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F ormer Finance and Home Minister P Chidambaram is on the run from the law after the Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to come to his rescue following the Delhi High Court’s dismissal of his bail petition in the INX Media bribery case. Soon after the apex court’s denial of relief, sleuths of Enforcement Directorate and CBI landed at Chidambaram’s home in Jor Bagh, but the senior Congress leader could not be traced. Chidambaram, who enjoying interim protection from arrest from March 2018 onward, suffered a major set- back on Tuesday afternoon after the Delhi High Court dismissed his anticipatory bail plea, paving way for CBI and ED to arrest him. The former Minister was on the Supreme Court complex throughout the day, awaiting the HC order, to approach the SC. The High Court held that he was “prima facie the king- pin” in the INX Media bribery and money launder- ing cases and “simply because he is a Member of Parliament it would not justify grant of pre-arrest bail to him”. Holding that the former Union Minister’s custodial interrogation was required for an effective investigation, the High Court said, “grant- ing bail in cases like the instant one will send a wrong message to society”. Justice Sunil Gaur, who is due to retire on Thursday, said this court cannot permit the prosecution in this “sen- sitive case to end up in smoke like it has happened in some other high-profile cases”. “Facts of the case prima facie reveal that petitioner is the kingpin, that is, the key conspirator in this case. Law enforcing agencies cannot be made ineffective by putting legal obstacles,” the judge said. The High Court also said this was a “classic case of money laundering” and the twin facts which have weighed to deny pre-arrest bail to him are “gravity” of the offence and “evasive” replies given by him to questions put to him while he was under protective cover extended to h i m by this court. In the Supreme Court, all Congress lawyers were pre- sent before the Registry for urgent hearing. However, the apex court did not grant any relief, asking Chidambaram to mention the case on Wednesday morning before a seniormost judge. The High Court said, “It cannot be forgotten that the petitioner (Chidambaram) was the Finance Minister at the relevant time and he had given FDI clearances to INX Media Group for receiving overseas funds to the tune of 305 crore.” The 24-page judgment said the gravity of offence committed in this case amply justifies denial of pre-arrest bail and it was of the prima facie opinion that it was not a fit case for granting the relief to him. It said, “Economic offences constitute a class apart and need to be visited with a different approach in the matters of bail. “Taking note of huge magnitude of conspiracy angle qua the petitioner, it would be premature to jump to a conclusion that the pro- vision of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) would not apply to the instant case, as it cannot be said that the amount involved is below Rs 30 lakh. Rather money laundering involved in this INX Media scam is Rs 305 crore and Aircel-Maxis scandal is Rs 3,500 crore.” The court observed that the economic crimes of such “mammoth scale are craftily planned and executed”. “In this case, in view of the enor- mous material placed on record in respect of distin- guished entities, various transactions etc, this court unhesitatingly opines that bail plea is not acceptable,” it said. CBI had registered an FIR on May 15, 2017 alleging irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance granted to the INX Media group for receiving overseas funds of Rs 305 crore in 2007 during Chidambaram’s tenure as Finance Minister. Thereafter, the ED in 2018 lodged the money laundering case in this regard. Chidambaram’s son Karti was arrested in this case in February 2018. In 2007, INX Media TV Channel owners Peter and Indrani got FIPB (Foreign Investment Promotion Board) approval only to bring Rs 5 crores as foreign invest- ment. But they illegally brought Rs 305 crores and were caught by Income Tax (IT) in 2008. When they got a notice from the IT Department, Indrani and Peter approached then Finance Minister P Chidambaram for relief. In her confession statement, Indrani said that Chidambaram promised to save her from Income Tax prosecution and asked her to give Rs 5 crores to Karti. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) found that this bribe money was parked in Karti’s two controversial firms - Advantage Strategic Consulting and Chess Management Services. After getting the bribe, Chidambaram, who headed the FIPB, gave an illegal post- facto clearance to INX Media and blocked the Income Tax A week after taking over as Congress’ interim chief, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi swung into action on Tuesday reaching out to veteran Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who seemed determined to break away from the grand old party in the run-up to the forthcom- ing Haryana Assembly polls. Sources in AICC said Sonia rang up Hooda in the afternoon and discussed the prevailing political turmoil in the poll bound State. After their tele- phonic conversation, sources said senior leaders of the party requested Hooda to postpone his scheduled Press conference in Chandigarh on Thursday. AICC sources said Hooda wants to have a free hand in managing the Assembly polls and was fed up with State Congress leaders like Ashok Tanwar, who were not letting him have his way. “It was a routine call from Soniaji to Hooda to talk about State Assembly elections. Nothing should be read in between as Hooda was present at the AICC headquarters for the flag-hoisting by Sonia Gandhi on Independence Day,” said the party sources. Hooda and his son Deepender Hooda, along with a dozen MLAs, have been reportedly planning to leave the Congress to form a new party and tie up with NCP, AAP, and Dushyant Chautala’s Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) for Haryana and Delhi Assembly polls. In Haryana, elections are scheduled to be held before November 2019, while in Delhi, it is due in February 2020. On Sunday while appreci- ating the Modi Government’s stand on abrogation of Article 370, Hooda indicated that he was getting ready to break free from the mother organisation. With Hooda forming a committee and clarifying that he would do whatever the com- mittee conveyed to him, the ball was in Sonia’s court. Hooda’s main contention is that State Congress president Ashok Tanwar should be replaced immediately with a new one ahead of elections. He has been demanding this for more than a year. Continued on Page 7 A Pakistani commando who was behind the capture of Commander Abhinandan Varthaman when his IAF jet crashed in Pakistani territory in February this year, and had reportedly tortured the IAF pilot, has been killed in firing by Indian forces along the Line of Control (LoC). According to reports, Ahmed Khan, a subedar with the Pakistan Army’s Special Service Group, was killed by the Indian Army in Nakyal sec- tor of the LoC on August 17 when he was trying to facilitate infiltration into India. In photos released by Pakistan after Abhinandan’s capture on February 27, the bearded Khan can be seen behind the IAF officer. Abhinandan was captured after his MiG 21 was shot down by Pakistani forces when he went chasing after a Pakistani jet in the aftermath of the Balakot airstrike. It is reported that Ahmed Khan used to facilitate infil- tration in the Nowshera, Sundarbani and Pallan Wala sectors. He was specially roped in by the Pakistan Army to facilitate infiltration. Sources said that Khan used to mobilise well-trained militants of Jaish-e- Mohammed (JeM) outfit at a forward post as part of Pakistan’s plan to keep terror- ism alive in Kashmir. On August 17, India retal- iated fiercely to Pakistan launching a mortar fire attack on Indian forces in the Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch. Pakistan was firing mortar shells to allow infiltrators to enter India. Khan was killed in the return fire by India. T he Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrest- ed Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s nephew Ratul Puri in a fresh case of money laundering linked to an alleged 354 crore bank loan fraud case registered by the CBI last week. Puri was placed under arrest under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) late on Monday night after he appeared before the ED here which slapped a fresh criminal case against him and others, taking cognisance of the CBI FIR. Puri was produced before Special Judge Arvind Kumar and the agency sought 14-day custodial interrogation in another money laundering probe related to AgustaWestland copter scam. Continued on Page 7 D ue to fiscal implications, the PMO has put on hold all new projects as well as “in- principle approvals” already given to several State roads and national highways’ projects. A high-level inter-ministerial panel headed by Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha will now prepare a new set of compre- hensive guidelines for approv- ing and announcing projects. Sources said the PMO has acted to enforce fiscal discipline to avoid any burden on the exchequer at a time when the Ministry is facing fund con- straints. The fund constraint has prevented private develop- ers from bidding for projects. Bids have not been invited for at least seven projects in last one month, sources said. The Road Transport and Highways Ministry recently expressed its desire to become the primary agency to manage the Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF or the erstwhile Central Road Fund). In the past, the funds were disbursed by the Finance Minister. In an effort to strengthen the finances of Road Ministry, Gadkari went for raising resources through borrowings, including bringing in up to 60,000 crore from the National Infrastructure Investment Fund for Delhi- Mumbai Expressway, 25,000 crore from SBI, 7,000 crore from ADB, and a similar amount from World Bank, LIC, pension fund and Labour Ministry. Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has taken steps to declare State Highways as National Highways, which means roads being maintained or developed by States will directly fall under the jurisdiction of the Centre. The PMO has asked the Road Ministry to review the whole process and seek approval from the PMO before making any further decisions. There are no guidelines for declaring a State road as NH and it happens after the States request the Centre for taking over their roads as NH. Following a meeting in March, Nripendra Misra, Principal Secretary to the PM, had also directed the expendi- ture secretary to conduct an inquiry into the role played by the road transport Ministry’s financial advisers in deviating from the existing system of declaring national highways. Earlier in March this year, sources said, Principal Secretary in the PMO, Nripendra Misra, had asked the expenditure sec- retary to order a probe as to how the existing system of declaring NHs was violated. The probe is still on. Since 2014, the Road Transport and Highways Ministry approved approxi- mately 72,000 km of State roads to be declared as nation- al highways. While 19,000 km have been notified, remaining 53,000 km has been given “in- principle approval”. As per information shared by Nitin Gadkari in Parliament, from 91,287 km in March 2014, the total length of NH has increased to 1,32,500 km as of 22 July 2019. This figure, how- ever, does not include the 53,000 km of State roads, which were given “in-principle” approval to be declared as NHs, and the 19,000 km that were notified as NH. For 2019-20, the Ministry has projected a revenue deficit of over Rs 37,000 crore to the Finance Ministry. According to a National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) official, cur- rently developing of a two-lane highway per kilometer stands between Rs 11 crore to Rs 12 crore, while for a four-lane highway, it is approximately Rs 30 crore per km. Before 2014, an inter-min- isterial group comprising the Planning Commission, and the Finance and Road ministries used to discuss and decide if the road was fit to be declared a National Highway. Now in the absence of rules, the deci- sion to declare a State road as NH was being done arbitrari- ly ultimately making a dent in finances of Road Ministry. prosecution for illegally rout- ing Rs 305 crores from tax havens. INX media bribery case was unearthed after ED’s Investigating Officer Rajeshwar Singh conducted raids at Chidambaram’s home and Karti’s firms in connec- tion with Aircel-Maxis probe in December 2014. The ED and Income Tax joint probe also exposed the illegal assets in 14 countries and 21 foreign bank accounts of the family. The ED has already attached Rs 54 crore worth properties of Karti and his companies in Delhi, Ooty, Chennai, London and Spain in con- nection with INX Media case. Rae Bareli (PTI): Former MLA Akhilesh Singh, who represented Rae Bareli assem- bly constituency for five terms, died on Tuesday morning fol- lowing a prolonged illness. He was 60. Singh is survived by his wife and two daughters, includ- ing MLA Aditi Singh. Singh breathed his last at the SGPGI Hospital in Lucknow where he was admit- ted on Sunday, family sources said. Singh, who won as Congress candidate from the Rae Bareli Sadar constituency three times consecutively, had been expelled from the party in 2003 after which he won the seat as an independent in 2007 and as a Peace Party candidate in 2016. He, however, mended fences with the Congress in 2016 and had returned to the Congress later. His daughter Aditi won from his seat in 2017 assembly elections. F ive ministers of the UP Cabinet, including Finance minister Rajesh Agarwal, resigned on Tuesday on eve of the first cabinet expansion in the state. Also putting in their papers on Tuesday were cabi- net minister for cooperative societies Mukut Bihari Verma, sports minister Chetan Chauhan, minister of state (independent charge) for basic education charge Anuradha Jaisawal and minister of state for agriculture marketing Swati Singh. Mukut Bihari Verma had unsuccessfully contested the last Lok Sabha elections from Ambedkarnagar. All five ministers have submitted their resignation to the chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The outgoing finance min- ister resigned citing health reasons while the other four ministers have quit as they anticipated their dismissal from the council of ministers. “Following the policy of my organisation, I have ten- dered my resignation from the state cabinet as I am 75 years of age. Now it is up to the party to accept it. I’ll carry out whatever responsibility will be given to me,” Rajesh Agarwal later said. Speculations are rife that one more deputy chief minis- ter from the Dalit communi- ty is likely to be inducted, thus taking the number of deputy CMs to three. The maximum strength of the council of ministers can be 61, including the Chief Minister, since the Uttar Pradesh Assembly has 403 seats. “The oath-taking ceremo- ny will be held on Wednesday at the Raj Bhavan at 11 am,” an official said. However, the official declined to state the number of ministers who may take oath on Wednesday. The much-awaited cabinet reshuffle of the Yo g i Adityanath government is to fill slots that have fallen vacant, especially after some ministers were elected to the Lok Sabha. Yogi Adityanath took over the reins of the state in March 2017, and this will be the first expansion of his ministry. Three UP ministers were elected to the Lok Sabha in the recent polls, while disgruntled minister and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) leader O P Rajbhar was sacked by the chief minister for his repeated outbursts against the party. The reshuffle was initial- ly scheduled for Monday (August 19) but was post- poned due to the deteriorating health of former Union min- ister Arun Jaitely in Delhi. Earlier on Sunday, the authorities had suddenly stopped the distribution of invitation cards after officials confirmed the postponement of the swearing-in ceremony. Preparations had begun for the swearing-in ceremony, while legislators, who were slated to be sworn in, were asked to reach Lucknow. The Yogi government has a total of 43 ministers, includ- ing the Chief Minister. There are 18 Cabinet ministers, nine Ministers of State with Independent charge and 13 Ministers of State, including two Deputy Chief Ministers — Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma.

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Page 1: $ˇ ˚ ˆ - News Headlines India - The Pioneer · Justice Sunil Gaur, who is ... the economic crimes of such “mammoth scale are craftily planned and executed”. “In ... infiltration

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Former Finance and HomeMinister P Chidambaram

is on the run from the lawafter the Supreme Court onTuesday refused to come tohis rescue following the DelhiHigh Court’s dismissal of hisbail petition in the INXMedia bribery case. Soonafter the apex court’s denial ofrelief, sleuths of EnforcementDirectorate and CBI landed atChidambaram’s home in JorBagh, but the senior Congressleader could not be traced.

Chidambaram, whoenjoying interim protectionfrom arrest from March 2018onward, suffered a major set-back on Tuesday afternoonafter the Delhi High Courtdismissed his anticipatorybail plea, paving way for CBIand ED to arrest him. Theformer Minister was on theSupreme Court complexthroughout the day, awaitingthe HC order, to approach theSC.

The High Court held thathe was “prima facie the king-pin” in the INX Mediabribery and money launder-ing cases and “simply becausehe is a Member of Parliamentit would not justify grant ofpre-arrest bai l to him”.Holding that the formerUnion Minister’s custodialinterrogation was requiredfor an effective investigation,the High Court said, “grant-ing bail in cases like theinstant one will send a wrongmessage to society”.

Justice Sunil Gaur, who isdue to retire on Thursday,said this court cannot permitthe prosecution in this “sen-sitive case to end up in smokelike it has happened in some

other high-profile cases”. “Facts of the case prima

facie reveal that petitioner isthe kingpin, that is, the keyconspirator in this case. Lawenforcing agencies cannot bemade ineffective by puttinglegal obstacles,” the judgesaid.

The High Court also saidthis was a “classic case ofmoney laundering” and thetwin facts which haveweighed to deny pre-arrestbail to him are “gravity” of theoffence and “evasive” repliesgiven by him to questions putto him while he was underprotective cover extended toh i mby this court.

In the Supreme Court, allCongress lawyers were pre-sent before the Registry forurgent hearing. However, theapex court did not grant anyrelief, asking Chidambaramto mention the case onWednesday morning before aseniormost judge.

The High Court said, “It

cannot be forgotten that thepetitioner (Chidambaram)was the Finance Minister atthe relevant time and he hadgiven FDI clearances to INXMedia Group for receivingoverseas funds to the tune of�305 crore.”

The 24-page judgmentsaid the gravity of offencecommitted in this case amplyjustifies denial of pre-arrestbail and it was of the primafacie opinion that it was nota fit case for granting therelief to him.

It said, “Economicoffences constitute a classapart and need to be visitedwith a different approach inthe matters of bail.

“Taking note of hugemagnitude of conspiracyangle qua the petitioner, itwould be premature to jumpto a conclusion that the pro-vis ion of Prevention ofMoney Laundering Act(PMLA) would not apply tothe instant case, as it cannotbe said that the amount

involved is below Rs 30 lakh.Rather money launderinginvolved in this INX Mediascam is Rs 305 crore andAircel-Maxis scandal is Rs3,500 crore.”

The court observed thatthe economic crimes of such“mammoth scale are craftilyplanned and executed”. “Inthis case, in view of the enor-mous material placed onrecord in respect of distin-guished entities, varioustransactions etc, this courtunhesitatingly opines thatbail plea is not acceptable,” itsaid.

CBI had registered anFIR on May 15, 2017 allegingirregularities in the ForeignInvestment Promotion Board(FIPB) clearance granted tothe INX Media group forreceiving overseas funds of Rs305 crore in 2007 duringChidambaram’s tenure asFinance Minister. Thereafter,the ED in 2018 lodged themoney laundering case inthis regard. Chidambaram’s

son Karti was arrested inthis case in February 2018.

In 2007, INX Media TVChannel owners Peter andIndrani got FIPB (ForeignInvestment PromotionBoard) approval only to bringRs 5 crores as foreign invest-ment. But they i l legallybrought Rs 305 crores andwere caught by Income Tax(IT) in 2008. When they gota notice f rom the ITDepartment, Indrani andPeter approached thenFinance Minister PChidambaram for relief. Inher confession statement,Indrani said thatChidambaram promised tosave her from Income Taxprosecution and asked her togive Rs 5 crores to Karti. TheEnforcement Directorate(ED) found that this bribemoney was parked in Karti’stwo controversial firms -Advantage StrategicConsult ing and ChessManagement Services. Aftergett ing the br ibe,Chidambaram, who headedthe FIPB, gave an illegal post-facto clearance to INX Mediaand blocked the Income Tax

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Aweek after taking over asCongress’ interim chief,

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhiswung into action on Tuesdayreaching out to veteranBhupinder Singh Hooda, whoseemed determined to breakaway from the grand old partyin the run-up to the forthcom-ing Haryana Assembly polls.

Sources in AICC said Soniarang up Hooda in the afternoonand discussed the prevailingpolitical turmoil in the pollbound State. After their tele-phonic conversation, sourcessaid senior leaders of the partyrequested Hooda to postponehis scheduled Press conferencein Chandigarh on Thursday.

AICC sources said Hoodawants to have a free hand inmanaging the Assembly pollsand was fed up with StateCongress leaders like AshokTanwar, who were not lettinghim have his way.

“It was a routine call from

Soniaji to Hooda to talk aboutState Assembly elections.Nothing should be read inbetween as Hooda was presentat the AICC headquarters forthe flag-hoisting by SoniaGandhi on Independence Day,”said the party sources.

Hooda and his sonDeepender Hooda, along witha dozen MLAs, have beenreportedly planning to leave theCongress to form a new partyand tie up with NCP, AAP, andDushyant Chautala’s JannayakJanata Party (JJP) for Haryanaand Delhi Assembly polls.

In Haryana, elections arescheduled to be held beforeNovember 2019, while in Delhi,it is due in February 2020.

On Sunday while appreci-ating the Modi Government’sstand on abrogation of Article370, Hooda indicated that hewas getting ready to break freefrom the mother organisation.

With Hooda forming acommittee and clarifying thathe would do whatever the com-

mittee conveyed to him, the ballwas in Sonia’s court.

Hooda’s main contention isthat State Congress presidentAshok Tanwar should be

replaced immediately with anew one ahead of elections. Hehas been demanding this formore than a year.

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APakistani commando whowas behind the capture of

Commander AbhinandanVarthaman when his IAF jetcrashed in Pakistani territory inFebruary this year, and hadreportedly tortured the IAFpilot, has been killed in firingby Indian forces along the Lineof Control (LoC).

According to reports,Ahmed Khan, a subedar withthe Pakistan Army’s SpecialService Group, was killed bythe Indian Army in Nakyal sec-tor of the LoC on August 17when he was trying to facilitateinfiltration into India.

In photos released byPakistan after Abhinandan’scapture on February 27, thebearded Khan can be seenbehind the IAF officer.Abhinandan was captured afterhis MiG 21 was shot down byPakistani forces when he wentchasing after a Pakistani jet inthe aftermath of the Balakotairstrike.

It is reported that AhmedKhan used to facilitate infil-tration in the Nowshera,Sundarbani and Pallan Walasectors. He was specially ropedin by the Pakistan Army tofacilitate infiltration.

Sources said that Khan

used to mobilise well-trainedmilitants of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit at aforward post as part ofPakistan’s plan to keep terror-ism alive in Kashmir.

On August 17, India retal-iated fiercely to Pakistanlaunching a mortar fire attackon Indian forces in the KrishnaGhati sector in Poonch.Pakistan was firing mortarshells to allow infiltrators toenter India. Khan was killed inthe return fire by India.

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has arrest-

ed Madhya Pradesh ChiefMinister Kamal Nath’s nephewRatul Puri in a fresh case ofmoney laundering linked to analleged �354 crore bank loanfraud case registered by the CBIlast week.

Puri was placed under arrestunder the Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA) late onMonday night after he appearedbefore the ED here whichslapped a fresh criminal caseagainst him and others, takingcognisance of the CBI FIR.

Puri was produced beforeSpecial Judge Arvind Kumarand the agency sought 14-day custodial interrogationin another money laundering probe related toAgustaWestland copter scam.

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Due to fiscal implications,the PMO has put on hold

all new projects as well as “in-principle approvals” alreadygiven to several State roads andnational highways’ projects. Ahigh-level inter-ministerialpanel headed by CabinetSecretary PK Sinha will nowprepare a new set of compre-hensive guidelines for approv-ing and announcing projects.

Sources said the PMO hasacted to enforce fiscal disciplineto avoid any burden on theexchequer at a time when theMinistry is facing fund con-straints. The fund constrainthas prevented private develop-ers from bidding for projects.Bids have not been invited forat least seven projects in last

one month, sources said.The Road Transport and

Highways Ministry recentlyexpressed its desire to becomethe primary agency to managethe Central Road andInfrastructure Fund (CRIF orthe erstwhile Central RoadFund). In the past, the fundswere disbursed by the FinanceMinister.

In an effort to strengthenthe finances of Road Ministry,Gadkari went for raisingresources through borrowings,including bringing in up to�60,000 crore from theNational InfrastructureInvestment Fund for Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, �25,000crore from SBI, �7,000 crorefrom ADB, and a similaramount from World Bank,LIC, pension fund and LabourMinistry.

Road and TransportMinister Nitin Gadkari hastaken steps to declare StateHighways as NationalHighways, which means roadsbeing maintained or developed

by States will directly fall underthe jurisdiction of the Centre.

The PMO has asked theRoad Ministry to review thewhole process and seekapproval from the PMO beforemaking any further decisions.There are no guidelines fordeclaring a State road as NHand it happens after the Statesrequest the Centre for takingover their roads as NH.

Following a meeting in

March, Nripendra Misra,Principal Secretary to the PM,had also directed the expendi-ture secretary to conduct aninquiry into the role played bythe road transport Ministry’sfinancial advisers in deviatingfrom the existing system ofdeclaring national highways.

Earlier in March this year,sources said, Principal Secretaryin the PMO, Nripendra Misra,had asked the expenditure sec-retary to order a probe as tohow the existing system ofdeclaring NHs was violated.The probe is still on.

Since 2014, the RoadTransport and HighwaysMinistry approved approxi-mately 72,000 km of Stateroads to be declared as nation-al highways. While 19,000 kmhave been notified, remaining53,000 km has been given “in-principle approval”.

As per information sharedby Nitin Gadkari in Parliament,from 91,287 km in March2014, the total length of NH hasincreased to 1,32,500 km as of

22 July 2019. This figure, how-ever, does not include the53,000 km of State roads, whichwere given “in-principle”approval to be declared asNHs, and the 19,000 km thatwere notified as NH.

For 2019-20, the Ministryhas projected a revenue deficitof over Rs 37,000 crore to theFinance Ministry. According toa National Highways Authorityof India (NHAI) official, cur-rently developing of a two-lanehighway per kilometer standsbetween Rs 11 crore to Rs 12crore, while for a four-lanehighway, it is approximately Rs30 crore per km.

Before 2014, an inter-min-isterial group comprising thePlanning Commission, and theFinance and Road ministriesused to discuss and decide ifthe road was fit to be declareda National Highway. Now inthe absence of rules, the deci-sion to declare a State road asNH was being done arbitrari-ly ultimately making a dent infinances of Road Ministry.

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INX media bribery casewas unearthed after ED’sInvest igat ing Off icerRajeshwar Singh conductedraids at Chidambaram’s homeand Karti’s firms in connec-tion with Aircel-Maxis probein December 2014. The EDand Income Tax joint probealso exposed the illegal assetsin 14 countries and 21 foreignbank accounts of the family.The ED has already attachedRs 54 crore worth propertiesof Karti and his companies inDelhi , Ooty, Chennai,London and Spain in con-nection with INX Media case.

�� !"#�#$������%�����&�������Rae Bareli (PTI): FormerMLA Akhilesh Singh, whorepresented Rae Bareli assem-bly constituency for five terms,died on Tuesday morning fol-lowing a prolonged illness. Hewas 60. Singh is survived by hiswife and two daughters, includ-ing MLA Aditi Singh.

Singh breathed his last atthe SGPGI Hospital inLucknow where he was admit-ted on Sunday, family sourcessaid.

Singh, who won asCongress candidate from theRae Bareli Sadar constituencythree times consecutively, hadbeen expelled from the party in2003 after which he won theseat as an independent in 2007and as a Peace Party candidatein 2016.

He, however, mendedfences with the Congress in2016 and had returned to theCongress later. His daughterAditi won from his seat in 2017assembly elections.

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Five ministers of the UPCabinet, includingFinance minister Rajesh

Agarwal, resigned on Tuesdayon eve of the first cabinetexpansion in the state.

Also putting in theirpapers on Tuesday were cabi-net minister for cooperativesocieties Mukut Bihari Verma,sports minister ChetanChauhan, minister of state(independent charge) for basiceducation charge AnuradhaJaisawal and minister of statefor agriculture marketingSwati Singh.

Mukut Bihari Verma hadunsuccessfully contested thelast Lok Sabha elections fromAmbedkarnagar.

All five ministers havesubmitted their resignation tothe chief minister YogiAdityanath.

The outgoing finance min-ister resigned citing healthreasons while the other fourministers have quit as theyanticipated their dismissalfrom the council of ministers.

“Following the policy ofmy organisation, I have ten-dered my resignation fromthe state cabinet as I am 75years of age. Now it is up to theparty to accept it. I’ll carry outwhatever responsibility willbe given to me,” RajeshAgarwal later said.

Speculations are rife thatone more deputy chief minis-ter from the Dalit communi-ty is likely to be inducted, thustaking the number of deputyCMs to three.

The maximum strengthof the council of ministers canbe 61, including the ChiefMinister, since the UttarPradesh Assembly has 403seats.

“The oath-taking ceremo-ny will be held on Wednesdayat the Raj Bhavan at 11 am,” anofficial said.

However, the officialdeclined to state the numberof ministers who may takeoath on Wednesday.

The much-awaited cabinet

reshuff le of the YogiAdityanath government is tofill slots that have fallen vacant,especially after some ministerswere elected to the Lok Sabha.

Yogi Adityanath took overthe reins of the state in March2017, and this will be the firstexpansion of his ministry.

Three UP ministers wereelected to the Lok Sabha in therecent polls, while disgruntledminister and SuheldevBharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP)leader O P Rajbhar was sackedby the chief minister for hisrepeated outbursts against theparty.

The reshuffle was initial-ly scheduled for Monday(August 19) but was post-poned due to the deterioratinghealth of former Union min-ister Arun Jaitely in Delhi.

Earlier on Sunday, theauthorities had suddenlystopped the distribution ofinvitation cards after officialsconfirmed the postponementof the swearing-in ceremony.

Preparations had begunfor the swearing-in ceremony,while legislators, who wereslated to be sworn in, wereasked to reach Lucknow.

The Yogi government hasa total of 43 ministers, includ-ing the Chief Minister. Thereare 18 Cabinet ministers, nineMinisters of State withIndependent charge and 13Ministers of State, includingtwo Deputy Chief Ministers —Keshav Prasad Maurya andDinesh Sharma.

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Former Congress leader and five-timeMLA from Rae Bareli Sadar

Assembly constituency, Akhilesh Singhpassed away on Tuesday morning aftera prolonged illness. He was 60. Singh issurvived by wife and two daughters,including MLA Aditi Singh. He wascalled the Robinhood of Rae Bareli.Singh, who was battling cancer for thepast few years, breathed his last at SanjayGandhi Post-Graduate Institute of

Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) inLucknow early Tuesday morning. Hisdaughter Aditi Singh now representsCongress from the Sadar seat. AkhileshSingh was a popular leader in Rae Bareliand won his seat even as an indepen-dent after he left Congress. Though hewas known for his criminalantecedentsm with several FIRs regis-tered against him, he was like theproverbial ‘Robinhood’ in his con-stituency. Singh, who won as Congresscandidate from Rae Bareli Sadar con-

stituency three times consecutively,had been expelled from the party in2003 after which he won the seat as anindependent in 2007 and as a PeaceParty candidate in 2016.

