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T hick blanket of smog that engulfs the national Capital year after year during winter is clearly visible on the GT Karnal Road connecting Delhi and Karnal in Haryana as it origi- nates from the burning farm stubble and is a major cause of pollution in Delhi-NCR. Even after the NGT pulled up the State Governments and Haryana came up with an alternative solution, stubble burning is continuing unabat- ed in Haryana and Delhi stares at another winter covered in a cloud of pollutants triggered by the biomass burning. The Pioneer visited the fields of Sonipat, Panipat and Karnal on Monday night to find out the compelling reasons that farmers often give to but- tress their claims that there is no attractive alternatives before them except to burn the stub- ble to immediately free the land for another cycle of farming. However, if the Haryana Government is to be believed they have provided alternatives to the paddy growing farmers in the form of “in-situ” man- agement of stubble by using specialised farm equipment. But the farmers still prefer to burn it as they find it more convenient and alleged that the pieces farm equipment are too costly to rent from Custom Hiring Centre (CHC) promot- ed by the Government. For farmers, there is a very short window of time between harvesting of paddy and culti- vation of wheat and the farm- ers alleged that if they wait for the “in-situ” management to be done their turn would come very late and by that time the sowing period would get over. They said equipments at CHC are too less to cater to the large number of farmlands within the stipulated time of fortnight in which they have to sow next crop. Also they said renting these equipments is costly and hence not viable solution. With farmers miffed with the Centre and the State Governments over the ban it is expected to have political over- tones ahead of the Assembly polls due next year. While officials of the agri- cultural department of Haryana are claiming that the Government has taken ade- quate steps and have flowed enough funds for sustaining the CHC's the farmers are “clue- less” about the CHC's nearby their villages. Deputy Director of Agriculture department of Karnal district, Aditya Pratap Dabas, told The Pioneer that there have been 260 cases of stubble burning in the district so far. “The farmers are being stimulated to prefer the mech- anism provided by the Government instead of burn- ing it. Action has also been taken against the erring farm- ers,” said Dabas. Reports from Karnal and adjoining districts show that the combines without 'Straw Management System' (SMS) has fizzled out, leaving no option other than to burn crops residue. According to farmers, there are insufficient numbers of combines with SMS. “The harvesting cost of combines with SMS is more than Rs 3,000 per acre. We can't delay harvesting. The Government should ensure that the cost of combines with SMS is brought down to less than Rs 2,000”, said Tek Chand Dahiya, a paddy farmer from Gudha village near Gharunda, Panipat. Ramesh Battan, another farmer in Phurlak near Gharaunda, said he sowed paddy on 32 acre and it would be ready for harvest in a few days. “The village has paddy on nearly 2,200 acre, but has only one Happy Seeder with a farmer and it can manage 6-7 acre in a day. A Happy Seeder of Rs 1.50 lakh costs Rs 75,000 after subsidy. But it will be used only for six hours in the whole year. How can a farmer invest so much on a machine which is to be used for six hours a year?” he said. “Burning is the only solu- tion to get rid of this trash. We will have to do it again despite knowing that it causes pollu- tion and invite legal action,” Ramesh said. Burning of stubble, which is agricultural biomass residue, increases the Particulate Matter (PM) concentration in air which is extremely hazardous for the human health. Further the smog reduces the visibility and is a major cause of road accidents in win- ter taking toll on human lives. Each year, crop burning in the region is the start of the annu- al escalation of pollutant con- centrations in the air, leading to massive winter pollution in the region. It is further gravi- tated by the massive usage of firecrackers in the region, around “Diwali”. Followed by this, the weather patterns change, making temperatures drop and reducing the disper- sion effect of pollutants. ress had last month demanded a floor test while claiming that the BJP-led alliance Government is in disarray in view of the ill health of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. “The BJP has engineered split by taking away twooints below the “very poor” catego- ry, according to the System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research. A senior Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) official said several factors like vehicular pollution, con- struction activities and mete- orological factors like wind speed are responsible for stag- nant pollution in the city despite measures being taken up. K erala geared up for massive unrest on Wednesday over the implementation of the Supreme Court order allowing women of all age groups to enter the Sabrimala temple. With thousands of men and women devotees of Lord Ayyappa opposed to entry of women of menstrual age into the temple and threatening to commit mass suicide, the State administration faces a serious challenge in maintaining law and order situation. Wednesday is the first day when the SC order will come into force. The Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), which manages the temple, held a meeting to find a way to defuse the situation, but Pandalam royal family and other stakeholders walked out t over the TDB’s reluctance to discuss the issue of filing a review petition against the apex court order. While Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has asserted his Government will imple- ment the SC order, the police face an uphill task as hundreds of women devotees of Lord Ayyappa, the eternally celibate deity of Sabarimala, picketed the road to the hill shrine and prevented women they sus- pected were of menstrual age from proceeding to the shrine some 20 km away. Lustily chanting “Swamiya Saranam Ayyappa” hailing the Lord, the devotees checked buses and private vehicles for girls and women of the “banned” age group and forced them to abandon their journey. Television channels showed some college students, including young girls wearing black dresses, being ordered to get down a bus. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan issued a stern warning to those who dared block devotees from entering the temple. “We will ensure security to all. Nobody will be allowed to take law into their hands. S elf-styled godman Rampal was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Hisar court in connection with a 2014 murder case. The court of Hisar Additional District and Sessions Judge DR Chaliya also gave life imprionment to 14 followers Rampal, head of Satlok Ashram, and slapped a fine of 1 lakh each. The court has pronounced the verdict after a nearly four- year-long trial of the 27 accused in a makeshift court inside the Hisar district jail, where Rampal (67) and his followers have been lodged since their arrest in November 2014. This court will now pro- nounce the quantum of pun- ishment for Rampal in a second murder case on Wednesday. The court had on October 11 convicted Rampal and 26 of his followers in two separate cases of murder and other offences, including wrongful confinement of his victims at his ashram. The two murder cases against Rampal relate to the murder of six people, including five women and one infant, during violent clashes between his supporters and Haryana Police at his Satlok Ashram near Barwala town in Hisar dis- trict in 2014. Thousands of his followers had clashed with police when they had come to arrest him following directions of the Punjab & Haryana High Court over contempt of court in November 2014. The HC had ordered Rampal’s arrest after he failed to appear before the court in connection with a 2006 murder conspiracy case. A fter analysing top 100 bank frauds in the coun- try, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has directed the probe agencies, especially the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to go after the promoters who are siphoning money from com- pany to create personal wealth and attach their properties. In its 47-page report released on Tuesday, the CVC analysed the banking frauds committed by promoters in 13 sectors including media, gems and jewellery, manufacturing, aviation, services and projects, and discounting of cheques. The report authored by Vigilance Commissioner TM Bhasin, who was former CMD of Indian Bank and chairman of Indian Banking Association, said basic fraud is committed by creating fake invoices and manipulation of accounts to cheat banks by the promoters of the companies. The CVC has shared their report to the Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of Finance and major investigating agencies and Vigilance Units of court in No A ccepting the demand of saints and others, the Yogi Adityanath Government on Tuesday announced to rechris- ten Allahabad to its old name Prayagraj. The decision was taken in a meeting of the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet chaired by the Chief Minister in Lucknow on Tuesday. State Government spokesperson and Health Minister Sidharth Nath Singh told reporters that now all departments like Railways and others would be asked to change the name of Allahabad to Prayagraj in their records. “It was the demand of saints and people of Allahabad to restore the historic name of the city and this demand has been accepted by the Government ahead of Kumbh Mela scheduled next year,” he said. “Rig Veda, Mahabharat and Ramayana also mention Prayagraj (for Allahabad),” he noted. Earlier, Singh had also written to Governor Ram Naik to consider renaming Allahabad as Prayagraj. He had also ridiculed the Opposition for resisting the renaming process. T he rupee climbed 35 paise to end at nearly two-week high of 73.48 per dollar on Tuesday amid softening crude oil prices and easing concerns over the trade deficit. Stock markets welcomed a retreat in oil prices and gains in the rupee with the benchmark 30-share Sensex rising by 297.38 points to close at 35,162.48. The NSE Nifty after regaining the 10,600-mark hit a high of 10,604.90 on the back of widespread gains, and final- ly concluded 72.25 points at 10,584.75. As the equity market con- tinued its winning run for the third straight session on Tuesday, investor wealth soared 5.30 lakh crore in the rally since Friday. Traders said foreign fund inflows and greenback weak- ening against other currencies were the other factors that provided support to the home unit. At the Interbank Foreign Exchange, the rupee opened on a firm note at 73.79 from Monday’s close of 73.83. During the day the domestic currency gained further ground to hit a high of 73.47 against the US dollar, driven by selling of the greenback by exporters. Detailed report on P10 A manhunt has been launched to nab the absconding son of a former BSP MP Rakesh Pandey, who was booked, for allegedly bran- dishing a pistol in the foyer of a Hyatt Regency in South Delhi. After the video of the Sunday incident went viral, Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju said police had initiated action in the case. A team of the Delhi Police reached Lucknow on Tuesday in connection with the inves- tigation into the incident in which the accused has been identified as Ashish Pandey, who hails from Lucknow and whose brother, Ritesh Pandey, is a sitting MLA in Uttar Pradesh. One of the victims said the accused walked up to him and hurled abuses. It is suspected that both the parties involved were drunk at the time of the incident, said police officials. T he Congress’ efforts to form a Government in Goa suf- fered a major setback when two of its MLAs joined the ruling BJP. Congress MLAs Subhash Shirodkar and Dayanand Sopte on Tuesday resigned from the Goa Assembly and also from the primary membership of the party and joined the BJP at a special event in presence of Union Minister Piyush Goyal. Shirodkar and Sopte reached the national Capital on Monday late night and met BJP president Amit Shah before quitting the party. The Congress has accused the rul- ing party of “poaching” the leg- islators by using “money power and threats”. Their resignation has now reduced the Congress’ strength from 16 to 14 in the 40-mem- ber House led by ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar who enjoys the support of 26 MLAs. The Congress had emerged as the single largest party after the 2017 Assembly elections, winning 17 seats. However, within days its num- ber was reduced to 16 when its newly-elected Vishwajit Rane resigned. The Congress had sub- mitted a memorandum to Governor Mridula Sinha, stak- ing claim to form an alternate Government. The Congress had then claimed it has the support of legislators from other parties and can form the Government, if given a chance. The Congress had sensed an opportunity to topple the BJPany serious threat to the State Government. Continued on Page 4 2 Cong MLAs join BJP, shatter party’s Goa plan However, the Congress maintained thdership.
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Thick blanket of smog thatengulfs the national Capital

year after year during winter isclearly visible on the GT KarnalRoad connecting Delhi andKarnal in Haryana as it origi-nates from the burning farmstubble and is a major cause ofpollution in Delhi-NCR.

Even after the NGT pulledup the State Governments andHaryana came up with analternative solution, stubbleburning is continuing unabat-ed in Haryana and Delhi staresat another winter covered in acloud of pollutants triggered bythe biomass burning.

The Pioneer visited thefields of Sonipat, Panipat andKarnal on Monday night tofind out the compelling reasonsthat farmers often give to but-tress their claims that there is

no attractive alternatives beforethem except to burn the stub-ble to immediately free the landfor another cycle of farming.

However, if the HaryanaGovernment is to be believedthey have provided alternativesto the paddy growing farmersin the form of “in-situ” man-agement of stubble by usingspecialised farm equipment.But the farmers still prefer toburn it as they find it moreconvenient and alleged that thepieces farm equipment are toocostly to rent from CustomHiring Centre (CHC) promot-ed by the Government.

For farmers, there is a veryshort window of time betweenharvesting of paddy and culti-vation of wheat and the farm-ers alleged that if they wait forthe “in-situ” management to bedone their turn would comevery late and by that time thesowing period would get over.

They said equipments at

CHC are too less to cater to thelarge number of farmlandswithin the stipulated time offortnight in which they have tosow next crop. Also they saidrenting these equipments iscostly and hence not viablesolution.

With farmers miffed withthe Centre and the State

Governments over the ban it isexpected to have political over-tones ahead of the Assemblypolls due next year.

While officials of the agri-cultural department ofHaryana are claiming that theGovernment has taken ade-quate steps and have flowedenough funds for sustaining the

CHC's the farmers are “clue-less” about the CHC's nearbytheir villages.

Deputy Director ofAgriculture department ofKarnal district, Aditya PratapDabas, told The Pioneer thatthere have been 260 cases ofstubble burning in the districtso far.

“The farmers are beingstimulated to prefer the mech-anism provided by theGovernment instead of burn-ing it. Action has also beentaken against the erring farm-ers,” said Dabas.

Reports from Karnal andadjoining districts show thatthe combines without 'StrawManagement System' (SMS)has fizzled out, leaving nooption other than to burncrops residue. According tofarmers, there are insufficientnumbers of combines withSMS.

“The harvesting cost ofcombines with SMS is morethan Rs 3,000 per acre. We can'tdelay harvesting. TheGovernment should ensurethat the cost of combines withSMS is brought down to lessthan Rs 2,000”, said Tek ChandDahiya, a paddy farmer fromGudha village near Gharunda,Panipat.

Ramesh Battan, anotherfarmer in Phurlak nearGharaunda, said he sowedpaddy on 32 acre and it wouldbe ready for harvest in a fewdays. “The village has paddy onnearly 2,200 acre, but has onlyone Happy Seeder with a

farmer and it can manage 6-7acre in a day. A Happy Seederof Rs 1.50 lakh costs Rs 75,000after subsidy. But it will be usedonly for six hours in the wholeyear. How can a farmer investso much on a machine whichis to be used for six hours ayear?” he said.

“Burning is the only solu-tion to get rid of this trash. Wewill have to do it again despiteknowing that it causes pollu-tion and invite legal action,”Ramesh said.

Burning of stubble, whichis agricultural biomass residue,increases the Particulate Matter(PM) concentration in air

which is extremely hazardousfor the human health.

Further the smog reducesthe visibility and is a majorcause of road accidents in win-ter taking toll on human lives.Each year, crop burning in theregion is the start of the annu-al escalation of pollutant con-centrations in the air, leading tomassive winter pollution inthe region. It is further gravi-tated by the massive usage offirecrackers in the region,around “Diwali”. Followed bythis, the weather patternschange, making temperaturesdrop and reducing the disper-sion effect of pollutants.

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“The BJP has engineeredsplit by taking away twoointsbelow the “very poor” catego-ry, according to the System of

Air Quality Forecasting andResearch.A

senior Central PollutionControl Board (CPCB)

official said several factorslike vehicular pollution, con-struction activities and mete-orological factors like windspeed are responsible for stag-nant pollution in the citydespite measures being takenup.

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Kerala geared up for massiveunrest on Wednesday over

the implementation of theSupreme Court order allowingwomen of all age groups toenter the Sabrimala temple.With thousands of men andwomen devotees of LordAyyappa opposed to entry ofwomen of menstrual age intothe temple and threatening tocommit mass suicide, the Stateadministration faces a seriouschallenge in maintaining lawand order situation.

Wednesday is the first daywhen the SC order will comeinto force.

The TravancoreDevaswom Board (TDB),which manages the temple,held a meeting to find a way todefuse the situation, butPandalam royal family andother stakeholders walked outt over the TDB’s reluctance todiscuss the issue of filing areview petition against theapex court order.

While Chief Minister

Pinarayi Vijayan has assertedhis Government will imple-ment the SC order, the policeface an uphill task as hundredsof women devotees of LordAyyappa, the eternally celibatedeity of Sabarimala, picketedthe road to the hill shrine andprevented women they sus-pected were of menstrual agefrom proceeding to the shrinesome 20 km away.

Lustily chanting “SwamiyaSaranam Ayyappa” hailing theLord, the devotees checkedbuses and private vehicles for

girls and women of the“banned” age group and forcedthem to abandon their journey.

Television channelsshowed some college students,including young girls wearingblack dresses, being ordered toget down a bus.

Chief Minister PinarayiVijayan issued a stern warningto those who dared blockdevotees from entering thetemple.

“We will ensure security toall. Nobody will be allowed totake law into their hands.

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Self-styled godman Rampalwas on Tuesday sentenced to

life imprisonment by a Hisarcourt in connection with a2014 murder case.

The court of HisarAdditional District andSessions Judge DR Chaliyaalso gave life imprionment to14 followers Rampal, head ofSatlok Ashram, and slapped afine of �1 lakh each.

The court has pronouncedthe verdict after a nearly four-year-long trial of the 27 accusedin a makeshift court inside theHisar district jail, whereRampal (67) and his followershave been lodged since theirarrest in November 2014.

This court will now pro-nounce the quantum of pun-ishment for Rampal in a secondmurder case on Wednesday.

The court had on October11 convicted Rampal and 26 ofhis followers in two separatecases of murder and otheroffences, including wrongfulconfinement of his victims athis ashram.

The two murder cases

against Rampal relate to themurder of six people, includingfive women and one infant,during violent clashes betweenhis supporters and HaryanaPolice at his Satlok Ashramnear Barwala town in Hisar dis-trict in 2014.

Thousands of his followershad clashed with police whenthey had come to arrest himfollowing directions of thePunjab & Haryana High Courtover contempt of court inNovember 2014.

The HC had orderedRampal’s arrest after he failedto appear before the court inconnection with a 2006 murderconspiracy case.

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After analysing top 100bank frauds in the coun-

try, the Central VigilanceCommission (CVC) hasdirected the probe agencies,especially the Central Bureauof Investigation (CBI) to goafter the promoters who aresiphoning money from com-pany to create personal wealthand attach their properties.

In its 47-page reportreleased on Tuesday, the CVCanalysed the banking fraudscommitted by promoters in 13sectors including media, gemsand jewellery, manufacturing,aviation, services and projects,and discounting of cheques.

The report authored byVigilance Commissioner TMBhasin, who was former CMDof Indian Bank and chairmanof Indian Banking Association,said basic fraud is committedby creating fake invoices and

manipulation of accounts tocheat banks by the promotersof the companies. The CVChas shared their report to theReserve Bank of India,Ministry of Finance and majorinvestigating agencies andVigilance Units of court in No

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Accepting the demand ofsaints and others, the Yogi

Adityanath Government onTuesday announced to rechris-ten Allahabad to its old namePrayagraj.

The decision was taken ina meeting of the Uttar PradeshCabinet chaired by the ChiefMinister in Lucknow onTuesday. State Governmentspokesperson and HealthMinister Sidharth Nath Singhtold reporters that now alldepartments like Railways andothers would be asked tochange the name of Allahabadto Prayagraj in their records.

“It was the demand ofsaints and people of Allahabadto restore the historic name ofthe city and this demand hasbeen accepted by theGovernment ahead of KumbhMela scheduled next year,” hesaid.

“Rig Veda, Mahabharatand Ramayana also mentionPrayagraj (for Allahabad),” henoted.

Earlier, Singh had alsowritten to Governor Ram Naikto consider renamingAllahabad as Prayagraj.

He had also ridiculed theOpposition for resisting therenaming process.

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The rupee climbed 35 paiseto end at nearly two-week

high of 73.48 per dollar onTuesday amid softening crudeoil prices and easing concernsover the trade deficit.

Stock markets welcomed aretreat in oil prices and gains inthe rupee with the benchmark30-share Sensex rising by297.38 points to close at35,162.48. The NSE Nifty afterregaining the 10,600-mark hita high of 10,604.90 on the backof widespread gains, and final-ly concluded 72.25 points at10,584.75.

As the equity market con-tinued its winning run for thethird straight session onTuesday, investor wealth soared�5.30 lakh crore in the rallysince Friday.

Traders said foreign fundinflows and greenback weak-ening against other currencieswere the other factors thatprovided support to the homeunit. At the Interbank ForeignExchange, the rupee opened ona firm note at 73.79 fromMonday’s close of 73.83.During the day the domesticcurrency gained furtherground to hit a high of 73.47against the US dollar, driven byselling of the greenback byexporters.

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Amanhunt has beenlaunched to nab the

absconding son of a formerBSP MP Rakesh Pandey, whowas booked, for allegedly bran-dishing a pistol in the foyer ofa Hyatt Regency in SouthDelhi.

After the video of theSunday incident went viral,Minister of State for HomeAffairs Kiren Rijiju said policehad initiated action in the case.

A team of the Delhi Policereached Lucknow on Tuesdayin connection with the inves-tigation into the incident inwhich the accused has beenidentified as Ashish Pandey,who hails from Lucknow andwhose brother, Ritesh Pandey,is a sitting MLA in UttarPradesh.

One of the victims said theaccused walked up to him andhurled abuses. It is suspectedthat both the parties involvedwere drunk at the time of theincident, said police officials.

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The Congress’ efforts to forma Government in Goa suf-

fered a major setback when twoof its MLAs joined the rulingBJP. Congress MLAs SubhashShirodkar and Dayanand Sopteon Tuesday resigned from theGoa Assembly and also fromthe primary membership of theparty and joined the BJP at aspecial event in presence ofUnion Minister Piyush Goyal.

Shirodkar and Soptereached the national Capital onMonday late night and met BJPpresident Amit Shah beforequitting the party. TheCongress has accused the rul-ing party of “poaching” the leg-islators by using “money powerand threats”.

Their resignation has nowreduced the Congress’ strengthfrom 16 to 14 in the 40-mem-ber House led by ailing ChiefMinister Manohar Parrikarwho enjoys the support of 26MLAs.

The Congress hademerged as the single largestparty after the 2017 Assemblyelections, winning 17 seats.However, within days its num-ber was reduced to 16 when itsnewly-elected Vishwajit Raneresigned.

The Congress had sub-mitted a memorandum toGovernor Mridula Sinha, stak-

ing claim to form an alternateGovernment. The Congresshad then claimed it has thesupport of legislators fromother parties and can form theGovernment, if given a chance.

The Congress had sensedan opportunity to topple theBJPany serious threat to theState Government.

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Gopal Das, an ascetic onfasting for Ganga,-who

had been rushed to AIIMSRishikesh from the MatriSadan ashram on Saturday- hasreturned to the ashram onTuesday. His condition wasstated to be normal. He is stillon fasting, claimed those asso-ciated with Matri Sadan.

Das, 36, has been on fast forconservation of Ganga atBadrinath since 24 June. He wastaken to the hospital a fewhours after he announced thathe would continue his fastfrom Matri Sadan to take for-ward the stir of Swami Sanandwho died at AIIMS Rishikeshon October 11.

Meanwhile, police alleged-ly detained some people whogathered at AIIMS Rishikesh,demanding to be allowed tohave a glimpse of Sanand’sbody.

Speaking to The Pioneer onTuesday, Brahmchari Dayanandof Matri Sadan said, “BhopalChoudhary, Sushil Bahuguna,Sushila Bhandari and KusumJoshi were arrested by policewhen they were demonstrating

outside AIIMS, demanding to be allowed to have a glimpse ofSanand’s body.

They were later brought toRishikesh police station wherethey sat on protest.”

A Matri Sadan insider saidthat the agitators were demand-ing permission to be allowed tosprinkle Ganga water on thebody of Sanand, the ascetic who‘sacrificed’ his life for the causeof Ganga.

Meanwhile, the ‘Water Manof India’ Rajendra Singh saidthat Government should comedown heavily on those who arepolluting the holy river insteadof those who are struggling tohelp the Ganga maintain itsfree flow.

