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S amajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav called on his father and SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav at the latter’s res- idence in Lucknow on Thursday and extended him the invitation to attend the national convention of the party at Agra from October 5. The meeting of the father and the son is politically sig- nificant as the feud in the SP’s first family is far from over and there has been no let up in the feud between Akhilesh and his uncle Shivpal Yadav. A day after the Tamil Nadu Government announced the terms of references of the one-man enquiry commission appointed to probe the facts associated with the death of former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on December 5, 2016, one of the 24X7 Tamil news channels came out with a disclosure on Thursday that she was admitted to the Apollo Hospital Chennai in an uncon- scious state. The channel was quoting from the patient care report maintained by the hospital authorities which stated that the patient (Jayalalithaa) was unconscious when she was brought to the hospital on the night of September 22, 2016. This is in stark contrast to the bulletin issued by the hospital authorities next day that Jayalalithaa was stable and under observation. Deepak, nephew of late Jayalalithaa had told a TV channel recently that his aunt was admitted to the hospital in an unconscious condition. According to the PCR details released by the channel Puthiya Thalamurai, the then Chief Minister was suffering from high sugar level, blood pressure, less oxygen, pneu- monia and thyroid. A day after former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha slammed the Modi Government’s economic poli- cy, Finance Minister Arun Jaitely debunked his charges and accused him of acting in tandem with Congress leaders like P Chidambaram. Sinha’s son, Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, too came out openly against his father and said that “sweeping conclusions were drawn from a narrow set of facts, missing the structural reforms trans- forming the economy.” Jaitley, the prime target of Yashwant Sinha’s hard-hitting attack on the Centre’s eco- nomic policy, chose a book launch function to take on his veteran party colleague. In a scathing attack on Sinha, Jaitley called him “a job applicant at 80 years who has forgotten his record as Finance Minister and is commenting on persons rather than policies.” Without taking Sinha’s name, Jaitley said he did not have the luxury, as yet, of being a former Finance Minister nor does he have the luxury of being a former Finance Minister who has turned a columnist. The first reference was obviously for Sinha and the second for Chidambaram, who rode on the BJP leader’s criticism to assail Jaitley and the Government’s handling of the economy post demonetisation and transitionary impact caused by GST. “I can conveniently forget a policy paralysis (during UPA- II). I can conveniently forget the 15 per cent NPAs of 1998 and 2002 (during Sinha’s term as Finance Minister). I can con- veniently forget the USD 4 billion reserve left in 1991 and I can switch over and change the narrative,” he said. “Acting in tandem itself won’t change the facts,” he said as he took a jibe at Sinha for seeking a job by making those comments. “Probably, a more appro- priate title for the book would have been ‘India @70, Modi @3.5 and a job applicant @ 80,” he said, at the release of book titled ‘India @70 Modi @3.5’. In a newspaper article appearing on Tuesday, Yashwant Sinha criticised Jaitley over the “mess the Finance Minister has made of the economy” and went on to slam the Government over decisions like note ban and the GST. “The Prime Minister claims that he has seen pover- ty from close quarters. His Finance Minister is working over-time to make sure that all Indians also see it from equal- ly close quarters,” Sinha had written in the Indian Express. Jaitley also recalled how Sinha and Chidambaram were highly critical of each other in the past. “One said of the other: ‘Chidambaram will have to be born again to match my record as Finance Minister’. He also called Chidambaram an incompetent doctor for fail- ing to curb India’s alarming fis- cal deficit. And then went on and said ‘I accuse him of run- ning the economy down to the ground’,” Jaitley said in appar- ent reference to comments made by the former Finance Minister Jaitley said Yashwan Singha had accused Chidambaram of being “the most conceited per- son” who bugged his phones. “Today with complete respon- sibility I want to say when I raised the issue of Aircel-Maxis, Chidambaram ordered my phones to be bugged,” Jaitley quoted him as saying. The Finance Minister also said Chidambaram called Sinha’s tenure during the Vajpayee Government as the “worst years since liberalisation”. In a separate attack on Yashwant Sinha, his son Jayant Sinha said the Government has initiated structural reforms to create a “New India”. “Goods and Services Tax, demonetisa- tion and digital payments are game-changing efforts to for- malise India’s economy,” wrote Jayant Sinha in a colum in The Times of India. Continued on Page 4 T he North Goa Additional District and Sessions Court on Thursday formally framed charges against former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, who has been accused of rap- ing a colleague during an international conference in Goa in 2013. After four years of the incident, Tejpal was charged under Sections 376(2) (rape), 354 A (sexual harassment) and B (criminal force with intent to disrobe), 341 (wrongful restraint) 342 (wrongful con- finement), to which he has pleaded not guilty. The next hearing is sched- uled for November 21. His lawyers tried to main- tain a bold face claiming the framing of charges did not mean a setback in the case. “It is not a setback at all. It is just a procedural act of explaining the charge. The order is already challenged before the High Court, so if the High Court reverses the order, it is the end of the matter,” Tejpal’s lawyer Rajiv Gomes told The Pioneer outside the courtroom. Earlier during the hearing, Gomes had requested Additional District and Sessions Judge Vijaya Pol to stay the framing of charges against Tejpal, in view of a pending appeal before the Panaji Bench of the Bombay High Court. “We are disappointed with the order of the trial court. We are hopeful that we will get relief from the High Court. So in view of that explanation of the charge at this juncture would be of no meaning. That is why I was urging before the court that this should be deferred until the disposal of the petition,” Gomes said. Last week, the Bombay High Court had refused to stay the framing of charges and directed that the trial in the lower court should commence after its concurrence. Speaking to reporters, pub- lic prosecutor Franciso Tavora said that the defence lawyers tried to interpret the High Court order and put forward a case for the charges not to be framed on Thursday. “They tried to interpret the High Court order by saying that the charges should not be framed today. There was a dis- cretion given to the trial court (by the High Court) on fram- ing of charges,” Tavora said. The public prosecutor also said that the court had fixed the next hearing for November 21 and that the judge had also sought a report on the status of the petition filed by the Tejpal camp in the High Court, which will decide the commence- ment of the trial. “The hearing on the 21st (November) is just to report what has happened vis-a-vis the petition in the High Court,” Tavora said. T he proposed Metro fare hike from October has not gone down well with political parties as the AAP and the Delhi BJP opposed the move o Thursday. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday termed the proposed move as “anti- people” and directed Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot to prevent its imple- mentation within a week. The fares were last revised in May. From the next month October, fares will go up by a maximum of 10. “The Metro fare hike is anti-people. Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot has been direct- ed to find a solution to prevent hike in metro fares within a week,” Kejriwal tweeted. Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari said the pro- posed decision of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s (DMRC) is going to hurt the common people, especially the students. “Moreover Metro has not provided com- muters any new facilities nor reduced congestion on-board of trains so as to justify any steep hike,” he said. A senior Government offi- cial said the CM is not happy with the DMRC move to increase the fares. The Transport Minister directed the DMRC CMD Mangu Singh to put proposed fare hike on hold till the ratio- nale behind the proposed hike is explained and all relevant documents are shown to the Delhi Government. The Minister said the pro- posed hike in metro fares is likely to hit a large number of commuters in Delhi and that the Government is completely against any such move. “It is not clear as to whether the stand of the Delhi Government is considered by the Fare Fixation Committee,” said Gahlot. When asked, a DMRC official pleading anonymity said the recom- mendations of the Fare Fixation Committee are binding. A s a report prepared by the officials of the State Bank of India in case related to transfer of 100 crore to the account of Bhanu Construction, allegedly due to lapses on part of the bank officials in Ranchi, has been submitted to the Central Bureau of Investigation and the case is likely to be probed by the Central agency. Two bank offi- cials Anil Oraon and Kamaljeet Khanna have been suspended and DGM DK Panda has been transferred to Bhubneshwar by the authorities. “The bank has been taking action in this regard as and when the facts are coming up and some of the officials of the concerned bank have been sus- pended which is still going on. Meanwhile, a report has been submitted to the CBI which will further take decision in this regard after going through it,” said a senior official of the SBI requesting anonymity. He also said that over 70 per cent of the recovery has been done while efforts were on for the recov- ery of the rest amount. Sources in the CBI howev- er, denied to have filed any case so far in this regard and the mat- ter might be referred to Kolkata or New Delhi citing involve- ment of a huge amount, which was beyond its jurisdiction. Incidentally, Hatia branch of SBI had transferred 100 crore, meant for the mid-day meal scheme into the bank account of a private enterprise namely, Bhanu construction company. Though, SBI officials termed it a mistake on the bank’s part, opposition parties have demand- ed inquiry into the matter. Continued on Page 2 W ithin aweek of its aggres- sive ‘Halla Bol Lungi Khol’ campaign to prevent those still answering their nature’s call in open, the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has confessed it could have opted measures to shame those people other than the one which is not only offensive but also violates one’s Constitutional rights to live with dignity. Ahead of RMC, along with 41 other civic bodies in State ready to be declared ODF on October 2 this year, Ranchi Deputy Mayor Sanjeev Vijayvargeeya admitted that the enforcement teams didn’t require to rob one’s lungi off while one was defecating in open. He said both the teams engaged in enforcement of Open Defecation Free (ODF) drive were conveyed message of doing away with ‘Lungi Khol’ part of the campaign and not going that extra mile which was more offensive than preventive. “I wouldn’t hesitate to admit that our enforcement teams could have taken other measures to shame someone while he was defecating in open. But I will also say that some people are so robotical- ly programmed in their minds since ages that they will go to defecate in open even after you build dozens of toilets attached with their homes. And this is why we had to launch a cam- paign like this believing that shaming on spot with various tools could turn them more civilised citizens,” said Vijayvargeeya. Vijaywargiya added that this was not the first drive by RMC to educate and aware people not to answer nature’s call in open. "We have organ- ised series of drives earlier which were purely educative in nature, and we failed. There are people habituated in open defe- cation. Then there are people who have received funds for toilets, but have wasted it in instant pleasure or have divert- ed it in some other purpose and have continued with their habit of defecating in open. Ironically, we have got public toilets constructed in city and it is shameful to see people uri- nating close to toilets and not using them. So, harsh ways to get them civilised is the only way. But I am sure we will be giving second thought as to how much harsh we can go other than increasing penalty amount,” said Vijayvargeeya. Notably, over a dozen people were forced to hand over their clothes, primarily Lungi, to RMC enforcement teams on the day campaign was launched on September 24. The drive is on since then, and over four dozen people, mostly in Tupudana area have been shamed by taking their clothes away and asked to pledge not to defecate in the open again.

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Page 1: ˘ 23 24.56 ˇ .0 7 ˛˜ !˚ˇ˝#ˆ˚ editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, ... would be of no meaning. That is why I was urging before the ... Manoj Tiwari said the pro-

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Samajwadi Party presidentAkhilesh Yadav called on his

father and SP patron MulayamSingh Yadav at the latter’s res-idence in Lucknow onThursday and extended himthe invitation to attend the national convention of the party at Agra fromOctober 5.

The meeting of the fatherand the son is politically sig-nificant as the feud in the SP’sf irst family is far f rom over and there has been no letup in the feud betweenAkhilesh and his uncleShivpal Yadav.

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Aday after the Tamil NaduGovernment announced

the terms of references of theone-man enquiry commissionappointed to probe the factsassociated with the death offormer Chief Minister JJayalalithaa on December 5,2016, one of the 24X7 Tamilnews channels came out witha disclosure on Thursday thatshe was admitted to the ApolloHospital Chennai in an uncon-scious state.

The channel was quoting

from the patient care reportmaintained by the hospitalauthorities which stated thatthe patient (Jayalalithaa) wasunconscious when she wasbrought to the hospital on the

night of September 22, 2016.This is in stark contrast to thebulletin issued by the hospitalauthorities next day thatJayalalithaa was stable andunder observation.

Deepak, nephew of lateJayalalithaa had told a TVchannel recently that his auntwas admitted to the hospital inan unconscious condition.

According to the PCRdetails released by the channelPuthiya Thalamurai, the thenChief Minister was sufferingfrom high sugar level, bloodpressure, less oxygen, pneu-monia and thyroid.

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Aday after former FinanceMinister Yashwant Sinha

slammed the ModiGovernment’s economic poli-cy, Finance Minister ArunJaitely debunked his chargesand accused him of acting intandem with Congress leaderslike P Chidambaram. Sinha’sson, Jayant Sinha, Minister ofState for Civil Aviation, toocame out openly against hisfather and said that “sweepingconclusions were drawn froma narrow set of facts, missingthe structural reforms trans-forming the economy.”

Jaitley, the prime target ofYashwant Sinha’s hard-hittingattack on the Centre’s eco-nomic policy, chose a booklaunch function to take on hisveteran party colleague. In ascathing attack on Sinha, Jaitleycalled him “a job applicant at 80

years who has forgotten hisrecord as Finance Minister andis commenting on personsrather than policies.”

Without taking Sinha’sname, Jaitley said he did nothave the luxury, as yet, ofbeing a former FinanceMinister nor does he have theluxury of being a formerFinance Minister who hasturned a columnist. The firstreference was obviously forSinha and the second forChidambaram, who rode onthe BJP leader’s criticism toassail Jaitley and theGovernment’s handling of theeconomy post demonetisationand transitionary impactcaused by GST.

“I can conveniently forgeta policy paralysis (during UPA-II). I can conveniently forgetthe 15 per cent NPAs of 1998and 2002 (during Sinha’s termas Finance Minister). I can con-veniently forget the USD 4

billion reserve left in 1991 andI can switch over and changethe narrative,” he said.

“Acting in tandem itselfwon’t change the facts,” he saidas he took a jibe at Sinha forseeking a job by making thosecomments.

“Probably, a more appro-priate title for the book wouldhave been ‘India @70, [email protected] and a job applicant @ 80,”he said, at the release of book

titled ‘India @70 Modi @3.5’.In a newspaper article

appearing on Tuesday,Yashwant Sinha criticisedJaitley over the “mess theFinance Minister has made ofthe economy” and went on toslam the Government overdecisions like note ban and theGST. “The Prime Ministerclaims that he has seen pover-ty from close quarters. HisFinance Minister is working

over-time to make sure that allIndians also see it from equal-ly close quarters,” Sinha hadwritten in the Indian Express.

Jaitley also recalled howSinha and Chidambaram werehighly critical of each other inthe past. “One said of theother: ‘Chidambaram will haveto be born again to match myrecord as Finance Minister’.He also called Chidambaraman incompetent doctor for fail-

ing to curb India’s alarming fis-cal deficit. And then went onand said ‘I accuse him of run-ning the economy down to theground’,” Jaitley said in appar-ent reference to commentsmade by the former FinanceMinister

Jaitley said Yashwan Singhahad accused Chidambaram ofbeing “the most conceited per-son” who bugged his phones.“Today with complete respon-sibility I want to say when Iraised the issue of Aircel-Maxis,Chidambaram ordered myphones to be bugged,” Jaitleyquoted him as saying.

The Finance Minister alsosaid Chidambaram calledSinha’s tenure during theVajpayee Government as the“worst years since liberalisation”.

In a separate attack onYashwant Sinha, his son JayantSinha said the Governmenthas initiated structural reformsto create a “New India”. “Goodsand Services Tax, demonetisa-tion and digital payments aregame-changing efforts to for-malise India’s economy,” wroteJayant Sinha in a colum in The Times of India.

Continued on Page 4

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The North Goa AdditionalDistrict and Sessions Court

on Thursday formally framedcharges against former Tehelkaeditor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal,who has been accused of rap-ing a colleague during an international conference inGoa in 2013.

After four years of theincident, Tejpal was chargedunder Sections 376(2) (rape),354 A (sexual harassment) andB (criminal force with intent todisrobe), 341 (wrongfulrestraint) 342 (wrongful con-finement), to which he haspleaded not guilty.

The next hearing is sched-uled for November 21.

His lawyers tried to main-tain a bold face claiming theframing of charges did notmean a setback in the case.

“It is not a setback at all. Itis just a procedural act ofexplaining the charge. Theorder is already challengedbefore the High Court, so if theHigh Court reverses the order,it is the end of the matter,”Tejpal’s lawyer Rajiv Gomestold The Pioneer outside thecourtroom.

Earlier during the hearing,Gomes had requestedAdditional District andSessions Judge Vijaya Pol tostay the framing of chargesagainst Tejpal, in view of apending appeal before thePanaji Bench of the BombayHigh Court.

“We are disappointed withthe order of the trial court. Weare hopeful that we will getrelief from the High Court. Soin view of that explanation ofthe charge at this juncturewould be of no meaning. Thatis why I was urging before thecourt that this should bedeferred until the disposal of

the petition,” Gomes said.Last week, the Bombay

High Court had refused tostay the framing of charges anddirected that the trial in thelower court should commenceafter its concurrence.

Speaking to reporters, pub-lic prosecutor Franciso Tavorasaid that the defence lawyerstried to interpret the HighCourt order and put forward acase for the charges not to beframed on Thursday.

“They tried to interpretthe High Court order by sayingthat the charges should not beframed today. There was a dis-cretion given to the trial court(by the High Court) on fram-ing of charges,” Tavora said.

The public prosecutor alsosaid that the court had fixed thenext hearing for November 21and that the judge had alsosought a report on the status ofthe petition filed by the Tejpalcamp in the High Court, whichwill decide the commence-ment of the trial.

“The hearing on the 21st(November) is just to reportwhat has happened vis-a-visthe petition in the High Court,”Tavora said.

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The proposed Metro fare hikefrom October has not gone

down well with political partiesas the AAP and the Delhi BJPopposed the move o Thursday.

Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal on Thursdaytermed the proposed move as“anti- people” and directedTransport Minister KailashGahlot to prevent its imple-mentation within a week.

The fares were last revisedin May. From the next monthOctober, fares will go up by amaximum of �10.

“The Metro fare hike isanti-people. Transport MinisterKailash Gahlot has been direct-ed to find a solution to preventhike in metro fares within aweek,” Kejriwal tweeted.

Delhi BJP presidentManoj Tiwari said the pro-posed decision of the DelhiMetro Rail Corporation’s(DMRC) is going to hurt thecommon people, especially

the students. “MoreoverMetro has not provided com-muters any new facilities norreduced congestion on-boardof trains so as to justify anysteep hike,” he said.

A senior Government offi-cial said the CM is not happywith the DMRC move toincrease the fares.

The Transport Ministerdirected the DMRC CMDMangu Singh to put proposedfare hike on hold till the ratio-nale behind the proposed hikeis explained and all relevantdocuments are shown to theDelhi Government.

The Minister said the pro-posed hike in metro fares islikely to hit a large number ofcommuters in Delhi and thatthe Government is completelyagainst any such move.

“It is not clear as to whetherthe stand of the DelhiGovernment is considered bythe Fare Fixation Committee,”said Gahlot. When asked, aDMRC official pleadinganonymity said the recom-mendations of the Fare FixationCommittee are binding.

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India in case related to transferof �100 crore to the account ofBhanu Construction, allegedlydue to lapses on part of the bankofficials in Ranchi, has beensubmitted to the Central Bureauof Investigation and the case islikely to be probed by theCentral agency. Two bank offi-cials Anil Oraon and KamaljeetKhanna have been suspendedand DGM DK Panda has beentransferred to Bhubneshwar bythe authorities.

“The bank has been takingaction in this regard as andwhen the facts are coming upand some of the officials of theconcerned bank have been sus-pended which is still going on.Meanwhile, a report has beensubmitted to the CBI which

will further take decision in thisregard after going through it,”said a senior official of the SBIrequesting anonymity. He alsosaid that over 70 per cent of therecovery has been done whileefforts were on for the recov-ery of the rest amount.

Sources in the CBI howev-er, denied to have filed any caseso far in this regard and the mat-ter might be referred to Kolkataor New Delhi citing involve-ment of a huge amount, whichwas beyond its jurisdiction.

Incidentally, Hatia branch ofSBI had transferred �100 crore,meant for the mid-day mealscheme into the bank account ofa private enterprise namely,Bhanu construction company.Though, SBI officials termed ita mistake on the bank’s part,opposition parties have demand-ed inquiry into the matter.

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Within aweek of its aggres-sive ‘Halla Bol Lungi

Khol’ campaign to preventthose still answering theirnature’s call in open, the RanchiMunicipal Corporation (RMC)has confessed it could haveopted measures to shame thosepeople other than the onewhich is not only offensive butalso violates one’sConstitutional rights to livewith dignity.

Ahead of RMC, alongwith 41 other civic bodies inState ready to be declared ODFon October 2 this year, RanchiDeputy Mayor SanjeevVijayvargeeya admitted thatthe enforcement teams didn’trequire to rob one’s lungi offwhile one was defecating inopen. He said both the teamsengaged in enforcement ofOpen Defecation Free (ODF)drive were conveyed message of

doing away with ‘Lungi Khol’part of the campaign and notgoing that extra mile which wasmore offensive than preventive.

