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Even as Congress presidentRahul Gandhi renewed his
attack on Prime MinisterNarendra Modi in the Rafaeldeal, a delegation of seniorCongress leaders met theCentral VigilanceCommissioner (CVC) onMonday and sought registra-tion of a case in the alleged cor-ruption in the fighter jet deal.
The meeting comes daysafter a Congress delegationmet the CAG and urged theapex auditor to prepare a reporton the alleged irregularities inthe deal and present it inParliament.
The BJP on the other hand
has hit back at Rahul and saidhe has been lying on the priceof the fighter jet and there wasa nexus between him and for-mer French President FrancoisHollande.
The BJP alleged Rahul isinvolved in a “conspiracy, inter-nationally” and the formerFrench President is part of the“nexus” to sabotage the Rafaledeal.
While Defence Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman spokeabout an “international dimen-sion” to Rahul’s attack on thePM over the deal and saidHollande’s comments were nota coincidence, Union MinisterGajendra Shekhawat allegingthat the UPA Government hadcalled off the multi-billion dol-lar deal after a private compa-ny linked to Robert Vadra wasnot chosen as a broker.
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Indian Navy officerCommander Abhilash Tomy,
who was stranded in the IndianOcean near Australia sinceFriday after his boat was dam-aged in a fierce storm, was res-cued by a French fishing ves-sel Osiris on Monday.
Tomy had suffered griev-ous spinal injury in the mishap.He is conscious and will beshifted to an Australian frigateexpected to reach the Frenchboat soon.
Participating in the GoldenGlobe Race (GGR)-solo sail-boat race around the world, the39-year-old officer’s boatThuriya was damaged in astorm as the main mast of thevessel was ripped off by near-ly 15-metre high waves, Navyspokesperson DK Sharma saidhere on Monday.
The mishap took placeabout 1,900 nautical miles fromPerth, Australia.
Australian RescueCoordination Centre at
Canberra coordinated the res-cue mission in cooperationwith many agencies, includingthe Australian Defence
Department and the IndianNavy.
Tomy was in the thirdposition in the race and sailedover 10,500 nautical miles inthe last 84 days, since July 1when the competition began.On Sunday, he managed to getin touch with the organisers ofthe race in France throughmessages and requested forhelp as he could not move onhis own.
“We are expecting anAustralian frigate to reach theOsiris soon and Tomy will beshifted to it. We will decide ifwe have to take him to Perth orChennai,” Sharma said.
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Benchmark BSE Sensex onMonday suffered its worst
single-day loss in sevenmonths, extending its fall for afifth day due to a meltdown inbanking and auto stocks on liq-uidity concerns and a rout inglobal markets.
The 30-share index tanked536.58 points or 1.46 per centto settle at a two-month low of36,305.02, logging its biggestsingle-day loss since February6 when it declined by 561.22points.
This is the weakest closingsince July 11 when it settled at
36,265.93. The index dropped a total
1,785.62 points or more than 5per cent in five sessions, wip-ing out �8.48 lakh crore of mar-ket wealth.
Factors like crude oil priceshitting a four-year high, liq-uidity concerns after defaults byIL&FS, the rupee retreating alow of 72.73 against the US dol-lar beset investors.
The broad-based Nifty ofthe National Stock Exchangecrashed below the 11,000 mark,declining by 168.20 points or1.51 per cent to end at10,974.90.
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The strongman president ofthe Maldives on Monday
conceded defeat in elections,easing fears of a fresh politicalcrisis in the archipelago at thecentre of a battle for influencebetween India and China.
“The Maldivian peoplehave decided what they want.I have accepted the results,”President Abdulla Yameen saidin a televised address to theIndian Ocean nation a dayafter the joint Opposition can-didate, Ibrahim MohamedSolih, unexpectedly triumphed.
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Tall claims of “Digital-India”have apparently fallen flat at
Incredible India’s “ParyatanParv” organised in the heart ofnational capital’s RajpathLawns by the TourismMinistry, as many stalls show-casing the diversity of India andselling various indigenousproducts don’t have the facili-ty of digital or e-transactionand are accepting only cash asa mode of payment.
However, most of the vis-itors in the Parv were ready topurchase items using theirdebit or credit card.
Prime Minister NarendraModi’s vision regarding ‘cash-less economy’ seems to be a dis-
tant dream as in flagship ofParyatan Parv itself many ofthe stalls did not have thefacility of e-payment.
Joint Secretary, Ministryof Tourism, Suman Billa toldThe Pioneer, “We have advisedeverybody to have swipemachines, however, some of theTRIFED stalls and others donot have it. The swipe machinesare linked with the bankaccounts and it is on the part ofshopkeepers to have it and theGovernment doesn’t make itavailable to them. However weare working on the issue and itwould be resolved soon.”
Due to it many visitors whodo not carry cash are facing theproblem since the stalls don’thave Point of Sales (PoS)machines for e-transactions or
swapping of the bank cards.Adding to their woe is the factthat ATMs are not easily acces-sible in the area and neither anymobile ATM van can be seen.
Many of the stalls sellinghandlooms, handicrafts andother products from all acrossIndia do not have the facility ofe-transaction and are accepting
only cash. Though some of theshops or stalls which do nothave any e-mode of paymentsaid they manage to acceptthrough Paytm.
A shopkeeper namedNizamuddin running handi-craft stall of Uttar Pradeshselling world-famous carpetfrom Bhadohi and other hand-icraft products said he cannotaccept card payment as hedoesn’t have the POS facility.
He said it is not his shopalone but almost all shops ofUttar Pradesh do not have e-payment facility. Similarly, stallsboth of handicrafts and hand-looms like DC Rajasthan, DCOdisha, DC Jammu &Kashmir, DC handicraft Delhidon’t have the facility of POSpayment due to which many
buyers were left high and dry. There were about 15 stalls
of Tribes India organised withthe help of Tribal CooperativeMarketing DevelopmentFederation of India (TRIFED)while most of the stalls didn’thave the swipe machine or thePoS while rest said they havethe facility of e-paymentthrough swipe machine.
“On one hand theGovernment is promoting‘Digital India’ and ask us toswitch over to the e-mode ofpayments using BHIM Appand other modes while onother hands in its own festorganised by Ministry ofTourism many stalls do nothave PoS machines or other e-payment modes.
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Andhra Pradesh has toppedthe chart among States in
terms of the “Ease of LivingIndex” rankings under the AtalMission for Rejuvenation andUrban Transformation(AMRUT). Andhra Pradesh isfollowed by Odisha andMadhya Pradesh.
Andhra Pradesh has alsooutperformed 28 other Statesand seven Union Territories(UTs) to be the best in India forconducting business.
Launched by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi in
June 2015, AMRUT aims atensuring robust sewage net-works, water supply and otherinfrastructure to improve thequality of life of people inurban areas.
Speaking at the NationalDissemination Workshop onEase of Living Index, 2018,Union Housing and UrbanAffairs Minister Hardeep SinghPuri said the index will encour-age all cities to move towardsan “outcome-based” approachto urban planning and man-agement, and promote healthycompetition among cities.
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In a sudden twist in a Sex CDscandal in which a Cabinet
Minister of ChhattisgarhGovernment is filmed andshowed in a compromisingposition, a Special CBI court onMonday sent ChhattisgarhState Congress presidentBhupesh Baghel to judicialcustody till Oct 8 after the CBI
charge-sheeted him and theleader refused to seek bail.
The sensational develop-ment in CD case has come justahead of Assembly polls in theState expected by Novemberand the Congress is putting itsall thoughts and strategy intoaction to vote out the BJPwhich is in power for the past15 years.
Upset by sudden move ofthe CBI to present a charge-
sheet in the court of special CBIjudge Sumit Kapoor againstBaghel and others, theCongress termed it a ‘purepolitical vendetta’ of the BJPand announced to launch aprotest on the issue on Tuesdayagainst personally targeting itsstate president.
Meanwhile, the BJP hassaid that State Governmenthas recommended a CBI probeinto the scandal specifically ondemand of the Congress andBaghel is paying the price forattempting to politically finishcareer of PWD Minister RajeshMunat by indulging into ‘belowthe belt’ politics.
The Sex CD case came intopublic in October last yearafter Chhattisgarh policearrested a senior journalist andBaghel’s close relative VinodVerma from his residence atNational Capital Region (NCR)Ghaziabad on charges of pos-sessing fake Sex CDs and theCBI had taken over investiga-tion of the controversial SexCD scam a month later.
The CBI also presentedcharge-sheet against Vermaand a businessman Vijay Bhatiabut they were granted bail butBaghel chose not to move anybail application in a bid to givethe arrest a big political colourto probably garner public sym-pathy with crucial election isjust round the corner.
The CBI court haddropped charges of extortionagainst Verma. The CBI hadalso listed a young businessmanRinku Khanuja as an accusedwho had committed suicide inRaipur earlier this year after theinvestigating agency interro-gated him.
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Union Minister for Railways and CoalPiyush Goyal and Chief Minister Raman
Singh jointly carried out bhoomi pujan and laidfoundation stone for four railway projectsworth �9952 crore here on Monday.
The project also encompasses laying of rail-way tracks measuring 345 kilometres.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)was also signed for laying railway track onKhatghora-Mungeli-Kawardha-Dongargarhsection at a cost of Rs 5950 crore measuring 255
kms.The event was held as part of ‘Atal Vikas
Yatra’ at Hardi Bazar, under Korba district inpresence of a large gathering on Monday.
Both Union Minister Piyush Goyal andChief Minister Raman Singh distributed mate-rials to around 3000 beneficiaries from Centreand State Government sponsored schemes.
State Commerce and Industries MinisterAmar Agrawal, Korba MP Dr Banshilal Mahato,Bilaspur MP Lakhan Lal Sahu among otherswere also present.
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Raipur: In presence of ChiefMinister Raman Singh andUnion Minister for Railwaysand Coal, Piyush Goyal, SouthEastern Coalfields Limited(SECL) and Government ofChhattisgarh signed aMemorandum of Understandingfor making the water from coalmines potable.
The MoU was signed byofficers of SECL and KorbaDistrict Collector MohammedAbdul Kaizer at Hardi Bazar onMonday. State Commerce andIndustry Minister AmarAgrawal, ParliamentarySecretary Lakhan Lal Dewangan,Korba MP Dr Banshilal Mahatoand Bilaspur MP Lakhan LalSahu were also present. SR
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India and China will sign aninternal security cooperation
agreement during the forth-coming visit of China’s Ministerof Public Security. The firstsuch agreement between thetwo countries will mark a newbeginning in bilateral relations,officials said on Monday.
Zhao Kezhi, China’sMinister of Public Security, isexpected to visit India nextmonth and hold meetings withHome Minister Rajnath Singhduring which they will discussvarious aspects of security coop-eration between the two coun-tries. During the visit of theChinese leader, an agreement oninternal security cooperationbetween the two countries willbe signed, a home Ministry offi-cial said.
The proposed pact is
expected to cover areas of intel-ligence sharing, exchange pro-gramme, sharing of best prac-tices, cooperation in disastermitigation besides others, anofficial said.
The move comes just ayear after a two-month-longborder stand-off between theIndia Army and the China’sPeople’s Liberation Army atDoklam on the India-Bhutan-China tri-junction.
Prime Minister NarendraModi and Chinese President XiJinping held an informal sum-mit in Wuhan, China, in Aprilthis year which helped repairbilateral ties.
A Chinese delegation metan Indian team on August 28 tohold discussions on the forth-coming visit of the ChineseMinister of Public Security andthe proposed pact on securitycooperation between the two
countries, the official said.This will be the first such
agreement between the author-ities of India and China whichlook after internal security of therespective countries, the officialsaid. While Singh is the head ofeight central armed police forceswith a combined strength ofabout 10 lakh personnel, Zhaois responsible for day-to-day lawenforcement in China and com-mands about 19 lakh personnel.
The forthcoming meetingmay lead to a future India-China agreement on exchangeof sentenced prisoners, anoth-er official said.
Currently, India does nothave an extradition treaty withChina, nor a pact to exchangeeach other’s sentenced prisoners.
There are at least 10 Indiansin Chinese prisons and an equalnumber of Chinese citizens inIndian prisons.
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The Home Ministry on Monday dis-missed Congress President Rahul
Gandhi’s allegations about RSS infiltra-tion in SPG as “baseless” and “devoid offact”. In a statement, Home Ministry saidthat the former SPG Director VivekSrivastava never had any talks on thematter with Rahul.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi’srecently in a meeting said that a formerSPG chief had to quit because he refusedto accept a list of officers handpicked bythe RSS. “The comment reportedlymade by Gandhi through the media isbaseless, devoid of fact and unfortunate,coming from an SPG protectee,” theministry said in a statement.
“The matter has been verified. Theofficer in question, Vivek Srivastava, for-mer Director, Special Protection Group(SPG), has specifically averred that hedid not have any such conversation withRahul Gandhi at any point of time. Theofficer has stated that as part of his pro-fessional duties he interacted with SPG
protectees; however, he has categorical-ly stated that during his interaction withShri Gandhi, there was no talk whatso-ever regarding the appointment of a newDirector, or the reasons for his leavingSPG,” said Home Ministry..
The SPG is a professional organisa-tion that takes its task of protecting serv-ing prime ministers, former prime min-isters and their families entrusted to itssecurity very seriously, and in the high-est professional spirit, the ministry said.
Rahul Gandhi, at an interaction withacademicians here Saturday, had allegedthat educational institutions, theSupreme Court and the ElectionCommission of India and others are “sys-tematically being captured” by theRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Citing an example, the Congresschief had alleged, “When Mr (Narendra)Modi came to power, a person fromGujarat was chosen to head the SPG. Ina short time, he left the position. He toldme that he refused a list of SPG officershandpicked by the RSS, and that is whyhe was sent home.”
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As a follow up to CBI SpecialDirector Rakesh Asthana’s
complaint against CBI ChiefAlok Verma for allegedly inter-fering in the cases under hisprobe team, a senior agencyofficial on Monday met theCentral VigilanceCommissioner KV Chowdaryand submitted documentssought by the anti-corruptionwatchdog.
A senior official of thepolicy wing of the CBI met theCVC at his office for about anhour and is learnt to have sub-mitted the files of the casessought by the Commission inconnection with the Asthana’sallegations against his boss.
Asthana had recently senta complaint to the PMO alleg-ing Verma was interfering inthe probes undertaken by him.The Government referred thecomplaint to the CentralVigilance Commission follow-
ing which the Commissionthrough communications datedSeptember 11 and September14 sought files of various casesfrom the CBI.
The CVC exercises super-intendence over the CBI forinvestigation of offences underthe Prevention of CorruptionAct, 1988; or an offence underthe Criminal Procedure Code.
The CVC can direct theCBI to “inquire or cause aninquiry or investigation to bemade on a reference by theCentral Government.” TheCVC can also inquire or causean inquiry or investigation tobe made into any complaintreceived against any officialbelonging to the CentralGovernment. In addition, theCVC is also empowered toreview the progress of investi-gations conducted by the CBIinto offences alleged to havebeen committed under thePrevention of Corruption Act,1988.
Asthana’s complaint to theGovernment that was subse-quently routed to the CVC fullycomes under the jurisdiction ofthe Commission which isexpected to take a call into reg-istration of a case againstVerma after verifying the alle-gations. If the allegations areunsubstantiated, the CVC mayjunk the complaint.
Earlier, Verma hadopposed Asthana’s promotionas CBI Special Director duringa selection panel meeting led bythe Chief VigilanceCommissioner following whichthe infighting between the twotop officers has come to thefore.
Despite Verma’s objections,the CVC unanimously clearedAsthana, a Gujarat-cadre IPSofficer, last year for appoint-ment as Special Director inCBI.
Verma has trashedAsthana’s complaint as “mali-cious and frivolous”.
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Congress on Mondayaccused Prime Minister
Narendra Modi of deflectingthe country’s attention fromkey issues like “corruption” inthe Rafale deal by raising theissue of Pakistan.
Congress chief spokesper-son Randeep Surjewalacharged that “an unnerved,frustrated and worried ModiGovernment is now seekingshelter of Pakistan to deflectattention of the country” as itwas faced with corruption“exposed” in the Rafale scam.
He told reporters thatModi should answer questionsraised on corruption in Rafaledeal and other issues and notteach lessons to its leaders onnationalism. The Congressleader charged that every timedemonetisation-like “disaster”happens and people suffer,Modi remembers Pakistan.
“Every time a MehulChoksi or ‘chhota Modi’ NiravModi runs away with India’smoney, the Modi Governmentremembers Pakistan. Everytime a bank scam where gov-ernment is guilty, the ModiGovernment remembersPakistan”. Now that Rafale
scam has exposed rampantcorruption, the ModiGovernment is again seekingshelter behind Pakistan. Pleaseanswer questions of the nationfor the nation seeks account-ability from you Mr PrimeMinister. We want to ask cer-tain questions to the PM,” hesaid.
Surjewala also took a dig atModi for his “sari-shawl diplo-macy” saying it was done whenPakistan was indulging inceasefire violations. “Was yourlove for Pakistan not apparent
when you were indulging insari -shawl diplomacy asPakistan was doing ceasefireviolations and killing our sol-diers. Was it not your love forPakistan Modi ji when you hadgone as an uninvited guest toPakistan as Pakistan attackedour Pathankot airbase,” heasked.
“Was it not your love forPakistan when you invited thedreaded ISI who is the harbin-ger and protector of terroristswho come to India every dayfrom Pakistan soil, when you
invited them to investigate thePathankot airbase attack andthe same ISI went back andaccused India of killing itsown soldiers, “ he queried.
“Was it your love forPakistan when you formed aGovernment in J&K with PDPand in presence of our PrimeMinister, the PDP ChiefMinister thanked not people ofIndia or J&K not Indian armyor election commission butthey thanked Pakistan and theseparatists.”
He also asked whether itwas his love for Pakistan whena leader, whom the Congressalleged belonged to the BJP ITcell of Madhya Pradesh, wascaught spying for the ISI.
“Was it your love forPakistan when your deputyCM Nirmal Singh in J&K pub-
lically said that Burhan Wanithe terrorist would not havebeen killed by security forceshad they known that the ter-rorist was inside. Was it yourlove for Pakistan when ModiGovernment proceeded toinvite Asiya Andrabi as theposter girl for ‘Beti Bachao BetiPadhao’.
“So the connection of ter-rorists with BJP is well known.Don’t preach us lessons onnationalism. We have servedthis country with our ownblood. The history of this coun-try is written with the blood ofMahatma Gandhi, IndiraGandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, SardarBeant Singh, Nand KumarPatel and many many others.Answer the questions don’tdeflect,” Surjewala said at AICCbriefing.
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The average speed of the trains islikely to increase by 10-15 per
cent by 2021-22 once the IndianRailways achieves 100 per cent elec-trification of its network. RailwayBoard Member (Traction)Ghanshyam Singh on Monday saidthat with the network being electri-fied through and through, it willincrease average speed of trains andcut down travel time.
“Electrification will not onlyincrease the speed of trains by 10 percent to 15 per cent but also linecapacity by the same amount,” Singhsaid. While 29,000 route kilometershave already been commissioned,13,000 route kilometers more werejust approved, Singh said, adding thatwork is underway in 20,000 routekilometers.
The Indian Railways plans tocomplete electrification of its broad-gauge routes by 2021-22. It will alsorun freight trains in dedicated freightcorridors on electricity.
He said the railways is planningto convert all those diesel locomo-tives among its 5,500 fleet which haverun for 18 years (mid life) into elec-trical locomotives, while the 1,000diesel locomotives to be delivered byGeneral Electric (GE) will be used for“disaster management and strategicneeds.”
“Converting them would costus �2 crore per engine, while theirmid-term rehabilitation after 18years is around �5 crore. These con-verted locos will have 5,000 horse-power. These are completely ‘Make inIndia’ and a matter of great pride,”Singh asserted. He said the newengines will be less polluting, moreefficient and involve brand newtechnology.
While two such locos havealready been converted at the DieselLocomotive Works (DLW), a pro-duction unit of the Indian Railwaysin Varanasi, another two is in theprocess of being converted, he said.This year, around 100 locos areexpected to reach the 18-year mark.
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In a tribute to the formerPrime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, the Government hasdecided to organise the fourthedition of India InternationalScience Festival (IISF) in hishometown in Lucknow in UttarPradesh. To be attended byapproximately 10,000 delegatesincluding students and teach-ers from India and abroad, aworld record attempt will bemade to “isolate DNA” by 500students from class 8th to 10thstandard.
The festival will be inau-gurated by President RamnathKovind.
Union Science andTechnology Minister Dr HarshVardhan said that it was theformer Prime Minister whohad brought Science to the cen-tre stage of national agenda. “It was Vajpayee who had addedJai Vigyan to Lal BahadurShastri’s slogan of “Jai Jawan, JaiKisan”, he added while
addressing a curtain raiser ofthe festival here.
