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A fresh media disclosure in the Rafale fighter jet deal rocked the Modi Government on Friday and created a massive uproar in Parliament even as Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman accused the Opposition of “playing in the hands of multinationals and vested interests” and termed the media report one-sided. A report in The Hindu appearing on Friday disclosed then Defence Secretary G Mohan Kumar had objected to a parallel negotiations by the Prime Minister’s office in the Rafale deal diluting status of “Indian Negotiating team”. The report said then Defence Secretary had written to then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar about the alleged interference by the PMO. A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress of damaging national security and not want- ing “a strong Indian Air Force”, the Opposition led by the Congress and the Trinamool Congress launched a frontal attack on the Modi Government in the Lok Sabha. Defence Minister Sitharaman later dismissed the media report on the deal as “flogging a dead horse” and slammed the Opposition for playing into the hands of vest- ed interests of multinationals. “The Rafale issue is done with,” she said in a suo motu state- ment amid the Opposition uproar over the Rafale matter. Sitharaman said the media report was one sided and did not publish Parrikar’s reply on the said noting. The proceedings of the Lok Sabha was adjourned for nearly 50 minutes after the entire Opposition trooped into the Well of the House raising slogans on the Rafale jet deal as soon as the House met. Members from Congress, Left, Trinamool Congress and TDP rushed into the Well of the House holding placards of a newspaper clipping which claimed the Defence Ministry had protested to the PMO the mechanism being adopted for the Rafale deal. Opposition members were heard shouting slogans demanding resignation of Modi on the issue. They also noted that Defence Minister was not present in the House. As the House resumed proceedings after the adjourn- ment, Saugata Roy (TMC) alleged that parallel negotia- tions were on when the Defence Ministry’s negotiating committee was handling the matter. He also alleged that “notorious” National Security Adviser Ajit Doval was con- ducting parallel negotiations in Paris, undermining the bar- gaining power of the Government. “It concerns national secu- rity...(Prime Minister Nare- ndra) Modi is destroying the defence of the country and undermining negotiatio- ns...Why PMO interfered ?,” he charged. Intervening in the matter during zero hour, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said a news- paper will write anything and “you are raising the issue”. Sticking to the demand for constitution of Joint Parliamentary Committee, Leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge dubbed the Centre as “anti- national.” I n a strong oral observation, the Supreme Court on Friday said BSP chief Mayawati should deposit public money used for erecting statues of herself and elephants, the party’s symbol, at public places in Uttar Pradesh to the State exchequer. The remarks were made by the apex court which was hear- ing a petition filed in 2009 by an advocate who had alleged that about 2,000 crore was used from the State budget for 2008-09 and 2009-10, when Mayawati was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, for installing her statues and BSP’s symbol at different places. It was contended that pub- lic money cannot be utilised for creating own statues and for propagating the political party. On May 29, 2009 the court had issued a show-cause notice to the Uttar Pradesh Government and Mayawati for using the public money for installing her statues and party’s symbol at parks in Lucknow and Noida, adjacent to the national Capital. When the matter came up for hearing on Friday, a Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said, “Ms Mayawati, pay all the money back. We are of the view that Mayawati should reimburse all the money she spent.” The Bench, also compris- ing justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjeev Khanna said, “We are of the tentative view that Mayawati has to deposit the public money spent on her stat- ues and party symbol to the State exchequer.” The SC made it clear that a tentative view was expressed by it as the matter would take some time for hearing. “We will have it for final disposal on April 2,” said the SC. Senior advocate SC Mishra, appearing for Mayawati and the BSP, request- ed the Bench to hear the mat- ter in May. However, the Bench told Mishra, who is also the party’s Rajya Sabha MP, that it was fixing a date of April 2 as it will require detail consider- ation. During the pendency of the PIL, the apex court on February 22, 2010, had asked the Election Commission to examine the plea for removal of installation of these symbols from public places during the 2012 Assembly polls. EC on January 7, 2012 had ordered that statues of Mayawati and elephants be covered during the State Assembly election. The poll panel had said the measure was taken with the idea that no one should get political mileage. When the the apex court in 2009 had decided to entertain the PIL, it had noted in its order the grievance of the petitioner that “hundreds of crores of public money” is being spent by the Uttar Pradesh Government for “personal glo- rification” by erecting statues particularly of leaders who were in power. S even persons were sen- tenced to life imprisonment on Friday by a court here for killing two men, which is believed to have triggered the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 in Uttar Pradesh. Additional District and Sessions Judge Himashu Bhatnagar also imposed a fine of 2,12,000 on each of the seven accused — Muzammil, Mujassim, Furkan, Nadeem, Janangir, Afzal and Ikbal — for killing Gaurav and Sachin on August 27, 2013 and rioting. The court said that 80 per cent of the fine will go to the family of the two men who were killed. This is the first case out of the total 57 in which the seven men were found guilty, district prosecution counsel Rajiv Sharma said. The court had convicted the accused on Wednesday. According to the FIR, the two youths of Kawal village under Jansath police station area were battered to death by three of the five men. The two other accused, Afzal and Iqbal, however, were later summoned by the court under provisions of section 319 of the Criminal Procedure Code when the evidence of their complicity in the killings emerged during the trial. The court convicted the seven after examining 10 pros- ecution witnesses and six in their defence. As per official figures, given by prosecution counsel Sharma, over 6,000 cases were lodged following the 2013 riots and 1,480 accused were arrest- ed for their alleged roles in the riots, in which over 60 people were killed. An SIT, which probed the cases, have filed chargesheets in 175 cases. D elhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s car was alleged- ly attacked by a mob armed with sticks in Narela on Friday, an official in the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said. The incident occurred when Kejriwal had gone to the outer Delhi locality to inaugurate development works in 25 unauthorised colonies. However, nobody was hurt in the said attack, the police said. “Attack took place in police presence on the route cleared by area DCP. This is fifth such attack on the Chief Minister in last three years. Under political pressure from the Central Government, Delhi Police has deliberately allowed these attacks,” quoted a statement from the CMO. A t least twenty three people died on Friday and eight others were battling for life in hospitals after allegedly con- suming spurious liquor at a vil- lage in Haridwar district, prompting the administration to order a magisterial probe into the incident and suspend 17 personnel of excise and police departments. Earlier, 16 people died in Saharanpur and Kushinagar districts of UP after consuming spurious liquor a few days ago. A number of people took ill on Thursday evening after consuming hooch served at the Terahvi (post death ceremony) of a person at Balupur village in Jhabrera area near Roorkee in Haridwar district, ADG (law and order) Ashok Kumar said. Fourteen persons killed in the incident were from Balupur village and neighbouring areas in Haridwar district whereas the remaining died after returning to their homes in Saharanpur district of UP after the ceremony, he said. T he State Assembly on Friday passed the Appropriation Bill against Vote-on-Account of Rs 65,921 crore amid various allegations raised by Opposition Congress and BJP members and praises made by ruling BJD mem- bers. After passing of the Bill, the Assembly was declared sine die ahead of two working days. Of scheduled seven days, the House met for five days only. Like earlier three days, the House also failed to conduct the Question Hour as Opposition members staged protests raising farmer, unem- ployment and chit fund issues and ruling BJD members raised issue of Central negligence. The House functioned nor- mally at 12 noon following an all-party meeting held under chairmanship of Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat. Initiating discussion on the Appropriation Bil, Leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra rapped both the Union Government and the State Government on various issues. He alleged that the Union Government is now interfering in workings of all democratic and constitutional bodies like the RBI and the ECI and has presented a sixth Annual Budget when people had voted it to place only five Budgets. The Union Government has failed in fulfilling promises of providing two crore jobs to youths and raising minimum support price of paddy to 1.5 times of the production cost. Criticising the State Government, Mishra said, “ The Government here has always hoodwinked people by submitting false information. The Government has failed in creating irrigation facilities for 35 per cent of cultivable land, providing drinking water to people, appointing teachers in schools and doctors in hospi- tals.” He Kalia Yojana and Peetha programmes are only meant to grab votes for the ruling BJD and farmers and people would not benefit from them. He said the Biju Yuva Vahini has been formed to fetch political gains for the ruling party and is cre- ating turmoil in rural areas. “A wing of change is already blowing. People have already made up their mind change Governments at both the Centre and in the State, “ he said. BJP Member Dr Arun Sahoo slammed the Union Government saying it has copied the KALIA scheme but not appropriately. When the State Government has targeted to provide assistance to 50 lakh farmer families, only 12 to 13 lakh families would be ben- efited by the schemed announced by the Union Government. Terming the Centre’s workers’ pension scheme as a ‘deposit scheme’, he said people have already known how the Modi Government is hoodwinking them by making false promises. In his reply, Finance Minister Shashi Bhusan Behera refuted allegations of Opposition members saying the State Government has always worked for welfare of the people and would contin- ue to do so. Irrigation facility has been created for 35 per cent of cultivable land in 237 of 314 blocks. The target of creation of irrigation facility for 10 lakh hectares would be achieved soon. The Government has taken all measures for people of all sections of the society. BJP members staged a walkout expressing dissatis- faction of Minister’s reply. After Minister’s Reply, the Chief Minister made a vale- dictory speech and wished all members a good career in peo- ple’ service. Similarly, the Leader of Opposition hoped a peaceful election in the State. Speaker announced the House sine die at 6.46 pm W ith elections nearing, Congress president Rahul Gandhi would visit the State again this month. His visit would take place in the last week of the month. This was informed by State Congress president Niranjan Patnaik on Friday. The date and place of Gandhi’s visit would be decided later, he said. Moreover, Patnaik said Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi is likely to accompany Rahul. A proposal for Priyanka’s visit to the State has been given to the AICC, the PCC chief said. As for the BJP campaign, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh would hold a rally in northern Odisha on February 17. Informing this, BJP State president Basant Panda said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Union Ministers Giriraj Singh, Ramkripal Yadav and Mansukhklal Mandaria would also campaign for the party in the State. B JD MLAs on Friday sub- mitted a memorandum addressed to the President through the Governor over the unemployment problem in Odisha and the Central Government’s negligence towards the State. After a chaotic situation on the issue prevailed in the State Assembly for a fifth consecutive day, the BJD members marched out of the House in a rally to the Raj Bhavan and submitted the memorandum to Governor Ganeshi Lal. Talking to mediapersons, BJD general secretary Sanjay Dasburma said, “In the 2014 poll manifesto, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to provide employment to two crore unemployed youths of the country every year. Accordingly, Odisha’s share is proportionately 36 lakh unemployed youths in five years. Hence, we are submit- ting today a memoran- dum to the President of India through the Governor.” “We demand that the Central Government publish the list of 36 lakh youths of Odisha who have been employed in MCL, NALCO, IOCL and all the Centre-run PSUs,” he said. Notably, BJP Yuva Morcha (BJYM) mem- bers on Thursday had scuffled with police while trying to gherao the State Assembly alleg- ing inefficiency on part of the State Government in its policies for youths and rising unemployment. M embers across party lines on Friday demanded in the State Assembly that the Government make a provision of pension for retired journalists, increase health insurance cov- erage from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh and enact a law for safety of working scribes. Raising the issue during the Zero Hour, Leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra said, “Journalists play a vital role in making discussion of the State Assembly reach people. At least, they should enjoy health insur- ance facility being availed to MLAs. Hence, the Government should increase the insurance coverage from Rs 2 lakh to 5 lakh.” Government Chief Whip Amar Prasad Satpathy said the State Govt has all respect towards scribes. The Assembly doesn’t have a second opinion in increasing health insurance cov- erage and making a pension pro- vision for them. While there has been a provision of Rs 5 lakh health assistance for each fam- ily under the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana, insurance cov- erage of equal amount should be provided to journalists at the earliest, he said. Opposition Chief Whip Tara Prasad Bahinipati and BJP Legislature Party Leader KV Singh Deo, Rabinarayan Nayak (BJP) and Mahesh Sahoo and Pravat Ranjan Biswal (both of BJD) also supported the demands raised by Mishra. Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat directed the Government to take a decision on the demands raised by mem- bers at the earliest. Notably, journalists had met the Chief Minister, the Lead of Opposition and the Speaker over these three demands on Thursday.

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Afresh media disclosure inthe Rafale fighter jet deal

rocked the Modi Governmenton Friday and created a massiveuproar in Parliament even asDefence Minister NirmalaSitharaman accused theOpposition of “playing in thehands of multinationals andvested interests” and termedthe media report one-sided.

A report in The Hinduappearing on Friday disclosedthen Defence Secretary GMohan Kumar had objected toa parallel negotiations by thePrime Minister’s office in theRafale deal diluting status of“Indian Negotiating team”. Thereport said then DefenceSecretary had written to thenDefence Minister ManoharParrikar about the allegedinterference by the PMO.

A day after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi accused theCongress of damaging national security and not want-ing “a strong Indian Air Force”,the Opposition led by theCongress and the TrinamoolCongress launched a frontalattack on the Modi

Government in the Lok Sabha.Defence Minister

Sitharaman later dismissedthe media report on the deal as“flogging a dead horse” andslammed the Opposition forplaying into the hands of vest-ed interests of multinationals.“The Rafale issue is done with,”she said in a suo motu state-ment amid the Oppositionuproar over the Rafale matter.Sitharaman said the mediareport was one sided and didnot publish Parrikar’s reply onthe said noting.

The proceedings of theLok Sabha was adjourned for

nearly 50 minutes after theentire Opposition trooped intothe Well of the House raisingslogans on the Rafale jet deal assoon as the House met.

Members from Congress,Left, Trinamool Congress andTDP rushed into the Well ofthe House holding placards ofa newspaper clipping whichclaimed the Defence Ministryhad protested to the PMO themechanism being adopted forthe Rafale deal.

Opposition members wereheard shouting slogansdemanding resignation ofModi on the issue. They also

noted that Defence Ministerwas not present in the House.

As the House resumedproceedings after the adjourn-ment, Saugata Roy (TMC)alleged that parallel negotia-tions were on when theDefence Ministry’s negotiatingcommittee was handling thematter. He also alleged that“notorious” National SecurityAdviser Ajit Doval was con-ducting parallel negotiations inParis, undermining the bar-gaining power of theGovernment.

“It concerns national secu-rity...(Prime Minister Nare-ndra) Modi is destroying thedefence of the country andundermining negotiatio-ns...Why PMO interfered ?,” hecharged.

Intervening in the matterduring zero hour, SpeakerSumitra Mahajan said a news-paper will write anything and“you are raising the issue”.Sticking to the demand forconstitution of JointParliamentary Committee,Leader of Congress in the LokSabha Mallikarjun Khargedubbed the Centre as “anti-national.”

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In a strong oral observation,the Supreme Court on Friday

said BSP chief Mayawati shoulddeposit public money used forerecting statues of herself andelephants, the party’s symbol, atpublic places in Uttar Pradeshto the State exchequer.

The remarks were made bythe apex court which was hear-ing a petition filed in 2009 byan advocate who had allegedthat about �2,000 crore wasused from the State budget for2008-09 and 2009-10, whenMayawati was the ChiefMinister of Uttar Pradesh, forinstalling her statues and BSP’ssymbol at different places.

It was contended that pub-lic money cannot be utilised forcreating own statues and forpropagating the political party.

On May 29, 2009 the courthad issued a show-cause noticeto the Uttar PradeshGovernment and Mayawati forusing the public money forinstalling her statues and party’ssymbol at parks in Lucknowand Noida, adjacent to thenational Capital.

When the matter came upfor hearing on Friday, a Benchheaded by Chief Justice RanjanGogoi said, “Ms Mayawati, payall the money back. We are ofthe view that Mayawati shouldreimburse all the money shespent.”

The Bench, also compris-ing justices Deepak Gupta andSanjeev Khanna said, “We areof the tentative view thatMayawati has to deposit thepublic money spent on her stat-ues and party symbol to theState exchequer.”

The SC made it clear thata tentative view was expressedby it as the matter would takesome time for hearing. “We willhave it for final disposal onApril 2,” said the SC.

Senior advocate SCMishra, appearing forMayawati and the BSP, request-ed the Bench to hear the mat-

ter in May. However, the Benchtold Mishra, who is also theparty’s Rajya Sabha MP, that itwas fixing a date of April 2 asit will require detail consider-ation.

During the pendency ofthe PIL, the apex court onFebruary 22, 2010, had askedthe Election Commission toexamine the plea for removal ofinstallation of these symbolsfrom public places during the2012 Assembly polls.

EC on January 7, 2012 hadordered that statues ofMayawati and elephants becovered during the StateAssembly election.

The poll panel had said themeasure was taken with theidea that no one should getpolitical mileage.

When the the apex court in2009 had decided to entertainthe PIL, it had noted in its orderthe grievance of the petitionerthat “hundreds of crores ofpublic money” is being spentby the Uttar PradeshGovernment for “personal glo-rification” by erecting statuesparticularly of leaders whowere in power.

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Seven persons were sen-tenced to life imprisonment

on Friday by a court here forkilling two men, which isbelieved to have triggered theMuzaffarnagar riots of 2013 inUttar Pradesh.

Additional District andSessions Judge HimashuBhatnagar also imposed a fineof �2,12,000 on each of theseven accused — Muzammil,Mujassim, Furkan, Nadeem,Janangir, Afzal and Ikbal — forkilling Gaurav and Sachin onAugust 27, 2013 and rioting.

The court said that 80 percent of the fine will go to thefamily of the two men whowere killed.

This is the first case out ofthe total 57 in which the sevenmen were found guilty, districtprosecution counsel RajivSharma said.

The court had convicted

the accused on Wednesday.According to the FIR, the

two youths of Kawal villageunder Jansath police stationarea were battered to death bythree of the five men.

The two other accused,Afzal and Iqbal, however, werelater summoned by the courtunder provisions of section319 of the Criminal ProcedureCode when the evidence oftheir complicity in the killingsemerged during the trial.

The court convicted theseven after examining 10 pros-ecution witnesses and six intheir defence.

As per official figures,given by prosecution counselSharma, over 6,000 cases werelodged following the 2013 riotsand 1,480 accused were arrest-ed for their alleged roles in theriots, in which over 60 peoplewere killed. An SIT, whichprobed the cases, have filedchargesheets in 175 cases.

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Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal’s car was alleged-

ly attacked by a mob armedwith sticks in Narela on Friday,an official in the ChiefMinister’s Office (CMO) said.

The incident occurredwhen Kejriwal had gone to theouter Delhi locality to inaugurate development works in 25 unauthorisedcolonies. However, nobody washurt in the said attack, thepolice said.

“Attack took place in policepresence on the route clearedby area DCP. This is fifth suchattack on the Chief Minister inlast three years.

Under political pressurefrom the Central Government,Delhi Police has deliberatelyallowed these attacks,” quoteda statement from the CMO.

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At least twenty three peopledied on Friday and eight

others were battling for life inhospitals after allegedly con-suming spurious liquor at a vil-lage in Haridwar district,prompting the administrationto order a magisterial probeinto the incident and suspend17 personnel of excise andpolice departments.

Earlier, 16 people died inSaharanpur and Kushinagardistricts of UP after consumingspurious liquor a few days ago.

A number of people tookill on Thursday evening afterconsuming hooch served at theTerahvi (post death ceremony)of a person at Balupur villagein Jhabrera area near Roorkeein Haridwar district, ADG(law and order) Ashok Kumarsaid.

Fourteen persons killed inthe incident were from Balupurvillage and neighbouring areasin Haridwar district whereasthe remaining died afterreturning to their homes inSaharanpur district of UP afterthe ceremony, he said.

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The State Assembly onFriday passed the

Appropriation Bill againstVote-on-Account of Rs 65,921crore amid various allegationsraised by Opposition Congressand BJP members and praisesmade by ruling BJD mem-bers.

After passing of the Bill, theAssembly was declared sine dieahead of two working days. Ofscheduled seven days, theHouse met for five days only.

Like earlier three days, theHouse also failed to conductthe Question Hour asOpposition members stagedprotests raising farmer, unem-ployment and chit fund issuesand ruling BJD members raisedissue of Central negligence.The House functioned nor-mally at 12 noon following anall-party meeting held underchairmanship of SpeakerPradip Kumar Amat.

Initiating discussion onthe Appropriation Bil, Leaderof Opposition NarasinghaMishra rapped both the UnionGovernment and the StateGovernment on various issues.He alleged that the UnionGovernment is now interferingin workings of all democraticand constitutional bodies likethe RBI and the ECI and haspresented a sixth AnnualBudget when people had votedit to place only five Budgets.The Union Government hasfailed in fulfilling promises ofproviding two crore jobs to

youths and raising minimumsupport price of paddy to 1.5times of the production cost.

Criticising the StateGovernment, Mishra said, “The Government here hasalways hoodwinked people bysubmitting false information.The Government has failed increating irrigation facilities for35 per cent of cultivable land,providing drinking water topeople, appointing teachers inschools and doctors in hospi-tals.”

He Kalia Yojana and Peethaprogrammes are only meant tograb votes for the ruling BJDand farmers and people wouldnot benefit from them. He saidthe Biju Yuva Vahini has beenformed to fetch political gainsfor the ruling party and is cre-ating turmoil in rural areas.

“A wing of change isalready blowing. People havealready made up their mindchange Governments at boththe Centre and in the State, “ hesaid.

BJP Member Dr ArunSahoo slammed the UnionGovernment saying it hascopied the KALIA scheme butnot appropriately. When theState Government has targetedto provide assistance to 50lakh farmer families, only 12 to

13 lakh families would be ben-efited by the schemedannounced by the UnionGovernment. Terming theCentre’s workers’ pensionscheme as a ‘deposit scheme’, hesaid people have already knownhow the Modi Government ishoodwinking them by makingfalse promises.

In his reply, FinanceMinister Shashi Bhusan Beherarefuted allegations ofOpposition members sayingthe State Government hasalways worked for welfare ofthe people and would contin-ue to do so. Irrigation facilityhas been created for 35 per centof cultivable land in 237 of 314blocks. The target of creation ofirrigation facility for 10 lakhhectares would be achievedsoon. The Government hastaken all measures for people ofall sections of the society.

BJP members staged awalkout expressing dissatis-faction of Minister’s reply.

After Minister’s Reply, theChief Minister made a vale-dictory speech and wished allmembers a good career in peo-ple’ service. Similarly, theLeader of Opposition hoped apeaceful election in the State.

Speaker announced theHouse sine die at 6.46 pm

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With elections nearing,Congress president

Rahul Gandhi would visit theState again this month. His visitwould take place in the lastweek of the month.

This was informed by StateCongress president Niranjan

Patnaik on Friday. The dateand place of Gandhi’s visitwould be decided later, hesaid.

Moreover, Patnaik saidCongress general secretaryPriyanka Gandhi is likely toaccompany Rahul. A proposalfor Priyanka’s visit to the Statehas been given to the AICC, thePCC chief said.

As for the BJP campaign,Union Home Minister RajnathSingh would hold a rally innorthern Odisha on February17.

Informing this, BJP Statepresident Basant Panda saidUttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath, UnionMinisters Giriraj Singh,Ramkripal Yadav andMansukhklal Mandaria wouldalso campaign for the party inthe State.

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BJD MLAs on Friday sub-mitted a memorandum

addressed to the Presidentthrough the Governor overthe unemployment problemin Odisha and the CentralGovernment’s negligencetowards the State.

After a chaotic situationon the issue prevailed in theState Assembly for a fifthconsecutive day, the BJDmembers marched out of theHouse in a rally to the RajBhavan and submitted thememorandum to GovernorGaneshi Lal.

Talking to mediapersons,BJD general secretary SanjayDasburma said, “In the 2014

poll manifesto, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi had promisedto provide employment to

two crore unemployed youthsof the country every year.Accordingly, Odisha’s share

is proportionately 36 lakhunemployed youths in fiveyears. Hence, we are submit-

ting today a memoran-dum to the President ofIndia through theGovernor.”

“We demand that theCentral Governmentpublish the list of 36lakh youths of Odishawho have been employedin MCL, NALCO, IOCLand all the Centre-runPSUs,” he said.

Notably, BJP YuvaMorcha (BJYM) mem-bers on Thursday hadscuff led with policewhile trying to gheraothe State Assembly alleg-ing inefficiency on part

of the State Government in itspolicies for youths and risingunemployment.

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Members across party lineson Friday demanded in the

State Assembly that theGovernment make a provisionof pension for retired journalists,increase health insurance cov-erage from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakhand enact a law for safety ofworking scribes. Raising theissue during the Zero Hour,Leader of OppositionNarasingha Mishra said,“Journalists play a vital role inmaking discussion of the StateAssembly reach people. At least,they should enjoy health insur-ance facility being availed toMLAs. Hence, the Governmentshould increase the insurancecoverage from Rs 2 lakh to 5lakh.”

Government Chief WhipAmar Prasad Satpathy said theState Govt has all respecttowards scribes. The Assembly

doesn’t have a second opinion inincreasing health insurance cov-erage and making a pension pro-vision for them. While there hasbeen a provision of Rs 5 lakhhealth assistance for each fam-ily under the Biju SwasthyaKalyan Yojana, insurance cov-erage of equal amount should beprovided to journalists at theearliest, he said. OppositionChief Whip Tara PrasadBahinipati and BJP LegislatureParty Leader KV Singh Deo,Rabinarayan Nayak (BJP) andMahesh Sahoo and PravatRanjan Biswal (both of BJD) alsosupported the demands raisedby Mishra. Speaker PradipKumar Amat directed theGovernment to take a decisionon the demands raised by mem-bers at the earliest. Notably,journalists had met the ChiefMinister, the Lead of Oppositionand the Speaker over these threedemands on Thursday.

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The State’s fiscal perfor-mance in the last quarter of

2018-19 has registered growthin both its major componentsof revenue generation and util-isation of budgeted alloca-tions.

This was known at an all-Secretaries meeting held underthe chairmanship of ChiefSecretary AP Padhi on Friday.

Reviewing the perfor-mances of various departmentsup to January 2019, Padhidirected the departments tofocus on accomplishment ofthe sustainable developmenttargets (SDGs).

The Secretaries of thedepartments were advised tomonitor implementation ofpriority-action points andupdate the respective portalsaccordingly.

Additional Chief Secretaryand DevelopmentCommissioner Asit KumarTripathy advised the depart-ments to enlarge the revenuebase through innovative pro-jects.

Finance PrincipalSecretar y Ashok KumarMeena appraised that thebudget utilisation by theJanuar y-end has grownaround 19% over the corre-sponding period of last fiscalwith an actual spending of Rs79,058 crore. The expenditurein the social sector has beenaround Rs 36,021 crore,marking more than a 30%-growth over the expenditureup to January during last fis-cal.

The total expenditure inthe infrastructure sector hastouched Rs 12.633 crore, agrowth of around 6% over thecorresponding period of lastfiscal. Similarly, the total expen-diture in agriculture and alliedsector has grown up to Rs 9,972crore.

