s friend,” the policesaid.
Deputy Commissioner ofPolice (Dwarka) AntoAlphonse revealed, “Effortswere made to contact the girlafter the video went viral. OnFriday, the victim contacted thepolice and filed a complaintagainst Rohit. She told thepolice that Rohit called her tohis friend’s house in UttamNagar and made physical rela-tions without her consent.”
“The victim alleged thatwhen he told the accused thatshe will file a complaint againsthim, Rohit dragged and beather up which was recorded byhis friend. Fearing reprisalfrom the accused, she didn’tlodge a complaint after theincident,” DCP Dwarka stat-ed.
“The victim was takenfor medical examination afterwhich a case under relevantsections of the Indian PenalCode (IPC) was registeredagainst the accused RohitTomar,” the DCP added.
An FIR was also regis-tered late on Thursday againstthe accused at the Tilak Nagarpolice station by a womanwho was in a relationshipwith the accused alleging thatRohit showed her the video,said a senior police officer.
“A case under sections323 (dealing with punish-ment for voluntary hurt),354(dealing with assault orcriminal force to woman withintent to outrage her mod-esty), 506 (dealing with crim-inal intimidation), 509 (deal-ing with insult to modesty ofa woman) and 34 (dealingwith acts done by several per-sons in furtherance of com-mon intention) was regis-tered against the accusedRohit,” DCP (West) MonikaBharadwaj stated.
“I have taken note of avideo where a youth has beenseen brutally beating awoman. I have spoken to theDelhi Police Commissionerover the phone and directedhim to take necessary actionin this regard,” Rajnath Singhtweeted.
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From page 1Officials further informed
that under Union TextileMinistry's scheme, 18 craftsmenof Chhattisgarh have beenawarded National Award in var-ious crafts till date. This year,Ashok Kumar Chakradhari wasfelicitated with national meritcertificate for clay art. TheChhattisgarh HandicraftDevelopment Board has award-ed State-level Awards to 91
craftsmen for various crafts tilldate.
After formation of state,number of craftsmen inChhattisgarh has increased from2600 to 17 thousand. Thisincrease in number also showsthe growing interest of young-sters in hanficraft. ChhattisgarhHandicraft Development Board,Shabri Emporiums,Chhattisgarh Haat and MaatiKala Board has been estab-lished under ChhattisgarhGovernment's GramodyogDepartment for welfare of
craftsmen. Bamboo art Project has
been started in Gariaband,Mohla and Manpur, and BastarHandicraft Development Projectis being conducted inKondagaon. DesignDevelopment and MonthlyFinancialAid Scheme has alsobeen started for the craftsmen.To promote handicraft inChhattisgarh, Board has sentproposal of Integrated Designproject worth Rs 26 crore 56lakh, which will benefit twothousand craftsmen families.
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Hurricane Florence battered theCarolinas early Friday with
howling winds, life-threateningstorm surges and torrential rains asit edged closer to the coast in whatofficials warned is a “once in a life-time” event.
Reports said coastal streets inNorth Carolina were flooded andwinds bent trees to the ground as thestorm, which has been downgradedto Category 1 and is weakened andslower moving than in recent days,prepared to make landfall at somepoint on Friday.
More than 150,000 customers inNorth Carolina were reported to bewithout power as the outer band ofthe storm approached.
Footage from US TV outletsshowed raging waters hitting piersand jettys and rushing across coastalroads in seaside communities.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami reported “life-threat-ening storm surge and hurricane-force
winds” along the North Carolinacoast. In its advisory, the centre saidFlorence was over the Atlantic Oceanabout 35 miles (55 kilometers) eastof Wilmington, North Carolina andmoving northwest at six miles perhour (10 kilometers per hour).
It added that the maximum sus-tained winds were 90 miles perhour. Florence is now at the weak-est of five categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
In a display of the early effects ofthe storm, one flood gauge on theNeuse River in New Bern, NorthCarolina, showed 10 feet (threemeters) of flooding, the NHC said.
With winds picking up along thecoastline earlier Thursday, federaland state officials had issued finalappeals to residents to get out of thepath of the “once in a lifetime”weather system.
“This storm will bring destruc-tion,” North Carolina Governor RoyCooper said. “Catastrophic effectswill be felt.” In Wilmington, a steadyrain began to fall as gusts of winds
intensified, causing trees to sway andstoplights to flicker.
Avair Vereen, 39, took her sevenchildren to a shelter in Conway HighSchool near Myrtle Beach, SouthCarolina.
“We live in a mobile home so wewere just like ‘No way,’” she said. “Ifwe lose the house, oh well, we can gethousing.
“But we can’t replace us so wedecided to come here.” - Monsterstorm surge expected
Steve Goldstein of the NationalOceanic and AtmosphericAdministration said Florence’s for-ward motion had slowed and it wasnot expected to make landfall in theCarolinas until “some time Fridayafternoon, Friday evening orSaturday morning.” He said hurri-cane-force winds extended outward80 miles from the center of the stormand tropical storm-force windsextended nearly 200 miles out.
Some areas could receive asmuch as 40 inches (one meter) ofrain, forecasters said.
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Friday with Super TyphoonMangkhut set to make a directhit in less than 24 hours, pack-ing winds up to 255 kilometresper hour and drenching rains.
Thousands f led theirhomes on the Philippines’northern coastal tip ahead ofthe early Saturday landfall ofwhat has been called thestrongest typhoon yet this year.
Businesses and residents
on Luzon island, which is hometo millions, were boarding upwindows and tying down roofsthat could be sheared off bywinds forecast to gust as highas 255 kilometres per hour.
“Among all the typhoonsthis year, this one is thestrongest,” Hiroshi Ishihara,meteorologist with the JapanMeteorological Agency, toldAFP.
“This is a violent typhoon.It has the strongest sustainedwind (among the typhoons ofthis year)”, he added.
The Philippines stateweather service said Mangkhut,a massive storm about 900kilometers wide, is packingsustained winds of 205 kilo-metres per hour as it roars westacross the Pacific.
Heavy rains and gusts werejust starting to hit the farnortheastern tip of Luzon onFriday, but there have been noreports of major damage orflooding.
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The Kremlin on Friday saidit was “absurd” for Britain
to dismiss as unconvincing aninterview with two suspects inthe poisoning of former dou-ble agent Sergei Skripal onBritish soil.
The comments came a dayafter Alexander Petrov andRuslan Boshirov denied anyinvolvement in the poisoningof Skripal and his daughter inthe English city of Salisbury inMarch, telling Russian state TVthey had visited as tourists.
British security serviceshad named the two men asmain suspects in the case.
“Accusing Russia of lyingafter the declarations of twoRussian citizens is... Absurd,”Kremlin spokesman DmitryPeskov said. “These are ordi-nary citizens. They have noth-ing to do with the Russianstate,” Peskov said.
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him to return as a lawmaker, but reiterated hisfull support for the Government led by his for-mer foe-turned-ally Mahathir Mohamad.
Anwar and Mahathir put aside their 20-year-old political feud to help their alliance win a his-toric national vote in May that led to the firstchange of power since independence fromBritain in 1957.
Anwar, who was convicted in 2015 forsodomy, couldn’t take part in the elections buttheir four-party alliance had agreed thatMahathir would be prime minister and handover the reins to Anwar.
Anwar, 70, was freed and pardoned by theking shortly after the polls. “The under-standing ... Is that immediately after the pardon,I should enter the race,” Anwar told TheAssociated Press on Friday.
“I waited four months and I think it is alsoimportant for me to start connecting” with law-makers and focus on parliamentary reforms.
Mahathir “will continue leading the nation,I will give full support,” he added.
A lawmaker from Anwar’s party earlier thisweek announced he had resigned as a memberof Parliament in the southern coastal town ofPort Dickson to make way for Anwar’s come-back.
The Election Commission will set a date fora by-election that must be held within twomonths. Some critics said it was wrong for a law-maker to have to resign to make way for Anwar.
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company was asked to pay over$300,000 to its 12 H-1B employ-ees for paying them far belowtheir salary and has been impo-sed a penalty of over $45,000, amedia report said on Thursday.
The US Department ofLabour Wage and Hour
Division (WHD) during inves-tigation found the company,which has offices in Bengaluruand Hyderabad, violated thelabour provisions of the H-1Bvisa program by paying itsguest workers far below therequired wages, the report said.
As a result, People TechGroup Inc has been asked topay its 12 employees $309,914and has been slapped with apenalty of $45,564, it said.
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ct th
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ts ar
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rnal
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ged
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wave
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slas
ting u
p to e
ight m
onth
s, cou
ld be
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e the
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tic p
lains
by
the 2
070s
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e em
is-sio
n of
gre
enho
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ases
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ot re
duce
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lim
itth
e gl
obal
tem
pera
ture
incr
ease
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o de
gree
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cord
ing
to a
study
by
Mas
sach
usett
s Ins
titut
eof
Tec
hnol
ogy
publ
ished
in th
e jo
urna
l Scie
nce
Adva
nces
, va
st ar
eas
in I
ndia,
Pak
istan
and
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lades
h wou
ld be
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e too
hot f
or hu
man
sur-
viva
l by 2
100.
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ety
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t th
e en
viro
nmen
t pr
edate
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t suc
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t hav
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se is
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n ac
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sive.
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ntin
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hat
need
s to
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rest
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roce
ss?
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ons h
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pop
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ce to
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d lac
k of g
over
nmen
tal w
ill. Fo
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ampl
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own
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est b
urni
ng of
plan
t stu
bbles
in ag
ricul
tura
l field
s in
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th In
dia
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ajor c
ause
of a
ir po
llutio
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surr
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reas
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roug
hly t
he ti
me a
roun
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iwali
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inte
r. N
or is
it a
secr
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atit
cont
inue
s bec
ause
farm
ers w
ould
not
hea
r of
endi
ng it
and
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ernm
ents
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nwill
ing
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seco
mpu
lsion
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r pol
lutio
n, in
the w
hole
of In
dia a
nd n
otju
st th
e no
rther
n pa
rt of
it, i
s als
o ca
used
by
exha
usts
from
cars
, bus
es, v
ans a
nd lo
rries
whi
chsu
bstan
tially
incr
ease
an ar
ea’s g
reen
hous
e gas
leve
l.M
easu
res h
ave d
oubt
less b
een
take
n to
min
imise
this.
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Nov
embe
r 26,
2014
, the
Nat
iona
l Gre
enTr
ibun
al ba
nned
car
s old
er th
an 1
5 ye
ars f
rom
bein
g driv
en in
Delh
i. On
April
7, 20
15, it
exten
d-ed
the p
rohi
bitio
n to
dies
el ve
hicle
s 10 y
ears
and
olde
r. The o
ther
caus
es in
clude
exha
usts
from
air-
cond
ition
ers,
the u
se o
f whi
ch is
goin
g up
rapi
d-ly,
and
the d
isplay
of fi
rewo
rks a
nd th
e exp
losio
n
of c
rack
ers
which
bec
ome
ubiq
uito
us d
urin
gD
iwali
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the d
ays p
rece
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and
follo
wing
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ncre
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gly fr
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ring f
estiv
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ns lik
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ding
s, bi
rthda
y par
ties a
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c-to
ry ce
lebra
tions
in an
arra
y of f
ields
from
spor
tsev
ents
to e
lectio
ns to
repr
esen
tativ
e bo
dies
like
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amen
t, St
ate le
gisla
ture
s and
mun
icipa
lities
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pact
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ans o
n pe
trol
and
vehi
cles d
iesel-
drive
n, th
ough
mor
e or
less
effec
tively
impl
emen
ted in
Delh
i, has
not
been
sig-
nific
ant b
ecau
se ca
rs ac
coun
t for
onl
y a f
ract
ion
of v
ehicu
lar p
ollu
tion,
the
main
cau
se o
f whi
char
e exh
austs
from
bus
es an
d lo
rries
. Bes
ides
, no
such
ban
is o
pera
tive i
n m
ost o
ther
par
ts of
the
coun
try an
d po
llute
d air
from
the n
eighb
ourin
gar
eas f
loat
s int
o D
elhi s
kies
with
bre
eze.
Inste
adof
dec
linin
g, th
e disp
lay o
f fire
work
s and
expl
o-sio
n of
cra
cker
s ar
e in
crea
sing
with
gro
wth
injec
ting
mor
e mon
ey in
to th
e eco
nom
y. G
iven
the
publ
ic’s
moo
d, t
he t
rend
is u
nlik
ely to
be
reve
rsed
in th
e nea
r fut
ure.
The s
ame a
pplie
s to
the u
se o
f air
cond
ition
ers.
The i
ncre
ase i
n th
eirnu
mbe
rs w
ill c
ontin
ue g
iven
not j
ust t
he g
row-
ing a
fflue
nce o
f the
mid
dle c
lass b
ut gl
obal
warm
-in
g pus
hing
up
tem
pera
ture
s.Th
e ch
ance
s of
a m
arke
d im
prov
emen
t in
Delh
i’s air
qua
lity
in th
e nea
r fut
ure t
hus a
ppea
rdi
m. T
he sa
me g
oes f
or m
ost I
ndian
citie
s. Th
ear
gum
ent t
hat t
his d
oes n
ot w
arra
nt de
sper
ate co
n-ce
rn b
ecau
se ai
r pol
lutio
n is
prim
arily
an u
rban
prob
lem, d
oes n
ot w
ash.