Dr Harsh Vardhan said,IISF is the biggest platform inthe country to bring togetherstudents, researchers, innova-tors, artists and general publicto celebrate India’s achieve-ments in science and technol-ogy. The Minister said that IISFis a medium to encourage theyoung minds towards the fieldof science and to promote thenetworking of stakeholdersworking towards the propaga-tion of science.
IISF-2018 with its focal
theme “Science forTransformation” will have 23special events. The GlobalIndian Science & TechnologyStakeholders Meet (GIST),Industry Academia Meet andScience & Technology forHarnessing Innovations(SATHI) - A National startupentrepreneurship summit andStudent Science Village aresome of the important events,being organized. The ScienceVillage program is linked withthe Pradhan Mantri SansadAdarsh Gram Yojana to reachout to the rural masses and
propagate science and for seek-ing scientific solutions to thediverse challenges facing oursociety, particularly rural India.
Secretary Department ofBiotechnology, Dr RenuSwaroop said that the specialrole of women scientists andentrepreneurs in shaping thescientific growth trajectorywill be another highlight of thefestival. “The programmeaspires to develop new entre-preneurship and explore newvistas of opportunities in thefield of science and technolo-gy among the women.Approximately 800 womenscientist/entrepreneurs willattend the event,” she said.
There will be a specialeffort to engage with stake-holders of the Northeast andthe aspirational districts.Another feature of IISF-2018will be mega science and indus-try expo that will highlight theoutstanding contributions ofIndia in the field of science,technology, and industry.
New Delhi: The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) will soon file aprosecution complaint(chargesheet) under the Preventionof Money Laundering Act againstthe Sandesara brothers, promotersof a Gujarat-based pharmaceuticalcompany Sterling Biotech and want-ed in a case worth over �5,000 crorebank loan fraud case.
The ED will subsequently seekInterpol Red Corner Notices againstthe accused brothers and otherseven as their exact locations remainsunknown. The brothers are sus-pected to be changing locationsfrom UAE to Nigeria, officials said.The charge sheet under PMLA isexpected to be filed before a specialcourt here within the next fortnight,they said.
The ED had earlier filed fewcharge sheets case against otheraccused persons.
The agency said it had registereda PMLA case against the Sandesarabrothers—Chetan JayantilalSandesara and Nitin JayantilalSandesara—and their Vadodara-based company Sterling BiotechLimited and others on October 27 lastyear, two days after a case of allegedbank fraud of �5,700 crore and cor-ruption was filed against them by theCBI. “Loans to the tune of �5,700crore was disbursed by various banksduring the years 2004-2012. LookOut Circulars (LOCs) were openedagainst the accused in August, 2017.During the course of investigation,three persons were arrested, one ofthem Gagan Dhawan, who was closeto the power centre when the loanswere sanctioned,” the ED said in astatement.
It added that the agency hasalready attached properties worth�4,703 crore and is looking for“more properties and trails for theproceeds of crime” in this case.
The ED and the CBI havebooked the company, its directors-- the Sandesara brothers, DiptiChetan Sandesara, RajbhushanOmprakash Dixit, Vilas Joshi, char-tered accountant Hemant Hathi,former director Andhra Bank AnupGarg and some unidentified personsin connection with the alleged bankfraud case. PNS
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Amidst the raging controversysurrounding the Nehru
Memorial Museum Library(NMML), the Jawaharlal NehruMemorial Fund, chaired by SoniaGandhi and housed in the TeenMurti Estate in New Delhi , hasbeen asked by Ministry ofHousing and Urban Developmentto vacate the premises on groundsof “unauthorised occupation”,which the Fund has refuted in“unequivocal terms”.
In a letter dated September11 from the Directorate of Estatesunder the Ministry of Housingand Urban Affairs, a copy ofwhich is with IANS, theJawaharlal Nehru MemorialFund had been asked to vacatethe Teen Murti Bhavan bySeptember 24.
The letter said that NMML
is in “dire need of space” andalleged that the Jawaharlal NehruMemorial Fund is occupyingthe premises “without anyauthority of law”.
“Having coming to knowabout your unauthorised occu-pation of the building in pur-suance of the communicationsreceived from NMML and hav-ing realised that you are in unau-thorised occupation of thedemised premises which is badlyrequired for the objects ofNMML, you are directed tovacate the premises… not laterthan 24.09.2018… failing whichfurther action will be takenunder the Public Premises(Eviction of Unauthorised occu-pants) Act 1971,” the Ministry ofHousing and Urban Affairswarned in its letter.
The letter signed by G.P.Sarkar (Deputy Director, Estates)further said that JawaharlalNehru Memorial Fund is “liableto pay damage charges for illegaloccupation of the premises w.e.f.
28.08.1967”. Responding to the notice, N.
Balakrishnan, AdministrativeSecretary of the Jawaharlal NehruMemorial Fund, refuted itspremise and asked that it bewithdrawn.
“I hereby refute in unequiv-ocal terms your charge of unau-thorised use or unauthorisedoccupation of the present officepremises by the Jawaharlal NehruMemorial Fund in the TeenMurti Estate,” Balakrishnan saidin his response in a letter (thatIANS has has access to) onSeptember 20.
The five-page letter elabo-rated at length that the premis-es has been in its occupationsince 1967, and has “remainedunchallenged and never ques-tioned and has been cemented”.
Notably, it was NMML thathad requested the CentralGovernment (vide letter datedJune 14, 2018) “that a portion ofTeen Murti Estate” occupied bythe Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial
Fund “be vacated”. “The NMML is in need of
space. People want to watchmicro films, the library is alwayscrowded… I want to shift allnon-academic departments outof the library but there is nospace. The part of the premisesoccupied by the JawaharlalNehru Memorial Fund is theonly possible and viable space inthe Teen Murti Complex,”NMML Director, Shakti Sinhatold IANS at his office.
He further alleged that thereis “no organic relationship”between NMML and theJawaharlal Nehru MemorialFund.
“I do not know what is theirmanagement structure and howthey function. A lot of money hasbeen passed on by the govern-ment to the Fund in the past. Inthe two years that I have beenhere, they have had no interac-tion with me. I wish them bestbut I also need more space for thelibrary,” Sinha stressed.
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The Supreme Court on Mondaytermed as “serious” the allegations
made by the wife of arrested former IPSofficer Sanjiv Bhatt that he was not beingallowed to sign any document in custodyto enable him approach the apex court.
A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi andNavin Sinha said the GujaratGovernment should file a reply to theallegations levelled by Shweta SanjivBhatt in her petition, on or beforeOctober 4.
“Before we go into the merit of thecase, we would like Gujarat Governmentto respond to the allegations. Accordingto us, the issue raised is serious as it per-tains to allegation made against thestate that it is preventing a citizen toapproach us,” the bench said.
Advocate Divyesh Pratap Singh,appearing for Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt saidthey have also challenged the remand ofBhatt, who was arrested by the GujaratCID on September 5 in connection with
a 22-year-old case of alleged planting ofdrugs to arrest an advocate.
“We are not on remand at present.We are not on individual hardship. If acitizen is not allowed to come to courtand his wife has to come before us, thenit’s a very serious issue,” the bench said.
At the outset, the bench asked Bhatt’slawyer to read the averments made in thepetition and said it had taken note of it.
Singh said Bhatt was not allowed tosign any documents includingVakalatnama for filing an appeal againstthe high court order.
Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi,appearing for Gujarat government, saidit will file an affidavit with regard to theaverments made in the petition.
The bench then listed the matter forOctober 4.
Bhatt and seven others, includingsome former policemen attached with theBanaskantha Police, were initiallydetained for questioning in the case.Bhatt was the Banaskantha district super-intendent of police in 1996.
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This year the industriousfarmers of Chhattisgarh
will be distributed �2,400 crorepaddy bonus by the StateGovernment on MinimumSupport Price, said ChiefMinister Raman Singh.
He was addressing a pub-lic meeting at GovernmentHigher Secondary Schoolground at village Kotmi ofPendra block in Bilaspur dis-trict on Monday.
Prime Minister NarendraModi had hiked the MSP by�200 while State government isproviding �300 per quintal asbonus; so a farmer would get�2050 to �2070 on the paddyper quintal. The paddy pro-curement would commencefrom November 1 across theState, he said.
The Chief Minister latercarried out dedication andbhoomi pujan of 49 worksworth �132 crore out of which
�113.44 crore bhoomi pujanwas for 26 works and 23 works
worth �18.24 crore were ded-icated.
He also provided assis-tance under different welfareschemes to the beneficiaries.
Singh said that farmers arebeing provided flat rate powerconnection for irrigation whichis being provided to farmers hav-ing upto 5 HP pumps and above.
The single point powerconnection holders numberingaround 12 lakh poor familieswhose per month consumptionof power is more than 40 units,then they can avail the facilityof flat rate bill payment, he said.
Farmers are being provid-ed zero interest loans fromCooperative banks. Within amonth, �750 crore bonuswould be disbursed to tendu-patta pluckers, Singh said.
“I had come before you allto seek your blessings. The AtalVikas Yatra had started withblessings of GoddessDanteshwari and GoddessBambleshwari. It is the faith ofpeople. It is also like a pil-grimage and carries the same
purity,” the Chief Minister said.Singh also mentioned
about food security scheme,Chief Minister Health SecurityScheme, Prime MinisterUjjwala Scheme, PM HousingScheme and other schemes.
He said that PrimeMinister had recently launchedAyushman Bharat Scheme inwhich 37 lakh families wouldget �5 lakh per year for treat-ment of critical diseases.
Singh said that forChhattisgarh, the PrimeMinister had provided all assis-tance. In coming days, inMarwahi area the developmentworks would be expedited.
The Chief Minister alsocarried out bhoomi pujan of�54.26 crore Pendra bypassroute measuring 13 kilometres,13 km Sivni to Marwahi routewidening and strengtheningwork at cost of �36 crore, 5 kmBasantpur to Bhandi upgradingand widening work at cost of�11.56 crore among others.
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The Chhattisgarh HighCourt has stayed six of the
Government Medical Diplomacourses being run underCollege of Physicians andSurgeon (CPS) by the Stategovernment.
The courses were recentlyintroduced by the Governmentin a bid to fill the vacancy ofspecialist doctors in the State.
During hearing on a PublicInterest Litigation (PIL), filedby Congress leader Dr RakeshGupta, a division bench com-prising Chief Justice AjayKumar Tripathi on Mondaystayed six out of the eightcourses recently introduced bythe Chhattisgarh governmentunder CPS.
Gupta while talking to ThePioneer informed that throughhis counsellor Ms Madhunisha,
he pleaded before the court thatthe courses were not approvedas per the Act of MedicalCouncil of India (MCI) andwere having a heavy fee struc-ture which was difficult to beborne by common students ofthe state.
Notably, keeping in viewthe dearth of doctors, the Stategovernment had amendedChhattisgarh Medical Act 1987(No. 11-1990) section 26 andadded 26 (A) after which aMoU was signed with College
of Physicians and Surgeons,Mumbai in March, 2016. Aftercompleting all the formalitiesfrom all quarters and seekingpermissions, the process ofadmission was started.
The Government was toprovide backup support for allthose passing this course forappointment in theCommunity Health Centre,Primary Health Centers andother health centers of thestate.
The courses offered by theGovernment were in eight dis-ciplines such as Diploma inMedicine, Orthopaedics,Anaesthesia, Otto-Rhino-lryn-gology (ENT), OphthalmicMedicine and Surgery,Gynecology and Obstetrics(OBG), Pathology andPediatric and the admissionwould have to be done throughthe NEET score.
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NMDC Ltd is expected toproduce 2.89 Million
Tonnes (MT) per year of fin-ished steel from its NagarnarSteel Plant in Bastar region ofChhattisgarh when commis-sioned, officials informed.
The Nagarnar Plant is hav-ing the single largest BlastFurnace in India of 4500 Cum,they informed.
Notably, the company’sNagarnar Plant is all set forinaugural heating up of itsCoke Oven in Bastar divisionof Chhattisgarh. The CokeOven will be inaugurated onSeptember 28.
Union Minister for SteelChaudhary Birender Singhand Chhattisgarh ChiefMinister Raman Singh willlight up the Coke Oven onSeptember 28, 2018, officials
informed.Notably, NMDC Ltd will
also be generating about 70MW of captive power usinggases from steel makingprocesses in the upcoming 3MTPA Nagarnar steel plant inBastar district of Chhattisgarh.
The power would be gen-erated from gases releasedfrom blast furnace, coke ovenand 'LD gases'.
The total power require-
ment of the steel plant wouldbe around 420 MW in whichthe mines, pellet plant and theslurry pumping system wouldrequire around 120 MW ofpower, officials stated.
The remaining 350 MWpower would be conventionalin nature which would be ful-filled by the captive powerplant and the ChhattisgarhState Power DistributionCompany Ltd (CSPDCL).
The Union Steel & MinesMinistry has plans of doublinginstalled capacity of NMDCLtd’s proposed 3 MTPA inte-grated steel plant coming up atNagarnar in Bastar district inChhattisgarh in due courseonce the plant is commis-sioned.
In order to increase thedomestic capacity of steel pro-duction, a concept of SpecialPurpose Vehicle (SPV) hasbeen introduced, officials stat-ed.
Two MoUs have alreadybeen signed by the states ofChhattisgarh and Jharkhandfor setting up Greenfield steelplants with initial capacity of3 million tonnes per annum(MTPA) each, to be laterenhanced to 6 MTPA. Morethan Rs 70,000 crore will beinvested for setting up of thesesteel plants.
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As many as eight new rail-way track project are cur-
rently under execution inChhattisgarh, the CentralGovernment has informed.
Overall in the country,Indian Railways have takenup 180 New Line projects invarious States which are in var-ious stages of execution.
This includes 18 in AndhraPradesh, 15 in Assam &Northeast Region, 34 in Bihar,08 in Chattisgarh, 01 in Delhi,04 in Gujarat, 07 in Haryana,04 in Himachal Pradesh, 01 inJammu & Kashmir, 14 inJharkhand, 16 in Karnataka, 02in Kerala, 12 in Maharashtra,08 in Madhya Pradesh, 10 inOdisha, 06 in Punjab, 10 inRajasthan, 08 in Tamil Nadu,09 Telangana, 03 in
Uttarakhand, 15 in UttarPradesh and 18 in West Bengal.Some of the projects fall inmore than one State. Most ofthe new line projects havebeen taken up primarily onsocio-economic considerations
in backward and remote areasfor the speedy development ofeconomically backward areas.
The completion of railwayprojects requires clearancesfrom various departments ofState Government and Central
Ministries like acquisition ofland, statutory clearances likeforestry and wild life, shiftingof utilities etc.
Notably, the CentralGovernment has offered a bud-get grant of Rs 2202 crores forlaying new railway tracks in theSouth East Central Railway(SECR) zone during financialyear 2018-19.
The project of new railwayline with electrification fromKatghora- Mungeli-Kawardha-K hairagarh-D ongargarhCorridor (255 km) besidesKatghora to Kartala (22 km)will be implemented at a totalcost of Rs 4821 crore which isbeing developed byChhattisgarh RailwayCorporation Limited (CRCL),a Joint Venture Company ofMinistry of Railways andGovernment of Chhattisgarh.
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Atal Nagar of Chhattisgarhand Amravati of Andhra
Pradesh did not fulfil theparameters of 'Ease of LivingIndex' as they are green-fieldcities, the CentralGovernment has informed.
Union Minister of State(Independent Charge) forHousing and Urban Affairs,Hardeep Singh Puri in aworkshop held in New Delhion Monday urged all Statesand cities to share their inputs on ‘CityGDP Framework’ so as to devise a robustGDP framework for cities.
Notably Andhra Pradesh had toppedthe charts among States in terms of “Easeof Living Index” rankings launched by theMinistry of Housing and Urban Affairs(MoHUA). It was followed by Odisha andMadhya Pradesh.
The three States were awarded thethree best performing States under AtalMission for Rejuvenation and UrbanTransformation (AMRUT) at the NationalDissemination Workshop on Ease ofLiving Index, 2018, in New Delhi onMonday.
While presenting the awards to theStates, the Union Minister of State (I/C))for Housing and Urban Affairs, Puri saidthat the Ease of Living Index is a trans-formative initiative of the Ministry to helpthe cities assess their liveability vis-à-visnational and global benchmarks.
He exuded confidence that the Ease ofLiving Index will encourage all cities tomove towards an ‘outcome-based’approach to urban planning and man-agement and promote healthy competitionamong cities.
The MoHUA released the first ever‘Ease of Living Index’ covering 111 Indiancities on 13 August, 2018, which serves as
a litmus test to help assessthe progress made in citiesthrough various initiatives.All cities were evaluatedout of 100. The 'physical'pillar (infrastructure) wasgiven the highest weigh-tage of 45, while institu-tional (governance) andsocial were weighted 25each. Economy wasweighted 5.
Puri pointed out thatEase of Living frameworkcomprised four pillars
namely Institutional, Social, Economicand Physical which are further broken downinto 78 indicators across 15 categories (gov-ernance, identity and culture, education,health, safety and security, economy, afford-able housing, land use planning, public openspaces, transportation and mobility, assuredwater supply, waste-water management,solid waste management, power, and qual-ity of environment). “Another highlight ofthe Ease of Living assessment standards isits close linkage with the SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDGs). Of the 17 SDGgoals, 8 goals are directly linked to India’sease of living assessment framework withSDG 11” he said.
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The Bharatiya Janata Partyhas been always respecting
the judicial system. Even afterbeing sent to jail in a sordidcrime of character assassina-tion, Chhattisgarh PradeshCongress Committee(CGPCC) President BhupeshBaghel is trying to derive polit-ical mileage by trying tobecome some sort of a ‘martyr’before the people, which thepeople would not tolerate, StateBJP Spokesman SachchidanandUpasane said on Monday.
While addressing a hur-riedly called press conferenceon Monday, RaipurDevelopment Authority (RDA)Chairman Sanjay Shrivastavaand BJP SpokesmanSachchidanand Upasane saidthat Bhagel knows that now hewould not be able come out ofthe case so is creating a dra-matic situation and showingdisrespect to the law of land.
“Everyone knows that
Congress party had sought theCentral Bureau of Investigation(CBI) probe in the incident.
Now, without applying for abail, Baghel has proved that hewants to take political mileage,
which is never possible”, thetwo leaders stated.
“He (Baghel) has brought
disrepute to state ofChhattisgarh”, they said.
Both BJP leaders said thatChhattisgarh has a differentway of thinking. It does not tol-erate the people of criminalmindset. Earlier also such peo-ple were shown the door, theysaid.
Congress party has becomea tool to spread lies andrumours. As the public supportis being lost, it is adopting suchtactics to remain relevant butthe people of the state wouldnot allow their tactics to be suc-cessful, the two leaders said.
The BJP leaders allegedthat whenever Congress hasbeen in power, it has beenbacking the crimes which causeanarchy in the peaceful state.Now the Congress nationalleadership should decidewhether to give the party lead-ership to persons having crim-inal mentality or learn lessonsfrom such incidents and pre-pare for playing a better role asan opposition, they said.
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After Rafale issue which wasopened in Lok Sabha
annoyed Congress party whichis trying to convince ‘the lies astruth’; but telling lies again andagain would not at any situationprove to be the truth, saidBharatiya Janata Party StateSpokesperson Shivratan Sharma.
“Congress party’s youngand irresponsible leadershipis putting the security of coun-try at risk which would get ben-eficial for the strategic enemiesof the country. Is there any con-spiracy to support such coun-tries,” he questioned.
Sharma said that to gainpower at any cost, should theinterests of country be keptaside and such efforts wouldnot prove useful at any cost.The 125 crore population willnot bear the antics of CongressPresident over the issue as ifsomeone is writing the scriptsfrom behind and he is playingin hands of such people,Sharma points out.
The BJP StateSpokesperson said that in Modi
government no scam can hap-pen but Rahul is trying tocover up the truth and tryingto create confusion among thepeople. Whatever is being saiddoes not have any base.
On the statement of formerFrench President FrancoisNicolas Hollande on whichsuch a situation is being creat-ed, the biggest question is thatCongress President is not con-sidering the aspects of presentGovernment of France.
The French companywanted a partnership and therewas no pressure on it, saidSharma.
During the UPA govern-ment, there was no problem forthe Reliance but was not theHAL also present in that peri-od for which Rahul should pro-vide the reply.
Why the HAL was kept asshowcase instead the Congressgovernment had never madeeffort to support the public sec-tor units so they can becomeself-reliant. Was not a conspir-acy to keep the HAL on back-foot for all these years, raisesmany questions, Sharma said.
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Reacting on the razing ofhouse of Padmashri
Bharati Bandhu and makinghis family homeless, formerRaipur MunicipalCorporation Chairman andBJP Spokesperson SanjayShrivastava said that it showstotal insensitivity and inhu-man act of Raipur MayorPramod Dubey.
