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From political pundits topollsters, honest netas to

rabble rousers, satta bazaar toshare market, the eye of theentire nation will be onMadhya Pradesh onWednesday when it goes to pollafter a “free for all” campaign-ing that often saw emotionalissues taking the centre stageand concerns of the commonman taking the back seat.

While the Congress isgoing all out to wrest powerfrom the BJP which, though,wary of a 15-year anti-incum-bency, is hoping that the man-date could still be in theirfavour for the fourth term.

Poll campaigning for the230-seat Assembly came to anend on Monday.

Unlike the last Assemblypolls in Karnataka, HimachalPradesh and Tripura wherePrime Minister Narendra Modiheld the sway for the BJP,Chief Minister Shivraj SinghChouhan was the main cam-paigner and face of the party inMadhya Pradesh. Modi heldjust over 10 election rallies inthe State.

Besides him, BJP presi-dent Amit Shah, HomeMinister Rajnath Singh and anumber of Union Ministers,including Nirmala Sitharaman,Uma Bharti, Ravi ShankarPrasad and Narendra SinghTomar, visited the State in thelast few days.

The BJP had denied ticketsto over 60 sitting MLAs to beatanti-incumbency while theCongress sought to put behindthe internal rivalry among itssatraps in MP, like Kamal Nath,Digvijay Singh and JyotiradityaScindia. The rural unrest, theCongress hopes, may tilt bal-ance in its favour as the BJPexpects its “continued” holdover the urban voters andOpposition’s lack of a clear chiefministerial candidate could

provide it the needed push tocross the winning line.

A total of 2,907 candidatesare in the fray. The highestnumber of candidates contest-ing at one constituency is 34 atMehgaon in Bhind, while thelowest number is 4 at Gunnorin Panna. The BJP has fielded230 candidates while theCongress is contesting on 229seats leaving one seat forSharad Yadav-led LoktantrikJanata Dal. The BSP has field-ed 227 candidates and the SPis contesting on 51 seats. TheAam Aadmi Party, contestingthe Madhya Pradesh electionfor the first time, has fielded208 candidates.

At present, the BJP, that hasbeen ruling the State for 15years, has 165 seats while theCongress has 58, the BSP has4 and independents hold threeseats in the MP Assembly.

A total of 650 companies ofCentral paramilitary forceshave been deployed for securi-ty. 33,000 home guard jawansfrom various States have alsobeen deployed. The modelcode of conduct was imposedon October 6.

The Congress has taken nochance and deployed nearly50,000 party worker on 43closely contested Assemblyseats. A party leader said thatduring the last 15 years themargin of victory for the BJPon these seats has been low.These Assemblies have 10,429booths and the party hasdeployed maximum manpow-er there.

The Congress is makingmaximum use of social mediaplatform to draw the voterstowards the grand old partythrough a mobile application‘Ghar Ghar Congress’.

“The workers for the pastone week have been meetingvoters by reminding themabout the ‘Ghar Ghar Congress’mobile app. For all those whodo not have a smartphone, the

Congress workers are involvedin door-to-door campaign,”added the leader, mentioningthat more and more workershave been sharing and explain-ing details about the party’smanifesto and the benefits ofgiving a chance to theCongress.

A day before the Assemblyelectoins in the State, Congress’internal assessment has claimedthe party enjoys a 2.8 per centlead over the BJP. The partythinks it is small lead but it isconfident to cross the halfwaymark by winning the majorityof the 43 strategically identifiedseats.

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Avideo of J&K GovernorSatya Pal Malik’s speech,

delivered at ITM University,Gwalior, on November 24shows the Governor sayingthe Centre wanted him tomake Sajjad Lone ChiefMinister of J&K, but he did notdo so as he did not want to godown in history as “a dishon-est man”.

“If I had turned towardsDelhi, I would have invitedSajjad Lone to form aGovernment and history wouldhave seen me as a dishonestman. That is why I closed thatchapter. Those who want toabuse me, they are free to do so.But I am convinced that what-ever I did was correct,” he isheard saying in the video thathas gone viral.

As political parties in J&Kstarted reacting “strongly” tohis observations, he publiclyhinted in Jammu that he mightbe handed over transfer orderssoon. “As long as I am here, Iwill come to pay my tributes inthe memory of Girdhari LalDogra,” he said, adding, “Imay be transferred. It is not inmy hands. Though there is nothreat to my job, but fear oftransfer always remains there.”

“You send me a letter I willcome and offer floral tributesas long as I am here,” Malik saidin his crisp speech on theoccasion of the 31st deathanniversary of Girdhari LalDogra. Late in the evening,

J&K Raj Bhavan Spokespersonclarified that the Governorwhile taking the decision to dis-solve the Legislative Assemblyacted in an objective andimpartial manner.

In a press statement, theRaj Bhawan Spokesman said,“There was no pressure or anykind of intervention from theCentre in the entire matter andsome news channels are mis-interpreting Governor’s state-ment and putting them out ofcontext to convey that therewas pressure from the CentralGovernment.”

Meanwhile, in his speechin Gwalior, Malik also tried toset the record straight by train-ing his guns on Peoples’

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An eight-year-old school-boy died and a schoolgirl

sustained grievous injurieswhen a private van carryingthem along with eight otherstudents of Rosary School inModel Town was hit by aspeeding goods carrierautorickshaw in North Delhi’sTimarpur area on Tuesdayafternoon. The girl is battlingfor her life at Civil LinesTrauma Centre. Seven otherstudents and the driver of thevan too received injuries.

The accused 21-year-oldauto driver, Salman, a residentof Azadpur, has been arrested,police said.Both Maruti Eecoschool van and the goods car-rier turned turtle. It is sus-pected that the school van dri-ver too was speeding. The vanreportedly overturned fourtimes before coming to a halt.The impact was so severe that

all the window panes of the vanshattered, said a passerby.

The students and the dri-ver were immediately evacuat-ed by commuters. All theinjured were taken to a nearbyhospital where eight-year-oldVaibhav succumbed to hisinjuries.“One girl with injurieshas been admitted in traumacentre, Civil Lines. There werereportedly ten students in thevan, all from Rosary School,Model Town,” said a seniorpolice official.

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In a major setback to jailedformer Bangladesh Prime

Minister Khaleda Zia, a topcourt on Tuesday ruled that aperson jailed for more than twoyears cannot contest polls,effectively ruining her chance to participate in theDecember 30 polls.AttorneyGeneral Mahbubey Alam saidthe Bangladesh NationalistParty (BNP) chairperson, whois convicted in two graft cases,cannot contest the upcoming11th general election nextmonth.

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Jaipur: The BJP on Tuesdayreleased its manifesto for theDecember 7 Rajasthan polls,saying it met 95 per cent of thepromises it had made in 2013.

The manifesto was unveiledby Union Ministers Arun Jaitley,Prakash Javadekar, and RajathanChief Minister VasundharaRaje, in the presence of BJPleaders and workers.

The BJP Government inthe State met 630 of the 665promises made in the 2013Rajasthan manifesto, Raje said,prior to releasing the manifesto.“The overall completion is 95per cent,” she said.

Raje highlighted severalpoints of 2018 manifesto, say-ing 50 lakh jobs will be creat-ed in private sector in next fiveyears and every year 30,000 jobswill be given in Governmentsector. The CM said up to�5,000 per month will be givenas unemployment allowanceto eligible youths above the ageof 21 years. PTI

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Prime MinisterNarendra Modi

on Tuesday saidthe BJP is the onlyoption beforeTelangana as both“family parties” theCongress and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti havedestroyed the State over the last six decades andcaused misery and sufferings to them.Addressing two election rallies in Nizamabadand Mahbubnagar, Modi also urged the peopleof Telangana not to allow the Congress to re-enter the State and follow theexample of States like UttarPradesh, Bihar, Bengal andTamil Nadu where the Congresscould not return to power evenafter 40 years.