He, however, mended fences withthe Congress in 2016 and returned tothe party fold later. He also got hisdaughter Aditi to join the party. Aditiwon from her father’s seat in 2017Assembly elections. His body was takento his village Lalupur in Rae Bareli wherethe cremation was done later in the day.

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Bahujan Samaj Party is gearing up toemerge as the principal opposition

to Bharatiya Janata Party in UttarPradesh. For this goal, the BSP will fightthe by-election to 13 UP Assembly seatswith all its might and the principalobjective behind the exercise is toensure the defeat of Samajwadi Party.

“A weak Samajwadi Party can makeDalit-Muslim unity work for BSP dur-ing the forthcoming by-elections,” a BSPleader said.

The Samajwadi Party leadersaccused the BSP of being in cahoots withthe BJP in a bid to harm their electoralprospects. The BSP is confident that itcan be a real beneficiary by increasingpolitical marginalisation of its pastarch-rival Samajwadi Party.

BSP sources said the marginalisationof SP had ignited Muslim-Dalit consol-idation by default, something whichMayawati’s mentor Kanshi Ram triedhard during his life time. In the last onemonth, three Rajya Sabha MPs ofSamajwadi Party have quit and joinedBJP while two more are said to be in thequeue.

This comes after SP’s tepid perfor-mance in Lok Sabha polls in which itsalliance with BSP ended up paying offMayawati’s BSP more than AkhileshYadav with the former winning 10 LokSabha seats, double of five that the SPwon.

Mayawati, who immediatelyafter the Lok Sabha poll results snappedties with SP, has repeatedly trainedguns on the Samajwadi Party alongCongress over many issues, seeking to

project herself as the only alternative tothe BJP.

In 2017 Assembly polls, theCongress and SP had fought togetherwhile BSP went it alone. An alliance withCongress had made the SP first choiceof Muslims, who even otherwise did nottrust BSP fully owing to its past of align-ing with the BJP.

Already in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls,of its 10 MPs, BSP has three from theMuslim community and one fromYadav community while SP has threefrom Muslim community among its five— the rest two being Mulayam SinghYadav and Akhilesh Yadav.

It is believed that a section ofYadavs preferred BJP over SP during LokSabha polls.

The BSP, however, apprehends chal-lenge from Bhim Army chiefChandrasekhar Azad, who is makinga strong pitch for Dalit-Muslim unity,asserting that the combination can playa major role in UP’s future politics.

The BSP sources said the partycould meet the challenge by hard workat the grass-roots level. The powerstruggle in the SP’s family backyard —a tussle between Akhilesh Yadav and herestranged uncle Shivpal Yadav, coupledwith the defeat of SP — has already dis-illusioned the Yadavs. Muslims consti-tute of 19.3% of the total population inUP while Dalits divided into 21 castes(maximum Jatavs) constitute of 21.1%and Yadavs 9% of the total populationof the state.

Earlier, Muslims and Yadavs workedtogether making SP a formidable con-tender for power. Of late though, therehas been a breach in Yadav votes.

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Rajesh Agarwal, an old hand ofthe RSS, was the first finance

minister of BJP in last over twodecades to have presented three con-secutive budgets in UP Assembly.

Agarwal (75) has officiallyresigned on health grounds and dueto old age. The age bar norm was setby the BJP’s central leadership afterNarendra Modi became thePrime Minister for the first time in2014.

The Finance Minister was saidto be at loggerheads with thePrincipal Secretary (Finance).Officers and employees of thedepartment had also petitioned theChief Minister alleging that therewas rampant interference by theminister in transfers and postings.They had also alleged irregularitiesby the minister.

Agarwal has been the memberof UP Assembly for the last 26 years.Agarwal has been six-term MLAfrom Bareilly since 1993 election andwon every election till 2017

Assembly polls. He has the distinc-tion of never losing any assemblyelection.

He served as the DeputySpeaker of UP Assembly during theregime of Mulayam Singh Yadavfrom 2003 to 2007.

During the Mayawati-led BSP-BJP coalition regime, he was theminister for stamps and registrationin 2002-03. He was the only minis-ter in the Yogi Adityanath Cabinetwho also held the charge as treasur-er of the state organisation of BJP,which is against the establishedprincipal of the party’s ‘one man, onepost’.

Agarwal was chosen by the BJPto contest 1993 mid-term poll to UPAssembly from Bareilly Cantonmentseat following the expulsion of DrDinesh Jauhari, senior BJP leaderfrom Bareilly.

Jauhari was the health ministerin the first BJP government headedby Kalyan Singh in 1991-92. He wasexpelled from the Cabinet as he wasembroiled in a controversy overtransfers and postings of doctors inthe department.

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With Congress announcing to hit theroads and stage statewide protests on

Wednesday against the hike in petrol anddiesel prices in Uttar Pradesh, leaders ofBahujan Samaj Party (BSP), CommunistParty of India (Marxists) and Rashtriya LokDal (RLD) also condemned Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath’s move.

On the directives of national general sec-retary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, theCongressmen would stage protests at all thedistrict headquarters on Wednesday againstthe state government’s decision to hikeVAT on fuel prices leading to its increase,UPCC president Raj Babbar said in a state-ment issued on Tuesday.

“This will directly hit the lives of poor,farmers and labourers. The Congress hasbeen continuously fighting for the interestsof the deprived sections of society and wewill register a strong protest over this moveof the state government on Wednesday,”Babbar said.

Petrol and diesel prices in Uttar Pradeshwere hiked by Rs 2.5 and Re 1 respectivelyfrom Monday midnight as the governmentincreased Value Added Tax (VAT).

Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawatialso criticised the state government’s deci-sion, terming it as a “cruel step” which wouldadd to inflation. She claimed that after law-lessness and corruption, people would feelthe pinch as hike in fuel prices would resultin increase of prices of all essential commodi-ties. The UP unit of Communist Party ofIndia (Marxists) also flayed the hike in fuelprices and asked the state government torevoke its order. State secretary, CPIM, Heera

Lal Yadav said all units of the party wouldregister protest in the meeting on August 21.“Inflation has already broken the backboneof people and this decision will only add totheir woes,” he said.

Reacting to the deteriorating law andorder situation in the state, Yadav said thepolice had shown lackadaisical approach ininitiating action against criminals.

Meanwhile, the national spokespersonof Rashtriya Lok Dal criticised the state gov-ernment for hike in fuel prices. He said thedecision would adversely affect the peoplein general and farmers in particular.

“In 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJPleaders had promised to lower fuel priceswhile seeking support of farmers. Now, theBJP has reneged from its promise andincreased the fuel prices. Farmers who arealready bearing the brunt of high power tar-iffs will have to shell out extra bucks for fuel.The hike in fuel prices will also increase theprices of goods of daily use. Is this good gov-ernance?” Dubey said.

Lucknow (PNS): The Uttar Pradesh govern-ment has defended its decision to increase ValueAdded Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel, which hasresulted in the increase in fuel prices. The gov-ernment said the prices were still less than in 2018.State government spokesperson Sidharth NathSingh said the government had deceased VAT onpetrol and diesel on October 2018 when the rateof one litre of petrol was Rs 83.83 and that of dieselwas Rs 75.64. “But now even after increase of VAT,the rate of petrol is 73.63 per litre and that of dieselis Rs 65.65 per litre, which is less by Rs 10 perliter as compared to that in October 2018,” Singhclaimed. The notification for increase in VAT wasissued on Monday night. “The governmentrequires funds for development works and thisincrease will help in generating resources,” he said.Singh said with this decision, the state exchequerwould get additional Rs 3,000 crore.

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Doctors at King George’sMedical University on

Tuesday successfully carriedout a liver transplant with theorgan taken from a deceasedperson. A 30-year-old patientwith head injury was admittedto KGMU. The patient fromDaliganj had met with an acci-dent near Malihabad on August16. He was made to go underthe knife but later, he wasdeclared braindead by the doc-tors on August 18.

“After counselling, his fam-ily agreed for organ donation.The liver was transplanted intoa patient from Lakhimpur Kherisuffering from liver cancer whilekidneys went to SGPGI andcorneas donated to the KGMUeye bank,” Dr Sheetal said. Thedeceased was identified as RaviShanker, son of Shyam

Kishore Rathore of Daliganj.The family agreed to donateorgans after two rounds ofcounselling by a team oforgan transplant coordinatorsPeeyush Shrivastava, KshitizVerma and Ashwini KumarSingh (MSSO). The liver wastransplanted into a 43-year-oldmale patient from Lakhimpuras he was suffering from cir-rhosis of liver. Both the kid-neys were allotted to SGPGIby ROTTO.

The liver transplant team,led by Prof Abhijit Chandra(head of SurgicalGastroenterology department),included Dr Vivek Gupta, DrPradeep Joshi, Dr AnitaMalik, Dr Mohd Parvez, DrBB Khushwaha, Dr Siddiqui,Dr Manoj, Dr Tulika Chandra,Dr Amita Jain, Dr Prashant,and Dr Sheetal Verma.

Since this was an emer-

gency case, Dr Atin and DrWahid from Pathology depart-ment arranged timely inves-tigations while Dr VS Narain &Dr Gaurav Chaudhary fromCardiology department andDr Suryakant and Dr DarshanBajaj from Pulmonary depart-ment and Dr OP Singh fromCommunity Medicine depart-ment gave necessary criticalmedical support for trans-plant. The team included doc-tors from Delhi Max Hospital— Dr Rajesh Dey and DrShweta among others. Overall,50 staff members of SurgicalGastroenterology departmentworked for 48 hours to makethis mammoth exercise asuccess. “The surgery startedaround 10 pm on August 19and ended at 12 pm onAugust 20. The recipient isdoing fine at present,” doctorssaid.

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Lucknow University will shortly have acyber library, said to be one of its kind

in Uttar Pradesh. A senior librarian ofTagore Library, while giving details, saidthe cyber library was likely to be openedshortly for students as construction of thebuilding had been completed. She saidover 600 computers would be installed inthis library which would give studentsaccess to the e-resources for free.

She said access could be made in anysubject. “We have purchased packages asper the demands and the recommenda-tions made. The e-resources which havebeen purchased cover subjects like busi-ness management, social sciences, sci-ences, Supreme Court cases online andscience subjects among others,” sheadded. The senior librarian said it was thebrainchild of Vice-Chancellor SP Singh.Students of the university will be able toaccess the subjects from their homes aswell through remote access software.

“With this facility and Wi-Fi availabil-ity, the cyber library will facilitate the stu-dents in a great way,” she said.

The senior librarian said it was a mis-conception that the traditional concept of

library was no longer relevant. “Nothingcan match the actual reading of books andthe 5.5 lakh books in the library have con-stantly been in demand by both UG andPG students. Incidentally, the library isstill following the system of students goingthrough the catalogue and then placingthe request for the book without beingallowed access to the stacks,” she point-ed out. She said the USP of the library wasthat it has a good collection of rare man-uscripts, paintings, art objects, ancientcoins, thesis and research journals. Thesenior librarian said they were in theprocess of making an art gallery whichwould be a highlight for the general pub-lic as well.

“We have several artefacts and over400 paintings which will be showcased inthe art gallery. Some of the paintings gift-ed and others collected over a period oftime are quite rare,” she said.

A heritage now, Tagore Library hasa glorious history. The then CanningCollege Library was converted into theUniversity Central Library and thusTagore Library came into existence withthe establishment of LU late in the year1920. Initially, Tagore Library was locat-ed in the old Bennet Hall and rooms

between the verandah on the south–west-ern side of the main Canning Collegebuilding (now Faculty of Arts, main build-ing). In 1924, the library building wasexpanded with the inclusion of a separatereading room. The plan of the newbuilding for the library was prepared byGriffin, a noted architect, and wasexplained in detail to the members of the

Library Committee on December 10,1935. The model for the two-storeyedbuilding was placed in the old library forstudents and staff to make any suggestionsfor improvement or innovation. However,there was inordinate delay in approvingthe plan, which hit rough weather forsome time. The main architect, Griffindied in the meantime. The foundationstone of the new building (present build-ing) was laid by then Chancellor Sir HarryHaig in March 1937, but the start of con-struction work took quite some time.After the death of Griffin, Narwekar wasassigned the responsibility for architectur-al portion and supervision of the work onpayment of a sum of Rs 2,000.

A sum of Rs 1,50,000 had been setapart for its construction by the univer-sity. It took a couple of years in complet-ing the building. Then Chancellor Sir MHallet inaugurated the new library build-ing on April 2, 1941. He referred to thegreat importance of a library in a mod-ern university life as well as in nationallife. Later on, the present library buildingwas extended and the extended portionwas inaugurated during the golden jubileefunction on March 9, 1972, by thenPresident of India VV Giri.

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There is a good news forthe faculty members andemployees of King

George’s Medical Universityand RML Institute of MedicalScience as the Uttar Pradeshgovernment has approved 7thPay Commission for them,bringing them at par with theircounterparts at Sanjay GandhiPost-Graduate Institute ofMedical Sciences (SGPGIMS).

The state cabinet, in itsmeeting on Tuesday, approvedthis demand which had beenpending for the last severalmonths. State government’sspokesperson and HealthMinister Sidharth Nath Singhtold reporters on Tuesday thatthe government had decided toextend 7th Pay Commissionbenefits to doctors and otheremployees of KGMU and RMLInstitute of Medical Sciences asper the terms and conditions ofSGPGI.

“The benefits which theSGPGI staff members are get-ting will also be given to theircounterparts at RMLIMS and

KGMU,” he said.In another decision, the

government approved themerger of RML Hospital withRML Institute of MedicalSciences in Lucknow. The staffof RML Hospital will beaccommodated in RMLInstitute of Medical Scienceswhile the additional employeesand doctors of the hospital willbe shifted to other governmenthospitals in the state capital.

The government alsoapproved a proposal to hiredoctors on contractual basis forfilling up 718 vacant posts inspecialised hospitals in thestate, including SGPGI,KGMU, RMLIMS (all inLucknow), Cancer HospitalNoida, and UPRIMS in Saifai.

“The total number of postsof doctors in these hospitals is1,749 but there are 718 vacan-cies, hence the governmenthas decided to hire expert doc-tors on contractual basis as astop-gap arrangement. Thesedoctors will be given appoint-ment for a year or till the postsare filled through direct recruit-ment,” Singh said.

The government has alsoamended the rule in theappointment of male staff nurs-es in government hospitals.

The cabinet also approveda decision to purchase medi-cines and surgical instrumentsfor the Cancer Institute comingup in CG City as per the spec-ifications of SGPGI.

“The Cancer Instituteneeds medicines which are notavailable under GeM portal. Asprocuring them through tenderwill take time, the cabinet hasallowed procurement of thesemedicines as per the specifica-tions of SGPGI,” thespokesman said. In other deci-sion, the government hasapproved Rs 1.25 crore forconstruction of a botanicalgarden and a yoga centre at DrBhim Rao AmbedkarUniversity. The cabinet alsosanctioned Rs 18.48 crore forconstruction of a girls’ hostel inthe name of Savitri Bai Phuleat Dr Bhim Rao AmbedkarUniversity.

Juvenile Act: The govern-ment decided to bring in a newjuvenile law as per the directive

and law framed by the Centre.“The new law will specify thepunishment and categorise theoffences. In the new law, dis-trict magistrates will review thejuvenile cases after every threemonths,” the spokesman said.

The government alsodecided to give the benefit ofstamp duty and registrationwaiver on transfer of 589.35acres of land to the AirportAuthority of India (AAI) forconstruction of internationalairport in Kushinagar. Thecabinet has authorised ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath totake other decisions regardingthe Kushinagar internationalairport.

“The government alsoapproved appointment ofretired employees in Jal Nigamon the vacant posts till the newappointments are made. Thereare 90 vacant posts which willbe filled by retired employeestill Public Service Commissionclears the appointment,” thespokesman said, adding thatthis decision was taken toensure that projects were nothampered due staff crunch.

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Car-borne unidentified mis-creants shot at a village

development officer (VDO) inMalihabad on Tuesday morn-ing and fled the scene unchal-lenged. The bullet, however,grazed past the right elbow ofthe officer, who was laterrushed to a hospital. He lodgeda case against his aunt, herdaughter and two otherunidentified persons. Policeregistered a case for murderousassault in this connection.

The victim, identified asSunil Kumar Rawat (30), ispresently posted at Auras inUnnao and visited his house inMadhwapur village ofMalihabad. Rawat told thepolice that he had gone to fieldin the morning on a bike. “I

had to see the field which is inmy name. When I was parkingmy bike, a car reached thescene. My aunt Shanti Devi, herdaughter Neetu and twounidentified persons were sit-ting in the car. My aunt hur-riedly got down and asked themiscreants to shoot me. One ofthe miscreants opened fire but

the bullet grazed past my rightelbow. Later, Shanti and otherssped off,” he alleged.

Rawat further said that hehad a land dispute with Shantiand alleged that she wanted toget me killed. “The attack waspre-planned. Luckily, the bul-let missed the target,” he said.

“We are planning to con-duct raids to nab the miscre-ants,” the police said.

“Rawat and Shanti arefighting a land dispute case incourt and the matter is subjudice. We are investigatingthe case,” sub-inspectorMusheer Alam, who is theinvestigating officer, said.

Police spokesman SBShukla said a case under sec-tion 307 of IPC was registeredagainst Shanti, Neetu and twoother miscreants.

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SSP Kalanidhi Naithani onMonday night terminated

two constables, including con-stable Alok Pratap Singh, whohad shot to infamy due to hisinvolvement in the gold lootcase in 2006.

Police spokesman AKDwivedi said Alok PratapSingh was terminated after hisinvolvement in the gold lootcase was ascertained. “Alokmoved court against his ter-mination order and got thejob on a court’s order.Recently, his involvement wasestablished in the Hazratganjfiring incident in which twobrothers Shahid Jafri andNamwar Jafri were shot at fol-lowing a land dispute,” hesaid. Dwivedi said Alok Pratapwas re-terminated by the SSPon Monday night. “AlokPratap was maligning theimage of Lucknow police byhis bad deeds and did not

mend his ways despite sternwarnings,” he said. He addedthat the SSP had warned thecops to work with dedicationas no laxity would be tolerat-ed. “Another constable SuryaPrasad was also terminated ashe was absent from duty forthe last 20 years,” he said.

Constable Alok PratapSingh is said to be a close lieu-tenant of a politician of EastUP and took to property deal-ing during his early days inservice. He later took to crimeand was warned by the policechiefs in the past as well.

In 2006, his name sur-faced in a gold loot case whenthe team started investiga-tions and the needle of suspi-cion turned to him. Withenough evidence of hisinvolvement in the case, hewas terminated. By then, hehad secured patronage of theEast UP politician and start-ed building fortune in realestate.

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In a tragic incident, two mem-bers of a family died while

three others, including twochildren, injured after theircar was hit by a speeding truckin Kakori on Tuesday after-noon. The deceased were iden-tified as Kamaal (40) and hermother Husn Jahan, both ofLakdimandi area in Saadatganj.The injured were identified asKamaal's wife Ruby (40) andher two children Bilal (8) andSumaiyya (20).

Investigating officer AjayShukla said the family wasgoing to Mohaan for somework. “Kamaal was driving thecar. When they reachedIbrahimganj village, a truckcoming from opposite direc-

tion collided with the car,”Shukla said. He said the frontportion of the car was badlydamaged and the occupants gottrapped inside. “On beinginformed, we reached the sceneand pulled the victims out ofthe car. All of them were griev-ously. They were rushed toKGMU Trauma Centre whereKamaal was declared broughtdead,” Shukla said, adding thatHusn Jahan died during treat-ment. Police spokesman SBShukla said the truck driverfled the scene abandoning thevehicle at the site. “The incidenttook place around 3.30 pm onTuesday. Police have seizedthe truck and are trackingdown the errant driver,” he said,adding that an FIR would beregistered after a complaint

was lodged in this connection. Doctors at the Trauma

Centre said the condition of theinjured was critical and theywere admitted to ICU.

Meanwhile, a girl endedher life at her house in Banthraon Tuesday. Reports saidAshiqui (21) of Bhatgaon vil-lage was found hanging froma door frame with a dupattatied around her neck. Policesaid the girl had been under-going treatment at a mentalhospital for the last two yearsand was staying indoors due toher illness. “Her father is afarmer. She was spotted hang-ing around 8.30 am onTuesday. We have sent thebody for autopsy. No suicidenote was recovered from thescene,” the police said.

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Tejas Express, the much toutedtrain will soon be on tracks.

IRCTC, which was tasked withrunning the train on private basis,got a green signal from RailwayBoard on Monday evening.

“We got a letter of confirma-tion and also the time slot onMonday evening. The train willdepart from Lucknow Junction(NER) everyday at 6.10 am and at4.30 pm on the next day from NewDelhi railway station. Presently,one rake of the train will be run.We are discussing the modalitiesof running the train,” regionalmanager, IRCTC AshwiniSrivastava said. He said he was feel-ing elated on IRTCT being hon-oured with the responsibility to runthe most coveted train. The offi-cer said they were planning to runthe train at the earliest. Tejas willbe the fastest running trainbetween Lucknow and New Delhionce it hits the track. It will takesix hours and ten minutes to

reach Delhi from Lucknow.Presently, AC Express is the fastestrunning train which completes thejourney in seven hours whileShatabdi Express takes seven hoursand 20 minutes and LucknowMail eight hours and 50 minutes.The other trains between Lucknowand Delhi like Humsafar, GomtiExpress, Faizabad-New DelhiExpress take over eight hours tocomplete the trip. Sources inIRCTC said the train was beingrun under the 100 days agenda ofCentral government. “The coach-es in of the train will be equippedwith all modern facilities and its

journey will give a feel of travel inforeign countries,” they said. “Themarathon task before the IRCTCis to accommodate the TejasExpress timing and platform fromwhich it will depart so that itsmovement may not hinder ordelay other trains. The rake of Tejasis already in yards at Gomti Nagarrailway station,” the sources said.Meanwhile, DRM Sanjay Tripathivisited the 3rd Battalion of RailwayProtection Special Force campus inLucknow. He inaugurated a newly-constructed gym at the centre andhonoured the jawans who tookpart in the parade.

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The Uttar Pradesh govern-ment said on Tuesday the

construction of the over 290-km-long BundelkhandExpressway, a four-lane con-trolled access highway linkingthe backward region in thestate to the national capital,will start in October.

The expressway will haveconnectivity to the Agra-Lucknow Expressway and theAgra-Noida Expressway.

Briefing reporters after ameeting of the state cabinetchaired by Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath, AdditionalChief Secretary (Information)and UP ExpresswaysIndustrial DevelopmentAuthority CEO AwanishAwasthi said the project willbe completed in 30 months.He said 90 per cent of the landneeded for the project hasbeen acquired and acquisitionof the remaining 10 per centwould be completed in twomonths.

“The land of farmers havebeen acquired at four timesthe existing rate,” he added.

The expressway will startfrom Jhansi and will passthrough the state’s most back-ward districts like Chitrakoot,also a religious and tourist

spot, Banda, Hamirpur,Auraiya and Jalaun. FromJalaun, it will go to Etawahand reach Naseempur via

Bateshwar in Agra before join-ing the Agra-LucknowExpressway. The expresswaywill reduce the travel time

between New Delhi andChitrakoot to six hours, oncethe expressway is thrown opento the public.

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Old enmity led to sensation-al attack on a family in

Baghpat where a 42-year-oldwoman was killed while herbrother critically injured. Localpolice claimed to have launcheda manhunt for the assailants.

Reports said Pradeep akaGuddu, who resided in Hilwadihamlet of Baghpat, was havingsome old dispute with hiscousin Kala. According toreports, on the occasion ofRaksha Bandhan, his elder sis-ter Rekha, wife of Satpal, and

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Senior Congress leaders, includingstate president Raj Babbar, paid rich

tributes to former Prime MinisterRajiv Gandhi on his 75th birthanniversary on Tuesday and recalledhis contribution to the nation.

The Congressmen, led by Babbar,garlanded Rajiv’s statue on KalidasMarg and at Rajeev Chowk in MallAvenue. Later, Babbar proceeded toAmberganj crossing and inaugurateda free medical clinic run by partyoffice-bearers through an NGO. Theclinic will continue to run and freemedicines will be made available topoor patients.

According to Congress spokesmanMukesh Chauhan, fruits were distrib-uted among the patients in all govern-ment hospitals of the state capital anda seminar highlighting the achieve-ments and contribution of RajivGandhi was also held at the UPCCheadquarters in the afternoon.

Chauhan said a blood donationcamp was organised by YouthCongress leaders while a free medicalcamp was also organised in Dalits’hamlets by party leaders. The SewaDal members carried out plantationdrives across the state while food wasdistributed at Women ProtectionHome in Moti Nagar and in someother shelter homes in the state capital.

‘Rajiv Sandesh Yatra’ was taken outfrom Alambagh and it culminated atthe UPCC office in the evening.Senior leaders, including MLAAradhna Mishra ‘Mona’, AmarnathAgarwal, Virendra Madan, Vinod

Mishra and RP Singh, participated inthe day-long programme.

Remembering Rajiv Gandhi on hisbirth anniversary, Babbar said thatbesides bringing about telecom revo-lution and panchayati raj system etc,Rajiv was also remembered for hisextraordinary personality and contri-bution to nation-building and forspreading the message of brotherhood.Babbar said Congress also remem-bered the former Prime Minister forhis dream to make India a formidable

force in the 21st century as he focusedon technology and education, givinga voice to the disenfranchised.

The UP Congress workers andleaders attended a grand function ofthe party at Indira Gandhi IndoorStadium in New Delhi and on thedirection of general secretary andincharge of UP (East) PriyankaGandhi Vadra, they will also hold ageneral awareness test on August 25.With 2022 Assembly elections insight, Priyanka is trying to tap the

minds of youngsters, hence the topicof the test is ‘Mai Yuva Hoon, Mera BhiKoi Sapna Hai’ (I am young, and I alsohave some dreams). With this test, theCongress will try to get queries fromyoungsters on whether the presentgovernment led by Narendra Modi canfulfill their dreams and whether theywill get jobs under the current scenarioin the country. The test will also helpthe party reach out to those youngsterswho will vote for the first time eitherin 2022 or 2024.

younger daughter Anju marriedto Pappu (hailing from Shamli)visited his house and stayedback. On Monday evening,Guddu, along with both sistersand their husbands, went totheir field to see the crop. Whenthey were having dinner, theywere suddenly attacked by somevillagers with whom they had anold enmity. The villagersopened a burst of fire in whichboth Rekha and Pappu sus-tained grievous injuries.

Others somehow rushed totake shelter in a nearby house tosave their lives. When the firingstopped, they reached the spotand with the help of villagers,both the injured were shifted tohospital where Rekha was pro-nounced dead upon arrivalwhile the condition of Pappuwas said to be critical.

Local police rushed to thespot and claimed that Pappu’scousin Kala led the attack alongwith four of his kin and they hadlaunched a manhunt for them after registering a case inthis regard.

Meanwhile, in a separatecase in Ferozabad, a teenagecouple allegedly committed sui-cide after their family membersopposed their affair. Reportssaid Lalita aka Lata, a 19-year-old girl hailing from AlampurKaleta Nagla hamlet of BasaiMohamedpur in Ferozabad, wasin love with Anil Kumar Lodhi,a resident of the same village.When the family members ofLata learnt of the affair, theyopposed it and refused to let herstep out.

Reports further said thatAnil was working in a sweetshop in New Delhi and on lastFriday morning, Lata told herfamily members that she wasgoing to see a ‘prabhat pheri’ inthe village.

However, she did not returnand went missing. She report-edly eloped with her boyfriend.According to her family mem-bers, Lata called them and toldthem that she was in New Delhialong with Anil and they hadgot married.

However, on Tuesdaymorning, local villagers sawtwo bodies hanging from a treeoutside the village. Theyinformed the police, who withthe help of documents recov-ered from the pocket, identifiedthe victims as Anil and Lata.

The cops informed theirfamily members who also ascer-tained their identities. Thepolice sent the bodies for thepost-mortem and were makingfurther investigations.

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Lucknow (PNS): Liquorshop-owners in Uttar Pradeshare apparently at the receivingend of police checking drives.The raids at model shops anddesi liquor shops have hittheir business. A number ofliquor shop-owners from dif-ferent districts of UttarPradesh have asked LucknowLiquor Association (LLA) topetition their grievances tosenior officials of Excisedepartment. To pursue theircase, LLA office-bearers metthe excise commissioner onMonday.

“We are receiving com-plaints from sellers fromHardoi, Shahjahanpur,Rampur, Barabanki, Rampur,Unnao, Bijnore and other dis-tricts. We even got complaintsfrom liquor shop-owners inLucknow,” LLA general secre-tary KL Maurya said.