Keeping pace with theexpenditure, the total revenuegeneration has also grownaround 17% by the January-end. The total revenue gener-ation by January end in last fis-cal year (2017-18) was aroundRs 27,978 crore against whichcurrent year collection up to

same period has grown to Rs32,733 crore. The revenue fromnontax sources has grownaround 61% with a total collec-tion of Rs 9,725 crore while therevenue from own tax sourceshas grown around 5% withtotal collection of Rs 23,008crore.

The revenue generationfrom mining royalty andindustrial water rate hasincreased around 73% and9%. respectively. The total col-lection from mining royaltyhas been around Rs 8,175crore against last years’ Rs4,735 crore up to January-end. Similarly, the revenuecollection from industrialwater has increased to Rs 518crore against last years’ aroundRs 475 crore.

A review of the imple-mentation of projects under theDistrict Mineral Fund (DMF)showed that an amount ofaround Rs 6,088 crore hasbeen collected in various dis-tricts against which 12,359projects estimated around Rs6438 crore have been sanc-tioned.

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To be a GST accountant, anew scope has opened as

the Government of India haslaunched a new training pro-gramme for the educatedyouths. With implementationof the Goods and Services Tax(GST), there is an acute short-age of skilled talent and short-age of accountants is felt badly.

In Odisha such shortage isacute and business establish-ments are facing a lot of hard-ships due to absence of trainedmanpower in GST.Accordingly in order to over-come such shortages, theMinistry of Corporate Affairs(MoCA) has decided to launch“GST Accountant AssistantScheme”.

Secretary Corporate AffairsInjeti Srinivas has informed theState Government in thisregard. Srinivas said that inassociation with the Institute ofChartered Accountants of India(ICAI) and the Institute ofCost Accountants of India(ICoAI), the MoCA will organ-ise such a programme.

This will yield a big scope

for large numbers of youths toget job opportunities in profes-sional firms, companies andother business establishments.

As GST is a new law andnot many are aware of itsimplications, professionals arestill undergoing training onGST and updating their knowl-edge on it. It will enable profes-sional firms, companies, busi-ness entities to rope in trainedprofessionals for better GSTcompliance, said Srinivas.

It is expected that over ahundred thousand youths wouldbe trained in the first phase, whowould be readily employable.The GST Commissionerateworking in the State will makenecessary arrangements of 50hours on-the-job training tothese youths. The branches andchapters of ICAI and ICoAIhave been instructed to get intouch with the GSTCommissionerate in this regard.

In Odisha, the StateGovernment has asked theofficials of the Department ofFinance and Skill Developmentto coordinate such an initiative,which will not only help theyouths but also the businessorganizations, MSME Sector,which are facing a tough timedue to the new law.

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This refers to Mr Manas Jena's article, “Hike quota for OBCs,minorities in Odisha” published in The Pioneer of January 25.May I gently remind Mr Jena that egalitarianism and reserva-tion (positive discrimination) are contradictory! In 2007, a smallarticle of mine on reservation was published in many media out-lets including this paper in which I emphasised the need to cre-ate useful employment to villagers that will prevent them frombeing migrant labourers. Employment will promote stable lifeand that, in turn, will encourage them to send their children toschool. Without education, reservation has no meaning.

Secondly, reservation is against merit. No community ornation will prosper for not respecting merit. Besides, merit ortalent is not an exclusive preserve of any community. If that wereso, Dr BR Ambedkar would not have risen as a colossus with-out the benefit of reservation.

Thirdly, reservation is a temporary relief like that ofdrought, flood, earthquake, etc. Initially, it was encouraged onlyfor 10 years, but now almost after seven decades, instead beingtapering out, it is increasing.

The disadvantaged need be given free food, hostel, books,tuition fees, etc., but when they compete, it should be on an equalfooting. When a general candidate finds that a reserved catego-ry gets the benefit despite lower marks, he/she feels injustice hasbeen done.I agree with Mr Jena that minorities should be givenreservation. One wonders why this facility is not extended toHindus who are minorities in several States. How to save the aboveproblems? Can Mr Jena help?

SC Panda, 1/2 HJG BDA Colony, CSpur, Bhubaneswar 751016

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BJP spokespersons BhruguBaxipatra and Golak

Mahapatra have moved theOrissa High Court seekinganticipatory bail in connectionwith the murder of ChhatrapurNAC BJD CouncillorLaxmidutta Pradhan.

The Chhatrapur police hadon January 29 issued notices toMahapatra and Baxipatra todepose before it on February 7and February 9, respectively.However, Mahapatra failed toappear before police citinghealth-related problems. He,through his lawyer, sought anadditional time of one monthfor appearance before thepolice.

Notably, as many as 19 per-sons have been arrested so farin the Laxmidutta murder case.On September 16, 2017,Laxmidutta was engaged in adiscussion with some youths infront of his house at SuryaNagar in Chhatrapur when agroup of armed men attackedhim and brutally hacked him todeath in broad daylight.

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Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik on Friday sought

Union Minister of ConsumerAffairs, Food and PublicDistribution Ram VilasPaswan’s intervention forimmediate release of the pend-ing food subsidy bills of Rs3,654.41 crore.

In a letter to Paswan,Patnaik stated, “This year, theOdisha State Civil SuppliesCorporation Limited hasalready procured more than40,00,000 MT of paddy andmore than Rs 6,000 crore hasalready been transferred to theaccounts of farmers. Due toprocurement of such hugequantity, the Odisha State CivilSupplies Corporation is almoston the verge of reaching is cashlimit.”

“However, it is a matter ofconcern that the subsidy billsamounting Rs 3,654.41 crore,

which includes the advancesubsidy bills up to March 2019,relating to the State of Odishaare pending with the DFPD,”said Patnaik.

“Such a huge pendency iscausing shortage of funds atOSCSC, which may become amajor road block for ensuringtimely payment to the farmers,”said Patnaik.

The Odisha State CivilSupplies Corporation Ltd, aState PSU, has been undertak-ing procurement of paddy since2003-04 on behalf of the StateGovernment. The funds for theentire procurement operationsare borrowed by OSCSC frombanks. Last year, the OSCSChad transferred around Rs7,600 crore directly to theaccounts of farmers, added theCM.

“In view of the urgency ofthe matter, I would requestyour intervention and neces-sary direction for immediaterelease of money, which willhelp in protecting the interestof the farmers,” stated Patnaik.

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Lovebirds in the Twin City ofCuttack and Bhubaneswar

can express their affection onthe Valentine’s Day, February14, without any fear of moralpolicing from some rightwingorganisations, Commissionerof Police Satyajit Mohanty

assured on Friday. TheCommissionerate police hasplanned to keep a vigil on pop-ular hangouts and make ade-quate security arrangementsto keep troublemakers at bay.

“We won’t tolerate inci-dents of harassment with any-one on the Valentine’s Daycelebrations,” warned the top

cop, adding, “Police teamswould patrol different parts ofthe city on the day.”

He also said police person-nel would provide security tothe couples as long as they actand behave sensibly, decentlyand responsibly as per law.

Police personnel in plain-clothes would be deployed at all

hangouts so that no one cancreate any trouble. Besides,regular patrolling vehicleswould frequent parks and col-leges to thwart any untowardincidents, another police offi-cial said.

In Bhubaneswar, youngcouples come to the variousparks, the BDA City Centre atUnit-IV, the Regional PlantResearch Centre Garden atNayapalli, the Jayadev Vatika atKhandagiri and Nandankananto spend time together on theValentine’s Day.

In the past, there wereincidents of young couplesbeing harassed and threatenedby activists of saffron outfitsand other rightwing organisa-tions on the V-Day citing thatyoungsters are spoiling Indianculture by adopting Westernpractices.

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Despite a scam of over Rs 17lakh established in the

audit report on donations toMutkimadap, the ShreeJagannath TempleAdministration’s (SJTA) silencehas drawn many an eyebrow indealing with corruption.

In spite demands of thepresent managing body ofMuktimandap for stern actionsagainst the corrupt members,the SJTA seems to be insensi-tive towards huge funds embez-zlement involving more than

500 donors across Odisha.They donated money to theMuktimandap for celebrationsof annual rites of their forefa-thers, besides other rituals. Butthe money was found to havebeen blatantly usurped by somemembers of the old manage-ment body as per the auditreport.

The misappropriation offunds came to the notice of thenew management body in2015, when it found that thefunds were missing from bothbank account and the expendi-ture records of theMuktimandap. While Rs 1 lakhhas been deposited in twoaccounts Rs 50,000 each, therest money is nowhere in therecords, found the new body.The bills and money receiptswere also missing, informed thenew body stating that there isno record of expenditurealthough collection was madeby the old team.

Suspecting misappropria-tion of funds, the present man-agement took it to the SJTA’snotice after the NabakalebarYatra in 2015. After severalrequests, the SJTA took it foraudit and has already given areport establishing misappro-priation of funds.

“The audit report hasalready been released. We havetime and again requested theAdministrator (Niti) for actionsso that money could be recov-ered from fraudulent mem-bers,” said Muktimandap sec-retary Ajit Mishra.

He said even though theyhave drawn attention of ChiefAdministrator PradiptaMohapatra, action was yet to beinitiated against the accused.He complained that due tosilent mode of the SJTA for rea-sons best known to it, thefraudulent members are creat-ing disturbance in the presentmanagement.

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Concerned denizens havecome forward to stand by

the Vedanta Limited,Jharsuguda, now reeling undera raw material crisis. In a let-ter to Nalco CMD Dr TapanKumar Chand and forwardinga copy of the letter to the StateChief Secretary, they haveappealed to Dr Chand to allowthe Vedanta Limited to join inNalco’s open bidding processfor 30,000 MT of metallurgicalgrade alumina.

A delegation of the locals,including the representativesfrom the Jharsuguda BarAssociation, had met Dr Chandover the issue on January19.

In their letter, they said thefavour would help the Vedantaobtain alumina for its operationthrough fair trade and willcreate a mutually beneficialecosystem wherein Nalco ben-efits from healthy competitionat best market price andVedanta gets an assured supplyof quality alumina for its oper-ations.

They cited that if Vedantaplant in Jharsuguda remains inhassle-free operation it willhave a significant bearing onthe lives of five lakh people

residing in Jharsuguda andnearby areas, improving theeconomic and employmentscenario in the region.Jharsuguda being an industri-al town, an operation ofVedanta's magnitude is thebackbone of socio-economicprosperity of Jharsuguda, muchlike Nalco, they said.

“If large companies like

Vedanta and Nalco can harnessthe natural resources abun-dantly available in the State anddedicate them for the socio-economic development ofOdisha and its people, theState can emerge as a crownjewel contributing to thenation's growth,” they told inthe letter.

At a time when the coun-try is suffering from unem-ployment, slow growth andincreasing fiscal deficit thiswill not only bolster the eco-nomic state of affairs inOdisha but together the twocompanies can boost theIndian aluminium industryand make Odisha the alu-minium hub, they added.

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Police on Friday arrested fourpersons for allegedly extort-

ing money from vehicles by pos-ing as RTO officials in the Koidaarea in Sundergarh district.

As per reports, the fourfake RTO officials were pro-duced before court while aSUV, Rs 10,000 cash and sev-eral uniforms were seized fromtheir possession.

A teacher and a ForestGuard are among the fourarrested in connection with thefraud. Police sources said theaccused were intercepting vehi-cles and collecting money fromthe drivers on February 3, 4 and5 night posing as RTO officials.

“We have arrested the fouraccused for collecting moneyfrom some drivers and seized acar and Rs 10,000 cash. Furtherinvestigation in connectionwith the incident is on,” saidRourkela SP Uma Shankar Das.

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The State has a total of72,587 Anganwadi and

Mini Anganwadi Centres and,of them, 38, 124 are operatingin own buildings and the rest34,463 are running in rentedand other places.

While 11,778 AWCs arerunning in schools, 4,727 inrented houses, 10, 677 in com-munity centres and 7,281 areoperating at other places.

Women and ChildDevelopment Minister PrafullaSamal informed this in theState Assembly in response toa question of Congress MLAAnshuman Mohanty on Friday.

The Minister further

informed that the StateGovernment has taken allrequired steps for constructionof buildings for all AnganwadiCentres. Now, buildings areunder construction for 13,387Anganwadi Centres and fundshave been provided for con-struction of 12,165 centres.

Plans have been made toconstruct 4,469 AWCs in ruralareas under the MGNREGSand a budget provision hasbeen made for 200 centres inurban areas in 2019-20,informed the Minister.

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Aflying squad of the ExciseDepartment on Friday

busted a brown sugar racket byarresting a drug peddler fromSamantarapur in Khordha dis-trict.

The accused, identified asSunil Dalai, used to smugglebrown sugar from Baleswarand used to peddle it in differ-ent parts of the district.

Acting on a tipoff, a jointteam of Cuttack flying squadand local Excise Departmentconducted simultaneous raid atDalai’s residence and seizedcontraband weighing 128 gramworth Rs 13 lakh from his pos-

session.“Basing on reports that

there has been a rise in ganjaand brown sugar smuggling, weseized the brown sugar follow-ing raids at Samantarapur areain the district. A special squadhas been formed and we hopethat, we would bust a majorracket involved in the illicit nar-cotics trade” said an exciseofficial.

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Justice Pramath Patnaik was on Friday sworn in as a judge ofthe Orissa High Court. Chief Justice KS Jhaveri administered

the oath of office to Justice Patnaik, who was repatriated hereto his parent High Court from the Jharkhand High Court.

Justice Patnaik was first made an additional judge of theOrissa High Court in September 2014. In December same year,he was transferred to the Jharkhand High Court, where he was

working as ap e r m a n e n tjudge until hisrep at r i at i onwas recom-mended by theS u p r e m eC o u r tCollegium ear-lier this year.

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The Bhitarkanika mangroveforest systems would be

strengthened through a CentralGovernment project, sources inthe Ministry Forest,Environment and ClimateChange (MoEF) said.

The Union Governmenthas joined hands with GIZ, aninternational organisation, forwetland development in thecountry, including theBhitarkanika National Park.

Bhitarkanika is a primehabitat of salt water crocodiles,marine turtles, leopard cats,hyenas, wild boars, spotteddeer, sambars, dolphins andbirds like kingfishers, sea gulls,

besides large varieties of migra-tory birds.

The MoEF in partnershipwith GIZ has developed a tech-nical cooperation project“Wetlands Management forBiodiversity and ClimateProtection” for strengthening

the Bhitarkanika mangroves.The Chilika DevelopmentAuthority (CDA) will serve asthe resources centre for such adevelopment.

The CDA headed by seniorIFS officer Susanta Nanda isspearheading activities for pro-

tection and improvement ofChilika, also a Ramsar site, ina big way.

And looking at the profes-sional approach adopted byCDA, the organisation hasbeen chosen as resources cen-tre for strengthening the insti-

tutional framework and capac-ities for the eco system basedintegrated management.

The two other Ramsar siteschosen for such a project arethe Pong Dam and RenukaLake in Himachal Pradesh andPoint Calimere in Tamil Nadu.

There will be three majoroutputs in the project, said JointSecretary MoEF Manju Pandey.An integrated managementplan for Bhitarkanika will bedeveloped based on biodiver-sity, ecosystem services and cli-mate change risks. Secondly,capacity development ofBhitarkanika and its stake-holders will be taken up.Thirdly, wetland monitoringsystem will be introduced andtracking management effec-tiveness will be taken up, saidofficial sources.

The project is supportedunder international climateinitiative of German FederalMinistry for Environment,Nature Conservation and

Nuclear Safety.Accordingly, an MoU has

been signed between MoEFand GIZ. While in Odisha, theCDA has been chosen as sitelevel management institution,in Himachal Pradesh andTamil Nadu, respective wet-land authorities have beenroped in for the purpose, offi-cials said.

The State Government willnominate a Nodal Officer forthe purpose and he will becoordinating further actions,while implementing the pro-ject, said sources.

The State Department ofForest and Environment willcoordinate the entire projectand ACS Forest andEnvironment Suresh ChandraMohapatra along with DirectorEnvironment K Murugesanwill be finalizing the ActionPlan in coordination with GIZand WISA as well as CDA forproject implementation,sources said.

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The Sambalpur DistrictKrushak Surakhaya

Sangathan staged a daylongdharna on Friday demandingimplementation of the recom-mendation of the SwaminathanCommission report and waiv-ing of farmers loan in theState.

The members of theSangathan totally rejected the“KALIA” scheme implementedby the State Government, stat-ing that it will not solve thepurpose of the farmers.

“ Farmers demand legiti-mate payment for their pro-duce and not any not assis-tance,” the speakers asserted.Hundreds of farmers from nine

blocks of the district partici-pated in the dharna organisednear the Kacheri Chowk here.

Presiding over the meeting,Sangathan president MurariPrasad Purohit said, “ Both theState and Union Governments,instead of realizing the realissues of the farmers, areannouncing various schemesfor them. These are nothing buttemporary for the publicityand ensuing elections pur-pose.”

Purohit said the BJP, dur-ing its last general elections,had assured the farmers toimplement the SwaminathanCommission report if voted topower but failed to implementduring the last five years. Onthe other hand, the StateGovernment had been blamingthe Centre for not raising theminimum support price (MSP)of the paddy. Despite agitationin various districts and in the

State capital, no political par-ties came forward to help thefarmers. “ Nobody is realizingthe real plight of the farmers.While the ruling legislatorsare not helping the farmers, atthe same time the oppositionMLAs are not raising the issuein the Assembly,” convenor ofthe organisation AshokPradhan alleged.

The speakers demanded achange in the agricultural pol-icy of the Government, pro-viding more irrigation facilities,proper price for their produce,construction of market yard,scrapping privatization of cropinsurance scheme and imple-menting pension scheme forthe farmers.

Among others, farmerleaders Umesh Mishra,Byomokesh Thakur,Harisankar Purohit, DevendraPradhan, Nabin Patel andSoudamini Nayak addressed.

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The situation of SCs and STsin Odisha has not changed

to the desired extent despiteavailable dedicated resourcesfor their development alongwith protective mechanismunder the Constitution. In thethree most important indica-tors such as poverty line, atroc-ities and basic amenities, theperformances of the StateGovernment has been highlydiscouraging.

The development of theState lies in the holistic devel-opment of all its people spe-cially the marginalized sec-tion which is constantly beingneglected. However, a closelook to these three areasthrough available data from theGovernment sources revealsthe ground reality.

The percentage of peoplebelow poverty line in Kerala,Punjab and Andhra Pradeshwas 7, 8 and 9 respectively andOdisha remains in the bottomrank. The Economic SurveyReport 2017-18 says thoughpoverty has declined by 25 per

cent from 57 per cent in 2004-05 to 32 per cent in 2011-12,but social class-wise and region-wise estimates of povertyheadcount ratio in Odisharemains an area of concern.

The poverty of SCs hascome down to only 42 per centfrom 68 per cent and STs hascome down from 85 per cent toonly 64 per cent during thesame period in rural Odisha.Again nearly 50 per cent ofpopulation of rural southregion, KBK and north Odishawas below poverty line in 2011-12. It is fact that a vast sectionof the marginalized communi-ties is still reeling under pover-ty which is more than 60 percent in case of STs. The majorreasons of poverty are lack ofaccess to productive resourcessuch as land, education, skillgradation and credit and con-tinued deprivation from tradi-tional sources of livelihoodbased on land, forest and water.

The SCs and STs have beenmigrating to outside the Statein search of employment andlivelihood. Odisha continues tobe a migrant workers State inthe country. The anti-povertyand employment generatingschemes for rural poor such asMGNREGS are not beingimplemented properly due tolack of political will and hugecorruption in all levels. Almost98 per cent of SCs and STs arein unorganized sector withoutguaranty for minimum wageand social security during acci-

dent, sickness, pregnancy, oldage and death. They have beendeprived of all kinds of Statesupported benefits out of theState Budget. The provision ofTribal Sub Plan (TSP) andScheduled Caste Sub Plan(SCSP) since 1980 has notbeen followed which is a guide-line for all States to make plansand sub plans for the margin-alised section.

The second most impor-tant concern has been theissues of social discriminationand atrocities against the mar-ginalized sections in rural areasspecially against landlesslabourers, women and chil-dren. It is being reported in theState Assembly that cases ofatrocities against SCs and STs,minor girls, youths, womenand children have increased inrecent years. During 2017-2018, the number has reachedto 445 within the State.

The SC and ST Ministerreported that during the peri-od from 2010 to 2018 abouteleven girls in schools in dis-tricts of Dhenkanal, Keonjhar,Kandhamal, Mayurbhanj,Sundargarh and Koraput havebecome pregnant and two ofthem became mother.Thousands of Ashram schoolsrun by direct administrativecontrol of ST and SCDevelopment Department have

not yet developed any protec-tion mechanism for the safetyand security of the inmates inspite of appointment of about3,000 matrons and 336 ANMsto look after the girls but thegirls are not being coveredunder regular health checkup.

The girls in rural areas andmostly from marginalised sec-tions are prone to all forms ofvulnerability and some of themost publicized cases such asBebina Bhoi of Puri,Shenhalata Chatriya of Balangirand Kunduli cases of Koraputhave not resulted in ensuringjustice to the victims till date.NCRB data shows that Odishais one of the highest prevalenceof atrocity States against STsalong with MP and Rajasthanand it accounts for 11 per centof the total cases. Rape of STwomen in MP, Chhattisgarhand Odisha accounted for 10per cent of all crimes againstSTs in the country. It shows thevulnerability of girls andwomen of the marginalizedsection.

The Home Department ofOdisha White Paper showsevery year nearly 3,000 atroc-ity cases against SCs and STshave been registered in differ-ent police stations of the Stateand many of the cases havebeen settled without FIR andthe conviction rate is very poor

in absence of dedicated specialcourts under the PoA Act.Odisha is among the States hav-ing low conviction rate at 3.3per cent for SCs and 5.7 percent for STs in 2016 which ismuch lower than all Indiaaverage. There has been hugebacklog of cases pending fortrial in district courts which isa matter of concern. The StateGovernment has huge respon-sibility under the provision ofthe law to regularly monitor thecases and submit report of theState Vigilance and MonitoringCommittee in State Assembly,but unfortunately no commit-tee meetings and reports areavailable by the department forpublic.The third major arearemaining unaddressed for along time is lack of basicamenities in rural SCs and STshamlets. The five most basicthings, such as homestead landand housing, drinking water,toilet, electricity and linkingroad are not available to a vastpopulation of the State whichshows no sign of improve-ment in quality of life of themarginalised sections. Lack ofbasic amenities for life hasmany ramifications overemployment, income, liveli-hood and standard of living.Since last 70 years these basicneeds of the rural poor havebeen addressed under variousCentral schemes in a missionmode with marginal State sup-port but the State Governmenthas failed to reach to all eligi-

ble rural poor in addressingtheir basic problems for a dig-nified life.

Lakhs of families are stilllandless and homeless withouta record of right (RoR) overtheir land they have been stay-ing for centuries. The home-stead land distribution schemeand housing schemes like thePradhan Mantri GraminaHousing Yojana and Biju PakkaGhara Yojana have not covereda vast majority of landless andhomeless people. They have tostruggle for drinking waterevery day. Majority of thewomen of the marginalisedsections in rural and tribalareas have to travel about 2 kmevery day to meet the drinkingwater need of the family. TheNational Drinking WaterMission has been in operationsince last 60 years. TheSwachha Bharat Abhijan withall its good intention has notreally made the villages opendefecation free because most ofthe toilets constructed underthe scheme are not in use duelack of water and other relatedfacilities. The target to link allhamlets with roads under thePradhan Mantri Grama SadakYojana (PMGSY) has failed inmany places especially in Dalitand Adivasi hamlets. Similar isthe case with the rural elec-tricity programme like theDeendayal UpadhyayaGramina Bidyut Yojana.

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In a major breakthrough, policeon Friday arrested a dreaded

Maoist leader of Nandapur divi-sion, Damburu Khil, from a vil-lage in the district. Khil isallegedly involved in the murdercase of Telugu Desam Party(TDP) MLA Kidari SarveswaraRao and former MLA SiveriSoma in Andhra Pradesh.

Acting on a tipoff, a team ofKoraput police swooped downon Kodikhal village underChatua panchayat and nabbedthe rebel leader. Two mobilephones have been seized fromhis possession. After interroga-tion Khil would be handedover to National InvestigationAgency (NIA) for further inves-tigations, informed Koraputdistrict SP Kanwar Vishal Singh.

On September 23, 2018TDP’s Araku MLA Rao andformer MLA of the same con-stituency Soma were gunneddown by the Maoists whilereturning from an event inAraku valley. Following theincident, irate locals had set fireto police stations in DumbriGuda and Araku in the after-math of the assassination of thetwo leaders.

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Baleswar district, who havegone to Coimbatore to work ina hotel, have appealed to thedistrict administration to res-cue them as they are physical-ly and mentally tortured by thehotel owners and staffs.

They said that SamsuddinBeg (24), Ammu Beg (21),Rajib Ghodai (24), Manas Roul

(26) and Santan Roul (22) ofvillage Purosattampur ofBhograi block have gone toCoimbatore of Tamil Nadu towork as waiters there in a hotel.However after 10 days of theirarrival, they were not only sub-jected to physical and mentaltorture but also denied medicaltreatment on falling sick.

After they informed thematter district CollectorRamesh Rout, the latter direct-ed District Labour OfficerKuber Behera to do the need-ful.

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cinema hall at Tihidi inBhadrak district early onFriday morning killing twopersons and injuring anothercritically.

The deceased were identi-fied as Dilip Rout, the driver ofthe vehicle, and SK Puhan.

The injured personBichitra Padhi was rescued bypolice and Fire Services per-

sonnel andadmitted to theBhadrak DistrictHeadquar tersHospital. He waslater shifted tothe SCB MedicalCollege Hospitalin Cuttack as hiscondition dete-riorated.

The driver ofthe SUV wasunable to spotthe truck, which

was parked on the road, due tolow visibility owing to foggyconditions, reports said.

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attacked four persons with aknife for laughing after theyfailed to pull off a stunt inParadip on Friday. The victimssustained multiple injuries andwere admitted to a hospital.

As per reports, four youthswere performing stunts ontheir bikes on the marine drivehere, but they fell on theground after one of their stuntswent wrong. Seeing this, fourpersons walking on the roadburst out laughing.

The embarrassed stunt-man indulged in an argumentwith the pedestrians andattacked them. The victimswere admitted to the ParadipPort Hospital. Meanwhile,police started investigation intothe incident following a com-plaint filed against the accused.

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quadruple murder case of2015, the NimaparaAdditional and DistrictSessions Judge sentencedthree persons to undergo lifeimprisonment, whom thecourt had convicted in thecase of Wednesday.

The convicts, identified asHimadri Sekhar Dash aliasRahim Khan, his wife AishaBegum of West Medinapur inWest Bengal and Fakir Mallikof Bolagarh in Khordha districtwere sentenced to imprison-ment for life for murdering oneDinabandhu Mallick and his

family members at Dinadiavillage.