“If you elect the BJP in theState and we already have a BJPGovernment at the Centre, youwill get double “Kamal Chhap”(Lotus symbol) engines and wewill take Telangana far off on thepath of development,” he said.

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Telangana Chief Minister and TelanganaRashtra Samiti (TRS) supremo K

Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) on Tuesday chal-lenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a pub-lic debate on the power supply situation in theState and said the Prime Minister should not liefor the sake of votes.

KCR was responding to Modi’s criticism thatthe people in the State are without electricity.Earlier in the day addressing an election rallyin Nizamabad, Modi had charged the KCRGovernment with failure on all fronts, includ-ing ensuring availability of electricity to manypeople of the State.

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Madhya Pradesh is all setfor polling in which over

five crore voters would sealthe fate of 2,899 candidates onWednesday.

Till the filing of report,several complaints of pollcode violations were report-ed from across the stateincluding gifting of cash, dis-tribution of free petrol andseizure of cash.

The of f ice of ChiefElectoral Officer has sealedtwo petrol pumps in Hardafor distributing petrol on thebasis of slips provided bycandidates of particular party.

Besides, the police seizedRs 2.5 lakh cash from a car on

the complaint against twoBJP leaders in Indore, thecommission said.

Reports however suggest-ed the villagers had caught alocal BJP leader, carryingcash in the SUV and laterpolice seized this money inLasudia village.

Besides, the police seizedfreebies meant for distribu-t ion among voters inChhatarpur and illegal liquorwas confiscated from thegodown of a Congress cand-diate's relative in Mandsaur.

At Panna, speeding vehi-cle allegedly carrying liquorbarged into a house killing an11-year-old boy in the morn-ing.

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candidate Saraswati Singhfrom Singrauli was caught incamera handing cash to thevoters.

In all, 285 TV screenshave been installed in theoffices of Returning Officersand at CEO office in Bhopaland at any given point of time,the commission would keepan eye on 1600 live feedsstreamed from various partsof the state.

Being asked on thedetails of mandatory pub-lishing of criminal records bycandidates in print and elec-tronic media, the CEO saidthe candidates would be sub-mitting details of the same 30days within the day of polling.

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Adorned with the folk musicand perfect light design,

the legendry story of ‘Alha’ theRajput General of King ofChandel was resplendentlytold on stage. The ballet ‘Alha’was staged at Madhya PradeshSchool of Drama (MPSD) hereon Tuesday.

The play was performedby the artists of Shruti KirtiBallet troupe, Bhopal. Thefolklore of Rajput general wassplendidly performed in thismusical drama by the artists.The play was directed byChandra Madhav Barik.

The ballet ‘Alha’ was basedon a true story. The Rajputgeneral Alha and his loyaltytowards his king ParamardiDeva is still remembered bythe people. The play focusedon his lifespan, from his birthtill his death each major inci-dent was shown beautifully.

As it was a war genre ofthe play, the larger than lifestage craft was used. As per thefolklore of Alha, Alha andUdal were children of theDasraj, a successful comman-der of the Chandel king Parmalwho fought Prithviraj Chauhanin 1182 CE, immortalized inthe Alha-Khand ballad. The

play used some of the poetriesfrom Alha-Khand ballad.

The heroes Alha and Udalthe generals of Parmal’s armyfought in the battle of Mahobabetween Prithviraj III and King

Parmal in c.1182. The narration begins with

the early exploits of Alha andUdal. They fought with theKaringarai and killed him toavenge the killings of their

father Dasraj and uncleBaccharaj. Later they fought thebattle of Mahoba. According tothe Bhojpuri and the Kannaujirecensions, Alha marriedSonvati (Sonva), the princess of

Nainagarh after a war. “Thefolklore is sung inBundelkhandi in various partsof the country”, said Barik. Theplay was beautifully staged leav-ing the audience enthralled.

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The contribution and sacri-fice of a female soldier was

depicted in the Hindi play‘Jhalkari Bai’ here on Tuesdayat Shaheed Bhawan.

Written by Ranjana Chitle,the play was directed by NitiShrivastava. The play focuseson the contribution of a femalewarrior in the freedom strug-gle. Jhalkari Bai was a soldierin the women’s army of Queen

Laxmi Bai of Jhansi.The playdepicted her life span from herchildhood till she fought for thefreedom of the country.Jhalkari Bai was an Indianwoman soldier who played animportant role in the IndianRebellion of 1857 during thebattle of Jhansi.

During the rebellion, at thefort of Jhansi, she disguisedherself as the queen and foughton the front to let the queenescape safely out of the fort.During the Revolt of 1857,

General Hugh Rose attackedJhansi with a large army.Jhalkari Bai made a suggestionthat she would go on the frontin disguise.

The queen escaped fromthe fort and left for Kalpi. Atthe same time, Jhalkari Bai setout for General Rose's camp indisguise and declared herself asthe queen Laxmi Bai.

This led to confusion. Shewas released only after it wasrevealed that she was not thequeen but a common soldier.

Her life and especially theincident of her fighting withthe East India Company armyon the front in disguise, con-tinues to be sung in variousBundeli folklores. While talk-ing about it director of the playNeeti Shrivastava said, “Veryfew people know aboutJhalkari Bai and her contri-bution in the freedom strug-gle. There are very few evi-dences of Jhalkari Bai inthe stories of freedom strug-gle.

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To prepare Hindi mediumstudents for civil service

examination, a special pro-gramme Best 100 will start incity. The special programmewill begin for the candidatesfrom January 1.

The programme will beorganised by Civil ServiceClub. It is to be noted that inthe Civil Services Examinationevery year, the number ofyouth selected through Hindimedium is continuouslydecreasing. Expert LaxmiSharan Sharma said that in thetotal number of competitorswho succeed, the number ofHindi medium contestants isbarely 4%, while millions ofpeople are still giving theseexams through Hindi medi-um.

Due to the decline inHindi medium, there istremendous sense of disap-pointment in the whole ofNorth India especially the

rural background. As a result the candidates

have started preparing forother exams except for the IAS,said Mishra.Elaborating fur-ther, he said that 'Civil ServicesClub' is going to start a missionfrom January 1 with the aim offinding a solution to thismedium of Hindi medium.

Under which, in the nexttwo years, the club have tomake 100 selections in Hindimedium from IAS Exam.

So that the fear of Hindimedium candidates can beovercome and they can show-case their talent and be suc-cessful.

The process of enteringthe first batch under this mis-sion has started.

First of all, the 'CivilServices PreliminaryExamination -2019', which isto be held on June 2, 2019, hasbeen targeted. For this exam-ination, the club will only giveadmission to 60 candidates ofHindi medium and work onthe strategy to succeed them inthe initial examination.

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Piplani police have nabbed amiscreant near

Nizamuddin colony and recov-ered one country made pistoland five live cartridges from hispossession on Monday.

According to the policeacting of a tip a man wasdetained near Nizamuddincolony at late in the night andwhen he was searched onecountry made pistol and fivelive cartridges were recoveredfrom his possession. Theaccused was identified asUjjawal Kumar.

