T aking a cue from Gujarat, West Bengal on Wednesday refused to implement the amended Motor Vehicle Act while the Tamil Nadu Government decided to imple- ment it partially. The BJP-Shiv Sena coalition Government of Maharashtra stayed the imple- mentation the fines imposed under the amended Act and wrote to the Centre to “recon- sider” and “reduce” the fines for traffic violations through suit- able amendments. Against the backdrop of reluctance of several States to implement the new Motor Vehicle Act and instances of massive protests against it, Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said States have the authority to revise fines. “MVA falls in the concur- rent list, and States as well as the Centre can revise and frame rules under the amended Act. The Government does not intend to garner revenue by increasing fines. The idea is to make roads safer and reduce the number of accidents. Are fines more important than someone’s life? You won’t be fined if you don’t break the rules,” the Minister said defend- ing the amended Act. Gadkari’s comments come after Gujarat announced to reduce traffic fines, with Chief Minister Vijay Rupani saying that the “base rate for the fines will be lower than the one pro- posed by the Union Government” and the revised fines will be implemented from September 16. While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that she will not imple- ment the new law that impos- es hefty fines for traffic viola- tions, the Tamil Nadu Government decided to implement it partially. Announcing the decision to stay the fines for traffic vio- lation pending the revision of rates by the Centre, Maharashtra Transport Minister Diwakar Raote of the Shiv Sena said, “The fines are very high and beyond the lim- its of common people. People cannot pay so much of fine. We have asked the Central Government to reduce the fine. Till we get a reply from the Centre, we will not implement the new fines. If the reply is in the negative, we will decide our future action.” Calling the amendments in the Motor Vehicles Act “too harsh” Mamata said it was against the federal structure of the Government. “We had opposed amendments in Parliament. If we implement the Motor Vehicles Act amend- ments, it will hurt general peo- ple,” the Bengal CM, who is one of the BJP’s fiercest critics, told reporters in Kolkata. Adding that money is not the solution, Mamata said the problem needs to be looked at from the “humanitarian point of view”. Saying that accidents have come down, Mamata also added that Bengal already has the “Safe Drive Save Life” cam- paign — a flagship programme of the Bengal Government. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the stake- holders in his Government are still examining the issues. Reacting to Maharashtra Transport Minister Diwakar Raote’s letter, Gadkari said, “Diwakar was a part of the committee that approved the Act. During my discussion with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, he didn’t mention it. I feel there’ll be no problem.” The Tamil Nadu Government said as many as 26 clauses which prescribed hefty penalty for various traffic offences are being reviewed by the Chief Minister’s office and that penalty prescribed in the Act are likely to be reduced by the Government. “The decision by a few States to cut the fine amount for a few traffic offences will be taken into account before arriv- ing at the final decision,” said a Tamil Nadu transport official. The Union Government had amended 93 clauses in Motor Vehicle Act which deals with penalties for traffic viola- tions, registration of vehicles, national transport policy and vehicle designs. I n order to deal with the rush of vehicles to pollution check- ing centres for Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificate across Delhi after the implementa- tion of new Motor Vehicle Act, Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot on Wednesday announced several remedial measures. The decision was taken after the Transport Department witnessed a threefold increase in the number of applications for PUC certificate from 15,000 to 45,000 a day. Gahlot said there are 70 lakh vehicles on roads in Delhi. The Transport Department has asked all 941 pollution checking centres to function from 7am to 10pm. Besides, and server capacity has been increased nearly twice to deal with 6,000 online applications per hour. “The Delhi Government has decided to open more pol- lution checking centres and new applications are invited. An advertisement in this respect will be floated tomorrow. Transport terminals and depots to provide pollution checking services. In centres with huge rush, civil defense volunteers will be deployed for crowd management to prevent law and order issues,” the Delhi Government’s transport depart- ment said in a statement. The Delhi Government on Friday suspended two pollution checking centres for malprac- tices. On diluting the penalties of offences under the MV Act 2019, the Transport Minister said, “Though the State Governments have certain dis- cretionary powers to ease the penalties with respect to certain offences as per the new MV Act, as of now Delhi Government is not mulling to dilute them since the stringent measures are meant to ensure road safety. Road safety is a major concern in Delhi and the Delhi Government is very serious about it.” Gahlot said, “We are close- ly observing the initiatives by other States and consulting var- ious stakeholders. At any stage, if the Delhi Government is convinced to reduce the fine for certain offences, we shall do the needful.” “There are approximately 1.10 core vehicles in Delhi at present and if we deduct the vehicles that are 15 years, there are 70 lakh vehicles on road and to ensure smooth process of acquiring the pollution certifi- cate,” Gahlot said. According to an official, after the amended Motor Vehicles Act come into force on September 1, each day on an average 50,000 vehicles under- go the test for a certificate of meeting emission and pollution control norms now, against 10,000 to 12,000 vehicles visit- ing the test centres before the amended law, which hiked the penalty, came into force. In Box Measures taken to deal with the rush in the pollution check- ing centers :- 1. All 941 pollution checking centers are made func- tional from 07:00 am to 10:00 pm. 2. The server capacity has been increased nearly twice. Now the transport department can handle 6000 online appli- cations per hour comparing to 3200 applications per hour. 3. Delhi government decided to open more pollution checking centers and new appli- cations are invited. An adver- tisement in this respect will be floated tomorrow (12 September 2019). 4. Certain transport ter- minals and depots will provide pollution checking services. 5. In centers with extreme rush, civil defense volunteers will be deployed for crowd management and avert law and order issues. Ten such centers have been identified. P rime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hit out at critics who argue that the mention of words “Om” and “cow” takes India centuries back, saying they are hell-bent on damaging the country. “When some people hear the words Om and cow, they scream that the country is back to the 16th century. Such people are only destroying the nation,” Modi said at the launch of National Animal Disease Control Programme (NACDP) in Mathura. The NACDP aims to con- trol foot and mouth disease and bacterial infection in livestock. The Centre will spend 12,652 crore to vaccinate over 600 mil- lion animals in the programme stretching up to 2030. Modi also promoted clean- liness, spoke against single- use plastic and invoked the 9/11 attack on America to indirectly condemn Pakistan for nurturing terrorism. “There is a country called Rwanda in Africa. I had gone there. In Rwanda, there is a unique programme, where the Government gives cows to vil- lages with the condition that the first female calf born to the cow is taken back and given to those who do not have a cow,” said the PM. “This way a chain operates. And their endeavour is that in Rwanda every household should have a cow. Milk pro- duction and animal rearing form the base of the economy. I have myself seen how a net- work to earn livelihood through a cow has been estab- lished there,” Modi said, adding, “But it is unfortunate that in our country the moment the word ‘Om’ falls on the ears of some people, they get alarmed.” “They also get alarmed by the word ‘cow’. They feel as if that the country has gone back to the 16th or the 17th centu- ry,” he said. Mocking this “gyan” (wis- dom) of the critics, he said such people are hell-bent on dam- aging the country. The PM wondered whether anyone can imagine an economy without animal husbandry. “In the life of rural India, animal husbandry is very valu- able. Can a family in a village survive without it? But I don’t know why some people get an electric shock on hearing the word,” Modi said. He said environment and livestock were always at the core of India’s economic thought and philosophy. “And hence, be it Swachh Bharat or Jal Jeevan Mission or promot- ing agriculture and animal husbandry, we always try to maintain a balance between nature and economy.” In his 40-minute speech, the PM also brought up the ter- ror attack on America this day in 2001. “Today terrorism has become an ideology which has transgressed every border. It is a global problem and has become a global threat whose strong roots are getting nour- ished in our neighbourhood,” he said in an apparent reference to Pakistan. He said the entire world needs to take a pledge against this ideology, against those who are taking it forward and those giving shelter and train- ing to terrorists. “There is need for strong action,” he said. “India is fully competent to face the challenge. We have shown this and will also show it in future.” Modi said his Government’s effort to strengthen anti-terror laws is a step forward in this direction. “September 11 is also a special day for another reason, as it was on this day a century back when Swami Vivekananda delivered his historic address in Chicago,” he said. “Through that speech, the entire world thoroughly under- stood the culture and tradition of India. But it is unfortunate that on that very September 11, the 9/11 terrorist attack took place in the US, and it shook the entire world.” Modi also inaugurated the National Artificial Insemination Programme in Mathura. Asking people to shun single-use plastic, Modi said its wanton use posed a hazard to the environment and led to livestock and fish being killed. Before the address, Modi joined a group of women in segregating plastic from waste at a “Swachhta Hi Seva” pro- gramme. S tate Capital received heavy spell in the early morning hours and later faded away for the whole day on Wednesday. In the past 24 hours State Capital recorded 5 cm of rain- fall. Weatherman said that the formation of system is contin- uous which is inducing heavy rainfall in the State and State Capital. The trend is different from the past couple of years as formation of low pressure area systems are more frequent this year and for the next one week there is less chance that weath- er conditions would turn nor- mal. Warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall has been issued for 35 districts of the state while most of the regions of the state would receive good rainfall. The heavy rainfall has dis- rupted road connectivity as water bodies have swollen. Among the nearby region Hoshangabad received the highest rainfall on Wednesday at 12 cm which was recorded till afternoon. North Madhya Pradesh and adjoining south- west Uttar Pradesh have a low pressure area and an associat- ed cyclonic circulation. Monsoon trough situated over Ganganagar, Alwar, Bhind, Morena, North Madhya Pradesh and adjoining south- western Uttar Pradesh at the center of low pressure area , Ambikapur, Jamshedpur, Digha and north of Bay of Bengal passing through east towards east. Cyclonic circula- tion in coastal West Bengal, South Gujarat, a high pressure area over North Madhya Pradesh and Southwest Uttar Pradesh. Due to the progress of the weather system in the northern direction and the weakening and ineffectiveness of the East West Shear Zone, the intensi- ty of rainfall is expected to remain low in the southeastern districts. Moderate to heavy rainfall is expected in the central and northern districts of the State, while light to moderate rain may continue in the southern and southeastern districts. It is estimated that after September 13, this rain will start decreasing. However, the weather will not be complete- ly dry. Moderate showers may continue over northern dis- tricts on 14 and 15 September. After this, the intensity of rain will become lighter. Bhopal: Chief Minister Kamal Nath while inaugurating the Mukhya Mantri Awas Mission (Urban) in Jhabua on Wednesday said that free res- idential patta and grant of 2.5 lakh for construction of house will be given to each houseless person of the State. He further mentioned that now every houseless individual of the state will become owner of his/ her house. Residential pattas to 200 landless persons were given in the programme. Nath mentioned that soon we will build such a Madhya Pradesh, in which no individ- ual is required to give applica- tion for resolving his/ her problems. Problems will be resolved in village, panchayat and district. He said that instead of announcements, an atmosphere of work culture has already been created. Comparing the last 15 years works with his 8 months in the state, Chief Minister Kamal Nath said that the state government has adopted the policy of ‘Neeyat and Neeti’. He informed that even after get- ting the state coffer empty, the state government has waived crop loans of 19 lakh farmers and in the coming time loans of 37 lakh farmers will be waived. The Chief Minister said that maize farmers have been given a bonus of Rs 250 per quintal. For the farmers who have sold their wheat, an action to make payment of bonus of 160 per quintal is being initiated. He said that we have started our work on the basis of the Vachan Patra. The amount given for the marriage of poor girls doubled to 51,000 under the Mukhya Mantri Kanya Vivah/Nikah Yojana. Pension of elderly and dis- abled persons has been increased from 300 to 600. Kamal Nath further said that we are starting to bring such a revolution in the field of agri- culture, which will strengthen the economic condition of the farmers and they will be free from all kinds of debt. Chief Minister Kamal Nath said that investors have shown interest in setting up industries in the state. The state government is making every effort to honour the trust of investors. He said that a large number of industries in the state were shut down in the last 15 years. Now this will not happen. Kamal Nath said that he will leave no stone unturned in providing employment to youth and industrial develop- ment of the state. The state will create a new history of devel- opment. SR RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008
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Taking a cue from Gujarat,West Bengal on Wednesday
refused to implement theamended Motor Vehicle Actwhile the Tamil NaduGovernment decided to imple-ment it partially. The BJP-ShivSena coalition Government ofMaharashtra stayed the imple-mentation the fines imposedunder the amended Act andwrote to the Centre to “recon-sider” and “reduce” the fines fortraffic violations through suit-able amendments.
Against the backdrop ofreluctance of several States toimplement the new MotorVehicle Act and instances ofmassive protests against it,Road Transport Minister NitinGadkari said States have theauthority to revise fines.
“MVA falls in the concur-rent list, and States as well asthe Centre can revise and framerules under the amended Act.The Government does notintend to garner revenue by
increasing fines. The idea is tomake roads safer and reducethe number of accidents. Arefines more important thansomeone’s life? You won’t befined if you don’t break therules,” the Minister said defend-ing the amended Act.
Gadkari’s comments comeafter Gujarat announced toreduce traffic fines, with ChiefMinister Vijay Rupani sayingthat the “base rate for the fineswill be lower than the one pro-posed by the UnionGovernment” and the revised
fines will be implemented fromSeptember 16.
While West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjeesaid that she will not imple-ment the new law that impos-es hefty fines for traffic viola-tions, the Tamil NaduGovernment decided toimplement it partially.
Announcing the decisionto stay the fines for traffic vio-lation pending the revision ofrates by the Centre,Maharashtra TransportMinister Diwakar Raote of the
Shiv Sena said, “The fines arevery high and beyond the lim-its of common people. Peoplecannot pay so much of fine. Wehave asked the CentralGovernment to reduce the fine.Till we get a reply from theCentre, we will not implementthe new fines. If the reply is inthe negative, we will decide ourfuture action.”
Calling the amendments inthe Motor Vehicles Act “tooharsh” Mamata said it wasagainst the federal structure ofthe Government. “We had
opposed amendments inParliament. If we implementthe Motor Vehicles Act amend-ments, it will hurt general peo-ple,” the Bengal CM, who is oneof the BJP’s fiercest critics, toldreporters in Kolkata.
Adding that money is notthe solution, Mamata said theproblem needs to be looked atfrom the “humanitarian pointof view”.
Saying that accidents havecome down, Mamata alsoadded that Bengal already hasthe “Safe Drive Save Life” cam-
paign — a flagship programmeof the Bengal Government.
Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal said the stake-holders in his Government arestill examining the issues.
Reacting to MaharashtraTransport Minister DiwakarRaote’s letter, Gadkari said,“Diwakar was a part of thecommittee that approved theAct. During my discussionwith Chief Minister DevendraFadnavis, he didn’t mention it.I feel there’ ll be no problem.”
The Tamil NaduGovernment said as many as 26clauses which prescribed heftypenalty for various trafficoffences are being reviewed bythe Chief Minister’s office andthat penalty prescribed in theAct are likely to be reduced bythe Government.
“The decision by a fewStates to cut the fine amountfor a few traffic offences will betaken into account before arriv-ing at the final decision,” saida Tamil Nadu transport official.
The Union Governmenthad amended 93 clauses inMotor Vehicle Act which dealswith penalties for traffic viola-tions, registration of vehicles,national transport policy andvehicle designs.
In order to deal with the rushof vehicles to pollution check-
ing centres for Pollution UnderControl (PUC) certificate acrossDelhi after the implementa-tion of new Motor Vehicle Act,Delhi Transport MinisterKailash Gahlot on Wednesdayannounced several remedialmeasures.
The decision was takenafter the Transport Departmentwitnessed a threefold increase inthe number of applications forPUC certificate from 15,000 to45,000 a day. Gahlot said thereare 70 lakh vehicles on roads inDelhi.
The Transport Departmenthas asked all 941 pollutionchecking centres to functionfrom 7am to 10pm. Besides, andserver capacity has beenincreased nearly twice to dealwith 6,000 online applicationsper hour.
“The Delhi Governmenthas decided to open more pol-lution checking centres andnew applications are invited. Anadvertisement in this respectwill be floated tomorrow.Transport terminals and depotsto provide pollution checkingservices. In centres with hugerush, civil defense volunteerswill be deployed for crowdmanagement to prevent lawand order issues,” the DelhiGovernment’s transport depart-ment said in a statement.
The Delhi Government onFriday suspended two pollutionchecking centres for malprac-tices. On diluting the penaltiesof offences under the MV Act2019, the Transport Ministersaid, “Though the StateGovernments have certain dis-cretionary powers to ease the
penalties with respect to certainoffences as per the new MV Act,as of now Delhi Government isnot mulling to dilute themsince the stringent measures aremeant to ensure road safety.Road safety is a major concernin Delhi and the DelhiGovernment is very seriousabout it.”
Gahlot said, “We are close-ly observing the initiatives byother States and consulting var-ious stakeholders. At any stage,if the Delhi Government isconvinced to reduce the fine forcertain offences, we shall do theneedful.”
“There are approximately1.10 core vehicles in Delhi atpresent and if we deduct thevehicles that are 15 years, thereare 70 lakh vehicles on road andto ensure smooth process ofacquiring the pollution certifi-cate,” Gahlot said.
According to an official,after the amended MotorVehicles Act come into force onSeptember 1, each day on anaverage 50,000 vehicles under-go the test for a certificate ofmeeting emission and pollutioncontrol norms now, against
10,000 to 12,000 vehicles visit-ing the test centres before theamended law, which hiked thepenalty, came into force.
In BoxMeasures taken to deal with
the rush in the pollution check-ing centers :-
1. All 941 pollutionchecking centers are made func-tional from 07:00 am to 10:00pm.
2. The server capacity hasbeen increased nearly twice.Now the transport departmentcan handle 6000 online appli-cations per hour comparing to3200 applications per hour.
3. Delhi governmentdecided to open more pollutionchecking centers and new appli-cations are invited. An adver-tisement in this respect will befloated tomorrow (12September 2019).
4. Certain transport ter-minals and depots will providepollution checking services.
5. In centers with extremerush, civil defense volunteerswill be deployed for crowdmanagement and avert law andorder issues. Ten such centershave been identified.
out at critics who argue that themention of words “Om” and“cow” takes India centuriesback, saying they are hell-benton damaging the country.
“When some people hearthe words Om and cow, theyscream that the country isback to the 16th century. Suchpeople are only destroying thenation,” Modi said at the launchof National Animal DiseaseControl Programme (NACDP)in Mathura.
The NACDP aims to con-trol foot and mouth disease andbacterial infection in livestock.The Centre will spend �12,652crore to vaccinate over 600 mil-lion animals in the programmestretching up to 2030.
Modi also promoted clean-liness, spoke against single-use plastic and invoked the9/11 attack on America toindirectly condemn Pakistanfor nurturing terrorism.
“There is a country calledRwanda in Africa. I had gonethere. In Rwanda, there is aunique programme, where theGovernment gives cows to vil-lages with the condition thatthe first female calf born to thecow is taken back and given tothose who do not have a cow,”said the PM.
“This way a chain operates.And their endeavour is that inRwanda every householdshould have a cow. Milk pro-duction and animal rearingform the base of the economy.
I have myself seen how a net-work to earn livelihoodthrough a cow has been estab-lished there,” Modi said,adding, “But it is unfortunatethat in our country themoment the word ‘Om’ falls onthe ears of some people, theyget alarmed.”
“They also get alarmed bythe word ‘cow’. They feel as ifthat the country has gone backto the 16th or the 17th centu-ry,” he said.
Mocking this “gyan” (wis-dom) of the critics, he said suchpeople are hell-bent on dam-aging the country.
The PM wonderedwhether anyone can imaginean economy without animalhusbandry.
“In the life of rural India,animal husbandry is very valu-able. Can a family in a villagesurvive without it? But I don’tknow why some people get anelectric shock on hearing theword,” Modi said.
He said environment andlivestock were always at thecore of India’s economicthought and philosophy. “Andhence, be it Swachh Bharat orJal Jeevan Mission or promot-ing agriculture and animalhusbandry, we always try tomaintain a balance betweennature and economy.”
In his 40-minute speech,the PM also brought up the ter-ror attack on America this dayin 2001. “Today terrorism hasbecome an ideology which hastransgressed every border. It isa global problem and hasbecome a global threat whose
strong roots are getting nour-ished in our neighbourhood,”he said in an apparent referenceto Pakistan.
He said the entire worldneeds to take a pledge againstthis ideology, against thosewho are taking it forward andthose giving shelter and train-ing to terrorists. “There is needfor strong action,” he said.“India is fully competent to facethe challenge. We have shownthis and will also show it infuture.” Modi said his
Government’s effort tostrengthen anti-terror laws is astep forward in this direction.“September 11 is also a specialday for another reason, as it wason this day a century backwhen Swami Vivekanandadelivered his historic address inChicago,” he said.
“Through that speech, theentire world thoroughly under-stood the culture and traditionof India. But it is unfortunatethat on that very September 11,the 9/11 terrorist attack took
place in the US, and it shookthe entire world.”
Modi also inaugurated theNational ArtificialInsemination Programme inMathura. Asking people toshun single-use plastic, Modisaid its wanton use posed ahazard to the environment andled to livestock and fish beingkilled. Before the address, Modijoined a group of women insegregating plastic from wasteat a “Swachhta Hi Seva” pro-gramme.
State Capital received heavyspell in the early morning
hours and later faded away forthe whole day on Wednesday.In the past 24 hours StateCapital recorded 5 cm of rain-fall.
Weatherman said that theformation of system is contin-uous which is inducing heavyrainfall in the State and StateCapital. The trend is differentfrom the past couple of years asformation of low pressure areasystems are more frequent thisyear and for the next one weekthere is less chance that weath-er conditions would turn nor-mal.
Warning of heavy to veryheavy rainfall has been issuedfor 35 districts of the state whilemost of the regions of the state would receive good rainfall. The heavy rainfall has dis-
rupted road connectivity aswater bodies have swollen.
Among the nearby regionHoshangabad received thehighest rainfall on Wednesdayat 12 cm which was recordedtill afternoon. North MadhyaPradesh and adjoining south-west Uttar Pradesh have a lowpressure area and an associat-ed cyclonic circulation.
Monsoon trough situatedover Ganganagar, Alwar,Bhind, Morena, North MadhyaPradesh and adjoining south-western Uttar Pradesh at thecenter of low pressure area ,Ambikapur, Jamshedpur,Digha and north of Bay ofBengal passing through easttowards east. Cyclonic circula-tion in coastal West Bengal,South Gujarat, a high pressurearea over North MadhyaPradesh and Southwest Uttar
Pradesh.Due to the progress of the
weather system in the northerndirection and the weakeningand ineffectiveness of the EastWest Shear Zone, the intensi-ty of rainfall is expected toremain low in the southeasterndistricts.
Moderate to heavy rainfallis expected in the central andnorthern districts of the State,while light to moderate rainmay continue in the southernand southeastern districts.
It is estimated that afterSeptember 13, this rain willstart decreasing. However, theweather will not be complete-ly dry.
Moderate showers maycontinue over northern dis-tricts on 14 and 15 September.After this, the intensity of rainwill become lighter.
Bhopal: Chief Minister KamalNath while inaugurating theMukhya Mantri Awas Mission(Urban) in Jhabua onWednesday said that free res-idential patta and grant of�2.5 lakh for construction ofhouse will be given to eachhouseless person of the State.He further mentioned thatnow every houseless individualof the state will become ownerof his/ her house. Residentialpattas to 200 landless personswere given in the programme.
Nath mentioned that soonwe will build such a MadhyaPradesh, in which no individ-ual is required to give applica-tion for resolving his/ herproblems. Problems will beresolved in village, panchayatand district. He said thatinstead of announcements, anatmosphere of work culturehas already been created.
Comparing the last 15
years works with his 8 monthsin the state, Chief MinisterKamal Nath said that the stategovernment has adopted thepolicy of ‘Neeyat and Neeti’. Heinformed that even after get-ting the state coffer empty, thestate government has waivedcrop loans of 19 lakh farmersand in the coming time loansof 37 lakh farmers will bewaived.
The Chief Minister saidthat maize farmers have beengiven a bonus of Rs 250 perquintal. For the farmers whohave sold their wheat, anaction to make payment ofbonus of �160 per quintal isbeing initiated. He said that wehave started our work on thebasis of the Vachan Patra. Theamount given for the marriageof poor girls doubled to�51,000 under the MukhyaMantri Kanya Vivah/NikahYojana.
Pension of elderly and dis-abled persons has beenincreased from �300 to 600.Kamal Nath further said thatwe are starting to bring such arevolution in the field of agri-culture, which will strengthenthe economic condition of thefarmers and they will be freefrom all kinds of debt.
Chief Minister KamalNath said that investors haveshown interest in setting upindustries in the state. The stategovernment is making everyeffort to honour the trust ofinvestors. He said that a largenumber of industries in thestate were shut down in the last15 years. Now this will nothappen. Kamal Nath said thathe will leave no stone unturnedin providing employment toyouth and industrial develop-ment of the state. The state willcreate a new history of devel-opment. SR
The Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP), main Opposition in
the State Assembly onWednesday staged protests inall the districts including StateCapital Bhopal playing instru-ments like dhol-majira in orderto break the ‘slumber’ of theKamal Nath-led CongressGovernment in MadhyaPradesh on Wednesday.