Earlier on Wednesday, theNimapara court convicted thethree accused based on the evi-dence submitted by the CrimeBranch regarding the case buthad reserved its verdict.

Notably, Dinabandhu , aformer District Inspector ofSchools, his wife and twodaughters were found deadwith their throats slit onSeptember 21, 2015 night attheir home in Dinadiyan Nagarvillage under the Astarangapolice station.

The Crime Branch washanded over the investigationcharge following directions ofChief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

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The MCL took an innovativeroute of schooling and

skilling the uneducated orsemi-educated and unskilledrecruits who belong to theland losers families under theR and R Policy to ensure thatthey are productively utilized toachieve the future targets.

The number of suchemployments after fair com-pensation in MCL is muchhigher in comparison withother coal companies in thecountry. Since inception ofcompany 28 years ago, 14,290families in Sundargarh, Anguland Jharsuguda districts ofOdisha have been providedwith employment in MCLwhile 37 eligible families optedfor annuity.

The Board of Directors in155th meeting held five yearsago decided to sponsor allthese recruits for undergoing

requisite vocational, simula-tion and ITI training inGovernment and reputed pri-vate institutes in Odisha andneighbouring States so thatthey can be gainfully utilised inthe company.

Under this scheme, at least1,893 recruits have been bene-fited up to now. This included1,277 for schooling and skillingwhile the remaining 616 weresponsored for ITI training ofvarious trades like ITI (fitter),ITI (Electrician), ITI (Welder),ITI (Electronic Mechanic).

At least 1,467 recruitssponsored by MCL for school-ing and skilling training underthe innovative scheme havereported to their project areasto pick up skilled assignments.

Besides an average cost ofRs 55,000 incurred forskilling/ITI training on eachrecruit, the company paid themfull salaries with all benefits asadmissible to other employeesduring the training duration.

Thus, the company hasmade investment of about Rs17crore under this scheme.

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start mine void filling by Julythrough its ambitious 40km ashslurry pipe line, told its CGMSantosh James. Addressing themedia, James told that a majorportion out of total generateddaily 23,000 MT fly ash will bedisposed to mine void through

the new slurry pipeline . Thiswill substantially decrease flyash pollution, he asserted.

He told that in view of newstringent environment norms,various modifications are donein the NTPC units. James said,“ NTPC in future plans toincrease its renewable powerbase from its present installedcapacity of 53166 MW. Thecompany plans to become 130GW company by 2032 withsolar power contributing 30GW(23 per cent).

He shared at present theNTPC’s total renewable powerinstalled capacity is 920 MW.(Solar -870 MW and Wind -50

MW). Talcher Kaniha has a 60kwp commissioned rooftopsolar power and plans to addmore 300 kwp to promote

renewable power.He informed that the

Kaniha unit has generated17797.1771 MU with PLF(plant load factor) of 78.97 percent from April 1,2017 toFebruary 8, 2019. Further, it hasgenerated solar power of 11.528MU during this period. Headded that Kaniha unit’s PLF ismore than the average nation-al PLF. NTPC Kaniha is thesecond largest power stationamong all NTPC units, Jamestold.

James also described theCSR activities of the unit , apartfrom the challenges of powerstation during the Press meet.

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The Bigyana ChetanaManch, Odisha held a

protest meeting in front of theRegional Institute of Educationhere on Friday, taking excep-tion to some pseudo-scientif-ic claims made through pre-sentation of papers in an inter-national conference at Bhopal.

The seminar entitled“Emerging Trends and

Innovations inSchool Sciences”was organised bythe RegionalInstitute ofEducation (RIE),Bhopal fromFebruary 6 to 8.

S ecretar y,BCM, Odisha DrS i d h a r t hVardwaj presidedover the meet-ing. FormerD i r e c t o r ,Institute ofMathematics andApplication ProfS w a d h e e nPattanaik, former

Professor, Department ofMathematics, Utkal UniversityProf Birendra Nayak, SB Rath,Srinibas Das, Saptarshini Roul,Subhra Ray, Amarendra Nayak,Rajesh Behera, AnanyaAparajita, Sumitra Sahoo,Payosini Priyadarsini and othersaddressing the meeting saidthat the only scientific way toreach at the truth on any mat-ter is observation, experimen-tation and analysis developed onthe basis of a particular scientificmethod.

But it is absolutely unscien-tific and illogical to claim any-thing as truth on the basis ofindividual belief totally avoidingthe very method and process of

science, they told.“We the science educators

and rational thinkers, reject allthese claims and condemn them.We also condemn conferenceorganisers for their selection ofsuch pseudo-scientific abstractsfor presentation and sessionchairs for their lack of interven-tion to stop such talks. We hopethat organisers would take nec-essary action at least now andclearly denounce all these talks.We hope the organisers wouldnot confer legitimacy to theseclaims through their appear-ance in the proceedings of a con-ference organised by an institutethat is held in good,” they saidin a release.

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Friday criticised Chief MinisterNaveen Patnaik over thedichotomy in the latter’s ‘NariKu Samaan’ (respect to women)slogan and the rising cases ofsexual harassments againstwomen and children in theState.

Citing the SC STDevelopment Minister’s writtenstatement in the Assembly,Pradhan in social media said in2017 and 2018, 445 SC and STminor girls and women havefaced sexual harassment whilesince 2014, 12 minor girls havebeen impregnated and fourhave delivered child in theState Government run Ashramschools. Pradhan said the infor-mation is a matter of grave con-cern and clearly shows how farthe women are safe in the State.

He also took a dig at theGovernment over the lack ofprotection to the women andgirls who move to other Statesin search of work but get sex-ually exploited there.

Referring to the NCPCRreport on the sexual exploita-tion and conversion of religionof children in the shelter homesin Odisha, Pradhan said thereare allegations that the rulingparty leaders are patronisingsuch shelter homes.

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Hemant Ojha (26), son of adaily wager of Raichanda

village under Dharmasala blockin Jajpur district, has beenselected to join as a junior sci-entist in the NationalAeronautic SpaceAdministration (NASA) in theUnited States of America.

Hemant completed hismatriculation in his village

primary school and did his BScwith Applied Mathematics ashonours in the RavenshawUniversity, Cuttack. Later, hedid PhD in AppliedMathematics from the IIT,Madras.

“I along with six scientistsfrom India had spent onemonth last year in the NASA asresearchers to present our pro-jects. I am delighted when I gotan appointment letter recently

from NASA, Washington DCHead Jim Bridestine to join asa junior scientist. I would soongo to USA to work in theNASA”, said Hemant.

Hemant’s father Arjun said“I am very happy to know thatmy son will work in theNASA”. The villagers wouldsoon felicitate Hemant for hisachievement in a functionhere, said Ramachandra Ojha,a villager.

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As many as 5, 315 persons,the highest number in the

last 10 years, were killed in roadaccidens in thye State in theyear 2018, informed TransportMinster Dr Nrusingha CharanSahoo in the State Assembly onFriday.

In response to a question ofCongress MLA ChiranjibBiswal, the Minister informedthat the highest number of11,262 accidents also occurredin 2018.

According to information,3079 persons had died in 2008,3,527 in 2009, 3,837 in 2010,3,802 in 2011, 3,701 in 2012,4062 in 2013, 3,931 in 2014,4,303 in 2015, 4,463 in 2016 and4,790 persons died in 2017.

The Minister said liquorshops, which were operatingalong national highways, haveeither been closed or relocatedas per the Supreme Courtorder. Besides, licences ofdrunken drivers and all otherinstructions are being imple-mented in the State.

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Corporate Affairs PPChaudhary today said as manyas 88,229 civil and criminalcases are pending in JharkhandHigh Court. Chaudhary pro-vided the information to theRajya Sabha on Friday in replyto a question raised by RajyaSabha member ParimalNathwani. According to theMinister’s statement tabled inthe House, total 40,92,732 civiland criminal cases are pendingwith 23 High Courts in thecountry.

The approved strength ofhigh courts judges inJharkhand is 25, against whichseven posts are vacant, said theMinister. As against the totalapproved strength of 1079judges total 400 posts arevacant in 25 High Courts in thecountry, stated the Minister.

Nathwani wanted to knowabout number of vacancies of

judges in the Supreme Courtand various High Courts of thecountry, the number of pend-ing cases in various HighCourts and the Supreme Courtof India and the steps taken bythe Government in last fouryears to ease stress and burdenof higher judiciary in the coun-try.

According to the Minister’sstatement, total 58,029 cases arepending with the SupremeCourt of India as on February1,2019. Further, as against thetotal approved strength of 31judges in the Supreme Court,total 03 posts are vacant.According to the Minister’sstatement, 18 Judges wereappointed in the SupremeCourt and 384 Judges wereappointed in various HighCourts of the country during2015-2018. “The Governmenthas also increased the Judgesstrength of the High Courtsfrom 906 in May 2014 to 1079at Present,” the statementadded.

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AGovernment reportreleased on Friday has

among various conservationmeasures called for creation ofa second home for the wild bigcats other than the Gir forestsin Gujarat’s Saurashtra region.

The Gujarat Governmenthas been vehemently opposingfor long parting its ‘Gir’s Pride’with any other State —to beprecise in Madhya Pradesh’sKuno wildlife sanctuary—forshifting the big cats and a casein this regard is also pending inthe Supreme Court. The VijayRupani-led GujaratGovernment has also rejectedWildlife Institute of India’s‘Recovery and Conservation ofEndangered Lions in Gujarat’project, which was to be mon-itored by the National TigerConservation Authority(NTCA).

Asiatic Lions are listed inthe Schedule-I of the WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972,thereby according them thehighest degree of protection.

The report, ‘Asiatic LionConservation Project’, which

was released by UnionEnvironment Minister DrHarshvardhan on Friday alsonoted that the current rate ofd e v e l o p m e n t - i n d u c e d habitat fragmentation, loss ofpotential lion habitats owing tonatural calamities triggered byclimate change besides poaching and poisoning ofprey carcasses plague the India’smajestic Asiatic lions conser-vation, which are presentlyconfined in Saurashtra regionof Gujarat.

While noting that the 2010census which pegged the pop-ulation at 411 showed aremarkable increase of 112animals in the next five yearsand the lion population in theyear 2015 stands 523 fromfour districts of Saurashtra,the report felt it was notenough.

“In spite of successful con-servation efforts over last 4decades, registering sustainedincreasing population trend,the Asiatic Lion is still critical-ly endangered on account of itstotal population being onlyabout 523+10, i.e. much lessthan desirable 500 breeding

adults with demographicallyfavorable male to female ratio.”

The report also enlistedvarious threats that exist in theregion for the survival of theAsiatic lions. “With the currentrate of development-inducedhabitat fragmentations inSaurashtra, only home to thecountry’s lions, there is anincreasing risk for lion ‘patchypopulations’ to gradually dete-riorating into a meta popula-tion where “several patches

might become spatially sepa-rated disjoint lion sub-popula-tions”.

“Lion mortality due toanthropogenic pressures suchas poaching, poisoning of preycarcasses etc and loss of poten-tial lion habitats owing to nat-ural calamities triggered byclimate changes are likely tofurther exacerbate this situa-tion,” it further said.

Despite a successful recov-ery, Asiatic lions exemplify all

the typical impediments ofcarnivore conservation -such asa small population restricted toa single site and with reducedgenetic diversity, long rangingand conflict with human inter-ests… make Asiatic lions vul-nerable to stochastic eventssuch as epidemics and newlyemerging diseases, the reportadded.

Further, co-evolved dis-eases, both endemic and epi-demic, are known to have

an effect on the hosts (lion)ecology.

Thus, monitoring of dis-eases and disease-causingagents in this endangered pop-ulation has huge ecologicaland conservation implications.Recently over 23 predators hadsuccumbed to Cannine dis-temper virus (CDV) in theregion which had also evokedstrong response from theSupreme Court and GujaratHigh Court.

The ‘Asiatic LionConservation Project’, initiallyfor a three year period withbudget fund of Rs 97.84 crore(with the contributing ratiobeing 60:40 of Central andState share respectively) aimsconsolidating conservation ofthe Asiatic Lion and its associ-ate biota in Saurashtra region.

The Project envisages ascience-based managementprescriptions with involvementof people alongside coordina-tion with multi-sectoral agen-cies within the Gir ProtectedArea system.

The project activities areaimed at better management ofthe Lion habitat, disease con-trol and veterinary care foroverall conservation of theAsiatic Lion.

Currently, lions exist inGir National Park andSanctuary and its surroundingsviz. Girnar Sanctuary, MitiyalaSanctuary, Pania Sanctuary,South Eastern and Westerncoastal areas, Savarkundla,Liliya and adjoining areas ofAmreli and BhavnagarDistricts.

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Amid protests by theCongress on the Rafale

issue, Biju Janata Dal(BJD)leader Tathagata Satpathy onFriday alleged that theGovernment was “completelyfollowing misdeeds and modusoperandi” of the previousCongress Government.

Initiating the debate inLok Sabha on the Interim Budget, he said theunderlying message of the bud-get appeared to be “tum mujhevote do, main tumhe paisedunga” (You give me vote, I will give you money), a refer-ence to doles announced by thegovernment for different class-es.

Everything thisGovernment has done has beenaimed at the super rich,Satpathy charged.

In an apparent jibe atFinance Minister Piyush Goyal,who was present in the House,he said a number of seniorCabinet ministers in theGovernment are from theRajya Sabha while those fromthe Lok Sabha have beenignored.

Lok Sabha members are“rooted in ground issues”, hesaid, adding during the UPA’sreign the country was ruled bya prime minister from theRajya Sabha.

The then Prime MinisterManmohan Singh was a mem-ber of the Upper House.

M Veerapa Moily (Cong)was to initiate the debate but in

his absence Satpathy was askedto start it.

As Kalraj Mishra, who wasthe presiding officer, allowed adiscussion, protesting Congressmembers intensified their slo-gan-shouting, objecting to thedebate when the House was notin order.

One member was seentearing papers and throwingthem at the Speaker’s table, andMallikarjun Kharge of theCongress said, “It is not good.The House is not in order.”

To this, Mishra said theHouse will be in order if theprotesting members go to theirseats.

Anurag Singh Thakur(BJP) said the Budget was foran aspirational class and willbenefit 12 crore farmers, 30crores labourers and 3.5 croremiddle class.

“It is a “pro-poor” budgetand will strengthen the middleclass,” Thakur said. He also saidthe cumulative sum of variousgovernment schemes comesclose to Rs 15 lakh. “Which means that the gov-ernment has paid every personRs 15 lakh as promised duringthe last elections,” Thakuropined.

He also said the Modi gov-ernment has done more for theIndian Army than any othergovernments in the past.

Dushyant Chautala(INLD) claimed that unem-ployment is rising in the coun-try and private companies likeOla and Uber are exploitingtheir employees.

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Facing heat over roster sys-tem for reservation in fac-

ulties of universities, theGovernment on Friday said inthe Rajya Sabha it will bring anordinance or a Bill to protectthe interests of the SC,ST andOBCs if the apex court rejectsits review petition.

The Upper House pro-ceedings were washed out ear-lier this week over the issue dueto protests by the Oppositionparties.

In an effort to allay theapprehensions of the Elders,Human Resource DevelopmentMinister Prakash Javadekarmade a brief statement in thehouse on Friday about the Billand also said till such time norecruitment will be allowed inthe universities.

Soon after listed officialpapers were presented to theHouse, Javadekar said a study has been conducted onhow department-wise reser-vations to faculties will affectSC, ST and OBCs in 30 uni-versities.

“The Government hasdecided to bring an ordinanceor a Bill should the review peti-tion be rejected by the Supreme

Court,” he said. “Till then no recruitment

will be allowed.”The SP and BSP had on

Thursday not allowed theHouse to function over theirdemand that the governmentbring a Bill to protect the inter-est of scheduled castes, sched-uled tribes and OBC.

The Government will file areview petition in the SupremeCourt after its Special Leave Petition on faculty reser-vation mechanism for univer-sities was rejected by the apexcourt.

The University GrantsCommission (UGC) hadannounced in March last yearthat an individual department

should be considered as thebase unit to calculate the num-ber of teaching posts to bereserved for Scheduled Caste(SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST)candidates following an orderby the Allahabad High Courtin April in 2017.

The response from thegovernment came as severalopposition members gavenotices under Rule 267 seekingsetting aside of the business ofthe day to take up the issue.Even though the Oppositionmembers were not satisfiedwith the minister’s statement,Chairman M Venkaiah Naidusaid the issue in these noticeshas been addressed byJavadekar.

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Speaker Sumitra Mahajan onFriday strongly disapproved

of Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi’sattempt to disrupt BJD MPTathagata Satpathy’s speech inthe Lok Sabha saying not allow-ing members to speak is akin tokill democracy.

After the House met post-lunch, Satpathy began the dis-cussion on the interim Budget inthe absence of Congress’Veerappa Moily who was tospeak first.

The Congress members,however, started protesting onthe Rafale issue, demanding aJoint Parliamentary Committee(JPC) probe into the fighter jetdeal. Congress members Gogoi,Rajeev Satav, Sushmita Dev andothers trooped into the Wellshouting slogans. Gogoi, with aplacard in his hand, walked upto Sathpathy’s seat and startedraising slogans as the BJD mem-ber’s microphone was on and thecamera usually focuses on theperson who is making thespeech.

“Gaurav Gogoi, don’t gothere. Please stay in your limit,”an upset Speaker said.Gogoi immediately steppedback.

In the past, Mahajan hadreprimanded Dev for similar

actions. Mallikarjun Kharge,Leader of the Congress in theHouse, said unless the Rafaleissue is addressed, the protestswill continue.

The Congress later staged awalkout in protest.

After Sathpathy’s speechwas over, BJD leader BhartuhariMahtab objected to Gogoi’a act.

“Walking up to the Speaker(the person delivering thespeech) and not allowing him tospeak has become a regularpractice in the House,” Mahtabsaid. To this, Mahajan said shenamed Gogoi and reprimandedhim for his behaviour.

“But what to do? They arepeople’s representatives,” shesaid. “So even Satpathy is a peo-ple’s representative,” Mahtabsaid.

“This is very irresponsiblebehaviour. This is wrong andshould not happen. We areproving that we are killingdemocracy. If members are notallowed to speak in Lok Sabhathen it is an anti-democratic act,”he said.

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The Supreme Court on Fridayrefused to entertain a plea

by sacked Gujarat cadre IPS offi-cer Sanjiv Bhatt seeking securi-ty for his family after his wifemet with an accident recently.

A bench of Justices A KSikri and S Abdul Nazeer askedBhatt to approach the GujaratHigh Court with his plea for thenecessary relief.

The bench said that it is notexpressing any opinion on themerit of the case. Bhatt hassought security for his family

after his wife Shweta Bhatt,who was travelling with theirson, met with an accident onJanuary 7.

The two had sustainedminor injuries in the incident inwhich their car was also damagedbut they refused to lodge FIR.

On October 4 last year, theapex court had dismissedShweta’s plea challenging thepolice probe and his judicialcustody in a 22-year-old case ofalleged planting of drugs toarrest an advocate, and said hecould approach an “appropriateforum” for relief.

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The Supreme Court onFriday refused to stay the

Centre’s decision to grant 10per cent quota in jobs andadmissions to poor candidatesin the general category.

The apex court, however,agreed to examine the validity of the law and issuedthe notice to the Centre on theplea filed by businessman andCongress supporter TehseenPoonawala.

“At this stage, we are notinclined to pass any order,” saida bench headed by Chief JusticeRanjan Gogoi.

Senior advocate Rajeev

Dhavan, appearing forPoonawala, told the bench that his only grievance at thisstage was that this quota shouldnot breach the ceiling of 50 percent as mandated by the apexcourt.

The bench, also compris-ing Justices Deepak Gupta andSanjiv Khanna, had earlierissued notice to the Centre onsimilar petitions and on Fridayordered tagging of the freshplea of Poonawalla with pend-ing ones.

Petitions have been filed byparties, including ‘JanhitAbhiyan’ and NGO ‘Youth ForEquality’, challenging theCentre’s decision.

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The Supreme Court Fridaydismissed RJD leader

Tejashwi Yadav’s plea challeng-ing a Patna High Court orderasking him to vacate the bun-galow meant for the deputyChief Minister and imposed�50,000 fine on him for wasting“judicial time”.

The apex court did not findfault with the two orders passedby the single judge and the divi-sion bench of the high court dis-missing the pleas of the formerdeputy chief minister against the

state government’s decision ask-ing Tejashwi to vacate the bun-galow for his successor SushilModi. The high court had askedTejashwi, who is now holdingthe post of leader of opposition(LoP) in the assembly, to swapbungalow with the presentdeputy chief minister.

“What is this luxury of liti-gation? Precious judicial timehas been wasted,” a bench head-ed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoisaid when Tejashwi’s counsel,senior advocate A M Singhvi,attempted to establish that thepost of a minister and that of the

LoP was similar in protocol.Moreover, there is no sepa-

rate class like deputy chief min-ister in law, Singhvi said.

He said there is chief min-ister and the council of ministers,but the state government hascreated a new category of deputychief minister for the purposesof accommodation and otherbenefits. “Was there no deputychief ministers elsewhere? ...Yousee, two benches of the highcourt have held against you,” saidthe bench, which also comprisedJustices Deepak Gupta andSanjiv Khanna.

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Aday after his son wasgrilled by the Enforcement

Directorate for six hours, for-mer Finance Minister PChidambaram appeared beforethe Enforcement Directorate inINX Media money launderingcase on Friday. Both PChidambaram and Karti arebeing questioned by the EDunder the Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA) forthe latter’s alleged links withINX Media.

Chidambaram reached EDoffice after he was part of apress conference held byCongress president RahulGandhi targeting the Modigovernment over the Rafale

deal in the morning. The seniorCongress leader met the inves-tigators at 11 am and wasquestioned by the agency forover five hours with a one-hourlunch break for which he wentto his residence. Chidambaramhas been grilled in this case inDecember last too.

It is understood that hewas questioned in context withsome documents seized andrecovered by the agency in thecase. The ED attached Karti’sassets worth an estimated Rs 54crore, located in India andabroad, in the case last year.

The ED registered thePMLA case on the basis of aCBI FIR and had alleged irreg-

ularities in the ForeignInvestment Promotion Board(FIPB) clearance to INX Mediafor receiving overseas funds tothe tune of Rs 305 crore in2007, when P Chidambaramwas the finance minister.

It registered an

Enforcement Case InformationReport (ECIR), the ED’s equiv-alent of a police FIR, against theaccused named in the CBIcomplaint, including Karti,INX Media and its directors -- Peter and Indrani Mukerjea.

Karti was arrested onFebruary 28 last year by theCBI, the other central agencyinvestigating the case, forallegedly taking money to facil-itate the FIPB clearance toINX Media in 2007. He wasgranted bail subsequently.

The agency has alleged thatKarti received money from INXMedia, using his influence tomanipulate a tax probe againstit in a case of violation of FIPBconditions to receive invest-ments from Mauritius.

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Over a month after launch-ing a national action plan

for conservation of migratorybirds, India, which is all set tohold the 13th UN Conventionon the Conservation ofMigratory Species (CMS)(COP13) next year in Gujarat, onFriday announced Great IndianBustard (GIB) as the mascot forthe mega event.

Representatives from 129countries and eminent conser-vationists and internationalNGOs working in the field ofwildlife conservation areexpected to attend the con-

vention. The mascot for the event

was launched by UnionMinister Harsh Vardhan, whoalso revealed that the bird hasbeen fondly named by hisMinistry as ‘Gibi’.

Speaking at the launch, theminister said that the issue ofmigratory birds is very important and must be takencare of.

“We have been taughtsince childhood to be compas-sionate towards birds and ani-mals. Migratory birds areimportant and must be takencare of. I hope with time theefforts in wildlife conservation

reach new heights,” he said. Theminister also launched the logofor the convention.

The CMS COP-13, whichhas over 120 countries as par-ticipants, is a global platformfor the conservation and sus-tainable use of migratory ani-mals and their habitats andbrings together the statesthrough which migratoryspecies pass.

So far 12 COPs (confer-ence of parties) have been con-vened. The COP-13 will be heldin Gandhinagar, Gujarat fromFebruary 15-22, 2020. The gov-ernment also launched a web-site for the COP-13.

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India will train 1,800 civil ser-vants from Bangladesh in

ethics in administration andpublic policy among otherareas of governance, officialssaid.

A Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) wassigned on Friday between theNational Centre for GoodGovernance (NCGG), an insti-tute under the Department ofAdministrative Reforms andPublic Grievances (DARPG),and the Ministry of PublicAdministration, Governmentof Bangladesh, in this regard,they said.

KV Eapen, SecretaryDARPG and Director Generalof NCGG, said the collaboration represents a his-toric milestone in training and capacity building pro-grammes between India andBangladesh.

He said that Bangladeshcivil servants will be trained ine-governance and service delivery, public policy andi m p l e m e n t a t i o n , information technology, decen-tralization, urban developmentand planning, ethics inAdministration and challengesin implementation of sustain-able development goals(SDGs).

This is the second time that the NCGG has signed anMOU for a training pro-gramme for Bangladesh civilservants.

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In what the TrinamoolCongress promptly referred

to as a panic firing “in antici-pation of a losing battle”Narendra Modi on Fridaylaunched a spiteful broadsideagainst Mamata Banerjee call-ing her a savior of the corrupt— referring to her two-daydharna against a botched CBIraid at Kolkata PoliceCommissioner Rajiv Kumar’shouse in pursuit of their inves-tigation in the multi-croreSharada chit fund case.

Addressing a rally atJalpaiguri the Prime Ministertold a large crowd how “for thefirst time in the history a ChiefMinister staged a dharna to savea group of officers suspected ofshielding the perpetrators ofchit fund scam looting lakhs ofpoor people in the process.”

As the Chief Minister was“trying to save the looters ofpeople’s money the questionhas erupted in people’s mind asto why she is afraid of the chitfund probe and who will bebenefited by the derailment ofthe investigation,” the PrimeMinister who also inaugurateda National High way and theJalpaiguri Bench of the CalcuttaHigh Court — much to thechagrin of the TrinamoolCongress leadership which

blamed the BJP and the Centrefor hijacking Banerjee’s feat inthis regard.

“Neither the Left FrontGovernment,nor the Trinamoolhas done anything about theissue and it was left on us to dothe needful,” Modi said, addinghow the entire North Bengalwould be benefited by the newDivision Bench.

Assuring that ponzi fundprobe would be carried to itslogical end the Prime Ministeronce again said how the“Chowkidar will never let thechit fund thieves go,” as all the

“perpetrators of Sharada,Narada and Rose Valley wouldbe arrested and people’s hard-earned cash would be recovered— no matter how many dhar-nas some people may stage.”