He said a delegation led byhim met excise commissionerP Guru Prasad on Mondayand handed over a memoran-dum of their demands. “Thecomplaints are mainly fromsmaller districts in UP. Duringchecking drives, cops misbe-have with the shop-ownersand salesmen and harass thecustomers. As a result, therehas been a dip in the numberof customers visiting the liquorshops. Some of the shop-own-

ers complained that customersstopped visiting their shopsdue to police checkings,”Maurya said. He added thatthe shop-owners faced lossesin the past few months.

“Since the Barabanki inci-dent, in which some personshad died allegedly after con-suming spurious liquor, thepolice have intensified check-ing as per the instructions ofthe government. We have noproblems due to checking butit should be aimed at findingout irregularities, and not atharassing the shop-ownersand customers,” he said.

Maurya said he apprisedthe excise commissioner ofpolice highhandedness in thename of checking and thelosses suffered as a result andthe latter assured him help.

The LLA had urged theExcise department to provideadequate quantity of popularbrands of liquor to the shop-owners. He said the shop-owners found guilty of irreg-ularities were being sent to jailin criminal cases.

“The decision to sendlicenced liquor shop-owners tojails in criminal cases on beingfound guilty of irregularities isthe harshest measure in thehistory and we have demand-ed revocation of the order inthis regard,” he said.

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that the Postal department was organising a letter writingcompetition, ‘Dhai Akhar’, on the 150th birth anniversaryof Mahatma Gandhi and the winner will be able to win Rs50,000. He said Mahatma Gandhi always had a great con-nect with letters and the Postal department was organis-ing a national-level letter writing competition whose topicwas ‘Bapu Aap Amar Hain’. He said the letters could be writ-ten in English and Hindi. “These letters have to be put ina pre-decided letter box in the cities at the Postal depart-ment offices and in the rural areas, they can be handed overto the post masters,” he added.

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Aday after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi flagged the

issue of Pakistan’s rhetoric overJammu and Kashmir during histelephonic conversation withUS President Donald Trump,Defence Minister Rajnath Singhon Tuesday held talks with hisUS counterpart Mark T Esperon the phone and raised theissue of cross-border terrorism.The US Defence Secretarytermed abrogation of specialstatus under Article 370 forJammu and Kashmir as inter-nal matter of India.

Congratulating Esper overhis appointment as the newDefence Secretary, Singh raisedthe issue of cross-border ter-rorism directed against India,officials said. Singh also con-veyed to Esper that issues relat-

ing to abrogation of provi-sions of Article 370 of theConstitution are internal mat-ters of India.

He also said the steps toremove Article 370 are aimedat improving growth and eco-nomic development, democ-racy and prosperity for the peo-ple of Jammu and Kashmir.

“The US secretary ofdefence appreciated India’s posi-tion that the recent develop-ments in Jammu and Kashmirare internal matter of India. Hehoped that any issue betweenIndia and Pakistan will beresolved bilaterally,” defenceministry officials said later.

Both the Ministersexpressed happiness at the sig-nificant progress in bilateraldefence cooperation and reaf-firmed their commitment tostrengthen and deepen therelations further. Theyexchanged views on a range ofissues related to military-to-military cooperation, defencepolicy, R&D cooperation,defence trade, technology andindustrial cooperation.

Earlier in the day, in anapparent reference to theBalakot air strikes to destroy

terrorist infrastructure there,Singh said here the offensiveaction by the IAF spoke vol-umes about the “reach andlethality” of the armed forces.The IAF had carried out thestrikes in February in retalia-tion after 40 Central ReservePolice Force(CRPF)personnelwere killed in a suicide attackin Pulwama.

“We are all aware that theIndian (Air) Force is a techno-

logically advanced and extreme-ly potent force. The recentoffensive strikes against terror-ist outfits in our neighbourhoodspeak volumes about the reachand lethality of the formidablearm of the Indian armed forces,”Singh said in his address at anIAF seminar here on indige-nization and modernisation.

The minister alsoannounced that test facilities ofthe government and services

will be opened for the privatesector. It was a long pendingdemand of the industry toprovide level playing field indefence manufacturing. Singh

said a formal governmentorder will be issued shortly tovarious bottlenecks in the wayof using testing facilities by pri-vate entities.

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In the backdrop of RSS headMohan Bhagwat again stir-

ring the reservation debate,the chiefs of the ruling NationalDemocratic Alliance (NDA)constituents, Republican Partyof India (RPI)’s RamdasAthawale and Lok JanshaktiPaty (LJP)’s Ram Vilas Paswan,on Tuesday, dismissed any dis-cussion on the issue saying “there is no need for it”.

Both the Dalit leaders, whoare also Union Ministers,asserted that reservation was a“Constitutional right” and therewas no case for re-revisiting thesubject.

Dalit group Bhim Armyleader Chandrashekhar Azadalso joined issue challengingthe RSS chief to an open debateon the issue of reservationeven as he sought a discussionon the abolition of caste sys-tem which, he said, has “hol-lowed out” the country.

Catering to the exclusiveDalit constituency, Paswan saidthat Prime Minister NarendraModi has reiterated it manytimes that it cannot be tam-pered with. “There is no needfor any debate on reservation.This is now available even tothe upper castes poor so it isimpossible that it will beended,” he told reporters.Paswan, however, did not reactdirectly to Bhagwat’s com-ments, saying he had not gotdetails of his remarks.

“Opposition parties aretrying to fuel a controversy. ButI believe their lies are notgoing to cut ice with the peo-ple,” Paswan claimed.

Union minister and RPIleader Ramdas Athawale alsorejected the need for a debateon reservation in the countryand said the Modi govern-ment should not be perceivedas anti-Dalit.

Addressing a press confer-ence in Kolkata, Athawale alsosaid reservation has been pro-

vided by the Constitution andno one can take it away fromthe backward section of thesociety. “Whatever MohanBhagwatji had said the RSS hasclarified it. I want to assure theDalits of this country thatthere is no question of debateor rethinking on the issue ofreservation.

The RSS on Monday dis-missed as “needless” the rowover Bhagwat’s remarks, assert-ing that he merely stressed onthe need for mutual talks inharmony within society toaddress any issue.

Azad claimed that 54 percent of the people belonging toScheduled Castes do not ownany land in the country, whilea particular caste dominatesand enjoys all privileges. “He(Bhagwat) wants the issue to bediscussed among those who areagainst reservation. I challengehim to hold a debate in front ofthe media and all concerned.We want to tell people about allthat we (Dalits) have sufferedbecause of the caste system. Heshould come armed with allstatistics,” Chandrashekharsaid.

Bhagwat on Sunday saidthere should be conversationon reservation between thosewho are in its favour and thosewho are against it. The RSShead hit a similar controversywhen BJP was in the thick ofBihar electoral contest in 2015.

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The NIA has initiated anenquiry into allegations of

attempted extortion by threeofficials of the agency during aprobe into the terror fundingby Pakisan-based Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, a frontrun by Lashkar-e-Tayyaba chiefHafiz Sayeed of 26/11 Mumbaiterror attack infamy.

“In this matter, a complaintof misconduct was received byNIA. An enquiry into the alle-gations is being conducted by aDIG rank officer. In the mean-time three concerned officialshave been transferred out toensure a fair probe,” NIAspokesperson said in a statement.

The three officials underthe scanner include an SP rankofficer, one Assistant Sub-Inspector of BSF on deputationto the NIA and a finger printexpert National Crime RecordsBureau (NCRB) also on depu-tation to the counter-terrorismprobe agency.

The allegation againstthem is that they had demand-ed Rs two crore bribe from aDelhi-based businessmanunder the NIA scanner in theFIF terror funding case for notnaming him as a conspirator inthe case, sources said.

The complaint against thetrio was received by the NIAabout a month back and theywere transferred out on August

14, the sources said. The complaint originated

from an agency official whowas contacted by a friend of thebusinessman who was alleged-ly being sought to be black-mailed, they added.

This is the first instancewherein such an instance ofalleged blackmailing by the pre-mier counter-terrorism probeagency has come to the fore.

The Parliament recentlyempowered the NIA by enact-ing amendments to the Actstrengthening the powers of theagency. The Unlawful activities(Prevention) Act was alsoamended recently wherein theNIA is empowered to declareindividuals as terrorists.

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BJP president Amit Shah held a meeting onTuesday with senior party leaders, including

Union Ministers, who have been assigned keyresponsibilities for assembly polls in four Statesof Maharashtra, Hraryana, Jharkahand and Delhias they reviewed election preparedness in thesestates and discussed campaign strategy.

The election are expected to be slated laterthis year in Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkandand in Delhi early next year.

Union ministers Prakash Javadekar andNarendra Singh Tomar, who are the BJP’s electionin-charge for Delhi and Haryana respectively, andparty general secretary Bhupender Yadav and vicepresident Om Mathur were among those whoattended the meeting. Yadav and Mathurare poll in-charges for Maharashtra and Jharkhandrespectively.

BJP working president J P Nadda and itsnewly appointed general secretary (organization)B L Santosh also attended the deliberations.

BJP general secretary Anil Jain, also theorganisational in-charge for Haryana, said the lead-ers reviewed strategy and programme for the elec-tions.

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Seeking to allay apprehensions,the Union Home Ministry on

Tuesday said non-inclusion of a per-son’s name in the final list of NRCdoes not by itself amount to him orher being declared a foreigner. Itassured that adequate arrangementshave been made for appeal against it.

The ministry also said it willamend the rules to increase the timelimit of filing of appeals in foreign-ers tribunals (FTs) from 60 to 120days for those who would be exclud-ed from the final National Registerof Citizens, a list of Assam’s residentsto be published on August 31.

The decisions were taken at ahigh-level meeting chaired byUnion Home Minister Amit Shahand attended by Assam ChiefMinister Sarbananda Sonowal andothers here on Monday. In a state-ment, the ministry said under theprovisions of Foreigners Act 1946and Foreigners (Tribunals) Order1964, only foreigners tribunals areempowered to declare a person for-

eigner. “Thus, non-inclusion of aperson’s name in NRC does not byitself amount to him/her beingdeclared as a foreigner,” it said.

In order to facilitate the personsexcluded from NRC, adequatenumber of such tribunals is beingestablished at convenient locations.“It has been decided that state gov-ernment would also make arrange-ments to provide legal aid to theneedy people amongst those exclud-ed from NRC. As it may not be pos-sible for all those excluded fromfinal NRC to file the appeal withinthe prescribed time, the MHA willamend the rules to increase the pre-sent time limit of filing of appealsin FTs from 60 days to 120 daysregarding exclusion from finalNRC,” the statement said.

At the meeting, it was alsodecided that adequate arrange-ments will be made by the state gov-ernment to provide full opportuni-ty to people excluded from the NRClist to appeal. “Every individual,whose name does not figure in thefinal NRC, can represent his/her

case in front of the appellate author-ity i.e. Foreigner tribunals,” it said.The Citizenship (Registration ofCitizens and Issue of NationalIdentity Cards) Rules, 2003 arealso being amended accordingly.

When the draft NRC was pub-lished on July 30, 2018, there was ahuge controversy over the exclusionof 40.7 lakh people from it. Thedraft NRC included the names of2.9 crore people out of the total 3.29crore applications. In the list pub-lished in June 2019, over a lakhmore people were excluded. Thefinal list of the NRC will be pub-lished on August 31.

The Supreme Court-monitoredNRC exercise, aimed at identifyingillegal immigrants in the state thatborders Bangladesh, was carried outonly in Assam, which faced influxof people from Bangladesh since theearly 20th century. When the NRCwas first prepared in Assam in 1951,the state had 80 lakh citizens.According to the 2011 census,Assam’s total population is over 3.11crore.

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Union Minister for Housingand Urban Affairs

Hardeep Singh Puri onTuesday said the target of‘Housing for All’ underPradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-Urban)will beachieved in 2020, two yearsbefore the deadline. TheMinister said that under thePMAY-Urban, 24 lakh houseshave so far been handed overto beneficiaries and the num-ber will soon reach 50 lakh.

There are 48 lakh houseswhich are currently grounded,

but this number will also riseto 75 lakh, Puri told reporterson the sidelines of an event.

“We had decided to buildone crore houses by 2022. Wehave already sanctioned around84 lakh houses and I am fullyconfident that by the end of thisyear, the entire one crore hous-es will be sanctioned,” the min-ister said.

“We have also receivedadditional assessment demandof constructing 12 lakh morehouses...The target of 2022 willbe achieved in in early 2020,” headded.

The minister exuded con-fidence that government will beable to fast track completionwork of houses under thePMAY (Urban). Addressingthe 15th National Conventionof NAREDCO, Puri said theenactment of real estate law --RERA, “builder-politiciannexus” has been broken, andthat home-buyers will no longerbe at the mercy of anyone.

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The Supreme Court onTuesday agreed to hear a

plea of Facebook Inc for trans-fer of cases related to demandsfor linking of social mediaprofiles of users with Aadhaarnumber, pending before thehigh courts of Madras, Bombayand Madhya Pradesh to theapex court.

The top court issued noticeto the Centre, Google, Twitter,YouTube and others and soughttheir response by September 13.

A bench of justices DeepakGupta and Aniruddha Bosesaid the notices to unservedparties should be sent throughe-mail.

The bench said the hearingin cases related to linkage ofsocial media user profiles with12-digit Aadhaar number, theBiometric Unique Identity,pending before the Madras

High Court will continue butno final order will be passed.

Attorney General KKVenugopal, appearing for theTamil Nadu government told thebench that the Madras HighCourt has conducted 18 hearingsso far and it should be allowedto conclude the argument anddeliver the verdict in the cases.

Senior advocates MukulMohatgi and Kapil Sibal,appearing for Facebook andinstant messaging appWhatsApp, respectively, saidwhether service providers canbe asked to share data withprobe agencies to help them incriminal investigation needs tobe decided by the apex court asit will have a global effect.

They said that bothFacebook and WhatsApp areinternational companies havingtheir operation in over 150countries and any findings bythe Madras High Court would

have a bearing on their globaloperations.

Venugopal referred to theBlue Whale game and saidseveral young lives were lostdue to directions given by thecurator.

He said governments didnot get any clue about thecurator in the Blue Whale gameand therefore it is necessary tofind out who is the originatorof such messages on socialmedia which are defamatory,terror-oriented or fake news.

Both Facebook andWhatsApp told the bench thatBlue Whale game has nothingto do with their platforms andif data is shared with third par-ties, it will be a breach of privacy.

To this, the bench said itseems to be a conflict betweenright to privacy and right togovern the country and thecourt has to maintain a balancebetween the two.

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While on the one hand theCentre is taking all efforts

to ensure early detection of lep-rosy cases given that the diseaseis 100% curable, on the other,there still exists at least 108 dis-criminatory laws-three UnionLaws and 105 State laws--against persons affected by thedisease. Though the number ofleprosy cases have steadilydeclined worldwide, an esti-mated 2,00,000 cases continueto be reported every year, withIndia accounting for more than

a half mainly because of theprevalent stigma associatedwith the disease.

Taking the matter with theUnion Ministers of Law andJustice and Social Justice andEmpowerment, Ravi ShankarPrasad and ThaawarchandGehlot respectively, Dr HarshVardhan, Union Minister forHealth and Family Welfare onTuesday wrote a letter to thetwo Union Ministers as well asto the States urging them toamend the existing discrimi-natory laws against personsaffected with leprosy.

“A leprosy affected personafter treatment does not trans-mit the disease agent. Hence,there exists no justification forthe continued stigmatization ofthe persons affected by leprosy,”Dr Harsh Vardhan pointedout.

“It will be a befitting trib-ute to the Father of the Nation

on his 150th Birth Anniversaryif we can expedite the processand introduce in Parliamentthe Elimination ofDiscrimination against PersonsAffected by Leprosy (EDPAL)Bill, which was drafted by theLaw Commission of India”, theMinister said as he recalled thatthe Global Leprosy Strategy,2016 - 2020 target is to reducethe number of countries withlaws allowing discriminationon the ground of leprosy tozero.

The Minister’s letter comesmonths after the Lok Sabhapassed a Bill doing away withleprosy as grounds for divorce.Gandhi Peace Prize winnerand the World HealthOrganization GoodwillAmbassador for LeprosyElimination Yohei Sasakawatoo had recently stressed thatdiscriminatory laws againstpeople with leprosy that still

exists in India need to goimmediately.

Dr Harsh Vardhan has alsoshot off a letter to the ChiefMinisters of 23 States/UTsincluding AndhraPradesh/Telangana, Karnataka,Tamil Nadu, Odisha,Goa/Daman & Diu, Kerala,Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,Sikkim, Meghalaya, Haryana,West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh,Gujarat, Assam, Maharashtra,Bihar, Puducherry, Delhi,Rajasthan and North EasternRegion and Governor of J&Kto work for the amendments ofthe existing discriminatorylaws against the sector.

On its part, the UnionHealth Ministry has initiatedvarious measures under theNational Leprosy EradicationProgramme (NLEP) to controlleprosy such as Leprosy CaseDetection Campaign (LCDC)(specific for high endemic dis-

tricts), Focussed LeprosyCampaign (for hot spots i.e.,rural and urban areas), specialplan for case detection in hardto reach areas, ASHA basedSurveillance for LeprosySuspects (ABSULS) that havecontributed to early case detec-tion.

“Moreover, leprosy hasbecome fully curable by Multi-Drug Therapy (MDT), beingavailable free of cost at all thegovernment health care facili-ties,” said Dr Harsh Vardhan.

Welcoming the Ministry’sinitiative, Sasakawa - IndiaLeprosy Foundation (S-ILF)Executive Director, Dr VineetaShanker said that the passage ofthe Edpal bill will be a hugestep forward in removing anylegal basis for discriminationand will also help to changemindsets and social perceptionabout the disease which is fullycurable.

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Jammu/New Delhi: SeniorCongress leader Ghulam NabiAzad was stopped at the Jammuairport on Tuesday and sentback to Delhi, a party leadersaid, the second time in amonth the former ChiefMinister was not allowed tovisit Jammu & Kashmir.

"Azad sahib had arrivedfrom Delhi at around 2.45 pmand was not allowed to moveout from the airport andforcibly sent back in a returnflight to Delhi at 4.10 pm," stateCongress chief spokespersonRavinder Sharma told PTI.

The leader of Opposition inthe Rajya Sabha was notallowed to go home or attendthe party meeting at stateCongress headquarters either,Azad's close aides said.

The Congress leader willreturn back to Delhi in theevening through a GoAir flight.

Earlier on August 8, Azadwas briefly detained and sentback from the Srinagar airportafter the administrationimposed restrictions followingthe Centre's move to scrap thestate's special status and bifur-

cate it into Union territories."It is unfortunate that he

(Azad) is not allowed into hishome state in the past twoweeks," Sharma said. "He is theformer Chief Minister ofJammu and Kashmir, memberof Rajya Sabha from the stateand leader of the Opposition inRajya Sabha."

The Congress spokesper-son said Azad just wanted tocome and meet some people toknow about the prevailing sit-uation.

"Denying him permissionshows that how the mainstreamnational party is not beingallowed to interact and discussthe current situation," he said,adding that the Congress and itsleaders were not "trouble-mak-ers" that the State was behaving like this. PTI

Guwahati: A family in Silcharin Assam has called off thewedding of their daughterwhen the groom failed to pro-vide his citizenship creden-tials.

Dilwar Hussain Laskar, ofNayagram village near Silcharwas in love with a local girl andthe two families had agreed totheir marriage.

But trouble arose whenthe girl's family wanted toknow from his family onAugust 15 whether his namewas in the citizens register.

"We wanted to checkwhether the person seeking tomarry the daughter of the fam-ily is a genuine Indian citizenor an illegal foreigner staying inthe country as the matterwould impact her future", said

a member of the girl's family.But Dilwar's name was not

in the draft NRC. He wasamong the 40 lakh peoplewhose name was ommittedfrom the draft citizens registerwhich was published in July lastyear.

Dilwar's family claimedthat the names of all his fami-ly members are in the NRC andwere hopeful that his name willbe included in the final NRC to

be published on August 31.The girl's family was not

convinced and called off thewedding.

The final NRC is set to bepublished on August 31 and lit-tle is known about what hap-pens to those whose name donot figure in it.

They can appeal at theforeigners tribunal, move theGauhati High Court and theSupreme Court but what hap-pens to them in the interimperiod is again unknown.

According to villagers thecouple has eloped and thepolice said the woman's fami-ly has filed an FIR at Silcharpolice station alleging Dilwarhas kidnapped her.

Investigations are on, thepolice added. PTI

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After 25 days of uncertain-ty, Karnataka Chief

Minister BS Yediyurappa onTuesday expanded his Cabinetby inducting 17 members witha major share to his Lingayatcommunity, a BJP voter basein Karnataka. Apart fromChief Minister Yediyurappa,there were seven MLAs fromthe Lingayat community whotook oath as Cabinet Ministersin the hour-long ceremonyheld at Rajbhavan withGovernor Vaju Bhai valaadministering the oath ofsecrecy to the new CabinetMinisters. In this, LakshmanSavadi is not a member of anyhouse.

In his Cabinet,Yediyurappa has kept the castematrix in mind with seven outof 17 belonging to Lingayatsand 3 to Vokkaligas. There are4 Ministers from the SC/STcommunity, 2 OBCs and 1Brahmin Minister. 4 MLAsfrom Bengaluru have alsobeen allotted ministerialberths.

Staunch RSS workerSuresh Kumar, a Brahminfrom Bengaluru, made it tothe Cabinet. ThreeVokkaligas, R Ashok, CNAshwathanarayana and CTRavi have also been inductedinto the new Cabinet. Govind

M Karjol, Prabhu Chavan andIndependent legislator HNagesh are from the Dalitcommunity in the Ministryand account for nearly 25 percent of the State's 6.5 crorepopulation. B Sreeramulu,from the Valmiki community,is also part of the Ministry.MLA Shashikala Jolle is thelone woman Minister in theCabinet.

Now 16 seats out of 34 arevacant as the BJP had assuredthe disqualified MLAs fromthe Congress and JD(S) thatthey would be rewarded fortheir help in forming theGovernment. However, it wasnot a smooth affair forYediyurappa who had to facethe wrath of some seniorMLAs in the party who haveabstained and openly

expressed their dissatisfac-tion.

BJP MLAs, includingministerial aspirantsBalachandra Jarkhiholi ,Murugesh Nirani, MPRenukacharya, BasangoudaPatil Yatnal, Umesh Katti, GHThippareddy, and GoolihattiShekhar have missed theswearing-in ceremony andopenly expressed their dis-pleasure.

The coastal region of thestate where the BJP has a bigfollowing has one representa-tive in the cabinet with MLCKota Srinivas Poojary a mem-ber of the large backwardcaste Billava community.

In a clear sign of the BJPrewarding legislators whohelped the party pull down thecoalition Government last

month, Bangalore MLA Dr CN Ashwathnarayan, aVokkaliga, who played a keyrole in moving rebel Congressand JD(S) MLAs to Mumbaifor defection has been given aCabinet berth. TheIndependent MLA fromMulbagal in Kolar H Nagesh,a Dalit, who has also defect-ed to the BJP by quitting hisCabinet position in the coali-tion Government is beinginducted.

The BJP veterans in theCabinet are BasavarajBommai, Jagadish Shettar(former chief Minister) , VSomanna, CC Patil, LaxmanSavadi. The former JDUleader JC Madhuswamy, aLingayat, who played a crucialrole in the legislature to guidethe BJP to a trust vote victo-

ry, is also in the cabinet. TheDalit leader Govind Karjol, KSEshwarappa a backward casteKuruba leader, R Ashoka andC T Ravi both Vokkaligas,Suresh Kumar a Brahmin,and Bellary’s B Sreeramulufrom a Scheduled Tribe are theother BJP veterans in theYediyurappa Ministry. PrabhuChavan, a Dalit MLA is a newinductee along with the lonewoman Minister ShashikalaJolle.

Supporters of HosadurgaBJP MLA Goolihatti Shekharstaged protest at Hosadurga inChitradurga district overdenial of the ministerial berthto their leader. Meanwhile,another senior BJP MLAUmesh Katti expressed dis-pleasure over missing out onCabinet berth. He said hewas ignored even though hewas a senior party leader. BJPMLA S Angara from Sullia(Dakshina Kannada) is oneamong several sulking leadersupset over not considered forministership.

Expressing his displea-sure he said that the peopleof his constituency had hopesof him becoming a Minister."I have worked hard for theparty and followed all setprinciples but if those wouldnot turn meritorious, then Idon't know what to do," hesaid. The six-time MLA wasspeculated to become

Minister, filling in the slot fora Dalit Minister.

Yediyurappa, who tookoath as Chief Minister on July26 and proved hisGovernment's majority onthe floor of the Assembly onJuly 29. Narayan, Swamy,Chauhan and Jolle havebecome Ministers for the firsttime.

Yediyurappa became theBJP's first Chief Minister insouth India after the partycame to power for the firsttime on its own with a simplemajority in May 2008. He,however, was forced to resignon July 31, 2011 after beingindicted by the Lokayuktha,the State anti-corruption body,for his alleged role in themulti-crore mining scam thatrocked the southern state fora decade between 2001-11.Jagdish Shettar was the BJP'sthird Chief Minister fromSeptember 2012 to May 2013,when the party was in powerfor the first time between2008 and 2013. He has alsobeen inducted as a CabinetMinister.

Union Minister ofChemicals and Fertilisers DVSadananda Gowda was thesecond BJP Chief Minister inthe State from August 2011 toSeptember 2012. Gowda is atwo-time Lok Sabha memberfrom Bangalore North con-stituency.

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Kochi: A Kerala nun, whosupported a protest against aBishop accused of rape,Tuesday accused a Catholicpriest of Mananthavady dioceseof using social media platformto "humiliate" her.

Sister Lucy Kalappuraalleged that the priest, who ispart of PRO team of theMananthavady diocese of theCatholic Church, posted theCCTV visual of media personsvisiting her in the convent inthe social media platforms to"humiliate" her.

The nun was expelled bythe Aluva-base FranciscanClarist Congregation (FCC)early this month for her lifestyle'in violation' of the proper lawof the FCC.

Following her expulsion,the congregation had askedthe nun to leave the nunnery.

The nun had on Tuesdayalleged that the priest collect-ed the CCTV visuals of media

persons visiting her at the con-vent and made a video aimingto humiliate her in public.

She alleged the CCTVvisuals were collected with thehelp of her fellow nuns in theFCC convent at Karackamalain Wayanad.

"In the video, he (thepriest) used vulgar language tohumiliate me. He did so to dis-grace me, to humiliate me,"Sister Kalappura told reportersoutside her convent.

The nun said she wouldlodge a police complaintagainst the priest.

The Mananthavady diocesedisowned the views expressedby the priest in the video, say-ing it was his personal views.

"Whatever the priest said inthe video are his personal views.We were not consulted beforeposting such a video in the socialmedia," PRO of the Diocese, FrJose Kocharackal, told PTI.

He said the priest, who

often reacts through socialmedia platform on issues hap-pening in his surroundings, isa member of the PRO team ofthe diocese.

The issue came to light aday after the Vellamunda policeregistered a case against theFCC convent authorities atKarakkamala following a com-plaint of illegal confinement bythe nun.

Sister Kalappura hadalleged that she was locked upin the Karackamala convent bythe convent authorities to pre-vent her from attending themass at the church in theneighbourhood.

The Church authoritieshave rejected the allegations bythe nun.

The nuns who went for theholy mass had locked the doorsof the convent to ensure thatthe safety of one of their fellownuns who had stayed back dueto her illness. PTI

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Former Kolkata Mayor andclose Mamata Banerjee aide

Sovan Chatterjee who last weekleft the Trinamool Congress tojoin the BJP on Tuesday said thatan opportune time had come toliberate Bengal from the yoke ofMamata Banerjee Governmentwhich was even worse than theoppressive Left Front.

The former seniorTrinamool leader said, “I workedwith Mamata Banerjee sincethe inception of the TMC anddid whatever she said without aquestion because we all had adream of making a new Bengalbut our dreams have shattered.”

Banerjee’s regime is “worsethat of Left Front,” he saidadding “during the CPI(M) wedid not see such organised vio-lence being perpetrated on theopposition. All the Oppositionparties and even those within theTrinamool Congress feel threat-

ened and suffocated.”Chatterjee was so close to

the Chief Minister at one pointin time that he was given to han-dle three important Cabinetport-folios along with theMayoral post apart from beingentrusted with heading the South24 Parganas district party unit.

“This is not the sameMamata Banerjee we started ourjourney with and this is not thesame Trinamool Congress whichit used to be,” he said adding theparty and the Government wasperpetrating organised violence inthe regions and “a time has comewhen the people should worktogether to liberate Bengal for thesecond time just as they did to freeit from the Left rule in 2011.”

The former Mayor had ear-lier said that he had raisedquestions “at the appropriatelevel” regarding rampant riggingin the rural elections where theTMC won 35 per cent of theseats unopposed.

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Kolkata: Ten personalities ofWest Bengal, including film-maker Aparna Sen have writ-ten an open letter to WestBengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee expressing anxietyover the recent violent inci-dents in the State.

It also noted with concernthat the administration hasbeen resorting to undemocra-tic means of quashing protestsby the use of police brutality.