During the investigationUjjawal’s crime record wouldbe investigated. Police haveregistered a case for possessionof weapons illegally againstthe accused and a case undersection 25 and 27 of the ArmsAct was registered and furtherinvestigation has been started.

The accomplices who havehelped the accused in provid-ing weapons would be searchedand nabbed. The accused hasused country made pistol forcrime or for any purpose wouldbe investigated.

Meanwhile, TT Nagarpolice have nabbed a personfacilitating betting at DassheraMaidan and recovered Rs 6000from his possession onMonday.

Acting on a tip off regard-ing operating of betting by aperson at Dasshera Maidanwas detained and when hewas searched betting slips andRs 6000 cash were recoveredfrom his possession.

The nabbed accused wasidentified as Surjeet Dhurve.He confessed facilitating ofbetting. The details of otheraccomplices involved in oper-ating the betting in the area andother areas would be investi-gated.

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Close contest in all the sixAssembly constituencies of

Gwalior district is being wit-nessed.The candidates of themajor rivals- Congress and theBJP lost no opportunity in thecampaigning that ended onMonday.

In the Gwalior constituen-cy the focal clash is betweenCabinet Minister Jaibhan SinghPawaiya and the firebrandCongress leader PradhumanSingh Tomar.

On Tuesday, both Pawaiyaand Pradhuman along withtheir supporters were seenmoving door-to-door meetingthe voters.Gwalior South con-

stituency is the most talkedabout constituency in the dis-trict as the charismatic formermayor and BJP dissidentSameeksha Gupta is contestingfrom here as an independentcandidate.

Praveen Pathak of theCongress and Narayan SinghKushwaha of the BJP are theother main candidates fromthe Gwalior South constituen-cy.

Sameeksha’s rally which sheset in motion from her resi-dence at Hemsingh ParadeGrounds in the morning wasattended by women in largenumbers.

The Congress candidatePraveen Pathak commencedhis rally from the Rokadiya

Sarkar Mandir. The rally was attended by

youths in large numbers.Naraayn Singh Kushwahabegan his rally from SindhiColony.

Later on he had lunch withthe workers at his campaignoffice situated in MaharajaBada.

In the Gwalior East con-stituency it is more or less astraight fight between the live-ly Congress candidate,Munnalal Goyal and the ener-getic and youthful BJP candi-date Satish Singh Sikarwar.

Last time Munnalal hadlost to Maya Singh for the nar-rowest of margins.

He was seen soliciting sup-port from the traders at the

Morar area. Satsih Singh wasseen touching the feet of thepeople while soliciting support.

Later, he called on MayaSingh to seek her blessings.

The Congress candidatesreminded the public abouttheir party’s promises in themanifesto including loan waiv-er for farmers and jobs foryouths.

The BJP candidates wereseen emphasizing the fact thatthe Shivraj government in thestate and the Modi govern-ment at the centre have beendelivering development to thestate.

All the candidates heldroad shows throughout the citycausing heavy traffic jams andhassles to commuters.

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There is a direct fight betweenBJP candidate Rameshwar

Sharma and Congress candidateNaresh Gyanchandani inBhopal’s Huzur constituency.

The two candidates holdthe same views regarding theindependent candidates thatthis category or any candidatefrom any other political partyfrom there is not capableenough to harm their votes.

BJP candidate RameshwarSharma won state assemblyconstituency for the first timefrom Huzur in the last electionand he has an image of fierceBJP party worker backed andloves to embrace controversieswhich had worked in his favourin the past.

However, it is believed thatthe strategy could not work thistime. This time, only BJP loyalistvoters would only garner votesfor him.

Sharma said that people areaware of the pro-people policiesof BJP and same in the case ofHuzur state constituency. Heclaimed that a lot of develop-ment works have been execut-ed in the constituency and thesame would continue, if he getsrepeated this time too.

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ment is done by following prop-er rules and regulations whichbring delays sewage, road andwater supply pipeline would bedone but it would take time.

Few areas would be in thetop most priority whichrequired attention and wouldbe developed at the earliest, headded.

Congress candidateNaresh Gyanchandani said

that long delay in the devel-opment projects has made thepeople of the constituency torepel from BJP.

The worst state is of Kolarwhere road and water are thebiggest issues which the peo-ple are facing for long.

He praised formerCongress CM Digvijay Singhwho helped sail his politicalcareer in Congress apart from

other senior leaders when hejoined Congress in 90s.

Replying to query of hiscommunity’s inclinationtowards BJP and ardent sup-porters of the party he saidthat the inclination wouldnot affect and people wouldchose from party devoted todevelopment not to their pre-occupied notion of pro-BJPparty.

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Depressed over not gettingbetter job a 21-year-old

youth committed suicide byhanging at his residence atAishbagh on Monday evening.

Police have found a suicidenote but no reason has beenmentioned in the suicide note.The deceased identified asGufran Qadri was found hang-ing and declared dead whentaken to hospital.

He mentioned in the sui-cide note that if he hadreceived education in betterschool he could have betterfuture and career.

In the initial investigationpolice found that deceasedafter completing studies inJhansi UP came to the statecapital and started working fora call center.

On Monday evening, afterhe returned home after workhe locked himself and laterfound hanging by familymembers who rushed to hisrescue but failed to save his life.

Meanwhile, a 37-year-oldman committed suicide at hisresidence at Sabri Nagar underChhola Mandir police stationarea on Tuesday.

The deceased GurmeetSingh was found hanging withthe ceiling in the morning.

He was declared deadwhen taken to hospital.SHOChhola police Yogendra Yadavsaid that the deceased wasaddict to liquor and due to his

habit his wife left him around8 months ago.

His mother and sister havegone to Piplani around a weekago in marriage and whenthey failed to contact Gurmeetthey informed neighbours theychecked only to find Gurmeethanging.

The deceased used towork as labour and has twodaughters from his first mar-riage, he added. After the pre-liminary investigation thebody was sent for the postmortem and a case under sec-tion 174 of the CrPC. Policehave started further investi-gation.

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There are 17,712 sensitivepolling booths out of the

total 65,367 polling booths inthe State for Vidhan SabhaElection-2018. Special vigil willbe maintained on all thesepolling booths.

Along with this, vigil willbe maintained on 6,500 pollingbooths, 4,600 polling boothsand 6,700 polling boothsthrough webcasting, videogra-phy and CCTV camerasrespectively.

Besides, the personnel ofthe Central Security Force andMicro Observers will also keepvigil on these sensitive pollingbooths.

It may be mentioned thatover 12,000 CentralGovernment’s employees work-ing in the state have beenmade Micro Observers andtrained by the Observer of theElection Commission.

Total 3,00,782 electionworkers have been posted atthe polling booths to holdVidhan Sabha Election-2018including 2,54,878 males and45,904 females.

Three thousand 46 pollingbooths will be run by thefemale workers and 160 PWDbooths will be run by handi-capped employees.

Besides, 12,363 microobservers including 12,211males and 152 females havebeen deployed at the polling

booths to ensure fair and freeelection.

Over 1.80 lakh personnelof the security force have beendeployed in the state thatinclude over 67,000 personnelof the Central Security Forceand 33,000 personnel of HomeGuard called from other states.

Meanwhile, facility to castvotes will be provided on thebasis of photo voter slips dis-tributed by the ElectionCommission to all the votersfor Vidhan Sabha Election-2018. If any voter does not pos-sess the voter slip but his/hername appears in the voter list

then he/ she will be allowed tocast vote on November 28 onthe basis of photo voter card,passport, driving license, dri-ving license, PAN card, aadhaarcard, MNERGA job card,photo pass book issued by thebanks and post office, smartcard issued by RGI and NPR,

Photo pension documents,identity cards issued toMembers of Parliament andMembers of LegislativeAssembly, photo service IDcard issued to employees of theState and Centre, public under-takings, state public limitedcompanies.