Attacking the TrinamoolCongress for giving shelters tothe infiltrators in Bengal andrefusing landing permissionto the helicopters carrying theindomitable patriots and BJPleaders in Bengal Modi said“the rule of Jagai and Madhai(syndicate and violence) willsoon end in the State.”

The people of Bengal voted

the Trinamool Congress in thename of Maa Maati andManush to rid the violent com-munist Government but “theeffort ended up in dadagiri(highhandedness) of the didi,”Modi said.

He said a corrupt TMCGovernment “won the pan-chayat elections through vio-lence and “now not assured oftheir real standing if there is agenuine election “they are plan-ning a grand adulteration ofparties.” He apparently referredto the grand alliance of nation-al leaders who assembled inKolkata on January 19 takingpart in the United India rallycalled by Mamata Banerjee.

“This grand adulterationhas no values and idealism oreven consistency,” he said show-ing how in Bengal the PradeshCongress was crying itselfhoarse against the corrupt andviolent Trinamool Governmentwhereas its leaders in Delhi aretaking Trinamool’s supportresisting investigation againstRobert Vadra.

In an apparent bid reachout to the Muslim women thePrime Minister attacked theCongress for announcing itsdecision to overrule TripleTalaq ruling of the SupremeCourt by enacting a new lawModi said “when the BJPGovernment is tabling a law to

end the triple talaq in line withthe Supreme Court orders sothat the Muslim daughters arenot tormented anymore theCongress is again trying topush them back to themedieval anarchy. But we willnever allow that to happen.”

Reacting to PrimeMinister’s attack Banerjee said“he (Modi) himself has lostsleep as 23 political parties havecome together with a single-point agenda to oust him. Weare working on ‘Modi hatao…desh bachao’ and we w2ill def-initely do it.”

On the Prime Minister’srepeated claims that he was atea-vendor (Chaiwala) she said“he calls himself thus but he neither sold tea, norknows to prepare it as he has no family.”

Other Trinamool leaderssaid “he is nervous which canbe seen through his speeches.”Senior leader Firhad Hakimsaid “all the crowd in the BJP’smeetings are being importedand transported from one placeto other.”

Senior leader SudipBandopadhyay said the BJP wasspending crores in transportingcrowds from one place to other.“You can see same faces in mul-tiple meetings,” he said addingthe Modi Government’s dayswere numbered.

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In an apparent departure fromhis earlier position that he

would not contest the LokSabha polls, NCP chief SharadPawar said on Friday that hemight consider contesting theforthcoming polls from Madhaconstituency in westernMaharashtra, following therequests from his senior partycolleagues.

Talking to mediapersons inPune where he confabulatedwith his senior party colleagueson issues relating to the LokSabha polls, Pawar said, “I amnot interested in contestingthe Lok Sabha polls. Since allmy party colleagues, includingVijaysinh Mohite-Patil (who isthe sitting MP from Madhaconstituency) have insisted thatI contest the polls this time, Imay consider their request”.

The Madha Lok Sabhaconstituency, from wherePawar may contest, came intobeing on February 19, 2008 asa part of the delimitation exer-

cise carried on the basis of rec-ommendations made by theDelimitation Commission ofIndia constituted in July 2012.

It comprises Assembly seg-ments of Madha, Karmala,Sangole, Malshrias, all fromSolapur district and Phaltanand Maan from Satara district.

In the 2009 Lok Sabha elec-tions — held for the first timeafter the formation of this con-stituency, Pawar won this seat bytrouncing the BJP candidateSubhash Deshmukh by massivemargin of 3.14 lakh votes.

Pawar, however, chose notto contest the 2014 Lok Sabhapolls. In his place, the NCPfiled local heavy Vijaysinh

Mohite-Patil, who managed towin the seat in the 2014 LokSabha polls.

Pawar, who was elected tothe Rajya Sabha for the firsttime in April 2014, had earlierbeen elected to Lok Sabha forseven terns. Of the seven Loksabha terms, Pawar had repre-sented his home constituencyof Baramati for six terms, while Madha constituency senthim to the lower Parliamentonce in 2009.

One of the reasons for theNCP chief ’s decision to recon-sider his earlier not to contestLS is not to let the otherwiseNCP’s “safe” seat to go out ofthe party’s control.

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The Kolkata Police on Fridaycarried out raids at a firm

allegedly linked to former inter-im CBI director M NageswaraRao. The Kolkata Police officialsconducted raids at two proper-ties belonging to Rao in WestBengal. It also searched Rao’swife’s company AngelinaMercantile Pvt Ltd at Salt Lake.

Hours after the KolkataPolice raided two locations, theformer interim CBI chief toldANI, “All that is happeningappears to be propaganda.”

Rao issued a Press state-ment dated October 30, 2018,refuting any link with M/sAngela Mercantile Pvt Ltd,one of the two locations raid-ed by the Kolkata Police.

The incident comes daysafter a political firestorm wasraged in West Bengal withMamata Banerjee launching asit-in protest against the CBI’sbid to question Kolkata Policechief Rajeev Kumar in the chitfund scam cases.

It was Rao under whose

instruction officers of theCentral Investigating Agencylanded at the doorstep of theRajeev Kumar on Sundayevening to interrogate him.The CBI sleuths were laterdetained by the city police. Theincident later stirred a contro-versy in the capital city ofWest Bengal, where its ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjeewent on a three-day strikeagainst Centre, accusing the lat-ter of political vendetta.

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Claiming that only theBharatiya Janata Party gov-

ernment would construct Ramtemple at Ayodhya, party pres-ident Amit Shah asked oppo-sition parties like SamajwadiParty, Bahujan Samaj Partyand Congress to clear theirstand on the temple issue.

“People want to know whatis the stand of SP, BSP andCongress on the Ram templeissue. Some parties may forgean alliance but they cannothave a unanimous view ontemple construction atAyodhya,” Amit Shah said while addressing booth-level party workers in Maharajganj and Jaunpur on Friday.

Shah said that the so-calledalliance between SamajwadiParty and Bahujan Samaj Partywould have no bearing in UttarPradesh in the Lok Sabha pollsas the BJP would get 50 percent votes in these elections.

“There is no need to beafraid of the alliance. The BJPis ready for the battle as it willget over 50 per cent vote sharein UP,” Shah said.

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Samajwadi Party chiefAkhilesh Yadav said the

alliance between his party andthe BSP was potent enough toend the hegemony of BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) in UttarPradesh and a mahagathband-han would form the nextGovernment at the Centre.

“BJP leaders, includingPrime Minister NarendraModi, know the potency ofopposition alliance and aretherefore giving it differentnames like ‘maha-milawat’.These leaders do not know howthis ‘milawat’ will dethronethe Modi Government,”Akhilesh Yadav said while addressing a media con-ference in Lucknow on Friday.

Akhilesh said that the SP’salliance with the BSP wouldremain intact and both the par-ties would soon announce theircandidates.

However, the SamajwadiParty chief reserved his com-ment on the issue of SupremeCourt direction to BSP chiefMayawati over her statues.

Kottayam: The KeralaGovernment on Friday saidthere was now no relevance forthe Travancore DevaswomBoard (TDB)’s plea in theSupreme Court, seeking exten-sion of time to implement itsSeptember 28 verdict, permit-ting women of all age groupsentry into the Lord Ayyappa

temple in Sabarimala.Devaswom MinisterKadakampally Surendran saidthe plea was filed during thetwo-month-long Sabarimalapilgrim season as there was notmuch basic facilities for womendevotees reaching there in largenumbers.

“Since the pilgrim season isover, there is no relevance forsuch a plea now,” he toldreporters here. The Ministerclaimed the TDB had acceptedthe Supreme Court order.

“Don’t forget the fact that

TDB had accepted the SupremeCourt verdict,” he said, refer-ring to the U-turn made by theboard when the apex courtWednesday heard pleas, seek-ing review of its verdict.

He said the board took astand in line with the SupremeCourt order during the hearingof pleas seeking review onWednesday. During the earlierround of litigation, the TDB hadopposed the PIL by the IndianYoung Lawyers Associationseeking to throw open the shrinefor all women. PTI

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Kumar will be interrogat-ed by CBI sleuths at two loca-tions — in the Central Bureauof Investigation (CBI) officehere and at an undisclosedlocation, he said.

He is accompanied bythree IPS officers of the KolkataPolice. “Kumar has been lodged

in a top hotel in the city. TheState police is giving securitycover to him,” the senior HomeDepartment official told PTI.A group of CBI sleuths arecoming from Delhi to questionhim and they are scheduled toreach here Friday night.

The Supreme CourtTuesday directed the KolkataPolice commissioner to appearbefore the CBI and “faithful-ly” cooperate into the investi-gation of cases arising out ofthe Saradha chit fund scam,while making it clear that hewill not be arrested. PTI

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Taking a serious note of hisname being dragged in the

purported conversation of BJPState chief BS Yeddyurappa inan alleged bid to lure a JDSMLA, Assembly Speaker KRRamesh Kumar on Friday saidhe would order an enquiry intothe issue in the House onMonday.

Releasing the audio Fridaymorning, Chief Minister HDKumaraswamy had chargedYeddyurappa with horse-trad-ing and released an audio clipto back his claim that he wasmaking attempts to woo MLAsto topple the coalitionGovernment.

As Speaker Kumar’s namehas been mentioned during thepurported conversation,Kumar said, “On Monday I willtake it up suo motu in theAssembly and will get theinquiry done. We will not letany street urchin speak like thisabout the Speaker andothers.Yeddyurappa did not say it.Obviously, someone in that-moment said so,” he toldreporters here.

Kumar said he has receivedthe audio clip and heard theentire conversation in hischamber.

He felt that it was difficultto make out who was talking towhom, but it was a cause forconcern that some big nameswere thrown about during thecourse of conversation.

“They invoke the names ofjudges, Prime Minister andthe BJP national president dur-ing the conversation. I don’tknow who the person is.Thatmust now be subjected toenquiry. Proper forum for meto mention it is the Assembly,” he said.

Dropping a bombshellahead of tabling the budget,Kumaraswamy had releasedthe audio clip, in whichYeddyurappa was allegedly try-ing to lure a JDS MLA throughhis son.

Jaipur: Gujjar leader KiroriSingh Bainsla and his sup-porters on Friday began a sit-in on the rail tracks inRajasthan’s Sawai Madhopurdistrict, forcing authorities todivert trains.

The protesters are demand-ing five per cent reservation toGujjars, Raika-Rebari, GadiaLuhar, Banjara and Gadariacommunities in Governmentjobs and educational institu-tions. As the dharna continuedat Malarna Doongar — around125 km southeast of Jaipur,Rajasthan Chief MinisterAshok Gehlot appealed to thepeople to maintain peace.

Train movement wasaffected due to the dharna, withseven trains being diverted inthe Sawai Madhopur-Bayanasection in Kota division, saidAbhay Sharma, chief publicrelations officer of the North

Western Railway. “Things arechanging fast. I have not comehere, but the crowd has broughtme on the railway tracks.People cannot be fooled all thetime. It is a fight to do or die.The State Government shouldstand on its promise. It will bea peaceful protest. I will leadthe protest and the youths willsupport,” Bainsla, who headsthe Gujjar Arakshan SangharshSamiti, told reporters.

Additional police forceshave been deployed inBharatpur police range —under which Sawai Madhopurfalls — to tackle any law-and-order situation. “SeventeenRAC (Rajasthan ArmedConstabulary) companies,including a special task force,have been deployed in therange,” Bhupendra Sahu,inspector general of BharatpurRange, said. PTI

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Fulfilling long-pendingdemand of people belong-

ing to Ladakh region Jammu &Kashmir Government onFriday approved creation of aseparate Administrative/Revenue Division for Ladakh.

This division will com-prise Leh and Kargil districtswith its headquarters at Leh.

The Government has alsoapproved creation of the postsof Divisional Commissioner(Ladakh), Leh and InspectorGeneral of Police (Ladakh),Leh. Currently, the Ladakh region forms a part ofthe Kashmir Division ofJammu & Kashmir.

A handout issued by theState Information departmentstated, “ the issue was discussedat various fora and there has beena persistent demand for the cre-ation of Division for Ladakhfrom many organizations includ-ing the Ladakh Autonomous HillDevelopment Councils(LAHDC) Leh and Kargil”.

“There have been persis-tent demands from the regionfor creation of a separateDivision claiming that thetough/distinct topographicconditions and unique cultur-al status, the Ladakh regiondeserves a special treatmentparticularly due to the distancefrom the capital”, the handoutstated.

Welcoming the creation ofLadakh as third administrativedivision of the State, formerJammu & Kashmir ChiefMinister Mehbooba Mufti saidthe ignoring of regions likeChenab Valley and Pir Panjalraises doubts of New Delhi’sintention.

Reacting to the decision onher Twitter timeline,

Mehbooba wrote, “ it seemsJ&K Governor Satya Pal Malikis peddling Bharatiya JanataParty’s agenda by ignoringother deserving regions of J&K.

“Creation of a separateadministrative division for Lehis a welcome step. Howeverignoring Pir Panchal & Chenabvalley raises questions aboutthe Centre’s intention. Seemslike Guv sb is peddling BJPsagenda by ignoring otherequally deserving regions,”Mehbooba tweeted.

Earlier, ex-CM of J&K andthe National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullahpromised division status forChenab Valley and Pir Panjalregions if his party was voted topower in upcoming elections.Omar also wrote,” we will takecare of regional and sub-region-al aspirations. We won’t adoptthe pick and choose approachof the Governor but will insteadtake a holistic view and addressthe wider problems.Our region-al autonomy document will beour template”.

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OPanneerselvam, DeputyChief Minister who is also

holding the Finance portfolio,presented the 2019-2020 StateBudget sans any populist mea-sures or new taxes. Though itwas expected that theAIADMK Government whichis not in the best books of theelectorate as on date may makesome exciting or spectacularannouncements to entice thecommon man in the backdropof the upcoming Lok sabhaelection, there was nothing ofthat kind in the budget speechread out by Panneerselvam.

“The focus was more onmaintaining financial disci-pline and prudence withoutresorting to playing to thegallery,” said T Ramakrishnan,columnist specialising on theState’s public economy.

Panneerselvam made animportant announcement atthe outset of the Budget pre-sentation. “The State’s Own TaxRevenue grew by 9.07 per centin the year 2017-2018. We areconfident that this woul;d crossthe 14 per cent marks in 2018-2019. The positive trend in taxreceipts has resulted in therevenue deficit coming down toRs 14, 315 crore from the esti-mated Rs 19, 319 crore,” saidthe finance minister much tothe delight of the treasurybenches.

The highlight of the bud-get proposals was an accidentcum life insurance schemecovering all BPL families.

The compensation for nat-ural death and death due toaccident has been hiked to Rs2 lakh and Rs 4 lakh respec-tively while an amount of Rs 1 lakh would be allowed forpersons suffering permanentdisability.

Chennai city will soon see

a Comprehensive IntegratedParking Management Projectto accommodate two lakh four-wheelers and an equal numberof two-wheelers. This Rs 2000crore project would haveunderground, multi-level andon-lane smart parking facilities.

The State which save thedevastation of nearly 1,00,000hutments in the recent CycloneGaja would build 1,00.000 con-crete houses for those who losttheir houses. Each concretehouse would cost Rs 1.70 lakhwhile the entire scheme wouldrequire Rs 1,700 crore. “Theproject would be implementedwith central assistance to thetune of Rs 720 crore while theState would spend Rs 980crore,” said Panneerselvam.

A number of schemes tar-geting the farmers have madeit to the budget proposals. Thenotable being the project topromote water conservationand increase the productivity ofcrop per drop of water, bybringing two lakh hectares ofdry land under micro irrigationat a cost of Rs 1361 crore.

The State Governent willdistribute 240 units of Navic,160 units Isat-2 satelite phonesand 160 units of Navtex instru-ments to 80 clusters of deep seafishing boats .

While the primary sectorhas been given a thrust , theFinance Minister has resistedthe temptation to go for pop-ulist measures and have pre-ferred to maintain financial dis-cipline, said an official of thedepartment of finance.

“This is a politically bolddecision in spite of the fact thatthe budget proposals maysound lacklustre to ordinaryeyes,” said Ramakrishnan.

Despite the plethora ofannouncements for the farm-ing sector, the agriculturistssounded pessimistic in theirreactions.

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IT city Bengaluru on Fridaywitnessed a high drama over

BJP’s alleged move to toppleKarnataka Chief Minister HDKumaraswamy led JD(S)-Congress coalition Governmentin the State. The audio bombreleased to media in a hurried-ly called conference byKumaraswamy over BJP’s planto topple his Government hassent shock waves across polit-ical spectrum.

The political war overcharges of horse-trading esca-lated with HD Kumaraswamyreleasing an audio clip in whichState BJP chief BS Yeddyurappais purportedly trying to lure aJD(S) MLA for destabilising thecoalition Government. Thepolitical war however took atoll on the Budget presented byKumaraswamy which was boy-cotted by the BJP.

Kumaraswamy alleged thatdestabilisation efforts werebeing carried out with the“permission” of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and BJP pres-ident Amit Shah. “Without theknowledge of the PrimeMinister, is it possible to do allthis?” an angry Kumaraswamyasked and said Modi shouldcome clean on this issue. Healso said he would send theaudio clips to Modi who, hesaid, claims about being “theonly saviour” of this country.

“Come out with your realface. Your friends (BJP inKarnataka) have exposed thereal picture of your face. If youhave any morality...,” KarnatakaCM told Modi

Kumaraswamy said thatduring the purported conver-sation Yeddyurappa had alsospoken about a “Rs 50 croreoffer to book” the AssemblySpeaker.

He claimed there were twoaudio clips of recorded tele-phonic conversation betweenYeddyurappa and SharanGouda, son of JDS lawmakerNaganagouda.

He alleged that the BJPleader was trying to wooNaganagouda with money andother offers. Sharan Gouda,who was present with the CM,

alleged Yeddyurappa reachedout to him over phone formeeting him at Devadurga inhis attempt to lure his father.

Only part of one audio clip,which was unclear, was playedat the Press conference.

In the clip, a male voice isheard offering money and min-isterial berth, besides assuringSharan Gouda about “takingcare” of the speaker and thejudges in case of the anti-defection law being invoked.

Siddaramaiah was quickto react and said “We haveevidence to say it isYeddyurappa’s voice. We willsend the audio clips to the lab-oratory.”

However, Yeddyurapparejected the audio and chal-lenged the CM to prove hisallegations. He said it was fakeand a concocted story. He alsosaid if the allegations areproved he will fade away frompolitics.

He claimed theKumaraswamy Governmenthad lost the trust of the peopleand had “no moral right” tocontinue in office. “I will retirefrom politics if it (the allega-tion) is proved. If I had spokenlike this (about the speaker), ifit is proved, I will resign as anMLA and quit politics,” hesaid.

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Bengaluru: The Congressdecided to crack the whip andinitiate action against four rebelMLAs of the party under theanti-defection law after theyskipped a legislature party meet-ing here. Lawmakers RameshJarkiholi, Umesh Jadhav,Mahesh Kumathali and BNagendra, who have remaineddefiant and skipped the CLPmeetings on January 18 andFriday despite a whip, wouldface action, CLP leaderSiddaramaiah told reporters.

They were also amongthose absent from the Assemblysince the Budget Session beganon Wednesday. Besides the four,two Congress MLAs had soughtpermission for their absencewhile suspended legislator JNGanesh, booked on attempt tomurder charge after a brawlwith a lawmaker colleaguerecently, is absconding.

Siddaramaiah said he willwrite to Assembly SpeakerRamesh Kumar seeking actionagainst the four errant MLAs.The four MLAs had sent lettersto him, saying they could notattend the entire Budget Sessionof the Assembly, he said.

Absence of several CongressMLAs had kept ruling Congress-JDS coalition on the edge againstthe backdrop of BJP’s reportedaggressive moves to poach onrival legislators. PNS

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For a former Defence Minister,even the most unlikely, GeorgeFernandes was laid to rest withoutthe traditional military honoursdue to him at the Lodi Road cre-

matorium. He was no ordinary DefenceMinister but one under whose watch sev-eral landmark defence and security eventstranspired: The Pokhran nuclear tests,Kargil war, terrorist attack on Parliament,culminating in the first full-scale warmobilisation called ‘Operation Parakram’and the implementation of the KargilReview Committee report. There is no jobdescription of a Defence Minister but theone Fernandes wrote out, securing the wide-ly-acknowledged accolade of being one ofthe best in performance and popularity.

So, it was surprising that the AdjutantGeneral’s Branch at the Army Headquartersfailed to do George Saab the honours heeminently deserved. I saw only two Armyofficers in uniform, both from thePresident’s Secretariat, some soldiers from5/1 Gorkha Rifles, who accompanied hisbody in a wooden casket carried in a 10tonne truck instead of a gun carriage andtwo Army buglers, who played the Last Postwithout the rise.

The function was quite chaotic, appar-ently managed by the Delhi Police. Therewas no show by Defence Minister NirmalaSitharaman and other civilian and militarydignitaries. Last year, India’s most decorat-ed officer, Lt Gen ZC Bakshi — MVC, VrC,VSM, MacGregor Medal — the last of abygone era passed away without even anappropriate wreath being laid on behalf ofthe Army. George Saab would not have letthis omission passed uncondoned. He wasnot just the Defence Minister but also theonly non-BJP member on the CabinetCommittee on Security. The BJP organisedan awesome and poignant funeral with fullmilitary honours for late Prime Minister AtalBihari Vajpayee but almost next to zero forGeorge Saab, who deserved more.

The brown wooden casket, whichbrought Fernandes to his final full stop,reminded one of the Coffingate controver-sy which was turned into an alleged scam.Up till then, soldiers killed in action inJammu and Kashmir and the North-Eastwere cremated in the battle zone and theirashes delivered to the next of kin. Heordered the purchase of aluminium coffinsfrom the US for the bodies of the deceasedto be delivered to their homes. By this smallgesture, he added dignity and respect to thesacrifice of soldiers. For Fernandes, it wasalways ‘Soldier First’, their welfare and well-being was his prime concern. He would loveto share dal bhaat with the jawans andrarely, if at all, did he miss a chance to pickup their grievances.

This was best demonstrated by his fancyfor the most difficult terrain on planet earth,Siachen. For him, this highest troop deploy-ment became a pilgrimage to boost the

morale of soldiers deployedthere. He would especially ordercakes from his hometown,Mangalore and carry them toSiachen every Christmas. Hevisited Siachen more than adozen times, providing the per-sonnel manning the forbid-ding heights with state-of-the-art equipment for survival.When bureaucrats in hisMinistry delayed the provisionof stores — like the snowmo-biles for Siachen — he wouldpack them off to experience thepain of icy heights. Siachenbecame the benchmark for careand comfort of jawans.

He was extremely con-cerned about the mountingtroop casualties. When thecounter-insurgency grid gotdisturbed due to re-deploy-ment of troops, resulting fromKargil and Pakistan-sponsoredcross-border terrorism began tohurt, he explored some antidotestrategies. The first was todeclare that India wouldrespond to cross-border terror-ism by launching a limitedconventional war under thenuclear threshold. The otheroption considered was clandes-tine: Employing reformedKashmiri terrorists in a counterjihad but his heart was againstwhat he called immoral oper-ations with a potential blow-back. So, former DefenceMinister Manohar Parrikar’sidea of using a terrorist to killa terrorist had its votary at leasta decade earlier.

No one could have imag-ined that the man in a crumpled

kurta pyjama (which he washedhimself) and one whose distastefor the military and its methodswas well-known, would be steelfirm in the pursuit of militaryvalues and discipline. Whenformer Navy Chief, AdmiralVishnu Bhagwat, refused tocomply with the directions of theAppointments Committee ofthe Cabinet because they werenot in sync with the Navy Act,Fernandes signed his dismissalorder. This was an unprecedent-ed act in India’s brief militaryhistory. When former ArmyChief, Gen VK Singh, dared totake his own Government tocourt following a string ofshenanigans over his age row,Defence Minister AK Antonydid not say a word to him. Tome, though, he said: “He’s sucha big man! The COAS…!”

Fernandes also dabbled inreal-time secret intelligenceoperations to trap Arakanrebels. But his most serious andirreparable faux pas was callingChina India’s Enemy No 1 andadding fuel to fire by leaking aletter that China was the reasonfor India’s nuclear tests. Thisdiplomatic earthquake had to besubdued by the then ForeignMinister Jaswant Singh, whotravelled to Beijing at the heightof the Kargil war in what theBeijing media called: “Thosewho tie the knot have to untieit first.” This amounted to Singhretracting Fernandes, namingChina as the principal adversaryfor India and stating that Chinawas not a threat to India. Thisadmission by Singh untied the

knot tied by Fernandes.Fernandes had his share of

scams: Coffingate, Tehelka,purchase of Barak missiles,the last of which implicatedformer Navy Chief AdmiralSushil Kumar too. On accountof Tehelka, he had to stepdown while he was beinginvestigated. Singh took overadditional charge of defenceand being an Army Major-turned politician, had a softcorner for service officers.

In one instance as DefenceMinister, he recommended aLieutenant Colonel for a one-year extension in his job asEnglish language instructor inLaos, while as Foreign Minister,he rejected the same. Singh andFernandes were thick as thieveswhich played a major role dur-ing Operation Parakram.

Fernandes was fluent inEnglish, Hindi, Marathi,Konkani and even a smatteringof Gorkhali he had learnt fromhis cook, Durga Bahadur.George Saab left a deep imprinton the armed forces and theMinistry of Defence. At thefuneral, his erstwhile assistant,Jaswal, recognised me and weboth fondly remembered GeorgeSaab. He said Ashok, his PA, haddied two years ago, adding: “ButGeorge Saab will live on.”Defence Minister Fernandes,like a soldier, will only fade away.

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Sir — This refers to the article,“Common man’s budget”(February 8) by KC Ravi. Theinterim Budget 2019-2020 is apolitical budget ahead of the2019 Lok Sabha election. SabkaSaath Sabka Vikas is actually sabko thoda thoda do and sab se votelo. For the BJP-led NDA, this isa reasonable vote bank policy.The Budget is a political exer-cise, after all. No wonder, it hastrumpeted the so-called achieve-ments of the NDA.

Are the BJP leaders follow-ing in the footsteps of theCongress? Interim FinanceMinister Piyush Goyal’s quote:“Under the visionary leader-ship of Prime Minister NarendraModi…. recalls former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh’spaean, “Madam Sonia Gandhine kaha hai”

The Finance Minister said inhis budget speech that “Inflationis a hidden and unfair tax on thepoor and the middle class”. Thenwhy not link all figures —amounts of deductions andexemptions etc under theIncome Tax Act with inflationindex as was done in the last

budget for MPs salaries and perks among others.