The signatories of the let-ter were among the 49 who hadwritten an open letter to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onJuly 24 in which they hadvoiced their concerns overalleged rise in incidents ofmob lynching across the coun-try triggering questions ontheir silence during incidentsof violence in West Bengal.

Actor Kaushik Sen, who is

one of the signatories to the let-ter, told PTI on Tuesday, "Wecondemn the incidents of vio-lence in West Bengal".

The letter, which was sentto Banerjee on Monday, said,"We would like to draw yourattention to some extremelyviolent incidents that haverecently taken place in WestBengal."

It referred to the policelathicharge on the demonstra-tion by para-teachers atKalyani in Nadia district onAugust 17 to press for increasein their salaries and urged herto resolve their agitation.

Some of the demonstratorshad also been arrested by thepolice.

The letter written by'Citizens Speak India' said,"We strongly condemn thisattack by the police on educa-

tionists and earnestly requestyou to resolve the issue in ademocratic manner at the ear-liest.

"We have been noticingwith a great deal of anxiety thatinstead of trying to resolve thepeaceful democratic protests ofteachers of this state throughsane dialogue and debate, theadministration has beenresorting to undemocraticmeans of quashing theseprotests by the use of policebrutality," the letter read.

The other signatories ofthe letter to Banerjee wereactors Parambrata Chatterjee,Riddhi Sen, the youngest tohave won the national awardfor the best actor, activist BolanGangopadhyay, commentatorand social worker MudarPatherya and thetare person-ality Sohag Sen. PTI

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Muzaffarpur (Bihar):Cashew nuts and raisins arebeing procured at a dirt cheaprate of �1 per kg, in sharpcontrast to the prevailingmarket cost, for more than adozen girls residential schoolsin this north Bihar district.

The prevailing marketprice of the two is about�750 per kg and �450 a kgrespectively.

These expensive dr yfruits, however, seldom findtheir way into the kitchens ofthe 16-odd Kasturba GandhiBalika Vidyalaya units inMuzaffarpur where itemsconsumed in bulk come over-priced.

On the other hand,Chana (Bengal gram) is pur-chased at an exorbitant rate of

�199 per kg and so is chanadal while eggs come at �16apiece.

Chana and chana dal areavailable at a price of �80-90per kg in the open market,while an egg could be pro-cured for �6.

This is a huge scam and,if properly investigated, mayturn out to be bigger andmore bizarre than the infa-mous fodder scam, says localresident Rajesh Kumar Singhwhose RTI query on theexpenses incurred by theseschools blew the lid off theirregularities.

Officials have been leftred-faced and ordered a probe.

We have taken a seriousnote of the anomalies. Aninquiry committee has been

set up and based on its report,action will be taken againstthose found at fault ,Amarendra Kumar Pandey,district program officer,Muzaffarpur, told reportersTuesday.

He added only those whowere part of the purchasecommittee which approvedthe agency for supply of theitems can shed more light onthe matter.

Singh, meanwhile, is lividand has threatened if actionis not taken within two daysI will refer the matter to thevigilance department.

This is organised lootand I believe similar irregu-larities must be taking placein all the districts acrossBihar. PTI

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The DMK, Tamil Nadu’s prin-cipal Opposition party finds

itself in an unenviable situationfollowing the remarks made bythe party spokesman in a chan-nel debate. S Saravanan, theDMK’s national spokesman saidduring a channel discussionthat Jammu & Kashmir was notan integral part of India. Theparty spokesman found himselfat the receiving end during thedebate as DMK president MKStalin has already declared hisOpposition to the BJP-ledGovernment’s decision to revokeArt 370 of the Constitutionwhich had granted special sta-tus to Jammu & Kashmir.

The BJP saw red in the state-ments made by Stalin as well as

Saravanan and has demandedlegal action against theDravidian party for its “anti-national” stance. Interestingly,the DMK leader Stalin has madeit clear many times that his partywas for a separate Dravidiannation incorporating TamilNadu. “It is there in the DMKconstitution and it is a liveissue,” Stalin had said manytimes since 2018.

The DMK’s stance on aseparate Tamil nation and theparty’s sustained campaign forthe immediate release of theassassins of former PrimeMinister Rajiv Gandhi has putthe Congress in a spot. While theCongress party has been attack-ing the BJP over the abrogationof the Article 370 , it is silent onthe DMK’s demand for therelease of the seven assassins.

Guwahati: The NRC StateCoordinator's office in Assamclarified on Tuesday that it hasnothing to do with the creationor circulation of a document onsocial media which names jour-nalists and human rightsactivists who are allegedlyinvolved in "anti-NRC propa-ganda".

"It has come to the notice ofthe NRC authority that a doc-ument naming some journalistsas being involved in anti-NRCpropaganda is being circulatedin social media since August17," the National Register ofCitizens (NRC) CoordinatorPrateek Hajela's office tweeted.

It said the clarification wasissued in public interest. "It isclarified that NRC authority hasnothing to do with its creationor circulation".

A document titled 'NRC:The Other Story- Truth, Realityand Conspiracy' contained sev-eral chapters on people alleged-ly involved in such propagan-da. A chapter had the names ofjournalists and news organisa-tions, while social and humanrights activists and some organ-

isations figured in other chap-ters.

The document, which hadthe NRC logo, was not attrib-uted to any organisation orauthority but was circulated onvarious social media platforms,including Facebook, Twitterand Whatsapp.

The NRC logo on the doc-ument led to the confusion thatit was issued by the NRCauthority.

The final NRC is to be pub-lished on August 31. It is beingupdated for the first time inAssam after 1951. The SupremeCourt is monitoring the exer-cise aimed at identifying gen-uine citizens of the state, whichhas seen influx of illegalmigrants from Bangladesh overdecades.

In July last year, 40,07,707people were excluded from thecomplete draft of the NRC,which contained 2,89,83,677eligible persons out of a total3,29,91,384 applicants.

An additional 1,02,462 peo-ple were added to the list ofexcluded people in June.

In an effort to allay fears,

the Union Home Ministry onTuesday said non-inclusion ofa person's name in the finalNRC does not by itself amountto him or her being declared aforeigner, and assured that ade-quate arrangements have beenmade for appeal against it.

The ministry also said itwill amend the rules to increasethe time limit for filing appealsin foreigners tribunals (FTs)from 60 to 120 days for thosewho would be excluded fromthe final National Register ofCitizens to be published onAugust 31.

The decisions were taken ata high-level meeting chaired byUnion Home Minister AmitShah and attended by AssamChief Minister SarbanandaSonowal and others in NewDelhi on Monday. PTI

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the Enforcement Directorate ina loan default probe case, MNSchief Raj Thackeray said hereon Tuesday that he would"honour" the summons issuedto him and advised his partysupporters to maintain calmand restraint.

A day after MNS workersthreatened to storm the EDoffice on August 22 when hewould have to remain presentfor questioning in connectionwith a probe into an allegedIL&FS loan default case, theMNS chief said that he wouldhonour the summons andasked his supporters not tocome anywhere near the inves-

tigation agency’s office onThursday.

In a statement put out inMarathi and English throughhis official twitter handle, Raj said: “Right since the time of inception ofMaharashtra Navnirman Sena,there have been numerouscases registered against youall and me. Each time, we havehonoured the notices sent bythe investigating agencies andcourts of law..This time too wemust honour the summonssent by the EnforcementDirectorate”.

“The past years have madeus accustomed to cases andnotices coming our way.Keeping that in mind, Iearnestly request that peace andharmony is maintained on

August 22,” he wrote.“No harm or damage

should come upon any publicproperty and common manshould not suffer in any way.Kindly ensure that this is fol-lowed diligently. Also, do main-tain calm and peace even ifprovoked,” the MNS chief stat-ed.

Expressing his deep grati-tude towards his party workersfor their “constant love andcare”, Raj noted: “I would liketo firmly state that no partyworker or Maharashtra sainikshould come or assemble nearthe ED office” on August 22.

Through a notice, ED hassummoned the MNS chief forinquiries on August 22 in con-nection with a probe into analleged IL&FS-related case.

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Bengaluru: India'sChandrayaan-2 mission, aimedat soft landing a rover in theunexplored south pole of theMoon, achieved a major mile-stone as the ISRO successfullyinjected the spacecraft into thelunar orbit on Tuesday.

"Today, the Chandrayaan-2 mission has achieved a majormilestone. The precise lunarorbiter insertion manoeuvrewas carried out at 9 am forabout 30 minutes, precisely...injected the Chandrayaan-2 inthe designated orbit," IndianSpace Research Organisationchief K Sivan said here.

The insertion manoeuvrereduced the velocity of theChandrayaan-2 from 2.4 kmper second to 2.1 km per sec-

ond, he added."For 30 minutes, our heart

almost stopped," he told a pressconference where he briefedabout the crucial operation.

Chandrayaan-2, launchedon July 22 by India's most pow-erful rocket GSLV MkIII-M1,had entered the Lunar TransferTrajectory on August 14, leav-ing the Earth orbit. It comprisesan Orbiter, Lander (Vikram)and Rover (Pragyaan).

The rover is set to make thesoft landing on the Moon onSeptember 7 and if successfulthe mission would make Indiathe fourth country after Russia,the US and China to achievethe feat.

After Tuesday's exercise,the ISRO chief said theChandrayaan-2 will go aroundthe moon with an orbit of 140km perigee (closest point) by18,000 km apogee (farthest).

He added that four more

manoeuvres will be carriedout toachieve the perigee andapogee of 100 km X 100 km onSeptember 1.

Giving an insight into thecomplexity involved, Sivan saidthere was a unique requirementfor soft landing near the southpole of moon with an inclina-tion of 90 degree, which noother missions in the past hadever achieved.

He said 'Vikram', the lander,

will be separated from moonorbiter on September two.

From there onwards, thefocus ofISRO will be towardsthe lander as all major opera-tions willrevolved around themoon lander.

A small retro orbit manoeu-vre of about three seconds willbe carried out on September 3and on the next day anothersimilar exercise of 6.5 degreewill be taken up to put the lan-der in an orbit of 35 km perigeeand 97 km of apogee.

From September 4onwards, various parameterswould be checked to ensurethat all the systems were per-fectly alright, Sivan added.

"Next three days, we will betaking the various parameters ofthe lander to ensure that every-thing is right and to check andverify again and again, the sys-tem is perfectly alright", he said.

"On September 7 at 1.15

am the lander will be landingat a site 71 degree of moon'sequator with 22.8 degree East",the ISRO chief said.

Underlining the signifi-cance of moon lander, Sivansaid the landing will be a ter-rifying moment for him aswell as theentire ISRO teamgiven the challenges involved.

"Looking at what happenedto the soft landing around theworld, we are saying that thesoft landing success rate isonly about 27 per cent. But wehave the confidence about ourmission," Sivan said.

This is the second time thatthe ISRO has successfully car-ried out Lunar orbiter insertion.

Earlier in 2008, theChandrayaan-1 spacecraft,India's first moon mission, wasinjected into the lunar orbit andit scripted history by makingmore than 3,400 orbits aroundthe Moon. PTI

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On the 17th day of continu-ous lockdown in most parts

of Kashmir Valley, the Jammu& Kashmir Government onTuesday admitted life is yet toreturn to normalcy in at least 10districts, mostly in Kashmirvalley.

At the same time, theadministration is struggling toreopen the schools as majorityof parents have declined to sendtheir wards to join class roomsunder the prevailing security sit-uation in different parts ofSrinagar.

The situation on groundzero is showing no signs ofimprovement in South Kashmirdistricts as well.

Compared to Monday, the

Government authorities claimedthe attendance in primaryschools showed signs ofimprovement on Tuesday butground reports suggested severalschools remained locked downas they reported zero or thinattendance in parts of Srinagar.

The network services alsoremained suspended acrossKashmir valley while strict secu-rity restrictions remain in placein vulnerable pockets of down-town Srinagar.

Addressing a routine pressconference late Tuesday eveningin Srinagar, Principal Secretary,Planning & Development, RohitKansal, who is alsoGovernment’s spokesperson,said normal functioning of largeparts of the State was reportedtoday with 12 out of 22 districts

functioning normally". He also maintained that

out of 197 police stations acrossJ&K, 136 police stations have noday time restrictions. Referringto Kashmir alone he said 50 outof 111 police stations have noday time restrictions.

Commenting on the situa-tion of Kashmir valley, Kansalsaid that middle level schoolswould start functioning fromWednesday in the areas whereprimary schools resumed func-tioning from Monday.

He said public transporthas also started plying in areaswhere relaxations have beenprovided and inter-district trans-port has also started functioning,adding that National Highwayand Airports are functioningnormally.

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Situation alongthe Line of

Control in fron-tier Rajouri and Poonchremained grim with freshexchange of heavy firing inKrishna Ghati sector of Poonchon Tuesday. One Indian soldierattained martyrdom whenPakistan Army violated cease-fire agreement in Mendhar.Hitting back, Indian Armycaused heavy damage toPakistan Army posts and casu-alties to Pakistan soldiers.

Defence PRO in Jammu,Lt-Col Devender Anand said,"Pakistan Army initiated cease-fire violation in the KrishnaGhati sector around 11.00 a.musing small arms fire andshelling with mortars".

He said, in the exchange offire in Mendhar sector, NaikRavi Ranjan Kumar Singhattained martyrdom.

He said Indian Army gavebefitting reply and retaliatedstrongly and effectively.

Naik Ravi Ranjan KumarSingh, aged 36 years belongedto Village Gope Bigha, TehsilDehrionson, District Rotasa,Bihar and is survived by hiswife, Rita Devi.

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Renowned music composerand director Mohammed

Zahir Hashmi, popularly knownas Khayyam, was laid to rest withfull State honours at a Muslimcemetery here on Tuesdayevening, even as several promi-nent Bollywood personalitiespaid their last respects to him.Khayyam passed away at a pri-vate hospital late on Mondaynight, following a brief illness.He was 92 and is survived by hissinger-wife Jagjit Kaur.Khayyam’s mortal remains werekept at his Juhu residence —Daskshina Park Society — innorth-west Mumbai on Tuesday

to enable people pay their lastrespects to him. A large numberof film personalities and hisadmirers joined Khayyam’sfuneral procession which left hisJuhu residence for the cemeteryat 3.30 pm. A team of Mumbaipolice escorted the procession.

After the procession reachedthe Four Bungalow Kabrastan,the police accorded him with a21-gun salute. Muslim priestsperformed the last rites and hisbody was laid to rest. Khayyam’sailing wife Jagjit Kaur alsoattended the funeral on a wheel-chair. She broke down a fewtimes as the funeral ceremonieswere being performed.Prominent among the

Bollywood personalities whopaid their last respects toKhayyam included JavedAkhtar, Gulzar, Raza Murad,Talat Aziz, , Sonu Nigam, AlkaYagnik, Sanjay Khan, PoonamDhillon, Vishal Bharadwaj,Suresh Wadkar, Ashok Pandit,Tabassum Shabbir Kumar, NitinMukesh, Jatin Pandit and LalitPandit. President R. N. Kovindand Prime Minister NarendraModi led the nation in payingtributes to Khayyam. ChiefMinister Devendra Fadnavis,Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar,veteran actor AmitabhBachchan and other personali-ties have also mourned thedemise of Khayyam.

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Ara (Bihar): A court in Bihar'sBhojpur district on Tuesdaygave death sentence to a manand life imprisonment to sevenothers in connection with the2015 Ara civil court bomb blastcase.

Additional District andSessions Judge Tribhuwan Yadavgave capital sentence to LambuSharma after holding him guiltyunder various sections of IPCincluding 302 (murder), 307(Attempt to murder), 326 (vol-untarily causing grievous hurt),353 (Assault public servant fromdischarge of his duty) and undersome sections of ExplosiveSubstance Act.

The court also imposed afine of �22,000 on Sharma.

The seven sentenced to lifeimprisonment were ChandMiyan, Naeem Miyan, AkhileshUpadhyaya, Rinku Yadav,Pramod Singh, Shyam VinaySharma and Anshu Kumar.

The judge held them guiltyunder IPC section 302 (murder).

The court imposed a fine of�42,000 on Akhilesh Upadhyayaand �40,000 on the other sixconvicted persons.

The court on August 17 hadconvicted the eight persons inthe civil court bomb blast and

acquitted former JD(U) MLANarendra Kumar Pandey aliasSunil Pandey along with twoothers — Sanjay Sonar andVijay Sharma — for lack of evi-dence.

Pandey is currently in theLok Janshakti Party (LJP).Chand Miyan surrendered inthe court on Tuesday as he didnot appear in the court onAugust 17. The court had issuedwarrant against him and hadalso ordered attachment of hisproperties for not appearingbefore it on August 17.

On January 23, 2015, awoman, identified as NaginaDevi, had come to the courtpremises as a suicide bomberwith a design to set notoriouscriminal, Lambu Sharma, freefrom custody.

As the prison van reachedthe court premises, the womantriggered a blast. Taking advan-tage of the blast, Sharma, alongwith two others had fled.

The woman died on thespot, while a police constable,Amit Kumar, succumbed to hisinjuries.

The police had filed a chargesheet against 11 persons, includ-ing Pandey and had produced39 witnesses in the case. PTI

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gave 'triple talaq' to his wiferight inside the civil courtpremises here in presence ofher advocate after she refusedto accept a chewing gumfrom him, police said onTuesday.

Thirty-year-old Simmi ofAmrai village was divorced byher husband Syed Rashid onMonday inside the Lucknowcivil court premises where shehad gone for the hearing ofher case of dowry harass-ment she had lodged earlieragainst her in-laws, said theIndira Nagar police stationSHO S B Pandey.

The woman was talkingto her advocate when herhusband offered her a chew-ing gum which she refused,said the SHO, citing thewoman's compliant.

This threw Rashid in a fitof rage and he divorced hiswife, uttering talaq-talaq-talaq, said the SHO. Simmi,married to Rashid in 2004,had lodged a case of dowryharassment against her hus-band and in-laws earlier, saidSHO Pandey.

There have been severalinstances of men divorcingtheir wives with this out-lawed oral diktat on queerpretexts. PTI

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Dhula: Six camels, seizedfrom a local market in theDarrang district and a cus-tody battle that the seizuretriggered, are keeping thepolice on their toes for abouttwo weeks in Assam.

While the animals wereseized from the Dhula mar-ket on August 11, a day aheadof the Eid al-Adha (locallyknown as Bakrid), and were"saved" from being slaugh-tered, they are awaiting acourt order to be repatriatedsafely to their home State —Rajasthan.

"It's difficult for us tomaintain them, because wehave no knowledge aboutthem. We are also concerned

about the impact of Assam'sclimate on them," said asenior pol ice of f icer of the Darrang distr ict onTuesday.

"However, we are con-sult ing veter inar ians toensure that they remain ingood health," he said.

Meanwhile, Samatullah,the camel trader from whomthe police seized the ani-mals, has moved the courtseeking their custody.

"There was a claim by oneindividual. But we movedthe court on Tuesday for giv-ing the custody to the AnimalWelfare Board of India. It canensure safety and welfare ofthe animals and take them

back to Rajasthan with dueprocess," he said.

"Being a law enforcingagency, we deal with a vari-ety of cases every day. Thereare investigations, crime casesand VIP movements too. Andthese days we also have todepute our staff to ensure thewelfare of camels," said theofficer.

While five camels arebeing kept at the Dhula policestat ion, one is at theMangaldai police station.

Camel was declared thestate animal of Rajasthan in2014 and the state Assemblyenacted the Rajasthan Camel(Prohibition of Slaughter andRegulation of Temporary

Migration or Export) law,which banned slaughter aswell as illegal transportationof the animal to other states.

"It's a crime. The camelswere illegally smuggled toAssam, probably for slaugh-ter," said Sujeet Choudhury,member of the AnimalWelfare Board of India,

who visited Mangaldai onthe intimation of the Darrangpolice.

"We, in association withthe Assam Police, are tryingour best to repatriate theanimals to Rajasthan. Wehope the court will rule inour favour to take the animalsto Rajasthan," Choudhurysaid. IANS

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Srinagar: The gun battlebetween security forces andmilitants in Baramulla districtof Jammu and Kashmir con-tinued till late into the night onTuesday.

Army authorities saidthere was heavy exchange ofgunfire between both sideseven as they refrained fromdivulging the exact number ofterrorists that were involved inthe encounter.

Security agencies, includ-ing the Jammu & Kashmirpolice, were fighting the mili-tants in the encounter.

"Firing began at 5 p.m.with the terrorists in OldBaramullah. The operation isunder way," said a Army offi-cial.

The area was cordoned offfor the public as soon as thegunfight began.

Ever since the Union

Government abrogated specialcategory status to Jammu &Kashmir on August 5 by abro-gating Article 370 of theConstitution, this is the firstencounter between securityforces and terrorists in theValley.

As per sources around 2-3 terrorists were engaged in agunfight as the joint operationbetween the Army, Jammu &Kashmir police and other secu-

rity agencies was launched.Baramullah is located around54 km from Srinagar.

Kashmir Valley has beenby and large peaceful barringstray incidents of stone-peltingand protests since August 5.The number of ceasefire vio-lations by Pakistan across theLoC have increased, however,over the past week after a lullin the first fortnight of August.

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will pass the orders after hear-ing arguments from both thesides. The agency had onMonday told the court thatPuri was evading probe in thecase. Puri was already underthe probe scanner of the agencyin connection with the high-profile AgustaWestland VVIPchopper scam and was facinga non bailable warrant issuedby a court after the ED sub-mitted to it that the business-man might try to tamper withthe evidence and influencewitnesses “as he already didearlier”. However, the DelhiHigh Court had on August 14granted interim protectionfrom arrest to Ratul Puri tillTuesday. The latest PMLA caseagainst Puri is an outcome ofthe CBI FIR of August 17,where Ratul Puri, his fatherDeepak Puri, MD of MoserBaer, mother Nita (MP CMKamal Nath’s sister and WholeTime Director of Moser Baer)and others were booked inconnection with a Rs 354 crorebank fraud case filed by theCentral Bank of India.

The CBI had carried outmultiple searches in pursuanceof this FIR on Sunday.

The Puri family, otherMoser Baer directors SanjayJain and Vineet Sharma werebooked by the CBI for allegedcriminal conspiracy, cheating,forgery and corruption. RatulPuri was booked in this case inhis capacity as the thenExecutive Director of MoserBaer India Limited (MBIL), afirm promoted by his fatherDeepak Puri. The company isinvolved in the manufacture ofoptical storage media like com-pact discs, DVDs, solid statestorage devices. In its com-plaint, the bank claimed thatthe company and its directorsforged and fabricated docu-ments to induce the CentralBank of India to release fundsto the company. “MBIL hascaused unlawful loss to ourbank to the tune of Rs 354.51crore as on November 29, 2014and interest thereon by gettingunlawful gains,” said the bank’scomplaint which is now part ofthe CBI FIR. Ratul Puri is fac-ing criminal investigation byED, CBI and the Income Taxdepartment. The tax depart-ment has attached a number ofhis alleged ‘benami’ assets inthe recent past and has chargedhim with benefiting from thepurported kickbacks generated

in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIPchoppers deal that wasscrapped by the Government in2014 on charges of corruption.Meanwhile, the Delhi HighCourt on Tuesday dismissedanticipatory bail plea of RatulPuri in the PMLA case relatingto AgustaWestland chopperscam.

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important assignments bySonia Gandhi, including twoterms as Haryana State ChiefMinister. His son DependerHooda has been a Lok SabhaMP twice. Tanwar survived atthe helm of affair due to back-ing of the then Congress pres-ident Rahul Gandhi. Rahulwas of the view that replacinga Dalit leader before the elec-tions would send a wrong mes-sage. In similar situation in thepast, Sonia named CaptAmarinder Singh as the chiefof Punjab unit replacingincumbent Partap Singh Bajwa.She also appointed VirbhadraSingh by removing SukhwinderSingh Sukhu as HimachalPradesh unit chief. Both Bajwaand Sukhu were Rahul loyal-ists,” explained a seniorCongress leader.

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With the water level inYamuna rising on the

second day on Tuesday aftercrossing the “danger mark”,the Delhi Government hasshifted 14,000 people livingadjacent to the Yamuna and inlow-lying areas to relief camps.

The river was flowing ametre above the danger mark(206.25 metres) at 1 pm onTuesday and may rise furtherafter Haryana released 25,590cusec of water from the HathniKund barrage on Tuesday. On Monday, the river crossedthe danger mark of 205.33metres at 6 pm. The water levelis further expected to touch 207metres by Wednesday morningbefore beginning to recede.

Delhi Transport MinisterKailash Gahlot inspected therelief camps set up by theDelhi Government at HaathiGhat and Kanchan Colony.“Inspected Relief Camps atHaathi Ghat and KanchanColony set up by Delhi Govt.Interacted with people whohave been evacuated and now

staying in relief camps. Havedirected area DMs to ensureavailability of all the reliefmaterials,” Gahlot tweeted.

The administration hasdeployed 30 boats in low-lyingareas prone to flooding to pre-vent accidental drowning.

Besides, 53 boats have beenput on standby to tackle anyeventualities. The authoritieshave alerted residents aboutincreasing water level inKhajuri Khas, Wazirabad,Usmanpur, Mayur Vihar,Burari and Seelampur.

Meanwhile, the NorthernRailway has restricted the speedof trains on the Yamuna Bridgeto 20 kmph. Gearing up totackle any eventualities, theDelhi Government has alsoset up tents opposite MayurVihar Extension with a capac-ity of accommodating 23,000people during flooding.

On Tuesday, the DelhiGovernment agencies placedsandbags near the shores ofYamuna at the Loathian bridgeand areas surrounding ISBT. Toavoid any untoward incident,the BSES disconnected theelectricity lines going below the

Loathian Bridge and the e-rick-shaw charging point near thebridge.

More than 14,000 peopleliving in low-lying areas alongthe Yamuna in the city havebeen evacuated by theGovernment agencies tillTuesday. The East districtadministration has deputedSDMs, senior district admin-istration official, civil defensevolunteers, district disastermanagement authority per-

sonnel besides divers andmechanised boats at sensitivelocations in the districts.

The authorit ies alsoclaimed that unlike 1978,there is no danger of theYamuna breaching itsembankments. The water levelin 1978, September, 2010 andJune, 2013 (the year in whichKedarnath deluge) hadcrossed the level of 207meters.

In June 2013, when there

were many districts along thecoast line of Yamuna inNational Capital were seenflooded, Haryana had released8.1 lakh cusecs of water thathad resulted in raising thewater level to 207.3 meters.

Similarly on August 18this year, Haryana had onceagain released 8.3 lakh cusecsof water, which is the highesttill date, due to heavy rain inupstream areas of Uttarakhand.

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Tuesday issued a notice to theDelhi Police in connectionwith a case wherein a womanwas allegedly set ablaze by herin-laws in the national Capital'sNizamuddin area. The inci-dent occurred on Friday.According to police, the victim,Yasmeen, sustained 80 per centburns and is undergoing treat-ment at Safdarjung Hospital.

The woman is a widow andhas three daughters, who wereat a tuition class when the inci-

dent occurred, they said.DCW chief Swati Maliwal

and commission memberKiran Negi met the victim inthe hospital on Tuesday. Thewoman is admitted in the ICUand continues to be in a criti-cal condition, the commissionsaid. The DCW chief has issueda notice to the Delhi Police inthe matter as only one arresthas been made so far in thecase, it said. Police have notrequested a metropolitan mag-istrate to visit the woman forrecording her statement underSection 164 of the CriminalProcedure Code, it added.

Police had on Sunday saidthe woman was not medical-ly fit to give a statement.

The DCW said urgent recording of the statement is very crucial forthe case as doctors fear thatthe woman may not survivebecause she has suffered 80per cent burns. "She(Yasmeen) has gone throughso much pain and is present-ly battling for her life. She isdeeply worried whether shewill get justice and also aboutthe future of her three littlegirls. We also seek police pro-tection for the daughters ofthis woman," Maliwal said.

Yasmeen told Maliwalthat her three brothers-in-law

and their wives pouredkerosene on her and set herablaze, the DCW said. Thevictim's daughters were some-how able to douse the fireafter they returned homefrom their class, but by thenshe had been severely burnt,the commission said, addingthat the six accused fled afterthe incident. Since the deathof her husband five years ago,Yasmeen was being harassedby the accused who wantedher to leave her in-laws placein southeast Delhi 'sNizamuddin area, the DCWclaimed.

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The outcome of External AffairsMinister S Jaishankar’s visit toChina has been positive, not onlyin terms of India explaining itsstand but also clearing the air for

future exchanges. The External AffairsMinister is not only a distinguished diplomatbut having been India’s Ambassador toChina, he knows the system and personali-ties whom he has to deal with. One majorpoint made by him to China’s ForeignMinister Wang Yi was to emphasise that thefuture of the India-China relationship willdepend on “mutual sensitivity” to eachother’s “core concerns.” In return, MinisterWang Yi emphasised “the five principles ofpeaceful co-existence”, which have “funda-mental interest and long-term interest of ourtwo peoples and also contribute to worldpeace and human progress.” As an immedi-ate measure, India and China signed fouragreements covering cultural exchanges,healthcare, sports and cooperation in muse-um management. In particular, bothJaishankar and Yi emphasised the importanceof cooperation in the field of traditional med-icine, wherein both China and India, the twomost ancient civilisations in the modernworld, have cumulative knowledge.