Urb
anisa
tion
is gr
owin
g.
Acco
rdin
g to
a sur
vey f
eatu
red
in th
e UN
Wor
ldUr
bani
satio
n Re
port
2018
, abo
ut 3
4 pe
r cen
t of
Indi
a’s p
opul
atio
n no
w liv
es in
citie
s aga
inst
11.4
per c
ent a
ccor
ding
to th
e 190
1 ce
nsus
. A su
rvey
cited
in th
e U
N S
tate
of t
he W
orld
Pop
ulat
ion
Repo
rt in
2007
state
d tha
t 40.7
6 per
cent
of In
dia’s
popu
latio
ns w
ould
live
in u
rban
area
s by 2
030.
Vehi
cular
traf
fic in
rura
l are
as is
incr
easin
gwi
th d
evelo
pmen
t and
, with
it, p
ollu
tion.
Also
,wh
ile th
ere i
s an
incr
easin
g swi
tch-o
ver t
o gas
and
electr
ic sto
ves f
or co
okin
g in
urba
n are
as, la
rge s
ec-
tions
in th
e rur
al ar
eas u
se ch
arco
al, co
al, d
ried
cow
dung
cak
es a
nd w
ood
in in
effic
ient s
tove
slea
ding
to em
issio
n of
larg
e qua
ntiti
es o
f par
tic-
ulate
matt
ers d
amag
ing
to h
ealth
and
blac
k ca
r-bo
n wh
ich co
nduc
es to
glo
bal w
arm
ing.
The
basic
cau
se o
f th
e Ke
rala
flood
s wa
sin
tense
and i
nces
sant
rain
fall o
n an
unpr
eced
ent-
ed sc
ale. T
his w
as a
resu
lt of
extre
me a
nd u
npre
-di
ctab
le we
athe
r co
nditi
ons
crea
ted
by g
loba
lwa
rmin
g. Th
e latt
er is
a wo
rld-w
ide p
heno
men
onan
d Ind
ia, ca
nnot
coun
ter th
e pro
cess
on it
s own
.Un
fortu
nate
ly, th
e Tru
mp
adm
inist
ratio
n’s d
isre-
gard
for i
t and
the U
S’ wi
thdr
awal
from
the 2
015
Paris
Acc
ord,
porte
nd ill
for t
he fu
ture
of tr
ansn
a-tio
nal e
fforts
to co
pe w
ith gl
obal
warm
ing.
Indi
aca
n on
ly do
its b
est t
o co
ntain
the i
mpa
ct o
f the
phen
omen
on on
itse
lf. T
he n
eed
for t
his i
s all t
hegr
eater
beca
use,
acco
rdin
g to a
Wor
ld B
ank r
epor
t,te
mpe
ratu
res a
re ri
sing —
and
rain
fall b
ecom
ing
erra
tic —
thro
ugho
ut S
outh
-Eas
t Asia
and
the
trend
will
con
tinue
for
deca
des.
Citie
s su
ch a
sKo
lkat
a, M
umba
i, D
haka
and
Kara
chi w
ould
be
unde
r a su
bsta
ntial
risk
of s
uffer
ing
from
floo
d-re
lated
dam
ages
in th
e nex
t cen
tury
.G
over
nmen
tal u
nwill
ingn
ess t
o tak
e ess
entia
lbu
t unp
leasa
nt m
easu
res w
ill en
d if t
here
is a
grow
-in
g pre
ssur
e to
act.
The s
ame g
oes f
or it
s vul
ner-
abilit
y to c
orpo
rate
pres
sure
s to r
elax e
nviro
nmen
-ta
l nor
ms t
o pe
rmit
mon
ey-sp
inni
ng p
rojec
ts in
area
s lik
e re
serv
ed fo
rests
and
ani
mal
sanc
tuar
-ies
. Nor
ms, e
ven w
here
in pl
ace,
are f
louted
in pr
ac-
tice
with
full
know
ledge
of t
he p
ower
s th
at b
ewh
ose p
alms h
ave b
een
grea
sed.
Pop
ular
mov
e-m
ents
again
st po
wer p
lants,
min
es an
d fa
ctor
ieswh
ose d
evas
tatin
g effe
cts o
n th
e live
s of a
ll tho
sear
ound
, are
mur
dero
usly
put d
own.
Wha
t is n
eede
d is
mas
s act
ion
on th
e env
i-ro
nmen
t fro
nt. T
he ch
ance
s of t
he v
ario
us lo
cal
ones
coa
lescin
g in
to a
nat
iona
l mov
emen
t will
have
to ov
erco
me t
he hu
rdle
of in
diffe
renc
e of t
hem
iddl
e clas
s who
se as
pira
tions
and p
atter
ns of
liv-
ing
have
cha
nged
sub
stant
ially
with
incr
ease
din
com
es. O
n th
eir pa
rt, G
over
nmen
ts ha
ve to
take
mea
sure
s lik
e pro
vidin
g effe
ctive
mas
s tra
nsit s
ys-
tem
s to t
aper
off t
he u
se of
priv
ate tr
ansp
orta
tion
and
incr
ease
d su
pply
of el
ectri
city a
nd ga
s to e
ndpo
llutin
g fo
rms o
f coo
king
. All
this
will
not b
eea
sy. B
ut th
e pric
e of i
nact
ion
will m
ean
the e
ndof
Indi
a as i
t now
exist
s.(T
he w
riter
is C
onsu
ltant
Edi
tor, T
he P
ione
er,an
d an
auth
or)
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�Si
r —
Thi
s re
fers
to
the
repo
rt,
“Jai
tley
mus
t qui
t for
Mal
lya
fligh
t :Ra
hul”
(Sep
tem
ber 1
4). W
e, th
e peo
-pl
e of
Ind
ia, h
ad t
o su
ffer
way
too
muc
h in
the
nam
e of
dem
ocra
cy. N
odo
ubt,
will
ingl
y or
unw
illin
gly,
a vac
-cu
um w
as c
reat
ed in
fina
nce
durin
gth
e U
nite
d Pr
ogre
ssiv
e A
llian
ce’s
(UPA
) reg
ime
and
the
leve
l of d
am-
age d
ue to
that
was
ove
rlook
ed at
the
init
ial
stag
es
by
the
curr
ent
Gov
ernm
ent.
At p
rese
nt, t
he v
accu
um i
s to
ola
rge
to fi
ll. T
he G
over
nmen
t is
too
late
to lo
ok in
to th
e lo
opho
les i
n th
efin
anci
al sy
stem
. Bot
h G
over
nmen
tssh
ould
not
be a
llow
ed to
esca
pe th
eir
resp
onsib
ilitie
s. Gul
ab S
hank
er S
ingh
Luck
now
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�Si
r —
It
is a
ppre
ciat
ive
of t
heH
yder
abad
city
pol
ice w
ho h
ave s
tart
-ed
a ‘C
yber
safe
Hyd
erab
adi’ c
ampa
ign
to cr
eate
awar
enes
s am
ong
teen
ager
san
d yo
unge
r stu
dent
s on
the d
os an
ddo
n’ts
in c
yber
spac
e.
Laud
able
as
it is,
the
mov
e w
illsa
ve t
he p
eopl
e fr
om c
omm
ittin
g
offe
nces
and
mak
e the
m aw
are a
bout
cybe
r cr
imes
. It i
s th
e yo
unge
r ge
n-er
atio
n th
at fa
lls p
rey
to c
yber
crim
equ
ite
easi
ly.
Ever
y ot
her
day,
Hyd
erab
ad ge
ts so
me c
ompl
aint
relat
-ed
to c
yber
crim
e.
In an
era o
f Mom
o Ch
alle
nge a
ndBl
ue W
hale
thi
s in
itiat
ive
by t
heH
yder
abad
pol
ice
is w
elco
me.
Tho
sew
ho h
ave
the
oppo
rtun
ity to
atte
ndsu
ch w
orks
hops
shou
ld d
efin
itely
go
for i
t and
gai
n aw
aren
ess a
bout
cybe
rcr
imes
. Su
ch d
rives
are
hel
pful
to m
ake
the p
ublic
awar
e of w
hat i
nfor
mat
ion
they
sho
uld
shar
e w
ith o
ther
s an
d
wha
t are
the
impl
icat
ions
of s
harin
gsu
ch d
ata
with
stra
nger
s. W
hile
tod
ay i
t is
Hyd
erab
ad, i
tw
ill b
e wise
for o
ther
Sta
tes a
s wel
l to
real
ise th
e gr
owin
g th
reat
s to
cyb
erse
curit
y an
d en
gage
the
mse
lves
in
such
cam
paig
ns.
RD N
adw
iH
yder
abad
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Sir —
In th
e gr
and
even
t of i
ts p
rod-
uct
laun
ch i
n C
uper
tino
, A
pple
unve
iled
thre
e ne
w i
Phon
es a
ndup
grad
ed sm
artw
atch
es th
at ca
n de
tect
hear
t pro
blem
s, w
hich
wer
e pro
babl
y
caus
ed w
hen
peop
le he
ard
the p
rice o
fth
e la
test
, bi
gges
t, m
ost
expe
nsiv
eiP
hone
. The
re s
eem
s to
be
no g
reat
chan
ge in
the n
ew iP
hone
to d
rive t
heex
pect
ed d
eman
d ex
cept
for
the
fact
that
it is
big
, new
and
som
e iP
hone
fana
tics h
ave
this
inex
plic
able
obs
es-
sion
for p
osse
ssin
g th
e lat
est v
ersio
n.So
met
imes
it fe
els n
osta
lgic
to co
ntem
-pl
ate o
n th
ose d
ays w
hen
ever
y pho
nes
cam
e w
ith a
cab
le a
ttach
ed.
Den
nis F
itzge
rald
Aust
ralia
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Since
201
4, I h
ave n
ever
give
n Mall
ya an
yap
point
ment
to me
et me
. Con
gres
ssta
temen
t is f
alse,
it do
esn’t
refle
ct tru
th.—
Finan
ce M
iniste
r AR
UN J
AITL
EY
I saw
Jait
ley m
eet M
allya
the d
ay he
left
India.
Ther
e wer
e CCT
V ca
mera
s and
we
can a
ll see
that
for pr
oof.
—Co
ngre
ss le
ader
PL
PUN
IA
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It’s ev
ery c
itize
n’s as
pira
tion
tose
e Ind
ia as
a gl
obal
econ
om-
ic le
ader
by
2030
. How
ever
,th
e dem
and
for s
kille
d m
an-
pow
er in
the f
ace o
f ind
ustr
y4.
0 is
far
from
bei
ng m
et.
The
refo
rms i
n ed
ucat
ion
and
skill
sec-
tors
are
sim
ply
not i
n pa
ce w
hile
ther
e is
a ra
pid
tran
sform
atio
n in
both
the i
ndus
try an
d th
e eco
nom
y. Th
ere
are
15 m
illio
n ne
wen
tran
ts ev
ery
year
into
the w
ork-
forc
e an
d as
per
the
Gho
sh a
ndG
hosh
repo
rt, 1
0 mill
ion
jobs
(for
-m
al a
nd i
nfor
mal
) ha
ve b
een
trac
ked
this
year
. The
re c
ould
be
mor
e job
s in
othe
r sec
tors
yet t
o be
track
ed in
that
repo
rt. H
owev
er, t
his
dem
ogra
phic
adv
anta
ge i
s fa
stbe
com
ing
a ni
ghtm
are
in th
e fa
ceof
larg
e num
bers
of u
nem
ploy
able
sem
i-ski
lled
grad
uate
s com
ing o
utof
the e
duca
tion
syste
m, r
edun
dan-
cy o
f wor
kfor
ce a
nd c
hang
ed sk
illse
t req
uire
men
ts du
e the
impa
ct o
fin
dustr
y 4.
0.
Also
, no
coun
try
has
beco
me
fully
dev
elope
d w
ithou
t act
ive p
ar-
ticip
atio
n of
its w
omen
pop
ulat
ion
in e
cono
mic
act
iviti
es.
In I
ndia
,w
hile
ther
e is
an in
crea
sed
part
ic-
ipat
ion
of a
girl
chi
ld in
prim
ary
educ
atio
n, w
omen
par
ticip
atio
n in
the l
abou
r for
ce h
as d
ecre
ased
to 27
per c
ent i
n re
cent
yea
rs, d
riven
by
high
er in
com
e in
rur
al a
reas
and
lack
of a
dequ
ate
oppo
rtun
ities
inot
her s
ecto
rs.
Empl
oym
ent
gene
ratio
n an
dfu
ture
of w
ork
are t
he b
y-pr
oduc
tsof
seve
ral m
egat
rend
s im
pact
ing t
hegl
obal
econ
omy.
On
a glo
bal s
cale,
the
impa
ct o
f tec
hnol
ogy
on jo
bsha
s be
en e
vide
nt —
it
has
been
asse
ssed
that
ove
r the
nex
t dec
ade
or so
, mas
s ado
ptio
n of
exp
onen
-tia
l tec
hnol
ogie
s, au
tom
atio
n, ar
ti-fic
ial in
telli
genc
e, m
achi
ne le
arni
ng,
Inte
rnet
of T
hing
s and
3D p
rintin
gwi
ll dra
stica
lly tr
ansfo
rm th
e wor
k-pl
ace.