The Congress Governmentwas in Kumbhkarni sleep andthe Opposition was required towake it up by playing dhol-majira and bells, said the partycalling the protests Ghantanaad(blowing the bells) agitation.
The party State headRakesh Singh led the protest inBhopal staging a gherao of thecollectorate with thousands ofparty workers and senior partyleaders.
Former Lok Sabha speak-er Sumitra Mahajan and LokSabha MP Nandkumar SinghChauhan staged the protestwith partymen in Indore.
The enthusiastic workers
while moving towards the col-lectorate broke the securitycordon and scaled the walls ofthe collectorate.
In the process, the police
had a scuffle with protesters.Leader of Opposition
Gopal Bhargav took part in theprotest in Jabalpur where thepolice had to use water can-
nons to disperse the angryprotesters.
“No work is being done inthe Congress Government asthe Government is busy mak-
ing excuses,” alleged Bhargavwhile speaking to the mediaduring the protest.
We have staged this protestto wake up the Government,claimed the senior leader alleg-ing that in this Governmentpeons resort to work afteraccepting envelopes and min-ister only work after gettingsuitcases (money).
Bhargav also courted arrestalong with other leaders andworkers after the protest.
The BJP leaders claimedthat they are on roads over theissues including farm loanwaiver, unemploymentallowance, spiralling electrici-ty bills and others.
Shivraj Singh in Vidisha,Archana Chitnis in Burhanpurand Bhupendra Singh led theprotest in Gwalior.
State Congress Media in-charge Shobha Oza told mediapersons that the BJP leadersshould launch an agitation towake up the CentralGovernment, if they are reallyconcerned about the spiralingprices.
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There have been a goodnumber of new recruit-
ments in the Bank in the lastfew years, of which the per-centage of working women issubstantially high. Increasingnumber of nuclear familieswhere husband and wife bothgo on the job face the problemof proper care of their children.
State Bank of India hasopened a Crèche so that theBank staff can provide excellentcustomer service while remain-ing free from the care of theirsmall children. Rajesh Kumar,Chief General Manager of StateBank of India inaugurated theCrèche at the SBI OfficerResidential Complex, CharImli, Bhopal.
In this crèche, proper day-care facilities will be madeavailable to the young childrenof the Bank staff. Also presenton the occasion were GeneralManagers, CR Powar, Kaushik
Sinha and Rajeev KumarSaxena, Deputy GeneralManagers Brahm Singh, PKBansal and Rajeev Kumar.
Office bearers of SBIOfficers’ Association, SBIAward Staff Employees Unionand SBI SC/ST EmployeesWelfare Association, along withother senior officials and ladystaff members of SBI in Bhopalwere also present.
State Bank of India man-agement has always been sen-sitive and positive towards thewelfare and comfort of its staffmembers. Various welfare facil-ities are being provided by theBank viz. Bank Dispensaries,tie-up with hospitals for hos-pitalization/ health check-ups,scholarships to meritoriouschildren to the wards of staff,sabbatical leave etc.
Bhopal: A 22-year-old youth was stabbed to death by a mis-creant over petty issue at a Ganesh pandal under CholaMandir police station area in the night on Tuesday; accusedstabbed deceased after he refused to provide water after foodduring religious feast.
Panic prevailed in the area after a youth whose group hasorganized Ganesh pandal during Ganesh festival. Thedeceased identified as Harsh Gaur was beaten brutally dur-ing the fight he was attacked with a sharp edged weapon inhis stomach and later he died after been taken to a nearbyhospital. The accused was identified as Vishal who is habit-ual criminal of the area.
During the investigation police found that the Harsh andhis friends organized Ganesh pandal for Ganesh festival. OnTuesday they organized a religious feast in the night in whichthe accused came and after having food at the Ganesg pandalhe asked for water from Harsh and throw an empty water bot-tle towards Harsh which hit his face and angered him and hefailed to provide water.
After Harsh failed to provide water Vishal started to abusehim and scuffled with him and later stabbed him with a sharpedged weapon which proved fatal. The
Harsh was rushed to nearby hospital where he wasdeclared dead.
After the preliminary investigation the body was sent forthe post mortem and the police have registered a case undersection 302 of the IPC and started further investigation. Theaccused was nabbed by the police after the incident. SR
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Three chain snatching incidents were reported from var-ious places in the city during the past twelve hours. Chain snatching, robberies and traffic violations cases
have become quite conspicuous despite intensive policepatrolling.
In the first incident bike borne miscreants snatcheda gold chain from the wife of an Assistant Commandant,serving in the second battalion.
The incident occurred in front of the AC’s bungalowsituated in the Kampoo area of the city.
In the second incident, miscreants fled with a goldchain of a lady who was out for her morning walk.
The lady, wife of a retired headmaster, was walkingalone at the Govindpuri area of the city in the morningwhen an unknown assailant snatched the chain and fledaway.
In yet another incident of chain snatching twogoons attacked an old lady at Krishna Nagar before flee-ing with her gold chain.
Though the police recently arrested a gang of chainsnatchers there doesn’t seem to be any laxity in this par-ticular brand of crime.
The police are yet to get any vital clues about thesethree incidents though they have released the CCTVfootage of one of the suspected criminals.
In a related incident drunken bike riders caused thedeath of a nine year old girl when they crushed the girlunder the out of control bullet.
The tragic incident occurred at the Saraswati Nagararea in the intervening night of Tuesday- Wednesday.
The bullet bike bearing registration number MP 07NB 9373 lost control and crashed into the nine year oldAnushka Varma who was sitting on the steps of her house.
According to eye witnesses three people, who wereapparently drunk were riding on the bike and it was trav-elling over 100 kms per hour.
Located in Jharsuguda dis-trict of Odisha, the project isowned by Odisha PowerGeneration CorporationLimited (OPGC), a joint ven-ture company of theGovernment of Odisha andAES, a US-based energy com-pany.
BHEL had previously setup two units of 210 MW at IBThermal Power Station whichhave been in operation formore than 20 years. BHEL hasbeen a committed partner inthe development of the state ofOdisha, with BHEL-supplied
sets contributing 100% of thecoal-based power stationsinstalled by OPGC.
A substantial portion ofpower generated from the pro-ject will be supplied to the GridCorporation of Odisha(GRIDCO).
BHEL’s scope of work inthe project encompasseddesign, engineering, manufac-turing, supply, erection andcommissioning of steam tur-bines, generators, boiler, asso-ciated auxiliaries and electri-cals, besides state-of-the- art
Controls & Instrumentation(C& I) and electrostatic pre-cipitators (ESPs).
The key equipment for theproject has been manufacturedby BHEL at its Haridwar,Trichy, Hyderabad, Ranipet,Bhopal and Bengaluru works,while the construction of theplant was undertaken by thecompany’s Power Sector -Eastern Region, Kolkata BHELis India’s largest manufacturerof power generation equip-ment with an installed base ofover 1,85,000 MW of powerplant equipment globally.
The company has con-tracted 58 sets of supercriticalboilers and 51 sets of super-critical turbine generatorsordered on it by various cus-tomers, in domestic as well asoverseas markets.
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The eighth Bhopal VigyanMela 2019, a science and
technology fair, being organ-ised by CSIR-AMPRI, VigyanPrasar, AICTE & VigyanBharti will be held at BHELDussehra ground fromSeptember 13 to 16.
This four day fair will wit-ness knowledge and fun activ-ities such as display of scienceand technology models, sci-ence quiz, scientific seminars,screening of science films, sci-ence drama, debate, student-scientists interaction, skillworkshops, award ceremonyand cultural programmes.
There will be theme basedpavilions wherein public andprivate sector organizationswill showcase local, regional,national and global develop-ments in the field of scienceand technology.
Director CSIR Bhopal,Avnish Kumar Srivastava toldmedia persons here onWednesday that the formal
inauguration will be done byGovernor of Madhya PradeshLalji Tondon.
Minister of Science andTechnology PC Sharma andDirector General CSIR NewDelhi Shekhar C Mande willalso grace the inaugurationceremony with their presence.
He further stated thatmore than 100 stall by gov-ernment and non governmentdepartments will be there int h efair.
He also informed that thefamous scientist and missiondirector Mission Shakti,DRDO, Government of IndiaU Rajababu, will also be hon-oured. Under the leadership ofRajababu, India has devel-oped and achieved the capa-bility to hit the satellite with amissile. India is the fourthcountry to achieve this capa-bility after USA, Russia andChina.
In this press conferenceProfessor Sudhir Singh
Bhadauria, Rajiv GandhiUniversity of Technology saidthat Bhopal Vigyan Melabased on science and technol-ogy is being organised con-tinuously since 2012.
The objective of this fair isto aware and introduce com-mon man about the latestdevelopments in the field ofscience and technology onLocal, regional, national andglobal level.
In this Vigyan Mela, Well-known institutions of thecountry continuously sharestheir significant contributionin development in the field ofscience and technology.
This is the key reason thatwhy people like this eventevery year and a large numberof people gathers to see the lat-est innovation from scienceand new experiments. Apart ofcommon people, researchers,bureaucrats, policy Maker,Science Practitioner,Manufacturer and SocialWorker also take part in thisevent.
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The students of BScAgricultural Engineering
learnt about various aspects ofagriculture.
B.Sc. of MadhyanchalProfessional UniversityStudents of the third semesterAgricultural Faculty visitedCentral Institute of AgricultureEngineering (B.P.M) onWednesday. During the visit allthe students got informationabout various tools related toagricultural engineering.
The students watched Polyhouse videos and interacteddirectly by P.C. Barangay.
During the visit PCBarangle briefed all the stu-dents about the company, thisvisit was very complete andeducational for students andstudents, which increased theknowledge of all the partici-
pants. GS Chauhan, Dean
Agriculture congratulated allthe students for this visit andNk Tiwari, VC MadhyanchalProfessional University andShailesh Jain, RegistrarMadhyanchal ProfessionalUniversity shared his experi-ences and congratulated stu-dents for the future.
The students took a walkthrough of the agriculturalfarm and learned about theworking of the machines. They
also learned about the differenttools. An expert lecture wasalso held during their visit.
During the expert lecture,experts told the students that allthe theory they are learning willbe applied in the practicalworld. They said that this edu-cational visit is a practical les-son for them. The professorswhile emphasizing on thefuture endeavours of the stu-dents said that all these appli-cations they had seen duringeducational visit will prove tobe a boon for their career.
The students on the otherhand saw new techniques used.They were also amazed toexplore the rare facts of agri-cultural technology duringtheir educational visit.
A questionnaire was alsoheld during the visit. The stu-dents asked about their variousqueries to the experts.
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AMega Open Campus Drivewas held at Radharaman
Group of Institutions onWednesday.
During the mega campusdrive 10 students have beenshortlisted by leading educatecompany Jaro Education. Morethan 200 students attendedthis campus organised for BEand MBA 2020 batch students.
The officers from the com-pany tested the knowledge andskills of the students throughgroup discussions and person-al interviews. The company
shortlisted 10 students whosuccessfully passed theserounds.
These students will partic-ipate in the final round and thefinally successful students willget �12 lakh per year will beselected on the package.
Radharaman GroupChairman RR Saxena said thatdue to the growing popularity
of the group and the qualifiedcandidates coming from here,foreign companies are alsoorganizing their campuses inlarge numbers on the campus.
He said that this matter isa matter of happiness not onlyfor the group but also for thestate. The group has reachedthis stage only through skilldevelopment as per its educa-tional quality and industrydemand. The group will con-tinue these efforts further
It is noteworthy that in thelast three rains in theRadharaman Group, 520 com-
panies have organized campusplacements, in which 5382 stu-dents have been selected. Themaximum package of these isup to �24 lakhs per annum.This is the reason that recent-ly in the All India Survey of theprestigious magazine IndiaToday, the Radharaman Groupwas ranked eighth in the coun-try in the quality education cat-egory at a minimum fee.
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Aman in the age group 35years died after he was hit
by a speeding train nearNarayan Nagar under Baghsewania police station area onTuesday.
According to the police, theman was hit by a speeding trainand locals who spotted theyouth informed the police. Onthe receipt of the information apolice team reached the spot andstarted further investigation.
Police said that identity ofthe deceased is yet to be estab-lished. In the initial investiga-tion nothing which could helpin revealing the identity of thedeceased was found at the spot.
The circumstantial evi-dences suggests that thedeceased committed suicide.After the preliminary investi-gation the body was sent for thepost mortem and the police
have registered a case undersection 174 of the CrPC andhave started further investiga-tion. Police were informedafter body was spotted by thelocals in the night.
Meanwhile, a 15-year-olddrowned after he fell in a wellat Borasa village under Berasiapolice station on Tuesday.
According to the policefather of deceased found hisson inside the well andinformed the police. Thedeceased identified as VivekAhirwar went missing onMonday and found dead onTuesday inside the well.
Body was sent for the postmortem and a case under sec-tion 174 of the CrPC was reg-istered by the police. Familymembers would be questionedas police suspect that the youthmight have been pushed in thewell. Further investigation hasbeen started.
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Nazeerabad police havenabbed two accused for
captivating, sexually assaultingand trying to sell 25-year-oldwoman; victim was held cap-tive for more than two months.
Police have arrestedSantosh Gurjar and Ram SinghGurjar who kidnapped the vic-tim and tried to sell her.
In the initial investigationpolice found that the 25-year-old victim was abducted in acar by two persons of her vil-lage and then confined in ahouse for past two months andduring she was held captiveSantosh raped her severaltimes.
The victim reported theincident to police after shemanaged to escape from thehouse she was held captive.
According to SDOPBairasia Ankit Jaiswal said thatthe victim started to live withher parents after she left her
husband’s house few monthsago after the two had a verbalspate. At her parents house shecame in contact with one of theaccused Santosh Gurjar.
She stated in her com-plaint that on July 1, accusedSantosh Gurjar with RamSingh Gurjar approached herhome in absence of her parentsand abducted her and heldhostage at Santosh Gurjar’shouse where he sexuallyassaulted her for two monthsby threatening her of life.
Few days ago she came toknow that accused Santosh istrying to sell her with the helpRam Singh, she escaped andreturned to her parent’s housewhere she reported the atroc-ity.
Based on her complaint theaccused were arrested and wereproduced in court from wherethey were taken on police cus-tody. Police have recovered thecar they have used to captivatethe victim.
Foundation would organise athree-day national level"Cyber Crime Investigationand Intelligence Summit"from September 12 to 14 atMadhya Pradesh PoliceAcademy, Bhori.
In the summit 100 policeofficers of Madhya PradeshPolice including law enforce-ment agencies of 24 states ofIndia will participate in CIIS-2019.
International level sub-ject experts would partici-pate to impart informationand share experience in theseminar. These includeexperts trained on cybercrimein European nations and theU n i t e dStates.
The seminar will be inau-gurated by Director Generalof Police Vijay Kumar Singhon September 12 at 10 amwhile closing ceremony on 14September would be done inthe presence of Justice G.
This seminar is beingorganised specifically to pre-vent cybercrime againstwomen and children and toincrease the efficiency ofpolice officers.
On the initiative ofMadhya Pradesh Police, thisconference is being support-ed by Clear Tail TechnologyLimited Knowledge Partnerand UNICEF as Associate Partner.
The seminar would beattended by government andprivate institutions, mainlyby subject experts fromNational PaymentCorporation of India, StateJudicial Academy, SeniorAdvocate of Supreme Court,Department ofTe l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s ,Facebook India, EuropeanLaw Enforcement TrainingCompany, Deloitte andMadhya Pradesh Police.
Besides, participants willbe consulted by a special panelon topics related to cybercrime prevention of womenand children, especially bysenior representatives ofUNICEF, Tata Institute ofSocial Science, Mumbai andSpecial Director General ofPolice, Cyber MadhyaPradesh.
Mandal, Vinoba Bhave's 125thbirth anniversary was observedat Gandhi Bhavan.
On this occasion, GandhiBhavan Trust SecretaryDayaram Namdev spoke on thelife of Vinoba. Deputy Directorof Police Anuradha Shankarspoke on the context of GandhiVinoba and Jayaprakash.
Vinayak Narahari "Vinoba"Bhave was an Indian advocateof nonviolence and humanrights. Often called Acharya, heis best known for the BhoodanMovement. He is considered asa National Teacher of India andthe spiritual successor ofMohandas Gandhi.
He said that today whensociety and the world are beingdivided into many narrow-ities, then we absolutely need tounderstand Vinoba's philoso-phy of Jai Jagat. He said thatSarvodaya cannot be consid-ered non-spiritual but it is theidea of ??love, compassion anddedication that needs to betaken to the youth.
On this occasion, ProfessorArun Tripathi expressed con-
cern about the current politi-cal scenario and said that thereis a wrong attempt to showVinoba as a religious saint.Gandhi and Vinoba lived thephilosophy of SarvadharmaSambhav. Both of them creat-ed a continuous narrative ofblockage in their lives. Vinobaji defined non-violence scien-tifically.
Gandhi thinkerMukteshwar Singh spoke onthe points related to the life ofSwami Vivekananda.
Representatives ofSarvodaya Mandal, Gandhiand social workers participat-ed in the event of VinobaJayanti. Shivashish conductedthe discussion. The programended with a vote of thanksfrom Kumar Siddharth Jain.
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Gandharva Institute of VocalExcellence celebrated its
fifth annual day programme onWednesday at State MuseumAuditorium.
This was a music programby students of the institute.
The Chief Guest of theprogramme was Music GuruAnoop Sharma along withmany other dignitaries frommusic field.
The programme startedwith lightening of the Lamp fol-lowed by Ganesh Vandana writ-ten by Tulsidas and performedby all students of the institute.
Next was a Ghazal writtenby Naseem Rifat Sahab andsung by Shahank Singh.
The program was all about
light music and all songs, ghaz-als etc were composed by GuruPrassan Rao.
Light music is an importantcomponent of Indian Music.
Bhav Sangeet in India hasevolved and developed throughthe ages by people in variousparts and regions of India.
The aim of this Institute isto help aspirants to open uptheir creativity through Bhajans,Geet, Ghazals etc written by var-ious poets and specially com-
posed in a way that makes stu-dents actually understand holis-tic aspects of music rather thanjust learning it like any other subject.
The attraction of the pro-gramme was a compositionwritten and composed byPrasan Rao including 14 Ragasof Indian Classical music, ‘RaagMala, Sa Se Sa Tak’ sung ingroup by all students of theInstitute.
Many other songs, Ghazalsand Bhajans were performed byKhushi
Bhopal: The art lovers of thecity are exploring the beautifulart pieces by Tribal artist BhuriBai. The paintings are put ondisplay at Madhya PradeshState Tribal Museum.
The paintings made byBhili painter Bhuri Bai under'Shalaka' are put on view in theexhibition gallery 'Likhandra'of Madhya Pradesh TribalMuseum till September 30.
Bhuri Bai is an Indian Bhilartist. Born in Pitol village ofJhabua district in MadhyaPradesh, Bhuri Bai belongs tothe community of Bhils, thelargest tribal group of India.
In the museum's'Likhandra' about 30 paintingsunder 'Shalaka' are on view. Inthese paintings, the tradition-al worldly rituals such asGalabapji, along with the worldof forest and modern society,have been carved by seniorBhili painter Bhuri Bai on can-
vas with her artistic paintingskills. In these pictures, animalshave a feeling towards theirchildren.
In these paintings, the pic-tures of animals and birds arebeautifully displayed andexpressions of public life, dai-lylife are also showcased inthese paintings. At the sametime, these paintings seems tobe more emotional and notmore logical.
In these paintings, modernsociety and objective people arealso displayed through themedium of pictures. SeniorBhili painter Bhuri Bai hasbeen an active participant inmany painting camps-work-shops.
She has been honored bythe Madhya Pradesh govern-ment with the highest honor inthe field of art, Devi AhilyaSamman and Madhya PradeshGaurav Samman. SR
Bhopal: A recruitment rallywill be held at the Lal Paradeground in Bhopal betweenNovember 7 and 16 for recruit-ments in the Army. Accordingto information received fromArmy Recruitment Office,Bhopal, recruitments will bemade for the posts of Soldiergeneral, Technical, Nursing,Soldier Clerk, SoldierTrademan, Soldier Pharma etc.
To take part in the recruit-ment rally, it is mandatory forthe applicant to apply online atW W W. J O I N I N D I A N -ARMY.NIC.IN. The onlineapplication process has startedfrom September 8, the last dateof which is October 22. Thedetails of the number of vacan-cies, physical and educationalqualifications etc. are publishedin the ‘Rozgar aur Nirman’
weekly of September 9-15,Bhopal.
The youth from Harda,Betul, Sehore, Rajgarh,Chhindwara, Hoshangabad,Raisen and Bhopal districts willbe able to apply online and par-ticipate in the recruitment rallyfor various categories. Applicantsfrom Vidisha, Harda, Betul,Sehore, Rajgarh, Chhindwara,Hoshangabad, Raisen, Bhopal,Jabalpur, Balaghat, Katni,Mandla, Narsinghpur, Rewa,Satna, Seoni, Sidhi, Dindori,Shahdol, Umaria, Anuppur,Singrauli, Damoh, Panna,Gwalior, Datia, Sheopur,Morena, Shivpuri, Guna,Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur,Ashoknagar and Sagar districtwill be able to apply online andjoin the recruitment rally for onlythe post of Soldier Pharma. SR
Bhopal: On the tweet of AtulPatidar, a student of HolkarScience College, Indore, ChiefMinister Kamal Nath immedi-ately sanctioned financial assis-tance for a boy and a girl student,who were burnt in a fire incident.
The Student Patidar hadinformed the Chief Minister bytweet that two of his classmates,Ankita Mehra and Rahul RajMehra were badly burnt in thefire incident at Rudraksha apart-ment. Both of them are under-going treatment at AnandHospital in Indore. In his tweet,the student stressing on need forfinancial help, urged the ChiefMinister to help in the treatment.
In response to the student'stweet, Chief Minister KamalNath approved financial assis-tance of Rs one lakh to AnkitaMehra and �80,000 to Rahul RajMehra. SR
Bhopal: The posts of NursingSisters and Sister Tutors arebeing filled by the Departmentof Public Health and FamilyWelfare through direct depart-mental recruitment. Thedepartment will examine thestaff nurse's documents from10.30 am on September 12and 13 at the Directorate atSatpura Bhavan.
Documents for the post ofNursing Sister will be examinedon September 12 and for thepost of Sister Tutor onSeptember 13.
Eligible Staff Nurse willpresent appointment letter,birth certificate (Marksheet ofClass 10 or 12), caste certificate,BSc / MSc certificates regard-ing educational qualification,valid registration in NursingCouncil etc for examinationbefore the DepartmentalPromotion Committee. SR
The sedentary lifestyle oftoday has not only affect-
ed the elderly but also shownits drastic effects on theschool children and universi-ty goers. Schools mustincrease the number of phys-ical education classes perweek and universities encour-age students to obtainresearch-based specialiseddegree courses on PhysicalEducation, said the head ofinternational relations officeof Lithuania SportsUniversity, Irena Cikoteineduring her visit to Haridwar.
Cikoteine was accompa-nied by coordinator fromCentre for Academic QualitySupervision, Vita Karvelytewho spent time with the stu-dents of Shiv Dale school onWednesday morning, answer-ing their queries on the pos-sibilities of higher educationafter class XII.
She encouraged the stu-dents to route their gradua-tion programme throughLithuania University if theywanted to enter prestigious
universities of Europe andother countries.
Cikoteine said thatLithuania Sports Universitywas having partnership with80 European universities andstudents could apply forscholarships after completionof first year in graduation.
In an exclusive chat withThe Pioneer, she said, “I amhappy to visit schools of Indiaand the city along the Gangariver where people are sohospitable. Three years ago,when I visited Delhi, I did notget much response from theacademicians but this time Ihave found a dramatic change
with tens of meetings bookedfor me regarding specialiseddegree courses in physicaleducation and public health.”She said Lithuania had manyIndian students who went toother European universitiesfor upgrade.
The educationist fromLithuania Sports Universitywho has been the key personin many government projectsfor physical education saidthat she always encouragedthe schools to have activerecess periods in which chil-dren are made to do physicalactivity rather than sit in acorner and play some indoor
game. She said, “We do coun-selling for the families of stu-dents and ask the parents towalk or cycle along with theirchildren rather than droppingthem to school in cars whichhad generally become thetrend in the urban populationacross the countries. We havealso approached the schoolsto increase the period ofphysical education from oncein a week to twice or thrice.This has shown very positiveresults on the mind and phys-ical fitness of the students, sheadded. Universities have alsostarted giving option of phys-ical education as elective sub-ject, she added.