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Indira Gandhi RashtriyaManav Sangrahalaya is

organising its popular series,Curatorial Talk AssistantKeeper of ManavSangrahalaya, Rakesh MohanNayal spoke on ‘Culture andTraditions of Jaunsar-Bawar ofHimalayan Region’.

The significance of thetribe in Uttrakhand particu-larly the Jaunsari, a smalltribal community who pri-marily inhabited in the Sub-Himalayan region having largenumber of cultural belief prac-tices. They endowed richmusic, dance and performanceson different occasion with col-orful traditional dress and cos-tumes. The fair and festivals arelargely associated with agri-cultural life.

These cultural practicesleave a deep imprint in the pre-sent generation.

The age old traditionswhich that enthrall the life ofthese highlanders is now grad-ually transforming.

However, the existence andthe continuity of these cultur-al plural elements are still vis-ible in the land of Jaunsari,Popularly referred as theDevbhumi.

There has been a traditionfor centuries in the Jansar Baar.People of this place considerthemselves descendants ofPandavas.

Where the bride does notbring the bride bridal andtakes the bridegroom alongwith him.

The special thing is thatthere is no provision of dowryin these weddings. The lecturewas chaired by Prof SaritKumar Chaudhuri (Director,IGRMS).

Earlier, Rakesh Bhatt(Assistant Keeper) gave briefprofile of the keynote speaker.

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First time in the history of Jharkhand thiskind of a mega Global Agriculture and

Food summit is being organized, saidAgriculture Secretary Pooja Singhal onTuesday.

Addressing a Joint Press Conferenceorganized by Agriculture Secretary PoojaSinghal, Industry Secretary K Ravi Kumar,Ranchi Senior Superintendent of Police(SSP) Anish Gupta and Ranchi DeputyCommissioner (DC) Rai Mahimpet Rey,Singhal further said Union Minister forAgriculture Radha Mohan Singh willinaugurate the summit to be held atKhelagaon in Ranchi on November 29 and30. The state Governor Draupadi Murmuwould be the chief guest of the valedicto-ry session, added Singhal.

Revealing the objective of the megaevent Singhal said, “To provide a platformto all stakeholders of agri ecosystem toshowcase the vast agriculture and foodprocessing potential of Jharkhand andsimultaneously network with policy mak-ers, agri equipment manufacturers, acad-emicians, agri startups, agri ecosystemcompanies.”

Elaborating about the details of thesummit the Secretary said, “After the inau-gural session on first day of the event inthe second half four sectoral seminars willbe held on various themes such as agri-cultural equipments and organic farming.One each sectoral seminar will be held byChina and Israel. On the second day of theevent the delegation of World Bank willdiscuss with CM Raghubar Das and gov-ernment official on the various issues relat-ed to the industry.

It will be highly technical meeting, shesaid. There will be pavilions for various dis-trict of the state and simultaneously forparticipating countries inside the venueand there will be a large exhibition forequipments and machineries, she added.

Singhal said, “Till now as many as1,800 delegates have already registered. Thedelegates from five partner countries

including Israel, China, Philippines,Tunisia and Mongolia will come to takepart in the event.

One another country- Morocco will bethe focused countries. In this event 10,000farmers would be participating includingthose farmers who were sent to Isreal. Thefarmers got invitation on the basis of dis-tance from the venue.

The first 5000 farmers would reach onWednesday who belong to remote areasfrom the venue and next 5000 will comeon the inaugural day of the event. Thedepartment has made arrangements oftheir food and lodging.”

Addressing the gathering IndustrySecretary K Ravi Kumar said, “Around 50big companies in the field of food pro-

cessing like Dabur, ITC, MTR etc haveconfirmed to join the programme. TheCEO of Patanjali has also confirmed thathe will join the programme.”

Speaking on the occasion the SSP saidto provide better security arrangements tothe visitors the police department haveconstituted a roadmap. Visitors cannotenter the venue with any unnecessarybelongings. A traffic plan will be com-prised for safe arrival of visitors.”

Ranchi DC said, “All the visitors willget entry pass.

Three kinds of entry passes will beissued- Red, Green and Pink. The VIPs willget Red card, farmers and media personswill get Green card and Bus drivers andother people will get pink cards.”

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State Government has decided to depute three district deputy commissioners withthe agriculture, animal husbandry and co operative department which is organis-

ing the Global Agriculture and Food summit on November 29 and 30. According toa government notification Sahebganj Deputy Commissioner Sandeep Singh will be deput-ed for two days to take care of VVIP and VIP Lounges, Ramgarh DC Rajeshwari willtake care of farmers' accommodation and food while Dumka DC Mukesh Kumar willassist the commercial taxes secretary cum chairman transport committee for the glob-al summit.

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Over 88.91 per cent of thecomplaints filed in the last

three and a half years at theJansamvad Kendra have beendisposed. As per the record, atotal of 2,91,250 complaintshave been filed in JansamvadKendra from May 1, 2015 toNovember 26, 2018, out ofwhich 2, 25, 313 complaintshave been cleared. As many as19 cases were taken here onTuesday during the weekly pro-gramme.

Chief Minister RaghubarDas expressed his disappoint-ment over the actions of policeofficers on the complaint caseregistered four years back. Ayoung girl of Birni police sta-tion area under the jurisdictionof Giridih district was rapedand murdered.

The CM asked the DIG toget the report of the case with-in 24 hours and ordered imme-diate removal of investigativeofficer involved in the case. TheCM warned the senior officialsnot to harass public for smallthings. The CM instructedLatehar SP to take immediateaction on the complaint of awoman for not arresting therape accused and provide allpossible support to the victim.On the complain of Gumla res-ident, Basanti Devi who is yetto receive the remuneration,the CM ordered Gumla DC torelease Basanti’s payment andtake immediate action overher issue of transfer, posting.

Satendra Kumar, who camefrom Garhwa, complained thatthe administration had takenthree Boleros during theassembly elections of 2014 butthe rent has not been paid sofar. He also complained that he

was not paid even for thevideography work done duringthe election in 2009. On this,Chief Secretary of the CMSunil Kumar Barnwal orderedDC Gadhwa to ensure all pend-ing payments of SatyendraKumar.

Suneet Chatterjee’s familywho is yet to get compensationalso received assurance from

the CM. In Chatterjee’s case,CM instructed the ExecutiveEngineer of the EnergyDepartment to pay Rs. 1.5lakh as compensation and tosend the details of the pendinghonorarium of his son to thedepartment.

On hearing about AnnaTopno’s case whose matter ispending since long, the CM

asked Topno to meet the con-cerned department officialswhile instructed the officials tosettle the case within a monthby paying the compensation tothe victims. Also, during thereview, the CM announced togive Rs. one lakh for bettertreatment to two persons fromSaraiKela-Kharsawan, suffer-ing from HIV

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Chief Minister interactedwith villagers of

Baribandh and asked them tobe aware of developmentschemes. The CM talked topeople of Baribandh village,Latehar through video con-ferencing. He talked toPanchayat Mukhiya SunitaDevi, women of the primitivetribe Sushma Devi,

Vishwanath Singh, BasantiKujur and many other vil-lagers. The villagers spokeabout their hardships and lackof mobile network, roads,schools, and irrigation facili-ties. Mukhiya Sunita Devipraised the developmentalwork of the State government.