The time has come now to provide a neworientation in China-India relations. In theeconomic field, bilateral trade between the twocountries touched almost $90 billion in2017-18 but trade deficit increased to $62.9billion in China’s favour. China must followLao Tzu: “If you do not change direction, youmay end up where you are heading.” It clear-ly has interests which are long term, given itsancient history and traditions and it isunlikely that it would think in terms of mereshort-term benefits that could lead to frictionand disputes. Our External Affairs Ministerclearly mentioned that any bilateral differencesshould not become disputes.

China has major ambitions to emerge asthe largest and most influential global powerin the world. Its growth rate has been phe-nomenal and poverty, which was widelyprevalent, has more or less been completelyeliminated. This writer first visited China in1981 and today, the country representsprogress which most other nations haveachieved in almost a century. Yet, China can-not ignore the fact that it shares a large bor-der with India and the latter is a rising powerin a complex world. There is every need forthe two nations to come together and worktowards the establishment of global peace andsecurity.

One major area where the two countriesmust cooperate is in respect of promoting apattern of sustainable development whichdeviates substantially from the Westernmodel. Unfortunately, both nations have beenfollowing this model. China in particular hasadopted it much too rapidly with major eco-nomic success but with some adverse conse-quences both at the global and national lev-els. Gandhiji was not in any way exaggerat-

ing when he predicted that for thecivilised West “a time is comingwhen those who are in the madrush today of multiplying theirwants, will retrace their steps andsay; what have we done….Modern civilisation is such thatone has only to be patient and itwill be self-destroyed.” What wefind across the entire world,which is mindlessly aping theWestern model, is human-induced climate change resultingfrom the burning of fossil fuels,a loss of biodiversity and destruc-tion of the earth’s ecosystems.

China and India are largecountries, which are also suffer-ing from the consequences ofthese disastrous trends. As theIntergovernmental Panel onClimate Change (IPCC) has pro-jected and as is becomingincreasingly evident today, thefrequency and intensity ofextreme events is rapidly on theincrease. These take place in theform of heat waves, extremeprecipitation events and severalsea level related disasters. Thereare areas which are suffering fromprolonged drought, which at thesame time, witness floods duringcertain seasons.

China already has a majorproblem of water scarcity, partic-ularly in its western region. India,too, is suffering from the conse-quences of global climate change,

which clearly makes this a “coreconcern” for both societies. It isalso important for the populationof China and India to set a newpath of development which is rel-evant not only for the two coun-tries but also for the rest of theworld. Together, China and Indiaare close to three billion peoplein a world which holds today anestimated 7.7 billion. Clearly,therefore, whatever path is set bythe two countries will have amajor influence on the world asa whole.

An area in which coopera-tion is needed would be to devel-op and use renewable sources ofenergy. The IPCC has clearlyassessed the reasons for theworld to keep within the 1.5oClimit by the end of the century.It has also defined the implica-tions of land use, including mas-sive consumption of meat, whichis totally unsustainable. Today,China has increased its con-sumption of all forms of meat toa huge level. However, fortunate-ly, it is one of the leaders in theuse of renewable energy where-in both countries would derivemutual benefits from workingtogether.

In Prime Minister Modi’sIndependence Day speech, heemphasised the need for waterconservation, including precisionagriculture, rainwater harvesting

and waste water treatment. Healso highlighted the indiscrimi-nate use of plastic. Additionally,he addressed the need for cuttingdown on the use of chemical fer-tilisers in agriculture by up to 25per cent. He stated: “This wouldbe a great service to the nation.This would be a great step in sav-ing our Mother Earth.”

China and India can worktowards the use of bio-fertilis-ers, which would enable us todo away with chemical fertilis-ers. “Saving our Mother Earth”is clearly a core concern forboth societies. This writer hasinteracted with those responsi-ble for conceptualising a facil-ity called “Science City”, whichis to be established outsideBeijing over an area of 100square kilometres.

The ambition behind thisinitiative is to see that Chinaaddresses global problems of along-term nature. PerhapsIndia could also join handswith China, with delineation ofprinciples governing intellectu-al property and clear areas ofcommon endeavour to cooper-ate in “Science City” so that wework towards developing glob-al solutions for a sustainablefuture.

(The writer is former chair-man, Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change, 2002-15)

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Sir — Agro-chemical productstake a long time to grow. In addi-tion, new molecules at presenttake about six to seven years to beregistered. The bureaucraticprocess delays the delivery of theproducts to farmers, leaving themwith no option but to buy cheap-er, low-quality products. It isrecommended that theGovernment look into this issueat the earliest.

Also, while Indian formula-tions are mostly generic productsas research and development(R&D) is expensive, overseascompanies frequently spread theirassortment and are eager to investin India on product R&D andmarketing. Data selectiveness inthe agrochemicals sector will notonly delay the entry of generics bycreating an additional period oflegal monopoly but will also makeagrochemicals or pesticides unaf-fordable to Indian farmers. Dataprotection or selectiveness willobstruct growth of indigenousmanufacturers and will workagainst the Government’s vision of“Make in India.”

Vijaykumar HKRaichur

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Sir — In the backdrop of China’spropensity to open diplomaticties, Prime Minister NarendraModi’s second visit to Bhutan notonly weighed heavily on the bilat-eral front but was also an oppor-tunity to woo the youth overthere. The Prime Minister’s grandwelcome on the streets from

Paro to Thimpu spoke volumesabout his popularity among theBhutanese people.

India’s long-term commit-ment to foster economic and cul-tural ties with Bhutan has beenvital in developing a strong bondwith the neighbouring country.This visit marked a new chapter inrelations between the two coun-tries. A total of 10 Memoranda ofUnderstanding (MoUs) were

signed and the Prime Minister didnot miss the opportunity to nar-rate the Indian story to the youthover there. However, it is also a factthat with the world growing, andmore strategic powers courtingBhutan, much remains to be doneto retain ties. Both India andBhutan must address each other’sconcerns.

Janga Bahadur SunuwarBagrakote

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Sir — Internet services haveagain been suspended in theJammu and Kashmir region. Postthe abrogation of Article 370, theGovernment was bound to facechallenges in restoring normalcyin the Valley. We will also need tocontinue engaging with the worldcommunity over current andpast issues over Jammu &Kashmir with alacrity and lessreservation. This, too, will be achallenge. So, the need for theGovernment is to remain trans-parent across the aisle. More sowhen this historical step is boundto entail far-reaching socio-polit-ical connotations.

The Government must alsorealise that a strong Oppositionis needed to sustain our democ-ratic ethos. And, hence, it needsto be nurtured. Tide and timeswill constantly impact and testour mettle — the J&K issue is butone of them. The strife to addincremental value and strength toour polity will never cease.

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The recent suicide by Café Coffee Dayowner jolted every coffee lover in thecountry and brought to the fore the grim

reality that high debt can be dangerous for acompany. A business is said to be overlever-aged when it carries too much debt and isunable to make interest payments on loans andmeet other expenses.

Overleveraged companies are often unable topay operating expenses because of the burdenbrought on by debt in the form of interest pay-ments and principal repayments. Overleveragingcan sometimes lead to a downward financial spi-ral where the company cannot generate enoughrevenue to make the debt payments and pay itsusual operating expenses. This leads to the com-pany having to borrow more to stay in operation,and the problem gets worse. This spiral usuallyends when the company closes its doors or filesfor bankruptcy protection.

A less leveraged company can be betterpositioned to sustain drops in revenue becausethey do not have the same expensive debt-relat-ed burden on their cash flow. Businesses thatborrow money to add to a product line,expand internationally, or upgrade their facil-ities are often better able to offset the risk theytake on when borrowing.

Leverage can be measured by financial lever-age ratios, sometimes called equity or debtratios, which measure the value of equity in a com-pany by analyzing its overall debt picture. Theseratios either compare debt or equity to assets aswell as shares outstanding to measure the truevalue of the equity in a business.

This shows how much of the companyassets belong to the shareholders rather than cred-itors. When shareholders own a majority of theassets, the company is said to be less leveraged.When creditors own a majority of the assets, thecompany is considered highly leveraged. All ofthese measurements are important for investorsto understand how risky the capital structure ofa company is and if it is worth investing in.

The most common financial leverage ratiosare debt ratios, debt-equity ratios and equity ratios.Debt ratio is a solvency ratio that measures a firm’stotal liabilities as a percentage of its total assets.In a sense, the debt ratio shows a company’s abil-ity to pay off its liabilities with its assets. In otherwords, this shows how many assets the compa-ny must sell in order to pay off all its liabilities.

The debt to equity ratio is a financial, liq-uidity ratio that compares a company’s total debtto total equity. The debt to equity ratio showsthe percentage of company financing thatcomes from creditors and investors. A higherdebt to equity ratio indicates that more credi-tor financing, i.e., bank loans, is being used thaninvestor financing, i.e., shareholders.

The equity ratio is an investment leverageor solvency ratio that measures the amount ofassets that are financed by the owner’s invest-ments by comparing the total equity in the com-pany to the total assets.

In fact, some years ago, a team of financialscholars at Stanford Graduate School of Businessand at Germany’s Max Planck Institute studiedbanks and found that they have become “addict-

ed” to increasing their debt levels steadily.According to them, “leverage begets leverage”.However, it was further analysed that other cor-porations have become addicted to debt, evenwhen it reduces the total value of the enterprise.Once a company begins to take on debt, they say,the leverage becomes almost “irreversible.”Shareholders will generally oppose measures thatreduce debt and support moves to increase itwhenever the opportunity arises.

According to Paul Pfleiderer, a professor offinance at Stanford, taking leverage is like eat-ing potato chips. One cannot stick to the com-mitment of eating just a few chips. So, if one can-not stop after eating just one chip, one might bebetter off not eating them at all.

The authors argue that since reducing debtentails a transfer of risk - and wealth - fromshareholders to creditors, there is a clear disin-centive for shareholders to cut back on borrow-ing. If a company buys back its bonds, for exam-ple, bondholders will demand a premiumabove the current market price for those bonds.That’s because bondholders will insist that thebuyback price reflect the fact that the remain-ing debt will be at less risk of default.

In other words, bondholders get all the ben-efits of debt reduction and shareholders have tofoot the cost upfront. Government tax policymakes companies even more biased towardhigher debt, because it allows companies to deductinterest payments from their taxable income.

In theory, creditors can protect themselvesby insisting on contracts or “covenants” that restricta company’s ability to increase its leverage in thefuture. Among other things, covenants canrestrict a company from selling additional bondsor making big payouts to shareholders, whichreduce the company’s equity.

In practice, the authors argue, covenants aredifficult to enforce. Most covenants give compa-nies at least some discretion to take on more debt,

because companies need flexibility in dealing withnew opportunities and problems. On top of that,the creditors are often dispersed and unable to takea unified position.

The most obvious risk of high debt is theincreased danger of falling into financial distressor even bankruptcy. But on the other hand, ris-ing leverage can also make companies reluctantto invest in promising new projects.

That’s because part of the increase in valuegenerated by an investment would flow not to theshareholders but to the creditors, because theirbonds and loans would become more secure.Corporate boards take a hard new look at howmuch they compensate management throughstock options and other grants of equity in thecompany. The more money managers earn fromgrants of stock and options, rather than from theirsalaries, the more they will align their self-inter-est with shareholders rather than creditors

As bad as it may seem, at some point, almostall businesses must take out loans. Debt financ-ing can be attractive to business owners becausebanks won’t dictate how they should spend themoney and they don’t have to split up compa-ny ownership. Highly leveraged companies arevery sensitive to economic declines and at high-er risk for bankruptcy.

There are several problems of a highly lever-aged company. First, the lenders require borrow-ers to pay back their loan in a timely manner.This becomes a problem for fledgling compa-nies that borrow money for projects with long-term returns. If payments come due before thecompany starts seeing returns, loan repaymentscan be a crippling expense.

Paying back the loan on a regular basismeans less money to finance operations andinvest in growth opportunities.

Second, substantial loan payments can eas-ily cripple a highly leveraged company. A com-pany doesn’t have an obligation to repay capi-

tal from equity sources. However, banks and lenders have top senior-

ity when it comes to repayment in the event ofa bankruptcy. This means that lenders will getpaid out before anyone else, including the com-pany owner. If the company has a secured loan,the bank can repossess company assets.Depending on the business structure and theterms of the loan, the owner of the company mayalso be personally liable for the loan repayment.

Third, just like with individual lending, banksscrutinize corporate credit reports before dolingout more loans. Banks are unlikely to provide fur-ther funding to highly leveraged organizations.Not only are these companies at high risk forbankruptcy, the new lender might not get paidback if the company goes under.

Older loans typically carry higher senioritycompared to newer loans, so lenders are hesi-tant to put themselves at the bottom of the listfor recouping their investment. In the event abank does issue a loan, the interest rate will behigh enough to account for that increased risk.

Fourth, one of the options a company hasto reduce its financial leverage is to increase theamount of equity capital.

However, investors rarely give money tohighly leveraged businesses. Investors avoid highly leveraged companies for all the same reasons lenders do, plus they’re the last in lineto get repaid.

If an investor is willing to invest in a high-ly leveraged company they’ll expect to receive anespecially large percentage of ownership inexchange for their money.

It’s important that further research shouldbe done to shed light on why companies canbecome hooked to high debt. As they say aboutother forms of addiction, admitting you have aproblem is the first step towards solving it.

(The writer is Assistant Professor, AmityUniversity)

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Eyebrows were raised when PrimeMinister Narendra Modiexpressed concern about the pop-

ulation explosion in the country in hisrecent Independence Day speech.There was a feeling of surprise that thePrime Minister chose to bring up anissue that has been a ‘No- No’ for manypoliticians from the days of Emergencywhen the Indira Gandhi governmentused coercive population control mea-sures. Her Family Planning programmereceived widespread condemnationand effectively never realized its pur-pose. Later the ministry’s name waschanged to Family Welfare.

India’s population is 1.34 billion,which is nearly a four-fold increasesince Independence. Modi has reasonsfor concern as according to the WorldPopulation Prospects 2019 of theUnited Nations, India is expected to add

nearly 273 million people between 2019and 2050. Inevitably, with these figures,“India is projected to surpass China asthe world’s most populous countryaround 2027”, the report said. Thebiggest challenge for India is its unpre-paredness to accommodate such ahuge population. Looking at these fig-ures, “The time has now come that weshould take such challenges ahead,”Modi said.

Interestingly, while Modi talkedabout India’s demographic dividend inhis first term, in his second term he hasrealised that though a large populationby itself may not be a bad thing, it hasto contribute to the growth of thecountry. This needs to be supported bycapital, technology and infrastructure,as well as skills. That is why the PrimeMinister is now talking of education asa means of both moderating the risingpopulation and making it productive.

The country is already facing anacute drinking water crisis, garbage dis-posal and sewage treatment problems,inadequate rainfall, climate change,increased levels of pollution, highinfant and child mortality rate and poorstandard of living in the economicallyweaker sections.

The Prime Minister’s speech was

mainly targeted towards these poorersections of society and his appeal to themfor keeping the family small was aimedat improving their standard of living.

He is aware that the poor are miss-ing out on opportunities to climb up theeconomic and social ladder because theyhave too many mouths to feed. Makingit a nationalistic issue, he said, “Thosewho follow the policy of a small familyalso contribute to the development of thenation; it is also a form of patriotism.”

Why did Modi talk of populationexplosion now? It obviously stems fromthe fact that his hands are strengthenedafter the massive mandate he receivedin the 2019 polls.

Politically, Modi is much strongertoday, while the Opposition is weak likenever before. Add to that the PrimeMinister’s recent success in Parliamentin getting controversial Bills like TripleTalaq and abrogation of Article 370 per-taining to the special status of Jammuand Kashmir passed, despite being in aminority in the Rajya Sabha.

Second, the Indian Right-wing,including the BJP, has always expressedconcerns about the increasing minori-ty population. They feel that the Muslimsare trying to overtake Hindus in thecountry by multiplying fast. The

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)chief Mohan Bhagwat, during his annu-al Dussehra address some time ago,noted, “We need to rise above vote bankpolitics to formulate a holistic approach,equally applicable to all citizens, towardsthe population policy.”

In Parliament too, BJP membershave raised this issue. Recently RakeshSinha, a BJP Member of Parliament,introduced a Private Member’s Bill toregulate population. Earlier, another BJPmember Sanjeev Balyan, who is now aminister, had also introduced anotherBill with the backing of 124 members.

The late BJP stalwart Atal BihariVajpayee too had made such an attemptin 2000 by bringing a forward-lookingNational Population Policy. However, itmade the two-child norm a voluntarycommitment for individuals. The ModiGovernment has also followed the sameapproach that the family planning pro-gramme in India is target-free and vol-untary in nature.

Modi’s speech has triggered specu-lation that a mild interventionist popu-lation policy is not far off. It is a very sen-sitive issue both at the state level as wellas the religious level.

The North-South divide and theHindu-Muslim divide are the two

issues that raise their heads wheneverthe spotlight is on population control.While the southern states feel that theirgreat success in bringing down the pop-ulation is costing them in terms ofresources devolved from the Centre, theMinority Affairs Minister MukhtarAbbas Naqvi has claimed this week thatit is a social reform.

The Prime Minister is not one towaste words and he has used theIndependence Day speech to prepare thecountry for population regulation, goingforward. There is an urgent need toaggressively push concepts like the two-child policy, child spacing, increased useof contraceptives and voluntary sterili-sation. The two-child norm should bemade a uniform criterion for govern-ment jobs, getting aid and subsidies andother benefits. Perhaps incentives anddisincentives might work better in con-taining the size of the family. Thehealth ministry is already implementingmany of these schemes, but much morewill be needed to create awareness andto make an impact in the long run.

As India aspires to become a majoreconomic power, it’s time to definewhether a growing population is anopportunity or a danger.

(The writer is a senior journalist)

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Kumar has offered to award Goldmedals to graduating doctors atAIIMS Rishikesh in Uttarakhand.A former IIT-Roorkee productand a Gold medalist himself,Hersh has also created a corpusfund for such awards and schol-arships and vows to extend thisprogram to other medical insti-tutes across the country in nearfuture.

The students with highestcommitment to the ethics of pro-fession and compassion in patient

care will be awarded the Goldmedal christened as Hersh andRita Kumar Golden Heart Awardto be instituted from current aca-demic session only. This wasannounced by Hersh and hiswife — Rita during his visit to theAIIMS campus in Rishikesh lastweek to conduct a mentoring ses-sion for MBBS students in thepresence of institute Director —Dr Ravi Kant.

“While giving scholarships,financial aids and awards, some-how focus remains on academicexcellence and financial conditionof recipients. However there is aserious decline in the passion for

profession, compassion, desire toserve with ethics. The focusremains on mind but not on heart.The Gold medal program consistsof mentoring sessions to empha-sise on ultimate wisdom of involv-

ing heart along with mind in theprofession,” said Hersh Kumar.

While mentoring the stu-dents at AIIMS, Hersh said thereshould be a ‘four wheel drive sys-tem’ which means that if weinvolve mind as the front wheeland heart as real wheel or viceversa, it will make a four wheeldrive system that is genuinelymore powerful.

“It will allow professionals totap to their true hidden potentialand enable them to be highachievers professionally with morejob satisfaction. It will also helpthem in their holistic developmentas a human being,” Kumar adds.

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Holding out hope for peo-ple suffering from

Achalasia, a rare disorder ofEsophagus causing difficulty inswallowing food, a Per-OralEndoscopic Myotomy, anadvanced Endoscopis proce-dure has been performed forthe first time at SRM MedicalCollege Hospital and ResearchCentre, Kattankulathur, COODr Ram Natesan has said.

The operation was per-formed by SRM MedicalCollege Hospital and Research

Centre’s interventional endo-scopic gastro enterologist Dr NA Rajesh under the overallsupervision of chief surgicalgastro enterologist Dr ARathnaswami.

The procedure was firstintroduced in 2008 in Japanand is currently done only ina few advanced endoscopiccentres in India.

This procedure requires,apart from specialised endo-scopic equipment, a skilledendoscopist with adequatetraining in therapeuticEndoscopic procedures.

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after declaration of theresult.

Candidates of ExecutiveProgramme cxaminationcan download their e-Resultcum-Marks Statementimmediately after the dec-laration of result from theinstitute’s website for theirreference and records andno physical/hardcopy of themarks statement will be sentin this regard. However,hard copy of the result cum-marks statement shall beissued to the candidates ofProfessional Programmeexamination.

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Art has been one of the key uni-fying factors for the Indian soci-

ety. Visual art is an art form thatfocuses on creating pieces of work bythe means of visual environment, inorder to convey messages of emotion,ideas or information. It can also inte-grate skills such as creativity, com-munication, cooperation and criticalthinking and prepare youth for thefuture.

A course in Visual Arts appealsto the aesthetic sense of students andmakes their imaginative senses grow.

Realising the potential of VisualArts, the World University of Design(WUD) is offering eight speciallycurated courses in Visual Arts disci-pline for young students in India.

If you have creative instinct andlove analysing how people makemeaning out of symbols and art thenunder mentioned are the courses youcan’t miss to watch out for.�Digital Drawing & Illustration

This is the only undergraduatecourse in India that looks at drawingsin a holistic and futuristic way spe-cially designed to keep pace withchanging technology and its role inart and culture. Digital Drawingand Illustration students will devel-op skills with a variety software-basedskill, while constantly being exposed

to traditional media methods andconceptual drawing skills. The oppor-tunities one can explore post doingthe course medical or LegalAnimator, Comic book artist andArchitectural 3D Modeler.�Fashion Arts

This course focuses on creatinga bridge between fashion & visual artsto create professionals who will beable to meet the requirements of therising demands of the fashion andentertainment industries. One canexplore various career options afteropting this course like advertising,product design, apparel design eventmanagement, trend forecasters and

in publishing industry.�Curatorial Practices in Arts

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ed its compact segment portfo-lio in India with the launch ofGrand i10 Nios hatchback,priced between Rs 4.99 lakh andRs 7.99 lakh (ex-showroom).The company, which is presentin the country through a whol-ly-owned subsidiary, has intro-duced the model with bothpetrol and diesel powertrains.

The petrol variants, withmanual and automated manualtransmission (AMT), are pricedbetween Rs 4.99 lakhand Rs 7.14 lakh.Diesel trims,including manualand automaticvariants aret a g g e dbetween Rs6.7 lakh andRs 7.99 lakh.The companyclaimed fuelefficiency of

20.7 km/litre for the 1.2 litrepetrol manual variants and 20.5km/litre for the AMT versions.The 1.2 litre diesel manual andAMT variants come with fuelefficiency of 26.2 km/litre, itadded.

Hyundai Motor India Ltd(HMIL) MD and CEO SS Kimsaid the new model is a made inIndia product for the globalmarket. “The launch of Grandi10 Nios will stand for our com-mitment to the Indian marketand fulfil our promise of creat-ing a happy life for our cus-tomers,” he added. The compa-

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sell around 7,000 units of themodel to begin with. It will alsocontinue to offer Grand i10,which currently sells over 10,000units a month. Kim said theGrand i10 Nios will furtherenhance the company’s portfo-lio in the compact segment,which accounts for over 50 percent of the total PV sales in Indiaat present, and help the compa-ny grow its market share, whichcurrently stands at 19.4 percent. “We still believe that in thenext five years the segment willbe the dominant segment inIndian car market,” he saidadding the new offering will tar-get millennials while the exist-ing Grand i10 would be offeredfor customers in tier II and III

cities, where there is stilldemand for afford-

able feature-richcompact cars. Tilldate, Hyundaihas sold around2.72 million unitsof Grand i10across the globe.

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New Delhi (PTI): Tech giantSamsung on Tuesday said it isconfident of cornering 65 percent market share in the premi-um smartphone segment (Rs30,000 and above) with thelaunch of its flagship GalaxyNote 10 and 10+ in India.

The company, which com-petes with the likes of OnePlusand Apple, in this segment, said

in the first half of 2019 (January-June), its market share was at 63per cent in value terms in the pre-mium category (as per GfKdata). “We had 52 per cent valuemarket share in the premiumsegment in 2018. This rose to63 per cent in H1 2019,”Samsung India Senior VicePresident and Head of Marketing,Mobile Business Ranjivjit Singh

told PTI. He added that by theyear-end, the companyis confident ofexpand-

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further to 65per cent and above.

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mated to be about Rs 15,000-20,000 crore, is growing atabout 9-10 per cent. We are

growing at strong doubledigits and expect to grow at

over 20 per cent,” he said. Apartfrom the Note series, the com-pany’s lineup in the premium cat-egory includes Samsung GalaxyS series and A80. He said theNote 10 series has powerful flag-

ship devices that will take the pro-ductivity and creativity of mil-lennial users to the next level.“For the first time ever, GalaxyNote10 comes in two sizes, soconsumers can find the Notethat’s best for them. It has anenhanced S Pen that convertshandwriting to digital text,and enhanced Samsung DeXfor PC and link to Windowsfor all meeting productivityneeds of the customers,” Singhadded.

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Bangladesh Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina and tennis

star Sania Mirza will beamong co-chairs for IndiaEconomic Summit to be heldhere in October by the WorldEconomic Forum, where hun-dreds of Indian and globalleaders would discuss India’srole in South Asia and on theworld stage. Hasina and Mirzawill be joined by Singapore’sDeputy Prime Minister andFinance Minister Heng SweeKeat, Apol lo HospitalsEnterprise’s Executive Vice-Chairperson ShobanaKamineni and SequoiaCapital India’s ManagingDirector Shailendra Singh asother co-chairs.

Mirza will co-chair thesummit as a sportspersonand the UN Women GoodwillAmbassador for South Asia.The two-day summit, sched-uled for October 3-4, will beheld by Geneva-based WEFin collaboration with industrybody CII (Confederation ofIndian Industry) under thetheme of ‘Innovating forIndia: Strengthening SouthAsia, Impacting the World’.

According to the WorldEconomic Forum (WEF), themeeting will address strategicissues of regional significanceunder four thematic pillars -the new geopolitical reality

and new social, ecologicaland technological systems.The WEF said India as thefastest-growing large econo-my in the world has demon-strated remarkable strengthand resilience amid globalslowdown. The country’s andthe region’s role is critical tothe sustainability of globaleconomic growth and if thisis to be Asia’s century, the roleof South Asia will be indis-pensable, it added.

Besides, the r ise ofadvanced technologies hasthe potential to create eco-nomic and social value, andbolster India’s goal of main-taining its growth momentumwhile attaining greater socialinclusion and regional coop-eration. The WEF, whichhosts its annual summit inSwiss Alps resort town ofDavos every year, said the

India meeting will convenekey leaders from government,private sector, academia andcivil society to facilitate dia-logue on policy tools, businessmodels, industry standards,norms and guidelines forboosting the dynamism ofIndia to attain its growthpotential. The meeting willalso focus on accelerating theadoption of Fourth IndustrialRevolution technologies andoptimally governing them toassist India to leapfrog to anadvanced stage of develop-ment and provide the worldwith replicable proof of asuccessful model, affectingbillions of people globally.Top leaders expected to attendthe meeting include seniorministers Nitin Gadkari,Piyush Goyal, Smriti Irani,Dharmendra Pradhan, andHardeep Singh Puri.

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New Delhi (PTI): StateBank of India (SBI), the coun-try’s largest lender, on Tuesdayannounced a number of offersincluding cheaper rates forhome and auto loan borrowers,to cash in on festival fervour.Customers can avail the cheap-er loans with added benefitssuch as waiver in processingfees, pre-approved digital loansand loans with no escalation ininterest rates spread acrossvarious categories, SBI said ina statement.

The bank has not specifiedthe time period for which thisfestival offer would be valid.However, the move would befollowed by the other lenders aswell. “SBI has waived process-ing fees on car loans during fes-tival season. The bank is offer-ing lowest interest rate startingfrom 8.70 per cent to customersopting for car loan, with no

escalation in interest,” it said.No escalation will ensure thatthe customer will not have toface fluctuation in the interestrate. For customers applying fora car loan online through thebank’s digital platform likeYONO or website, a 25-basispoint concession on interestrate can be availed, it said.

The salaried customers canalso avail the loan up to 90 percent of the car’s on-road price,it said. Recently, SBI reducedmarginal cost of funds-basedlending rate (MCLR) by 15 bpsdue to which overall home loaninterest rate is now reduced by35 bps since April 2019.Currently, the bank offerscheapest home loan with aninterest rate of 8.05 per cent asrepo rate-linked home loanand this rate will be applicableto all existing and new loanfrom September 1, it said.

