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T he biggest surprise in the portfolio allocation of the Modi Cabinet on Friday was crucial Finance Ministry going to Nirmala Sitharaman, who was immediately greeted by the forecast of a sagging economy which saw GDP falling to a five-year low of 5.8 per cent and the Government admitting that the unemployment has hit a 45-year high figure. Nirmala became the first woman in 48 years since then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to hold charge of the Finance Minister. Nirmala, who became the first full-time woman Defence Minister in the first tenure of the BJP Government, will also head the Corporate Affairs Ministry. Indira — who handled the Finance Ministry in 1970-71 — as PM had held additional charge of the Defence Ministry. Among the BJP leaders, Niramala is a relatively junior face in the Modi Government. She joined the BJP in 2008 and was made a member of the National Executive. She was nominated as party spokesper- son in March 2010 and has been a full time party worker since then. Her elevation as Finance Minister has raised eyebrows both within and out- side the BJP. Nirmala took over as Defence Minister in September 2017 taking over from Arun Jaitley, who was holding the portfolio as additional charge. At a time when the GDP is falling, unemployment is rising, export and FDI flow slowing down, and credit off take and NPA emerging major area of concerns, news agency PTI quoted analysts as saying that the narrative in markets will be about economic policies that will be adopted to revive and stimulate the slowing economy. “The ambiguity of portfo- lio allocation is now removed, so this is good for the market in a sense. We will get to see new Finance Minister Nirmala’s proposals and approach in the Budget due in about a month,” said Jagannadham Thunuguntla, Sr VP and Head of Research, Centrum Broking Limited. “Emergence of clarity is what was important, and now narrative in markets will be about the economic policies that will be adopted to revive and stimulate the slowing econ- omy,” he said. Meanwhile, India’s eco- nomic growth rate slowed to five-year low of 5.8 per cent in January-March 2018-19, due to poor performance in agricul- ture and manufacturing sec- tors, official data released on Friday said. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) also revealed that GDP growth during 2018- 19 fiscal stood at 6.8 per cent, lower than 7.2 per cent in the previous financial year. The growth in GDP was slowest since 2014-15. The previous low was 6.4 per cent in 2013- 14. The fourth quarter growth was below China’s 6.4 per cent. On the unemployment front, Nirmala faced the daunt- ing task of dealing with jobless growth. Months after rejecting the claim that India’s unem- ployment rate had touched a 45-year high, the Narendra Modi Government admitted the same on Friday with the lat- est data showing that jobless- ness had indeed touched 6.1 per cent from July 2017 to June 2018. The unemployment rate is defined as the percentage of persons unemployed among the total labour force. The data released by the Government on a day when Modi 2.0 Cabinet took charge showed 7.8 per cent of all employable urban youth being jobless, while the percentage for the rural was 5.3 per cent. The joblessness among males on all India basis was 6.2 per cent, while it was 5.7 per cent in case of females. The data comes from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), which was conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) from July 2017 to June 2018, and covered 4.3 lakh people across 1.02 lakh households. The PLFS notes that the all-India unemploy- ment rate was at 6.1 per cent for 2017-18, the highest since 1972-73. As per data, share of self- employed among workers was about 57.8 per cent among rural males, 57.7 per cent among rural females, 39.2 per cent among urban males and 34.7 per cent among urban females. Among regular wage/salaried employees in the non-agriculture sector, 71.1 per cent had no written job contract: 72.3 per cent among males and 66.8 per cent among females. The data showed jobless- ness for rural male youth (aged 15-29) went from 5 per cent in 2011-12 to 17.4 per cent in 2017-18. For rural women in the same age group, joblessness went from 4.8 per cent in 2011-12 to 13.6 per cent in 2017-18. The Government had ear- lier brushed aside a leaked official report on the country’s poor job scenario and main- tained that the unemployment data was yet to be finalised. The Modi Government had come under fire for witholding the key macro data, with the Opposition parties alleging that it was a deliberate attempt to hide its non-performance. Moreover, some members of the Statistical Commission had earlier resigned to protest against the Government’s deci- sion to withold the data. The data poses a huge challenge to the Modi Government which has returned to power for the sec- ond term on the promise that it will set policies right and ensure faster economic growth and employment. The data is also significant because this was the first comprehensive assess- ment of the employment situ- ation conducted after Modi’s decision in November 2016 to withdraw most of the country’s banknotes from circulation overnight. B JP strongman Amit Shah, who had promised that his Government would scrap Article 370, is new Union Home Minister in place of Rajnath Singh. Rajnath has been moved to Defence while Nirmala Sitharaman has been entrusted with an equally high- profile Ministry of Finance and Corporate Affairs. Replacing Sushma Swaraj, who held the portfolio of Foreign Minister in Modi-1 but opted not to contest Lok Sabha polls, is former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar. The critical Ministry has been given to Jaishankar, trusted by Modi since latter’s days as Chief Minister in Gujarat. Jaishankar, son of noted strategic expert and a former head of Institute of Defence Studies K Subrahmanyam, is the first former foreign secre- tary to take charge of MEA. He is also the second diplomat after Natwar Singh to hold Cabinet portfolio. The command of home portfolio going to Shah is sig- nificant given his poll-time assertion in West Bengal last month that his Government would remove controversial provision of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir. “We will remove Article 370 from Kashmir after forming the next BJP Government at the Centre,” he had said at Kailimpong public rally at Darjeeling. Besides this, he has also maintained that his Government would introduce National Register for Citizens across the country if voted to power again at the Centre. One of the closest confi- dant of the Prime Minister, Shah has held MoS home port- folio under Modi’s Chief Ministership in Gujarat. Presently an MP from Gandhi Nagar, Shah was in the past elected as an MLA in 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2007. As Home Minister, the former BJP president is expect- ed to have a high-level of syn- ergy with the Prime Minister who was effusive in his praise of Shah soon after party’s stu- pendous Lok Sabha success on May 23 when BJP went past 300 and NDA 350 seats. Sitharaman has stepped into the shoes of Arun Jaitley, who opted out of new Government on health grounds. Known as close to Jaitley, Sitharaman had a steep rise in her profile from being spokesperson to holding min- istries of Corporate Affairs, Commerce and Industry to becoming first full-fledged Indian woman Defence Minister. She will have a deputy in Anurag Thakur, a first time Minister in the Modi Government. Anurag is close to Jaitley. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain the Department of Personnel and Training, Atomic Energy and Space as well as all important policy issues and portfolios not allocated. Giant slayer Smriti Irani, who ended Congress presi- dent Rahul Gandhi’s run in his pocket borough of Amethi, is the new Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister along with retaining the Textile Ministry, according to a com- muniqué issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan. WCD was earlier held by Maneka Gandhi who has not been included in the Cabinet. B ihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (U) president Nitish Kumar on Friday made it clear that there is no question that his party will join the Union Cabinet in future even as he disclosed that BJP chief Amit Shah made repeated attempts to convince him to accept his proposal for one berth in the Modi Cabinet. “As the JD(U) national president, I want to tell that there is no question of JD(U) joining the Union Cabinet in the future,” news agency PTI quoted Kumar telling reporters at the Patna airport on his returning from Delhi after par- ticipating in the swearing-in ceremony of Modi. Nitish, however, made it clear that one should not have any confusion that being in the Government is the only testi- mony that they are with the Government. “We are firmly with the NDA,” Kumar said. The Bihar CM insisted there is no “unease” between the alliance partners and that the decision against joining the Ministry was taken as the JD(U)’s presence there would have been merely “symbolic”. The JD(U) president said Shah called him up on May 28 and said he wanted to meet him for discussion the next day. He said the two met in New Delhi Shah told him that his party wanted to share power with all NDA constituents, and suggested that the JD(U) accepts a Cabinet berth. “I kept listening to him and the sense I had was that it was to be a symbolic presence for the JD(U) in the Government. I didn’t want that. Still, as he insisted, I told him that I will consult my party and get back to him,” Kumar told reporters. I n a first of its kind, former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar is now heading the same Ministry and took charge on Friday. An expert on China and the US, his new stint will be keenly watched to see whether he brings any change in India’s approach towards Pakistan. Incidentally, he assumed the new responsibil- ity nearly 16 months after retir- ing as a career diplomat. Natwar Singh was the another Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer to head the External Affairs Ministry during the UPA regime. Elevated to the high-profile Ministry as its Minister, Jaishankar will be busy in preparing the groundwork for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bilateral visit to Sri Lanka later in June. It will be Modi’s second foreign visit after taking the oath of office. Continued on Page 4 F ulfilling its poll promises in the very first Cabinet meet- ing, the NDA Government on Friday decided to extend PM- KISAN scheme to all 14.5 crore farmers in the country costing 87,000 crore a year and also announced over 10,000 crore pension scheme for 5 crore farmers. Implementing another poll promise, the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi also announced monthly pension of 3,000 to all shopkeepers, retail traders and self employed per- sons after attaining the age of 60 years. Continued on Page 4 T he State Government would soon adopt a pro- gressive policy to provide qual- ity health services to people, said new Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Kishore Das on Friday. Visiting the department for the first time after assum- ing his office, the Minister set a 100-day timeline for making the Health Department proac- tive and people-centric and asked the concerned officers to work in that direction. Das discussed about pro- viding health services with ease to people in all medical colleges and health centres and filling up of vacant doctor posts in all health facilities. He called upon all officers and employees to work in coordi- nation so that people would continue to have trust on the department. Health Secretary Dr Pramod Kumar Meherda briefed the Minster about var- ious programmes and plans of the department. Among others, Special Secretaries Sharat Mishra and Dr BK Brahma, State Medical Corporation MD Archana Patnaik and Joint Secretary Yamini Sarangi were present. T he arrival of monsoon in the State is likely to be delayed as the conditions are still not favourable for its advancement, said the Regional Office of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) here on Friday. But the southwest mon- soon has picked up some pace after remaining stagnant over the Andaman sea for over a week. The Northern Limit of Monsoon (NLM) has advanced into the southern Maldives- Comorin area, around 400 km from the Kerala coast. As per the latest forecast, the monsoon is likely to hit the Kerala coast between June 5 and 8. Moreover, the rainfall over the country as a whole for the 2019 southwest monsoon sea- son (June to September) is most likely to be normal, said the IMD. The IMD Regional Office informed that the heat wave conditions would continue to prevail in Odisha for the next two to three days. The weather office also informed that there would be a slight dip in the temperature as several parts of Odisha would experience nor’wester rain in the coming days. O disha’s Pratap Chandra Sarangi is among six newly-appointed Union Ministers who have declared cases related to creating com- munal disharmony. This was revealed in a report by the National Election Watch and the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) on Friday. Sarangi, the Baleswar MP, who has been given the charge of Minister of State for MSME and Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries in the Modi Government, has seven communal disharmony cases pending against him, stated the report.

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Page 1: English News Paper | Breaking News | Latest Today News in ......the first full-time woman Defence Minister in the first tenure of the BJP Government, will also head the Corporate

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The biggest surprise in theportfolio allocation of the

Modi Cabinet on Friday wascrucial Finance Ministry goingto Nirmala Sitharaman, whowas immediately greeted by theforecast of a sagging economywhich saw GDP falling to afive-year low of 5.8 per centand the Government admittingthat the unemployment has hita 45-year high figure.

Nirmala became the firstwoman in 48 years since thenPrime Minister Indira Gandhito hold charge of the FinanceMinister. Nirmala, who becamethe first full-time womanDefence Minister in the firsttenure of the BJP Government,will also head the CorporateAffairs Ministry.

Indira — who handled theFinance Ministry in 1970-71 —as PM had held additionalcharge of the Defence Ministry.

Among the BJP leaders,Niramala is a relatively juniorface in the Modi Government.

She joined the BJP in 2008and was made a member of theNational Executive. She wasnominated as party spokesper-son in March 2010 and hasbeen a full time party workersince then. Her elevation asFinance Minister has raisedeyebrows both within and out-side the BJP.

Nirmala took over asDefence Minister in September2017 taking over from ArunJaitley, who was holding theportfolio as additional charge.

At a time when the GDP isfalling, unemployment is rising,export and FDI flow slowingdown, and credit off take andNPA emerging major area ofconcerns, news agency PTIquoted analysts as saying thatthe narrative in markets will beabout economic policies thatwill be adopted to revive andstimulate the slowing economy.

“The ambiguity of portfo-lio allocation is now removed,so this is good for the marketin a sense. We will get to seenew Finance Minister

Nirmala’s proposals andapproach in the Budget due inabout a month,” saidJagannadham Thunuguntla, SrVP and Head of Research,Centrum Broking Limited.

“Emergence of clarity iswhat was important, and nownarrative in markets will beabout the economic policiesthat will be adopted to reviveand stimulate the slowing econ-omy,” he said.

Meanwhile, India’s eco-nomic growth rate slowed tofive-year low of 5.8 per cent inJanuary-March 2018-19, due topoor performance in agricul-ture and manufacturing sec-tors, official data released onFriday said.

The Central StatisticsOffice (CSO) also revealedthat GDP growth during 2018-19 fiscal stood at 6.8 per cent,lower than 7.2 per cent in theprevious financial year. Thegrowth in GDP was slowestsince 2014-15. The previouslow was 6.4 per cent in 2013-14. The fourth quarter growth

was below China’s 6.4 per cent.On the unemployment

front, Nirmala faced the daunt-ing task of dealing with joblessgrowth. Months after rejectingthe claim that India’s unem-ployment rate had touched a45-year high, the NarendraModi Government admitted

the same on Friday with the lat-est data showing that jobless-ness had indeed touched 6.1per cent from July 2017 to June2018. The unemployment rateis defined as the percentage ofpersons unemployed amongthe total labour force.

The data released by the

Government on a day whenModi 2.0 Cabinet took chargeshowed 7.8 per cent of allemployable urban youth beingjobless, while the percentage forthe rural was 5.3 per cent. Thejoblessness among males on allIndia basis was 6.2 per cent,while it was 5.7 per cent in caseof females.

The data comes from thePeriodic Labour Force Survey(PLFS), which was conductedby the National Sample SurveyOffice (NSSO) from July 2017to June 2018, and covered 4.3

lakh people across 1.02 lakhhouseholds. The PLFS notesthat the all-India unemploy-ment rate was at 6.1 per centfor 2017-18, the highest since1972-73.

As per data, share of self-employed among workers wasabout 57.8 per cent amongrural males, 57.7 per centamong rural females, 39.2 percent among urban males and34.7 per cent among urbanfemales. Among regularwage/salaried employees in thenon-agriculture sector, 71.1per cent had no written jobcontract: 72.3 per cent amongmales and 66.8 per cent amongfemales.

The data showed jobless-ness for rural male youth (aged15-29) went from 5 per cent in2011-12 to 17.4 per cent in2017-18. For rural women inthe same age group, joblessnesswent from 4.8 per cent in2011-12 to 13.6 per cent in2017-18.

The Government had ear-lier brushed aside a leaked

official report on the country’spoor job scenario and main-tained that the unemploymentdata was yet to be finalised. TheModi Government had comeunder fire for witholding thekey macro data, with theOpposition parties allegingthat it was a deliberate attemptto hide its non-performance.Moreover, some members ofthe Statistical Commission hadearlier resigned to protestagainst the Government’s deci-sion to withold the data.

The data poses a hugechallenge to the ModiGovernment which hasreturned to power for the sec-ond term on the promise thatit will set policies right andensure faster economic growthand employment. The data isalso significant because this wasthe first comprehensive assess-ment of the employment situ-ation conducted after Modi’sdecision in November 2016 towithdraw most of the country’sbanknotes from circulationovernight.

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BJP strongman Amit Shah,who had promised that his

Government would scrapArticle 370, is new UnionHome Minister in place ofRajnath Singh. Rajnath hasbeen moved to Defence whileNirmala Sitharaman has beenentrusted with an equally high-profile Ministry of Financeand Corporate Affairs.

Replacing Sushma Swaraj,who held the portfolio ofForeign Minister in Modi-1 butopted not to contest Lok Sabhapolls, is former ForeignSecretary S Jaishankar. Thecritical Ministry has been givento Jaishankar, trusted by Modisince latter’s days as ChiefMinister in Gujarat.

Jaishankar, son of notedstrategic expert and a formerhead of Institute of DefenceStudies K Subrahmanyam, isthe first former foreign secre-tary to take charge of MEA. Heis also the second diplomatafter Natwar Singh to holdCabinet portfolio.

The command of homeportfolio going to Shah is sig-nificant given his poll-timeassertion in West Bengal lastmonth that his Governmentwould remove controversialprovision of Article 370 inJammu & Kashmir. “We willremove Article 370 fromKashmir after forming the nextBJP Government at theCentre,” he had said atKailimpong public rally atDarjeeling. Besides this, hehas also maintained that hisGovernment would introduceNational Register for Citizensacross the country if voted topower again at the Centre.

One of the closest confi-dant of the Prime Minister,Shah has held MoS home port-folio under Modi’s ChiefMinistership in Gujarat.Presently an MP from Gandhi

Nagar, Shah was in the pastelected as an MLA in 1997,1998, 2002 and 2007.

As Home Minister, theformer BJP president is expect-ed to have a high-level of syn-ergy with the Prime Ministerwho was effusive in his praiseof Shah soon after party’s stu-pendous Lok Sabha successon May 23 when BJP went past300 and NDA 350 seats.

Sitharaman has steppedinto the shoes of Arun Jaitley,who opted out of newGovernment on healthgrounds. Known as close toJaitley, Sitharaman had a steeprise in her profile from beingspokesperson to holding min-istries of Corporate Affairs,Commerce and Industry tobecoming first full-fledgedIndian woman DefenceMinister. She will have a deputy

in Anurag Thakur, a first timeMinister in the ModiGovernment. Anurag is close toJaitley.

Prime Minister NarendraModi will retain theDepartment of Personnel andTraining, Atomic Energy andSpace as well as all importantpolicy issues and portfoliosnot allocated.

Giant slayer Smriti Irani,who ended Congress presi-dent Rahul Gandhi’s run in hispocket borough of Amethi, isthe new Women and ChildDevelopment (WCD) Ministeralong with retaining the TextileMinistry, according to a com-muniqué issued by theRashtrapati Bhavan.

WCD was earlier held byManeka Gandhi who has not been included in theCabinet.

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Bihar Chief Minister andJanata Dal (U) president

Nitish Kumar on Friday madeit clear that there is no questionthat his party will join theUnion Cabinet in future evenas he disclosed that BJP chiefAmit Shah made repeatedattempts to convince him toaccept his proposal for oneberth in the Modi Cabinet.

“As the JD(U) nationalpresident, I want to tell thatthere is no question of JD(U)joining the Union Cabinet inthe future,” news agency PTIquoted Kumar telling reportersat the Patna airport on hisreturning from Delhi after par-ticipating in the swearing-inceremony of Modi.

Nitish, however, made itclear that one should not haveany confusion that being in theGovernment is the only testi-mony that they are with the

Government. “We are firmlywith the NDA,” Kumar said.

The Bihar CM insistedthere is no “unease” betweenthe alliance partners and thatthe decision against joiningthe Ministry was taken as theJD(U)’s presence there wouldhave been merely “symbolic”.

The JD(U) president saidShah called him up on May 28and said he wanted to meethim for discussion the next day.He said the two met in NewDelhi Shah told him that hisparty wanted to share powerwith all NDA constituents, andsuggested that the JD(U)accepts a Cabinet berth.

“I kept listening to him andthe sense I had was that it wasto be a symbolic presence forthe JD(U) in the Government.I didn’t want that. Still, as he insisted, I told himthat I will consult my party andget back to him,” Kumar toldreporters.

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Health Secretary DrPramod Kumar Meherdabriefed the Minster about var-ious programmes and plans ofthe department. Among others,Special Secretaries SharatMishra and Dr BK Brahma,State Medical Corporation MDArchana Patnaik and JointSecretary Yamini Sarangi werepresent.

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delayed as the conditions arestill not favourable for itsadvancement, said the RegionalOffice of the IndiaMeteorological Department(IMD) here on Friday.

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from the Kerala coast.As per the latest forecast,

the monsoon is likely to hit the Kerala coast betweenJune 5 and 8.

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The IMD Regional Officeinformed that the heat waveconditions would continue toprevail in Odisha for the nexttwo to three days.

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Jharsuguda MLA Naba KishoreDas has not only been made a

Cabinet Minister in the fifth termof the Naveen PatnaikGovernment but has also beengiven the important portfolio ofHealth and Family Welfare.

While 13 districts, includ-ing Sambalpur and Sundargarhof western Odisha, could not berepresented in the Ministry,Jharsuguda district is fortunateto get a Cabinet Minister withsuch a portfolio.