Das issued a series ofinstructions to Latehar DC.

The CM said that for theprimitive tribes, 2 per cent

reservation system has beenintroduced in governmentjobs. The CM further appealedto villagers that they shoulduse the toilet as 80 percent ofthe diseases are due to opendefecation. He said that everyvillage will have to ensurethat their children go to schoolevery day. If one child remainsuneducated then develop-mental will take a back seatand have no meaning.

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The three-day workshop onscientific research, leader-

ship in health care and patientsafety concluded at AIIMSRishikesh on Tuesday. Theexperts deliberated on the chal-lenges faced due to changes inthe healthcare system, the needof team building for efficienthealth care and other relevantsubjects. Organised by thedepartment of medical educa-tion, the post-graduate levelstudents, the doctoral studentsand the professors participated.

The director, AIIMSProfessor Ravikant said that theinstitute is working to developthe leadership quality in thestudents to ensure that thepatients are helped in the bestway possible.

He said, “We are striving toprovide hi-tech global modernmedicinal facilities so that thecommon man is benefitted.” Hefurther said that if the patientis unable to come to the hos-pital for treatment he must notbe deprived of the medicalfacility at home. “We are devel-oping such a system to reachthe facilities right to thepatients at their homes,” headded.

Invoking the first Prime

Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, thedirector AIIMS said that he hadthought of providing worldclass health facilities to the peo-ple of the country. “That is whyAIIMS came into existence,” he

said. He also remembered therole played by the former PrimeMinister Atal Bihari Vajpayeein spreading the health caresystem network across thecountry. “The same is contin-uing now under the PrimeMinister Narendra Modi whois working hard to reach thehealth care system to the com-mon men,” he said.

Professor Parag Singhalassociated with the Universityof South Wales, UnitedKingdom and ProfessorDevendra Sandhu of BahrainUniversity shared their experi-ences on the matter of leader-ship in the realm of healthcare.

They spoke of the present

challenges and trends in health-care leadership.

Both the professors admit-ted that it was not an easy taskto bring about the changes butthrough taking little steps, themission could be achieved.Professor Tamoris Ole spoke onthe importance of team build-ing. He stressed on the need offorming experienced teams tobring about a change in the sys-tem.

The head of department ofmedical education of the pre-mier facility Shalini Rao said inhis speech that the patient safe-ty was the key area and the hos-pital was doing everything pos-sible to provide it.

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In an effort to break the log-jam in bilateral ties with

India, Pakistan has decided toinvite Prime Minister NarendraModi for the South AsianAssociation for RegionalCooperation (SAARC) summitto be held there.

Making this announce-ment in Islamabad on Tuesday,Pakistan Foreign OfficeSpokesman Mohammad Faisalsaid Prime Minister ImranKhan in his first address hadsaid if India takes one step for-ward, Pakistan will take two.Prime Minister Modi will beinvited for the SAARC summit,Faisal was quoted as saying byDawn newspaper.

SAARC summits are usu-ally held biennially, hosted bya member state in alphabeticalorder. The member state host-ing the summit assumes theChair of the Association. Thelast SAARC Summit in 2014was held in Kathmandu, whichwas attended by Modi.

The 2016 SAARC Summit

was to be held in Islamabad.But after the terrorist attack onan Indian Army camp in Uri,J&K, on September 18 thatyear, India expressed its inabil-ity to participate in the summitdue to “prevailing circum-stances” and stepped up diplo-matic pressure on Pakistan.Nineteen Indian soldiers weremartyred in the attack.

The SAARC summit wascalled off after Bangladesh,Bhutan and Afghanistan toodeclined to participate in theIslamabad meet. Maldives andSri Lanka are the seventh andeighth members of the initia-tive.

Faisal said Prime MinisterKhan in a letter to his Indiancounterpart had expressedPakistan’s openness to resolv-ing all outstanding issuesthrough dialogue with India.“We fought a war with India,relations cannot be fixedquickly,” Faisal said.He said theKartarpur Corridor, which willfacilitate the visa-free travel ofIndian Sikh pilgrims toGurdwara Darbar Sahib inKartarpur, Pakistan, is expect-

ed to be completed within sixmonths.

“In this century diploma-cy has completely changed,” hesaid, adding policies are nowmade based on citizens’ emo-tions and wishes.

Both India and Pakistanhave decided to build a corri-dor, linking Dera Baba Nanakin Punjab’s Gurdaspur districtwith the Gurdwara DarbarSahib in Kartarpur, Pakistan.

Meanwhile, the IndianPrime Minister will attend thetwo-day G20 summit inArgentina and will leave for thesummit on Wednesday.

Giving details about thesummit, Foreign SecretaryVijay Gokhale on Tuesday saidthe Prime Minister will speakon digital revolution in India,Ayushman Bharat programme,soil health card, and otherCentral Government schemesbesides risk posed by volatili-ty in oil prices and terrorism.

Modi will also hold bilat-eral meetings with severalleaders on the margins of theG20 and have a bilateral meet-ing with Chinese President Xi

Jinping, he said.Asked if Modi will also

meet US President DonaldTrump, Gokhale said, cur-rently several bilateral meet-ings are being worked out.Modi will also be meetingUnited Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.

The Foreign Secretary said,the BRICS head of states willalso meet in the margins ofG20.

The Group of Twenty G20is a leading forum of theworld’s major economies thatseeks to develop global policiesto address today’s most press-ing economic challenges.

The G20 was instrumentalin stabilising the world econ-omy. Since then, its agenda hasexpanded to include addition-al issues affecting financialmarkets, trade and develop-ment.

Collectively, G20 mem-bers represent all inhabitedcontinents, 85 per cent of glob-al economic output, two-thirdsof the world’s population and75 per cent of internationaltrade.

From Page 1 The Chief Minister of

Telangana and his family thinkthey can get away with doing nowork like the Congress.... Theyhave adopted the style of theCongress which ruled for 50-52years without doing anything.But that cannot happen now,”Modi told an election rally inNizamabad, as he took the pollbattle to Rao’s turf.

Rao’s daughter K Kavitharepresents Nizamabad in theLok Sabha.“Congress and TRSare two faces of the same coin.Both parties are competingagainst each other on who tellsmore lies. TRS and Congress arefamily-ruled parties playing afriendly match in Telanganapolls,” he said, adding it was a“big joke” that UPA chairpersonSonia Gandhi and Congresspresident Rahul Gandhi assailedthe TRS for being a “familyparty” at an election rally lastweek.

Modi sought to appeal to“Telangana pride” when hereferred to AIMIM leaderAkbaruddin Owaisi’s recentremark that whoever became theChief Minister of Telangana orundivided Andhra Pradesh hadto bow before his party.

“A leader recently said who-ever became the CM of AndhraPradesh-Telangana had to be athis feet (kadmon ke neeche). Youfought for Telangana for yourself-respect. Will you want a CM

who bows at the feet of someleader instead of the people ofTelangana?” the Prime Ministertold another rally atMahbubnagar.K ChandrasekharRao’s TRS has friendly ties withAIMIM of Hyderabad MPAsaduddin Owaisi.

While accusing Rao of“destroying” Telangana throughhis Government’s policies andnot fulfilling his promises to peo-ple, Modi targeted the Congressfor silencing the aspirations ofthe State for two decades with“bullets”.