The barbaric act is notonly disrespect to thePadmashree but also to thestate.
Shrivastava said that inRMC limits there are thou-sands of houses which havebeen constructed throughencroachment on governmentland.
The Mayor had notshown any interest in razingsuch structures but on otherside the Sufi singer withoutbeing provided an alternative,his house have been razed.
The BJP spokespersonsaid that the ruling govern-ment both the Centre and theState had launched housingschemes and is providinghouses to all the families.
The Mayor had acceptedthe fact that the action hasbeen taken by MunicipalCorporation, so he has toreply then why without pro-viding alternative residence,the house of Padmashree wasbrought down, he said.
Bharati Bandhu had alsosaid that without notice theaction has been taken, thenthe action cannot be justified,Srivastava said.
He aid that PadmashreeBharati Bandhu should beimmediately provided a houseto rehabilitate as per his sta-tus and action be takenagainst the officer involved.Mayor should also seek apol-ogy from the family and withdue respect provide them aroof.
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the district was held here inthe Collectorate on Monday.
The meeting chaired byDistrict Collector ShyamDhawade discussed in detailthe Right to Education andHealth of children.
In the meeting Dhawadeinstructed the Committeemembers to take necessaryaction in order to include theissues of Child Rights as per-manent agenda of Gram
Sabhas.Regarding treatment of
the ai l ing children theCollector instructed to imme-diately prepare proposalsunder Sanjivani Kosh andapproval to it must be given atthe earliest, he said.
Only Sanjivani Koshcould help the children some-
times when they need expen-sive treatment for their ail-ment, he said.
About cases of childlabour , the Collector instruct-ed the officials of LabourDepartment to constantlymonitor the matter and takestern steps in case any suchincident is found.
The col lector alsoinstructed the concerned offi-cials to prepare a proposal ofChild Protection Home forgirl children.
He also instructed tomaintain a record of missingchildren from the district.
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Second leg of ‘JungleSatyagrah’ of Chhattisgarh
Pradesh Congress Committee(CGPCC) was commenced insouthern Chhattisgarh Bastarregion on Monday by DeputyLeader of Opposition KawasiLakhma.
CGPCC President BhupeshBaghel was to initiate it in dis-trict headquarters Jagdalpur onMonday but he failed to make itdue to summon of CBI specialcourt.
Notably, the first phase ofthe Satyagrah was held in theNorthern Chhattisgarh Surgujaregion previous month.
However, the programmeunder the Satyagrah was motor-cycle rally and conducting of vil-lage level ‘Chaupals’. Lakhma initiated therally from Danteshwari temple by wor-shipping the goddess.
During the second phase, VicePresident of Tribal Wing of All India
Congress Committee, Manoj Mandavi,State Working President of CGPCCRamdayal Uike, senior leader ArvindNetam, Deputy leader of Opposition inState Assembly Kawasi Lakhma, State
Tribal Congress President AmarjeetBhagat along with all the MLAs, stateoffice bearers, MP, former MP candidates,district and block committee office bear-ers participated in the event.
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All India Institute of MedicalSciences (AIIMS), Raipur
and Health Department,Government of Chhattisgarhsigned a memorandum ofunderstanding for establish-ment of ‘Rural Health TrainingCentre (RHTC) on Monday inpresence of State HealthMinister Ajay Chandrakar atRaipur based Multi-Super spe-ciality DKS hospital conferencehall.
The centre would come upin Kurud block of Dhamtaridistrict and the MoU is for 30years period.
The State government hasearmarked 10 acres of land invillage Gadadih of Kurudblock.
Health DepartmentSecretary Niharika Barik Singhand AIIMS Director Dr NitinNagarkar signed the MoU.AIIMS had established a highlevel medical education andresearch centre at Vallabhgarh,New Delhi. It is providing ser-
vices to people from all over thecountry. In same lines, theKurud Centre would be devel-oped for providing primaryhealth services in rural areas.
Health department offi-
cials said that with MoU at pre-sent the primary services wouldbe provided at KurudCommunity Health Centre.
The main aim of RuralHealth Training Centre is toprovide Medical Officer,Paramedical and MBBS stu-dents training at the centre. Thecentre would be also strength-ening the community basedresearch works on health issues.At present the communityhealth centre Kurud building,employees’ residence and pre-sent run institution would beutilised for the services forwhich permission would begranted. The land would beprovided on lease till the MoUperiod. The central govern-ment fund would be used forestablishing the centre andproviding graduate and PGlevel hostel facilities for thetrainees. The administrativecontrol and allocated landwould be under AIIMS. AIIMSRaipur would make the post-ing of paramedical staff, doc-tor, Medical Officer and others.
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Heavy rain and flash floodsin the north India have
killed at least 11 people, includ-ing eight in Himachal Pradesh,even as the a “high alert” hasbeen sounded in Punjab, whichis bracing for inundation asflood gates of Pong Dam inHP's Kangra district may beopened on Monday night as thewater level is running above thedanger mark.
The situation in Haryanatoo is grim with rivers over-flowing and Government issu-ing advisory to the people notto venture near water bodies,rivers or canals.
Schools in HimachalPradesh and Punjab have beenclosed for Tuesday fearingmore rain in the States. Whilethree people were washed awayin Beas near Manali after theirvehicle fell into the river, twoother people were washedaway in Parbati river inManikaran valley on Sundaymidnight. A bus and a truckwere washed away in theswelling Beas river in Kulludistrict. Several houses werealso swept away in flash floodsas the Beas is flowing at a dan-gerous level. Later in the day,the Himachal Cabinet
reviewed the losses, rehabili-tation and rescue operations.
In the Cabinet meeting,held in Shimla under the chair-manship of Chief Minister JaiRam Thakur, it was informedthat 120 stranded persons wererescued from Koksar inLahaul-Spiti, 23 from Marhiand 31 from Rohtang (Kullu).Apart from it, 33 persons
stranded at Phojal in Kulluwere also rescued. Out of these,21 persons were rescued by AirForce and 14 persons wererescued by other means.
As many as 45 vehicleswere retrieved from Koksar inLahaul-Spiti. Similarly, 600 stu-dents and teachers were shift-ed from Jawahar NavodayaVidyala Chamba and 100 stu-
dents from Kasturba GandhiBalika Vidyalaya Mehla inChamba district. In addition tothis, three families of Rakh inChamba district were alsoshifted to PWD Rest House.
The Cabinet was alsoapprised that 12 tourists fromSikkim State have been evacu-ated from Keylong in Lahaul-Spiti to a Hotel at Keylong.
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From Page 1The Navy’s P -8 I aircraft
managed to spot Tomy’s boat onSunday and Sharma said Tomyresponded by ping on EPIRB(Emergency Position IndicatingRadio Beacon) as the aircraft wasflying over him. His rescue wasclosely monitored at Naval head-quarters in New Delhi and theJoint Rescue CoordinationCentre at Melbourne, Australia.
The first Indian to circum-navigate the globe in 2013,Commander Tomy was the onlyIndian participating in the racethat involves a gruelling 30,000-mile solo circumnavigation of theglobe. The spokesperson said theinjured officer was shifted toFrench vessel and it will move totake shelter at Ile Amsterdam,about 100 nautical miles north ofthe rescue position. The islandhas a small hospital. Indian Navalship Satpura has been sent tobring the commander, a KirtiChakra awardee, back to India,Sharma added.
PTI added from Kochi, threedays of tension gave way to joyfor the Kerala-based family ofTomy as he was rescued with hisfather saying his son’s grit will seehim come back to adventuresport. “Praise the Lord. I am sohappy...,” VC Tomy, a retiredNaval personnel himself, toldmediapersons near here after hisson’s evacuation. “He may bephysically weak but he will bementally stable. He will come
back. I have full confidence inhim,” the father said while admit-ting that he was tense in the lastthree days after hearing the newsabout the incident.
From Page 1He also hinted at Pakistan’s
role in the conspiracy, sayingone of its leaders, formerInterior Minister RehmanMalik, has even tweeted thatRahul will be the next IndianPrime Minister.
Sitharaman said theGovernment will fight the “per-ception battle” over the Rafaledeal by putting facts before themasses to counter theCongress’ “false propaganda”.“I, others will go around thecountry to put facts before thepublic. It is a matter of per-ception battle,” she toldreporters.
The Defence Minister alsorejected the Congress’ chargethat the Modi Governmenthad undermined the State-runHindustan AeronauticsLimited, saying the HAL on anaverage got annual ordersworth over Rs 10,000 croreduring the 10-year UPA ruleagainst annual orders of aroundRs 22,000 crore given by thecurrent dispensation so far.
The Congress continuedwith its offensive against theBJP Government over theRafale deal, alleging corruptionand violation of rules by thePM and demanded answersfrom him. It also accused thePM, the Finance Minister andthe Defence Minister of “lyingon the issue”.
Rahul released a video ofa French media portal in con-nection with the jet deal andappeared to suggest this is the“sad truth” about the PM. “Thesad truth about India’sCommander in Thief,” Rahulsaid on Twitter, in an apparentattack on Modi and tagged thevideo along with his tweet.
The video targets the ModiGovernment on the Rafale dealand quoted the editor ofMediapart, a French mediahouse, that published a story onFriday quoting Hollande as
saying it was the IndianGovernment that “proposed”Reliance Defence as the part-ner of Dassault Aviation forRafale offset contracts.
The video further notedthat while the IndianGovernment has stated it didnot have “any say in the com-mercial decision”, but Hollande,who had presided over thedeal, said this was not true.
Later addressing public rallyin Amethi, Rahul said thecontract worth thousands ofcrores of rupees could have pro-vided jobs “to youth of Amethi,to engineers...It could havegiven employment to thou-sands of youth...Aircraft withFrench technology would havebeen made in India...The nationwould have benefitted from it.”
“Soon after becoming thePrime Minister, ‘chowkidarji’goes straight to France andenters into a deal with the pres-ident of that country...,” Rahulalleged. “The company, whichgot the contract, was floated justten days before...Don’t knowhow Anil Ambani came to knowten days before that he wasgoing to get the contract,” he said.
“We sought a JPC probeand tweeted to Arun Jaitleyalso, but Jaitley’s boss NarendraModi will not do this...I askedfour questions but not even onehas been replied to. You talk ofbig issues, give speeches, go toRajasthan and Chattishgarhbut there is not a single wordabout Rafale from Modi...Why,because ‘chowkidar’ has madeAnil Ambani commit a theft,”Rahul said.
Earlier in the day a dele-gation of senior Congress lead-ers led by Gulam Nabi Azadmet the CVC K V Chowdharyand demanded registration ofa case in alleged corruption inthe Rafale fighter jet deal. Thedelegation submitted a detailedmemorandum, accusing theGovernment of causing loss to
the public exchequer andendangering national securityby bypassing state-runHindustan AeronauticsLimited (HAL) in favour ofsome businessman “friends”for offset contract.
Opposition leader SharadYadav too sought a JointParliamentary Committeeprobe into the Rafale deal,alleging a scam in the purchaseof 36 fighter aircraft. “Therewas a lack of transparency inthis deal, and therefore peopleof the country have doubtsabout scam in the purchase of(the) Rafale fighter jets. The rel-evant questions have not beenanswered from theGovernment side as to why theprice of one aircraft was raisedfrom Rs 526 crore to Rs. 1570crore,” Yadav said.
Union Minister PrakashJavadekar termed Rahul as a“directionless leader” and saidthe Congress chief and hisparty have no hope to return topower therefore they were try-ing to create a campaign on thebasis of lies and speculationsagainst the BJP Government.The senior BJP leader saidGandhi has no facts and evi-dence against the Governmentover the Rafale deal. The HRDMinister said there were evi-dences and proof when therewere allegations (against for-mer UPA Government) overthe coal scam.
Interestingly BJP MPShatrughan Sinha drew flakfrom a fellow party parlia-mentarian R K Sinha whoaccused him of siding withOpposition leaders, like RahulGandhi and Lalu Prasad byquestioning the ModiGovernment on the Rafaledeal. In his tweets, Shatrughanhas called the controversy sur-rounding the Rafale deal aserious issue and called for theneed for the Government tocome clean.
From Page 1Common people usually
do not carry much cash in theirwallet these days as everywhereone can find digital transaction,”said Nishant Sharma, a residentof Faridabad who had comealong with his family. He saidhe is a bit disappointed on see-ing that many shops from wherehe wanted to purchase a few arti-cles don’t have the e-paymentfacility.
While Nimish, who camefrom Hauz Khas, appreciated theinitiative of the CentralGovernment and TourismDepartment calling the“Paryatan-Parv” a conglomerateof different culture and diversi-ty of various Indian States at oneplace, he said he had no idea thatmany shopkeepers don’t have e-payment facility and hence didnot carry cash with him andeven didn’t found any ATM ormobile ATM van in the nation-al fest.
“There are too many thingsto buy. The cost of items is real-ly cheap but due non-availabil-ity of swipe machines at most ofthe stalls is the biggest issue.Even there is no ATM machinein the vicinity. They shouldhave made proper arrangementsbefore organising such an event,”said Radhika, a resident ofMayur Vihar phase-2.
“I liked a Rajasthani sareefor my mother which costsaround Rs 1,500. I didn’t havecash so I asked the shopkeeper
to swipe my card. First, he saidhe doesn’t have a swipe machinebut after a few minutes he madearrangements for accepting pay-ment through Paytm but Irefused as I have not installedPaytm on my phone,” com-plains Devesh Verma, who hadcome from Alwar.
However, some of the shop-keepers who have e-paymentfacility made brisk business asmany of the shoppers who weredisheartened after being deniede-payment mode in many stallsthronged theirs.
Shikha Das at her handicraftstall, selling items made inAssam said that nearly 90 percent of customers who visitedher stall have paid through thecard using the PoS machinewhile only 10 per cent prefercash. She said her daily sale issomewhere between 26 and 30thousand rupees.
The Ministry of Tourism,Government of India in col-laboration with other CentralMinistries, State Governmentsand Stakeholders has organ-ised a “Paryatan Parv” across thecountry from September 16 to27. The “Paryatan Parv” is beingorganised with the objective ofdrawing focus on the benefits oftourism, showcasing the culturaldiversity of the country and rein-forcing the principle of “Tourismfor All”. The Paryatan Parv shallconclude with the WorldTourism Day celebrations on 27September 2018.
From Page 1Union Minister Piyush
Goyal and Chief MinisterRaman Singh laid foundationstone of Gevra Road to PendraRoad 135.3 km new railway lineat cost of �4970 crore underEast-West Rail Corridor Project.
Nine railway stations wouldbe constructed whileDharamjaigarh to Korba 63 kmnew railway line would be laid ata cost of �686 crore in which sixrailway stations would be con-structed whose foundation stonewas also laid. The project is beingdeveloped under East RailCorridor Project under secondphase. Kharsia to Dharamjaigarh131 km new railway line foun-dation was also laid under EastRail corridor which is part of firstphase at cost of �3055 crore. Theleaders during the public meet-ing also laid foundation stonethrough video-conference ofHardi Bazar to Chirmiri-NagpurRoad halt 17 kilometres new rail-way line costing �241 crore. Itwould link Ambikapur toBilaspur-Durg and Anuppur-Jabalpur route and all trains onthese routes would then passthrough Chirmirri.
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The surprise victory of oppo-sition candidate Ibrahim
Mohamed Solih in the Maldives’third multiparty presidentialelection will shake up politics inthe Indian Ocean archipelago.
Famed for its sandy whitebeaches and luxury resorts,the Maldives under outgoing
President Yameen AbdulGayoom saw economic growth,in part due to China’s growinginfluence and investment inSouth Asia. But after beingelected in 2013, Yameen rolledback democratic freedoms, jail-ing rivals and controllingcourts, and was expected tohold onto power.
An election-eve raid of
Solih’s main campaign officecast a pall over Sunday’s bal-loting, triggering fears that thevote would be rigged. But theturmoil did not appear to detervoters, who waited in rain andtropical heat to cast ballots.
The election commissionreleased provisional results onMonday showing Solih had
won with 58.3 perc ent of thevote, with voter turnout of89.2 per cent in the country of4,00,000 people. Officials saidvoting proceeded smoothly,with no reported incidents.
After meeting with Solih,Yameen conceded defeat andpromised to work on a smoothtransition of power.
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Confronting the dangers ofNorth Korea’s nuclear
threat, President DonaldTrump arrived at the UnitedNations on Monday striking afar less ominous tone than ayear ago, announcing he like-ly will hold a second summitwith Kim Jong Un “quite soon.”
Twelve months afterTrump stood at the rostrum ofthe UN General Assembly andderided Kim as “Rocket Man,”the push to denuclearise theKorean Peninsula is a work inprogress, although fears of warhave given way to dreams ofrapprochement. The president’sbellicose denunciations ofPyongyang have largely givenway to hopeful notes.
“It was a different world,”Trump said Monday of hisone-time moniker for the NorthKorean leader. “That was adangerous time. This is one yearlater, a much different time.”
He added preparations areunderway by Secretary of StateMike Pompeo for a secondpresidential meeting with Kim“quite soon.”
Trump arrived at the UNon Monday morning for a
meeting on the global drugtrade, ahead of a sit-down withSouth Korean President MoonJae-in, who comes bearing apersonal message to Trumpfrom Kim after their inter-Korean talks last week.
Trump and Moon areexpected to sign a new versionof the US-South Korean tradeagreement, one of Trump’s firstsuccesses in his effort to rene-gotiate trade deals on morefavorable terms for the USEven so, some US officialsworry that South Korea’s eager-ness to restore relations withthe North could reduce sanctions pressure onKim’s government, hamperingefforts to negotiate a nuclearaccord.
The nuclear threat was onthe agenda at Trump’s firstmeeting in New York, a dinnerwith Japanese Prime MinisterShinzo Abe in Manhattan onSunday night.
Abe stands first amongworld leaders in cultivating aclose relationship with thepresident through displays offlattery that he has used toadvance his efforts to influencethe unpredictable Americanleader.
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China and the United Statesimposed new tariff hikes
on each other’s goods onMonday and Beijing accusedWashington of bullying, givingno sign of compromise in anintensifying battle over tech-nology that is weighing onglobal economic growth.
US regulators went aheadwith a planned 10 percent taxon a $200 billion list of 5,745Chinese imports includingbicycles and furniture. China’scustoms agency said itresponded at noon by begin-ning to collect taxes of 5 or 10 per cent on a $60 bil-lion list of 5,207 Americangoods, from honey to industrialchemicals.
The conflict stems from USPresident Donald Trump’scomplaints Beijing steals orpressures foreign companies tohand over technology.
American officials sayChinese plans for state-leddevelopment of global com-petitors in robotics and othertechnologies violate its market-opening obligationsand might erode US industri-al leadership.
China’s leaders offered tonarrow their politically sensi-tive, multibillion-dollar tradesurplus with the United Statesby purchasing more natural gasand other American exports.But they have rejected pressureto change industry plans thecommunist leadership sees asa path to prosperity and glob-al influence.
Tehran: Iran’s Supreme leaderon Monday said the attackerswho killed 24 people at a mil-itary parade in the southwest-ern city of Ahvaz were fundedby Saudi Arabia and the UnitedArab Emirates.
“Based on reports, this cow-ardly act was the work of thosevery individuals who are res-cued by the Americans when-ever they are in trouble in Iraqand Syria and who are fundedby the Saudis and the (United)Arab Emirates,” Ayatollah AliKhamenei said, in remarksposted on his official website.
He did not give any furtherdetails on the identity of thosebehind what he called a “ter-rorist attack”. In the immediateaftermath of the attack on
Saturday, Iranian authoritiessaid they suspected Arab sep-aratist groups were behind theattack, none of whom is knownto have a presence in Syria.
Khamenei, who was speak-ing to a group of Iranian athletes,
said the attack “once again showsthe Iranian nation faces manyenemies on its proud path ofprogress and development”. “Wewill most certainly rigorouslypunish the perpetrators of thisattack,” he added. AFP
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President Donald Trump staunchly defendedhis embattled Supreme Court nominee
against a new allegation of sexual misconductMonday, calling the accusations against JudgeBrett Kavanaugh “totally political.”
The president spoke a day after a second alle-gation emerged against Kavanaugh, a develop-ment that further imperiled his nomination tothe Supreme Court, forced the White House andSenate Republicans onto the defensive and fueledcalls from Democrats to postpone furtheraction on his confirmation.
Trump, at the United Nations for his secondGeneral Assembly meeting, called the allegations
unfair and unsubstantiated, made by accuserswho come “out of the woodwork.”
He also questioned the political motivationsof the attorneys representing the women, say-ing “you should look into the lawyers doing therepresentation.”
On Kavanaugh, Trump stressed, “I am withhim all the way.”
The new accusation landed late Sunday ina report from The New Yorker, just a few hoursafter negotiators had reached an agreement tohold an extraordinary public hearing onThursday for Kavanaugh and Christine BlaseyFord, who accuses him of sexually assaulting herat a party when they were teenagers. Kavanaughdenies the accusation.