Giving new options tothe students after they finishtheir school, Cikoteine saidthat apart from engineeringand medicine as professions,physical education was apromising career with gradu-ation degree on lifestyle phys-ical education and publichealth. Many strategic areaswere introduced like brainand skeletal muscles, curativegymnastics, physiotherapyand stress management, to
name a few. These new fieldshave much scope in today’sstressful atmosphere fromcareer point of view.
She further said that sheherself chose the career of ateacher because she was soinfluenced by her teacher atthe age of seven that shewanted to become one likeher.
The founder of Shiv Daleschool, Swami Sharad Puriopined that Lithuanian lan-guage was very close toSanskrit language and manyof the words in this languagewere exactly like Sanskrit.“Even the culture of this Balticcountry had much resem-blance to Indian culture.Much of the celebrations andfestivities were made aroundburning fire as we do inIndia. One felt at home beingin Lithuania,” he said.
The school principal,Kiran Sharma, exhorted thestudents who wanted inter-national degrees to take easyroute of Lithuania and getenrolled in specialised cours-es and then move further toother European countries.
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Under the ImmoralTrafficking (Prevention) Act
1956, the Dehradun policearrested seven accused includingtwo drivers, one client and fourlocal brokers from Rajpur area.Police have also rescued sixfemale victims belonging tothree different States, who arenow going through the proce-dure of medical tests and mag-isterial statements. Police arealso contacting the parents andguardians of the victims afterwhich further steps will be taken.
The accused have been iden-tified as Habeeb Ahmed nativeof West Bengal (lead broker),Sonu Kumar native of Bihar(broker), Rashid native of UttarPradesh (driver), Ravi Kumarresident of Patel Nagar (cus-tomer), Harvinder Pal Singhnative of Punjab (broker), RahulThakur resident of Dehradun(broker) and Rafakat resident ofDehradun (driver).
Superintendent of Police(city) Shweta Choubey said, “We
were receiving complaints abouta sex racket operating inDehradun. A combined team ofAnti-Human Trafficking Unit(AHTU) and Rajpur police wasformed. On Tuesday night atMussoorie diversion point, twovehicles were stopped with sevenaccused including brokers andsuppliers and six victims.”
She further said, “We havealso found during the initialinterrogation of the accused thatthe main operator of this racketis living in Delhi. His name isAmit alias Nitin, we will be fol-lowing up on that lead also.Among the victims, two arenatives of West Bengal, two arefrom Haryana and two are fromDelhi.” According to the infor-mation provided by the police,during initial questioning the vic-tims said they came in contactwith the brokers during the lastten months.
They further said that inDelhi, a person named Amitused to tell them about thecities they have to go to andthrough WhatsApp, they used to
get the address and mobile num-ber of the clients. The clients usedto pay the entire amount direct-ly to Amit.
One of the accused Habib,has been staying in a rentedroom in Dehradun for the lastfour months.
During initial interrogation,he told the police that his femalefriend who was already involvedin the business took him to meetAmit. As the profit in this illegalbusiness was quite a lot, he alsobecame part of this racket. Healso revealed that for the victims,they used to book hotel roomsthrough OYO.
They used to change hotelsevery two or three days. Theyused to charge �4,000 to �10,000for a night.
Police have also recovered �5,827, 12 mobile phones and twocars, in which the victims werebeing taken to the clients. Seniorofficials have stated that in case,a hotel is found being usedrepeatedly in the case, liabilitywill be set against the hotelowner also.
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Amidst the various stepsthat are being taken by
Municipal Corporation ofDehradun (MCD) to makeDehradun a cleaner place, thegarbage transfer station alongHaridwar bypass road nearKargi Chowk has become amajor sore in the scenario.
The commuters and localresidents have been com-plaining about the foul smelland increased number ofinsects, but the work for aclosed compartment area fortransfer of garbage is yet to bestarted.
The company projectmanager has assured that theconstruction work will becompleted in the next twomonths.
Ramky company projectmanager in Dehradun, MohitDwivedi said, “The boundary
at that transfer station hasalready been made and theportable compactors that willbe used to compact thegarbage and transfer it toclosed container have alsoreached here.
A bore-well for cleaningthe floor has also been madethere.”
He added, “There weretwo high-tension power linesthat are passing above theland on which we have toconstruct, because of whichwe had to reduce the height.Now that the drawing hasbeen completed, the con-struction of the floor andshade will be started latest byWednesday evening orThursday morning.”
About the area and costhe said, “The area on whichwe are constructing the newtransfer station is spreadacross nearly 2,000 square
metres. The construction will
cost about �1.5 crore”One of the commuters
Shubham Baluni said, “It isimpossible to pass by thatarea and not cover your nose.Even after verbally com-plaining to the local repre-sentatives and the officials inMCD, there has been no con-crete action.
About more than amonth ago a bhumi pujanwas organised here to make anew garbage transfer station.
That time the mayorpromised to get rid of thisroadside open garbage trans-fer station, but there has beenno improvement unt i l now.
That place where theywere supposed to construct acovered garbage transfer sta-tion is being used as a park-ing slot.”
The Haryana Assembly elec-tions, expected to be held
next month, will see 1.83 crorevoters exercise their franchise.
To increase the voting per-centage, a special campaign willbe launched by the Office ofHaryana Chief ElectoralOfficer under which eachpolling booth in everyAssembly Constituency willbe covered.
This came out in a reviewmeeting on preparations for theAssembly elections in Haryanaorganised by the ElectionCommission of India here onWednesday. The meeting waschaired by Senior DeputyElection Commissioner,Election Commission of IndiaSandeep Saxena. DirectorGeneral (Election Expenditure)of the ECI, Dilip Sharma wasalso present in the meeting.
During the meeting,Saxena directed the officials tomake special arrangements for
the disabled voters to enablethem to cast their vote at thepolling station so that they donot face any problem on theday of polling. He said effortsshould be made to provide suchfacilities in urban areas as wellas small towns.
He also directed the offi-cers to keep a close check onthe election expenditure inVidhan Sabha. Apart from this,web casting should be carriedout on more than 10 per centof the total polling booths.
He said that to increase the
voting percentage, activitiesunder the SVEEP campaignshould be increased andbesides, a management planshould be prepared to ensurethe smooth functioning of theelection process.
Apart from this, the PoliceDepartment has been directedto set up police check-post indistricts adjoining borders withadjoining States so that thereshould be no trouble. He alsodirected the officers to holdmeetings with the officials ofsuch states and UT’s.
In the meeting, HaryanaChief Electoral Officer, AnuragAggarwal, said a special cam-paign is being run to makefemale voters aware, so thatthey can exercise their fran-chise in the Assembly elections.
Apart from this, collegestudents, who are 18-19 yearsold, are also being made awareto cast their vote. He said thatif anyone has not got his or hervote made till now and theyhave attained the age of 18years or above as on January 1,2019, they should get their votemade at the earliest.
Aggarwal said the secondspecial summary revision of thephoto electoral roll has beendone and after the process ofaddition and deletion of thenames of voters, the total num-ber of voters in Haryana is1,82,98,714. The copy of thisvoter list has been given to allthe representatives of all polit-ical parties.
It was informed in themeeting that in order to
increase the percentage offemale voters in districtsFaridabad, Mewat, Palwal, Jind,Sirsa, Yamunanagar andPanchkula, the DistrictElectoral Officers concernedhave been directed to motivatefemale voters to get their votesmade.
Additional DirectorGeneral of Police and StateNodal Officer for AssemblyElections, Navdeep Singh Virkmade a presentation for theAssembly elections in which heinformed that 258 police checkposts have been set up in the State.
He informed that 38 armshave been confiscated, 40,862licence arms have been deposit-ed, 156 persons have beenarrested and 120 persons havebeen bound. He informed thatthe schedule for border meet-ing has been made and thesemeetings will soon be held. Heinformed that 268 blocks willbe set up in the areas adjoiningneighboring States.
The Mountain Strike Corpsraised recently to meet any
threat from China in the eastwill carry out its first exercisewith its Integrated BattleGroups (IBG) in parts ofArunachal Pradesh and Assamin October.
The one-and-a-half-month-long drill named 'HimVijay' will see the Army assess-ing the operational efficiency ofthe Strike Corps to fight ininaccessible terrain and theIAF will provide support interms of air lifting troops fromneighbouring states.
The nod for the MountainStrike Corps was given by theCabinet Committee onSecurity(CCS)in 2013 and theprocess of raising began there-after with its headquarters atPanagarh in West Bengal. Thefirst ever exercise of the Corpshaving about 40,000 troopswill help the Army to evaluateits performance. With theIBGs playing a crucial role inthe drill, the Corps will later berestructured into small units tomove swiftly in the mountainsand fight modern day war.
The first IBG was raised inthe north facing Pakistan andafter successfully meeting allparameters during an exercisein the plains of Punjab,Jammuand Rajasthan in June, theunit will be functional by thismonth end and three othersIBGs will be in place sometimelater. Each IBG has about 5,000soldiers and the main objectiveis to operate jointly in terms ofthe tanks, artillery and infantry
instead of fighting in silos,sources said here onWednesday. The idea of hav-ing smaller and meaner IBGsis the brainchild of Army ChiefGeneral Bipin Rawat.
The forthcoming exercisewill see more than 15,000troops of three IBGs, part of theMountain Strike Corps, carry-ing out drills both offensive anddefensive using artillery, tanksand infantry. While tanks willplay a limited role given themountainous terrain, the eval-uators will keenly watch theperformance of the artilleryand infantry.
Moreover, the IAF willprovide support by airliftingtroops from Assam and otherparts in AN-32s, C-17s and C-130Js besides helicopters tosimulate realistic battle sce-nario, officials said adding the
IBGs are trained to be ready foroperations within 24 hours.The main objective of havingsuch small units was to cutdown the time in mobilizationthereby losing the surprise ele-ment.
These composite units arelikely to be headed by a MajorGeneral rank officer and will beequipped to perform offensiveand defensive roles. While theoffensive action means makingquick and effective thrust intothe enemy territory stealthily,the defence role will see theseunits guarding its own territo-ry in case of retaliatory actionfrom across the border.
Each unit, both in defen-sive and offensive formationswill have six battalions(onebattalion has 1,000 men)trained to fight in a synergisedmanner.
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While the BJP and theGovernment on
Wednesday defended UnionFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman’s claim that theautomobile industry was takinga hit due to millennials’ pref-erence for using ride-sharingapps such as Uber or Olainstead of buying cars, RSS out-fit Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh(BMS) sought to protestagainst what it said wasGovernment's "wrong eco-nomic" policies leading toeconomic slowdown, unem-ployment and slowdown inthe auto-sector.
BJP Vice-PresidentBaijayant Panda said emer-gence of cab services didimpact the automobile sector
but argued that some newentrants in the auto sectors aredoing very well even thoughthere is a slowdown for someestablished brands.
Deflecting the attackagainst economic slowdown,the BJP leader said Congresswas in no position to criticizeeconomy under the presentdispensation. He said UPA-1received a very healthy econo-my from the Vajpayee era butworsened it on account of its"mismanagement".
He said many sectorsincluding the IT are doingvery well and pointed toAmazon opening a centre inHyderabad and giving jobs to15000 people. Panda attributedexternal factors like globalslowdown impacting theIndian economy.
Coming to Sitharaman'srescue, Minister of RoadTransport and Highways NitinGadkari said the FinanceMinister's statement on theslowdown in the auto sectorcontributed by Ola and Uberwas misinterpreted.
Elaborating on the slow-down, Gadkari said that there
were a number of other reasonsfor the auto industry witness-ing discouraging volumesmonth-on-month. He said thatthe switch to e-rickshawsslowed down the sale of ICEauto rickshaws, while anothercontributor was the improve-ment in public transport acrossthe country.
He further pointed outwhat the Finance Ministeractually said was that, "there area lot of reasons for the slow-down, and Ola, Uber are one ofthose reasons."
But contrary to the BJP andthe Transport Minister'sdefence, RSS outfit BMSblamed the government's"wrong policies" for the eco-nomic slowdown , particular-ly in the auto-sector.
News Agency ANI quoted
BMS president Saji Narayananas saying that the governmentwas working in a "different par-adigm" and things would notchange unless the dispensationcomes out of it.
Narayanan said that theBMS attack on the governmentis limited to LPG-Liberalisation, Privatisationand Globalisation-reforms."Government is working inthis framework only which iswrong. The government has tocome out of the LPG para-digm," the BMS president wasquoted as saying.
BMS is to organise anationwide awareness pro-gramme from September 25 toOctober 2 on the current slow-down, including that in theautomobile sector .
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The AppointmentsCommittee of the Cabinet
(ACC) on Wednesdayapproved two key appoint-ments - PK Mishra as PrincipalSecretary and PK Sinha asPrincipal Adviser to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi.
Mishra, a veteran bureau-crat from Gujarat cadre, wasworking as AdditionalPrincipal Secretary to PM fromMay 2014 while Sinha was
functioning as OSD in thePrime Minister's Office afterretiring as Cabinet Secretaryrecently.
The post of principal sec-retary to the PM fell vacantafter Nripendra Misraexpressed his desire to leave the
post and continued tillThursday.
Pramod Kumar Mishra(PK Mishra) had already beengiven Cabinet Rank in June andwas handling senior level post-ing and transfers. He wasAgriculture and Cooperation
Secretary and belongs to the1972 Batch IAS from Gujaratcadre. He hails from Odisha.
Recently, he was conferredwith the United NationsSASAKAWA Award 2019, themost prestigious internationalaward in disaster management.Mishra has a Ph.D inEconomics/DevelopmentStudies from the University ofSussex, M.A. in DevelopmentEconomics at the University ofSussex as also M.A. inEconomics with a first class at the Delhi School ofEconomics.
Pradeep Kumar Sinha (PKSinha) is a 1977 batch IAS fromUttar Pradesh cadre. He wasPower Secretary and ShippingSecretary before becomingCabinet Secretary in May 2015.
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Days after suggesting hisparty against demonising
Prime Minister Narendra Modiall the time, Congress leaderJairam Ramesh on Wednesdaytook a swipe at the ModiGovernment over the proposedban on use of single use plas-tic, saying it will only grabheadlines and “mask” thisregime’s true environmentalrecord.
“As Environment Minister Iresisted blanket ban on use ofsingle-use plastic. Plastic indus-try employs lakhs and the realproblem is how we dispose andrecycle waste,” he said on Twitter.
The former Environmentminister said the real problemwas how to dispose of and recy-cle plastic waste.
He also tagged a mediareport claiming that a completeban on plastic by the Modi gov-ernment was not a good idea as
the economy was facing aslowdown.
"The ban will only grabheadlines, home and abroad,and mask the Modi regime'strue environmental record,"he also said.
Prime Minister NarendraModi had suggested the controlon use of plastics whileaddressing the COP(Conference of Parties) here.Modi government's "blanketban on plastics at this moment
of economic slowdown is a badidea," Ramesh added.
In an event recently,Ramesh saidModi's governancemodel is not a "complete neg-ative story" and not recognis-ing his work and demonisinghim all the time is not going tohelp. He said it is time werecognise Modi's work andwhat he did between 2014 and2019 due to which he wasvoted back to power by over "30per cent of the electorate".
ment School — is all set to beopened in Coorg, Karnataka. Itwill also be the first school inentire South Asia to take a lead-ing role in promoting anddelivering environmental edu-cation with sustainability at itscore. Spread over a hundredacres across the beautiful hillsof Coorg, the school's focus willbe to build strong environ-mental and moral valuesamong its students.
Mobius Foundation, anon-profit organization work-ing towards environmental sus-tainability, in partnership withthe UK-based Whitgift Schoolannounced the launch of thisinitiative at InternationalConference on SustainableEducation.
"WESc will be operationalfrom 2021 for Grade 6 to 12students from India andaround the world. The school will cater to the par-ents who want the next gen-eration to be actively involvedin the protection and sus-tainability of the environ-ment apart from a world-
class education," said PradipBurman, Chairman, MobiusFoundation.
WESc will offer an inter-national curriculum with affil-iation from Cambridge
Assessments and InternationalBaccalaureate.
"The need for environ-mental education is growing rapidly as the degra-dation of the environment is
taking place at a fast pace andwe have taken a lead role inthis direction by launchingIndia's first environmentschool," said Chris Ramsay,Head Master, Whitgift.
Minister, 576 shawls, 964angavastrams, 88 pagris andvarious other artworks giftedto Narendra Modi in the pastsix months would go under thehammer in an e-auction start-ing September 14.
Union Culture MinisterPrahlad Singh Patel said onWednesday that the auctionwill continue till October 3 onthe portal www.pmmemen-tos.gov.in.
Prices for the artefacts willrange from Rs 200 to Rs 2.5lakh as base prices and are cur-rently on display in theNational Gallery of ModernArt (NGMA) in the nationalcapital.
Gifts and the proceedswould go towards the govern-ment's Namame Gange project,Patel said.
Overall, there are a total of2,772 objects, including por-traits of Modi, artworks, tur-bans, shawls, swords, figurinesof cows and religious idols.These will be available for atleast a month in the e-auction,
the minister said.Patel added that the objects
displayed at the NGMA wouldbe changed every 15 days. "Thereserve price set for the objectsstarts at Rs 20 and goes up to Rs 2.50 lakh for a silk print withthe Prime Minister's face," he
said.While most gifts that will
be auctioned have been givento the Prime Minister byIndians, ranging from politicalleaders to religious groups toindustry, there are a handful ofobjects gifted by countries in
the neighbourhood, an NGMAofficial said.
This would be the secondsuch e-auction of gifts given toModi organised by the Union Culture Ministry, thelast one being from January 27to February 9.
The CBI is all set to updateits standard operating pro-
cedures (SOPs) in the CrimeManual in order to sync themwith the changes in thePrevention of Corruption Act,Criminal Procedure Code andSupreme Court orders.
The move is being takenafter nearly 14 years as theCrime Manual was last updat-ed in 2005.
A team under AdditionalDirector Praveen Sinha is onthe job to make the changes inthe manual for the last 10months and may finalise itsoon, agency officials said.
The Crime Manual of theCBI is a collection of standardoperating procedures for itsofficials to approach investiga-tions and other related aspects.
"The manual was lastupdated in 2005 since thenthere have been changes in thePrevention of Corruption Act,Criminal Procedure Codebesides directives from theSupreme Court. The cybercrime has also become preva-
lent since then which requirescompletely new sets of proce-dures," a CBI spokespersonsaid.
International dimensionsin the white collar crimes arebecoming more pronouncedand the agency is also receiv-
ing lot more requests from theglobal agencies seeking coop-eration which needs to beincorporated in the manual,another top agency officialsaid.
The manual was last updat-ed in 2005 when changesbrought about by the VineetNarain Judgment of theSupreme Court in 1997,Information Technology Act,2000, Central VigilanceCommission Act, 2003,Securities and Exchange Boardof India Act, 1994, and a hostof other laws were incorporat-ed into the manual.
In 2005, the CBI Academy,the Directorate of Prosecution,the Command Centre and theRegional Training Centres wereadded in the manual under thethen agency Director U SMishra, officials added.
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The Supreme Court warnedthe homebuyers of now
defunct Amrapali Group onWednesday that their unwill-ingness to pay the outstandingdues may lead to winding up ofthe stalled projects due tofinancial crunch.
The top court cleared themodalities by which the home-
buyers can be put to notice forclearing outstanding amountsafter being validated by courtreceiver appointed by the apexcourt.It observed that it wouldnot allow the "ghost buyers",who had purchased flats fromAmrapali Group at a nominalprice to step in by allowingthem pay the outstandingamount and their registration offlats will be annulled.A bench
of Justices Arun Mishra and UU Lalit said, "If home buyers arenot ready to pay their out-standing amount, then we willhave to bundle up the projects".
Advocate Shobha, appearingfor a homebuyer, said that herproject Amrapali Leisure Parkfalls under category-C, and as perthe builder-buyer agreement thepayment plan was linked to theconstruction.
Will Chinese President XiJinping make it to the south-ern beach resort ofMahabalipuram? And if theinformal summit with
Prime Minister Narendra Modi does get con-firmed, can the two leaders pull off a coup andcome to an agreement to solve the vexed bor-der dispute? Today, one is not even sure if themeeting can take place. One obvious reasonis that the next round of border talks betweenthe Special Representatives (SR) of bothnations was postponed recently. The Indianand Chinese SRs were to meet this month inNew Delhi for the 22nd round to prepare forthe Xi-Mo (Xi Jinping-Modi) summit.
It was the Chinese Foreign Ministry’sspokesperson who announced that the talksbetween SRs will not take place now: “Dueto India’s schedule, this visit has been tem-porarily postponed. The two sides will con-tinue to maintain communication on thisissue,” read a Chinese statement. There is cer-tainly more than just a question of “schedule.”India has been deeply shocked by China’sstand at the UN Security Council. After theabrogation of Article 370 of the IndianConstitution, Beijing blatantly supportedPakistan. During a press conference in NewYork, Zhang Jun, China’s PermanentRepresentative to the UN, said that India hadchanged the status quo in Kashmir, causingtensions in the region. He argued that Indiahad challenged China’s sovereign interests:“Such practice by India …will not changeChina’s exercise of sovereignty and effectiveadministrative jurisdiction over the relevantterritory.”
One wishes India would now start talk-ing about the human rights in Tibet, the fateof the Uyghurs in Xinjiang or the aspirationsof the Hong Kong population — the cancel-lation of the SR talks should certainly be seenin this perspective. The Hindustan Times com-mented: “It is rare — in fact unheard of —for China to officially confirm the delay of thetop-level bilateral meeting, which theGovernment, or the Foreign Ministry had-n’t even announced.”
A factor which has certainly played a rolein the postponement is the continuous pro-Pakistan bias showed by Wang Yi, theChinese SR and Foreign Minister. Last week-end, he visited Islamabad and met thePakistani President, Prime Minister ImranKhan and Foreign Minister Shah MahmoodQureshi (officially, he had gone to attend the3rd China-Afghanistan-Pakistan ForeignMinisters’ Dialogue). Perhaps more telling forIndia, Wang had detailed talks with the Chiefof Army Staff, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, andboth pledged to deepen cooperation in var-ious fields between the two nations.
According to Xinhua, Wang asserted thatChina “will firmly support Pakistan in safe-guarding sovereignty, dignity and territorialintegrity and the Government to achievenational stability, development and prosper-ity. China will also firmly support Pakistan
in playing a more constructiverole in regional and interna-tional affairs.”
Was it a coincidence thatPakistan decided to release Jaish-e-Mohammad chief MaulanaMasood Azhar from protectivecustody? According toIntelligence reports quoted in theIndian media, Azhar, thoughdesignated a terrorist by theUnited Nations in May 2019, hasbeen let out to plan terrorist oper-ations against our country.
Another issue usually notmentioned is the fact that the SRtalks have been downgraded.For years, the National SecurityAdvisor used to meet Yang Jiechi,who was then State Councillor(like Wang Yi today). Yang waslater promoted as a member ofthe Politburo, while his Indiancounterpart, Ajit Doval, was ele-vated to the rank of a CabinetMinister. The logical and normalway would have been that Dovalcontinued to meet Yang. Instead,Wang, far junior, was designatedby China as the new SR. Thisamounts to a de facto downgrad-ing of the talks.
Just to give an example, lastmonth, amid the Hong Kongunrest, important China-US talkswere held in New York. MikePompeo, the US Secretary ofState, met Yang Jiechi. Any seri-ous talks are usually conductedby Yang; if China was seriousabout solving the border issue,Yang should have been named asSR by Beijing.
Another sign of black clouds
gathering over bilateral relationswas when the Northern ArmyCommander Lt Gen RanbirSingh postponed his scheduledvisit to China. Officially, it wasmeant to monitor the situation inKashmir but there is no doubtthat the Chinese side was notkeen on the visit and remainedvague. In these circumstances, isthe time propitious for a seriousadvance on the vexed borderissue? The answer is no.
Officials in India are oftenconfused by the length of India’sborder with China. According tothe MEA: “The entire Sino-Indian border is 4,056 km longand traverses one Indian UnionTerritory, Ladakh, and four Statesviz, Uttarakhand, HimachalPradesh, Sikkim and ArunachalPradesh”. While the MHA says,“India shares 3,488 km of borderwith China that runs alongJammu & Kashmir, HimachalPradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkimand Arunachal Pradesh…theborder is not fully demarcatedand the process of clarifyingand confirming the Line ofActual Control is in progress.”They have forgotten about theShaksgam Valley “donated” byPakistan to China in 1963.Though currently in China’s pos-session, it is very much part ofIndian territory. This should bethe first point on the agenda ofthe SRs when they meet.