“I wouldn’t hesitate toadmit that our enforcementteams could have taken othermeasures to shame someonewhile he was defecating inopen. But I will also say thatsome people are so robotical-ly programmed in their mindssince ages that they will go todefecate in open even after youbuild dozens of toilets attachedwith their homes. And this iswhy we had to launch a cam-paign like this believing thatshaming on spot with varioustools could turn them morecivilised citizens,” saidVijayvargeeya.

Vijaywargiya added thatthis was not the first drive byRMC to educate and awarepeople not to answer nature’scall in open. "We have organ-ised series of drives earlier

which were purely educative innature, and we failed. There are

people habituated in open defe-cation. Then there are people

who have received funds fortoilets, but have wasted it in

instant pleasure or have divert-ed it in some other purpose andhave continued with their habitof defecating in open.Ironically, we have got publictoilets constructed in city andit is shameful to see people uri-nating close to toilets and notusing them. So, harsh ways toget them civilised is the onlyway. But I am sure we will begiving second thought as tohow much harsh we can goother than increasing penaltyamount,” said Vijayvargeeya.

Notably, over a dozenpeople were forced to handover their clothes, primarilyLungi, to RMC enforcementteams on the day campaign waslaunched on September 24.

The drive is on since then,and over four dozen people,mostly in Tupudana area havebeen shamed by taking theirclothes away and asked topledge not to defecate in theopen again.

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Palamu tiger reserve is all setto thwart any attempt to

poach deer or wild boar duringDurga Puja festival.

Field director of PTR MPSingh held a Press conferenceon Thursday in Betla whichreflected his concern for thesafety of wildlife this festive season.

Singh got seated five of hisrangers on this occasion to helphim brief the newsmen aboutthe measures taken by them tocurb poaching.

Singh allowing rangers tospeak of their ranges said, “Iunderstand much dependsupon how a ranger reacts to thesituation like this. Managementof human resources differsfrom ranger to ranger.”

He first of all gave hisGaru West ranger Ashok KSingh to explain as to how heis working out to ensure safe-ty of his wildlife. Chhipadoharranger Rajinder Shukla said hehas so far seized ten muzzleloaded guns from villagerswho were out in PTR with evilintention to poach wild life.

Ranger Ashok said hisrange has 165 Sq Km of PTR

and here he has put up his men.At three patrol chowkis officialsspend nights there in the jun-gle he said.

Field director explainedthat despite our patrol andvigil people’s support in savingwildlife is most precious.

He said efforts are on tolink people to PTR’s upkeep asis the practice in other tigerreserves like the one in Kerala

or in UP. He said our PTR’sincome from tourists is a bare15 lakh of rupees while Periyarand Corbett tiger reserves havean annual income of 8 crores ofrupees.

He said in the same veinsafety of wildlife is of primeimportance. Field directorasked his Bet la rangerNathuni Singh to focus on theroute of Palamu Fort toSatbarwa which is vulnerableto poaching.

Field director said there isa proposal to hold Betla Festivalthis winter season and this pro-posal has been duly sent to statetourism department for itsapproval. He said in case statetourism department gets hesi-tant to hold this Betla Festivalthen PTR will step forward tohost the same.

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Kanke MLA, Dr. Jitu CharanRam on Thursday admin-

istered ‘Swachhta pledge’ aswell as ‘integrity pledge’ inpresence of Director(Personnel), CCL and others toresidents of Sukurhuttu vil-lage, Kanke block, Ranchi.Central Coalfields Limited hasorganized a cleanliness drive inthe village to contribute, onceagain, to the ‘Jan Andolan’that is the ‘Swachh BharatMission’ ahead of the 3rdanniversary of Swachh BharatMission that falls on October 2.

Director (Personnel) RSMahapatro, General Manager(Welfare) V N Prasad, GeneralManager(Vigilance) GopalPrasad, and elected membersand large number of villagersparticipated in the SwachhtaHi Seva campaign. WelfareDeptt as well as CSR depart-ment are playing significantrole in organizing the pro-gramme.

“Swachchta Hi Seva”pledge has been aimed at cre-ating a clean, healthy and NewIndia, while “integrity pledge”objective is to enlist supportand commitment of the citizensand organizations for uphold-ing the highest standards ofethical, honesty and integrity.More than 100 villagers tookboth the pledges and partici-pated in the cleanliness drive.

Addressing the gathering,MLA urged the villagers to playactive role in “Swachchta HiSewa” campaign and makingIndia as corruption free-soci-ety.

Addressing the gathering RS Mahapatro said everybodyshould contribute to accom-plish Mahatma Gandhi’s dreamof a Clean India. “We shoulddevote two hours for cleanli-ness purpose in our locality orany other suitable places,”Mahapatro said.

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Garhwa district is bracing fora dark Puja, given the fre-

quency of powercuts. As festiv-ities began this morning, therewas erratic power supply in thetown. With temperatures hov-ering between 30 and 33 degreesCelsius, residents are facingpower cuts in this festivity.

There are at least 32 Pujapandals in Hailakandi and 200in district. Around six to sevenhours of powercuts everydayhave not only affected com-mercial activity, but also damp-ened the festive spirit, said alocal businessman. “We havearranged for generators becauseit is almost certain that theJVNL will be unable to main-tain electricity supply,” he said.

The district requires 69MW of power during peakhours, but has lately been get-ting only between 15 and 17MW informed ExecutiveEngineer of JVNL, Garhwa,which gets power from Biharand Rehand Uttar Pradesh.Power from Bihar is beingused in Railways, while Rehandis giving power only 15 to 17Mw, the EE said.

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CM Raghubar Das onThursday said that the peo-

ple of the State must pledge tomake a ‘New Jharkhand’ by2022. Addressing mediaper-sons at Agrico Durga PujaPandal, Das said that it is timefor the people to join hands andwork along with theGovernment to pave way for adeveloped State and make a‘New Jharkhand’.

The Chief Minister visitedseveral puja pandals along withparty workers and prayed forthe welfare of state. He went toAgrico, Kadma, Bhalubhasa,Laxminagar and Jojobera. Dasalso interacted with devoteesand extended his warm wishes.

Amid festive mood,dressed in their best, people ofthe city today thronged at pujapandals to make offering to thedeities. People in large numbersvisited the colourfully deco-rated pandals in the eveningand were overjoyed as cultur-al programmes began at allprominent pandals.

“We are hosting culturalshows to add a tinge of enter-

tainment for the visitors. We arehappy to note the response fromthe devotees,” said a functionaryof Circuit House puja committee.

Meanwhile, a big fair isbeing organised at SabujKalyan Sangh, Telco. The areahas turned into playgroundfor visitors. Meanwhile, artis-tically carved idols of GoddessDurga is also attracting thedevotees a lot.

People are seen standing inlong queues in front of the pan-dals for their turn for darshan of

the Goddess. Huge rush of devo-tees was seen at the pandals of JayRam Sporting Club in Adityapurand Thakur Pyara Singh andDharundhar Singh in Kashidih.

On the other hand theRam Mandir Ravan DahanSamity in Sonari is gearing upfor the age old rituals of RavaanDahan. This year the Ravanwill be 50 ft high and viewerswill enjoy the legend of goodwinning over evil once again.

The tradition of the dahan,held on the Ram Mandir

grounds, first began in 1958.The total budget for this

year is Rs 1.25 lakh. The fire-crackers for the one-hour showhave been procured at a cost ofRs 40,000. Like every year, theSamity expects a crowd ofabout 50, 000.

Apart from carrying thetradition forward and enter-taining the people, the Samityalso takes care of the safety ofpeople. The firecrackers arealways fixed on a certain heightin order to avoid accidents.

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money remained parked inthe wrong account betweenAugust 5 and September 19.The bank, however, hasreturned the entire amount tothe MDM account and haslaunched an internal inquiryinto the matter.

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Following a letter from DeraSacha Sauda sect ‘Qurbani

wing’ threatening to kill jour-nalists, police officers and oth-ers who have spoken against itsjailed chief Gurmeet RamRahim Singh, Haryana Policeon Thursday said an inquirywould be conducted into thematter.

Haryana AdditionalDirector General of Police (Lawand Order), Mohammad Akilwhile talking to mediapersonssaid the police were taking thisissue seriously and an inquirywould be conducted into this.

“We will check the authen-ticity of this letter and trace theperson who has written this. Wewill take care of the security ofpeople including journalistsmentioned in the threat letter,”said Akil.

A day before, a letter witha heading “Teesari Adalat KaFaisla Sazaye Maut” from dera‘Qurbani wing’ was received byseveral media offices inChandigarh. Besides accusingthe ruling BJP Government ofcheating the dera, it had men-tioned names of some mediachannels and people which aretheir targets.

After the letter, VishwasGupta, former husband of DeraSacha Sauda chief ’s “adopted”daughter Honeypreet Insan,has on Thursday filed a com-plaint in Karnal alleging threatto his life.

In his complaint, Guptaalleged that an unidentifiedperson threatened to kill him,the SHO at the Karnal CityPolice Station, Inspector RajbirSingh, said.

Gupta married Honeypreetin 1999 and filed for a divorcein 2011. While addressing anews conference in Chandigarhlast week, Gupta had expressedapprehension that that he mightbe killed for speaking againstthe Dera head.

Honeypreet, against whomthe Haryana Police had issueda lookout notice last month inconnection with the violencein Panchkula, has beenabsconding since GurmeetRam Rahim Singh’s convictionon August 25..Ram Rahim iscurrently lodged at Rohtak’sSunaria jail. His convictionon August 25 had led to wide-spread violence when scores ofDera supporters came out onstreets and damaged propertyworth crores in Panchkula andSirsa.

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Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on

Thursday promised strictadherence by his Governmentto the 48-hour deadline forlifting of paddy and paymentto farmers for their crop in the ensuing Kharif season.

Capt Amarinder, address-ing a meeting of rice millersled by All India Rice MillerAssociation and Punjab StateRice Millers’ Association pres-ident Tarsem Saini, alsopromised revival of sick ricemilling units to be taken upon priority by his govern-ment.

Pointing out that hisGovernment had got the issueof Cash Credit Limit (CCL)sorted out, the Chief Ministersaid that everything was inplace for smooth procure-ment of paddy in this season,when an estimated 182 lakhmetric tonnes of the cropwas expected to come into themarket, as against the previ-ous season’s target of 165lakh metric tonnes.

Mandis were witnessing182 per cent increase inarrival of cotton crop as com-pare to last year, as a result of

the collective efforts of thestate government, PAU andfarmers, backed by favourableweather conditions, said theChief Minister, expressingsatisfaction over the bumperproduction of cotton.

Reiterating hisGovernment’s commitmentto early redressal of variousproblems faced by the belea-guered industr y, CaptAmarinder pointed out theState Government had recent-ly announced a One TimeSettlement (OTS) scheme toprovide an opportunity to alldefaulter rice millers to cleartheir past dues.

Around 1,500 of the total3,500 defaulting and sickmilling units would benefit bythe scheme, he said, addingthat this was one of the sev-eral measures initiated tobring the industry back on thepath of progress.

Responding to a demandfrom the rice millers, CaptAmarinder said he wouldtake up the issue of Bardanause and transportationcharges with the CentralGovernment next week at hismeeting with the Union FoodMinister Ram Vilas Paswan.

On the issue of millers insurplus paddy districts being

given more paddy at a rate of140 percent of their originalentitlement, he assured thatno miller would be forced tomill paddy beyond his capac-ity and only those willing tomill extra paddy would beconsidered.

The Chief Minister calledupon the rice milling indus-try to collaborate with theState Government in ensuringsmooth procurement ofpaddy in the forthcomingKharif season.

Punjab Mandi Boardchairman Lal Singh blamedthe previous SAD-BJPGovernment for the mess inthe industry, saying that theAkalis and BJP had plun-dered the State, leaving itunder a massive debt burdenof �2.08 lakh crore as a resultof its ill-conceived and cor-rupt policies.

With the installation ofthe Captain Amarinder Singhled government, the state waswitnessing a turnaround withmore than 300 new rice millsalready set up in just sixmonths, said Lal Singh,promising to act as a bridgebetween the milling commu-nity and the government toresolve any issues of con-cern.

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that were taking place outsideof the tax net and in the infor-mal sector are now beingbrought into the formal sector.In the long term, formalisationwill mean (a) tax collections goup and more resources areavailable to the state; (b) fric-tion in the economy is reducedand GDP goes up; and (c) cit-izens are able to establishcredit more effectively astransaction records are digi-tised.”

Jayant added the structur-al reforms unleashed by theModi Government since 2014constitute the third genera-tion of reforms since the firstgeneration of reforms initiatedin 1991 and the second gener-ation in the 1999-2004 NDAGovernment.

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Despite several Durga PujaSamitis embracing the ‘Go

Green’ concept in their pan-dals, they are yet to draft a con-crete immersion plan as sug-gested by Ranchi MunicipalCorporation (RMC) recentlyduring a meeting.

Notably, the MunicipalCorporation following theguidelines of State PollutionControl Board has made itmandatory for all the pujacommittees to submit a list ofwater reservoirs where immer-sion will be carried out onOctober 1. However, by far, theSwacch Bharat Mission (SBM)cell of the Civic Body has notyet received a single applicationregarding this.

Bringing in the concept ofartificial ponds to avoid rush ata specific reservoir besidespromoting the eco-friendly

approach in dismantling andimmersing deities, during themeeting quite a number ofmembers from different pujacommittees gave their consentover the idea. However, itseems that the idea of creatingartificial ponds near reservoirsis restricted to papers only.

Also, for better crowdmanagement, the officials ofRMC has asked from the mem-bers of puja samitis to submitthe list figuring out four reser-voirs falling in their respectivezones where immersionprocess can be carried out. TheMunicipal Corporation hasdivided the Capital City intofour zones considering theDurga Puja and the ever risingtoxic level in water bodies

Meanwhile, if the CivicBody members fail in theirattempt to get support of thepuja samiti members in keep-ing the city ponds clean thenreluctantly they will espousethe same strategy as adoptedin 2016. Rolling back to theidea of demarcating 10 majorponds for immersion, sameprocess will be adopted this

year too said Sandeep Kumar,the City Manager who is lead-ing the MunicipalCorporation’s SBM team.

“So far, we have not got anyresponse from puja pandal

committee members onimmersion. No suggestions orfinal list is available with RMCat present. Since the notificationsuggests that the immersionprocedure must get complete

on October 1, hence will beusing the similar plan and willdemarcate 10 main ponds forconducting immersion rituals,”added Kumar. In 2016, immer-sion procedure was mainly

conducted at Ranchi Lake, LineTank, Jail Talaab and KaramtoliTalab, among the few.

Earlier as well JharkhandState Pollution Control Board(JSPCB) had asked the author-ities to ensure that idols mustbe immersed in temporaryponds dug up, if possible or elseto rim the areas inside ponds.Materials like flowers, clothesand other stuffs must beremoved within 48 hours ofimmersion from the immer-sion sites (Ponds) too for keep-ing the spots clean.

Besides the immersion rit-uals, the RMC officials have alsoinstructed the City Managers toremove all archway hoardingsand billboards installed alongthe major avenues on October1. RMC streamlining its servicesbesides conducting cleanlinessdrive, removing encroachments,it has exempted parking chargesfrom major spots consideringthe festive rush. In addition,adopting innovative strategies,this festive season as well, all thepuja pandals decked up in citywill fight for the coveted ‘SwacchPandal’ title.

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Much to the disappointment forthe Puja lovers, rainfall is likely

to create disturbances during thenext four days and people here maynot be able to move out of their homesto enjoy the Puja Pandals on Fridayand Saturday. Meteorological officialssaid that the circulation developed onthe Bay of Bengal will be intensifiedfurther resulting into light and mod-erate rainfall on some parts ofJharkhand which may prove to be aspoilsport for this Duga Puja.

“There are possibilities that cir-culation developed over the Bay ofBengal will get further intensifiedresulting into light and moderaterainfall on southern and central partsof Jharkhand. Its location currently isover Andhra Pradesh and in thecoastal areas of Odisha,” said

Forecasting Officer at RanchiMeteorological Centre UpendraSrivastav. Thursday’s rainfall was alsoan effect of the circulation developedover the Bay of Bengal, he added.

“It is a natural phenomenon whichtakes place during monsoon season

where such circulation develops over theBay of Bengal resulting into scanty rain-falls,” said Srivatav. It is to continue at leastfor the next four days and create dis-turbances for the Puja lovers, he added.

Meanwhile, on Thursday also, theweather in Ranchi remained cloudy

throughout the day with scanty rain-fall in some parts of the State capitalleaving Puja- lovers’ skeptic, whetherto go out or not. While on Wednesday,decorations and archway entrances gotdamaged due to heavy rainfall andstrong winds in some parts of Ranchi

including Station Road, Chutia andNamkom areas which washed awaythe joys of Durga Puja.

“We got badly wet due to the sud-den rainfall which occurred in theevening on Wednesday when wewere visiting the Puja Pandal atRanchi Railway Station. The speedingwinds destroyed the decorations tosome extent which were later put atplace by the organisers,” said devoteeAbhimanu Chaurasia hailing fromKadru in Ranchi. He however, saidthat despite rain he will definitely goout on Thursday also for darshan assuch decorations could be seen againonly the next year.

“The devotees from rural areas,coming to Ranchi every year to visitPuja Pandals, might find it difficult tocome out of their homes if this rain-fall continues even on Friday andSaturday,” said Chaurasia.

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Jharkhand Pradesh CongressCommittee (JPCC) has done

with its exercise to chose del-egates, total 294 in numbers,who would be deciding thenames of party president hereas well as participate in the finalelection process taking placefor the top posts in AICC.

Party sources said that thelist would be sent to Delhi incouple of days before the finalleg reaching with the electionof party’s national president,vice presidents etc expected totake place by October 15.

“All the delegates autho-rised to vote into the electionof party president forJharkhand and also to electionour national president, havebeen chosen. We are getting thelist ready and soon afterDushara the names would behanded over to AICC electioncommittee. Total 294 delegatescoming from each block of theState have figured into the listof voters,” said PCC generalsecretary Alok Kumar Dubey.

Nevertheless all eyes are onthe face of the PCC presidenton which incumbent SukhdeoBhagat is sitting prettily for lastfive years. It is learnt that a fac-tion of the party that has con-sistently been out to dislodgeBhagat from the coveted postis silently looking to grab theopportunity from both hands.

“We have left the decisionto the Congress high commandand now they have to decidegood or bad for the party. Asper the precedence the dele-gates elected to chose partychiefs in the State leave it toparty’s national president whofinally name PCC presidents.We are expecting that some-thing good would take placethis time around,” said party’sJamtara MLA Irfan Ansari.

Notably, Irfan along withhis Barhi counterpart ManojKumar Yadav has been instru-mental in running ‘SackSukhdeo’ drive and is in waitand watch mode at present;though not before strong inter-vention and “assurances” com-ing from Delhi in this regard.

When asked whether any-one else besides SukhdeoBhagat has thrown his towelinto the arena, another leaderof the rival camp respondedcautiously. “There are leadersbut they are not willing to comeforward at this juncture.Instead they have taken theirstated positions to the partyhigh command. The high com-mand is aware of the senti-ments of the other leaders intothe party and the decision(about the fate of the JPCCchief) is expected on time,” hesaid with great deal of convic-tion.

On the contrary theSukhdeo camp is not willing tofocus much on the leadershipissue. “Holding organisationpolls starting from block leveland upwards is a greatachievement for the PCC. Thisis altogether going to strength-en and revive the party’s struc-ture at grass root level. Theorganisation is rebuildingwhich is the most importantthing for us as stressed by ournational vice president RahulGandhi,” added Alok Dubey.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi and External Affairs

Minister Sushma Swaraj onThursday held talks withAbdullah Abdullah, ChiefExecutive of Afghanistan, anddiscussed regional situation,including terrorism and vio-lence. It was agreed that thehigh impact projects beingundertaken by India under thenew development partnershipwith Afghanistan would befollowed up.

During his meeting withModi, Abdullah conveyed deepappreciation for India’s contin-uing support for infrastructuredevelopment and capacitybuilding in Afghanistan.According to the PrimeMinister’s Office, Modi reiter-ated India’s commitment toextend full support toAfghanistan’s efforts for build-ing a peaceful, united, prosper-ous, inclusive and democraticAfghanistan. The two leadersexchanged views on the securi-ty environment in Afghanistanand the extended region, and, inthis context, agreed to contin-ue close coordination and coop-eration. An MoU for TechnicalCooperation on Police Trainingand Development wasexchanged in the presence of thetwo leaders at the conclusion ofthe meeting. Modi also appre-ciated the mosaic portrait pre-pared by an Afghan mastercraftsman, which was present-ed to him by Abdullah.Abdullah also called onPresident Ramnath Kovind.