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Colombo: Maldives PresidentAbdulla Yameen on Mondayconceded defeat in elections andsaid he would arrange a smoothtransition for President-electIbrahim Mohamed Solih.
“I have accepted the resultsfrom yesterday,” Yameen said ina televised address to the nationafter Sunday’s election gavethe joint Opposition candi-date 58.3 per cent of the vote.
“I accept the defeat,”Yameen said. “I will enable a
smooth transition.” There hadbeen concerns that Yameen,who has borrowed hundreds ofmillions of dollars from Chinafor an infrastructure blitz,might not accept the outcome.
At the last election in 2013,the Supreme Court annulledthe result after Yameen trailedformer president MohamedNasheed, giving Yameen timeto forge alliances and win a sec-ond round of voting that waspostponed twice. AFP
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Sway
amse
vak
Sang
h’s(R
SS) u
npre
cede
nted
outre
ach e
ffort
viawe
ll-pl
anne
d an
d ex
ecut
ed l
ectu
rese
ries
by it
s Sa
rsang
hcha
lak, M
ohan
Bhag
wat, b
efore
an in
vited
cosm
opol
i-ta
n au
dien
ce in
the C
apita
l sho
uld
disp
el m
uch
of t
he a
ppre
hens
ions
tha
t ha
ve b
een
voice
dab
out t
his o
rgan
isatio
n fo
r man
y dec
ades
. H
avin
g atte
nded
this
even
t and
hear
d Bha
gwat
as h
e to
uche
d up
on a
wid
e ra
nge
of is
sues
and
chos
e to t
ake t
he R
SS’ o
ppon
ents
head
on, I
woul
dsa
y tha
t his
thou
ghts
on co
re is
sues
that
are c
en-
tral t
o ou
r dem
ocra
tic ex
isten
ce, li
ke se
cular
ism,
plur
alism
, dive
rsity
, rig
hts o
f reli
giou
s min
oriti
es,
gay
right
s, th
e cen
tral i
deas
in o
ur C
onsti
tutio
n,th
e Nati
onal
Flag
and t
he N
ation
al An
them
, wou
ldha
ve le
ft m
ost o
f the
Sang
h’s de
tracto
rs sp
eech
less.
Muc
h of
wha
t has
bee
n sa
id to
cond
emn
the R
SSan
d to
deb
unk
the g
enui
nely
secu
lar as
pira
tions
of th
e majo
rity
of ci
tizen
s, wa
s, to
use
a cr
icket
-
ing p
hras
e, sm
acke
d ou
t of t
he bo
unda
ry an
d th
esta
dium
by t
he R
SS ch
ief.
Whi
le th
ese a
sser
tions
cons
titut
e the
mos
tsig
nific
ant o
utco
me o
f thi
s lec
ture
serie
s, w
hat
Bhag
wat
had
to s
ay a
bout
Gur
u G
olw
alka
r’sBu
nch
of T
houg
hts,
clear
ly p
oint
s to
the S
angh
’sha
rmon
y with
Indi
a’s d
emoc
racy
, div
ersit
y and
liber
al v
alue
s. A
lthou
gh G
uru
Gol
wal
kar,
the
seco
nd Sa
rsang
hcha
lak of
the R
SS, s
aw M
uslim
s,Ch
ristia
ns a
nd C
omm
unist
s as
inte
rnal
ene
-m
ies, B
hagw
at si
gnale
d th
at th
e RSS
had
dec
id-
edly
cho
sen
to m
ove
away
from
Gol
wal
kar’s
postu
lates
. He s
aid so
me t
hing
s are
said
in a
cer-
tain
cont
ext.
The R
SS h
ad n
ow co
me o
ut w
itha
publ
icat
ion
that
had
Gol
wal
kar’s
tho
ught
sw
hich
wer
e rele
vant
at al
l tim
es (S
adaa
kaal
keliy
e up
yukt
vic
haar
)—
this
mea
ns t
hat
Gol
wal
kar’s
vie
ws o
n m
inor
ities
, whi
ch ar
e in
conf
lict
with
Ind
ia’s
cont
empo
rary
rea
lity,
have
bee
n ed
ited
out.
Bhag
wat
said
the R
SS is
not
hide
boun
d an
d th
at, a
s or
dain
ed b
y its
foun
der,
Dr H
edge
war
, it h
ad a
dut
y to
ada
ptits
elf to
the
chan
ging
tim
es.
Her
e is a
qui
ck ru
n do
wn o
n th
e key
issu
eshe
touc
hed
upon
. O
n th
e Con
stitu
tion:
Bha
gwat
spok
e of t
heRS
S’ un
equi
voca
l acc
epta
nce o
f and
adhe
renc
e to
the C
onsti
tutio
n of
Indi
a. Th
e Con
stitu
tion
rep-
rese
nts n
atio
nal c
onse
nsus
. It i
s the
dut
y of e
very
citize
n to
resp
ect a
nd fo
llow
the C
onsti
tutio
n. It
had
been
dra
fted
by p
erso
ns of
grea
t cali
bre w
ho
took
into
acc
ount
a v
ariet
y of
fact
ors s
pecif
ic to
Bhar
at. Ev
eryt
hing
was
thou
ght-t
hrou
gh an
d eve
rywo
rd w
as w
eighe
d befo
re its
inco
rpor
ation
and t
his
inclu
des t
he D
irecti
ve P
rincip
les of
State
Polic
y and
the F
unda
men
tal R
ight
s. “It
is ou
r con
sens
us. W
ebe
lieve
we m
ust a
ll be
bou
nd b
y it.”
Talk
ing
abou
t the
Pre
ambl
e, he
spec
ifica
l-ly
men
tione
d th
e re
fere
nce
to fr
ater
nity
, dig
-ni
ty o
f th
e in
divi
dual
and
the
uni
ty a
ndin
tegr
ity o
f the
nat
ion.
Fra
tern
ity e
ncap
sulat
-ed
the
idea
of V
ivid
hata
Mein
Ekt
a (U
nity
inD
iver
sity)
. Th
e th
ough
t of
tak
ing
ever
yone
alon
g, w
hich
is em
bedd
ed in
the C
onsti
tutio
n,m
akes
it a
liber
al d
ocum
ent e
spou
sing u
nive
r-sa
l valu
es. T
hat i
s wha
t Hin
dutv
a is a
bout
. The
RSS s
upre
mo’s
cate
goric
al re
mar
ks re
gard
ing t
heef
ficac
y of t
he C
onsti
tutio
n sh
ould
silen
ce th
ose
who
beli
eve t
hat t
he Sa
ngh
is an
ti-Co
nstit
utio
n.O
n di
vers
ity:O
ne o
f the
oft-
repe
ated
accu
-sa
tions
aga
inst
the
Sang
h Pa
rivar
is th
at it
is a
Hin
du co
mm
unal
orga
nisa
tion
and t
hat it
abho
rsdi
versi
ty. B
hagw
at’s w
ell-a
rticu
lated
posit
ion on
this
issue
is pr
obab
ly th
e RSS
’ firs
t ser
ious
effo
rt at
the
natio
nal le
vel to
chall
enge
its ac
cuse
rs. H
e tol
d his
audi
ence
that
dive
rsity
is a
matt
er o
f cele
brat
ion.
One
shou
ld n
ot fe
ar di
vers
ity. O
n th
e oth
er h
and,
we m
ust c
elebr
ate an
d res
pect
dive
rsity.
Thi
s is w
hat
Hin
dutv
a is a
ll abo
ut. “
My w
elfar
e dep
ends
on th
ewe
lfare
of a
ll, th
is is
Hin
dutv
a.” F
or th
e RSS
, no
one i
s an
outsi
der (
para
ay).
The e
ffort
is to
uni
teev
eryb
ody
(Sam
poor
n sa
maj
ko
jodn
a ha
i). W
e
mus
t wor
k tow
ards
a so
ciety
that
is de
void
of di
vi-sio
ns (b
hed
rahi
t sam
aj).
O
n th
e fea
r am
ong M
uslim
svis-
à-vis
the R
SS:
Bhag
wat i
nvite
d M
uslim
s to
com
e to
RSS
pro
-gr
amm
es an
d in
stitu
tions
, and
see t
he R
SS fr
omin
side a
nd ge
t a fi
rst-h
and
feel o
f wha
t the
orga
n-isa
tion
stand
s for
. A m
emor
able
quot
e fro
m th
elec
ture
serie
s was
that
Hin
dutv
a do
es n
ot m
ean
ther
e is n
o pl
ace f
or M
uslim
s. “T
he d
ay it
is sa
idso
, it w
ill n
ot b
e Hin
dutv
a any
mor
e.”
On
mob
lync
hing
: Mob
lync
hing
and
such
othe
r act
s of v
iole
nce i
n th
e nam
e of c
ow p
ro-
tect
ion
is an
offe
nce a
nd is
una
ccep
tabl
e. At
the
sam
e tim
e, on
e m
ust a
lso ra
ise o
ne’s
voic
e in
rega
rd t
o co
w s
mug
glin
g be
caus
e th
eC
onsti
tutio
n ac
cord
s cow
pro
tect
ion.
On
gay
righ
ts:T
hey
(LG
BTQ
com
mun
i-ty
) are
a p
art o
f soc
iety
. The
y sh
ould
not
feel
isola
ted.
On
the U
nifo
rm C
ivil
Code
: Bha
gwat
said
that
the
RSS
belie
ved
in ‘o
ne n
atio
n, o
ne la
w’.
But a
t the
sam
e tim
e, on
e mus
t be a
ware
of h
owdi
vers
e so
ciet
y is.
Eve
n am
ong
Hin
dus,
ther
eis
so m
uch
dive
rsity
in th
ese m
atte
rs. T
here
fore
,it
is es
sent
ial t
o en
sure
that
ther
e is n
o co
nflic
ton
this
issue
.O
n bu
ildin
g the
Ram
Tem
ple i
n Ay
odhy
a:A
gran
d tem
ple m
ust b
e bui
lt at t
hat s
ite. L
ord R
amre
pres
ents
Bhar
atiya
mar
yada
. H
e wa
s ev
enca
lled
the I
mam
-e-H
ind.
The
re w
as a
tem
ple a
tth
at si
te b
efore
. It i
s a m
atter
of f
aith
for c
rore
s of
peop
le. T
he m
atter
shou
ld n
ot h
ave d
ragg
ed o
nso
long
. The
tem
ple s
houl
d be
bui
lt an
d wh
en it
com
es u
p, “
a bi
g re
ason
for
ten
sion
betw
een
Hin
dus a
nd M
uslim
s will
end.”
On
rese
rvat
ions
:Th
e RS
S su
ppor
ts al
lCo
nstit
utio
nal p
rovis
ions
relat
ing t
o res
erva
tions
.Th
ose
who
deriv
e be
nefit
fro
m r
eser
vatio
nsm
ust t
ake a
call o
n th
e con
tinua
nce o
r oth
erwi
seof
the p
olicy
of re
serv
atio
ns. T
here
is n
o pro
blem
in re
gard
to re
serv
atio
ns. T
he p
robl
em lie
s in
the
polit
ics ar
ound
rese
rvati
on. F
urth
er, th
e law
to pr
o-te
ct S
ched
uled
Cas
tes
and
Sche
duled
Trib
esm
ust b
e stri
ctly
enfo
rced
. It m
ust a
lso be
ensu
red
that
the l
aw is
not
misu
sed.
As
can
be se
en fr
om th
ese r
espo
nses
, exc
ept
for t
he A
yodh
ya is
sue,
muc
h of w
hat h
e said
shou
ldbe
acc
epta
ble
to in
divi
duals
acr
oss t
he p
oliti
cal
spec
trum
. Inter
estin
gly, h
e told
the p
acke
d hall
that
he w
as n
ot th
ere t
o eith
er co
nver
t or c
onvin
ce an
y-on
e abo
ut th
e cor
e ide
als of
the R
SS. H
e was
ther
eon
ly to
conv
ey an
d ex
tend
an o
pen
invit
atio
n to
whoe
ver w
as in
tere
sted
to vi
sit th
e San
gh an
d its
Shak
has,
and m
ake t
heir
own
asse
ssm
ent o
f wha
twe
nt on
ther
e. Th
is is
inde
ed th
e mom
ent o
f tru
th.
The N
ehru
vian
s and
Mar
xists
, who
hav
e view
edth
e RSS
with
utm
ost s
uspi
cion,
mus
t pick
up
the
gaun
tlet a
nd se
e the
RSS
from
with
in an
d m
ake
their
own
asse
ssm
ent o
f wha
t thi
s org
anisa
tion
isall
abou
t. In
oth
er w
ords
, the
y too
nee
d to
revi
s-it
their
bun
ch o
f tho
ught
s.(T
he w
riter
is C
hairm
an, P
rasa
r Bha
rati)
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Sir —
Thi
s refe
rs to
the r
epor
t, “M
aoist
sgu
n do
wn
TDP
MLA
, ex-
legi
slato
r in
T” (S
epte
mbe
r 24)
. It i
s sho
ckin
g th
atth
e M
aoist
s kill
ed tw
o M
LAs b
elon
g-in
g to
the T
elugu
Des
am P
arty
(TD
P).
At a
tim
e w
hen
Nax
alism
is
on t
hewa
ne, t
his o
utbu
rst o
f the
ir ou
tpou
ring
of v
enge
nce
is no
thin
g bu
t ter
rifyi
ng.
This
port
ends
a ji
ttery
futu
re fo
r th
ena
tion.
N
axal
ism is
a sc
ourg
e and
it h
as to
be w
iped
out
any
rat
e. W
here
doe
sN
axal
ism li
nger
? And
wha
t is i
ts m
ain
attr
actio
n? N
axal
ism g
row
s w
here
ther
e is
a bre
akdo
wn
of th
e jus
tice s
ys-
tem
. Also
, hug
e ec
ocno
mic
disp
arity
and
pove
rty p
lay an
impo
rtan
rt ro
le in
taki
ng ro
ot o
f thi
s soc
ial o
utfit
. So,
as
an
imm
edia
te
mea
sure
, th
eG
over
nmen
t m
ust
addr
ess
the
core
prob
lem
s of t
he M
aoist
s.
Onc
e th
e so
cial
ly m
argi
nalis
edpe
ople
, who
ofte
n fa
ll pr
ey to
the r
ev-
olut
iona
ry p
rinci
pals
of an
nihi
latio
n,ar
e ta
ken
to t
he m
ains
trea
m o
f th
eco
untr
y by
pro
vidi
ng t
hem
all
that
need
ed b
asic
ally,
Nax
alism
will
van
-ish
for s
ure.
TK N
anda
nan
Vi
a em
ail
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Sir
— T
his
refe
rs t
o th
e ed
itoria
l,“F
renc
h gu
st of
win
d” (S
epte
mbe
r 24)
.By
now
, it
is cl
ear
enou
gh t
hat
the
Con
gres
s is
tryi
ng to
mak
e a
Bofo
rsou
t of t
he R
afal
e de
al.
Whi
le th
ere m
ay n
ot b
e an
iota
of
trut
h in
the
Con
gres
s alle
gatio
ns b
utth
e w
ay P
rime
Min
ister
Nar
endr
aM
odi h
as b
een
silen
t on
the
issue
, it
is di
fficu
lt to
fath
om.
Mod
i-led
Gov
ernm
ent’s
big
gest
USP
is it
s cle
an g
over
nanc
e rec
ord
sofa
r and
the C
ongr
ess i
s try
ing
to h
urt
the
Bhar
atiy
a Ja
nata
Par
ty (
BJP)
whe
re it
hur
ts th
e m
ost.
BJP
stra
tegi
sts k
now
it b
ette
r how
to h
andl
e the
stua
tion
but t
hey s
houl
dre
mem
ber t
hat p
erce
ptio
n pl
ays a
big
-ge
r ro
le t
han
real
ity. I
n vi
ew o
f th
eup
com
ing
elec
tions
, the
Con
gres
s is
not
leav
ing
any
ston
e un
turn
ed t
och
ange
the p
eopl
e’s p
erce
ptio
n ab
out
Prim
e M
inist
er M
odi.
The
BJP
may
thi
nk t
hat
it m
ayan
swer
vot
ers
at t
he r
ight
tim
e bu
tth
ey n
eed
to as
sess
the d
amag
e whi
chis
bein
g do
ne o
n w
hate
ver
poss
ible
pret
ext b
y th
e O
ppos
ition
. Bal G
ovin
dN
oida
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Sir —
Thi
s ref
ers t
o th
e edi
toria
l, “F
orge
nder
equ
ity”
(Sep
tem
ber
22).
The
Gov
ernm
ent’s
use
of
the
ordi
nanc
ero
ute
to c
rim
inal
ise i
nsta
nt t
riple
tala
q sh
ows
its d
espe
ratio
n fo
r vo
teba
nk.
It sh
ould
hav
e in
stea
d di
s-cu
ssed
the
issue
s tha
t wer
e ra
ised
byth
e Opp
ositi
on. T
he m
ove a
lso sh
ows
its d
icta
toria
l atti
tude
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a em
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roga
nt re
spon
se to
the pe
ace d
ialog
ue. A
ll my l
ife, I
have
come
acro
sssm
all m
en oc
cupy
ing bi
g offic
es.
—Pa
kistan
Prim
e Mini
ster
IMRA
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AN
The c
ommo
nality
betw
een P
akist
an an
d Con
gres
s is
their
frustr
ation
. Both
of th
em w
ant t
o rem
ove
Prim
e Mini
ster M
odi f
rom
Indian
politi
cs.
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okes
pers
onSA
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The
Ras
htri
yaSw
ayam
seva
k Sa
ngh
(RSS
), w
hich
had
bee
nun
der
seve
r cr
itici
smby
a se
ctio
n of
pol
itica
lle
ader
s and
the
soci
al ‘c
hatte
rati’,
in a
n un
prec
eden
ted
mov
e,ar
rang
ed fo
r a h
igh-
prof
ile m
eet-
ing
in D
elhi
’s V
igya
n Bh
awan
from
Sep
tem
ber 1
7 to
Sep
tem
ber
19. A
gal
axy
of p
eopl
e fr
om a
llw
alks
of l
ife, i
nclu
ding
fore
igne
rs,
wer
e in
vite
d. O
ppos
ition
lead
ers,
incl
udin
g C
ongr
ess
pres
iden
tRa
hul G
andh
i, to
o w
ere
invi
ted
but t
hey
refu
sed
to a
ttend
. Th
is w
riter
, whi
le o
n to
ur, g
ota c
all f
rom
Sure
sh K
ulka
rni,
a self
-ef
faci
ng R
SS n
atio
nal r
epre
sent
a-tiv
e of t
he S
angh
’s af
filia
te V
anva
siK
alya
n A
shra
m,
and
a se
nior
Prac
hara
k, w
ho a
sked
him
if h
eco
uld
atte
nd t
his
mee
t to
kno
wab
out h
is or
gani
satio
n’s p
hilo
so-
phy o
n th
e “fu
ture
of B
hara
t”. T
his
writ
er h
ad b
een
in to
uch
with
the
Vanv
asi K
alya
n A
shra
m o
n re
lat-
ed m
atte
rs a
nd a
gree
d to
atte
ndth
e pr
ogra
mm
e.T
he
mee
t go
t m
assi
vere
spon
se, a
s the
plen
ary h
all o
f the
Vigy
an B
haw
an, w
hich
has
a se
at-
ing
capa
city
of 1
,285
, was
full
toits
cap
acity
dur
ing
the
thre
e-da
ym
eet.
RSS
chie
f Moh
an B
hagw
at,
as p
er t
he s
ched
ule
of t
he p
ro-
gram
me,
spok
e for
abou
t one
-and
-ha
lf-ho
ur e
ach
for t
wo
days
. H
e al
so so
licite
d qu
estio
ns in
writ
ing,
on
topi
cs t
hat
touc
hed
upon
by
him
, tha
t w
ere
hand
edov
er to
the v
olun
teer
s to
be re
plie
don
the
last
day
of t
he e
vent
. The
Sarsa
nghc
halak
was
hea
rd w
ith ra
ptat
tent
ion
by th
e au
dien
ce.
The
RSS
chie
f was
fran
k an
dsp
onta
neou
sly e
ffort
less
in
his
disc
ours
e on
a w
ide
rang
e of
su
bjec
ts. T
hose
who
hea
rd h
im,
unan
imou
sly a
gree
d th
at i
t w
ason
e of
the
fin
est
spee
ches
de
liver
ed b
y any
Indi
an in
the p
ast
few
dec
ades
on
issue
s clo
se to
thei
rhe
art.
The
even
t will
be
rem
em-
bere
d in
the h
istor
y of
the R
SS a
son
e of
the
bes
t ex
posit
ion
of it
spr
inci
ples
, ph
iloso
phy
of l
ife,
chan
ges i
n ap
proa
ch o
n m
ultip
leiss
ues f
rom
the p
ast w
ith a
colla
t-
eral
ly b
enef
icia
l com
men
tary
on
wha
t th
e In
dian
cul
ture
is,
and
lofty
eth
os o
f sus
tain
ing
a di
gni-
fied
hum
an li
fe.