On August 29, UnionDefence Minister Rajnath Singhreiterated India’s position:“Kashmir has always been India’s
territory and will remain so.” Headded that Pakistan, which ille-gally occupied Pakistan-occupiedKashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan, has no locus standi inKashmir. The implication is thatthe “donation” of ShaksgamValley is invalid and needs to bediscussed. In July 1961, three con-versations took place betweenZhang Wenji, Director of theForeign Ministry’s Asian AffairsDepartment and GParthasarathy, the Indian Charged’affaires in Beijing.
Zhang argued that based onChina’s experience of Sino-Burmese and Sino-Nepalesenegotiations, though the twosides disagree on the facts, twomethods were worked out toresolve differences: (1) Eachpresents a factual basis andobjectively compares them,looking to see whose informa-tion is relatively more logical…and more beneficial to the twocountries’ friendship; (2) eachcan keep to its own position andconsider, from a political stand-point, what kind of resolutionwould be more beneficial.
This could be a way to pro-ceed but basic trust needs to bebuilt first. It is not present today.It is, therefore, doubtful if aXiMo encounter can bring any“early harvest” as predicted by theChinese side. In these circum-stances, the best one can expectis some “softening” of the Line ofActual Control.
Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “True grit” (September 10).Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal andNovak Djokovic, the “big three”who have been dominating theworld of tennis, are exceptionalplayers and have shared the bulkof the Grand Slam crowns in thelast 10 years. This hegemony isunlikely to fade anytime soon.This year itself, all the fourslams were conquered by thistenacious trio.
Such an exceptional display ofspirit and valour deserves alladulation but this dominancealso raises questions as to why theyounger generation has not beenable to dent their supremacy, bar-ing rare occasions. StanWawrinka and Andy Murrayfirmly believe that young playersare likely to entrench themselvesat the top of the game for anextended period.
The 2019 US Open final willbe remembered not only as oneof the greatest victories of Nadalbut also as the revival of hope foryoung guns in the form of DaniilMedvedev. With Murray yet torecover from hip injuryWawrinka, Cilic and even
Nishikori were the top contendersto break the hegemony of the bigthree. However, that threat wasshortlived. Only time can solvethe most pertinent puzzle dom-inating men’s tennis as to whenthe change of guard will ultimate-ly happen.
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Sir — With the GujaratGovernment’s decision to cutdown traffic penalties by 25 percent to 90 per cent as against theones notified by the Centre, manyStates have undertaken similaractions. For example, the Odisha
Government has sought toapproach the Centre to demandamendments to the new MotorVehicles Act. Many States havenot even implemented the Actfearing backlash from the people.
Truly speaking, the new leg-islation is good in intent. The heftyfines imposed on those violatingthe rules may lead to a change in
behaviour among them. But it isalso true that not everyone isfinancially strong enough to paythe fines. To top it all, in manycases, traffic policemen have actedoverzealously by imposing multi-ple fines on one person. A way hasto be found to make this Act asuccess. While it is for theGovernment to tweak certainportions of the amended Act tomake the fines realistic, citizens,too, must start behaving.
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Sir — After the abrogation ofArticle 370, one of the prime con-cerns of the Government shouldbe to uphold basic civil rights.Most parts of Jammu & Kashmirtoday lack mobile and internetconnectivity. It must restore thesebasic requirements without jeop-ardising people’s security. Failureto do so will raise a question markon our credentials as the world’slargest democracy.
If only we could go back to the way things werewhen Prime Minister Narendra Modi came topower in 2014, when there was so much opti-
mism in the country. The wishful thinking is a com-mon refrain now. Much has changed in the macroand micro environment since then as both “endoge-nous and exogenous” factors have played a part inslowing down the global and Indian economy. Andthough it is laudable that the Finance Minister did-n’t wait for the Government’s first full-year budgetin February 2020 to make necessary rectification,hopefully recent interventions can help greenshoots of revival spring up after the next two quar-ters, the minimum time needed for it.
While the existing problems are well known,senior economists are at sea to fathom the natureof the beast at hand. Yet, there are some definitiveassumptions one derives from data points availableand it is important not to get too pessimistic, as eachsector, country and company reacts differently tonegative triggers.
At the macro-level, till January 2021 when a newUS President will be in place, expect a world in flux.That’s because Donald Trump’s re-election campaignhinges on projecting himself as the hero of an“America First” policy, which will continue to esca-late US-China trade tensions, with cascadingeffects on trade and job losses globally. America’strade bullying is making it a “lose-lose” propositionfor American consumers, Chinese manufacturersand the rest of the world. According to InternationalMonetary Fund’s (IMF) forecasts, America’s unilat-eralism will reduce the world economic output by0.5 per cent, having a recessionary impact on theworld economy.
Then, at the micro-level, which pertains to India,let us view how the science of behavioural financeplays out on corporates and retail investors whenconfronted with a “flight or fight syndrome.” Thiscan be seen in relation to how Governments andindividuals responded to business cycles during the1998 Asian financial crisis, the 2008 slump and nowthe 2019 sputter. We are now at the lowest ebb, witha lock-jawed economy at five per cent GrossDomestic Product (GDP) growth.
Here is a textbook example of what occurs whenmoney supply halts. Discretionary spending getspostponed as consumers turn cautious and the resul-tant fall in demand threatens a local and global slow-down, as all economic vitals sink into downwardspirals. Yet, strangely, higher income brackets don’tget impacted during downturns on the consump-tion side, unlike middle and lower middle classes.
Private consumption has been the biggest pro-peller of India’s economic growth. But Private FinalConsumption Expenditure (PFCE) growth was justthree per cent in the June quarter. The salaried classhas become afraid of taking loans for automobilesor housing, as savings-to-GDP ratio comes underpressure. The collateral damage is already impact-ing the construction and automobile sectors, whichare among the largest employers and feed a supplychain of at least 200 ancillaries of growth, as theyare laying-off the unorganised sector labour whichcomprises 90 per cent of the workforce.
Thereafter, the country sinks into deeper sov-ereign debt and yet the only panacea is to looktowards the Government itself to increase spend-ing on welfare schemes and pump funds into infra-structure, railways, roadways and health care. At this
point, there are two options for the Centre.It can tap into the Reserve Bank of India’s(RBI) reserves and go in for sovereign bor-rowing. The latter is a double-edged sworddue to exchange rate risks, especially if itis a Euro/dollar debt. Because though theborrowing interest rates are low, the rateof the rupee could plummet further.Besides, as India’s sovereign rating is “justabove investment grade”, lending costs willbe higher.
The transfer of the surplus amount bythe RBI comes as a well-considered andconsensual move between the Centre andthe central bank, if the infused windfallof �1.76 lakh crore of the surplus reservetransferred is used to stimulate consump-tion demand instead of diverting it tofunding the Government’s revenue deficit.
India has been growing at an averageof 7.5 per cent in the last five years. Yetglobally, the new-normal for growthrates has seen downward revisions by apercentage point, and a climb-up ofnational debt to GDP ratios to levels ashigh as the pre-2008 years. In order totransit towards a new growth trajectory,we cannot afford to grow at sub-optimalrates of anything below eight to ten percent GDP annually, year on year, for thenext 20 years. The Centre needs a moreholistic approach, which entails bothstructural reforms as well as cyclical booststo raise short and medium term-growth.And even in a slowdown, there exist pock-ets of growth that can be scaled up.
The Centre has the biggest role to playin this by tapping into its own domesticpropellers of growth, of which labour-intensive industries like housing, infra-structure, tourism, education and man-ufacturing, can be the prime movers.
The Centre must have a calibratedapproach towards Industry 4.0 that guz-zles labour-intensive jobs and opts forautomation, as there still exists a vastpotential for labour-intensive manufac-tured goods within the domestic marketand exports to Southeast Asian markets.
The Government needs to lower the
following: The cost of capital, land, elec-tricity and corporate taxes in particular,so that firms hire more, earn more andpay more revenue; while simultaneouslyimproving the quality of human resourcesto increase the productivity quotient.
The potential for upside growth inIndia exists in building infrastructure,urbanisation and making India into aglobal hub for start-ups, exports, servicesand manufacturing. India had hoped toencash the opportunity that US-Chinatrade wars threw up but the anticipatedrelocation to India is yet to happen.
India contributes nearly three per centto the world’s GDP but has only one percent share of the global investmentmoney. The present stock of globalForeign Direct Investment (FDI) exceeds$32 trillion. Global inflows have contin-ued to decline since the peak of 2015,despite FDI policies in India being pro-gressively liberalised, with in-boundinflows of $64 billion in 2018-19. Thereis scope to double this investment by mak-ing India a preferred investment destina-tion, as doubling this figure from one percent to two per cent in itself could yieldclose to $3 trillion inflows into the coun-try.
While there is a silver lining that infla-tion has been contained to below four percent and the fiscal deficit was containedat 3.4 per cent of the GDP, the Centreneeds to rethink its stance on both.Because maintaining the fiscal deficit tar-get of 3.3 per cent amidst a contractingeconomy may not be the best policy intimes of contraction, when there is needto turn expansionary by increasing cap-ital expenditure on public projects. Andinflation must be allowed to rise a bit,because rural wages and consumptiondropped as farmers were paid less.
The intent in correcting some of theanomalies in tax laws is laudable and longoverdue. Implementation of the recom-mendations of the Akhilesh Ranjan-ledtask force on the Direct Tax Code mustwork towards effectively overhauling an
archaic tax administration system. Itsobjective must be to ensure “ease of tax-ation” and to “maximise certainty andminimise disputes.”
The Government also needs toexplore hitherto untapped sources for rev-enue generation. Herein, India must takethe initiative to tax big tech differently, asthis is an untapped source of revenue.Because tech giants like Google, Amazonand Facebook invoice their revenues outof India, while maintaining operations inthe country, showing lesser profits.Developed nations are trying to form aconsensus on a way forward unitedly toimpose higher taxation on big tech.Beyond a maximum revenue threshold,the surplus revenue must be taxed onIndian turf.
Digital commerce is anticipated tobring about the next biggest revolution increating jobs and increasing GDP, as com-panies seek to draw the next 500 millionIndians into the e-commerce main-stream. For example, revenues of Asia’slargest company, Alibaba, rose 42 per centin the last quarter of 2019, defying theslowdown, due to internet- shopping sup-ply chains. Energising the Micro, Small &Medium Enterprises (MSME) market-place needs tapping into low-cost fund-ing from multilateral banks; providingadequate skilling and marketing support,so as to encourage digital entrepreneur-ship in financial services, online retail,online education and remote healthcare.
In conclusion, slowdowns are neveras bad as they appear, nor are economicboom times as prosperous as they seem.Because historically, periods of boom aretimes when asset bubbles get created, giv-ing an illusion of rising prosperity. But ineffect, they have invariably presageddownturns. So let’s ride this out. Toughtimes call for being mindful of efficien-cies at all levels, so India can emergestronger and smarter.
(The writer is an author, columnist,chairperson for National Committee onFinancial Inclusion at NITI Aayog)
becoming the ubiquitous factor inenvironmental degradation andpushing up the frequency ofdroughts across the world, especial-ly in India. They can come from nat-ural sources, like dust or wildfires, orman-made sources such as vehiclesand industrial emissions.
A team of atmospheric scientistsfrom India, USA and Canada foundthat aerosols in the atmosphere canincrease the severity of droughts inthe Indian subcontinent by as muchas 17 per cent during El Niño years.
The El Niño phenomenon,which occurs when there is abnor-
mal warming over the Pacific Ocean,is already considered detrimental forthe monsoon as it blocks the flow ofmoisture-bearing winds from theoceans to the Indian landmass. Anew study by Indian Institute ofTropical Meteorology (IITM) Punefound that it further weakens themonsoon by transporting aerosolsfrom lower altitudes in the East Asianregion up and into the higher alti-tudes of about 12-18 km, forming anaerosol layer called the AsianTropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL)over the South Asian region.
It remains suspended there dur-ing the monsoon and its thickeningcuts solar energy to the Earth. Thisin turn weakens monsoon circulationand increases the severity of droughtconditions.
The study, published in theScientific Reports journal, revealsthat the combined effect of El Niñoand aerosols reduces rainfall over theIndian sub-continent as compared tothe individual effect of El Niño.Going by the satellite readings anda series of model simulations in thereport, the severity of droughts dur-
ing El Niño years over the sub-con-tinent has amplified by 17 per cent.
Noting that in recent decadesthere has been an increase in the fre-
quency of El Niño events anddroughts over India, the researcherswarned against any further increasein industrial emissions from both
East and South Asia as they can leadto a wider and thicker aerosol layerin the upper troposphere and furtherintensify droughts.
Given that India is already vul-nerable to hydrological and weath-er extremes, a higher degree ofdrought severity will only subject thecountry to more hydrological stresswhile affecting agriculture and thelivelihood of millions of people.
Reducing aerosol emissions isnot only essential for improving airquality but also for controllingdroughts and their impact on peo-ple in the Indian subcontinent.Rising temperatures, too, are becom-ing the cause of increase in the con-centration of aerosols in the atmos-phere that cause air pollution.
According to a recent study byresearchers from the University ofCalifornia, aerosol presence is exac-erbating climate change and itsadverse effects. While climate changeis warming oceans, it is warmingland faster, which is bad news forglobal air quality. The study, pub-lished in the journal Nature ClimateChange, shows that the land-sea
warming contrast drives up aerosolconcentration in the atmosphere.
Aerosols not only affect the cli-mate system, including disturbancesto the water cycle, they also harmhumans, animals and plants as theycause smog and pollution. Their out-put and emissions are a matter ofgrave concern.
To rein in these soaring emis-sions, we need to understand thelevel of aerosol pollution in India.India needs an aerosol protocol thatis able to set the parameters for pre-venting spread of aerosol emissions.Industries and other man-madesources of aerosol emissions current-ly have a free run thanks to lack ofstringent regulations that set groundrules for operations.
The categorisation of industriesand other aerosol-emitting units iscritical and periodic checking will goa long way in controlling them. Thiswill have a direct impact on the fightagainst climate change and helpIndia arrest its worsening environ-ment situation.
In a show of strength, manygroups of Vokkaligas (Gowda
community) which include theOpposition Congress took outa protest march in Bengaluruon Wednesday against thearrest of senior Congress leaderDK Shivakumar. Many leadersof the Vokkaliga communityblamed the CentralGovernment, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, BJP presidentAmit Shah and StateGovernment led by BSYediyurappa for the arrest ofDK Shivakumar .
The protesters were shout-ing slogans and said it was avendetta arrest by the ED andother intelligence agencies. Theprotest march affected the traf-fic and several parts of the citycame to a standstill.
Even though many JD(S)leaders and workers took partin the protest, both father andson, HD Devegowda and HDKumaraswamy were conspicu-ous by their absence. Later inChennapatna, Kumaraswamytold the media that he was notinvited by the organisers. Hesaid “I was not invited to theprotest march by the organis-ers. If they have invited I would
have attended.”The protesters gathered at
the National College Groundand marched to Freedom Park.Bengaluru Traffic Police hasissued an advisory and madetraffic diversions for com-muters.
Moments after his arrest,Shivakumar has tweeted, "Iwholeheartedly thank leaders,supporters, well-wishers andfriends who have organised amassive protest in my supporttomorrow in Bengaluru. Ihumbly request that the protestbe peaceful & doesn't cause anyinconvenience to citizens.Please ensure public propertyisn't harmed."
In another development,Karnataka Congress leader DKShivakumar’s daughter,Aishwarya, was summoned bythe Enforcement Directorate(ED) on Tuesday to deposebefore the agency onSeptember 12. Shivakumar iscurrently in ED custody in con-nection with an alleged moneylaundering case.
Sources in the ED saidAishwarya has been sum-moned to seek clarification ona trip she took with her fatherto Singapore in 2017. Theagency is likely to record herstatement under the Preventionof Money Laundering Act(PMLA), they added.
At least 50 political workersand half-a-dozen police-
men including a police inspec-tor received injuries when theBJP workers demanding onenation one power tariff regime— marched towards the pri-vately owned, century-old,Calcutta Electric SupplyCorporation (CESC) building— clashed with law enforcers.
Senior State leaders likeRaju Banerjee and SayantanBasu, actor-turned-leaderSuman Banerjee, and State BJPYuva Morcha (youth wing)president Debjit Sarkar werelater arrested police said addingwater cannons were chargedand tear gas shells fired as thecrowd went berserk pelting
brickbats at the police whenthey were stopped at the CentralAvenue for want of permissionto organise a movement in thearea. Clashes erupted as thou-sands of Yuva Morcha activistsmarched towards the CESCbuilding at Esplanade areademanding reduction of powertariff. “We want one-nation-one-tariff,” said Suman Banerjeereminding, “Kolkata and Bengalcharged the highest tariff thananywhere in India.”
Alleging that CESC (run bythe Sanjeev Goenka group)had been “allowed to loot thepeople of Bengal by MamataBanerjee Government becausethey fund their political activ-ities in the State,” Raju Banerjeesaid more such agitationswould follow.
Kolkata/Asansol: A personwas lynched at Asansol in WestBengal on Wednesday morningon suspicion of being a childlifter and a person has beenarrested in connection with theincident, police said.
Several others have beendetained for their allegedinvolvement in the incidentwhich took place at Salanpurarea, it said.
The lynching was the sec-ond in a week and took placebarely a fortnight after thestate Assembly passed the WestBengal (Prevention ofLynching) Bill, 2019 to stopsuch incidents.
According to officials ofAsansol Durgapur PoliceCommissionerate, the uniden-tified person aged 35-40 yearswas allegedly moving aroundsuspiciously in the area sincemorning. He was suspected tobe a child lifter, tied to a lamppost and beaten up severely byseveral people.
He was later untied andthrashed again by the attackers,they said.
A huge police contingentrushed to the spot on beinginformed about the incidentand rescued the man, wholater succumbed to his injuriesin a state run hospital, the offi-cials said.
"We are yet to identify thedead person. We have arrestedone person and have detainedfew others on the basis of
video clippings of the incidentthat went viral," a senior policeofficial said.
"We have started a probeinto the case," he added.
The West Bengal(Prevention of Lynching) Bill,2019, was passed by voice voteon August 30 in the Assemblyin the aftermath of a string ofincidents in which people werebeaten to death over rumoursof cattle smuggling and childlifting.
The Bill has provision ofjail term for three years to lifeimprisonment in cases ofassault leading to injury,besides a fine ranging from �1lakh to �3 lakh.
In the event of the victim'sdeath, the attackers would bepunished with death sentenceor rigorous life imprisonmentand a fine of up to �5 lakh.
This is the second incidentof lynching in the state after thepassage of the bill on August30.
On September 4, a masonKhabir Sheikh died after he wasthrashed by unidentified peo-ple inside a clinic. He was pro-nounced dead on arrival atMurshidabad Medical Collegeand Hospital.
Three other incidents ofassault had been reported fromvarious parts of the state but thevictims had survived.
The incidents of lynchinghave kicked up a politicaldebate in the state with TMC
and BJP blaming each other forthe incident.
"In the incidents of lynch-ing law will take its own course.But I would like to mentionthat wherever BJP is in poweror is trying to gain ground,there have been rampant inci-dents of lynchings," seniorTMC leader and West Bengalminister Firhad Hakim said.
"The BJP and its affiliatessupport lynching and use it asa tool to terrorize people," headded.
The BJP, which has madedeep inroads in the state andlook to deseat the MamataBanerjee government in the2021 assembly polls, hastermed the allegations againstit as baseless.
"In none of these incidentsno BJP leader nor worker wasinvolved. Actually these lynch-ings prove that law and orderhas gone for a toss in Bengalunder the TMC regime," stateparty president Dilip Ghoshsaid.
State Congress presidentSomen Mitra said the state gov-ernment has failed to controlincidents of lynching andshould take stern action againstthe culprits.
Senior CPI(M) leaderSujan Chakraborty criticisedthe TMC government and saidthough the state has passed thebill, it has failed to control inci-dents of lynching and mobassault. PTI
Shahjahanpur (UP): A specialinvestigation team onWednesday took the studentwho has accused BJP leaderSwami Chinmayanand of rap-ing, and "physically exploiting"her for a year to a hospital formedical examination.
She was taken under heavysecurity to the local medicalcollege hospital where ChiefMedical Officer Dr AnitaDhasmana said the womanwas examined by a panel ofdoctors.
Meanwhile, terming thewhole episode a conspiracyagainst him, Chinmayanand onWednesday expressed full faithin the SIT probe.
"I have full faith in the SITteam and everything will beclear once it is completed. Thisis a conspiracy against me,"Chinmayanand told PTI.
The father of the womanhad claimed that during thesearch at the hostel room of herdaughter on Tuesday, some
objectionable material wasfound, which was "planted" byvested interests before the roomwas sealed by the local police.
He said his daughter hadonly one key of the room andsome things belonging to herwere missing.
Meanwhile, a video featur-ing a woman and an elderly hasstarted doing rounds on socialmedia.
In the video, the woman isshown massaging an elderly.
Another woman and someyouths are shown talking aboutthe "rangdari" (extortion)demand of �5 crore.
Members of the SIT,accompanied by forensicexperts, had on Tuesdayinspected the hostel room ofthe complainant for nearlyeight hours and collected evi-dence.
The woman had toldmedia persons on Monday thatthe Shahjahanpur police wasreluctant to register a case ofrape against the 72-year-oldBJP leader.
The woman had appearedbefore the press, alleging thatChinmayanand had raped her,and also "physically exploited"her for a year.
The woman had said shehad all the proof and the hos-tel room where she stayedshould be opened in front ofthe media.
"On Sunday, the SITquizzed me for about 11 hours.I have told them about the rape.Even after telling them every-thing, they have not arrestedChinmayanand yet," she had
alleged.She had said that when her
father gave a complaint topolice here about her physicalexploitation, ShahjahanpurDistrict Magistrate IndraVikram Singh "issued threats",asking her father to file "amissing complaint" instead.
The SIT, headed byInspector General NaveenArora, was set up by the UttarPradesh government on aSupreme Court directive.
It is looking into details ofthe probe conducted by thelocal police in the high-profilematter.
The apex court had saidthat an Allahabad High Courtbench would monitor theprobe.
The inspector generalheading the SIT had said theprobe report would be sub-mitted to the Supreme Court ina sealed envelope.
The SIT was formed lastTuesday, a day after the
Supreme Court took suo motucognisance of the case anddirected the state governmentto investigate the charges lev-elled by the student.
The victim had gone miss-ing on August 24, a day aftershe posted a video on socialmedia, alleging that a "seniorleader of the sant community"was harassing and threateningto kill her.
She was located in Dausadistrict of Rajasthan last Friday.
Her father had filed a com-plaint with police, accusing72-year-old Chinmayanand ofsexually harassing her, a chargerefuted by the former Unionminister's lawyer who claimedit was a "conspiracy" to black-mail him. Police had on August27 booked Chinmayanandunder Sections 364 (kidnap-ping or abducting in order tomurder) and 506 (criminalintimidation) of the IndianPenal Code based on the herfather's complaint. PTI
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Shillong: A resolution movedby a Congress MLA seeking tobring Meghalaya under Article371 of the Constitution to pro-tect the interests of the tribalswas defeated by voice vote inthe State Assembly onWednesday.
Congress memberAmpareen Lyngdoh also want-ed that the Centre recognise theInstrument of Accession signedby the independent Khasi stateswith the Union of India in1948.
"The Instrument ofAccession and AnnexedAgreement, signed and accept-ed by the Government of India,did not find place in theConstitution primarily due tolack of representatives in theconstituent Assembly,"Lyngdoh, a former education
minister, told the House.A total of 25 Khashi states
had individually signed theInstrument of Accession withthe Indian Union betweenDecember 15, 1947, and March17, 1948, and GovernorGeneral C Rajagopalachaisigned a joint treaty on August17, 1948.
Lyngdoh said althoughtribal interests are safeguardedby the Sixth Schedule of theConstitution, the state is notunder Article 371 which grantsspecial provisions to severalstates of the country.
The Sixth Schedule provides for the administr-ation of tribal dominated areas in Assam, Meghalaya,Tripura and Mizoram by set-ting up autonomous districtcouncils. PTI
Mumbai: Over 10,000 Ganeshidols at Latur in Marathwadaregion won't be immersed onthe 'visarjan' day this year dueto acute water shortage in thetown, local officials said.
A senior official said thereis "not even a drop of water" inthe usual six spots in Laturwhere the Ganesh idols, bothpublic and domestic, areimmersed each year.
Latur district collector GShrikant told PTI that the deci-sion to skip the immersionprocess is the result of publicawareness and was finalisedafter review meetings of theGanesh mandals in the city.
"This decision is not sole-ly due to water scarcity.
The big mandals werereusing the idols for the lastthree to four years. It is a col-lective decision of the man-dals," he said.
The municipal corpora-tion has made facilities forstorage of idols in temples, theIAS official said. "If they can bereused and recycled, that willbe the best way to overcome thewater scarcity," he added.