This
will
not
onl
y pa
ve th
ewa
y for
new
era o
f ‘hum
an-m
achi
nein
tera
ctio
n’, b
ut al
so d
rive a
tect
on-
ic sh
ift in
‘ski
ll se
ts’ re
quire
men
ts.
Hist
oric
ally,
skill
requ
irem
ents
have
cha
nged
eve
r sin
ce t
he f
irst
Indu
stria
l Rev
olut
ion
reco
nfig
ured
the
role
of m
achi
nes a
nd w
orke
rs.
Coa
l m
iner
s in
the
pas
t us
ed t
o
carr
y out
ever
y tas
k m
anua
lly, e
ven
thos
e re
quiri
ng m
otor
ski
lls a
ndph
ysic
al s
tren
gth.
Tod
ay,
they
incr
easin
gly o
pera
te m
achi
nes t
o do
heav
y an
d da
nger
ous
toili
ng a
sth
ere h
as b
een
a nee
d to
appl
y mor
eco
mpl
ex sk
ills o
f mon
itorin
g equ
ip-
men
ts an
d pr
oble
m so
lvin
g.
Fifty
yea
rs b
ack,
nur
ses
wer
ere
quire
d to
adm
inist
er m
edic
ines
,m
onito
r pat
ient
s by c
heck
ing t
heir
pulse
and
tem
pera
ture
, an
d al
sohe
lp w
ith t
he t
hera
peut
ic t
asks
.To
day,
they
still
adm
inist
er m
edi-
cine
s to
patie
nts b
ut al
so h
elp p
er-
form
dia
gnos
tic te
sts a
nd a
naly
seth
e res
ults.
On
the o
ther
han
d, d
oc-
tors
are b
eing
assis
ted
by ro
bots
insu
rger
ies.
Sim
ilarly
, the
re ar
e man
yot
her
prof
essio
ns w
here
job
role
san
d sk
ill se
ts ha
ve ch
ange
d dr
asti-
cally
. The
re w
ere m
illio
ns o
f typ
ists
and
steno
grap
hers
not
so lo
ng ag
obu
t now
they
rare
ly ex
ist an
ymor
e. Ad
optio
n of
expo
nent
ial t
ech-
nolo
gies
is d
isrup
ting t
he o
ld o
rder
and
crea
ting a
new
nar
rativ
e by n
otju
st de
man
ding
new
skill
sets,
but
open
ing u
p op
portu
nitie
s by c
reat
-in
g new
mar
kets
and
tran
sform
ing
exist
ing p
rodu
ct ca
tego
ries t
hrou
ghin
nova
tions
. The
new
-age
inno
va-
tion
and
impa
ct ca
n be
und
ersto
odth
roug
h th
ree s
elect
case
stud
ies:
Cas
e st
udy
1: W
orkf
orce
vu
lner
abili
tyIn
201
6, it
was
esti
mat
ed th
aton
ly 9
.5 p
er ce
nt o
f the
supe
rmar
-ke
t’s r
even
ue w
ould
be
spen
t on
wag
es,
the
low
est
sinc
e 20
04.
Impr
oved
roste
ring
syste
ms,
auto
-m
ated
ord
erin
g, sh
elf-r
eady
pac
k-ag
ing
and
self-
serv
e ch
ecko
uts
allo
wed
the
supe
rmar
kets
to h
ireyo
unge
r, lo
wer
-ski
lled
staf
f fo
rch
eape
r rat
es in
less
num
bers
. Ca
se s
tudy
2:
Col
labo
rativ
ean
d co
oper
ativ
e wor
kpla
ce
Wik
iHou
se is
an
open
-sou
rce
syste
m th
at al
lows
anyo
ne to
des
ign,
shar
e de
signs
and
bui
ld a
hou
se.
With
acce
ss to
a co
mpu
ter n
umer
-ic
al c
ontro
l (CN
C) m
achi
ne, a
ny-
one c
an d
igita
lly fa
bric
ate b
uild
ing
part
s and
asse
mbl
e it l
ike t
he L
ego
or I
KEA
kit.
Wik
iHou
se a
ims
toal
low
com
pani
es t
o co
oper
ate
incr
eatin
g inn
ovat
ive,
affo
rdab
le, cu
s-to
mise
d an
d su
stai
nabl
e ho
usin
gsy
stem
s whi
le eq
uipp
ing i
ndiv
idu-
als t
o pe
rform
task
s tha
t wer
e pre
-vi
ously
only
acco
mpl
ished
by ex
pert
com
pani
es, c
hang
ing t
he n
atur
e of
the
cons
truc
tion
supp
ly c
hain
.C
urre
ntly
, th
ere
are
seve
ral
Wik
iHou
se p
roje
cts
bein
g te
sted
wor
ldw
ide,
redu
cing
the
frequ
en-
cy o
f hum
an in
terv
entio
n.
Case
stud
y 3: C
hang
ing w
ork-
plac
e dyn
amic
sZa
ppos
, an
e-co
mm
erce
pla
t-fo
rm fo
r sell
ing
shoe
s, sw
itche
d to
a ho
lacr
atic
sys
tem
in 2
015,
with
near
ly 1
,500
empl
oyee
s now
ope
r-at
ing
with
out a
ny m
anag
ers.
The
new
org
anisa
tiona
l str
uctu
re is
aco
mpe
titiv
e mov
e tha
t will
impr
ove
the c
ompa
ny’s
abili
ty to
tran
sform
itself
and
stay
rele
vant
as th
e mar
-ke
t shi
fts. I
t is t
he b
elief
of t
he C
EOth
at th
e ne
w st
ruct
ure
is a
way
toha
ve e
very
em
ploy
ee a
ct l
ike
anen
trepr
eneu
r. Th
is, i
n tu
rn,
will
enab
le th
e com
pany
’s ex
pans
ion
todi
ffere
nt m
arke
ts. So
me A
ustra
lian
com
pani
es s
uch
as t
he C
anva
, ade
sign
star
t up
and
Atla
ssia
n, th
een
terp
rise
softw
are
com
pany
, are
follo
win
g th
e mov
e. In
201
7, F
ICCI
and
NA
SS-
CO
M c
omm
issi
oned
Ern
st &
Youn
g to
unde
rsta
nd th
e im
pact
of
new
-age
tech
nolo
gies
in se
lect
five
sect
ors i
n In
dia.
The
repo
rt is
the
first
em
piric
al-b
ased
stu
dy a
ndco
vers
an
in-d
epth
ana
lysis
of
impa
ct o
f tec
hnol
ogy,
dem
ogra
phy
and
glob
alisa
tion
in fi
ve cr
ucia
l sec
-to
rs —
aut
omot
ive,
text
iles
and
appa
rel, B
FSI,
IT B
PM an
d re
tail.
Ital
so a
sses
ses
and
high
light
s th
ech
angi
ng n
ature
of jo
bs in
thes
e sec
-to
rs, s
kill
requ
irem
ents
and
polic
yre
com
men
datio
ns.
Som
e of
the
key
fin
ding
s ar
ehi
ghlig
hted
in th
e ta
ble
abov
e.In
thi
s ne
w f
ourt
h in
dustr
ial
narr
ativ
e, ho
w c
an a
cou
ntry
like
Indi
a, w
ith it
s div
ersit
y, de
moc
ra-
cy a
nd d
emog
raph
y, le
vera
ge t
hete
chno
logy
and
mat
ch th
e dem
and
side o
f job
crea
tion
with
the s
uppl
ysid
e of ‘
new
-age
wor
kfor
ce’?
How
can
we
deve
lop
our ‘
cluste
r bas
edjo
b m
odel
s’ to
cate
r to
‘trad
ition
al-
ly-s
kille
d’ p
eopl
e?A
glan
ce at
the e
cono
my r
evea
lsth
at a
mon
g th
e fiv
e So
uth
Asia
nco
untri
es, i
nfor
mal
sect
or em
ploy
-m
ent i
s the
hig
hest
in In
dia.
Nea
rly81
per
cen
t of t
he e
mpl
oym
ent i
nIn
dia
is in
the
inf
orm
al s
ecto
r.Ab
out
80.7
per
cen
t of
men
and
81.6
per
cent
wom
en ar
e par
t of t
hein
form
al e
cono
my.
Maj
ority
of
empl
oym
ent i
n th
e inf
orm
al se
ctor
have
no
cont
ract
ual
oblig
atio
nsan
d lo
w jo
b se
curit
y, he
nce
wor
k-er
s in
thi
s se
gmen
t fr
eque
ntly
switc
h jo
bs an
d ar
e pro
ne to
dom
es-
tic o
r int
erna
tiona
l mig
ratio
n.
Indi
a has
2,00
0 tra
ditio
nal s
kill-
base
d clu
sters
whi
ch o
ffer e
xten
sive
livel
ihoo
d to
the
loca
l pop
ulat
ion.
Each
clus
ter,
the s
ize o
f whi
ch ca
nva
ry fr
om 5
0 ho
useh
olds
to 5
,000
or m
ore,
has t
he p
oten
tial t
o cr
eate
a m
inim
um o
f fiv
e jo
bs re
spon
si-bl
e fo
r cr
eatin
g on
line
self-
help
grou
ps,
man
agin
g an
d cu
ratin
gso
cial m
edia
chan
nels
and
webs
ites
to g
ive d
irect
link
ages
to en
d-co
n-su
mer
s, lo
okin
g up
for i
nfor
mat
ion
on u
pcom
ing
trad
e fa
irs,
new
Gov
ernm
ent s
chem
es, u
nder
stand
-in
g su
pply
cha
ins a
nd fi
ndin
g ou
tm
arke
t pr
ices
and
tre
nds.
All-
enco
mpa
ssin
g, th
is ca
n cr
eate
thou
-sa
nds o
f job
s or l
iveli
hood
opp
or-
tuni
ties.
How
ever
, eve
n th
ese c
lus-
ters
nee
d tim
ely i
nter
vent
ion
totra
in p
eopl
e on
‘mod
ern-
age’
skill
s,w
hich
inclu
des c
reat
ive d
esig
n pa
t-te
rns f
or gl
obal
custo
mer
s, m
arke
t-in
g, d
igita
l lit
erac
y et
c. S
uch
empo
wer
men
t ca
n co
ntro
l an
dre
vers
e in
tern
al m
igra
tion.
In
the
fac
e of
an
unce
rtai
nfu
ture
, ref
orm
s in
edu
catio
n an
dsk
ill ec
osys
tem
shou
ld b
e to
equi
pou
r you
th w
ith th
e 21s
t cen
tury
skill
sets
such
as p
robl
em so
lvin
g, em
o-tio
nal i
ntel
ligen
ce, c
ogni
tive
abili
-tie
s, et
c. Ap
pren
tices
hip
is th
e bes
tfo
rm o
f pro
vidi
ng h
ands
-on
expe
-rie
nce
to o
ur y
outh
. Sev
eral
larg
eco
mpa
nies
lik
e Th
erm
ax,
Festo
,M
arut
i Suz
uki,
Lars
en &
Tuo
bro
etc,
are a
ctiv
ely en
gage
d in
appr
en-
tices
hip
and
also
hav
e foc
used
pro
-gr
amm
es o
n w
omen
app
rent
ices
but
do n
ot p
erce
ive
bene
fit i
nen
gagi
ng w
ith t
he g
over
nmen
t.G
over
nmen
t ne
eds
to m
ake
appr
entic
eshi
p pr
ogra
mm
e attr
ac-
tive f
or b
oth
large
& SM
E in
dustr
iesby
mak
ing t
he p
roce
ss tr
ansp
aren
t,sim
ple
and
finan
cial
ly v
iabl
e. Fo
ryo
uth,
app
rent
ices
hip
shou
ld b
ein
tegr
ated
into
acad
emic
and
care
erpa
th. E
very
stud
ent s
houl
d ha
ve th
eop
port
unity
to
part
icip
ate
in a
nap
pren
tice p
rogr
amm
e. Th
e new
indu
stry p
olicy
shou
ldfa
cilita
te al
igne
d pl
anni
ng in
dev
el-op
men
t of i
ndus
try,
rese
arch
, edu
-ca
tion
and
train
ing c
luste
rs. E
fforts
shou
ld b
e tow
ards
gre
ater
job
for-
mal
isatio
n, i
nclu
ding
inc
reas
edso
cial
secu
rity c
over
age a
nd b
ette
rda
ta g
athe
ring
so th
at a
ppro
pria
tepo
licie
s can
be m
ade.
(TV
M
ohan
das
Pai
isCh
airm
an, F
ICCI
Skill
Dev
elopm
ent
Com
mitt
ee an
d Ch
airm
an M
anip
alGl
obal
Edu
catio
n; S
hobh
a M
ishra
Ghos
h is
Assis
tant
Secr
etary
Gen
eral
,FI
CCI)
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42�
&42�
Whe
n Ia
n Fl
emin
g w
rote
his
very
first
boo
k, D
r. N
o, li
ttle
did
here
alise
that
he
was
not
onl
y cr
e-at
ing t
he ch
arac
ter o
f Jam
es B
ond,
but
also
virt
ually
giv
ing
birt
h to
a p
heno
men
on.