On
day
one,
Bha
gwat
star
ted
with
esta
blish
men
t of t
he R
SS an
dth
e li
fe o
f K
esha
v B
alir
amH
edge
war
, who
foun
ded
the
RSS
in 1
925
in N
agpu
r with
the i
nten
-tio
n of
pro
mot
ing
the
conc
ept o
fun
ited
Indi
a, ro
oted
in H
indu
ide-
olog
y. A
fter p
ropo
undi
ng th
e phi
-lo
soph
y of
the
Sang
h, h
e, st
ep b
yste
p se
t asid
e pre
vaili
ng m
isgiv
ings
abou
t the
org
anisa
tion.
Bh
agw
at as
sert
ed th
at th
e RSS
resp
ects
the
Nat
iona
l Fl
ag a
ndci
ted
the e
xam
ple o
f 193
6 Fa
izpu
r(J
alga
on d
istric
t of M
ahar
asht
ra)
sess
ion
of th
e Con
gres
s, in
whi
chRS
S vo
lunt
eer K
ishan
Lal
, one
of
the
man
y w
ho a
ttend
ed t
he s
es-
sion,
hoi
sted
the
tric
olor
. He
was
prai
sed
by Ja
wah
arla
l Lal
Neh
ru.
Bhag
wat
also
refu
ted
the c
rit-
icism
that
the R
SS w
as o
ppos
ed to
Mah
atm
a Gan
dhi a
nd ci
ted
man
yin
stan
ces o
f the
San
gh’s
supp
ort t
ohi
m a
nd v
ice-v
ersa
. He
stre
ssed
that
the
San
gh h
ad n
o de
sire
toim
pose
itse
lf on
the
coun
try.
Furt
her,
the R
SS ch
ief m
ad ei
tcl
ear t
hat n
eith
er d
oes t
he S
angh
rem
ote c
ontr
ols i
ts af
filia
te o
rgan
-isa
tions
nor
doe
s it
allo
ws
itsof
fice
bear
ers
to p
artic
ipat
e in
polit
ical
act
iviti
es.
He
asse
rted
tha
t th
e Sa
ngh
defin
itely
raise
s iss
ues o
f nat
ion-
al se
curit
y, lik
e inf
iltra
tion
of fo
r-eig
ners
. Ind
ivid
ual m
embe
rs, h
ow-
ever
, are
free
to jo
in a
ny p
oliti
cal
part
y an
d es
pous
e th
e ca
use
ofth
eir c
hose
n fie
ld.
The
RSS,
the
refo
re, c
once
n-tra
tes o
n tra
nsfo
rmin
g the
indi
vid-
uals
as g
ood
hum
an b
eing
s to
mak
e a
vibr
ant s
ocie
ty. I
f thi
s is
ensu
red,
nat
ions
arou
nd th
e wor
ldw
ould
be
inte
grat
ed a
s a
wor
ldco
mm
unity
—it
is th
e bed
rock
of
Hin
dutv
a and
Indi
an ci
vilis
atio
n.In
nut
shel
l, th
is is
the
crux
of
Hin
duism
. Th
e te
rm ‘
Hin
duism
’ ne
ver
exist
ed i
n In
dian
tex
ts a
nd w
asco
ined
by
fore
ign
inva
ders
. It
cam
e to
use
onl
y in
the
sev
enth
Cen
tury
AD
. Bh
agw
at a
sser
ted
that
Hin
dutv
a en
com
pass
edIn
dian
Mus
lims a
s oth
er fo
rms o
fw
orsh
ip an
d th
at se
greg
atin
g pe
o-pl
e in
to d
iffer
ent
grou
ps i
s th
ean
tithe
sis o
f the
RSS
’ val
ues.
The
foun
datio
n of
Ind
ian
civi
lisat
iona
l va
lues
is
base
d on
unit
y in
di
vers
ity
that
is
Vasu
dhai
va K
utum
baka
m, w
hich
mea
ns th
at th
e ent
ire w
orld
is o
nesin
gle
fam
ily. W
ithou
t th
is ve
ryco
ncep
t, th
e Sa
ngh
cann
ot e
xist
.Th
is is
the b
igge
st st
atem
ent e
ver
mad
e by a
ny S
angh
chie
f. In
doi
ngso
, Bha
gwat
set t
he re
cord
stra
ight
abou
t hi
s or
gani
stai
on’s
view
on
relig
ion.
H
e, t
hus,
effe
ctiv
ely
coun
-te
red
prop
agan
da s
prea
d by
few
that
the
San
gh i
s an
ti-m
inor
ity,
espe
cial
ly a
n an
ti-M
uslim
bod
y.H
e sai
d th
at in
RSS
’ par
lance
, the
reis
no s
cope
for
min
oriti
sm a
s it
belie
ves i
n on
enes
s of t
he p
eopl
e.O
n th
e las
t day
, he d
eclar
ed h
isor
gani
satio
n’s
supp
ort
for
all
Con
stitu
tiona
l pr
ovis
ions
, la
ws
and
judi
cial
int
erpr
etat
ions
and
fully
sup
port
ed t
he r
eser
vatio
npo
licy
till t
he ti
me
thos
e w
ho a
rebe
nefic
iarie
s, re
noun
ce it
the
m-
selv
es.
He
also
ass
erte
d th
at th
e RS
Sst
ands
opp
osed
to th
e ca
ste
sys-
tem
. H
e, h
owev
er,
cate
goric
ally
dem
ande
d th
at th
e Ra
m T
empl
e
shou
ld b
e m
ade
in A
yodh
ya a
sso
on a
s po
ssib
le a
s it
has
been
prov
ed b
eyon
d do
ubt t
hat i
t is t
hebi
rth
plac
e of
Lor
d Ra
ma,
and
ifM
uslim
s agr
ee, i
t will
stre
ngth
enth
e bo
nd b
etw
een
the
two
com
-m
uniti
es.
The
RSS
chie
f also
reite
rate
dth
e vie
ws o
f the
RSS
on
Jam
mu
&Ka
shm
ir fo
r abr
ogat
ion
of A
rtic
le37
0 an
d A
rtic
le 3
5A an
d sa
id th
atRS
S vo
lunt
eers
are
wor
king
with
the
loca
l po
pula
tion
to a
chie
veso
cial
har
mon
y. H
owev
er, h
e ev
aded
a d
irect
answ
er o
n th
e Su
prem
e C
ourt
’sde
cisio
n on
Art
icle
377
but
sai
dth
at h
e be
lieve
d th
at a
n in
clus
ive
appr
oach
sho
uld
be a
dopt
ed o
nth
is. M
ohan
Bha
gwat
also
sup
-po
rted
the G
over
nmen
t’s d
ecisi
onon
the C
ourt
’s or
der o
n at
roci
ties
on S
C/S
T, b
ut s
aid
that
the
resh
ould
not
be a
ny d
iscrim
inat
ion
and
misu
se o
f the
Act
. Bh
agw
at d
eplo
red
cow
vig
i-la
ntes
for
tak
ing
law
int
o th
eir
hand
s but
at th
e sam
e tim
e pitc
hed
the
idea
of ‘
cow
con
serv
atio
n’ s
oas
to
m
ake
smal
l fa
rmer
s se
lf-su
ffici
ent.
The
RSS
supr
emo
dem
ande
da
new
pop
ulat
ion
polic
y w
hich
shou
ld t
ake
into
acc
ount
dem
o-gr
aphi
c bal
ance
for a
bet
ter f
utur
eof
the
cou
ntry
. H
e al
so v
ehe-
men
tly o
ppos
ed th
e ide
a of c
hoos
-in
g no
ne o
f th
e ab
ove
(NO
TA)
whi
le v
otin
g.
On
a que
stio
n on
conv
ersio
n,he
sai
d th
at G
od is
not
for
trad
ein
the m
arke
t — vo
lunt
ary c
onve
r-sio
n is
need
ed,
devo
id o
f an
yul
terio
r mot
ive.
On
langu
age i
ssue
,he
aske
d th
e Hin
di sp
eaki
ng St
ates
to a
dopt
tea
chin
g of
one
non
-H
indi
lang
uage
. O
vera
ll, it
was
a g
ood
publ
icre
latio
n ex
erci
se in
ters
pers
ed w
itha
chan
ged
mat
rix v
ision
in w
hich
the
mas
ter
spea
ker
wal
ked
away
with
a g
old
med
al.
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writ
er i
s a
retir
ed c
ivil
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ant)
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y M
utin
y, w
hile
the
Briti
sher
s lef
t va
rious
per
sona
l law
sun
chan
ged
— t
he I
ndian
Chr
istian
Mar
riage
Act
of 18
72, th
e Ind
ian D
ivorc
e Act
of 1
869,
the M
arrie
d W
omen
’s Pr
oper
ty A
ct,
the H
indu
Inhe
ritan
ce (R
emov
al of
Disa
biliti
es)
Act o
f 192
8, th
e Spe
cial M
arria
ge A
ct of
1923
and s
ubse
quen
tly 19
54, th
e Par
si M
arria
ge an
dD
ivor
ce A
ct o
f 19
36 a
nd e
vent
ually
the
Hin
du M
arria
ge A
ct of
1955
, wer
e ena
cted
toco
dify
per
sona
l laws
of va
rious
com
mun
ities
,pe
rtain
ing
to is
sues
of m
arria
ge, s
ucce
ssio
n,gu
ardi
ansh
ip an
d m
ainte
nanc
e.M
uslim
radi
cals,
howe
ver, r
esist
ed ch
ange
sto
their
per
sona
l law
s, lea
ding
to th
e Sha
riat
Appl
icatio
n Ac
t of 1
937.
How
ever,
the S
haria
’hwa
s nev
er co
difie
d, an
d hen
ce, it
s leg
al sta
nd-
ing
tant
amou
nts t
o no
thin
g, de
spite
the h
ul-
labalo
o by t
he A
ll Ind
ia M
uslim
Pers
onal
Law
Boar
d (A
IMPL
B), w
hich
in an
y ca
se is
sim
-pl
y ano
ther
NG
O w
ith n
o leg
al sa
nctit
y, se
t up
unde
r the
aegi
s of I
ndira
Gan
dhi i
n 19
73, fo
rm
inor
ity ap
peas
emen
t. Al
so, t
he A
IMPL
B is
prim
arily
a S
unni
Mus
lim b
ody
and
does
not
repr
esen
t Shi
as,
Bohr
as or
Ahm
adiy
ya M
uslim
s. H
ence
, wha
tit
says
is h
ardl
y rep
rese
ntat
ive o
f the
bro
ader
Mus
lim o
pini
on.
The
Diss
olut
ion
of t
heM
uslim
Mar
riage
s Act
of 19
39 in
Indi
a, wh
ichga
ve re
cour
se to
lega
l help
to M
uslim
wom
en,
too,
rem
ained
a no
n-sta
rter,
than
ks to
man
yse
lf-se
ekin
g ul
emas
and
mau
lvisw
ho w
ilful
-ly
want
ed to
subju
gate
Mus
lim w
omen
by m
is-in
terp
retin
g Sha
ria fo
r the
ir ve
sted
inte
rests
. An
cient
Indi
a’s ci
vil c
odes
hav
e pro
gres
-siv
ely ev
olve
d ov
er ce
ntur
ies fr
om th
e Ved
asan
d M
anus
mrit
i, whi
ch ar
e a co
mpr
ehen
sive
set o
f ser
mon
s and
smrit
isby
Man
u, B
hrig
u,Ya
jnav
alkya
and
Nar
ada,
on h
uman
dut
ies,
right
s, law
s, vi
rtues
, inh
erita
nce
and
othe
ras
pect
s of e
thics
as ap
plied
to va
rious
sect
ions
of H
indu
soc
iety.
Regr
essiv
e tra
ditio
ns, l
ike
polyg
amy,
sati,
chi
ld m
arria
ge, d
owry
and
female
inf
antic
ide
stopp
ed h
avin
g leg
al or
mor
al sa
nctio
n in
Indi
a or i
n H
indu
custo
ms,
eons
back
. The
moo
t poi
nt he
re is
mos
t Hin
dulaw
s hav
e also
been
appl
ied to
Jain
s, Bu
ddhi
sts
and
Sikh
s, wi
th th
e ex
cept
ion
of S
ched
uled
Trib
es, o
ver t
he la
st se
vera
l dec
ades
.W
hile
othe
r com
mun
ities
, eth
nic a
nd re
li-gi
ous g
roup
s rea
lised
the o
mni
pote
nce o
f the
Indi
an C
onsti
tutio
n and
the I
ndian
Pena
l Cod
ein
the p
ost-c
olon
ial pe
riod,
patri
arch
al M
uslim
men
wer
e the
only
ones
who
refu
sed t
o cha
nge
with
cha
ngin
g tim
es,
unde
r th
e ga
rb o
fSh
aria’
h. M
uch
of th
e Sha
ria’h
toda
y owe
s its
alleg
iance
to ra
dica
l sch
ools
of th
ough
t lik
eH
anba
li, M
aliki
, Sha
fi’i an
d the
Han
afi s
choo
lof
thou
ght,
which
was
the
gove
rnin
g di
ktat
betw
een
1664
-167
2 fo
r the
like
s of E
mpe
ror
Aura
ngze
b an
d ot
her
bloo
dthi
rsty
Mus
limin
vade
rs th
erea
fter.
Nee
dles
s to
add
that
the
Supr
eme C
ourt
decla
red i
nsta
nt tr
iple
talaq
asun
cons
titut
iona
l on
Aug
ust
22, 2
017.
The
Nar
endr
a M
odi
Gov
ernm
ent’s
rig
hteo
usef
forts
to m
ake i
nsta
nt tr
iple
talaq
a pun
ish-
able
crim
e as
per
pro
visio
ns o
f the
Mus
limW
omen
Pro
tectio
n of
Rig
hts i
n M
arria
ge A
ct,
2017
, wer
e sta
lled
by th
e O
ppos
ition
in th
eRa
jya Sa
bha o
n Ja
nuar
y 3, 2
018 a
nd ag
ain on
Augu
st 10
, 201
8, on
flim
sy gr
ound
s.In
the
give
n cir
cum
stanc
es, t
he M
odi
Gov
ernm
ent’s
decis
ion
to br
ing a
n O
rdin
ance
on Se
ptem
ber 1
9 to d
eclar
e trip
le ta
laqa p
un-
ishab
le of
fence
, is
histo
ric. I
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In an atmosphere surchargedwith emotions and anger,
the funerals of the two TeluguDesam party leaders gunneddown by Maoists were per-formed in Visakhapatanamdistrict of Andhra Pradeshon Monday.
A large number of sup-porters attended the funeral ofTDP MLA from Araku KadiriSarveshwara Rao at Paderu.Two State Ministers - AyyannaPatrudu and N Ananda Babu -represented the Government atthe funeral. The cremation wasdelayed due to heavy rain.
Former MLA Siveri Somawho was also killed in the CPIMaoist attack on Sunday wasburied according to theChristian customs at his nativeplace Battivalasa near Araku. Alarge number of tribal peopleand TDP workers bid a tearfulfarewell to him. Earlier theDistrict Superintendent of PoliceRahul Dev Sharma visited Arakuand laid wreaths and paidrespects to the slain leaders. Healso visited the police stations atAraku and Dimbriguda whichwere burnt and vandalised by theangry supporters of the two
leaders Sunday afternoon hold-ing the police responsible for fail-ing to protect their lives.
Meanwhile, State DirectorGeneral of Police RP Thakurannounced that the sub-inspec-tor of police Amarnath wasbeing put under suspension inconnection with the Maoistattack as well vandalism at thepolice station. He also said thata special investigation team willinvestigate the Maoist attackand establish the cause of thefailure of security in preventionof the attack.
Security was tightened inand around Araku and theadditional DGP Harsh Guptaand DIG Ch Srikant were camp-ing in Araku and Paderu tosupervise the security arrange-ments and combing operations.
Normal life was hit in theagency or tribal areas ofVisakhapatanam as the busservices of State RoadTransport Corporation weresuspended since last evening inview of the Maoist attack andprotests in Araku. This has putthe ordinary people and com-muters to a great hardship.Even the special police forcesdispatched to the area found itdifficult to travel last night.
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With the targeting of tworuling Telugu Desam
party leaders, including MLAK Sarveshwara Rao theAndhra-Odisha border zone isback in focus as a stronghold ofthe outlawed CPI Maoist party.
As the Visakhapatnamagency area was reeling undertension and a further flare-upof violence appears quite like-ly, the top officials of AndhraPradesh police were analysingthe reasons for the failure ofsecurity leading to the killing ofthe two tribal leaders so closeto Araku, a major town andtourist spot.
The reason the failure hasbecome more stark was that theMaoists had issued a clear threatto attack the MLA from Arakuin April last. There were alsofears that the Maoists mightcarry out a spectacular attack onthe occasion of the 14th for-mation day of the CPI Maoist.However, it now appears that noheed was paid to the threat.
"A combination of factorsincluding intelligence failure andthe over-confidence on the partof the police seems to have ledto this tragedy", said a top APpolice official, adding that cor-rective measures will be takenonce the probe was completed.
He also felt that the MLA alsodid not follow the procedure ashe ventured into the interiorswithout informing police.
AP police was confidentthat the Maoists will not ventureinto their area from Odishahacking suffered severe set-backs during last two yearsincluding the killing of 32Maoists in a joint operation byGreyhounds of AP and specialforce of Odisha police. The inci-dent in October 2016 atRamgarh was seen as a backbreaking blow to the outlawedorganisation. Since thenMaoists made several unsuc-cessful attempts to carry out aretaliatory attack but sufferedmore losses leading to the com-placency on the part of police.
Police officials feel that thetriangle of Andhra-Odisha-Chhattisgarh border due to itstopography and forests had thepotential to once again becomea stronghold of the Maoists andcould be used by them asspringboard for more attacks.
Ever since the CPI Maoistcompletely lost their fortress inNallamalla forest in AndhraPradesh they could not findanother foothold till now. Asthe Maoists were quite strongand active in Odisha andChattisgarh they could stageattacks in Andhra as well asBhadradari-Kottagudem dis-trict of Telangana, the policeofficial said.
Six teams of AP police havelaunched combing operations in
Visakhapatnam agency areaagainst the Maoists involved inthe killings. Sources said that thefforts to nab or kill them werebeing coordinated with theOdisha police which was alert-ed soon after the attack.
State police officials believethat Andhra Odisha BorderSpecial Zone CommitteeMilitary Commission ChiefPratapreddy Ramchandea Reddyalias Chalapati could be themain brain behind the attack.The organisation had movedhim to Odisha after the Ramgarhencounter in 2016 and accord-ing to the intelligence sources hereturned to Andhra side a fewdays back. Chalapti's wifeChaotanya alias Aruna heads theNandapur area committee in thesame area on Andhra Odishaborder. Police believes that thiscommittee provided logisticalsupport to the action team ofmilitary commission in execut-ing the decision taken at a highlevel in CPI Maoist party.
The other name of possibleexecutioner of the plan was TVasudev Rao alias Vasanna whowas also involved in the bid toassassinate Chief Minister NChandrababu Naidu in a mineblast in Tirumala and wasbelieved to be active in the area.Visakhapatnam incident alsohad its echo in neighbouringTelangana where police havegone on alert in districts ofWarangal and Karimnagar,strongholds of Maoists in thepast.
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Hyderabad, one of the fastestdeveloping cities in India,
today added another feather toits cap with the opening of thesecond phase of Metro Raillinking Ameerpet in the heartof the city to LB Nagar, a busyeastern suburb. The 16-kmlong route was formally inau-gurated by Governor ESLNarasimhan at Ameerpetaround noon. The service wasopened to the public in the evening.
The Governor, who trav-elled in the inaugural servicefrom Ameerpet to LB Nagar,said, “I urge all the citizens ofHyderabad to use the Metroextensively to reduce the pollu-tion and fuel consumption".Lauding the efforts ofHyderabad Metro Rail Ltd andL&T Metro company officials tomake Hyderabad project worldclass, Narasimhan said that theHitech City route should becompleted by December 15.
After returning from LBNagar by metro Narasimhanrode a bicycle from Khairatabadstation to Raj Bhavan.
Speaking on the occasion,Minister Taraka Rama Raosaid that every station of Metrowas built to the internationalstandard and the project waswinning international awards."It can compete with any MetroRail project in the world", hesaid pointing out that with 46kms long Metro already oper-ational Hyderabad Metro hadbecome the second biggestsuch project after Delhi leavingother cities including Chennai
and Bengaluru behind. The L&T Metro which was
executing the project has spent�12,000 crore on it while theState Government acquired thenecessary land and propertiesfor the project, KTR said. Withthe opening of this stretch entire29 kms long corridor fromMiyapur to LB Nagar was oper-ational. The Miyapur-Ameerpetand Ameerpet-Nagole route wasopened by the Prime MinisterNarendar Modi last year.