Ridiculing Chief Minister KChandrasekhar Rao’s promise ofdeveloping Nizamabad intoLondon, the Prime Ministersaid, “Let him first ensure drink-ing water supply to the people.Even basic facilities are not avail-able here,” he said.He also tar-geted the Chief Minister for hisbelief in “mantr and tantr” (reli-gious rituals).It was Modi’s firstelection tour since the cam-paign for the December 7 StateAssembly elections began in theState. In his typical acerbic styleModi targeted both the Congressand the TRS and charged themwith having a secret under-standing. While his entire fire-power was concentrated on theCongress and the TRS, surpris-ingly he did not made any ref-erence to his friend-turned-foeAndhra Pradesh Chief Ministerand Telugu Desam Party presi-dent N Chandrababu Naidu.

From Page 1

“She is disqualified fromtaking part in the upcomingelections,” Alam told a Pressconference, hours after theHigh Court issued a rule say-ing persons jailed for morethan two years even if theirappeals are pending with thecourts cannot contest the polls.

The 73-year-old ex-premieris currently serving jail terms intwo graft cases involving char-ities named after her slain hus-band Ziaur Rahman. She hasbeen in custody since February8, when Dhaka Special Courtconvicted her in the ZiaOrphanage Trust graft case andsentenced her to five years ofimprisonment for embezzling21 million Bangladeshi Taka(USD 252,504) in foreign dona-tions meant for the Trust.

On October 30, the HighCourt doubled her jail term to10 years.On October 29, a trialcourt convicted her in the ZiaCharitable Trust graft case andsentenced her to seven years inprison and imposed a fine of Tk1 million (USD 12,024).

The High Court order cameas the BNP, which boycotted the2014 elections under PrimeMinister Sheikh Hasina-ledAwami League (AL) govern-ment, was set to contest the pollsin alliance with the newlyformed National Unity Front

(NUF) led by eminent juristKamal Hossain.

The chief state counsel saideven if Zia was released from jailbefore November 28, the dead-line of filing the nominationpapers, the Constitution wouldnot allow her to contest the pollsand “she will have to wait for fivemore years after her acquittal totake part in the elections”.

As per Bangladesh’sConstitution, a person sen-tenced to imprisonment fortwo years or above for a crimi-nal offence cannot take part inan election unless five years haveelapsed since his/her release.

The two-judge High Courtbench comprising JusticeMohammad Nazrul IslamTalukder and Justice KMHafizul Alam passed the order,rejecting separate petitions filedby five BNP leaders, includingZia’s adviser Amanullah Aman,seeking a stay on their convic-tions and sentences in graftcases.

The Attorney General said,“If the court allows them to takepart in the next general electionby staying their conviction, itwill go against Article 66 of theConstitution...So the courtscrapped their pleas.”

Zia was made vice-chair-person of the BNP, the largestpolitical opposition of thecountry, in March 1983 afterthe assassination of her hus-

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While many Congress stal-warts including former ChiefMinister Digvijay Singh, StateCongress president KamalNath and Guna MPJyotiraditya Scindia are notcontesting the Assembly polls,they also have a lot at stake toensure their party’s victory intheir respective bastions.

In case of Digvijay Singhand a few other stalwarts, theirfamily members are in thefray.

The prestige of the StateCongress president KamalNath as well as of the State BJPpresident Rakesh Singh is atstake as both hail fromMahakoushal region.

MP Chief Minister ShivrajSingh Chouhan and formerMadhya Pradesh Congresschief Arun Yadav are pittedagainst each other in the high-profile Budhni seat from wherethe present Chief Minister con-tested his first Assembly elec-tion in 1989-90.

A number of party work-ers are stationed in thisAssembly segment as part ofCongress strategy.

Though Yadav belongs toKhargone district in Nimarregion of the western MadhyaPradesh, he has been fielded bythe Congress from Budhni thistime to challenge Chouhan onhis home turf.Digvijay Singh’sson Jaivardhan is contestingfrom his forte Raghogarh forthe second time in a row, whilehis brother Laxman Singh istrying his luck fromChanchoda seat. Besides for-mer powerful Congress leaderArjun Singh’s son and leader ofOpposition Ajay Singh is con-testing from his traditionalChurht seat in Sidhi district.

Another relative ofDigvijay Singh and ex-royal ofKhilchipur Priyavrat Singh,also a former MLA, is tryinghis luck again from Khilchipurseat in Rajgarh district.

Dr Hiralal Alawa is testingpolitical waters for the first timeon a Congress ticket fromManawar seat in tribal Dhar district.

Former Union Ministerand senior Congress leaderSuresh Pachouri is pittedagainst sitting MLA andMinister Surendra Patwa inBhojpur seat of Raisen district.

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New Delhi: External AffairsMinister Sushma Swaraj heldwide-ranging talks withRomanian Foreign MinisterTeodor Melescanu to strength-en ties between two countriesduring his four-day visit toIndia. During the discussions,Sushma highlighted the con-structive cooperation betweenthe two countries on interna-tional and bilateral issues, theMinistry of External Affairssaid in a statement.

Sushma expressed India’scommitment towards strength-ening of existing bilateral ties

and broadening its scope, it said.Melescanu also reaffirmed

Romania’s support for a per-manent seat for India in areformed UNSC.

“The two sides reiteratedthe need for a comprehensivereform of the United Nations,including its Security Council,”the statement said. Romaniawill take over the Presidency ofthe European Council inJanuary 2019. The RomanianForeign Minister also met thedeputy national security advi-sor during his visit fromNovember 23-27. PTI

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The Supreme Court onTuesday termed as “very

shameful” and “inhuman” theconduct of Bihar Governmentin not taking appropriate actionfollowing the allegations ofphysical and sexual abuse ofchildren at several shelterhomes and favoured a CBIinvestigation in these matters.

A Bench headed by JusticeMadan B Lokur said the Statewas “very soft” and “very selec-tive” in registering FIRs againstthe perpetrators and asked theBihar Government whetherthese children were not the cit-izens of this country.

The apex court also askedthe counsel appearing for theBihar Government as to whyFIRs have not been lodgedunder Section 377 (unnaturaloffences) of the IPC despitethere being allegations thatchildren were sodomised at theshelter homes.

“What are you doing? Thisis very shameful. You mayhave filed a detailed affidavit(in the court) but if a child issodomised, you cannot saythat it is nothing. How can youdo this? This is inhuman,” thebench, also comprising justicesSA Nazeer and Deepak Gupta,told State’s counsel. Duringthe hearing, Justice Gupta

observed, “Every time I readthis file, I am hit by the tragedyof the case. It is tragic.”

The Bench said after goingthrough the allegations and themanner in which state policewas dealing with them, “We areof the view that the state policeis not doing its job as is expect-ed. We would like the CBI todeal with these allegations.”

The counsel representingthe CBI, which is already prob-ing the Muzaffarpur shelterhome case in Bihar where sev-eral women inmates wereallegedly raped and sexuallyabused, said he would seekinstructions on the issue byWednesday.

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In what has sent the securityagencies into a tizzy, a group

of five Jaish-e-Mohammad(JeM) terrorists has infiltratedinto the national Capital and issuspected to be planning to hitvital installations.

The group is also suspect-ed to have procured arms toexecute its insidious plan,according to alert issued by theIntelligence agencies.

The group is in touch withan arms supplier operating outof Nepal and Saudi Arabia, an Intelligence Bureau reporthas warned.

Following the IB alert, thesecurity agencies have been puton a high alert and security hasbeen beefed up at all vitalinstallations in Delhi, NationalCapital Region (NCR) andadjoining States.

