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ANSWER TOSUDOKU 3896 (24.10.2017)

ANSWER TOSUDOKU 3896 (24.10.2017)

The object is to insert the numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each

row, column and 3x3 box must contain the

digits 1 through 9 exactly once: Easy nah?

4 6 7 2 3 5 1 8 99 2 8 1 7 6 5 4 35 1 3 9 4 8 2 6 76 3 4 8 2 1 7 9 52 8 9 6 5 7 4 3 11 7 5 3 9 4 6 2 83 9 1 5 6 2 8 7 47 5 6 4 8 9 3 1 28 4 2 7 1 3 9 5 6

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38973897

4 9 2 16 3

5 7 6 29 2 8

8 1 91 5 2 3

4 57 1 8 4

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MEYADHA MAANCHENNAIYIL ORU NAAL 2

Unnecessarily an atmosphere is being created that demon-etisation and the GST had cur-tailed job opportunities. When you buy some new shoes they bite for the initial three days, but on the fourth day they fi t perfectly.

- Union minister, Dharmendra Pradhan

Prima facie, gross irregu-larities have been found in the purchase of soil worth Rs 95.75 lakh for constructing pathways at Patna zoo.... The state gov-ernment has decided to get the issue of soil purchase scam probed by state vigilance bu-reau.

- Bihar Deputy Chief Minister, Sushil Kumar Modi

BJD is equidistant from the Congress and the BJP. With blessings of our people, we will continue our fi ght for the rights of Odisha.

- Odisha Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik

83% feel GST rules confusing, 83% feel GST rules confusing, and they are just the I-T staff and they are just the I-T staff � State of the nation poll reveals state of the nation

Chennai, Oct 25 : 'The State of the Nation' poll is

a big tradition in media, an occa-sion when we reveal to the public what they revealed to us in the fi rst place. Don't you think we in the media are fabulous?

As with all other polls and sur-veys in the media, this one too has a great tradition for being completely off the mark. Never once has any 'State of the Nation' poll ever come up with any fi nding that can be called interesting or informative.

Which brings us to the ques-tion: Who are the people these pollsters talk to?

I don't know. But I can confi rm that I have never been spoken to by any of the pollsters. I, of course, have strong opinions on most subjects. I have the strong-est opinions on matters that I have no idea about. That is what made me eligible for being a col-umnist in the fi rst place.

I asked one polling agency on how they choose the respond-ents, and the agency said they send out their representatives to all areas to cover a diverse cross-section, and 'they speak to actual people on the street'.

I don't know about you, but I think this pick-the-people-on-street is a flawed strategy. I mean if I am in the street if some stranger walks up to me with a set of questions, my normal reaction would be to --- I am generally pretty polite and don't like to use swear words --- slap him.

On the other hand, you are

most likely to run into marketing or sales people on the street, whose understanding of any sub-ject can be fi lled on the back of a 50p stamp with space to spare. But we in the media industry have allowed these marketing types to call the shots. That is why we are in a stage where WhatsApp forwards are front-page news.

Anyway, the beauty of Crank's News State of the Nation poll is that --- this is all our life-long journalistic credo --- it is totally facts-free. So you may ask how different this is from other polls. Well, our poll will give you the nuance, the essential sub-text in the larger scheme of things. We crunch the numbers to give you the decimals details. Heck, we give the percentage behind the percentages.

Right off the bat, it's GST: A whopping 83% of respond-

ents said that GST rules and regulations are totally confusing.

96% of those respondents were Finance Ministry staff manning the GST cell.

Economy on speed drug 76% of the surveyed felt that

economy has picked up since demonetisation and GST imple-mentation.

A good 89% of them were to-tally smashed under the infl uence of cocaine.

Figures and fi ngers on Jaitley Asked to rate, on a scale of one

to ten, the performance of Arun Jaitley as the Finance Minister, 92% unanimously said numbers

cannot do justice to him, and 36% opted for the ever-dependable expletives, while the remaining 64% used their fi ngers --- the middle fi nger, to be precise --- in response.

NDA, right on trigger A good 78% of the people felt

the performance of the NDA gov-ernment was satisfactory.

All of them had a gun pointed to their heads.

Corruption, the killer 79% of the private sector staff

blamed the government employ-ees for the 'culture of corruption' in the country. One of them, taking time out from preparing his expense account statements and travel bills, said: 'there is no room for any form of corruption in the private sector'.

Rahul, the inspiration Turning our attention to the

opposition, a solid 97% felt that Rahul Gandhi is emerging to be a major inspiration for them.

A solid 98% of the 97% of them turned out to be standup comics.

All of them confessed they can never better the iconic line that Rahul had come up with: "Last night, I woke up in the morning".

Cricket goes for the kill 69% of the respondents felt that

there was an overkill of cricket.

But 100% opined that there was bigger overkill of news reports on the overkill of cricket.

And, even those who did not participate in the survey cat-egorically asserted that Rameez Raja on commentary should be over-killed.

Asked what was best way to avoid overseas debacles, 82% felt that India team seems to have worked out workable solution to avoid defeats in foreign lands by playing more matches in India.

News sense on television 96% said news programmes

continue to enjoy high credibility during ad breaks.

100% said they are now read-ing 'news breaks' as 'news barks'.

The polling agency people, for their part, asked: Is there a differ-ence between the two?

On newspapers, 91.5% people said editorials and the Open-Ed page containing long features in newspapers were important as they provided the readers the much-needed choice to skip two full pages without any guilt.

Technology shows the way 79% described Apple ipads and

iphones as the coolest gizmos to perform the top technological function of showing off.

Actual total usage of the vari-ous applications downloaded: 2%.

Statutory Disclosures *The sample size ranged from

zero to negative integers. *The poll was conducted over

three days, from 29 to 31 Febru-ary of any year.