This
phen
omen
on w
as p
erso
nifie
d by
Sean
Con
nery
to p
erfe
ctio
n —
for h
ad it
not b
een
for h
im, J
ames
Bon
d w
ould
not
have
bee
n ab
le t
o la
st f
or o
ver
25 f
ilms
spre
ad o
ut o
ver m
ore t
han
five d
ecad
es an
dea
rned
bill
ions
.Be
fore
Sea
n C
onne
ry in
Dr.
No, B
arry
Nels
on h
ad b
een
cast
in C
asin
o Roy
ale,
but
it flo
pped
mise
rabl
y. W
ritte
n at
the h
eigh
tof
the
Col
d W
ar, t
he c
hara
cter
of
Jam
esBo
nd o
f the
Brit
ish M
I-6
was
cre
ated
as a
supe
r her
o w
ho al
way
s had
the b
ette
r of h
isad
vers
aries
. Per
haps
Eng
land
of th
e lat
e 50s
and
early
60s
, whi
le in
the p
roce
ss o
f loo
s-in
g th
e Em
pire
, did
nee
d th
at k
ind
of p
sy-
chol
ogica
l som
ethi
ng to
chee
r abo
ut. J
ames
Bond
was
usu
ally
pitt
ed ag
ains
t the
chie
f of
a cr
ime
or a
n es
pion
age
synd
icat
e lik
eSP
ECTR
E or
SM
ERSH
and
som
etim
esag
ains
t an
East
Bloc
k ag
ency
. Bon
d an
d th
evi
llain
ous c
hara
cter
alwa
ys u
sed
to te
st ea
chot
her i
n ve
rbal
due
ls be
fore
act
ually
com
-in
g to
coup
de g
râce
. Th
ese
verb
al d
uels,
cre
ated
by
Ian
Flem
ing,
led
to
a nu
mbe
r of
fam
ous
clic
hés,
one
of w
hich
was
mou
thed
by
Auric
Gol
dfin
ger
in th
e fil
m, G
oldf
inge
r.A
ccor
ding
to h
im, o
nce
is an
eve
nt h
ap-
pens
tanc
e, tw
ice is
a co
incid
ence
and
thric
eis
a con
spira
cy (e
nem
y act
ion)
. Thi
s is o
necl
iché
whi
ch h
as n
ow e
arne
d th
ere
spec
tabi
lity o
f fin
ding
a m
entio
n ev
en in
a pa
rliam
enta
ry p
roce
edin
g. N
ot o
nly
that
, ove
r th
e ye
ars,
Bond
see
ms
to h
ave
beco
me a
wor
d of
com
mon
usa
ge ev
en in
cert
ain
loca
l lan
guag
es w
ith a
num
ber o
fsu
gges
tive
mea
ning
s. Se
an C
onne
ry h
ad st
yle —
the f
amou
sfli
rtat
ious
smile
and
the m
ischi
evou
s glin
tin
his
eyes
alw
ays l
it up
the s
cree
n. H
is ra
wm
ascu
linity
and
las
civi
ous
beds
ide
the
man
ner w
ith so
me o
f the
mos
t cur
vace
ous
beau
ties
of th
e tim
e, lik
e Jil
l St J
ohn
and
Urs
ula
And
ress
, and
bro
ught
hor
des
ofau
dien
ce to
the
cine
mas
for r
epea
t vie
w-
ings
. Unf
ortu
nate
ly, a
few
of h
is su
cces
sors
have
bee
n la
ckin
g in
som
e of
the
se o
nsc
reen
man
neris
ms l
eadi
ng to
a dw
indl
ing
audi
ence
. O
ne o
f the
mai
n re
ason
s for
the i
nitia
lsu
cces
s of B
ond
was p
urely
coin
ciden
tal. D
r.No
was
, for
insta
nce,
relea
sed
in Se
ptem
ber
1962
, with
the s
tory
line o
f a ro
gue,
close
tom
ainl
and
USA
, int
erfe
ring
and
tryi
ng to
com
man
deer
and
sabo
tage
US
spac
e m
is-sio
ns. N
ow th
is w
as to
o clo
se to
the C
uban
miss
ile cr
isis.
Whi
le th
e cris
is w
as h
andl
eddu
ring t
he fa
mou
s 13 d
ays o
f Oct
ober
1962
,im
med
iate
ben
efic
iary
was
Bon
d.
Sim
ilarly
, an
unbe
lieva
bly
favo
urab
leat
mos
pher
e gr
eete
d th
e re
leas
e of
Fro
mRu
ssia
with
Lov
e, w
hich
hit
the
scre
ens
som
etim
e dur
ing t
he su
mm
er o
f 196
3. T
hat
was t
he ti
me E
nglan
d wa
s ree
ling u
nder
the
Prof
umo-
Chris
tine K
eeler
scan
dal, w
ith th
epo
ssib
le in
volv
emen
t of o
ne R
ussia
n m
ili-
tary
atta
che
base
d in
Lon
don.
The
fire
lit
by a
smal
l lea
k in
the m
edia
and
the i
nitia
lde
nial
by
Prof
umo
in t
he H
ouse
of
Com
mon
s, ul
timat
ely b
ecam
e an
infe
rno,
final
ly c
onsu
min
g H
arol
d M
acM
illan
, the
Prim
e Min
ister
him
self.
Th
e Pro
fum
o sc
anda
l app
eare
d str
aight
out
of a
Bon
d fil
m, l
ot o
f se
x, c
all g
irls,
Russ
ian
spie
s, an
d po
ssib
le su
born
atio
n in
high
plac
es. It
was
quite
natu
ral fo
r the
main
-str
eam
med
ia an
d th
e tab
loid
s to
thriv
e on
this
sleaz
y affa
ir. Su
ch an
idea
l atm
osph
ere
befo
re th
e rele
ase o
f Fro
m R
ussia
n W
ith L
ove
coul
d no
t hav
e bee
n im
agin
ed e
ven
by th
eau
thor
him
self.
On
top
of it
, aro
und
that
very
time P
resid
ent K
enne
dy, in
one
of h
is in
ter-
view
s, ra
ted
From
Rus
sia W
ith L
ove a
s one
of h
is 10
fav
ourit
e bo
oks.
This
was
the
prov
erbi
al ici
ng on
the c
ake t
akin
g the
stoc
kof
Jam
es B
ond
sky h
igh,
nev
er ag
ain
to lo
okba
ck. T
his a
lso g
ave t
he k
ey to
the p
rodu
c-er
s of
a s
ucce
ssfu
l for
mul
a, of
whi
ch, t
hepu
blic
nev
er se
emed
to b
e tiri
ng o
ut.
Tim
es, h
owev
er, d
o ch
ange
, and
with
the c
ontr
act o
f Dan
iel C
raig
com
ing
to a
nen
d in
the n
ear f
utur
e, se
arch
is o
nce a
gain
on f
or a
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The family feud has come tothe fore not only in the Lalu
Prasad’s family where his twosons are battling for suprema-cy but also in the family ofUnion Minister and LJP pres-ident Ram Vilas Paswan wherehis daughter and son-in-lawhave revolted.
In the political families,particularly in the families ofsupremo of regional parties,such revolts and clashes are nouncommon. When electionscome closer such feuds come inopen. Needless to say that suchinfightings are meant to gainsome personal advantage.
Paswan’s daughter AshaDevi and her husband AnilKumar Sadhu have knockedthe doors of RJD for ticket. Thecouple plans to fight electionagainst Paswan in Hajipur.“We are ready to take onPaswan. If I get the ticket I willcontest and if my wife is allot-ted a ticket she will fight,” saidSadhu, who was earlier Biharpresident of LJP’s wing DalitSena but recently quit theparty and joined RJD.
Said Asha,”We have beenneglected in the family. We didnot get any favour from myfather who showers all favoursto Chirag Paswan.” Jamui MPChirag is step brother of Asha.
Paswan has two wives and
Asha is daughter from first wifeRaj Kumari Devi, who Paswandivorced in 1981. Two years laterhe married Reena who is moth-er of Chirag and one daughter.
The reported revolt inPaswan’s family is not new. Lasttime during Assembly electionin 2015, Sadhu had revoltedand created scene at the LJPparty. He wanted ticket to con-test but was denied presumablyunder pressure of Chirag whois also chairman of the party’sparliamentary board.
A that time Sadhu in front
of media people and camerashad created drama by shoutingat the top of his voice againstPaswan and Chirag and criedloudly. In bid to avoid the fur-ther nuisance, Paswan gavehim a ticket. He contested butlost his deposit.
RJD sources said it washighly unlikely that Sadhuwould be given ticket becausehe was not worth candidateand has hardly any politicalunderstanding. Sadhu’s fatherwas a veteran politician andwon Assembly elections forfive consecutive terms.
Asha claimed that LJPsupremo Paswan has lost hispopularity and traditional sup-port base of scheduled castes,a section of upper castes andminorities in his constituencyHajipur which he has beenwinning for over four decadeswith record margins. ‘He haslost the support of even Paswancaste,” she alleged.
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The U.S. ConsulateGeneral in Kolkata in
partnership with the BiharEntrepreneurs Association(BEA) hosted an intensiveprogramme titled BusinessEnglish for WomenEntrepreneurs to help agroup of women in Patnagain confidence and be effec-tive communicators in aprofessional environment.
Altogether 15 selectedwomen entrepreneurs fromBihar received training intwo phases from AmericanEnglish Language SpecialistDieter Bruhn. During thefirst phase of a three-dayworkshop, participantslearned about effective pre-sentation skills and businessetiquette. Participants learnedabout speech registers andwhich to use with differentaudiences, how to create anengaging presentation, andhow to pitch a winning busi-ness idea. Bruhn was back inPatna to refine their final busi-ness pitches this week.
The f inal businesspitches were showcased bythese women entrepreneursin front of the Public AffairsOff icer of the U.S.
Consulate General inKolkata, Jamie Dragon andother guests on Friday.
Dragon said, “EnglishLanguage programming is akey area for our workbecause good English canhave a huge impact on anindividual’s ability to earn abetter livelihood. We chooseto offer our English resourcesto youth and women in par-ticular to promote the entre-preneurial and innovativespirit of our societies.”
The U.S. ConsulateGeneral has worked closelywith BEA in promoting aspirit of entrepreneurshipamong women and youth.Earlier this year, the All IndiaWomen’s EconomicEmpowerment roadshowworkshop was held in Patnaand U.S. AmbassadorKenneth Juster also met withleading women entrepreneursduring his Patna visit.
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As the bickering, squabblesand dissidence within the
Congress in Karnataka casts ashadow on coalitionGovernment, Chief MinisterHD Kumaraswamy has allegedthe BJP is trying to destabilisehis Government.
Addressing a Press confer-ence in Bengaluru on Friday hesaid the BJP was putting all itseffort to pull down hisGovernment. He said, “I amwell aware of the efforts madeby BJP leaders. I am not sittingquiet and but doing what hasto be done to safeguard myGovernment. Their efforts willyield no success. I know whathas to be done.”
He further alleged that hewas also very well aware abouthow much advance money theBJP leaders had or tried to paysome of the legislators. “ButBJP’s ploy to purchase legisla-tors will not succeed”, he added.
He said that BJP leaders arenot interested in development ofthe State but their only aim is toestablish a BJP Government."But is it a possibility? it willnever happen. Let them resortto Resort politics or let them goto huts to hatch a plan, they willnot succeed, I am prepared foreverything," he added.
The Chief Minister allegedthat BJP is trying to lureLegislatures by offering moneyand power and they are utilis-
ing people who had torchedimportant files of BruhutBengaluru Mahanagara Palike(BBMP) files when BJP was inpower. "They are utilising themfor the operation and BJP hasalso roped in a Coffee Planterfrom Sakaleshpura( a place inKodagu) who had shot dead hiswife and own child. In gam-bling he had earned money andBJP want to utilise that moneyfor pulling down myGovernment," he alleged.
Chief Minister also threat-ened to take legal action againstBJP if they are resorting to“operation Lotus.” "I know allthe efforts of BJP and I am con-templating to take legal actionagainst such attempt. I knowwho is the king pin they areutilising, I will wage legal waragainst them," he said.
He said that the BJP's dead-
line to pull down the coalitionGovernment is changing everytime . Earlier it was Ganesha fes-tival, now October and next itmay go to Dasara festivities andwill have to keep postponing.
"But I am concentrating ondevelopment of the State andnot giving attention to theirefforts. From Monday I amholding meeting with Officersand will take to task those whoare neglecting in dischargingtheir duties due to rumours
spread that this Governmentwill soon fall," the ChiefMinister added. Replying to aquestion, Kumaraswamy saidthat "Congress Ministers,including Ramesh Jarkiholi,are in constant touch withhim. I have not contacted BJPlegislators of Mysuru belt tolure them as alleged but theyare in contact with me."Whenasked about Cabinet expansion,Kumaraswamy said that "it isleft to Congress HighCommand to take decision."Meanwhile senior Congressleader and the Deputy ChiefMinister G Parameshwara ruledout any dissidence in the party.He said reports on the coalitionGovernment may collapse soonis exaggerated and there was notruth behind those reports.