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Sir — This refers to the article,“Common man’s budget”(February 8) by KC Ravi. TheModi Government’s budget has

come as a whiff of fresh air in aneconomically tense situation.The common man finds it verydifficult to make ends meet dueto the ballooning inflation.Especially notable is the full taxrebate for incomes up to �5 lakha year. The proposal is intend-ed to woo the middle class.Commendable also are pay-ments for farmers and a megapension plan for workers of the

unorganised sector. Call it anelection manifesto or a trick towoo the voters, the PrimeMinister and the interimFinance Minister have correct-ed previous errors before the rul-ing party faces the electorate.The budget has definitely givenan extra edge to the ruling partyto face the Lok Sabha poll.

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Sir — It is bewildering thatIndians harbour such hate for theFather of the Nation. The policehas apparently taken actionagainst those who shot an effigyof Mahatma Gandhi on his deathanniversary. Apparently, theyalso shouted slogans against theMahatma and in praise of hiskiller, Nathuram Godse. But the question here is whatprompted these people to behaveas they did?

Whether it is trying todestroy the statue of BRAmbedkar or shooting an effi-gy of Gandhi, these are not justan insult to eminent figures ofthe freedom struggle but also anattack on the idea of India itself.Had a minority citizen chanted,“Nathuram Godse amar rahe”,he would have not only beencalled an anti-national but also,perhaps, silenced forever. Theextremists in Aligarh are noth-ing but criminals and must bepunished accordingly.

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Sometime in the late 1970s,tabloids in Indonesia, Malaysiaand Egypt carried a front-page

news about Neil Armstrong — thefamous American astronaut who, in1969, became the first man to walk onthe moon. The news claimed thatArmstrong had converted to Islam.Supposedly he had done so after con-fessing that when he was on themoon, he had heard the sound of theazaan, the Muslim call to prayer.

JR Hensen, in his 2006 biographyof Armstrong, First Man, wrote thatby 1980, the news had been repeat-edly carried and reproduced bytabloids in a number of otherMuslim-majority countries as well. Somuch so that Armstrong beganreceiving invitations from Islamicorganisations in many Muslim coun-tries and from within the US.

The news continued to gathermomentum in Muslim countries.Hensen wrote that in 1983, onArmstrong’s request, the US StateDepartment issued instructions toUS embassies in Muslim countriesasking them to “politely but firmly”communicate that Armstrong hadnot converted to Islam and that “hehad no current plans or desire totravel overseas to participate inIslamic activities.” Despite this, thebelief that he had converted to Islamafter hearing the azaan on the mooncontinued to do the rounds. In fact,this impression still pops up onYouTube channels and websites fund-ed and run by various Islamic evan-gelical organisations.

Hensen suggested that theMuslims, who had first initiated the‘news’ of Armstrong’s alleged conver-sion, might have been influenced by theclaims of some American Christianorganisations. A few days afterArmstrong’s moon landing in 1969,these organisations had announced that“God had put Armstrong on the moonto show God’s greatness in a new light.”They nonchalantly assumed that theextremely private Armstrong was a

practicing Christian.The late pop sensation, Michael

Jackson, too, was said to have “convert-ed to Islam” just before his death in2009. What’s more, an MP3 recordingof a naat, supposedly recited by Jackson,began to circulate on social media.Clearly, the reciter was not Jackson butthis did not stop many across theMuslim world to believe otherwise.

So why does this happen? Onerather convincing way of finding ananswer to this question can be ascer-tained from historian MarkusDaechsel’s 2002 study of India andPakistan’s urban middle class milieu.Even though a part of his study wasfocussed on the history of fantasti-cal claims of this nature, made by theHindus and Muslims of the subcon-tinent, the tools that he used toexplain such behaviour can beapplied universally.

According to Daechsel, peoplewho are not happy by ‘empirical real-ity’ create a ‘conceptual reality’.Empirical realty is the reality whichone interacts with on a daily basis.Conceptual reality, on the other hand,is created and fuelled by certainfirmly-held ideological drivers or by

what one thinks empirical realityshould actually be. The latter is animagined world but it is stuffed withclaims and physical paraphernalia tomake it seem like empirical reality.

Daechsel wrote that such claimscan include the projection of one’sreligious and ideological beliefs onpeople that have little or nothing todo with them. Such projections,which are often proliferated throughpopulist media, try to concretiseconceptual reality. In another inter-esting example, Daechsel wrote thatcertain pre-Partition Muslim andHindu outfits insisted that theirmembers wear a uniform and holdparades. Daechsel wrote that in theempirical reality, there was no war orrevolution taking place. But in theminds of the members of the outfits,there was (or should have been). Sothey created a conceptual reality inwhich there was revolutionary tur-moil and these outfits were an inte-gral part of it.

Daechsel also gave the examplein which Hindus and Muslims, afterfeeling unable to challenge Westerninventions and economics in theempirical reality, created a concep-

tual reality by claiming that whatev-er the West had achieved in the fieldsof science had already been achievedby ancient Hindus and/or is alreadypresent in Islam.

The projection bit in Daechsel’sstudy is most intriguing. In December2018, Pakistan Prime Minister ImranKhan gleefully shared a 1988 videorecording on Twitter of conservativeIslamic scholar Israr Ahmad. Ahmadis seen claiming that according to oneof Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s doctors,the founder of Pakistan, during his lastmoments spoke about the importanceof imposing Shariah laws and thecaliphate system in Pakistan.

This was conceptual realitycoming into play to counter theempirical reality in which Jinnahhad done no such thing and was, infact, a Westernised and pluralisticMuslim politician. But most inter-esting thing is that this nature ofprojection of a conceptual realityactually goes further back. In thefollowing example, one can also seewhat inspired this claim.

The day after the celebratedTurkish nationalist and founder ofthe modern Turkish republic, Kamal

Ataturk, passed away in November1939, one of the leading Urdu dailiesin pre-Partition India, the Inqilab,reported that Ataturk, who hadslipped into a coma before his death,“briefly woke up to convey a messageto a servant of his.” Apparently, thestaunch, life-long secularist, whowent the whole nine yards during hislong rule to erase all cultural andpolitical expressions associated withTurkey’s Caliphate past, had brieflywoken up from a coma to instruct hisservant to tell the ‘millat-i-Islamiyya’to follow on the footsteps of theKhulfa-i-Rashideen.

Inqilab was a respected Urdu dailycatering to the urban Muslim middle-classes in pre-Partition India. In itsNovember 11, 1939, issue, the paperwent on to ‘report’ that Ataturk, aftercommunicating his message to the ser-vant, shouted “Allah is great!” andpassed away. This time forever.

Quite clearly, unable to come toterms with Ataturk and Jinnah’s dispo-sitions in the empirical reality, some cre-ated a conceptual reality in which, indeath, both dramatically becameCaliphate enthusiasts.

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US President Donald Trump hasnow decided to withdrawAmerican troops fromAfghanistan. His patience is wear-ing thin. Disagreeing with the

views of some of his Generals and strategicadvisors, he intends to pull out of theunwinnable 17-year-old Afghan war. Trumpchanged his earlier calculation of keeping theAmerican troops engaged in Afghanistanwithout paying too heavy a political price. Butif the war situation deteriorates and results inhigh rate of American casualties, domesticpolitical opinion will change.

The situation is now changing for theworse. Attacks by Taliban insurgents havebecome more vicious and violent and Afghansecurity forces’ casualties are going up dispro-portionately high. The proportion of districtsunder Government control and influencehave fallen from 72 per cent in 2015 to 50 percent now. A Taliban attack on the training basefor pro-Government militia claimed at least 43lives, underlining the prevalent perilous secu-rity situation. President Trump’s decision towithdraw his forces stationed in Afghanistanhas evoked critical responses from manystrategists and generals. A report authored fora US-based think-thank by James Dobbins, for-mer US President George Bush’s special Envoyfor Afghanistan and others, clearly said thatin an event of a precipitous withdrawal, theGovernment in Kabul will lose influence andlegitimacy.

Terror groups such as Al Qaeda and theIslamic State would be encouraged to inten-sify their attacks on various US targets.Afghanistan will irreversibly slide into awider civil war. Then there is also the dangerthat Pakistan may become more open in itsbacking of Taliban insurgents.

Besides, some US commentators, too,have expressed their fears that Trump maywithdraw the American forces even without anagreement with the Taliban because he strong-ly feels that important regional countriesshould come forward to create stable condi-tions in Afghanistan rather than US, which is“six thousand miles” away.

Trump also criticised India for building“libraries” in Afghanistan without providingany troops on the ground. Trump’s moves onAfghanistan prompted the resignation of hisPentagon Chief, Jim Mattis, who in a letter tothe President wrote that he should find aDefence Secretary who is better aligned withhim. A cut of about 7,000 troops inAfghanistan would likely mean that the USabandons much of its mission of advising theAfghanistan forces and remain engaged incounter-terrorism operations and protectionof militar y installat ions such as the Bagram airfield.

A big problem of the present AfghanGovernment is all-pervasive corruption.Afghanistan has become a kleptocratic statewhere every transfer and promotion dependsupon power and patronage. Some of the pow-erful warlords fighting against the Taliban epit-omise corruption and misgovernance.

Parliamentary elections in Afghanistan aregoing to be held soon and the present micro-managing Afghan President Ashraf Ghani hasnot inspired confidence. Other candidates, too,are in the fray. Only a credibly electedAfghanistan President can strengthen theposition of the Government to negotiate withthe Taliban. The new President, with a strong mandate of the Afghan people, would be in ahappier position to discuss issues with theTaliban. America’s pointman on Afghanistan,Zalmay Khalil Zad, has expressed the hope thatdialogue for a comprehensive ceasefire will besuccessful.

The key sticking point is to persuade theTaliban insurgents to speak to the AfghanGovernment, which they have so long derid-ed an ‘American puppet’. The Talibans will haveto pledge that they would not allow interna-tional terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and IS touse Afghanistan as launching pads for attacksagainst America.

The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo,has said that the news from Doha was encour-aging. America has also involved other stake-holders like Pakistan, Russia and China.Talibanis have appointed Mulla BaredarAkhund as their chief negotiator. Akhund isone of the top leaders of the Taliban, and isexpected to negotiate with authority.

Pakistan, in its turn, has given up the ambi-tion of ruling Afghanistan as a puppet state inits quest for “strategic depth.” It now wants anAfghan Government which is not an ally ofIndia and not hostile to Islamabad. It realisesthat without stabilisation in Afghanistan, itsown stability will be imperilled. Gen Dunford,Commander of the US forces in Afghanistan,was spot-on when he said that providing sanc-

tuary to the terrorists by Pakistan will be thesingle biggest factor that would cause the fail-ure of the coalition.

The neighbouring power, China, wantspeace and stability in Afghanistan so that thereare no unsettling repercussions on Uyghurs inthe Xinjiang Province of China. China andRussia, too, are interested in the stabilisationin Afghanistan. Developments in Afghanistanwill put India in a tight spot. If the Talibanstrengthens its grip on Afghanistan, its influ-ence could subsequently spread to neighbour-ing Pakistan and Kashmir, which would be badnews for India. It may be quite possible thatthe Taliban will join hands with Pakistani mil-itants to create safe-havens for the terrorists targeting India.

India has made huge investments in devel-oping soft power in Afghanistan. It is a bigdonor to Afghanistan, having provided aboutthree billion dollar to that country. The newParliament building, Salma Dam in Heratprovince and a highway to Iran’s Chabahar portare some of these big projects. At this stagewhen affairs in Afghanistan are fluid, protec-tion of Indian interest will require close con-tacts with all groups, including the Taliban.But this has to be done covertly. Army ChiefGen Bipin Rawat’s suggestion that India willjoin the bandwagon by talking to the Talibanwas unsolicited. If Pakistan succeeds in keep-ing some people in the new AfghanGovernment, who are hostile to India, it willseriously affect India’s interests and assets thatit has built painstakingly over the years. Indiawill have to thwart such designs of Pakistan.

(The writer is a former Director-General ofthe National Human Rights Commission andformer Director of National Police Academy)

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India could lose a vital U.S.trade concession, under

which it enjoys zero tariffs on$5.6 billion of exports to theUnited States, amid a wideningdispute over its trade andinvestment policies, peoplewith close knowledge of thematter said.

A move to withdraw theGeneralised System ofPreferences (GSP) from India,the world’s largest beneficiaryof a scheme that has been inforce since the 1970s, would bethe strongest punitive actionagainst India since PresidentDonald Trump took office in2017 vowing to reduce the USdeficit with large economies.

Trump has repeatedlycalled out India for its hightariffs.

Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has courtedforeign investment as part ofhis Make-in-India campaign toturn India into a manufactur-ing hub and deliver jobs to themillions of youth entering theworkforce.

Trump, for his part, haspushed for U.S. manufacturingto return home as part of hisMake America Great Againcampaign.

The trigger for the latestdownturn in trade ties wasIndia’s new rules on e-com-merce that restrict the way

Amazon.com Inc andWalmart-backed Flipkart dobusiness in a rapidly growingonline market set to touch$200 billion by 2027.

That, coming on top of adrive to force global card pay-ments companies such asMastercard and Visa to movetheir data to India and the impo-sition of higher tariffs on elec-tronic products and smart-phones, left a broader tradepackage the two sides were work-ing on through last year in tatters.

The GSP was tied to thetrade package and since thatdeal had slipped further away,the United States was consid-ering withdrawing or scalingback the preferential arrange-ment, people familiar with thematter said.

The US TradeRepresentative (USTR) wascompleting a review of India’sstatus as a GSP beneficiary andan announcement was expect-ed over the next two weeks,they said.

“(The two sides) were try-ing to sort out the trade pack-age, but were not able to actu-ally finish the deal. In themeantime these other things,data localisation and e-com-merce, have come along,” oneof them said. “In a sense it’s likesomeone has rained on theparade.”

India and the United Stateshave developed close political

and security ties. But bilateraltrade, which stood at $126 bil-lion in 2017, is widely seen tobe performing at nearly a quar-ter of its potential.

U.S. Commerce SecretaryWilbur Ross is due in NewDelhi next week where he isexpected to raise concernsabout the e-commerce policyand data localisation, officialssaid.

New Indian rulesannounced in December forthe e-commerce sector bannedcompanies such as Amazonand Flipkart from strikingexclusive deals with sellers,restricted their ability to offerdiscounts and barred themfrom selling products via ven-dors in which they have anequity interest.

The move disrupted prod-uct listings on Amazon’s Indiawebsite and forced it to changeits business structures. Amazonand Walmart, as well as the U.S.government, had lobbiedagainst the move, Reutersreported earlier.

The new rules, comingahead of a general election,were seen as a bid by Modi toplacate small traders, who hadfor years complained aboutbusiness practices of large e-commerce players.

They form a key voter basefor Modi who is facing a tight-ening election in the next fewmonths.

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Exporters body FIEO Fridaysaid the rate cut by the

Reserve Bank would helpexports as it will increase flowof credit.

Federation of IndianExport Organisations (FIEO)President Ganesh KumarGupta said the move wouldparticularly benefit MSME sec-tor of exports.

The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) has reduced repo rate (atwhich RBI lends to banks) by0.25 per cent to 6.25 per cent,a move that will translate intosoftening interest rates.

“The lowering rate, at atime when flow of credit to theMSME sector of exports is at itslowest, will help banks acrossthe country to bring downtheir lending rate for the busi-nesses giving boost both tomanufacturing and exports,” hesaid in a statement.

FIEO has been continuous-ly urging the RBI to look into theissue and take step in the glob-ally challenging time, he said.

Gupta further said thecredit to small and micro sec-tor has declined to 2.1 per centduring March-December 2018,indicating banks aversion tohigher risk perception.

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Declaring the results for thethird quarter of this

Financial Year (FY) 2018-19 forOctober-December 2018 quar-ter, Steel Authority of IndiaLimited (SAIL) posted a prof-it (Profit After Tax) of �616crore in Q3 FY’19 which stoodat �43 crore during the corre-sponding period last year.TheCompany has managed to bet-ter its performance over theprevious quarter as well bymore than 11% when it stood

at �554 crore. The turnover forQ3 FY’19 improved by 3%over CPLY and was �15,660crore vis-à-vis �15,190 croreduring Q3 FY’18.

The EBITDA in Q3 FY’19was �2,653 crore, an improve-ment of 70% over CPLY, whichwas �1,560 crore in Q3 FY’18.The improvements in theseindicators over the corre-sponding period last yearreflect overall progresson allproduction parameters andfinancial health of theCompany.

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The rupee appreciated by 14paise on Friday to close at

71.31 against the US dollar onpersistent foreign fund inflowseven as the greenback strength-ened overseas amid fresh con-cerns over global growth.

This is the fourth succes-sive session of gain for thedomestic currency, duringwhich it has climbed 49 paise.

At the Interbank ForeignExchange, the rupee openedstronger at 71.37 a dollar. Thelocal unit moved in a range of71.44 to 71.03, before finallyending at 71.31, showing again of 14 paise.

The rupee Thursday appre-ciated by 11 paise to close at71.45 against the US dollar.

On a weekly-basis, howev-er, the domestic currency reg-istered a loss of 6 paise.

“Reduction in interest ratesand relaxation of foreign invest-ment limits bodes well for therupee in expectation of over-seas inflows.

“So far this month, overseasinvestors bought $297.10 millionin equity while they sold worth$304.70 million in debt market,”said V K Sharma, Head —PCG and Capital MarketsStrategy at HDFC Securities.

Meanwhile, the dollarindex, which gauges the green-back’s strength against a basketof six currencies, rose 0.7 per

cent to 95.57.Fears of a global economic

slowdown resurfaced after USPresident Donald Trump saidhe does not expect to meet hisChinese counterpart Xi Jinpingbefore the March 1 deadline intrade war negotiations betweenthe two superpowers.

A top White House advis-er Thursday said Washingtonand Beijing were still a “sizeabledistance” apart in the tradetalks, and no date has been setfor a meeting between thecountries’ leaders.

Forex traders said firmingcrude oil prices and heavy sell-ing in domestic equitiesweighed on the local unit.

Brent crude, the global oilbenchmark, was trading at$61.78 per barrel, higher by0.24 per cent.

Indian equity marketsclosed sharply lower Friday, ledby a selloff in auto and metalstocks.

The BSE Sensex cracked424.61 points, or 1.15 per cent,to finish at 36,546.48, while theNSE Nifty slumped 125.80points, or 1.14 per cent to10,943.60.

Meanwhile, foreign port-folio investors (FPIs) boughtshares worth a net �843.73crore, and domestic institu-tional investors (DIIs) soldshares to the tune of �960.04crore on Friday, provisionaldata showed.

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Jet Airways, which is grap-pling with acute financial

problems, on Friday said itsboard will meet on February14, to approve the unauditedfinancial statements for thethird quarter and nine monthsended December 31, 2018.

“The meeting of the boardof directors of the companyshall be held on February 14,2019, inter alia, to approve theunaudited financial statementsfor the third quarter and ninemonths ended December 31,2018,” Jet Airways said in a fil-ing to the BSE.

Shares of the company fellby 2.24 per cent to �231.30 onthe BSE.

Meanwhile, in a filing tostock exchanges Thursday, JetAirways said four planes havebeen grounded due to non-payment of amounts out-standing to lessors under lease

agreements.“The company is actively

engaged with all its aircraftlessors and regularly providesthem with updates on effortsundertaken by the company toimprove its liquidity,” it said.

Cash-starved Jet Airwayshas mopped up �250 crorefrom advance sale of tickets toits customer loyalty pro-gramme Jet Privilege, less thanfive months after raising moneythrough the same route.

The full service carrier,which is grappling with acutefinancial problems, is workingto restructure its debt as well asraise fresh funds.

“Similar to what was donein October 2018, Jet PrivilegePrivate Limited (JPPL) con-cluded a second Prepaid TicketPurchase agreement, for $35million, with Jet Airways,which is in the normal courseof business,” the spokespersontold PTI.

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Bad loans of public sectorbanks declined by more

t han �3 1 , 0 0 0 c rore to�8,64,433 crore in the firstnine months of the currentfiscal as compared to end ofMarch 2 0 1 8 , t heGovernment said on Friday.

Non Performing Assets(NPAs) or bad loans of thebanks stood at �8,95,601 croreat the end of previous fiscal,Minister of State for FinanceShiv Pratap Shukla said in awritten reply to Lok Sabha.

Bad loans fe l l to�8,75,619 crore as on June2018 and fur ther to�8,64,433 crore in December2018 (as per provisionaldata), he said.

He said bad loans fell by�31,168 crore in Apri l-December 2018-19 com-pared to NPAs worth�8,95,601 crore at March-end2018.

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The Government is contem-plating hike in the investment

limit for availing income tax con-cessions by startups and providea more clear definition for thepurpose, sources have said.

Giving relief to buddingentrepreneurs last year, thegovernment allowed startups toavail tax concession only if totalinvestment, including fundingfrom angel investors, does notexceed �10 crore.

Officials of the depart-ment for promotion of indus-try and internal trade (DPIIT)and Central Board of DirectTaxes (CBDT) are holdingseries of meetings to find asolution of the angel tax issuebeing raised by startups.

“We are considering sever-al things, including hiking thelimit to avail the tax concessions.A clear definition is also requiredfor this,” the sources said.

Though startups aredemanding complete exemp-tion from this tax, theGovernment may increaseinvestment limit for tax exemp-tion to �25-40 crore, theyadded.

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Finance Minister PiyushGoyal on Friday said the

Government may providemore funds for the world’sbiggest health care scheme —Ayushman Bharat — next year.

In the last four months ofthe its launch, the scheme hasalready benefited over 10 lakhpeople, he said while speakingat the sixth Global FundReplenishment organised byMinistry of Health here.

“The Government hasalready provided half a billiondollar funding for the pro-gramme. We expect to providemuch more funds in the nextyear,” he said.

The interim Budget pre-sented last week has raised theallocation for AyushmanBharat scheme to �6,400 crore

for 2019-2020.“Unless we create a distress

free health care system for 1.3billion people in India, unlesswe look at health in a veryholistic fashion right from pre-ventive health care...We will notbe able to take people out ofdistress that health care cancause particularly to lesserprivileged,” he said.

Improvement of infra-structure of health care alsoopens up huge opportunitiesfor companies around theworld to participate in effort toexpand the health care system,he said.

The scheme aims to pro-vide free health care to 50crore people encompassing dif-ferent dimension of familyhealth care needs.

Referring to energy accessto every household, the FinanceMinister said, electricity willreach to every home by Aprilof this year, a decade ahead ofsustainable development goal.

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Tata Steel on Friday report-ed a 54.33 per cent jump in

consolidated net profit to�1,753.07 crore during thequarter ended on December31, 2019, helped by higherincome.

The company had posted anet profit of �1,135.92-crore forthe same quarter a year ago,according to a regulatory filing.

Total income on consoli-dated basis jumped to�41,431.37 crore duringOctober-December 2018, from�33,672.48 crore in the year-ago quarter, the company said.

Its total expenses duringthe said quarter were at�38,362.03 crore as against�30,552.03 crore in the corre-sponding period of the previ-ous fiscal.

In a statement, Tata SteelCEO and managing directorTV Narendran said, “Tata Steelis committed to growing itsIndia footprint while focusingon benchmark operational per-formance, superior marketpresence, strong customer rela-tionships and sustainability.”

Despite a sharp drop ininternational steel prices, thecompany was able to maintainoverall realisations andincreased volumes significant-ly in India, he said.

The integration of TataSteel BSL continues and thecompany’s 5 MTPA expansion

at Tata Steel Kalinganagar isalso making good progress.

“We are also looking for-ward to enhancing our longproducts and downstreamcapability through the acquisi-tion of the 1 MTPA steel busi-ness of Usha Martin,”Narendran said.

He further said that thephase II review of the Tata SteelEurope-ThyssenKrupp JV isongoing and “we are closelyworking with the europeancommission to facilitate thesame.”

Koushik Chatterjee, exec-utive director and CFO of TataSteel said: “The short-termfinance taken for Tata Steel BSLacquisition has been refinancedwith long-term loans of�15,500 crore.”

During the quarter underreview, he said, Tata Steel Groupgenerated operating cash flowsof �4,150 crore and the liquid-ity position of the groupremains strong at �19,320 crore,including �8,549 crore of cashand cash equivalents.

On a standalone basis, TataSteel reported a sharp 83.5jump in net profit to �2,456.09crore in the third quarter ofFY2019 from �1,338.09 crore inthe year ago quarter.

Total standalone incomeincreased by 10 per cent to�17,759.85 crore in October-December 2018 from�15,777.96 crore in the year-ago quarter.

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The BSE Sensex plum-meted over 424 pointswhile the Nifty finished

below the 11,000-mark onFriday, led by a sharp selloff inauto and metal stocks amidrenewed concerns over theUS-China trade conflict.

Investors preferred to bookprofits following robust gainsover the previous few days,even as the risk appetite wastempered by valuation andmacroeconomic concerns,traders said.

The 30-share Sensexcracked 424.61 points, or 1.15per cent, to finish at 36,546.48.The broader NSE Niftyslumped 125.80 points, or 1.14per cent to 10,943.60.

During the week, the Sensexgained 77.05 points, or 0.21 percent, while the Nifty rose 49.95points, or 0.45 per cent.

Heavy selling in metal andauto counters led to a sharpdrop at the fag end of the ses-sion on Friday.

Tata Motors was the biggestloser on the Sensex, taking aknock of 17.93 per cent, afterthe auto major reported itsbiggest ever quarterly net lossof �26,960.8 crore for theDecember quarter, hit by a one-time asset impairment in itsstruggling British arm Jaguar

Land Rover.Other laggards included

Vedanta, Tata Steel, NTPC,ONGC, L&T, M&M, CoalIndia, Maruti, PowerGrid, AxisBank, ITC and HDFC, drop-ping up to 5.75 per cent.

Kotak Bank, Bharti Airtel,HCL Tech, HDFC Bank, BajajFinance and Hero MotoCorprose up to 0.95 per cent.

The BSE Metal indexplunged 3.42 per cent, while theauto gauge shed 3.37 per cent.

Sectorally, FMCG, bankingand pharma indices also endedin the red. Realty was the onlygainer.

“Markets slid on renewedworries over global trade andprofit booking after the solidperformance in the last oneweek due to interim budget andRBI policy.

“A fall in interest rates andimproving outlook for con-sumption oriented sectors afterinterim budget will providesupport to the market,” saidVinod Nair, head of research atGeojit Financial Services.

Meanwhile, foreign port-folio investors (FPIs) boughtshares worth a net of �418.01crore on Thursday, and domes-tic institutional investors (DIIs)were net buyers to the tune of�294.11 crore, provisional data

available with BSE showed.On the global front, fears of

an economic slowdown resur-faced after US PresidentDonald Trump said he does notexpect to meet his Chinesecounterpart Xi Jinping beforethe March 1 deadline in tradewar negotiations between thetwo superpowers.

A top White House advis-er on Thursday saidWashington and Beijing werestill a “sizeable distance” apartin the trade talks, and no datehas been set for a meetingbetween the countries’ leaders.

Dow Jones IndustrialAverage ended 0.87 per centlower on Thursday.