Currently when the entireState is facing health problems,it has become a challenge forthe new Government to copewith the present health servicein Government hospitals.Inspite of all these hurdles, thenew Health and Family WelfareMinister Das has expressedhis contentment with the newassignment.

Like his Ministry, the polit-ical career of Das (57) has beenfull of challenges. AlthoughDas was initially defeated fromJharsuguda Assembly con-stituency on Congress ticket in2004, subsequently he waselected as Jharsuguda MLAon a Congress ticket in 2009and 2014. In 2019, Dasswitched over to Biju Janata Dal(BJD) and got elected in 2019

Assembly elections. Dasexpressed his gratitude toNaveen Patnaik, who recog-nised his talent as an adminis-trator and rewarded himaccordingly.

He added his role is chal-lenging and that he will give hisbest to this new responsibilitygiven by the BJD supremo.

Das said he has manydreams for Jharsuguda dis-trict, which has now beenlinked with major cities of thecountry after an airport hascome up in the city.

He said he will try his bestto establish a Heart Care Unit,Cancer Hospital, and ensureprompt completion of a

Pathology Lab. He assured thatthe shortage of doctors in thedistrict will be removed in thecoming days after providingimproved health services in theDistrict Headquarters Hospital.

The patients of entire west-ern Odisha including neigh-bouring Chhatisgarh State nowdepend upon VSS MedicalCollege and Hospital, Burla.The problems of Burla hospi-tal will be solved in a timebound manner after sending afact finding team to the hospi-tal soon, Das said.

Das assured to perform hisduties with dedication to thebest satisfaction of generalpublic and his party’s.

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Union Cabinet MinisterDharmendra Pradhan got

portfolios of Petroleum andNatural Gas and Steel in thenewly-formed Narendra ModiCabinet.

Baleswar MP PratapChandra Sarangi, a UnionMinister of State, was allocat-ed the portfolios of Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises(MSME) and AnimalHusbandry and Dairying andFisheries.

It may be noted that

Pradhan was a CabinetMinister with portfolios ofPNG and Skill Developmentand Public Enterprises duringthe last Modi Government.

On Friday, Chief Minister

Naveen Patnaik congratulatedthe two BJP leaders fromOdisha, Pradhan and Sarangi,for being inducted as UnionMinisters in the NarendraModi Cabinet 2.0.

Taking to the Twitter,Patnaik also hoped that the twoUnion Ministers would presentthe voice of Odisha at theCentre. “Congratulate @dprad-hanbjp ji and @pcsarangi ji on

being sworn in as UnionMinisters. Wish you success inliving upto the aspirations ofevery single Indian and pre-senting the voice of #Odisha atCentre,” Patnaik Ttweeted.

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The process for election of the Speaker of the 16thState Legislative Assembly began on Friday.A notice in this regard was sent to the Assembly

Secretary. The Speaker will be elected by the MLAs atthe House on Saturday.

“On proposal from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik,we have given a notice in favour of Digapahandi MLASurjya Narayan Patro for the post of Odisha AssemblySpeaker,” informed Parliamentary Affairs MinisterBikram Keshari Arukh.

A former Minister, Patro is expected to be elect-ed uncontested as the Speaker, Arukh added.

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Health & Family WelfareSecretary Pramod Kumar

Meherda inaugurated a mole-cular genomic diagnostics andresearch laboratory at theDepartment of Biochemistry ofthe SCB Medical CollegeHospital here on Thursday.

This is a state-of-art labo-ratory, the first of its kind inIndia in a State Governmentmedical college. It is equippedto detect pre-cancerous stage inbreast, lung, colorectal andcervical cancers.

It can detect human papil-lomavirus infection, which isthe most common cause ofcancer in women in pre-can-cerous stage. Hence, screeningof women within the age groupof 20 to 65 years would preventthe cancer burden.

This lab can diagnose themost deadly life-threateninginfections MRSA in ICUpatients and help early treat-ment. It can also detect thepresence of malaria parasite.

The lab too has facilities todetect TB bacteria and whether

it is drug-resistant or can betreated with the standard anti-TB drugs.

The lab also has facilities todetect the mutation in HLAB27, an immunological mark-er for ankylosing spondylitis, areactive arthritis.

The lab is equipped to docomplete genomic sequencingand detect mutations for sick-le cell disease, thalassemia,cancer, susceptibility to devel-op diabetes mellitus, hyper-tension, cardiovascular dis-eases, Alzheimer’s, depressionand drug toxicity.

It can do epigenetic studyand information the impact ofenvironmental, lifestyle on our genes.

Earlier, these facilities wereavailable abroad. It was costly;and reports arrived only after 15days to a month. Now, thereports would be available with-in a few hours and free of cost.

The cost of these tests rangefrom Rs 25,000 to Rs 4 lakh inprivate international laborato-ries, physicians point out.

This lab can also cater tohigh end international researchfor good scientific publica-tions. Since it is first of its kindin the country, it can be a train-ing centre for all others.

BHUBANESWAR: The UtkalSammilani congratulated BJDsupremo Naveen Patnaik forbeing sworn in as ChiefMinister for a fifth consecutiveterm and hoped that hisGovernment would conferState anthem status on thefamous song ‘Bande UtkalaJanani’ soon.

“The Utkal Sammilanihopes that the Chief Ministerwill give State anthem status to‘Bande Utkala Janani’ song,written by KantakabiLaxmikant Mahapatra, duringhis fifth term,” said SammilaniMancheswar Industrial Branchpresident Dillip Dashsharma ina statement.

Dashsharma said Patnaikhad started Odia alphabet writ-ing centres in his first term andOdia Bhasa Pratisthan in thesecond term. Similarly, hechanged the name of the Statefrom Orissa to Odisha andensured classical status for Odialanguage in the third term.

In fourth term, the CMenacted the Odisha OfficialLanguage (Amendment) Bill,2018 making penal provisionsfor non-compliance andreward for extensive use ofOdia by the State Governmentofficials in official communi-cation.

So, the Sammilani hopesthat the Chief Minister wouldaccord State anthem status tothe Bande Utkala Janani duringhis firth term, saidDashsharma. PNS

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Known as “Babaji” (monk),64-year-old Pratap

Chandra Sarangi has beeninducted in the Narendra ModiCouncil of Ministers. Sarangi isnow fondly called as “Odisha’sModi” in the national Capital.

A diehard RSS member,Sarangi made his maiden entryto Lok Sabha by winning fromthe Baleswar Lok Sabha seat.Earlier, he had been elected tothe State Assembly in 2004 and2009 from the Nilgiri con-stituency. He was defeated inthe 2014 elections from theBaleswar Lok Sabha seat.

The first-time parliamen-tarian has already created a

buzz in social media wherephotos show him in his mod-est house and bathing at the vil-lage well. A bachelor, he spendsthe major portion of his pen-sion to support education ofpoor children.

After graduating from theFakir Mohan College, Sarangihad joined an educational insti-tution in Nilgiri, his nativeplace. He is credited with open-ing a number of schools forpoor children in tribal andremote areas of Mayurbhanjand Baleswar districts.

Sarangi was also the Odishaunit president of Bajrang Daland supported the animal pro-tection movement in generaland cows in particular.

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Union Minister of State forMSME and Anmal

Husbandry, Dairying andFisheries Pratap ChandraSarangi said he would certain-ly give focus on shorting outbasic problems in Baleswardistrict and bring the region incountry’s tourism map.

“There is a severe shortageof potable water in Baleswarand I will do my best to see thatthe people of my constituencyget it,” Sarangi told reporters inNew Delhi.

He also state that he wouldwork to bring Baleswar onIndia’s tourism map. “Very fewknow about the Kuldiha sanc-tuary. It is known for ele-phants. Baleswar has greatscope for tourism. If the sectorcan be developed, it will pro-vide employment to many localyouths,” he said.

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DGP Dr RP Sharma on Friday placed Puridistrict’s former Gop police station IIC

Soumyachit Mishra under suspension withimmediate effect pending drawal of depart-mental proceeding against him for demandingand accepting an illegal gratification of Rs 3,000.

Mishra had been caught red-handed whiletaking the bribe from one Siba Prasad Jena of

Nairasasan village under the Gop PS.During the suspension period, Mishra will

remain under the disciplinary control of theCuttack Central Range IG.

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Odisha has been recognisedas a ‘Top Performer’ in the

States’ Startup Raking at allIndia level. This was knownfrom the State Startup CouncilMeeting held under theChairmanship of ChiefSecretary AP Padhi whereinMicro, Small and MediumEnterprises Secretary LNGupta outlined the issues fordiscussion.

The Government of Indiahas recognised Odisha as thetop performer as per StateStartup Raking, 2018. Theranking was done on the basisof 38 parameters in seven keyreform areas such as policyimplementation, incubationsupport, seed funding support,angel and venture capital fund-ing support, simplified regula-tions, easing public procure-

ment, awareness and outreach. Chief Secretary Padhi gave

nod to the proposal of setting upstartup hubs in big cities of theState for promoting startupecosystem and attracting invest-ment. He directed to prepare adetail business plan of the pro-posed hubs for its effectivem-anagement and operation.

The meeting also decided toorganise a national-level startupconclave in Odisha to strength-en local startup ecosystem.

Review showed that so far592 startup ventures have beenregistered through OdishaStartup Portal out of which 423have been recognised by theStartup Council. They include138 women-led startups.

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Former Union MinisterSrikant Jena on Friday

alleged that the NaveenPatnaik-led Ministry is incom-plete and violates theConstitution.

Addressing a Press meethere, Jena said non-appoint-ment of a Cabinet Minister forthe ST and SC DevelopmentDepartment has violated theprovision 164 of theConstitution.

Notably, the portfolio hasbeen allocated to Minister ofState (Independent Charge)Jagannath Saraka.

Jena demanded that the

Chief Minister tender an apol-ogy to the ST and SC commu-nities as he has not given theportfolio to a Cabinet Minister.

“Now, the Chief Ministerhas a option with him to givethe ST and SC Developmentportfolio to a Cabinet Minister.Otherwise, the Governorshould convene a fresh swear-ing-in ceremony to complywith the provision 164 of theConstitution,” he argued.

A Minister of State (I/C)can’t attend a Cabinet meetingunless he or she is invited and,thus, he or she has least chanceto take part in policy-making,he pointed out.

He also questioned the

rationality of the Governmentin according a Minister ofState portfolio (Home) to aCabinet Minister earlier.

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While Naveen Patnaikalong with 20 MLAs of

Biju Janata Dal took oath onWednesday, tribal dominatedSundargarh district wentunrepresented. Although twoBJD MLA candidates likeSharada Prasad Nayak andSubrat Tarai were elected fromRourkela and Raghunathpalli,respectively, none of them gota berth in the ministry, thattook oath on Wednesday.

Significantly, Sundargarh isone district, which did nothave any representation in the State cabinet, even inNaveen Patnaik’s fourth tenure(2014-19).

As far as performance of

Biju Janata Dal is concerned,Sundargarh has not been a BJDbastion, from the result view-point. While the BJD has beensweeping polls with bagging allseven seats of the district,Sundargarh has been baggingmaximum two seats.

During 2014 elections, BJDhad bagged two seats(Raghunathpalli andRajgangpur) in 2009 also BJDhad bagged two seats (Rourkelaand Raghunathpalli) only.

Notably, Sundargarh hadrepresentation in Naveen’s thirdtenure (2009-14), as RourkelaMLA Sharada Nayak hadbecome a Minister.

Nayak, however, had anunceremonious exit from theCabinet following his allegedinvolvement in coup attemptagainst the NaveenGovernment at the behest ofPyarimohan Mohapatra.

After Nayak’s exit,Raghunathaplli MLA SubratTarai was inducted in theMinistry and had continued tillthe 2014 elections.

Political observers feel theinternal bickering among theBJD rank and file Sundargarhand also poor performance inthe Lok Sabha constituencymay be the reason of the non-inclusion of anyone inthe Ministry.

Nayak secured 60,877 votesagainst BJD MP candidateSunita Biswal’s 36,781 votes inthe Rourkela Assembly seg-ment and Subrat Tarai secured44,815 votes against 33,232votes by Biswal in theRaghunathpalli segment.

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In a post-election introspec-tion, the Communist Party of

India (CPI) has reportedlyregretted its decision to makepre-poll alliance with Congressin recently concluded generalelections, sources said.

Some members of Left par-ties have started feeling that dueto its alliance with the Congressin Ganjam district, the CPI hassustained a substantial loss ofits political base that theresults of the recently concluded general electionshas proved.

It may be mentioned thatin the 2019 elections, the CPIhad made an electoral under-standing with the Congress inthe district and left two seats,Aska Parliamentary andChhatrapur Assembly, to theCPI to contest. Accordingly, theCongress did not put its can-didates in these two seats.According to the party deci-sion, senior CPI leader

Ramakrushna Panda contestedfrom the Aska Parliamentaryconstituency while CPI youthleader Pradip Kumar Sethicontested from the ChhatrapurAssembly seat. Significantly,both the nominees of the CPIwere not only defeated butalso lost their deposits. CPIGanjam district secretaryPrakash Patra attributed thedefeat to the non-cooperationof Congress leaders and work-ers in these two constituencies.

Had the Congress leadersand workers heartily support-ed and campaigned for theirpre-poll alliance partner-theCPI, the CPI candidates couldhave garnered an impressivenumber of votes to defeat theruling BJD, CPI leaders feel.

Notably, the ruling BJDcreated a history in Indianpolity by putting as its nomineefrom Aska LS seat an illiterateold woman Pramila Bisoyi whowas working as organizer ofSHG and hails from a remotevillage. Similarly, the BJP field-ed Anita Priyadarshini, daugh-

ter of former MinisterRamakrushna Patnaik whosecured 3, 48,042 votes but lostthe election. The much talkedfigure and ruling BJD nomineeBisoyi succeeded in garnering5,52,749 votes and defeatedthe BJP nominee Priyadarshiniover a margin of nearly 2 lakhvotes which surprised the polit-ical astrologers here.

The CPI sources haveclaimed that, on the one hand,the party faced non-cooperationfrom the Congress and on theother hand the party faceddeficit of fund and both the fac-tors led to the defeat of the partynominees, they claimed. CPIsources also claimed that, mostof the Congress votes in AskaParliamentary constituency havegone in favor of BJP which isquite surprising. In spite of allodds, the CPI nomineeRamakrushna Panda couldsecure only 59,978 votes.According to election norms, ifa candidate fails to secure morethan 6% of the total polling(except NOTA) shall have to lose

deposit and CPI nominee Pandahas become a victim to this.

Notably, AskaParliamentary constituencyonce upon a time was thecitadel of CPI from which thevibrant CPI leader lateDutikrushna Panda got elect-ed from the same constituen-cy as MP and MLA twice.Similarly, late Harihara Dasalso got elected from the sameconstituency several times.Some local political astrologersblamed that Congress hasbetrayed the CPI in the recent-ly concluded election for whichboth the CPI candidates losttheir deposits.

Similarly, the CPI nomineefor Chhatrapur Assembly con-stituency Pradeep Sethy couldget only 12,766 votes and lostdeposit too. Like Aska, onceupon a time ChatrapurAssembly constituency was thestronghold of CPI which elect-ed late Lakshman Mahapatrathrice between 1961 and 1971.Similarly, popular CPI leader lateBiswanath Sahu got elected from

the same constituency twice in1977 and 1980; followed byCPI leader late Parsuram Pandawho got elected in 1990. CPIleader Narayan Reddy got elect-ed from the same constituencyin 2004 and Adikanda Sethi ofCPI in 2009. However, from2000 to 2004, vibrant Ganjamleader and noted social workerand farmer leader RamaChandra Panda made anunprecedented win by defeatinghis traditional CPI nomineeand captured Chhatrapur seatfor his manifold pro-publicwork and became DeputySpeaker of the OLA.

In the past, Chhatrapur wasrepresented by the CPI eighttimes. But in 2014, though CPInominee Krushna ChandraNayak was defeated, he securedan impressive 31,202 votesreflecting the strong presence ofthe CPI in the area. Significantly,in 2019 election, CPI nomineePradeep Sethi got 20,000 lessvotes as the Congress deliber-ately did not follow the “alliancedharma”, said CPI sources.

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As many as 40 singers,dancers, painters and writ-

ers of the State have beenawarded the prestigiousNational Fellowship in seniorand junior categories from theUnion Ministry of Culture toconduct research into theirfields of specialisation.

The largest chunk of theawardees has gone to the fieldof folk culture that Odisha isknown for.

According to the listreleased by the Ministry onMonday, the unique unmaskedChhau dance of Mayurbhanjahas got five fellowships.Santosh Kumar Mohanta,Dillip Kumar Mishra (seniorcategory) and BarnarupaMohanty, Shiba CharanMohanta (junior category) fordance while Anand KumarDas has been awarded forChhau music in junior catego-

ry. Interestingly, all the fiveawardees are from Baripada,the epi-centre of MayurbhanjaChhau.

In folk dance category,Ranjit Sahu (Sambalpur), SubratKumar Das and DiptiranjanMohapatra (both fromBhubaneswar) have receivedthe senior fellowship while AlokBishoyi (Ganjam) has won thejunior fellowship. Besides,Rajendra Padhi of Koraput (folkmusic), Tapaswini Patel ofCuttack (folk song),Rabinarayan Sahoo of Bargarh(folk theatre) have won seniorfellowships while AshwiniKumar Patel of Bargarh (folkmusic), Bijayini Mishra ofNuapada (folk song) andSumitra Parhi of Bhadrak (otherareas) have been chosen forjunior fellowships. NiladriBihari Mishra of Keonjhar hasbeen awarded the senior fel-lowship on Juanga tribal culture.

For Odishi dance, ReelaHota (New Delhi) and Dipti

Routray (Cuttack) have beenthe winners of senior fellow-ships while Pravat KumarSwain (Bhubaneswar) andMonaswini Mohanty(Mumbai) are for junior fel-lowships. Laxmy Mohanty ofCuttack and Himanshu SekharSwain of Bhubaneswar are thewinners in senior and juniorcategories of Odishi musicrespectively. Mukunda PrasadDhal has been recipient ofjunior fellowship in light clas-sical music category.

In Odia literature section,Sangram Keshari Jena(Bhubaneswar), SantoshKumar Ratha (Baleswar) andSangeeta Rath (Cuttack) havebeen the awardees in seniorcategory while in junior cate-gory, Arjun Charan Rout andSuchismita Das are in juniorcategory.

Despite its vibrant presencein Odisha’s cultural canvas,theatre fraternity has reasons tobe disappointed – the lone

awardee has been DhirendraNath Mallick, former Secretaryof Odisha Sangeet NatakAkademi.

The visual art section hasformer Odisha Lalit KalaAkademi SecretaryChandramani Biswal, besidesPradosh Kumar Swain as win-ners of senior fellowships whilejunior fellowships have gone toManjushree Biswal Pani(Baripada), Dibyasingh Swain(Bhubaneswar) for graphic art;Girish Chandra Behera(Brahmapur), LaxmipriyaPanigrahi (Baleswar) for paint-ing and SudhiranjanMaharatha of Bhubaneswar forsculpture.

In the new areas ofresearch in the field of culture,Namitarani Nayak of Jajpur(arts and heritage manage-ment), Bijaya Kumar Rout ofCuttack and Bikram KeshariRoutray of Bhubaneswar (soci-ology of culture) have beenawarded senior fellowships.

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Gura and Kadli, five andthree years old, respec-

tively, belong to MandalPakhan hamlet of Armala vil-lage in Nuapada district. Theyhardly remember their fatherRupsingh, who deserted themin November last and migrat-ed to a brick kiln in Madhapurnear Hyderabad with three ofhis elder children to earn alivelihood.

They do not even remembertheir mother, who succumbed toher chronic illness that startedduring her stay in a brick kiln inHyderabad. The kids are nowunder the care of Rajman, theelder brother of Rupsingh.

“These are my youngerbrother’s daughters; theirmother died when the youngerone was breastfeeding. They arenow under my care as theirfather deserted them andmigrated to a brick kiln inMadhapur near Hyderabad,”informs Rajman. Rajman hashis own children, five in num-bers, but he didn’t have anycomplaint, despite poverty, intaking care of the desertedkids of his brother.

However, he feels that

things would be better if theGovernment provided a littlesupport for the children interms of a ration card that hasnot been provided to the kid’sparents as none of them hadAADHAAR registration.