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IDBI 27.90 27.90 26.20 26.65DCBBANK 210.95 214.00 210.15 211.40GMRINFRA 15.75 15.99 15.10 15.18NOCIL 83.30 83.30 79.65 80.15MCX 868.45 868.45 840.10 858.35GNFC 196.40 199.90 196.40 197.95BHARTIARTL 360.80 362.35 357.50 358.15SRF 2939.00 2942.25 2845.10 2854.05SRTRANSFIN 1060.00 1075.30 1020.50 1028.90RAYMOND 619.45 620.40 596.85 600.25DABUR 432.90 433.15 428.25 431.80ONGC 127.00 127.00 124.45 125.05GODFRYPHLP 1049.90 1063.50 1017.35 1035.75PHILIPCARB 126.00 126.90 123.55 125.30GLENMARK 368.75 375.65 365.10 374.30NIITTECH 1319.95 1397.00 1319.95 1379.50MINDTREE 706.60 726.00 703.75 707.75APOLLOHOSP 1486.00 1489.55 1463.65 1474.50CEATLTD 876.50 893.00 851.90 885.40GRAPHITE 292.00 295.00 289.30 291.45AVANTI 298.60 314.55 298.60 304.35CENTURYTEX 899.00 899.35 861.50 865.90GODREJIND 452.90 452.90 442.00 445.60UPL 539.00 545.10 535.00 540.05WESTLIFE 281.00 291.00 273.40 289.70AMBUJACEM 211.20 211.20 205.20 205.80TATAMTRDVR 56.00 57.75 56.00 57.45LUPIN 733.10 742.45 728.60 735.70INDIACEM 79.80 80.15 76.60 78.40LTI 1613.00 1629.00 1596.75 1613.55CIPLA 478.40 481.25 470.90 478.80ADANIGAS 153.50 160.00 153.00 155.10LICHSGFIN 483.90 483.90 467.20 471.30IDFCFIRSTB 45.45 45.70 44.05 44.95MARICO 396.55 398.00 393.35 395.60BHARATFORG 397.95 404.00 389.75 391.20SPARC 158.90 158.95 152.75 154.20JKTYRE 59.90 59.95 57.60 58.50EQUITAS 111.05 111.35 104.55 107.50INTELLECT 226.10 230.70 220.95 223.10AUROPHARMA 607.90 607.90 593.25 600.50BPCL 347.30 347.35 339.70 342.55INFRATEL 253.00 258.45 252.55 255.60

JAICORPLTD 74.65 74.85 70.95 71.85PGHL 4366.00 4470.00 4221.10 4388.50APOLLOTYRE 163.10 165.90 163.10 165.05BATAINDIA 1473.00 1483.80 1466.35 1471.75RAJESHEXPO 716.00 741.00 688.50 727.50SWANENERGY 101.90 102.30 99.40 100.60RECLTD 147.85 148.05 144.35 144.90NAUKRI 2172.65 2189.95 2116.60 2159.25FEDERALBNK 85.85 85.85 83.60 84.65BOMDYEING 73.50 73.70 71.00 72.05ADANIPORTS 357.20 359.45 352.30 355.10BANDHANBNK 497.30 500.25 484.00 487.65TVSMOTOR 373.15 375.60 365.30 369.30RNAM 258.00 258.00 250.00 252.45CROMPTON 225.00 231.50 225.00 227.85LAKSHVILAS 44.20 46.05 43.15 44.05TATAGLOBAL 269.00 270.35 263.95 265.90CONCOR 476.00 476.90 463.40 475.00ICICIGI 1156.55 1160.20 1132.80 1136.35BEML 765.90 771.60 753.95 767.70GODREJCP 628.45 639.80 621.40 631.25AAVAS 1600.00 1621.00 1474.15 1504.80WOCKPHARMA 280.10 280.40 273.35 275.15ABCAPITAL 90.60 90.75 88.00 89.50PRESTIGE 304.00 304.00 290.25 294.95BERGEPAINT 364.80 367.45 361.40 366.40PFC 108.50 108.50 104.75 106.40PCJEWELLER 34.00 34.00 32.60 32.90SHANKARA 285.00 301.15 281.05 289.60BLISSGVS 95.70 95.70 93.20 93.95KEI 468.00 472.50 451.35 453.85J&KBANK 36.80 39.25 36.65 37.25UBL 1330.00 1335.25 1309.70 1318.80FSL 50.30 50.80 49.10 50.40MINDAIND 313.55 323.45 311.90 321.05CADILAHC 218.65 220.00 214.55 219.45INOXWIND 39.75 41.00 33.60 35.60OMAXE 197.70 197.70 194.40 195.45NATIONALUM 41.10 41.20 40.40 40.65

IFBIND 684.15 686.35 658.00 665.40AUBANK 700.65 700.65 678.45 697.15SUNTECK 465.00 465.50 452.50 459.45ENGINERSIN 102.85 104.40 101.10 103.40AJANTPHARM 977.10 981.80 943.25 952.95CANFINHOME 379.80 385.50 372.90 377.20PETRONET 237.40 239.90 236.00 236.40HSCL 84.50 86.00 79.00 82.65WELCORP 115.90 116.90 114.00 115.60MINDACORP 80.30 80.30 76.00 77.40NHPC 23.20 23.90 23.10 23.30SUNTV 441.40 443.40 432.25 434.35TIINDIA 351.80 358.20 349.50 356.45UFLEX 216.90 216.90 205.45 206.60JSWENERGY 69.95 70.10 68.25 69.25DCMSHRIRAM 405.70 410.00 396.00 404.80ADANITRANS 219.05 221.65 216.75 218.95RADICO 324.15 328.90 310.40 313.45DELTACORP 157.00 157.00 149.00 150.10CENTRUM 27.00 28.40 26.50 28.05MRPL 50.00 50.60 48.05 48.25INDHOTEL 134.15 134.40 131.00 131.65TATACOMM 440.80 448.00 438.80 442.45DIVISLAB 1544.90 1544.90 1515.20 1520.50KEC 295.00 296.55 288.00 289.05TORNTPOWER 286.00 292.00 286.00 290.25JAMNAAUTO 33.90 34.10 32.05 32.75LEMONTREE 53.20 54.20 52.00 52.90TATACHEM 564.95 565.00 554.30 563.50COLPAL 1212.60 1214.95 1192.00 1200.50KTKBANK 79.10 79.10 76.60 76.80GSKCONS 7900.80 7994.00 7890.00 7968.65NESTLEIND 12072.00 12142.65 11927.55 11963.35HEIDELBERG 196.00 199.00 195.50 198.00QUESS 465.50 465.50 448.50 457.90INDIANB 182.65 182.75 176.00 179.45VIPIND 388.00 390.60 382.85 388.90GODREJPROP 907.10 920.00 900.00 902.50ABFRL 190.20 190.80 186.45 188.35BALKRISIND 734.10 738.65 723.05 729.80GRUH 258.95 260.10 252.60 256.00JUBILANT 452.00 453.55 442.00 448.15AEGISLOG 195.50 202.50 194.50 202.10IRB 90.95 91.10 88.20 89.85GSFC 73.30 74.40 72.90 74.15JINDALSAW 71.35 72.00 69.75 70.05DBL 399.50 404.80 391.00 401.15PERSISTENT 534.45 561.95 533.65 554.70EXIDEIND 179.00 179.85 176.15 178.45TRENT 472.50 479.00 467.00 475.00SOUTHBANK 11.51 11.51 11.32 11.35THERMAX 1064.50 1064.50 1021.05 1028.05GREAVESCOT 119.00 123.00 119.00 121.55CHENNPETRO 193.25 197.00 185.00 195.60TRITURBINE 102.00 106.90 97.00 105.15IPCALAB 958.70 970.00 946.00 966.85SUVEN 244.00 247.85 241.00 244.80HINDZINC 209.60 209.60 204.00 206.35DEEPAKNI 276.85 277.50 273.60 274.75PARAGMILK 169.05 169.30 160.20 161.00NETWORK18 22.60 22.60 20.95 21.30DEEPAKFERT 85.70 85.70 82.25 83.35TORNTPHARM 1646.15 1667.00 1631.65 1659.35CUMMINSIND 586.00 586.90 575.75 579.60SIEMENS 1167.00 1172.65 1148.80 1166.85AMARAJABAT 626.00 626.00 613.00 619.95MEGH 48.00 48.00 46.10 46.30COROMANDEL 358.15 360.00 347.10 354.85OIL 152.40 152.60 147.55 148.05RAIN 83.50 84.10 82.30 83.10GRANULES 94.95 95.45 93.00 93.35EMAMILTD 299.10 301.15 291.85 297.00ATUL 3589.50 3650.00 3505.00 3618.40JSL 31.00 31.00 28.75 29.35TATACOFFEE 73.15 73.40 70.25 72.25ESSELPRO 95.35 96.00 85.30 87.00VOLTAS 612.00 612.00 599.70 604.85CGPOWER 14.75 14.75 14.75 14.75PTC 58.10 59.65 58.10 59.25KNRCON 246.50 249.90 238.10 248.80PFIZER 2970.00 2970.00 2893.70 2914.45NAVINFLUOR 647.50 650.05 640.60 644.55VGUARD 238.00 238.40 231.60 233.15TAKE 101.00 103.40 99.00 102.15CHAMBLFERT 145.50 147.10 142.50 143.55VBL 652.70 654.45 642.60 646.00ASTRAL 1233.00 1268.00 1212.00 1249.80LTTS 1589.95 1598.60 1558.20 1565.40IFCI 7.68 7.68 7.14 7.27WABAG 286.85 291.20 278.00 280.20MUTHOOTFIN 628.90 630.00 617.30 620.50KRBL 235.50 236.00 227.35 229.05TRIDENT 58.00 58.15 56.50 57.85CARERATING 597.95 597.95 585.35 588.40INOXLEISUR 292.00 292.00 282.10 283.05MOIL 130.80 131.25 128.50 128.80GLAXO 1213.20 1213.70 1202.20 1207.70SYNGENE 305.50 306.85 297.10 305.35INFIBEAM 42.10 42.75 41.75 42.00GICRE 178.95 181.20 175.00 178.70JISLJALEQS 22.10 22.15 21.15 21.25FCONSUMER 32.20 32.20 30.25 31.45GODREJAGRO 446.20 458.55 446.00 449.10GSPL 219.60 220.50 217.00 219.40RITES 232.60 234.60 228.00 233.70CASTROLIND 117.05 118.90 117.05 118.45RCF 44.25 44.90 43.90 44.00VINATIORGA 2088.00 2105.75 2056.30 2073.70IDFC 34.15 34.30 33.80 34.10

ITDCEM 67.10 72.55 67.00 69.50ASTRAZEN 1730.00 1785.80 1710.00 1774.20HINDCOPPER 32.85 32.85 30.80 31.10REDINGTON 105.05 106.10 103.70 105.75ITI 73.50 73.50 71.00 71.35MAHLOG 363.20 364.50 356.55 358.05GICHSGFIN 192.80 192.80 185.45 187.85SONATSOFTW 321.55 322.90 315.00 320.90SCI 27.30 27.35 26.20 26.75ORIENTBANK 67.65 67.65 65.15 65.80TNPL 185.90 187.75 180.00 182.50CENTURYPLY 136.00 136.20 132.50 133.70NATCOPHARM 550.00 553.10 543.05 548.15FRETAIL 415.10 416.25 410.65 412.95SUNDRMFAST 403.60 412.85 403.60 410.90JKCEMENT 1030.00 1037.90 1023.75 1025.90RAMCOCEM 738.75 740.00 714.75 720.55ABBOTINDIA 9196.50 9261.00 8900.00 8997.70OFSS 3075.00 3075.00 2950.00 2959.35ASHOKA 117.05 118.80 113.20 118.20BBTC 796.90 800.70 779.00 784.10UNITEDBNK 10.00 10.05 9.90 9.93HATHWAY 26.50 27.80 26.50 27.20ALBK 35.95 35.95 34.70 34.85MMTC 20.25 20.25 19.10 19.20MAHSCOOTER 3967.00 4000.00 3908.80 3982.10MAHINDCIE 156.25 159.00 147.95 150.25SUPREMEIND 1122.25 1126.15 1107.50 1123.75CREDITACC 510.00 514.55 505.55 509.40GRINDWELL 554.90 569.90 554.00 568.60PIIND 1127.00 1133.00 1113.00 1119.40ISEC 214.70 215.40 208.50 209.90CYIENT 427.05 450.00 426.85 428.85ABB 1365.30 1376.40 1360.65 1364.25JAGRAN 67.00 70.60 66.60 70.15KANSAINER 475.15 476.65 468.50 475.00JETAIRWAYS 38.00 38.00 36.35 36.35GUJALKALI 411.25 412.75 405.90 408.80ADANIGREEN 46.45 46.70 45.50 45.80RCOM 1.13 1.13 1.13 1.13ZYDUSWELL 1500.00 1508.85 1483.00 1489.50THOMASCOOK 165.00 165.95 161.50 163.75APLAPOLLO 1301.00 1301.00 1276.20 1284.60PNBHOUSING 727.90 727.95 710.50 719.55SHREECEM 19335.00 19335.00 18762.05 19023.70TEAMLEASE 2409.00 2460.00 2365.25 2440.40ENDURANCE 862.15 887.00 848.00 879.10JSLHISAR 66.10 66.10 64.25 64.75GDL 101.90 102.00 98.55 99.15TTKPRESTIG 5896.70 5999.00 5753.00 5778.15CUB 198.90 201.00 198.90 199.90EIDPARRY 153.10 153.15 147.30 148.40KALPATPOWR 495.00 502.40 489.70 498.90PAGEIND 18249.55 18351.90 18093.10 18248.60SCHNEIDER 75.25 75.65 74.40 75.25SOBHA 471.00 480.35 471.00 472.80CENTRALBK 19.45 19.45 19.15 19.20TEJASNET 87.00 87.30 85.00 86.60REPCOHOME 330.00 332.80 311.60 316.20GUJGAS 184.00 187.00 183.00 183.80BALMLAWRIE 173.55 173.65 171.95 173.10EIHOTEL 153.80 153.80 147.00 149.00JMFINANCIL 73.65 74.00 72.50 72.95FINOLEXIND 520.00 520.00 501.00 503.10VARROC 433.70 435.00 425.00 426.30FORTIS 123.05 124.30 122.20 123.20ALLCARGO 93.00 95.85 92.00 93.70THYROCARE 471.80 485.30 465.35 469.05RALLIS 160.05 160.05 157.50 158.50MASFIN 611.10 625.10 610.00 620.75MPHASIS 976.70 976.70 963.70 974.45PNCINFRA 202.10 204.30 201.45 203.05APLLTD 515.00 515.00 508.00 510.35IEX 144.75 147.45 139.85 142.25MHRIL 215.85 216.05 213.00 213.85GPPL 78.55 82.40 78.55 81.60BOSCHLTD 13637.00 13786.70 13501.05 13557.30BLUESTARCO 708.00 718.00 700.25 707.95BAYERCROP 3130.00 3193.50 3120.00 3157.20EVEREADY 78.10 82.00 76.90 80.70MRF 57680.00 57760.00 57180.35 57548.40TV18BRDCST 20.90 20.90 20.30 20.35DCAL 183.90 183.90 175.00 178.10JBCHEPHARM 381.00 381.95 377.25 379.60JPASSOCIAT 2.41 2.44 2.36 2.37HIMATSEIDE 134.30 134.65 129.50 129.90GHCL 200.90 201.25 196.40 197.35HUDCO 33.25 33.30 33.00 33.15CRISIL 1247.65 1286.25 1247.05 1270.75TIMKEN 703.00 707.65 692.00 697.00SJVN 24.35 24.55 24.20 24.30GMDCLTD 66.40 66.40 65.10 65.25SYNDIBANK 31.35 31.40 30.60 31.00INDOSTAR 277.15 278.00 274.65 275.90BAJAJELEC 381.75 386.00 380.00 384.30TATAINVEST 793.65 796.65 786.25 789.05IOB 9.98 10.09 9.81 9.90MAHLIFE 381.90 391.45 377.90 387.90BASF 1010.00 1030.00 1010.00 1016.60WHIRLPOOL 1550.50 1552.85 1541.40 1543.75WABCOINDIA 6093.00 6109.90 6050.10 6071.90TATAMETALI 502.00 514.10 502.00 509.20BAJAJHLDNG 3405.90 3413.85 3335.65 3356.60NIACL 111.10 111.10 109.10 110.00RELAXO 425.75 428.00 419.65 424.75SHILPAMED 256.00 276.60 256.00 266.45MOTILALOFS 575.15 577.50 560.00 560.15SOMANYCERA 299.90 300.00 291.00 291.70NILKAMAL 1029.60 1035.70 997.00 1001.00

CORPBANK 19.00 19.35 18.50 18.95LAXMIMACH 3841.85 3862.00 3775.00 3791.95ANDHRABANK 19.05 19.40 18.80 18.95BDL 288.95 297.80 287.00 288.85SADBHAV 127.65 129.70 125.10 125.70TVTODAY 304.00 304.00 300.30 301.80SUPRAJIT 180.00 181.95 177.00 180.90PHOENIXLTD 624.00 631.00 617.00 627.70CAPPL 428.40 430.00 420.70 421.55ORIENTCEM 88.30 88.30 85.10 86.45HERITGFOOD 337.20 344.65 333.35 339.40JYOTHYLAB 151.20 153.50 151.20 152.50BAJAJCON 264.70 266.00 257.80 258.25ALKEM 1749.40 1791.05 1733.00 1768.85FINCABLES 369.00 376.90 367.20 374.50GALAXYSURF 1293.00 1304.85 1266.70 1300.55IBULISL 103.05 103.10 99.85 101.50JKLAKSHMI 325.55 329.40 325.15 325.55LINDEINDIA 504.00 506.90 491.55 495.95UCOBANK 15.65 15.65 15.35 15.40SUDARSCHEM 323.65 323.65 316.80 319.85ECLERX 531.30 531.30 496.00 500.65WELSPUNIND 48.00 48.10 47.55 47.75LAURUSLABS 336.00 338.10 336.00 337.40ZENSARTECH 225.50 227.90 222.55 225.45HONAUT 23100.00 23365.00 23020.00 23221.45SHK 118.50 119.90 118.00 119.20JSWHL 2668.20 2717.00 2637.35 2647.50MAHSEAMLES 400.65 412.55 398.75 400.85TIMETECHNO 65.05 65.05 61.25 61.75SIS 810.50 820.00 790.00 810.80ASTERDM 121.45 122.55 120.55 122.55GESHIP* 233.70 243.40 233.70 241.95PRSMJOHNSN 84.65 85.00 83.90 84.60IRCON 353.30 355.95 353.30 355.00MAHABANK 11.91 11.94 11.75 11.84ITDC 181.00 181.00 173.30 173.80NH 242.25 248.75 238.05 242.80ADVENZYMES 155.95 155.95 152.75 152.85SYMPHONY 1247.10 1253.30 1216.10 1229.70BIRLACORPN 581.50 583.05 570.50 571.95SCHAEFFLER 4182.30 4259.00 4045.00 4060.70CARBORUNIV 280.30 284.45 278.30 279.75GEPIL 749.00 749.00 734.45 735.75PGHH 10260.00 10309.95 10156.65 10267.15GET&D 159.45 160.85 155.20 157.60MONSANTO 2028.50 2048.00 2010.00 2023.10APARINDS 549.15 558.50 540.70 550.10NBVENTURES 88.05 90.75 87.00 89.85HAL 639.00 668.80 639.00 667.30CCL 246.00 246.30 244.70 245.60SANOFI 6243.75 6244.00 6113.15 6127.05JCHAC 1573.00 1611.00 1573.00 1583.50DHANUKA 334.00 340.00 325.50 328.65TCNSBRANDS 740.00 740.00 700.00 713.053MINDIA 20821.00 20821.00 20528.00 20577.75NLCINDIA 54.80 54.95 54.65 54.75TVSSRICHAK 1665.00 1667.95 1602.00 1641.80GULFOILLUB 844.25 866.40 842.95 863.05CHOLAHLDNG 473.90 478.50 467.25 470.15FINEORG 1421.50 1431.25 1413.70 1428.65LAOPALA 155.00 155.60 153.20 154.85RATNAMANI 915.60 925.00 901.00 911.55VTL 919.90 919.90 906.55 911.95SFL 1165.00 1165.00 1123.00 1140.50ASAHIINDIA 192.90 192.90 185.00 185.25FLFL 445.00 449.70 443.10 446.35BLUEDART 2333.00 2333.00 2263.00 2273.35SREINFRA 11.00 11.01 10.78 10.92SHRIRAMCIT 1300.00 1425.00 1221.55 1390.85ELGIEQUIP 242.00 244.00 240.40 243.45KPRMILL 580.00 580.00 569.25 570.80HATSUN 600.00 620.00 590.10 618.10COCHINSHIP 352.40 353.45 350.50 351.20AIAENG 1640.00 1640.00 1618.00 1628.70GAYAPROJ 132.10 132.30 127.30 129.90CERA 2447.60 2466.95 2425.00 2460.25GILLETTE 7028.95 7096.30 7011.00 7033.75LUXIND 1016.15 1026.50 1005.05 1008.25SHOPERSTOP 373.70 380.00 369.20 373.80SKFINDIA 1837.00 1882.05 1837.00 1866.60MAGMA 70.55 71.40 70.10 70.35COFFEEDAY 69.35 69.35 69.35 69.35AKZOINDIA 1730.55 1730.55 1700.15 1703.30MAXINDIA 56.70 56.95 55.50 56.75NESCO 535.00 535.00 528.55 532.00SOLARINDS 1090.00 1104.00 1086.50 1088.10FDC 159.75 161.20 158.55 159.40VMART 1713.00 1754.75 1701.65 1751.05DBCORP 153.75 155.75 153.00 154.75ORIENTELEC 160.35 161.70 159.00 159.90ERIS 393.70 397.00 393.45 394.20STARCEMENT 97.75 97.90 97.50 97.50

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 11063.90 11076.30 10985.30 11017.00 -36.90MARUTI 6003.00 6233.00 5959.05 6223.00 240.45TATAMOTORS 120.00 124.80 119.00 123.80 3.00HCLTECH 1067.90 1090.80 1065.10 1085.05 21.00INFY 785.20 798.00 783.85 792.50 14.85DRREDDY 2524.75 2564.45 2515.50 2553.00 43.90M&M 522.90 535.00 517.50 527.85 7.30HINDUNILVR 1822.00 1849.70 1813.00 1845.95 25.05TCS 2172.00 2205.00 2166.50 2190.00 27.00HEROMOTOCO2655.00 2677.80 2631.60 2663.55 32.05HDFCBANK 2209.25 2227.80 2206.85 2224.00 17.15KOTAKBANK 1490.55 1511.25 1482.65 1507.60 11.25WIPRO 253.30 259.10 252.20 253.95 1.85BAJAJ-AUTO 2730.00 2768.70 2718.55 2744.25 18.75CIPLA 478.85 481.70 470.55 478.70 2.85ZEEL 349.50 354.85 346.55 350.00 1.95ASIANPAINT 1585.00 1599.50 1582.70 1590.30 3.85INFRATEL 253.05 258.50 252.40 255.75 0.45TITAN 1090.90 1095.75 1075.55 1089.90 0.95GAIL 127.50 128.60 125.90 127.40 0.10UPL 540.00 545.00 535.00 542.45 0.40TECHM 674.00 680.00 664.65 669.15 -1.20TATASTEEL 359.70 361.85 353.15 358.20 -1.35POWERGRID 207.00 210.90 205.65 205.95 -1.10SUNPHARMA 426.00 426.50 417.30 420.80 -2.45GRASIM 738.00 738.25 719.85 727.00 -5.35JSWSTEEL 225.05 226.10 221.65 224.55 -1.65LT 1352.95 1355.55 1334.00 1341.55 -10.65ADANIPORTS 357.40 359.75 352.00 354.35 -3.05NTPC 119.00 120.25 117.35 117.80 -1.10BHARTIARTL 360.50 362.35 357.40 357.50 -3.50ONGC 126.60 126.85 124.35 125.05 -1.25HINDALCO 182.00 182.35 177.80 179.25 -1.90SBIN 287.30 287.40 280.65 283.85 -3.00RELIANCE 1289.80 1292.60 1272.60 1278.55 -14.05HDFC 2112.35 2114.90 2075.00 2090.80 -23.25BPCL 348.90 348.90 339.10 342.75 -4.25BAJFINANCE 3327.00 3334.40 3235.25 3285.00 -43.05IOC 126.00 126.10 123.40 124.15 -1.65VEDL 143.80 144.85 141.60 142.10 -2.20ICICIBANK 420.80 423.20 412.50 416.65 -6.75AXISBANK 685.15 685.20 669.50 674.00 -11.00EICHERMOT 16437.70 16570.00 15830.00 16060.00 -277.70ITC 251.60 251.95 245.45 246.85 -4.70COALINDIA 199.40 199.50 194.40 195.15 -3.80BAJAJFINSV 7420.00 7450.00 7207.00 7232.55 -144.10INDUSINDBK 1451.00 1451.95 1388.10 1404.10 -38.40ULTRACEMCO 4176.00 4177.40 4023.00 4023.70 -134.45BRITANNIA 2470.00 2470.00 2371.00 2398.00 -80.40IBULHSGFIN 539.00 540.20 505.25 519.00 -17.85YESBANK 76.95 76.95 70.50 71.55 -5.10

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The US Defense Departmenton Monday announced the

test of a medium-rangeground-launched cruise mis-sile, just weeks after tearing upthe Cold War-era pact withRussia eliminating that class ofnuclear-capable weapons.

The missile was launchedon Sunday from the US Navy-controlled San Nicolas Islandoff the coast of Los Angeles,California.

“The test missile exited itsground mobile launcher andaccurately impacted its targetafter more than 500 kilometers(310 miles) of flight,” thePentagon said in a statement.

“Data collected and lessonslearned from this test willinform the Department ofDefense’s development offuture intermediate-rangecapabilities.”

While the missile wasdescribed as “conventionallyconfigured,” meaning not

nuclear-equipped, the launchwas a sign of Washington beef-ing up its nuclear war-fighting

capabilities in the wake of thecollapse of the 1987Intermediate-Range NuclearForces Treaty on August 2.

The INF had banned allland-based missiles, conven-tional and nuclear, that couldtravel between 500 and 5,500kilometers, in an effort to abol-ish a class of nuclear arms beingdeployed by the United Statesand the then-Soviet Union thatleft Europe the most threat-ened.

The missile tested onSunday was a version of thenuclear-capable Tomahawkcruise missile. The ground-launched version of theTomahawk was removed fromservice after the INF was rati-fied.

Many fear the end of theINF, which Washingtonaccused Moscow of havingviolated in recent years, willlead to a new and dangerous

nuclear arms race.Early this month Secretary

of Defense Mark Esper said theUS, no longer bound by theINF, had already begun work todevelop “mobile, conventional,ground-launched cruise andballistic missile systems.” “Nowthat we have withdrawn, theDepartment of Defense willfully pursue the development ofthese ground-launched con-ventional missiles as a prudentresponse to Russia’s actions,”Esper said. But he also stressedthe US was not embarking ona new arms race.

“The traditional sense of anarms race has been in a nuclearcontext,” he said.

“Right now, we don’t haveplans to build nuclear-tippedINF-range weapons. It’s theRussians who have developednon-compliant likely, possiblynuclear-tipped weapons,” hesaid.

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Moscow on Tuesday saidthe United States was

ramping up military tensionsby testing a medium-rangecruise missile weeks aftertearing up a pact with Russia.

“This is all a cause ofregret. The US has obvious-ly taken a course towardsescalation of military ten-sions. We won’t react toprovocations,” Russian deputyforeign minister SergeiRyabkov told state newsagency TASS.

The US announced onMonday that it had tested atype of ground-launched mis-sile that was banned underthe 1987 Intermediate-RangeNuclear Forces (INF) treatywith the Soviet Union.

The missile was launchedfrom the US Navy-controlledSan Nicolas Island off thecoast of California.

The launch was a sign ofWashington beefing up itscapabilities in the wake of thecollapse of the INF on August2. Many fear the end of theINF, which Washingtonaccused Moscow of havingviolated in recent years, willlead to a new and dangerousnuclear arms race.

“We will not allow our-selves to get drawn into acostly arms race,” Ryabkovsaid.

He added that Moscowwould stick to a unilateralmoratorium on such missilesystems “if and when we getthem, as long as the US doesnot deploy them anywhere in

the world”.The INF banned all land-

based missiles, conventionaland nuclear, that could trav-el between 500 and 5,500kilometres (310 and 3,400miles), in an effort to abolishthe class of nuclear arms thatthen most threatened Europe.

The missile tested onSunday was a version of thenuclear-capable Tomahawkcruise missile. The ground-launched version of theTomahawk was removedfrom service after the INFwas ratified.

Ryabkov said that thetest, just over two weeks afterthe US withdrew from thetreaty, showed that it hadbeen working on such mis-siles for a long time ahead ofthe withdrawal.

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Acontroversial IndianIslamic preacher apolo-

gised Tuesday for making com-ments about race in multi-eth-nic Malaysia which sparkedcalls for his expulsion, a dayafter being questioned bypolice.

Zakir Naik, a radical tele-vision preacher who has calledthe 9/11 attacks an “insidejob”, left India in 2016 andmoved to largely MuslimMalaysia, where he was grant-ed permanent residency.