Of the 71 kms Metro lineon all the three corridors theservice has started on 46 kmsand work was moving fast tocompete the corridor 3 fromSecunderabad to MahatmaGandhi bus stand at Imlibun.
The Imlibun metro stationwill be the biggest and thetallest in the entire city as twocorridors will join at this pointand the people can interchangeto different routes.
It has corridor stations on 1stand second floors, the corridorIII stations will be on the two topfloors NVS Reddy, managingdirector of the HMRL said thattwo skywalks will connect theMetro stations with the centralbus station on one side andChadarghat area on the other toensure smooth flow of the commuters. Another aspect ofthe project was the developmentof five kms route from stateassembly station to the MGBSpoint as heritage precincts. Aspart of this effort to beautify thestretch road aides will be pavedwith Deccan stones and railingswill be in Indo-Persian style tomatch with the architecturalcharacter of Hyderabad.
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The first day of the autumnsession of the Assam
Legislative Assembly startedwith a noisy note with both rul-ing and Opposition legislatorsraising voice of concern over
the issue of recently-declareddraft National Register ofCitizens (NRC) in Assam.
BJP legislator, ShiladityaDev raised his voice of con-cern over the issue by show-ing a placard which read “MyLord do not discriminate yourown children”. Dev explainedthat he was referring to the recent decision of theapex court to drop five doc-uments from the list of doc-uments for filing claims andobjections and said that it isdiscrimination.
It may be mentioned herethat the process of claims andobjection for inclusion ofnames in the NRC will com-mence from September 25. Atotal of 40,07,707 people wereleft out of the draft NRC pub-lished by the Assam govern-ment in August this year.
State NRC coordinatorPratik Hajela had earlier pro-posed to the Supreme Court tobring down the list of docu-ments from 15 to 10 for thosecalming for inclusion in the
NRC. The five documents thatproposed to be dropped werethe 1951 NRC, pre-1971 voters’lists, citizenship certificate,refugee registration certificateand ration cards (as supportingdocuments).
“The idea of NRC upda-tion is to weed out illegalimmigrant and ensure thatgenuine Indian cit izen’snames are there in NRC. Thecourt has asked Hajela not togive any details to any one inCentre or State Governmentand this is unfortunate,” Dev said.
He added, “As a MLA weare supposed to know somedetails from NRC Departmentso that we can explain topeople. Is there somethingwrong in NRC, is NRC trans-parent?. Tomorrow if NRCfails what will happen therewill be law and order problem.What is the point of keepingaway the Centre and stategovernment from the NRC process.”
“Till now NRC directoratehas not been able to do map-ping and cannot say with pre-cision what is percentage of leftout in each district. If 1951NRC is not acceptable as a doc-ument for claim and objectionwhat purpose will the NRC of2018 serve?” he asked.
Nearly 14 organizationsparticipated in a protest out-side assembly demandingouster of Hajela.
BJP State president RanjeetKumar Das along with MLAsShiladitya and Ashok Singhalmet the agitating organisa-tions. “We have met Union
Home Minister, Rajnath Singhand requested him file affidavitin Supreme Court againstHajela’s proposal,” Dass said.
“We met Assam chief min-ister, Sarbananda Sonowalrequesting him to file affidavitand accordingly state govern-ment filed affidavit in theSupreme Court. The StateGovernment has also request-ed the Supreme court to con-sider pension slip as one of thedocuments,” he said.
Inside the assembly thecongress MLA, AbdulKhaleque sought ouster ofHajela. Industry Minister,Chandra Mohan Patwaryreplied that both Centre andState Government has statedthat details of NRC must beshared with both Centre andState as it is a sensitive mat-ter and law and order is Statesubject. “We are clear that nota single genuine Indian citi-zen name will be left out ofNRC and ensure that there isnot a single illegal immi-grants name in NRC.”
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With 2019 Lok Sabha pollscoming closer, the stage
is being set for new politicalequations in Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s home StateGujarat as OBC leader andCongress MLA Alpesh Thakormay join the BJP.
The 42-year-oldRadhanpur MLA’s futurecourse of action is the hottesttopic of discussion in politicalcircles of Gujarat. If sources inthe Congress as well as BJPhave to be believed, Thakor isin contact with the top lead-ership of the saffron brigadefor the past few months.
He had founded ‘OBC, SC,ST Ekta Manch’, to counterHardik Patel’s agitation. His risein the Gujarat’s political arenais at supersonic speed. Playinghis cards smartly, just couple ofmonths before the 2017 assem-bly polls Thakor joined the old-est political party in India andwent on to become a Memberof the Legislative Assembly.
Sources close to Thakorclaimed that the OBC leaderwas not happy with the GujaratPradesh Congress Committee(GPCC), as the GPCC leader-ship didn’t give due importanceto him. Thakor remained silentover surging petroleum pricesand inflation, says a seniorGPCC leader adding that evenduring the recently completed
monsoon session of GujaratAssembly his participation tooppose ruling party wasextremely cold.
In fact on the issue ofincrease in the salary of MLAs,Thakor criticised Congress leg-islators for supporting the rul-ing party’s Bill. He publicly saidthat on one hand Congressparty was up in arms againstBJP for increasing prices, butthey wouldn’t mind takinghuge hike in salary which onlyadd burden on the taxpayers.
Thakor’s entry in BJPmeans a lot for Gujarat BJP ata time when a section ofPatidar community is nothappy with the ruling party inwake of ongoing pro-quotareservation stir of the 25-year-old Hardik Patel. If Thakorwould join the saffron brigade,the deficit of votes due to a sec-tion of Patidar community’s slat
towards Congress would becompensated, said a seniorBJP leader requestinganonymity.
“In case Alpesh would joinBJP, he is expected to contestfrom Patan Lok Sabha con-stituency in North Gujarat.That is not enough. Along withhim five other sitting CongressMLAs belonging to Thakorcommunity will also join thesaffron party,” he claimed.
Just four days ago formerCongress MLA and Patidarleader from Surat Dhiru Gajerahad resigned from the partywith his nine supporters.Gajera has also indicated tojoin BJP. Strong Koli leader ofSaurashtra region who electedfrom Jasdan constituency inRajkot district on Congressticket in 2017 assembly pollshad also joined the BJP in Julyearlier this year.
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In the backdrop of the death of11 Asiatic lions in its last
abode – Gir Forest - the Stateforest department suddenlydecided to form 64 teams toscreen sick and weak big catsand immediately shift them torescue centre.
According to the claims ofGujarat forest officials, thelions died because of infightingand territorial war. Later on theofficials added that besidesinfighting, the big cats died ofinfections also. Looking to theseriousness of the incidents, aCentral Government team ofwildlife experts has also flownin to Gujarat to find out thereasons for the death of theendangered cat family species.
During the span of 11 to 19September, 11 carcasses of lionswere found which rocked theentire Government machinery inthe State. Gujarat’s AdditionalChief Secretary of forest RajivGupta said that viscera samplesof the dead animals have beensent to Pune-based NationalInstitute of Virology to find outthe exact reason of death.
Once report of the institutewould come, it would be easi-er to take further course ofaction in order to save lions,said Gupta adding that morethan 270 personnel have beendeployed in 64 teams for thescreening purpose. The stateforest department carries out alion census every five years. The2005 survey counted 359 lionswhile the number grew to 411in 2010. The latest census in2015 found 523 lions, 109 ofwhich were male, 201 female,140 cubs and 73 sub-adults.
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�90 per litre in Maharashtra onMonday, with the retail outletsin Mumbai selling the fuel at�90.08 per litre and the pricetouching an all-time high of�91.91 in Parbhani town inMarathwada region of the State.
Petrol was sold in retail inat least 13 cities in the State inthe range of �90.08 to �91.91.The petroleum dealers attrib-uted the hike to dip the valueof rupee and rise in interna-tional oil prices.
In Mumbai, the petrolprice was hiked 11 paise perlitre from �89.97 to �90.08,while diesel price was hiked byfive paise per litre.
The fuel prices peaked inParbhani town, where petrolwas sold at �91.91 and dieselat �79.15.
According to theFederation of MaharashtraPetroleum Dealers Association(FAMPEDA), petrol was sold atNanded at the rate of �91.61 perlitre, at Amravati �91.31 perlitre, at Ratnagiri �91.14 per litreand at Jalgaon �91.01 per litre.Meanwhile, the OppositionCongress slammed the BJP-led NDA Government for theunchecked increase in petrol prices.
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Maharashtra Congress per-formed 'shraadh-puja' of cansof petrol, diesel and US Dollaron the first day of 'Pitrupaksh'.Hitting out at the NarendraModi Government for the spi-raling petrol prices, MumbaiCongress chief Sanjay Nirupamsaid: “Today is black day,since the petrol has breachedthe barrier of �90 per litre in 13cities across the State,Nandurbar, Parbhani, Mumbai,Nanded, Latur, Jalna, Jalgaon,Hingoli, Gondia, Buldhana,Beed, Aurangabad andRatnagiri.
In his cr it icism ofMaharashtra Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis not cut-ting local tax on petrol anddiesel, Nirupam said: “TheChief Minister should hanghis head in shame. Four Stateslike Andhra Pradesh, WestBengal, Karnataka andRajasthan have reduced localtax on petrol and diesel. I amsurprised that our Govt hasnot bothered to reduce localtax on petrol and diesel. Wewill continue to protest till theState Government takesappropriate action”.
Nirupam said that therise in the fuel prices hadstarted showing a directimpact on some products ofthe FMCG sector like deter-gents, soaps, hair oil and edi-ble oil among others.
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After the Bihar leaders of theRLSP disapproved of the
talks on seat-sharing amongthe NDA partners, party chiefand Union Minister UpendraKushwaha on Monday sum-marily rejected the possibility ofa 20:20 formula of seat-sharing.Instead of rejecting in clearcutterms, he said some peoplewere introducing cricket formatin politics but “I am not inter-ested in cricket rather I used toplay gilli-danda.”
The talks in the NDA cir-cles had been going on thatunder the 20:20 formula BJPwould contest half of the total40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar andgive 20 to its three allies; 12 toJD(U), five to six seats to LJP
of Ram Vilas Paswan andremaining two to Kushwaha’sparty. But there was no officialword from either the BJP orLJP and JD(U).
The only reaction, that toosymbolically, came fromKushwaha after Bihar RLSPleaders Nagmani and BhagwanSingh Kushwaha rejected it say-ing their party would not toler-ate discrimination and theywanted as much seats as allottedto JD(U) or rather more claim-ing their party represented 10 percent of population of Kushwahaas compared to less than two percent vote share of Kurmis.
“There have been, so far,no talks on seat sharing. Oncethere is talk on this matter I willtell you,” the RLSP chief toldmedia people on Monday.
Union Minister Paswansaid his party was neither wor-ried nor in a haste on seatsharinge. He said he was notaware of such talks betweenJD(U) and BJP. Kushwaha whocreated a stir early this month bysaying that he has planned toprepare kheer and its ingredientswould include milk fromYaduvanshi and rice fromKushwaha. On Monday he saidhe was going to launch his“Paigham-e-Kheer” on Tuesdayfrom Patna and the message ofsocial unity would go down tovillages across Bihar. “My mes-sage was meant to unite all sec-tions of the society. Dalits andPundits will sit together to savourour kheer. All castes and class willbe welcomed in this pro-gramme,” he said.
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Monday (September 24)being the last day to file
the nominations for thebyelections to the KarnatakaLegislative Council (UpperHouse ) for the three seats,surprisingly the OppositionBJP has decided not to filepapers. The byelections forthe council will be held onOctober 4 for three vacant seats.
The BJP took the decisionfollowing lack of strength towin the election. In the 224member House the BJP has104, while JDS-Congress,which have joined hands toform the coalit ionGovernment, put togetherhave 117 MLAs. However therumour mill was abuzz thatBJP tried to lure Independentand disgruntled MLAs of JDSand Congress but failed in itseffort to garner support for a
candidate. This made the saffron
party to backtrack from thecouncil polls which is seen ascrucial as the political situa-tion is fluid and uncertain.
Former Minister NazirAhmed and M C Venugopal ofthe Congress and RameshBabu of JDS have filed theirnominations on the last dayclearing way for their unani-mous election.
Monday was the last datefor filing nomination.
The BJP State President BS Yeddyurappa, though theparty had emerged as singlelargest party by winning 104seats in the May 12 Assemblyelection and swearing in asChief Minister, had to stepdown as he could not mustermagic number of 113 to provemajority on the floor of theHouse within 24 hours asdirected by Supreme Court .The Congress moved the Apex
Court for its intervention. JDS and Congress joined
hands and formed theGovernment to keep the saf-fron party away. However BJPunder its strongman BSYeddyurappa is still trying foroperation lotus to poach dis-gruntled MLAs from both theCongress and the JDs. This hasescalated the war of wordsbetween Chief Minister HDKumaraswamy who is headinga fragile coalition with theCongress and BJP Lingayatstrongman BS Yeddyurappa.The seats had fallen vacant fol-lowing resignation of DeputyChief Minister GParameshwara (Cong),Opposition Leader in theLegislative Council K SEshwarappa and V Somanna(both BJP), on being elected tothe Legislative Assembly. It issaid that in the process of thepolitical development formerChief Minister Siddaramaiah
who is calling shot has suc-ceeded in nominating his can-didates to the council. Thisshows he still controls theparty and the coalitionGovernment banks on him.
The byelection was origi-nally scheduled for October 3but was deferred by a day toOctober 4 due to the GeneralHolidays of Muharram onSeptember 21 and 4th Saturdayof September 22 andSeptember 23 being Sundayeffectively curtailing the num-ber of days available for thecandidates to file their nomi-nation papers.
New schedule wasannounced by fixing last datefor filing nomination onSeptember 24, scrutiny onSeptember 25, last date forwithdrawal of nominations isSeptember 27 and polling onOctober 4. Counting of voteswill be taken up on the sameday 5pm onward.
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The sensational killing of aformer Mayor of
Muzaffarpur, Samir Kumar, byAK-47 on Sunday in the northBihar town has once againexposed the fact that the crim-inals are going bold and fear-less in Bihar.
The use of sophisticatedweapon in hitting the targets inseveral murders in recent timesalso showed that AK-47 is inthe possession of the criminalsin abundance.
In most of the recent highprofile murders in Bihar, AK-47 was used. This dreadedweapon is not only beingsmuggled in to the State butalso assembled and sold for aprice of �3-4 lakh.
Recently some assaultrifles were seized in Mungerwhich had been smuggledfrom Madhya Pradesh andthe involvement of an ord-nance factory was also sus-pected.
According to eye witness-es Samir was murdered nearBanaras Bank Chowk inMuzaffarpur by four bikeborne criminals and they firedno less than 50 rounds killingformer mayor and his driveron the spot.
Only a couple of days backone history sheeter Tabrez,said to be sharp shooter of for-mer Siwan MP MohammadShahabuddin was gunneddown just behind the Kotwalipolice station in broad daylight. Some of the criminalsarrested for killing Tabrezrevealed they wanted to useAK-47 but could not because ofthe crowd there so usedrevolver. This was an admissionthat they too had this sophis-ticated weapon. Last month anRLSP functionary was mur-dered in Hajipur by AK-47 andan RJD worker in Samastipur.
“Criminals no more usecountry made pistol and theyprefer AK-47,” commentedRLSP chief and Union MinisterUpendra Kushwaha who camedown heavily on the BiharGovernment for poor law andorder situation. RJD vice pres-ident Raghubansh PrasadSingh reacted, “It is beyonddoubt that criminals have moreAK-47 than the security forces.”
While Muzaffarpurobserved bandh on Monday, allthe opposition parties strong-ly condemned the “governance”of Chief Minister Nitish Kumarleaving little space for NDA
leaders to defend theGovernment.
After the recovery of eightAK-47 in Munger and arrest ofsome accused names of somewhite collared people andpoliticians have been revealedby the arrested persons whichexposed that this weapon wasnot only being purchased bythe Naxalites but also thepoliticians and their muscle-men in Bihar and Jharkhand.DGP K S Dwivedi has handedover the monitoring of theinvestigation into the smug-gling of the AK-47s to Mungerrange DIG Jitendra Mishrawho is likely to submit hisreport to the headquarters innext few days.
What is more intriguingthat the police have far badlyfailed to check the crime despitea high level marathon meetingby Nitish last week duringwhich the CM gave a sternwarning to IGs, DIGs and SPs.
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Ahead of the secondanniversary of the 'surgical
strike,' security forces are onsong in Jammu & Kashmir.
In the last two monthsmore than 50 terrorists havebeen killed by the joint teamsof security forces in clinicaloperations.
According to officialsources, " a total number of 25terrorists were eliminated indifferent operations across theState in the month of August2018, highest in a single monththis year".
For the second consecutivemonth this year the securityforces have managed to elimi-nate more than 25 terrorists ina single month.
Till September 24, thesecurity forces have alreadyeliminated 28 terrorists whilerelentless operations weregoing on in South Kashmir dis-tricts to ensure smooth con-duct of the civic/Panchayatpolls in the State.
According to official sources,"since January 1, 2018 a totalnumber of around 170 terror-ists/infiltrators have been elim-inated in the State this year".
Addressing a press confer-ence in Srinagar on August 24,2018 the Director General ofCentral Reserve Police Force(CRPF), RR Bhatnagar hadclaimed, "a total number 142terrorists have been eliminat-ed in anti-terror operations in
Jammu & Kashmir sinceJanuary 1 this year".
Rough estimates suggestedthe total number of active ter-rorists in the State hoveraround 300 out of which anestimated number of 180 arebelieved to be local cadre andrest comprise foreign terrorists.
In the aftermath of killingof Hizbul Mjahideen com-mander Burhan Wani on July8, 2016 large number of localyouth from South Kashmirdistricts had joined ranks ofdifferent militant outfits.
According to policerecords, "126 local youth hadjoined ranks of militant outfitsin 2017 and over 130 havealready joined this year withShopian emerging as hub oflocal militant cadre".
In 2017, a total number of218 terrorists were eliminatedby the security forces in J&K.
In the wake of Municipaland Panchayat polls in thestate the security forces haveincreased their footprints in theSouth Kashmir districts.
To ensure safety of candi-dates and create conducive
atmosphere ahead of thepolling dates the security forcesare also conducting massivecordon and search operations(CASO) to track down thehiding groups of terrorists.
On the other hand to ter-rorise voters and different can-didates from participating inthe polls the different terroristoutfits are resorting to pressuretactics and issuing threateningletters to prevent them fromtaking part in the polls.
In some pockets of SouthKashmir especially in Shopianand Pulwama the terroristsare regularly abducting kithand kin of security forces orpolice personnel and eliminat-ing them to avenge killing oftheir top commanders.
Three police personnel werekilled last week by terrorists inShopian district after abductingthem from their homes.
On the other hand, in theabsence of mainstream politi-cal parties National Conferenceand Peoples Democratic Partyfrom the poll arena the politi-cal activity is yet to pick paceon ground zero.
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Awhole system of rail androad communication was
on Monday literally hijacked bya relatively unknown pressuregroup in the Jangalmahal areaof Bengal area demanding,among other things, officialrecognition of Santhali andOlchiki languages, appoint-ment of Santhali teachers inschools and construction oftribal-specific hostels.
Called by Bharat Jakat MajhiPargana Mahal, a relatively newface in the history ofJangalmahal, the bandh took anoppressive character by theevening when the passengersand the authorities wereinformed that what started as adawn-to-dusk blockade wouldcontinue indefinitely, sourcessaid.
“We have been petitioningthe Government since 2003 forinclusion of Santhali in the listof official language. But thoughit has been recognised by theConstitution, it is yet to be usedas an alternative official lan-guage in Government offices,”
a BJMPM leader said.“We want Santhali and
Olchiki to be recognised as offi-cial languages, besides we wantthese languages to be taught inthe schools and for that teach-ers will have to be appointed.We also want Adivasi hostels invarious places,” another leadersaid adding the bandh wouldnot be called off until someassurance came from therespective Governments.
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State Governments were luke-warm in their response inreacting to the situation tens oftrains remained vulnerable andstranded, some of them inopen fields. Railway serviceswere heavily disrupted inH o w r a h - K h a r a g p u r ,Kharagpur-Tatanagar,
K h a r a g pu r- B h a d r a k ,Kharagpur-Adra sections astrains remained stranded atPurulia, Bankura, Adra,Nekursuni, Basta, Salboni,
Balichak and other places.Sandwiched between the
tribal demands andGovernmental indifference werethousands of helpless passen-gers, students, women, chil-dren, patients desperately askingfor food and water through theday and throughout the nighteven as none from the powersthat be tended to come forwardto account for the affairs.