Mandal Pakhan hamlet islocated at a distance of threekm from the main villageArmala in Gorla Panchayatunder Sinapali block. Neitherthe BDO nor the Block levelchild protection officer ofSinapali block was aware of thedestitution of the girls, until thematter was informed to themby mediapersons.

“We came to know aboutthe children from you, they willbe taken care of,” theyanswered. In the meantime

the Sarpanch of the Panchayat,Dilip Majhi provided twentykilo of rice, one kilo of dal,onion and some pieces of soapsto Rajman.

Mandal Pakhan hamlet hasten households with a popula-tion of about forty. Eleven per-sons of the hamlet are nowworking in different brick kilnsin Peddapalli and Madhapurareas near Hyderabad. None ofthem has been registered asmigrant labouers according tointer-State Migration Act. Thekith and kin of the migrantshere do not know much aboutthe working place or theemployers. The only thing theyknow is the name of the labourcontractors (Sardar), and noteven there address.

All the household inMandal Pakhan belong toPaharia-Kamar communitywho are recognized by theChhatishgarh and MadhayPradesh Governments as one ofthe Particularly VulnerableTribal Groups (PVTG), but areOBC in Odisha. Major sourceof income for this unrecognizedtribal group is basket weaving.“Bamboo is not available near-by; it takes long time to get itfrom distance,” says Rajmanindicating that the craft thatonce provided them living is nomore viable. “We need work toearn a living but it is not avail-able here, that’s why we areforced to send our people to thebrick kiln,” adds Rajman.

“What the situation of thepeople in Mandal Pakhan ham-let reveals is the marginalisa-tion the Paharia-Kamar com-munity is facing. “It is simplythe failure of the Governmentto address the real issue of thiscommunity. Nothing has beendone to improve the liveli-hood security of the Pahariapeople. Recognising theirdemand for tribal status wouldbe the first step towards chang-ing the situation,” tells scribeTapan Dash.

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Although the water projectat Bargaon of Bargarh has

been constructed at a cost of Rs37 crore, here the residents arereeling under an acute drink-ing water crisis.

In this project water frommain canal gets lifted to apond for purification. Afterpurified, the water is suppliedto the people for use. Twoponds with a capacity of 1,200ML water, water filtration for15 MLD, four overhead tanksand four underground watertanks are already there forsupply of water. The daily

requirement of water in theBargarh Municipality area is 15 MLD.

However, sources said dueto the shortage of employeesthe project is not functioningto full capacity. More than100employees should be workingin the project but only sixemployees are working here.

The project was started inthe year 2009; but till now, it isunable to supply sufficientwater to the people. Now thecanal is dry due to Rabi seasonand temperature is rising dayby day. The local peopledemand an immediate solutionto the issue.

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The Chhatrapur police havecautioned the petrol pump

owners and officials of different microfinance organ-isations to remain alert andadopt adequate security mea-sures while taking cash tobanks for deposits.

Police held a meeting withthe officials of all the 13 petrolpumps and micro financeorganisations here on Monday evening and sensitisedthem on possible threat per-ceptions while carrying cash tothe banks.

Among others, ChatrapurSDPO Utkal Keshari Das, IICPiyush Ranjan Chottray and the Second Officer werepresent.

Police, after having thread-bare discussion with the offi-cials, explained various securi-ty measure to be taken to pre-vent looting and larceny on theway to banks by the miscreants.Among other measures, thepolice advised all the officials toinstall high resolution CCTV

camera in strategic places andasked the organisations toensure that a responsible officeror a senior rank official isaccompanying the cashier/secu-rity personal while carryingcash to the banks for depositeach time.

Police also advised theseorganisations to give emphasison cashless transactions as bestoption to prevent such inci-dents of robbery or larceny.

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Saving millions from Fani con-tinues to bring accolades to

Odisha from both abroad andinside the country. Thanks to the‘zero causality’ approach taken byChief Minister Naveen Patnaik,a Chinese State Government hasheaped praise on Odisha.

Similarly, a national policymaking body Centre for Strategyand Leadership (CSL) has lavishlypraised Chief Minister Patnaik.

The Government of China’sJiangshu Province has sent appre-ciation letter to the Odisha StateDisaster Management Authority(OSDMA), which was in theforefront in battling the storm.

CSL Chief Vikash Sharmahas written to Patnaik praisingthe admirable work done by theOdisha Government in battlingagainst the cyclone with mini-mum loss of life.

“This is one of the greatestachievements by any StateGovernment in India”, said CSLChief, which is active in advoca-cy and advisory role in the coun-try for sustainable development,both economic and social sector.

The State Government saved1.2 million lives and helped theaffected people during theonslaught of storm thanks to theChief Secretary Aditya PrasadPadhi and Special ReliefCommissioner Bishnupada Sethi.

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NTPC Talcher Kaniha is organising a four-week workshop on Girls Empowerment

Mission (GEM), under its CSR initiative.The NTPC’s flagship GEM programme

was successfully implemented in other NTPCstations.

The ongoing workshop organised fromMay 20 will conclude on June 16. The work-shop is participated by 120 girls from neigh-bouring Government high schools.

Since it is a residential programme, theNTPC Kaniha is taking responsibility ofevery aspects like boarding,fooding, clothingand other essential needs of the participants.

The workshop is being implemented bythe power station through a specially designedcurriculum in association with NGO“Barefoot”. The participants during the work-shop are given various training starting fromyoga, academics, dance and sports to arts andcrafts.

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Maoists again made theirpresence felt in the dis-

trict and torched kendu leavesworth over Rs 1 crore atDebandha under Chandahandiblock of the district late onThursday night.

More than 30 Red rebelsreached the spot and 10 ofthem barged into the godownin which the leaves werestocked. The ultras then setthem on fire.

As per eyewitnessaccounts, the Maoists initiallythreatened the security guardsand Forest officials and laterbroke the lock of the godown.

On being informed, Fire

Service personnel reached thespot and doused the flames.Police have started investiga-tion into the incident.

On the other hand, theincident has triggered panicamong the locals as it was thefirst case of violence by Maoistsin the area.

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Aman hacked his wife todeath at Kamarda in the

district late on Thursday night.Later, police arrested theaccused identified asKamalakant Rana aliasSantosh.

A native of Mahanpur areaof West Bengal, Santosh wasstaying with his wife in a rent-ed house in Kamarda areahere. The newly-wed couplehad a heated argument at night.In a fit of rage, Santosh hackedhis wife with an axe leaving herand fled from the spot.

Though locals rushed thewoman to JaleswarCommunity Health Centre(CHC) for treatment, doctorsdeclared her dead.

On receiving information,Kamarda police arrestedSantosh from Mahanpur inWest Bengal and seized hismotorcycle.

While locals suspect thatthe man killed his wife sus-pecting her fidelity, theKamarda police said the truthwill be revealed once the inves-tigation is completed.

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The eminent citizens ofSambalpur in a meeting

have protested the shifting pro-posal of +2 classes of theGangadhar Meher University(GMU) to the GovernmentMunicipal Girls’ High School.

People from all walks of lifein a meeting put forth theiropinions against the shifting ofthe wing that is coming underthe School and Mass EducationDepartment now.

It needs to be mentionedhere that after +2 wing got sep-arated from the HigherEducation Department andalso keeping space crunch inview in the GM Universitycampus, efforts are on for sep-arate place for +2 classes.Butthe denizens of the city are nottaking it easy and have warnedthe authorities not to go aheadwith the proposal.

“Under no circumstances,we will allow the shifting whichis nothing but a conspiracy,”

said Bhagabata Prasad Nandaand many others.

When the VC was notfound in the office of theGMU, a junior officer on thecondition of anonymity saidthat a few staff of theschoolwing were crating all thesethings for their vested interest.These staffs are unauthorised-ly occupying the quarters.

If the +2 wing is shifted,they have to vacate the quartersand also lose many other ben-efits getting from the universi-ty. “We will also appraise thesethings before media and peopleof Sambalpur,” the officer said.

He added if the universitydoesn’t get an independent cam-pus, its growth would be hin-dered, particularly after openingof four new departments.

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Anjali Jain, a travel enthusi-ast from Rajgangpur, has

hosted the Tricolour in the SarPass which is at an altitude of14,000 feet. The Sar Pass is inParvati valley of Kulu district of

Himachal Pradesh.The trek is mostly on snow

and one has to pass a snowfrozen lake.

Taking one’s own back-pack with almost 8-9 kg andwalking uphill almost 60km in4-5 days, surviving temperature

with minus degrees and havingbeen suffered from high alti-tude sickness, Anjali could complete it with fullenthusiasm.

Being a fitness freak and aweight trainer, she too trainedherself before the trek.

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Awater ATM, which started working threemonths ago at Achyutapur under Bharigada pan-

chayat of Rajkanika block, managed to fulfil the needof the locals to get filter water and cold hygienic waterin the ongoing scorching heat and post Fani situa-tion at the remote village of Kendrapada.

Pradip Kumar Mallik, Sarpanch of Bharigada,said the water ATM has been installed under 14thCentral Finance Commission fund at a cost of Rs 5lakh. The ATM dispenses water according to theamount of money put in the machine. To collect 2.5litres of water, one has to put a Re-1 coin whereas tofill water in 20 litres of jar one has to spend Rs 7. Onecan collect water by putting coins of Re 1, Rs 5 andRs 10.

The ATM’s storage capacity is 250 litres. It hasbeen functioning 24 hours with electricity and solarenergy systems.

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Even after six years of officialban of gutkha in the State,

still 39 per cent of the childrenin slums in the city are unawareof the notification, revealed theSalaam Jeevan, a voluntaryorganisation working on tobac-co control, in its report releasedon the occasion of WorldTobacco Day on Friday.

As many as 300 childrenaged between 10 to 18 yearsresiding in three slums in theBhubaneswar city were ran-domly interviewed on variousaspects like awareness onharmful impact of tobacco,cancer and its warning stages,anti tobacco legislation, role ofguardians and related psy-chosocial scenarios.

It was revealed that 73 percent of children are consuminggutkha, pan masala and otherforms of tobacco stuff and theaverage age of starting of tobac-co consumption in any form is

12. As per the Section 6 of theCigarettes and Other TobaccoProducts Act (COTPA), 2003,tobacco stuff will not be sold toor by minors in the country, butit seems contrary.

While the COTPA, 2003prohibits the sale of tobaccowithin 100 yards of educa-tional institutions, the studyrevealed that 66.3 per cent ofchildren are of the opinion thatthey have seen the sale oftobacco stuff very closed to theschools.

Similarly, 45.6 per cent ofthe children have seen theadvertisements of tobacco stuffin media. Despite ban of add oftobacco stuff, many mediahouses give the Ad of tobaccostuff in a surrogate way.

The stud done by chiefresearcher Md Imran Ali, fielddata collectors Bijoy KumarSahu, Bandana Sahu, SameerRanjan Mahamallik and psy-chometric analyst SareetaBehera said that 78.2 per centof children agreed to quittobacco if they are subjected toregular counselling support,motivation and follow up.

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The Om Kalinga Kala Parishada organised a cul-tural programme here where Odia Language,

Litrature and Culture Department Secretary BijayKumar Nayak, play director Dr Basant Kumar Dasand Prof Chitrangada Samantsinghar were guests.

Odishi dance Mangalacharan, Kalabati Pallabi,Lalita Labanga Lata and Palli Nrutya by childrenand Nrutynatika ‘Tapaswini’ enthralled the audi-ence. Four youth talents sprinter Dutee Chand, envi-ronmentalist Naisargika Lenka and actors Gungunand Sujit Paikaray were felicitated on the occasion.

Parishada president Dr Sudhansu MohanTripathy presided over the meeting. Dance guruRashmi Mishra and his daughter AradhanaPanigrahi directed all songs. A total of 50 artists per-formed on the occasion.

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The newly-inductedMinisters from Odisha in

the Modi team at the Centrevisited the Jagannath templehere on Friday.

Accompanied byBhubaneswar MP AparajitaSarangi, Ministers Dharmendra

Pradhan and Pratap Sarangioffered prayers at the temple at

Hauz Khas in the morning.Pradhan’s wife was also present.

Pradhan said that he andthe other BJP leaders soughtLord Jagannath’s blessings tomake Odisha and India themost developed part of theworld.

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ABJP meeting was held atKhariar of Nuapada dis-

trict on Friday to express grat-itude to party workers for thewinning of Basant Panda as theMP from the Kalahandi LokSabha constituency.

Thousands of party work-ers from different corners ofKhariar segment of Kalahandiconstituency attended themeeting.

“I express my thanks andgratitude to the voters ofKhariar Assembly constituen-cy for giving me maximum

lead in the last election. I’m alsograteful to thousands of work-ers who worked day in and dayout to mobilise the voters infavour of BJP,” said Panda whileaddressing the gathering ofworkers.

Panda assured he will tryhis best for development of the

area including the demand oflaying of railway line from Kantabanji toNabarangpur via Khariar.

District BJP chief SibaPrashad Mund and other lead-ers like Sanjay Tiwari, HiteshBagartti and Nimai Tandiamong others were present.

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The Begunia police onThursday arrested and

court-forwarded five miscre-ants involved in the Khordha ATM van cashloot which took place onGediapalli-Gobindpur road onMay 12.

The arrestees were identi-fied as Pintu Majhi, UmeshSahu and Subrat KumarPradhan, Pitambar Pradhanand Mithun Behera ofNayagarh district.

Accused Pintu and Umeshwere arrested near KalachuaMundia after getting injured inan encounter with police onMay 18, informed DSP OmPrakash Patra in a press meethere on Thursday.

The three others werearrested on information pro-vided by Pintu and Umesh,added Patra.

Begunia PS IIC RashmiRanjan Sahu said that severalcriminal cases are pendingagainst them at different policestations.

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Announcing the key deci-sions, new Agriculture MinisterNarendra Singh Tomar said theModi 2.0 Government hasannounced the landmark deci-sions for the farming communityin the first Cabinet meeting.“The Union Cabinet hasapproved to extend the ambit ofthe scheme by including all landholding eligible farmer familiesunder the scheme, subject to theprevalent exclusion criteria,”Tomar told reporters after themeeting. The �75,000-crorePradhan Mantri Kisan SammanSiddhi (PMKSS) was announcedin the interim Budget underwhich the Government decidedto provide �6,000 per year (inthree equal instalments) to anestimated 12.5 crore small andmarginal farmers holding landup to 2 hectares.

“Now, the revised schemeenvisages to cover around 2crore more farmers increasingthe coverage of the PM-KISANto around 14.5 crore beneficia-ries,” the Minister said. He saidtotal burden on the exchequerwill increase by �12,000 crore to�87,217.50 crore for the year2019-20. In another major deci-sion, Tomar said Cabinet alsoapproved Pradhan Mantri KisanPension Yojana under whichsmall and marginal farmers willget a minimum fixed pension of�3,000 per month on attainingthe age of 60 years. “In the ini-tial phase, the Government willcover minimum 5 crore smalland marginal farmers in the firstthree years,” he said, adding thatthis would cost �10,774.5 croreper annum to the exchequer.

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The Prime Minister isscheduled to travel to theMaldives next month in hisfirst bilateral visit. In 2014,Modi’s first foreign tour afterbecoming Prime Minister wasto Bhutan.

Sri Lankan PresidentMaitripala Sirisena, who is inIndia as a chief guest for the newGovernment’s swearing-in, onFriday said Modi will visit hiscountry in early June.Describing it as an “honour forpeople of Sri Lanka”, Sirisenasaid the relationship betweenIndia and his country goesback over 2,600 years. “PMModi’s visit is very important tous, we are neighbours andfriends, this relationshipbetween India and Sri Lankadates back over 2,600 years.We’re eagerly awaiting for hisarrival, it’s a great honour for thepeople of Sri Lanka,” Sirisenasaid after meeting Modi.

Besides Sirisena, Modi metother BIMSTEC leaders likeNepalese Prime Minister KPSharma Oli and BhutanesePrime Minister Lotay Tshering,exploring ways to furtherstrengthen bilateral ties. A dayafter taking charge as PrimeMinister for a second term,Modi also held extensive talkswith Bangladesh PresidentAbdul Hamid and PM ofMauritius Pravind Jugnauth. Asregards the new External AffairsMinister, Jaishankar, consideredan expert on China and the US,will be keenly observed to seewhether he brings any changesin India’s approach in dealingwith Pakistan.

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There will be two new facesin the all-powerful Cabinet

Committee on Security (CCS)with the induction of BJPpresident Amit Shah as the

Home Minister and careerdiplomat S Jaishankar as theexternal affairs Minister.Chaired by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, the CCS is thefinal decision-making bodyon matters related to country's

security, including defencepolicy and internal security.Besides the Prime Minister,the Ministers of Defence,Home, External Affairs andFinance are members of thecommittee.

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saddle, Prakash Javadekar onFriday stressed the impor-tance of Press freedom even ashe targeted the Congress forimposing the Emergency. Ashe took charge of the ministryon Friday, Javadekar said thegovernment not only recog-nises freedom of press, butcherishes it. "Press freedom isthe essence of democracy andwe not only recognise it, wecherish it. In the history of freeIndia, only once this freedomof press was curtailed and thatwas in 1975 duringEmergency brought by thethen Congress government,"

he said. "That was the blackperiod for the media, therewas everyday censorship andcomplete curtailment of pressfreedom. We fought against itunder the leadership ofJayaprakash Narayan, AtalBihari Vajpayee, Advani ji,"Javadekar added. He saidthe leaders fought on two-three main issues duringEmergency and press free-dom was one of them.

"I am very happy that it wasrestored after our struggle wassuccessful. I also fought andwent to jail for 16 months. Sofor us press freedom is the basicessence of democracy," he said.Javadekar also hailed the workdone by Rajyavardhan Rathore,M Venkaiah Naidu and ArunJaitley, who were in-charge ofthe ministry earlier.

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Prahlad Patel, senior BJPleader and MP from the

Madhya Pradesh's Mahakoshalregion is the new Culture andTourism Minister. A formerUnion minister of state in theAtal Bihari Vajpayee Cabinet,Patel took charge of the CultureMinistry on Friday. He will takecharge as tourism minister onTuesday. Known for supportingban on cow slaughter, Patel saidhe would work towards "cor-recting the malicious percep-

tion" created about the Indianculture. The 57-year-old par-liamentarian brought a pri-vate bill in Parliament for banon cow slaughter way back in2000. "The roadmap for thefuture has already been drawn

during 2014-2019, but somedeficiencies remain. There havebeen some malicious percep-tions that have been createdabout the Indian culture, likeabout Kumbh. I believe thatone of the big successesbetween 2014-2019 is thattoday what the world knowsabout Kumbh is actually whatIndian culture is," Singh, saidadding, "We have have to workon both aspects. India is bigand our culture is big. If itspreads in the world, so willtourism. So, we have to correctthis perception". � #� �).#�3

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Having retained theportfolio, Piyush

Goyal expressed happi-ness over Prime MinisterNarendra

Modi reassigning himthe Ministry and said itwould mean there wouldbe "continuity" in thework. Improving passen-ger experience and mod-ernising the railwayswould be his focus areas,he spelt out his priority. "Iam happy that there willbe continuity in the workthat we had begun in thefirst stint. The manyworks that we have start-ed will be continued. Ihope that we will be ableto improve the passengerexperience as well as theprocess of loading ofgoods," he said, withMinister of State AngadiSuresh Channabasappa,

a four-time MP fromKarnataka, by his side."Together we can take thework of railways to newerheights. Newer heights oftransparency, newerheights of innovativethinking, newer heights ofbringing honesty in therailways and growth inpassengers and freighttraffic," he maintained.

He outlined thatnewer speed of imple-menting infra projectsand customer satisfactionthat is the new IndianRailways and new Indiathat the PM has chartedfor us. However, Goyal'sbiggest challenge wouldbe to ensure punctuality,timely track maintenanceand renewal, ramping upproduction of state-of-the-art coaches for trainssuch as Vande BharatExpress so that more suchservices can be intro-duced.

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Soon after taking charge,Minority Affairs Minister

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi onFriday said his ministry willwork with the mantra of 'sabkasaath, sabka vikas and sabkavishwas' - as outlined by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi.Naqvi said the ministry hasprepared a 100-day roadmap tostrengthen Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's commitmentto 'sabka saath, sabka vikas andsabka vishwas' (with all, foreverybody's development andhaving everyone's trust)." Heasserted priority will be givento "3Es"-- education, employ-ment and empowerment -- fordevelopment of minorities. TheMinority Affairs Ministry willlaunch a nationwide awarenesscampaign on a war footing toreduce school dropout rateamong minorities, especiallyMuslim girls, he said adding,"Schools, colleges, ITIs, poly-technics, hostels, Sadbhav

Mandap will be constructed ona war footing in minority-con-centrated areas across thecountry to ensure better edu-cational infrastructure underPradhan Mantri Jan VikasKarykram". Naqvi said that100 per cent digitization andGPS mapping of waqf proper-ties across the country will alsobe a priority for the ministry.Naqvi said the campaign to

provide employment andemployment opportunities tomaster artisans from theminority communities will befurther accelerated. HunarHaat, which has been proved tobe an effective measure to pro-vide employment and employ-ment opportunities to masterartisans, will be organisedacross the country in the com-ing days, he said.