He is wanted in India forinciting extremism and moneylaundering, and New Delhilast year reportedly askedMalaysia to extradite him — arequest that was rejected.

Calls have escalated forNaik to be kicked out after hesaid Hindus in Malaysia have“100 times” more rights thanIndia’s Muslim minority, andsuggested Chinese Malaysiansshould be expelled before he

was.He was questioned by

police for 10 hours Monday onsuspicion of committing anintentional insult aimed at pro-voking a breach of the peace.

On Tuesday, Naik said in astatement his detractors hadtaken his remarks out of con-text and added “strange fabri-

cations”.But he went on: “It was

never my intention to upset anyindividual or community.

“It is against the basictenets of Islam, and I would liketo convey my heartfelt apolo-gies for this misunderstanding.”

Prime Minister MahathirMohamad has said Naik

crossed the line and severalcabinet ministers have calledfor him to be kicked out, whilepolice have banned him fromgiving public talks anywhere inMalaysia, state news agencyBernama reported.

The government has inthe past appeared reluctant tomove against Naik for fear itcould upset some Muslims andprovide ammunition to polit-ical opponents.

About 60 per cent ofMalaysia’s 32 million inhabi-tants are Muslim and the coun-try is also home to substantialethnic Indian and Chinesecommunities.

In a July 2008 broadcastNaik — who founded the pop-ular Peace TV channel — sug-gested that Al-Qaeda was notresponsible for the September11, 2001 attacks on the UnitedStates. “Even a fool will knowthat this was an inside job,” hesaid in the video, claimingthen-President George W. Bushwas behind the plot.

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British Prime Minister BorisJohnson has written to EU

President Donald Tusk reaf-firming his desire to concludea Brexit deal as well as hisopposition to the controversial“backstop” on Ireland.

The so-called backstop is amechanism that would keepthe UK in EU customs arrange-ments to prevent a hard borderbetween the British province ofNorthern Ireland and theRepublic of Ireland, an EUmember state.

In the letter Johnsonstressed that his governmentwanted to achieve a divorcedeal with Brussels.

“You have my personalcommitment that this govern-ment will work with energyand determination to achievean agreement. That is ourhighest priority,” Johnson wroteon Monday.

Brussels says the backstopis needed as a fallback option

to preserve the integrity ofEuropean trade and avoid risk-ing a return of sectarian vio-lence in Northern Ireland.

The backstop was includ-

ed in the accord reached withthe European Union by formerpremier Theresa May, whichwas rejected thrice by theBritish parliament.

Johnson, who succeededMay in July, has said he’sready to leave the EU at thenew scheduled exit date ofOctober 31, with or withoutan accord.

But he also reiterated hisview that the Irish backstopplan was “anti-democratic andinconsistent with the sover-eignty of the UK as a state.” Inaddition, keeping the UK in thecustoms union would preventLondon from establishing atrade policy independent of EUrules, he said.

The EU has repeatedlystated that it was not ready torenegotiate the Brexit deal ithad reached with May.

Johnson will seek supportfor his vision for Brexit in keyEuropean capitals, travellingWednesday to Berlin to meetChancellor Angela Merkel andThursday to Paris for talkswith President EmmanuelMacron, ahead of the G7 sum-mit in Biarritz at the end of theweek.

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The process of documentingand identifying illegal

immigrants in Assam is India’s“internal matter”, ExternalAffairs Minister S Jaishankarsaid on Tuesday as he heldwide-ranging talks with hisBangladeshi counterpart AKAbdul Momen here.

Jaishankar is in Dhaka ona two-day visit, his first toBangladesh after taking overthe charge of External AffairsMinister.

Speaking to the media afterthe bilateral discussions,Jaishankar said that he had afruitful interaction with hisBangladeshi counterpart.

“India is looking forwardto host Prime Minister SheikhHasina in New Delhi inOctober,” External AffairsMinistry spokesperson RaveeshKumar tweeted.

Jaishankar in a joint pressconference with Momen saidthat the National Register ofCitizens (NRC) in Assam isIndia’s “internal matter” amidconcerns in Bangladesh,Bdnews reported.

The NRC process is aimedat identifying illegal immi-grants in Assam that bordersBangladesh. Assam, which had

faced influx of people fromBangladesh since the early 20thcentury, is the only state hav-ing an NRC which was firstprepared in 1951.

When the draft NRC waspublished on July 30, 2018,there was a huge controversyover the exclusion of 40.7 lakhpeople from it. The draft NRCincluded the names of 2.9 crore

people out of the total 3.29crore applications.

Jaishankar also said India’sposition and commitment tothe pending Teesta water dealremained as it was, accordingto the report.

The Teesta deal was set tobe signed during the thenPrime Minister ManmohanSingh’s visit to Bangladesh in

September 2011, but was post-poned at the last minute due toobjections raised by WestBengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee.

Teesta water is crucial forBangladesh, especially in theleanest period from Decemberto March, when the water flowoften temporarily comes downto less than 1,000 cusecs from5,000 cusecs.

Momen said he was “excit-ed” as he had a “very goodmeeting” with Jaishankar.

“We more or less came toa consensus on all issues,” hesaid, without naming the issueson the agenda.

Earlier, Jaishankar startedhis official engagements onTuesday by paying respects toBangladesh’s founding fatherBangabandhu Sheikh MujiburRahman at the ‘BangabandhuMemorial Museum’ inDhanmondi.

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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar onTuesday paid respects to Bangladesh’s found-

ing father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at theBangabandhu Memorial Museum here.

“Deeply moved by the visit to BangabandhuMemorial Museum. Paid respects to SheikhMujibur Rahman, Father of the Nation,”Jaishankar tweeted.

The Bangabandhu Memorial Museum inDhanmondi area of Bangladesh’s capital city was

the personal residence of Mujibur Rahmanwhere he was assassinated along with most ofhis family members in 1975. His daughters —Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and SheikhRehana — survived as they were abroad at thattime.

Jaishankar’s visit to Bangladesh is the sec-ond high ministerial interaction between the twosides in less than a month. Earlier on August 7-8, Bangladesh’s Interior Minister AsaduzzamanKhan held a bilateral meeting with HomeMinister Amit Shah in New Delhi.

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The founder of Chinese techgiant Huawei said Tuesday

he expects no relief from USexport curbs due to the polit-ical climate in Washington butexpressed confidence the com-pany will thrive because it isdeveloping its own technology.

Ren Zhengfei also said hedoesn’t want relief from USsanctions if it requires China tomake concessions in a tariffwar, even if that means hisdaughter, who is under housearrest in Canada on US crim-inal charges, faces a longerlegal struggle.

In an interview at Huawei’ssprawling, leafy headquarterscampus in this southern city,the 74-year-old Ren saidHuawei expects US curbs onmost technology sales to goahead despite Monday’sannouncement of a second 90-day delay. He said no one inWashington would risk stand-ing up for the company.

The biggest impact will beon American vendors that sellchips and other components toHuawei, the biggest maker ofnetwork gear for phone com-panies, he said.

Washington has placedHuawei on an “entity list” offoreign companies that requireofficial permission to buyAmerican technology.

“Whether the ‘entity list’ isextended or not, that will nothave a substantial impact onHuawei’s business,” said Ren.“We can do well without rely-ing on American companies.”

Huawei Technologies Ltd,China’s first global tech brand,is at the center of a battle overtrade and technology thatthreatens to tip the globaleconomy into recession.

American officials accusethe company, also the No. 2global smartphone brand, ofstealing technology and facili-tating Chinese spying, accusa-tions Huawei denies.

Huawei’s chief financialofficer, who is also Ren’s daugh-ter, is fighting extradition fromCanada to face US chargesrelated to possible violation oftrade curbs on Iran. Beijing

arrested two Canadians in apossible attempt to force herrelease.

Ren looked relaxed andconfident throughout the two-hour interview at a palatial newbuilding in neoclassicalEuropean style where Huaweientertains customers.

The atmosphere was astriking contrast from a June 17news conference at which Rencompared the company to a“badly damaged airplane” andwarned US sanctions would cutHuawei’s projected smartphonesales by $30 billion over thenext two years.

President Donald Trumphas suggested controls onHuawei might be lifted ifBeijing agrees to a deal on tradeand technology disputes thatled to US tariff hikes onChinese imports.

Ren rejected that. He saidHuawei couldn’t ask for favorsthat might hurt the interests ofChina’s poor majority.

“I couldn’t take it if thosepoor people sacrificed theirown interests for the benefit ofHuawei,” said Ren.

“Maybe my daughter will

suffer more. But I would ratherdo that instead having thepoorer people in China sacri-fice for Huawei’s survival anddevelopment.”

The May announcement ofexport curbs prompted warn-ings that sales of Huawei smart-phones and other productsthat use U.S. chips and othertechnology could be devastat-ed. The curbs also mean a lossof billions of dollars in poten-tial annual sales for Americanvendors.

Even before the announce-ment, Huawei was working ondeveloping its own chips, soft-ware and other technologythat might reduce reliance onAmerican vendors. The com-pany spent USD 15 billion lastyear on research and develop-ment, more than Apple Inc. orMicrosoft Corp.

Huawei reported sales inthe six months through Junerose 23.2 per cent over a yearearlier. Its chairman, LiangHua, said in July that Huaweiwas reviewing its core productsto make sure they all could bedelivered to customers withoutAmerican components.

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Jeffrey Epstein signed a will justtwo days before he killed him-

self in jail, new court recordsshow, opening a new legal frontin what could be a long battleover the financier’s fortune.

Court papers filed last weekin the US Virgin Islands list nodetails of beneficiaries but valuedthe estate at more than $577 mil-lion, including more than USD56 million in cash.

The existence of the will, firstreported by the New York Post,raised new questions aboutEpstein’s final days inside theMetropolitan CorrectionalCenter, where he was awaitingtrial on federal sex trafficking andconspiracy charges.

Epstein signed the docu-ment Aug. 8. Less than 48 hourslater, he was found dead in hiscell, prompting an investigationthat has cast a harsh light onstaffing shortages at theManhattan detention center.

Prosecutors on Mondaymoved to dismiss the indictment

against Epstein but have said theyare considering charging otherswith facilitating his alleged abuseof dozens of girls.

The filing of the will, mean-while, had been closely followedby lawyers representing womenwho claim they were sexuallyabused by Epstein when theywere teenagers and recruitedinto his residences to provide himmassages. Several attorneysvowed to go after his assets evenif the will had named beneficia-ries, as Epstein’s death meansthere will be no trial on the crim-inal charges against him. Onewoman filed suit against theestate last week, claiming Epsteinrepeatedly raped her when shewas a teenager. “Give his entireestate to his victims. It is the onlyjustice they can get,” one of thoselawyers, Lisa Bloom, wrote in anemail. “And they deserve it. Andon behalf of the Epstein victimsI represent, I intend to fight forit.” Former federal prosecutorDavid S. Weinstein, who is nowin private practice in Miami butnot involved in the Epstein case,

said states and U.S. territorieshave certain timeframes withinwhich to make a claim againstsomeone’s estate.

“There are certainly going tobe a lot of lawyers involved,”Weinstein said. “It’s not going tobe over any time soon.”

A hedge fund manager whohobnobbed with the rich andfamous, Epstein owned aCaribbean island, homes in Parisand New York City, a NewMexico ranch and a fleet ofhigh-price cars. Epstein hadmore than USD 112 millionworth of equities, according tothe will, and nearly USD 200 mil-lion in “hedge funds & privateequity investments.”

Among the properties thatwill be subject to appraisal andvaluation are his collection of finearts, antiques and other col-lectibles. As part of his 2008 pleadeal to Florida state charges,Epstein made undisclosed finan-cial settlements with dozens of hisvictims. It’s unclear how those set-tlements might affect any claimsmade on his estate.

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The White House is consid-ering cutting taxes or rever-

ing tariffs to head off a reces-sion, US media reported onMonday, despite PresidentDonald Trump’s insistence onthe economy’s health.

Senior White House offi-cials are considering severalmoves to stimulate the econo-my including temporarily cut-ting the payroll tax to increaseworkers’ monthly take-homepay, The Washington Postreported. Also under consid-eration is reversing new tariffsthe Trump administrationimposed on Chinese goods,according to The New YorkTimes.

The discussion is still in theearly stages, and officials havenot brought up the idea withTrump, who would have toseek approval from Congress,the newspapers said.

The White House disputedthe reports in a statement to thePost, saying “cutting payrolltaxes is not something underconsideration at this time.”

Trump on Sunday pushed

back against talk of a loomingrecession after a raft of US datareports last week gave a mixedoutlook for the economy.

“I’m prepared for every-thing. I don’t think we’re havinga recession. We’re doing tremen-dously well,” Trump toldreporters.

“And most economists actu-ally say that we’re not going tohave a recession.”

Earlier on Monday, a surveywas released showing that amajority of economists expect aUS recession in the next twoyears - right around the time ofthe 2020 election in whichTrump is standing for a secondterm.

Only two percent of the sur-vey’s 226 respondents predict-ed a recession this year, but 38percent expected a downturn tohit in 2020 and 34 percent in2021, according to the pollsfrom the National Associationfor Business Economists.

Payroll taxes were cut tem-porarily during PresidentBarack Obama’s term in 2011and 2012, in an effort to coun-teract a sluggish recovery fromthe 2008 recession.

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Mumbai terror attack mas-termind Hafiz Saeed, a UN

designated Pakistani terroristwhom the US has placed a USD10 million bounty on, challengedhis arrest in the terror financingcases in the Lahore High Courthere on Tuesday.

In a fresh petition, Saeed and67 other leaders of the bannedJamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) and itscharity wing Falah-i-Insaniat(FIF), challeneged the FIRs of ter-ror financing against them in theLHC through their counsels,Advocate AK Dogar, AhmadAbudullah Dogar and GhulamYasin Bhatti.

The petitioners have madethe interior ministry, the Punjabhome department and theCounter Terrorism Departmentof Punjab police respondents inthe case. The court will fix hear-ing of this case later.

Saeed was arrested on July 17

in a terror financing case and theanti-terrorism court (ATC) inGujrat (some 200-km fromLahore) will take it up onSeptember 2. He is kept at theLahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in highsecurity.

The petitioners said JuDchief Saeed and others (67) arenot members of Lashkar-e-Taibaeither they have any nexus withit. They also cited some previouscourts observations in this regard.

Saeed and others prayed tothe LHC to declare the propertydetailed in this petition was“dedicated for the purpose ofmosques and is being used assuch therefore FIRs are withoutlawful authority and of no legaleffect.”

“It is prayed that this learnedcourt be pleased to declare thatnone of the petitioners and pro-forma respondents are linkedwith LeT and therefore the FIRsare without lawful authority andof no legal effect (be quashed),”

they prayed.Saeed-led JuD is believed to

be the front organisation for theLeT which is responsible for car-rying out the 2008 Mumbaiattacks that killed 166 people. Hewas listed under UN SecurityCouncil Resolution 1267 inDecember 2008. The CounterTerrorism Department (CTD) ofPunjab Police had registered 23FIRs against the petitioners onthe charges of “terror financing”in different cities of Punjabprovince. The cases have beenregistered in Lahore, Gujranwalaand Multan for collection offunds for terrorism financingthrough assets/properties madeand held in the names ofTrusts/Non Profit Organisations(NPO) including Al-AnfaalTrust, Dawatul Irshad Trust,Muaz Bin Jabal Trust, etc. TheCTD said investigation launchedinto financing matters of pro-scribed organisations — JuDand LeT — in connection with

implementation of UN Sanctionsagainst these Designated Entitiesand Persons as directed by NSC(National Security Committee) inits Meeting of 1st January 2019chaired by the Prime MinisterImran Khan for implementingthe National Action Plan.

“These suspects made assetsfrom funds of terrorism financ-ing. They held and used theseassets to raise more funds for fur-ther terrorism financing. Hence,they committed multiple offencesof terrorism financing andmoney laundering under Anti-Terrorism Act 1997. They will beprosecuted in ATCs (Anti-Terrorism Courts) for commis-sion of these offences,” the CTDsaid.

The US Department of theTreasury has designated Saeed asa Specially Designated GlobalTerrorist, and the US, since 2012,has offered a USD 10 millionreward for information thatbrings Saeed to justice.

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Iran’s Foreign MinisterMohammad Javad Zarif is

expected to visit Paris andmeet with his counterpart andthe French president on Friday,state news agency IRNAreported. “We will visit Paris onFriday to meet EmmanuelMacron and France’s foreignminister” Jean-Yves Le Drian,IRNA quoted Zarif as sayingduring a gathering of Iraniansin Stockholm late Monday.

Zarif is currently on a three-nation tour of Scandinavia andhe will also visit China “nextweek”, according to IRNA.

France is a partner to the2015 nuclear deal and has ledEuropean efforts to salvage the

landmark accord since USPresident Donald Trump uni-laterally withdrew from it lastyear and reimposed sanctions onIran. Responding to those sanc-tions — as well as perceivedinaction by European partnersto counter the measures — Iranannounced in May it would stop

observing restrictions on itsstocks of enriched uranium andheavy water agreed under thedeal.

Tehran also threatened totake further measures unlessthe remaining parties —Britain, China, France,Germany and Russia — help itcircumvent US sanctions, espe-cially to sell its oil. Iran’s topdiplomat started his globaltour with a visit to Kuwait onSaturday, followed by Finlandand Sweden. Norway andFrance are next on the agenda.

“America’s sanctions are notpressuring me,” Zarif added,dismissing concerns that USsanctions targeting him sincelate July would hamper his glo-betrotting diplomacy.

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Sadiq Khan, the Mayor ofLondon, has written to UK

Home Secretary Priti Patelseeking clarification on thegovernment’s plans for themovement of people within theEuropean Union (EU) in theevent of a no-deal Brexit onOctober 31.

EU citizens currently enjoywhat is referred to as freedomof movement anywhere with-in the 28-member economicbloc but if Britain were toleave without an agreement inplace, their visa-free move-ment is expected to be cur-tailed.

Some media reports haveindicated that the UK HomeOffice plans to impose instantborder restrictions in the eventof a no-deal Brexit, without anyprovisions for a transition peri-

od.“I was very concerned to

read reports that you are plan-ning to end the free movementof labour on day one of a no-deal Brexit. I urge you strong-ly to reconsider these plans,”Khan wrote in his letter sent toPatel on Monday.

The Mayor referenced hisfellow Pakistani-origin minis-ter, UK Chancellor Sajid Javid,who in his previous role asHome Secretary had indicatedthe need for a transition peri-od before imposing post-Brexittravel restrictions on EU citi-zens travelling to and from theUK.

“Ending free movementwithout transitional arrange-ments would undoubtedly havea severe economic impact asbusinesses would have verylittle time or capacity to preparefor such a fundamental change

to our labour market. Thesame would be true for publicsector organisations, includingour NHS [National HealthService],” says Khan.

Warning of deeper conse-quences of a “reckless” changeto the UK’s immigration sys-tem, he added that the 3 mil-lion EU citizens living in theUK– one million of whom areLondoners – would be piled onwith greater unease and anxi-ety despite making an enor-mous contribution to theBritish economy and society.

“By putting the rights andfreedoms of EU citizens in theUK at risk in such a carelessand brutal fashion, these planswould be a fundamental affrontto British values of justice, tol-erance and respect.

“They would also raisepressing questions over thestatus of UK citizens current-

ly living, or indeed travelling,in other EU countries,” he said,reiterating his call for a secondreferendum to allow the Britishpublic another say over thecountry’s EU membership.

Patel, an outspokenBrexiteer and the senior-mostIndian-origin member of theBoris Johnson led government,has not made an official state-ment on the matter but mediareports have indicated thatplans are being put in place foran instant imposition of borderrestrictions on EU nationals assoon as Britain leaves the EU.

The minister is generallyseen as more hardline on theissue of freedom of movementthan her predecessors.

“The home secretary hasbeen clear in her intention totake back control of our bor-ders and end free movementafter 31 October,” a UK Home

Office spokesperson said.“Ending free movement

means we are no longerrequired to give unlimited anduncontrolled access to thosefrom EU countries when theyare coming here seeking towork,” the spokesperson said,adding that the government iscommitted to introducing anew, fairer immigration systemthat “prioritises skills and whatpeople can contribute to theUK, rather than where theycome from”.

The UK has introduced anEU Settlement scheme fornationals of EU member-coun-tries based in the UK to regis-ter for settled status in thecountry, with that deadlineexpected to remain December2020 – the Brexit transitionperiod planned under a reject-ed withdrawal agreement withthe EU.

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Hong Kong’s embattledleader Carrie Lam on

Tuesday said she hoped“calm” will prevail after amassive weekend marchpassed without clashesbetween police and demon-strators, but again refused togive ground to protesterdemands.

Hundreds of thousandsof people marched throughthe heart of the city onSunday in a show of peace-ful protest after escalatingstreet battles with policedrew stark warnings fromBeijing and threatened toundermine public support.

“On Sunday, many HongKong residents participatedin a rally at Victoria Parkthat was largely peaceful,”Chief Executive Carrie Lamsaid at a televised press con-ference.

“I wholeheartedly hopethat this is the beginning ofsociety returning to calmand staying away from vio-lence.” The protests beganagainst a proposed extradi-tion law to China but mor-phed into a pro-democracymovement sparking thecity’s biggest political crisisin decades.

They have been fuelledby anger over alleged policebrutality, with tear gas andrubber bullets deployedagainst protesters.

Lam reported 174 com-plaints have been made

against police since protestsbegan. She said they wouldbe “robustly” investigatedby the Independent PoliceComplaints Council, whosehead is appointed by thechief executive.

However, the probe isunlikely to satisfy protesterswho have called for an inde-pendent inquiry by an exter-nal body.

In addition to universalsuffrage and cancelling theextradition bill, protestersalso demand the release of

those detained during clash-es. Lam, pilloried by pressand protesters for failing tostep down while the cityplunges into crisis, said hergovernment would continuea “fact-finding mission” onhow to move forward fromthe demonstrations.

She took a softer tonethan in recent weeks, butagain refused to formallywithdraw the contentiousextradition bill, repeatingonly that: “The bill is dead.There’s no plan to revive this

bill.” The chaos has caused

mounting concerns for busi-ness and investment in HongKong, with the effects of thetrouble particularly impact-ing the tourism industry.

“One of its most impor-tant strengths is the rule oflaw,” Lam said of the finan-cial hub.

“That’s why we havebeen doing so much toensure that the rule of law isbeing upheld and respectedin Hong Kong.”

9?����� �� ��# ��� !������"��?��������� ����""�� � �������� ���Hong Kong (AFP): Britain’sForeign Office said Tuesday it was“extremely concerned” by reportsthat a Hong Kong consulateemployee had been detained bymainland Chinese authorities onhis way back to the city.

“We are extremely concernedby reports that a member of ourteam has been detained returningto Hong Kong from Shenzhen,” aForeign and CommonwealthOffice spokesperson said in astatement.

“We are providing support tohis family and seeking furtherinformation from authorities inGuangdong Province and HongKong.”

A report in local news outletHK01 said the consulate employ-ee had travelled to Shenzhen inGuangdong province, an houroutside Hong Kong, for a one-daybusiness meeting on August 8 buthas failed to return.

The incident comes as thefinancial hub is facing its worstpolitical crisis in decades.

Pro-democracy protestershave staged weeks of rallies thathave often descended into violentclashes between police and pro-testers.

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President Rodrigo Dutertewill visit Chinese counter-

part Xi Jinping next week toraise their conflicting claims tothe South China Sea, as theFilipino leader faces pressure athome to confront Beijing.

While Duterte hasembraced China and had large-ly set aside a once-tense stand-off over the resource-richwaterway, a series of con-frontations have stoked domes-tic discontent.

Duterte heads to Chinaon August 28 and is due toreturn to the Philippines onSeptember 2, his spokesman,Salvador Panelo, told journal-ists on Tuesday.

Beijing claims most of theSouth China Sea, includingwaters close to Philippineshores, and has ignored a 2016international tribunal rulingthat declared their assertion aswithout basis.

Duterte had earlier thismonth mentioned the trip,where he said he intended tofinally discuss the ruling withXi.

“I have about two moreyears, plus months left (inoffice). It’s about time that westart talking,” said Duterte atthe time.

He also said he would pressBeijing to conclude long-run-

ning talks with neighbouringcountries, that also have claimsto the disputed sea, on rules foravoiding accidental clashes.

The visit marks a turn-around for Duterte, who hadrevived once-icy diplomaticties with Beijing after beingelected in 2016 when he setaside the maritime ruling infavour of wooing Chinese aid,trade and investment.

Duterte enjoys firm popu-lar backing, but he has facedcriticism at home over hisstance that confronting Chinais futile and will only lead to anunwinnable war.

The issue has flared upsince a Chinese fishing trawlerhit and sank a Filipino boat inthe South China Sea in June,sparking a string of small streetprotests and criticism fromopposition politicians and for-

mer officials.Defence Secretary Delfin

Lorenzana also complainedearlier this month about repeat-ed unauthorised passage byChinese warships throughPhilippine territorial watersbetween February and July.

Panelo, the spokesman,said on Tuesday that Dutertehas ordered all foreign vesselspassing through Philippinewaters to seek Manila’s advanceapproval. This is “to avoid mis-understanding in the future,”Panelo said, adding this was inresponse to the “repeated pass-ing through without our beingnotified by some foreign vessels— well, particularly Chinesewarships”.

“Either we get a compli-ance in a friendly manner or weenforce it in an unfriendlymanner,” Panelo added.

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Twitter, which suspendedabout 200 accounts ofPakistanis posting about theKashmir issue, has denied alle-gations of bias by Islamabad,saying that it enforced policiesjudiciously and ensured impar-tiality of all users.

Pakistani government onMonday complained to Twitterabout 200 accounts that havebeen suspended for postingabout the Kashmir issue. Overthe last one week, multiplePakistanis have taken to Twitterto report that accounts were

being suspended after theyposted about Kashmir.

Twitter, however, has main-tained that it enforced policiesjudiciously and ensured impar-tiality of all users, regardless oftheir political beliefs and coun-try of origin. Responding toallegations of censorship andbiased moderation on its plat-form, a Twitter spokespersontold the Dawn newspaper thatthey were founded on the prin-ciples of free expression andthere was no political bias in itscontent review teams thatdetermine what content is con-sidered a violation of its rules.

“We believe people on allsides of an issue have a funda-mental right to discuss themwithin the boundaries of ourpolicies, which prohibit ter-rorism, hateful conduct, plat-form manipulation and abuse.At Twitter no one is above ourrules,” the spokesperson said.

Unlike Facebook, whichhas the greatest number offact-checking partners in India,Twitter is yet to introduce pol-icy on political misinformation,the report said.

“Twitter exists to serve thepublic conversation, includingin national and regional events

of political importance,” theofficial said.

However, the spokespersondid not comment on the rea-sons that led to certainaccounts — specified in theemail — being suspended.

“We don’t comment onindividual accounts for priva-cy and security reasons,” theofficial said.

Pakistanis have been react-ing on various social mediaaccounts after India revokedthe special status of Jammu andKashmir and bifurcated it intotwo union territories- Jammuand Kashmir, and Ladakh.

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An Indian man in Sharjah ishaving sleepless nights as his

phone keeps ringing withunwanted calls from around theworld after his mobile numberwas flashed during the secondseason of the blockbuster webseries “Sacred Games” on Netflix.

Kunhabdulla CM, a 37-year-old Keralite who works for a localoil company, had his phonenumber flashed as fictional gang-ster Sulaiman Isa’s number in thefirst episode of the new seasonreleased on August 15.

“I have been getting incessant

calls on my phone for the lastthree days from India, Pakistan,Nepal, the UAE and around theworld. I don’t know what is hap-pening,” Kunhabdulla told theGulf News.

“Hearing my phone ringsends shivers down my spine. Iwant to cancel my number. Iwant this problem to go away,” hesaid.

Kunhabdulla has neverheard of “Sacred Games”, thepopular series on Netflix starringaward-winning actors like Saif AliKhan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.Khan plays a Sikh cop in theseries while Siddiqui is a

Mumbai-based crime lord.“What’s Sacred Games? A

video game? I work from 8 amto 7pm. I don’t have time for suchthings,” Kunhabdulla said.

“I got more than 30 callstoday [Sunday] and it’s drainingmy battery. In the last one hour,I got five calls asking for some-one called Isa...Who is Isa? I don’thave anything to do with him,” hesaid.

Kunhabdulla’s number wentpublic in the scene where anundercover Indian agent fromKenya hands a chit to GaneshGaitonde (Siddiqui) bearing thenumber of dreaded gangster Isa.

Although the number wasnot visible on the small piece ofpaper, the subtitles gave it away.

Shortly after the story waspublished, Netflix, the Americanmedia-services provider andproduction company, wrote tothe Gulf News, saying that theyhad removed Kunhabdulla’snumber.

“We apologise for anyinconvenience caused. As soonas we were alerted to the situ-ation, we resolved the issue andremoved the phone numberfrom the subtitles,” Netflix saidin a statement to Gulf News onMonday.