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Observed since 17 October1987, International Day

for the Eradication of Povertyhas been marked over theseyears by the United Nations toacknowledge the effort andstruggle of those living inpoverty and telling them thattheir voices are heard. Despitebeing one of the fastest grow-ing economies in the world,poverty in India means depri-vation of basic necessities suchas food, house, clean drinkingwater, shelter and toilets.

The commemoration ofthe International Day is basedon the theme ‘Coming togeth-er with those furthest behind tobuild an inclusive world ofuniversal respect for humanrights and dignity.’ Call toAction to fight to end povertyeverywhere in all forms is in theUnited Nations’ agenda 2030for sustainable development.

Poverty has many facesand it is a social struggle whichaffects communities far andwide across the nations.Observers say that situation isnot as grim as the statisticsshow and if the current trendscontinue, India's share of worldGDP will significantly increasefrom 7.3% in 2016 to 8.5% by2020. However, they add that ithas been estimated that around21 percent of the total popula-tion of India live below the

poverty line, defined in termsof a nutritionally adequate dietor a minimum desirable level ofincome.

If broadly classified, thecauses of poverty mainlyinclude massive populationgrowth leading to imbalancebetween demand and supply ofessential goods. The demandfor basic necessities such ashousing, food and shelter is atits peak, but the resources arelimited.

Awareness campaignsexplaining the benefits of con-trolling the population growthshould be widely circulatedamong the developing nations,observers opine.

They cite illiteracy as anoth-er important factor since illiter-ate people do not get jobsthrough which they can pullthemselves and their families outof poverty. Unemploymentremains the major cause ofpoverty and unequal distributionof wealth contributes to pover-ty with the wealth remainingunder the ownership of 10 to15% people in the country, theexperts say.

Speaking to The Pioneer, anarmy officer A P Singh said,“Education can play a major rolein eradication of poverty. TheGovernment can run schools onthe PPP mode, giving theschools proper infrastructure.The role of teachers in stimu-lating the students to fightpoverty is immense.” He addedthat around 51 percent of therural families are engaged incasual labour jobs while anoth-

er 30 percent is engaged inagriculture. “Education willempower them to engage in bet-ter jobs, which in turn wouldhelp them come above thepoverty line,” he said.

Speaking of the measureswhich can be taken to eradicatepoverty, educationist KarunaSharma said, “People do not tryto break this cycle of poverty.They just look forward to theGovernment to provide themwith freebies. Without sincereefforts on the part of individualand society, poverty cannot beuprooted.”

Creation of employmentopportunities and increased pro-duction through massive indus-trialisation, improved irrigationsystem to improve agriculturalfarm output, equal opportunityand empowerment of womenare required to successfully fightpoverty, said CommandantRoshan Lal Sharma from PAC 40wing. He also stressed onencouraging people to join voca-tional training institutes to gainskills. “This is how poverty canbe minimised,” he added.

A ceiling on maximum indi-vidual incomes has to be definedand strictly enforced for theservice personnel as well asbusinessmen, said the principalSMJN College Sunil Batra.Individual incomes above theceiling should be impounded forthe building up of a nationaldevelopment fund by theGovernment, he said and addedthat the black money menacemust be attacked at all levels atthe same time.

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The Gangnehar police teamnabbed three poachers and

rescued two tortoises fromthem on late Monday night. Acase has been registered underSection 51 of the WildlifeProtection Act 1972. The carcarrying the tortoises was alsoimpounded by the cops. Theinvestigation is on, said police.

Speaking to The Pioneer,in-charge of Gangnehar policestation Pradeep Bisht said,“During night patrol, our teammembers tried to stop a cargoing towards Roorkee. There

were three youths in it. As thedriver raised the speed thepolice team followed them.Later, the car was stopped andduring the search, two tortois-es were recovered.”

The accused trio has beenidentified as Rajeev alias Rajufrom Bijnor, Moharram Alifrom Laksar and Wazid fromvillage Bakarpur near Laksartehsil. Their crime records arebeing investigated, added Bisht.

An Indigo car with numberplate of UP11 AK 4581 was alsoimpounded by the police whichwas used by the youths totransport the tortoises.

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In pursuance of its focus onhygiene and health, Century

Pulp and Paper mill launchedbiodegradable cellulose film“Natura Wrap” at its plant inLalkuan.

On this occasion, CenturyPulp and Paper chief executiveofficer JP Narain said that foodpackaging plays an importantrole especially in the presenttimes. Packaging materialshould ensure food qualitywhile also retaining the aroma.Natura Wrap being a cellulosefilm not only ensures superioraroma retention property thatpreserves freshness but alsosafeguards food quality. Inaddition to this, the product iscompletely bio-degradable,making it an absolutely envi-ronment friendly product.

With this item being intro-duced in the market, the com-pany has shown its innovativeapproach with this producttowards clean India, healthyIndia mission.

According to the chief salesofficer Alok Prakash, NaturaWrap is a non-sticky film withgood dead fold properties suit-able for twist wrapping andflexible packaging materials. Itis a thin transparent, breath-able, cellulose film of naturalorigin with high gloss. It main-tains freshness of the packedingredient for a long duration.It also possesses good heatand chemical resistance.

This transparent film man-ufactured from cellulose orig-inated in plant cell wall. Theproduct, cellulose film is easi-ly decomposed in soil or com-post and degraded into waterproducing carbon dioxide gasand biomass.

The company has made theproduct available in the retailmarket with range of lengthfrom nine metre to 100 metre.

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District Magistrate PauriSushil Kumar instructed

the district officers to ensure thatthe local body elections slated inNovember are held peacefully

while addressing a one-dayworkshop on Tuesday. He saidthat the returning officers andthe assistant returning officersshould rise up to the occasion.He also shared his experiencesof the election he had conduct-ed previously with the officerspresent at the workshop.

DM said that the electionswould be held for the municipalcorporation Kotdwar, nagaralika Pauri and Duggda andnagar panchayat Satpuli andSwargaasharam Jonk in the dis-trict.

Under the election proce-dure, nominations would befiled from October 20 to 23,scrutiny of the nominationswould be done on October25and 26, the date of the with-drawal of nomination is October27 and the symbol would beallotted on October 29. Thepolling would be held onNovember 18 and the countingwould be done on November 20.

While all the procedures ofthe election would be held in therespective Tehsils the same fornagar panchayat SwargaasharamJonk would be held at the districtmagistrate’s camp office atLaxmanjhula.

For the election of the pres-ident of municipal corporation,Kotdwar, the additional DistrictMagistrate Ramjee Sharan

Sharma has been appointed asreturning officer (RO) andTehsidar Kotdwar Sunil Raj asthe assistant returning officer(ARO).

SDM Pauri S S Rana wouldbe the RO and Tehsildar HariMohan Khanduri as ARO forthe election of Pauri nagar pali-ka president and for the electionof the members, the districteducation officer Hari would bethe RO and three officers wouldact as AROs.

For the election of the pres-ident of nagar palika Duggada,SDM Lansdowne Kishan SinghNegi would be the RO and assis-tant engineer Irrigation AKBhatt would be the ARO.

For the election of the

members, the executive engi-neer RES Kotdwar HiteshpalSingh would function as ROand BDO Duggada J.Bhardwajas the ARO.

DFO Lansdowne IndreshUpadhhaya would function asthe RO for the election of thepresident of nagar panchayatSatpuli and BDO DwarikhalAatiya Parwaz would functionas ARO. The DistrictDevelopment Officer VedPrakash would function as the

RO for the election of the pres-ident of the nagar panchayatSwargaasharam Jonk and BDOYamkeshwar ApparnaBahuguna would act as ARO.

DM instructed the ROsand AROs to inspect the boothsto be set up under their juris-dictional limits and to takeactions to set things right if theyare not so.

He also asked the ChiefDevelopment Officer to framea calendar of the daily workrelated to the upcoming localbody election.

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Dehradun: Dr Gaurav Sanjay ofSanjay Orhopaedic, Spine &Maternity Centre, Jakhan,Dehradun has presented his clin-ical research work at Triennial39th SICOT Orthopaedic Worldmeet in Montreal Canada heldfrom October10 to 13.He said that he had noticed in hisroad accident-related studies thatknee injuries are the commonestones for the bikers. Approximately,8-10% of knee fractures (proximaltibia fractures) developed com-partment syndrome, he said andadded that the fractures aroundknee are caused by high energytrauma.

He said he has shown withthe pictures that acute compart-ment syndrome develops rapid-ly over hours or within a day.Compartment syndrome iscaused due to pressure by insidebleeding or outside pressure fromplaster, or by both on the bloodvessels. This pressure on theblood vessels can compromise theviability of limb which leads togangrene and ultimately ampu-tation of limb, if impending com-partment syndrome could not betreated properly in time.

Knee fractures with com-partment syndrome presents achallenging problem toorthopaedic surgeons, accordingto Dr Sanjay. He has shown theresults at the World Orthopaedicmeet how he had prevented thedisastrous complications of acutecompartment syndrome in kneefractures in the bikers fromApril 2011 to December 2017.

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Pauri District Magistrate,Sushil Kumar, sought

explanation from nine officersfound absent during the emer-gency meeting convened to fixdates and responsibilities of

the officers to be engaged inthe upcoming local body elec-tion. He asked the absenteeofficers to submit their expla-nation at the Panchsthani elec-tion office. DM, further,imposed prohibition on theleaves of the district level offi-

cers, and employees of thedepartments.

Given the importance of thelocal body election, DM

issued an order that the offi-cers cannot leave the head-quarters without his permis-sion.

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The chairman of 15thFinance Commission, N K

Singh has assured that thedemand of Uttarakhand forresumption of Revenue DeficitGrant (RDG) would be lookedwith a positive mind. He wasaddressing the media personson the second day of the panel’sUttarakhand visit on Tuesday.

Singh said that the StateGovernment has, specifically,raised the issue of RDG andcomplained that the grant thathad been provided toUttarakhand by the 11th, 12thand 13th Finance Commissionshad discontinued by the 14thFinance Commission. “Thegrudge of the StateGovernment was that the 14thFinance Commission’s pre-sumptions about Uttarakhandwere far from the reality. It isnormally a tradition that oneFC does not comment on otherFCs.

It is also not desirable. We,however, assure that thedemand of RDG would belooked into with positive atti-tude,’’ he said.

Singh, further, said thatUttarakhand is bestowed withimmense natural wealth andFC is committed in a reason-able way to fulfil the hugeuntapped potential the State isendowed with. He admittedthat the State is not able toutilise its resources due to vari-ety of reasons.

Citing the example of prob-lems being faced in setting upinfrastructure in Uttarakhand,Singh said that theGovernment has told the panelthat the State has to spend a lotmore in view of its unique geo-graphical conditions as com-pared to other States whilestressing on new parameters befixed regarding grant of thecentral assistance.

On the demand of the

State for grant of Green Bonusin lieu of the ecological andenvironmental services pro-vided by it, Singh said that the14th Finance Commission’sformula on calculating envi-ronmental contribution andecological services may bereviewed.

He said that there is an

overwhelming consensusamong the States over theresumption of the centralfinancial assistance for thethree-tier panchayati raj sys-tem.

Heaping praise on the State

Government and its leadershipfor its unwavering focus ondevelopment of Uttarakhand,he said that the appreciableeffort has been made by theGovernment and its officers inpresenting the case of the State

before the commission.Singh, further, said that

during its stay so far inUttarakhand, the commissionhas met representatives ofurban local bodies (ULB),three-tier panchayati raj system

and major political parties andhas taken their feedback andsuggestions. The Chief MinisterTrivendra Singh Rawat andthe Finance Minister PrakashPant met the commission onTuesday.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party hasformed a 20 member com-

mittee for the urban local bodypolls to be held shortly in theState. Elaborating on this, theBJP State president Ajay Bhattsaid that the poll committee willmeet at the BJP State office hereon October 18. He also accusedthe Congress of levelling hollowallegations at the BJP of tryingto defer the local body polls.

Addressing the media at theBJP State office here on Tuesday,Bhatt said that the party andState are ready for the local bodypolls in Uttarakhand. He said,“We have formed a 20-memberelection committee for the localbody elections.

For undertaking the party’sworks in the municipal corpo-ration areas, we have assignedthe onus to a senior party leaderand a local leader in each of themunicipal corporation area.

Among others, the pollcommittee includes three for-mer Chief Ministers and thecurrent Lok Sabha MPs. Thepoll committee will hold itsmeeting in the party State officehere on October 18. The selec-tion of candidates for mayoraland other posts in the local bod-ies will be done either by thenight of October 18 or morningof October 19,” he added.

Bhatt, further, flayed theopposition for projecting as ifthe BJP and State Governmenthad been trying to defer thelocal body polls. “They wereaccusing us of trying to defer thepolls and violating the consti-tution. In reality, we wanted thepolls to held in April. TheGovernment too had startedpreparations for this but thendue to public interest litigationfiled in the high court and sub-sequent developments, the elec-tion could not be held at thattime.”

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The chairman of 15thFinance Commission

opined that the last restingpoint of Good and ServicesTax (GST) in the country hasnot yet arrived as the regimeis in process of implementa-tion. He said that theUttarakhand Government hasraised the issue of shortfall inits revenue, post-GST. Singhreminded that the GST is notwithin the prerogative of thecommission and the StateGovernment should raise theissue at the GST council ofwhich the Finance Minister ofUttarakhand is also a mem-ber.

He, however, added thatthe commission would reviewthe data submitted by theState on revenue shortfall,post-GST, and take appropri-ate compensatory measures.

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Chief Minister TrivendraSingh Rawat emphatical-

ly presented the case ofUttarakhand before the visit-ing team of 15th FinanceCommission on Tuesday.

In the meeting, held at theState secretariat, CM, accom-panied by the State FinanceMinister Prakash Pant, raisedthe demands like special pack-age for the State due to itstough geographical condi-tions, sensitivity of the Statetowards natural disasters andadditional cost the State has tobear for various infrastructuralprojects.

The issue for compensa-tion to the State for its eco-logical services to the nationand the loss incurred by thestate due to recommendationsof 14th Finance Commissionhave also been discussed incourse of the meeting.

CM said that the 13thFinance Commission had pro-vided special grant to encour-age the State while the 14Finance Commission hasproved a grave damper.

He said that due to factorslike low population density, 70percent area under forest coverand unique geological andgeographical conditions, theState has no scope forEconomy of Scale andAggregation Economy.

Rawat, further, said thatdespite remaining beset withchallenges, the State has suc-ceeded in increasing its aver-age growth rate which hasjumped to 12.28 percent peryear in 2012-13 from 2.9 per-cent in 1993-94.

Raising the issue of envi-ronmental laws and their

detrimental effects on thedevelopment works like hydropower projects, CM said thatthe nation has been deprivedfrom clean energy and thestate has to incur high revenuelosses from such laws.

He told the commissionthat the economic packageoffered by the UnionGovernment for Uttarakhandhad brought about a rise in thegrowth rate. But after abruptend of package in 2010, theentrepreneurs have beenshowing less interest in settingup industrial units in the State,he said.

Rawat also forcefully putup the case of grant of GreenBonus to Uttarakhand for thevaluable ecological servicesrendered by it to the countrybefore the commission.

Besides the chairman N KSingh, the members of com-mission Shakti Kant Dass,Anoop Singh, Ashok Lahiriand Ramesh Chand were pre-sent at the meeting.

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The Pradesh CongressCommittee president

Pritam Singh alleged that theState Government was holdinglocal body polls due to inter-vention of the High Court. Theissues related to Roorkee,Haridwar and Bazpur whichhad caused delay in the pollsare still unresolved. He allegedthat the Government unnec-essarily delayed the local bodypolls.

Addressing the mediahere, he said that the delay willbenefit the Congress becausethe people have understoodthat the BJP Governments atthe Centre and State had failed

on public welfare issues. Apart from making cuts in

schemes introduced by theprevious Congress StateGovernment, the Governmentunder Chief MinisterTrivendra Singh Rawat haddone little more. He also crit-icised the Central Governmentfor not fulfilling its electoralpromises.

It should be mentionedhere that on Monday, the

Congress had held a meetingto discuss candidatures forthe local body polls for theGarhwal region. On Tuesday,the same issue was deliberat-ed upon for the Kumaonregion. The party will soonannounce the names of its can-didates for the elections. Theleader of opposition in theVidhan Sabha, IndiraHridayesh also expressed herviews on the occasion.

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Aday after the arrest of one per-son by the Uttar Pradesh

Police allegedly conspiring to killSAD patriarch Parkash SinghBadal, Punjab Chief MinisterCapt Amarinder Singh onTuesday assured full protection byhis Government for the Badals inview of the enhanced threat per-ception to their lives.

“I am cognizant of recentreports of increased threat per-ception to the lives of formerChief Minister Parkash SinghBadal and former Deputy ChiefMinister Sukhbir Badal, and willensure full security is provided toboth,” the Chief Minister said

while talking to mediapersonsafter inaugurating a state-of-the-art Vigilance Bhawan, built overan area of 1.25 acres in Sector 68Mohali at a cost of Rs 31.29 crore.

Amarinder, on the issue ofstubble burning, said he wasaware of the FIRs being regis-tered against farmers who wereburning paddy stubble in con-travention of the prescribedguidelines of the National GreenTribunal. “The Government isbound to go by the law, eventhough I am sympathetic to theproblem of the farmers,” he said.

To a query regarding theseparate memorandums sub-mitted by the SAD and theAam Aadmi Party (AAP) lead-

ers to the Punjab Governor insupport of the demands of theagitating teachers, the ChiefMinister said that theGovernment was fully seized ofthe matter and was trying its bestto resolve the issue.

“Services of nearly 40,000employees, including teachers,needed to be regularised, whichmay take some time in view ofthe fiscal crunch faced by theGovernment,” he said.

“Meanwhile, theGovernment has already givenan option to the teachers to con-tinue in the existing pay scale orjoin at the basic pay of Rs 15,300for three years before being reg-ularised,” Amarinder added.

The new five-storiedVigilance Bhawan is a sprawlingcomplex, equipped with workstations for employees, trainingor conference hall, meetingroom etc, designed to providea congenial atmosphere forefficient functioning.

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Gujarat Education MinisterBhupendrasinh Manubha

Chudasama on Tuesday saidthe 182 metres world’s talleststatue of Sardar VallabhbhaiPatel, to be dedicated to thenation by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on October31 will inspire the youthabout the contribution of IronMan in unity of India.

“We had envisaged con-struction of the Statue ofUnity in 2013. At that time,many people had doubtedus… But the constructionwork began in 2014 and now,the world’s tallest statue willbe dedicated to the people ofthe country on the 142ndbirth anniversary of SardarVal labhbhai Patel ,” saidChudasama.

Chudasama led high-levelState delegation to Haryanaon Tuesday to invite peoplefor the unveiling ceremony ofStatue of Unity in Gujarat onOctober 31. The delegationcomprised of Member ofParl iament, Lal SinghVadodiya, MLAs namelyBabu Bhai Patel, Manisha

B en and R atan SinghRathore, IAS Sunaina Tomarand IPS Ajay Tomar.

Har yana Educat ionMinister Ram Bilas Sharmaand Agriculture and Farmers’Welfare Minister, OPDhankar were also present onthe occasion. He added afterthe inauguration of statue bythe Prime Minister, it wouldbe open for other guests fromNovember 1 onwards.

Apart from this, adver-tisement have also beenreleased abroad for invitingthe foreign tourists to visit theStatue of Unity. The world’stallest statue will also be amain tourist attraction now,he said.

A Shrestha BharatComplex has been set upnear the Statue of Unitywhich will house Bhavans ofdifferent States. Gujarat ChiefMinister Vijay Rupani hadsent a written communica-tion to Chief Ministers of allStates for setting up theirrespective bhavans, to whichHaryana and Uttar Pradeshhave already consented, hesaid.

Chudasama added theStatue of Unity has been con-structed at a cost of about Rs2,332 crore and about 15,000tourists from country andabroad are likely to visit thestatue everyday.

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Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on

Tuesday paved way for his visitto Israel next week, with theconfidence that it would opennew vistas of growth and coop-eration in key areas of mutual interest, particularlythe agriculture, horticultureand dairy sectors.

The Chief Minister, accom-panied by a high-level delega-tion, is scheduled to leave forhis five-day visit to Israel onOctober 21.

At a meeting with Chargede’ Affairs of Israeli EmbassyMaya Kadosh, the ChiefMinister also hoped to shareIsrael’s expertise in the field ofinternal security to furtherstrengthen the State’s defencepreparedness.

Seeking to position Punjabas the most favoured invest-ment destination among for-eign investors, Capt Amarinder said that hisGovernment was keen to tapthe technological advance-ments on offer by Israel.

India and Israel share glo-rious historical ties whichshould be fully harnessedthrough mutual cooperation toensure overall growth andprosperity for both sides, saidCapt Amarinder.

The visiting delegateapprised the Chief Minister ofthe elaborate arrangementsbeing made to make his visitresult-oriented, and said thatentrepreneurs, especially fromthe defence segment, werekeenly awaiting the visit.

The Chief Minister said helooked forward to signing thetwo MoUs in the field of agri-culture and water conservation,as these would propel the StateGovernment’s efforts towardsmaking farming more viablefor the agricultural communi-ty.

“I am keen to adopt Israeli

know-how to boost the dairysector and also wanted to visitthe Israeli orchards and nurs-eries to secure first-handknowledge of the technologi-cal advancements in hybridproduction of plants,” he toldthe delegates.

Capt Amarinder soughtIsraeli assistance in improvingthe quality of citrus fruits asPunjab was the leading pro-ducer of Kinnow and wantedto go for mass plantation ofsweet oranges, which finds aremunerative market in themulti-national companies. Healso discussed cooperation inlivestock development withthe visiting delegate.

The Chief Minister furtherevinced keen interest in tap-ping Israel’s state-of-the-arttechnology and expertise inintelligence and homelandsecurity in order to boostPunjab’s security apparatus.

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ACorporate SocialResponsibility (CSR)

Summit will be organised inHaryana’s Gurugram onNovember 12.

About 600 guests from thecorporate world will be invit-ed for the Summit.

This was informed in ameeting presided over byHaryana Chief Secretary, DSDhesi, here on Tuesday.

It was also informed thatIndian Institute of CorporateAffairs and KPMG would bethe knowledge partners forCSR summit. During HaryanaCSR summit, the state CSRportal would be launched so asto give direction to CSR fundsfor development projects in thestate, said an officialspokesman.

Apart from this, the stateCSR Awards would also befelicitated during the Summit.

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Adelegation of SAD-BJPcombine submitted a

memorandum to the Governorurging him to take preventiveaction to stop Chief MinisterCapt Amarinder Singh from“taking Punjab back into an eraof darkness by encouragingradical elements who were hellbent on breaking the countryand destroying the hard wonpeace and communal harmo-

ny of the state”. Lambasting the Chief

Minister, SAD presidentSukhbir Badal accused him oftrying to push Punjab into thedark days of militancy by“encouraging radical elements”which are hell bent on dividingthe country and disturb thehard-earned peace in the State.

“About 25-30 years back,people could not come out oftheir houses…During terror-ism, thousands of people lostlives, industry fled, businessdestroyed. At that time, therewas an atmosphere of terror.Amarinder is creating similaratmosphere now,” he said.