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Kiren Rijiju is the new Minister ofYouth Affairs and Sports, replacing

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, who hasbeen dropped from the Council ofMinisters. The charge of Minister of Statein the Ministry of Minority Affairs hasalso been awarded to Rijiju. A lawyer byprofession, Rijiju, who took charge of hisnew Ministry, has emerged as the key facein the North East. "My heartfelt gratitudeto PM Narendra Modi for reposing faithin me to be a member of his council ofministers. I sincerely thank Amit Shahand karyakartas and well wishers acrossIndia. For me, leadership is not aboutpower and privilege, it is about respon-sibility," he said. He also thanked TeamIndia, which playing the world cup inEngland, saying together we will work asa team. While Rathore was 2004 AthensOlympic medalist, Rijiju does not havesuch a background as he had only par-ticipated in the National Games duringhis college days. Rijiju was MoS in theUnion Home Ministry in the first Modi-led government.

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Having remained in political wilderness ofsorts for eight long years after helming

Uttarakhand as the Chief Minister till 2011,Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' was one of thesurprise picks of the Modi-Shah combine. Toadd further to his stature, he was allotted thekey HRD Ministry - one of the most impor-tant Ministries in the Government. As Nishanktook charge on Friday senior ministry officialshanded him the draft of the much awaited NewEducation Policy (NEP), which is an ambitiousproject of the previous Modi government. TheNEP is is expected to be on the agenda ofNishank, who started his career as a teacher inthe Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliatedSaraswati Shishu Mandir. Nishank said that hewill be meeting officials of the Ministry ofHuman Resource Development and will chalkout a plan of action soon. A committee, head-ed by former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan, wasformed to draft the new education policy bythe HRD Ministry previously headed byPrakash Javadekar, who is now Information andBroadcasting minister. Nishank, a PhD

from Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Universityin Garhwal, is a prolific Hindi writer with 36works to his credit, of which 10 have beentranslated into other languages. His worksinclude novels, short stories, poems and trav-elogues. He holds a PhD degree from HemwatiNandan Bahuguna Garhwal University.

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His defeat in the Lok Sabhapolls notwithstanding, he

is the biggest gainer as PrimeMinister Narendra Modi hasnot only retained him but alsorewarded him. Hardeep SinghPuri, diplomat-turned-politi-cian, is the new Civil AviationMinister, whom he took chargeof on Friday, even as he hasbeen re-appointed as theMinister of State (IndependentCharge) of the Ministry ofHousing and Urban Affairs

(MoHUA). He has also beengiven responsibility as thedeputy under Piyush Goyal inthe Commerce and Industry

Ministry. After assuming thecharge of the MoHUA, Purisaid the NDA government hadspent six times higher on urbanschemes in five years comparedto the amount UPA dispensa-tion spent in its 10 years. Thereare several schemes for theurban sector including PMAY(U), SBM (U), Atal Mission forRejuvenation and UrbanTransformation (AMRUT)among others. "This is whatPrime Minister Narendra Modithrough flagship programmeshas been able to do for theurban sector and that is workin progress, he said.

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Aizawl: The Congress inMizoram on Friday extendedfull support to the leadership ofAICC chief Rahul Gandhi andsaid there is no need for him toresign.

Gandhi had offered toresign as the party presidentafter the Congress received asevere drubbing in the LokSabha polls.

A resolution adopted at themeeting of the MizoramPradesh Congress Committee(MPCC) unanimously decidedto stand by Gandhi.

"Gandhi must continue asthe party president. We strong-ly believe that his leadership isrequired for the Congress, tosteer the party out of its currentstate...," the resolution said.

"The MPCC sincerely feltthat Rahul Gandhi had shownan exemplary leadership dur-ing the party's election cam-

paigning across the country...(though) the outcome of therecent Lok Sabha election maynot have come in our favour,"it said.

The resolution said theCongress is one of the few par-ties that won more seats in thisLok Sabha polls than in the2014 election, "and thereforewe felt that Rahul Gandhi'sleadership is required for theorganisation".

The Congress improvedon its 2014 tally of 44, winning52 Lok Sabha seats this year.

"The Congress had lost(polls) many times in the pastand bounced back.... WithGandhi's leadership, we willsure come back and save themotherland like we had donein the past," it added.

The resolution said Gandhihas championed the spirit ofsecularism in the country. PTI

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T h i r u v a n a n t h a p u r a m :Congress chief and WayanadMP Rahul Gandhi urgedKerala Chief MinisterPinarayi Vijayan to provideassistance to the family of afarmer, who committed sui-cide allegedly due to non-repayment of loans, and alsoconduct an inquiry into thematter.

VD Dinesh Kumar, 53,died after consuming somepoisonous substance, policesaid on May 25.

His relatives said thatfinancial burden had forcedhim to take the extreme step.

Gandhi, in his letter toPinarayi dated May 28, saidhe was "deeply saddened" bythe farmer's suicide. Herequested the state govern-ment to conduct an inquiryand extend financial support

to the family.Police aid that Kumar

had taken a loan of Rs 10 lakhfrom three banks and wasreportedly facing recoveryproceedings.

"Kumar's case isn't anisolated one. There have beena spate of farmer suicides inWayanad, due to an inabilityto repay loans," Gandhi had

said in his letter."What is disturbing is

that while the government ofKerala has announced amoratorium on repaymentof farm loans till December31, 2019, yet farmers are stillbeing pressured and hound-ed by loan collection agents,"the letter said.

The Congress chief said itwas important to consider"long-term measures" to freefarmers from the "viciousdebt trap" given the devastat-ing impact of the last year'sfloods.

"I offer you my fullestsupport and cooperation infinding concrete long-termsolutions to the critical issuesKerala's farmers are facedwith and in ensuring everyfarmer in Kerala lives a life ofdignity," Gandhi said. PTI

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Srinagar: The overwhelmingmandate to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has given himan opportunity to play a deci-sive role in the resolution of theKashmir issue, HurriyatConference chairman MirwaizUmar Farooq said on Friday.

Farooq expressed hopethat Pakistan Prime MinisterImran Khan's offer of dia-logue would be seriously con-sidered by the new NationalDemocratic Alliance govern-ment.

"As the people of Indiaoverwhelmingly voted for MrModi and his party back intopower, this mandate gives PMModi the opportunity and thepower to play a decisive role inthe resolution of the long-pending Kashmir conflict,"the separatist leader said.

The mirwaiz was address-

ing the prayers at the JamaMasjid here on the occasion of'Jumat-ul-Vida', the last Fridayof Ramzan.

"Pakistan PM ImranKhan's oft-repeated offer ofdialogue on all issues betweenIndia and Pakistan, includingon the Kashmir issue, shouldbe seriously considered by thenew dispensation in NewDelhi as the way forward,"Farooq said.

The moderate Hurriyatchairman said Kashmir cannotbe resolved militarily orthrough confrontation, but bydialogue and deliberations.

"All Kashmiris, irrespec-tive of their organisationalaffiliations, are speaking inone voice about the urgentneed for resolution of the con-flict," he said, adding that theHurriyat Conference was will-

ing to support any initiative inthis regard.

"So, it is an opportunetime to initiate politicalprocesses which enables andfacilitates conflict resolution,"he added.

The separatist leader saida resolution to the Kashmirissue could transform bothIndia and Pakistan and usherin a new era of stability andprogress in South Asia, bring-ing the much-needed relief tothe people of Kashmir strivingfor a resolution.

"For that, it is imperativethat democratic processes areinvoked and restored by NewDelhi and the policy of repres-sion and military approach bedone away with.

"One measure for doing sois the release all of all politicalprisoners languishing in vari-

ous jails across India, includ-ing (separatist leaders) YasinMalik, Shabir Shah, AsiyaAndrabi and others," he added.

The mirwaiz said duringthe Hurriyat's engagementwith the governments of AtalBihari Vajpayee andManmohan Singh, and aftervisiting Pakistan, the sepa-ratist conglomerate had putforward certain substantialmeasures as a precursor toserious negotiations.

Farooq claimed that bothIndia and Pakistan had at thattime had agreed to imple-menting these steps — includ-ing revocation of the ArmedForces (Special Powers) Act,gradual demilitarisation, pris-oner release — to prepareground for serious negotia-tions.

"These measures hold true

even today when the situationhas only further deteriorated,"he said. "If these steps are ini-tiated by both sides, it willbring relief to the people ofKashmir and an atmospherefor sincere engagement amongall stakeholders will be creat-ed for a permanent resolution."

The Hurriyat chairmansaid India and Pakistan have toacknowledge and address "theunresolved political problem"in Kashmir.

"We want this long cycle ofkillings and violence to end.We do not want to see ouryoungsters or an Indian orPakistani soldier die in this'forever' conflict," he said."Without addressing the ques-tion of Kashmir, there will berepeated returns to perilousstates of war as we recently wit-nessed." PTI

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Mumbai: The NCP on Fridaytook a dig at the new NDA dis-pensation, saying it is a gov-ernment of only Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and HomeMinister Amit Shah, whilesenior leaders like RajnathSingh and Nitin Gadkari stand"sidelined".

NCP chief spokespersonNawab Malik alleged that Modiand Shah do not want seniorleaders to be part of the cabi-net.

Singh, new Defence min-ister, had led the HomeMinistry in the previous Modigovernment. Gadkari will con-tinue to hold the Minister forRoad Transport and Highways.

"Many senior leaders werenot given Cabinet berths. Singhhas been given Defence port-folio and sidelined. Same is thecase with Gadkari ji," Malik toldreporters. He claimed that someof the BJP leaders would call theprevious Modi-led dispensationas the government of only"two-and-half " people, imply-ing that other ministers had nosay in its functioning.

"Now, it is a government ofonly Modi and Shah. Othershave no opportunity. Theydon't want seniors in the gov-ernment, that's their mentality,"Malik alleged.

Modi and his new team ofministers took oath on

Thursday and the RashtrapatiBhavan announced allocationof portfolios to the ministers onFriday. Meanwhile, on the spec-ulations that the NCP mightmerge into the Congress, Maliksaid there was no substance inthe reports.

Speculations that the NCPwould be merged into theCongress were rife onThursday. These were fuelledafter Congress chief RahulGandhi met NCP presidentSharad Pawar at the latter's res-idence in New Delhi.

"The two leaders discussedonly the Maharashtra Assemblypolls and drought in the state,"Malik added. PTI

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Vadodara: Fourteen turtleswere found dead in a dried-uppond in Gagodar village inKutch district of Gujarat, forestofficials said on Friday.

Deputy conservator offorests (wildlife) S S Asodasaid 15 other turtles were res-cued from the pond after theincident was reported onThursday evening.

"After being alerted, ourteam rushed to the pond that islocated in Rapar taluka, andfound carcasses of 14 turtles.They must have died due to lackof water as the severe heatwavehas dried up the pond," he toldPTI over phone.

"Fifteen other turtles, which

were found alive there, were res-cued and immediately shifted toanother pond in Thanisara vil-lage located nearby, which stillhas sufficient amount of water,"Asoda said. PTI

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In his first speech after a mammothelectoral victory, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi had summarisedwhat could best define not just India’sbut the axis shift in world politics. “For

years the Left had its ideology but we trans-lated that into reality,” he said with convic-tion. Justifiably so because he proved a the-orem that is being borne out by the rest ofthe world, where the right-wing is drawingstrength from all sections of people —hordes of ordinary people to be precise —to becoming a mainstream entity than justbeing a fringe benefit or aberration, depend-ing on its tolerance or virulence. So the nar-rative is not about right-wing dominancebut about right-wing populism.

In that sense, the Modi phenomenon isin continuity with a global pattern really, onethat is sweeping the Far East, through theEuropean continent and lunging across theAtlantic. If Donald Trump and Xi Jinpingare the twin polarities in the West and East,then there are several in between other thanModi. Consider the frenetic rise of Brazil’snew far-Right leader Jair Bolsonaro, whocrested a series of social movements thatgave him the pulse of the people. HungarianPrime Minister Viktor Orban and Turkishpresident Recep Erdogan have overturnedthe Left-inspired liberalism and made ittheir own. In Thailand, the compliance ofconservatives is the reason for the continu-ity of military rule.

So what is the reason for this socio-psy-chological behaviour profile in a post-glob-alised world? It would be easy enough to dis-miss it as born of hopelessness and deso-lation, climbing out of a similar trough seenbetween two World Wars whose bellyfired up fascism and gave us a Hitler. Hesuccessfully built “otherness” as a reason forGermany’s ills before suggesting his outra-geous solutions. But we are not in the GreatDepression or a World War but in a glob-alised world which was meant to equaliseand share resources. Or at least attempt todo so. What has happened in the processof an increasingly flat world of give and take,in no small part aided by the massiveempowerment courtesy digitisation, is thatit has led to total deconstruction of tradi-tional social-economic structures. In itstime, globalisation was a dream conceptadvocating free trade across borders and byextension an exchange in services, capitaland ideas. All sounded good. But down theyears, as industries shifted due to outsourc-ing from the rich to cheap-laboureconomies, leaving in their trail job lossesin affected countries, and as home manu-facturing got hit by cheap imports, like ithas in India, too, the anxieties about losingidentities, resources and self-worth begangaining traction. Worse, the process quick-ly mutated to economic imperialism andcolonisation where the dominant manufac-turer countries like China quickly createddebt economies with hugely imbalanced

deficits. In many countries, theentry of multi-nationals meantloss of land for lavish units andsweatshop conditions for locallabour. The second biggestproblem that arose from freemovement of skilled labourwas immigration, an influxthat worked when subservientbut not when it claimed equalstakeholdership in the hostcountry. So if supposedly themost apolitical country likeSweden is becoming intolerantof immigrants, leave aside thecrisis fuelled by Brexit, thenanti-globalisation is a biggersentiment and the neo-age pro-tectionism advocated by Trumpits mere expression. Researchhas shown that in the US, theregions hardest hit by globali-sation have become more polit-ically extreme.

Besides, human psycholo-gy is such that while you wantto flow with the world, share thesame living indices, you stillcrave for primacy in your man-ageable unit, your controllablehome and the community. Thisrationale is tied by cultural fac-tors, religious beliefs and anational identity, which whileacknowledging the presence ofall kinds of otherness, is deeplydistrustful of it. It is this under-current, which was dumbeddown by liberals and free world

economists, that has bubbled upnow, forcing a review of exist-ing theories and paradigms.This deep discontent is also thereason why traditional civil lib-erties, of the kind that is sup-portive of human rights, protec-tion of minorities and progres-sive and democratic values, areunder attack. Simply becausethey do not acknowledge thecrisis of “otherness,” somebodyelse stealing your job, somebodyelse taking over the economy,somebody else denying whatcould be due to you, somebodybenefitting from doles and,therefore pushing you to pover-ty. In short, the classic psycho-logical “blame game” that letsyou assign victimhood to your-self. It is this idea of exclusion-ary torture that doesn’t fit inwith the traditional idea ofLeft liberalism, which, asRussian President Putin andItaly’s Five Star movement haveshown, has hybridised toremain relevant. This reac-tionary wave is the bedrock ofthe radical right. Seen throughthis prism, Modi’s “Make inIndia,” the projection of anenemy snapping at our bordersor the one within as entitledminority and caste votebanks,make acceptable sense.

Of course, the Left, whichhas been reduced to a rump

over a longer period of time,made the job easier. Its versionof trade unionism dwindledsince the 1990s and has sincepejoratively been seen as adeterrent to economic activitythan as a guarantor of local jobsthat the Right has successfullymarketed. The Singur move-ment, a watershed marker in thedecimation of the Left, whichcatapulted Mamata Banerjeein Bengal, showed that for aparty which initiated landreforms, it could be blatantlysmug about land acquisitionstoo.

Most importantly, the classinterests that it so abhorredwere solidified by its owninternecine machinery of out-sourced implementers. In rely-ing on its ground machinery ofpeople, who might not havebeen ideologically committedbut were communicating withthe grassroots, the Left lost itsempathy and the right to lead-ership. Which is why a slum-born Mamata seemed morecredible at the time just as thetea-seller Modi, who is born ofthe silent suffering kind and ismore local than global, is nowwinning hearts.

A World Values Surveyshows that people are increas-ingly disaffected with their gov-ernment and are more willing

to support authoritarian lead-ers, thinking that their robust-ness will give them a voice thatcivil society, so far an ivorytower of privileged and imper-vious intelligentsia, has deniedthem. Ironically, it is also thechildren of globalisation, themillennials — the generationthat is disconnected from his-toricity or hasn’t lived throughcatastrophic world events real-ly and whose reality is shapedby what is floating on the inter-net brand of unpoliced democ-racy — who are seeking anoth-er kind of destiny, a dreamcrafted on their terms than theone bequeathed.

They also haven’t felt theimpact of authoritarianismunlike those in transitionalgenerations. As they don’t havethe same negative experience ofauthoritarian rule and are com-placent about democracy anddemocratic stability, they arenaturally inclined to any changeof status quo, especially one thatis iconised by social mediacults. All authoritarian leaders,Modi included, are harnessingthem as their neo Army andleading them to a promisedland at a time when the worldseems to be running out ofpromises in the first place.

(The writer is AssociateEditor, The Pioneer)

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Sir — It is not unusual for par-ties to introspect after a bigdefeat in the elections. It is alsocommon for party presidents totender resignations after taking“moral responsibility” for thepoor performance. Congresschief Rahul Gandhi has done thesame. So far, Rahul has notbudged under pressure from theparty members to rescind hisresignation. He will do well to goahead with his resolve to resignand hand over the reins of theparty to someone outside theNehru-Gandhi family. His per-sonal diatribe against NarendraModi, who is held in high esteemby the people, cost him dearly.He has much to think about.

KV SeetharamaiahHassan

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Sir — Former Finance MinisterArun Jaitley’s defence of demon-etisation and the murky Rafaledeal went a long way in helpingthe Government save face. It isunfortunate that at a time whenhis services are required by the

new Government to set right itspast blunders in the financialand economic arenas, he hasdecided to call it a day.

Tharcius S FernandoChennai

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Sir — Citing health reasons,Former Finance Minister Arun

Jaitley has requested PrimeMinister Narendra Modi torelieve him from the rigours ofministerial position and allowhim to recuperate. During histerm as the Finance Minister,Jaitley had proved his mettle asa “trouble shooter” Minister inModi Government’s first term byproviding panacea for all prob-lems. Now that NirmalaSitharaman has been given the

finance portfolio, she has thehuge responsibility to revive theIndian economy, which is farfrom being in the pink of health.

JS AcharyaHyderabad

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Sir — It is unfortunate that trou-bleshooter former Finance

Minister Arun Jaitley will not bea part of the NDA-II Government.This is a great loss not only to theBJP but also to the country. Histenure as Finance Minister will beremembered for the implementa-tion of key reforms like the Goodsand Services Tax and theInsolvency and Bankruptcy Code.We pray for his quick recoveryand return to office.

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Sir — A responsible and a strongOpposition is very much a neces-sity for the functioning of avibrant democracy as that ofIndia. While the Congressremains the main Oppositionparty, it could not qualify to bea Leader of Opposition in theHouse. The 2019 debacle isenough for the Congress to shunold ideas and instead re-designits entire organisational structureand working style to emerge asa strong contender for 2024.

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In 2011, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief AkhileshYadav led a spirited campaign against the thenChief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Bahujan

Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati. As SPpresident, he toured the length and breadth ofthe State — sometimes on cycle — calling thethen BSP Government as one of the most cor-rupt regimes in the annals of Uttar Pradesh. Heeven called it a pathar wali sarkar (a Governmentof stones) — an oblique reference to Mayawati’spenchant to build parks and statues. This mutu-al mistrust and antagonism was so deep-seatedthat the subsequent SP-BSP trust alliance alwaysseemed cosmetic and superficial.