While inaugurating theIndia-Afghanistan Trade and

Investment Show, Abdullahappreciated the role of Indiaand the United States inAfghanistan’s reconstruction.Terming it the investment showas a first deliverable for theHeart of Asia agreement, withthe aim to rejuvenate the eco-nomic bonds, Abdullah said hisGovernment looks forward toother such events to highlightAfghan potentials and facilitatemore trade, transit, transportand investment.

“Afghan stability in focuson economic prosperity is awin-win situation for all coun-tries in our region. There is noloser if we let go of spoiler atti-tudes, outdated and failingstrategies, and productive con-straints and unnatural restric-tions, which eventually hurtgrowth and prosperity for mil-lions of our peoples,” he said.

He added: “We appreciateIndia’s growing economic roleon the world stage, and as amajor regional hub, and I wantto take this opportunity here tothank His Excellency PrimeMinister Modi and his team forthe commitment to Afghanistanin finding new opportunities fortrade and private sector devel-opment, and in other areas ofmutual interest. Over the years,

India has carved a commercialand business footprint that hasstrengthened our relations. Weare happy to see continuedIndian interest by companiesand entities involved andexploring the opportunities inAfghanistan.”

The Afghanistan CEO saidthat rocket strike at the HamidKarzai International Airport inKabul on Wednesday that tar-geted the plane of visiting USSecretary of Defense JimMattis, demonstrated the secu-rity challenges facing the coun-try. Abdullah was forced todelay his travel plans to NewDelhi by a day, as the airportwas shut down after the attack.“In the incident, the terroristincident of yesterday, shows thechallenges that we are facedwith. But also, it shows that itcan delay us for a while, butthey cannot stop us,” he added.

Talking about trade andinvestment, Abdullah said thatAfghanistan wanted to expandits traditional commercialexchanges in areas such ashandicrafts, gemstones, agri-cultural and other items andlooked forward to doing morein areas such as infrastructure,health services, finance, edu-cation and clean energy.

New Delhi: Cardiovasculardiseases (CVDs) are expectedto be the fastest growing chron-ic illnesses between 2007 and2017, growing at 9.5 per centannually, and accounting forthe second largest number ofnon-communicable diseases(NCDs) patients after mentalillnesses in India, according toan ASSOCHAM-Deloitte jointstudy on the occasion of ‘WorldHeart Day’ on Thursday.

Releasing the study‘Cardiovascular diseases inIndia’ here, the business cham-ber’s Secretary General, DSRawat said, “Inactive lifestyle,lack of exercise and poor eatinghabits are making millions ofurban Indians face a high risk

of heart disease.” Majority ofthem are overweight and proneto heart attacks and other car-diovascular problems due tounhealthy blood pressure, cho-lesterol or blood sugar levels.

The study pointed out thatCVDs accounted for aroundone-fourth of all deaths in Indiain 2008. A more worrying factis that the incidences of CVDshave gone up significantly forpeople between the ages 25and 69 to 24.8 per cent, whichmeans we are losing more pro-ductive people to these diseases.

Between 2007 and 2017,India is projected to cumula-tively lose USD 236.6 billionbecause of heart disease, stroke,and diabetes, shaving 1 per cent

off the GDP. In 2000, in the agegroup of 35 to 64, India lost 9.2million years of productive life(PYLLs), almost six times thefigure for US, noted the study.

India is not just the diabetescapital of the world with morethan 50 million patients, it alsohas the highest prevalence ofmetabolic syndrome and obesi-ty - 20 million Indians are obesetoday with 70 million projectedby 2025; 20 per cent of Indianssuffer from hypertension.

Further, in the absence ofany national program for pre-vention and management ofCVDs, it is expected to increaseto 17.9 million PYLLs by 2030,more than nine times the cor-responding figure for the US,

it said.The growth of heart diseases

is dependent on a number ofinterlinked factors such as aging,changing lifestyles and foodhabits, and other rapidly evolv-ing socioeconomic determi-nants across developing nations.

Smoking alone is estimatedto be responsible for 22 per centof cardiovascular diseases inindustrialized countries, andfor the vast majority of somecancers and chronic respiratorydiseases. Eighty percent of coro-nary heart diseases, 90 percentof type II diabetes and one-thirdof cancers can be prevented bymaintaining proper diets,increasing exercise and stopsmoking, said the study. ���

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Accusing former CAG Shashi KantSharma of hushing up the report on

Aircel-Maxis scam, BJP leaderSubramanian Swamy on Thursday urgedhis successor Rajiv Mehrishi to table thereport in Parliament immediately. In aletter to the new CAG, Swamy said theformer CAG had also hushed up auditon Rajya Sabha TV’s expenditures andseveral reports on defence and telecom.

“The final Audit Report of the CAGof India on the Aircel-Maxis case is how-ever pending in your office for the last3 years. I understand that the draft Auditreport of the office of Director Generalof Audit, Post & Telecommunications onthe Aircel-Maxis case received in youroffice in January 2015 was kept in thesuspended animation by your prede-cessor,” said Swamy.

He also accused senior officers AMBajaj and PK Tiwari in CAG’s officeresponsible for the hushing up Aircel-Maxis scam report. “Both of them wererewarded for their connivance with Bajajgetting coveted position of the Director

of Audit , UN headquarters, New Yorkand Tiwari getting relief from majorPenalty proceedings recommended bythe CVC for his false LTC claims andposting as DG (P&T) after irregular pro-motion. His role in dilution of the Auditreports of the Defence & Telecom sec-tor during 2014-16 needs to thorough-ly investigated,” said the BJP leader.

Swamy pointed out that former CAGSharma audited more than 12 reports onDefence Ministry related issues, despitehaving worked in Defence Ministry forthan 10 years. He said new CAG Mehrishishould get all these cases re-examined bya Special team of competent officers soas to ensure that the defence auditreports were not compromised.

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Indian priest, Father TomUzhunnalil, who was recent-

ly rescued from the ISIS cap-tivity, returned home onThursday from Vatican City.He met Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and ExternalAffairs Minister Sushma Swarajand thanked them for theefforts to bring him back home.

Father Tom, a Catholicpriest from Kerala, was abduct-ed on 4 March 2016 following anincident of terrorist attack inAden by a group believed to beworking with the ISIS, and wastaken to an unknown place. TheIndian Government worked itsway to secure his release fromthe terrorists after one-and-a-half years of captivity. He wasreleased on September 12.

“After the required rest andrecuperation period in VaticanCity, Father Tom returned hometoday… Since his abduction, theMinistry of External Affairshad been making all possibleefforts to secure his safe releaseand was in constant touch withcountries in the region whichcould help secure his release,”the MEA said in a statement.On arrival, Father Tom wasreceived by Minister of State forTourism KJ Alphons.

Earlier, MEA spokespersonRaveesh Kumar tweeted:“Welcome back home!” asSwaraj met him in her office.

“He (PM Modi) was happythat I am freed. He said ‘takecare of your health now’,” FatherTom said after his meetingwith the PM. “I am very happy,thank Almighty for makingthis day possible. I am gratefulto all those people who haveworked in their own way (tosecure my release),” he told themediapersons. “I have prayedfor those who kept me (captive).They gave me food and didn’tharm me physically. Initially,they asked who will help me —Government or Church? Afterthat I don’t know what theydid,” Father Tom added. Thepriest will leave for his home-

town Ramapuram in Kottayamon Sunday where is scheduledto meet Kerala Chief MinisterPinarayi Vijayan. On Thursdayevening Father Tom conductedevening prayers at Sacred HeartCathedral in New Delhi.

Father Tom was abductedfrom Yemen by the ISIS after anattack on an old people’s homerun by missionaries in Aden andkilled 16 people, including fourIndian nuns. Two months afterhis abduction, in a video mes-sage, Father Tom urged IndianGovernment to help him and gethim freed. He added that hishealth was deteriorating and heneeded hospitalisation.

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Home Minister RajnathSingh on Thursday urged

for diplomatic efforts to bringconsensus among differentcountries on sharing hydrolog-ical data on rivers, a month afterChina did not share informationon Brahmaputra. Inauguratingthe 13th formation day of theNational Disaster ManagementAuthority (NDMA) here, Singhsaid hydrological data on riversshould be shared by the neigh-bouring countries for flood mit-igation and a consensus needs tobe developed in this regard.

The Home Minister saidIndia is hit by floods every yearand hence there is a need totake diplomatic initiatives todeal with flood problem in thecountry. “Some may ask whatkind of diplomatic effortsshould be taken to solve theflood problem. Hydrologicaldata of some rivers, which

come from another country,should be shared.

“As of now, I think, there isno such arrangement. I thinkthere should be diplomatic ini-tiatives in this regard. We musttry to enhance cooperationand consensus with our neigh-bouring countries,” he said.

On August 18, the ExternalAffairs Ministry had said thereis an existing expert-levelmechanism, established in2006, and there are two MoUsunder which China is expect-ed to share hydrological data onrivers Sutlej and Brahmaputrawith India during the flood sea-son of May 15 to June 15.

The Home Ministerexpressed hope that a begin-ning in this regard will bemade during the Bay of BengalInitiative for Multi-SectoralTechnical and EconomicCooperation (BIMSTEC) dis-aster management exercise tobe held in India next month.

Speaking on this year’stheme of ‘school safety’, Singhsaid the children can volunteerin this area and their energyand imagination can be ofgreat help to NDMA.

In his address, UnionHome Secretary Rajiv Gaubasaid legal and institutional sys-tems in place for disaster man-agement should be furtherstrengthened. He said climaticconditions and density of pop-ulation make India prone todisasters. He said 2 per cent ofthe GDP is lost due to disasters.

Gauba said now there is aparadigm shift from relief-centric approach to holisticapproach towards disasters. Hesaid a lot of school infrastruc-ture is lost in disasters and edu-cation services also get affect-ed in post-disaster phase.Children become more vul-nerable, so special care andattention needs to be given tothem, he said.

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Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman willinteract with troops on Siachen glacier, the

world’s highest battlefield, on Friday. It will beher first visit there and to Kashmir where theoperational commanders will brief her aboutthe situation on the Line of Control (LoC)withPakistan and Line of Actual Control (LAC) fac-ing China in Ladakh region.

Army chief General Bipin Rawat will alsobe present during the Minister’s visit to Kashmir,officials said here adding Sitharaman will alsomeet Jammu & Kashmir Chief MinisterMehbooba Mufti during the two-day tour.

The Defence Minister, who took charge onSeptember 3, is also expected to visit some for-ward locations in Kashmir and Ladkah, theysaid adding the present security situation in thestate as regards terrorism will also figure in pre-sentations to her. Commanders will also apprisethe minister about the Army’s preparedness onthe LOC as Pakistan Army continues to vio-late ceasefire in an effort to push in militantsfrom across the LOC into Kashmir valley.

The ongoing projects to further strength-en infrastructure in Ladakh along the LAC tosustain troops will also be reviewed, officials said.

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The Supreme Court hassnubbed the country’s

biggest miner Coal IndiaLimited (CIL) for not honour-ing an inter-Ministerial agree-ment of 1979 which required itto annually revise rates oftransporting coal for coaltransport companies operatedby ex-servicemen.

Betraying the spirit of theagreement signed betweenMinistry of Energy andMinistry of Defence in1979 bywhich ex-servicemen weresought to be rehabilitated, theCIL, acting in violation of theMemorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU), did notrevise the rates for the periodfrom 2008-12. As per the MoU,the rates had to be annuallyrevised in consultation with theDirector General ofResettlement (DGR) that pro-

tects the interest of ex-ser-vicemen. Incidentally, duringthe period from 2008 to 2012,CIL profits shot up from �5,744crores to �21,272 crores.

In 2012, the CIL sudden-ly woke up by engaging theservices of Price WaterhouseCoopers (PWC) to revise thetransportation rates. The same

was made effective fromAugust 1, 2012 based onwhich approval orders wereissued on October 9, 2012.However, in doing so, CIL didnot consult DGR.

Certain ex-servicemen(ESM) transport companiesled by Khushi Coal TransportPrivate Limited challenged the

August 1, 2012 order and theconsequent approval ordersbefore the Delhi High Courtthat quashed the same onJanuary 15, 2015. Coal IndiaLimited followed up in appealbefore a two-judge Bench of theDelhi High Court that toorefused to interfere with thesingle judge’s order and dis-missed the appeal onSeptember 23, 2015.

Against this order of DelhiHigh Court, the CIL madeanother attempt by approach-ing the apex court. A Bench ofJustices Arun Mishra andAmitava Roy found no merit inthe appeal and accordingly dis-missed it. Both the High Courtand the Supreme Court went bythe wording contained in para-graph 18 of the MoU signed in1979 requiring CIL to benefi-cially revise rates annually forthe ESM transport companies.Any such revision had to nec-

essarily involve DGR.The DGR stated that the

MoU was followed in letter andspirit between 1993 and 2001.Accordingly, rates of trans-portation rose from seven toeight per cent per annum.However, the last revision tookplace as per the MoU on April1, 2008. Since 2009, the ESMcompanies made several rep-resentations to enhance rates oftransportation but to no avail.The High Court, while faultingthe CIL Board’s decision to uni-laterally revise rates, said, “ThisCourt cannot lose sight of thefact that, the instant scheme,and such like many otherschemes, are formulated bythe Government of India toenable robust rehabilitation ofex-servicemen, as a vast major-ity of this class of personnelretire at a relatively young agewhen compared to their civil-ian counterparts.”

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The Election Commissionon Thursday rejected the

plea of TTV Dinakaran, leaderof a faction of AIADMK, for 15days’ time to file documents inthe “two leaves” symbol caseand made it clear that hearingwill take place on October 6 asscheduled. Dinakaran hassought 15 days’ time to file doc-uments in the case.

EC sources said there will beno extension of time in view ofthe fact that there is urgency tothe matter following the direc-tion to it by the Madurai Benchof the Madras High Court todecide the case by October 31.

The Commission has fixedOctober 6 for commencinghearing in the case in which themerged factions owing alle-giance to Chief Minister EPalaniswamy and Deputy ChiefMinister O Panneerselvam havedemanded that the frozen sym-bol be allotted to their groupalong with the name of theparty. The two factions have sofar submitted around 10 lakhpapers as part of affidavitsstaking claim to the two leavessymbol and the title of the party.

On 21 September, theCommission had informed thewarring parties — EMadhusudanan, VK Sasikala,O Panneerselvam and TTVDhinakaran — that the date ofthe next hearing will beOctober 5. But on Friday, itchanged the date to October 6.The Commission fixed thedate after the September 15,order of the Madras HighCourt’s Madurai Bench askingthe poll panel to dispose of thecase relating to the symbolbefore October 31.

The Madras High Courthad earlier this month direct-ed the EC to decide beforeOctober 31 the matter relatingto the AIADMK symbol. It hadasked the EC to decide whichfaction enjoyed majority inthe ruling party in Tamil Naduand allot the symbol to itbefore October 31.

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In a sensational incident, agang of thieves broke into the

house of a Member ofParliament and looted goldornaments worth �15 lakh and�70,000 cash.

The incident occurred inthe heart of Adilabad town inthe wee hours of Wednesday.

Police said that the thievesscaled the boundary wall of thehouse of TRS member of LokSabha G Nagesh by climbing anadjacent tree and entered thehouse by breaking the backdoor. They also damaged theCCTV cameras, which wereinstalled recently.

Earlier, in 2013 alsothieves had broken into theMP’s home.

At the time of the incidentthe MP was in New Delhi andhis family was in native villageto attend a festival.

“Apparently it is a handi-work of known people whowere aware that the family isnot in the house and knew thelayout of the house”, saidDeputy Superintendent ofPolice A Lakshminarayana.

The thieves ransacked theentire house and looted theornaments and cash from acupboard in the bedroom on

first floor. The police informedthe MP about the incidentover phone.

The police have formedtwo teams to nab the culprits.While one team is set toKarimnagar the other isdespatched to neighbouringMaharashtra. The incidenthas left the local peopleamused as the MP’s house inHousing Colony area is notfar from the camp office ofthe District Superintendent ofPolice.

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Emma from Australia depictsher impression of Durga Pujasand the millions that have lit-erally invaded the City of Joy tohop pandals. Andrew, aresearcher from the UK mur-murs, “Feminism in such sub-lime form! See to believe it.”

The two are only a smallpart of hundreds of foreigners,who have been hopping pan-dals this Durga Pujas joiningthe chorus and clamour for the“world’s biggest carnival tag”for Durga Pujas. No wonderwhy a German lady doingBengali literature in Kolkataasks in pure Bengali, “Couldthe composers of Devi Bhagwatconceive Goddess Durga, insuch myriad forms!”

The moot questions ringout even as you hop pandals towitness how Nature, Creation,Existence, Consciousness and‘sense of being in senses’ seepthrough the creative art ofcomposers who create DurgaPuja pandals fusing concrete,abstract and Bhakti in oneblend.

What has mesmerised the

Firangis most is the creative artthat oozes from the ‘pandalarchitecture’ each depicting adifferent story with the MotherGoddess as the central theme.

Like in recent years thisDurga Puja has also been inun-dated by themes depictingIndia’s rich heritage or wovenaround burning issues withfrantic appeal to the Mother fordeliverance from the maladies.

True, a nexus of politicians,corporate and the people haveseen Kolkata metamorphos-ing every year with its dull rus-tic streets turning bright andcolourful to welcome theMother nay the Daughter ofBengal and her four children,Ganesha, Laxmi Saraswati andKartikeya.

Keeping in tune withMamata Banerjee’s Londondreams a Durga Puja commit-tee has decorated parts ofBhawanipore near the ChiefMinister’s house after oldLondon erecting replicas ofBig Ben and Tower Bridge.

When you walk past thepandal you get a feel of walk-ing through the streets of oldLondon.

About a mile away atTridhara Sanmilani the organ-

isers have sounded an alarmbell against invading concrete.Artist Gauranga Kuilya hastried to show how the MotherNature has been devoured bysky-rocketing concrete struc-tures. The interiors of the pan-dal are dark with a vague‘smoky sky’. The invading dark-

ness of blatant urbanisation hasreplaced the Mahisasura.Instead of weapons the Motheris given to carry green saplingsas source of recreation.

Not very far away theAbasar Sarbajonin club nearBhawanipore has brought up asimilar issue of Global

Warming and the “catastroph-ic impact of climate change.”The pandal depicts a Globeinside which one gets to see thenature’s fury in the shape of tor-nadoes right in the middle.About 8,000 kg of glass havebeen used to bring the impres-sion of natural disasters. A

huge droplet has been createdwith 2,400 kg of glass above theMother’s idol even as she isurged to save the earth.

Artisans from both Bengaland Firozabad have worked fornine months to create themagic.

At Deshapriya Park the

organisers — who had in 2015constructed world’s tallestDurga a good 80 feet high —have brought alive the impos-ing White Palace of Thailand sothat you would not be able toread original from the duplicate— drawing lakhs of spectators.

A mile to the west theChetla Agrani presided byMinister Firhad Hakim haserected a Pandal that depicts“Immortality” or “Antaheen” asthe Theme. Logistics used arethree kinds of woods and ply,says an organiser. The figure ofthe Goddess has been curvedon logs of Mahogany wood.“This has been done to allowthe artistic work to be pre-served for years to come,” saysthe organiser reminding theClub is celebrating its 25th yearof existence. The artwork andcarvings inside the Pandalcould easily bring aliveMauryan or Gupta architecture,says a local professor of histo-ry Chittaranjan Das.

Unwilling to take the dom-inance of South Kolkata thePuja committee and KashiBose Lane in the North hasconceived a Theme joining theMother with Music. The evo-lution of music and sounds

cape has been depicted to per-fection showing how theGoddess is listening to musicthrough the passage of timeeven as she witnesses the emer-gence of radio, records, taperecorders, discs etal. “Theinstallation has been done in away that it will seem that theGoddess is watching a bigmusic concert,” the artist says.

A little distance away atKumartoli the local Puja com-mittee has depicted the grindof Kumhars or those who shapeclay to shape up idols and theway they send off their“Daughter” (read the idol of theGoddess) to the organisersduring Mahasaptami day.

At Shree Bhumi SportingClub organised by anotherMinister the organisers havecreated the Mahismati Palaceof Bahubali 2. The lamp-shades and the huge elephantsmake you feel that you havesauntered back in time. Somuch so that the former IndiaCaptain Sourav Ganguli wasalso lured to have a dekho ofthe imposing Pandal says“They have created things toperfection and the ambienceis so good that you feel like sit-ting here for hours.”