"We have asked people toperform the 'visarjan' ofdomestic idols at home likeChief Minister DevendraFadnavis did at his official'Varsha' bungalow. I will bedoing the same," he said.
A local historian in Latur,which is around 500 km fromMumbai, said this will be thefirst time in over a century thatthe Ganesh idols in the citywon't be immersed. PTI
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After a prolonged wait of 3years, the Centre has final-
ly allotted the Deocha-Pachamicoal field to West Bengal PowerDevelopment Corporation Ltdwhich will create more thanone lakh jobs and solve theState’s employment, coal andpower woes for more than 100years, Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee onWednesday said.
Apart from addressingBengal’s coal requirements the
second largest coal block of theworld with an estimated reserveof about 2.1 billion tones wouldgo a distance in taking goodcare of the entire country’s coaland power needs, Banerjee saidadding it would take at least fiveyears for the infrastructure pro-ject to take off.
By the time extraction ofcoal begins the project wouldinvolve an investment of�12,000 crore and wouldspread over an area of 1,100acres, Banerjee said remindingDeocha Pachami had a poten-tial of becoming India’s biggestindustrial project that could inthe final run bring back manyan industrial houses that hadleft the State.
“Had the clearance been
given earlier the project wouldhave started long ago,” theChief Minister said adding acommittee led by the ChiefSecretary would be set up tolook into the various issuesrelated with infrastructurebuilding and extraction of coal.
“We will not eject peopleout of the area,” Banerjee saidadding there were “some 400families living in the area outof which about 40 per cent aretribal people. We will takethem into confidence and provide them adequate rehabilitation before beginningthe work,” the Chief Ministerwho herself came to power fol-lowing prolonged farmers’movement against forcibleeviction said.
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Chennai: Almost one in threenetizens in India encountercyber attacks, with users fromChennai more vulnerable tothese attacks among users in themetros, a new study said onWednesday.
The study conducted by K7Computing - a city-based cybersecurity major, tracks all criti-cal components like Enterprise,Mobile, Mac, Windows andIoT, covering 20 Indian citiesthat include metros, tier-1 andtier-2 regions.
According to the report,amongst tier-1 cities, Chennaihas recorded the highest per-centile of cyber attacks with 48per cent from April 2019-June2019 followed by Kolkata with41 per cent during the sameperiod. Delhi has registered thelowest percentile of cyberattacks with 28 per cent.
"K7 Computing's K7 Labs'Cyber Threat Monitor high-lights the ever evolving threatlandscape around the countryand addresses the growingnecessity of being more proac-
tive in the approach towardscybersecurity," said KPurushothaman, CEO of K7Computing.
"We see an increasing num-ber of cyber attacks in tier-1 and
tier-2 cities, and therefore, weurge concerned stakeholdersto leverage specific intelligencefor countermeasures and threathunting," Purushothaman said.
As per the report, cyber riskexposure steadily rises on work-ing days in metros, starting fromMonday and records the high-est on Friday.
The average percentage ofcyber attacks in the top dozeninfected tier-2 cities was foundto be worse when compared tometros and tier-1 regions.
From April 2019-June 2019,Patna experienced the highestpercentile of cyber attacks (48per cent), closely followed byGuwahati (46 per cent) and Lucknow (45 per cent),while Thiruvananthapuramstood safest among others at 35per cent.
The study also found that
ransomware and fileless attackscontinued to grow faster in thecountry.
Trojan attacks, at 72 percent, were detected to be themajor threat for Mac followedby Adware (18 per cent) andPUP/PUA (PotentiallyUnwanted Programmes/Potentially UnwantedApplications) that stood at nineper cent, the study said.
A majority of IoT devicemanufacturers and users werefound to be ignorant about thenecessity of optimised security,thus inviting massive-scaleattacks
The report states thatrouters are the most vulnerableIoT devices existing in thecountry, followed by printers,NAS, IP cameras, media play-ers, set-top boxes and smartTVs. IANS
Mumbai: After the April-MayLok Sabha elections,Maharashtra has increased itsvoter strength by around 8.5lakh, a top official said here onWednesday.
Chief Electoral OfficerBaldev Singh informed themedia that after the parlia-mentary elections, 10,75,528voters were added while2,16,278 were deleted from theelectoral list.
"This means we have addedaround 8.5 lakh new voters, ofwhich many shall be first timevoters," he said.
As on August 31,Maharashtra had 8,94,46,21people who will be eligible tovote in the upcoming Assemblyelections.
"We are fully prepared fora free and fair assembly polls,"Singh assured, as the count-down for the announcement ofthe election dates got under-way.
The date for elections tothe 288 assembly constituenciesin the state, along with someother states, is likely to beannounced soon by theElection Commission. IANS
��������:#$������-����������%*������ Chennai: The United Forum of
Bank Unions (UFBU), theumbrella body of nine bankingsector trade unions, will holddemonstration before theParliament next week to protestagainst the mega bank mergerplan announced by the gov-ernment, a top banking unionleader said.
All India Bank Employees'Association (AIBEA) GeneralSecretary C.H. Venkatachalamtold IANS that the UFBU hasdecided to a national dharnabefore Parliament on Sep 20 at10.30 a.m. The UFBU has alsodecided to give a memorandumto Union Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman. IANS
The Jammu & Kashmir policeon Wednesday successfully
eliminated a dreaded terrorist ofPro-Pakistan Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) terror outfit inSopore area of North Kashmir’sBaramulla district.
The LeT terrorist, identi-fied as Asif Maqbool Bhat,along with two others wasactive in the area for last onemonth and was chiefly respon-sible for spreading a reign ofterror among the local popu-lation.
At least 8 OGW's , workingat the behest of three membergroup of LeT terrorists,involved in threatening andintimidation of locals by pub-lishing and circulating ofposters, were earlier arrested onMonday.
Director General of police,Dilbagh Singh while addressinga press conference in SrinagarWednesday said, "after appre-hending eight over groundworkers closely associated withLeT terrorist Asif MaqboolBhat, we were closely trackinghis movement in the area. OnWednesday morning, wereceived a specific input abouthis movement in the area and
during routine checking at sev-eral security check points jawansof state police intercepted a carand directed it to stop". Insteadof stopping the car, Asif, whowas travelling in the same car,lobbed a grenade towardspolicemen on duty. DGP said,"some of our jawans receivedinjuries and in the ensuingencounter LeT terrorist AsifMaqbool Bhat was neutralisedby the security forces.He saidthe injured jawans were under-going treatment and their con-dition was stated to be stableand out of danger.
DGP also confirmed, Asifwas responsible for a recentshootout and inflicting injuriesto two family members of afruit trader in Sopore. He wasalso responsible for targeting a
labourer, from outside the state,in Sopore.
Meanwhile, commentingon the overall security situationin Jammu & Kashmir, DGPsaid since August 5, a total of184 incidents of law and orderengagements were reportedfrom various regions of thestate in the aftermath of abro-gation of Article 370.
Singh said of these inci-dents, heavy violence was onlyreported in half-a-dozen cases.
"Very minor kind of inci-dents took place in most of theplaces. Till yesterday, 184 inci-dents of law and order engage-ments were there of which notmore than half-a-dozen are ofsuch nature where a little high-er level of violence was seen interms of stone-pelting by the
civilians," he said.The DGP said forces have
also tried to exercise a lot ofrestraint and very minimal useof force has been exercisedwherever required.
While commenting on thestatus of fresh recruitments inthe ranks of terror outfits inKashmir valley, DGP said therehave been no reports of any freshrecruitment of local youth join-ing militant ranks in the state,where life is returning to normal.
The DGP also said thereare some incidents of terroriststhreatening fruit dealers insouth Kashmir against collect-ing fruits but police is awareabout the situation and "our jobis to facilitate the process andensure that no one is able toharass them".
"There have been noreports of any fresh localrecruitment among the militantranks. Some youth had beenmisled (in the past) and in a fitof anger gone astray, and wehave been able to bring manyof them back," Singh clarified.
On the prevailing situationin the Valley, the police chiefsaid, "Life is returning towardsnormalcy and people are goingabout their activities withschool and offices open."
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In yet another jolt to theCongress ahead of
Maharashtra Assembly polls, itsformer Minister and seniorparty leader from westernMaharashtra HarshavardhanPatil joined the ruling BJP onWednesday.
In a development thatcame on the heels of seniorCongress leader and formerstate party presidentKripashankar Singh and actressUrmila Matondkar quittingthe Congress, 56-year-old Patiljoined the BJP in the presenceof Chief Minister DevendraFadnavis and State party pres-ident Chandrakant Patil.
Heaping praise on the BJPin general and Prime MinisterNarendra Modi in particularfor the bold decisions byGovernment during the first100 days of its second tenure,Patil said: “ For all those like mewho believe in and practisehonesty, dedication and prin-ciples in politics, there is noalternative to the BJP thesedays. .. I am happy with theGovernment at the Centre. .Inthe first 100 days of his gov-
ernment, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has taken somebold decisions like the abroga-tion of Article 370 and MotorVehicle Act are being abouttransformation in the society.Considering all this, I havedecided to join and work withthe BJP”.
Patil said that he had notjoined the BJP with any pre-conditions and would acceptany role or responsibility givenhim by the party.
Welcoming Patil into theBJP, Fadnavis said: “With Patil’sentry to the BJP, our party’sstrength will increase. We wereexpecting Patil to join ourparty for the last five years. Hehas worked as the Minister forLegislative Affairs. He has theability to take all sections ofpeople along with him. Plus he
has built a following of his own.These things will handy forboth the BJP and saffronalliance government in future”.
A four-time MLA fromIndapur constituency in Punedistrict, Patil lost to NCP'sDattatrey Bharne in the 2014Assembly elections by a mar-gin of nearly 14,000 votes.
Notwithstanding the asser-tions to the contrary made byPatil, the main reason for Patiljoining the BJP is that he couldnot have contested theAssembly elections on aCongress ticket. Because, theIndapur seat is with the NCPcurrently. The NCP is not will-ing to displease its sitting MLABhame and and part withIndapur seat to its ally Congressin the seat-sharing arrange-ment so that it could fieldPatil as its candidate.
On his part, Fadnavis indi-cated that the BJP would fieldPatil as its candidate fromIndapur in the Assembly polls.
Patil is the second bigCongress leader from westernMaharashtra — after theLeader of the OppositionRadhakrishna Vikhe-Patil — tojoin the BJP.
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Aizawl: With a literacy rate of91.3 per cent, Mizoram is hold-ing the third position in thecountry, State School EducationMinister Lalchhandama Raltesaid here on Wednesday.
The Minister did not men-tion the two other States thatare ahead of Mizoram in liter-acy. However, according to the2011 Census, the Northeasternstate is behind Kerala (94.0 percent) and Lakshadweep (91.8per cent).
Addressing a function onthe occasion of theInternational Literacy Dayhere, Ralte said now there arean estimated 36,700 illiteratepeople in the state at present.
"There were 43,341 illiter-ates when the State educationdepartment conducted a surveyin 2015. Of them, around 7,000became literate," he said.
The population ofMizoram is 10,97,206, accord-ing to the 2011 Census.
The Minister sought thecooperation of the civil soci-eties and church leaders inachieving hundred per cent lit-eracy in the State. PTI
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Jaipur: Two persons have dieddue to Congo fever in Jodhpurand Jaisalmer and blood samplesof people who came in contactwith them are being sent toNational Institute of Virology inPune for examination, RajasthanHealth Minister Raghu Sharmasaid on Wednesday.
He said that blood samplesof a total of 136 people weretaken for the investigation ofCongo Fever, out of which twopersons were found positiveand they eventually died inJodhpur and Jaisalmer.
A team has been formed bythe medical department and itis surveying the affected areasand distributing kits for pre-vention, the minister said in astatement. The department hasissued guidelines to medicalofficers across the state to tack-le the disease. The minister saidthat the staff has been trained for
blood sample collection and allthe Chief Medical and HealthOfficers of Jodhpur Division,Medical Officers of MedicalCollege and AIIMS and allMedical Officers of JodhpurDistrict have been oriented.
Also, through video con-ferencing on September 9, theofficials have also been instruct-ed to remain alert and takeimmediate action.
He said that people cominginto contact with positivepatients will be monitored for14 days and their blood sam-ples are being sent to NIV, Punefor examination. He said that inorder to provide better medicalfacilities to the common peo-ple in the state, the governmentwill soon bring the 'Right toHealth' law. In its electionmanifesto, Congress hadpromised to provide right tohealth to the people. PTI
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Thane: Shiv Sena presidentUddhav Thackeray onWednesday said the alliancebetween his party and the BJPwould continue.
The ruling parties are cur-rently holding deliberations tofinalise a seat-sharing formulaahead of the assembly elections,whose schedule is yet to beannounced officially.
Thackeray launched anumber of civic projects forThane at a function held atRam Ganesh Gadkari audito-rium which was attended byparty leaders, elected repre-sentatives and officials of theparty-ruled Thane MunicipalCorporation (TMC).
"The BJP and the Sena arein alliance right now and thesame will continue," Thackeraysaid.
The Sena chief had lastweek said in the presence of
Prime Minister Narendra Modiin Mumbai that the alliancebetween his party and the BJPwas "inevitable" and it wouldreturn to power once again.
On the occasion, the Senachief unveiled a draft plan forthe 576-bed civic-run super-speciality hospital which will bedeveloped at the cost of Rs 316crore.
He inaugurated V DSavarkar memorial pillar on thepremises of the auditoriumand later a hospital and a car-diac centre.
Thackeray performed theearth-breaking ceremony for aschool being constructed by anNGO and also inaugurated therenovated crematorium atJawhar Baugh locality.
He said the villages in thestate should be linked to thedistrict hospital through a com-munication link. PTI
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Patna: Senior Bhartiya JanataParty (BJP) leader and BiharDeputy Chief Minister SushilKumar Modi deleted his tweetsoon after posting it in whichhe had supported ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar to leadthe NDA in the 2020 Assemblypolls, contrary to some partyleaders demanding chief min-isterial post for the BJP.
Sushil Modi, consideredclose to Nitish Kumar, in histweet had said "Nitish Kumaris captain of NDA in Bihar &will remain its Captain in nextAssembly elections in 2020also. When Captain is hitting 4& 6 & defeating rivals byinnings where is the Q (ques-tion) of any change."
But soon Sushil Modideleted this from his officialaccount that raised eyebrows.
Earlier, senior BJP leaderand former Union MinisterSanjay Paswan said that Nitish
Kumar has held the post ofChief Minister for far too longand should now move to theCentre.
"Even as his tenure wit-nessed lots of development inBihar and also improved thelaw and order situation, heshould now vacate the chair fora 'second-line leader' of BJP orJD-U and take an active role inthe Centre's politics," Paswan,BJP MLC had said onSeptember 9.
After Paswan, anothersenior BJP leader and formerUnion Minister C.P. Thakursaid that BJP now deserves toppost in Bihar. IANS
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Ahmedabad: Union MinisterRavi Shankar Prasad onWednesday said India's firstPrime Minister JawaharlalNehru was wrong and the thenHome Minister SardarVallabhbhai Patel was right intheir approach to the issue ofJammu & Kashmir afterIndependence.
Referring to the currentNDA government's decision toabrogate Article 370 whichgave special status to Jammu &Kashmir, Prasad said PrimeMinister Narendra Modishowed immense courage andcorrected that "historic blun-der".
"I want to say that inJammu and Kashmir, SardarPatel was right and JawaharlalNehru was wrong. It (Article370) was a historical blundercommitted (that time) and (byscrapping the special status)Narendra Modi as our PM,showing immense courage,corrected that historical
wrong," Prasad told reportersat a press meet.
The senior BJP leader washere today to highlight theachievements of the Modi gov-ernment in its first 100 days ofits second term.
"The decision to abrogateArticle 370 is historic, coura-geous, far-reaching and it isalso in the interest of Jammuand Kashmir and also for India.I congratulate our prime min-ister for the sheer courage hehas shown. I also congratulateUnion Home Minister AmitShah for his strategic planningand execution (of the deci-sion)," he said.
Prasad said "not a singlebullet has been fired" in Jammuand Kashmir ever since thecontroversial provision of theConstitution was scrapped lastmonth.
"Curfew has been liftedfrom all areas (in J&K), exceptthose under the jurisdiction of14 police stations there," he
said.The law and justice minis-
ter said the entire world,including major countries likethe UK, USA, Russia andFrance, "appreciated" India'sstep to scrap the special statusto Jammu and Kashmir.
Even China did not "open-ly" raise its objection againstIndia over this issue, he point-ed out.
Slamming the Congressover the issue, Prasad said hecould not understand whatwas the opposition party'sstand on it. On Pakistan PrimeMinister Imran Khan's latestannouncement to hold a largegathering in Muzaffarabad, thecapital of Pakistan-occupiedKashmir (PoK), Prasad askedhim to first talk about thedemocratic rights of people liv-ing in that area.
"What is the situation ofpeople living in PoK? Werethey given their democraticrights? Do they have employ-
ment opportunities? Insteadof talking about Kashmir, bothImran Khan and Pakistan needto first talk about the violationof democratic rights of thepeople of PoK," he said.
"Talk about what is hap-pening with people living inBalochistan and Gilgit," Prasadfurther said.
In a tweet on Wednesday,Khan said, "I am going to do abig jalsa in Muzaffarabad onFriday 13 Sept, to send a mes-sage to the world about thecontinuing siege of IOJK byIndian Occupation forces; & toshow the Kashmiris thatPakistan stands resolutely withthem." Prasad, who also holdsthe charge of communications,electronics & information tech-nology ministries, listed sever-al other achievements of theModi government in its 100days of rule, like criminalisingtriple talaq and amendment tothe anti-terror law to designatean individual as terrorist. PTI
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Jaipur: The newly formed JalShakti Mantralaya is taking upinnovative measures to meetthe deadline for the 'Har GharJal' scheme by 2024, said UnionMinister of Jal Shakti, GajendraSingh Shekhawat.
The measures includeadopting a latest technologynamed Helibound to map thewater reservoirs pan India,bringing in a law on Right toWay for rivers, rejuvenatingtraditional water resourcesacross the nation and planningto bring the unsung heroes whohave done credible job inenhancing ground water level intheir villages on one platform.
In an exclusive interviewwith IANS, Shekhawatinformed that his ministry isnow contemplating to bring ina law on Right of Way for riversin India to ensure their smoothflow.
"It's sad that encroach-ments are coming up on rivers.So we are thinking to bring ina policy on Right of Way, so that
rivers have their own paths andways. The encroachments onrivers result in two major loss-es. Firstly, the water from riverfails to reach other water bod-ies, and secondly, the rivertakes its own toll when it rainsheavily which leads to hugelosses.
"So we have found thatrivers need to have Right ofWay and we are contemplatingto bring in a law on the same sothat there is a clear cut policyin this direction," he said.
The minister said that he isvery much inspired by Israel'smodel on water conservation.
"Israel's model is quiteinspiring when it comes towater harvesting. It is one coun-try which has set up an exam-ple by making itself self-suffi-cient on water related issues,despite getting only 10 per centof India's average rainfall.
"They have tackled eachissue of water smartly. Whilethe average rainfall in India is1068 mm, the average rainfall
in Israel is just 100 mm," theminister said.
The minister said that pri-marily, his ministry is workingon four key areas.
"The first issue is of waterharvesting and water reten-tion. The total water retentionis quite less in India. However,our under ground water capa-bility is quite huge withtremendous scope, but it is notused properly, rather it is overexploited.
"Secondly, we should usewater judiciously. As per thepresent statistics, we use 6 percent water for industry, 5 percent for drinking and domesticpurposes, while 89 per cent isused for agriculture. We need tobalance the supply chain anddemand side for judicious use,"Shekhawat said.
In fact, the average waterconsumption in India whileproducing one kg of rice is5,600 litre. In many places, itgoes up to 8,000 litre. However,China produces the same quan-
tity of rice with 350 litre ofwater.
Same is the case with sugarin Maharashtra where 80 percent water is consumed bysugar cane farming.
"The states will have tochange their policies. What weneed to look into is that whatwe can afford should be grown,"he said.
The minister said that hewill like to appreciate the statesof Haryana, Maharashtra andPunjab for introducing ambi-tious and inspiring policies tosave water.
"The Punjab governmentbrought in the 'Paani Bachao,Paisa Kamao' scheme, underwhich the farmers are gettingmonetary benefits for lesser useof tubewell.
"In Haryana, the govern-ment has asked the farmers togrow maize and corn instead ofrice, promising them 100 percent procurement. 18,000hectare of land has been trans-ferred to grow maize and corns.
"Similarly, in Maharashtra,drip irrigation has been madecompulsory, and the govern-ment will give money if thefarmers save 70 per cent waterlosses in sugarcane farming,"Shekhawat said.
The government needs toreduce water on agri con-sumption to be successful, headded. Reuse of water is thethird goal, he said, adding that"we need to learn the art ofwater reuse. Israel reuses itswater from industrial afflu-ence and domestic sewage out-put for underground waterrecharge and other purposes."
Fourthly, the minister said,technology should be used tominimise water use for agri-culture and irrigation purposes.
Also, one should reducenon-revenue water which istotal loss of water which hap-pens from the time you getwater from its source till thetime you get your bill, he said.
"In case of electricity, it iscalled as T&D. However, in
water, it is called non-revenuewater which is 45 per cent onan average in India while it isjust 10 per cent in developedcountries. However, there are afew cities in India such asJamshedpur where this figure isjust 10 per cent," Shekhawatsaid.
According to the minister,"The biggest challenge beingfaced by our ministry is thatthere is no audit of water, thereis no price for water and thereis no availability of groundwater data.
"Hence we have decided tohave the Helibound technolo-gy. This will be a programme tomap underground waterreserves across India. We havealready surveyed one millionsquare km and 1.5 millionsquare km more will be sur-veyed in the next two years.Under this technology, a heli-copter does cent per cent map-ping of the 300 metre sub sur-face level from wherever itpasses." IANS
t r i g g e r e dafter thedefault ofIL&FS iscausing thenon-bankingfinancial andh o u s i n gfinance com-panies to pull back on loans tomicro, small and medium sizedenterprises (MSMEs), Moody’ssaid on Wednesday.
“The value of loan againstproperty (LAP), assets undermanagement by HFCs andNBFCs increased by 8.3 percent over the six months lead-ing to December 2018, downfrom 15.4 per cent growthover the previous six months,”Moody’s said.
Moreover, according toMoody’s, it does not expectLAP lending by NBFCs andHFCs to pick-up significantlyin the next few months too asthe operating environmentremains challenging for themas they continue to face issueswith accessing funds.
(HFCs) are pulling back onloan against property (LAP),lending to micro, small andmedium sized enterprises(MSMEs) because of the fund-ing squeeze caused by the liq-uidity crisis in the country’sfinancial sector,” Moody’s saidin a note.
This situation is credit neg-ative for asset-backed securities(ABS) backed by LAP toMSMEs, because it will reducerefinancing options for thesesmall businesses, potentiallyleading to loan delinquenciesand defaults, the brokeragefirm added.
Besides, it said that thedeclining real estate prices insome cities and a slower paceof price growth in others hascurtailed refinancing of LAPand hurt recovery prospects fordefaulted loans.
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Foreign Portfolio Investors(FPIs)on Wednesday
turned buyers for the firsttime in September. FPIs hadbeen on a sell mode despitethe roll-back of the tax sur-charge on them as macro-economic concerns took thecentre stage.
On Wednesday, FPIsbought �266.89 crore worthof stocks while DomesticInst i tut iona l Investorsb ought �1,132 .42 croreworth. However, the out-flow had steadily declinedfrom �2,016.20 crore at thestart of the month, down to�188.08 crore on September 9.
“A gamut of factors, suchas s lower-than-expecteddemand growth in majoreconomies, geopolitical andtrade tensions and a gradualweakening of the economicgrowth prospects in India,have contributed to a build-up of risk aversion, whichhas impeded the demandfor emerging market (EM)debt instruments,” the ratingagency said.
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China announced Wednesday it would exempt 16 categories of products from US tariffs, aheadof a fresh round of trade talks next month.China and the US have been embroiled in a year-long trade war that has seen the two sides
slap punitive tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars in two-way trade.The exemptions announced Wednesday will become effective on September 17 and be valid
for one year, according to the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, which releasedtwo lists that include seafood products and anti-cancer drugs.
The lists mark the first time Beijing has announced products to be excluded from tariffs.Other product categories which will become exempt from tariffs include alfalfa pellets, fish
feed, medical linear accelerators and mould release agents. Wednesday’s lists do not include big-ticket items such as soybeans and pork. Trade negotiators have said they will meet in Washingtonin early October, raising hopes that fresh negotiations could help ease tensions between the world’stwo biggest economies.
Both sides imposed fresh tit-for-tat tariffs on September 1.