But before this misadventure, Akhilesh’s hardwork bore fruit when in 2012, the SP won theAssembly elections in Uttar Pradesh with a hugemargin. Mulayam Singh Yadav was then thenational president of the party and he surprisedall by projecting Akhilesh as the Chief Minister.At the age of 38, Akhilesh, then an MP, took oathas the Chief Minister on March 15, 2012. This,political pundits say, was the beginning of the newera in Yadav politics. Talks then centered aroundhow Akhilesh, a foreign-educated young man,could transform the impoverished State, whichis home to around 23 crore people, into one ofthe most developed States in the country.

People had pinned hopes on Akhileshbecause of the legacy he carried. Son of wrestler-turned politician Mulayam Singh Yadav, it wasbelieved that the young leader was well-conver-sant with political ups and downs. Mulayam wasthree-time Chief Minister of Uttar Pradeshbesides being the Defence Minister in 1996 dur-ing the United Front Government. So, forAkhilesh, politics was nothing new. He hadbrushed shoulders with the high and mighty andwas well-versed with every Machiavellianmanoeuvre.

But the high hopes were soon dashed. First,Akhilesh failed to keep his family together. Theway he carried out a bloodless coup, replacinghis father with himself as national president ofthe party, did divide the party. Mulayam, afterall, was the reason for SP’s claim to any sort ofrelevance. The rift widened so much that uncleShivpal Singh Yadav parted ways and formed hisown party, the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party(Lohia), which inflicted larger damage to the SPin three Yadav pocketboroughs of Kannauj,Budaun and Firozabad in the 2019 Lok Sabhaelections. All old-timers in the party, who hadbuild the SP brick-by-brick and whose advice wasworth a pound of gold for Mulayam, were leftignored and their constituencies were taken upby the new blood.

The courtiers in Akhilesh Yadav’s durbarwere rich, having no practical understandingabout the ground realities or imperatives. Theybecame the eyes and ears of the former ChiefMinister. Such was their influence on Akhileshthat they started campaigning for the 2019 elec-tions very late. Some even advised that campaign-ing through WhatsApp was enough because theSP-BSP alliance would fetch dividends as thearithmetic just would not fail. They argued thatthe battle was between 85 per cent (combinationof Dalits, Muslims and backwards as represent-ed by the alliance partners of SP, BSP and RLD)

versus 15 per cent (upper caste), whichwould undoubtedly go in their favour.

One of the courtiers of AkhileshYadav had told this reporter poetical-ly that the bouquet of caste in thisalliance was spread from western UttarPradesh to eastern Uttar Pradesh andalso had its footprints in Rohilkhandand Bundelkhand.

The just-concluded parliamentarypoll results came as a rude shock to themahagathbandhan as it stood complete-ly decimated. In this ignominiousdefeat, however, the BSP can walk awaywith its head high — if one can say so— because the party won 10 seats whereit had drawn a blank in the 2014 LokSabha election. But it is Akhilesh, whohas to face the bigger question, becausewhile his family members lost the elec-tion, he failed to increase his tally.

In the 2014 election, the SP hadwon a total of five seats — all the win-ners were from the family. Besides,Mulayam (who had won fromMainpuri and Azamgarh), other fam-ily members of Akhilesh, namelyDimple Yadav and his two cousinsDharmendra and Akshay, won theelections. In the bye-election afterMulayam vacated Mainpuri, anothercousin of Akhilesh, Tej Bahadur,romped home. SP’s total tally furtherincreased to seven after it won the bye-elections of Gorakhpur and Phulpur in2018.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, theparty once again won five seats whileDimple Yadav (Kannauj), DharmendraYadav (Budaun) and Akshay Yadav(Firozabad) lost the elections. Besides,Akhilesh Yadav (Azamgarh) andMulayam Singh Yadav (Mainpuri),three Muslim leaders —Azam Khan

(Rampur), Shafiqur Rahman Warq(Sambhal) and ST Hasan(Moradabad)— emerged victorious.

The defeat has raised many ques-tions on Akhilesh’s leadership simplybecause it is the second time the SP hascontested the election under him. Asnational president of the party, he hadcontested the first election in 2017. Infact, it was his idea to enter into analliance with the Congress. His politi-cal acumen was even questioned backthen because as a performing ChiefMinister, who had carried out a spateof development work, including theconstruction of the Agra-LucknowExpressway, he did not need a prop.With the tagline of his campaign as‘Kaam Bolta Hai’, his inclination to gofor an alliance with the Congressshowed that he was unconvinced abouthis own work and did not have thestomach to drive hard political deci-sions or go it alone. In that election, theSP’s tally reduced from 226 to 47.

In 2019, again, he showed politicalnervousness and entered into analliance with the BSP and RLD to con-test the Lok Sabha election. Sometermed it as the election story of 2019.The result, however, was pathetic.Akhilesh not only lost seats but hisparty’s vote percentage, too, camedown. (SP’s vote percentage is 18 percent while it is 19 per cent for BSP and50 per cent for the BJP).

His father and the wily SP founderMulayam had publicly said thatAkhilesh had “lost half the battle”when the latter chose the politics ofalliance. He had even admonished hisson, saying that the SP was not battle-ready as it was relying too much onMayawati whereas the BJP had started

ground work almost a year ago.Mulayam’s words have proved

prophetic. The SP stands vanquishedtoday, primarily because neither theDalit nor the Yadav vote was consoli-dated enough to ensure transference toeach other’s candidates. The resultsannounced on May 23 punctured theinvincibility argument and now thealliance stands exposed. The BSP, SPand RLD have around 39 per cent voteshare while the BJP and its ally has over50 per cent of the vote. This shows thatthe myth of castes moving at the dik-tat of leaders does not hold good any-more.

Akhilesh is standing at the cross-roads now. He is carrying the legacy ofMulayam Singh Yadav while the repu-tation of SP that senior leaders likeJaneshwar Mishra, Rama ShankarKaushik, Babu Lal Yadav, Md AzamKhan and Reoti Raman Singh had builtthrough blood, sweat and tear is atstake. Uttar Pradesh has witnessedhow Ajit Singh floundered the politi-cal legacy of Chaudhry Charan Singh.His politics of aaya ram, gaya ram andfondness to align with the ruling partyhas reduced the RLD to a political non-entity.

Akhilesh should take lessons fromthe failure of Ajit Singh. He should tryfor a reconciliation of the party and thefamily. The first step should be to handover the baton back to Mulayam SinghYadav. Shivpal Singh should be broughtback and he should start touring theState. He should open his doors to theparty workers. It is time for Akhileshto smell the coffee or otherwise he couldbe heading Ajit Singh’s way.

(The writer is Executive Director[News] with The Pioneer, Lucknow)

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In March 1991, a few days after theUS forces invaded Iraq for the firsttime, 90 per cent of Americans,

who were polled, approved ofPresident George H Bush’s ‘job per-formance’. Bush’s approval ratingsskyrocketed and political commenta-tors predicted that the RepublicanParty would be able to retain the pres-idency in the 1992 election.

Republican presidents RonaldReagan and then Bush had held theWhite House since 1981. And in 1991,it seemed Bush, too, would be able towin a second term just as his predeces-sor Reagan had. However, by the endof 1991, Bush’s approval ratings beganto plummet, surprising many politicalpundits. This is when the strategy teamof Bush’s opponent Bill Clinton(Democratic Party) came up with theslogan, “It’s the economy, stupid.”

Clinton was able to break the win-

ning streak of the Republican Party byattacking the Bush administration’s eco-nomic performance, knowing fully wellthat the struggling economy had begunto impact many Republican voters aswell. According to the famous Germanphilosopher and political theorist KarlMarx, a person’s “political conscious-ness” is almost always shaped by hiseconomic circumstances.

Let me demonstrate this throughthe example of an acquaintance ofmine, Tahir, or rather, through thestory of his dad, Baqir. I’ve knownTahir since school. His family becameextremely conservative in the 1980sbut it wasn’t always so. Tahir’s fatherhad migrated to Pakistan from Indiain 1947. He was 16 at the time. InKarachi, Tahir’s paternal grandfatherwas a small trader who set up a shopin Karachi in 1949. Tahir’s father oftenvisited the shop after school.

Tahir once told me that their“class status suddenly jumped fromlower-middle to upper-middle” in theearly 1950s, when his grandfathermanaged to export merchandise to theUS forces stationed in Korea.

Between 1950 and 1953, thePakistani economy witnessed a boomof sorts due to such exports to the US

during armed conflict between the USmilitary and China-backed NorthKorean armies.

Tahir’s father, Baqir, took over thefamily business in the mid-1950s andbegan to expand it. Tahir told me thathis father led a “highly Westernised life”and befriended many industrialists,bureaucrats and politicians. Baqir fullysupported Ayub Khan’s 1958 coupbecause he believed that political insta-bility had begun to negatively impacthis family’s economic fortunes.

And Baqir did greatly benefit fromthe Ayub regime’s ‘pro-business’ poli-cies. In 1960, he married a bureaucrat’sdaughter. It was a love marriage.Apart from expanding his exportbusiness, Baqir spread his economicinterests by buying two cinemas inKarachi and one in Lahore. He alsobought a restaurant and opened twobars in Karachi’s Saddar and TariqRoad areas. He also built a new pala-tial family home in Karachi.

According to political economistAkbar Zaidi, the country’s annualgrowth rate during the Ayub regime(1958-69) was an impressive 6.7 percent in Gross Domestic Product. ButZaidi also mentions that Ayub’s policiesin this context also created economic

disparities, which were exploited byparties such as ZA Bhutto’s PakistanPeople’s Party (PPP).

Baqir was a card-carrying memberof Ayub’s centrist and modernistConventional Muslim League. InDecember 1971, the PPP came topower on a ‘socialist’ platform. Therewas an increase in Pakistan’s import billsdue to the 1973 world oil price shock,a serious post-1973 global recessionduring 1974-77, failure of cotton cropsin 1974-75, pest attacks on crops andmassive floods in 1973, 1974 and1976-77. Pakistan experienced theworst inflation during 1972-77 whenprices increased by 15 per cent.

As his business nosedived, Baqirsold his cinemas and bars in 1973 andin 1975, he wrapped up his exportbusiness and moved the family toLondon where he opened twoPakistani restaurants. However, hereturned to Karachi after the fall of theBhutto regime in 1977. By 1980, hewas able to resurrect his business inKarachi when the Gen Zia dictator-ship initiated denationalisation, dereg-ulation and privatisation policies.

Pakistan achieved a national sav-ings/GDP ratio of 16 per cent in 1986-87 amidst massive inflows of worker

remittances from the Middle East.Unprecedented financial aid fromthe US and Saudi Arabia (for the anti-Soviet insurgency in Afghanistan)also helped.

Baqir was successful in regener-ating his export business and alsobecame an importer after Zia liftedcurbs on imports. This was the peri-od of Zia’s ‘Islamisation’ and Baqirfollowed suit by shunning his‘Westernised ways’. He became a‘born-again Muslim’. His palatialhouse in Karachi also went througha transformation. Expensive paint-ings gave way to equally expensivecalligraphy of sacred verses andwater colour paintings of Islam’ssacred sites. He built a mosque in thearea where the house stood and alsoone in his vast office.

He remained a Zia supportereven after the latter’s demise in 1988.He voted for Nawaz Sharif ’s (then‘Ziaist’ and pro-business) PakistanMuslim League (N) until his businessonce again began to go south due tointernational sanctions imposed onPakistan after the country testedtwo nuclear devices in 1998.

In the early 2000s, Baqir hand-ed over the reigns of the family busi-

ness to Tahir, who supported theMusharraf dictatorship for a whilebut despite the 8.5 per cent growthrate achieved by the regime till 2005,he could not revive the family busi-ness.

Out of frustration, he sold it offand joined a multinational organisa-tion as an employee. The frustrationwas also vented out through support-ing the anti-Musharraf movement in2007. The economy had begun tospiral down and this also meantTahir’s wish to revive the family busi-ness was thwarted.

He got married and moved toQatar and then Saudi Arabia. This iswhen I reconnected with him throughFacebook. He supported Imran Khanin 2013 and just before the 2018 elec-tions, he was posting statuses aboutthe upcoming ‘Islamic welfare state’and Riyasat-i-Madina on Facebook.

However, only recently, as thecountry’s economy is once againthreatening to spiral down, hisFacebook posts have become criticalof Khan’s regime. So I inboxed him:“Tahir, it seems there is no place foryou to restart the family business inRiyasat-i-Madina.” He didn’t reply.

(The Dawn)

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Benchmark indices slippedfrom higher levels to settle

lower on Thursday as investorslooked beyond positive politicaldevelopments and weighed con-cerns around global trade warand macro-economic indicators.

In a highly volatile session,the benchmark BSE Sensexended 118 points lower,dragged by losses mainly inauto and financial stocks.

The NSE Nifty too edged23 points down to settle belowthe 12,000-mark.

However, on a weeklybasis, the Sensex gained 279.4points and the Nifty rose 78.70points.

Post announcement of keyportfolios in newly electedgovernment, focus to shifttowards various economicreforms and policies.

After gyrating nearly 750points, the 30-share index settled117.77 points, or 0.30 per cent,lower at 39,714.20. The gauge hitan intra-day low of 39,374.24and a high of 40,122.34.

The broader NSE Niftyalso settled lower by 23.10points, or 0.19 per cent, at11,922.80. During the day, theindex hit a low of 11,829.45 and

a high of 12,039.25.Yes Bank was the top loser

in the Sensex pack, falling 4.27per cent. Other losers includeITC, Vedanta and M&M, shed-ding up to 3.61 per cent.

Asian Paints, TCS andHCL Tech were among thegainers, rising up to 2.43 percent.

Sectorally, BSE power,metal, FMCG, utilities, basicmaterials, auto and bankingindices fell up to 1.30 per cent.

While, BSE teck, oil andgas, telecom and energy indicesrose up to 1.07 per cent.

Broader indices ended on amixed note with, BSE smallcapslipping 0.65 per cent and BSEmidcap rising 0.23 per cent.

Investors also appearedcautious ahead of GDP data,scheduled for release later inthe day, traders said.

BJP President Amit Shahwho played a crucial role in thereturn of his party’s govern-ment at the Centre will be thenew Home Minister in Modi2.0 Cabinet while incumbentRajnath Singh has moved toDefence, another high profileministry. Outgoing DefenceMinister Nirmala Sitharamanwill be the new Minister forFinance and Corporate Affairs

while surprise inductee, formerforeign secretary S Jaishankar,has been allocated the criticalMinistry of External Affairs, theRashtrapati Bhavan announcedon Friday.

“Benchmark indices endedthis week on a volatile note.After opening positive, Sensexreversed its trend and closednegative by 117 points. Near-term events to be closelytracked are India’s Q4FY19GDP rate, infrastructure outputfor April, and foreign exchangereserves data...,” Hemang Jani,Head — Advisory, Sharekhanby BNP Paribas, said.

“Auto sales data for themonth of May to be released onJune 1 followed by the RBImonetary Policy on June 6. Onglobal front, US-China tradewars along with rise in oil pricewill determine further trend.We continue to remain opti-mistic on equity markets andprefer Private banks,” Jani said.

Meanwhile, foreign insti-tutional investors (FIIs) boughtequities worth �1,664.74 croreon Thursday, while domesticinstitutional investors (DIIs)sold shares to the tune of�1,122.60 crore, provisionaldata available with stockexchanges showed.

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India has further liberalisede-visa rules for Chinese

businessmen as the bilateraltrade is set to cross $100 bil-lion this year, a senior Indiandiplomat here said on Friday.

The India-China bilateraltrade last year touched a his-toric high of $95.54 billion,according to the official datareleased by China early thisyear.

The trade deficit in 2018,according to the data, climbedto $57.86 billion from $51.72billion in 2017.

“We are glad that ourbilateral trade will cross thesignificant mark of $100 bil-lion this year,” India’s DeputyAmbassador in China DrAcquino Vimal said whileaddressing an event on ’India-China business forum, explor-ing opportunities, enhancingcooperation’ specially in theIT sector.

A large number ofChinese investors and IndianIT firms based in Chinaattended the get-togetherorganised by NASSCOM — atrade association of IndianInformation Technology (IT)and Business ProcessOutsourcing (BPO) industry

— and the Indian embassy.“Closer development part-

nership between India andChina has been growingsteadily for the last severalyears. Since the last 20 years,the scale and profile of bilat-eral trade and investmentbetween India and China hasincreased several folds.

“This has been furtherstrengthened in April 2018,when Wuhan witnessed thefirst Informal Summitbetween our Prime Minister(Narendra) Modi andPresident Xi Jinping. ThisSummit has provided a freshimpetus to our growing bilat-eral engagement,” Vimal said.

As a result, the number ofvisits by trade and invest-ment delegations haveincreased and the comfortand trust levels haveimproved, he said.

“This is demonstrated inthe increase in the number ofvisas we have been issuing inthe last few months. In orderto ensure that such engage-ment is promoted and encour-aged, I’m happy to inform thatwe have further liberalisedvisas for Chinese travellers tovisit India by the introductionof ’electronic visa’ facility,” theIndian diplomat said.

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The fiscal deficit for 2018-19came in at 3.39 per cent of

GDP, marginally lower than 3.4per cent estimated in the revisedestimates of the Budget, main-ly due to increase in non-tax rev-enue and lower expenditure.

In absolute terms, fiscaldeficit at the end of March 31,2019, stood at �6.45 lakh croreas against �6.34 lakh crore inthe revised estimates of Budget.

The fiscal deficit for 2018-19 works out to be 3.39 per centof GDP, as per data released byController General of Accounts(CGA).

Although in absolute termsthe fiscal deficit has gone up,but as a percentage of GDP thedeficit figure has come downmarginally, mainly on accountof GDP expansion in 2018-19— data of which will bereleased later in the day.

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Any efforts to importIranian crude oil beyond

the accepted levels negotiat-ed from November to Maywill be sanctioned, the US haswarned, amidst reports thatIndia and China were seekingways to buy oil from Tehran.

US President DonaldTrump last month refused togive waivers to countries likeIndia from buying oil fromIran, in an attempt to reduceIran’s oil exports to zero.

The US on Thursday reit-erated its position after themedia reports from NewDelhi, quoting unnamed gov-ernment officials, said thatIndia was looking at ways toresume oil imports from Irandespite the US sanctions.

Last week, India’sAmbassador to the US HarshVardhan Shringla said Indiahad stopped buying oil fromIran after May 2 when the USended its waivers that allowedthe top buyers of Iranian oil,including India, to continue

their imports for six months.“There will be no more oil

waivers granted and the onlyoil that would have been per-mitted would have beenunder the cap that we nego-tiated. That cap was negoti-ated, it was to run for a peri-od from November of 2018until May of 2019,” BrianHook, Special Representativefor Iran and Senior PolicyAdvisor to the Secretary ofState, told reporters during aconference call on Thursday.

He said once the coun-tries have reached the cap ofwhat was negotiated, thatwould be the limit of the oilthat US would permit to movethrough and would not besanctioned.

“We will sanction anyefforts to import Iraniancrude oil beyond the limitsthat were negotiated in theperiod that ran fromNovember through May,”Hook said.

Iran earlier used to supply10 per cent of India’s oilneeds.

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The growth of eight coreinfrastructure sectors

slowed down to 2.6 per cent inApril, due to negative growthin crude oil, natural gas and fer-tiliser output.

During April 2018, theexpansion rate of eight infra-structure sectors — coal, crudeoil, natural gas, refinery prod-ucts, fertilisers, steel, cementand electricity — stood at 4.7per cent.

Coal generation growthwas flat at 2.8 pet cent in April2019, said the Governmentdata.

The output of electricityand refinery products was 5.8per cent and 4.3 per cent,respectively.

Crude oil, natural gas, andfertilizers sectors posted declinein growth during the month.

The infrastructure sectorgrowth has impact on theIndex of Industrial Production(IIP) as these segments accountfor about 41 per cent of thetotal factory output.

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Public sector lender SBIFriday sought more time

from the NCLT to file reply onDoha Bank’s plea seeking stayon a decision of the committeeof creditors (CoC) of RelianceInfratel (RITL).

Doha Bank has argued thatthe creditors’ panel has con-sidered the claims of lenders ofparent firm RelianceCommunications on the basisof corporate guarantee of RITLwhich would reduce its votingshare in the CoC.

The bank claimed to bedirect lenders and said as a syn-dicate of four banks, it had lent�1,400 crore to RITL.

Doha Bank is against con-sidering lenders having corpo-rate guarantee of RITL as finan-cial creditors as this will mar-ginalise their voting rights to 15per cent from around 55 percent currently.