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Gujarat Chief Minister VijayRupani on Thursday initi-

ated smart class in Governmentprimary school at Koba villageon the outskirts of the Statecapital Gandhinagar.

On the occasion, the ChiefMinister said that the StateGovernment has made 3,300classrooms as virtual classes ofthe State. Rupani further saidthat the former Chief Ministerand the present Prime MinisterNarendra Modi during histenure has always given impor-tance to smart classes and fol-lowing this, Gujarat has been apioneer in providing modernknowledge with smart-virtualclass through early education inchildhood.

There was need to expandthe knowledge of children ofpoor or middle class throughsuch smart and virtual class, hesaid adding that the role per-formed by the Government torealise the vision of the PrimeMinister to make the educationsystem knowledge based.

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Government has allocated �25thousand crore for the educa-tion sector. The StateGovernment with the help ofsocial organisations and donorshas laid the foundation formaking education strong.Provides NAMO Tab to thestudents entering the first yearof college at a nominal cost of1,000 and college campus havebeen made WiFi, he added.

In Gujarat, new directionsof world-class education havebeen opened by Modi. In year1995 there were only 7 univer-sities which have increased to57 universities in the State.With the increase in seats inengineering and medical col-leges, the youth of Gujarat getsthe chance for higher studies inthe State.

There has been a holisticdevelopment in the field ofagriculture, education, watermanagement and roads inGujarat. Prime Minister initi-ated Make-in-India, DigitalIndia, Startup India and cleanIndia mission which has givennew global directions to thedevelopment of the nation.

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In the forthcoming Gujaratlegislative Assembly elec-

tions, Voter Verifiable PaperAudit Trail (VVPAT) machineswill be used.

With this Gujarat is all setto become the first State in thenation to utilise VVPAT inAssembly polls. For the purposethe Election Commission hasmade arrangements of VVPATin more than 50,000 centres.

Talking to mediapersons,Chief Electoral Officer (CEO)and Principal Secretary BBSwain on Thursday demon-strated the electronic votingmachine (EVM) and theVVPAT and said that with theVVPAT machines the voterswould experience the trans-parency and would enjoy anew right.

Swain further stated thatthe VVPAT system was intro-duced as a pilot project in theelections held in Gujarat inyear-2012. The VVPAT systemwill be used for voting for thefirst time in all centres of the

forthcoming Assembly elec-tions. For this, as many as70,182 VVPAT machines arecoming to Gujarat from the fivedifferent States as well as twoIndian companies — BEL andECIL. The VVPAT system istaking 7-seconds to registereach vote. Thus, a representa-tion has been made before theElection Commission of Indiato extend the timings of voting.

According to the latestelectoral list, it has as many as433,00,000 registered voters. Incomparison to year-2012 it hasincreased by 52,00,000 voters.The numbers of polling centershave been increased by 4,500 asthe numbers of voters havegone up. For making votingeasy, the maximum number ofvoters limit has been setup,1,200 and 1,400 voters permachines in rural and urbanareas, respectively. A propersurvey has been conducted toensure that the distance of thepolling center should not bemore than 2-kilometers andnot requiring to cross riverand/or canals, Swain said.

The CEO said that aftercasting his/her vote, the voterswould be able to verify thathis/her vote has gone to whom?The system would generate aprint-out of the votes that havebeen registered in the VVPAT.It would stay within themachine. The counting of thevotes would be made only withthe ballot control unit. In case

of any discrepancy or doubtcreated during the counting ofthe votes than the printed slipof the VVPAT machine wouldbe considered as the final.

The efforts are being madeto aware all the political parties,media and voters about thedetails and direction of theVVPAT. For this purpose a‘Jagruti Van’ (Awareness Van)

would be prepared with a mockpolling center. And effortswould be made that this vanreaches out to the maximumnumber of people. The Gujarathas over 10-lakh new youngregistered voters, who will beexercising their voting right forthe first time. The efforts wouldbe made that these youths getthe knowledge of the VVPAT.

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A7-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted and killed bya relative in the district, police said on Thursday.The 30-year-old accused has been arrested, they said.According to the police, the victim had gone to her tuition

class with the relative on Wednesday. Her body was found thismorning in a deserted area in the middle of a rubber plantationat Kulathoorpuzha.

A police complaint was filed by the victim’s mother after theminor failed to return home.

The Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rightshas registered a suo motu case and directed the Kollam (rural)Superintendent to conduct a probe into the incident.

The commission also asked the police to submit a report inthe matter within 15 days, an official release said.

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Srinagar: Jammu & KashmirChief Minister MehboobaMufti on Thursday condemnedthe killing of an off-duty BSFjawan at his home in the Hajinarea of Bandipora district lateon Wednesday night.

Terrorists barged intoRameez Ahmad Parray’s houseand shot him dead. Two of hisfamily members sustainedinjuries in the attack.

The jawan, who belongedto the 73rd battalion of the BSF,was on leave. Mufti said that itwas regrettable that the unend-ing cycle of violence in the statewas taking a heavy toll. Sheappealed to all segments of thesociety to join in putting an endto it. PTI

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Ruling BJP will organise afortnight long ‘Gujarat

Gaurav Yatra’ from October 1in view of the upcomingAssembly polls to showcasedevelopment work done bythe party ruled Governmentssince the past two decades.

The Yatra would cover 149Assembly constituencies out of182 through two chariotswhich will begin their respec-tive journey from Karamsad —the birthplace of Sardar Pateland from Porbandar — thebirthplace of Mahatma Gandhi.

BJP’s national presidentAmit Shah, Gujarat ChiefMinister Vijay Rupani, GujaratBJP president Jitu Vaghani anddeputy Chief Minister NitinPatel will flag-off both thechariots on October 1 andOctober 2 respectively. Thechariot will start its journeyfrom Karamsad on October 1will cover 76 Assembly seats inCentral and North Gujarat,while the other chariot whichis set to begin its journey onMahatma’s birth anniversarywould cover 73 Assembly con-stituencies in Saurashtra andSouth Gujarat regions.

“The Chief Minister wouldalternatively join both sectionsof Yatra over the fortnight.The Yatra would end withPrime Minister Narendra Modiaddressing a gathering of noless than 7,00,000 page presi-dents of the party. In all thesefunctions Amit Shah too willremain present,” said UnionMinister for Railways PiyushGoyal, while addressing a Pressconference on Thursdayevening, adding that venue for

the PM Modi’s function will bedecided later on.

The party would projectthe success story of develop-ment of Gujarat under BJP rule,said the Railway Minister,adding that in most of the para-meter the State prospered likeanything. The saffron partyorganised similar Gaurav Yatra ahead of 2002 assemblypolls which the party wonunder Modi’s leadership con-vincingly.

Interestingly, ahead of the2017 Assembly polls, which islikely to be held in December,the ruling party is organisingsecond Yatra, which wouldroam around across thebreadth and length of the state.In September the party organ-ised Narmada Yatra to tell thepeople about the completion ofSardar Sarovar Dam projectwhich ended on the birthday ofPM Modi. The chariots ofNarmada Yatra passed through8,000 villages of 18,000 villagesof the state.

Gujarat BJP has preparedfew Audio-Visual clips focusedon development. These clipswill be played along with thechariots to tell the people aboutthe development taken placeunder BJP rule in the state. Itwould also counter Congressparty’s social media campaign— Vikas Gando thayo chhe(Development has gone mad).

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Pune: A newborn baby girl, whosustained burns inside a‘warmer’ machine at a hospital,died early morning on Thursday.

Police, who had registered acase of negligence against adoctor and the hospital staff,have sent the machine — whichoverheated, leading to the unfor-tunate incident — to a forensiclaboratory for further probe.

On Tuesday, police hadregistered a case against DrGaurav Chopade, a gynaecol-ogist, and the staff of VatsalyaHospital here after the baby girlsustained 80 per cent burninjuries while kept in warmer.

“The girl, who was critical,succumbed in the wee hours onThursday,” said senior inspec-tor Appasaheb Shewale of

Vishrambaug police station.While initial investigation

revealed that a short circuitcaused the warmer to overheat,it has been sent to a forensiclaboratory to ascertain theexact cause for malfunctioning,he said.

Complainant VijendraKadam’s wife was admitted toVatsalya Hospital here onMonday. She delivered a babygirl on Tuesday morningthrough cesarean procedure.

As the girl was having dif-ficulty in breathing, she was keptin a warmer — which ensuresadequate temperature — withan oxygen mask, police said.

Family members said thatlater on Tuesday, when theywere coming out of the room

where the baby was kept, theyheard explosion-like sound andsaw smoke coming out of thewarmer. They raised alarm,and the hospital staff rushedand removed the baby from thewarmer. The baby, however,had already suffered burns.

She was shifted to anotherhospital where she died today.

“A case under IPC sections287 (negligent conduct withrespect to machinery) and 338(causing grievous hurt by actendangering life or personalsafety of others) was already reg-istered against the gynaecologistand the staff. Now we haveadded section 304 (A) (causingdeath by negligence) of IPC,”said Shewale. Nobody has beenarrested yet, he added. PTI

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The name of former PrimeMinister Atal Bihari

Vajpayee has been deleted fromelectoral rolls of Lucknowahead of the upcoming elec-tions for urban local bodies inNovember.

Zonal officer of LucknowMunicipal Corporation, AshokKumar Singh, said on Thursdaythat during the revision ofelectoral rolls it was foundthat Atal Bihari Vajpayee wasnot living here from long timedue to his poor health.

Vajpayee was a voter fromBabu Banarasi Das ward. Theformer PM, who was a five-term MP from Lucknow,(1991-2004) had cast his votein mayoral elections inLucknow in 2000, while hevoted in the same ward during2004 Lok Sabha poll.

State Election Commission(SEC) will publish the finaldraft of electoral rolls for theurban bodies election onOctober 18. Booth LevelOfficers (BLO) are conductingdoor-to-door survey for

preparing the draft roll, whichwould be completed byOctober 3 and it would be pub-lished on October 9. Claimsand objections on the rollswill be accepted by ElectionCommission till October 15and after disposal of claims andobjections, the final roll will bepublished on October 18.

Roll revision is underwayin 16 nagar nigam, 198 nagarpalika parishad and 439 nagarpanchyats. A BLO has beenposted for each polling boothfor revision of the rolls. Thetotal number of polling boothsin urban local bodies in theState is 36,339.

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It’s a cakewalk for the Congressand JD(S) coalition, which

easily grabbed the post of Mayorand Deputy Mayor amidstprotest by the BJP in the Mayoralelections held on Thursday forthe Bruhut BengaluruMahanagara Palike (BBMP),the corporation of Bengaluru.

Congress councillorSampath Raj was elected unop-posed as the city Mayor and

JD(S) councillor PadmavathiNarasimhamurthy as the DeputyMayor. The civic apathy in therain battered the IT city and thepolluted lakes have hit the head-lines. Sampath Raj secured 139out of 266 votes as only Congressand the JD(S) voted. TheOpposition BJP staged a walkoutclaiming that the previous may-oral elections was invalid asthere were irregularities in the listof Congress leaders, who voted.Sampath Raj is the 51st mayor of

the city, which is bogged downby bad roads, piling up ofgarbage and other problems fac-ing the city residents as unprece-dented heavy rain battering thecity adding to the woes.

However, Sampath Raj, saidthat he would strive hard to clearup the mess focusing on makingcity more livable. This year thepost of Mayor and Deputy Mayorwas reserved for Scheduled Casteand women from general cate-gory respectively.

The BJP has filed a com-plaint before the ElectionCommission, alleging that therewere voters on the list who werenot eligible to vote. The boycottdoes not affect the expected vic-tory of the Congress-JD(S)combine, as they commandedmore votes than the BJP, whichis the single largest party in oneof the biggest urban civic bod-ies in the country.

Though BJP’s SMuniswamy and MamathaVasudeva contested the elec-tion to the post of mayor anddeputy mayor, they lost badlyas they secured no votes. Thetenure of the Bengaluru mayorand deputy mayor is for 11months. Besides the corpora-tors, elected MPs, MLAs andthe MLCs too are entitled tovote to elect the mayor and

deputy mayor.

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The transformed AndhraPradesh Chief Minister,

Chandrababu Naidu, after Statelong ‘Foot Walk’, on the occasionof auspicious dayVijayadashami, has announceddedication of his life to the pub-lic service. In an open letter,while greeting the people ofAndhra Pradesh, he sought thesupport of the people in futureand also to shape the State as thebest one in the world in next fiveyears. “My life is dedicated topeople of Andhra Pradesh. I amyour servant despite being CMof the State. My strength, mypower, my plans, my thoughts..my every step.. Everything is forthe people.. to the people.. of thepeople”, he said.

As he has no intention togive even a breathing break toOpposition parties, he is inkinga deep political strategy, he isputting his full efforts to 80 per

cent people much elections war.“I wish, integrated developmentof the State in the coming yearsin all sectors and I determine toshape the State as the one thathas the people who had utmostliving starndards in the world incoming five years”, he stated,“with your blessings and inspi-ration, I do develop the State asa pride of the people. As peoplebelieved a good administrator inme, with the greatest spirit, Idetermined to work to keep thebelief and hard working tire-lessly. Still there is a lot to bedone. The pace of the develop-ment should be escalated and Ineed your blessings and supportin the future also as you all arealready doing now. On auspi-cious day of Vijaya Dashami, Ihereby dedicate the “Victory ofPower” achieved in three yearsto the people of the State”.

Further he said, heavy rev-enue deficit, lakh of crores of bor-rowings as well power deficitwere plaguing the State at times

of bifurcation. The then rulersplanned to destroy the sun ris-ing land more than Ghajinis andruthlessly divided the people andthrown Andhrites on roads mer-cilessly. As if it was an greatachievement, the predecessorsimplemented power holidaysweekly three days and exalted onit. This resulted in closure ofthousands of industries andlakhs of people lost employment.Lot of people’s lives were dis-turbed. This resulted in loss ofincome of �25,000 crore in 2013-

14 for the State. People suffereda lot. As an ghastly earthquake,the unruly bifurcation made theState to loose its growth path andlanded in jittery”, he felt.

“As the dark days drowningeveryone, the people gave methe power and made me theCM. As soon as taking thecharge, I prioritised energy sec-tor on war footing. I imple-mented second phase of reformswithout hesitation. This result-ed in correction of energy sec-tor in the state which lost its waywhich I could bring back totrack with power surplus. Firsttime in the history, we made24x7 electricity supply possible.We curbed the power cuts andtold goodbye to power holidayspermanently. Transmission anddistribution losses were reducedto single digit percentage. MyGovernment encouragedrenewable power sources likesolar and wind power. Weimplemented energy savingsand conservation with interna-

tional acclaim. We stood asNo.1 and have become a leaderto the world as well to theCountry in implementation ofLED bulbs usage”, he added.

“I feel, the fruits of thedevelopment needs to reach thepeople. I reiterate and promise,electric charges will not be hikeda single paisa next year. I swearthat with the blessings of Motherof Mothers Kanakadurga, I amable to make this announcementon the eve of Vijayadashami.The power surplus, achieved injust one year after I took charge,resulted in reopening of indus-tries. Families who lost employ-ment got work. Public life wasstreamlined. State relieved fromdarkness. This ‘Victory of Power’is more than ‘the Bahubali’ film’ssuccess. It’s not an exaggeration.However, I feel satisfied when Icould able to provide interna-tional quality of power is sup-plied. I declare, I am proud ofEnergy Sector in AndhraPradesh”, he announced.

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Bengaluru: A marriage hall on the city outskirts witnessed a stam-pede on Thursday as hundreds jostled to obtain coupons for freeration during next year’s Ramzan, leading to the death of 2 elder-ly people, police said.

People from Bengaluru and neighbouring districts had gath-ered in large number at the venue responding to a message cir-culated by one Syed Asif on WhatsApp asking Muslims to col-lect coupon for free ration next Ramzan.

They began queueing up in front of the marriage hall since4 am. The number swelled to thousands as hours passed.

A stampede ensued as people jostled to collect coupons, police said.

The deceased have been identified as Rehmatunnisa (70) fromChintamani in Tumakuru district and Anwar Pasha (60) fromChittur in Andhra Pradesh. PTI

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Hyderabad: An Indian AirForce (IAF) training aircraft ona routine flight on Thursdaycrashed in secluded place inTelangana’s Medchal districtbefore bursting into flames, butthe pilot is safe, police said.

The accident occurredaround 11:45 am inAnkireddypalli village, about30 km from the Telanganacapital, but the pilot ejectedsafely before the crash.

The Kiran trainer aircrafthad taken off from the AirForce Station at Hakimpet here,ACP (Kushaiguda Division)Syed Rafeeq said.

“The pilot, identified as

Aman Pandey, ejected safelyusing a parachute. The aircraftcrashed around 2 km from thepoint where the pilot ejected.

It crashed in an isolatedplace near an agricultural fieldand erupted in flames,” Rafeeq,told PTI after visiting the crashsite. The officer said there was nodamage on the ground as therewere no houses or people at theplace where the airplane crashed.

The ACP cited a villagerwho had spotted the aircraftflying low and later heard aloud explosion.

“According to the villager,soon after crashing the aircraftburst into flames,” Rafeeq said.

Rachakonda PoliceCommissioner MaheshBhagwat said IAF officials vis-ited the scene of the mishapand took the pilot along.

“Two fire tenders wereimmediately rushed to the spotto douse the blaze,” he said.

“The pilot is safe. A CoI(Court of Inquiry) will be ascer-taining the cause of the acci-dent,” an IAF statement said.

On March 3, 2010, twopilots had been killed after aKiran MK-II plane, which waspart of the ‘Sagar Pawan’ aero-batic team participating at theIndia Aviation show, had crashedinto a building here. PTI

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Bihar Chief Minister NitishKumar on Thursday per-

formed puja at various templeshere on the occasion of“Mahaashtmi” of Navratra fes-tival and prayed for peace,prosperity and progress ofBihar and its people.

Kumar visited Shitala Matatemple at Agamkuan, and BadiPatandevi and ChhotiPatandevi temples in Patnacity and performed puja.

He also visited Shri Badi

Deviji temple and Shri ShriDalhatta Deviji temple atMaroofganj area where he paidobeisance to the GoddessDurga, an official release said.

The CM prayed for peace,prosperity and progress of

Bihar and its people.Kumar was accompanied

by state Road ConstructionMinister Nand Kishore Yadav,his party MLC Ranvir Nandanand senior officials.

The chief priest of ChhotiPatan Devi temple adminis-tered “sankalp” to the chiefminister for the success of hisgovernment’s major social“anti-dowry campaign” move-ment, the release said.

After performing puja atBadi Patan Devi temple, Kumarinaugurated the community

hall which was constructed onthe temple premises.

Kumar also visited GandhiMaidan and inspected thepreparations for “Ravan-vadh”programme on Dussehra.

Kumar was accompaniedby CM’s Principal SecretaryChanchal Kumar, PatnaDivisional CommissionerAnand Kishore, CM’s SecretaryManish Kumar Verma, PatnaDistrict Magistrate SanjayKumar Agarwal, Patna’s SeniorSuperintendent of Police ManuMaharaj and others.

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There cannot be a better year tostart a new wave of tourismthan 2017, which has beendeclared as the internationalyear for sustainable tourism

development by the United Nations. ForHimachal Pradesh, this is an opportuni-ty to permanently etch its mark onworld tourism map.

Tourism is one of the most dynamiceconomic sectors in modern times. It encompasses all aspects of human lifewhile creating space for descent jobs, gen-der equality and cultural intermingling.Today, tourism is the largest servicesindustry in India. And why shouldn’t it be?We have a different culture, dialect andfood variety after every 100 kilometres.

There are three biodiversity hotspotsin India, seven natural heritage sites and28 cultural heritage sites. That apart,thousands of years of history behind ushas left India a rich legacy of tourist destinations not just for foreigners butalso Indians keen on understandingtheir country.

Himachal Pradesh is a State that is thecrowning jewel in Indian tourism map.Recognising the beauty of HimachalPradesh, British made Shimla their sum-mer capital. Today, Himachal Pradesh isknown as ‘a destination for all seasonsand all reasons’. The average footfall toHimachal Pradesh has been more than acrore since the last 10 years. People frus-trated from the hustle and bustle of theconcrete jungles are finding increasing-ly, peace of mind in the dev bhoomi.