He added Amarinder wasbringing those forces forwardwhich had only single agenda ofdividing the country and disturbpeace in Punjab. “Twenty fiveyears back, Congress had raisedsuch forces to create a riftbetween Hindus and Sikhs andthat pushed Punjab into darkdays. Similar forces are beingsupported by Amarinder just toweaken the Akali Dal,” he added.

Sukhbir, who was leadinga joint delegation of SAD-BJPalong with BJP state presidentShwait Malik, apprised theGovernor of recent develop-ments, including uncovering ofa plot by the Uttar PradeshPolice to eliminate formerChief Minister Parkash SinghBadal. “This is a direct falloutof the support extended toradical elements by theCongress in Punjab,” he said.

Citing the example of aprotest by a handful ofCongress-sponsored protest-ers outside the ‘pandal’ of a reli-gious congregation at NikkeGhumni village in Gurdaspuron Sunday, Sukhbir said thatthe police failed to even takecustody of the miscreants whowere apprehended and handedover to them.

He claimed that onOctober 5, when radical ele-ments attacked his cavalcade inSangrur district, they werefacilitated by the police wholater tried their best not to takeaction against them.

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Taking a stern note of the ris-ing sale of Misoprostol, the

abortion-inducing drug withoutrecommendation of doctor, thedirector general (DG) of StateHealth Services Dr TC Pant hasdirected the officers of thehealth department to ensurethat the direct sale of this drugfrom the chemist shops is strict-ly prohibited.

He gave the order while pre-siding over a meeting of the statelevel review committee on imple-mentation of Pre- Conceptionand Pre-Natal DiagnosticTechniques (PCPNDT) Act atthe health directorate onTuesday.

Expressing concern overdecreasing sex ratio of girl childin the State, Pant said that the off-the-shelf sale of Misoprostol isincreasing. He said that it is,normally, observed that after get-ting confirmation about thepregnancy from Ultrasound, thewomen take the drug from thechemists which results in exces-sive bleeding and abortion of foe-tus.

Dr Pant, categorically, toldthe officials that the doctorsshould keep a record ofMisoprostol recommended bythem and the chemists shouldkeep a complete record of the

drug and its sale. He directed thedrug controller to ensure that thenotification regarding sale ofMisoprostol should be strictly

implemented.The State nodal officer and

additional director, Dr SarojNaithani said that sex ratio inPithoragarh district has shownconsiderable improvement andit has increased from 852 to 913which is a good sign for the State.

She said that soon thedepartment would give specialtraining to the officers for sur-prise inspections at ultra soundlabs so that the practice of sex

determination of unborn child isstopped.

Dr Naithani clarified that theUltra sound operators operating

on the basis of experience onlyshould have to pass CBET exam-ination. She suggested that onepopular gynaecologist in everydistrict should be selected andappointed brand ambassador ofthe campaign for effective imple-mentation of PCPNDT Act.

The meeting was attendedby PCPNDT coordinators of alldistricts, drug controller andofficers of National HealthMission (NHM).

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here on Tuesday. The schoolchildren presented pro-grammes on subjects related tothe environment apart fromperforming other cultural pro-grammes on the occasion.Presentations with environ-mental and social messages,group song, poetry recitationand staging of the play PeterPan were appreciated by thegathering.

Principal Kiran Jeremiahwelcomed the gathering onthe occasion and informedabout the activities of theschool.

Academicians from variousinstitutions were also amongthose present on the occasion.

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In an endeavour to supportthe State’s potential in organ-

ic farming, the Yes Bank hadunveiled a knowledge report onthe potential for organic spicesin Uttarakhand during therecently held Investors Summitin Dehradun. The study rec-ommends a three-prongedstrategy through identificationof key crops, focus on value-addition activities for exportand formulation of specialschemes for each of the iden-tified sub-sectors.

The bank’s group president(Government banking, multi-nationals corporate bankingand strategic government advi-sory) Nikhil Sahni appreciated

the investors summit held ear-lier this month.

He said that the summitwas a commendable initiativeto showcase the potential of theState across key focus sectors.He, further, said that the StateGovernment had undertakenseveral progressive initiativestowards improving governancewhich will, further, enhanceease of doing business andattract world class investors.

He expressed confidencethat the MoUs signed duringthe summit will translate intotangible projects which willusher in an accelerated phase ofdevelopment to meet the sus-tainable development goals asthe State commemorates its25th year of formation in 2025.

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the State Government torespond by October 22 regard-ing why Roorkee was left out ofthe local body election notifi-cation. The special bench ofjustice Manoj Kumar Tiwariissued this direction whilehearing on a petition filed bythe former mayor of Roorkee,Yashpal Rana.

In his petition, Rana hasstated that the StateGovernment issued the notifi-cation on October 14 and onthe next day the State ElectionCommission announced theschedule for the local bodypolls. However, Roorkeemunicipal corporation waskept out of this. The petition-er has contended that pollsshould be held simultaneous-ly in all the municipal corpo-rations.

After hearing the petition,the special bench has sought areply from the StateGovernment by October 22 onwhy Roorkee was left out of theprocess.

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Uttarakhand police havearrested a person here on

Tuesday who was allegedlyinvolved in several crimes inChhattisgarh.

The Senior Superintendentof Police (SSP) Dehradun,Nivedita Kukreti, on receipt ofa letter from the SSP of Bilaspurin Chattishgarh about the pres-ence of a criminal Amit SinghThakur alias Babla inDehradun, asked the seniorinspector Ashok Rathore post-ed at Kotwali police station toarrest the fugitive.

Meanwhile, a police teamconsisting of district police ofBilaspur and cyber crime cell ofthe district also arrived inDehradun from Chattisgarh.On the information providedby them, a team of Dehradunpolice arrested Thakur from alane near the Jain Dharamshalahere on Tuesday.

The arrested person oninterrogation confessed hisinvolvement in a number ofcrimes like duping people onthe pretext of giving them highinterest on loaned money andextortion.

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Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh has

ordered the constitution of aSpecial Task Force (STF) to freethe Buddha Nullah of pollutingeffluents in a mission mode.

The task force, with BabaUdai Singh of Naamdhari Sectas its patron, will submit itsreport to the Chief Ministerwithin two months. Baba UdaiSingh, who met the ChiefMinister on Monday evening,had accepted the request to actas the patron.

The Chief Minister hasdirected the Chief SecretaryKaran Avtar Singh to constitutethe task force, consisting ofelected representatives, tech-nocrats and public figures.

The task force has beenmandated to study and suggestmeasures to address issues oftreating industrial effluents,solid waste management,besides ways to proactivelyengage with the public at largein this cause.

The CM also asked localGovernment Department tosubmit proposal to enhance

existing capacity of SewageTreatment Plants (STPs) fromcurrent 516 MLDs to 675MLDs, besides augmentingtreatment facilities for industrialeffluents.

Amarinder directed bothLocal Bodies and IndustriesDepartments to expeditiouslycomplete all the ongoing worksbeing carried out to flush outtoxic substances from the Buddha Nullah.

He also asked the PrincipalSecretary (Water Resources) todraw up a detailed plan for a last-ing remedy for channelling andbeautification of the 14 kms oflength of the Nullah, whichflows through the city.

Underlining the need tofind a lasting solution to thelong-standing problem, the ChiefMinister said that it was time toproactively engage industry rep-resentatives and public to com-plement the government’s effortsin providing safe and healthierdrinking water to all.

Taking part in the delibera-tions, Baba Udai Singh pledgedhis full support and cooperationin the government’s endeavourstowards this noble cause.

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Against the backdrop of the MeToo campaign,NSUI national president Fairoz Khan did not

take any chance and stepped down from his postfollowing charges of sexual harassment againsthim. Sources in the party said that Congress pres-ident Rahul Gandhi has accepted Khan's resig-nation.

Khan, who hails from Jammu & Kashmir, sub-mitted his resignation on Monday evening, say-ing he quit keeping in mind the party's interests.According to sources, Khan said in his resignationletter that he has decided to step down since thecharges against him are hurting the party's image.He, however, has denied the charges against him.

The Congress had set up a three-member com-mittee to look into the issue after a woman, a partyworker from Chhattisgarh, levelled charges of sex-ual harassment against the chief of its students'wing. The panel, which is talking to all the con-cerned parties, is yet to give its report, the sources

said.The woman had first complained against Khan

in June. She had then met Rahul Gandhi and othersenior leaders of the party demanding actionagainst the NSUI president, who, she alleged, hadsexually harassed her and her sister and some otherwomen from the party.

She also lodged a complaint against him at theParliament Street police station in September, say-ing that she feared for her life and security.

The allegations against Khan have come in themidst of the MeToo movement gathering pace inthe country. Congress was under pressure to actagainst the NSUI chief as the party is seeking actionagainst Union Minister M J Akbar, who has beenaccused by several former women colleagues ofsexual harassment when he served as editor at var-ious media organisations.

The Opposition party has attacked PrimeMinister Narendra Modi for keeping quiet aboutthe allegations against Akbar and has demandedthe latter's resignation.

New Delhi: The ElectionCommission does not have any"material information" on thenumber of Electronic VotingMachines (EVMs) and VoterVerifiable Paper Audit Trail(VVPAT) needed to conductsimultaneous elections, thepanel has said in a reply to anRTI query.

Pune-based Vihar Durve,through his RTI application, hadapproached the Commissionseeking to know the availabili-ty and need of EVMs andVVPAT to carry out electionsacross the country in 'onenation, one poll' mode.

In his response, ElectionCommission undersecretaryMadhusudan Gupta said, "Theinformation sought by you isnot available in any materialform as mentioned underSection 2 (f) of the Right toInformation Act."

The section defines infor-mation as "any material in anyform, including records, docu-ments, emails, opinions, advices,press releases, logbooks, con-

tracts, reports, papers, samples,data material held in any elec-tronic form and informationrelating to any private bodywhich can be accessed by a pub-lic authority under any other lawfor the time being in force".

In their discussions onholding simultaneous electionsin the country, the EC officialshad said they would needaround �4,500 crore to buynearly 12 lakh additional EVMsand an equal number VVPATmachines.

The estimate was based onthe current cost to procure thedevices.

BJP president Amit Shahhad written to the LawCommission on August 13 sup-porting holding the Lok Sabhaand Assembly polls simultane-ously.

A paper by the LawCommission had recommend-ed holding the Lok Sabha andAssembly polls in two phasesbeginning 2019.

Political parties are dividedon the issue. PTI

New Delhi: In a giant leap towards digitisation of criminalinvestigation, police in six major cities, including Delhi andMumbai, will mandatorily conduct videography of a crimescene, the Centre has told the Supreme Court.

Besides Delhi and Mumbai, the other cities where videog-raphy of crime scenes would be mandatory are Hyderabad,Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Chandigarh.

The top court had in April asked the Centre to preparea plan for introducing videography in criminal investigationsto strengthen the rule of law.

Taking the lead, the Gujarat Police has set up a centralserver which is connected to a specially designed applica-tion called "Mobile Pocket Cop".

The app can be downloaded on a cell phone providedto every police station for use in an investigation.

A bench of justices UU Lalit and DY Chandrachudsought a reply in four weeks from home secretary, Gujaratgovernment, on the aspect of testing of another app devel-oped by the Bureau of Police Research and Development asproof of concept. PTI

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The CBI has taken over investigationinto the custodial violence at Tihar jail

last year where 18 inmates were alleged-ly beaten up by the prison staff.

The incident had occurred onNovember 21 last year at High SecurityWard of Central Jail No 1 at Tihar. Theagency has registered two FIRs in con-nection with the incident. The CBI tookover the case following a directive fromthe Delhi High Court on May 15 this year.

The cases have been registered undervarious sections of the Indian Penal Coderelating to grievous injury and commonintention against the then Sub Inspector

S Muthupandi of the Tamil Nadu SpecialPolice and other members of his 52-mem-ber team.

The court had ordered the CBIprobe in response to a public interest lit-igation (PIL) filed by advocate ChinmayKanojia, who had alleged that his clientShahid Husuf, who was being investigatedby the National Investigation Agency(NIA), was beaten up without any reasonby the jail staff.

The High Court had termed the inci-dent as "very disturbing".

The plea has said a particular com-munity, including Husuf, was being tar-geted by the jail staff causing seriousinjuries to him and others.

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Mixing his sharp attack onCongress president Rahul

Gandhi with a strong dose ofsatire, Union Finance MinisterArun Jaitley on Tuesdayaccused the former of living in"self-delusion" and being bereftof facts concocting repeat false-hood on several issues includ-ing the Rafale deal, Goods andServices Tax (GST) and NonPerforming Assets (NPA).

Writing in his blog title "Isthe Clown Prince out-clowninghimself ', Jaitley dismissedRahul's claim that he(theFinance Minister) met abscond-ing jeweler and bank defaulterNirav Modi in Parliament andhelped him escape the country.

"I do not recollect everhaving even seen Nirav Modi inmy life. The question of hismeeting me in Parliament doesnot arise. If he came toParliament, as Rahul Gandhiclaims, then reception recordswould show that. Where haveI admitted all this Mr.Gandhi,"Jaitley asked.

On Rahul's claim that healso met another businesstycoon Vijay Mallya inParliament, the FinanceMinister repeated his earlierassertion that he was chased byMallya in the corridor ofParliament.

"If the factual narrativedoes not suit him (Gandhi)then concoct an alternative.Repeat the false narrative adozen times and convince your-self that falsehood is in fact is

the truth. Thereafter, you cancomfortably live in self-delu-sion", Jaitley wrote in hisFacebook post.

"Many young lawyers prac-tising criminal law used to getan advice early in their careerfrom veterans in the field. Theywere told "if you are strong onfacts, bang the facts. If you arestrong on law, bang the law. Ifyou are weak on both, thenbang the desk." Those whoadvise Rahul Gandhi appear tohave persuaded him that he iscut out only for the thirdoption."

Jaitley gave a pointed rebut-tal to the allegations andcharges levelled by the Congressregarding the contract for theFrench fighter jets as also theallegations that the ModiGovernment favoured a privatedefence firm, Anil Ambani'sReliance Defence, to get the off-set contract with DassaultAviation , at the cost of State-run defence firm HindustanAeronautics Limited (HAL).Congress had alleged thatReliance Defence "got anadvantage ranging from�38,000 Crore to �1,30,000Crore," Jaitley noted in his blogpost and went on to explain the"truth".

The finance minister said inhis blog post, "Rafale aircraftand its weaponry is not beingmanufactured in India at all,neither by Dassault or by any

other private company. All 36aircrafts and their weapons ina fully flyable and usable formwill arrive in India. After thesupplies begin Dassault has tomake purchases in India for50% of the contract value. Thisis as per the UPA's policy topromote make in India."

"If the total deal is for�58,000 Crore, 50 per cent ofthat amounts to �29,000 Crore.These supplies to Dassault areto be made by over 120 offsetsuppliers and which the busi-ness house named is one ofthem. Dassault has said thatonly 3 per cent of offset maycome to that business housewhich is less than �1,000 crore."

On the issue of "loan waiv-er" and non-performing assets(NPA) in banks, Jaitley coun-tered Rahul's claims that PMModi had helped "15 of hisfriends" get a loan waiver."Loans were given during theUPA period. Not a single Rupeehas been waived," he said.

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The state-of-the-art SportsInjury Centre (SIC) at New

Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital isunder the Centre's scanner foralleged misappropriation offunds and misuse of facilities.

The Union HealthMinistry has set up a seven-member panel, headed by JointSecretary Rajeev Manjhi, totake up the special audit ofSIC's functioning in variousareas ranging from equipmentsand facilities for operation the-atres to their procurement andmaintenance. The committeehas a one-month deadline tosubmit its report.

This is for the first timethat the functioning of theSIC, which was inaugurated inSeptember 2010, just before theCommonwealth Games, withan objective to provide inte-grated surgical, rehabilitativeand diagnostic services underone roof for the managementof sports injuries and relatedjoint disorders, is being audit-ed.

The panel was formed fol-lowing complaints from Dr RK Arya, who recently tookover as the SIC Director. Priorto him, the SIC was headed byDr Deepak Chaudhary, whohas now joined a private hos-pital in the national capital.

In fact, sources said, DrChaudhary's resignation is yetto be accepted by the Ministryin the wake of the allegationsof corruption in the SIC dur-ing his tenure.

The panel is already on job:Constituted on September 20,

2018, the panel has the man-date to audit equipment andfacilities for operation theatreswith reference to their pro-curement, maintenance andallied expenditure with partic-ular reference to their usabili-ty and usefulness. It is alsolooking into "equipment andfacilities for physiotherapy unitof the centre with reference totheir usability and usefulness,"said the sources.

Two private diagnosticfacilities-M/s Mahajan Imagingand M/s Khanna Pathcare -setup on the premises of the SIChave also come under the scan-ner. Sources said that the panelis auditing "the revenue shar-ing with M/s Mahajan Imagingand M/s Khanna Pathcare forradiological and pathologicalfacilities respectively at theSIC".

The other area the panel isprobing is about the implantsneeded by the SIC andSafdarjung Hospital for recon-structive and Orthopaedic plas-tic surgeries, their availabilityand plan of procurement by theformer.

The team will also auditissues related to allied health-care professionals, recruitment,and service conditions amongothers.

Sensing widespreadbungling, the Ministry has alsoasked the committee to lookinto the status of the SIC withregard to whether it is anautonomous body/semi-autonomous body or depart-ment under the SafdarjungHospital administration. Issuesrelated to budget provision for

the two would also be lookedinto.

The other members of thepanel are Dr HL Nag, Professor,Department of Orthopedic,AIIMS, Dr Deep Sharma,Additional Professor and Headof Department (HoD)Orthopedic from JIPMER,Puducherry, Dr DDMaheshwari, Under Secretary(Health Ministry) and AmitChobey, Deputy Director,

DGHS and one representativeeach from IFD andProcurement Division in theHealth Ministry.

When contacted by ThePioneer, while Dr Arya refusedto speak on the matter citingconfidentiality, sources said itwas he who had rung thealarm bells, seeking a specialaudit of the SIC. Incidentally,soon after taking over as thehead of the SIC , he had also cut

down the prices of someimplants. (See box)

However, this is not thefirst time that the Ministry hasinvestigated the functioningof the prominent centre whichis meant to treat sportspersonswith their injuries.

Last year, in April, theHealth Ministry's DirectorateGeneral of Health Services hadset up a three-member com-mittee to look into what washappening at the SIC. Thepanel members were Dr K.T.Bhowmik, Dr Anita Jain andDr R.K. Anand, all fromSafdarjung Hospital. TheDGHS had noted that the per-sonnel requirements at the SICfor both annual maintenanceand operation and facility man-agement services were exces-sively high. However, the fate ofthe report is not known till datefor the best reasons known tothe Ministry.

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India and China will for the first timesign an internal security cooperation

agreement next week, marking a newbeginning in bilateral relations.

Zhao Kezhi, China's Minister ofPublic Security, will visit India onOctober 22 and hold meetings withHome Minister Rajnath Singh duringwhich they will discuss various aspectsof security cooperation between the twocountries.

During the visit of the Chineseleader, an agreement on internal secu-rity cooperation between the two coun-tries will be signed.

The proposed pact is expected tocover areas of intelligence sharing,exchange programme, sharing of bestpractices, cooperation in disaster mit-igation besides others, an official said.

The move comes just a year after atwo-month-long border stand-offbetween the India Army and the China'sPeople's Liberation Army at Doklam onthe India-Bhutan-China tri-junction.

Prime Minister Narendra Modiand Chinese President Xi Jinping heldan informal summit in Wuhan, China,in April this year which helped repairbilateral ties.

A Chinese delegation met an Indianteam on August 28 to hold discussionson the forthcoming visit of the ChineseMinister of Public Security and the pro-posed pact on security cooperationbetween the two countries, the officialsaid.

This will be the first such agreementbetween the authorities of India andChina which look after internal securi-ty of the respective countries, the offi-cial said.

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The Union Home Ministry has cleared a proposal for absorptionof over 2,000 non-combatised personnel of the Sashastra Seema

Bal into the Intelligence Bureau in order to strengthen the presenceof the covert agency along the frontiers with China and Nepal.

The order to the effect was issued by Ministry following a highlevel meeting between Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba and IBchief Rajiv Jain.

According to the blueprint for movement of the SSB person-nel to the IB, , the trained, experienced and well acquainted per-sonnel of the paramilitary will be used to upgrade country's intel-ligence generation and gathering capability along 15,000-kms ofIndia's border. The personnel could undertake tasks aimed at gen-erating nationalist sentiments among the border population. Thepersonnel would be charted over a period of next few months andboth the central agencies will "mutually decide the detailed imple-mentation modalities including those related to transfer of assetsof the Sashastra Seema Bal to the IB."

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Just a month after joining theJD(U), Prashant Kishor has

been appointed as national vicepresident of the party. With thiselevation PK, he is quite popu-lar with his abbreviation in polit-ical circles, is only next to nation-al president Nitish Kumar.

The official statementregarding PK’s appointment wasissued on Tuesday by the party’ssecretary general KC Tyagi whoexpressed confidence that hisexperience and expertise willtake the party to a new height.

Kishor, 41, had formallyjoined the JD(U) on September16 at the party’s State executivecommittee meeting here. Aftergrabbing limelight followinghuge victory of mahagath-bandhan, which involved theJD(U) and the RJD apart fromothers, he was keeping a lowprofile. The victory of 2015Assembly election was largelycredited to the poll strategyengineered by Kishore who in2014 general election hadreportedly crafted the strategyfor Narendra Modi.

With his elevation as JD(U)national vice president Kishor isnow the most powerful leaderof the party only after Nitish,who is supposed to have clippedthe wings of many other lead-ers in the party who were sup-posed to be his close confidents.

It is also expected that Kishorwill have his say in all the toplevel deliberations with otherparties in the NDA and in thedecision making his inputs andsuggestions would be givenweightage by the party supremo.

There had been wild spec-ulations about his role in theparty after he joined the JD(U)last month. There were reportsthat he might contest LokSabha polls from Buxar con-stituency, his hometown, andsome suggested he might bemade a powerful Minister. ButNitish seemed to have provedall those speculations wrong.

In a recent interview to asenior TV journalist andanswering the questions of thestudents of Indian Institute ofTechnology, Delhi, Kishor saidhe would not move out ofBihar for the next 10 years.

Avoiding a direct reply tothe possible poll outcome in2019, Kishor said he would notmake a prediction but claimedthat BJP was still in lead position.

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Assam’s regional politicalparty Asom Gana Parishad

(AGP) has decided to meet themembers of the JointParliamentary Committee onCitizenship (Amendment) Bill,2016 to express theirOpposition to the proposedConstitutional AmendmentBill before October 23.

Senior AGP leader KamalaKalita said this on Tuesdaywhile adding that an AGP del-egation will go to New Delhisoon to meet each of the 30members of the JPC onCitizenship (Amendment) Billto impress upon them the dan-gers looming large on Assam ifthe Constitutional AmendmentBill is passed.

“We have met the JPCduring its hearing in Assamand expressed our reserva-tions regarding the proposedBill. We are not going toaccept the passing of the Billat any cost. We are also goingto hold a mass rally in Assamon October 23 expressing ourstiff opposition to the Bill,” he said.

The AGP and BodolandPeoples’ Front (BPF) are thepartners of the BJP led

al l iance Government inAssam. Assam had witnessedsevere protests earlier thisyear protesting against theCitizenship (Amendment)Bill 2016.