At least four districts ofPurulia, Birbhum, WestMidnapore and Bankura cameunder the impact area of thesudden bandh. The nationalhighways linking Bengal withJharkhand, Odisha and theentire South and Western Indiawere also affected. Even astracks were blocked withstranded trains in many placesin Bengal, Jharkhand andOdisha sources in the South-Eastern Railways said at leastnine trains from Kolkata hadbeen cancelled. Apart fromthese a number of trains hadbeen rescheduled, sourcesmaintained.“We are returningfrom an educational trip toVishakhapatnam with 73 girl
students. Now we are standingin the middle of nowherethough the Railways have pro-vided us with some securityguards,” S Sen the Principal ofthe BSS School said.
Falling in the mainlinebetween Howrah and Madrasthe route is a busy one fre-quented by hundreds ofpatients travelling betweenKolkata and Vellore. “We havea number of patients returningfrom South India. Their con-dition is precarious,” a studentof the school said.
Meanwhile, the TrinamoolGovernment and the BJPlocked horns over a Bengalbandh called by the saffron out-fit on September 26 in protestagainst death of two schoolchildren in an alleged police fir-ing in Islampur block of NorthDinajpur district. “We will notallow any bandh to take placein Bengal. All the Governmentoffices and transport willremain open,” State EducationMinister Partho Chatterjee saidadding all leaves ofGovernment employees hadbeen cancelled.
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Kolkata: Bridges continued toexhibit unpredictability asanother under-constructionviaduct, this time over aSunderban river, collapsed onMonday morning, sources said.
The labourers working atthe site had a providential escapeas they were about to join workin half-an-hour when a part ofthe bridge over Kalnagini rivercollapsed at about 9 am.
Sunderban DevelopmentMinister Manturam Pakhirasaid an inquiry had beenordered and the guilty wouldbe taken to task.
“No injuries have beenreported neither has there beenany casualty," South 24Parganas District Magistrate YRatnakara Rao said.
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Five infiltrators and a soldierwere killed as army foiled a
major infiltration bid inTangdhar sector of northKashmir’s Kupwara district. Theprolonged operation continuedthrough Monday as the securi-ty forces apprehend presence ofmore infiltrators in the area.
Defence spokesman saidthat three infiltrators werekilled on Monday during mas-sive search operation in thearea. The first contact with theinfiltrators had been estab-lished late on Sunday when thearmy shot dead two infiltrators.The more members of theinfiltrators’ group had dis-persed in the dense forest.
The spokesman said thatsearch operations were inprogress in the difficult moun-tainous area along Line ofControl. During the gunfight asoldier was critically wounded.He was immediately evacuatedfrom the area but succumbedto his injuries later.
Meanwhile, the normal liferemained affected on fourthconsecutive day in northKashmir’s Bandipora town inresponse to killing of five ter-rorists in Shokhbaba village ofSumlar area.
Even as the security forcesclaimed that the slain terror-ists belonged to Lashkar-e-Tayyeba outfit and were for-eigners, Hizbul Mujahideenoutfit on Monday claimed thatthey were local cadre of theoutfit. The outfit also identi-fied the slain terrorists.
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Although deportation of illegalBangladeshi infiltrators remained the
main poll plank for most of the parties inAssam, yet the successive governments runby different parties in the state coulddeport only 29,795 illegal foreigners so far.
Assam Industry minister ChandraMohan Patowary said this on Mondaywhile replying to a question in the Assamlegislative Assembly. A total of 91,609 per-sons have so far been declared or convictedas foreigner by different Foreigners’Tribunals in Assam. The Minister furthersaid that out of this only 1,037 declared for-
eigners are living in six detention campsof Assam. The 1,037 also includes 31 chil-dren, he added.
“According to the data received fromBorder wing of Assam Police, the for-eigners tribunals have declared 91,609 per-sons as foreigners till March 31, 2018.While 128 of them have been deported tillAugust 31, 2018, four other of them havealso been expelled during this period. Priorto this, the State Government has pushedback a total of 29,663 declared foreignersand convicted persons to Bangladesh tillDecember 31, 2017,” said Patowary.
“The 1,037 declared foreigners are keptunder detention in detention camps at
Goalpara, Kokrajhar,
Silchar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat and at Tezpur, heinformed the House. The revelation by theminister assumes significance consideringthe fact that Assam had witnessed a six yearlong students’ movement from 1979 to 1985seeking to detect and deport the illegalBangladeshi foreigners living in the state.
A total of 855 young men and womenwere killed and hundreds of others weremaimed by police and security forces dur-ing the period for taking part in the move-ment and agitating against the then Congressled Government. It may be mentioned herethat the BJP led Assam Government is nowupdating the National Register of Citizens(NRC) which is expected to detect the ille-gal Bangladeshi infiltrators living in the State.
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Benchmark BSE Sensex onMonday suffered its worst
single-day loss in sevenmonths, extending its fall for afifth day due to a meltdown inbanking and auto stocks on liq-uidity concerns and a rout inglobal markets.
The 30-share index tanked536.58 points or 1.46 per centto settle at a two-month low of36,305.02, logging its biggestsingle-day loss since February6 when it declined by 561.22points.
This is the weakest closingsince July 11 when it settled at36,265.93. The index droppeda total 1,785.62 points or morethan 5 per cent in five sessions,wiping out �8.48 lakh crore ofmarket wealth.
Factors like crude oil priceshitting a four-year high, liq-uidity concerns after defaults byIL&FS, the rupee retreating alow of 72.73 against the US dol-lar beset investors.
The broad-based Nifty ofthe National Stock Exchangecrashed below the 11,000 mark,declining by 168.20 points or1.51 per cent to end at 10,974.90.
Liquidity concerns andreports that China has calledoff planned trade talks with theUS weighed on the market sen-timent, brokers said.
“This turmoil which was
triggered last week by housingand NBFC’s continued to trou-ble the market as panic spread.In spite of assuring statementsby key government and insti-tutional leaders, market wasconcerned about the near-termheadwinds like quality andincreased cost of funds alongwith tighter liquidity,” VinodNair, Head of Research, GeojitFinancial Services Ltd, said.
Brent crude prices hit afour-year high before tradingup 2.34 per cent at $80.07 a bar-rel while WTI gained 1.81 percent to $72.06 a barrel.
Of the 30 Sensex scrips, 24declined with Mahindra &Mahindra emerging as the
biggest loser. Mahindra andMahindra fell by 6.46 per centwhile Maruti and Bajaj Autodecline by 3 per cent and 1.7per cent respectively.
Financial stocks led byHDFC also took a hit. HDFCdropped 6.22 per cent,IndusInd Bank by 4.94 percent, ICICI Bank by 2.8 percent, Kotak Bank by 2.6 percent, HDFC Bank by 2.16 percent, and SBI by 2.04 percent.
Yes Bank fell by another0.35 per cent, taking its totallosses to more than 29 per centafter the RBI curtailed theterm of its founding CEO RanaKapoor.
Finance Minister ArunJaitley said Monday that thegovernment would take allmeasures to ensure adequateliquidity for non-bankingfinancial companies (NBFCs)
and mutual funds.The Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) and market regulatorSebi said on Sunday that theywere closely monitoring thedevelopments in the financialsector and were ready to take“appropriate actions” to calmthe jittery investors.
Other index losers includ-ed Bharti Airtel, Adani Ports,Tata Motors, Tata Steel, AsianPaint, Wipro, Hero MotoCorp,Sun Pharma, HUL, ITC Ltd,L&T and PowerGrid whichfell up to 4.94 per cent.
Bucking the trend, ITstocks TCS and Infosys rose by4.5 per cent and 1.5 per cent.Coal India rose by 2.1 per centwhile Reliance gained 1.27 percent.
In the broader market, theBSE small-cap index fell by 2.72per cent while the mid-capindex shed 2.40 per cent.
Aviation stocks fall as brentcrude price crosses $80 per bar-rel.
SpiceJet stock fell by 7.20per cent to �71.50 andInterGlobe Aviation stock wasdown 4.97 per cent to �860.65.
Shares of Dewan HousingFinance Corporation rebound-ed nearly 11.79 per cent afterthe company stated that it hadnot defaulted on any bonds orrepayment nor had there beenany single instance of delay onany of its repayment of any lia-bility.
The company’s shares hadtumbled 42.43 per cent in theprevious session on Friday fol-lowing massive selling overfears of a liquidity crisis.
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Spiralling fuel prices contin-ued their upward march on
Monday as petrol price inMumbai crossed the landmarklevel of �90 per litre. Dieselprices also hit new highs for thesecond consecutive day.
Petrol was sold at �90.08per litre in country’s financialcapital Mumbai, up from�89.97 on Sunday, data on theIndian Oil Corp’s websiteshowed.
In the other key cities ofDelhi, Kolkata and Chennai,the fuel was priced at �82.72,�84.54 and �85.99, respective-ly, against the previous levels of
�82.61, �84.44 and �85.87 perlitre.
The recent surge in trans-portation fuel prices comesamid increasing crude oilprices. On Monday, the price ofBrent crude oil crossed the $80-per-barrel mark.
Diesel prices also rose onMonday in tandem with petrolprices.
Cost of diesel in the fourmetros of Delhi, Kolkata,Mumbai and Chennai was at�74.02, �75.87, �78.58 and�78.26 respectively, against theSunday’s levels of �73.97,�75.82, �78.53 and �78.20 perlitre. Prices in all the four citiesare at their record levels.
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With petrol and dieselprices scaling record
highs, S&P Global RatingsMonday said the Governmentmay opt to control retail fuelprices to cushion inflationaryshocks.
India imports almost 80per cent of its crude oil require-ments. Rising crude prices andthe recent 10 per cent slide inthe rupee has translated intohigher fuel prices for con-sumers.
“This puts pressure onconsumers and results in high-er inflation, a sensitive subject,given the impending federaland state elections over the next12 months,” S&P GlobalRatings credit analyst VishalKulkarni said.
“We don’t expect any rever-sion to the subsidy mechanismsimilar to before 2014 in India,even though the incumbentgovernment may opt to controlretail fuel prices, using othermeans, to cushion the infla-tionary shocks,” Kulkarni
added.The US-based agency said
it assumes a Brent crude oilprice per barrel of $70 for therest of 2018, $65 for 2019, and$60 for 2020, against the cur-rent spot price of almost $80per barrel in our financial pro-jections.
Petrol price Mondaycrossed the �90-mark inMumbai, while it was at �82.72per litre in Delhi. Diesel atIOC’s outlets in Mumbai costs�78.58 a litre, while in Delhi thefuel costs �74.02 a litre.
The Government freedpetrol price from its control inJune 2010 and diesel inOctober 2014. It now providesa limited subsidy on LPG andkerosene. S&P said amid risingcrude oil prices, tight imple-mentation of retail fuel-pricingpolicies will influence the lever-age of Indian oil companies.
“While rising oil pricesbolster the cash flows ofupstream businesses, cross sub-sidies from upstream to down-stream segments could limitsuch benefits,” Kulkarni said.
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitleywill meet the heads of pub-
lic sectors banks (PSBs) onTuesday as part of the annualfinancial performance reviewexercise.
The meeting is expected todiscuss a host of issues, includ-ing progress made with regardto reduction in non-perform-ing assets, sources said.
The meeting will happenagainst the backdrop of the‘Alternative Mechanism’ (AM)to merge three public sectorbanks — Bank of Baroda,Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank —with a view to create a global-size lender, which will bestronger and sustainable.
Besides, the finance minis-ter will also discuss creditgrowth and bad loan situation,they said, adding that variousrecovery measures by banksand legislative steps taken by thegovernment to expedite recov-ery are also part of the agenda.
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The Government is consid-ering developing nation-
wide specifications for publicprocurement of goods byCentral Government agenciesto encourage domestic suppli-ers to plan their productionschedule, an official said.
The proposal is likely to beincluded in the new industrialpolicy being prepared by thecommerce and industry min-istry.
The policy may also sug-gest extending the offset poli-cy in public procurement insectors beyond defence such aselectronics and ICT.
The official said standard-ised specifications of products
would enable Governmentdepartments and public sectorunits (PSUs) to release largeorders helping the industryachieve economies of scale.
The Government and PSUsprocure goods and servicesworth over �5 lakh crore everyyear, as per estimates.
Standardised specificationswould also help domesticindustry plan their productionand technology well in advance.
“Policy actions can helppublic procurement add sig-nificant value to the domesticindustry,” the official added. The ministry has developed ane-marketplace portal (GeM)for buying of goods and ser-vices by different Governmentagencies and departments.
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The Government is consid-ering selling its 65.61 per
cent stake in state-ownedPower Finance Corporation(PFC) to Rural ElectrificationCorporation (REC), whichcould fetch the exchequerabout �13,000 crore.
“The discussions are at apreliminary stage. TheGovernment sees a lot of syn-ergy between the two NBFCsfunding power sector projects,”an official said.
At the end of 2017-18financial year, the totalresources of REC stood at over�2.46 lakh crore, of which‘Reserves and Surplus’ stood at�33,515.59 crore. The net worthof the company stood at�35,490 crore and ‘cash andbank balance was at �1,773crore at the end of March 2018.
Stock of REC was tradingat �98.90, down 7.35 per cent,while PFC scrip was trading at�79.60, 1.18 per cent lower overprevious close on the BSE.
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Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS), which hasdefaulted on a series of interest payments, needs to resolve issues
on its own, Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Gargsaid.
“IL&FS is independent of Government. It has independent
board and shareholders. So, IL&FS needs to resolve its issues onits own and I think it is capable of doing it,” Garg said in an inter-view.
Although Government has no holding in the company, someof the state-owned financial firms including LIC and SBI areshareholders of the non-banking financial company (NBFC).
“It has assets, it has liabilities to take care. There might be sometemporary mismatch, so it is IL&FS, which willdeal with the problem. The Government is notinvolved directly,” Garg said.
Earlier this month, IL&FS Group defaulted oninter-corporate deposits and commercial papers.
On September 4, it came to light that IL&FShad defaulted on a short-term loan of �1,000crore from Sidbi, while a subsidiary has alsodefaulted on �500 crore dues to the developmentfinancial institution, which reportedly forcedSidbi to ask its chief general manager in chargeof the risk management department to resign.
State-owned LIC is the largest shareholderwith a fourth of the firm’s equity, while OrixCorporation of Japan owns 23.5 per cent.
Other shareholders include Abu DhabiInvestment Authority with 12.5 per cent stake,IL&FS Employees Welfare Trust with 12 per cent,HDFC with 9.02 per cent, Central Bank of Indiawith 7.67 per cent and State Bank of India (SBI)with 6.42 per cent at the March-end 2018.
In a letter to its employees, IL&FS hadclaimed that if funds worth �16,000 crore stuckwith concession authorities were released on time,it would not have landed in this mess.
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The Spiritual Guru Sri SriRavishankar along with
Hema Malini inaugurated Kent’snew Manufacturing Facility inNoida, Uttar Pradesh. Kent’snew facility is India’s largest ROWater Purifier manufacturingunit and with this facility, KentRO will double its currentcapacity for RO water purifiersfrom 5 lacs units a year to 10 lacsunits a year.
Spread on a total area of23000 square meters & havinga built up area of 3.5 lac squarefeet, Kent’s new manufacturingfacility has been planned inphases. The newly inauguratedphase-1 of the plant, con-structed at a cost of �150 croreswould undertake manufactur-ing of Next Gen range of ROpurifiers. The new plant willfulfill capacity expansion andmeet the increasing demand.
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Seeking to calm the nerves ofworried investors, Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley said onMonday that the Governmentwould take all measures toensure adequate liquidity fornon-banking financial com-panies (NBFCs) and mutualfunds.
The minister’s remarkscome in the wake of stock mar-kets witnessing sudden andstiff fall in intra-day trade onFriday over concerns of liq-uidity crisis being faced bysome of the NBFCs.
“The Government will takeall measures to ensure that ade-quate liquidity is main-tained/provided to the NBFCs,the mutual funds and
the SMEs,” Jaitley tweetedahead of the opening of stockmarkets.
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American fans will be licking their lipsif this is what awaits Miami's HardRock Stadium in January after
Barcelona and Girona played out anenthralling 2-2 draw at the Camp Nou onSunday.
There were four goals, one for LionelMessi and two for Girona's CristhianStuani, not to mention a controversial redcard shown to Barca defender ClementLenglet.
Gerard Pique salvaged a point for thehosts to complete his own blockbuster night,after clearing one shot off the line and mak-ing mistakes for each of Girona's goals.
By the end, Barca had surrendered theirperfect record in La Liga, as well as a two-point advantage over Real Madrid. Theyreturn to the top of the table, but only ongoal difference. Girona move up to sixth.
"For us, this is a triumph," Stuani said."Coming here and getting this result is sovaluable for us." Hanging over this game wasalways the wider prospect of it not beingreturned, given La Liga's desire to move thereverse fixture at Girona's Estadi Montilivion January 26 to the United States.
For all the opposition, however, therewas a noticeable lack of complaint at theCamp Nou, where there were chants forCatalan independence but precious little inopposition to a trip to Miami.
A point may not be viewed as a badreturn either for Barca, having playedthrough the best part of an hour with 10men, but changes made by coach ErnestoValverde failed to hit the mark.
Lenglet came in for Samuel Umititi, pre-sumably to bed in next to Pique, givenUmtiti is suspended for Barcelona'sChampions League game against Tottenhamlater this month.
But he was, perhaps harshly, sent off inthe 35th minute with Barca one up, and theythen conceded before Umtiti came on athalf-time. Arthur and Arturo Vidal - alsobrought in - were substituted before thehour.
"When we got the red card, our inten-tion was to make a change but we had tolet him (Umtiti) warm-up," Valverde said."It looks like an error on my part." Messi and
Pique had changed too, each shaving theirbeards, but it had contrasting effects basedon the evidence of the first half.
Within 19 minutes, Messi had put Barcaahead, a slick finish into the corner finish-ing off Vidal's pass for the Argentinian'seighth goal in six games. Pique, however, wasat fault for the equaliser, a lethargic attemptat a clearance allowing Stuani to poke theball past Marc-Andre ter Stegen.
Girona had been spurred on by Lenglet'sred card, after VAR showed the Frenchdefender landed an elbow into the face ofPere Pons, and referee Jesus Gil deemed itdeliberate.
The red card rippled through theFrench contingent as Lenglet's dismissalmeant Ousmane Dembele was replaced byUmtiti at half-time.
It made little difference as Girona, and
Stuani, scored another six minutes after therestart, with Pique again the one culpable.
First, he was outrun by Portu and thenhe brought the striker down from behindfor what was probably a penalty. Portu's shotwas pushed away by Ter Stegen but Stuanibanged in the rebound.
Valverde replaced Vidal and Arthurwith Philippe Coutinho and Ivan Rakitic,and Messi struck the crossbar with a free-
kick soon after.He was involved in the last goal too as
a brilliant exchange with the lively LuisSuarez saw the latter's shot loop across thebox. Pique leapt high to head in.
Earlier, Ben Yedder scored a hat-trickas Sevilla thrashed Levante 6-2 while RealBetis came from behind to draw 2-2 at hometo Athletic Bilbao. Valencia and Villarrealdrew 0-0.
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Cristiano Ronaldo erased the frustrationof his Champions League red card mid-
week by scoring the opener and setting upFederico Bernardeschi for a second asJuventus kept their perfect record in SerieA after five games with a 2-0 win a pro-moted Frosinone on Sunday.
The Portugese star hadthreatened several times at theStadio Benito Stirpe but final-ly found a way through nineminutes from time, and thenhelped Italian Bernardeschi toscore Juve's second, four min-utes into injury time.
The five-time Ballon d'Or winner hadscored his first goals last week with a dou-ble in a 2-1 win over Sassuolo, before the33-year-old was sent off on Wednesday ina 2-0 Champions League win over Valencia.
Juventus — the only unbeaten team inSerie A — have 15 points from five games,three points ahead of Napoli who beatTorino 3-1 earlier on Sunday.
Seven-time reigning championsJuventus and Napoli, last season's runners-up, will go head-to-head next Saturday inTurin.
Frosinone had frustrated the champi-ons for long periods but caved in late andhave now conceded 12 goals to remain sec-ond bottom of the table with just one point.
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Goalkeeper Niraj Kumarturned out to be the hero
as India held heavyweightsIran to a goalless draw in theAFC U-16 Championshiphere on Monday, the firsttime in 33 years.
The young custodianfrom Punjab blocked a 76thminute penalty to deny thefancied Iranians full points.
The last time India man-aged to hold Iran, across allage groups, was in December1984 in the Asia Cup Finalsin Singapore. That game alsoended in a goalless stale-mate.
On expected lines, Iran asserted theirdominance early in the game and had a cou-ple of attempts saved by Niraj. The Asian giantscame very close to scoring in the 23rdminute, but the shot from a corner kick hit thebar, much to India's relief at the Bukit JalilStadium.