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American businesses areincreasingly pessimistic
about their prospects inChina as the US trade warrumbles on, with growingnumbers of companiesexpecting their revenues andinvestment in the local mar-ket to shrink, a survey said onWednesday.
The American Chamberof Commerce in Shanghai’sannual China BusinessReport also found that 75 percent of US firms opposed theUS use of punitive tariffs toforce China into a trade dealand market-access reforms.
President Donald Trumpsays his tariffs against billionsof dollars in Chinese goods —which have been reciprocat-
ed by Beijing — are hurtingChina and are good for theUnited States.
But only half of US com-panies surveyed said theyexpect 2019 revenues inChina to increase year-on-year, while just over a quarterexpect them to fall — com-pared with just 6.1 per cent inthe previous year’s poll.
Overall, most members ofthe chamber remain opti-mistic about a country whoseconsumer market is still blos-soming.
The report also foundChina’s ongoing economicslowdown — which predatesthe trade war -- remains thetop overall concern of UScompanies.
But the standoff is a veryclose second, and more than
half of companies surveyedsaid they were delaying orreducing further investmentin China as a direct result ofthe tit-for-tat tariffs.
Just 47 per cent said theyexpected to increase theirinvestments in China in 2019,down from 61.6 per cent lastyear.
“American companiescontinue to do well in China,but the trade conflict nowshadows many businesses,”said Eric Zheng, chairman ofthe trade association.
Some of the biggestswings in the survey came inthe area of future expecta-tions for China’s market, with61.4 percent expressing opti-mism, down from historicalrates in the 80-90 percentrange.
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Germany luxury car manu-facturer BMW will tem-
porarily close its British plantin Oxford for two days aroundthe current scheduled date forBrexit, a company executiverevealed Tuesday. “The firstconcrete measures we haveagreed with suppliers is (that)we will not be producing onOctober 31st and November1st,” BMW’s chief finance offi-cer Nicolas Peter told reportersat the Frankfurt Motor Show.
He said the decision wasagreed with suppliers to “ensurethe logistical security” of theOxford site, which producesthe Mini brand models.
“We have prepared ourprocesses for the Brexit, our sys-tems are able to cope,” assuredPeter. Despite a series of setbacksin Westminster, British PrimeMinister Boris Johnson has insist-ed he will not ask seek a new post-ponement to the UK’s with-drawal from the European Union,
currently set for October 31.Like other car manufactur-
ers with plants in the UK, BMWis preparing for the prospect ofa ‘no-deal Brexit’ and Britain’swithdrawal from the EU with-out a deal, which Peter warnedcould push prices up.
“A ‘no-Deal’ means thatWTO (World TradeOrganisation) tariffs will comeinto force, which means anaggravated situation comparedto the existing one,” he said.
“We would therefore haveto increase prices in differentmarkets,” if sales and produc-tion decreased, he explained.
Other manufacturers havealready warned of drastic con-sequences if Brexit goes badly.
Last month, Peugeot chiefCarlos Tavares told theFinancial Times that produc-tion of Vauxhall and OpelAstra cars could be shifted tosouthern Europe fromEllesmere Port on Merseysideif Brexit has a negative impacton business.
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Apple is finally taking onNetf lix with its own
streaming television serviceand, uncharacteristically forthe company, offering it at abargain price — $5 a monthbeginning on November 1.
Walt Disney Co is launch-ing its own assault on Netflixthe same month, for just $7.
It may be sheer coinci-dence that the cost of payingfor both Apple and Disneysubscriptions will still be a dol-lar less than Netflix’s mainplan, priced at $13 a month.But the intent to disruptNetflix’s huge lead in thestreaming business couldn’tbe clearer.
Apple delivered the newsTuesday while also unveilingthree new iPhones that won’tlook much different than lastyear’s models other than boast-ing an additional camera fortaking pictures from extra-wide angles.
The aggressive pricing isunusual for Apple, which typ-ically charges a premium forproducts and services to bur-nish its brand. Most analysts
expected Apple to charge $8 to$10 per month for the service,which will be called AppleTV Plus.
But Apple is entering amarket that Netflix practical-ly created in 2007 — aroundthe same time as the firstiPhone came out. And Netflixhas amassed more than 150million subscribers, meaningthat Apple needed to make asplash.
“You have to expect they’regoing to do something, con-sidering how hyper competi-tive the streaming video spaceis,” said Tim Hanlon, CEO ofVertere Group.
Apple CEO Tim Cook didnot have much new to sayabout the TV service beyondits pricing and debut date,although he did show a trail-er for a new Jason Momoa-ledseries called “See.” Netflixdeclined to comment.
In the past, Netflix CEOReed Hastings has depicted theincreased competition as apositive for everyone, allowingconsumers to create their ownentertainment bundles insteadof accepting bundles puttogether at higher prices by
cable and satellite TV ser-vices.
Like Netflix and similarservices from Amazon andHulu, Apple has been spend-ing billions of dollars for orig-inal programs.
The most anticipated so farseems to be “The MorningShow,” a comedy starringJennifer Aniston, ReeseWitherspoon and Steve Carrell.The service will launch withnine original shows and films,with more expected eachmonth. It will only carryApple’s original programmingand will be available in 100countries at launch.
Since it began focusing onexclusive shows and movies sixyears ago, Netflix has built ahuge library of original pro-gramming and now spendsupward of $10 billion annual-ly on its lineup.
Apple also announced anew videogame subscriptionservice that will cost $5 amonth when it rolls out Sept19. Called Apple Arcade, theservice will allow subscribersto play more than 100 gamesselected by Apple that areexclusive to the service.
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Apple unveiled its iPhone 11models Tuesday with a
price cut for the most basicmodels while also laying outplans for streaming and gam-ing services as it bids to weath-er the slump in the globalsmartphone market.
Price appeared to be a keyconsideration as the tech giantreduced the entry level price forthe iPhone 11 to $699 andundercut rivals for its gamingand streaming television sub-scriptions. Apple unveiled threeversions of the iPhone 11including “Pro” models withtriple camera and otheradvanced features starting at$999 and $1,099, unchangedfrom last year’s prices, toutingupgraded features includingultra-wide camera lenses.
The surprise from Applewas the reduction in the start-ing price at $699, down from$749 for the iPhone XR a yearago even as many premiumdevices are being priced around$1,000.
The new iPhones are “jam-packed with new capabilitiesand an incredible new design,”Apple chief executive TimCook told a launch event in
Cupertino, California as thecompany set plans to sell thenew handsets on September 20.
Apple’s announcementsappeared to be aimed atemphasizing value as the com-pany looks to shift its businessmodel to reduce its dependenceon smartphones and tie in dig-ital content and other servicesto its devices.
“I think the iPhone 11 iscompelling and may convincepeople to upgrade earlier thanthey might have otherwisegiven the lower price andlonger battery life, not just animproved camera.” With thenew devices and services, “Ithink there are more reasons tostay with Apple than to defectfrom Apple,” said PatrickMoorhead, analyst at MoorInsights & Strategy.
Apple TV+ service willlaunch November 1 in morethan 100 countries at $4.99 permonth and will include a “pow-erful and inspiring lineup oforiginal shows, movies anddocumentaries.” While Apple’sstreaming service will havelimited content at first, its priceis below the $6.99 for theforthcoming Disney+ serviceand the more expensive plansfrom Netflix.
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State-owned hydro powergiant NHPC on Wednesday
said its board next week willconsider a proposal to raise upto Rs 2,500 core via bonds,loans or ECBs.
The fund will be raisedthrough issuance of corporatebonds in one or moreseries/tranches on privateplacement basis and/or raisingof term loans/inter-corporateloan/External CommercialBorrowings (ECB) in suitabletranches, it added.
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China on Tuesday removedlimits on foreign institutions
wanting to invest in its stocksand bond markets, as it seeks toattract overseas investment amida slowing economy and a tradespat with the United States.
Foreign individuals arebarred from investing directly inChina’s markets, but the countryallows certain institutions to buyshares under the so-calledQualified Foreign InstitutionalInvestor (QFII) scheme.
The State Administration ofForeign Exchange (SAFE) saidTuesday it has removed theoverall ceiling of $300 billion ontotal asset purchases under thisscheme, offering unfetteredaccess to the world’s second-largest capital market.
A cap on a yuan-denomi-nated sister scheme — theRenminbi Qualified ForeignInstitutional Investor (RQFII)programme, which allowedoverseas institutions to invest inChinese securities using theoffshore yuan — was alsoremoved on Tuesday.
“Foreign institutionalinvestors with the relevant qual-ifications can remit funds tocarry out investment in securi-ties in compliance with regula-tions, greatly enhancing theconvenience for foreigninvestors participating in theonshore financial market,” theregulator said in a statement.
Limited (NCML) onWednesday said that SirajChoudhury has been appoint-ed as its new ManagingDirector and CEO.
Choudhury will replaceSanjay Kaul, who has beenappointed as Chairman of theNCML Board, an official state-ment said. Choudhury hadretired as Chairman and CEOof Cargill India after serving for30 years.
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Greater Noida: Real estatedeveloper Migsun Group hasreceived the completion cer-tificate for its Greater Noidaproject, Migsun Ultimo. Thedeveloper has received thecompletion certificate for atotal of 584 units of tower 1,2& 3 which are housed in theproject. Launched in February2015, Migsun-Ultimo has total1168 units and is a 6.5 acreshaven of beautifully landscapedwalkways with lush greens allaround. A total of 6 towers areavailable with 2 and 3 BHKapartments, ranging from 1005to 1575 Sq Feet. PNS
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The US has unveiled newsteps to fight terrorism
and add muscle to the Trumpadministration's ability topursue terror suspects, theirfinanciers and supportersworldwide.
Utilising a new execu-tive order signed by PresidentDonald Trump, issued onthe eve of the 9/11 anniver-sary, the TreasuryDepartment sanctioned overtwo dozen individuals andentities from 11 terroristgroups, including Pakistan-based Tehrik-e-TalibanPakistan (TTP).
Noor Wali, also knownas Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud,from the TTP was one of thesanctioned individuals, theUS State Department said,describing him as a SpeciallyDesignated Global Terrorist.
He was named theleader of the terror group in
June 2018 following the deathof former TTP leader MullahFazlullah.
Under Noor Wali's leader-ship, TTP has claimed respon-sibility for numerous deadlyterrorist attacks acrossPakistan, the State Departmentsaid in a press release.
The executive order allowsthe US government to bettertarget terror group leaders andprovides new tools to pursueindividuals who participate interrorist training, TreasurySecretary Steven Mnuchin said.
It order also authorisessecondary sanctions on foreignfinancial institutions that haveknowingly conducted or facil-itated significant transactionswith sanctioned persons,Mnuchin said. He added thatthe order targets those actorsfor and behalf of specially-des-ignated global terrorists.
"Specifically, we haveleaders, operative andfinanciers from over 11 terror-
ist organisations, includingIran's Quds Forces, Hamas,ISIS, Al Qaeda, and their affil-iates," Mnuchin told WhiteHouse reporters at a joint newsconference with the Secretaryof State Mike Pompeo.
Pompeo described theexecutive order as the "most-significant update" to counter-terrorism sanctions authoritysince September 2001.
The treasury secretary saidthat his department wasenhancing efforts to deny ter-rorist access to the financialsystem.
"Since the horrific attacksof 9/11, the US government hasrefocused its counter-terrorismefforts to constantly adapt toemerging threats. PresidentTrump's modernised counter-terrorism Executive Orderenhances the authorities we useto target the finances of terrorgroups and their leaders toensure they are as robust aspossible," Mnuchin said.
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Speaking to theBundestag lower
house of parliament, theGerman leader saidthere was still time tohammer out a workableaccord.
"The EU will in afew months experiencethe exit of an importantmember, the exit ofBritain," Merkel said.
"I am firmly con-vinced that we still have everychance to do it in an orderlyway and the German govern-ment will work toward makingthis possible until the very lastday."
However she added that ifthe European Union andBritain failed to agree on termsfor Brexit that Germany as thebloc's top economy was "pre-pared" for a disorderly divorce.
British Prime MinisterBoris Johnson suspended par-liament Tuesday following aseries of bruising clashes with
MPs over his Brexit plan butinsisted he was making everyeffort to strike an exit deal withthe European Union.
As the planned departuredate of October 31st looms,Johnson said: "We're workingvery hard to get a deal. I thinkwe will get a deal but if absolute-ly necessary we will come outwith no deal."
The Conservative leaderhas faced intense opposition inthe House of Commons to histhreat to leave the bloc withoutagreeing exit terms with
Brussels. Before he sus-pended parliament,MPs rushed throughlegislation requiringJohnson to postponeBrexit by three monthsif he fails to secure adeal at an EU summiton October 17th-18th.
He took office inJuly promising to rene-gotiate the Brexit termsstruck by his predeces-sor, Theresa May, whichwere rejected three
times by MPs. He has previ-ously said he would rather be"dead in a ditch" than delayBrexit.
Merkel has repeatedlyexpressed concerns that a no-deal exit could deal a body blowto the European economy witha recession already looming.
But she has stressed that the integrity of the EU is too important to sacrifice core principles for thesake of a deal.
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The EU warnedWednesday that Israeli
Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu's pledge to annexthe Jordan Valley in the occu-pied West Bank if he winsnext week's election under-mines chances for peace inthe region.
"The policy of settlement construction andexpansion... is illegal underinternational law and its con-tinuation, and actions takenin this context, underminethe viability of the two-statesolution and the prospects fora lasting peace," an EUspokesperson said in a state-ment to AFP.
kicked off the campaign fornext month's Canadian gener-al election, gunning to holdonto his liberal majority in atight race against newcomerson both flanks.
The parties have alreadybeen wooing voters with pre-election ads, announcementsand whistle stops in key bat-tlegrounds across the country.
But Governor General JuliePayette's dissolution of parlia-ment, at Trudeau's behest,marked the official start of therace to the Oct 21 ballot.
Mr Trudeau, who swept tooffice in November 2015promising "sunny ways" andstressing the importance ofgender equality, gay rights andthe environment, faces an elec-torate more focused on theeconomy and affordabilitywhen it votes on Oct 21.
The 47-year-old marriedfather of three, whose colour-ful socks and classic goodlooks are often splashed acrossthe international media, mayhave history on his side.
Not since 1935 has aCanadian Prime Minister who won a parliamentarymajority in his first term beenbooted from office in the nextelection.
But Mr Trudeau may notwin enough seats to govern byhimself after a series of mis-steps that called into questionhis leadership while cuttinginto his once sky-high popu-larity.
That would leave him andhis Liberal Party weakened,relying on opposition membersof parliament to push throughlegislation.
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Turkey has slammed as"racist" Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu'scontroversial pledge to annex theJordan Valley in the occupiedWest Bank if he is re-elected inSeptember 17 polls.
"The election promise ofNetanyahu, who is giving allkind of illegal, unlawful andaggressive messages before theelection, is a racist apartheidstate," Foreign Minister MevlutCavusoglu wrote on his officialTwitter account in both Englishand Turkis on Tuesday.
"Will defend rights andinterests of our Palestinianbrothers&sisters till the end," headded.
The Turkish governmentregards itself as a champion ofthe Palestinian cause and hasnever shied away from criticismof Israel. Netanyahu issued thedeeply controversial pledge as hegears up for elections onSeptember 17. He also reiterat-ed his intention to annex Israelisettlements in the wider WestBank if re-elected.
Palestinians immediatelyreacted to Netanyahu's state-ment by saying he was destroy-ing any hopes for peace, whilehis electoral opponents accusedhim of a cynical play for right-wing nationalist votes with pollsonly a week away.
Iran on Wednesday rejectedthe possibility of a meeting
between President HassanRouhani and US counterpartDonald Trump, after the WhiteHouse signalled it was open tosuch an encounter.
Two of Trump's top lieu-tenants on Tuesday indicated hewas ready to meet the Iranianpresident without precondi-tions, after the US leader sackedhis hawkish national securityadviser John Bolton.
But Secretary of State MikePompeo and Treasury SecretarySteven Mnuchin stressed theUnited States would maintain itscampaign of "maximum pres-sure" against the Islamic repub-lic.
The idea of a Trump-Rouhani meeting was floatedlast month by French PresidentEmmanuel Macron, who hasbeen spearheading Europeanefforts to de-escalate tensions
between Iran and the UnitedStates.
The arch-foes have been atloggerheads since May last yearwhen Trump unilaterally with-drew from a 2015 nuclear dealand began reimposing crip-pling sanctions on Iran.
Iran's representative at theUnited Nations reiteratedRouhani's position in an inter-view published Wednesday bystate news agency IRNA.
Majid Takht-Ravanchi saida meeting could take place onlyif Washington ends its "eco-nomic terrorism" by lifting all ofits sanctions against Tehran.
The Iranian envoy said anymeeting must also be held in theframework of the group ofmajor powers that negotiatedthe 2015 nuclear deal.
"As long as the US govern-ment's economic terrorism andsuch cruel sanctions areimposed on the Iranian people,there is no room for negotia-tions," he was quoted as sayingby IRNA.
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citizens had been detained inIran, the latest in a series ofWesterners to be seized byauthorities in Tehran.
News of the trio's detentioncomes at a sensitive geopoliti-cal juncture, and after Australiaannounced that it would join aUS-led mission to protect ship-ping through the Strait ofHormuz with tensions high inthe Gulf region.
"The Department ofForeign Affairs and Trade isproviding consular assistance tothe families of three Australiansdetained in Iran," a spokesper-son told AFP, declining to com-ment further citing privacyobligations.
Canberra is battling tokeep efforts to free the triounder wraps, and it is notclear if the three have beencharged.
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Peru grabbed a slice of revengefor their loss to Brazil in the
Copa America final, defeatingthe five-time World Cup winners1-0 in a friendly in Los Angeles.
A headed goal fromArgentina-based defender LuisAbram was enough to give Perua hard-fought win over theBrazilians on Tuesday.
The defeat brought an end toBrazil’s 17-game winning streak,a run which started with a vic-tory over the United States justover a year ago.
Brazil coach Tite meanwhileopted against starting Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar, four daysafter he had made a successfulreturn from injury with a goaland an assist in a 2-2 draw withColombia on Friday.
Tite, who had been reluctantto start Neymar in back-to-backgames as the striker regains fit-ness, brought on the PSG for-ward after 63 minutes in place ofLiverpool’s Roberto Firmino.
Neymar attempted to upthe tempo in attack, but wasunable to break the deadlock,with Brazil, who were also miss-ing Dani Alves and Thiago Silva,struggling to find their usualattacking rhythm.
Instead it was Peru whograbbed a winner, Abram risingto meet Yoshimar Yotun’s free-kick to glance in the winner.
MARTINEZ HAT-TRICKLautaro Martinez fired a
22-minute hat-trick as Argentinathrashed Mexico 4-0 in a friend-ly international in San Antonio.
Inter Milan striker Martinezscored in the 17th, 22nd and39th minutes at the Alamodometo give Argentina a deserved winover a lacklustre Mexico team.
Paris Saint-Germain mid-fielder Leandro Paredes scoredArgentina’s other goal from thepenalty spot after 33 minutes asthe South American giantsromped into a 4-0 lead at half-time.
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England and Portugal both scored fivegoals while France scored three as theyovercame lowly-ranked Kosovo,
Andorra and Lithuania in Euro 2020 qual-ifying on Tuesday.
Captain Ronaldo, making his 160thinternational appearance, scored four asPortugal won 5-1 in Vilnius and strength-ened their position in Group B after a slug-gish start.
For Ronaldo it was a second hat-trick inthree internationals. The victory overLithuania, 130th in the world rankings, keptbrought Portugal five points behind Ukraineat the top of Group B.
Portugal, who opened the group withhome draws against Ukraine andSerbia, started their recovery witha victory in Belgrade on Saturday.They have a game in hand on allthe other teams in the group.
Ronaldo’s first goal was apenalty. The second, with thescores level after an hour, was ascuffed low shot from outside thepenalty area which took a coupleof stranges bounces off the artificial turfbefore it was parried into the air by the div-ing Ernestas Setkus. The dropping ball hitthe back of the goalie’s head before rollingin. The third was a clinical volley from closerange. The fourth was a low shot into the cor-ner.
Vytautas Andriuskevicius scored thehosts’ only goal before William Carvalhoadded a fifth for the reigning champions atthe end.
Serbia beat Luxembourg 3-1, asAleksandar Mitrovic netted twice, to solid-ify their grasp on third place. They are a pointbehind Portugal.
In Southampton, Gareth Southgate’sEngland side trailed early on to Kosovo,ranked 120th in the world, when ValonBerisha scored after 34 seconds. Englandreplied with a first-half goal binge that ended
with Jadon Sancho scoring twice to make it5-1 at the break.
‘BIZARRE GAME’The visitors claimed two back in the sec-
ond half, including a second for Lazio mid-fielder Berisha, but the 5-3 victory putEngland three points clear in Group A, aheadof the second-placed Czech Republic, whobeat Montenegro 3-0.
“A bizarre game,” said Southgate. “Theoutstanding parts of our play were obvious.The errors were obvious.”
In Paris, the world champions made lightwork of beating 136-ranked Andorra 3-0. Itwas Les Bleus’ 100th match at the Stade deFrance.
Antoine Griezmann missed a penalty forhis country for the second game running butKinglsey Coman, Clement Lenglet, with hisfirst on the international goal, and WissamBen Yedder clinched three points.
“It is really annoying. I’ll just need tokeep working. You can’t be on top of yourgame all the time,” Griezmann said.
Cenk Tosun scored twice as the Turksbeat Moldova with ease in a 4-0 victory inChisinau. But Iceland, who had been levelwith the top two, suffered a blow as they lost4-2 in Albania.
That result meant Iceland droppedthree points behind. It also changed thetiebreak, allowing Turkey to take first placefrom France.
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Former captain Bhaichung Bhutia on Wednesdayhailed the Indian football team’s performance,
terming the result as a “great achievement”.He said the result can motivate the Indian play-
ers to have a shot at advancing further to the nextround.
“It was a big achievement, drawing against Asianchampions Qatar and that too in Qatar. This matchshould motivate the players to do well and instill con-fidence in the upcoming matches (of the World Cupqualifiers),” Bhutia said.
“The boys have played well against Oman andQatar and if they continue in the same way, therecan be a possibility for India to make it to the nextround, you never know. But it should not be a one-off performance and they should maintain it in thematches coming up,” he added.
Goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu was the starof the match as he single-handedly stopped theQataris from scoring any goal by making at least 10saves.
“He was simply outstanding and he was the mainreason (for the draw),” the 42-year-old Bhutia saidof Gurpreet who also wore the captain’s armbandin the match against Qatar.
Talking further about the match against Qatar,Bhutia, who played 104 international matchesbetween 1995 and 2011, said, “India defended real-ly well, the players maintained the shape andremained compact throughout.
“Against Oman, India were dominating in thefirst half but let in two late goals. So, against Qatarit was very scary (thinking India may concede lategoals) but in the end they were able to keep theirnerves and did not commit any mistake.”
He, however, said that it’s early to judge headcoach Stimac as he is new to the job.
“It is too early to say anything about the coach.India has done well so far in these World Cup qual-ifiers and it should not be about one match or twomatches. It should be consistent,” said the formerstriker, who was known as ‘Sikkimese Sniper’ in hisplaying days.
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He is “more than happy”with the solitary pointthat the Indian football
team snatched by drawing againstAsian champion Qatar but coachIgor Stimac says he has told theplayers to stay grounded as theycan’t afford complacency duringFIFA World Cup Qualifiers.
The former Croatian interna-tional wants the Indian players tostay focussed and garner morepoints in their upcoming match-es. India dished out a gritty per-formance to Qatar to a goallessdraw in a FIFA World CupRound 2 qualifying match hereon Tuesday night.
“As a coach, I don’t have timeto waste in thinking too muchhigher than it was a few days agowhen we lost to Oman. Stilltoday as a coach, of course, I ammore than happy to get a pointagainst the reigning champions ofAsia,” Stimac said at the post-match press conference here.
“We need to improve in cer-tain areas, on the other hand, allcongratulations not just to my
players but also for Qatar. Therewas excitement in front of bothgoals, of course.”
“It was a great experience forus. All credits to my players, I amvery proud of my players. But themessage to the team is to keepyourself down as it is just a point,”he added.
Despite playing without theirtalismanic captain and strikerSunil Chhetri, who was laid lowby fever, the Indians deniedQatar, who won the Asian Cuptitle in January, despite the homeside managing more than adozen shots on target.
“Qatar deserved more fromthis game. They created morechances today but we also hadmany chances,” Stimac said.
Stimac also took a potshot atthose who criticised his team’s fit-ness levels after India lost 1-2 toOman in their campaign-open-er, with both Oman goals com-ing in the final eight minutes.
The coach asserted that fit-ness was never a problem for hisside.
“You see, I cannot reply toeach comment after a game
because not many people are welleducated about football. We area fit team and we proved ittoday.