“There are some factorswhere the elected members andsome Ministers being dissatis-fied for some reasons, but it isonly restricted to issues relatedto their constituencies,’’ he saidafter holding a meeting withMinister for Water Resources DK Shivakumar at his residence.
He said there are no seriousissues that can affect the exis-tence of the coalitionGovernment but some prob-lems relating to the con-stituencies were there and it willbe sorted out after due discus-sions between the Governmentand the Ministers and legisla-tors concerned. ‘’There could besome smoke, but it is not seri-
ous. The Government is soundand safe. We will solve all theissues,’’ he stated.
Meanwhile BJP State chiefBS Yeddyurappa ruled out anysuch thing and said his party willplay the role of responsibleopposition. He said party chief,Amit Shah, has asked the Stateunit "not to create any confu-sion" and instead stick to play-ing the role of the oppositionsincerely. He rejected the chargesand said "BJP national presidentAmit Shah, with whom I spoketoday, has instructed us not tocreate any confusion. We shouldnot give any statements aboutthe political developments tak-ing place in the State. Instead, weshould stick to playing the roleof opposition sincerely.”The coalition partner Congressis facing a major dissidence withpowerful Jarkiholi brothersfrom Belagavi have threatenedto rock the boat. MunicipalAdministration MinisterRamesh and his MLA brotherSatish—are locked in a turfwar with another Minister, D.K.Shivakumar, casting a shadowover the coalition Government. This has become a major irri-tant for Kumaraswamy whohas asked the Congress highcommand to sort it out. Thepolitical circles are abuzz withformer Chief MinisterSiddaramaiah who is on aforeign tour is behind thisentire episode to take controlover the party.
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Alower court inMaharasthra has issued a
non-bailable warrant againstAndhra Pradesh Chief MinisterN Chandrababu Naidu and 15others in connection with aprotest he had led in the Stateagainst Babili irrigation projectin Nanded district as it wasposing a threat to the interestof then Andhra Pradesh State.
The list of the people againstwhom the Dharmabad court hasissued the warrant include APIrrigation Minister Devineni
Umamaheshwara Rao andmany TDP leaders who wereMLA at the time of the protest.
Chandrababu Naidu whowas leader of Opposition in thethen united Andhra PradeshAssembly had crossed the bor-der into Maharashtra alongwith 40 MLAs and several otherparty leaders and tried to reachthe Babili project to protestalleging that it would impoundmore Godavari river water thanshare of Maharashtra and it willturn northern Telangana regioninto a desert. Naidu who wasarrested and spent many days in
jail in Maharashtra was laterreleased on bail. Since then thecase was pending in the court.
Dharmabad court magis-trate has ordered the police toproduce all the 16 respondentsincluding Naidu before it onSeptember 21.
The fresh warrants wereissued after a local personmoved a petition beforeDharmabad court. Nanded dis-trict police officials said thatthey had filed a chargesheet inthe court five years ago against16 persons and the matter wasnow before the court.
The new development hascreated a stir in both the Telugustates with the TDP leadersboth in Andhra Pradesh andTelangana suspecting politicalmotivation behind the attemptto revive the case.
In his first reactionChandrababu Naidu said thatby fighting against Babili pro-ject he had not done any crime.“I had protested to saveTelangana from becoming adesert”, he told a meeting afteroffering pooja to Krishna riverat Srisailam project in Kurnoolon Friday. “I had told the policeon that day itself to do whateverthey can. Now they are issuinga warrant against me”, he said.
Former Union CivilAviation Minister P AshokGajapati Raju condemned thewarrant and wondered why hewas also included in the list ofrespondents. “It is not correcton part of Modi and Amit Shahto revive old cases”, he said.
TDP MP from VijayawadaKesineni Nani said that the war-rant against Naidu for fightingfor the cause of Telugu States waspart of a political conspiracy bythe Centr. “For all these yearsthey said there was no case. Nowhow they can issue a non bailablewarrant against a Chief Ministerlike this”, he asked.
He alleged that the PrimeMinister Modi, BJP PresidentAmit Shah and the YSRCongress president YSJaganmohan Reddy were the
main brains behind the conspiracy. Interestingly APCongress has also condemnedthe warrant against Naidu.State Congress President NRaghuveera Reddy said that itwas wrong to book criminalcases against the leaders whotake part in mass agitations.
However the State BJPPresident KannaLakshminarayana denied thatBJP had anything to do with thewarrant against Naidu. “TDP isenacting a new drama by drag-ging the name of the PrimeMinister”, he said. According tothe BJP leader the case wascontinuing since 2014 and thecourt had issued summons toNaidu and others 22 time butthey did not attend the court.The case was booked againstNaidu by the CongressGovernment in Maharashtra,he added.
Meanwhile the warrant hasalso become a topic of discus-sions in Telangana political cir-cles as it had the potential to cre-ate some sympathy for TeluguDesam. It has come at a timewhen the ruling TelanganaRashtra Samiti was trying to pro-ject the proposed TDP-Congressalliance in the State as “agent ofAndhra” and “betrayer ofTelangana”.
Senior Telangana TDPleader R ChandrashekharReddy recalled that they hadexperienced a hell inDharmabad jail in 2010.
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month daughter from the ter-race of his home in an UttarPradesh village after his wifegave birth to another girl,police said Friday.
The toddler, Kavya, wasseriously injured after the inci-dent in Pardhauli village, underCB Ganj police station areahere, Thursday and has beenadmitted to hospital.
Her father ArvindGangwar, who was drunk atthe time, has been arrested,officials said.
Villagers said that therewas tension in the house sinceArvind's wife gave birth to theirsecond daughter five days ago.
On Thursday, an inebriat-ed Arvind took his daughter tothe terrace and threw her down.
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the senior party leaders fromTelangana to discuss party’selection strategy and issue ofalliance with other parties.During the three-hour longmeeting, Rahul also met someof the leaders individually.
Rahul asked the leaders notto make any public commentson the issue of alliance andticket distribution and not tocriticise each other. He assuredthat the party will give ticketsonly to the winning candidatesand all the MLAs with a goodimage will be fielded fromtheir constituencies. Rahulobserved that Congress willfight in all the constituencieswhere it was strong and leavethe other constituencies to theother alliance partners.
After the meeting briefingthe media the AICC SecretaryRC Kuntia said that all thosewho were fighting against thecorrupt and autocratic rule ofTelangana Rashtra Samiti werewith the Congress and theparty was ready to align withthe Telugu Desam party.
Rahul Gandhi has autho-rized the State Congress pres-ident N Uttam Kumar Reddy tohold talks with the other par-ties, he said. “But the final deci-sion on the alliance will be ofthe AICC President” , he saidadding that the Congress willabide by the alliance-dharma inthe distribution of tickets.“party president urged all the
leaders to work together tobring Congress to power andwarned that anti party activityby any leader however big hemight be will not be tolerated”,Kuntia said.
Uttam Kumar Reddy saidthat the party will not leavethe constituencies, where itwas confident of winning, toother parties.
It was also decided thatduring the election campaignRahul Gandhi will address ral-lies in 10 districts. Rahul hasalso constituted a three mem-ber screening committee forTelangana. Some of the leadersrequested that Sonia Gandhishould also visit the state forelection campaign.
On the occasion TRS MLCBhupti Reddy and noted filmproducer Bandla Ganeshjoined the Congress party inpresence of Rahul Gandhi.
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media and its addiction haveaffected the sleep pattern of theIAF pilots. Delivering theinaugural Addressing at thethree day 57th AnnualConference of Indian Society ofAerospace Medicine (ISAM)titled “AEROSPACE MEDI-CINE: FIELD APPLICA-TIONS”, in Bengaluru onFriday he said Pilots at theIndian Air Force (IAF) are thelatest to face problems due tooverusing social media.
He said spending longhours on social media is mak-ing them sleep deprived. “Withmany of them spending timeon social media during thenight, they have less time tosleep” he added.
Air Chief urged theInstitute of AerospaceMedicine (IAM) under thetraining command to find amechanism or technology thatcan identify pilots who havenot had enough sleep beforetheir flights.
Dhanoa said that whilesocial media has become animportant part of communi-cation today, it is taking awaypeople's interpersonal com-munication skills.
Dhanoa said, "Earlier if apilot had a drink too much, thebarman would know. If hefailed to notice, the otherswould know and he did be laid
off flying for the day. Today weeven have breath analysers.We need a system today thatcan tell us if a pilot had beensleep deprived."
He attributed this to afatal accident in 2013 andsaid "Everybody seems to geton social media late, it thenkeeps them awake. Flying sor-ties when the ambient tem-perature goes beyond 40-degree Celsius is discouraged,so most of them take off earlyin the day. This means thatmost flight briefings are asearly as 6 am and pilots haven'thad enough sleep."Air Chief said that IAM will getactively involved in astronautselection and manned spacemission(GAGANYAAN) asdeclared by Prime Minister. Healso said that AerospaceMedicine specialist is the bestfriend of the air crew in thefield and appreciated the
Aerospace Medicine speciali-ty for their commendable job.
Amidst controversies overthe Rafale fighter jet deal prices,Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoaon Wednesday had empha-sised how crucial it was to pro-cure the fighter jets, consider-ing the threats from Pakistanand China and the Indian AirForce's current squadronstrength of only 31 from the 42sanctioned strength.
“No country is facing thekind of grave threat that Indiais confronted with. Intentionsof our adversaries can changeovernight. We need to matchforce level of our adversaries,”said Air Chief MarshalDhanoa.
"By providing the Rafaleand S-400, the Government isstrengthening the Indian AirForce to counter the shortfalls of our depleting numbers,"he said.
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BJP national president AmitShah will kick off his
party’s campaign forTelangana assembly atMahbubnagar on Saturday.Earlier he will hold discus-sions with the State partyleaders and review the elec-tion preparations and pointsto be included in the mani-festo. Before leaving forMahbubnagar he will alsooffer pooja at Durga temple inLal Darwaza area of old city,a communally sensitive pock-et of the city.
Briefing the media aboutAmit Shah’s program StateBJP President K Lakshmansaid that no leader from otherparties will be admitted intothe BJP during the visit’ “Thejoining will take place at thedistrict levels”, he said.
Lashing out at the GrandAlliance of Congress, TDPand others he said it was“unholy” and without anyprinciples. He also allegedthat there was also an alliancebetween the TRS and Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen. “It isa dangerous alliance” he said.
The candidates of the BJPwill be announced after theelection schedule was released,he said.
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Even if neighbouringRajasthan decided to cut
Value Added Tax (VAT) onpetrol and diesel followingcontinuous hike in the petro-leum products, there wouldn’tbe any change in tax structureon these two commodities inthe Prime Minister’s home-State Gujarat.
Ruling out any possibilityof reduction in tax in nearfuture, Deputy Chief MinisterNitin Patel on Friday said thatthe Gujarat Government hadreduced VAT around 10months back on petrol anddiesel and now taking 20 percent tax.
In Congress ruled statesVAT was being charged on thefuels in the range of 25-30 percent, said Patel in context ofCongress party’s recent ‘BharatBandh’ on the issue of surgingfuel prices.
In Gujarat petrol priceshave crossed �80 and �78 perlitre respectively. Chief Ministerof neighbouring Rajasthan hasannounced a 4 per cent pointreduction in VAT on the twoimportant petroleum productsearlier this week. In RajasthanVAT on petrol will be reducedfrom 30 per cent to 26 per centand on diesel from 22 per cent
to 18 per cent. Congress ruledPunjab and Karnataka tooreportedly planning to reduceVAT on petroleum products.Andhra Pradesh and WestBengal have also lowered VATon fuels.
It is worth mentioning thatthe Central Government is col-lecting �19.48 and �15.33 asexcise duty on a litre of petroland diesel respectively. TheNarendra Modi Government atCentre is attributing skyrocket-ing prices of petrol and diesel toexternal factors such as depre-ciating rupee and volatile crudeprices in the international mar-ket. The Central Governmenthas so far not given any indica-tion in reducing the taxes onfuels. In fact the UnionGovernment has asked thoseStates who are charging higherVAT on petroleum productsshould reduce the tax.
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Several long distance trainswere either cancelled or
diverted or even short-termi-nated, while the operation ofsuburban trains was restrictedon the affected line, after aneight-wheeler tower wagonderailed between Kasara andUmbermali stations in thesmall hours of Friday.
The derailment of an eight-wheeler took place betweenKasara and Umbermali stationsat 1.04 am during a midnightmaintenance block from 23.40pm to 1.10 am.
With the Kalyan-Kasarasection hit by the derailment, theCentral Railway operated thesuburban train services betweenKalyan and Asangaon. However,following an “rail roko” agitationresorted to by commuters atVasind, the authorities ran theservices up to Titwala from6.05 am to 07.55 am.
At least four long-distancetrains — Manmad-LTT-Manmad Godavari Express,Manmad-Mumbai-ManmadRajyarani Express, Mumbai-Bhusaval Passenger andMumbai-Manmad PanchvatiExpress — were cancelled, whileeight long-distance trains werediverted via different stations.
Five Mumbai and Pune-bound trains were short-termi-nated at places like Igatpuri,Nashik Road, Manmad, whilethree trains from Mumbai--LTT-Gorakhpur Express, LTT-Darbhanga Express andVaranasi Kamayani Express—departed from Mumbai two tothree hours behind the schedule.