The five members of thegroup include — Abu Musaib,Abu Azhar, Rehman Afghani,Abu Wakeel and Saifullah Bhai.The group members reachedthe national Capital earlier thismonth and after collation ofinputs by the agencies, a highlevel alert was issued onNovember 18.

The group also includestwo over ground workers(OGWs), one each fromSopore and Anantnag inJammu & Kashmir. Theweapon provider Jaffer Rizwanoperates both from SaudiArabia and Nepal and has linkswith the JeM group hiding inDelhi, says the alert.

All stakeholders in securi-ty establishment, includingCentral paramilitary forces,the Delhi Police and othershave been advised to take max-imum precaution and remainon high alert.

Security at all sensitiveinstallations, including the air-port and Delhi Metro besides Government buildingshave been further strengthenedin view of the alert, officials said.

Latest sinister plan of Jaishcomes amid inputs thatPakistan-based group’s chiefMaulana Masood Azhar hassuccessfully undergone kid-ney implant at a military hos-pital in Pakistan. The outfit’sbid to hit Delhi also comesagainst the backdrop of the set-back it has suffered at thehands of security forces inJ&K over last one year.

Inputs here also suggest thebid to target Chinese consulatein Karachi was a ploy by theoutfit to assert its presence indisturbed Baluchistan region.

Sources said JeM andLashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) arepart of the security architectureput in place by the Pakistaniagencies ISI and Pakistan Armyfor security of China PakistanEconomic Corridor (CPEC).

The Chinese Governmentreimburses the security expen-diture incurred on securing theCPEC. The attack could beaimed at seeking more fundsfrom China for securing theCPEC by citing grave challengefrom the Baloch insurgents.

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitleyon Tuesday accused the

Congress of considering “sur-name as a political brand” as hewaded into the controversytriggered by the Oppositionparty that launched personalattacks against Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

Jaitley said the BJP will“gladly accept” the challenge of2019 general elections if theCongress wants it to bebetween Modi — the son oflesser-known parents — andsomeone who is known for hisparentage rather than capacity,merit and competence.

In a Facebook post titled‘What was the name of SardarPatel’s father’, Jaitley said in adynastic party like theCongress, talent and merit hasno space and the crowd aroundthe family is the cadre.

Jaitley’s post comes against

the backdrop of some Congressleaders naming family membersof Modi. Jaitley said while theage of the Prime Minister’smother was made a subjectmatter of the electoral debate,his father’s anonymity was com-mented upon as an inadequatecredential of the Prime Minister.

“The debate whether Indiashould be a dynastic democra-cy has been ignited by a self-goal of the Congress Party...The argument given was that if

you represent the legacy of awell-known family, it is a polit-ical point in your favour.Millions of talented politicalworkers who come from mod-est family backgrounds wouldfail by the Congress test of lead-ership. Merit, talent, ability toinspire and lead would not bea virtue. The Congress consid-ers only a great surname as apolitical brand,” Jaitley added.

He said even his “well-informed friends” did not have

a “definitive answer” whenasked to name MahatmaGandhi’s father, Sardar Patel’sfather or his wife.

“The reason for this is sim-ple. Decades of Congress rule,naming colonies, localities,cities, bridges, airports, railwaystations, schools, colleges, uni-versities, stadiums after onefamily was intended to declarethe ‘Gandhis’ as India’s royalty.They were ‘officially glamorised’as the blue-blooded family ofIndia. The others did not mat-ter,” Jaitley said.

Mahatma Gandhi’s fatherwas Karamchand UttamchandGandhi, while Sardar Patel’swife’s name was Diwali Ba andfather was Jhaverbhai Patel.

He said although SardarPatel, who was a frontlineleader of the freedom move-ment and was the DeputyPrime Minister and HomeMinister of India, negotiatedthe transfer of power with the

British, the CongressGovernment rejected the pro-posal to build his statue at VijayChowk in the national Capital.

“The country had to be sat-isfied with installation of hisstatue at traffic round-about onParliament Street,” Jaitley said.

He said the dangers of offi-cially glamourising one familyat the cost of those who madea far greater contribution “isdangerous” both for the nationas also for the party to whichthey belong.

“The contribution of othergreat stalwarts like Patel andSubhash Chandra Bose isdownplayed. Members of onefamily are projected as largerthan life. Their aberrationsbecome national aberrations.The party adopts them as itsideology,” Jaitley added.

He said the silver lining isthat country is changing andaspirational India judges par-ties and leaders very harshly.

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Ahead of the Assembly pollsin Madhya Pradesh,

Rajasthan and Mizoram,farmer leaders and socialactivists have appealed thatfarmers should not vote for theBJP if their demands are notfulfilled. They said, “Note bandika jawab, kisan vote bandi sedenge (farmers will respond toModi Government’s demon-etisation decision by not givingtheir vote to it)”.

Thousands of farmers fromacross the country are expect-ed to assemble at RamlilaMaidan on November 29 andmarch to Parliament street thenext day to demand a specialjoint Session of Parliament todiscuss agrarian crisis. Theyare covering more than 10,000km across 21 States. The marchis expected to be second major

farmer’s protest in the nation-al Capital in two months.

“Farmers should vote tothose who will fulfill theirdemands,” said noted activistMedha Patkar and Swaraj Indiapresident Yogendra Yadav in aPress conference on Tuesday.“Despite PM Modi’s recentstatements that he had takeninitiatives to solve farmers’ dis-tress, the issues remain. For thisbetrayal, farmers will give Modi

Government and the BJP abefitting reply in 2019 election”,Ashok Dhawale, president ofAIKS said.

Leaders of all non-BJPpolitical parties have ben invit-ed for the November 30 rally atParliament Street. The ChiefMinisters of Andhra Pradesh,West Bengal and Bihar havealso been invited for the meet-ing, All Indian Kisan SangarshCoordination Committee

(AIKSCC) leaders said.The farmers march

demands that the two KisanMukti Bills — for guaranteedremunerative prices and forfreedom from indebtedness —be debated and approved inParliament. A cultural pro-gramme ‘Ek Sham Kisan KeNaam’ dedicated to farmerswould be held at the Ramlilaground on the first day of thecongregation, where prominentsingers Jasbir Jassi, Rabbi Shergil,Hari Om Panwar, Bhangragroup of Jalandhar and Asmitatheatre group will perform.

The farmers’ protest underthe aegis of AIKSCC, jointplatform of around 208 farm-ers’ organisations, is beingbilled as a reminiscent of a sim-ilar protest march to Mumbaiby over thousands of farmersfrom across Maharashtra inearly this month.

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The Supreme Court onTuesday asked CBI’s Special

Investigation Team (SIT) to filea fresh status report givingdetails of probe into charges of“abuse of official position” byformer CBI chief Ranjit Sinha who had allegedly triedto scuttle the probe in coalscam cases.

The top court also askedthe Enforcement Directorate(ED) and the CBI to file theirupdated status reports onpending coal scam cases andthe stages of their trial.

A special bench headed byJustice M B Lokur, monitoringthe probe by the CBI and theED into the coal scam cases,asked the SIT to file a statusreport on probe into thecharges against Sinha.

“Scope of investigation ofSIT has been confined to inves-tigate the abuse of authoritycommitted by Ranjit Sinhawith a view to scuttle theinquiry and investigation con-ducted by the CBI in coalscam cases. The status report isupto January 15, 2018. Latestreport till December 31, 2018be filed by on or before January15, 2019,” said the bench alsocomprising Justices KurianJoseph and A K Sikri.