The lenders of RelianceInfratel have invoked bankguarantees of �8,000 croreissued by the company infavour of RelianceCommunications. The tribunalasked State Bank of India (SBI)to file reply within seven daysand Doha Bank to file a rejoin-der in three days.

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Financial creditors ofReliance Communications

have submitted claims of over�49,193 crore, which showedthat China Development Bank,LIC and SBI have the highestexposure in the dues.

According to the list,Interim Resolution Professional(IRP) Pardeep Kumar Sethi hasadmitted claims of �47,038.79crore and the remainingamount has been put for veri-fication.

The list showed that ChinaDevelopment Bank (CDB)claimed dues of �9,863.89 croreand the IRP has admitted theentire claim.

The IRP also admitted fullclaims made by Life InsuranceCorporation (�4,758 crore),Exim Bank of China (�3,356.44crore), Standard CharteredBank (�2,130.23 crore), ICBC(�1,832.89 crore), SyndicateBank (�1,225.19 crore), andPunjab National Bank(�1,126.87 crore), among sev-eral others.

State Bank of India sub-mitted a claim of �4,905.37crore but IRP admitted�4,714.52 crore and set aside�190.85 crore for verification.Among lead lenders, Bank ofBaroda placed a claim of�2,707.67 crore but IRP admit-ted �2,531.87.

Details of operational andother creditors were not avail-able in the note.

Anil Ambani-led RCom isunder the corporate insolven-cy resolution process after itfailed to pay dues of lendersand vendors.

Earlier this month, theNational Company LawTribunal allowed RCom toexclude the 357 days spent inlitigation and admitted it forbankruptcy proceedings.

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Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has staged animpressive turnaround by clocking a Net Profit dur-

ing the Financial Year 2018-19 after 3 consecutive yearsof losses. Declaring its annual results today, the Companyposted a Net Profit (Profit After Tax) of �2178.82 Crorein FY 2018-19 (FY’19) as against a net loss of �481.71Crore in FY 2017-18. During the financial year 2018-19,intensive efforts on improving physical performancethroughout the year in tandem with the market condi-tions made it possible to achieve higher volumes,improve the product-mix and increase the share of value-added steel.

Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Chairman, SAIL, dedicated theturnaround to organisational synergy and team work. Hesaid, “The entire SAIL’s collective worked in mission modeto achieve this turnaround. Together we have done it andit has strengthened our resolve to perform better in com-ing times. We all are committed to put SAIL into a high-er orbit of performance. The performance during the lastyear gives us confidence to aim higher and we shall put ineven greater efforts to ramp-up production from our sophis-ticated mills while focusing on augmenting production ofspecial & valued added steels and niche products.”

SAIL’s operating margin grew by more than 100% inFY’19 over CPLY indicating an overall improvement inthe performance.

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In what could give MamataBanerjee more butterflies in

her stomach, senior BJP leaderMukul Roy on Friday saidanother crop of about 10Trinamool Congress MLAsand “some MPs” were waitingto join the saffron camp.

Roy, a major architect ofBJP’s astounding performancein the Lok Sabha electionsfrom Bengal, said the MamataBanerjee Government may notlast till 2021 and could collapsewell before its time as “manyMLAs and MPs are in touchwith me.”

He said, “just now there are10 MLAs and some MPs whoare in touch with me. There willbe more to join us in the com-ing days,” and added he wouldprefer the TMC leaders to jointhe BJP gradually so “causingher chest pain to increase slow-ly. I will not give them a sud-den heart attack but a slow andsure shock causing a stroke.”

Already a large number ofTMC leaders including MLAs,

former and sitting, municipalchairmen and councilors havejoined the BJP in Delhi.

On whether he saw arevival of Trinamool Congressfrom the electoral jolt it hadsuffered in the recently heldparliamentary elections, Roysaid more and more peoplewere getting attracted towardsthe BJP impressed by the per-formance of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

“If this trend continuesand if the TMC leaders con-tinue to join our party in suchlarge numbers then I don’tthink this government willsurvive its full term till 2021”the former Railway Ministersaid.

Meanwhile, with a view tostimulate the senior Trinamoolleaders’ sagging spirits ChiefMinister on Friday held a partycore committee meeting whereshe asked the Ministers, MPs,MLAs and district presidents tostick to their basic jobs andexpand their public base.

“Don’t live your respectiveareas. This is my strong instruc-

tion,” she said adding, “expandyour support base throughpublic contact because we willdefinitely bounce back fromthis place,” she told her partyleaders.

Once again attacking theBJP and the ElectionCommission for manipulatingthe electronic voting machinesto win the elections Banerjeesaid, “the people will have to betold about this. We will have todescend on the streets, organizemass movements against theEC so as to build pressure” onthe poll panel in order to “pre-vent it from repeating its mis-chief in the 2021 Assemblyelections.”

Buttressing her argumentshe wondered “how Amit Shahand the BJP could say prema-turely that they would get 300-plus seats and how could he saythis will happen at 10 am andthat will happen at 11 am andyet another thing will happenat 12 pm on the counting day.This means that there wasconnivance and high-techmanipulation of the EVMs.”

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Kishtwar district in Jammuprovince, declared a ter-

rorism-free zone over a decadeago, witnessed first firefightbetween unidentified terroristsand jawans of police patrolparty in the wee hours ofFriday in Appan area ofMarwah tehsil.

Two Special police officers(SPO's) wounded in the attackwere rushed to Army com-mand hospital, Udhampur forspecialised treatment.

Meanwhile, in two suc-cessful operations, a joint teamof security forces eliminatedfive terrorists during the day.According to police, threeHizbul Muhajideen terroristswere neutralised in Dragadarea of Sugan village in Shopianwhile two terrorists were killedin Nanar area of Tral in SouthKashmir's Pulwama district.

Public Relations Officer(PRO) of Inspector General ofPolice, Jammu range, MK

Sinha said, "after receiving aspecific input about the move-ment of anti-national elementsin Appan area of Marwah, ateam of SOG and district policehad left for the area onThursday evening".

He said, early Friday morn-ing while police team was on itsjob, it came under fire fromunidentified militants nearFaizi Bridge. The fire was retal-iated. He said in the exchangeof firing, 02 SPOs, Mohd. Iqbal& Ashiq Hussain got bulletinjuries. He said, after theattack, Army and police teams

launched comprehensivesearches in the area.

IG, Jammu range, MKSinha also visited ArmyCommand Hospital atUdhampur and enquired aboutthe health and welfare of the 02SPOs who sustained bulletinjuries

Since beginning of the holymonth of Ramzan, more than20 terrorists have been elimi-nated by the security forcesacross Kashmir valley in relent-less operations.

The overall tall of terroristskilled since January 2019 is

nearing 100. Out of these morethan two dozen terrorists ofJaish-e- Mohammand terroroutfit including its top com-manders have been eliminatedby the security forces.

Since November 2018,Kishtwar was witnessing regu-lar movement of 'radicalised'youth in the area.

The same month saw tar-geted killing of a senior BJPleader Anil Parihar along withhis brother Ajeet Parihar.

In April 2019, another RSSleader, ChandermohanSharma, was killed in coldblood along with his bodyguard inside district hospital inKishtwar. Incidents of weaponsnatching were also reported inthe area in the recent monthsraising concerns of revival ofmilitancy in the region.

In March 2019, posterscarrying pictures of seven"wanted terrorists" affiliatedwith the Hizbul Mujahideenand the Lashkar-e-Taiba werereleased by the police. Officialsources said, at least seven ter-rorists are active in the regionand six of them belonged to theHizbul Mujahideen and one tothe Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

Meanwhile, Policespokesman in Srinagar said,

"the encounter broke out aftera Cordon and SearchOperation was launched in theDragad area of Sugan village inShopian following credibleinputs about the presence ofmilitants, adding that the gun-fight site was located inorchards and with no habita-tion nearby".

"During the search opera-tion, the hiding militants firedon the search party, policesaid, adding that the fire wasretaliated, leading to anencounter in which two listedmilitants along with the otherone who was part of this groupwere killed".

The killed terrorists wereidentified as Abid ManzoorMagray alias Sajju Tiger son ofManzoor Ahmad Magray res-ident Nowpora PayeeenPulwama, Bilal Ahmad Bhatson of Gul Mohammad resi-dent of Urmulla LassiporaPulwama and Jasim RashidShah son of Abdul Rashid res-ident of Malnar, Shopian.

Abid and Manzoor werewanted by law for their com-plicity in a series of cases includ-ing attack on security estab-lishments and civilian atrocities.Several cases were registeredagainst them, police said.

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Amethi (UP): The main accused inthe killing of a close aide of AmethiMP Smriti Irani was arrested onFriday following an encounter withpolice here, officials said.

Wasim was held in Shalhapurarea under the Jamo police stationarea on Thursday night, AssistantSuperintendent of Police Daya Ramsaid.

With this, all the five accused inthe case have been arrested, the hesaid.

Wasim has suffered gunshotinjuries and has been admitted to acommunity health centre, the ASPsaid, adding the Jamo police station

in-charge also suffered minorinjuries in the gunfight.

A case was registered againstfive people for killing SurendraSingh.

Ramchandra, Dharmanath,Naseem and Golu were arrested ear-lier. Ramchandra is a member of thekshetra panchayat and also a localCongress leader, the police said.

Singh, 50, a former head ofBaraulia village, around 25 kmfrom the Amethi district head-quarters, was shot at around 11.30pm on May 25. He was referred toa Lucknow hospital, but succumbedto injuries during treatment. PTI

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Rahul Gandhi to Jawaharlal Nehru forhis liberal ideological moorings thatwent beyond just electoral politics andasserted that the Congress needed a"broad-minded person" like him.

At a time when the Congressappeared to be in a disarray with Rahulwanting to step down from the post ofparty chief due to poll drubbing, theDravidian party said, "Rahul's politi-cal journey should be about sloggingfrom the grassroots level. If that isthere, victory is possible."

Apparently seeking to lift Rahul'sspirits, the DMK's Tamil organ"Murasoli", in its editorial, said theCongress was a broad-based party andto lead it, only a broad-minded personlike Rahul was needed.

Days afterDMK chief M

K Stalin persuaded Rahul not to quitfrom the president's post, the partymouthpiece said he did not confinehimself to only "electoral politics," dur-ing the run up to the polls.

Instead, Rahul, the DMK saidshowed his concern about the Indiansociety, and expressed his anguishabout several aspects like religious hos-tility, economic inequalities, and pover-ty.

The DMK daily said he also under-stood the difference in mindsetbetween the southern and northernstates.

Rahul spoke of "Periyar (rational-ist leader) and celebrated Kalaignar(late DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi),"and all such aspects went beyond pollvictories and defeats, Murasoli said.

The Congress president, hence,transcended the confines of electoral

politics by talking notonly about PrimeMinister NarendraModi but also focus-ing on all suchaspects.

By doing so, the DMK said, "Rahultranscended. To be very precise, RahulGandhi reflected the thoughts (liber-al ideological stand) of JawaharlalNehru."

"Rahul is the strong brick forbuilding the fort of Congress and it ismore strong than a mountain of sand."

The DMK also said it was usual toblame the Nehru-Gandhi family dur-ing poll debacles.

"Many do not realise during timesof success that it is the very same fam-ily which fetched victories for theCongress party."

Similarly, some were now trying toplace the blame on Rahul for theCongress party's poll defeat.

Rahul has offered to step down fol-lowing the dismal performance of theCongress in the Lok Sabha elections,while the Congress WorkingCommittee rejected it.

The BJP had on May 23 won 303out of 542 Lok Sabha seats that wentto polls, handing out a crushing defeatto the Congress and many other polit-ical opponents. PTI

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Mumbai: No evidence wasfound to indicate that PayalTadvi, the junior doctor at aGovernment hospital here whoallegedly committed suicide,had been killed, the MumbaiPolice's crime branch told acourt on Friday.

The court, which refusedto extend police remand of thethree accused, noted that thecase diary and the autopsyreport did not suggest that itwas a "clear-cut" case of mur-der.

Tadvi (26), a post-graduatestudent at B Y L Nair Hospital,allegedly hanged herself in herhostel room on May 22, as shewas reportedly fed up of beingragged by the three accusedwho were her seniors.

It was also alleged that the

accused had hurled casteistslurs at her.

The prosecution, seekingpolice remand for the accusedwhen they were arrested, hadsuggested that it could be a caseof murder.

However, the crimebranch, which took over thecase on Thursday, told thecourt that it has not "comeacross any material to call it amurder". The accused —Bhakti Mehere, Hema Ahujaand Ankita Khandelwal —were produced beforeAdditional Sessions Judge R MSadrani at the end of theirpolice custody on Friday.Seeking their further custody,the investigating officer said itwas required for the recoveryof the suicide note. PTI

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It’s a giant dying lion carved into the cliff faceof a former sandstone quarry, above a pondand set in a landscaped garden in this

medieval town. It is often referred to as the“saddest stone” as it commemorates the sac-rifice of 800 Swiss guardsman in the pay ofKing Louis XVI during the French Revolution— but is now threatened with decay, chieflyfrom melting snow.

Not surprisingly, the Lion Monument, oneof Switzerland’s most loved icons and describedby American author Mark Twain as “the mostmournful and moving piece of stone in theworld”, is visited by some 1.4 million touristswho come to gaze at the regal beast, dying froma spear wound marked by a shield bearing themark of the French monarchy. Above it is theinscription — Helvetiorum Fidei Ac Virtuti (Tothe loyalty and bravery of the Swiss).

The monument, ten metres in length andsix metres in height, has a very emotional his-tory. When the angry masses stormed the royalpalace on August 10 1792, the 800 Swissguardsmen stood as the defenders of the themonarchy — but in vain. Their defeat was dev-astating.

Surrounded by popular tourist attractionslike the Glacier Garden, the Alpineum and theBourbaki Panorama, the monument was ini-tiated by Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen, a juniorlieutenant with the Swiss guardsmen who wason leave at the time and thus escaped the mas-sacre.

In 1793, he felt obliged to erect a monu-ment in honour of his fallen officers, comradesand soldiers and it took almost 30 years to com-plete amidst of several design and architectur-al changes. The monument was designed byDanish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen andhewed by Lukas Ahorn. Completed in 1821,it will mark its 200th anniversary in 2021.

“Before the Lion Monument was erected,the area had not yet been built on. However,intensive construction began in 1870. Due tothe constant building activity, with numerousnew buildings and conversions up to the pre-sent time, the situation of the garden with the

lion monument has steadily deteriorated,”Damian Suess of Lucerne Tourism said.

“The Lucerne administration took over themonument in 1882 and in 1891, a report onits condition was drawn up. On the basis of thatreport, it was decided that the conservation ofthe monument, renewal of the weathered areas,preservation of the rock around the monumentand the laying of a protective stiffener abovethe rock face would be done,” Suess explained.

In 1902 construction of a new frameworkto protect the monument from snow in win-ter was planned and executed but tragedystruck in 1950.

“That autumn, a piece of the lion’s thigh,at least a meter long, detached and fell into thepond. That was a major blow for the author-ities, who were struggling hard to protect themonument and restoration work immediate-ly began,” Suess said.

Rock protection measures were undertak-en in 1978 and minor repair work was carriedout on the lion in 1982. On the upper right side,a larger rock section of approximately 15 tonneswas stabilised and in 1990, the monument wasthoroughly washed with water.

Drainage has been a perpetual problem.The area behind the quarry is heavily forest-ed with the temperature plunging to zerodegrees celsius in winter accompanied by snow.A series of pipes were laid to prevent the melt-ing snow in spring from seeping into the rock-face and to drain the water into the pond.

“Despite all efforts, the condition of themonument deteriorated rapidly. Taking thisseriously, all copper pipes for draining the waterwere replaced in 2004. Further measureswere taken in 2008 to improve the water flowand thus protect the monument,” Suess point-ed out.

So, in order to save its most beloved mon-ument from adverse climatic conditions anderosion, the Lucerne administration has spentmillions of Swiss Francs and is expected to doso for many more years because it attracts greattestimonials from people around the world.

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Where is the Queen of Englandnow and what challenges lieahead of her?

Series three opens with pregnant Victoriaexpecting her child number six on the eveof the French Revolution. There is a def-inite sense that time has passed as the chil-dren are older. Victoria is wiser and herrelationship with Albert is in a very dif-ferent space. Victoria faces question ofwhether or not her role is disposablebecause the King of France turns up onher doorstep in rags, having been over-thrown and she questions whether thiscould happen to her. This is all she hasknown and all she expects to know so thatforces her to look in the mirror and exam-ine her relationship with her people andwhat that truly means to her.

The core difference between Victoriaand Albert is that the latter is moremethodical whereas Victoria is emotion-ally-led. Ultimately, she just wants to besupported and adored by her subjects. Shealways wrote about it. On the day of hercoronation, she wrote about the crowds

and how loudly they were cheering at TheGreat Exhibition. She wrote about the joyon people’s faces and the tears in their eyes.Being loved, more than she would like toadmit, is incredibly important to her.

What irks Victoria? Is it the arrival ofagent provocateur, Lord Palmerston?She hates him. Palmerston was a law untohimself. He managed things in a very dif-ferent way and perhaps didn’t give her thedeference that she felt she deserved.

There is a battle between them forpeople’s affections and Victoria isn’t usedto competition in that area. However, sheslowly realises that they are more similarthan she thought and she begins tobecome rather fond of him. He is alwayssomewhere between being invited over fortea and being thrown out — you neverknow which side of the fence she sat withhim.

What is the relationship that QueenVictoria has with the new character,Feodora, who is her half-sister and a

masterful schemer?There is a lot of unspoken resentment andhistory between these two. Victoria resentsFeodora for leaving her when she went offand got married, Feodora resents Victoriafor having the attention and focus becauseshe was the heir. It’s a difficult relation-ship. They also have a shared experienceat Kensington, which bonds them, so thereis a constant push and pull of love andresentment between them.

They haven’t seen each other foryears and instinctively Victoria doesn’ttrust Feodora. She knows there is some-thing going on but the extent to whichFeodora is being an Iago figure comes tolight later on. Feodora cleverly weaves herway through the family, putting a wedgebetween Victoria and Albert, who aremost distant during this series. They area few years into their marriage now andhave many children, so there are new pres-sures and strains. They operate complete-ly differently and have always been yin andyang but they seem to have fallen out ofbalance with each other.

What is it like to work with so many chil-dren?It is a form of utterly amazing and com-pletely chaotic mayhem. You just have tocall action and see what happens. Kidsreally do say the funniest things and it isthe unpredictability on the set which ishilarious, especially when you throw in afew dogs, horses and a couple of politi-cians. I can’t imagine the palace now not

inhabited by hoards of children.

What was the biggest challenge that youfaced during the filming?In a scene, Queen Victoria takes a dip inthe water whilst wearing her bathing suit,which is a lot like pajamas that are madefrom hemp. It was absolutely freezing andunfortunately we had to film this twicebecause the weather was so awful. TheQueen is meant to be taking a leisurely dipbut the waves were making it seemtreacherous.

Why is the role of Queen Victoria soexciting and enjoyable to return to? I love her lack of filter, her frankness andhonesty. I love the fact that if she likessomeone she is incredibly loyal and if shedoesn’t, she will let that person know. Interms of playing her, when she is in a badmood or is tired, she is very reactionaryand temperate so she has always beenknown and written about as having a tem-per.

They used to write about her havinga ‘combustible’, which I love. Victoria did-n’t have to answer to anybody and so couldreally get angry within her own house. Shewould feel mortified after having one ofthese ‘combustibles’ and would cry andapologise to Albert but she ping pongsthrough emotions rapidly. As she getsolder, she can be controlled even less, soit is fun to age with her.(The season 1 and 2 of the show are live onSonyLIV.)

In this age of short attentionspans, a condensed format of dif-ferent forms of entertainmentprevails in our consciousness.With an abundance of digital

platforms, the short film format is hereto stay. Filmmaker Avalokita Dutta,who is all set to debut with her shortfilm Gutthi, believes that these are thefuture. “People nowadays want short,sharp and tight bursts of entertain-ment, which they can watch at work,at home or on the move on theirphones,” she says.

If we compare them to featurefilms, they have traditionally beentreated as a poor cousin, especially atfilm festivals. However, their brevitymakes them ideally suited to the dig-ital platforms.

Avalokita explains that short filmsengage the audience for a little time butsimultaneously provide great qualitycontent. And that is what today’sgeneration needs. She says, “Anyonecan make these because this is the dig-ital era. Moreover, these films could beabout anything and everything that aperson wants to talk about. Thesescreening platforms have made shortfilms more democratic. It’s so amaz-ing. Who would not want to see theworld through so many differenteyes.” Short films for sure have twoundeniable roles. “First, they allow newtalent the chance to get noticed andrefine their style. Second, they alsohelp to encourage creativity and inno-vation that includes new ways oftelling stories,” she adds.