The Citizenship(Amendment) Bill, 2016, whichwas introduced in the LokSabha on July 15, 2016, seeks toamend the Citizenship Act,1955 to provide citizenship toillegal migrants, fromAfghanistan, Bangladesh andPakistan, who are of Hindu,Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi orChristian extraction.

While the AssamGovernment is yet to make itsstand clear on the Bill, theMeghalaya Government—where BJP is a partner—has

taken a cabinet decision tooppose the Bill as it might affectthe indigenous people of theState. Different organisationsand civil society groups inother northeastern States likeManipur, Nagaland, Mizoramand Arunachal Pradesh havealso been opposing the Bill.

Meanwhile, the opposi-tion Congress in Assam hasslammed the AGP termingthe regional party’s oppositionto the controversial Bill asmere eyewash and said thatthe Bill poses gravest threatever to Assam and its indige-nous people.

“The controversial Bill isthe gravest threat ever faced byAssam since Independence. Itis the biggest ever injusticemeted out to Assam. The AGPis hand in glove with the BJP.If the AGP is really against theBill, they should come out ofthe alliance,” said former ChiefMinister and Congress leader,Tarun Gogoi.“There is no point of drama-tizing a sensitive issue like theCitizenship Amendment Bill.The AGP is not even register-ing their protests over the Bill,”said Leader of the Oppositionof Assam Legislative Assembly,Debabrata Saikia.

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Apparently angry overGujarat Chief Minister

Vijay Rupani’s allegations onhis involvement in the violenceagainst Hindi-speakingmigrant labourers, CongressBihar in charge ShaktisinhGohil has threatened to filecriminal and civil suits againstRupani if he does not apologise.

CM Rupani had made theremarks during his recent visitto Lucknow where he went toinvite his counterpart fromUttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanathfor the inauguration ceremonyof Statue of unity project.

At a Press conference onTuesday Gohil claimed that theBJP backed hooligans wereresponsible for attacks onmigrant workers. He went onto say that BJP supporters

spread anti-migrant messageson social media platforms. “Iwas in Bihar when violencebroke out against migrants. Assoon as I came to know aboutsuch incidents I immediatelyappealed people to maintainpeace and harmony in Gujarat.Besides I also demanded totake action against attackers,”he added.

Sharing social media pro-

files of some alleged BJP sup-porters with their anti-out-sider posts to bolster his alle-gation the senior Congressleader claimed that BJP sys-tematically orchestrated vio-lence against migrants.

Gohil said that a day afterthe gruesome rape, BJP MLAfrom Himmatnagar, RajendraChavda spoke to people andexhorted BJP workers to drive

away North Indians who camein Gujarat for employment.

The ruling BJP's politics ofdivision in the name of caste,religion, region and commu-nity is well known, he allegedadding that despite the partygot maximum seats from Hindibelt consisting Bihar, UttarPradesh, Rajasthan,Chhatisgarh and Rajasthan,BJP is targeting the people ofthese states.

Criticising NRC in AssamGohil said that BJP was tar-geting innocent vulnerablepeople. In Shilong peoplebelonging to Punjab were tar-geted only after BJP came inpower there. He has alsodemanded Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's interven-tion and apology in the issueof attacks on migrants in Gujarat.

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G A N D H I N A G A R :Announcing ‘Ekta Yatra’ or‘Unity March’ across 5,000 vil-lages of the State, Gujarat ChiefMinister Vijay Rupani saidthat the Statue of Unity –world’s tallest statue of SardarVallabhbhai Patel wouldemerge as symbol of nationalunity in the coming days.

The tallest statue of theworld being constructed nearSardar Sarovar Dam site wouldbe unveiled by the PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onOctober 31, 2018 to mark 144thbirth anniversary of the Ironmanof India, said Rupani adding thatthe first phase of Ekta Yatra willbe during October 19 to 29 andsecond phase would be betweenNovember 15 and 25.Interestingly foundation stone ofthe project was laid by Modiwhen he was Gujarat CM onOctober 31, 2013 for the projectbuilt at a cost of �2,389 crore.The statue stands 3.2 km down-stream of the Narmada dam onthe islet, Sadhu bet.

“The entire precinct, includ-ing the installation place of‘Statue of Unity’, would be madepatriotic place with the theme‘One India, Best India’ alongwith tourist spot. The land-scape of the place is developedwith the soil pieces collectedfrom over 6-lakh villages acrossthe country. The place will alsohave attractions like valley offlowers, boating, three-star hotel

and food court to name few.Another major attraction wouldbe ‘Light and Laser show’ whichwould give information aboutSardar Patel and his role in thefreedom movement of thenation as well as unification ofIndia post-independence.

Meanwhile, GujaratMinisters and top bureaucratsincluding CM Rupani areroaming across the country inorder to invite Chief Ministersof all the States for the grandinauguration of the statue ofunity project – 182 metreshigh statue of Sardar Patel.

The Gujarat Governmentwants this unveiling to be a grandevent and has drafted almost allthe Ministers to different Statesinvite the respective ChiefMinisters. Rupani recently wentto Uttar Pradesh to invite hiscounterpart Yogi Adityanath.Deputy CM Nitin Patel went toinvite Maharashtra CMDevendra Fadnavis. MinisterVibhavriben Dave visited thenorth eastern State Tripura.

Agriculture Minister RC Falduhas been tasked to invite theAssam Chief Minister, EducationMinister BhupendrasinhChudasama just returned fromhis trip to Haryana, while Foodand Civil Supplies MinisterJayesh Radadia has been sent toUttarakhand. Energy andPetrochemicals Minister SaurabhPatel is right now visiting Biharwith an invite for Chief MinisterNitish Kumar for the event.

Minister of State for HomePradeepsinh Jadeja returnedfrom his trip to HimachalPradesh. Social Justice andEmpowerment MinisterIshwarbhai Parmar went to Goafor the purpose. Forest MinisterGanpat Vasava went to TamilNadu, while another MinisterDilip Thakore has been sent toNaveen Patnaik's Orissa,Revenue Minister Kaushik Patelto Jharkhand. Other members ofGujarat’s council of Ministers arevisiting Arunachal Pradesh,Meghalaya and other States.

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Jammu & Kashmir GovernorSatya Pal Malik on Tuesday

urged Union Human ResourceDevelopment Minister PrakashJavadekar to intervene andensure a smooth conduct ofacademic activities in AligarhMuslim University (AMU).

The university administra-tion has suspended threeKashmiri students on charges oftrying to organise funeralprayers on the campus for slainHizbul commander MananBashir Wani, an AMU researchscholar who had joined mili-tancy in January this year.

Kashmiri students at theuniversity are protesting thesuspension of the three. About1,200 Kashmiri students havewritten to the AMU authorities,threating that they would quitstudies at the university unlesssedition charges were droppedagainst the accused students.

The Governor spoke to

Javadekar seeking his inter-vention to ensure "smoothstudies of the Kashmiri stu-dents at AMU", an officialstatement said.

The Governor also spoketo the Vice Chancellor ofAMU, Tariq Mansoor.

Malik urged Javadekarand Professor Tariq to ensurethat the issue was resolved atthe earliest and there was nodisruption to Kashmiri stu-dents' studies.

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Veteran BJP leaderJaswant Singh’s son and

MLA Manvendra Singh willjoin the Congress onWednesday, ahead of theAssembly polls in Rajasthanin December.

Singh (54), who wonBarmer’s Sheo constituencyas the BJP candidate in 2013Assembly elections, hadannounced at a rally lastmonth that he is leaving theBharatiya Janata Party.

“Kamal ka Phool BadiBhool’, he had said then,claiming that going with theBJP’s election symbol, thelotus, was a “big mistake”.

Congress leaders claimedhis move will help bringRajput votes to the party-foldwhile the BJP said the MLA's"politically wrong decision"will have no impact on theruling party.

"Manvendra Singh willjoin the Congress tomorrowin Delhi in the presence of

party president Rahul Gandhi,"Rajasthan Pradesh CongressCommittee president SachinPilot told PTI Tuesday.

"There is a long list ofleaders quitting the BJP and theparty should introspect whythis is happening," he said."We are welcoming ManvendraSingh and this will strengthenthe party."

He added the party willensure his active participationin the upcoming assembly elec-tions in the state.

Rajasthan's ParliamentaryAffairs Minister RajendraRathore claimed Singh's deci-

sion is a political misstep andhe should have thought beforeswitching sides.

"The Congress is helpless.Therefore it is adopting side-lined BJP leaders. It is his per-sonal decision but this is apolitically wrong decision.He is not going to get any-thing with this," Rathore toldreporters at Ranakpur in Pali.

As for the Rajput votes,Rathore said the communityhas traditionally voted for theBJP.

"There will be no impact ofthis as the Rajput votes willremain with the BJP only," hesaid.

Fateh Khan, the presidentof the Barmer unit of theCongress, said the Rajputsare not happy with theVasundhara Raje governmentin Rajasthan.

"The Congress party isgoing to gain when Manvendrajoins Congress," he said.

In western Rajasthan, theRajput vote is often considereda deciding factor on manyseats.

The Congress is also hop-ing to get the support ofcommunities l ike theRajpurohits, Charans andPrajapats with Singh joiningthe party.

Manvendra Singh wonBarmer's Sheo assembly con-stituency in 2013 with a mar-gin of 31,425 votes.

His father Jaswant Singh,who is in coma for the last fouryears, was denied ticket by theBJP from the Barmer-Jaisalmerconstituency in the 2014 LokSabha elections.

He then contested elec-tions as an independent andlost the seat to BJP's Sonaram,who had joined the partyafter switching from theCongress. There was resent-ment among Jaswant Singhsupporters over the denial ofthe BJP ticket for the veteran,and they blamed VasundharaRaje for this.

These supporters had thenrallied around his sonManvendra Singh, calling it anissue of 'swabhiman' or self-respect.

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An advisory committeeheaded by Kerala Chief

Minister Pinarayi Vijayan hasbeen set up for implementationof various projects for rebuild-ing the flood-ravaged state.

Announcing this at a pressconference here, Vijayan saidthe committee, comprisingUnion Tourism MinisterAlphons Kannamthanam,would give advice for imple-menting the projects.

Leader of Opposition inKerala Assembly RameshChennithala, T K A Nair, whoserved as advisor to formerprime minister, and formerstate chief secretary K MChandrasekhar are among theother members of the com-mittee, he said.

The first meeting of thecommittee would be held onOctober 22, the chief ministersaid.

Besides this, a high-pow-ered committee would monitorthe implementation of the pro-jects approved by the statecabinet, he said.

The chief minister alsolaunched a portal for crowdfunding as part of the govern-ment's efforts to mobilise fundsfor rebuilding and rehabilitat-ing the people affected by theflood in the state.

Vijayan is scheduled toleave for some of the Gulfcountries on Wednesday as partof the efforts to mobilise fundsfrom Kerala expatriates there.

Seventeen of the 20 stateministers have also planned tovisit different countries inthe Gulf and Europe tomobilise funds.

However, the Centre hasapproved the foreign visit of thechief minister alone so far.

Answering a question inthis regard, Vijayan said thestate government had expect-ed that the Centre would givesanction for the ministers also.

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Chennai: AMMK leader TTVDhinakaran on Tuesdaylaunched a scathing attack onthe AIADMK leadership, say-ing the ruling party has “lost itsidentity” and was “stuck” dueto a “few selfish” people.

The ousted AIADMKleader also claimed that hisAmma Makkal MunnetraKazhagam (AMMK) would‘retrieve’ the ruling party.

In an apparent reference toDhinakaran, the AIADMKdubbed him an 'overnight'leader rejected by the people.

"One cannot deny the factthat the party has lost its iden-tity and ideology and veeredaway from the path laid down byAmma (the late J Jayalalithaa).It is now stuck due to a few self-ish persons," Dhinakaran saidwithout naming anyone.

He was apparently tar-geting AIADMK CoordinatorO Panneerselavam and theJoint Coordinator KPalaniswami, with whom he isin a running feud for controlof the ruling party.

Palaniswami is ChiefMinister of Tamil Nadu whilePanneerselvam is his deputy.

In a letter to partymenahead of the AIADMK found-ing day on October 17,Dhinakaran said while the lateChief Minister M G

Ramachandran had launched it,Jayalalithaa had taken it forwardand made it a popular move-ment in the state. His jailed auntVK Sasikala had stood "solidly"by Jayalalithaa during her polit-ical journey, he said.

But post Jayalalithaa's deathin 2016, "hegemonic forces"had taken over the AIADMK,Dhinakaran said in the letter.

Reiterating his oft repeat-ed charge of the AIADMKbeing 'subservient' to the BJP-led government at the Centre,he said his AMMK wouldretrieve the AIADMK andrestore it to its old pride.

The AIADMK has "lost itsidentity and become some-one's slave," he said but did notname anyone. Dhinakaranclaimed 90 percent ofAIADMK workers were sup-

porting AMMK and that therest were in the ruling partydue to "selfish motives."

"AMMK has been the trueAIADMK. In the coming days,it will retrieve AIADMK," headded.His victory in the RKNagar bypoll in December2017 was proof of people'ssentiments as the voters elect-ed him as Jayalalithaa's suc-cessor, he said. The bypoll wasnecessitated due to the death ofJayalalithaa in December 2016.Dhinakaran, who contested asan Independent, had defeatedruling party nominee EMadhusudhanan by a goodmargin.

Meanwhile, Panneerselvamand Palaniswami said thosewho have emerged as"overnight leaders" have beenrejected by the people. PTI

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With “themes” once againinundating Durga Puja

pandals in 2018, efforts are onto get the City of Joy declaredas UNESCO’s City ofLiterature.

True, Kolkata has onceagain decked up to the inim-itability of its Durga Puja pan-dals — with each of 3,000-oddPuja pandals exhibiting a cre-ativity of the sublime classblended with abstract mysti-cism and temporal message.

Welcome to ChaltabaganDurga Puja committee in NorthKolkata, where the organisershave set up their Puja Pandalaround the theme of PoetLaureate Rabindranath Tagore’sShantir Nir (Abode of Peace).”S Bhutoria, the chief patron ofthe Puja says, “We have wovenour craft around this theme sothat Kolkata can be enlisted asIndia’s first ‘City of Literature’in the UNESCO list.”

World cities like Milan,Norwich, Edinburgh, Prague,Melbourne, Baghdad, Granada,Barcelona Dublin, Krakow,Heidelberg, Quebec etc havealready been declared as citiesof literature.

The artiste has conveyedTagore’s message of universalpeace and harmony throughexcellent display of motifs andreliefs. In an apparent bid toblend literary flavour with reli-giosity the ceiling of the pan-

dal has been decorated withbooks.

Towards the North Easternfringes at Sribhumi SportingClub the Puja organisers havereproduced the gigantic pandalafter Chittaurgarh Fort. TheTheme here is Padmavat. Theexclusive art work of the pan-dal will make it difficult to readbetween the original and theimitation.

The artist who construct-ed the Durga Puja pandal atRaja Santosh Mitra Squareseems to have worked wondersby building a mammoth 60-feet tall Arjuna’s Rath. Thespecialty of the chariot is: it isplated with silver. “We haveused about 10 tons of silvercosting about �40 crore; addanother �2 crore as construc-

tion cost,” said one of theorganisers. “This Rath ofMother Goddess Durga aimsat bringing rule of law, peaceand justice on the earth,” he said.

Down South at EkdaliaEvergreen Puja Committee,presided over by seniorMinister Subroto M kherjee thepandal is shaped in classicalpattern. “We have no deviationas we rely on heritage,” hesays. So the entire set up is clas-sical.” the temple structure isenormous, and beautifullycrafted, while the inside is dec-orated by idols of gods and isstunningly colourful.

“I have not seen such ahuge crowd for so many days.Gosh! It is stupendous” saysElei from the USA who has

come to visit a friend inKolkata.

A mile away at TridharaSanmilani which has been win-ning numerous prizes for itsexquisite art work the organis-ers have concentrated on thetraditional handicraft ofBengal. While artist GaurangaQuilla has used the tradition-al earthen potery as his themehe has given the finishingtouch with jute. The minute artwords and the finesse has ledthe Club to win more thanthree dozen prizes this year.

“Such exquisite is theartistry of the craftsmen thatpeople not only from all overthe State but all over the worldhave poured in to hop pandals24x7,” says a Dy Commissionerof Police. “We are receivingabout 7-8 million additionalpeople walking throughout theday and night in Kolkata for thepast several days and the figureis likely to cross one crore byNavami Day”, he added

Cut to Badamtala AsharSangha where the theme forthis year’s puja is “shobchoritro kalponic (all charac-ters are fictional).” Even asthey celebrate women thisyear an organiser said “in themodern world, there arenumerous successful women,but there are those who aresubjected to malice andhatred. The puja is dedicatedto those women and is an odeto the spirit of womanhood.”

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Having cracked the sensa-tional murder of a 20-year-

old upcoming model in just overfour hours, the city police havearrested a 19-year-old collegestudent for allegedly killing her,packing her body in a large trav-el bag and dumping it in a bushnear at Malad in north Mumbai.

The boy, identified as oneMuzzamil Sayyed, who wasarrested late on Mondayevening, was on Tuesday pro-duced before a suburban courtwhich remanded him in policecustody till October 22.

Acting on a tip-off from ataxi driver that an youngsterhad dumped the large travel bagin a bush in an isolatedMindspace locality at Malad(west) in a suspicious manner,a team of police officials formedby Deputy Commissioner ofPolice (Zone-XI) SangramsinhNishal rushed to the spot andfound the body of a deceasedmodel inside the bag.

Sayyed, the accused boywho hails from Hyderabad and

used to stay in a rented flat inMumbai, had packed the model’sbody carefully inside a bed sheetwith the face of the deceasedstrapped with a rope and thebody wrapped in cushion.

After examining theCCTV footage obtained fromthe area which showed the boycoming out of the taxi anddumping the travel bag in abush, the investigating teamused the mobile number of theboy given by the taxi driver totrack down the accused boywhom they arrested shortlybefore midnight of Monday.

Police identified the mur-dered girl as one Mansi Dixit,who hailed from Kota inRajasthan. She had visitedSayyed’s Millat Nagar residenceat Andheri (west) in northMumbai on Monday night.

Deputy Commissioner ofPolice (Zone-11) SP Nishandarsaid that Mansi had come toMumbai to try her luck inBollywood and living in a rent-ed flat at Andheri. She used totake small modelling assign-ments and had managed to getbit of roles in some films.

Mansi had come in contact withSayyed through social media.

During the questioningafter his arrest, Sayyed report-edly admitted to the policethat after a tiff, he had hitMansi on her head with aniron stool leading to her death.However, the investigators arenot ruling out the possibilityof Sayyed having strangledMansi to death.

Two versions were makingrounds as to the circumstancesleading to Sayyed hitting Mansiwith an iron stool. While oneversion said that Sayyed andMansi had known each otherfor some time, the tiff betweenthem was genuine one and thedeath was accidental, the sec-ond version was that Mansiused to work as an “escort”whom Sayyed had hired her bymaking an online payment.

However, according to thesecond version, the dispute arosebetween them after the modeldemanded an additional pay-ment of �2,500 when she land-ed at Sayyed’s residence onMonday afternoon, a demandthat enraged the boy leading tothe incident. Sayyed allegedlystrangled her to death. Afterpacking Mansi’s body in a trav-el bag, Sayyed hired a taxi overphone on the pretext of going tothe Mumbai InternationalAirport. However, after reachingthe secluded Mindspace locali-ty where he dumped the bag ina bush and took an autorickshaw.

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Celebrating the bir thanniversary of Bhagat

Singh on a Government col-lege campus has landed awoman student in trouble asshe has been suspended, anaction which she termed as“suppression” of the freedomof expression.

S Malathi, a first year MAStudent at the Governmentarts and science college, wassuspended on October 1 aftershe and some other studentsorganised a function to cele-brate Singh's birth anniversaryon September 28,despite beingdenied permission by the prin-cipal and the tutor, officials said.

"Malathi organised themeeting without permission,which would have affectedpeace in the campus. She wasthus placed under suspen-sion," Chitra, the college principal, said.

Malathi told reporters hereTuesday that she got to knowof her suspension from a col-lege professor.

"This (action) is nothingbut suppression of the freedomof expression," she said.

Malathi claimed she wasnot officially informed of hersuspension.

Though college authoritiestold her that a letter to this effecthad been sent to her residence,it had not yet reached herhome, she said.

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Ruling Congress continues toget setbacks in poll-bound

Mizoram as former Ministerand senior Congress leader

Buddha Dhan Chakma onTuesday left the party and islikely to join the BJP soon.

Chakma has resignedfrom the State legislature andprimary membership of the

Mizoram Pradesh CongressCommittee (MPCC). The res-ignation of Chakma comesclose on the heels of two othersenior Congress leaders leav-ing the party.

Chakma said he was unhap-py over the recent incidentwhere some students belongingto the Chakma community weredenied admission to medical col-leges across the country, thoughthey had qualified for MBBSseats under the State quota.

Although he did not revealhis future course of action, theState Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) insiders said he is likely tocontest the forthcomingAssembly polls from Tuichawngseat on a BJP ticket.

Earlier, former MizoramHome Minister and numbertwo in the State Cabinet RLalzirliana and former MinisterLalrinliana Sailo had resignedfrom the Congress. Lalrinlianajoined the opposition MizoNational Front (MNF).

Mizoram is going to pollson November 28. BJP PresidentAmit Shah will kick-startparty's campaign for MizoramAssembly elections on October17 and also address booth-levelworkers the same day.

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The Opposition parties aretearing into the Yogi

Adityanath Government overrenaming of Allahabad asPrayagraj, but the BahujanSamaj Party and the SamajwadiParty regimes did the samething while in power.

The Governments of boththe parties passionately indulgedin name changing game in thebelief that it would prove to bea gamechanger when the Statewent to the hustings.

Moreover, there is nothingnew in the decision to renameAllahabad as Prayagraj. In fact,Yogi Adityanath is implement-ing the unfinished agenda offormer Chief Minister RajnathSingh, who had made anannouncement to this effectahead of Ardh Kumbh atAllahabad in 2001.

The proposal was dulyapproved by the state Cabinetand sent to the UnionGovernment led by Atal BiharVajpayee for approval. However,the Centre ignored the proposal

and a year later, in February2002, the State went to polls andthe Bharatiya Janata Party wasdefeated. The BSP-BJP coalitionGovernment headed byMayawati came to power andthe proposal was shelved.

The name change campaigndid not end there. If sources areto be believed, some other dis-tricts in UP with “Muslimsounding names” like Aligarh,Azamgarh, Shahjahanpur,Ghaziabad, Ferozabad,Farrukhabad, Moradabad andMuzaffarnagar could be rechris-tened and the process could beinitiated in 2019.

Before the renaming ofAllahabad, the Yogi Governmenthad changed names of severalroads, parks, crossings, buildingsafter BJP icon and former PrimeMinister Atal Behari Vajpayee,who passed away in August thisyear. During the spree then,two dozen public spots andfacilities were named afterVajpayee in Lucknow itself.

The Yogi Governmentbegan its name-changing spreein July by deciding to rename

the iconic Mughalsarai railwaystation after BJP ideologueDeen Dayal Upadhyaya.