However, this heavy inflow oftourists has also led to severe pressure onHimachal Pradesh’s ecology. One of thereasons for this is the concentration of afew tourist destinations. Moreover, thereis a serious need to create the right pol-icy framework and, consequently, anecosystem around tourism in HimachalPradesh to make it sustainable and taketourism to higher economic and ecological spheres.

The principle of sustainable tourismis defined as “tourism that takes fullaccount of its current and future econom-ic, social and environmental impacts,addressing the needs of visitors, theindustry, the environment and host com-munities”. So, we need to develop a mechanism which involves Himachalis,tourists and Government officers.

The first step here will be in devel-oping a tourism research institute whichwill do cutting edge research in tourism’svarious branches, like finance, destina-tion experiences, ecological balance andthe likes. This can be developed with thehelp of several global institutions developed for similar purposes.

Second, we will need to analyse the

people who are dissociated from theindustry — the weak and the poor — andconnect them to the industry. Thisprocess will ensure economic sustainabil-ity of people in Himachal Pradesh.Adequate financial support throughstart-up funds and Micro, Small andMedium Enterprises loans need to be setup to encourage aspiring entrepreneursto run businesses that promote tourism.

A parallel system of skill developmentfor guides, hoteliers, digital marketers,and other service providers is a sure wayof making tourism in Himachal Pradeshmore professional and global. Here, theState can collaborate with such countriesas New Zealand and Switzerland, whichhave successfully developed tourism as asustainable mode of business and employment.

By 2022, I want to see at least all thepublic transportation in HimachalPradesh becoming hybrid/ electric and,eventually, along with the country, we canshift even the personal transportations toelectric by 2030.

Importantly, it is needed to increaseavenues for tourism in Himachal Pradeshto ease the pressure from the most vis-ited ones. We need to take tourism toeach village, promote trekking and hik-ing. There is also a need to develop infra-structure for kayaking and canoeing onthe beautiful streams of our State.

We also need to revive the many fortsthat are lying unused in HimachalPradesh and create light and sound

shows around them showing the rich regallegacy of Himachal Pradesh. These willbe the new tourist destinations which willease the pressure on existing ones.

In our vibrant spiritual centres, Iwould like to see new sustainable pilgrim-age experiences. Taking cue from VaishnoDevi and Venkateswara temple, Tirupati,we need to digitalise ticketing, optimisedarshan and sustainable prashad makingand consumption. Also, there is a needto develop eco-tourist zones aroundthese temples like lakes with unique fishspecies, boating, Ayurvedic centres andthe likes. This will add to the spiritualexperience of the temples.

Himachal Pradesh is also seen as virbhoomi. And, I wish to see a giant stat-ue of India’s first Param Vir Chakraawardee Major Somnath Sharma over a hill with a fort, even decrepit; this fortcan be refurbished into a marvellous martyr’s memorial. The statue will beawe-inspiring to the tourists who will visitthat place.

Apart from tourism, this will serve tomotivate more youngsters to join theArmed Forces. Moreover, with a rich his-tory of various royal lineages, spiritualstalwarts, religious places and British her-itage, Himachal Pradesh deserves somevery wonderful museums which are ofglobal standards.

Himachal Pradesh is a place of greatsports personalities. Then undoubtedly,we need to have sports tourism in theState as the newest address of Himachal

Pradesh tourism. We can have an annu-al winter Olympics which will lead to thecreation of world-class sporting facilities.Here, participants from other States andpeople from countries friendly to Indiacan come and take training. In fact, Indiacan bid for winter Olympics to be host-ed in Himachal Pradesh, once therequired infrastructure are set in place.

But all these needs to be undertak-en with ecological sustainability in mind.The banning of plastic has to be enforcedproperly with alternatives available totourists and commoners alike. Water andenergy are the two resources which arein great demand, but their generation isbecoming increasing difficult.

This means that we have to use themjudiciously while focusing on their con-servation and reuse. One way of doingthis will be through certification ofglobal standards in energy and water effi-ciency, for all the important building inHimachal Pradesh.

As we just celebrated the WorldTourism Day on September 27, I perhapssee only one dream that day when peo-ple will compare tourist destinations, oldand new, around the world withHimachal Pradesh; of a certain destina-tion in Europe as the Himachal ofEurope! That day, for sure will be the daywhen our State would have made a per-manent mark on the world tourism mapand that day is worth aspiring for.

(The writer is Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha)7

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Sir — This refers to the article,“Resource efficiency vital forvibrant India” (September 28) byKota Sriaj. India is set to becomethe world’s youngest country by2020 with 64 per cent of our pop-ulation in the working age group.Given the West started aging,this could offer India an effectiveadvantage of human resources.

Unfortunately, four out of 10children of our country sufferfrom stunted growth as a result ofmalnutrition, according to areport by the Public HealthFoundation of India. As a result,the Indian economy is going toface the Himalayan problem ofstunted and unskilled workforcein the future, which will furtherdegrade our resources into liabil-ity. Ironically, according to astudy, two-third of food, to feed600 million poor Indians, is lostas millions of hungry people donot have enough purchasingpower to buy the same.

Now, the Government itselfcan buy it from farmers withminimum support price. It willcertainly stop incidents of farm-ers’ committing suicide. Then,excess food can be distributedamong students in addition asmid-day meals. It will bringmore students to school andaddress the problems of illitera-cy, school dropout, child labourand overall health of children.This can work wonders by developing India’s hugehuman resource and bringingsuccess for our country in everyfield for certain.

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Sir — This refers to the report,“Sinha’s dig arms Opp; Govtsays eco robust” (September 28).I thought veteran politician,Yashwant Sinha, knew that PrimeMinister Narendra Modi alreadydecided to resurrect theEconomic Advisory Council(EAC), after more than threeyears, which can only be anindirect admission that all wasnot well with the economy.

In such a scenario, Sinha’sarticle, criticising the presentGovernment, was unwarranted.If he was sincere to his feelings,he could have informed andgiven his valuable opinion to theGovernment itself, but not comein the public to ridicule his ownparty-led Union Government.

When Prime Minister Modiassumed power in 2014, hescrapped the EAC. Perhaps, in hisoverconfidence, he thought that hedid not require professional advicefrom a group of economists. Butthe Prime Minister has now con-stituted a five-member body,headed by Niti Aayog memberBibek Debroy; though, the econ-omists handpicked are not theones to command great professional respect.

The order has empoweredthe council to suo motu raiseissues impacting the economy. Itis now imperative on the part ofPrime Minister that the adviso-ry body’s ideas be factored in policy choices.

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In recent times, we have noticedseveral famous so-called ‘gurus’,who have been accused and

found guilty of illicit sexual rela-tions with their followers, which hasled to a general mistrust about religious teachers.

Due to the influence of the present age of kali, there are manyfamous ‘so-called’ saints, who havebeen holding the esteemed title of‘Baba’, ‘Bhagawan’ and other honorific names.

However, many of these titleholders have not personally observing any Vedic instructions orinjunctions in their lives; nor arethey setting a proper example in the society.

Instead, they invent their own

ingenious religious philosophies,spiritual practices and mantras,which are in contradiction with theVedas and, thereby, create chaos andconfusion in people’s minds.

According to Vaishnavism,which is a branch of Hinduism, theguru has to be connected to arecognised lineage. This fact isreiterated in the Padma Purana,which states: Sampradaya-vihina yemantras te nishpala matah; Atakalau bhavisyanti catvarah sampradayinah; Sri brahma-rudar-sanaka vaisnavah ksiti pavanah;Catvarste kalau bhavya utkale purusottamat.

“The holy mantra, that isreceived from a source outside theproper disciplic succession, willnever bear any fruit. This is why inthis age of kali, four great souls willemerge and establish the fourVaishnav successions initiated byLakshmi, Brahma, Rudra (LordShiva), and the four Kumaras(rishis) — Sanaka, Sanatana,Sanandana and Sanatkumara.

The four great leaders will each

begin to manifest their authoriseddisciplic successions from the holydhama of Puri (Odisha)”.

Originally, goddess Lakshmihad given this sacred knowledge toRamanujacharya; Lord Brahma toMadhvachar ya; Rudra toVishnuswami; and the fourKumaras to Nimbarkacarya.

Being so endowed with spiritu-al knowledge, they propagated thisknowledge to their disciples and itwas, thus, handed down throughfurther disciplic successions.

After some time, the divinecouple, Radha-Krishna, combinedappeared in this world in the formof Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu,to illuminate the madhva sampra-daya and spread the message ofeternal love. ChaitanyaMahaprabhu was followed bynumerous divine spiritual masters.

Despite the hallowed guru tra-ditions in India, despicable and dis-graceful incidents concerning theso-called gurus are taking place withalarming regularity, which is lead-ing to a popular impression that all

saintly people are the same. We need to fight this impres-

sion by exposing the fraudulent andduplicitous gurus. For this, we needto understand the true qualities ofa guru.

Srila Rupa Gosvami, a leadingspiritual teacher in the GaudiyaVaishnava lineage, has nicelyexplained the qualities of the trueguru in one of his compositions, theinner meaning of which is “only thatpersonification who is able to con-trol the six urges of speech, mind,anger, tongue, stomach, and sensu-al emotion, is eligible to accept dis-ciples all over the world”.

The correct manner to channelthese urges would be:

Speech: One should alwaysspeak with humility — the voiceand dialogue should not be harm-ful to anyone. And, most impor-tantly, one should always speak theglories of the supreme lord and hisdevotees, instead of engaging inmundane gossip.

Mind: One should control theirthoughts by always engaging the

mind in the services of the supremepersonality of godhead, Krishna.

Anger: One should control theharmful emotion of anger, ie angershould only be used with peoplewho are disobeying the supremelord and his devotees in order torectify their ignorant nature.

Tongue: One should utilise thetongue to taste only the lord’s rem-nants; no mundane restaurant foodthat cannot be offered should betaken. One should also not discrim-inate among the tastes of the differ-ent preparations of lord’s remnants.

Stomach: One should not begreedy and overindulge in filling the stomach.

Sensual emotion: One shouldnot be promiscuous; it is better topractice sense-control and keepcelibacy with full of love forKrishna’s services.

Due to lack of understanding ofthe real nature and qualities ofrevered gurus, people are easily mis-guided or misdirected by pretenders, who pose as gurus buthave no control over the

above-mentioned urges. The problem is: How to restore

the faith of the followers on their gurus?

The solution to this problemlies in our thorough understandingof great scriptures such as SrimadBhagavatam, the Puranas, and theUpanishads. If we ignore suchauthentic scriptures and blindlyplace our faith in fake or baselessscriptures, we will sure to fall intothe trap of fraudulent ‘Babas’ and ‘Bhagawans’.

The only credible way to helppeople understand the true charac-ter of the babas is to read andunderstand the hidden spiritualtreasure of our scriptures and evaluate the deviations in theirbehaviour, if any.

The Government may have todo its bit by spiritually educating thechildren at an impressionable age.As such, there is no easy way tofight this menace.

(The writer is president,Gopinath Gaudiya Math, SriMayapur, Nadia, West Bengal)

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Tell us about the recent launchof Healthy Heart Programmeby Apollo Hospitals?

SANGITA: It is India’s first heart dis-ease prevention, reversal and interven-tion programme, where people under-going it, will be tested for the risk of get-ting a heart disease. The programmewill answer several questions: How toprevent oneself from getting affected bythe disease? For those, who have beendiagnosed with blockage in the heart,how can we reverse it and at the sametime, provide the best intervention?

This programme will be availableonline on the website, on mobile appli-cation and in offline mode.

� What are the different stages of the programme?

SANGITA: The programme is tailor-made as per the individual’s risk factor.The stages are: ● Healthy heart doctor: In the first

stage, the doctor examines thepatient’s case history and physicalhealth. History is very relevant fora heart patient.

● Baseline status: In the second stage,a set of investigations are done tofind out if the person already suf-fers from the disease or not. If yes,then what stage is it at. And, if theperson doesn’t have the disease atall, what are the chances of him get-ting it and when is it likely to occurand effect him.

● Cardiologists: Based on the parame-ters, the cardiologist puts the patienton mild, moderate or severe stage.

● Heart plus: In the fourth stage, thecardiologist prescribes medicationand diet, as per risk factors.

● Heart compliance: In this stage, thepatient gets non-medical medica-tion, like meditation, yoga, educa-tion and compliance.

● Heart overcome: The last stageensures that the patient has over-come the disease by reversing andleading a preventive lifestyle.

� What is the total cost of the programme?

SANGITA: It costs around �3,250per annum. Since relapse and reoc-currence rate is high, people, whohave already gone for angioplasty orbypass surgery, automatically get

enrolled into this programme for freeto prevent its recurrence.

� What is the reason behind risingcases of heart disease, especially inyounger people?

SANGITA: The reasons could begenetic — having small blood vesselsin the heart; eating habits like con-sumption of oil, ghee, sweets etc,stress; sedentary lifestyle and a rise inincidence of diabetes and hyperten-sion, which triggers a heart attack.

� How have these programmes been prepared?

SANGITA: It started with theChairman’s realisation that Indiansare more prone to heart disease andit is happening at a much youngerage, which is causing huge socio-economic impact on the country. Ifwe don’t control this epidemic, 10-20 years down the line, the countrywill not have enough resources tocontrol the disease. The Chairman’s

vision is to act fast, and act in away which would prevent the riseof cardiovascular disease.

� Tell us something about the pre-sent scenario of the healthcareindustry in India?

PRATHAP: As an Indian and beinga doctor, we have seen great transi-tions taking place. When we startedthe hospital in the 1980s, that time,there was no technology available todo major surgeries in India. With avision to provide the best of medicalfacilities to the people of our coun-try, we brought all this to India, butunfortunately, during the 20th cen-tury, there was a huge epidemic ofcholera, polio, typhoid, malaria, etc,that was controlled with the help ofGovernment healthcare policy. Butnow, there is a new disease patternthat has come up. One of the biggestepidemics is cardiovascular disease.Even people who look fit, follow ahealthy diet and do fitness activities,

are unaware of the fact that they areat the risk of getting a heart attackany moment due to blockage in their arteries.

� How did this realisation come thatcardiovascular disease is going tobe rampant in India?

PRATHAP: When I lost my 38-year-old patient due to a heart attack in1974, the incident left me shocked andmade me realise that this silent killeris going to become worse. I also hadeight patients before 1974, which Ipresented in my study at the AmericanAcademy of Cardiology. It was notrampant then, but post 2010, I sawmore and more young people die dueto heart attacks.

A study was conducted in FijiIsland on a group of people, out ofwhich, nearly 50 per cent were Indians.It was revealed that sugar, blood pres-sure, unnecessary stress, lack of phys-ical activity and smoking are some ofthe aggravating factors that were giv-ing rise to heart disease in young peo-ple. That time, it was growing at the rateof 25 per cent. But now, it is growingat the rate of 30 per cent.

Before 1999, diabetes, heart disease,brain stroke, cancer, and infections wereless than nine per cent but now, it is 53per cent. Today, it has become so severethat even the World Economic Forumsaid that by 2020, it will show its adverseeffects. By 2030, two-thirds of the deathswill happen in the developing andunderdeveloped countries. NotAmerica, not Europe, it is going to beIndians who are going to be facing this.So many young people will die.Moreover, the expense on this is goingto be $30 trillion and one-sixth of Indiais going to be affected. The Governmentwill have to spend 50 per cent of theGDP on healthcare. The need of thehour is to come up with preventive ini-tiatives like Healthy Heart Programmeto prevent, reverse and intervention ofthe heart disease.

� Tell us about the Apollo ShineProgramme?

PRATHAP: We started Apollo Shineprogramme in 1.75 lakh schools andcolleges in Chennai to make childrenaware as to how they should main-tain good health from that age andalso gave them prior tips to tell theirparents how to lead a healthylifestyle. The programme turnedout to be very successful. Now wewant to repeat that in all centres. Itshould be the responsibility of everysingle person to ensure that they leada healthy and safe life and propagatethis in the society as well. Make Indiaa healthy and safe nation.

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NEW DELHI:The Centre plans toborrow �2.08 lakh crore from themarket in the second half of 2017-18, a top official said on Thursday,reiterating the Government’s com-mitment to meet the fiscal deficittarget of 3.2 per cent of the GDP.To finance the fiscal deficit for thecurrent financial year, the Budgethas pegged gross borrowing at �5.8lakh crore and net borrowing at�4.25 lakh crore.

The Government borrowed�3.72 lakh crore in the first half andhas pegged gross borrowings at�2.08 lakh crore in the remainingsix months of the financial year-ending March 31, Secretary,Department of Economic Affairs(DEA), Subhash Chandra Gargtold reporters after a meeting todecide the borrowing calender. Thenet borrowing in the October-March period has been pegged at�1.92 lakh crore.

“As per the budgeted pro-gramme, the calendar was finalised.Major part of borrowing would bein the next three months and earlyJanuary and leave the smaller partfor the rest of January and February-March,” Garg said. Average tranche

of borrowing would be about�15,000 crore, he said, as thefinance ministry released the cal-ender. Major part of borrowingwould be in the next three monthsand early January. On additionalborrowing, the Secretary said: “Ifthere is any need, which we don’tforesee at any point of time, but ifthere is any need, then we may.”

Assessment of additional bor-rowing requirement, if any, wouldbe made in December, he added.Amid talks of stimulus package toboost sagging economic growth,Garg said deficit targets are set inthe Budget and the finance ministrywill stick to them as of now. “Fiscaldeficit as of now, we stick to 3.2 percent. As of now, confident of meet-ing the target,” he said. PTI

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitleyon Thursday asked central

public sector enterprises(CPSEs) to aggressively pushcapital expenditure and warnedagainst any slackness as thegovernment looks to boostgrowth through increased pub-lic spending. While reviewingthe capital expenditure plans ofimportant CPSEs, estimatedat �3.85 lakh crore, the minis-ter also asked them to give ‘lib-eral dividends’ to theGovernment so that the moneycould be used for fundingphysical-social infrastructure.

The meeting took placeagainst the backdrop subduedprivate investments and sag-ging growth, which fell to threeyear low of 5.7 per cent in thefirst quarter of the current fis-cal. Heads of major CPSEs insectors like petroleum, defence,power, road transport, rail-ways, coal, mines, steel andatomic energy have assured thegovernment of raising capitalexpenditure by an additional�25,000 crore, the Financeministry in a release.

“Finance Minister, whileaddressing the Secretaries andCMDs, stressed that the CPSEsmay not only complete theirbudgeted capital expenditurebut should also look to aggres-sively push capital expenditurein the interest of boostinginvestment in Indian economy,"it said. Jaitley, while appreciat-ing the commitments of theministries and CPSEs, assured

that the Government wouldmake available adequateresources but ‘no slacknessunder any circumstanceswould be acceptable’.

He indicated that the cap-ital expenditure programmewould again be reviewed at theend of November/earlyDecember, the statement said.It added that in the discussionsfor raising capital investments,

it also came to attention thatmost public sector undertak-ings have very low or no debton their balance sheet which isreflected in their low debt toequity ratios.

“CPSEs were, therefore,

asked to raise more debt andnot to rely entirely on cash andfree reserves for finding newinvestments and capital expen-diture,” the release said. TheCPSEs which have free reservesand surplus cash ‘were asked to

consider declaring liberal div-idends’ so as to promote moreproductive use of suchresources for financing muchneeded physical and socialinfrastructure, the finance min-istry's statement said.

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NEW DELHI: Exporters on Thursdaymet Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, theirsecond meeting with the Government inless than two weeks, to press for stimu-lus and resolution of GST related prob-lems to boost sluggish shipments that areone reason for slowing economy.Expeditious refund of duties, defermentof filing of GST returns for six months andexpansion of the ambit of the compositionscheme were some of the issues which wereraised by industry and exporters during themeeting here on Thursday. Exporters want res-olution of problems arising from implementa-tion of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). TheFederation of Indian Export Organisations(FIEO) also said that power there should not beany tax burden on export sales and for impart-ing competitiveness, taxes may be refundedthrough duty drawback.

“In absence of clear refund time-lines, the new duty drawback ratesnotified on September 21 have addedto the woes of exporting and thuseffecting their order book position.It is suggested that the transition peri-od of drawback may be extendedbeyond September 30 2017 till

December 31,” FIEO President Ganesh Guptasaid. “The Minister gave a sympathetic hearingto our concerns and assured all possible help. Hehas taken all our points positively.” The FIEOalso pressed for exemption from GST for mer-chant exporters, immediate start of the refundprocess with exporters facing liquidity issues andallowing export benefit scrips for payment ofIGST and CGST. “Small exporters are particu-larly hit with GST as they have to borrow moneyto pay GST. Availability and the cost of credit isadversely impacting them,” he said. PTI

NEW DELHI: State-owned Oiland Natural Gas Corp may sellsome of its stake in Indian OilCorp and gas utility GAIL Indiato part fund its over �32,000crore acquisition of refinerHPCL, Chairman DK Sarrafsaid. ONGC holds 13.77 percent stake in India’s biggestrefiner IOC, which at today’smarket price is worth about�26,600 crore. It has another4.87 per cent stake in GAILIndia Ltd, worth �1,637 crore.