Given their obvious importance,why do short films continue to remainin the shadows? Well, “that’s more asociological question,” she says. “Theobvious answers could be — lack ofgreat actors. Or the penchant that weas an audience might have for the epic.”

Avalokita apprises us that shortfilms are very important for filmmak-ers as they give a playing field to them.Moreover, it hones their skills as ashort film needs to be tighter in whatit is trying to convey as compared toa feature film. It’s more difficult to saysomething vital in shorter time.

“The audience has become moreaccepting of short films. There’s a hugedifference in today’s time and 90swhen there was a star system. Peopleheaded out to watch films only to seethe big stars on the screen. And nowcinema is taking a turn for somethingbetter. People prefer content overeverything. They want to see actorspresenting quality content. Take the

example of Badhai Ho. The same hashappened with short films because theaudience has begun to watch films forwhat they are about rather than whostars in it,” she adds.

Avalokita’s Gutthi is about aboutfriendship between two girls. Sheexplains that she wanted to treatfriendship with the same amount ofimportance that love stories get. Shefeels that friendship between twofemales hasn't got much exposure inour cinematic space. It’s her take onfriendship in an intimate manner. Shesays, “Relationships wither away withtime. These two girls are dreamers.They make films to change the world.But over the years, their friendship hasbecome monotonous. The spark hascompletely gone.”

The short film is one of six filmstitled Shuruaat Ka Twist.

The only commonality betweenthe six films is the theme, that is of‘twist’. Every film is the interpretationof the word twist by six different direc-tors.

She adds, “The twist in my film iswhat happens when one girl decidesto move out.”

Amit V Masurkar, popularlyknown for directing Newton, mentoredAvalokita for this film. She says, “I havenever worked with Amit before. But

we have known each other for quite along time. We met at a film festival. Iam much younger to him as he’s asenior filmmaker. But he always treatsme with great respect and equality. Idon’t even know if I deserve it. May beI have earned it.”

She tells us that she was a bitscared about this whole mentorshipthing. “Because we both are extreme-ly opinionated people and have ourown visions for the kind of cinema thatwe want to make. But he gave me quitea free range. He placed more faith inme than I have in myself. Amit askedme to be responsible for every decisionthat I take. I have learnt from him thatyou need to have respect for anotherperson’s vision,” She adds.

She further tells us that she’s a con-trol freak and wants to dominateevery single person in the crew. Butthanks to Amit, “I understand howimportant it is to allow freedom toeveryone. You need to give peoplespace and the liberty to work as pertheir strategies. So that they can con-tribute in the best possible way. Maybe you could actually get somethingextraordinary out of it. Because there’sa difference between when one brainworks and when many brains work forthe same goal in unison.”

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Even after giving almost40 years of his life togovernment service,retired civil servantSK Misra felt his work

was still not complete. The for-mer bureaucrat felt that theexperience he had gained andthe reputation he had builtcould be better used for publicservice. Thus began his secondinnings.

After he retired as thePrincipal Secretary to formerPrime Minister ChandraShekhar in the early 1990s,Misra continued his work in thefields of conservation andrestoration of heritage, ruraldevelopment, women empow-erment and community engage-ment. Standing strong at 87, thePadma Bhushan recipient headsthe Indian Trust for RuralHeritage and Development(ITRHD), a non-governmentalorganisation set up in 2011 thatworks in villages with strong,often endangered, heritage tra-ditions with projects spreadacross eight states.

“I could never think of totalretirement or sitting idle. I feltthat the experience that I had

gained, I should put that expe-rience to social purpose. I am87-years-old now and I stillcan’t think of just relaxing,”Misra, who also served as

tourism, civil aviation and agri-culture secretary in the uniongovernment and was also prin-cipal secretary to three Haryanachief ministers, said.

He added that other officerswho gain experience shouldnot just hang up their boots afterretirement but should continueto work “as there are so manyareas where work needs to bedone and where their experiencecould be utilised.”

After retirement, Misraserved as the chairman of IndianNational Trust for Art andCultural Heritage (INTACH),the biggest NGO in the country

concerned with restoration ofheritage, for almost 10 years. But,the need for an organisationfocusing solely on rural heritage,birthed ITRHD.

“INTACH was primarilyurban oriented and was con-cerned only with conservation.The new NGO, formed in col-laboration with a number of dis-tinguished persons from differ-ent walks of life, was concernedwith conservation of rural her-itage and also rural developmentalong with community involve-ment,” he said.

Founded with the aim of

helping create sustainable via-bility for heritage while alsofocusing on its potential as aresource for overall develop-ment, his NGO concentrates oninfrastructure development, pri-mary education, skill develop-ment, employment generation,and development of ruraltourism.

“In all our projects, the goalis not only to preserve importantheritage assets but to help theimpoverished rural communi-ties that own them to learn howto successfully manage previ-ously unrecognised heritageresources, in the process achiev-ing self-sufficiency, improvedliving conditions and a newsense of pride as owners of thesespecial and most precious partsof our culture,” Misra said.

While in Jharkhand,ITRHD is working on restora-tion of 17th century terracottatemples and restoration of a his-toric jail, in Haryana’s Mewat

district, it has undertaken aproject to restore an extraordi-nary 700-year-old monument,the Dargah of Sheikh Musa, amedieval Sufi saint.

“In the Maluti village inJharkhand, there is a unique her-itage site with 62 terra-cotta tem-ples. There were 108 temples andnow only 62 remain,” he said.

While Misra took the ini-tiative to conserve and protectthese unique monuments in2011, the Jharkhand govern-ment in 2015 agreed to fund theentire project with a budget of�7 crore. “The work is going onand we hope to complete it byend of this year,” the formerbureaucrat said.

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Gulf and Arab allies ralliedaround Saudi Arabia Friday

as it ratcheted up tensions withregional rival Iran after a seriesof attacks, drawing accusationsfrom Tehran of “sowing divi-sion”. Tehran, which has strong-ly denied involvement in any ofthe attacks, expressed disap-pointment that Riyadh plans tolevel the same “baseless accusa-tions” at a summit of the Org-anisation of Islamic Cooperation(OIC) early on Saturday.

King Salman called on Gulfand Arab leaders to confrontIran’s “criminal acts” after stillunexplained sabotage attacksdamaged four vessels, two ofthem Saudi oil tankers, in theSea of Oman and twin Yemeni

rebel drone attacks shut down akey Saudi oil pipeline.

His remarks came at thestart of two back-to-back emer-gency summits in the Muslimholy city of Mecca that drewnear-unanimous support forthe Sunni kingdom from Gulfand Arab states -- with thenotable exception of Iraq.

A joint statement issued byArab leaders condemned “actsby the terrorist Huthi militiassupported by Iran who (sent)aircraft that crossed into SaudiArabia to two oil pumping sta-tions and acts of sabotage thataffected commercial ships in ter-ritorial waters of the UnitedArab Emirates”.

They said Iran’s behaviour“poses a direct and seriousthreat” and called on “the inter-

national community to take afirm stand to confront Iran andits destabilising acts in theregion”. A joint statement issuedby Gulf leaders went further,echoing criticism of a land-mark 2015 nuclear deal betweenmajor powers and Iran voiced byUS President Donald Trumpwhen he abandoned the agree-ment in May last year.

It expressed “support for theUS strategy towards Iran” thathas seen Washington tighten thescrews on Iran’s economy withcrippling unilateral sanctionsand deploy an aircraft carriertask force, B-52 bombers and anamphibious assault ship to theGulf, along with additionaltroops. Gulf leaders called onIran to “stay away from hostile,destabilising acts”.

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Thousands of Iranians joined annual rallies in

support of the Palestinian causeon Friday, rejecting a US peaceplan President Donald Trumphas dubbed the “deal of thecentury”.

The Quds (Jerusalem) Daycommemorations, which areheld on the last Friday of theMuslim holy month ofRamadan, were launched by Iran’s revolutionary leader Ayatollah RuhollahKhomeini and are held by pro-Iranian groups across theregion.

Demonstrators burnt USand Israeli flags and effigies ofTrump and Israeli PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu.

They held up posters read-ing “Quds, the eternal capital ofPalestine” and “no to the dealof the century”.

In similar protests inBaghdad, flags of the UnitedStates and the Jewish statewere set ablaze and portraits of

Trump and Netanyahu tram-pled as pro-Iranian militiasmarched through the streets.

The long-awaited “deal”,which has yet to be unveiled byits architect, Trump son-in-lawJared Kushner, has alreadybeen rejected by thePalestinians, who say Trump’spolicies have shown him to beblatantly biased in favour ofIsrael.

High-ranking officialsattended the Tehran rally,including President HassanRouhani, Foreign MinisterJavad Zarif and parliamentspeaker Ali Larijani.

“Undoubtedly, the deal ofthe century will become thebankruptcy of the century,”the state news agency IRNAquoted Rouhani as tellingreporters at the rally.

On his arrival in the White

House more than two yearsago, Trump proclaimed hisambition to secure a finalaccord ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But the odds of his suc-ceeding where every previousUS president —Republican aswell as Democrat —has failedappear particularly low.

Palestinians have broken allcontacts with the Trumpadministration since he recog-nised Jerusalem as the capitalof Israel in December 2017.

Kushner, who was inJerusalem on Friday on the lat-est leg of a regional tour to sellthe plan, has looked to analliance with Saudi Arabiaagainst Iran as a way to gainArab support.

The US is expected to rollout the economic aspects of thepeace plan at a conference inBahrain on June 25-26.

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Vienna: The UN atomic watch-dog said Friday Iran continuesto stay within the limitations setby the nuclear deal reached in2015 with major powers, thoughits stockpiles of low-enricheduranium and heavy water aregrowing.

In a confidential quarterlyreport distributed to memberstates and seen by TheAssociated Press, theInternational Atomic EnergyAgency said Iran has stayedwithin key limitations set in theso-called Joint ComprehensivePlan of Action, or JCPOA.

The deal is meant to keepTehran from building atomicweapons in exchange for eco-nomic incentives. It has beencomplicated by the unilateralwithdrawal of the United Stateslast year and Washington’s

increased sanctions, which hasbeen taking a toll on the Iranianeconomy. That has left the othersignatories — Germany, Britain,France, Russia and China —struggling to come up withenough incentives to keep Iranin the deal.

Earlier this month, Iranannounced that if a way could-n’t be found within 60 days toshield it from US sanctions tar-geting its economy and oilindustry, it would increase itsenrichment of uranium beyondthe purity allowed under theJCPOA.

And about a week ago, Iran said it had increasedits uranium-enrichment production capacity, thoughonly of the lower-enriched ura-nium permitted by the agree-ment. AP

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President Donald Trumpangrily assailed special

counsel Robert Mueller’smotives on Thursday, a dayafter Mueller bluntly rebuffedTrump’s repeated claims that the Russia investigationhad cleared him of obstructingjustice.

The president also offeredmixed messages on Russia’sefforts to help him defeatDemocrat Hillary Clinton inthe 2016 campaign.

Early in the day, Trumptweeted he had “nothing to dowith Russia helping me getelected.” That was the first timehe seemed to acknowledge thatRussia tried to help his cam-paign.

Then on the White HouseSouth Lawn, Trump toldreporters: “Russia did not helpme get elected. You know whogot me elected? You know whogot me elected? I got me elect-ed. Russia didn’t help me at all.”

Mueller’s report said Russiainterfered in the election inhopes of getting Trump elect-ed, but his findings and intelli-

gence officials have stopped short of saying theefforts contributed to Trump’svictory.

Trump’s 20-minute erup-tion underscored that heremains deeply distressed overthe probe that has shadowed hispresidency for nearly two years,even after Mueller announcedhis resignation and the closureof his office. Democrats aremulling the possibility ofimpeachment proceedings.

Trump insisted that he’sbeen tough on Russia and thatMoscow would have preferredClinton as president. But that’snot what Russian PresidentVladimir Putin has said.

When asked last year inHelsinki whether he wantedTrump to become president,Putin replied: “Yes, I did.” OnWednesday, Mueller, in his firstpublic remarks on the Russiainvestigation, pointedly reject-ed Trump’s claims — repeatedalmost daily — that the specialcounsel’s investigation clearedhim of criminal activity and wasa “witch hunt.”

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three-day, cross-country pil-grimage that in many ways iscompleting the 1999 trip by St.John Paul II that marked thefirst-ever papal visit to a major-ity Orthodox country.

President Klaus Iohannismet Francis at the airport andthe two huddled for a privatemeeting before Francis openeda series of meetings withRomania’s political and reli-

gious leadership.Francis’ visit comes on the

heels of the EuropeanParliament elections that hol-lowed out the political middlein the bloc, and Francis isexpected to speak about issuesconfronting the continent dur-ing the trip.

Key moments are Francis’Mass for the largely Hungarian-speaking Roman Catholicfaithful at the country’s mostfamous Marian shrine,Sumuleu Ciuc, in easternTransylvania.

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West Indies crushedPakistan by sevenwickets in a one-sided World Cupmatch at Trent

Bridge on Friday, with the two-timechampions showing they are a resur-gent force in the one-day game.

Fast bowler Oshane Thomastook four wickets as Pakistan werebundled out for their second-lowestWorld Cup total of 105 in just 21.4overs on the second day of the com-petition in England and Wales.

West Indies cruised to victory injust 13.4 overs, Chris Gayle top-scor-ing with 50. He reached his half-cen-tury off 33 balls with three sixes andsix fours before he was dismissed offthe next ball he faced.

During his innings Gayle, whocalls himself the "Universe Boss",broke the record for the most sixeshit in World Cup history.

He now has 40 maximums, threemore than retired South African bats-man A B de Villiers.

Nicolas Pooran smashed pace-man Wahab Riaz for a huge six overthe square-leg boundary to give the1975 and 1979 world champions anideal start to their campaign.

"It was a good game. I think thebowlers were outstanding today,"said Holder. "We kept our foot on theaccelerator. We've eased off in the pastbut it was good to see the killerinstinct today.

"We wanted to be aggressive. It'sthe nature of our cricket with bat, balland in the field.

"We've definitely come to win thisWorld Cup but I just want us to enjoyour cricket, play fearless cricket andmake the fans back home proud."

The only positive for Pakistanwas three wickets for pacemanMohammad Amir on his WorldCup debut after he missed the 2011and 2015 tournaments due to aspot-fixing ban of 2010.

Amir had Shai Hope (11), DarrenBravo (0) and Gayle caught in an inci-sive six-over spell, but the batsmenhad not put enough runs on theboard to give the bowlers a chance.

Pakistan's sloppy and vulnerablebatting was cruelly exposed by someshort-pitched bowling by the WestIndies pacemen on a Trent Bridgepitch famous for big totals.

Opener Fakhar Zaman and

Babar Azam were the joint top-scorers with 22 each in an abysmaldisplay of batting.

The only other batsmen to reachdouble figures were Riaz, who scored18, and Mohammad Hafeez (16).

Holder took three wickets andAndre Russell chipped in with two.

Pakistan's lowest World Cupscore was 74, made against Englandat Adelaide on the way to their onlyWorld Cup title in 1992.

Pakistan captain SarfarazAhmed, said: "Very disappointed atthe batting. I was very confidentbefore the match, batting was a keypoint but we didn't apply it to theshort ball.

"Credit to the West Indianbowlers, they bowled really well."

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There's no secret to JasonHolder's game plan now - theWest Indies captain is ready to

unleash the fury.Much has been made of his

powerhouse batting line-up, withnames like Chris Gayle, Shai Hope,Nicholas Pooran, Shimron Hetmyerand Andre Russell enough to strikefear into any bowling attack.

But it was Holder's bowlers thatprovided the destructive force atTrent Bridge, an all-seam attack thatbrought back memories of the pastas they laced together aggression,hostility and speed in a combinationthat proved deadly to Pakistan.

The two-time championsbowled their rivals out for just 105in 21.4 overs - Pakistan's secondlowest total in ICC Men's CricketWorld Cup history.

Oshane Thomas took 4-27,Holder 3-42 and Russell a scorch-ing 2-4 in just three eye-catchingovers as only two Pakistan batsmenpassed 20.

"We want to remain aggressiveand that's through good fast bowl-ing," said Holder.

"Our style is to be aggressive,whoever we are playing against. Ifyou aren't picking up wickets thenyou are never going to containteams.

"It's good to see a lot of shortballs and the discipline and aggres-sion we showed was great. Westacked the overs nicely togetherand really built the pressure onthem.

"If we feel a batsman is suscep-tible to a short ball then it will bean option we will use."

Pakistan fans outnumbered

their rivals and made their feelingsknown as Russell aimed down con-secutive short deliveries as he rat-tled in from the Radcliffe Road end.

Holder's contribution startedbefore a ball had been bowled, thiswas definitely a toss to win on a live-ly pitch that gave the bowlers someencouragement under overcastskies.

"I've had not much luck with thetoss recently, so it was a nice to callone right for the boys with the over-head conditions and a fresh wick-et," he added.

"I wanted to bat second, Ialways back us chasing with a deepbatting line up we have. Oshane wasexcellent. It's great to see him in run-

ning in and bowling fast. We justhave to stay consistent and not getcarried way. He's been outstandingand that creates a buzz throughoutthe entire team.

"It was a great start and while webowled really well, it was a very clin-ical performance with the bat too."

Australia are next for Holder'smen, a team that will be able to copewith the short stuff better thanPakistan, who looked bemused bywhat was raining down upon them.

"I'm not thinking too far ahead,"added Holder.

"It's a long tournament and wehave to focus on what we can con-trol. We need to stay clinical andmaintain this momentum."

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Pakistan suffered a seven-wicket defeat to the WestIndies in their ICC Men's

Cricket World Cup opener inNottingham.

Beaten by seven-wickets itwas their second-lowest WorldCup score in history as they wererattled out for just 105 by a hos-tile West Indian bowling attack atTrent Bridge.

It was their 11th consecutiveODI defeat but maybe they cantake some inspiration from histo-ry.

When they last lifted theWorld Cup in 1992 they lost by tenwickets to the West Indies intheir tournament opener, so itcould be worse.

And they were bowled out forjust 74 by England just a few dayslater.

By the end of the tournament,Imran Khan's side were worldchampions, famously turning thetables on this year's hosts in thefinal at the MCG.

The point is, they remain aspredictably unpredictable as ever.

"We wanted to bowl first andthe start is very crucial for our

team," said Sarfaraz."We lost too many wickets

early on and that's why we didn'tcome back into the game.

"We expected a hard game andwe knew what was coming to us.It was not a good result for us butwe have what it takes to play andwin."

All the pre-match talk wasabout whether the Windies' pow-erhouse batsmen could threatenthe 500-run mark on a groundmade for big scores.

Sarfaraz countered he believedit would be a game for the bowlers,though it was the men in maroonwho rolled back the years with aperformance reminiscent of the1970s, when their pace attackinspired them to two World Cupvictories.

But it won't get any easier forthe Pakistan captain, with worldNo1 side England - pumped upfrom their opening win over SouthAfrica — their next opponents onthe same ground next Monday.

"I was happier with how webowled and the effort we showed,especially as we were defendingsuch a low score," added Sarfaraz.

"It was good to seeMohammed Amir back in theform we know he is capable of andit will be good for us in the nextmatches as well.

"We have got to back ourselvesand not think too much aboutwhat happened in this match.

"This game is gone but wehave a strong players who will helpus bounce back and win the nextmatch.

"We know we can beatEngland, we came close twice inthe recent series and we just did-n't finish well."

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New Zealand are happy to go underthe radar as they prepare to launchtheir campaign for World Cup

glory against Sri Lanka in Cardiff today.The Black Caps reached the final four

years ago for the first time after six semi-final defeats, only to be soundly beaten byAustralia in Melbourne.

Kane Williamson has replaced theswashbuckling Brendon McCullum as cap-tain but the core of the team that came soclose in 2015 remains.

Since the last World Cup, NewZealand have risen as high as second inthe world rankings but have also been beat-en at home by South Africa, England andIndia.

New Zealand beat fancied India intheir opening World Cup warm-up gamebefore going down to the West Indies.

Taylor has been in breathtaking formin recent years in the one-day game, aver-aging over 60 in ODIs in 2017 and morethan 90 last year.

Williamson, ranked 12th, and MartinGuptill, ranked 10th, are the other maindangermen in the New Zealand battingline-up Trent Boult leads an impressive

bowling attack, with Colin deGrandhomme and Tim Southee for com-pany. Spinners Ish Sodhi and MitchellSantner offer useful variety.