The politics of name-change began in UP in 2007when the BSP was in power.Mayawati renamed eight dis-tricts — most of them afterDalit icons. Shamli wasrenamed as Prabuddh Nagar,Sambhal as Bhim Nagar, Hapuras Panchsheel Nagar, KanpurDehat as Ramabai Nagar,Kasganj as Kanshi Ram Nagar,Amethi as Chhatrapati ShahujiMaharaj Nagar, Amroha asJyotiba Phule Nagar andHathras as Mahamaya Nagar.

The process of renamingdistricts not only incurred hugefinancial burden due to

repainting of signage andreprinting of official stationery,it also led to widespread con-fusion. There were instances ofpeople boarding wrong busesand sending postal goods towrong addresses.

Mayawati had also renamedthe historic King George’sMedical University (KGMU)of Lucknow as ChhatrapatiShahuji Maharaj MedicalUniversity. This had irked thealumni of the KGMU, popular-ly known as Georgians, acrossthe world. Later, the SP regimehad restored the old name of themedical university.

The name-changing didnot help the BSP and the partywas voted out of power in 2012UP assembly election.

The next SP Governmentled by Akhilesh Yadav lost notime in restoring the publicinstitutions to their originalnames. Though he did notrename the districts, he builtnew parks and buildings andnamed them after socialist icons,like Janeshwar Misra Park andJP International Centre.

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Hyderabad: Nearly 190 namesof suspected Rohingyas haveappeared in the voters list and theprocess of verification and dele-tion is on, a senior official of theGreater Hyderabad MunicipalCorporation said on Tuesday.

“We have received the listfrom the Election Commissionwith nearly 190 names ofRohingyas living in Telanganato be verified. We have sent thelist to Returning Officers (RO)and Assistant ROs to verify,” theofficial said.

The official said the dele-tion of such names from thevoters list is underway.

“We have so far deleted 25names from the voters list.The process is going on.Balance will be done before thesecond supplement list of vot-ers comes,” the official said.

According to the official,some of the names figured inother constituencies near thecity and the list was sent to therespective districts for verifi-cation and deletion of namesif required.

There are as many as 39.60lakh voters in GHMC limits asper the latest list. There wereabout 3,600 Rohingyas, who areUNHCR card holders in the cityand most of them are illiterates.

Whoever lives in the campwere not willing to go back asthey fear for their lives, sourcesrelated to the Rohingya campin old city area had earlier said.

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Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was born to a nobleSyed family in Delhi on October 17,1817, and gradually earned the reputa-tion of a distinguished scholar at thattime. By the second half of the 19th cen-

tury, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan became one of themost charismatic and far-sighted person whorealised the need to educate the Indians in gen-eral and the Indian Muslims in particular. He feltthat empowerment came only with knowledge,awareness, character and social identity.

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was a dynamic per-son, a versatile genius, a scholar, social reformer,educationist, historian, archaeologist and linguistwho was gifted with a rare vision and intellect.He was one of those pioneering and revolution-ary figures of history who shaped the destiny ofthe nation and also changed the course of his-tory. Sir Syed, a great doyen of education in India,devoted his entire life for the educational uplift-

ment of a community which was despondent,dejected and was socially, economicallydeplorable after the fall of the Mughal empire.

The aftermath of the tragic events of themutiny of 1857 had made him ponder deeplyabout the morass of degradation and chaos intowhich the Indian Muslims had plunged.Eventually, Sir Syed became the man whom des-tiny had chosen to play the role of a messiah forthe community. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was veryintelligent and a dedicated person. Even as hehad differences of opinion for the opening of acollege, he convinced the community that thiswas the only way to go forward and become suc-cessful. The movement started by him, common-ly known as the Aligarh Movement, heralded theera of an intellectual and cultural renaissance forthe Indian Muslims. His movement was an off-shoot of this and laid the foundation forMohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in 1877which was later converted to the AligarhMuslim University in 1920.

Sir Syed’s liberalism and educational think-ing found full manifestation in the ideals of theMAO college which were eloquently stated as“free enquiry, pure morality and large-heartedtolerance” at the time when the foundation stonewas being laid by the Viceroy, Lord Lytton onJanuary 8, 1877. Sir Syed was probably the firstintellectual who presented the meaning of “cul-ture” as prevalent in the West in the 19th cen-

tury. He comprehensively defined and alsoreviewed its element and dynamics which wasone of the objectives of his journal Tahzeeb-ul-Akhlaq. He began with an emphasis on the foun-dation of Muslim cultural thought on scientif-ic lines and for this purpose, set up the scien-tific society. It was due to the strong personal-ity and intellectual stead-fastness of Sir Syed thateducated people began to follow him. Sir SyedKhan in his writings through Tahzeeb-ul-Akhlaq emphasised two things on which theeducational vision should be based: Adoption ofmodern education and moral education.

Sir Syed was a great intellectual, an enlight-ened and forward-looking educationist, an out-standing literary genius, an erudite theologian,a versatile writer, a fearless journalist, a pragmat-ic social reformer, an apostle of secularism andHindu-Muslim unity, and a very distinguishedarchitect for modern India. He was a farsight-ed and practical man and, hence, realised thatIndia is a multi-religious, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multilingual country. He was, there-fore, convinced that the Muslims of our coun-try could not make any worthwhile progress inany sphere of life unless they learn to live in asociety which had so many divergent elementsin it. Unity in diversity is India’s distinguishingfeature. He was not only aware of it but also feltproud of it. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan once said, “We(Hindus and Muslims) eat the same crop,

drink water from the same rivers and breathe thesame air. As a matter of fact, Hindus and Muslimsare the two eyes of the beautiful bride that isHindustan. The weakness of any one of them willspoil the beauty of the bride (dulhan)”.

“We believe in inspiring minds, improvingtheir intellectual capacity and building charac-ters which our students will treasure for their life-time. We also endeavour to inculcate social val-ues and principles of personal excellence and carefor others, said the Vice-Chancellor ProfessorTariq Mansoor of Aligarh Muslim University,who is also one of the prominent surgeons of thiscountry”. He further expressed his feeling that“AMU doesn’t only focus on education but itworks in a manner by developing personal qual-ities such as leadership, teamwork, determina-tion, flexibility, confidence, self -belief, respectetc, in all to mould a versatile person and becomesuccessful in their career. AMU focuses on cre-ating a holistic learning environment”.

Professor M Sufyan Beg, principal, ZakirHussain College of Engineering and Technology,also serving as the Chairperson of the AlumniAffairs Committee said that the message, teach-ings, philosophy, vision and ideology of Sir Syedhave become more relevant today than everbefore not only for the Muslims but for the entirecommunity. Despite popular belief, Sir Syed wasa firm believer in the importance of Hindu-Muslim unity for India to prosper. He realised

that together, we can achieve more and he strivedfor a united country until his last breath. Themost important first contributions to Sir Syedfor the construction of building came fromHindus like Choudhary Sher Singh, KunwarLekhraj Singh, Raja Shiv Narain Singh, RajaGhanshyam Singh, Raja Uday Pratap Singh, LalaPhul Chand, Lala Vasudeo Sahai and others.Their name continues to adorn old buildings ofAMU. And what better tribute could have beenpaid to Sir Syed’s idea of Hindu-Muslim unityand the idea of a cosmopolitan, modern Indiahe championed than this — the first student topass out of MAO college (AMU) was Mr IshwariPrasad, was a Hindu not a Muslim.

As a tribute to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, theGovernment of India should expand the horizonof AMU in the country and increase the grantto enrich the existing infrastructure of the uni-versity. Keeping the sentiment of the people ofthis nation, it would also be a welcome gestureby the Ministry of Human ResourceDevelopment to declare October 17 as Sir SyedDay. To carry the legacy of this great noble soul,Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Aligarh MuslimUniversity vice-chancellor Tariq Mansoor hasclearly said that he will continue with Sir Syed’svision of imparting modern education.

(The writer is a well-known linguist, authorand columnist and teaches at the Department oflinguistics at the Aligarh Muslim University)

������������� ��������Sir — This refers to the article,“Bhagwat’s bunch of Golwalkar’sthoughts” (October 16) by ManmohanVaidya. The three-day lecture series bySarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat inNew Delhi last month was undoubted-ly a grand success. But the grandeur ofthe event was falsified and misinterpret-ed by a few. His discourse was indeeda clarion call for the youth to step theirfoot forward and work in unison for aunbloted glorious future of India. Notfor even a moment did he distancehimself from the revered Shri Guruji.

The RSS chief precisely exemplifiedthe motives and working of the sangh.His entire lecture was an articulationof the trail of thoughts expressed by ShriGuruji. His was a great endeavourtowards uniting the country.

Sudeepa GandheKurukshetra

��������������Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Herewe go again” (October 16). Such is theair quality level in Delhi and theNational Capital Region that evenmoderate levels of pollution is nowbeing considered to be good. Mere ban-

ning the use of gensets will not solvethe problem. What is needed is a multi-dimensional approach on the part ofDelhi, Punjab and Haryana StateGovernments to come up with a com-bination of plan to deal with the manyproblems, like stubble burning, vehic-ular pollution, among others. TheGovernment should device a strategyto educate the farmers so that theybecome conscious about the environ-ment. Here, the role of people employedwith local Krisha Vigyan Kendra andmembers of Gram panchyats is crucial.

Bal Govind Noida

��������������������Sir — Uttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath deserves all compli-ments for restoring the ancient namefrom Allahabad to Prayagraj. Mughalemperors had given such changednames to many cities of historicalimportance even in the era of theRamayana. Adityanath must noworder a study of all such changednames across the State and shouldrestore the original names of othercities as well.

Madhu AgrawalDelhi

������������Sir — As long as MJ Akbar continuesto be Minister it is not going to be easyfor any person to fight him legally. Hisdefence, citing elections and a politicalangle, is flimsy. Had he resigned andgone to the court, he would have earnedsome respect. It is sad that the PrimeMinister remained silent especiallywhen he talks about women’s safety.

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The two super cats, theAsiatic lion and the RoyalBengal tiger, drew the max-imum attention of conser-vationists in India. But the

third largest cat, the Indian leopard,has its own story under the shadowof its two big tribes. Two recent sto-ries — one, the death of 23 lions inGir due to CDV and Protozoa infec-tions and second, the hunt for a man-eating tiger in Maharashtra —grabbed headlines in Indian newspa-pers and electronic media.

But this story is about thesmartest big cat — the Indian leop-ard (Panthera pardus fusca), a sub-species of the nine subspecies of allleopards in the world. It is widely dis-tributed across the country — fromJammu & Kashmir in the north-westto the southern part of Tibet in Chinain the north-east Himalayas to CapeComorin in the south and from theGir forest (Saurashtra) and thorn for-est in the arid zone of Kachchh in thewest to the moist forest of Myanmarin the eastern border of India.

Although a majority of the leop-ards are confined in India, small pop-ulations are also found in Nepal,Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar,Pakistan and small areas of southernChina adjoining Myanmar. Each ofthe other seven sub-species of theAsian leopard has a small population,below one thousand, in differentAsian countries. After the Africanleopard, only the Indian leopard hasa viable population. The Indian leop-ard occurs up to a height of about5,200 meters in the Himalayas wheretheir habitat meets the lower altitudeof the snow leopard. A study revealedthat the distribution range of theIndian leopard reduced to 28 per centof its historical distribution range,although the big cat enjoys the high-est protection level in our country asit is placed in Schedule-I of theWildlife Protection Act, 1972.

According to an article pub-lished in the Indian Forester inJanuary 1907, a total of 811 leopardsand 1,355 tigers were officially killedin 1905 to reduce their menace.Level of killing in the preceding year(1904) was also at the same level.Thus, about 800 to 900 leopards were

killed annually in the beginning of the20th century which increased subse-quently later.

It was also mentioned that leop-ards killed 401 human beings and44,845 livestock in 1905. Huntinglicenses were issued freely to kill wildanimals, including leopards. A totalof 37,720 hunting licences in 1904 and37,833 in 1905 were issued in India.As per records, 150,000 leopardswere hunted in British India duringa span of 50 years (1875-1925) at anannual rate of 3,000 leopards. It wasestimated that 100 years ago, India hadover 10 times the present populationof the tiger. By extending similar logicand studying hunting records, it canbe said that the Indian forests had ahigh population of the leopard beforethe Second World War. Thereafter,they were killed in thousands, whichpushed them to become near extinct.However, conservation measureshave reversed the trend.

Distribution range: In a major-ity of the Indian States, the leopardsare dispersing in new areas due towhich its population is recovering.Until a few years ago, Punjab was con-sidered to be a non-tiger State as theanimal occasionally visited in the win-ter from the hills of HimachalPradesh. But in recent times, theLeopards have made a come back inthe lower Shivalik hills of Punjab, bor-dering Himachal Pradesh.

Similarly, about two and a halfdozen of leopards marked their pres-ence in the Shivalik of Haryana adecade ago. The animal dispersedfrom the Shivalik of HimachalPradesh and from the Aravallis hillranges of Rajasthan to the forests ofHaryana. At present, forests in 10 dis-tricts in Shivalik and the Aravallis ofHaryana have been captured by theleopards in good numbers.

At present, the Indian leopard isdistributed in 29 States and oneUnion Territory. Uttarakhand,Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka,Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Rajasthanand Himachal Pradesh have over two-thirds of the total leopard populationof the country. In the 1990s, the leop-ard’s presence was recorded in 196sanctuaries and national parks across26 States of the country.

Since then, the number of Statesand protected areas has increased andexpanded. As per latest reports, theanimal’s presence has been registeredfrom 384 national parks and wildlifesanctuaries across the country,although few other protected areas areseasonally or occasionally visited bythe leopard.

Area of these leopard supportingnational parks and wildlife sanctuar-ies is about 136,550 km. Of this, about50 tiger reserves and their buffer zonesin 17 States are occupied by the Tigersand five national parks and wildlifesanctuaries in Gujarat by the Asiaticlion. In the rest of the leopard support-ing protected areas, the leopard is atop predator but compete with thehyena. Experts believe that thoughthe sanctuaries and national parksaccommodate a good number of theanimal, a large number of them arefound outside these boundaries thanthose within, and some are using non-forest areas, including scrublands, teagarden, ravines, sugarcane fields andanother vegetation cover.

In the State of Gujarat, as per theleopard census report in 2011, about38.2 per cent of the leopard popula-tion was counted in the protectedareas, 18.0 per cent in the sugarcanefield, agricultural lands, plantationsand ravines, and the rest in the for-est areas beyond the boundaries of theprotected areas. Leopard populationin protected areas of Uttarakhand,Maharashtra and Odisha were about25.2 per cent, 44.1 per cent and 35.3per cent respectively. An analysis ofdata from 12 major leopard Statesreveals that about one-third of the

total leopards were found in nation-al parks and wildlife sanctuaries.Also, based on census reports of a fewStates, about 15 per cent of the leop-ards used habitat beyond the bound-aries of the forests.

Leopard’s occupancy in the majorpart of 14 tiger States was 173,900 kmin 2014. As per the rough leopard dis-tribution range, provided by theChief Wildlife Wardens and wildlifeexperts in the States, the leopardsoccupy about 114,000 km in other 15States and Union Territories. Thus, theleopards occupy over 287,900 km for-est areas of the country.

Tea gardens have become a majorman-leopard conflict zone because agood number of them breed and huntin these areas. At least 5,670 km areaof the hilly terrain or slopes in Nilgirihills (Tamil Nadu, Kerala andKarnataka), Darjeeling hills, drainedland of Dooars and Terrai down thehills in West Bengal and moderatehills and slopes in Assam and othersuch lands in the North- East States,Uttarakhand and Himachal are undertea cultivation. Presence of leopardand human-leopard conflict in thesetea gardens have been recorded forover 100 years. Most of these areasform contiguous leopard habitat withthe adjoining forests.

Recently, maximum human-leopard conflicts were recorded in andaround the sugarcane fields in someStates. Sugarcane cultivation hasexpanded with the expansion of irri-gation network. The adaptive big cathas successfully exploited the densesugarcane crop for littering. Duringthe last five years, the extent of sug-arcane cultivation in India rangedfrom 44,360 Km to 50,670 km.Leopards are frequently seen in thesugarcane fields. Majority of suchdense tall crops in the four States —Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat andTamil Nadu, which cover about 31.9per cent of the sugarcane cultivationarea in the country — are inflicted bythe leopard. The animal is also seenin the sugarcane fields in Terai belt inUttar Pradesh and Bihar.

A recent paper, ‘Big Cat in OurBackyards’, published by the journal‘Public Library of Science’, madeheadlines by reporting up to six res-ident leopards per 100 km in the sug-arcane fields in Sangamner region ofMaharashtra. The big cats hide in thedense cover of sugarcane crops dur-ing the day, preying on dogs, pigs, cat-tle and poultry in the night in the vil-lages and towns. When one or twoleopards killed five people in MandviTaluka of Surat district, Gujarat in thepost-monsoon and early winter in2010, while hunting and trapping theman-eater, about two dozen leopards,including cubs, were eliminated fromthe sugarcane areas of the villages inthree months. When a leopard killedfour people in sugarcane zone inVeraval in Junagadh (Gujarat) inMarch 2012, a total of nine leopardswere trapped and removed from thearea. There are several such stories inthe sugarcane belt.

The extent of forests cover withcanopy density of more than 10 percent is 683,925 sq km in 29 States andone Union Territory which supportleopards. The shrublands and ravinesoutside the forests also support leop-ards. In the leopard State, aboutthree-fourth of the forest cover isexpected to be potential habitat,although present occupancy area ofthe leopard is lesser than the poten-tial habitats. The analysis indicatesthat the leopard occupancy area inIndia may be in an extent of over300,000 km, although potential habi-tat is high.

(This is the first article in a two-part series on Indian leopards. Thesecond part will appear in thesecolumns on Thursday, October 18.(The writer is Member, NationalBoard for Wild life)

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Telangana, the country’s youngest State,will face elections on December 7 forthe second time since its birth in 2014.

Chief Minister Chandrashekar Rao took abig risk by advancing the TelanganaAssembly polls by eight months. It was alsohis bravado to announce the list of 105 can-didates on the same day even before theElection Commission of India announcedthe polling dates. But the question is: Willhe succeed in his gamble?

Though it was the CongressGovernment at the Centre then that agreedfor a bifurcation of the State in 2014, theTelangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) came topower, riding on the Telangana wave.Contrary to its expectations, the Congresswas wiped off from both Telangana andAndhra Pradesh.

As there is no wave this time, the pollsare a fight for survival for the Opposition,including the Congress. The Telugu DesamParty (TDP), the Congress, CommunistParty of India and the Telangana JanaSamithi have formed a Maha Kutami(grand alliance) against the TRS. MKodandaram of the Telangana Joint ActionCommittee, who has fallen out with KCR,heads the Telangana Jana Samiti (TJS).Interestingly, the Congress and the TDP,one-time arch-rivals, have come togethergasping for political survival. It is not clearhow their chemistry will work. The TRS didnot expect this development but is takingthe alliance seriously.

In 2014, the TRS won 63 out of the 119seats while the splintered Opposition wasmauled. The Congress and the TDP won 21and 15 seats respectively. Rao has system-atically decimated the Opposition andstrengthened his party by poaching on theTDP (13) and the Congress (12) as alsoother parties. The Congress and the TDPstrategists hope that the former will get a bigchunk of upper caste Reddy, SC/ST andminority votes and the TDP can get a sub-stantial number of its core OBC votes.

Rao is now facing new challenges. Hehas built a personality cult around himself.He has made his son KT Rama Rao as hisnumber two in his Cabinet, his nephewHarish Rao as a Minister and daughterKavitha as an MP. The Opposition is try-ing to make his style of authoritarian func-tioning, dynastic rule and his secret under-standing with the BJP as election issuesbesides jobs and non-deliverance ofpromises. The TRS is now ready to bail outthe BJP in case it misses the 272-mark inthe next Lok Sabha polls. KCR is also hob-nobbing with leaders like West BengalChief Minister Mamata Banerjee, attempt-ing to form a federal front.

Why did Rao go for this gamble?Astrologers rule KCR on practically every-thing. Before taking the decision, KCR gotat least 10 surveys done and is confidentthat his party would get at least 100 seatswhile realists put it at 70 or 80 seats. Hebelieves that the surprise element will go

in his favour.Rao wants the polls to be a KCR ver-

sus the rest and not a Modi versus KCR. Heis confident of winning as neither theCongress nor the BJP or the TDP has localleaders of his stature. If he wins, he propos-es to install his son Rama Rao in the ChiefMinister’s post and move to national poli-tics. KCR has big dreams of becoming thenext Prime Minister.

On the plus side, the KCR Governmenthas already announced many welfareschemes, including Rythu Bheema andRythu Bandhu schemes for the farmers. Hehas also taken up various projects such asKaleshwaram project, Mission Kakatiya,Haritha Haram and Mission Bhagiratha.The manifesto will come up with more pollpromises. Besides, Telangana is also one ofthe top rankers in the ease of doing busi-ness rankings. It registered an increase ingross domestic product growth and indus-trial development. It is way ahead ofother States in the per person consumptionof power, progress in the service sector andIT exports.

However, it is not all hunky dory forKCR as he has not delivered on the two-bedroom house scheme, transformed theState into Golden Telangana, filled up 1.50lakh vacancies or provides jobs to thosekilled in the Telangana agitation. From asurplus State, it has now become a revenuedeficit State.

Traditionally, the Congress had thebacking of dominant Reddys and ScheduledCastes while the TDP had a substantialnumber of its core OBC votes. TheCongress is seen as a Reddy party while theTRS a Velama party. Muslims and Dalit vot-ers are key to the polls. The State, a part ofthe erstwhile Nizam territory, has around12 per cent Muslim population. TheAIMIM, a one-time ally of the Congress, hasmoved closer to the TRS and both havedecided to go for friendly contests wherethey have no conflict of interest.

Most surveys predict a clear win for theTRS. As of now, the prediction is that it isadvantage TRS, although fight by a unitedOpposition can dent its votes. But the lackof a Telangana wave is a big minus. A winor lose ultimately depends upon Oppositionunity, youth support, anti-incumbency andcommunicative skills of the players.

(The writer is a senior political commen-tator and syndicated columnist)

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The rupee climbed 35 paiseto end at nearly two-week

high of 73.48 per dollar onTuesday amid softening crudeoil prices and easing concernsover the trade deficit.

Traders said foreign fundinflows and greenback weak-ening against other currencieswere the other factors thatprovided support to the homeunit.

At the Interbank ForeignExchange (Forex), the rupeeopened on a firm note at 73.79from Monday’s close of 73.83.During the day the domesticcurrency gained furtherground to hit a high of 73.47against the US dollar, driven byselling of the greenback byexporters.

The domestic unit settledthe day up by 35 paise or 0.47per cent at 73.48 to the dollar,the highest closing level sinceOctober 3.

The rupee had lost 26 paiseto close at 73.83 on Monday.

Forex dealers said bullishtrend in the equity market aswell as easing crude oil pricessupported the rupee’s upwardmovement.

“Alongside positive newson crude, the ten-year bonds

rallied as yieldsclosed lower.The currencyrallied on thelower thanexpected tradedeficit data,”said SunilSharma, ChiefI n v e s t m e n tO f f i c e r ,S a n c t u mW e a l t hManagement.