Then, pressing football backed by confi-dent defensive organisation and some sharpcounter attacks helped India's cause.
For all the possession that Iran enjoyed,
it was India who had two ofthe easiest opportunitiestowards the end of secondhalf.
Ravi Rana missed thefirst one as his chip wentinches over the Iraniangoal while the second shotmissed the target by awhisker as Sailo, afterrounding the Iranian cus-todian, could not finishfrom close range.
The match also sawNiraj displaying his talentunder the bar. He stayedconfident all throughoutand was unbeatable in theaerial balls, leaping higherthan all every time to col-
lect the crosses from the flanks. He also divedfull length to make a stunning save to denyIran in the 16th minute.
"We could have won the match. It was thatclose. But the boys gave their hundred percenton the pitch and they performed according tothe game plan," said head coach of the IndianU-16 side Bibiano Fernandes.
"We are happy with a draw, though weaimed for a win and now we focus towards thenext match against Indonesia (on Sept 27)."
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Grappler Ritu Phogat will replace her injuredcousin Vinesh Phogat in the 50kg category for
the World Championship, the WrestlingFederation of India said on Monday.
Vinesh, who was a medal favourite, sufferedan elbow injury on Friday during practice and wasruled out.
The WFI had entered Ritu's name in the 53kgafter original choice Pinki refused to appear in are-trial recently.
However, in the changed scenario, the WFIwas left with no option but to bring back Ritu forher original weight category, 50kg.
It also means that Pinki will now compete inthe 53kg and will not miss the prestigious eventof the United World Wrestling (UWW).
"We have asked Ritu to compete in 50kg andbrought back Pinki in 53kg. Vinesh missing outis a loss for us, the injury is unfortunate," WFI assis-tant secretary Vinod Tomar said.
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Saina Nehwal and Sameer Vermawill look to put their best foot for-
ward when they lead Indian challengeat the $ 600,000 Korea Open WorldTour Super 500 tournament begin-ning here on Tuesday.
Saina, who had skipped theJapan Open earlier this month afterwinning a Bronze at 18th AsianGames, will look to get over the dis-appointment of her first-round exitat China last week when she takes onKorean Kim Hyo Min.
Fifth seeded Saina, ranked 10thin the world, has done well in themajor events this year, grabbing a sec-ond Gold at Gold CoastCommonwealth Games and a Bronzeat the Jakarta Asian Games. Butthe Indian has been inconsis-tent in the BWF events.
Saina, who had reachedthe finals at the $ 350,000Indonesia Masters in January,was ousted by Korea's Sung JiHyun last week at China and willhave a tough task at hand as she islikely to face third seed JapaneseNozomi Okuhara in the quarterfinals.
In men's singles, Sameer Vermawill carry the Indian flag afterKidambi Srikanth pulled out after
playing back-to-back tourna-ments in Japan and China inthe last two weeks.
Sameer has been trou-bled by injuries but he has
done well when he has been fit,winning titles at Swiss Open in
February and Hyderabad Open earlythis month.
The 23-year-old Dhar, who hadfinished runners-up at 2016 HongKong Open, will play Denmark'sAnders Antonsen in his openingmatch.
He had beaten the Danish shut-tler at India Open in January thisyear. If the Indian crosses the open-ing round, he is expected to meetreigning world champion KentoMomota of Japan.
Young women's shuttlerVaishnavi Reddy Jakka will alsocompete in the tournament, taking onformidable sixth seed Beiwen Zhangof USA in the opening round. Amongothers, Ajay Jayaram will take onChina's Zhao Junpeng in the quali-fiers.
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Tiger Woods scored his first victory inmore than five years on Sunday, com-
pleting a two-shot win at the TourChampionship to crown a fairy tale come-back after a near two-year absence.
The 42-year-old, 14-time major winnercarded a one-over-par 71 at Atlanta's EastLake Golf Course to claim the 80th title ofhis glittering career.
Woods, who finished with an 11-under-par aggregate 269, raised his arms indelight after the victory, with several thou-sand fans ringing the green roaring theirappreciation.
Woods admitted he had nearly beenovercome with emotion as he walked up the18th fairway.
"I was having a hard time not cryingcoming up the last hole," Woods said, whosemost recent before Sunday had come 1,876days ago at the 2013 WGC-BridgestoneInvitational.
"I kept saying 'Hey, I could still play thisout of bounds.' But once I got the ball on thegreen I gave (caddie) Joey (LaCava) a highfive because I knew it was done."
It was an emotional finale to a yearwhich saw Woods return to the highest levelafter he had once feared he may never playgolf again.
"It was just a grind out there," Woodssaid of his final round. "I loved every bit ofit. The fight, the grind, the tough conditions.
"Beginning of the year (winning) was a
tall order. But as the year progressed I foundmy swing and put the pieces together andI knew I could do it."
Woods later revealed he had been closeto tears on the final green as he prepared forthe par putt to complete the win. "I realisedall of sudden I was going to win the tour-nament," he said.
"My eyes started tearing up a little bit.I just can't believe I pulled this off after I'vegone through. It's been tough. I've had a not-so-easy last couple of years. I've worked myway back. I couldn't have done it without thehelp of all the people around me.”
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Europe retained their Laver Cuptennis crown here on Sunday as
Alexander Zverev defeated KevinAnderson to complete a 13-8 win overthe World team.
Germany's Zverev came from a setdown to complete a 6-7 (3/7), 7-5, 10-7 over Anderson as the Europeans suc-cessfully defended the title won inPrague last year.
"It was such a close match allaround, not only this one but all week-end, a few points here and there andit could have been different," saidZverev.
"I'm just happy to get the win andwe defended the title, that's the mostimportant thing."
Zverev's win was the final act ofan enthralling day of action atChicago's United Center, where theWorld team had roared back into con-tention in the day's first rubber.
American duo John Isner and JackSock fought off two match points todefeat Zverev and world number twoRoger Federer in a gripping doublesbattle.
Isner and Sock prevailed 4-6, 7-6(7/2), 11/9 to give the World team an8-7 lead with the three singles rubbersremaining.
Europe responded superbly afterthat early setback however, with the
37-year-old Federer returning tosecure a vital three points against Isnerin the first singles match of the day.
The Swiss ace came from a setdown to defeat the big-serving Isner6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (8/6), 10/7.
The win was testimony toFederer's remarkable physical condi-tioning. The 20-time Grand Slam sin-gles champion outlasted Isner less thanan hour after he had been beaten inthe day's opening doubles game.
Federer celebrated the win by per-forming push-ups on court with his
teammates to the delight of thecrowd.
Europe skipper Bjorn Borg mean-while praised the performance of theWorld team, who were captained byhis old rival John McEnroe.
"I'm very proud of my team, weknew it's going to be very difficult tobeat Team World with John as the cap-tain," Borg said. "He has a great team,they're very professional." The nextLaver Cup, which is named afterAustralian legend Rod Laver, will bestaged in Geneva in September 2019.
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Serena Williams says she is trying to "move on" fromthe meltdown that overshadowed her US Open final
loss but remains perplexed at her coach's admission heillegally signalled to her.
The 23-time GrandSlam champion lost thedecider in straight setsto Japan's Naomi Osakaafter a fiery confronta-tion with chair umpireCarlos Ramos that shelater blamed on sex-ism.
Williams calledRamos a "thief " and a"liar" in a running rowwith the Portugueseofficial that eventuallysaw her docked a game.
In an interviewwith Australia's Channel Ten, the American superstar saida male player would not have been treated the same way.
She said women could not get away with "even halfof what a guy can do".
"Right now we are not, as it's proven, in that same posi-tion," she said in an interview that aired late Sunday.
"But that's neither here nor there. I'm just trying mostof all to recover from that and move on." Williams saidshe felt "on the cusp of this amazing moment" before the6-2, 6-4 loss to Osaka.
A win would have taken her to 24 Grand Slams,equalling Australian Margaret Court's all-time record.
The dispute with Ramos began when Williams wasissued a warning for coaching, something her coach sit-ting in the player's box, Patrick Mouratoglou, admittedto doing.
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The Indian cricket team will hope that itsuntested middle-order gets some game timeahead of the grand finale when it takes on
an ever-improving Afghanistan in the final'Super Four' encounter of the Asia Cup here onTuesday.
India have been on a roll after an unimpres-sive start against Hong Kong, with couple of one-sided victories over arch-rivals Pakistan and anequally facile one against Bangladesh.
With a spot in Friday's final sealed, skipperRohit Sharma may want some of his untested mid-dle-order batsmen to get quality time in the mid-dle against someone of Rashid Khan's calibre.
Often in cricket, the 'Law of Averages' catch-es up with the best performing teams at a criti-cal juncture.
Shikhar Dhawan (327) and skipper Rohit(269) have done the bulk of the scoring in the fourmatches so far with very little contribution beingrequired from the other batsmen in the line-up.
The next highest scorer is Ambati Rayudu(116 runs) because he comes in at No 3.
The problem has been lack of batting time forthe likes of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, KedarJadhav and Dinesh Karthik so far.
Sample this: Rohit and Shikhar have so farfaced 284 and 321 deliveries respectively. The nextbest Rayudu has played 162 balls.
However, Karthik (78 balls), Dhoni (40balls) and Kedar (27 balls) can be found wanti-ng if there is a top-order collapse on the big day.
Rohit had given Dhoni an opportunity tocome in at No 4 against Bangladesh and the for-mer captain scored 33 runs. But it was a pressure-free situation.
Dhoni's achilles heel of late has been to keepthe scoreboard ticking in pressure situations thatthe middle-overs throw up.
If the likes of Rashid Khan and Mujeeb urRahman can put pressure, it will be a good warm-up for the middle-order trio before the final match.
The Indian captain might fancy batting firstin case he wins the toss, which in turn will givehis team a chance to bat 50 overs instead of chas-ing another modest total.
The Indian bowlers have beensplendid on the slow DubaiInternational Stadium track with allthe bowlers enjoying an economy rateof less than five runs per over.
The spinners have been on a rollwith Yuzvendra Chahal (5 wickets at4.61 runs per over) and Kuldeep Yadav (5 wick-ets in 4.01 runs per over) have been tight as usualwhile Jasprit Bumrah (7 wickets with 3.37 runsper over) has been exceptional at the death withhis yorkers.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (6 wickets at 4.08 perover), in his comeback tournament, has also beenconsistent.
There is a possibility that India might rest bothBhuvneshwar and Bumrah before the summit
clash to help them recharge their bat-teries.
In such a scenario, two amongDeepak Chahar, Siddharth Kaul andKhaleel Ahmed will take their spotsin the playing XI for the game.
For Afghanistan, a win against the fanciedIndian side will be a great end to the tournamentwhere they have been competitive throughout,only losing out due to lack of experience.
Having packed off Sri Lanka in the groupleague stage and crushed Bangladesh, Afghanistanwere done in by inexperience during the fag endof the Super Four matches against Pakistan andBangladesh.
Against Pakistan, their bowlers couldn't hold
nerve in the final over while their batsmen foundit difficult to read Mustafizur Rahman's variationsin the final over.
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Rayudu, Dinesh Karthik, Kedar Jadhav, MSDhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Chahal,Bhuvneshwar, Jasprit Bumrah, Khaleel Ahmed,Deepak Chahar, Siddharth Kaul, Manish Pandey
Afghanistan: Mohammad Shahzad,Ihsanulluah Jamat, Javed Ahmadi, Rahmat Shah,Asghar Stanikzai, Hasmat Shahidi, MohammadNabi, Gulbadin Naib, Rashid Khan, NajibullahZadran, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Aftab Alam,Samiullah Shenwari, Munir Ahmed, SayedAhmed Sherzad, Ashraf, Momand Wafadar.
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India captain Rohit Sharmawas all praise for his bowling
unit, which has consistentlykept opposition teams on tightleash ensuring the side's smoothpassage into the Asia Cup final.
The Indian bowlers haverestricted Pakistan to 162 and237 in two games while bowlingout Bangladesh for 173.
"The entire bowling unitstuck to their task and hats offto them. Repeated performancesare challenging in these condi-tions and I don't want to takeany credit away from bowlers,"said Rohit, who was involved ina double hundred partnershipwith Shikhar Dhawan.
Rohit mentioned JaspritBumrah for his exceptionalbowling in the ongoing tourna-ment.
"I think he's (Bumrah)matured as a bowler now, playedgreat amount of cricket and heunderstands his bowling. I thinkthat's very very important forany individual; Bumrah under-stands what fields he needs to setand knows how to keep it tight.Bhuvi also did the same," theskipper said.
Rohit was also happy thatthe strategy of playing fourspinners, including part-timerKedar Jadhav, has clicked so farwith Ravindra Jadeja's comebackadding a new dimension.
"When Hardik got injured,the challenge was to field fourspinners and we thought abouta few combinations (3 seamers,4 spinners) and in these condi-tions it is important to take the
pace and not give much pace.For Jadeja, to come out and per-form like that is amazing."
They now have 13 centuryopening partnerships and Rohitfeels batting with Dhawanbecomes easy as both of themare clear about their roles.
"With Shikhar, I don't needto talk much. It's important to lethim be himself. We have battedenough to know each other tostart off like that and we clear-ly know our roles. We alwaysknew that the new batsman willfind it difficult to keep goingstraightaway and Shikhar and Iknew it."
Pakistan captain SarfrazAhmed rued the couple ofdropped catches of Rohit, whichcost his team dearly in the end.
"We made it tough for our-selves by dropping those catch-es. We were 20-25 runs shortand if we would have held on toour catches we could have pos-sibly made things interesting.
"The wicket was a bit diffi-cult to play on as the cracks hadwidened up. It wasn't easy for anew batsman walking in. Hadwe got early wickets, this chasewould have been certainly dif-ficult. We have been losing a lotof wickets in the early overs andhence it becomes difficult torecover from such situations."
The Pakistan captain was allpraise for the Indian centurions.
"The way they batted, allcredit to them. Rohit andDhawan were exceptional. Theyhave shown better skills as com-pared to us. We need to work alot on our skill level if at all wewant to get into the final.
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Leg-spinner YuzvendraChahal has attributed
India's consistent show withthe ball across formats to askilful pool of bowlers andconfidence shown by the teammanagement.
"Our bowling pool hasswelled to 10-15 and earlier itwasn't so. Now one who isreplacing you is also as skil-ful," Chahal told reportersafter India's win.
"Even in England, the wayour bowlers have dominated,it shows the regular flow ofspinners and medium pacersin the team. Also the confi-dence showed by the man-agement is important for ayoungster. There is no nega-tivity, you can concentrate onyour bowling."
India have dominatedPakistan both with the bat andthe ball but Chahal said it wasjust a case of a team having abad day in office for theirarch-rivals.
"Our batsmen put theirbowlers under pressure fromthe start. They are playing thenew ball well, they are takingtheir time and partnershipare getting longer," he said.
"In this wicket, you haveto vary line and length. Butthey got mentally down as thematch was slipping away, sothe situation was different.
"Sometimes it hap-pens, teams don't have agood day but they (Pakistan)are also a good team. So it isnot a one-sided thing, thetournament is still not over."
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Anuja Patil and JemimahRodrigues smashed
unbeaten half centuries, takingIndian women to a series-seal-ing win over hosts Sri Lanka ina rain affected fourth T20International here on Monday.
With the second T20 beingwashed out, India have nowtaken a 3-0 lead in the five-match series. The final matchwill be played on Tuesday. Thevisitors had also won the pre-ceding ODI against Sri Lanka.
Patil (3/36) helped Indiareduce Sri Lanka to 134 for fivein a shortened 17-over a sidecontest. Shashikala Siriwardenetop-scored forSri Lanka
with 40 off 32balls.
India chaseddown the targetwith more thanan over to spareand seven wick-ets in hand,thanks to Patil(54 not out off42) and teenag-er Rodrigues
(52 not out off37).
It was a sec-ond successive
half-century forthe 18-year-old, who had
hammered 57 off40 balls in the third T20.
India were 56 for threeafter seven overs, needing 79 offthe last 10 overs. Patil andRodrigues completed the taskwith ease, sharing a 96-runstand off 70 balls. Rodrigues hitfive fours and two sixes whilePatil's knock comprised sevenboundaries.
India had lost three wick-ets for 41 runs in the first fourovers before Patil andRodrigues came up with amatch-winning effort.
Brief Scores: Sri Lanka134/5 in 17 overs (ShashikalaSiriwardene 40, Anuja Patil3/36). India 137/3 in 15.2 overs(Jemimah Rodrigues 52 no off37 balls, Anuja Patil 54 no off42 balls). India lead five-matchseries 3-0.
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Sri Lanka's sacked skipperAngelo Mathews accused
the country's cricket boardon Monday of blaming himsolely for the island's humil-iating exit from the Asia Cup.
The 31-year-old allrounder has threatened toretire from the two shorterformats of the game afterbeing dumped on Sunday ascaptain of Sri Lanka's one-day international andTwenty20 teams.
"I have been made thescapegoat in this entire sagaof Sri Lanka's dismal per-formance againstBangladesh and Afghanistanin the Asia Cup," Mathewssaid in a letter to Sri LankaCricket.
The board said it askedMathews to step down andallow Dinesh Chandimal to
lead Sri Lanka duringEngland's tour which beginsnext month.
"The national selectors...Have requested Mathews torelinquish his duties as cap-tain with immediate effect,"the board said in a statement.It did not elaborate on whyMathews was sacked.
Chandimal, who wasalready captain of Sri Lanka'sTest side, now takes thereins in all three formats ofthe game.
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Pakistan's cricket team is goingthrough a "confidence crisis"
right now, coach Mickey Arthurconceded after the nine-wicket lossto India in the ongoing Asia Cup,calling it one of the side's "worst per-formances".
"We are not abandoning them.Yes, they are suffering a bit of con-fidence crisis at the moment. Thereis fear of failure in the dressingroom. There is a bit reality check ofwhere we are as a cricket team"Arthur told reporters after Pakistanwere beaten by India for the secondsuccessive time in the tournamenthere.
"In terms of worst perfor-mance, nine wickets has to be upthere. India have very good players.If we give them an inch, they aregoing to make us pay and they didthat," he said.
Pakistan set India a target of238 after another below-par battingshow. India romped home in 39.3overs with Rohit and Shikhar
Dhawan striking hundreds."Our strike rates were not good
enough with the bat. With the ball,we need to strike early against theseguys. We had a couple of chances,we didn't take them. When you getthese guys chances on wickets likethese, they dominate you," Arthursaid dissecting the loss.
"We need to get into theirmiddle order as quick as we canthat's when we can inflict mostdamage" he added.
Arthur said Pakistan have ahuge task at hand in the clashagainst Bangladesh on Wednesday.
"It's a semi-final now. We haveto find a way to dig ourselves outof the hole we are in at the moment.We will come back from this. Weare at our best in must-win match-es. That's when we come to theparty," he said.
"I believe in our players. Ithink they are a fantastic bunch ofplayers," he added.
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Skipper Ishan Kishan's blisteringknock of 139 (91 ball), studded
with 12 fours and nine sixes, pow-ered Jharkhand to an eight-wicketwin over Assam in a Vijay HazareTrophy Elite Group 'C' match hereon Monday.
The talented southpaw toyedwith the rival bowling and smashedthe ball to all parts of the M AChidambaram stadium as the teamreached the target of 222 in just 31overs to boost its net run-rate.
Earlier, sent in to bat, Assamlost wickets at regular intervals tofinish at 221 for 9 in 50 overs.Though three of its batsmen gotinto the 40s, none was able to pushfor a bigger score as the Jharkhandbowlers kept things under control.
Shahbaz Nadeem, who took aworld List 'A' record 8 for 10against Rajasthan last week, cap-tured three wickets for 47.Sibshankar Roy was the top scorerfor Assam with 46.
Meanwhile, Services upsetHaryana at TI Murugapa ground byfive wickets, riding on NakulVerma's knock of 95. Rahul SinghGahlaut contributed 61 as the teamoverhauled Haryana's score of 257for 8 in 50 overs.
In another match, Gujarat
downed Tripura by 74 runs, restrict-ing its rival to 138 for 9 after mak-ing 212 for 6 in the quota of 50overs.
Rujul Bhatt was the top-scorerwith 62 while Piyush Chawala's 4 for21 turned the match Gujarat's way.
������:������������������������ Puneet Bisht cracked acareer-best 135 before Abhay Negibamboozled Arunachal Pradeshwith a seven-wicket haul to powerMeghalaya to a huge 256-run winin the Vijay Hazare Trophy one-daycricket tournament here Monday.
In his third domestic match,Negi returned with extraordinaryfigures of 6-0-17-7 as ArunachalPradesh batting caved in for 61 all-out in 26 overs at the ShastriMaidan here.
Earlier Arunachal Pradesh'sdecision to bowl backfired as Bishtsmashed a 90-ball 135 (17x4, 4x6)while skipper Jason Lamare alsochipped in with 42 off 54 balls topush the total to 317/4 in 43 overs.
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