“We have several options tofund the acquisition ofGovernment’s 51.11 per centstake in HPCL. On a standalonebasis we are debt free and so wecan borrow from the market.Also, we have certain invest-

ments (in other oil companies)which can be sold,” he toldreporters last night.

The company’s sharehold-ers yesterday allowed it to raiseup to �25,000 crore debt, hesaid, adding that the companyhad about �10,000 crore of cashin hand. “We haven't decidedwhat will be the source of fund(for the acquisition). It can beone of the options or a combi-nation of them. Funding is cer-tainly no difficulty,” he said.

The Government’s transac-tion advisor JM Financial andlegal consultant CyrilAmarchand Mangaldas arepreparing InformationMemorandum (IM) onHindustan Petroleum

Corporation Ltd (HPCL).ONGC has appointed SBI Capsand the Citi Group as its mer-chant bankers for the deal andShardul Amarchand Mangaldasas legal advisor, who wouldstudy the IM to arrive at a val-uation for the takeover of thecountry's third-largest refiningand oil marketing company.

"As a buyer we would liketo have the lowest valuationwhile the government as a sell-er would like to get the maxi-mum value. But since HPCL isa listed company with a marketfloat of 49 per cent that iswidely spread, there need not bea significant difference betweenwhat we need to pay and themarket price,” Sarraf said. PTI

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MUMBAI: The Government'sdigital payments push, mainlyonline card payments throughPoS machines, may leave alreadycapital starved banks bleed by awhopping �3,800 crore annually,warns a report. After the note-banlast November, the NarendraModi Government has pushedbanks into deploying millions ofpoints-of-sale (PoS) machines toencourage online payments. Since then, banks have more thandoubled their PoS terminals. Thenumber of PoS terminals post-demonetisation has increasedfrom 13.8 lakh in March 2016 to28.4 lakh as of July 2017. On anaverage banks are installing 5,000PoS per day. This has resulted inincrease in debit plus credit cardstransactions at PoS from �51,900crore in October 2016 to �68,500crore in July 2017, with peak reach-ing in December 2016 to �89,200crore. “We estimate that for OFF-US transactions, the aggregate

annual loss for card transactionsat PoS terminals around is �4,700crore. However, the net revenuegain per annum from ON-UStransactions at PoS would bearound �900 crore only.”“Therefore, the total annual loss tothe banking industry is around�3,800 crore,” SBI Research said ina report on Thursdday.

The payment card industryis based on a four-party model -the issuing bank, acquiring bank,merchant and the customer. Thetransactions at PoS are termed asON-US transactions if the issu-ing bank and acquiring bank arethe same bank. If the issuing bankand acquiring bank are differententities, then it is known as OFF-US transactions. The acquiringbank bears the entire cost to cre-ate the infrastructure for PoS ter-minals, clearing and settlement,merchant training, terminalmaintenance, and supply of con-sumables among others. PTI

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NEW DELHI: Investments in thedomestic capital market throughparticipatory notes (P-notes)plunged to seven and a half year lowof �1.25 lakh crore at August- endbecause of stringent norms put inplace by regulator Sebi. The totalvalue of P-notes investments inIndian markets -- equity, debt andderivatives -- slumped to �1,25,037crore at August-end after hitting afive-year low of �1,35,297 crore atthe end of July, according to Sebidata.

This is the lowest level sinceFebruary 2010, when the cumula-tive value of such investmentsstood at �1,24,177 crore. P-notes areissued by registered foreign port-folio investors to overseas playerswho wish to be part of the Indianstock market without registeringthemselves directly. They, howev-er, need to go through proper duediligence. Of the total investmentsin August, P-note holdings in equi-ties were at �88,911 crore and theremaining in debt and derivativesmarkets. Besides, the quantum ofFPI investments via P-notes fell to4.1 per cent in August from 4.4 percent in the preceding month. In July,Sebi had notified stricter P-notesnorms stipulating a fee of $1,000

that would be levied on eachinstrument to check any misuse forchannelising black money.

Also, the regulator prohib-ited FPIs from issuing suchnotes where the underlying assetis a derivative, except thosewhich are used for hedging pur-poses. The move is a follow-

through of Sebi board approvalof a relevant proposal in June.These measures are an outcomeof a slew of other steps taken bythe regulator in the recent past.In April, Sebi had barred residentIndians, NRIs and entities ownedby them from making invest-ment through P-notes. PTI

NEW DELHI: Sebichief Ajay Tyagi onThursday emphasisedthe need to put in placesophisticated cybersecurity for capitalmarkets even as hewondered about ways tosupervise data maintained atbytes among hundreds ofcomputers worldwide.Touching upon the increasinguse of technology in the mar-kets, he also said regulatorsmight have to put in placechecks and balances ofinvestor protection in algo-rithms itself.

According to him, tech-

nology is of primeimportance forsmooth functioningof exchanges andmarket intermediariesand as data usage getsfurther deepened,

concerns relating to ‘security’of data would become evenmore pronounced.

Against the backdrop ofinstances of systems in dif-ferent parts of the worldcoming under cyber attacks,the Sebi chairman alsoemphasised the need forhaving ‘sophisticated cyber-security and cyber-resilience measures’. PTI

NEW DELHI: Regulator Trai on Thursdayrejected argument that reduction in mobilecall connection rates has any linkage withfinancial stress in the telecom sector, sayingthe charges are not meant for making prof-it. “To my understanding there is no con-nection between stress in the telecom sectorand IUC rates because rates cannot be prof-it vertical for any company. You get com-pensated for whatever work you do. Whetheryou are handling one call or 10 calls, you arenot being paid less or being paid more. Youdon't make a loss or profit,” Sharma said.

He was responding to a query over criticismover IUC reduction at the India MobileCongress by Idea Cellular Managing Directorand CEO Himanshu Kapania. Mobile compa-nies currently charge 14 paise a minute forallowing a domestic call from a rival operatorto terminate on their network. This charge,called Interconnection Usage Charge or IUC,will be 6 paise per minute from October 1, 2017.Kapania had said recent market developmentshave drastically altered industry dynamics,resulting in the sector passing through a phaseof severe ‘financial and mental stress’. PTI

MUMBAI: Indian Inc’s foreignborrowings nearly halved to$1.64 billion in August thisyear, data from Reserve Bankshowed on Thursday. It includesborrowings through externalcommercial borrowings (ECBs)and rupee denominated bonds(RDBs) -- which were haltedbriefly recently. Indian firms hadborrowed $3.17 billion throughECBs in August 2016.

There were no RDBs in thesame period last year as theinstrument was introduced inSeptember. Of the total bor-rowings, more than $1.56 bil-lion were in the form of exter-nal commercial borrowings.In a break-up, $1.54 billionwere borrowed through auto-matic route and $23,635,295million through approval routeof ECBs. Rest of $78,163,593million foreign borrowingsduring the month werethrough rupee denominatedbonds, showed the data. PTI

NEW DELHI: Breakinghis silence on criticism byfellow party leaderYashwant Sinha, FinanceMinister Arun Jaitley onThursday hit back callinghim a job applicant at 80years who has forgotten hisrecord as finance minister and iscommenting on persons ratherthan policies. He accused Sinhaof acting in tandem with seniorCongress leader and ex-financeminister P Chidambaram, for-getting the harsh words the twohad used for each other.

At a book release function,Jaitley refrained from taking Sinha’sname but said he does not have the

luxury as yet of being a for-mer finance minister nordoes he have the luxury ofbeing a former finance min-ister who has turned acolumnist. The first refer-ence was for Sinha and the

second one for Chidambaram,who rode on the BJP leader's crit-icism to assail Jaitley and theGovt's handling of the economypost demonetisation and transi-tionary impact caused by GST.Being a former finance minister “Ican conveniently forget a policyparalysis (during UPA-II). I canconveniently forget the 15 per centNPAs of 1998 and 2002 (duringSinha’s term as FM). PTI

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Reliance Industries has outbidrivals, including state-owned

GAIL India, to buy the entirevolume of natural gas from itsown coal seam blocks untilMarch 2021. In May, RIL hadbecome the first buyer of gas itproduced from its own coal bedmethane (CBM) block inMadhya Pradesh after agreeingto pay the highest price of $ 4.23per million British thermal unit(mmBtu) for May-June.

In the following quarter, itpaid an additional 6 per cent at$4.50 per mmBtu to take all of theCBM gas from Sohagpur Eastand Sohagpur West blocks. In thelatest bidding for up to 3 millionstandard cubic metres per day(mmscmd) of gas to be producedduring October 2017 and March2021, RIL quoted $6.26 permmBtu at the current oil price,according to bid documents.

Piramal Glass was the sec-ond-highest bidder quoting $4.97per mmBtu, followed by GujaratState Petroleum Corporation(GPSC) putting in a bid of $4.9.

GAIL bid for 1.5 mmscmd of gasat a price of $4.63 per mmBtuwhile its subsidiary GAIL Gassought an equivalent quantity at$4.11 per mmBtu price, the biddocument showed. RIL plans touse the gas at its petrochemicalplants in Gujarat andMaharashtra, which run mostlyon expensive imported fuel.

Output would be ramped upto 2 mmscmd by March 2018while the peak production of 3mmscmd would touch in thethird quarter of 2018. The rate ofCBM gas is 150 per cent morethan the government mandated$2.48 per mmBtu price of theconventional natural gas pro-

duced by firms such as ONGCand RIL from the eastern offshoreKG-D6 block.

The bidding formula in allthe three bid rounds for CBM gasthis year has been the same andthe process has been conductedby Crisil Risk and InfrastructureSolutions, a unit of Crisil. Thisformula is almost similar to theone RIL had run in 2012 to dis-cover a price for CBM gas. Backin 2012, it had sought bids for 3.5mmscmd of coal gas at thebenchmarked rate of 12.67 percent of JCC, or Japan Customs-Cleared Crude, plus $0.26 permmBtu.

The formula was the same at

which Petronet LNG, a joint ven-ture of public oil companies,whose chairman is the oil secre-tary, used to buy long-term liq-uefied natural gas (LNG) fromQatar. At $100 per barrel oil priceprevalent that year, CBM fromRIL's Madhya Pradesh blockwas to cost $12.93 per mmBtu.At $58 a barrel rate currently, itwould have cost $7.3.

That formula was, however,rejected by the ministry eventhough 59 valid bids seekingabout 70 mmscmd of gas werereceived in the open tender. Inthe current price discovery,RIL sought bids in the form ofa deductible from 12.67 per centof prevailing Brent crude oilprice plus $0.52 per mmBtuplus $0.26 per mmBtu, accord-ing to the bid document.

RIL bid deducting $1.836per mmBtu and Piramal Glass$3.156. GAIL quoted a deduc-tion of $3.495. RIL has invest-ed about $ 500 million in CBMand laying a 300-km pipelinefrom Sohagpur to Phulpur inUttar Pradesh to connect to thenational gas grid.

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rupee had a ripple effect on stockson Thursday leading to a relief rallyas the Sensex and the Nifty reversedtheir seven-day losing spell as cov-ering of shorts picked up on a dayof derivatives expiry. The domesticcurrency, which had hit six and a halfmonth low Wednesday, managed toovercome its weakness after the dol-lar weakened globally. Since it wasthe last session for September futuresand options (F&O) contracts, spec-ulators hit the ground running bycovering their short bets towards theclose, which accelerated the pace ofrecovery. The Sensex quickly slippedinto negative territory as foreign fundscontinued to pull out capital, but emer-gence of value-buying made sure thegauge settled higher by 122.67 points,or 0.39 per cent, at 31,282.48.

The 50-share NSE Nifty ended up33.20 points, or 0.34 per cent, at9,768.95. “Marginal rebound in rupeeand short covering ahead of expiryhelped the market to close positive,while the caution on economic slow-down remains. Gradual rise in crudeprice and muted expectation fromRBIs upcoming monetary policyinfluenced investors to stay on thesideline,” said Vinod Nair, GeojitFinancial Services Ltd. PTI

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NEW DELHI: Government hassaved �58,000 crore throughthe Direct Benefit Transfer(DBT) scheme used in varioussubsidy programmes, UnionMinister Ravi Shankar Prasadsaid on Thursday. The electron-ics and IT minister said the

Government is utilising digitaltechnology to bring aboutchanges that benefit poor andunderprivileged.

“We opened Jan Dhanaccounts for poor and under-privileged. We linked that toAadhaar and mobile phones. and

we started sending gas subsidy,ration subsidy, kerosene subsidyand food subsidy directly to thebank account. We have saved�58,000 crore which used to bepocketed by middlemen,” Prasadsaid at the AIMA conventionhere. This �58,000 crore money

is not private money it is taxpayer's money which required tobe saved and digital governanceis doing that, he added.

Elaborating on the success ofthe DBT initiative, Prasad saidthat the government has so farbeen able to unearth 3 crore fake

gas connections and has alsoannulled 2.7 crore fake rationcards. “The idea we set for our-selves when we went for digitalrevolution is, that we want to cre-ate technology which is inclusiveand at the same time affordableand dependable,” he added. PTI

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M UM BA I : With theGovernment keen on settingup the gold spot exchange,the World Gold Council(WGC) is constituting a panelinvolving industry stake-holders to prepare a blueprintoutlining the nitty gritty forimplementing the plan.

“We are forming a commit-tee that will include the bulliontraders, banks, regulators amongothers, who will help in makinga blueprint to help the govern-ment in its endeavour in settinga gold spot exchange in the coun-try,” WGC India ManagingDirector Somasundaram PR toldPTI here.

WGC said in a report that aspot exchange can serve as a cat-alyst to organise the fragmentedgold market in India, as it wouldbring together a number of keyplayers across the gold valuechain on the same platform,which will bring transparency inoperations and improve taxaccountability.

“No single organisation hasthe mandate or ability to single-handedly drive this agenda.Therefore, it is paramount thatthere is close consultation, col-laboration and coordinationacross industry stake-holders,market participants and regula-tors on the key design elementsof the exchange,” the report said.Additionally, once the exchangeis set up, market participants,such as wholesale bullion tradersand large refiners, will need toplay an active role in creating liq-uidity for the initial operations ofthe exchange, the report said.PTI

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NEW DELHI: The realty sectoris likely to add another 8 millionjobs by 2025 driven by initiativeslike new real estate regulatory lawand the GST, says a report.According to realtors' bodyCREDAI and consultant CBRE'sjoint report ‘Assessing theEconomic Impact of India’s RealEstate’, the contribution of realestate sector in the country'sGDP is expected to double at 13per cent by 2025.

“The potential employmentopportunities in the real estatesector are expected at 17.2 mil-lion jobs by 2025 up from 9.2million in 2016. “The econom-ic contribution of the real estatesector is projected to increase sig-nificantly during the period from6.3 per cent in 2016 to almost 13per cent in 2025,” CBRE said. Thereport said that the long termprospects appear highly posi-tive for the sector and project-ed that the annual real estatesupply is expected to reach upto 8.2 billion sq ft in 2015 from3.6 billion sq ft in 2013. PTI

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The head of the UN's migra-tion agency warned

Wednesday about increasingreports of sexual violencedirected at Rohingya Muslims,who have been fleeing violencein Myanmar in recent weeks.

Director-General WilliamLacy Swing of the InternationalOrganisation for Migrationsaid he was “shocked and con-cerned” about the reports ofsexual and gender-based vio-lence among Rohingya newlyarrived in Cox's Bazar,Bangladesh.

IOM said rape, sexualassault, domestic violence, childmarriage and other forms ofgender-based violence havebeen identified. It did not spec-ify who was responsible for theviolence.

The agency is coordinatingthe humanitarian responseamong U.N. agencies and aidproviders amid the exodus ofan estimated 480,000 peoplewho have reached Cox's Bazarsince Aug. 25, when attacks bya Rohingya insurgent groupagainst police posts inMyanmar led to massive retal-iation by the country's army.

An agency statement saidIOM doctors have treateddozens of women who experi-enced “violent sexual assault”since August, but that theknown cases likely represent

only a “small portion” of actu-al cases.

Swing said such “egregiousviolence and abuse is underre-ported” even in more stableand better-resourced humani-tarian aid situations.

“Sexual and gender-basedviolence is a severe, life-threat-ening public health and humanrights abuse,” he said.“Particularly women and girls,but also men and boys, havebeen targeted for and are at riskof further exploitation, vio-lence and abuse simply becauseof their gender, age and statusin society.”

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The UN refugee agency saidWednesday it was alarmed

by a mob attack on RohingyaMuslim refugees in Sri Lanka,where Government leaderscalled for stern legal actionagainst perpetrators thatincluded Buddhist monks.

On Tuesday, a group led byBuddhist monks stormed aUnited Nations-run safe housefor Rohingya Muslims, claim-ing the residents were terroristsand demanding they be sentback to Myanmar, promptingpolice to relocate them. Dozensof protesters from Sri Lanka'smajority Buddhist communityled a mob that entered a multi-storied house at Mount Laviniaon the outskirts of the SriLankan capital.

In a statement, the UnitedNations High Commissionerfor Refugees said it is “alarmedand concerned” by Tuesday'sincident and urged the “publicand all those concerned withrefugees to continue extendingprotection and to show empa-thy for civilians fleeing perse-cution and violence.”

Police took 31 Rohingyarefugees, including 17 chil-dren, into custody Tuesdayand moved them to a safelocation.A video clip posted bya nationalist group, SinhalaNational Movement, on itsFacebook page shows protest-ers calling Rohingyas “terror-ists who killed Buddhists inMyanmar” and saying thatthey can't live in Sri Lanka.

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At least 10 children andfour women were killed

when a boat carrying Rohingyafleeing violence in Myanmarcapsized off Bangladesh today,police said.

“So far 14 bodies havewashed ashore near Inanibeach. They are Rohingya,”local police constable FazlulKarim told AFP.

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When their nine childrenfled to Bangladesh to

escape recent violence and per-secution in Myanmar, aRohingya Muslim couple madethe tough decision to staybehind. They did not want toleave their land or the grocerystore they ran in their village.

Sultan Mehmood, 62, alsofaced another obstacle in flee-ing - he had lost the lower halfof one of his legs two years ear-lier when a Myanmar soldiershot him, he says.Their deci-sion to stay behind when sol-diers invaded their village inlate August left them open tofurther attack.Mehmood, nowin Bangladesh, says his wife wasraped by three of the soldiersand he was badly beaten.

“The soldiers did a nastything with my wife. They did awrong thing with her,” he said,sighing deeply as his 45-year-old wife, Haseena Begum, satsilently nearby on the floor ofa makeshift hut in the Balukhalirefugee camp in Bangladesh.

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North Korea Thursdayaccused Donald Trump of

exploiting Otto Warmbier'sdeath, calling the US presidentan “old lunatic” for alleging thatthe American student was tor-tured while in Pyongyang'scustody.

In a statement issued by theofficial KCNA news agency,North Korea's Foreign Ministryattacked the US of “luring andpushing” the 22-year-old stu-dent into breaking the coun-try's laws.

“Trump and his clique, fortheir anti-DPRK propaganda,are again exploiting the deathof Otto Warmbier, anAmerican college student whohad been under reformthrough labour for the crimi-nal act he committed againstthe DPRK and died afterreturning to the US,” it said,using the acronym for theNorth's officialname.Warmbier, was visitingthe North as a tourist.

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China has ordered NorthKorean companies in the

country to shut down byJanuary as it applies UN sanc-tions imposed followingPyongyang's sixth nuclear test,the Commerce Ministry saidThursday.

The Ministry said the com-panies, including joint ven-tures with Chinese firms, have120 days to close from the datethe United Nations resolutionwas adopted, September 11.

The announcement comesdays after China confirmedthat it will apply another majorpart of the sanctions: a limit onexports of refined petroleumproducts to North Korea start-ing October 1 and a ban on tex-tiles from its neighbour.

China's application of UNsanctions is particularly bitingfor North Korea. Beijing isPyongyang's main ally andtrading partner, responsiblefor around 90 per cent of thehermit nation's commerce.

The US has pressed Chinato use its economic leverage tostrongarm North Korea intogiving up its nuclear ambitions.

US Secretary of State RexTillerson will visit Beijing thisweekend for talks with China'stop diplomat, Yang Jiechi, andForeign Minister Wang Yi.