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Pakistan on Tuesday said it willapproach the International

Court of Justice (ICJ) over theKashmir issue, weeks after Indiarevoked the special status toJammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan’s decision comesdays after a rare closed-door con-sultations on Kashmir by the UNSecurity Council which endedwithout any outcome or state-ment from the powerful 15-nation UN organ, dealing a hugesnub to Islamabad and its all-weather ally China to interna-tionalise the issue.

An overwhelming majorityin the UN Security Councilstressed Kashmir is a bilateralmatter between New Delhi andIslamabad.

“An in-principle decisionhas been taken to take the issueof Kashmir to the InternationalCourt of Justice,” ForeignMinister Shah MehmoodQureshi told ARY News TV.

“The decision was takenafter considering all legal aspects,”

he added.He said the law ministry

would soon issue more details.Separately, the Special

Assistant to the Prime Ministeron Information, Firdous AshiqAwan, told reporters that theCabinet in-principle grantedapproval of the decision to takethe Kashmir issue to the ICJ.

The case will be filed on thebasis of alleged violation ofhuman rights in Kashmir, shesaid, adding that the governmenthas also decided to hire servicesof lawyers of international reputeto file and pursue the case.

Earlier this month, PrimeMinister Imran Khan told a rarejoint sitting of Pakistan’sParliament that he will raise theKashmir issue at every forumincluding the UN SecurityCouncil and also take the matterto the ICJ.

Tensions between India andPakistan spiked after India abro-gated provisions of Article 370 ofthe Constitution to withdrawJammu and Kashmir’s special sta-tus and bifurcated it into two

Union Territories, evoking strongreactions from Pakistan.

India has categorically toldthe international communitythat the scrapping of Article 370of the Constitution to revoke thespecial status of Jammu andKashmir was an internal matterand also advised Pakistan toaccept the reality.

Officials said Pakistan wasencourage to seek the ICJ’s inter-vention after India took the issueof Kubhushan Jadhav to theworld court.

Jadhav, 49, a retired IndianNavy officer, was sentenced todeath by a Pakistani militarycourt on charges of “espionageand terrorism” in April 2017 fol-lowing which India had movedthe ICJ, seeking a stay on hisdeath sentence and further reme-dies.

In July, the ICJ orderedPakistan to undertake an “effec-tive review and reconsideration”of the conviction and sentence ofJadhav and also to grant consularaccess to India without furtherdelay.

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Trump on Monday spokeseparately to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and hisPakistani counterpart Khan inhis bid to ease fresh Indo-Paktensions after India revoked thespecial status of Jammu andKashmir on August 5.

Trump’s counsel to Khancame as Prime Minister Modi,during his telephonic conver-sation with the US president,conveyed that the “extremerhetoric and incitement” toanti-India violence by certainleaders in the region was notconducive to peace.

After his 30-minute con-versation with Modi, Trumpheld a telephonic conversa-tion with Khan.

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England’s Ben Stokes has toldAustralia to expect morebouncers from Jofra Archer

in the remainder of the Ashes.“It’s part of the game and a big

part of Jofra’s game, being aggres-sive, not letting batsmen settle,”said Stokes.

Archer produced a hostileand compelling display on debutas the rain-affected second Testended in a draw at Lord’s onSunday.

Not only did he take five wick-ets, he repeatedly unsettledAustralia with a short-pitchedballs. The 92mph bouncer that hitSteve Smith on the neck forced thestar batsman to miss the last daywith concussion.

“When someone takes a nastyblow no bowler is going to say ‘I’mnot going to bowl that againbecause I don’t want to hit themagain’,” Stokes, a lively seam bowler,added.

“The concern is always therewhen someone takes it, but nextball, when you get back to themark, it’s ‘I’m going to keep doingit’.” Smith, who could be ruled outof the third Test at Headingleystarting on Thursday as well, hadearlier been hit a painful blow byArcher on his left forearm.

Marnus Labuschagne, Smith’sreplacement at Lord’s as cricket’sfirst concussion substitute, wasthen hit flush on the grille of hishelmet second ball by anotherArcher thunderbolt.

All the deliveries are consid-ered a legitimate part of a fastbowler’s armoury and Stokes saidArcher had no reason to changehis approach in Leeds.

Stokes believes Archer’s extrapace can help England overturn a1-0 deficit in the five-match Ashesseries following their 251-run lossin the first Test at Edgbaston.

“Everything is so rhythmicalwith Jofra it is tough to see whenthat bouncer is coming,” saidStokes.

“There’s no ‘tell’. He bowled alot of them, but they don’t seem topick it up.

“He gives another dimensionto our bowling attack. The firstinnings he bowled 29 overs but hislast spell of eight was one of thebest out-and-out fast bowlingspells I have seen since I startedplaying,” he added.

“We’ve seen (Australia’s)Mitchell Johnson do it to us,

especially in 2013, but Jofra justmakes it look so easy. I’d ratherhave him on my team than haveto face him. He’s a frightening tal-ent.

“The sky is the limit for himand he’s a great addition to our Testteam.”

England’s top order remains aconcern but after all-rounderStokes’s elevation to number fivein the second innings at Lord’s, hescored an impressive 115 not out.

“It just depends on what hap-pens in the game,” he said.

“I went to six because mybowling workloads have gone upin the last few years. I’m sure it willchange.

“We’re a very versatile battingline-up, some days it might beJonny Bairstow at five, some daysJos Buttler, some days me. We’reall capable, it just depends onworkloads.”

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Andy Murray onMonday fell in the first

round of the ATPWinston-Salem Open,where the three-timeGrand Slam champion wasgiving his surgicallyrepaired hip just its secondtest in singles.

Britain’s Murray, whofeared in January that hiship trouble would end hiscareer, accepted a wild cardinto this week’s tourna-ment in North Carolinaafter falling in his singlescomeback in Cincinnatilast week.

He again showedglimpses of his once-dom-inant self, but was inconsis-tent in a 7-6 (10-8), 7-5 lossto 73rd-ranked AmericanTennys Sandgren in amatch lasting 2 hours and10 minutes.

“Some things were abit better today I think,”Murray said. “I was hittingthe ball a bit cleaner thanI did maybe in Cincinnati...I feel like I moved fairlywell to some drop shots,which maybe last week Iwasn’t running to.

“So there’s some goodthings in there but alsosome stuff I would like todo better.”

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Cincinnati he would dis-continue doubles to focuson returning to peaksingles form,Murray saidhe mightc ons i d e rplaying anA T PChallengerTour eventbefore head-ing to Asia, wherehe is entered in September’sZhuhai Championshipsand the China Open.

“Maybe I need to playa level down to get somematches and build my

game up a little bit beforeI start playing on the touragain,” he said.

In other action on aday when rain wreakedhavoc on the schedule,South Korean Lee Duck-hee became the first deafplayer to win an ATP Tourmatch, beatingSwitzerland’s HenriLaaksonen 7-6 (7/4), 6-1.

“My message for peo-ple who are hearingimpaired is to not be dis-couraged.

If you try hard, youcan do anything,” said Lee,who will next face third-seeded Hubert Hurkaczof Poland.

Lee was two pointsfrom victory when thun-derstorms swept through.

When he andLaaksonen returned somefive hours later, Lee quick-ly polished off a win headmitted he hadn’t beenexpecting.

“I thought that I wasjust going to do my bestand try to stay focused,”Lee said. “But I came outa winner.”

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India’s Ankita Raina knocked out ninth seedBelgian Ysaline Bonaventure to progress to the

second round of the US Open Qualifiers butRamkumar Ramanathan bit the dust in the men’ssingles here.

The 194th ranked Ankita was up against ahigher-ranked player but prevailed 6-1, 1-6, 6-2 for her second win against the Belgian on thePro Tour.

She had beaten the 111th rankedBonaventure in her own country in 2014 on clay.

Ankita has not gone beyond the secondround at the Grand Slam qualifiers and she hasa good chance to better that stat as she is upagainst Czech Republic’s Denia Allertova, whois placed 85 places below her at 279.

In the men’s singles, RamkumarRamanathan bowed out with a 5-7, 6-7(9) defeatagainst Italy’s Filippo Baldi.

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Off-spinner Rashid Khan will leadAfghanistan in their one-off Test

against Bangladesh and the triangu-lar series featuring Zimbabwe. TheTest will begin on September 5 whilethe tri-series will kick-off fromSeptember 13.

Alongwith Mohammad Shahzad,who is serving a suspension, middle-order batsman Nasir Jamal, left-armspinner Sharafuddin Ashraf, pacemanWafadar Momand, and left-armwristspinner Waqar Salamkheil havenot been included in the squad.

On the other hand, experiencedleft-arm paceman Shapoor Zadran,who is yet to feature in the longest for-mat of the game, and Afsar Zazai, thewicketkeeper-batsman who playedAfghanistan’s maiden Test — againstIndia in June 2018 have been includ-

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Serena Williams announced onTuesday she will warm-up for

January’s Australian Open at theAuckland Classic, a tournament thathas mixed memories for the Americansuperstar.

Williams slumped to a shock sec-ond-round loss in her only previousappearance in New Zealand in 2017,

lashing out at windy conditions shedescribed as some of the “leastfavourite” she had ever experi-enced.

But she went on to win theAustralian Open later thatmonth, claiming the most recentof her 23 majors to pass Steffi

Graf’s Open-era benchmark of 22.She also announced her engage-

ment to Alexis Ohanian while inNew Zealand and it later emerged she

was pregnant with her first child whilecompeting at the tournament.Currently ranked eighth in the world,the 37-year-old said she wanted toshow New Zealanders what she coulddo on the court.

“Oh man, I want to win that titleso bad,” she said in a statement.

“Last time I was there I had somuch going on and although I foughtthrough to win my first match, I knowI didn’t play to my level.”

Since her 2017 triumph atMelbourne Park, Williams has beenchasing a 24th Grand Slam to matchAustralian Margaret Court’s record.

She is battling back problemsahead of the US Open that forced herto retire from warm-up tournamentsin Toronto and Cincinnatti.

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Former Pakistan speedsterShoaib Akhtar believes

England have got a greatweapon in Jofra Archer but theyneed to preserve him and man-age his workload in a way thatthe 24-year-old doesn’t getinjured very often.

“Archer is an exciting talent.He is strong but I believe he isthe perfect candidate for beinginjury prone. With his actionand speed, I believe he can haveback injuries, so he needs to bepreserved,” Akhtar said in a

video posted on his Youtubechannel.

“My suggestion will be toplay him in fewer matches, heshould not bowl 27 overs in aninnings. What he cannot do in14 overs, he won’t be able to doit 27 overs,” he further said.

Akhtar also feels that Ashes,which is currently 1-0 in favourof Australia, would now take aturn with Archer’s inclusioninto the England lineup.

“I think Ashes will nowtake a turn. I believe fastbowlers should bowl with moreintensity now.

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The legendary Glenn McGrathis a big supporter of Jofra

Archer and feels the Englandpace sensation is going to playTest cricket for a long time.

“I’ve been a big supporter ofArcher for a long time and I lovewhat I see there,” McGrath wasquoted as saying by BBC wherehe will be part of the Test MatchSpecial commentary team andcontribute a regular column tothe BBC Sport website.

“It’s quite rare to be able tobowl with pace and accuracy forsuch a long time. To have pace isso unique and with Archer, it isall natural. His action doesn’t looktoo stressful, he has a nice,smooth run-up and goes throughthe crease really well.

It’s a fairly stress-free actionand he’s young and fit. He keepsit simple: “He just comes in,bowls good areas and with goodpace.”

Archer took the cricketingfraternity by storm on his Testdebut, bowling hostile spellswhich put even the likes of SteveSmith in all sorts of discomfortduring the course of the game,reminding fans of the famousbodyline series.

“At Lord’s he bowled somequite lengthy spells, but he main-

tained his pace throughout hisovers. That is a brilliant sign thathe can bowl long spells at top pacethen come back and bowl secondand third spells no problem at all,”McGrath pointed out.

“With a guy with his action

and technique, I don’t see any rea-son why he can’t play plenty ofTests. It’s just experience that heneeds and he will be fine,” said theformer Australian fast bowlerregarded as one of the finest thegame has produced.

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ed in the side. Announcing the squad,

chief selector Andy Molessaid: “We have selected a 17-member squad for the T20Imatches as per the advice ofthe captain as we have twoimportant tournaments —T20I Asia Cup and ICC T20World Cup 2020 — ahead ofus. We will seek to preparegood sides for these tourna-ments and those players whoperform well, will be consid-ered for selection.

“We will also consider theperformance of players in theupcoming Shpageeza CricketLeague and AfghanistanPremier League T20 for futureselection.”Squad for Test againstBangladesh: Rashid Khan (C),

Ihsanullah Janat, JavidAhmadi, Ibrahim Zadran,Rahmat Shah, HashmatullahShahidi, Asghar Afghan,Ikram Alikhil, MohammadNabi, Qais Ahmad, SayedAhmad Shirzad, YaminAhmadzai, Zahir KhanPakteen, Afsar Zazai andShapoor Zadran.Squad for T20 TriangularSeries: Rashid Khan (C),Asghar Afghan, MohammadNabi, Hazratullah Zazai,Najeeb Tarakai, RahmanullahGurbaz, Mujeeb ur Rahman,Shafiqullah Shafaq, NajibZadran, Shahidullah Kamal,Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib,Fareed Ahmad Malik,Sharafuddin Ashraf, FazalNiazai, Dawlat Zadran andNaveen ul Haq.

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Pacer Umesh Yadav says he has regained confi-dence after working on his erratic line and length

in the time away from the Indian team and is con-fident of making the playing eleven in the Test seriesagainst the West Indies starting on Thursday.

Umesh, who took three wickets for 19 runs inthe West Indies A first innings in the warm-up gamewhich concluded on Monday here, said he workedon getting his rhythm back at the Vidarbha CricketAcademy with coach Subroto Banerjee in the lastfew months.

“As a fast bowler you have to practice and youneed to set your rhythm, to know at what line andlength you have to bowl. I have also tried the same,to get my rhythm right. I was preparing myself todo what I will be doing in a match situation,” Umeshsaid after the drawn warm-up game.

“I went to Vidarbha Cricket Academy andworked with coach Subroto Banerjee there andasked him for his opinion. There were these issuesof length of deliveries. It happens to a lot of fastbowlers, when you are playing a lot continuously,you’re unable to settle into a specific line and length.I worked on that,” he added.

He said he was able to bowl into the right areasduring the warm-up game against the West IndiesA team.

“I am playing a practice match after a long time.I had earlier come here to play for India A and Iplayed one game. The wicket is not too different andit has swing.

“(In the warm-up game) I was focussing on theareas I have to put the ball. My mindset was to putthe balls in those areas and bowl dot balls. I wasbeing able to do that,” he added.

The 31-year-old played his last Test in Australiain December 2018. He then played for Vidarbha inthe domestic competitions and followed it up witha stint with Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL.

“After the Australia tour, I played in Ranji tro-phy and we (Vidarbha) won and then IPL came. Inthe two and half months after that, I gave myselfsome time to work on my errors and get my rhythmback. Accordingly, I prepared my mindset.

“I worked on bowling drills and trained a loton whatever bowling problems which I thought Ihad. You need off-time because it is only during youroff-time that you can re-shape your mindset on whatneeds to be done,” he added, when asked about thedrills at the Vidarbha academy.

Asked about the competition in the currentIndian team in the fast-bowling department, he said,“When you know you’re going to play back-to-backTest matches, you need that kind of bench-strength.

“All the fast bowlers know there is a good com-petition and that everyone is going to get an oppor-tunity. Whoever does well, will get to play more. Ifwe think in that manner, it’s good for us becausewe will try to improve ourselves.

“It is a healthy competition and it is good forthe team. It make us more exciting and challeng-ing and will improve our performance.”

!."��8;�38�5�;��Lucknow Zone Red beat Lucknow Zone Blue by five wickets in the

Under-16 Inter Zonal trial match at Ras Behari Tiwari Stadium on Tuesday.In another match played at Ekana Stadium, Bahraich Zone defeated BareillyZone by 77 runs.BRIEF SCORES:LZ Blue: 124 (Karan Mishra 28, Bhav Seth 27, Prince Maurya 20, Naman16, Yasir Tariq 16; Sparsh Gupta 28/4, Arpit Mishra 29/2, Shashank 39/2)LZ Red: 156 (Vipraj Nigam 34, Kushagra Singh 33, Mohd Dahish 26,Shubham Tiwari 23; Yogesh Kumar 52/2)

BZ: 185 (Jai Prakash Gupta 54, Shikhar Singh 39, Kushagra Shukla 30, RamanSingh 19; Abhay Kumar 4/1)Bly Z: 108 (Siddharth Narayan 38, Anubhav Deep 34; Jatin Sharma 12/4,Navdeep Singh 20/2)

�1�1/.�1�;�����8!4Shahrukh Khan of Anand International Taekwondo Academy bagged

the gold medal in the CISCE Board National Championship. Shahrukh'scoach Anand Kishore Pandey congratulated him on the achievement.

�/&'�28'�����G.�/65/�Army Boys edged past Sports College 1-0 to enter the quarter-final of

the 2nd Major Durga Mall Memorial District Football Tournament at ChowkStadium on Tuesday. Earlier, (Retd) Colonel MM Ghosh inaugurated thetournament.

28H����68./�5'Lucknow District Amateur Boxing Association is organising District

Junior Boxing Championship at KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium from August 23.Lucknow region team will also be selected during the championship.

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Lucknow Hockey League at Mohd Shahid Stadium on Tuesday. Shafat Aliand Ansh Sethi netted a goal each for the winner while Mukesh Ram scoredfor Babu Club. Earlier, KD Singh Stadium played a 2-2 draw with SportsCollege ‘C’.

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Indian shuttlerH S Prannoy

stunned multi-ple-time Olympic and world champi-on Lin Dan in a hard-fought matchwhile Sai Praneeth outplayed LeeDong Keun to enter the pre-quarter-finals of the World Championshipshere on Tuesday.

Prannoy, unseeded in the tourna-ment, beat the highly-decoratedChinese 21-11, 13-21, 21-7 in a secondround match that lasted one hour andtwo minutes.

In the pre-quarterfinals, Prannoyfaces an uphill task against top seedKento Momota of Japan, who downedLuis Enrique Penalver of Spain 21-10,21-7.

In five meetings between the two,Prannoy has emerged victorious thrice.The Chinese won in the last meeting,at the Australian Open in June.

"I started and ended well but thestrategy in the second game went com-pletely opposite for me. Thanks tocoaches I could make a few changes incrucial moments. I am happy I waspatient and was ready for a long match.Shuttles were not very fast but I amhappy with my game,” Prannoy said.

Later on Tuesday, 16th seed SaiPraneeth completed a comprehensive21-16, 21-15 win over Dong Keun ofSouth Korea in the second round.

In the women’s doubles, the Indianpair of Ashwini Ponappa N SikkiReddy got a walkover from ChineseTaipei’s Chang Ching Hui and YangChing Tun in their opening match.They will face seventh seeded Chinesepair of Du Yue and LI Yin Hui in thesecond round.

The men’s doubles pairing ofManu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy beatthe French duo of Thom Gicquel andRonan Labar 21-13, 21-13 in a firstround match.

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Manchester United were forcedto settle for a 1-1 draw against

Wolves after Paul Pogba’s penaltywas saved by Rui Patricio atMolineux on Monday.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s sidetook the lead through AnthonyMartial’s second Premier Leaguegoal of the season in the first half.

Ruben Neves hit a brilliantequaliser for Wolves after the inter-val before France star Pogba wasdenied by Patricio.

It was a curious decision forPogba to take the spot-kick asMarcus Rashford had scored apenalty in last weekend’s 4-0 victo-ry over Chelsea and also memorablynetted the Champions League last-16 winner from the spot againstParis Saint Germain lastterm.

Pogba has now missedfour Premier League penal-ties since the start of last sea-son.

United would have gonetop of the table with a win, butinstead they were left to reflect onan inconsistent performance that

underlined why Solskjaer still has alot of work to do to turn histeam into title contenders.

While there weremoments of promise inattack and defence, Uniteddidn’t take their chances andcrumbled too easily when

they came under pressure in theirsecond game of the season.

At an average of 24 years and

173 days, Solskjaer had pickedUnited’s youngest Premier Leaguestarting line-up since the final dayof the 2016-17 campaign.

Daniel James made his maidenstart for United after the close-sea-son signing from Swansea.

There was no place in thematchday squad for Chile forwardAlexis Sanchez, who has beenlinked with Inter Milan.

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Australia’s star batsman Steve Smith has been ruledout of the third Ashes Test beginning on Thursday

after suffering concussion, Cricket Australia announcedon Tuesday.

The 30-year-old — who has scored two centuries and92 in his three innings in the first two Tests — was felledby a Jofra Archer bouncer on Saturday in the first inningsof the second Test at Lord’s.

Smith’s absence will be a huge blow to Australia whohold a 1-0 lead in the five Test series and victory atHeadingley would ensure they retained the Ashes.

Their other batsmen have not looked convincing —experienced opener David Warner has totalled just 18in his four innings — with Smith being the lynch-pin.

“Steve Smith has been ruled out of the third AshesTest at Headingley, with coach Justin Langer confirm-ing the news after the batsman sat out Australia’s train-ing session on Tuesday,” Cricket Australia announced ontheir website.

The team doctor Richard Saw had the final say onwhether Smith played or not and he was seen speakingwith him during team training on Tuesday.

According to the website vice-captain Pat Cumminspatted Smith on the shoulder and coach Justin Langerwrapped his arm round the former captain as the restof the squad trained without him.

Smith — who has risen to number two in the worldbatting rankings — was pictured with his head in hishands and Langer looking glumly at the ground.

Smith now has two weeks to be ready for the fourthTest in Manchester, which starts on September 4, witha three-day tour match in Derby from August 29-31.

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Struggling star Sushil Kumarsealed a berth in India’s squad for

the World Championship, pipping aspirited Jitender Kumar 4-2 in a bit-terly-fought 74kg final of the selec-tion trials here on Tuesday.

Consistent attacks from both thewrestlers in the fast-paced finalbout had the fans on the edge of theirseats. Close to 1500 gathered at theIGI stadium to watch their favouritestar in action.

Sushil opened up a 4-0 lead inthe first period and ended up inflict-ing an eye injury on Jitender early inthe second period.

Sushil, whose return to the matafter a year at an event in Belarus metwith a disappointing end, apologisedimmediately.

Later, another attacking movefrom Sushil had Jitender wincing inpain as he suffered an elbow injury.

Nevertheless, Jitender did notgive up and thrice he had got holdof Sushil’s right leg but lack of prop-er grip meant he could not convertthem into points.

The two-time Olympic medallistwas feeling the heat and to the dis-

cerning, it seemed the two medicalbreaks he took was a ploy to catchsome breath.

With two push-out points,Jitender reduced the margin ofdefeat.

It still is not over for Jitender asthe federation has given him theoption to book a WorldChampionship berth in 79kg bychallenging Tuesday’s winner VirdevGulia.

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Striker Mandeep Singh struck afine hat-trick to help the Indian

men’s hockey team beat hostsJapan 6-3 and book a summitclash berth in the Olympic TestEvent here on Tuesday.

The Indian team bouncedback from their 1-2 loss againstNew Zealand with an impressivedisplay in their third match at theOi Hockey Stadium here. Indiaagain face New Zealand in thesummit clash today.

Mandeep found the target inthe 9th, 29th and 30th minuteswhile Nilakanta Sharma (3rd),Nilam Sanjeep Xess (7th) andGurjant Singh (41st) were theother scorers for India.

Kentaro Fukuda (25th), KentaTanaka (36th) and KazumaMurata (52nd) scored the goals forJapan.

Nilakanta gave India an excel-lent start through a field goal inthe third minute. Buoyed by theearly lead, the Indian team puttremendous pressure on the Japandefence as Gurjant Singh took ashot on goal, but saw his effortgoing wide of the post.

However, a penalty corner

was awarded to India in the sev-enth minute which was convert-ed brilliantly by Nilam Sanjeep tohelp the team take a 2-0 lead.

India continued to take theaggressive approach and Mandeepfound the back of the net with anexcellent field goal in the ninthminute.

Japan managed to open theiraccount through a field goalthrough Kentaro Fukuda in the25th minute, but Mandeep scored

two field goals in quick successionto help India take a big 5-1 lead.The Indian vice-captain scoredjust before the half-time whistle inthe 29th and 30th minutes.

Japan started the third quar-ter on an aggressive note and keptputting pressure on the Indiandefence and found a field goalthrough Kenta Tanaka in the 36thminute.

India did not let the momen-tum shift towards the Japanese

side as forward Gurjant found theback of the net in the 41st minuteto make it 6-2 which put the worldnumber 5 side in a dominant posi-tion at the end of the third quar-ter.

Japan attacked the Indiandefence in the the fourth quarterand scored their third goalthrough Kazuma Murata in the52nd minute.

The win put India in the sec-ond spot in the points table andthey face toppers New Zealand inthe summit clash.

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formance against Australia, theIndian women’s hockey team alsosecured its place in the final byplaying out a 0-0 draw againstChina.

China needed the victory tomake sure that they progress to thefinal but India’s defense was up tothe task, and seemed determinedto consolidate their position at thetop of the points table.

With a tally of five points fromtheir three matches, India toppedthe points table, and will now facehosts and World No 14 Japan inthe final today.

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The Indian team managementwill be fretting on possibleteam combinations for the first

Test against the West Indies with adifficult choice between senior prosRohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane ifit opts for a fifth specialist bowler.

Unless India go with a safety-firstfour bowler strategy which allowsboth Test and ODI vice-captain tofigure in the scheme of things, oneamong the two would be coolingheels and it could be Rahane goingby his wretched form in red-ballcricket.

India will be returning to thelongest format after a good seven and

half months and the moot point ofthe playing XI will be whether Kohli-Ravi Shastri duo goes for an addition-al sixth batsman or an extra bowlerfor the first Test starting on Thursday.If the Indian team’s think tankemploys conservative strategy, KLRahul and Mayank Agarwal shouldbe opening the innings but Rahul itmay be recalled was dropped for thelast two Test matches in Australiawith Hanuma Vihari opening theinnings.

While Vihari didn’t score toomany runs, he blunted the new ballattack which helped Agarwal andCheteshwar Pujara to consolidatewithout much trouble.

If one looks at the pattern of play-

ing XI selections, Vihari, who battedNo 3 and scored a fifty in the warm-up game against West Indies A, couldonce again open in the first Test ifRahul’s poor Test record during pastone year is taken into account.

Cheteshwar Pujara and ViratKohli are the two pillars at No 3 and4 respectively but the problem startsafter that.

With Rishabh Pant expected tocome in at No 6 and Ravindra Jadejawith his all-round skills bringing inthe necessary balance at No 7 in theabsence of an injured Hardik Pandya,Kohli may be left with an unenviabletask of putting either Rahane orRohit on the chopping block.

Rohit’s last Test knock was anunbeaten half-century and he alsoscored a first-innings half-ton in thepractice game.

While Rahane got a few runs inthe second innings, his form has beenon the downhill and even a countystint with Hampshire has not doneanything to bolster his confidence.

The only option to include bothis to go for a four-bowler strategy withthree pacers in Jasprit Bumrah,Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharmaalong with Ravichandran Ashwin orKuldeep Yadav as the lone spinner.

The extra batsman then will takeJadeja out of equation but there willalways be a chance of fatigue in sul-try conditions and the case of main-taining proper over-rates with threeout and out fast bowlers in operation.

Skipper Kohli has always been abig advocator of playing five bowlersas the key to winning Test matches is20 wickets.

If the track is lively, Kohli per-haps wouldn’t even mind playing afourth pacer in Umesh Yadav (alongwith lone spinner), who had a goodgame against the Windies A.

However a lot will depend on thekind of track that the local curatorsprovide at the Sir Vivian RichardsStadium here.

There is a perception that thisIndian team can take 20 wickets withfour bowlers but will Kohli take thatrisk in their World TestChampionship opener?

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the Year award at the seventh CWI/WIPA Awards2019.

Under Holder’s captaincy in 2018, West Indiesdrew the three-match home Test series against SriLanka 1-1 and later defeated Bangladesh in thetwo-match Test series 2-0. During the said peri-od, the star all-rounder also scored 405 runs andpicked up 21 wickets in ODIs. He will now be lead-ing the side in the two-match Test series againstIndia beginning on Thursday.

At the annual CWI Award ceremony whichtook place on Monday, Shai Hope was named WestIndies’ ODI Player of the Year. The right-handedbatsman scored 875 runs at 67.30 in 2018, includ-ing three centuries and three half-centuries.

Keemo Paul won West Indies’ T20I Player ofthe Year award. Paul, who made his debut last year,picked up 17 wickets and scored 124 runs in 13matches for the West Indies.

Oshane Thomas was named as the West IndiesEmerging Player of the Year while RahkeemCornwall, who is in line to make his Test debutagainst India this week, was adjudged West IndiesChampionship Player of the Year. Andre Russellbagged the Caribbean T20 player award.

In women’s cricket, big-hitting all-rounderDeandra Dottin swept the top three awards — WestIndies Women Player of the Year, West IndiesWomen’s ODI Player of the Year and the T20 Playerof the Year.

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