The Kiwis start clear favourites in theiropener against 1996 winners Sri Lanka, aside that has slumped to ninth in the ODIrankings.

Newly appointed captain DimuthKarunaratne, who has returned to the ODIfold after four years away, has been hand-ed the responsibility of lifting a team thathave lost eight of their past nine ODIs.

But Sri Lanka have an impressiveWorld Cup record, with one title, two run-ners-up finishes and one semi-finalappearance.

SQUADNew Zealand: Kane Williamson (c), TomBlundell, Boult, Grandhomme, LockieFerguson, Guptill, Matt Henry, TomLatham, Colin Munro, Jimmy Neesham,Henry Nicholls, Santner, Ish Sodhi,Southee, Ross TaylorSri Lanka: Dimuth Karunaratne (c),Avishka Fernando, Suranga Lakmal, LasithMalinga, Mathews, Jeevan Mendis, KusalMendis, Kusal Perera, Thisara Perera,Nuwan Pradeep, Dhananjaya de Silva,Siriwardana, Thirimanne, Isuru Udana.

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New Sri Lanka skipperDimuth Karunaratnesaid his struggling side

has received timely advice fromformer greats including KumarSangakkara ahead of theirWorld Cup opener against NewZealand here on Saturday.

Sri Lanka, who won thetournament in 1996 beforemaking consecutive finals in2007 and 2011, enter the 2019edition on a difficult recent runof form.

They are ranked ninthamong the ten teams compet-ing here in England and Wales,have been whitewashed 5-0four times in three years. Theycalled up Karunaratne to skip-per the side, despite the open-er not playing an ODI for hiscountry in four years.

But the likes of ArjunaRanatunga — captain of the1996 champions — and KumarSangakkara have given thissquad their backing.

"Sanga came and gave ussome words of advice whichwas really helpful, he did real-ly well in the last World Cup soit was useful to hear how he pre-pared, mentally and everythingelse," he said here on Friday.

"Arjuna who lifted theWorld Cup in 1996, he spoke to

us and gave us advice before weleft Sri Lanka.

"That is the sort of thing weneed to be courageous, pastcricketers coming in and help-ing us. Jayawardene is alsohere and we hope he will comeand talk to us as soon as pos-sible."

Karunaratne realises thathe has a daunting task ahead.

"It is not easy when youdon't know the players and theyhaven't played a single game ina long time. Even me, I came

back into the side after fouryears so it is not easy.

"But if you get a chance youneed to prove yourself. Everytime you need to be hungry.Those new players who want todo well, they want to performto stay in the team.

"I also have some experi-enced guys that have playedWorld Cups before and they arekey if you want to do well, youneed those kind of players."

Karunaratne, who led SriLanka to historic Test series in

South Africa earlier this year,skippers a squad that includessix players who have 80 ormore ODI caps to their name- including veteran and untilrecently captain LasithMalinga.

But there are a number ofnew faces on board as well,including Avishka Fernandoand Isuru Udana, and thatinexperience could work intheir favour, according to thecaptain.

"No-one seems to remem-

ber the domestic level of games.All the other guys who haveplayed in the last couple ofyears failed to perform for SriLanka," added Karunaratne,who has not decided if he willopen or bat at No 3 onSaturday.

"That is why the selectorswant to give a new chance tothe players who have donewell domestically. That wasthe past. We have a good sidewith fresh faces, and are tryingto start again.

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Kane Williamson knowsthere is more than oneway to win a match and

the Kiwi skipper has forecast areturn to the 'scrappy' one-daycricket of the past if they are tolift the World Cup in 2019.

Brendon McCullum's mas-ter blasters destroyed all in theirpath on their way to the ICCMen's Cricket World Cup finalfour years ago on home soil.

But in the final againstAustralia their all-out aggressioncame unstuck and they had tosettle for a runners-up finish inthe end.

Fast-forward to 2019, andWilliamson is now in charge ofa Black Caps side that sit fourthin the ODI rankings and kick offtheir campaign in Cardiff onSaturday against Sri Lanka.

And in English conditions— despite plenty of pre-tourna-ment chat about hitting themythical 500-mark —Williamson insists adaptabilityrather than aggression is theorder of the day.

"There has been a lot of talkabout really high scores but Ithink there will be a number ofgames where that isn't the caseand it will require adjustment,"he said.

"For us at the last WorldCup, there was a trend in howwe played. It was about beingsmart with the crop that we hadto try and get the best perfor-mance.

"That meant we wereaggressive, the ball swung andwe looked to use that.

"We are yet to know howthings will shape in this tourna-ment, but the last few years wehave been growing and it isabout adjusting to the day.

"Guys maybe will have topush harder on a particularsurface on a given day, butequally it might be about adjust-ing to what one-day cricketused to look a little bit like.

Scores that are a bit lower andmuch more of that scrappytype.

"There will not be one wayto play.

"We know that not everygame will be a 350 score, and it'simportant to be made aware ofthat as we go throughout thistournament.

"It's easy to get ahead ofyourself and think, this is whatwe are going to need to do ver-sus what do we need to do nowin this current situation to giveus the best chance?"

The Kiwis have a clean billof health ahead of the Sri Lankaclash, a side they beat hand-somely four years ago, coinci-dentally also in their World

Cup opener.And despite a 3-0 series win

over Sri Lanka on home soilback at the start of the year,Williamson is not going tounderestimate their opponents.

"I don't know how much thepast really counts for as we comeinto a tournament. It is on theday and we know in this com-petition that every team can beatany of the other teams," headded.

"We are certainly treating allof our matches like that andwant to bring the focus backonto the cricket we want to play.

"We know the Lankan sideis a bit different to the one weplayed at home, but we have nodoubt that they are a tough side."

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Latham had been a doubt for hisside's opening game after breakinghis finger during a warm-up game

in Australia earlier this month.While he is yet to play a game since

the injury, the 27-year-old took full partin a training session on Thursday, 30May, and remains on track to be avail-able for selection for New Zealand's firstWorld Cup game, against Sri Lanka onSaturday, 1 June.

"He's probably slightly ahead oftime," said Gary Stead, the New Zealandhead coach. "So far Tom's reached all themilestones that we've wanted him to,and today was another step, taking ballswith more heat on them and makinghim dive and jump around a wee bitmore. It's a bit bent from what hap-pened, but he's had no pain so far, which

means the bone has knitted back well."However, both Stead and Latham

preached caution, explaining that howLatham's finger reacts to the trainingsession is as important as the fact thathe got through it. "It's nice to getthrough training today but we'll still waitand see how it pulls up tonight andtomorrow," Latham explained.

If Latham does need more time torecover, the Black Caps will feel assureddue to the form of their back-up keep-er, Tom Blundell. Though he's yet tomake his ODI debut, the youngsterscored a century in New Zealand's finalwarm-up game against West Indies, andlooks set to step up if needed.

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Steve Smith and DavidWarner will seekredemption on thebiggest stage as they re-launch their one-day

international careers forAustralia against Afghanistan atthe World Cup on Saturday.

The star batsmen were bothbanned for a year for theirroles in a ball-tampering scan-dal but they have found form ontheir return to the internation-al set-up.

Warner was the top run-scorer in the recent Indian

Premier League while Smithstruck a hundred in a warm-upvictory against England lastweekend.

The defending championshave endured a tumultuouspast year but the Aaron Finch-led side are peaking at the righttime and are considered one ofthe favourites in the 50-overshowpiece event.

After edging out hosts India3-2 in a five-match ODI seriesin March, Australia welcomedback Smith and Warner withopen arms.

But they are not expected tobe given an easy ride by English

fans, with former captain Smithbeing booed and called a "cheat"during the England warm-upgame.

Former Australian pace-man Brett Lee expects the pairto make big contributions buthas warned they might needthick skin playing in front of theEnglish crowds.

"I don't think they have gota point to prove, they will justbe happy to be back playing forAustralia," said Lee, who wonthe tournament with Australiain 2003.

Australia also boast a potentpace attack led by Pat Cummins

and Mitchell Starc, ably support-ed by Jason Behrendorff,Nathan Coulter-Nile and KaneRichardson.

Spinners Adam Zampa andNathan Lyon lend variety to thebowling attack that combined toget the better of England and SriLanka in warm-up games.

The five-time championswill start as overwhelmingfavourites in Bristol against anAfghanistan side only playingtheir second 50-over WorldCup.

Afghanistan's rise fromassociate-nation status to crick-et's elite has been nothing shortof a fairytale.

The minnows witnessed acaptaincy change two monthsbefore the start of the WorldCup, with little-known GulbadinNaib named leader of the ODIside in place of Asghar Afghan,a move that did not go downwell with some senior membersof the team.

But the team have now set-tled to focus on their World Cupcampaign.

"Gulbadin has said he'llmake use of Asghar's experience(at the World Cup). They are aunited front now," said chiefselector Dawlat KhanAhmadzai.

Afghanistan, who beatPakistan in a World Cup warm-up match, are setting their sightshigh. "There was no Rashid orMujeeb (ur Rahman) in 2015 sothis time we are aiming for asemi-final berth. With the teamcomposition we have, we candefinitely surprise a few teams,"said Ahmadzai.

"We have identified teamswe can beat but obviously I can'ttell you which teams."

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Australia captain Aaron Finch says disgracedstars Steve Smith and David Warner willuse the World Cup to restore their "world-

class" credentials after their role in the infamousball-tampering scandal in South Africa.

Both players are back in the Australia squadfor the World Cup after serving 12-months sus-pension and are set to start their country's firstmatch of the tournament against Afghanistan inBristol on Saturday.

Finch said the tournament was the ideal stageto show their competitive qualities hadnot been dimmed by the scandal.

"I think when you are a world-class player, you adapt again real-ly quickly and you get up tospeed," he said.

"Having them play, I think,13 games each in the IPL(Indian Premier League — theyactually played 12 each) wasreally important.

"That's a higher standard ofcricket and it just gets you backup to as close to internation-al competition as youcan."

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Smith would be one of the "all-time greats" by thetime he retired.

"There was never any issue about how hewould bounce back, and the same with David,"he said.

"They are both so competitive, they have gotgreat records. There was never any doubt how wellthey would come back."

The pair were given a hostile reception bysome members of the crowd at the Ageas Bowlin Southampton during Australia's World Cupwarm-up victory over England last week in whichSmith scored a century and Warner hit 43.

Warner is fit to face Afghanistan afterrecovering from a sore muscle.

"David is fine. He will playtomorrow, no doubt about that," saidFinch. "We are very close to a start-ing XI but we are not going to nameit yet. Everyone is in contention."

Australia are the reigning worldchampions, having won four of the

past five editions of the tournament,and are expected to open their cam-paign with a comfortable victory

against minnows Afghanistan.But Finch is taking nothing for

granted, with Afghanistan having servednotice of their ability by beating

Pakistan in a warm-up match."They are a dangerousside. If you take your

foot off the gas for awhile they will hurtyou, and you stillhave to play atyour absolute bestto beat them," hesaid.

"Winningtheir warm-upgame againstPakistan, theyplayed bril-liantly. Theyhave got a

huge following,with support allover the worldnow, which ishuge for cricket.

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Australian coach JustinLanger has requested fans

to show Steve Smith and DavidWarner respect and not boothem during the World Cup.

Langer, a former opener,said they have already paid abig price for their mistake.

"You (the media) talkabout earning respect, and Ithink it's really important thatpeople show respect as well,"Langer said ahead of five-timewinners Australia's World Cupopener against Afghanistanon Saturday.

The pair, who both recent-ly completed one-year bans forball-tampering, were given ahostile reception by the crowdat the Ageas Bowl inSouthampton duringAustralia's warm-up victoryover England.

"They made a mistake andpaid a big price for it. After theexperience of Hampshire, wehave a pretty good idea what toexpect. We've talked about it alot and we can put strategies inplace," Langer said.

"That said, when it hap-pens it doesn't make it any eas-ier. They are human beings,that's the truth -- and that'swhat I find the hardest.

"I'd be disappointed byany player being booed at anycricket ground, regardless ofwhat country they play for. It'snever a good look when thathappens."

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South Africa will have to move on quicklyfrom the drubbing it received in the WorldCup opener against England and regroupthemselves before its next game againstBangladesh, said captain Faf du Plessis.

The South Afican captain admitted they wereoutplayed in all facets of the game by England.

"You are going to play games and come up againstopposition that are better than you. England beat usin all three facets of the game," Du Plessis said after

the defeat."As much as we are disappointed, we will

want to learn from it quickly and put it to bed.We want to move on from it quickly."

South Africa will face Bangladesh in its

second match at The Oval on Sunday.Du Plessis backed his decision to start

the innings with Imran Tahir in place ofKagiso Rabada and the ploy workedwonders as the leg-spinner got rid offJonny Bairstow with the second deliv-ery of the tournament.

"It was a plan. It was something wefirst thought about a year ago. When weplayed against England, I thought wewant to go with him because it is dif-ferent," Du Plessis said.

"At The Oval you want to bowltwo seamers first but we went withwhat I thought was the best way toget a wicket. I went with my gut.

"Imran had not bowled withthe new ball before so he had beenpractising that for the last twoweeks. He knew he was going todo that today," he added.

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Skipper Eoin Morgan rued that a slug-gish track did not allow them post adesired total but hailed the adaptabil-

ity skills of his side, which thumped SouthAfrica by a massive 104-run margin in theWorld Cup opener.

Half centuries by Jason Roy (54), JoeRoot (51), Morgan (57) and all-rounderBen Stokes (89) helped the hosts post 311for eight before they bundled SouthAfrica for a paltry 207.

"I think given the nature of the pitchand the way South Africa bowled, we werestruggling with our plan A game with thebat for some time and that emphasisedhow slow the pitch was," said Morgan.

"You could not get away and we couldnot strike the ball like we would do for ourplan A. One of the ways we have improvedin the last two years is understanding con-ditions and we adapted really well here."

The skipper felt even the 300-plusscore was not enough.

"We did not think we had enoughruns but we thought we were on par. It isextremely pleasing. I would back us to losefour early wickets and still go at five anover.

"We have been at 20-5 before and puta reasonable score on the board, foughtto the end and believed we can still win.If we lose wickets then we will adapt."

Morgan heaped praise on Stokes forstarring in all three departments. Stokesreturned with the figure of 2-12 before hit-ting 89 runs off 79 balls.

However, it was a sensational one-handed catch by Stokes near the bound-ary off Adil Rashid, to dismiss AndilePhehlukwayo that drew admiration.

"He has had a full day out and whenhe does, it is entertaining. We see him dostuff like that in training all the time andyou shake your head at it," Morgan said.

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Jofra Archer showed why Englandcould not leave him out of theirfinal World Cup squad as he

bowled them to opening win againstSouth Africa.

On a rainy day that saw England'sfirst ODI against Pakistan curtailed tojust 19 overs of play, Archer dis-played both control and vicious paceto return figures of 1/6 from four overs.

On Thursday he returned to southLondon and once more — before BenStokes pulled off the impossible — wasthe star of the show, proving again thatthe step up to international cricket hasbeen child's play for a bowler who hasmade his name in global T20 leagues.

While it was Archer's speed andmovement off the pitch that impressedin that ODI against Pakistan, Thursday,on his World Cup bow, he showcasedhis ability to find success with the shortball, wreaking havoc on the Proteasbatting line-up.

Hashim Amla has fond memoriesof playing at The Oval; it was the sceneof his Test-best 311* in 2012. Today,however, he was sent back to thechanging rooms for an extended peri-od thanks to a striking blow to hisgrille from a rising Archer delivery. Heeventually returned to the crease laterin the match - a good sight for all tosee - but in forcing him off early, SouthAfrica were, quite literally, struck ahefty blow in their chase of 312.

Next came Aiden Markram.Gloriously talented, Markram has yetto truly demonstrate his Test-levelexcellence in the ODI format. He hint-ed at doing something special todaywith a luscious cover-drive off ChrisWoakes that was followed by anotherhit through the covers off Archer. ButArcher had the last laugh, finding extrabounce to catch the edge of Markram'spush from the very next ball — JoeRoot obliging with a neat grab at firstslip.

And also against Archer, Du Plessiscouldn't demonstrate similar geniuswith bat in hand. As a short-of-lengthball rushed on him, his bat swishedhard only send the ball high and longtowards fine-leg. Moeen Ali did therest, and Archer's impassioned cry toldthe tale.

Rassie van der Dussen has had aprolific start to his own internationalcareer, and got himself to another half-century, hinting at life in the SouthAfrican chase. But Archer returned inthe 32nd over to have the right-han-der top-edge high into the air with theball lobbing into the hands of Moeenat mid-on.

Archer's place in England's WorldCup squad has been a debated topic forquite some time, but here he was final-ly at the tournament, and the occasionwas one he was more than ready for.

With figures of 3/27, he has confirmedthat the decision to include him in the15-man squad — despite his status asinternational newbie — is a sound one.

Du Plessis revealed the difficultiesof facing Archer after the match,highlighting how there remains asense of mystery to a player who hasonly played in five international match-es (including today's game).

Du Plessis — victim of Archer'sshort-ball barrage — highlighted theeffectiveness of the seamer's tactics.

"You can see towards the end -

with Rassie [van der Dussen] - hebowls slower-ball, slower-ball, 80 percent ball, 80 per cent ball and then aquick bouncer. There's some thinkingbehind it. When he does bowl thatshort one it is bit quicker than his otherballs.

"When we get an opportunity toface England again we'll know how hisshort-ball is his wicket-ball. He's notnecessarily a guy that will swing theball as much as other bowlers but hisshort-ball will be his wicket-takingball."

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Handed a massive defeatin their World Cupopener, South African

pacer Lungi Ngidi said the teamwas satisfied with their bowlingeffort as they managed to restrictEngland to what he feels was a"below-par" total.

Opting to field first, theSouth African bowlers did wellto restrict the powerful Englishbatting line-up to 311 for eight.

"We believed we could havekept them to under 300. Evenwhen they got to 311, I thoughtthey were below-par," Ngidisaid after the defeat.

Ngidi, who was hit for 27runs in his first four overs, saidinitially he was bothered by thethought of preventing Englandfrom scoring 350.

"I was very disappointedwith my bowling performanceupfront. I might have beenoverthinking it. All the talk washow they post totals of 350 somaybe that was at the back of mymind," he said.

However, the 23-year-oldsoon found his bearings, adjust-ing his pace according to thewicket.

"There were a few opportu-nities in the Powerplay, wherethey nicked it through the slipsand I started to think, 'Thesepeople are humans, just like me'.I kicked into my rhythm fromthere."

"I listened to what the wick-et was telling me. Slower ballswere working so I stuck to that.Even though they were trying tocome after me, they couldn'tseem to get it away," Ngidi said.

Ngidi finished with figuresof 3/66 and took the crucialwickets of Ben Stokes, Jos Buttlerand Moeen Ali. "I was happy totake three sticks but would havepreferred two up front," he said.

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Ben Stokes insists hisastonishing catch inEngland's rout of South

Africa on Thursday doesn'trank as the best of his career.

Stokes capped a man-of-the-match display inEngland's victorywith one ofthe greatest catches in WorldCup history.

Diving backwards to dis-miss Andile Phehlukwayowith a one-handed take onthe boundary off Adil Rashid,Stokes' sensational effort wasimmediately labelled "thecatch of the century" by for-mer England spinner PhilTufnell on the BBC.

It was the culmination ofa remarkable day for Stokes,who also top-scored forEngland with 89 in 79 ballsand took the last two wicketsin successive balls to finish offthe South Africans.

But Stokes claimed hepreferred his stunning one-handed grab of an AdamVoges edge in the gully dur-ing a 2015 Ashes Test againstAustralia at Trent Bridge.

Asked if it was the great-est catch of his life, Stokestold reporters: "Nah, thatone was against the Aussies,so that one ranks higher!"Stokes admitted he had mis-judged the flight of the ballinitially, leadingPhehlukwayo's shot to flashpast him until the all-rounder leapt backwards tocomplete a jaw-droppingcatch with his right hand.

"I was actually in the

wrong position. It wouldhave been a regulation catchif I was in the right place, butyeah it is one of those thatsticks or doesn't," Stokes said.

"I bowled the next overand Eoin Morgan had tocome to me and ask if myheart rate had gone down.Things like that catch do getyou fizzed up.

"I didn't really knowquite hard to react to be hon-est. I just tried to take it in."Regardless of which catchdeserves top billing onStokes' CV, the 27-year-oldwas grateful to be back in thespotlight for the right rea-sons.

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