Having taken up the trackrestoration work on a war-foot,the Central Railway personnelput back the 8-wheeler towerwagon that had derailedbetween Kasara and Umbermali,on the tracks in the afternoon.
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Close on the heels of arrestof a Hizbul Mujahideen
cadre from Uttar Pradesh,Assam police on Thursdaynight arrested one ShahnawazAlam, a close accomplice of thecadre from central Assam’sHojoi district.
Qamar-uz-Zaman, a sus-pected cadre of banned militantoutfit Hizbul Mujahideen wasarrested by Uttar Pradeshpolice from Kanpur onThursday. Zaman hails fromJamunamukh in Assam.
"Assam police has send a
team to Uttar Pradesh fol-lowing the arrest of Zaman forthe interrogations detailsabout involvement of anoth-er accomplice ShahnawazAlam, who we have arrestedfrom here,” said Special DGP,Assam police PallabBhattacharya on Friday.
"Shahnawaz Alam hadreceived training in Kishtwardistrict in Jammu region ofJammu & Kashmir. Zamanwas spotted in social mediaearly this year while he wasbrandishing an AK-47.Zaman had plans to carry outsubversive activity during
Ganesh Chatturthi celebra-tion," he said.
Back home inJamunamukh, Zaman's moth-er told media that securityforces have done a good job byarresting him.
“Anybody who carries outwar against the countrydeserves such treatment.Zaman has brought bad nameto the family,” she said.
She said, “My son is notgreater than the country, I willnot see his face. I prayed to Godthat he should get arrested.With lot of trouble we havegrown up Zaman.”
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The recent fidayeenstrike along the
J a m m u - S r i n a g a rNational Highway nearJhajjar Kotli has onceagain exposed the gap-ing holes in the overallsecurity 'bandobast' of400-km long surfacelink betweenLakhanpur- the gate-way of J&K andKashmir valley.
According to thepreliminary interroga-tion reports of driverand his accomplicearrested by the Statepolice from JhajjarKotli on Wednesday,over 20 infiltrators havebeen ferried by themsince January 2018 atdifferent intervals.
These sensationaldisclosures has already
left all those senior securityofficers, entrusted with the jobof securing national highway,red faced.
Even huge presence of secu-rity forces at different locations,random patrolling by the Quickreaction teams (QRT's) of theIndian army, CRPF and randomchecking of vehicles at securitycheck points set up by the Statepolice could not detect presenceof heavily armed terrorists in thetruck, frequently used by the overground workers of Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist outfit toferry them to Kashmir valley inthe recent months.
According to police thearrested driver and his accom-plice has been identified as RiazAhmad son of Ghulam AhmadR/o Hajin, Pulwama andMohammad Iqbal son of AbdulKhaliq R/o Pakharpora,Budgam, a BSc Nursing stu-dent. Brother of Riaz was alsoa terrorist and had been killed
in an encounter with the secu-rity forces. Official sourcesrevealed they were both work-ing as OGW's of Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist outfit.
The duo,seems to have ranout of their luck on Wednesdaywhen they stopped at one oftheir favorite eating joints nearJhajjar Kotli for a sumptuousbreakfast.
The duo had no idea thata flying squad of a highwaypatrol party could chase themand take the lid off their secretoperation.
Three member fidayeengroup, hiding inside the truck,also acted in haste by openingfire on the police party andexposed themselves.They wereneutralised on Thursday dur-ing the day long operation inKakriyal area alogn the nation-al highway.
Top brass of the State policehas already taken note of theserious security breach.
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The Trinamool Congress has strongly refutedCentral Government’s contention that it had not
come in the way of Bengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee’s proposed Chicago visit where she wasreportedly invited by the Vivekananda VedantaSociety to attend the 125th anniversary of SwamiVivekananda’s historic speech at the Parliament ofWorld Religions.
Rejecting the argument of a senior ForeignMinistry official that his Department had “notreceived any request for clearance regarding the visitof Ms Mamata Banerjee to Chicago for any event”and that “the reports about the denial of permissionare therefore not true,” Trinamool MP DerekO’Brien said that the Chief Minister’s visit was spikedby the saffron brigade as they wanted the programmeat American city to be held under the banner ofGlobal Hindu Congress and addressed by RSS chiefMohan Bhagwat.
“It is common knowledge that BJP-RSS wantedonly one major programme to be held in Chicago …under the banner of World Hindu Congress … andattended by Mohan Bhagwat. To ensure this happenedintense pressure was mounted on the VivekanandaVedanta Mission in Chicago,” O’Brien said echoingwhat the Chief Minister herself told during a speechat Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math.
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The BengalGovernment has
decided to rebuild theMajherhat Bridge con-necting rest of Kolkatato Diamond Harbourand the all importantGanga Sagar Islands inone year’s time, StateChief MinisterMamata Banerjee onFriday said adding thehigh-powered inquirycommittee led by theState Chief Secretaryhad submitted a reporthinting at lapses on thepart of some PWDofficials as also theMetro Railways trig-gering the collapse ofthe 55-year old struc-ture.
The last week’sbridge collapse hadleft three persons
dead and about 26injured promptingthe opposition topoint fingers at theState Government forpoor maintenance ofState overpasses.
Banerjee said theinquiry committee ledby Chief SecretaryMalay De had “point-ed out two things.”First it was the respon-sibility of PWD andtheir negligence was tobe blamed for thebridge collapse, shesaid adding “also theconstruction work bythe Metro Railwayswhich is building itselevated tracks” rightbeside the collapsedstructure “had animpact on it.” She saidthe Metro angle wouldbe probed further bythe team.
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Benchmark Sensex spurtedaround 373 points on
Friday to reclaim the 38,000-mark as better-than-expectedmacro data and further recov-ery in the rupee triggeredwidespread buying.
The NSE Nifty toobreached the 11,500-level witha jump of 145.30 points.
All sectoral indices endedin the green, led by realty,power, consumer durables andmetals.
Brokers said sentiment wasbullish on continuous recoveryin the rupee amid reports thatthe government may announcesteps to prop up the domesticunit.
Prime Minister NarendraModi will hold meetings withtop officials on Friday andSaturday to review the eco-nomic situation.
The rupee strengthenedby another 65 paise to 71.53(intra-day) against the dollarFriday, also supported by a fallin crude oil prices.
Domestic cues were posi-tive after official data releasedafter trading hours Wednesday
showed that industrial pro-duction (IIP) grew at 6.6 percent in July, while retail infla-tion cooled to a 10-month lowof 3.69 per cent in August.
Meanwhile, WPI inflationalso eased to a four-month lowof 4.53 per cent in August onsoftening prices of food articles,especially vegetables.
The benchmark BSESensex stayed in the positiveterrain through the sessionand touched a high of38,125.62. It finally settled372.68 points, or 0.99 per centhigher at 38,090.64 — its high-est closing since September 7when it had finished at38,389.82.
Also, the broader Niftyclimbed 145.30 points, or 1.28per cent to finish at 11,515.20.Intra-day, it shuttled between11,523.25 and 11,430.55.
However, the indicesclosed with losses for the sec-ond straight week. The Sensexlost some 300 points, or 0.77per cent, while the NSE Niftyfell 73.90 points, or 0.64 percent, during the week.
Meanwhile, domestic insti-tutional investors (DIIs)remained net buyers, picking
up shares worth �541.44 croreon Wednesday. However, for-eign portfolio investors (FPIs)sold equities to the tune of�1,086.39 crore, provisionaldata showed.
“Ease in inflation andrecovery in rupee added opti-mism in the market. Stability inyield and rupee will be crucialfor the market momentumwhile investors have continuedto stay cautious due to globaltriggers.
“The global peers also trad-ed on a positive note in expec-tation of ease in trade tensionsbetween US and China. Anyredressal in tensions will pro-vide enough headroom fordomestic market,” said VinodNair, Head of Research, GeojitFinancial Services.
The overall investor opti-mism rubbed off on broadermarkets as well, lifting the BSEmid-cap and small-cap indicesby 1.62 per cent and 1.38 percent.
Vedanta was the big hitterin the Sensex kitty, surging 5.25per cent after the company saidThursday it has discoverednatural gas in a KrishnaGodavari basin block.
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Inflation-based on wholesaleprices eased to a four-month
low of 4.53 per cent in Auguston softening of food prices, butexperts warned that a slidingrupee and rising oil pricescould prompt an interest ratehike by RBI.
The effect of rising petroland diesel prices has been neu-tralised by deflation in foodarticles, which resulted a lowerwholesale price index (WPI)inflation for August.
The WPI-based inflationstood at 5.09 per cent in July and3.24 per cent in August last year.
According to Governmentdata released on Friday, foodarticles registered deflation at4.04 per cent in August 2018.Last month, deflation in thiscategory was 2.16 per cent.
Deflation in vegetables was20.18 per cent in August, asagainst 14.07 per cent in theprevious month.
Inflation in the ‘fuel andpower‘ basket was 17.73 percent in August as prices ofdomestic fuel increased, in linewith high global crude oil ratesand a depreciating rupee.
While inflation in liquefiedpetroleum gas (LPG) was 46.08per cent, in diesel and petrol itwas 19.90 per cent and 16.30 percent, respectively, during August.
ICRA Principal EconomistAditi Nayar said core inflationhardened to a series high 5 percent in August, from 4.8 percent in July, a signal that firmswith pricing power are begin-ning to transmit the weakerrupee and rising costs associ-ated with industrial inputssuch as fuels, to final prices.
“The rise in the core-WPIinflation in August 2018, inaddition to the risks posed tothe outlook for the CPI infla-tion by the INR depreciation,elevated crude oil prices andrevision in MSPs, appear like-ly to prompt a majority of theMPC members to vote for arate hike in the October 2018policy meeting,” Nayar said.
RBI‘s fourth bi-monthlypolicy review is slated onOctober 5. Industry chamberCII, however, said that a declinein both wholesale and retailinflation would boost senti-ments and a rate cut by the RBIat this juncture will help revivethe investment cycle.
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Petrol and diesel prices onFriday scaled new highs as
rates were increased on accountof rupee depreciation and risein international oil rates.
While petrol price wasincreased by 28 paise a litre,diesel rates went up by 22paise, according to a pricenotification of state-owned oilmarketing companies.
Petrol in Delhi now costs�81.28 per litre and diesel ispriced at �73.30 a litre.
In Mumbai, petrol isretailed at 88.67 per litre, for�84.49 in Chennai and �83.14in Kolkata. Diesel costs �77.82per litre in Mumbai, �77.49 perlitre in Chennai and �75.36 perlitre in Kolkata, according tothe notification.
Delhi has the cheapest fuelrates among all metros andmost state capitals because oflower taxes. Mumbai has thehighest sales tax or value addedtax (VAT).
A combination of a dip inrupee value against the USdollar and rise in crude oilprices has led to a spike inpump prices since mid-August.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.on Friday shared its vision in
India’s smartphone market andlineup of advanced compo-nents at its fourth SamsungMobile Solutions Forum(SMSF) in New Delhi.
It also highlighted latestcomponent solutions such asExynos Modem 5100, ISOCELLPlus image sensors andLPDDR5-based mobile DRAM.
More than 300 industryexperts attended the forumthat included global mobilemanufacturers.
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India ranks third globally interms of number of family
owned businesses with 111companies of $839 billion totalmarket capitalisation, followedclosely after China with 159firms and the United Stateswith 121 firms, says a report.
According to the ‘CreditSuisse Family 1000 in 2018‘ report,published by the Credit SuisseResearch Institute (CSRI), interms of number of family ownedbusinesses, within the non-JapanAsian region, China, India andHong Kong dominate the list.
These three jurisdictionstogether comprise around 65per cent of the non-Japan Asiansection of the CSRI‘s database,
and has a combined market cap-italisation of $2.85 trillion (or 71per cent) of the market share.
Korea came in fourth place,with 43 companies ($434.1 bil-lion market capitalisation), fol-lowed by Indonesia, Malaysia,the Philippines and Thailand,each with 26 companies.
The report covered 11markets in the Non-JapanAsian region, which continueto dominate and represent a 53per cent share of the universe,with a total market capitalisa-tion of over USD 4 trillion.
The report further notedthat in 2017 alone, Non-Japan-Asia-based family-owned com-panies generated 25.63 percent greater cash flow return oninvestment (CFROI).
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Hinduja groupflagship Ashok
Leyland on Fridaysaid it has bagged anorder for 200 buses inBangladesh.
The order is forsingle-decker ACbuses which includesintercity AC buses aswell as city AC buses, AshokLeyland said in a statement.
“These completely built-up(CBU) units for BRTC(Bangladesh Road TransportCorporation) will be procuredagainst a tender under Indianline of credit,” it added.
Commenting on the devel-opment, Ashok LeylandManaging Director Vinod KDasari said the repeat order,after the double-decker bus
order, is a testament of the trustBangladesh authorities havein the company.
“Bangladesh continues tobe one of our most importantexport markets. And it willcontinue to play a key role inour strategy of increasing ourexport share in total revenue,”Dasari said.
Ashok Leyland sharesended 2.7 per cent up at�131.35 on the BSE.
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SYSKA Group (India) inpartnership with
Biometronic Pte. Ltd.(Singapore) and SuyinOptronics, Corp. (Taiwan) willset up India‘s first camera mod-ule factory. The factory will besetup in Noida with the totalinvestment of $30 million forthis project which will be uti-lized in three phases.