Elsewhere in Asia, Japan’sNikkei cracked 2.19 per cent,while Korea’s Kospi dropped1.20 per cent and Hong Kong’sHang Seng slipped 0.16 percent.

In the Eurozone,Frankfurt’s DAX was down0.10 per cent, while Paris CAC40 rose 0.12 per cent in latemorning deals. London’s FTSEwas up 0.19 per cent.

The rupee, meanwhile,appreciated 32 paise against theUS dollar to 71.13 intra-day.

The benchmark Brentcrude futures rose 0.28 per centto USD 61.80 per barrel.

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Domestic passenger vehicle(PV) sales declined for

the third month in a row inJanuary, dropping 1.87 percent, as manufacturers contin-ued to reduce inventory atdealers following a tepid festiveseason sales, according toSIAM.

As per data released by theSociety of Indian AutomobileManufacturers (SIAM) onFriday, PV sales in Januarystood at 2,80,125 units lastmonth as against 2,85,467 unitsin the same month last year.

Domestic car sales werealso down for the third con-secutive month, declining 2.65per cent to 1,79,389 units ascompared to 1,84,264 units inJanuary 2018.

“Stock correction by man-ufacturers continued in Januaryto cut inventory that were piledup during the festive period,which saw sluggish sales,”SIAM deputy director generalSugato Sen told PTI.

He, however, said retailsale was better than wholesalein January, and the industryexpected demand to grow inthe remaining two months ofthe fiscal.

During the month, marketleader Maruti Suzuki India(MSI) posted a marginalgrowth of 0.18 per cent in its

PV sales at 1,39,440 units.Rival Hyundai Motor IndiaLtd (HMIL) also posted 0.65growth at 45,803 units.

Similarly, homegrown util-ity vehicles major Mahindra &Mahindra also saw 0.88 percent rise in its PV sales at23,864 units last month.

In passenger cars segment,MSI’s sales stood at 1,01,865units, down 4.12 per cent.HMIL’s car sales was also down1.58 per cent at 35,439 units lastmonth. Honda Cars India,however, saw its car sales grow51.67 per cent to 14,383 units.

In the two-wheeler seg-ment, SIAM said total sales inJanuary were down 5.18 percent to 15,97,572 units com-pared to 16,84,761 units in theyear-ago month.

Motorcycle sales lastmonth declined 2.55 per centto 10,27,810 units as against10,54,757 units in the samemonth a year ago.

Market leader HeroMotoCorp’s bike sales lastmonth was down 4.95 per cent

at 5,16,451 units. Rival BajajAuto, however, posted growthof 24.67 per cent at 2,03,358units last month. HondaMotorcycle and Scooter India’sbike sales stood at 1,28,525units, down 24.19 per cent.

Total scooter sales lastmonth declined by 10.21 percent at 4,97,169 units as against5,53,695 units in January lastyear, SIAM said.

Market leader HMSI’sscooter sales were at 2,72,170units, down 14.77 per cent.Chennai-based TVS Motor Coalso saw its scooter sales dip by0.41 per cent at 83,794 units.

Suzuki Motorycle India,however, witnessed a 60.28 percent jump in it scooter sales at61,348 units last month.

SIAM said sales of com-mercial vehicles were up 2.21per cent to 87,591 units inJanuary.

Vehicle sales across cate-gories registered a decline of4.68 per cent to 20,19,331 unitsfrom 21,18,465 units in January2018, it added.

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HCLTECH 1,065.60 1,075.60 1,060.05 1,065.90HINDPETRO 236.65 239 230 230.5SRTRANSFIN 1,087.60 1,087.90 1,064.00 1,064.00MUTHOOTFIN 517.9 526 508.35 518.85PFC 105 105 100.65 100.7M&MFIN 415.9 415.9 393.7 398.7BAJAJELEC 515.1 524.65 482 487.4ENGINERSIN 115.2 115.2 108.55 110.5BIOCON 658 662.4 646.55 655INDIANB 218.8 219.15 212 215JUBILANT 738.05 769 737 754.2DMART 1,489.80 1,490.00 1,467.00 1,472.55JISLJALEQS 55.9 56.4 54.2 54.7TATACHEM 597.05 605 590 590.1HEXAWARE 352 362 350.65 356.35BLUESTARCO 588.75 594.05 579 586CADILAHC 328.4 328.4 320 321.9OMAXE 212.75 213.25 210.4 211.3IGL 292.35 303.3 283.4 285.25HAVELLS 748.15 752.75 739.6 741.8ORIENTBANK 91.05 91.05 85.55 85.8INDIACEM 83.5 84.15 79 79.85SOUTHBANK 13.8 14.4 13.37 13.4INFIBEAM 34.15 34.55 32.8 32.8IBREALEST 67.75 69.9 65.8 67.3NIITTECH 1,305.00 1,333.35 1,300.00 1,307.55RAJESHEXPO 575.5 582.9 569 573.85LICHSGFIN 465 465.55 449.4 457.5TVSMOTOR 499.75 502 491 493TATAGLOBAL 190 191.3 184.65 185.55PVR 1,557.55 1,561.00 1,500.15 1,508.15AJANTPHARM 968.3 975.55 953.1 961.85VENKYS 2,311.00 2,315.00 2,195.05 2,229.95FEDERALBNK 86.15 86.25 84 84.2EXIDEIND 218 218.35 210.4 211.3IBVENTURES 310.6 315 300 302.35KTKBANK 120.45 120.45 115.3 115.8HINDALCO 209.95 209.95 204.55 205.35BHARATFORG 496.45 496.45 478.6 485.1UBL 1,399.00 1,401.85 1,368.00 1,381.35POWERGRID 184.8 187.9 180 180.45ITI 91.35 97.4 90.6 96.05GRUH 240 248.4 236.8 245.8CENTURYTEX 762.05 776 750.1 751.5GLENMARK 638.8 644 612 616MANPASAND 75.2 89.3 74.65 85.1APOLLOTYRE 207.3 209.75 202.45 205.5

COLPAL 1,292.80 1,316.95 1,284.95 1,285.00SPICEJET 80 80.5 78.2 78.4SUNTECK 350 359.55 335 347.5GUJGAS 134 134.75 120.4 125.85ICICIPRULI 310.7 317 308 311.75IRB 127.3 129.35 125.05 126.75DBL 329 340.65 326 335.7KAJARIACER 554.9 554.9 532.6 534.2MGL 939.1 952.1 917.25 924.3PIDILITIND 1,161.80 1,183.00 1,143.05 1,145.00SPARC 146 148.05 143.35 144.9NATIONALUM 58.9 59.75 58.65 59.25PETRONET 223.1 225.8 221.6 224.9RADICO 439 448.65 429.3 437KSCL 570.75 575.75 544.55 545.15CHOLAFIN 1,253.95 1,263.45 1,217.75 1,225.45SIEMENS 1,045.00 1,071.55 1,026.50 1,030.55EQUITAS 119 119.5 112.7 113.35AIAENG 1,615.55 1,683.00 1,590.00 1,659.20SUZLON 4 4 3.6 3.7ATUL 3,480.00 3,500.00 3,457.65 3,458.00SRF 2,200.00 2,240.00 2,198.80 2,220.60DELTACORP 227.55 230.55 219.55 220.9GODFRYPHLP 940 949 927.25 931.75LALPATHLAB 1,089.00 1,111.00 1,065.00 1,077.90BEL 82.9 82.9 79.35 80.1CGPOWER 35.35 36.05 33.95 35HONAUT 21,384.20 21,918.00 21,359.00 21,630.00JAICORPLTD 90.55 92.85 89.5 90.25AMARAJABAT 782 784.65 750.7 753.85MFSL 384.6 405.65 384.6 395.75BOMDYEING 113.9 114.25 107.7 108.3MRPL 67 68.5 64.4 65.35NTPC 135.4 137.2 131.4 132SYNDIBANK 35.5 35.5 33 33.45IDBI 44 44.15 43.1 43.3LAXMIMACH 5,676.70 5,720.00 5,650.00 5,661.05INDIGO 1,195.00 1,211.75 1,190.25 1,195.95WIPRO 372.5 374.9 370 372.4LTI 1,856.95 1,872.00 1,827.50 1,837.65

TV18BRDCST 32.05 32.85 31.9 32.05AVANTI 334 344 325.3 329.5SUVEN 229.95 236.8 229.95 232.4ALBK 42.25 42.3 40.7 40.85PAGEIND 23,845.00 23,987.85 23,516.00 23,653.00HINDZINC 256.95 260 248.1 250NHPC 24.15 24.25 23.15 23.7ENDURANCE 1,230.00 1,277.90 1,200.00 1,256.00IPCALAB 735.4 740 730 731.85NBCC 54.7 55.5 53.9 54.55VINATIORGA 1,599.00 1,650.00 1,588.60 1,621.90HFCL 21.9 22.6 21.85 22.15VOLTAS 534.65 540.55 531 533MARICO 367.65 371.9 363.55 364SWANENERGY 97.3 98 95.4 97.05TATAPOWER 69.3 70.4 68.1 68.1BERGEPAINT 310.05 314 307.6 309.95GODREJCP 700 705 682.05 685.25ABCAPITAL 83.85 83.85 81.25 81.3JBCHEPHARM 323.6 328.25 319 326.2BOSCHLTD 19,255.40 19,255.40 18,900.00 18,900.00NATCOPHARM* 680 707 675.1 678GNFC 325 325 317.6 318.05GILLETTE 6,499.50 6,500.00 6,430.00 6,499.00EDELWEISS 138.25 141.4 136 138.7TORNTPHARM 1,797.10 1,804.95 1,767.90 1,796.00GMRINFRA 15.05 15.2 14.85 14.9TORNTPOWER 244.15 248.45 240.25 241GSFC 94.4 95.35 90 91.35TATACOMM 490.7 493.75 472.75 485PHILIPCARB 162.95 164 159.05 159.8JPASSOCIAT 5.35 5.35 4.95 5.23ABB 1,264.85 1,276.05 1,249.95 1,255.80CHENNPETRO 232.65 232.65 219.25 222.75CRISIL 1,654.75 1,663.00 1,630.00 1,639.00NMDC 95 95.75 93.4 93.7CASTROLIND 152.95 152.95 148.5 149.9SHREECEM 16,275.00 16,415.00 15,875.00 16,325.20SHANKARA 349 355.65 324 333.4FSL 47.05 47.35 45.2 45.45SREINFRA 23.5 24.25 22.65 23.5CERA 2,340.00 2,384.00 2,300.00 2,300.00REPCOHOME 395.2 395.2 376.85 378.7AMBUJACEM 216 217.05 212 213RCF 57 57.5 56.2 56.6BBTC 1,177.35 1,213.55 1,170.00 1,191.45FORCEMOT 1,394.00 1,408.00 1,371.30 1,377.10RAMCOCEM 615 623.35 602 607.15MEGH 49 51.05 47.5 48.45MCX 695.4 698.95 684.4 690.65GODREJPROP 749.3 770.25 741.8 759.8OIL 172 173 170 170.85HDFCLIFE 367.15 372.4 363.6 365.2RAIN 114.75 115.85 106.65 108.9RNAM 155.95 168 154.05 163.3SONATSOFTW 326 336 326 331CANFINHOME 258.45 258.45 246.8 247.8EMAMILTD 395.9 397.2 384 385.75VGUARD 192.05 193.65 188.05 192LINDEINDIA 434.1 441.5 430.8 432.1ADANITRANS 215 216.5 214.3 216DCBBANK 181.65 181.65 176 177.45FCONSUMER 42.5 42.85 41.7 42.15JINDALSAW 81.1 81.35 79.7 80ASTRAZEN 1,793.30 1,830.00 1,745.00 1,795.60QUESS 644.4 671.4 642.1 644.05OFSS 3,795.05 3,868.60 3,713.00 3,728.10OBEROIRLTY 449.9 463 441.4 446.85DCMSHRIRAM 343.9 356.35 343.7 352IDFC 38.7 38.7 37 37.25PFIZER 3,086.20 3,102.95 3,050.05 3,050.05HUDCO 40.1 40.8 39.6 39.7CONCOR 515.3 519.95 505.5 512PNBHOUSING 970 979.65 951.1 960JMFINANCIL 79.9 81.8 77.8 81.2WELCORP 101.1 103.85 100 101.35MPHASIS 1,019.70 1,022.00 1,012.45 1,022.00TATAINVEST 833.9 845 829.95 843.95COFFEEDAY 265 266.3 257 257.75CUB 188.9 188.9 185.3 187.35FRETAIL 439 439 420.85 430HSCL 114.55 115.9 111.2 113.35GSPL 167.55 168.25 162.25 165.85PERSISTENT* 645.5 645.95 633.35 636.7PTC 75.15 75.15 73.3 74.1EVEREADY 203 206.85 201.25 203.5GODREJIND 489.75 499.9 488.6 491.55NOCIL 126.85 129.8 126.7 127.5INDHOTEL 141.8 141.8 136.15 137.5SCI 39.25 40.95 39 39.6ECLERX 1,014.40 1,031.80 996 1,008.00ASTRAL 1,148.90 1,148.90 1,093.20 1,110.95GHCL 243.5 245.4 240.7 242.25INOXWIND 61.45 68 61.45 65.5GODREJAGRO 487.55 492.4 486 489KRBL 354.95 365 352.95 360.35KEC 256 257 251.7 253.95AARTIIND 1,605.00 1,620.00 1,565.00 1,583.95VBL 836.45 840.8 802.8 815MMTC 24.8 24.95 24.25 24.45BAJAJHLDNG 3,120.00 3,185.00 3,103.80 3,149.90KEI 363.05 365.75 355.4 358.65SYNGENE 607 616.5 603.1 612UFLEX 248 252.45 242.75 249.6DEEPAKFERT 118.75 119.15 115.85 116.6PARAGMILK 217.45 220.1 214.1 214.2ISGEC 5,100.00 5,119.55 5,010.00 5,041.40FORTIS 135 135.75 134.25 134.9TATAMETALI 608.65 609.75 596.2 599.75

MERCK 3,312.25 3,340.00 3,285.00 3,285.00KANSAINER 470.4 477.7 465.05 468.75CYIENT 600.3 610.9 596.1 604.15CHAMBLFERT 168.45 174.45 168.3 170.2IBULISL 248.6 254 234 240.35ICICIGI 885 893.95 870 8723MINDIA 21,399.00 21,450.00 20,929.70 21,337.05NBVENTURES 111.4 112.8 107.65 108.45GUJALKALI 498 505 490.35 496.45NAVINFLUOR 607.25 613.75 598.3 602BHARATFIN 944.5 950.9 934.5 934.5BALMLAWRIE 180.5 181.8 174.9 177.5SHILPAMED 370 370 348.45 365ABBOTINDIA 8,270.00 8,286.45 7,970.00 8,062.40TIMKEN 574.8 594.45 565 580.05PGHH 10,000.00 10,000.00 9,880.10 10,000.00GRANULES 86.65 87.25 85.25 86.2RELAXO 737.95 749.3 735.9 749.3SUDARSCHEM 311.75 311.75 300.3 302.6INOXLEISUR 259 266.85 258.8 261.6TRIDENT 62.6 64 61.8 62.45HSIL 245.35 245.6 236.3 239.45JSL 24 26.4 23.85 25.6ISEC 195.9 196.3 192.8 193.35DENABANK 11.6 11.6 11.22 11.31ERIS 655 658 651 654LAKSHVILAS 58.75 61 58 59.7JAMNAAUTO 52.4 54 52 54MINDACORP 145 145 135 136.9WHIRLPOOL 1,435.90 1,445.00 1,418.35 1,424.70GREAVESCOT 119 121.5 118.95 120.7MOTILALOFS 609.1 619.75 607.05 607.05NILKAMAL 1,308.00 1,350.00 1,303.20 1,321.90UCOBANK 18.3 18.3 16.95 17.5WABAG 290.45 299 288 288.9COCHINSHIP 362 370.95 357.65 363.1GICRE 239.75 239.75 230.45 232.15AUBANK 591.45 595.05 582.05 584ASAHIINDIA 255.25 256.3 254 255NETWORK18 35.45 35.55 34.25 34.25AEGISLOG 199.75 205.3 190 192BIRLACORPN 482 490.2 470 475.8VIJAYABANK 42.6 42.6 41.15 41.3DEEPAKNI 230.75 234.25 223 226.8TATACOFFEE 85.2 86.4 84.7 85.1WESTLIFE 363.2 366.65 360.2 360.2SBILIFE 580 582.55 576.15 579.95HINDCOPPER 44.5 44.5 43.7 43.9CROMPTON 221.1 221.1 212.1 213.25FORBESCO 1,995.05 2,034.00 1,863.00 2,008.35ALKEM 1,871.90 1,910.40 1,871.90 1,897.00SOBHA 476 481 468.2 475MAHINDCIE 231.95 238.1 226.15 234.7JSWENERGY 67.15 67.95 66.3 66.9GSKCONS 7,700.00 7,705.65 7,564.20 7,593.50JKTYRE 90.55 91 89.3 90.25GICHSGFIN 222.05 227.7 220.5 221.25TRENT 353 353.55 347 347VMART 2,665.05 2,665.05 2,565.20 2,612.00SOLARINDS 984.05 985.05 975.05 975.5COROMANDEL 457.1 460 453.05 453.75GUJFLUORO 879 895.1 866 867CENTURYPLY 170 174.3 169.5 171.8SYMPHONY 1,188.55 1,211.20 1,180.00 1,180.00ADVENZYMES 162.05 168.3 162 168KALPATPOWR 368.1 369 354.5 363.25TVTODAY 335.95 350.2 329.9 329.9ITDC 269.9 271.35 260 260.05ADANIGREEN 33.9 34.65 33.05 33.85BDL 236.6 250 236.55 245.65HAL 650 665 641 654.4JKLAKSHMI 310 310.5 298 300DCAL 200 203.65 197.5 198.25KNRCON 211.95 211.95 206 207.5WABCOINDIA 6,221.80 6,250.00 6,115.15 6,181.05WELSPUNIND 53 53 52.15 52.15TIINDIA 346.05 346.35 335 335J&KBANK 39.1 39.25 38.8 38.85MOIL 162 162.45 160.25 160.25TAKE 131.45 131.5 127.2 129.5TIFHL 445.75 445.75 427.7 439.95GREENPLY 130.65 132.75 117 132.75PRSMJOHNSN 77 77.1 75 75.6SANOFI 6,436.00 6,583.60 6,436.00 6,583.60IFCI 12.9 12.9 12.35 12.59SUNDRMFAST 535 539 527.3 529.85PIIND 849.8 849.8 837.55 842.05SKFINDIA 1,926.10 1,935.20 1,920.00 1,920.00FINCABLES 394.85 395.3 390 392.25GALAXYSURF 1,035.90 1,053.00 1,019.60 1,021.60TTKPRESTIG 7,746.25 7,970.00 7,685.15 7,749.00ANDHRABANK 24.35 24.35 23.95 24.05ALLCARGO 104 104 100.4 101.5IOB 12.75 13.14 12.69 13TRITURBINE 103.7 103.75 96.25 102.85TEJASNET 151.1 154.05 146.65 152EIDPARRY 193.5 197.45 192.4 196.3JYOTHYLAB 178.35 184 177.15 179.6CENTRALBK 29.05 29.65 28.8 29.35PRESTIGE 198.7 201.4 197.9 200.1JAGRAN 97.1 97.95 96.6 97.35CARBORUNIV 350.5 355.05 348 355SCHNEIDER 88.65 92.15 85.65 91ASHOKA 117 117 113.9 114.5THOMASCOOK 213 217 213 215NLCINDIA 62.45 63.9 62.45 63.25CENTRUM 30.85 31.5 30.5 30.5SJVN 25.9 26 25.5 26ORIENTCEM 72.3 72.3 64 66.45

NAVKARCORP 42.15 43.5 41.5 42MAHABANK 13.71 13.9 13.42 13.42GLAXO 1,384.20 1,412.00 1,384.20 1,396.00MAGMA 98.5 98.55 89.15 92.55PNCINFRA 140.45 146 140.1 144.6SADBHAV 186.95 188.3 182.15 184.55GET&D 293 295.7 286 293IFBIND 727 745.6 710 743.7THERMAX 1,109.20 1,120.00 1,077.80 1,087.75LEMONTREE 69.8 71.1 69.55 70.3RALLIS 162.35 162.35 158.05 158.7ITDCEM 108.55 109.6 105.55 105.9ESSELPRO 111.9 112.6 108.9 109KPRMILL 517 532.2 517 528JSLHISAR 81.1 81.4 79.5 80.25MAXINDIA 74.8 79.8 74.8 77.3IEX 163.85 167 163.8 165.5DHANUKA 408 409.3 387 404.65TIMETECHNO 86.85 86.9 82 82.5SHK 163 171.25 163 167EIHOTEL 187.9 192.2 186.6 186.6GULFOILLUB 873.3 900 873 875.1REDINGTON 66.95 68.1 64 67.75GRINDWELL 515 520 500 518.95SUPREMEIND 996 999.9 992 999.9MINDAIND 290 291.2 282 283.65GESHIP 302.4 306 296.05 296.05GDL 105.1 106.1 103.05 103.75MAHLIFE 372.4 384.25 372.4 375THYROCARE 540 550 539.05 549.5LAURUSLABS 349.9 358.65 345 345SUNCLAYLTD 2,750.00 2,750.00 2,675.05 2,700.00BAYERCROP 4,268.70 4,325.00 4,212.60 4,325.00TEAMLEASE 2,819.65 2,835.95 2,727.25 2,834.00MAHLOG 431.15 443.6 430.4 436GMDCLTD 78.95 79.5 77.9 79ZENSARTECH 221 224 219.7 222.95APLAPOLLO 1,098.50 1,099.40 1,079.05 1,080.00SCHAEFFLER 5,441.85 5,643.00 5,441.85 5,473.50FINOLEXIND 498 509.75 496 504VTL 1,051.25 1,070.00 1,013.00 1,025.00SUPRAJIT 196.75 196.75 190.5 191.15RATNAMANI 840.05 850 833 850CARERATING 990 996.8 979.95 980PHOENIXLTD 576.55 592 576.55 587.05APLLTD 576 576 565.55 565.55BAJAJCON 352.9 357.85 352 356SOMANYCERA 354.8 355.6 345.1 350CORPBANK 25.25 25.5 24.7 24.7ZYDUSWELL 1,326.75 1,326.75 1,304.00 1,310.00MHRIL 195.45 198 194 198CAPPL 355.5 359.7 351 358.9SHRIRAMCIT 1,685.00 1,685.00 1,520.10 1,536.60BASF 1,332.30 1,344.90 1,330.95 1,343.85GEPIL 741 749 732.1 749INDOSTAR 330 331.3 323.75 328.75FLFL 425 431.85 425 431.85JKCEMENT 710 720 687.8 693SFL 1,313.00 1,374.00 1,300.50 1,300.50BLUEDART 3,104.90 3,138.90 3,077.90 3,088.35MONSANTO 2,643.75 2,674.15 2,624.00 2,668.00GAYAPROJ 163.4 163.7 159.4 160.15HEIDELBERG 146.4 147.1 145.1 145.1NIACL 178 178 171.75 172KIOCL 131 133.7 130 130HATSUN 705.75 708 681 682GPPL 82 82 81.15 81.15SUPPETRO 200.75 201.6 196 199.3TNPL 208.95 211 205.1 210.5HERITGFOOD 490.75 490.75 480 480HIMATSEIDE 187.05 188.05 184.2 185SHOPERSTOP 501.15 502.95 496.4 502.95FDC 166.8 169.8 166 167.25CCL 272.6 274.8 272.6 273.4ASTERDM 154.55 156.75 153.5 154.35LAOPALA 209.65 209.65 203.5 205.05NESCO 443.2 444.4 440 441.35SHARDACROP 326.05 326.05 320 320.1STARCEMENT 88.4 88.4 85.65 88TVSSRICHAK 2,351.90 2,351.90 2,311.05 2,320.00DBCORP 178.4 178.45 175 175.85AKZOINDIA 1,720.00 1,728.70 1,720.00 1,728.70NAVNETEDUL 104.55 105.5 103.75 105APARINDS 616 624.1 613.85 618.3SIS 769.5 776.1 768.25 776.1NH 192.6 196.55 192.6 193.6

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 11,023.50 11,041.20 10,925.45 10,943.60 -125.8INFRATEL 302.05 335 302.05 328.95 23.1KOTAKBANK 1,284.00 1,311.00 1,277.30 1,298.55 14HCLTECH 1,060.00 1,076.00 1,058.05 1,068.00 5.1BHARTIARTL 309 314.2 306.1 312.35 1.2CIPLA 532.85 543.7 531.2 534.7 1.8UPL 804.5 816.8 800.6 811.25 2.25BAJFINANCE 2,670.00 2,737.45 2,670.00 2,700.05 3.45HEROMOTOCO 2,915.00 2,960.00 2,912.65 2,942.00 2.95TECHM 800 818 800 805.3 0.3HDFCBANK 2,112.00 2,144.95 2,106.65 2,117.00 -0.25BAJAJ-AUTO 2,852.00 2,879.10 2,831.20 2,850.00 -3.6TITAN 1,058.50 1,076.85 1,047.60 1,054.00 -2.8SBIN 285.6 288 282.2 286.55 -0.85WIPRO 371.5 374.9 368.7 372.4 -1.2INFY 760 772.25 754.9 760.9 -3.1ULTRACEMCO 3,535.00 3,587.95 3,515.25 3,555.80 -14.75BPCL 340.3 346.8 335.05 337.75 -1.65ADANIPORTS 333 336.5 328 330.5 -1.85SUNPHARMA 434 435.9 424.5 431.1 -3.8RELIANCE 1,284.80 1,300.50 1,272.25 1,277.80 -12.6YESBANK 177 178.5 173.25 175.1 -1.85ICICIBANK 356.9 358.4 350.75 354.45 -4.2BAJAJFINSV 6,254.60 6,294.45 6,150.95 6,178.00 -75.1INDUSINDBK 1,512.90 1,529.50 1,490.90 1,496.65 -18.3AXISBANK 727 732.8 716.25 721.15 -9HINDUNILVR 1,839.10 1,847.00 1,811.00 1,815.00 -24.05TCS 2,075.00 2,089.50 2,051.00 2,055.65 -27.25GAIL 337.55 339.5 334.4 335.35 -4.6HDFC 1,963.10 1,968.60 1,936.85 1,939.60 -30.05HINDALCO 208.95 209.15 204.4 205.9 -3.3ITC 279.5 281.2 274.6 275.8 -4.5DRREDDY 2,818.00 2,818.00 2,751.65 2,776.20 -45.6ASIANPAINT 1,468.00 1,480.00 1,445.00 1,448.35 -24.1POWERGRID 184.6 187.95 180.5 181.4 -3.2COALINDIA 223.9 225.65 217.6 219 -5.2ZEEL 405.65 409 396.15 398.95 -9.8MARUTI 7,270.00 7,300.00 7,100.00 7,115.20 -187.35HINDPETRO 237 239.3 229.55 230.35 -6.5LT 1,295.00 1,298.90 1,255.55 1,259.60 -36.45M&M 702 706.7 678.55 680.95 -19.95ONGC 146.3 148.3 143.15 143.45 -4.45NTPC 135.4 137.4 131.55 131.8 -4.15JSWSTEEL 271.6 273 260.35 264.3 -8.8IOC 138.15 138.2 133.1 133.45 -4.6TATASTEEL 483 487.75 465.95 468.7 -20.35EICHERMOT 21,855.00 21,904.20 20,750.00 20,812.00 -1,092.20GRASIM 760 764.05 708.4 714.5 -38.25VEDL 162.3 162.4 149.7 154.6 -8.85IBULHSGFIN 645.9 661.95 605 607.3 -45.05TATAMOTORS 164.6 164.6 129 150.15 -32.7

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Bangkok: A Thai princess willrun for prime minister in Marchelections in an unprecedentedentry by a royal into frontlinepolitics, pitting her against thechief of the ruling junta andredrawing the nation's politicallandscape.