The trade deficit droppedto a five-month low of $13.98billion in September even asexports declined by more than2 per cent. A higher tradedeficit inflates the currentaccount deficit which has abearing on the local currencydue to fund outflows.

The benchmark Brent oilwas trading 0.88 per cent lowerat $80.07 a barrel on Tuesdaydue to easing tensions over dis-appearance of a Saudi journal-ist which calmed the oil mar-ket.

US President DonaldTrump Monday had said that“rough killers” could be behindthe disappearance of journalistJamal Khashoggi as opposed tohis earlier threatening stance.

Stock markets also wel-comed a retreat in oil prices

and gains in the rupee with thebenchmark 30-share Sensexrising by 297.38 points or 0.85per cent to close at 35,162.48.

The NSE Nifty after regain-ing the 10,600-mark hit a highof 10,604.90 on the back ofwidespread gains, and finallyconcluded 72.25 points or 0.69per cent higher at 10,584.75.

Foreign investors boughtshares worth �67.86 croreMonday, while domestic insti-tutional investors purchasedstocks worth �294.78 crore,provisional data showed.

The Financial BenchmarkIndia Private Ltd (FBIL) set thereference rate for the dollar at73.9041 per dollar.

The reference rate for eurowas fixed at 85.5750 and for theBritish pound at 97.3327. Thereference rate for 100 Japaneseyen was 65.95.

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ning run for the third straightsession on Tuesday, rising 297points to scale the key 35,000-level on positive macro signslike strengthening rupee andhealthy start to the corporateearning season.

Meanwhile, the rupeestrengthened by 25 paise to73.58 (intra-day) against the USdollar in the forex market.

Besides, easing globalcrude prices and positive cuesfrom Asian markets and ahigher opening in Europeanshares too fuelled the rally.Brent was trading 0.25 percent lower at $80.58 a barrel onTuesday.

“Market maintained a pos-itive momentum as healthystart to the earnings season andgaining strength in rupee sup-ported the sentiment. Thoughrally was broad based, finan-cials led from the front...Earnings season will dictate thetrend in the market as investorsare gradually shifting theirfocus from global volatility todomestic triggers,” Vinod Nair,Head of Research, GeojitFinancial Services said.

The 30-share Sensex stayedin the positive zone during the

session and shuttled between35,215.79 and 34,913.06, beforesettling 297.38 points or 0.85per cent higher at 35,162.48.

The NSE Nifty af terregaining the 10,600-markhit a high of 10,604.90 on theback of widespread gains,and finally concluded 72.25points or 0.69 per cent high-er at 10,584.75.

“The Nifty was highertoday again supported by mid-and small-cap stocks. Thebroader indices gained moreground than the Nifty. Bankingstocks were mixed with PSUBanks taking the lead. Globalcues were also mixed where USmarkets were down but mostother markets appear to havestabilised,” Rohit Srivastava,Fund Manager — PMS,Sharekhan by BNP Paribassaid.

Domestic institutionalinvestors (DIIs) bought sharesworth �294.78 crore, whileforeign institutional investorsinvested �67.86 crore onMonday, as per provisionaldata issued by the stockexchanges.

Shares of the country’s sec-ond largest IT company,Infosys fell 0.39 per cent aftercautious investors trimmedtheir positions ahead of July-September quarter earnings.

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Aday after Prime MinisterNarendra Modi voiced

concerns about high crudeprices, oil cartel OPEC onTuesday said it has not failedIndia and other major con-suming countries as it restoredstability in the market after fouryears of downturn.

Organisation of PetroleumExporting Countries (OPEC)Secretary General SanusiBarkindo, however, said the sta-bility achieved in past month isbeing threatened by headwindsfrom extraneous factors likefrictions between leading trad-ing partners of the world,revisal of monetary stimuliand upward movement ininterest rates.

Speaking at the IndiaEnergy Forum, he said a yearago Prime Minister Modi, OilMinister Dharmendra Pradhanand industry chieftains had“all commended the joint effortof OPEC and non-OPEC torescue the industry from thedownturn”.

“India, the third largestconsuming country of hydro-carbon, has endorsed this col-laborative effort to restore sta-bility to the oil market and had,in addition, asked to do what-ever is necessary to sustain thisstability going forward,” hesaid.

Without stability, majorconsuming countries cannotplan let alone manage demand-supply dynamics.

“We have not failed India,we have not failed major con-suming countries. Our actions,decision all take into accountthe interest of consumingcountry,” he said. “We have avested interest in India con-tinue to grow, prosper, contin-ue to use oil in its energy mix.”

On Monday, Modi hadvoice concerns about high oilprices killing global growth ata meeting where Saudi andUAE oil ministers as alsoindustry captains were pre-sent.

India has been over thepast two months battered byhigh crude oil prices that havesent retail petrol, diesel andLPG rates to record high, posedinflationary risks and togetherwith a sliding rupee threatenedto upset its current accountdeficit. Also, unrelenting fuelprice rise since mid-August hasnegated cut in taxes and sub-sidy. Barkindo said the stabil-ity achieved over the pastmonths is under threat from acombination of factors thatare beyond the control of oilproducers.

“In the short term we arealso beginning to see a rise involatility,” he said. “Yes at themoment the market is well sup-

plied. However, these extrane-ous factors are beginning tomake this balance look fragile.These factors are completelyoutside the control of OPECand non-OPEC (oil produc-ers).”

He said on Monday SaudiArabia, the world’s biggestexporter of oil in the world,assured all consumers “toremain claim, not to panicand that there is ample suppliesto meet”.

“Yes, the market is wellsupplied, a balance has beenachieved. But this balance islooking fragile largely becauseof actors outside our control,”he said.

Barkindo said the recentlyreleased OPEC’s World OilOutlook, primary energydemand, globally, is expected toincrease by 33 per cent, or 91million barrels of oil equivalentper day (mboe/d), between2015 and 2040.

“A massive 24 per cent ofthis anticipated increase will befrom India, or 22 mboe/d,” hesaid. “World oil demand isexpected to increase by 14.5million barels per day (mb/d),increasing from 97.2 mb/d in2017 to 111.7 mb/d in 2040.India will account for oildemand growth of 5.8 mb/d,which represents an astonish-ing 40 per cent of the overallincrease.”

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Adopting a seemingly cau-tious approach, the Reserve

Bank has approved appoint-ment of Sandeep Bakhshi asICICI Bank’s ManagingDirector and Chief ExecutiveOfficer for three years as againsta five-year term sought by thelender. ICICI Bank Tuesdayinformed the stock exchangesthat the Reserve Bank of India(RBI) has cleared Bakhshi’sappointment for three yearseffective from October 15.

After ICICI group veteranChanda Kochhar — who wasfacing inquiry related to allegednepotism and quid pro quo inextending loans to certain enti-ties — resigned earlier thismonth, the bank announcedappointment of Bakhshi as theMD and CEO for five years.

In recent months, the RBIseem to be exercising a cautiousapproach when it comes to re-appointment of chiefs of privatesector banks, especially againstthe backdrop of rising non-per-forming assets.

“We wish to inform youthat RBI ... (on October 15,2018) has approved the appoint-ment of Sandeep Bakhshi asManaging Director and CEO ofthe Bank for a period of threeyears with effect from October15, 2018,” ICICI Bank said in aBSE filing.

Bakhshi, who joined theICICI group in 1986, was elevatedfrom the post of Chief OperatingOfficer (COO) to MD and CEOof the bank after resignation ofKochhar on October 4.

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The RSS-affiliated SwadeshiJagran Manch (SJM) on

Tuesday sought PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’sintervention to ensure that thecontrolling stake in multi-business conglomerate ITCdoes not go to a foreign com-pany.

The SJM wrote to Modi inthe wake of reports of a pos-sible takeover of ITC byBritish American TobaccoCompany (BAT), a UK-basedmulti-national firm.

“Swadeshi Jagran Manchrequests you to kindly inter-vene in this case in nationalinterest, and pass instructionsto increase the shareholding of

the Government to thwartthe possibility of a takeover ofan Indian company (ITC) byan MNC,” its co-convenerAshwani Mahajan said in theletter to Modi.

BAT already holds stake inthe ITC, which has diversifiedbusiness in a range of sectorsincluding FMCG, apparel,hotels, specialty papers, pack-aging, agri-business and infor-mation technology amongothers.

Referring to ITC’s share-holding pattern, he said sharesheld by domestic financialinstitutions used to be 32 percent which has come down to30.4 per cent.

BAT’s stake is at 29.60 percent in the company.

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Indonesia has extraditedabsconding industrialist

Vinay Mittal, who was wantedin seven bank fraud casesworth �40 crore, to India, CBIofficials said here on Tuesday.

Mittal’s name had figuredin the list of prominent fugitiveeconomic offenders of theGovernment which containednames of industrialists VijayMallya, Nitin Sandesara, NiravModi, Mehul Choksi and JatinMehta among others.

The CBI had registeredregular cases against Mittal in2014 and 2016 at the behest ofCorporation Bank and PunjabNational Bank, which is reelingunder �13,000 crore bank fraudallegedly perpetrated by fugi-tive diamond traders NiravModi and Mehul Choksi, theofficials said.

The agency had filed sevencharge sheets before designat-ed courts in Delhi andGhaziabad against Mittal afterwhich he purportedly escapedfrom the country.

The court has declaredhim as absconder and theagency got issued a Red CornerNotice against him through theInterpol.

Subsequently, the agenciestraced his location to Bali inIndonesia where he was livingwith his family. He was arrest-ed by Indonesian authorities inJanuary 2017 on the basis ofRed Corner Notice.

Recently, IndonesianPresident had cleared his extra-dition to India following whichhe was sent to India this month.He was arrested upon arrivaland sent to judicial custody.

After his extradition earli-er this month, the agency alsogot a shot in arm when anoth-er accused Mohammad Yahya,accused in a �46 lakh bank loanfraud case, was deported fromBahrain.

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The rate is in line with that for Public Provident Fund. The interest rate on GPF was 7.6 percent for the July-September quarter of 2018-19. The interest rate would apply on Provident Fundsof central government employees, railways and defence forces. PTI

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Investments in the Indiancapital market through par-ticipatory notes (P-notes)

hit a nearly nine-and-a-halfyear low of �79,548 crore tillSeptember after registering arise in such fund infusion in thepreceding month.

P-notes are issued by reg-istered foreign portfolioinvestors (FPIs) to overseasinvestors who wish to be partof the Indian stock marketwithout registering themselvesdirectly. They, however, need togo through due diligenceprocess.

According to the Sebi data,total value of P-note invest-ments in Indian markets —equity, debt, and derivatives —slumped to a low of �79,548

crore till September-end from�84,647 crore clocked byAugust-end, which was thefirst rise in such fund infusionin 10 months.

Prior to that, in July, thefigure was �80,341 crore.

As per the data, the fundinflow through P-notes inSeptember was the lowest sinceApril 2009, when the cumula-tive value of such investmentsstood at �72,314 crore.

The decline in investmentcould be attributed to severalmeasures taken by the marketwatchdog to stop the misuse ofthe controversy-ridden partic-ipatory notes, experts said.

Of the total investmentsmade last month, P-note hold-ings in equities were at �60,164crore and the remaining was indebt and derivatives markets.

The quantum of FPIinvestments via P-notes remainunchanged at 2.5 per cent dur-ing the period under reviewfrom the preceding month.

P-note investments wereon a decline since, June last yearand hit an over eight-year lowin September 2017. However,these investments rose slight-ly in October but fell again inNovember and the trend con-tinued till July this year.

In August this year, invest-ment through the routeclimbed but again droppedlast month.

In July 2017, Sebi had noti-fied stricter norms stipulatinga fee of USD 1,000 on eachinstrument to check any mis-use for channelising blackmoney. It had also prohibitedFPIs from issuing such notes

where the underlying asset is aderivative, except those whichare used for hedging purposes.

Meanwhile, in September,market regulator Sebi issuedrevised KYC norms for FPIs,wherein resident as well asnon-resident Indians have beenpermitted to hold non-con-trolling stake in such entities.

These norms have been putin place weeks after a panelsuggested various changes tothe guidelines proposed earli-er, amid concerns in certainquarters that overseas fundsmight face difficulties in ensur-ing compliance.

Non-resident Indians(NRIs), overseas citizens ofIndia (OCIs) and residentIndians (RIs) have been per-mitted to hold non-controllingstake in FPIs.

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The country’s second-largestIT firm Infosys on Tuesday

reported a 10.3 per cent growthin its consolidated net profit at�4,110 crore for the quarterended September 2018.

It had posted a net profit of�3,726 crore in the year-ago peri-od, Infosys said in a BSE filing.

The Bengaluru-based firm’srevenue grew 17.3 per cent to�20,609 crore in the quarterunder review as compared to�17,567 crore in the same peri-od of 2017-18, it added.

“We are delighted with ourbroad-based growth across allbusiness segments and geo-graphies during the quarter.This is a testimony to ourstrong client relationships, dig-ital-led full service capabilities,and intense focus on the needsof our clients,” Infosys CEO andmanaging director Salil Parekhsaid.

He added that large dealwins at over USD 2 billion dur-ing the quarter “demonstrateour increased client relevanceand also give us better growthvisibility for the near-term”.

Digital revenues at USD905 million made 31 per centof total revenues, it said.

The company retained itsFY’19 revenue guidance inconstant currency at 6-8 percent.

Infosys also said it would

comply with arbitration awardasking it to pay �12.17 crore toformer CFO Rajiv Bansal.

“The company hasreceived legal advice and willcomply with the award and

make the necessary payments,”the software services majorsaid in a statement.

The company declaredinterim dividend of �7 pershare.

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New Delhi (PTI): Thecountry’s largest two-wheelermaker Hero MotoCorpTuesday reported a maginaldip in its standalone profitafter tax to �976.28 crore forthe second quarter endedSeptember 30, 2018.

The company had posteda net profit of �1,010.49 crorefor the same period of the pre-

vious fiscal, Hero MotoCorpsaid in a BSE filing. Revenuefrom operations for the quar-ter under review stood at�9,090.94 crore as against�8,371.74 crore in the sameperiod previous fiscal, it added.

Shares of Hero MotoCorptoday closed at �2,890 perscrip on BSE, up 0.23% fromits previous close.

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Mumbai (PTI): FederalBank on Tuesday posted a mar-ginal increase in net profit at�266.04 crore for the quarterending September on annualbasis. The bank had posted a netprofit of �263.7 crore during theJuly-September quarter of 2017-18, according to a regulatory fil-ing by the company.

The bank’s total incomestood at �3,087.81 crore during

the second quarter of the currentfiscal as against �2,666.82 crorein the year ago period.

Federal Bank’s gross non-performing assets widened to3.11% of its assets as against2.39% in the second quarter ofthe last fiscal. Net NPA too roseto 1.78% of its assets duringSeptember 2018 quarter. Thiscompares with 1.32% in the yearago quarter.

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food ordering and deliveryfirm Foodpanda on Tuesdaysaid it had acquired food-techventure Holachef, for an undis-closed amount, marking itsforay into the cloud kitchenbusiness.

As part of the acquisition,Foodpanda will take overHolachef ’s business includingits kitchens, equipment, as well

as bring onboard the company’semployees, a release said,adding Holachef ’s foundersare also set to join Foodpanda’sleadership team.

The company said it plansto launch its own brand of foodproducts in different categoriesthrough this collaboration.

Pranay Jivrajka, chief exec-utive officer of FoodpandaIndia, said, “We aim to build

India’s largest cloud kitchennetwork that will be a majorstep in further elevating thefood experience for our cus-tomers.”

A cloud kitchen works ona hub and spoke model, wherethere is a mega central kitchenthat delivers to outlets fromwhere the food is again dis-tributed.

The company, owned by

ride hailing giant Ola, said itwould build deeper capabilitiesand tailor its offerings to caterto specific segments. It cur-rently has around 125,000delivery partners.

Saurabh Saxena, co-founder of Holachef, said, “Ourmission with Holachef is toserve incredible food experi-ences to customers throughkitchens with the highest qual-

ity and hygiene standards. Weare delighted to join hands withFoodpanda, to accelerate ourmission.”

Foodpanda, which hasbeen operational in the coun-try since 2012, focuses on localinnovation, technology, anddelivery logistics, and claims toprocess over 300,000 orders aday from over 25,000 restau-rant partners.

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New Delhi: Vegetable oils’import fell two per cent to 14.91lakh tonne (LT) in September dueto rupee depreciation and high-er custom duty, according toedible oil industry body SEA.Total imports of vegetable oilswere also down 3.5 per cent to137.69 LT during November-September period of the 2017-18oil year from 142.72 LT in theyear-ago period, it said in a state-ment. As per Solvent ExtractorsAssociation of India data, importof edible oil fell to 14.22 LT inSeptember from 15.01 LT in theyear-ago period, but the ship-ments of non-edible oils rose to69,171 tonne from 17,994 tonneduring the review period. Thecountry imported 2,44,577 tonneof RBD palmolein, 6,65,110 tonneof crude palm oil, 8,988 tonne ofcrude palm kernel oil inSeptember this year. PTI

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Beijing: Amid global criti-cism, China on Tuesday justi-fied its controversial move tokeep thousands of UyghurMuslims in “vocational train-ing institutions” in the volatileXinjiang region, insisting thatits stringent measures haveprevented terror attacks in theprovince in the last 21 months.

Xinjiang, borderingAfghanistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, has beenrestive for the past severalyears over protests fromUyghur Muslims, an ethnicgroup of over 10 million Turkicorigin people, over the largescale settlements of HanChinese from other provinces.

China blamed the recur-ring violent attacks including inBeijing and elsewhere in thecountry on the separatist EastTurkistan Islamic Movement(ETIM), an al-Qaeda linkedgroup, whose cadres were nowstated to be fighting along withIslamic State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS) in Syria. PTI

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Britain has witnessed a surgein the incidents of reli-

gious hate crime over the pastfew years, mostly aimed atMuslims, according to officialfigures released Tuesday.

The UK Home Office datarevealed that 94,098 hatecrimes were recorded by thepolice in England and Wales in2017-18, an increase of 17 percent on the year before.

This annual increase equatesto a 40 per cent spike for “reli-giously-aggravated hate crime”,

with 8,336 such crimes bringrecorded in 2017-18 against5,949 in the previous year.

The figures also indicatethat most religious hate crime,52 per cent of all offences, wasaimed at Muslims or so-calledIslamophobic hate crime.

“This increase is thought tobe largely driven by improve-ments in police recording,although there has been spikesin hate crime following certainevents such as the EUReferendum and the terroristattacks in 2017,” the HomeOffice analysis says.

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China’s ruling CommunistParty has expelled former

military chief Gen Fang Fenghuifrom the party and referred hisgraft case to a military court fortrial, the military said Tuesday.

Gen Fang, 67, headed the2-million-strong People’sLiberation Army (PLA) tilllast year. He was also the for-mer chief of the CentralMilitary Commission (CMC),which is now headed byPresident Xi Jinping.

The CMC is the overallhigh command of the Chinesearmed forces.

Dubai: The United ArabEmirates has charged a BritishPhD student with spying in theGulf country, as his wifeTuesday called on Britain todefend his innocence.

Matthew Hedges standsaccused of “spying for a foreigncountry, jeopardising the mil-itary, political and economicsecurity of the state”, UAEattorney general Hamad al-Shamsi said late Monday.

The 31-year-old, who wasresearching the UAE’s foreignand internal security policiesafter the 2011 Arab Springrevolutions, was detained atDubai airport on May 5. AFP

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Fourteen Iranian securitypersonnel, including Islamic

Revolutionary Guards Corps(IRGC) also known asPasdaran- Inquilab-i Islamiintelligence officers, wereabducted on the volatile south-eastern border with Pakistan onTuesday, State media reported.

The border guards were“abducted between 4 am and 5am in the Lulakdan area of theborder by a terrorist group,” theofficial IRNA news agency said.

Lulakdan is a small village150 kilometres southeast ofZahedan, capital of the south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.

The 14 were involved in “asecurity operation” and includ-ed two members of the eliteRevolutionary Guards intelli-gence unit, seven Basij militi-amen and five regular borderguards, the Young Journalists’Club (YJC), a State-owned

news website, said.The report was deleted

from the YJC website shortlyafterwards.

The province has long beena flashpoint, with Baluchi sep-aratists and jihadists based inPakistan regularly attackingIranian security posts.

On September 28, theGuards said they had killed

four militants who had slippedacross the border.

Sistan-Baluchistan has alarge, mainly Sunni Muslimethnic Baluchi communitywhich straddles the border.

Sunni extremist groupJundallah (Soldiers of God)launched a bloody insurgencyin the province in 2000 target-ing the security forces andofficials of Iran’s Government.

The campaign peaked witha spate of deadly attacks from2007 — including twin suicidebombings against a Shiitemosque that killed 28 people —but abated after the group’sleader was killed in mid-2010.

In 2012, Jundullah mem-bers formed a successor organ-isation called Jaish al-Adl(Army of Justice), which hascarried out a spate of attacks onthe security forces.

Iran has alleged that thegroup has received support fromthe US, Israel and Saudi Arabia,with the complicity of Pakistan.

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The United State remainshighly concerned with

China’s continued militarisationin the South China Sea and itspredatory economic behaviour,US Defense Secretary JamesMattis said Monday.

“We remain highly con-cerned with continued militari-sation of features in the SouthChina Sea. Plus, we look at whatwe consider to be almost preda-tory -- in some cases certainlypredatory economic behav-iour...,” Mattis told reporterstravelling with him to Vietnam.

Referring to the major pol-icy speech of Vice PresidentMike Pence last week, Mattissaid the Trump administra-tion seeks a relationship with

China that’s grounded in fair-ness, reciprocity and respect forsovereignty. That means respectfor international rules and forall nations’ sovereignty, whetherthey’re large or small, he said.

“So, we’re two large powers,or two Pacific powers, twoeconomic powers. There’sgoing to be times we step oneach other’s toes, so we’re goingto have to find a way to pro-ductively manage our rela-tionship. And the military rela-tionship is to be a stabilisingforce in the relations betweenthe two countries,” Mattis said.

Responding to a question,Mattis said the US is not lookingfor a confrontation with China.“We are not seeing a more mili-tary, confrontational approachvis-a-vis China,” he said.

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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is understoodto be preparing a report in which it is like-

ly to admit dissident journalist JamalKhashoggi died during an interrogation at itsconsulate in Istanbul, according to a mediareport.

Khashoggi is feared to have been killedinside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.The incident has resulted in a global outrageand more so in the US as he lived here as alegal permanent resident and worked for TheWashington Post.

US lawmakers have been demandingscrapping of the $110 billion mega defencedeal with the Saudis, whereas heads of sever-al companies, CEOs, newspapers haveannounced not to attend an upcoming financeconference in Saudi Arabia.

President Donald Trump on Mondaytalked to the Saudi King, during which the lat-ter flatly denied having any knowledge of themissing journalist.

Officially Saudi Arabia has insisted that thejournalist left its consulate, but so far has notbeen able to give any proof of it. Trump, whohas warned Saudi Arabia of severe conse-quences, has dispatched his Secretary of StateMike Pompeo for talks with the Saudi leader.

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Gaza’s Health Ministry says32 Palestinians have been

wounded by Israeli fire duringa mass protest along the beachnear the Israeli frontier.