Suyin Optronics will man-ufacture camera modules formobile phones, automotiveindustry, medical, securityindustry and defense industry.The factory will have a cleanroom for an installed produc-tion capacity of 5 million piecesper month and an expansionplan to set up the first chip-on-board plant.
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Boosted by an undefeated run, seven-time champions India will start asfavourites against Maldives in the
summit clash of the South Asian FootballFederation Cup here on Saturday.
The Indian team, comprising under-23players except for one, has been the onlyunbeaten side in the tournament. It hasbeaten Sri Lanka (2-0) and Saturday's oppo-nents Maldives (2-0) in the group stagesbefore prevailing over Pakistan (3-1) in thesemifinals.
The defending champions will bechasing its eight triumph in 12 editions andthird back-to-back titles as it seeks to con-tinue its stranglehold in the regional tour-nament.
Maldives have not played in the finalin the last three editions, losing in the semi-finals each time. India, on the other hand,has played in the final of all the earlier 11editions except in 2003.
The last time the Bangabandhu Stadiumhere hosted the tournament in 2009, Indiaand Maldives faced each other in the sum-mit clash and both sides could not score agoal even in the extra time. India won thatfinal match in penalty shootout.
Stephen Constantine would not wantSaturday's match to meander towardspenalty shootout but his players cannot takeMaldives lightly though the island countryhas been struggling in the group stages.
"Maldives have shown their worth inthe semifinal against Nepal. A 3-0 winagainst Nepal was not an easy task. Eventhough we have won against them in thegroup stage, we cannot afford to disrespectthem. We have to keep in mind that threeof their main players did not play againstus," Constantine said ahead of the final.
"Maldives have our full respect and weare expecting a tough game on Saturday.But we also deserve to be in the final. Wefear none and as I said before, we havecome with a strong intent to win the tour-
nament," he said.Constantine said his players have the
added incentive of doing well on Saturdayas they can earn a place in the Asian Cupsquad.
"These boys have a carrot in front ofthem which is a berth in the Asian Cup
squad. They are well aware of the fact thatthey need to perform constantly to earn thesame."
Manvir Singh, who scored a braceagainst Pakistan in the semifinal to win hissuccessive MVP Award of the tournament,said the focus is to continue the good work.
"It was a group of tough guys and thejob was never going to be an easy one. Butwe had the self-belief to churn out the pos-itive results and eventually, we did," he said.
"Now, our focus is on the final. We areworking as a unit and we just need to keepour heads down and continue the work,"the 23-year-old striker who is leading thegoal-scorers' chart with three goals said.
Maldives head coach Petar Segrt saidhis team has a chance to win the title.
"I'm very proud of all our players andthe staff. This is a huge success for us tobe in the final of this competition. Werespect India, they're a big opponent. Butthis is our chance which we want to take."
Maldives captain Akram Abdul said,"We have struggled in the group stages butwe are in the final now. This is our biggestchance. We have not played the final innine years. We are well prepared and weare going to fight to win the tournament."
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Daniel Ricciardo recorded thefastest lap in the first free
practice session on Friday for thisweekend's Singapore Grand Prixbut Ferrari's replacement forKimi Raikkonen had a momentto forget.
Charles Leclerc marked hisfirst session since beingannounced as Sebastian Vettel'snew teammate for 2019 with ablunder near the end of the ses-sion.
The 20-year-old Leclerc mis-judged his Sauber's exit from theAnderson Bridge, clipped thewall hard at turn 13 anddestroyed his right front wheel.
Singapore specialistRicciardo, who has finished onthe second step of the podium forthe past three years, powered hisRed Bull round in 1 min 39.711sec at the spectacular Marina Baystreet circuit which snakes its waythrough the heart of Asia's "LionCity".
Max Verstappen completeda Red Bull one-two just two-tenths of a second behind butchampionship leader LewisHamilton was only sixth fastest,1.521sec off the pace, afterMercedes opted not to use thefastest hypersoft tyres in the ses-sion.
Sebastian Vettel, who trailsHamilton by 30 points in the dri-vers' championship, was thirdfastest and less than a tenth of asecond behind Verstappen.Raikkonen was fourth.
Nico Hulkenberg in hisRenault was an impressive fifthfastest but Valtteri Bottas in thesecond Mercedes could onlycome in eighth fastest.
The Marina Bay track has 23
corners, more than any other onthe current Formula One calen-dar, and is a severe test for bothdrivers and cars with tempera-tures topping 30 Celsius.
But the first session, whichtakes place in daylight and thesearing heat of the afternoon, isoften not a true guide to the paceof the cars for the night race.
The green track traditional-ly gets much quicker as the raceweekend progresses and morerubber is laid down.
The track was noticeablydusty in some sections and sev-eral front-runners experiencedloss of grip and spins on thebumpy surface.
Hamilton ran wide a coupleof times, Bottas and Williams'Lance Stroll both spun at the sec-ond corner, as did Force India'sSergio Perez at turn 20, andRaikkonen missed a turn andended up in a run-off dead-end
before spinning his car 360degrees to get back on track.
5��5�,*#���*9�-�=�-#-�Mercedes chief Toto Wolff 's
idea of each team adding a thirdcar to promote young talenteddrivers has received a mixedresponse from the Formula 1 fra-ternity.
During the previous race inMonza earlier this month, Wolffhad proposed that a third carshould be introduced for youngdrivers like Esteban Ocon, whodoesn't have a drive for next yeardespite doing well for ForceIndia since joining them last year.
The other Mercedes-backeddrivers whose future is uncertainis Pascal Wehrlein and Formula2 Championship lead GeorgeRussell.
However, the likes of RedBull and Sauber have alreadyexpressed apprehensions over
the radical idea.Ahead of the Singapore
Grand Prix here on Sunday,championship leader LewisHamilton of Mercedes, KimiRaikkonen of Ferrari, BrendonHartley of Toro Rosso and KevinMagnussen of Haas gave theirvaried opinions on the subject.
"I quite like the idea of morecars. More teams maybe, ratherthan three drivers in a team -would be a handful," said reign-ing world champion Hamilton,endorsing the view of his teamprincipal.
Former world championRaikkonen said having threecars in each team can makethings complicated.
"I think it would be nice tohave a lot of cars but then, I don'tknow. So many things that it willchange. It's pretty difficult towork it out," said the Finn, whowill be returning to Sauber.
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Kidambi Srikanth crashed out of themen's singles event after losing a
marathon three-game quarterfinal todraw curtains on India's campaign atthe $ 700,000 Japan Open badmintontournament here on Friday.
Just like his compatriots, fatigueseemed to have caught up with theseventh-seeded Srikanth as he squan-dered a game's lead to lose 21-19, 16-21, 18-21 against Korea's Lee DongKeun in a duel that lasted an hour and19 minutes.
Former world No 1 Srikanth, whowon a Silver at the Gold CoastCommonwealth Games, had earlieravenged his Asian Games loss to HongKong's Wong Wing Ki Vincent witha clinical straight game win in the pre-vious round.
In a hard-fought battle where for-tunes fluctuated too often, Srikanthconverted a 2-4 deficit into a 9-5 leadin the opening game. But Lee clawedback at 10-10 before the Indian man-
aged to grab a one-point advantage atthe first interval.
Srikanth continued his upwardmovement but Lee kept breathingdown his neck. Leading 19-17, theIndian allowed the Korean to catch upagain before securing the requiredpoints to pocket the opening game.
Lee played positively in the sec-ond game, reducing his errors butSrikanth found the going tough as heconceded seven straight points to hisopponent, who moved to a massive12-5 lead at one stage.
Srikanth tried to make a come-back but Lee kept his nose ahead toroar back into the contest.
The decider turned out to be apulsating contest as Lee jumped to a12-9 lead only to see Srikanth turningthe tables at 13-12 with four-pointburst. However, Lee managed to drawparity at 14-14 and then slowly movedahead to eventually seal the contest. Itwas Srikanth's second defeat to Lee,who had outlasted the Indian at the2016 Asia Championship.
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Aperfect start from their open-ing four games has raised
expectations over Liverpool's titlecredentials, but Jurgen Klopp'smen face their first serious test ofthe Premier League campaign atTottenham on Saturday.
After dismissing West Ham 4-0 on the opening weekend of theseason, Liverpool have had toshow a more resilient approach innarrow victories over CrystalPalace, Brighton and Leicester,compared to the free-scoring sidethat romped to the ChampionsLeague final last season.
Indeed, the only goal theReds have conceded so far thisterm came from a howler by£65-million ($84 million) goal-keeper Alisson Becker in trying todribble his way out of trouble atLeicester.
The installation of Joe Gomezalongside Virgil van Dijk at cen-tre-back, allied to the continued
improvement of young full-backsAndrew Robertson and TrentAlexander-Arnold and the addi-tion of Alisson, makes the currentLiverpool defence far harder tobreach than on their last visit toWembley.
Harry Kane ran riot backthen in October last year, scoring
twice and forcing Klopp to sub-stitute Dejan Lovren after just 30minutes as Spurs cruised to a 4-1win.
Kane will be keen to get backamong the goals with lingeringquestions over his early-seasonform and fitness in a World Cuphangover since picking up the
Golden Boot in Russia.And there will be even more
responsiblity on Kane's shoul-ders with captain Hugo Lloris andDele Alli ruled out through injury.
Defeat at Watford just beforethe international break punc-tured Spurs' own push to be con-sidered title contenders. But vic-
tory will take them level withLiverpool at the top of the table forat least a few hours before otherfront-runners Chelsea, Watfordand Manchester City are in actionlater on Saturday.
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package of the season thanks tofour straight wins to stand along-side pace-setters Liverpool andChelsea.
Hornets boss Javi Gracia hasearned a reputation for big scalps,upending Barcelona and RealMadrid during his time in Spainwith Malaga, and thrashingChelsea 4-1 in his first match incharge at Vicarage Road to go withvictory over Spurs two weeksago.
United got back on trackwith a comfortable win at Burnleybefore the international break tocalm the storm surrounding JoseMourinho's future.
But should Mourinho's mensuffer a third defeat in five leaguegames, the chances of catching thelikes of Liverpool and City wouldalready look forlorn.
At the other end of the table,West Ham remain the only sidewithout a point after four gamesdespite a huge transfer spend ofnearly £100 million over the sum-mer.
Former Man City managerManuel Pellegrini has not justbeen backed in the transfer mar-ket, but also with the patience ofthe Hammers hierarchy.
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Ramkumar Ramanthan gave his all but it wasnot enough to stop Laslo Djere from winning
his first Davis Cup match as India trail Serbia 0-1 in the World Group Play-off tie, here Friday.
Ramkumar battled hard before losing 6-3, 4-6, 6-7(2), 2-6 to Djere in the opening singles whichlasted three hours and 11 minutes on the indoorclay court.
Ramkumar pulled away in the opening set witha break of serve in the sixth game. The Indian wassolid with his returns from the baseline while Djerefaltered on the second breakpoint, sending a fore-hand return long.
An easy hold in the next put Ramkumar ahead5-2. He served out the set in the ninth game whenDjere hit a backhand wide from an advantageousposition.
With Ramkumar at the middle of the net, theSerb attempted a passing winner and could notkeep the ball inside the lines.
Ramkumar charged to the net several times,as he has been doing of late, in the second set andgot a few points. He used to stay mostly at the base-line but now he has worked on his serve and vol-ley skills after training with Sanjay Singh, who hasa long association with master-of-the-art LeanderPaes.
Djere however cut down on his errors andhardly lost points on his serve to lead 3-2. Priorto that, Serbian captain Nenad Zimonjic hadargued with the chair umpire for overturning a callfrom the linesman, who called fault onRamkumar's first serve at 40-30 in the fourth game.
The chair umpire checked the spot where theball landed when Ramkumar protested against thecall and awarded an ace in Indian's favour.
Serving at 4-5, Ramkumar could not pick upa half-volley and netted a backhand slice to handtwo set points to Djere. He needed a good serveat this crunch situation but served a double faultto put the match on even-keel.
In the third set, Ramkumar hit a backhand tothe net on the second break point in the secondgame to trail 0-2 but a flurry of errors from Djerein the next game, got the Indian back on serve.
There was no break of serve after that butRamkumar saved a break point in the fiercelyfought 12th game to force a tie-breaker. Djerecruised to a 4-0 lead and closed the set with an ace.
Ramkumar had chance to break Djere twicein the fourth set but he did not capitalise on those.However, the Serb did not miss what came his wayand broke Ramkumar for a crucial 4-2 lead. Therewas no stopping Djere from there on as he put hiscountry ahead in the tie.
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Virat Kohli's absence mighthave taken some sheen
off it but the general excite-ment surrounding Indo-Pakencounters will be the USP ofthe six-nation Asia Cup start-ing Saturday with aBangladesh-Sri Lanka clashhere.
While there are twoassured India-Pakistan match-es, one in the group league andthe other at the Super Fourstage, the organisers, broad-casters, and the supporterswill be hoping for a possiblesummit showdown onSeptember 28 too.
For India, it will be achance to see how the teamreacts to pressure situations inabsence of Kohli, who hasbeen rested after a gruellingEngland tour, which endedwith a 1-4 Test series loss ear-lier this week.