Princess Ubolratana, 67,the older sister of Thai KingMaha Vajiralongkorn, wasannounced as a candidate forthe Thai Raksa Chart partysteered by the divisiveShinawatra political clan.

The Thai monarchy, arevered institution shieldedfrom criticism by a toughdefamation law, has traditionallybeen seen as above the politicalfray, although royals have inter-vened in moments of politicalcrisis.

Ubolratana's nominationhas electrified the buildup to aMarch 24 election which hadseemed poised to return the

junta and its proxies to power insome form.

Her involvement gives aroyal sheen to ThaksinShinawatra's political machine,which has won every electionsince 2001. And it also poten-tially builds a bridge betweenThaksin's "Red" shirted sup-porters and the "Yellow" shirtswho are arch royalists. Deadlyviolence and disruption linkedto the two groups has definedThailand's turbulent last decade.

"The board agrees that thename of Princess Ubolratana, aneducated and skilled person, isthe most suitable choice," ThaiRaksa Chart party leaderPreechapol Pongpanich toldreporters.

The party falls under thetutelage of Thaksin, a billionaireself-exiled former premier, whostands at the heart of Thailand'sbitter political schism — loathedby the army and Bangkok elite,

yet adored by the rural poor.The announcement thrusts

him back to the centre stage ofThailand's political drama justas it appeared the military wereset to succeed in sidelininghim.

He was toppled in a 2006coup, while his sister Yingluckwas booted from power in a2014 military takeover andforced into exile to avoid a jailterm.

The princess's move deals aheavy blow to the aspirations ofPrayut Chan-O-Cha, the juntahead, who has spent nearly fiveyears trying to recast the polit-ical system to limit the power ofelected governments and pre-pare his own return as a civil-ian leader. In a day of highdrama, Prayut declared his can-didacy for premier, runningfor the Phalang Pracharat armyparty, moments after theprincess's announcement. AFP

Islamabad: Foreign MinisterShah Mehmood Qureshi onFriday said Pakistan wouldprovide all the evidence of"sabotage activities" by formerIndian naval officerKulbhushan Jadhav to theInternational Court of Justice(ICJ) on February 19.

Jadhav, 48, was sentencedto death by a Pakistani militarycourt on spying charges inApril 2017. India moved theICJ in May the same yearagainst the verdict.

The world court has halt-ed Jadhav's execution on India'sappeal pending the final verdictby it.

Both India and Pakistanhave already submitted theirdetailed pleas and responses inthe world court and it hasdecided to hold hearings in theJadhav case from February 18-21, 2019.

India denies all the chargesand maintains that Jadhav waskidnapped from Iran where hehad business interests afterretiring from the Navy and thathe has no links with theGovernment.

In its written pleadings,India had accused Pakistan of

violating the ViennaConvention by not giving con-sular access to Jadhav.

In response, Pakistanthrough its counter memorialtold the ICJ that the ViennaConvention on ConsularRelations 1963 applied only tolegitimate visitors and did notcover clandestine operations.

India has been maintainingthat the trial of Jadhav by a mil-itary court in Pakistan was “far-cical".

Qureshi, who is on a visitto the UK, said that Pakistanhas all the evidence againstJadhav.

"Pakistan has all the evi-dence against Jadhav of sabo-tage activities inside Pakistan.Jadhav has admitted to beinginvolved in such activities.Pakistan's legal team will pre-

sent its stance in the case at TheHague on the 19th of thismonth,” the Geo News quotedQureshi as saying at a receptionin Manchester.

"Pakistan's legal team willpresent its stance in the casethat the Indian spy has alreadyconfessed of being involved interrorist activities carried out inPakistan," another paper, theExpress Tribune quoted him assaying.

Pakistan says its securityforces arrested Jadhav fromBalochistan province in March2016 after he reportedlyentered the country from Iran.

In its submission to the ICJ,Pakistan had stated that Jadhavis not an ordinary person as hehad entered the country withthe intent of spying and carry-ing out sabotage activities. PTI

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Washington: Saudi Arabia's crown prince tolda senior aide he would go after Jamal Khashoggi"with a bullet" a year before the dissident jour-nalist was killed inside the kingdom's Istanbulconsulate, the New York Times reported quot-ing US intelligence.

US intelligence understood that Mohammedbin Salman, the country's 33-year-old de factoruler, was ready to kill the journalist, althoughhe may not have literally meant to shoot him,according to the newspaper.

After initially denying any knowledge ofKhashoggi's disappearance, the kingdom hasacknowledged that a team killed him inside thediplomatic mission but described it as a rogueoperation that did not involve the crown prince.

The conversation was intercepted by USintelligence agencies, as part of routine effortsby the National Security Agency and other agen-cies to capture and store the communications ofglobal leaders, including allied ones, The Timessaid.

It was only recently transcribed, however,because of mounting efforts by US intelligenceto find more conclusive proof linking theprince to the killing.

The conversation took place between PrinceMohammed and an aide, Turki Aldakhil, inSeptember 2017 — around 13 months before theOctober 2 killing, the paper said.

The prince said that if Khashoggi could notbe enticed to return to Saudi Arabia, then heshould be brought back by force. If neither ofthose methods worked, then he would go afterMr. Khashoggi "with a bullet," he said.

It came as officials in the kingdom weregrowing increasingly angry about Khashoggi'scriticisms — and the same month he began writ-ing opinion pieces for The Washington Post. AFP

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Geneva: Saudi Arabia quietly held a second courthearing for 11 people facing charges over thekilling of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an inde-pendent UN human rights expert said, criticis-ing the kingdom for its lack of transparency inthe proceedings over the grisly slaying.

Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteuron extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions,said she learned of the hearing during her firstvisit to Turkey last week to investigate the mur-der.

Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist whowrote critically about Saudi Crown PrinceMohammed bin Salman, was killed and dis-membered inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbullast October.

His remains have not been found.The brutal killing — described by Turkish

and US officials as an elaborate plot — has drawnan international outcry about press freedom andSaudi government tactics to quell criticism.

Turkey, which is carrying out its own inves-tigation into Khashoggi's murder, has beenfrustrated by what Ankara says is a lack of coop-eration by Riyadh.

It has also called for an international inquiry. Khashoggi, a Saudi writer, had gone to the

consulate on October 2 to obtain documentsfor his upcoming wedding to his Turkishfiancee. AP

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Brussels: Britain and the EUagreed on Thursday to holdmore talks to try to avoid a no-deal Brexit, after a "robust"meeting between PrimeMinister Theresa May andEuropean Commission chiefJean-Claude Juncker.

A joint statement issuedafter the talks in Brussels saidJuncker had again warned thatNovember's withdrawal agree-ment could not be renegotiat-ed -- after May came hoping topersuade Brussels to change theso-called "backstop" clause forthe Irish border.

But Juncker expressed onlyhis "openness to add wording"to a parallel political declara-tion laying out ambitions forfuture EU-UK ties if Londonwants to seek a "more ambi-tious" closer relationship afterBrexit.

After his own talks withMay, EU President DonaldTusk warned there was "nobreakthrough in sight", thoughthe British leader said she hadseen willingness from Brusselsto find a deal.

"Prime Minister May didnot offer any new concreteproposals on the way forward,"an EU official told AFP afterMay's meeting with Tusk.

Talk has been growing thatBritain may have to delay Brexitto give enough time to get thenecessary legislation throughparliament, but May vowedonce again to bring Britain outof the bloc on schedule onMarch 29.

"I'm going to deliverBrexit, I'm going to deliver iton time. That's what I'm goingto do for the British public. I'llbe negotiating hard in thecoming days to do just that,"she said.

The EU official said Tuskhad asked May about the time-line for British officials and par-liament to ratify and imple-ment a deal, but received "noclear answers."

And Tusk also, the officialsaid, suggested to May that shestudy a Brexit plan laid out ear-lier in the day by British oppo-sition Labour leader JeremyCorbyn, which "might be apromising way out of theimpasse."

May did not respond.In a sharp reminder of the

urgency of finding a solutionbefore Brexit day, Bank ofEngland governor Mark Carneywarned that Britain's economywas "not yet prepared" for a no-deal departure. PTI

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Friday delivered a landmark rul-ing by rejecting plans to builda coal mine on the grounds itwould worsen climate change.

Chief Justice Brian Prestonsaid a planned open cut coalmine in a scenic part of NewSouth Wales state would be in"the wrong place at the wrongtime".

The ruling by the NewSouth Wales Land andEnvironment Court was notablefor citing not only local impactsof building the proposedGloucester Resources mine, butalso secondary "climate changeimpacts" of the eventual use of

the coal. "It matters not that thisaggregate of the Project's GHG(greenhouse gas) emissions mayrepresent a small fraction of theglobal total," the justice said.

"Not every natural resourceneeds to be exploited."

The case was unusual inreferring to the 2015 ParisAgreement and United NationsFramework Convention onClimate Change and callingclimate scientists to testify.

Will Steffen, a noted clima-tologist, told the court thatAustralia's average surface tem-perature had increased onedegree centigrade over the lastcentury. AFP

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Port-Au-Prince: Thousands ofpeople took to the streets acrossHaiti, protesting against ram-pant inflation and demandingthe resignation of PresidentJovenel Moise on the two-yearanniversary of his inauguration.

"For two years, Jovenel haspromised to fill our plates. ButI can't eat lies," protester JosueLouis-Jeune said in the capitalPort-au-Prince, banging ametal plate with a spoon.

"This president is nothingmore than a liar," he said. "He'sgot to go." AP

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The cast is made up of peo-ple from so many nation-alities and countries. The

brothers come from differentbackgrounds and cultures. Isthat a challenge?

I wouldn’t say a challenge. It’sactually quite fun. When we firststarted filming together, we alllived very close to each other. Wewere in the same apartmentblock, just next door. You learnwhere everyone is from and Ihave been fortunate enough toget to travel with them to theirhomes. I’ve been to Denmarkwith the boys four times now.When you go on holiday to aplace, you only get to see the sur-face. When you’re with peoplefrom that country, you get tomeet their families and get toknow their traditions. TheDanish forget that I don’t speaktheir language. You get so com-fortable with each other, you for-get that we are from differentcountries. You get to see a deeperside of each other’s culture, whichis a really good thing. It’s the bestpart about being on set with peo-ple from different backgrounds.

Seeing the amount of fightinggoing on, do you ever get hurt?

Sometimes. Mistakes are apart of life. We practice a lot.There’s a big fight in season fivebetween one person and mewhere they made me look abouteight foot tall. It’s the biggest fightI’ve ever done in my life. Wetrained for six weeks, four days aweek, for it. It took us a day and ahalf to shoot, and when it made iton screen, it’s about three minuteslong. It starts out quite epic, andthen gets really tight and person-al. That day I had bruised ribsand a black eye. He punched metwice in the jaw. You try yourhardest and the stunt guys arevery professional. Their maingoal is safety, but once you getinto it and you get a bit restless,things start to slip up.

What training do you have to dofor these fight scenes?

You start really broad, andthen you get into the finer details.Practicing in a stunt shed and ina swamp of mud, with dirt inyour eyes, you start to get intocharacter. But it’s important foran actor to remember that look-ing good, and looking real aretwo completely different things.You don’t need to be in full force.It’s like a dance routine. It’s asword ballet, pretty much.

All the brothers were quite closein the beginning. Now they haveall split up and have chosen sep-arate sides, will we ever see thatbrotherhood come back togeth-er again?

I actually think about this allthe time. Every time we read thescript, we always want to askMichael, “Do we get back togeth-er?” I think especially with Ivar,everybody has completely differ-ent ideas of just how the worldshould be. Ivar and Ubbe can’t sitin the same room together. Whenthey are in the same room, itnever ends well. Hvitserk is tornbetween the two. He can have anunderstanding with both Ivar andUbbe.

Does Ubbe eventually choose aside?

I think he’ll always be in themiddle. I think it’s just his part.He keeps going between the two.There’s that rivalry between Bjornand Ubbe because Bjorn is sort ofthe rightful person to take overRagnar’s place. Ubbe doesn’t havean ego like the rest of the brothersdo.

Do you think that Ubbe wouldever forgive Lagertha for killinghis mother?

I had problems with thiswhen I first read the script. I wasreally struggling to wrap my head

around it because he was such afamily guy from the start. I thinkin order to move forward withthe Vikings, you have to adapt totheir modern society. He under-stands that he needs bothLagertha and Bjorn. He doesn’tforgive her, but I think he under-stands that keeping her as an allywill have a much better outcomerather than going against her. Ifhe goes against her, she’s going todie. But he knows they can useeach other to achieve somethingmuch bigger and better.

How has Ubbe developed in sea-son 5? Do you think he willcarry on Ragnar’s legacy?

Yeah, that’s exactly how hedescribes it. Ragnar wantedsomething bigger and better forthe show. In the first year, hewanted to sail west. He knew thatsomething was going to be a cutabove, whether it was England orbeyond. It’s not all about the rap-ing, pillaging and the killing. Wecan have a mutual understandingwith people in other countries tomake the Vikings better. He does-n’t know where he’s going, or howhe’s going to do it, but he’s got amuch greater idea to guide theshow into the future rather thantaking himself there. It’s notabout putting Ubbe in the historybooks. It’s about putting theVikings in history books.

Did you study Travis? Are therecertain quirks that you portray?

Yes, absolutely. You take onlittle twitches, and the way thatyou move, things like that. Whenyour father is Ragnar Lothbrok,you have to take on some of hischaracteristics. We all do in a cer-tain way. We’ve all picked up littlebits from Floki and Ragnar. Italso doesn’t help that I’ve been

told I look like Travis quite a lot.We look very similar. He’s a lotmore handsome than I am, butwe look close enough. I don’tthink you can have a father figurelike him and not pick up his char-acteristics.

Does it happen often that youget a chance to change yourlines or discuss it with Michael?

When I first started, I tried tojust let it go and do my thing.Michael is writing the show byhimself. I mean, sometimes he’swriting 20 character storylines allat once. So I ask him, “How aboutif Ubbe goes this way?”Sometimes he says yes.Sometimes he’ll write back a verynice email that means “no”, but hedoesn’t say no. (Laughs)

How did you react to Alex drag-ging himself on the ground?

Alex is such a character. I feellike I’m just walking nicely, buthe’s got the walk, and he’s so goodat it. How he does it on his wrists,I’m not sure. He’s like a full oncharacter rolling next to you.How Alex managed to drag him-self around for the past two yearsis amazing. It just looks so goodon screen when he does it. There’sa great scene where we are in achurch in England. I just remem-ber watching the monitor of himwalking through and it was noth-ing like I’ve ever seen before. It’sgreat for the character.

What would you say would bethe scariest thing that happenedon the set throughout filming?

It’s not that scary. The stuntpeople put in a lot of effort tokeep us safe. There was one scenethat’s coming up in 5B wherequite a few people are set on firewhich is quite scary to watch. It’ssuch a timed process. I was morescared for them than I am forme. Because sometimes you don’teven get to know if it’s all goingaccording to plan or not.

What was the most difficultthing for you to do for thisshow?

The most difficult part of theshow is the longevity. Over all,you’re here for a very long time.It can take two and a half monthsto shoot a scene. Trying to keepthe continuity and the sparkgoing all the way through it canbe hard, especially when you’vegot time off. Trying to get backinto it after being gone for twoweeks is difficult, but once youget back on set for an hour, itcomes back to you.

How long do you spend hereshooting?

Between eight or ninemonths. It’s a long time awayfrom your family. You become afamily here, to be honest. Thisisland becomes your home. It’s abig country, but Dublin’s such asmall town. When we go out weknow people in the coffee shops,the restaurants. You start to knowpeople around your area. It’sstrange when you leave forChristmas, when you say goodbye to everyone for threemonths. It’s like we live in twodifferent worlds.

(The show airs every Mondayat 10 pm on AXN.)

TIt is said, ‘The stage is aplace of fantasy.’ It canhave multiple interpreta-tions and sides to it,depending on a director’s

perception. While the 20th BharatRang Mahotsav celebrates theatreand its various colours, the interna-tional directors are showcasingtheir culture and their perceptionsof the world, theatre and arts.

Most of them feel that thespace has been very ‘well-workedupon’ to showcase the best ofdrama. “I am still learning, but it isappealing to see the festival’s extrav-aganza and how wide it is. It’s verywell organised and has turned outto be exactly the way that we hadimagined a grand theatre festivalshould be,” says director GuyRoberts from Czech Republic, whois a first-time visitor to India.

As he recreates Homer’s great-est epic Iliad as An Iliad withRebecca Greene Udden, he talksabout how he focusses on the storyof fighters, Achilles and Hector,which is told from a poet’s point ofview. This is the character of Homerhimself. “He is here to tell the storyof the Trojan war and about rage,anger and hatred and how we can-not get past that. It is a modern takeon how fights have been going onsince forever. It just gives a referenceof the wars that collide with theancient epic of the Greeks andTrojans,” shares he.

He explains that the play hasmoments of both traditionality andmodernity, “There are moments inthe play where I act out the tradi-tional text and sometimes where Iexplain it in a very easy-to-under-stand modern language.”

A theatre is a just a play of char-acters, or so believes Roberts. Sincehis play is a depiction of an after-war destruction scene, he says thatthis could be anywhere and foughtover anything. “It is not just aboutthe Greek war, it examines thehuman nature through the two

characters. People are the same allacross the world. It could be today’sSyrian war, or a civilian war in someother country. The play is every-where and nowhere, all at the sametime,” says he.

For him, it’s simply storytellingthat makes all the difference evenif one is devoid of any costumes,stage or props. He feels that “theyhave the simplest show but some-times even being simple could bethe most difficult thing.” So there isonly a small team of five people whoare both on stage and at the back.

While Roberts feels that theatreexamines the human nature andtries to “present” the reality to theaudience, director Sara Zaker fromBangladesh also believes that it“reflects” that part of the societywhich is infront of people but theydon’t accept readily.

Zaker, who adapts Dario Fo andFranca Rame’s The Open Couple atthe festival, feels that theatre isimportant to make the societyrealise that there are things that areimportant and need to be delvedinto deeply rather than simplyoverlooking them.

Her play is a story of a couplewhere the husband has multipleaffairs. This disturbs the wife to suchan extent that she tries to kill her-self each time that she finds outabout his newest affair with a dif-ferent woman. She says that in oursociety polygamy has been veryprevalent. “It has had a vast histor-ical background, not just inBangladesh but universally. Therehave been kings who have hadnumerous wives and partners. Here,everytime the man has an affair, hetries to pacify his wife by saying thatshe was at a liberty to do thesame,” says she.

The director says that “it wastime we articulated our thoughtsabout the polygamous relationshipthat permeates all levels of society.”

Even though the original playhad been written during the early

1980s, she feels that what makestheatre special, “is that it is timeless.It depends on the narrative and themessage that it tries to portray. It’snot time-specific. It tries to showhow the couple’s relationship is notfunctioning well and that is truewith many others as well.”

The husband, in her play, triesto comfort his wife by telling herthat they could call it an open rela-tionship and even she could go outlooking for affairs. He soon findsout that his wife has fallen in lovewith another man and is furious justlike she used to be. The play, Zakertells us, ends with a gunshot afterthe husband goes inside the bath-room. “No one knows whether hereally died or he was pretending. It’sopen to the audience’s interpretationand the way they perceive it.However, I wanted to give a sub-stantive message to the audience

which they could take back,” saysshe.

It’s the first time that she isshowcasing at the festival and Zakerfeels that they have displayed “excel-lent professionalism. The festival’sarrangements are enough to inspireyou to tell your story with completedetermination. They give a timewhich we have to follow. We hadgiven them all the architecturalmeasurements for our props andexplained the way they had to beconstructed. And indeed, they wereexactly what we had wanted. Thereare so many plays and each of it isgiven equal importance. It’s a won-derful experience.”

About how theatre has evolvedover the time, she says that it has-n’t become a regular activity or asa medium of survival and liveli-hood. She says, “That way, we arenot doing good. Either it will haveto become a medium of businessand go places. If one looks atBangladesh, it’s not something thatprovides bread at the end of the day.One can’t survive just by acting.”

While Roberts feels, “Theatre isbecoming more and more techni-cally advanced with gadgets com-ing into the space. But theatre willalways be about people sharing aspace and experience. It happensonly for that moment and then itgoes away, hence it’s very unique.”

(The play An Iliad will be show-cased at the festival today.)

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Truly a world event, the AcademyAwards, now in its 90th year hasenjoyed some of the most iconicmoments and here are some ofthem.

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Instead of attending and collect-ing his statue in 1973 for his gut-wrenching role as Vito Corleone inThe Godfather, he decided to boycottthe event altogether and send theNative American civil rights activistSacheen Littlefeather to the podiuminstead. While there, she read a let-ter from the actor that explained whyBrando was rejecting the Oscar – dueto “the treatment of AmericanIndians today by the film industry.”

Not only did Brando’s rejectionof the Oscar go down in history asone of the most memorable moments

of the awards’ history but this inci-dent has been etched onto the mindsof audiences because The Godfather,a legendary film, saved Brando’scareer from hitting a point of no-return.

'�))&"�(!��&"�&%)'"#&�%) ��(*�%(���&��"�Hattie McDaniel had brokenmany stereotypes when shewon the award for her portray-al of Mammy, a slave in theGeorgian plantation in the clas-sic film — Gone with the Wind.For the 1940 awards, she wasmade to sit at the back due to seg-regation and in an irony herOscar win ensured that she cameto the front and on-stage toreceive the award. It alsopaved the way for manymore people of colour to benominated and even winthereon.

'"�)'�"!�"�����!"!��%)'$��$%�+Hearts were shattered world-wide atthe shocking demise of one ofHollywood’s most iconic and versa-tile actors. Heath Ledger not onlycaptured the true essence of every

character that he portrayed but intro-duced quirks that became iconic andmemorable. The Joker in The DarkKnight was one such role and it cameas no surprise that he won the awardfor best supporting actor posthu-mously at the 2008 Oscars ceremo-

ny. His daughter going on-stageon his behalf to collect the awarddidn’t leave a dry eye in the audi-

torium, or for that matter any-where in the world. Undoubtedly,

this was and has been one of themost heart-wrenching moments inthe awards’ history.

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hard work will get acclaim. ButPaul Haggis was left trulystunned when his movie Crash

ended up winning the best filmat the Oscars over everyone’sfavourite and critically

acclaimed movie BrokebackMountain. Jack Nicholson, who wasthe presenter of the award, wasshocked when he opened the enve-lope. This moment went on to provethat the outcome of the world’s mostesteemed film award ceremony cannever be predicted.

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black recipient of an acting Academyaward, it was Halle Berry’s win in2002 for her role in Monsters Ball thatwas the first ever for the coveted titleof ‘Best Actress’, won by a woman ofcolour. Her heart-warming speechhad diversity at its crux.

"��"�!"�"�"�"%.� %"�#&"What happens when you get a worldfamous comedian and a dozen moviestars in one frame? A social mediameltdown. When Ellen Degeneresinvited few of the nominees and win-ners for a selfie and posted it on herTwitter handle, it resulted in the in atemporary breakdown of the socialmedia site it was retweeted over 3.4

million times. A memorable world-event that many audiences aroundthe globe have saved on their smartphones or systems.

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�������! ��##"A blooper is what made this onememorable. The film, La La Land notonly won hearts around the world butalso went on a winning spree at the89th Academy Awards. So, it was nota surprise when they were asked tocome on-stage to collect the mostsought-after title of ‘Best Picture’.Only this time around, they didn’twin.

When the entire cast and crew ofthe movie came on-stage to give theirspeech, award presenter WarrenBeatty clarified that it was an incor-rect announcement and went on todeclare that Moonlight, was the win-ner that night. While everyonelaughed it off, the shock that camewith the second announcement hascemented itself as one of the biggestgoof ups yet and is right up there inthe most iconic moments in the 91years of Oscar history!

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Bhumi Pednekar is anactor who strives forperfectionism. For

her next, Sonchiraiya shesat through several hours ofmake-up sessions to makeher look unrecognisable.So, when the trailer wasreleased, people lauded herability to become the char-acter she is playing.

“She wore a lot ofmake-up for the film tomake her skin look sunburnt, weather beaten, pig-mented. The idea was to gether tanned down three tofour shades to make herresemble someone whoworks under the sun in thearid, hot, burnt Chambalvalley. It was quite a processevery single day for her tolook the part,” a sourcesays.

Bhumi, an urban girlnext door has constantlychanged herself drastical-ly for her roles. From herfirst film she has grabbedthe attention of audienceswith her acting as well asher willingness to trans-form for the part. In DumLaga Ke Haisha, she put ona lot of weight and made abold debut as an obese butself-assured youngwoman, Sandhya. In hernext film, Toilet : Ek PremKatha, she played Jaya, adetermined and progres-sive young woman from asmall town. She againplayed a small town girlSugandha in ShubhMangal Savdhan. In ZoyaAkhtar’s Lust Stories, shewas a house-maid and sur-prised everyone by lookingthe part. So, it’s no surprisethat she is now playing avillage girl from 1970sChambal convincingly.

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Former national skipper RickyPonting was on Friday recruited to

work alongside coach Justin Langer,focusing mainly on the batsmen, for thelooming World Cup in England whereAustralia will defend their title.

The appointment of the vastlyexperienced Ponting, who played at fiveWorld Cups and won at three, comes aday after bowling coach David Sakerquit.

Cricket Australia said his additionas assistant coach would see him focuson working with the ODI battinggroup, while current batting coachGraeme Hick concentrates on prepar-ing for the Ashes.

Ponting is a close ally of Langer, whosaid he was thrilled to have his friendand former colleague back in the fold.

"I know he will be a valuable men-tor to not just the batting group, but thebroader squad as we focus our attentionon defending our World Cup title," saidLanger.