Protesters threw flamingtires over the fence Monday,while fishing boats hoistedPalestinian flags. Israeli forcesresponded with tear gas andlive fire. The ruling Hamas mil-itant group has been stagingborder protests for the past sixmonths in hopes of easing acrippling Israeli-Egyptian

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In a comment that could giveSaudi officials a route to

climb down from outrightdenials, President DonaldTrump has suggested that“rogue killers” could be respon-sible for the disappearance andpresumed murder of journalistJamal Khashoggi, who hasn’tbeen seen since entering theSaudi consulate in Istanbultwo weeks ago.

Trump’s comment cameafter a 20-minute phone callwith Saudi Arabia’s KingSalman in which Trump saidthe king adamantly denied anyknowledge of what happenedto Khashoggi.

Trump announced he’d dis-patched Secretary of State MikePompeo to the kingdom — andanywhere else necessary — toget to the bottom of the appar-ent demise of Khashoggi, aSaudi who had been livingand working in the UnitedStates.

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Israel says it is defendingits border. An Israeli soldierwas fatally shot in July.

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and management Institute(DPMI) commences admis-sions for its one-year full-timeDiploma in Front OfficeOperations (DFO), Food &Beverage (DFB), and HouseKeeping (DHK).

This course combines the-ory and practice of HotelIndustry. Hotel ManagementCatering Technology &Tourism is the fastest growingindustry in the world, with apotential that is limitless.Larger hotels often have man-agement teams, instead of indi-vidual managers, where eachmember of the group special-izes in a certain area. Hotelindustry is an ideal field for stu-dents having a liking for inter-acting with people.

Eligibility: The candidateshould be Class XII pass fromany recognised board.

How to apply: The appli-cation forms & brochure maybe obtained from admissionoffice of Delhi Paramedical &Management Institute, NewAshok Nagar, Delhi.

Deadline: October 29,2018. For more information,log on to ww.dpmiindia.com.

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Academy invites applicationfor admission for its 2018-19academic session. Vidya Gyanis a free residential school formeritorious, economicallyunderprivileged, rural studentsof Uttar Pradesh. Around 400students are selected every yearfor admission to VidyaGyanafter two rounds of competitiveexams.

Admission process: Thethree-stage admission processat VidyaGyan constitutes:�Preliminary written test in alldistricts of UP�Written test for childrenshortlisted in the preliminaryround� Interaction with the selectedstudents and their families.

Eligibility criteria:�Applicants should be study-ing in Grade V in a ruralschool�As of 31st March 2019, thegirls should be a minimum of10 years and a maximum of 12

years and the boys should be aminimum of 10 years and amaximum of 11 years of age.� Students should belong torural, low-income households(with a combined familyincome of not more than �1lakh per annum).

Important dates: The dead-line has been extended toOctober 31. The first round ofexaminations will be conductedon December 9, 2018.

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Hospitality Education, a leadinghospitality management insti-tution, invites application foradmission to its PostgraduateDiploma (PGD) in InternationalHospitality Management, avail-able in Switzerland, Spain andChina. The next intake is inFebruary 2019.

It is an intensive one-yearprogramme preparing studentsto launch their careers in thehospitality industry. The pro-gramme features one semesterof full-time courses on campuswith a field trip to Dubai, fol-lowed by a six-month intern-ship. Upon successful comple-tion of the course, students maydirectly enter the secondsemester of the MBA in GlobalHospitality Management inLes Roches Switzerland.

Eligibility : Bachelordegree in any field. The mini-mum age criteria is 21 years.The candidate should have flu-ency in English and haveIELTS: 6.0 score (minimum 5.5in each section) or TOEFL: 550points for the paper-based testor 80 for the online test orCambridge English: First (FCE)grade A or Advanced (CAE)grade CA

Deadline: November 30Scholarship: Merit schol-

arships are available. For moreinformation, log on to:https://www.lesroches.edu/pro-g r a m s / g r a d u a t e / t h e -programs/international-hospi-tality-management/

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The Indian Institute of Technology Mandihas launched six new PG programmes.

These are:�MSc in Physics�MTech in Power Electronics and Drives �MTech in Structural Engineering�MTech in Very-Large-Scale Integration �MTech in Communications and SignalProcessing (CSP)�MA in Development Studies

The programmes were introduced as partof IIT Mandi’s vision to be a leader in Scienceand Technology education, knowledge cre-ation and innovation. With the introductionof these new programmes, IIT Mandi is one

step closer towards achieving its target of 60per cent PG students in the coming years.

Salient features:In the first semester, the focus is on elec-

trical engineering core courses, a pre-requi-site for advanced and specialised courses.

Lab core courses are designed so as to gohand-in-hand with theory core courses andto bring in a deeper insight into the conceptslearned in the classroom. Labs are designedin consultation with industry partners.

Advanced and specialised courses areoffered to make the students aware of thestate-of-the-art in the technology, such thatthey are exposed to the real-world problemsand able enough to tackle them with tech-nology solutions.

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The Ministry of Road Transport andHighways (MoRTH) in collabora-

tion with the Institute of Road TrafficEducation (IRTE) has announced itspartnership with Diageo India for thelaunch of Road To Safety – TowardsResponsible Youth Programme foruniversity students.

This partnership attempts to bringa formal and structured training pro-gramme for university students asthey apply for their learner’s license.The programme aims to reach over 500universities across the country in the

next three to five years; with the firstyear target being 100 programmesacross 50 universities.

The programme was inauguratedby Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister ofState, MoRTH in the august presenceof Leena Nandan, additional secretary,MoRTH; Abhay Damle, joint secretary,MoRTH together with AbantiSankaranarayanan, chief strategy andcorporate affairs officer, Diageo Indiaand Dr Rohit Baluja, president, IRTE.

As per industry reports, Indiaaccounts for 12.5% (over 1,45,000fatalities a year) of global road acci-dents, with one road accident occurring

every four minutes. Alarmingly, 72 percent victims involved in such roadmishaps are between the age groups of15-44 years with speeding, reckless anddrunk driving being the top reasonaccounting for 1.5% of road traffic acci-dents and 4.6% of fatalities.

The programme is a step towardaddressing the grave issue of road safe-ty by inculcating behavioural changeand creating awareness about respon-sible driving habits among youngadults. The four-hour extensive pro-gramme is an immersive and interac-tive module-led by senior faculty mem-bers of IRTE covering varied aspects ofresponsible driving including defensivedriving, ill effects of driving under theinfluence of alcohol, speeding andwearing of helmets.

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On the heels of an action-packedSheroes Summit 2018, the women’s

community platform has launched theiconic Women Get Funded programme inIndia, with three full scholarships award-ed to women in the Sheroes ecosystem.

This one-of-a-kind programme,launched by Silicon Valley angel investorAlicia Castillo Holley, trains womenentrepreneurs in Art and Science of rais-ing and accessing capital to build, grow andscale their businesses. As more and morewomen embrace entrepreneurship inIndia, this is a lucrative step towards sup-porting the next generation of womenentrepreneurs, to become savvy in thenuances of funding their ventures.

After a month-long campaign hostedon the Sheroes app, three women entre-preneurs have been awarded scholar-ships worth $1,500 (�35,000 each). The fel-lows 2018 comprise Prerna Prasad,founder of sustainable travel businessEcoplore; Sakshi Khanna, founder of TheUnCube, focused revolutionising work-space flexibility, and Monika Siriah,founder of agri-export business VedGlobal.

Sairee Chahal, founder, CEO ofSheroes, said: “Women entrepreneurs canjoin the SHE Starts Up! community andthe app, and actively engage and grow viachallenges, opportunities, communitychats and masterclasses hosted regularlyon the app. Our ecosystem has lakhs ofentrepreneurs building their businesses ofvarying scales in diverse domains —from travel and creative businesses to food

and services. We want to encouragewomen entrepreneurs to dream bigger, andget more ambitious for their business ven-tures. Accessing the right tools throughfocused programmes like Women GetFunded expands horizons, and I’m happyto share that the first cohort of WGF IndiaFellows has shown great commitmenttowards investing in themselves.”

Alicia Castillo Holley, founder of theWomen Get Funded programme, said:“India’s progress is amazing, especially withregards to women who are making a hugeimpact in society. They are smart, curious,and, overall, driven. Women do magic withlimited resources, and when they get thefunds they need, they transform theworld. I couldn’t be more inspired to workwith Sheroes, changing stereotypes forwomen entrepreneurs.”

The programme will be deliveredover a period of 10 weeks of bite-size infor-mation, pre-recorded lectures, tables,checklists, coaching sessions, Q&As, andvideos; modules cover various aspects—from tapping unconventional sources,valuation and negotiations to under-standing funding needs and the nuancesof taking the venture capital route. It alsogives access to a community of investorsand driven women entrepreneurs.

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The Symbiosis Skills and OpenUniversity (SSOU) has signed an MoU

with Domestic Workers Sector Skill Council(DWSSC) to become the training partner.Run by SSOU, a pilot course, funded byFICCI FLO, has been launched for 100 can-didates in the job role of elderly caretaker(non-clinical) that will commence onOctober 22, 2018 at SSOU campus.

Skill training is just a small step in thedirection of the university awarding a diplo-ma for the domestic workers in the disci-plines such as caregivers and housekeep-ing services. Currently, SSOU is conduct-ing a three-year degree course for beautyand wellness.

India, at present is ranked secondfor the highest number of start-upsin the world after the US and has

earned the reputation of being astart-up hub. Every year, the countrywitnesses the launch of an average ofabout 1,000 start-ups. This trend isattributed to increasing number ofgraduating students and employee tal-ent venturing into the start-up world.They are armed with the zeal and ded-ication to find solutions and enhancecustomer or user experience throughinnovations, appropriate methodsand experiments.

The present generation of mil-lennials are innovative, creative, strongthinkers, quick learners, risk-takersand forward looking. They prefer flex-ibility and do not want to be confinedto the corporate world. A start-up cul-ture fits well into their lifestyle andpreferences. Even employees with anentrepreneurial mindset working forcorporates or large companies areweighing options between building acareer working for other businesses orstarting a business of their own.

The environment tends to recog-nise their creativity, contributionsand innovations and encourages themto excel. The culture provides enoughroom for growth, experimentationimprovement and opportunities toexhibit their skills. An individualworking for a startup gains significantrecognition for their contributionand performance.

However, establishing, runningand sustaining a business or a start-up requires a lot of effort, patience andinvestment. It requires the prospectiveentrepreneur to be equipped with theright skillsets and ethics to survive inthe competitive, fast-paced commer-cial world.

Under Graduate students withpotential entrepreneurial qualitiesneed to be introduced to requiredskillsets and culture through theory,practical and on-the-job training.

All leading educational institutionin the world are focusing on devel-oping entrepreneurial skillsets in stu-dents. They develop a spirit of co-operation and unity amongst studentscoming from different school of

thoughts, thus emphasizing on theimportance of teamwork.

These universities go the extramile to embed the abilities into thestudents and prepare them to build anentrepreneurial mindset. They fosterleadership values and help studentsexcel in their area of expertise.

Before launching a startup, anindividual should be well aware of thefunding and investment requirementsand the avenues to source them. Theindividual should look for a businessmodel which should be self sustain-able in medium to long-term. To givean appropriate direction to the start-up business, an individual should alsopartner with suitable consultants andcounsellors.

Graduating with entrepreneurshipas a Major provides insights on therequired investments in finances andtalent. There are universities thatoffer entrepreneurial majors and spe-cialized courses which have becomea lucrative option especially for stu-dents interested in starting an entre-preneurial venture or diversifyingthe family business. These universitiesalso act as incubators that promote

networking, dialogue and partner-ships among like-minded individualswith business acumen.

Entrepreneurship training doesnot only focus on launching, sustain-ing and managing the business, prod-uct or innovation but also emphasizeson the finance, marketing and man-aging aspects, thus providing com-prehensive knowledge to establish and

grow the startup business. Some start-ups do not have a sep-

arate finance or HR department, as aresult of which they handover theseresponsibilities to the existing mem-bers of the start-ups. As employees instart-ups work in cross-functionaldepartments such courses increasetheir capability of handling a start-up.

According to research, employers

are increasingly seeking students withan entrepreneurial mindset or expe-rience as they are accountable for theirown actions. Employers feel that suchcandidates have a good understand-ing of end to end planning and exe-cution.

Working in a start-up can changeperceptions and working style. Theindividual is on their own and feelsmore proactive and engaged throughthe entire process. Their ideas are wel-comed by teams and contributions arewell-recognised.

However, working in a start-upmay also mean minimal salary, small-er teams, extended work timings, deal-ing with ambiguity and uncertainty.In such situations, it is important forindividuals to remain focused abouttheir end objective.

Formal entrepreneurial educa-tion at undergraduate level preparesthe individual well to overcome chal-lenges and develop skills to workaround limitations, emerge fromunforeseen circumstances and pros-per in the startup and business envi-ronment.

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In August 2018, the floods in Kerala caused extensive dev-astation and a large number of people lost their lives and

thousands were rendered homeless. To provide relief to theaffected flood victims in State and support them in timeof crisis, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India(ICAI) took the initiative and appealed to its members andemployees to contribute generously towards Kerala relieffund. ICAI, as a partner to the nation since last 70 yearsand considering it as a part of its societal responsibility, con-tributed �70 lakh for the flood victims.

Naveen ND Gupta, Chartered Accountant & president,ICAI today handed over a cheque of �70 lakh to Minister ofFinance and Corporate Affairs, Arun Jaitley in the presenceof Minister of Railways and Coal, Piyush Goyal as a contri-bution of ICAI to the Prime Minister National Relief Fund.

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With an aim to bring the latestinnovation— project Toggle

pH at the upcoming InternationalGenetically Engineered Machine(iGEM) to be held at MIT, Boston,a team from Vellore Institute ofTechnology (VIT), brings a solutionto the global issue of OceanAcidification. This environmentaldisaster is gradually decreasing thepH of oceans making them acidic.

The iGEM is an annual eventand a competition on syntheticBiology and its inter-disciplinaryfields. It is a platform where vari-ous teams from all over the worldshowcase their projects, learn fromeach other and also show their con-tribution to the scientific commu-nity and the general society.

The team — iGEM VIT —hasbeen working on this issue frompast six-month. The Department of

Biotechnology, Government ofIndia, selects five best teams withthe most deserving projects acrossIndia in a competition calledIndian Biological EngineeringCompetition (iBEC) and gives agrant of �10 lakh per team forthem to participate in iGEM.

For the very first time, ateam from VIT, Vellore, baggeda place in the iBEC list of spon-sored teams and won 10 lakhs tocarry forward their project suc-cessfully. The iGEM VIT team,along with their primary investi-gator, Dr R Siva, professor and head,Department of Biotechnology atVIT, is working on developing agenetically engineered bacteriumthat can stabilise pH of the ocean.Once these modified bacteria areintroduced into the ocean waters,it can neutralise this growing acid-ity and hence, reduce the oceans’acidic nature and bring it back to

its normal state. This synthetically modified

bacterium has the ability to absorbthe acid causative agent which isfree hydrogen ions and also the car-bon dioxide present in the water.Theoretically, when these bacteriaare let into the ocean waters, it canstabilise the local pH and hence hasthe capacity to normalise the pHwhen done on a large scale.

The project can be used as animmediate, efficient, and eco-nomical way to provide a holisticand on-site solution to what is con-sidered one of the major environ-mental problems of the modernday. Apart from the lab work, theteam has taken the initiative tospeak to local and internationalexperts in the field and attendedconferences to understand theproblem in-depth. They have alsotaken the initiative to spreadawareness.

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Eligibility: Be at least 25years old at time of applica-tion deadline (see specificregional programme applica-tion below); Be enrolled (notjust accepted) at an accreditedacademic institution whensubmitting application; andplan to be enrolled for a fullacademic term after award ofthe grant by the Board; Notbe related to a World BankGroup, InternationalMonetary Fund or Inter-American Development Bankstaff member or spouse.English language require-ment: Applicants whose firstlanguage is not English areusually required to provideevidence of proficiency inEnglish at the higher levelrequired by the university.

How to apply: The modeis online. Please scan the fol-lowing documents in digitalform (pdf preferred, jpeg orpng): ID card with photo:Passport page with photo anddate of birth;Government/university-issued identity card withphoto and birth date; Mostrecent proof of official regis-tration from university (not

theiracceptance letter);

Most recent official univer-sity transcripts and/orreports; Visa page or studypermit page within currentpassport (if studying outsidehome country); Second pass-port page with clear photo (incase of dual citizenship). Youwill be asked to upload thesedocuments. You will also pro-vide: Brief paragraphs of yourpersonal story; An estimate ofyour financial situation; Asummary of your thesis (ifapplicable). Two reference let-ters are required.

Application deadline:January 15, 2019

The IIASA offers youngscientists summer pro-gramme to talented youngresearchers whose interestscorrespond with IIASA’songoing research on issues ofglobal environmental, eco-nomic and social change.

Eligibility: Research expe-rience of about 2 years priorto receiving a PhD or equiva-lent degree. A summerresearch proposal that clearlyfits the interdisciplinaryresearch agenda of a selectedIIASA programme; Ability towork independently; Fluencyin English. Candidatesalready holding a PhD degreeby application deadline areasked to consider applying toIIASA’s postdoc program.

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Careers in the IT sector stillentails the four buildingblocks of a digital organisa-

tion — applications, infrastructure,database and security. The IT con-tinues to transform the way we liveour lives, entertain ourselves and dobusiness. It is a broad term thatencompasses everything computer-related, and more synonymously,everything technology-related, isstill the fastest growing career field.To support and implement thedevelopment of digitalisation acrossindustries, network technicians,administrators and security expertsplay a crucial role.

How to choose the right ITpath: One must be very carefulwhen choosing an IT certificationbecause many courses are vendor-specific and have their limitationswhen an employee needs to changejobs and discovers a different sys-tem at work.

The basics: It is always wise tochoose a career that hones yourmost natural skills. Next, the mostbasic certification one needs to beuseful to any employer is a generalability to fix and install and trou-bleshoot computer systems. Thiswill help a prospective job-searcherget a foot in the door. TheCompTIA IT Fundamentals+exposes the candidate to the abovementioned blocks and impartsknowledge on each of these disci-plines, thereby setting a platformfrom where the candidate canchoose their respective areas ofinterests. The course then builds onthat credential and covers ITInfrastructure in details. This pro-gram goes in depth to explain theconcepts of devices, how the con-nected world looks like, practicaltrouble shooting, all varieties ofoperating systems, peripherals andinformation security. These twoprogrammes are currently the mostindustry relevant and comprehen-sive assessments in this direction.

IT security path: One of themost sought after skills in today'sera of massive data availability andease of access to unsecured systemsis the implementation of securityprotocols. But there are many levels

of IT security professionals. Tobecome a cyber security analyst, forexample, one needs to be able toperform data analysis, interpret theresults and identify vulnerabilities,threats and risks to an organisation.The Security+ course meticulouslyvalidates these skills for a first levelsecurity professional.

IT administrators: Similarly,novice system administrators needto be able to implement vendor-neutral servers and open operatingsystems like Linux. They also needto be able to versatile enough topre-empt shifts to virtual serversincluding cloud systems. Cloud+,Linux+ and Server+ are great placesto start and cover each aspect of ITadministration at working-knowl-edge depth. Business users and non-IT staffs that need to get familiarwith aspects of managing a projectfor an organisational purpose mayalso opt for vendor-neutral certifi-cations like Project+ or CloudEssentials.

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present, the value of rupee, whichwas at �65 for a dollar just a yearago, has dropped to �72 for a dol-lar, significantly impacting thelives and businesses of Indiansconnected to the US. A consider-able impact of this steep declinehas been felt by students aspiringto study overseas especially in theUS. The declining rupee hascaused overseas education costs toskyrocket and students who weresupposed to pay their fees for thefall semester in September-October are bearing the brunt.With the cost of Rupee expected tofall further, experts have opinedthat student travel of India will godown by 20 per cent in the wakeof this decline.

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spend a huge sum of money onIELTS and similar exams, visaapplication, cost of living and uni-versity tuition fees.

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sent themselves as attractiveoptions for student willing to gooverseas for studies without break-ing their banks. These countriesare offering a wholesome andholistic alternative to the US as anacademic destination for thosewho are planning their overseaseducation.

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Pakistan recovered from 57-5 topost 282 and take two cheapAustralia wickets on a com-

pelling first day of the second crick-et test on Tuesday.

Nathan Lyon took four wickets insix deliveries to embarrass Pakistanin the morning, but newcomerFakhar Zaman and captain SarfrazAhmed led the rescue with identicalscores of 94 runs each before bothwere dismissed by part-time legspin-ner Marnus Labuschagne.

Seamer Mohammad Abbas thenput Pakistan on top at the end of theday by dismissing Usman Khawajafor 3 and nightwatchman Peter Siddlefor 4 on the last ball of the day toleave Australia 20-2 in reply. Aaron

Finch was 13 not out.Australia rallied to draw a

thrilling first test in Dubai by battingout the last day and surviving withtwo wickets left.

The visitors started this test inequal fashion with a stunning 11-minute period by offspinner Lyon.

He took a return catch to removeAzhar Ali on 15 and then dismissedHaris Sohail, Asad Shafiq, and BabarAzam all without scoring.

Pakistan was in a reasonableposition at 57-1 after winning thetoss, but the Australia spinners werethreatening.

Then the threat became reality.Lyon took the wickets of Ali andSohail on consecutive balls to end hisfourth over, the 20th of the innings.

Shafiq blocked the hat-trick ball,

the first ball of the 22nd over, but gota faint inside edge to Lyon's subse-quent delivery and was caught at bat-pad by Labuschagne after a success-ful decision review by theAustralians.

Lyon struck again two balls laterfor figures of 4.4-4-4-4. In theprocess, Lyon surpassed formerpaceman Mitchell Johnson to moveto fourth on Australia's list of all-timeleading wicket-takers with 314. Attea, he had 4-58.

Pakistan's perilous position couldhave been worse. Zaman survivedbeing dropped on 30 by Labuschagneoff an irked Jon Holland, and later aclose run out.

Labuschagne earlier brought offa sensational catch close to the wick-et to dismiss opener Mohammad

Hafeez for 4 in Mitchell Starc's sec-ond over, before Zaman and Alishared a half-century stand for thesecond wicket.

After crashing to 57-5 in the firstsession, Pakistan outsmartedAustralia in the second sessionthrough Zaman and Ahmed as theyscored 127 runs.

Zaman scored nearly three quar-ters of his runs on the offside, hittingeight fours and a six in his 198-ballknock.

He was six runs from a centuryon debut when Labuschagne, notgiven a bowl until just before tea,trapped Zaman leg before wicket onthe stroke of tea. It ended a remark-able 147-run, sixth-wicket stand last-ing 37 overs.

Ahmed was, by far, more aggres-

sive, and kept the scoreboard mov-ing with constant rotation of thestrike before his 129-ball knock wasended in which he hit seven bound-aries. He tried an ambitious big hitto raise his hundred but sliced a catchto Siddle and missed out on his firstcentury in four years.

No. 9 batsman Yasir Shah liftedthe total with a breezy 28 beforePakistan was all out.

Pakistan made two changes to thelineup that started in Dubai, givingZaman and left-arm seamer MirHamza test debuts as replacementsfor Imam-ul-Haq and Wahab Riaz.