“We played against Qatarand we made space for ourselveseven in the last minutes. Wemade sprints even in the 95thminute, showing a lot of concen-tration. So we showed good fit-ness,” Stimac said.
India will play Bangladesh intheir next World Cup qualifying
match in Kolkata on October 15and the coach expects a fullhouse at the mecca of Indianfootball.
“Our country has a popula-tion of over 1.3 billion peoplecompared to that this was a verysmall crowd.
“I want to see 80,000 peoplein Kolkata against Bangladesh.We deserve that and they need tocome and support us,” Stimacsigned off.
India captain Sunil Chhetri isextremely proud of the way
the Blue Tigers fought valiant-ly against Qatar and held themto a goal-less draw in the secondmatch of the FIFA World CupQatar 2022 and AFC AsianCup China 2023 joint qualifiersRound 2 in Doha. Chhetri, who could not takepart in the crucial game on
Tuesday because of fever, tookto Twitter to express his joy afterIndia earned their first points inthe ongoing qualifiers.
“Dear India, that is myteam and those are my boys!Cannot describe how proud Iam at this moment. Not a bigresult for the table, but in termsof a fight, as big as it can get.Huge credit to the coaching staffand the dressing room,” Chhetritweeted.
Star goalkeeper GurpreetSingh believes anything is
possible in football after a grit-ty India held Asian championsQatar to a goalless draw in aFIFA World Cup Round 2qualifying match.
“I feel extremely proud ofthe team for our performanceagainst Qatar,” said Gurpreet,who also worn the captain’sarmband.
“The team-effort helpedus achieve the result. It willhelp us immensely in the qual-ifiers.
“We have played just twomatches, and we have playedwell, that too against two pow-erful teams. It gives us thatadded motivation and confi-dence that in football, anythingis possible,” he added.
Custodian Gurpreet, whowas unbeatable under theIndian bar, credited the entireteam for stealing an unexpect-ed point from the away match.
“Everyone played theirhearts out, and gave everythingout on the pitch. That enabledus to come back to the dress-ing room, satisfied, and with avery crucial point,” he said.
He also thanked the Indianfans, who had turned up inlarge numbers.
“It was like playing at homeaway from home. The supportwas incredible. They spurredus on, cheering us all through-out,” he said.
must improve on "obvious"defensive errors after beingbailed out by another devastat-ing attacking display in athrilling 5-3 win over Kosovo inSouthampton.
Jadon Sancho scored hisfirst international goals andHarry Kane and RaheemSterling were also on target asSouthgate's men took their tallyto 19 goals in four Euro 2020qualifiers.
"A bizarre game," saidSouthgate. "There were obviouspoor errors for goals but I'mreally pleased with the compo-sure we showed.
"We had devastating attack-ing play throughout and weused the ball well.
"The outstanding parts ofour play were obvious. Theerrors were obvious."
Kosovo had been on a 15-game unbeaten run stretchingback two years and were giventhe start to spark dreams of amonumental shock for a nationonly given FIFA membershipthree years ago.
Just 35 seconds in, a mis-placed pass by Keane allowedValon Berisha to fire past JordanPickford and give the visitors thelead.
England bounced back inemphatic fashion. It was anoth-er demonstration of the paceand firepower that will make theThree Lions among thefavourites for Euro 2020 oncethe formality of mathematical-ly securing their place at nextsummer's showpiece is out ofthe way.
The World Cup semi-final-ists moved three points clear atthe top of Group A ahead of theCzech Republic, who won, 3-0,in Montenegro. Kosovodropped to third, four pointsbehind. England have a game inhand on all four sides belowthem.
Sterling was in scintillatingform, but the Manchester Citywinger scored his sixth goal inhis last six international caps wasin unusual fashion, with a tow-ering header from close range.
Sterling then turnedprovider with a dangerous dartinto the Kosovar half before tee-ing up Kane to drill low past AroMuric.
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turned into his own net byMergim Vojvoda and theStandard Liege right-back wasfurther embarrassed as Englandstruck twice more before half-time.
Sterling was too quick forthe Kosovo defence as he cut infrom the left before playing aperfectly weighted pass forSancho to fire in at the near postfor his first goal for his country.
A minute later, the 19-year-old had a second, again thanks
to unselfish play from Sterlingafter leaving Vojvoda in hiswake.
"I'm delighted to score myfirst goal for England," saidSancho."It was a crazy game.Five goals and I'm just happy toget two of them."
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Kids who struggle with atten-tion often do better if they aregiven brief breaks for activeplay. Taking a break tobounce on an exercise ball,
breaking up learning into chunks, andoutdoor play times, or providing a quickstretching or jumping jacks break in theclassroom, can all help the attention-challenged student stay focused. Startingwith 15 minutes of active play before achallenging task can also help a child staymore engaged.
Children often struggle to pay atten-tion, but when they are given a task theyview as challenging or hard, they are evenmore likely to give up before truly try-ing.
When a child is struggling with a dif-ficult task, clutter in the classroom or onthe desk can make it impossible to keephis/her brain where it needs to be.Remove unnecessary clutter and visualexperiences from the workspace. Thisgives If you notice a child is constantlyavoiding work or seems overly distract-ed, ask that child to rate the level of chal-lenge found in the activity on a scale of1 to 10. If the child indicates the activi-ty is an eight or higher, asks what couldbe done to make the task a two or three.Sometimes, you will get excellent insightinto what you can do to help the studentdecrease his/her level of frustration thechild fewer excuses for not focusing onthe task at hand.
When it comes to homework andschool, a child’s focus may be disruptedbecause they may think certain things aretoo hard, or they need more specificinstructions and strategies. When doinghomework, some children work best ifthey know that the time to pay attentionis limited. Set an egg timer, and help thechild learn to expand the amount of timethey can pay attention. Start with two orthree or four minutes, whatever they cantolerate, and work up from there.
Reading a book is a great activity toincrease your child’s focus, as are cross-word and picture puzzles – anything thatforces children to search for details andunusual patterns and cues. Memoryand concentration games, where youremember certain pictures, patterns,and where objects are located, are greatmemory games for tots also, relaxationand positive imagery games are helpful.Have your child close their eyes anddescribe a fun place and provide detailsabout what they ‘see. You can also letthem look at a favorite book or picture,close their eyes, and describe it to you.
Children can tune out and stop pay-ing attention when they think a task istoo hard for them. They may needinstructions broken into small steps.Keep in mind that that giving shortreminders is more positive and worksbetter than long-winded explanations,yelling, or guilt tripping. And rememberto praise the children's efforts. A lot of
times in our culture, we praise the out-come. We say 'Great job, look what youcan do. We ? don't focus on how won-derful it is that the child put effort intosomething, Instead of saying 'You didn'twrite your name quite right, or the let-ter 'H' goes like this, we should say 'Youtry so hard to hold your pen and staywithin the line. That's wonderful.'
It's just a fact, kids get the wiggles.You keep a kid stuck in a hard seat for
more than an hour and they're likely toexplode – not to mention loose their abil-ity to pay attention. Kids – especiallythose who struggle with attention – needto have regular breaks for active play.Incorporating indoor or outdoor playtimes, jumping jacks, or providing aquick stretching session will do wondersfor a child's ability to concentrate on atask and pay attention to what's beingtaught. 10 to 15 minute "active play" ses-sions before a challenging task or learn-ing session will help any child to stayengaged and pay attention.
You'd think that paying attention isan intrinsic character of all humanbeings, but it isn't. Paying attention issomething that is learned. It can also betaught. Parents and teachers shouldtake time to teach children what it meansto pay attention and what it looks like.Throughout the day teachers should takebreaks to practice attentive behavior. Usean electronic timer, stop watch or hour-glass and have your child or studentspractice focusing on a object, discussionor other activity exclusively for just a fewminutes. Then have the students askthemselves if they were able to pay fullattention during the time. Having atten-tion breaks where students focus on pay-ing attention is a great exercise that willhelp improve their ability to focus andattention span.
If you've tried just about everything,and you're finding that your child or stu-
dents still can't stay focused on the taskat hand, you may want to break the taskdown into smaller parts – ones that canbe completed independent of each otherin less time. For example, if the task isto put together a visual report about thestate of Texas that includes economy,geography, culture and history compo-nents, you may want to have the childfocus on one component at time. Onlywhen one component is finished areinstructions given for completing thenext component. Once all componentparts have been completed, instruc-tions are then given as to how the indi-vidual parts are to be combined to cre-ate the visual report.
It's also important to recognise thatattention span for children develops atdifferent rates for different children. Itmay be necessary to adjust a task only forcertain students who have a short atten-tion span. You may also consider provid-ing students who have attention deficitdisorder set intervals to complete work.For example, a student with a short atten-tion span may be given 5 minutes tocomplete however much work he can.After his 5 minutes are up, he is given a5 minute break before focusing foranother 5 minutes on completing thetask. Breaking up a task provides childrenstruggling to pay attention the opportu-nity to decompress and then re-engagewith the task feeling refreshed andrenewed.
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The conversation kicks offquite effortlessly when actorRicha Chadha, on hearing
that I work for this newspaper,immediately takes a shine to me. Inthe blink of an eye, she recalls her“good, old” college days when sheinterned at the daily in the samesection. “I have a stack of newspa-pers with so many bylines,” shereminisces.
The discussion continues abouther experiences in journalism andthen turn towards her forthcomingfilm, Section 375: Marzi YaZabardasti, opposite actor AkshayeKhanna. This section of the IndianPenal Code defines rape as a crim-inal offence and states that a manis said to commit rape when he hassexual intercourse with a womanagainst her will or without her con-sent or if she is a minor. “The wholefilm rests on the subject — can a lieruin all the truths? Who do youbelieve? The guy who says that hedidn’t do anything or the girl whosays that he raped me,” asks Richa.
The film revolves around afilmmaker, who stands accused bya member of his female crew ofhaving raped her at his residence.The case draws unprecedentedmedia attention as argumentsbetween the criminal lawyer(played by Akshaye) representingthe accused and the public prose-cutor Hiral Gandhi (played byRicha) representing the victim heatup as they produce undeniable evi-dence proving their respectiveclients’s innocence. The questionremains — will justice be served?
Richa’s understanding of hercharacter is that Hiral is a very pas-sionate and idealistic girl, who hasjust started her career. She wants toprove a point. She believes in “nail-ing” the bad guys. “When we startour new jobs, we have so much ide-alism and enthusiasm, and slowlywe get jaded or cynical. So she’s allnew to the world of justice andAkshaye sir’s character has been hermentor. She’s his prodigy,” theactor says.
A film like this could beextremely draining and if onedoesn’t catch the vibe of the char-acter right, one can start off on awrong footing. The leads very wellknew that they needed to imbibethe energy of the film to crack itcorrectly. And thus they strategical-ly kept their conversations to bareminimum while shooting the film.Richa’s rich repertoire is a testimo-ny to her versatility and strong act-ing chops. In this film, she foundit necessary to allow the simmer-ing tension to feel authentic.During her prep and through the
workshops, she and Akshaye kepttheir conversations limited to thefilm and its plot. Their workshopstoo were laden with heavy work —rehearsing the monologues anddebating the stances for the court-room drama and quite early on, sherealised that the right approach wasto keep their off-screen cama-raderie to bare minimum.
Richa says, “Thankfully, whenwe started the film, we barelyknew each other. So when westarted shooting, it was a thorough-ly professional relationship.Akshaye is a brilliant actor, whoknows his character like the backof his hand. The energy is hostileand the past equation betweenthem gives context to their hostil-ity. Because Akshaye and I areshown to show a professional and
cordial relationship outside court.”Bholi Punjaban of Fukrey has
no confusion when she talks abouthow she understood her characterand its various layers. “If there’s anaccused and s/he cannot afford alawyer, the government will providea public prosecutor, which is therole that I play. I have to prosecuteon behalf of the girl who hails froman economically-weaker sectionof the society,” she says. While onemight get perplexed about theroles of a defendant and a publicprosecutor in the court and notunderstand the difference, sheexplains, “A public prosecutor is alaw officer who conducts criminalproceedings on behalf of the stateor in the public interest. Akshayesir’s character is completely oppo-site to mine. He’s a private crimi-
nal defence lawyer, who demandsan expensive fee and is rich. I amjust nailing his character. Andbecause she’s a prosecutor, shenever has to defend anybody. Shejust has to be watchful of the ‘bad’guys.”
Richa says that everybody hasthe constitutional right to be rep-resented and defended, even thefive horrible men, who wereaccused in Nirbhaya’s rape andmurder. Even (Ajmal) Kasab inIndia had a lawyer. So that’s thebeauty of the Indian Constitutionthat “it’s very fair. It gives even anaggressor to present his point ofview, which is important too.”
Not always do people knowabout how law works and what itmeans. So how does this film try tobring that up? Richa observes thateven the educated people barelyunderstand the law. She says, “Onlylawyers and the judges know aboutit besides people working in judi-ciary and the police force, of course.So films like these will only help tocreate an awareness among themasses.”
We cannot ignore the fact thatfilms and every other manner ofstory-telling have a responsibilitytowards the society as they have thehighest capacity to impact diverseminds collectively. The actor feelsthat of course, films have a respon-sibility and they are a powerfulmedium too “but then if there is apressure to teach and educate theaudience, we won’t be able tomake all kinds of film becausethere are some on terrorists andgangsters too. If cinema sits downwith this responsibility, this medi-um of entertainment will sooncome to end. Interesting charactersare always grey. You cannot bepreachy all the time. The respon-sibility that cinema should bescreened by the censor board onlyand not by common public becausekal ko fir koi bhi kuch bhi boldega,which is what happens in India —hall ki seats tod do and things thatthey say like yeh hamari sanskritike khilaf hai. At least watch the filmfirst. People just watch the trailerand make up their minds. We havea censor board and it is their jobto certify films,” says she.
Laws have changed afterNirbhaya’s case and there is talk oflegal reforms and fast trials, but thestigma and blaming of rape sur-vivors is something which is unfor-tunately very much prevalent.Richa feels not only in India butanywhere in the world, there is asocial stigma and drama attachedto it. And it’s a very common prob-lem that a lot of rapes go unreport-ed. “So there is need for change ofattitude in society. People need tostop associating shame with thesurvivor. Social mindsets don’tchange with just a click. They takea long time. The government alonecannot combat damaging stereo-types around it. But they do playa critical role. And this film aimsto do just that — initiate a dialoguearound the stigma that rape sur-vivors face in our country,” saysRicha with a hope of seeing a bet-ter world.
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September 13.)
If you thought tattoos were thepreserve of the hip youngsters,
then that’s not true anymore.Even though older generationsmight look like they’re against the‘getting inked’ trend, they too arejoining the style movement now.There are no more judgementslike “Have you imagined whatyour tattoo would look like at 50?”From face-line tattoos to mandalageometric designs, current tattootrends show how people are ‘keep-ing it simple’ these days.
The first on the line are thebasic prism tattoos, which aremade from one-liver needle, sug-gests tattoo artist Micky Malani,founder of BodyCanvas. “Thesesimple pieces make a structurethrough a pair of arrows pointedin separate directions on thewearer’s wrist. The geometric andmandala tattoos are also toppingthe trends as they used to shadeand beautify the look,” he says.
There are X-ray tattoos whichhave given a new face to shadingand transition in tattoos today.These might result in skin burnsas its magnetic resonance imag-ing (MRI) heats up some of thecomponents of tattoo ink.However, the increasing popular-ity of these tattoos has extendedits role beyond style statements.
Apart from such intricately-shaded and designed tattoos,there are the face-line tattoos,which have gained immense pop-ularity today. “It’s because peopleare increasingly wanting to ‘keepit simple’ and the artwork requiresdeep thoughts and are very min-
imalistic in terms of its ink usage.For instance, a face-line tattoowould look like a woman’s facedrawn with a continuous line.People look at it more like puttingtheir own mark on themselves,”Micky says. They are also knownto be as less painful than otherswhich involved a lot of work onthe nerves.
Based out of Chandigarh, tat-too artist Rishabh Narang, ownerof Immortal Tattoos, says, “Thefirst-timers might choose more ofminimalistic designs with subtledetails. They would also go forsimple designs which are moredetailed yet clean.” While earlierpeople used to get influenced bytattoo designs of other people orsearched for designs online,Rishabh says that today, studiosare boosting custom works so thatevery one can have an individualdesign. “Not only this gives indi-vidual identities to the people butthe artist also feels fulfilled,’ hesays.
Artist Vikas Malani says thatthe outline work, line art and geo-metric patterns are more trendy.In the West, people get heavy tat-toos done on their bodies withoutthe fear of being judged. But inIndia, there is still a social stigmaattached to it. People call namesto the ones who get tattoos. Hesays, “Here people don’t wantheavy work on them because of
the kind of surrounding that weare in and the families that wecome from. They don’t allow tat-toos easily because they feel it isnot something sophisticated peo-
ple do.” He shares his personalexperience that he comes acrosssuch people everyday. “They comeand tell us to make any design andare not sure about their choices.
It is important to educate thepeople about tattooing and breaktheir perceptions about this indus-try. To make them aware about itsbroader perspective there are var-ious events and festivals. And onesuch is the Heartwork TattooFestival, which is currently in itsfifth version. Director LokeshVerma says, “People don’t usual-ly go to a tattoo studio. Throughsuch festivals they can walk inwith their families and see peoplegetting tattoos all around. Thishelps them to become comfort-able.”
However, he further chal-lenges the notion of trends in tat-toos. He says that there is notrend in them as it has manydesigns which stays forever. Heasserts that it is very importantfor people to understand theessence of a tattoo. “There aremany people who get copieddesigns done on them. Theyneed to understand that it is anexpression of their individualityand they should be able toexpress themself through it. If agirl is feminine she will get but-terfly and flowers, if she is notfeminine she will get other geo-metrical symbols,” he adds.
For students from elemen-tary to high school, the
September 11 terrorist attackisn’t a memory. It’s history. Anew HBO documentary thathas made a debut on thetragic incident’s 18thanniversary treats it that way.
The necessity of her pro-ject, “What Happened onSeptember 11,” struck film-maker Amy Schatz when athird grade girl told herabout a playdate where sheand a friend Googled“September 11 attacks.”
“When a child does that,what he or she finds are somehorrific images that are notnecessarily appropriate forkids. So I felt a responsibili-ty to try to fill that void andtry to give kids somethingthat isn’t horrifying and kindof fills in the gap,” Schatzsaid.
The half-hour film is acompanion piece, focusingon the memories of formerstudents at a high school nearGround Zero.
Schatz has made a spe-cialty of creating films thatseek to explain the inexplic-able, with The Number onGreat-Grandpa’s Arm tack-ling the holocaust and anoth-er on the Parkland shooting.“I’m really desperate forsome more lightness verysoon,” she said.
In this case, she workedwith the September 11remembrance museum onthe story, filming two menwho work there giving pre-sentations to third graders.Stephen Kern, who workedon the 62nd floor of theWorld Trade Center’s NorthTower, talks about beingevacuated. MatthewCrawford, whose father wasa firefighter who died thatday, discussed his experience.She also found a middleschool in Secaucus, NewJersey, that teaches historythrough art and poetry, help-ing students process theemotions of what theylearned.
Short history lessons aresprinkled throughout thefilm, about New York and theWorld Trade Center, theone-time tallest towers in theworld. Construction beganin 1968.
“One of the biggest ques-tions the kids have is why?
‘Why would somebody dothat? Why would there besuch cruelty?’” she said.“That’s a very difficult thingto grapple with and answerso that was the trickiest partof the project,” she adds.
The film tells of OsamaBin Laden and his activismthat started with the SovietUnion’s invasion ofAfghanistan. But it nevertruly answers the whys.Maybe no one can.
Schatz doesn’t avoidsome of the terrible imagesof the day — the secondplane striking the WorldTrade Center and resultantfireball, the collapse of eachtower and the giant clouds ofdebris that billowed throughthe canyons of city streets.Schatz didn’t want to avoidthose clips, since kids knowthat planes crashed into thebuildings, but she opted notto spend much time on them“so that we didn’t create toomany lingering after-imagesin people’s minds.”
As part of her research,Schatz interviewed alumni ofStuyvesant High School nearthe World Trade Center site.But the memories of whatthey saw, heard and smelledthat day — and the uncer-tainty of how they would gethome from school — provedtoo raw. That’s why In theShadow of the Towers:Stuyvesant High on 9/11 is aseparate film that premiereson HBO.
Schatz said a school cur-riculum is being developedfor teaching children aboutthe tragedy, and “WhatHappened on September 11”will be made available toschools for free. The film isaimed generally at childrenages 7 to 12.
Throughout her work,Schatz kept returning to thememory of the youngstersearching for details aboutSeptember 11 on the inter-net.
“You can’t protect kidsfrom what they’re going tocome across. It seemed to methere was an opportunity toput something out there thatis age-appropriate and nottoo scary and give them thetools they need to under-stand the world aroundthem,” said she.
Monaco, the Rivieragem, has become theepitome of luxury
travel. It is not only for singlesor young couples, but serves asa great experience for the kidstoo.
To have fun, one needs tocatch the monacair chopperride from Nice Cote d AzurAirport, which will give you asight to behold. The ‘Changingof Guards’ ceremony at Prince’sPalace is a must visit withkids.
A fun morning activity forthe whole family can also be avisit to the Zoological Gardenof Monaco, which is home tonearly 250 animals represent-ing about diverse species —exotic birds, turtles, caimans,hippopotamuses, reptiles, pri-mates and farm animals. Onceyou make your way to the heartof Monte-Carlo, a visit to theJardin Exotique is a must whichoffers breath-taking views ofMonaco and proposes to dis-cover succulent plants.
For the little devoted auto-mobile fans, take your kid tothe Monaco’ cars collection byPrince Albert. It is a dreamymuseum for all the minor carafficionado. As the day sets in,stroll down to the Larvotto
Beach that offers fun in theblue Mediterranean for theadventurous water babies. Letyour children try the water-ski-ing or banana boats and amarine excursion for spottingwhales and more. Aqua lovers
learn the secrets of the marineworld and discover the won-derful things that live beneaththe surface with activities atOceanographic Museum ofMonaco. Don’t forget to hop onto the Monaco’s little touristtrain which sets off from theOceanographic Museum, todiscover La Porte de France, LaPlace d’Armes and its market,hairpin bends on the Formulaone Grand Prix circuit, theCasino de Monte-Carlo, thePrince’s Palace, the Cathedraland choose to get dropped atthe famous Port Hercule. Havedinner at American stylerestaurant, Stars’NBars whichis the most family-friendly anda great place to go with childrenas they have a large kids menu,starring the organic hamburg-er.
Hotel Metropole Monte-Carlo, has a programme foryour little ones known as theLittle Chefs and the kitchen isopen to children from six to 10years. They can create anytreat their hearts desire, anddiscover the joys of baking. Thelittle bakers will leave the work-shop with their own little chefapron, along with their cre-ations to proudly bring back totheir family.
If we recall our vedic historyand culture, we would find
that the base of the universe istruth. As one of the shlokas inthe Bhagwad Gita says, Naabhaavahavidyateysataha,meaning the truth prevails.The above shloka relates to thealmighty, who is eternal, ever-lasting and who creates, nurs-es, holds and is naturally thebase of the universe.
As fire generates fire, truthgenerates truth. When godcreated the universe, he alsogave true knowledge of the fourVedas to rishis (saints), whichhas been obtained traditional-ly till now through ancient andpresent rishi-munis. So withoutstudying Vedas, wherein theeternal truth exists, who wouldbe able to understand it? Theordinary man doesn’t have thepower to know or realise thetruth.
Today, when the younggeneration is not studyingVedas, they, as per a Yajurvedamantra, are indulged in illu-sion. So without knowing theeternal path of worship, whichexists only in Vedas, no onewould be able realise the mean-ing of god.
Vedas preach that throughmind (Mansa), voice (Vacha)and deeds (Karma), nobodyshould follow falsehood.Mundakopnishad says,“Satyamev Jayate, Na Nritam”meaning at last, the truthshall prevail and not false-hood. And anyone who fol-lows truth firmly will get shel-ter and his speech will nevergo in vain. However, an unde-serving person will never beblessed.
In this regard, the
Manusmriti shloka said,“Satyam Brooyaat PriyamBrooyaat, Apriyam Satyam NaBrooyaat.” This implies thatone should always speak truth.Be it bitter or sweet, it’s for thegood. The rishi-munis used topreach to their disciplesSatyam Vad Dharmam Char,which implies that life is givento you to speak the truth andpractice moral duties towardsyour family and nation.However, today, due to lack offacilities to spread vedicknowledge in our country,students are not aware of thelessons that Vedas teach.
In the Mahabharata, itwas said that Yudhishthiralways spoke truth. It wasonly once that he said in areformed manner. However,he is known to have been pun-ished by god after death for it.Today, telling lies have becomea custom. Even for petty ben-efits, people confidently lie.Imagine, the level of seriouspunishments will be borne byus after death now?