"Ricky and I have worked togetherwith the Australian men's team in thepast, he is an extremely driven coachwho is fully invested in the players devel-opment and improving Australian crick-et.

"He has an impressive understand-ing of the game, he knows what'srequired to prepare and perform at theelite level, and we can't wait for him toget started working with the squad," headded.

Ponting will start after Australia'supcoming one-day tours against Indiaand Pakistan.

"I'm really excited to be joining thecoaching group," he said.

"I've enjoyed my previous short-term roles with the ODI and T20teams but World Cups take on a wholedifferent meaning for me.

"I have enormous confidence in theplayers available to the selectors andknow we will be as tough to beat as anyteam.

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Unfazed by his opponents rep-utation, India's young shoot-

ing superstar Saurabh Chaudharyis confident that his strong prepa-rations will help him to build onhis stellar performance of 2018and is hopeful of producing favor-able results in upcoming ISSFWorld Cup Rifle/Pistol which isscheduled to take place in the cap-ital city from February 20 to 28that Karni Singh shooting range.

"My training is going verygood and I am happy about it. I amhopeful of producing good perfor-mances this time too. It doesn'tmatter to me who my opponent is,whether it's an experienced cam-paigner or a newcomer. I justbelieve in my preparations and itis the only factor that matters tome."

In shooting particularly juniorshooters can take part in thesenior events as well as there is norestrictions in terms of age of theparticipating athlete and askedabout if there is any sort of differ-ent preparations which he takescare of while preparing, 16-yearold Saurabh, who won back toback Gold medals in Asian Gamesand Youth Olympics in the latterhalf of 2018 said there is nothingdifferent in terms of preparationsas his focus always remains indelivering his best.

"I don't prepare according tothe tournament standards becausethere is stiff competition in each

one, so my focus always remainsin delivering my best."

On being asked if there's anysort of pressure over him after hisstellar performance of the previ-ous year and all eyes focused onhim, the young achiever said, hefeels good about his yesteryearperformance but isn't worriedabout pressure situation at all.

"It feels good to deliver strongperformance on the range andbring laurels for the country. Andsince my preparations is goingvery well so there isn't any pres-sure sort of situation."

Talking about ups and downsin sport he said that it is part of thegame and it is not always neces-sary that every time the results arefavourable.

"Ups and Downs are part andparcel of sport. It is not like thatevery time I will be the only onewinning Gold. Winning obvious-ly is a nice thing but winningeverytime is not fixed, so it goeson in sports."

With 16 Tokyo Olympicsquota places up for grabs in thetournament starting from 20th,India is still able to extract a max-

imum of 14 considering thatAnjum Moudgil and ApurviChandela have already bookedtheir quotas in the women's 10mAir Rifle and NRAI chief Raninderexpects a healthy outcome fromthe 34-member home squad.

"We have a top fighting fitsquad and a good mix of seniorshooters and young turks, whohave proved their mettle timeand again in world class interna-tional competitions. I am confi-dent of a good showing and welook to bag the maximum num-ber of quotas possible," he said.

"Realistically, I expect any-thing between two to four quotas.But in shooting, it is all about howyou do on that particular day. So,we can get more also," NRAIchief Singh added.

In all, 495 athletes from 58nations will be converging at theDr Karni Singh Shooting Range(KSSR) when competitions beginin right earnest with the firstfinal slated for February 23.

Only the two Mixed Teamevents, one each in Air Rifle andAir Pistol, out of the 10 events willhave no quotas on offer.

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has warned hisManchester United players against look-

ing ahead to a blockbuster ChampionsLeague clash Paris Saint-Germain and focuson continuing their fine Premier League format Fulham on Saturday.

The visit to Craven Cottage comes threedays before the first leg of the last-16 meet-ing with the French champions at OldTrafford. That game kicks off a run of threehuge matches in 13 days for United with anFA Cup fifth-round trip to Chelsea and aPremier League home match againstLiverpool completing the sequence.

Seven wins and a draw in eight leaguematches since Solskjaer became caretakermanager on December 19 have revivedUnited's chances of a top-four finish.

They are fifth going into the weekend'sfixtures, just two points behind Chelsea, butcan jump into fourth with victory at secondbottom Fulham a day before Maurizio Sarri'sside make a daunting trip to Manchester Cityon Sunday.

Solskjaer wants to ensure that United donot lose their focus and that they improve ontheir performance at Leicester last weekend,despite emerging 1-0 victorious at the KingPower.

"Of course you take one step at a time andthat's one of the goals we've set - that we move

into the top four. And if we do so, we wantto stay there and improve on that," said theNorwegian.

"Of course, the past two months havebeen fantastic with the points we've got, soconsistency is now the key word, that we keepon winning games but in a better way thansay the Leicester one. I felt that we hung on.It was good enough but we shouldn't be happywith just good enough.

"We want to improve. The Fulham game

coming up is a character revealer. Do we havethe focus on what's important, which is alwaysthe next game in football? And can we for-get about PSG and all the games coming up?

"I know the focus around the place andin the media has been about the PSG gamefor a long time, and Chelsea and Liverpool,but they're not the games that will move usup the table."

United are continuing to plan for the longterm as they go through the process of decid-

ing who will become their permanent man-ager next season, with Solskjaer's case nowhard to ignore.

The club announced on Friday thatdefender Phil Jones has signed a contractextension that commits him to the club untilJune 2023, with the option of a further year.

Jones has not always been a crowdfavourite during his seven years at OldTrafford, but has featured in all 10 gamesunder Solskjaer.

"It's a signal for the players that we believein them and it's a signal for supporters thatwe plan ahead," added Solskjaer. "Phil hasbeen here for so long. He's won the PremierLeague, he's won trophies and he knows whatit takes for us to move up the table."

Solskjaer acknowledged that the discus-sions over Jones' contract had started beforehis arrival, but believes that he has managedto stamp his authority on the United teamduring his short time in charge.

"Every day I feel that I do help the clubput my stamp on it, yes.

"But decisions on players' futures aresometimes not down to me. It can be fromthe players: Do they want to stay or move on?

"We have a vision of how we want to lookin a few years and we have to think long-termand also short-term. I've got a picture of whatthis Man Utd team should look in a coupleof years but I put my views to (executive vice-chairman) Ed Woodward and the club."

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Unai Emery insists he won't be affect-ed by growing criticism of his

Arsenal reign as the misfiring Gunnersbid to get back on track at Huddersfieldon Saturday.

Emery's side head to Huddersfieldconfident they can use the PremierLeague's bottom club as a cure for trav-el sickness that has seen them fail to winoutside the Emirates Stadium in thatcompetition since November 25.

Arsenal fans were not impressed withan insipid performance in their 3-1 lossat Manchester City last week that suggest-ed Emery has yet to get to grips withproblems he inherited from ArseneWenger at the end of last season.

But the fixture list has been kind tothe Spaniard and three points atHuddersfield would keep sixth placedArsenal in contention for a top four fin-ish.

The trip to Yorkshire is followed bya longer journey to Belarus to take onBATE Borisov next Thursday as theEuropa League returns.

But Arsenal's FA Cup eliminationmeans they can enjoy a free weekendbefore completing the tie in London, withFebruary then ending with winnablehome games in the league againstSouthampton and Bournemouth.

Top four rivals Chelsea, in contrast,play Manchester City on Sunday and thenTottenham in the league before the endof the month.

Fifth placed Manchester United havethe distraction of a Champions Leaguelast 16 tie against Paris Saint Germainlooming and take on Liverpool in theleague later in February.

Arsenal will therefore have onlythemselves to blame if they finish themonth in a weaker position than theybegan.

Emery, the most successful coach inEuropa League history, can legitimatelyexpect to wait until March before decid-ing whether that competition offers amore realistic opportunity of ChampionsLeague qualification than a league plac-ing.

- Play with passion -But he is adamant the recent criticism

of his stewardship had not affected him,even if Arsenal's away form is a cause forconcern.

"My first critic is always myself," hesaid. "I work over the criticism of mebecause I know that work in the presentcan change our way.

"We have the possibility and theopportunity to get into the top four, butwe know it's not easy. One month ago, wewere in the same situation. We arestrong at home but we need to do betteraway.

"We started very well away, changingalso our mentality to get more pointsaway, but now we need to recover this

confidence and the next opportunity isagainst Huddersfield.

"We know that defensively we needto do better. We have to continue in ourway with passion and also stay calm."

Emery is hoping January loan sign-ing Denis Suarez can make a biggerimpact following a noticeably poor debutagainst his former club Manchester City

The Barcelona winger, 25, trained onhis day off in the hope of getting up tospeed by the weekend.

"His adaptation to us and also onSunday in 25 minutes, in the first dayswith us, is not with good performance,"Emery said.

"This week he worked Monday alonehere with our coaches and he's workingwith a different adaptation, better thanlast week.

"I hope he's continuing to improveevery day. Then he can show in the nextmatches how he can help us, better thanin the first match against ManchesterCity."

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From one exhibition match last year, the women'sparticipation in the IPL is set to become a three-

team affair spread over seven to 10 days with theCommittee of Administrators (CoA) mulling anexpansion this year.

However, the full fledged women's IPL is still along shot as, according to an official, the BCCI is find-ing it extremely difficult to get good investors/teambidders.

Last year, the BCCI organised one exhibitionmatch with two teams -- IPL Trailblazers and IPLSupernovas led by Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaurrespectively.

This year, the parent body, currently run by theSupreme Court-appointed two-member CoA, wantsto scale it up a bit in order to set the ball rolling fora women's IPL in a few years' time.

"Yes, the women's T20 matches will be held thisyear also. It will be a week to 10 days affair during themen's IPL. Once the BCCI gets clearance from theelection commission and Home Ministry on dates, theitinerary will be fixed," a senior board functionary toldPTI on conditions of anonymity.

However, the official said it would be difficult tohave more than three teams considering the "quali-ty" of India's bench strength in women's cricket.

"At the max, we can have three teams withHarmanpreet, Smriti and may be Mithali (for this year)leading the sides. They play against each other onceand the top two play a tournament decider. It couldbe a seven-day affair," the official said.

"BCCI would decide the teams as there aren't anyproper bidders who are interested in buying women'steams. Yes, we might rope in a few good sponsors,"he said.

"So at the moment, the BCCI will have to pay theplayers, including the match fees of foreign players,along with a decent prize money," he added.

Even if it's a three team affair with 14 players aside, the BCCI will need at least 30 Indian women whocould measure up for a top flight league cricket.

The problem that BCCI faces, according toinsiders, is that a sub-standard A team has failed tobecome a supply line for the main team.

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India's aspirations of qualifying for theFed Cup World Group were dashed

after hosts Kazakhstan thrashed them 3-0 in a Pool A tie here on Friday.

Neither Ankita Raina nor KarmanKaur Thandi could win their singles rub-bers losing to their respective opponentsin straight sets and it will take somemore time to realise their aspirations ofmaking it among the elites.

It was always an uphill task for theIndians to beat the higher-ranked homeplayers but inspirational performance byAnkita against the same players last yearhad raised visions of an upset.

The tie again began on a losing notewhen Karman failed to capitalise on herchances against Zarina Diyas in her 3-6, 2-6 defeat.

In a match that lasted an hour and22 minutes, the lanky Indian had eightbreak chances but converted only twoagainst the world number 96.

Like Thursday, the team looked upto Ankita for an upset win against worldnumber 43 Yulia Putintseva to stay alivebut the home player quelled the late

resistance from the Indian to prevail 6-1, 7-6(4) in an hour and 57 minutes.

Playing at home last year, during herunbeaten singles campaign, Ankita hadbeaten Yulia and other higher-rankedplayers from China. However, an encoredid not happen.

"The scoreline looks deceptive. Itwas a tough fight and one or twopoints made the difference. The Kazakhgirls knew how to step up at crucialpoints like at 5-all. Their unforcederrors were minimum," India coachAnkita Bhambri said.

"They hit the ball hard and made ourgirls play that one extra ball to induceerrors and that made huge difference.They are not in top-100 for nothing. Andit shows why there is difference in therankings," she added.

In the doubles rubber, Riya Bhatiaand Prarthana Thombare were thrashed6-1, 6-1 by Anna Danilina and GalinaVoskoboeva in 55 minutes.

The Indian team will continue toremain in the Asia/Oceania Group I,irrespective of the outcome of the out-come of Saturday's third place tie againstKorea.

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Ashoddy batting performance by themiddle-order saw Indian women

lose a nail-biting second T20International against New Zealand byfour wickets and concede the three-match series on Friday.

The Indian women had earlier lostthe first Twenty20 International by 23runs in Wellington.

Needing a win to keep the seriesalive, Indian women posted a modest135 for 6 despite being 72 for 2 afterthe first 10 overs.

Chasing a modest target, NewZealand made heavy weather of thechase before scampering home off thelast ball of the match losing only sixwickets.

"I think we should give credit toour bowlers, it wasn't a good total butstill they fought for us. We were 20 runsshort, They played better cricket thanus. We just need to learn from our mis-takes and play better," India skipperHarmanpreet Kaur said after thematch.

Jemimah Rodrigues slammed a53-ball 72 that included six boundariesand one six but India scored only 63runs in the back 10 to end up 20 runsshort, which became their undoing.

The White Ferns lost two quickwickets — opener Sophie Devine (19)and Caitlin Gurrey (4) by the seventhover with the scoreboard reading 40.

But then Suzie Bates (62) and AmySatterthwaite (23) joined hands and the

duo stitched 61 runs for the third wick-et to get New Zealand women backinto the track.

Left-arm orthodox bowler RadhaYadav (2/23) and medium pacerArundhati Reddy (2/22) bowled wellin the middle overs to take the matchdown to the wire.

Reddy, in fact, brought Indiawomen back into the match with twinblows in the 18th over -- first dismiss-ing a set Bates and then accounting forAnna Peterson for a first ball duck to

bring India back into the contest.New Zealand needed nine runs off

the last over and Katey Martinsmacked Mansi Joshi for a boundaryoff the first ball to bring down theequation to five off five balls.

Joshi, however, got her revenge bygetting through the defence of Martinin the next ball.

But it was not to be India's day assome sloppy fielding and sensible bat-ting by Hannah Rowe and LeighKasperek took New Zealand home.

"We probably should have donethat lot easier than what we did. ButI am happy. Feels like it's been a whilesince we won a series," New Zealandcaptain Amy Satherwaite said.

Earlier, Jemimah, with in-formopener Smriti Mandhana (36 off 27),Rodrigues added 63 runs for the sec-ond-wicket to lay the base for the totalafter the visitors lost opener PriyaPunia (4) early.

Invited to bat, India women strug-gled to put up partnerships and theone between Mandhana andRodrigues saved the visitors' fromhumilation.

When Mandhana and Rodrigueswere at the crease, India women weregoing great guns as the duo playedfearlessly to put together 71 runs in 9.1overs before the visitors lostMandhana.

Mandhana's dismissal brought inHarmanpreet but the skipper didn'tlast long and perished after scoringonly five runs.

Rodrigues, though, carried onand registered fifth T20 fifty of hercareer but didn't get enough supportfrom the other end to take India past150-run mark.

Rodrigues got out in the penulti-mate over while trying to go for bigshots, stumped by Katey Martin offleg-spinner Amelia Kerr.

Besides Rodrigues andMandhana, it was a struggle through-out for others as no batswomen couldeven manage double digit scores.

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The Indian women's team captainHarmanpreet Kaur on Friday

conceded that New Zealand womendeserved to win the T20 series butsaid her "young" side gave a toughfight and learnt valuable lessons fromthe defeats.

"No doubt, New Zealand playedbetter cricket than us and so theywon. But I am not disappointed thatwe lost the series. We are here to playgood cricket and we did that. Weplayed really well, especially thebowlers," Harmanpreet said.

"We were defending 130-oddand it was difficult for the bowlers.They bowled really well and took thematch to the last over. Overall, weplayed good cricket."

She said it was a learning curvefor a lot of players in the team.

"We did not win the series butmore than winning and losing, welearnt a lot. We have a very youngsquad, there are very few players whohave played more than 30 matches.Most of the players have played lessthan 10 T20I matches. It is a goodlearning process for us," said the 29-year-old batswoman.

"We are building a team. Today,we may be facing difficulties but infuture we will do well as the youngplayers gain experience. I think thefuture is good for the team and

results will follow."The Indian women won the

ODI series 2-1 but Kaur said T20 wasa totally different format and theinexperience of her players showed.

"It (T20) is a totally different for-mat. In ODIs, you can come backeven if you do make a mistake. Butin T20, you have very less time tothink about that. You have to bealways on your toes," she said.

"But as I said we are a young sideand we are not disappointed (by theloss). We have learnt a lot from thisseries.

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India on Friday bounced backwith a clinical performance in

the second game and stand-inskipper Rohit Sharma said it wasa result of quickly learning fromtheir mistakes.

India suffered their biggestever defeat in T20s in terms ofruns at Wellington onWednesday but the visitors wentto the second game with thesame team.

The captain led from thefront to ensure a seven-wicketwin, their first in a T20 on NewZealand soil.

"Very pleased to see how webowled, and we were quite clin-ical with the bat as well. We havequality in our side, but we exe-cuted our plans better today,after learning from our mis-takes," said Rohit at the post-match presentation.

"It's important to under-stand the mistakes that we made— it's been a long tour for every-one. So we didn't want to put alot of pressure on the boys, justgo in there with a clear mind."

The series decider will beplayed at Hamilton on Sunday.

"It's going to be a cracker ofa game in the 3rd T20I, butnothing to take away from NewZealand, they're still a qualityside," Rohit said.

New Zealand posted 158and skipper Kane Williamsonfelt his team could have donebetter with the bat.

"It was slightly trickier to bat(here), but 20 more runs at thedeath would have been better. Itwasn't a 180-200 wicket forsure, but the opening partner-ship from India just took itaway," said Williamson.

"It's important that as a sidewe are aware of the good bits wehave done and put that intopractice every time we come outto bat. Today it wasn't our dayto be honest," he added.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni watchedfrom the 22 yards distance as hisheir apparent Rishabh Pant

showed spunk in a tricky situation, guid-ing India to their maiden T20 Internationalvictory on New Zealand soil on Friday.

The seven-wicket triumph was set upby skipper Rohit Sharma (50 off 29 balls)in company of Shikhar Dhawan (30, 31balls) with a 79-run stand after KrunalPandya got three wickets to restrict thehosts to 158/8.

With his whirlwind fifty, Rohit alsobecame the top run-getter in the format,surpassing Martin Guptill.

Dhoni, the original master finisher,couldn't have been happier as he saw Pantcontrol what could have been a tricky 159-run chase chase with an unbeaten 40 off28 balls. The series is now tied 1-1 with the

decider in Hamilton on Sunday.With the former India captain (20 no

off 17 balls) playing the role of a mentorat the other end, the 44-run stand was verysignificant as Indian cricket slowly moves

towards a change of guard in coming days.Pant's one-handed six off Tim Southee

or the bowler's back drive off ScottKuggeleijn to finish off the match werereminiscent of Dhoni's best days. Pant hitfour boundaries and a six in all.

Earlier, Rohit's f licked six offKuggeleijn over backward square leg wasa treat for the eyes but his dismissal alongwith Vijay Shankar's did create a bit ofunrest. However, Pant ensured that theydidn't press the panic button.

The innings would certainly help himmake a strong case for being included inthe World Cup squad.

While bowling, Krunal enhanced hisalready growing reputation as a steadyshort format bowler with three importantbreakthroughs as India restricted NewZealand to a below-par 158/8.

The parsimonious Krunal (3/28 in 4overs) dismissed Colin Munro (12) andskipper Kane Williamson (20) to peg theBlack Caps back early in the innings.

In between, Krunal also got the con-troversial wicket of Daryl Mitchell (1), whofell prey to an umpiring howler, when'Hotspot' showed a clear inside edge ontothe pads.

However, Colin de Grandhomme,who has played for KKR in the IPL, thencounter-attacked, scoring a blistering 50 off28 balls, adding 77 runs with Ross Taylor(42 off 36 balls) for the fifth wicket.

Once De Grandhomme was sent back

to the dug-out by Hardik Pandya (1/36 in4 overs) and Taylor was run-out, NewZealand's chances of a big total went upin smoke.

It was a much-improved performanceby the Indian bowlers with BhuvneshwarKumar (1/29 in 4 overs) removing TimSeifert (12) in the very third over with afuller delivery, inducing an inside edge toMahendra Singh Dhoni behind thestumps.

However, it was Krunal, who reallyapplied the brakes after being broughtinside the Powerplay overs.

The elder Pandya quickly found the

ideal length, bowling his usual wicket towicket deliveries with a flatter trajectory.

Both Munro and Williamson gotskidders. While the left-handed openerMunro hit one straight to the cover,Williamson was caught plumb in-front.

However, it was the dismissal ofMitchell that once again raised the 'Spiritof Cricket' debate even though it was aclear case of an umpiring howler by TVumpire Shaun Haig.

At 50 for 4, it was De Grandhomme,who took charge as he attacked YuzvendraChahal (0/37 in 4 overs), hitting him fora couple of sixes.

When he was just about threateningto take the game away, De Grandhommesmacked one straight to covers in skipperRohit's hands.

India bowled 35 dot balls, whichcould well have been decisive in the finalcontext of the match.

Young Khaleel Ahmed (2/27) polishedoff two wickets in the end. He andBhuvneshwar also bowled 18 dot ballsbetween them.

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Veteran Indian cricketer YuvrajSingh on Friday said Mahendra

Singh Dhoni's presence is crucial tothe country's World Cup chances ashe is a "guiding" force for currentcaptain Virat Kohli and "important"in decision-making.

Dhoni's place in the side hasbeen a subject of debate owing tohis inconsistent form but many,including former captain SunilGavaskar, have said that histremendous grasp of match situa-tions makes him invaluable.

Yuvraj, the 2011 World Cup'splayer of the tournament, echoedthe sentiment when asked aboutthe Dhoni factor here at an inter-action.

"I think Mahi (Dhoni) has agreat cricket brain. And as a wick-et-keeper, you are in the bestposition to monitor the game andhe has done that fantastically over

the years. He has been a great cap-tain. (He is) with the young play-ers and guiding Virat (Kohli) allthe time," Yuvraj said.

"So, I feel his presence is veryimportant in decision-making. Hehad a fantastic tournament inAustralia and it is good to see himhit the ball how he used to do, andI wish him all the best," added thebatsman, who had hit six sixes inan over during the World T20 in2007.

But Yuvraj steered clear ofqueries on which batting positionDhoni should come in.

"That you have to ask Dhoni,which number he has to bat," hesaid.

Yuvraj will be competing forMumbai Indians in the IPL andsaid he will look to ease the pres-sure on skipper Rohit Sharma.

"I think, if I can contribute inthe middle-order, it will just takesome weight off him (Rohit) and

he can just go and play his natur-al game, while opening. (We will)see how the combinations (go),"Yuvraj told reporters.

The 37-year-old left-handerfound a buyer quite late at the IPLplayers' auction held in Jaipur lastDecember for his base price of �one crore after going unsold ini-tially.

"I'm very fired up boss, I havebeen training in the nets everyday,"said Yuvraj.

He also lauded fellow Punjabplayer Shubman Gill, who recent-ly made his India One Day debutin New Zealand, saying hisprogress over the last one year hasbeen amazing.

"I was excited to see him(Shubman) play for India. It isamazing, how he has improved somuch. He came back from the(India) A tour, scored lot of runsin domestic cricket, straightawaygot an opportunity," said Yuvraj.

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Out-of-favour India opener K LRahul was back amongst the runs,

his unbeaten 88 steeringIndia A to 219 for one onday two of the first unof-ficial Test against EnglandLions on Friday.

India 'A' came up witha strong reply to EnglandLions' first innings score of340, courtesy Rahul andPriyank Panchal, who wasunbeaten on 89.

Navdeep Saini's five-wicket haul helped thehost restrict the Lions,who resumed the day at 303 for five.Apart from Ben Duckett (80), therewere half-centuries for Sam Hain (61)and Will Jack (63).

The stylish Rahul, who played afew matches in the preceding ODIseries against the Lions but couldn't getgoing, started slowly, scoring 12 off 57balls.

He played with assurance and inPanchal's company added 171 runs forthe second wicket.

Rahul looked compact and left alot of balls early in hisinnings. After settling down,he played some delightfulshots all round the wicket,including a few beautifuldrives.

The stylish Karnatakabatsman, who had a dismalAustralia tour, handled theLions pace bowlers and spin-ners with equal ease andFriday's knock would givehim a lot of confidence in thewake of his recent on and off

field struggles.Gujarat batsman Panchal matched

Rahul stroke for stroke and playedsome lovely shots, hitting 16 fours inall.

Earlier in the day, Saini picked upthree of the five wickets to fall in thefirst session, triggering the Lions's col-lapse from 321 for six to 340 all out.

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India stand-in captain Rohit Sharmaon Friday became the highest run-

getter in the Twenty20 Internationals,surpassing New Zealand's MartinGuptill.

Rohit achieved the feat in style,clobbering leg-spinner Ish Sodhi overthe fine-leg boundary for a six dur-ing India's chase.

Coming onto the match, Rohitneeded just 35 runs to surpass Guptill(2272 runs), who didn't play Friday'smatch and the right-hander slammeda 29-ball 50 before being dismissed.

Rohit (2288), who achieved thefeat in 93 matches, also went pastPakistani all-rounder Shoaib Malik(2263), who is third in the list.

India captain Virat Kohli (2167runs) is placed fourth in the chartahead of former New Zealand wick-et-keeper batsman BrendonMcCullum (2140).

Rohit, who failed in the firstT20, also became the third player inthe history of T20 cricket after Guptilland Chris Gayle to hit 100 sixes.

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An inside edge was apparent even without theHotspot technology but New Zealand bats-

man Daryl Mitchell fell to a contentious LBW callduring the second T20 International against Indiawhich also triggered a debate on the spirit of thegame.

Mitchell, who made his debut in the first T20in Wellington, was at the centre of a massive DRScontroversy during the second game.

He was given out LBW to Krunal Pandya inthe seventh over of New Zealand's innings by theon-field umpires and opted for a review on theinsistence of his skipper Kane Williamson, whowas at the non-striker's end.

TV replays clearly showed there was an insideedge and a huge spot on the hotspot could alsobe detected as the ball passed the bat but he wasstill given out by third umpire Shaun Haig.

"This is a horror decision," said the on-aircommentators.

Williamson expressed his dismay to theumpires and asked Mitchell to stop.

The situation became a little animated whenformer captain and wicketkeeper MahendraSingh Dhoni had a word with Williamson and theumpire in the presence of captain Rohit Sharma.

In the end, the on-field umpires went by therule book and Mitchell had to make his way backto the dugout.

The only way he could have survived was ifRohit had called him back after replays on the bigscreen made it clear that there was an inside edgebefore the ball hit the batsman's pads.

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