Hamza bowled one over late inthe day, but Abbas got both strikes,getting Khawaja caught behind downthe leg side for his 50th test wicket,and trapping Siddle.

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Paceman Umesh Yadav wason Tuesday rewarded for

his maiden 10-wicket haul inTest cricket with a recall in theODI squad as a replacement forinjured Shardul Thakur.

The selectors hadannounced the squad for thefirst two matches but Thakur hasbeen ruled out of the five-ODIseries after sustaining a rightadductor tendon injury.

His much-awaited Testdebut ended in a nightmare inHyderabad as he bowled only 10deliveries before hobbling outwith a groin strain.

There has been considerabledebate as to whether Thakur wasfully fit and proper rehabilitationwas done before naming him inthe Test squad.

Umesh got the nod from theselection committee after hissuperb show in Hyderabadwhere he got 6 for 88 and 4 for45 in the two innings.

He has so far picked 105wickets from 73 ODIs with hislast appearance in July againstEngland at the Lord's.

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Sharma (vice-captain),Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul,Ambati Rayudu, ManishPandey, MS Dhoni (wicket-keeper), Rishabh Pant,Ravindra Jadeja, YuzvendraChahal, Kuldeep Yadav,Mohammed Shami, KhaleelAhmed, Umesh Yadav.

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Astar-studded batting line-up, headlined bytroika of Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane and

rising sensation Prithvi Shaw, make Mumbairunaway favourites against Hyderabad in thefirst Vijay Hazare semi-final, here Wednesday.

With the inclusion of Prithvi and Rahane,who joined the squad after completing their Testmatch duty in Hyderabad along with presenceof Rohit and Shreyas Iyer, the Mumbai battingdoes have a menacing look to it.

Ambati Rayudu and young pacerMohammed Siraj do add muscle to theHyderabad side, which has been impressive inthe national One Day Championship so far.

With Prithvi set to open with India's lim-ited overs vice-captain Rohit, left-handedopener Akhil Herwadkar is expected to bebenched.

Rahane will come in place of eitherSiddhesh Lad or Suryakumar Yadav.

The Indian ODI squad members are set to

report in Guwahati on October 18 and ifMumbai happen to win the semi-final, Rohitwill miss the summit clash on October 20.

For Mumbai, the three top run-getters inthe tournament so far have been Shreyas (311runs), Prithvi (287) and Yadav (237 runs).Rahane is fourth in the list with 230 runs.

The Mumbai bowlers have also been con-sistent with seamer Dhawal Kulkarni (14wickets) and left-arm spinner Shams Mulani(15 wickets) sharing the bulk of the wickets.

Medium pacer Tushar Deshpande, whograbbed five against Bihar in the quarter-finalalso is in good form.

F o rHyderabad, theirpremier performerhas been BP

Sandeep (342) and Tanmay Agarwal (292 runs).The bowling will depend on Siraj (8 wick-

ets from 6 games) and Mehidy Hasan (13 wick-ets from 8 games).

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Sharma, Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw, Jay GokulBista, Suryakumar Yadav, Siddhesh Lad, AdityaTare, Eknath Kerkar, Shivam Dubey, AkashParkar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shams Mulani, VijayGohil, Tushar Deshpande, Royston Dias

Jharkhand: Varun Aaron(c), Anand Singh,Ashish Kumar, Kumar Deobrat, Ishan Kishan,Jaskaran Singh, Monu Kumar, ShahbazNadeem, Shasheem Sanjay Rathour, AnukulRoy, Rahul Shukla, Sumit Kumar, Atul SinghSurwar, Saurabh Tiwary, Utkarsh Singh, ViratSingh.

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Sri Lanka's middle order batsmanKusal Perera will skip the three

remaining one-day matches againstEngland, while visiting all-rounder LiamDawson has been ruled out of the entiretournament, officials said.

Perera, who scored 30 in Saturday'ssecond ODI, suffered a hamstring injuryand will be replaced by SadeeraSamarawickrama for the rest of thefive-match series, Sri Lanka Cricketofficials said.

Dawson strained his right side whilebowling duringE n g l a n d ' sSaturday win,the England andWales CricketBoard (ECB)said on Monday.

The toporder batsmanand leg spinnerhas been ruledout of the rest ofthe tour andwas due to return home Tuesday.

He has been replaced by Joe Denly,who is in England's Test squad.

The third one-day international isdue to take place in Kandy onWednesday.

The first ODI was washed out. Apartfrom the five-match ODI series, Englandwill play three Tests and a one-off T20in Sri Lanka with the tour due to end onNovember 27.

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South African batsman JeanPaul Duminy has been

ruled out of South Africa'sl imited overs tour ofAustralia, starting later thismonth, because of a shoulderinjury which he sustainedduring Zimbabwe series.

He is the second experi-enced batsman to miss thetour because of injur y.Hashim Amla is out because

of a finger injury.Cricket South Africa

announced in a statement onTuesday that Duminy willundergo surgery on his rightshoulder after aggravatingan old injury during a seriesagainst Zimbabwe whichended last weekend.

Duminy will also missthe Mzansi Super League,which starts on November15. He had been named as amarquee player for the Cape

Town Blitz team.Team manager and doc-

tor Mohammed Moosajeesaid it was not possible at thisstage to estimate how longDuminy would be out ofaction.

"That is dependent on theresults from the surgery," hesaid.

South Africa will playthree limited overs interna-tionals and one Twenty20international in Australia.

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West Indies coach Stuart Law was on Tuesday suspended fromthe first two ODIs against India for making "inappropriate

comments" against a match official, adding to the Caribbean team'swoes after a disastrous Test outing here.

Law was also fined 100 per cent of his match, the ICC saidin a statement.

With the latest transgression, Law accumulated four demer-it points within a 24-month period, leading to his suspension fromthe ODIs on October 21 and 24 against India in Guwahati andVisakhapatnam, respectively.

The incident that led to the action took place on the thirdand what turned out to bethe final day of the secondTest in Hyderabad.

Law, following the dis-missal of opener KieranPowell, went to the TVumpire's room and madeinappropriate comments,the ICC stated.

"He then walked to thefourth umpire's area and, inthe presence of the players,again directed inappropri-ate comments at the fourthofficial."

Law was found guiltyof breaching Level 2 Article2.7 of the ICC Code ofConduct.

This relates to "publiccriticism" or "inappropriatecomment" of player, play-er support personnel, matchofficial or team participating in any international match.

Law earlier received a 25 % fine and one demerit point dur-ing the final day's play in the Dominica Test against Pakistan in2017.

Four demerit points convert into two suspension points. OnMonday, Law admitted the offence and accepted the sanction pro-posed by match referee Chris Broad, ruling out the need for aformal hearing.

The charges were levelled by on-field umpires BruceOxenford and Ian Gould, third umpire Nigel Llong and fourthofficial Nitin Menon.

Two suspension points equate to a ban from one Test or twoODIs or two T20Is, whatever comes first for the player or play-er support personnel.

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Romania's world number one Simona Halepon Tuesday withdrew from the Kremlin

Cup, a joint WTA and ATP event, due to con-cerns over an ongoing back injury.

"I tried everything I could to be ready hereas I really wanted to play," Halep said. "Butunfortunately the back is still causing me painand I don't want to take any unnecessary risks."

The 27-year-old's appearance in Moscowand the WTA Finals had been in doubt whenshe withdrew from Beijing two weeks ago andwas diagnosed with a herniated disk in her back.

Halep, who has already qualified for theWTA year-ending finals in Singapore, said sheneeded more time to recover completely fromher back injury.

"While it's disappointing to withdraw, Iknow it's important to put my health first," she

added.Halep this year played two Grand Slam

finals, winning the French Open crown atRoland Garros, and won titles in Shenzhen andMontreal, leading the rankings for 40 weeks thisyear.

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India A women will look for animproved show when they

take on their Australian coun-terparts in a must-win gamehere on Wednesday in a 50-overs match.

Australia A are 1-0 up in thethree match series courtesy their91-run win on Monday at theMCA Bandra-Kurla facilityagainst the hosts, led by skipperPoonam Raut.

Come Wednesday, theIndian eves will be eyeing to putup a better batting and bowlingshow.

Poonam, who departed fora duck, will be hoping to getsome runs under her belt. Eventhe likes of Mona Meshram,Rajeshwari Gayakwad andShikha Pandey need to fire.

The positive for the homeside in the opening game was theall-round show by Preeti Bose.

Even the bowlers, who werehammered by the Aussie batters,will be looking to perform bet-ter.

On the other hand, the vis-itors will look to notch upanother win and seal the series.

The 50-over series will befollowed by a T20 series.

India A: Punam Raut (c),Priya Punia, Devika Vaidya,Mona Meshram, TanushreeSarkar, Sushma Verma,Rajeshwari Gayakwad, SushreeD, C Prathyusha, ReemalaxmiEkka, Shikha Pandey, Nethra L,Hemali Borwankar, Kavita Patil,Preeti Bose.

Australia A: SamanthaBates, Maitlan Brown, LaurenCheatle, Piepa Cleary, JosephineDooley, Heather Graham,Sammy Jo Johnson, TahliaMcGrath, Chloe Piparo, GeorgiaRedmayne, Naomi Stalenberg,Molly Strano , Belinda Vakarewaand Amanda-Jade Wellington.

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Saina Nehwal rallied tocarve out a hard-fought

opening win but PV Sindhucrashed out of theDenmark Open with astunning loss to AmericanBeiwen Zhang in thewomen's singles event, hereon Tuesday.

Saina defeated HongKong's Ngan Yi Cheung20-22, 21-17, 24-22 in adraining clash that lasted 81minutes.

However, third seedSindhu lost 17-21, 21-16,18-21 to Zhang in anothertough opening encounterthat lasted 56 minutes.

In a tense match, Sainahad to endure a stiff chal-lenge from Cheyung, who

she last played back in 2016and went on to lose thatmatch.

The see-saw battle wasa thriller down to the lastpoint with the Indian sav-ing two match points at 21-

20 and 22-21 in the finalgame to emerge triumphantand move ahead.

Saina was also guilty offrittering away a matchpoint of her own when sheled 20-19 in the final game.

For Sindhu, this wasthe third consecutive timethat she lost to Zhang. TheAmerican shuttler defeatedSindhu in the Indian Openfinal in February earlierthis year.

Rio Olympics Silver-medallist Sindhu is goingthrough a difficult phaseafter winning the Silvermedal in the Jakarta AsianGames.

She was knocked out inthe second round of theJapan Open after a straight-game loss to Gao Fangjie.

The script played outsimilarly in the ChinaOpen, where the 23-year-old suffered a 11-21, 21-11,15-21 loss to world no 6Chen Yufei of China in thequarterfinals.

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Raheem Sterling scored twice asEngland delivered one of their finestvictories of the modern era by beat-

ing Spain 3-2 in Seville.Away from home, and against a Spanish

side in scintillating form under their newcoach Luis Enrique, this was certainlyEngland's best win under Gareth Southgateand, perhaps, their most impressive sincethrashing Germany 5-1 in Munich in2001.

Marcus Rashford was the other scorerin a breathless opening 45 minutes, whichwitnessed Spain conceding three on homesoil for the first time in their history.

"To play the way they did, this shouldbe a great reference point for this team forthe future," Southgate said.

Paco Alcacer, on as a substitute, head-ed in before the hour to spark hopes of acomeback but England were home and dryby the time Sergio Ramos scored in the 98thminute, with the last action of the match onMonday.

It means England keep alive theirhopes of finishing top of Group 4 in theUEFA Nations League, the position Spainhad needed only a point to all-but-guaranteewould be theirs.

It was a night for streaks ending andrecords tumbling. Sterling's opening goalwas his first in 1,102 days for England, evenmore remarkable given he added his sec-ond 22 minutes later.

"The only thing we did say is when hescores he will score again," Southgate said."He managed to do so pretty quickly." Thelast time England won away against Spainwas 1987 -- which was also when they lastscored against Spain away from home, GaryLineker on target.

With an average age of just over 23, this

was also the youngest England starting line-up in the 21st century. That will be the mostexciting aspect for Southgate.

For Spain, Alcacer now has an aston-ishing 10 goals from his last 10 shots on tar-get. But defeat represents something of areality check. "Waving the flag for goals,"read Marca's front page on Monday. They

had scored 12 in three games since LuisEnrique took charge.

"Clearly it wasn't our night," he said."We have made mistakes on an indi-

vidual level and their goals were medicinefor them and poison for us." But Eric Dierset the tone early on. He left SergioBusquets, sluggish throughout, hopping out

of his first pass and then slid throughRamos, who was also out of sorts.

After a frantic start, England settled andin the 13th minute, scored. Under pressureat the back, they kept the ball until the riskwas too great and Jordan Pickford drove for-ward to Harry Kane.

With Spain caught upfield, he was able

to turn and find Rashford, whose quickswitch set Sterling free. He finished into thetop corner.

"We are staying up," sang the away sup-port as Thiago Alcantara danced aroundEngland's midfield with flicks and tricks.But to little effect.

Instead, Kane showed the value of a top-class centre forward for England's second.He outmuscled Ramos to win Pickford'spunt downfield, outpaced Nacho to theloose ball with a superb reverse pass inbehind. Rashford only had to finish.

Spain's early confidence was gone andEngland added a third before the interval,which was greeted by whistles from thehome fans.

Ross Barkley's sumptuous ball over thetop caught Ramos napping again andKane squared for Sterling to tap in. "Are youScotland in disguise?" came the taunt fromthe corner.

Spain were sent out early for the sec-ond period, among them Alcacer, whoreplaced Saul. He scored with his first touch,heading in Marco Asensio's corner, givenaway after a fumble by Pickford.

It was a nightmare few minutes forEngland's goalkeeper, who then dallied andwas tackled by Rodrigo.

Pickford scrambled the ball away butprobably fouled Rodrigo in the process andSpain were adamant they deserved a penal-ty. The referee was not convinced.

England played for time, with a hand-ful of players going down injured, andSpain's pressure gradually eased. Rodrigoshot wide in the final 10 minutes. Asensiowent even closer.

Marcos Alonso then deflected onto thebar deep into injury time and Ramos head-ed home in the 98th minute. But there wasnot even time for a restart. England's winwas complete.

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Back in action after a fortnightbreak, Delhi Dynamos would look

to put pressure on a struggling ATKand get their first win of the seasonwhen the two teams clash in theirIndian Super League (ISL) match,here on Wednesday.

The hosts, who are coming intothis game after playing a 1-1 drawagainst FC Pune City, are likely to playstriker Daniel Lahlimpuia, who wasinjured but midfielder Bikramjit Singhstill remains a doubtful starter due toa calf injury he sustained againstPune.

Dynamos head into the game fol-lowing a two-week break due to inter-national fixtures but defender RanaGharami believes that a long gap hasallowed his team to prepare well forthis game.

"We had a long break and that hasgiven us a lot of time to figure thisATK team out. They have a strongteam with really good foreign playersso its going to be hard for us defend-ers, but we are confident heading intothis game," he said.

"We were really close to winningthe last match but that ended as a drawand it was a big disappointment for us.

This is a must-win encounter forboth the sides, so we really need to giveour best," Rana added.

In the last fixture, Dynamos cre-ated a lot of chances but failed to hitthe target on most occasions but thatisn't bothering Head Coach JosepGombau as he believes the side isworking according to the plan.

"Last game we had a lot of chancesand we missed. To win games you needto take these chances and we are work-ing on that. Good thing is that we cre-ated chances. That's the difficult thingin football."

The visitors boast a strong squadand Gombau is wary of the threat theypossess in terms of attack.

"ATK have a very good game. Theyhave many good players in the side.Wednesday will be a difficult game forus."

The game meanwhile will markthe return of Dynamos' all-time topscorer Kalu Uche as he returns to thestadium where he was so prolific lastseason, for the first time.

Former Dynamos defender SenaRalte though will miss the clash as hewill be serving his suspension.

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Real Madrid's Croatian inter-national midfielder Luka

Modric admits that neitherhe nor his team-matesexpected both ZinedineZidane and CristianoRonaldo to leave the clublast summer.

Zidane stepped downas coach after leading theclub to three consecutiveChampions League titles,while Ronaldo ended hisnine-year association withMadrid when he joinedJuventus in July.

"I wasn't expectingeither of the two to go; Ididn't think Zidane wouldleave and the same withRonaldo," said Modric in aninterview with the latest edi-tion of the magazine 'FranceFootball.'

"In fact when the rumorsabout Cristiano appeared, we(Real Madrid players) hadbets among ourselves and we

were certain he would stay, but every-one makes their own decisions," headded.

The 33-year-old, who is thefavourite to win the prestigious

'Balon d'Or' award for thisseason, was asked whichformer players he wouldmost likely to have linedup alongside. He said hisfirst choice was formerCroatian international

Zvonimir Boban; "he wasmy hero in the Croatian

team," he said, before nam-ing Zidane as his secondchoice.

"I was lucky to havehim as a coach and we have

lived some incredible momentswith him at Real Madrid, some-times he has played alongside usand it was incredible to see howelegant he was and how he movedover the pitch," said Modric.

The Croatian described him-self as "much more timid," than

Ronaldo and that he didn't "appre-ciate being over-exposed in the

media."I prefer simplicity," he said.

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Sprint king Usain Bolt could be making his wayto Europe after being offered a two-year profes-

sional football contract in Malta, reports said onTuesday, with the club saying it wanted to "write his-tory" with the signing.

Bolt, 32, has been on trial with A-League clubthe Central Coast Mariners since arriving inAustralia in August in his bid to pursue a boyhooddream of becoming a footballer after retiring fromathletics last year.

The 100 metres world record-holder scored hisfirst two goals in professional football on Friday whenhe started a pre-season game against second-tierMacarthur South West United in Sydney.

Malta club Valletta FC said they had made a for-mal offer which includes playing in its upcoming cupfinal, with chief executive Ghasston Slimen sayingthe move to snare Bolt was "about writing history".

"Usain Bolt broke the record in Beijing(Olympics) in 2008, and I have followed him for thelast year-and-a-half on his football journey," Slimentold the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

"We play the final of the Super Cup onDecember 13, which we will win... so can you imag-ine Usain Bolt lifting the Super Cup trophy 10 yearsafter he broke the record in Beijing?

"This isn't about money, this is about history. Thisis something that they will talk about in 50 or 100years' time."

Slimen admitted Bolt still had to improve hisfootballing skills, but said he was inspired by the for-mer sprinter's jubilant celebrations -- including thetrademark lightning bolt victory pose -- after thegoals.

"I don't want him to be here on holiday, I wanthim training hard," he said, adding that he wantedBolt to be lifting trophies during his stint atValletta.

"I don't want to make a big fuss, I want him tosign the contract, get on the flight, arrive in Maltaand train, because we need to prepare for the SuperCup."

The Australian agent who arranged Bolt's trialwith the Mariners declined to confirm or deny thereports.

The 32-year-old previously tried out with clubsin Germany, South Africa and Norway to no avail.

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Tiger Woods is the only athlete in theworld who is bigger than the sport he

plays, Indian golf veteran Jeev Milkha Singhsaid Tuesday as he complemented theAmerican superstar, who once described himas a "great guy and a good friend".

Jeev, whose career took a hit because ofincessant injury breakdowns, praised theAmerican for winning his 80th PGA Tourtitle last month, which was his first in fiveyears.

The win made for a remarkable triumphover career-threatening injuries for the cel-ebrated 42-year-old, who endured quite a fewother setbacks in the last few years as well.

"I feel that he has got another three-fouryears during which he is going to win a fewtournaments," said the 47-year-old Jeev.

"For me, personally, Tiger is the only ath-lete in the world who is bigger than the sport.There have been legends in basketball, in ath-letics, but I think what Tiger has done for golf,he is bigger than the sport.

"The awareness he has brought for golf,I think nobody could have done that,"added Jeev.

In 2006, when Jeev was in peak form,Woods was effusive in his praise for theIndian for winning back-to-back titles inJapan. The American went on to say that helikes to track Jeev's progress and called hima "good friend".

Jeev was recently honoured by the TheProfessional Golf Tour of India (PGTI),which a tournament, the Take Open GolfChampionship, after him.

The Chandigarh leg of the domesticPGTI Tour will be called the Jeev MilkhaSingh Invitational Presented by TakeSolutions.

The tournament will be played at theChandigarh Golf Club, Jeev's home club,from November 1 to 4 and will offer anenhanced prize purse of � 1.5 crore. That'san increase of � 50 lakh from last year's prizewhen Shubhankar Sharma won.

About the upcoming tournament, Jeevsaid, "I am sure it is going to be a grand suc-cess. Players love coming here to play, theyenjoy the hospitality here".

Jeev said he plans to do full justice to thetournament as a host but that would not stophim from trying to win the title.

Asked if there would be pressure on himplaying at his home course, he jokingly said,"As a host the pressure on me is going to bethat players are well taken care of ".

Chandigarh Golf Club President B S Gillsaid this tournament is going to be a game-changer for golf in India.

"What is happening in Chandigarhtoday is that there is a huge dynamic shift andplayers are wanting to come to the city toplay," Gill said.

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India's Suraj Panwar clinched a Silverin men's 5000m race walk event in the

ongoing Youth Olympic Games toopen the country's medal account inathletics here.

Panwar won the stage 2 competi-tion by clocking 20 minutes and 35.87seconds on Monday night but finishedsecond overall.

In a new format, there are no finalsin track and field (with the exception of4km cross-country) in the YouthOlympics and each event is held twice,with results from both rounds countingtowards the final standings.

The 17-year-old Panwar had fin-ished second in the first stage in20.23.30s, behind Patin Oscar ofEcuador.

Oscar, who finished second inStage 2, won the Gold with timings of20:13.69s and 20:38.17s.

Panwar's total time of 40:59.17s wasover seven minutes slower than Oscar's40:51.86s. Puerto Rico's Jan Moreu fin-ished third to claim the Bronze.

This is India's first athletics medalin this edition and third overall. Arjun(men's discus throw) and DurgeshKumar (men's 400m hurdles) had wona Silver each in the inaugural edition in2010.

"It's a great feeling. I am veryhappy to have won a medal. I had putin a lot of hard work for the Games. Itis my first medal for India," Panwar saidafter winning the Silver medal.

"My next target is to better my per-formance here and win a medal in thesenior level also," he added.

)�����"���� �� �� �India's boxing challenge at the

ongoing Youth Olympics ended at the

very first hurdle after former worldchampion Jyoti Gulia (51kg) lost herquarterfinal bout to Italy's Martina LaPiana here.

Gulia was the lone Indian boxer toqualify for the Games owing to herworld title and lost in a unanimous 0-5 verdict to the Italian on Monday night.

The 17-year-old Indian fromHaryana was expected to do well at theevent given that she was coming off aGold medal winning performance at theSilesian Open in Gliwice, Poland lastmonth.

India's maiden and only set of

medals in the Youth Olympics' boxingcompetition came in the inauguraledition of 2010.

Shiva Thapa and Vikas Krishandelivered a Silver and a Bronze medalrespectively, which remain India's bestperformance. While Shiva won hisSilver in the 54kg category, Vikas fin-ished with a Bronze in the 60kg divi-sion.

In 2014, the best that India man-aged in boxing was Gaurav Solanki'sfourth-place finish. Solanki (52kg)won the Gold medal in this year'sCommonwealth Games.

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