A child learns the mostfrom his parents. They shouldcondition their children in theright way, keep them awayfrom the bad influence andteach him to never lie. Andthat is why there is a need ofspreading the vedic knowledgedoor to door. This wouldenable all the human-beings,especially saints, doctors,lawyers, administrators, teach-ers to save themselves fromcorruption, falsehood andprofessionalism.
(The author, Swami RamSwarup, is the chief editor ofVed Ishvareeya vani, a bi-annual Magazine.)
To promote and popularisethe system of alternative
medicine, Unani HamdardLaboratories (India) with theinitiative of AYUSH Ministry,Government of India, hasintroduced a Customer LoyaltyProgramme, HamdardBonanza for practitioners andchannel partners.
In the last four years,Hamdard Bonanza has benefit-ted more than 5,000 partici-pants from across the countryand helped generate awarenessabout lifestyle related disorders— diabetes, high cholesterol,lack of immunity — and theircure through nature-basedHamdard medicines. It hashelped Unani practitioners,especially younger brigade, todo mass scale patients’ trials,gain clinical experience leadingto enhanced confidence inUnani medicines. This year thetheme of the event was to pro-
mote active participation, makeUnani profitable and popu-larise it to every nook and cor-ner of the country along withthe digital campaign#BeTheUnaniChampion for allits consumers.
Hamdard Bonanza hasbeen launched through amobile application (HB-App)to bring in speed, efficiency,accuracy and transparency inthe entire process right fromenrollment to redemption ofgifts that would be offeredthrough Electronic GiftVouchers (EGVs).
Fifty-five winners wererecognised and awarded acrossthe country, under seven differ-ent categories, through a luckydraw that included the bumperprize. The event also lauded thehard work of its devotedemployees from sales, mar-keting and support functionsfor executing and ensuring
quality service to the con-sumers.
Mansoor Ali, chief salesand marketing officer,Hamdard Laboratories (India),said, “Hamdard Bonanza pro-gramme was initiated in theyear 2014 with an effort toappreciate the loyalty of ourUnani practitioners and moti-vate the young doctors to prac-tice and promote this heritagesystem of medicines. Unani isrecognised by WHO and piv-ots around a very scientificapproach, emphasising holisticwellness of the body, mind andsoul. The brand occupies ahuge element of trust and lin-eage in people’s minds and it isin continuation with this lega-cy that we have launched theseinitiatives acknowledging thewide positive impact that hasbeen brought in. The use oftechnology to build loyalty intrade is now the way forward.”
IP University, celebrated Teacher’sDay with full fervour at Dwarka cam-
pus. Dr Kiran Seth, founder of SpicMacay, was the chief guest of the occa-sion.
Professor Shiv Vishwanath of theJindal Global Law School was the guestof honour. The acting vice chancellor,Professor Kamal DP Singh, actingregistrar brigadier PK Upmanyu, direc-tor of student’s welfare, ProfessorManpreet Kang, controller of finance,Rinku Gautam and other senior offi-cers as well as faculty members werepresent on the occasion.
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The GhaziabadM u n i c i p a l
Corporation will organ-ise a workshop to dealwith accidents in sewerdue to lack of securitymeasures, after the deathof the safari personnelwho died due to suffoca-tion during the cleaningof sewer. Experts fromall across will come tothis workshop. They willgive safety tips on the
matter.Giving this infor-
mation, MunicipalC o r p o r a t i o nCommissioner, DineshChandra said that JalKal Department,Jalnigam, all municipalcouncils of the district,executive officers ofNagar Panchayats, engi-neers associated withsewer work will also beinvited.
WORKSHOP FOR SEWER ACCIDENTS
Builders are bringingschemes to deal with
recession and sell their prop-erties. Ghaziabad builderswill soon be selling real estateproperty. Proyu InfrastructureLimited offers a scheme ofbooking a house only for �1in its officer city project. Forthe past several years, becauseof the recession in real estate,millions of builders’ houseshave remained unsold, which
has weakened the financialcondition. Now they want tosell those property by bring-ing up new schemes.
Puneet Tyagi, director ofthe organisation, says thatthe 14-floor project has 18towers. He claims that thesociety has all the facilities.The customers can easilybook their favorite sites bypaying just �1. One can startthe loan process later and payin easy installments. Heshares that real estate hasincreased by 25 to 30 per centcompared to the year 2017.
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Carnival of Joy wasorganised by Wealth
Clinic at the CitrusHotel in the city. Thesession was followed bya customer meet underthis carnival. Around250 people from DelhiNCR attended the work-shop and were briefedhow RERA and GSThave boosted thedemand of the outsidersto invest in.
The true meaning ofinvestment was alsoexplained. CMD ofWealth Clinic, AmitRaheja said, “We haveorganised this carnivalfor the purpose of mak-ing people aware aboutright investment. Thisarea is now becomingthe first choice of thepeople and the demandfor residential propertyis also increasing here.”
Ifelt a surge of friendliness and polite-ness passing through me as I landed at
the Airport in Montreal, Canada. As I hadan air cast on my twisted leg and had dif-ficulty in walking, an airport workerimmediately rushed to guide me to theelevator and lead me towards the immi-gration area. This was in great contrast to
the treatment Ireceived at the previ-ous airport where wehad a stopover.
I had heardmany amazing andjaw-dropping sightsthat this city couldoffer. And my expe-riences did not makethem appear as false.A quick peek at the
map made me realise that I was just a fewskips, hops and road-trips away fromsome of Canada’s finest spots.
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island of Montreal is a juxtaposition of thenew and the old. My visit to this formerFrench colony was an unforgettable expe-rience. The city is home to 120 distinctcommunities. Withvibrant people,r e s t a u r a n t s ,
cafes, museums, churches and lush greenopen spaces, it presents a moving canvasof beautiful landscapes.
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Montreal, we can explore the city’s cen-turies-old history. One can walk down thecobbled streets of old Montreal andadmire the various historical structuresthat line the streets. If looked closely, onewill notice French, English and Scottishinfluence in the architecture. After tak-ing a walk through those lanes, one cantake a well-deserved break in one of thenumerous restaurants or cafes along thestreets.
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catholic roots and the close relationshipbetween art and religion. Vintage wood
carvings, slainglass art
stained in
deep-blue colour makes its interior pre-sent a classic example of architectural art,by Victor Bougear. One can also enjoy thevarious street art performances like clas-sical, vocal and instrumental music at thecourtyard in front of the Basilica and atthe same time, admire its very beauty.
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is popularly known as ‘The Mountain’.Apart frombeing a per-
f e c t
spot for nature-lovers, bird-watchers andsports enthusiasts, the slopes are home totwo of the city’s oldest cemeteries. TheMount Royal Chalet at its top takes oneback to the history of Montreal during theGreat Depression in 1932. TheKandiaronk lookout in front of theChalet offers a magnificent view of thedowntown area and the mighty StLawrence.
B�������������Founded in 1931 by Brother Marie-
Victoria, it has a very thoughtfully laid-out garden with green houses. The botan-ic is known to be one of the finest andlargest of its kind. The collection of plantsspecies here include several exotic andrare herbs. A stroll through its varioustheme gardens such as the Japanese gar-den, the Chinese garden, Courtyard ofSenses and many more, is an experience
that comes once in a lifetime.It is also a
source of
endless knowledge and beauty.
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Quebec city from Montreal through sev-eral bus tours which are available. One canalso hire a cab for the day so as to moveleisurely at one’s own pace. With pic-turesque cobblestone streets, vintage hut-like houses and cafes by the streetside andlive performances in the open spacesalong the river front, make this historiccity a pleasure to be at.
A visit to its Montmorency Falls is amust too. It ranges from a height of 83metres, higher than the Niagara Falls. Thefalls can be climbed up in different waysand a few of them could be really adven-turous and thrilling.
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road journey from Montreal to NiagaraFalls, with two to three halts, and call ittedious and tiring. However, the drivethrough the excellent roads with densegreen forests on both sides is a differentexperience altogether. The ‘ThousandIslands’, which constitute an archipelagoof 1,864 islands that straddles theCanada–USborder in
the St Lawrence River, is certainly a mar-vel of nature. With 3,160 tonnes of watercascading down the falls every second isa spectacle. The Horseshoe Falls on theCanadian side are awe-inspiring. The‘Maid of the Mist’ cruise to the Horseshoeis a must.
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Toronto. However, they were enough toabsorb in the place’s warm vibe, which ishome to various people of different cul-tures and languages. We could alsosqueeze in some time to go up the CNTower, which gives a magnificent view ofthe city and Lake Ontario. We took a strollat the the vibrant Eaton Square too.
All in all, one thing I will remembermy visit to Canada for, is the friendly vibeof the place and its polite and helping peo-ple. They have a great respect for pedes-trians. Drivers here would usually stoptheir cars if one is about to cross the roads(something highly unexpected in India).Jardin Nelson, located in the heart of OldMontreal, is a haven for foodies to relishthe combined pleasures of good food,exceptional service and an impressive andbreath-taking ambience.
Ashes Test againstAustralia that starts today,as they look to level theseries at 2-2.
One-day specialist Roywas handed his Test debutagainst Ireland in July aftermaking a devastatingimpact at the top of theorder during England’s vic-torious World Cup cam-paign.
But the Surrey bats-man failed to impress inthe first four matches of theAshes, either as an openeror when he dropped downthe order in the fourth Test,where he made a top scoreof 31.
Paceman CraigOverton has also been leftout for the clash at theOval, with all-roundersSam Curran and ChrisWoakes, who made way
for Overton at Old Traffordlast week, coming into theside.
The England andWales Cricket Board con-firmed that Ben Stokeswould play as a specialistbatsman due to a shoulderinjury.
Captain Joe Root saidRoy had missed outbecause the side needed re-balancing due to Stokes’sinjury.
“It’s always tough toleave guys out, but Stokesyobviously picked up ashoulder injury in the lastgame and won’t be able tobowl the overs we normal-ly expect him to,” he said atthe London ground onWednesday.
“With that we’ve hadto change the balance ofthe side, and Jason’s theunfortunate one to missout.
“Jason’s had an oppor-tunity to come in and play
Test cricket, get a feel for itand it’s not quite gone howhe would have liked.
“But I’m sure he’ll goaway and work extremelyhard and come back againand that’s what you expectof guys when they get leftout.”
Root said it wouldhave been a risk to pickStokes as a frontline bowlerdue to the all-rounder’sfitness issues but he fullyjustified his place as a spe-cialist batsman.
The 28-year-old isEngland’s top-scorer in theseries with 354 runs andtwo centuries, includinghis match-winning ton inthe third Test atHeadingley.Playing XI: Joe Root(capt), Jofra Archer, JonnyBairstow (wkt), StuartBroad, Rory Burns, JosButtler, Sam Curran, JoeDenly, Jack Leach, BenStokes, Chris Woakes
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The Indian men's hockey teamgoalkeeper PR Sreejesh on
Wednesday said he is expecting agood challenge from Russia in theTokyo Olympic qualifiers, despite avast gap between the two sides inworld rankings.
In a favourable draw, the Indianmen's team, ranked fifth, was onMonday pitted against world no 22Russia in the final round of theTokyo Olympics qualifiers.
India will play back-to-matchesagainst Russia in Bhubaneswar onNovember 1 and 2 to seal theirTokyo Games berth.
"It is every player's dream to playthe Olympics and Russia, who arenow investing in hockey and want todo well in this sport, will surely comewell-prepared and we can definitelyexpect a good challenge from them,"
Sreejesh said.Eight-time Olympic champions
India had mauled Russia 10-0 duringthe FIH Series Final in Bhubaneswarearlier this year.
Sreejesh said before the draw tookplace, they were mentally prepared totake on any opponent be it arch-rivalsPakistan or Austria.
"To be honest we had discussedwhat it would take from the team ifwe had to play Pakistan or Austria orfor that matter Egypt who laterdropped out. So in that sense, we werementally prepared to take on anyteam. Also I think retaining theworld ranking at No.5 was a boon,"he said.
Sreejesh said the tour to Belgiumstarting September 26 will help themprepare for the Olympic qualifiers.
"I think playing world championsBelgium, who have been in greatform, will be like a preparatory test
before the actual exam," he said.The 31-year-old revealed that
they have been working on strength-ening the team's defense amongstother things and will look to executeall the plans against Belgium.
"We have been working on animproved defensive structure, betterpenalty corner defending and also onscoring opportunities and it will beimportant to execute this as plannedagainst Belgium," Sreejesh said.
Talking about India's goalkeepingoptions, he commended his youngercompatriots Suraj Karkera andKrishan Bahadur Pathak for a goodshow in the Olympic Test Event inTokyo, Japan.
"It's good to see both of them per-form well. It is always good to havecompetition within the team and I amenjoying the role of mentoring themand at the same time improving myown game," he said.
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Vice-captain Rassie van der Dussenon Wednesday said that a new look
South African team will be relying a loton IPL regulars Quinton de Kock andDavid Miller to put up a competitiveperformance against formidable Indiain the T20 series beginning here onSunday.
De Kock will captain the team inthe absence of Faf du Plessis, who willbe in India for the Test series.
Van der Dussen, who impressed inthe 50-over World Cup in an otherwiseforgettable tournament for the Proteas,has been elevated to vice-captaincy lessthan a year after he made hisInternational debut.
“Quinton and David have played alot of cricket in India. We will look tofeed off them and ask them a lot ofquestions about the conditions, the kindof bowlers we would be facing so we canquickly adapt against a strong side likeIndia,” van der Dussen said in a mediainteraction.
“We have had two tough trainingsessions since we have been here andtwo more are coming up. It has beenpretty hot and humid, pretty much likeDurban. It is definitely an advantagethat we came here a week before the firstgame.”
Van der Dussen feels captaincy willonly make de Kock a better player.
“Quinton is one of those guys wholeads by example. He doesn’t say a lotbut when he speaks he says really valu-able things. He has won a lot of gamesfor South Africa and everyone respectshim for that. I am sure the captaincyband around his arm will bring moreout of him,” said de Kock’s deputy.
India hammered South Africa athome in the Test series played four yearsago but lost the T20 and ODI series.
One of the T20s was at the scenicHPCA Stadium here and South Africawon the game by seven wickets.
“We have had a look at the condi-tions, Proteas beat India by sevenwickets the last time here. It will be agood wicket to bat on. The boundariesare 65 metres all around, they are notreally big. We know what India aregoing to throw at us and we will pre-pare accordingly,” said the 30-year-oldfrom Pretoria.
South Africa have regrouped forthe first time since the disappointingWorld Cup campaign and the playersare raring to go, said va der Dussen.
“Last time, we were together at theWorld Cup. It was a disappointingshowing by the team. But now it is afresh start, we have a new coaching staff.We have spoken a lot about in the lastfew days how we want to be as a team.We have got a few new faces so it alwaysbrings the energy up.
“India are one of the strongestteams in the world, especially in homeconditions. They have played somecricket recently against the West Indies.It gives us the advantage of looking atthe players and what they are likely todo. We have been off for a while as ateam and guys are fresh and raring togo,” van der Dussen added.
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Tim Paine described the fifthAshes Test as Australia’s “grand
final” as they target their first serieswin in England since 2001.
The tourists have already retainedthe urn after winning the fourth Testto take a 2-1 lead but captain Painesaid they are “very hungry” to com-plete the job at the Oval.
All-rounder Mitchell Marsh hasbeen recalled to the 12-man squad inplace of Travis Head to ease the work-load on Australia’s impressive paceattack.
“We’ve already spoken a lot aboutit (the final Test),” Paine said onWednesday on the eve of the match.
“We came here to win the Ashes,not just to retain them.
“Last week’s result was brilliantand we played very well but all theguys are fully aware that this Testmatch is bigger than that one.
“This is our grand final. We wantthis Test just as much as any otherTest that we’ve played in this series.”
He said Marsh’s inclusion wasaimed at easing the workload on hisimpressive pace attack and that he
had “full faith” in his batting.“We just wanted a bit more
bowling depth in the squad to coverwhat looks like a really good wicketand be able to look after our big fastbowlers,” said Paine.Squad: David Warner, Marcus Harris,Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith,Mitchell Marsh, Matthew Wade, TimPaine (capt, wkt), Pat Cummins,Peter Siddle, Mitch Starc, NathanLyon, Josh Hazlewood.
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Opener KL Rahul’s poorshow with the bat could
pave the way for RohitSharma’s return to the IndianTest XI when the selectorsmeet here today to decide thesquad for the three-matchseries against South Africanext month.
White ball vice-captainRohit, who couldn’t make thecut in the playing XI againstthe West Indies, is expected tobe tried out as an opener afterHanuma Vihari and AjinkyaRahane sealed slot Nos 5 and6 in the batting order respec-tively. Rohit’s last Test appear-ance for India was in the awayseries against Australia in2018.
Cheteshwar Pujara, at No3, and skipper Virat Kohli, atNo 4, automatically pick them-selves.
This has left head coachRavi Shastri and skipper Kohliwith only one option, to try anexplosive player like Rohit atthe top of the order, followingthe Virender Sehwag impactmodel.
Bengal openerAbhimanyu Easwaran, a pro-lific performer at the domes-tic and India A games, couldbe rewarded with a place inthe side as a reserve opener, ifthe selection committeedecides to drop Rahul.
The other openers in frayare Priyank Panchal of Gujaratand Shubman Gill of Punjab.
Rahul, considered afavourite of this team manage-ment, has scored 664 runs inhis last 30 Test innings, withhis only notable score — 149against England at the Ovallast year — coming in a deadfifth rubber.
With Mayank Agarwalassured of his place, the onlybone of contention could bethe opening slot where a 15-member squad could ensureboth Rohit and Easwaran
make it.In case they both make it,
then they might feature in theIndia A side in the two-daypractice game against SouthAfrica in Vizianagaram beforethe f irst Test inVisakhapatnam on October 2.
Otherwise, the selectionwill remain pretty straightfor-ward with only BhuvneshwarKumar, who isn’t fully fit,likely to miss out.
In that case, all-rounderHardik Pandya could be backin the Test squad or elseNavdeep Saini might come inas a back-up pacer.
However, it remains to beseen whether the Think-Tankwill want Pandya to only con-centrate on white ball cricketin the next 13 months keepingthe World Cup in focus.
Test matches in India nor-mally feature one specialistkeeper in the side butWriddhiman Saha is verymuch in the scheme of thingseven though Rishabh Pantremains the top choice.
Ravindra Jadeja, KuldeepYadav and RavichandranAshwin will be the three spin-ners while Jasprit Bumrah,Mohammed Shami and IshantSharma will be the three pac-ers. In case Shami is rested,then Umesh Yadav can comein.Likely Squad: Openers:Mayank Agarwal, RohitSharma Middle order :Cheteshwar Pujara, ViratKohli, Ajinkya Rahane,Hanuma Vihari All-rounder:Hardik Pandya Wicketkeepers:Rishabh Pant, WriddhimanSaha Pacers: Jasprit Bumrah,Ishant Sharma, MohammedShami/Umesh Yadav Spinners:Ravichandran Ashwin,Ravindra Jadeja, KuldeepYadavIn Contention: AbhimanyuEaswaran (3rd opener),Priyank Panchal (3rd opener),Navdeep Saini (reserve pacer),Kona Bharat (2nd keeper).
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Australia head coach JustinLanger has backed out-of-
form opener David Warner tocome good in the fifth and finalAshes Test beginning Thursdayat The Oval.
Warner has been in awfulform in the ongoing Ashesscoring just 79 runs at an aver-age of 9.87 per innings. The left-handed opener has endured atough series tackling the newball, particularly againstEngland seamer Stuart Broad,and has managed just one dou-ble-figure score (61) in eightinnings with ducks from each ofhis last three starts.
"Davey hasn't had a greatseries, there are no secrets aboutthat," Langer was quoted as say-ing by cricket.com.au.
"But he's also a word-classplayer and I've said throughoutthe whole series, if Davey hasone good innings it'll help uswin the Ashes. He probably has-n't been through this lean runbefore, so it's going to be a goodtest of his character.
"But he's a match-winnerand he's been brilliant aroundthe group since he's been back(from suspension)," he added.
Terming Warner a "match-winner", the Australian headcoach said that he is looking for-ward to see the 32-year-old batat The Oval.
"He's been great, good forthe crowds, good amongst thegroup.
"He hasn't got the runs hewants at the moment but jeezI'm looking forward to seeing itwhen he does, and there's nobetter place in the world to batthan The Oval."
Australia have an insur-mountable 2-1 lead in the series,retaining the Ashes, and willlook to win the rubber inEngland for the first time since2001.
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Deepak Niwas Hooda led by example asJaipur Pink Panthers held the in-form
Haryana Steelers to a 32-all draw in their Pro-Kabaddi League fixture at the Netaji IndoorStadium on Wednesday.
Eyeing a sixth successive win, HaryanaSteelers got off to a solid start and led by fourpoints at half time, but Hooda came up with14 raid points from 22 attempts to help theJaipur outfit salvage a draw.
In fact, Jaipur will rue their missedchances as they held a one-point lead with lessthan a minute left on the clock.
But a final minute blunder by Jaipur'sSachin Narwal handed Steelers a point as theysquandered a great opportunity move to thefifth spot.
At second place, Haryana now have 49points, 10 less than Dabang Delhi from 14matches, while Jaipur are outside top-six with41 points.
The teams went into the match with con-trasting forms as Haryana were on a roll with
3���-��+@-� ���������+�1��� ��+��-������.five wins, while Pink Panthers hadlost four games on the trot.
Jaipur started the match bright-ly as Pink Panthers had to rely onHooda's raiding prowess and thecaptain secured seven raid points inthe first-half.
The Pink Panthers inflicted anAll-Out on the Steelers in the 16thminute to open a six-point gap.
Haryana bounced back with thehelp of raider Vikas Kandola whowas ably supported by PrashanthKumar Rai.
Kandola's five-point raid in thedying minutes of the first-half gavethe Steelers their first All-Out of thematch and brought about a changein momentum.
The first half ended withHaryana leading Jaipur 18-14.
Haryana maintained their dom-inance in the second-half, withVinay also taking up the raidingduties.
Pink Panthers' lack of qualitysupport raiders for Deepak Hoodahurt them badly as Haryana's
defence held firm.Ravi Kumar picked up a High 5
for Haryana but Deepak Hoodaproduced a series of successful raidsto make it three-point game goinginto the final minutes.
Hooda also secured a Super 10and secured a personal milestone of800 raid points in the process.
The Pink Panthers' teamworkhelped them clinch another All-Outwith four minutes left on the clockto make it a nervous end to thematch for both sides.
Sanjay Bangar has said that he won't be taking any offers outsideIndia immediately. Bangar's five-year tenure as India's batting
coach ended this month and the former batsman says that he willuse this much needed break to "reflect, refresh and reinvent."
"I have been travelling for five years, I don't think I may takeup roles outside India immediately," Bangar told Cricbuzz onWednesday. He said that despite being the only person among RaviShastri's coaching staff who lost his place when their contracts wererenewed, he does not have negative feelings about the situation andinstead views his tenure at the helm with pride.
"Being disappointed is a natural feeling, which lasted for justa few days. But I thank the BCCI and all the coaches, Duncan(Fletcher), Anil (Kumble) and Ravi (Shastri), for giving me an oppor-tunity to serve Indian cricket for five years.
"I look back on the progress the team made since 2014 and beingNo. 1 in Tests for three years in a row with happiness. We won 30out of 52 Tests played, 13 of them overseas. We also won consis-tently in ODIs in all countries. The only thing that eluded us wasthe World Cup," he said.
One of the biggest criticisms that came Bangar's way afterIndia's exit from the World Cup was the lack of a concrete optionat the number four position in limited overs. During the tourna-ment, KL Rahul played in the position and after the injury toShikhar Dhawan, it was Vijay Shankar who was played in that role.
"The entire team management and selectors were part of thedecision making for the No. 4 spot. The choice relied upon cur-rent form, fitness criteria, whether he was a left-hander, whetherhe could bowl, etc.," he said.
It was during his time that Virat Kohli consolidated his posi-tion as the best batsman in the world across all formats and RohitSharma and Shikhar Dhawan went from strength to strength asan opening pair. Cheteshwar Pujara also took his game to the nextlevel in Test cricket. However, Bangar's time also saw the inter-national career of Murali Vijay plateauing and Ajinkya Rahane'sinconsistency.
"Rahane missed out on converting a lot of 50s into 100s inthe last 18 months and contributed in all our overseas victoriesin Johannesburg, Nottingham and Adelaide. I was happy for himthat he eventually crossed the three-figure mark in West Indies,where he played a pivotal role in seaming conditions," said Bangar.
"As far as Vijay goes, when a player is playing only one for-mat, it adds to the challenge of immediately finding rhythm ininternational cricket if you are opening in tough overseas con-ditions.”
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