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President Donald Trump hasrolled out a sweeping tax

reform plan that promises a“middle class miracle” and pro-poses deep cuts in individualand corporate taxes in anostensible bid to make Americamore competitive and bringback jobs that have fled thecountry over the years.

Unveiling the plan inIndianapolis, Trump called it “aonce-in-a-generation oppor-tunity to reduce taxes, rebuildour economy and restoreAmerica’s competitive edge”,and made a strong push forstrong bipartisan support in theUS Congress for its early adop-tion.

“We’re going to cut taxesfor the middle class, make thetax code simpler and more fairfor everyday Americans, andwe are going to bring back thejobs and wealth that have leftour country -- and most peo-ple thought left our country forgood,” he said.

But the Democrats criti-cized the plan as “pro-rich”.After Trump called upon bothDemocrats and Republicansin Congress to “come togetherfinally to deliver this giant winfor the American people andbegin a middle-class miracle”,Senate Minority Leader ChuckSchumer said dismissively:“This is wealth fare. Wealthfare, helping those of great wealth with more taxbreaks.”

The Trump plan, finalizedafter a meeting withRepublican leaders in theCongress, brings down indi-vidual tax brackets to three(from the present seven) ratesof 12 per cent, 25 per cent and35 per cent, and doubles thestandard deduction for all tax-payers.

As for the corporate tax,Trump said his plan slashes itto 20 per cent, commenting:“That's way down from 35and 39 which is substantiallybelow the average of otherindustrialized nations.”

Asserting the new taxreform framework will “deliv-er historic tax relief to theAmerican people”, Trumpcalled it “pro-growth, pro-jobs,pro-worker, pro-family”, commenting: “It’s time to take care of our people, torebuild our nation, and to fightfor our great American work-ers.”

Justifying the hefty cut inthe corporate tax rate, Trumpsaid it was high time to pro-mote American jobs instead ofobstructing them. Terming thecurrent tax system is a “relic”and a “colossal barrier” stand-ing in the way of America’s eco-nomic comeback, he said:“We’ve got to change it. Wehave to compete with othercountries.”

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In the lowest-ever cap set foradmitting refugees from

across the world, PresidentDonald Trump has decidedthat the United States will nowtake more than 45,000 refugeesduring the next American fis-cal year, beginning October 1.

This threshold will benearly half of the 85,000refugees admitted by the pre-decessor Obama administra-tion for fiscal 2016.

Under the new plan, theUnited States will take in amaximum of 19,000 refugeesfrom Africa, 17,500 from theMiddle East and South Asia,5,000 from East Asia, 2,000from Europe and Central Asia,and 1,500 from Latin Americaand the Caribbean.

A critic of the Democrats’liberal refugee admissions pol-icy, Trump has been a propo-nent of helping refugees clos-er to their home countriesthan in resettling them in far-away lands like America.

After the White Housenotified Congress of Trump’sdecision, officials said the newlevel represents the maximumnumber of refugees that theUnited States can admit even asit is conducting the vetting nec-essary to keep out terrorists andcriminals.

“The safety and the secu-rity of the American people isNo. 1, and we want to make

sure no one is allowed throughwho would endanger the safe-ty of the American people,” anofficial said, while maintainingthat the US still remains theworld’s leading donor ofhumanitarian assistance, hav-ing provided $7 billion on thisscore over the past year.

“We need to ensurerefugee resettlement opportu-nities go to those who are eli-gible for such protection andwho are not known to presenta risk to the safety or the secu-rity of our country,” the official

said.The White House

announcement came for sharpcriticism from major humani-tarian groups. The New York-based International RefugeeAssistance Project called it acase of the US abdicating itsleadership role on humanitar-ian issues at time when theworld is grappling with thelargest number of refugeessince World War II.

“It’s hard to comprehendwhy the administration wouldmove to limit resettlementwhen the need is greater thanever,” a project official said, not-ing: “We are abandoning des-perate people in life-or-deathsituations, including childrenwith medical emergencies, USwartime allies, and survivors oftorture.”

The council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)termed the Trump adminis-tration action of slashing therefugee numbers was “nothingshort of a back-door Muslimban”.

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Sometimes, art can raiseconcerns about contem-

porary much better thanany study or report. And ifit entails an exquisite danceperformance by SarojaVaidyanathan with thePurana Qila as the back-drop, the message getsacross clearer and louder.While her performance,Namami Gange, did enter-tain, it was aimed more atcreating awareness aboutthe toxic water — an initia-tive by Purana Qila Dancefestival under theDepartment of Art, Cultureand Languages.

The performance start-ed with the troupe narrat-ing the tale of Ganga —from her origin to herrevival. The journey of thesacred river began whenBhagirath (played byHimanshu Srivastava)brought down Ganga(played by DakshinaVaidyanathan Baghel) fromthe heavens.

The perfectly coordi-nated Bharatnatyammudras, rhythmic move-ments and exquisite facialexpressions of the artistsunfolded the beautiful his-tory of the river over theyears as it gradually movedinto the Kalyug era. This erawas marked by people for-getting the value of natureand they choked the Gangawith pollutants.

While the governmenthas been ignoring the grow-ing pollution for ages, theprolonged efforts of socialactivists at last forced themto take some action. Anactor essaying the role ofPrime Minister,Narendra Modi(played by CVK a m e s h )inspected thearea. Soonenough, the revivalof the river began andtourists too started pouringin to visit its banks.

Towards the end,Vaidyanathan dressed in apink Banarasi silk sari, tookto the stage to teach thetourists the significance ofthe holy river. The perfor-mance ended withechoes of Jai Gange.

The organis-er of the festival,Sindhu Mishra,Deputy SecretarySahitya KalaParishad said, “It isan honour to show-case these experi-enced artists tothe audience.We under-take initia-tives such as

these festivals to keep thetradition of art and culturealive.”

Vaidyanathan startedher journey as a classicaldancer at the tender age ofseven. She has been hon-oured with several awardsincluding the prestigiousPadma Sri and PadmaBhushan. She has also beena recipient of the SahityaKala Parishad Samman bythe Government of Delhiand Kalaimamani title bythe Government of TamilNadu. She is a prolificBharatanatyam artist,choreographer, teacher andauthor.

Talking about the con-cept behind theBharatanatyam recital,

Vaidyanathan said,“Namami Gange is mythol-ogy. It connected Vishnu,Shiva, Bhagirath (the Kingwho brought down theriver Ganga) and manyrishis, with each other thou-sands of years back. It’shigh time to think aboutGanga.”

She raised some impor-tant questions like, “Whydo we call it holy evenafter polluting it? We pol-lute and then worship it.”She made a valid point thatwe keep ourselves cleanbut fail to do the same withour rivers. Vaidyanathanexclaimed, “I am happythat the government is tak-ing steps to clean theGanga.” She showed con-cern over the dirty sur-roundings and stressed thatthere is a need to spreadawareness amongst the peo-ple. After all, godliness liesin cleanliness.

“I have blendedmythology with tourism inmy troupe’s performance.Once the river is clean, it

will increase tourism. Itwill lead to the

growth of agricul-ture, tourism

and heritage. Everythingwill improve,” addedVaidyanathan.

The performance sawan amalgamation ofmythology – Bhagirath’skatha and Shiva with theenvironment.

Earlier, tourists fromplaces like China and Japanvisited Varanasi to witnessthe holy river. Vaidyanathansaid, “If we keep the Gangaclean and pure, wealth willcome in the form oftourism and the countrywill prosper.”

But this is not the firsttime that Vaidyanathanengaged with the river.Earlier she had done smallperformances of five-tenminutes on Ganga. Threeyears back, she thought ofdoing a full piece on theriver. Neither is it the firsttime that she has been asso-ciated with a social cause. Inthe past, Vaidyanathan hasdone performances onSwachh Bharat and HIV.

She divulged details onthe driving factors behindperformances giving asocial message, “I loveMother India. I am inspiredby Subramania Bharati, afreedom poet who used tosing a lot on Mother India.These songs were taught tous in school beforeIndependence. All thesethings inculcated a feelingof attachment towards thecountry which is our moth-er, our land and our right.I have also done a perfor-mance on freedom (AnmolMoti on 13 Freedom fight-ers of pre-independence) 30years back.” She has doneseveral Bharatnatyamrecitals on environment.She had collaborated withthe festival a few yearsback (there was no themethen) also.

She got a sense ofsatisfaction by perform-

ing at Purana Qila, “It’salways a pleasure toperform here, a beauti-ful place, what a natur-al atmosphere! Theweather was so pleasanttoday, nature was coop-erative with us,” shesaid. She advised aspir-ing dancers to bepatient as youngsterswant to get everythingfast. But she did feelthat today’s students arededicated, studious andinformed. Earlier, therewas no modern technol-ogy but now everythingspreads quickly throughits use – by WhatsAppand YouTube whichmake the studentsmore aware.

The S-Cross is one of thoserare cars, a car considered to

have been a failure for Maruti.This despite the fact that the S-Cross sold around 2000 unitsevery month, a number thatmany other manufacturerswould have been happy with, theS-Cross did not meet Maruti’shigh sales standards. Especiallywhen you compare it against itsmain competition, the HyundaiCreta. The massive sales successof the Creta left the S-Cross inthe shade, and this facelift isMaruti’s plan to redress that.

The first thing you noticeabout the new S-Cross is thenew chrome-plated larger radi-ator grille and the much moreupright stance of the ‘crossover’from Maruti-Suzuki. The high-er spec models feature day-time-running LED lights andalso LED projector headlightsand LED taillights. Coupledwith the new machine-cut 16-inch alloys and slightly largertyres, the S-Cross now looks thepart. But does it drive the part?

When the S-Cross was firstlaunched during a test-drivearound the vineyards of Nashik,I had spent the morning drivingthe 1.6 DDiS engine on the S-Cross. The bigger diesel calledthe ‘DDiS 320’ by Maruti to indi-cate the amount of torque (inNewton-meters) it produced,had 118 horsepower and adelightful six-speed gearbox.Why would anyone buy thesmaller DDiS 200 engine? Thisis the same diesel engine thatserves across all Maruti vehiclesfrom the Swift to the Brezza. Butthe buyers spoke, the smallerengine outsold the bigger engineby some margin. You could getgreat deals on the bigger enginecars at Nexa showrooms, buteventually Maruti withdrew thebigger engine. That was atragedy, the bigger engine had itbeen successful could have evendone service on the Breeza andnow that the S-Cross has thelooks that the earlier iterationlacks, would have slotted in tothis car easily.

Maruti does however makethe S-Cross a ‘Smart Hybrid’ asthey call it now, but I’d call it a‘semi-hybrid’. Note that Maruti’sare not ‘full hybrids’ becausethey lack a battery pack, insteadthe S-Cross like the Ciaz andErtiga uses a larger engine bat-tery and cannot run the car onelectrical power alone as a prop-er hybrid does. However, the

battery pack does enable the S-Cross to have a ‘start-stop’ sys-tem, which could be seen asoverly sensitive at times as wellas something called ‘torqueassist’ that allows the battery to‘fill in the gaps’ in a matter ofspeaking on the power curve.This happens as you changegears or before the turbo kicksin while accelerating. Thissmoother power delivery doesmake the S-Cross with thesmaller engine better to drive,but does not fully substitute thebigger engine by any stretch ofimagination.

While the new S-Crosslooks bolder and stands outcompared to the outgoing car,what will really make the S-Cross shine against the compe-tition is the price. Pricing this carwill be a bit f a challenge forMaruti since higher specifica-tions of their best-selling Brezza,which is a ‘compact’ SUV wouldbe touching the mid-range specsof the S-Cross. This is likely amajor reason Maruti has addedthe ‘smart hybrid’ to the S-Crosslikely to differentiate it againstthe Brezza. This in addition tothe fact that the S-Cross is soldthrough the Nexa network,instead of the traditional net-work, now called ‘Arena’, wouldminimise product cannibalism,although the Breeze still has a

massive months long waitinglist.

This is the same reasonMaruti-Suzuki shifted the Ciazto the Nexa network to reducecompetition against the third-generation Dzire. But Marutiwill also have to keep theHyundai Creta and RenaultDuster’s prices in mind. Onewould expect a launch price ofunder ten lakhs for the entry-level models with the top mod-els in the twelve lakh range.Maruti-Suzuki will announceprices for the S-Cross within afew days.

But would you consider theS-Cross against the Creta?Definitely, the facelift on the S-Cross has dramatically improvedits road presence, but the Cretahas two advantages the S-Crosslacks. The first is a bigger engine,which is sorely missed on the S-Cross. The second plus theCreta has, albeit an expensiveone is the fact that the HyundaiCreta has a six-speed automat-ic. Despite the fuel savingsthanks to a start-stop system incity traffic, I know I’d ratherdrive an automatic in urban traf-fic. These are two fixes thatMaruti-Suzuki could implementlater on, but the S-Cross as goodas it is, might just lack that ‘X’factor, but as a price warriormight do well nonetheless.

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Although we earn our bread and but-ter by making these effigies but atthe same time we feel proud of our

contribution in putting an end to evil,” saidSudhir, a 32-year-old artisan who

migrated from Rajasthan.Since ages, Dussehra is celebrat-

ed to showcase the triumph of goodover evil but the irony which revolves

around this festival will surprise you.Dussehra, commonly known as VijayDashmi, comes around the ninth day ofNavratri. The festival marks the victoryover Ravana, the ten-headed demon Kingby Lord Rama. In the country with the sec-ond highest unemployment rate afterSouth Africa, it is not hard to imagine peo-ple migrating from one state to another fortheir survival. And the famous demon kingprovides livelihood to a large number ofartistes.

The Tatarpur area situated on the busyNajafgarh road in Delhi, witnesses a chaosof structuring, colouring and selling ofhumongous effigies of Ravana every year.In order to create these, people from GadiaLohars (blacksmith tribes) community set-tle themselves on the pavements. Theymajorly migrate from Bihar and Rajasthan.Despite having various problems likeimpure water, unhygienic surroundingsand no electricity, they still continue to livein their self-made houses cum tents.Thus, while the city is waiting to celebratethe home-coming of the hero Rama, the

villain Ravana ensures that the fire keepsburning in Lohars sparse kitchen.

The artistes often migrate two monthsbefore to settle and gather their products.Sudhir explained the making of thesehand-made, beautiful Ravanas lying atevery inch of the pavement. “Initially, wemake skeletons of Ravana out of bamboostrips. Then, it is covered with old clothswhich further works as the base forcolourful sheets of paper. At last, the finaltouch-up is given by painting the eyes andthe mustaches.”

Since, the making involves almost zeroinvolvement of machines, which results inminimal production cost except for thecapital invested in the wood and paper.

The effigies are made depending onthe customer’s want, ranging from 5 feetto 15 feet tall and prices are chargedaccordingly. The artistes are also respon-sible for putting the huge Ravanas at thelocation and filling them with thecrackers.

Artistes don’t travel alone, ratherthey are accompanied by their familymembers, including their children.Often the kids end up setting up thetent, sticking the papers on the effigyand filling up of the crackers.

While the preparation for Dussehrapaves the path for the coming of the fes-tival of lights — Diwali. However, for theseartistes who should be credited are oftenheld responsible for creating traffic andruckus on the roads. “Every season we facethe same issues but so far we have no solu-tion. Also, the government pays no heedto our situation that gets worse with therain,” he said. Over the years of makingRavana effigies, they have come to believethat good doesn’t always triumph. Instead,it is the evil which is more fruitful.

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Navratras are synony-mous with dandiyaand festivities in

Gujarat. And it is onaccount of this connect thatVeda restaurant, which isalways followed by thedescription of having beendesigned by Rohit Bal, isholding a Gujarati food fes-tival.

The interiors of therestaurant with its hugemirrors, chandeliers anddim lighting is classy. Balhas also done the interiorsfor a new Veda which hasopened recently inAmsterdam.

The restaurant whichspecialises in traditionalMughlai and North Indiancuisine will be showcasingcuisines from different partsof the county. In first of theseries, the Veda chefs col-laborated with chef Keraramwho is from Chola, forGujarati food.

Keraram says, “I learntGujarati food from myfather and during the past20 years since I entered theprofession, I have cooked inseveral hotels. The fare thatis being served here isabsolutely authentic andthere is no dilution.” Hepoints out that while thewater as well as the ingre-dients does make a differ-ence to the taste, he balancesit and makes sure that it tastesthe same everywhere.

The thali consisting of anarray of 18 dishes fromfarsaans to main course tomultiple Gujarati desserts.What made it different wasthat it did not use onions orgarlic. A rose cardamom lassiand chaach were the drinks

which accompanied the thali.The thali had three

farsaans (snacks) , whichincluded Upwas chawal dhok-la made from samvat rice,which can be had while fast-ing. The Lilva kachori, with acrunchy cover and a filling ofpeas, green chillies and spices,was the one that got my vote.

The main course featured

Undhiyu, which is consideredthe centrepiece of any Gujaratimeal. It is a mixture of sever-al vegetables like potato, beansand yam. The Vagharli khich-di and the Guajrati kadhi arethe other staples. In the maincourse, it was the kadhi withit’s mix of sweet and tangyflavour that was smooth anda great accompaniment to the

khichdi.The desserts included

Shrikhand, Akhrot kaju anjeerka sheera and Dudhiya dryfruit. Though I am no fan ofShrikhand but the one servedhere was by far the best that Ihave had — smooth and mild-ly sweet.

The festival is on tillSeptember 29.

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The Indian juggernaut finally cameto a halt with Australia dishing outan exceptional performance during

the death overs to win the fourth One DayInternational by 21 runs, here onThursday. The consolation win alsosnapped India's winning streak of ninematches as the hosts could manage only313 for 8 chasing a stiff victory target of335.

India lead the five-match series 3-1with the fifth and final ODI to be playedin Nagpur on Sunday.

Courtesy David Warner's spectacu-lar 124 in his 100th game, Australia putup a commanding score but it was thepace troika of Pat Cummins (1/59 in 10overs), Kane Richardson (3/58 in 10overs) and Nathan Coulter-Nile (2/56 in10 overs), who delivered in the slog oversto stifle the Indian batsmen.

Manish Pandey (33) and KedarJadhav (65) added 61 runs for the fifthwicket but both paid for their indiscre-tion as their dismissals in quick succes-sion brought Australia back in the match.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (13 off 10balls) failed to connect majority of hisdeliveries, playing as many as six dot ballsduring the final overs, proving to be toocostly. Once again it was evident thatDhoni's finishing powers are on the waneand he is happier playing second fiddle.

Testimony to Australia's dominationat the death was that overs 47, 48, 49 and50 produced 6, 6, 5 and 7 runs respec-tively. However, India's chase started inright earnest as Rohit Sharma (65 off 55balls) and Ajinkya Rahane (53 off 66)adding 106 runs in 18.2 overs.

The duo played some classy shots -- especially Rohit, who hit as many as fiveeffortless sixes compared to a boundary.

Rahane at the other end droppedanchor hitting six boundaries and a sixwith India in cruise control mode.

In the 19th over, Rahane failed toclear Aaron Finch off Kane Richardsondelivery and Rohit was unfortunately run-out -- partly due to Steve Smith's bril-liance and mix-up with skipper ViratKohli.

Kohli (21) got set before he played onoff Nathan Coulter-Nile for the secondtime in the series as India were sudden-ly in a spot of bother at 147 for 3.

Man of the moment Hardik Pandya(41) was then joined by Jadhav to add 78runs for the fourth wicket.

It was Pandya, who started to take onthe bowling, especially leg-spinner AdamZampa as he hit a boundary and threesixes. Jadhav started slowly but thenpicked up pace and matched Pandyastroke for stroke.

Just when they had settled down witha nice partnership, Zampa dropped oneshort and Pandya was taken at long-offby Warner.

Earlier, Warner hit a splendid centuryin his 100th ODI as Australia put up acommanding total of 334 for 5 againstIndia in the penultimate encounter of thefive-match series, here on Thursday.

Warner (124 off 119 balls), whostruck his 14th ODI hundred in his mile-stone match adding 231 for the openingstand with in-form Aaron Finch (94).

Australia were looking good for atotal close to 400 but the Indian bowlerspulled back in the final 15 overs in whichthe visitors could manage only 103 runs.

Umesh Yadav was the pick of thebowlers despite being expensive as he hadfigures of 4 for 71 in 10 overs to show forhis efforts. Kedar Jadhav (1/38 in 7 overs)

also did his bit to put brakes on the scor-ing after the openers raised visions of amammoth total.

Warner, who have had a poor seriestill date, hit 12 boundaries and four sixeswhile Finch, who hit 10 boundaries andthree sixes off 96 balls, missed out on awell-deserved hundred.

Their dismissals in quick successiondid put a halt in scoring rate before PeterHandscomb's 43 off 30 balls and MarcusStoinis' cameo (15 no off 9 balls) enabledthem to cross the 330-run mark.