The team will begin itscampaign on September 18against Hong Kong, followedby the much-anticipated clashagainst Pakistan the next day.
While Rohit Sharma hasbeen a brilliant white ball play-er, his leadership skills haven'tbeen tested against a qualityside.
He led against Sri Lankalast December but it was abelow par opposition. In fact,Bangladesh, with its resources,is a better 50-over side cur-rently.
But the focal point wouldbe how India India play aquality Pakistan side that hasa world-class fast bowler inMohammed Aamir, a solid allrounder in Hasan Ali, a prolificopener in Fakhar Zaman andtalented batsmen such as BabarAzam and Harris Sohail.
India's main aim would beto settle their middle-ordercombination and also find aperfect batting position forMahendra Singh Dhoni duringthe course of the tournament.
The Asia Cup has been atournament where Bangladeshhave done well over the years.During the last edition at
home, they were in finalalthough the event was com-peted in T20 format.
In 2012, they played thefinals in the 50 over format.
The side under MashrafeMortaza has the wherewithalto compete in the 50-over for-mat with a good bowling line-up for slower decks like theones that will be on offer inDubai and Abu Dhabi.
The batting comprises amercurial Tamim Iqbal and theseasoned MahmudullahRiyadh. Mushfiqur Rahim andShakib Al Hasan are fantasticon their days and the teamwould remain a dark horse inthe tournament.
Sri Lanka is one team thatIndia have been pitted againstthe most in the last 24 monthsacross formats. The team'stransition phase is taking toolong and internal issues likeadministration of the Boardand pay disputes have plaguedthem for quite a while now.
However, they have a lot ofexperience in AngeloMathews, Upul Tharanga,Thisara Perera and LasithMalinga with youngsters suchas Akila Dananjaya, DasunShanaka and Kasun Rajitha.
Sri Lanka's problem hasbeen their consistency andthey will hope to do coursecorrection.
For Afghanistan, it will bea tournament to show thatthere is more to their side thana global T20 superstar inRashid Khan. With the likes ofMohammed Shahzad in theline-up, the Afghans will behoping to create an upset ortwo.
Last but not the least isHong Kong, led by a player ofIndian origin Anshuman Rath.
It is a team of semi-pro-fessional players, who migrat-ed to the country in search ofgreener pastures. Their mainaim would be to remain com-petitive as their matches havenow been accorded ODI status.
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Fast bowler Dale Steyn was on Fridaynamed in a 16-man South African squad for
three one-day internationals against Zimbabwe,starting on September 30.
Steyn, 35, has been plagued by injuries inrecent years and has not played in a one-dayinternational since October 2016.
But he recently stated his determination tofinish his white-ball career by playing in the2019 Cricket World Cup in England.
Steyn made a comeback to internationalcricket after shoulder and foot injuries whenhe played in two Tests in Sri Lanka in July buthe only took two wickets at a cost of 89.50 runseach. He has subsequently shown a return toform during a stint with English countyHampshire, taking 20 wickets in five first-classmatches at an average of 19.10.
Christiaan Jonker, who made 49 in apromising debut in the third and final Twenty20 international against India in February, isthe only newcomer in the one-day squad.
Tahir, who was rested from South Africa'stour of Sri Lanka, makes a return followingsteady performances in the Caribbean PremierLeague (CPL) 2018.
Batsman David Miller and wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock have been rested forthe one-day series but will play in a three-matchTwenty20 series.
Two uncapped batsmen, Gihahn Cloeteand Rassie van der Dussen, were included inthe Twenty20 squad.
Selection convener Linda Zondi said thesquads were part of an ongoing process to assesstalent ahead of the World Cup.
"We still have one-day series after this oneagainst Australia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka as weget closer to finalising our likely World Cupsquad," he said.
Faf du Plessis was named as captain of bothsquads, subject to fitness assessments. He suf-fered a shoulder injury in Sri Lanka in Augustand said on his return to South Africa that hewould miss the Zimbabwe series rather thanreturn to action too soon.
Cricket South Africa said in a statementthat if Du Plessis was not fully fit a replacementcaptain would be named nearer the time.
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Gurpreet Singh clinched a Silverin the senior men's standard pis-
tol but India's junior shooters con-tinued to hold centre-stage, snaringtwo Gold medals to steer the coun-try to its best-ever finish in the ISSFWorld Championships here onFriday.
Vijayveer Sidhu, 16, shot a Goldin the 25m standard pistol event forjunior men after combining withRajkanwar Singh Sandhu andAdarsh Singh to claim the team Goldon the last day of the prestigiousInternational Shooting SportFederation (ISSF) competition.
India signed off third in theoverall medals tally with 11 Gold,nine Silver and seven Bronze medalsfor a total of 27, making this theirbest performance in the showpiece.
Sidhu, who finished fourth inthe 25m pistol on Thursday, man-aged an individual score of 572 tofinish ahead of Korean LeeGunheyok (570) and China's HaojieZhu 565).
In the team competition, Sidhu,Sandhu (564) and Singh (559)totalled 1695 to fetch the top hon-ours with Korea (1693) and CzechRepublic (1674) settling for theSilver and the Bronze medals respec-tively.
Singh managed a fourth-placefinish in the individual competition.
In the senior competition,Gurpreet Singh ensured that thecontingent signed off on a positivenote with his Silver.
The former CommonwealthGames Gold-medallist fired a scoreof 579 to finish second behindUkraine's Pavlo Korostylov, whoshot a score of 581. The Bronzemedal went to Koreas Kim Junhong,who shot the same score as theIndian but had lesser inner-10s to hiscredit.
India ended fourth in the teamevent with Gurpreet, AmanpreetSingh (560) and London OlympicsSilver-medallist Vijay Kumar (560)combining for a score of 1699.
India's junior women's skeetteam finished a creditable fourthwith the trio of Simranpreet Kaur,Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Areeba Khantotalling 318. None of them managedto qualify for the individual finals.
In the men's skeet event, AngadVir Singh Bajwa shot 118 to finish
49th, followed by Sheeraz Sheikh(115) at 69th. Mairaj Ahmad Khanshot 113 to finish 77th. The team fin-ished 20th.
In the men's 300M rifle 3 posi-tions Parul Kumar (1134) was thebest-placed Indian at 24th, whileAmit Kumar shot 1124 to finish28th. Akash Ravidas was furtherdown at at 35th with a score of shot1077. The team finished 8th with3335 points.
With the Youth Olympic Gamesscheduled for October, the WorldChampionship concludes ISSF'sengagements for the year.
The next big event will come upin February next year with the firstWorld Cup stage, which will also bea Tokyo 2020 qualifying event, to beheld in New Delhi's Dr Karni Singhrange.
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The World Cup is still eightmonths away but India skipperRohit Sharma feels that the six-
nation Asia Cup starting Saturdaywill give his side a chance to worktowards a "perfect combination"going into next year's mega event.
India are still searching for a per-fect middle order combination in theone-dayers even as they have a set-tled top three batsmen in stand-inskipper himself, Shikhar Dhawan andregular captain Virat Kohli.
Asked if the Asia Cup will be abuild up to next year's World Cup inEngland, Rohit said: "In a way, youcan say that. Every team wants to goto the World Cup in a good frame ofmind. But we shouldn't be lookingtoo far ahead. Obviously the AsiaCup gives every team an opportuni-ty to get the combination rightbefore the World Cup."
However, during the captains'press meet, the talented Mumbaikarsaid that while the World Cup will beat the back of his mind, it is better totake one game at a time.
"I won't understand how Angie(Angelo Mathews), Sarfraz (Ahmed)or Mashrafe (Mortaza) are looking atit and what their strengths and weak-nesses are. But as the tournamentprogresses, we will understand whatteams are doing.
"The World Cup is too far ahead.We will play a lot of games beforethat. A lot of players will get anopportunity to stake claim for a berthin that World Cup squad. It's a greatopportunity to try for that perfectcombination," said Rohit.
India begin their Asia Cup cam-paign against Hong Kong onSeptember 18 before taking on arch-rivals Pakistan the next day.
While India versus Pakistangames are of primary interest, Rohitsaid it's not just about one match.
"Pakistan have played some greatcricket of late and we are looking for-ward to that clash. However, by nomeans I am saying that focus shouldbe on one game as all the games thatare going to be played over here willbe quite competitive," he said.
"The focus should be on thewhole tournament because everynation is eyeing that title. Also for thefirst time, I am captaining in a full
tournament and it's excitingfor me personally."
While he played forMumbai Indians duringthe first phase of IPL-1,Rohit last played in Dubai in arepresentative tournament for IndiaA, way back in 2006.
"I am very happy to be back here.I didn't actually realise that wehaven't played here for the past 12years."
Asked about the weather, Rohitadmitted that it's not really pleasantand also felt that the group that wasin England for the Test series need-ed the break to rejuvenate themselves.
"It's not pleasant for sure. Forthe guys who were in England,it was a hectic tour and it is onlyfair that they go home and
spend some time with their fam-ilies and then come here. It is not
easy but then weather is going to besame for all the teams. So we have tojust focus on playing good cricket.That's all," he signed off.
;��6BA#����#*��#���6���#B�-#A?�@�The BCCI has sent fiveIndia A bowlers to help the seniorteam during the net sessions aheadof the Asia Cup, starting in DubaiSaturday.
Three pacers — Avesh Khan ofMadhya Pradesh, M Prasidh Krishnaof Karnataka and Siddarth Kaul ofPunjab — along with left-arm spin-ner Shahbaz Nadeem and leg-spin-ner Mayank Markande will be bowl-ing at the nets for the next three days.
Save Avesh, the other four werea part of the India A and B squads inthe recently concluded Quadrangularseries which also had A teams fromAustralia and South Africa.
Kaul was also a part of the seniorteam during the limited overs leg ofthe UK tour.
However, with the Vijay HazareTrophy (National One-Dayers) start-ing from September 19, it is expect-ed that the players will be sent backon time to represent their stateteams.
"Not everywhere do you getquality net bowlers and it becomes aproblem for the senior team duringpractice sessions. With back to backgames, you don't expect aBhuvneshwar Kumar or a JaspritBumrah to bowl flat out at the nets.Also the young academy bowlers attimes can't provide quality practice.Hence we have got some of our nextline of bowlers," a senior BCCI offi-
cial said on Friday."This is a process that proves to
be mutually beneficial for the team.While senior batsmen get qualitypractice, someone like a MayankMarkande can learn a lot by bowlingat the India nets. Also the senior play-ers and the coaches can only keep atab on the talent pool," he added.
The process was started beforethe tour of South Africa when thelikes of Avesh, Basil Thampi weresent to South Africa for net sessions.
The BCCI has also arranged fora left-arm throwdown expert from SriLanka named Nuwan Seneviratne,with specif ic aim of tacklingMohammed Aamir's fast pacedincoming deliveries.
Around 10 members Indian teamunder stand-in-skipper Rohit Sharmahad their first net session on Friday.
The ones who were a part of theEngland Test series are expected toarrive on Sunday evening and jointhe training on the eve of the HongKong match on Monday.
India start their Asia Cup cam-paign against qualifiers Hong Kongon September 18, followed by theirencounter against arch rivals Pakistanon September 19.
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India coach Ravi Shastri onFriday said that they didn't lose
the Test series to a collectiveeffort from England but to all-rounder Sam Curran's individualbrilliance which became the dif-ference at crucial junctures.
India lost the five-Test series1-4 but Shastri put up a brave frontmaking it clear that the finalscoreline does not depict the kindof fight that Virat Kohli's men putup.
"I would not say (we) failedbadly. But we tried. We must givecredit where it is due. Virat and mewere asked to pick the Man of theSeries (for England) and we bothpicked Sam Curran. Look whereCurran has scored, and, that iswhere he hurt us. More than
England, it was Curranwho hurt us," Shastritold ESPN Cricinfo inan interview.
He then point-ed out the phasesduring Test matcheswhen the talented all-rounder took the gameaway from India.
"In the first Test,England were 87 for 7 (inthe second innings) atEdgbaston, he (Curran)got the runs. In the fourthTest, they were 86 for 6 (firstinnings) in Southampton, he
got the runs. We were 50 for0 (first innings) atEdgbaston, he got the wick-ets. So at crucial stages inthis series, he chipped inwith runs and wickets. That
was the differencebetween the two sides,"Shastri explained.
While the complexICC Test ranking sys-tem helped Indiaregain their pole posi-tion, Shastri main-
tained that he will takeheart from the fact that
the side put up a goodshow.
"We are still the No 1team in the world. AndEngland know how well wefought. Their media knowshow well we fought. Our fans
know how well we fought. Theirpublic knows how well we fought.We know inside how well wefought," he added.
Asked if he was distracted bythe criticism, Shastri said:"Absolutely not. (I would be the)last one to press the panic buttonwhen I see so many positives. Ihead back home with a very pos-itive state of mind. I know exact-ly what we do. I know exactly andclearly where the team is heading- it is heading in the right direc-tion."
There had been a lot of criti-cism of team's performance butShastri remained unperturbed.
"People are entitled to theiropinions. As long as we know thejob we are doing and we are hon-est to our jobs, we are not worriedabout what critics say," Shastri said.
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