Kedar started it all by enticingWarner to go for a lofted shot which wentstraight to Axar Patel at long on and thennext two wickets of skipper Steve Smith(3) and Finch were bagged by Yadav.

Incidentally, Smith's dismissal wasYadav's 100th victim in ODIs.

The stage was set for Australia to goafter the Indian bowling, being com-fortably placed at 248 for three in 40 oversbut Travis Head (29 off 38 balls) strug-gled during the back-10 enabling Indiaatleast curtail the Australian total by 20runs.

Head was holed by Ajinkya Rahaneat deep square leg fence off Yadav.

Handscomb was cleaned up by Yadavafter he scored 43 balls off 30 balls withthree boundaries and one six.

Mathew Wade (3) and Stoinisremained unbeaten.

Earlier, a fluent approach by bothWarner and Finch provided Australia arecord first wicket partnership of 231 off201 balls, beating the previous record of212 scripted by Geoff Marsh and DavidBoon against India in Jaipur in 1986.

Their partnership was also the high-est at Bengaluru, beating the previous bestof 183 scored by Brad Haddin andShane Watson against Canada in a 2011World Cup match.

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Opener Dimuth Karunaratne fellseven runs short of a deserved cen-

tury as he anchored Sri Lanka's fight-back on the opening day of the first Testagainst Pakistan in Abu Dhabi onThursday.

The left-hander was run out for 93but helped his team recover from a pre-carious 61-3 to reach 227-4 at close afterSri Lanka won the toss and batted ona greenish Sheikh Zayed Stadiumpitch.

Karunaratne added an invaluable100-run partnership with skipperDinesh Chandimal, who was 60 not outat stumps, as Pakistan failed to breakthrough with the second new ball.

Niroshan Dickwella was unbeatenon 42, having added 66 runs for theunbroken fifth-wicket stand alongsidehis captain. Chandimal was given legbefore to Yasir Shah on 42, a decisionwhich was overturned on review. Hisinnings has included six boundarieswhile Dickwella hit five fours and a sixduring his aggressive knock.

Shah returned figures of 2-59 butdidn't get much turn from the pitchwhile seamer Hasan Ali took 1-58.

It was Karunaratne's knock thatbrought Sri Lanka back into it in the lasttwo sessions. He batted for four hoursand 40 minutes during an obdurate stayat the crease, recording his fourth half-

century against Pakistan and sixthoverall. But he was run out in the lastsession as he attempted a quick singleonly to be left stranded after Chandimalat the non-striker's end sent him back.

Pakistan had the advantage in thefirst session with leg-spinner Shahtaking two wickets, dismissing left-han-der Lahiru Thirimanne for his 150thTest wicket.

Shah matched fellow countrymanWaqar Younis as the joint second

fastest to 150 wickets — both achiev-ing the milestone in their 27th Test.

Australia's Sydney Barnes holds therecord after reaching the landmark injust 24 Tests.

The Test is Pakistan's first since theretirement of legendary batsman YounisKhan and their most successful Testskipper, Misbah-ul-Haq. Pakistanhanded a Test cap to batsman HarisSohail, while Sri Lanka went into thegame with three spinners.

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England survived without BenStokes as another of its influ-

ential all-rounders set up victo-ry over West Indies in the rain-shortened fourth one-day inter-national on Wednesday to clinchthe series.

Moeen Ali hit 48 from 25balls and he and Jos Buttler puttogether a perfectly-timed andunbroken partnership of 77 from48 balls to lift England from wellbehind the required run rate tojust ahead when rain fell at theOval and ended play.

England finished on 258-5 in35.1 overs thanks to the lateimpetus provided by Ali andButtler. That was good enough towin by six runs on theDuckworth-Lewis method afterWest Indies had posted 356-5from 50 overs.

Buttler was 43 not out from35 balls alongside Ali, and theirmatch-winning stand putEngland 3-0 up with one game toplay in the series.

West Indies lost despite theirbest batting performance of theseries, with opener Evin Lewisproducing a brilliant 176 from130 balls before he had to leaveon a stretcher, retiring hurt, afterhitting the ball into his ownankle and sustaining a hairlinefracture.

The victory completed a suc-cessful summer of cricket athome for England, which wontest and one-day series over bothSouth Africa and West Indies, and

a Twenty20 series over the SouthAfricans. That success shouldhave put England in buoyantmood ahead of the Ashes inAustralia starting in two months'time, only for the arrest of all-rounder Stokes over a late-nightincident this week to cast a shad-ow over preparations.

England's bowling attack feltStokes' absence as West Indiesposted its big total, powered byLewis and captain Jason Holder(77 off 62 balls). An unbalanced

England attack couldn't keepWest Indies under control despitemaking a strong start. ChrisWoakes took 3-71 and WestIndies was 33-3 after 6.1 overswith those early strikes. But a 117-run stand between Lewis andJason Mohammed (46) and apartnership of 168 off just 108balls between Lewis and Holdersaw West Indies race away. ThatLewis-Holder stand was WestIndies' best for the fifth wicket inODIs.

Lewis, who was brilliant withhis 17 fours and seven sixes, madethe fourth highest score by a WestIndian in a one-day game. He wasclosing in on becoming the firstman to make 200 in an ODI inEngland when he was undone,not by a bowler, but by himself.

He mishit a delivery fromJake Ball into his own ankle and,grimacing in pain, slumped to hisknees. He was taken off on astretcher with just over threeovers to go in the innings.

Ali and Buttler came togeth-er with England 181-5.

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West Indies captain Jason Holder was lefttrying to work out how his side had lost

the fourth one-day international againstEngland despite two fine solo efforts with batand ball.

England triumphed by six runs under theDuckworth/Lewis method for rain-affectedfixture at The Oval on Wednesday in a series-clinching success that left them 3-0 up withone to play in a five-match contest.

Defeat, West Indies' 16th in 17 complet-ed ODIs against England, was tough on EvinLewis who made a career-best 176 beforeretiring hurt, while recalled paceman AlzarriJoseph took five for 56, his maiden five-wick-et haul at his level.

"It's really hard to take... I thought, hadthe rain not come, it would have been a real-ly close finish — and we were backing our-selves to win it," said all-rounder Holder, whomade 77 as he and Lewis put on 168.

"It's hard when a guy scores 170 andanother guy takes five wickets, and you endup losing the game," he added.

Holder will also be absent from the finalODI as he is set to fly home on Thursday toattend his uncle's funeral.

Twenty20 captain Carlos Brathwaite isexpected to join the team, with Jason

Mohammed in line to lead the side.Opening batsman Alex Hales, who

returned to the southwestern city on Tuesdayto voluntarily provide further evidence topolice, was also missing from England's teamyesterday.

Jason Roy marked his return to Englandduty in place of Hales with a well-made 84on his Surrey home ground.

England captain Eoin Morgan, howev-er, said: "For the moment, Alex will comestraight back in (at Southampton)."

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Ben Stokes will not be considered forEngland international matches "until fur-

ther notice" after a video emerged apparentlyshowing him fighting outside a nightclub, theEngland and Wales Cricket Board saidThursday.

Test vice-captain Stokes was included inEngland's Ashes squad announcedWednesday, despite injuring his hand in theincident that led to his arrest on suspicionof causing actual bodily harm.

The 26-year-old Durham all-rounderwas released without charge on Monday butremains under investigation.

The Sun newspaper published thefootage from outside a nightclub in the south-west city of Bristol late on Wednesday.

Opening batsman Alex Hales, who waswith Stokes late on Sunday after playingalongside him during England's win overWest Indies in the third one-day internationalin Bristol, has also been suspended frominternational selection.

"Ben Stokes and Alex Hales will not beconsidered for selection for England inter-national matches until further notice," saidan ECB statement. "Each remains on full paypending further ECB investigation and theongoing police investigation into an incidentin Bristol in the early hours of Monday 25September.

"Andrew Strauss, director of England

cricket, will today refer the internal disci-plinary procedure for these two players to theCricket Discipline Commission, chaired byTim O'Gorman."

The statement added: "These decisions,fully supported by ECB chairman ColinGraves, were made following the release offootage viewed by ECB for the first time onWednesday night."

Neither Hales, who returned voluntar-ily to Bristol on Tuesday to give further evi-dence to police about the incident, nor Stokeswere selected for Wednesday's six-run winover West Indies in the fourth one-day inter-national at The Oval in London that gaveEngland an unbeatable 3-0 series lead.

Stokes's hand injury may well havemeant he was physically unfit for selectionin any case.

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Five Indians find themselvesin the top-20 of the BWF

men's singles rankings with HS Prannoy being the biggestgainer after his quarterfinalshowing at the Japan Open lastweek. Prannoy has jumped fourplaces to be World No 15 whileKidambi Srikanth, who too lostin the quarterfinals in Japan,remains the highest-rankedIndian male player at eighth.

Ajay Jayaram remains 20thwhile B Sai Praneeth too hasnot moved from his positionlast week when he was 17th.

Sameer Verma has gaineda couple of places to enter thetop-20 at the 19th spot.

India's leading ladies, PVSindhu and Saina Nehwal,remain at the second and 12thspot respectively. They bothhad lost in the second roundin Japan.

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More routs, stunning losses andlate drama made for a standoutnight in the Champions League

on Wednesday.Paris Saint-Germain tore apart five-

time European champion BayernMunich, and got goals from bickering for-wards Edinson Cavani and Neymar in a3-0 win that was the night's defining per-formance.

Yet another four-goal display fromManchester United this season seemedalmost routine as Jose Mourinho's teamwon 4-1 at CSKA Moscow.

Teams swept aside by Man Unitedand PSG two weeks ago bounced back.Basel hit Benfica with counter attacks ina shock 5-0 victory, and Celtic won 3-0at Anderlecht.

The drama peaked at AtleticoMadrid's new stadium where Chelseatrailed at halftime and struck with the lastkick to clinch a 2-1 victory.

Group D rivals Barcelona andJuventus delivered expected victories.

Here is a look at Wednesday's games:

�����Romelu Lukaku might be the best

striker in Europe on current form.Lukaku scored twice in the first half

as Man United cruised past CSKAMoscow 4-1 in Russia. It's now 10 goalsin nine games for Lukaku at his new clubthis season. Anthony Martial convertedfrom the penalty spot, between setting upLukaku's goals, and Henrikh Mkhitaryanscored in the second half. CSKA's goalcame in the 90th minute from substituteKonstantin Kuchaev.

Basel was brushed aside 3-0 at OldTrafford in the opening round, but wasrewarded with a 5-0 win over Benfica forgiving a first Champions League start toDimitri Oberlin, a Cameroon-born for-ward on loan from Salzburg.

On his 20th birthday, Oberlin usedhis pace and directness to score two goals,set up Michael Lang for the second-minute opener and earn a penalty thatRicky van Wolfswinkel scored.

Benfica had midfielder AndreAlmeida sent off for a two-footed tack-le when trailing 3-0. Man United has sixpoints, Basel and CSKA both have threeand play each other next in Moscow.

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sive forward line was good value at theParc des Princes, giving Bayern coachCarlo Ancelotti a miserable returnto the club he led to a Frenchtitle.

In just the secondminute, Neymar created thechance for Brazil teammateDani Alves to open the scor-ing. Cavani was set up byKylian Mbappe to make it 2-0before halftime. Neymar scored in the63rd after Bayern failed to deal withMbappe's threat.

For PSG, two wins, eight goalsscored and none conceded means a clearlead in the group. Hammered 5-0 at homeby PSG, Celtic dished out a 3-0 home lossto struggling Anderlecht.

The Scottish champion got goalsfrom Leigh Griffiths, Scott Sinclair, and

an own-goal by Kara Mbodji,and next travels to face Bayern.

������Chelsea took control of the group

with an unlikely 2-1 victory in the firstChampions League game at Atletico'sMetropolitano stadium, which will hostthe final next season.

Substitute Michy Batshuayi got freein the Atletico goalmouth to score in thefourth minute of stoppage time to win thegame. Former Real Madrid forward

Alvaro Morata scored early in the second-half to cancel out Antoine Griezmann'sfirst-half penalty for Atletico.

Striker Diego Costa, who left Chelseafor Atletico this month, watched in thestands.

After losing 6-0 at Chelsea, Qarabaglost 2-1 at home to Roma which laboredto win in Azerbaijan.

Kostas Manolas and Edin Dzekoscored for Roma inside 15 minutes, whilePedro Henrique got Qarabag's first everChampions League goal in the 28th.

Chelsea, with six points, next hostssecond-place Roma.

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Sporting Lisbon, 1-0, and Juventus beatvisiting Olympiakos 2-0.

Barcelona needed an own goal fromSebastian Coates to win after LionelMessi's free kick early in the second halfdeflected off two defenders.

Juventus was held until deep into thegame when Argentina forward GonzaloHiguain came on as a substitute. Higuainscored in the 69th and was involved inthe second, playing in Paulo Dybala,whose shot was hooked off the line by adefender but rebounded in off MarioMandzukic.

Barcelona, which already beatJuventus 3-0, next hosts Olympiakos.Juventus hosts Sporting, with both onthree points.

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Bayern Munich coach CarloAncelotti is coming under

increased scrutiny with club chair-man Karl-Heinz Rummeniggespeaking of "consequences" after theteam's heaviest defeat in theChampions League group stage.

Bayern's 3-0 loss at Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday was just thelatest blow for the Italian coach,whose side gave away a two-goallead to draw with Wolfsburg in theBundesliga last Friday, coming aftera third-round loss to Hoffenheim.

"It was a very bitter defeat,"Rummenigge said after PSG's clin-ical display. "

A defeat which must be talkedabout, which must be analyzed, andfrom which we must draw conse-quences."

Ancelotti raised eyebrows withhis starting lineup, leaving experi-enced wingers Franck Ribery andArjen Robben as well as defenderMats Hummels on the bench, whileJerome Boateng didn't even makethe squad.

The Germany defender watchedfrom the stands despite no noticegiven of any injury. Robben onlycame on when Dani Alves, EdinsonCavani and Neymar had already putthe French side out of sight.

Kylian Mbappe, another big-money signing beside Neymar, alsostarred for PSG.

Ancelotti acknowledged thathe would face criticism for his line-up but remained defiant.

"I'm someone who thinks a lotabout the lineup. I don't regret any-thing," the Italian said.

"It's true that in Robben, Riberyand Hummels a lot of good playerswere on the bench.

But I always have good playerson the bench. That's how it is in topclubs. Good players have to sit onthe bench, that's my job,"

Rummenigge did not showmuch sympathy for the coach or theplayers.

"I think what we saw tonightwasn't Bayern Munich," saidRummenigge, who ended his post-match banquet speech at the five-star L'Hotel du Collectionneur bysaying, "It's important that we turnthe tide quickly and present our-selves as Bayern Munich.

And then also to show that we'rea team that has made a splash inEurope and nationally over the lastyears, and to return to that."

Ancelotti, who led Real Madrid

to its 10th Champions League titlein 2014 after claiming two titles withMilan in 2003 and 2007, wasappointed by the Bayern bosses pri-marily for success in Europe's pre-mier competition.

Bayern won the last of its fivetitles in 2013 with Jupp Heynckes atthe helm for what was a trebleincluding Bundesliga and GermanCup titles.

Heynckes' successor PepGuardiola and now Ancelotti havesuffered by way of comparison.Despite being considered one of thebest coaches in the game, Guardiolafailed to win the Champions Leaguein three seasons with Bayern.

Ancelotti's side was outclassedby eventual champion Madrid lastseason, but it is Bayern's perfor-mances against other sides thathave been causing most concern.

Bayern struggled to beat 10-man Anderlecht in a flattering 3-0home win to open its ChampionsLeague campaign earlier this month,and the side's performances awayfrom home in the competition havealso been causing alarm.

Ancelotti's side has won onlytwo of its last nine European awaygames, losing five.

Robben, who had tempted fatein Paris by saying "Money doesn'tscore goals," was more reticent afterthe match.

"Every word I say is one toomany," the Dutch winger said inresponse to questions over his sub-stitute role.

Bayern next faces a trip to PalDardai's well-organized HerthaBerlin side in the Bundesliga onSunday.

"We have to show a reactionthere. We have to win there andnothing else," Robben said.

"It's also the last game before theinternational break. We're alreadythree points behind Dortmund."

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Alvaro Morata was only a few weeks into life atChelsea when some of the vulnerability that has

cropped up during his career appeared to strike again."They're already killing me," Morata said of his

perceived critics following his miss in Chelsea's penal-ty shootout loss to Arsenal in the Community Shield.

They were worrying words from a player who wasabout to start the season as the undisputed No 1 strik-er at a top club for the first time.

Could he handle filling the boots of the larger-than-life Diego Costa, a title-winning striker whowould become estranged from Chelsea? How wouldhe adapt in a new country following his move fromReal Madrid? Could he live with his club-record trans-fer fee, an initial 58 million pounds (now $77.5 mil-lion)?

It turns out there was no need to worry.Morata has been one of the revelations in the early

weeks of the Premier League, scoring six goals in sixgames and showing with his movement, aerial abil-ity and turn of pace that he can be the heir - albeit adifferent, slicker version — to Costa and DidierDrogba before him. On Wednesday, Morata scoredthe equalizer to spark Chelsea's comeback in its 2-1win at Atletico Madrid and next faces leaderManchester City in the biggest match of the PremierLeague season so far. "I think he is showing,"Chelsea managerAntonio Conte hassaid, "that he is areally completeplayer."

Conte suspect-ed as much threeyears ago. Then theJuventus coach, itwas Conte who setup the transfer ofMorata to theItalian club fromMadrid in July2014, only to resigna few days beforethe move was com-pleted to take over as Italy coach.

Conte has finally got to work with the Spain strik-er, and likes what he sees.

At 24, Morata is making the most of his belatedtime in the spotlight. In two spells at Madrid (2010-14 and 2016-17), he was popular and proved to bean opportunistic finisher but never established him-self as the first-choice striker ahead of KarimBenzema. At Juventus from 2014-16, Morata had animpressive first season — the best of his career, dur-ing which he scored twice in the 2015 ChampionsLeague semifinals to help eliminate Madrid —before a dip in his second and an eventual move backto Madrid on a buy-back option. Morata has spokenin other interviews of his mental fragility and frus-tration at not being given a real chance at club levelto prove his worth. To many, Morata is regarded asa so-called "super-sub," clearly a natural finisher anda danger in the final minutes to swing results butsomeone who mostly excels as a back-up.

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Romelu Lukaku made it 10 goals in nine games thisseason as Manchester United cruised to a 4-1 win

over CSKA Moscow in the Champions League onWednesday.

Lukaku scored twice in the first half off crosses fromAnthony Martial, while Martial got his name on thescoresheet with a penalty. Henrikh Mkhitaryan scoredin the 57th to make it 4-0, before CSKA scored a con-solation goal.

Lukaku's 10 goals are "a great achievement but it'sonly possible with a good team," United manager JoseMourinho said. "He's humble, he wants to learn all thetime, he wants to improve all the time, so I think ambi-tion is there."

United's second win in two Champions Leaguegames leaves it top of Group A, and Mourinho praisedthe team's strong return to the competition after fail-ing to qualify for last season's edition.

"After one season outside, we come back and wecome back in a strong way", particularly away fromhome, he said.

"It was a strong performance, a very strong start withgreat personality."

Basel demolished Benfica 5-0 in the other game inthe group to go second with three points.

United was without Paul Pogba and MarouaneFellaini due to injury, but replacements Nemanja Maticand Herrera were more than capable of controlling themidfield.

Mourinho singled out Herrera and defendersVictor Lindelof and Chris Smalling for praise as theywere among the five changes made from Saturday's 1-0 win over Southampton.

In attack, Lukaku, Martial and Mkhitaryan com-prehensively outclassed CSKA's three veteran center-backs, who had a combined age of 101.

Only some spectacular saves from goalkeeper IgorAkinfeev stopped CSKA from being totally routed.

Lukaku soared above the 38-year-old SergeiIgnashevich to score his opening header in the fourthminute.

The Belgian was left with a tap-in for his sec-ond in the 27th when Vasily Berezutsky failed to cutout a simple cross from Martial, and Ignashevichfailed to react.

Martial's penalty in the 19th minute came afterMkhitaryan ran into the box, outpacing wing-backGeorgy Shchennikov, who brought the Armeniandown with a desperate two-footed lunge.

Martial stepped up to hit the spot-kick low andhard to his right, sending keeper Igor Akinfeev thewrong way.

Mkhitaryan pleased the traveling fans from hisnative Armenia when he made it 4-0, knocking ina rebound after Akinfeev parried a shot from Martial.

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