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Union Minister of State forHealth and Family Welfare

Ashiwini Kumar Choubey onTuesday said if more individ-uals decide to donate theirorgans it will bring huge changein country’s healthcare sectorand many lives can be saved.

“There are lakhs of peoplewho wait at top hospitals forlife-saving transplants amidacute shortage of donors. Evenif a section of individualsdecide to donate his or herorgans, it will bring a hugechange,” Choubey said at anevent to celebrate 9th IndianOrgan Donation Day by theNational Organ and Tissue

Transplant Organisation(NOTTO) under the aegis ofthe Health Ministry.

His ministerial colleagueAnupriya Patel said that it isimportant to understand thatin India it is mainly the livingdonors who are donatingorgans and only about 23 percent of the organ transplant isbeing done with organsobtained from the cadavers.

“There is a need to pro-mote cadaver or deceasedorgan donation rather thanrelying on living donors inorder to avoid the risk of com-mercial trading of organs andalso to avoid the inherent riskto the health of the livingdonor,” she added.

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Indian scientists have suc-cessfully grown the Chinese

‘Monk fruit’ in HimachalPradesh’s Palampur district.Monk fruit, which hails fromChina, has high nutritiousvalue, low calories and sweet-ness that comes from a natur-al compound that does notincrease blood sugar, making itsafe for consumers with diabetes.

Probably in first-of-its kindefforts, scientists from theIndian Institute of HimalayanBio-resource Technology(IHBT), a Council of Scientificand Industrial Research (CSIR)lab, are now busy workingtowards development of goodagricultural practices and vari-

etal improvement of the Monkfruit. They hope to make itavailable for sale in Indian mar-ket soon for the diabetic patientsand manufacturers seeking alow-calorie ingredient.

“Since India is home to 62.4million people with diabetesType 2, this is wondrous fruitfor them. We have been suc-cessful in our experiments atour farms. “Now, we are focus-

ing for process technology andproduct development (extract)from Monk fruit. We hopeintense sweeteners made fromthe juice of this fruit will soonbe available in the market,”said Dr Sanjay Kumar, DirectorCSIR-IHBT, Palampur.

Dr Probir Kumar Pal,Senior Scientist, IHBTexplained that “Keeping inmind importance and essen-

tiality of non-nutritive naturalsweetener, and diverse agro-cli-matic conditions here, weintroduced its seeds fromChina through NBPGR-ICARearly this year.

After intense research, thequality fruits have also beenharvested at InstitutionalExperimental Farm.

“Now, a team of scientistsincluding agronomist, chemist,plant breeder and molecularbiologist from the IHBT areintensively working towardsdevelopment of good agricul-tural practices and varietalimprovement,” Dr Pal said.

Though Monk fruit is thenative of China, this plant is notcommercially cultivated even inthe neighbouring country dueto lack of proper agro-tech-

nique, suitable cultivar and sci-entific knowledge. Here wehave successfully gown it byensuring adequate climatic con-ditions and agro-techniques.”

In spite of high demand fornon-caloric sweeteners fromnatural sources, Monk fruitaccounts for a small share of thealternative sweetener market,remaining at about 2.2 percent in natural sweetener mar-kets. Thus, the market share ofmonk fruit is small because ofthe limited supply.

However, global demand isgradually on increase in view ofrising number of diabetes andobsese. According to an esti-mate, the global market forMonk fruit is expected to gen-erate �379.4 million revenue bythe end of 2026, said Dr Pal.

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Away from the politicalslugfest, BJP MP Varun

Gandhi has penned a massive870-page book exploring rea-sons of rural indebtedness,deepening distress, slowingdown of agriculture growth andincome, failure of ‘Mandi sys-tem’, decrease in land-holdings,rising suicides by farmers even as he seeks to find out whyrural economy is in shambleseven after over six-decades ofindependence and ‘dives deep’ to look at the root caus-es” and solutions.

“This is a solution-orient-ed academic critique. The bookis blameless in its scope andseeks to find out how to solvea problem,” said the BJP MP,

who has been away from thepolitical blitzkrieg his party hasunleashed in the States under-going the poll process.

The book — A RuralManifesto-Realising India’sfuture through her villages —according to the BJP MP, “Thefeasibility of an Indian village asan independent socio-eco-nomic entity, capable of sus-

taining itself independent ofexternal linkages.”

Varun argues that for sev-eral centuries farmers were thereal strength behind Indianeconomy, generating agricul-ture surplus and trade revenuesbrought in by its rural entre-preneurs in handicrafts, calicoand metal work but suddenlyover last couple of centuries

“India’s natural competitiveadvantage had vanished”.

“Our agricultural tech-niques grew outdated, ourhandicrafts, once pillaged by theBritish, found fewer and fewermarkets. Such an event drawsnatural questions — how didIndia’s demographic changetransform its rural economy,” hequestions in the book.

It focuses on the impact ofrising prices of agriculturalinputs, availability of water,soil suitability and pest man-agement, highlighting the nar-row window of economic ben-efit for the marginal farmer.

The well-researched bookthat goes back and forth intothe historical incidents of farm-ers movements, including thatled by Mahatma Gandhi in

Champaran, Bihar, exploreswhat it means to be a margin-al farmer in present days, whileproviding solutions to improv-ing the economic viability ofmarginal farming and high-lighting the role non-farmincome plays in supplementingoneself below the poverty line.

Asked whether he wouldpresent a copy of the book toPrime Minister NarendraModi, Varun said, “Yes, ofcourse!” He went on to say thatthere would not be any formalrelease of his tome. “I would begoing across the country with14 lectures, the first being atIIM Ahmedabad, second IITMumbai and third at IndianInstitute of Science, Bangalore,”he said. His lecture series wouldbegin from November 30.

On the possibility of rulingelites and political parties tak-ing a leaf out of his book, theSultanpur MP said, “My pri-mary concern is that farmers,labourers, weavers and othersvote their concerns rather thanvote religion, region or theircaste. Then politicians wouldalso react to their concernsswiftly,” said the BJP MP andsought to move away fromcontroversies.

He said the idea of writingbook came from the hinterlandof the country during his trav-el, campaigning and meetingstudents of universities in States.

Would you be applying thesolutions (in the book) to yourown constituency? “In 2009, Idecided I would give my MP’ssalary to the family where a sui-

cide happened. This went on forthree years. But that had a lim-ited scope, only few benefitedin Sultanpur and surroundingdistricts,” he explained.

Varun said he, thereafter,worked with district adminis-tration, identified all farmers indebt who could potentiallycommit suicide and worked outa plan for 26 districts. “Forexample, we asked farmers togrow pulses instead of paddywhich needed water andcrowd-funded �30 crore in2015-16 for them”.

On farmers burning stubblecontributing to pollution and airquality in Delhi, he argued costof stubble processing is �6,000whereas penalty of burning isabout �2,500 per acre making“economic sense”.

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In April of 2019, the European Union(EU) proposes to bring into force a reg-ulation that requires companies oper-ating in the EU to adopt slogans thatare accurate, failing which, such com-

panies will face fines up to two per cent oftheir global revenue. The BJP must becounting its lucky stars then because this pastweek, it was reported by the BroadcastAudience Research Council that the party wasthe most advertised brand on television inthe run-up to the Assembly elections, beat-ing many corporate heavyweights in theadvertising space, such as Netflix.

Funnily, in late August this year, we alsosaw the BJP to be the only party at the all-party meet organised by the ElectionCommission to reject the idea of a cap onelection-related expenses by political parties.This article will examine how these statisticsonly show that this is a smoke and mirrorsa Government that spends more time inensuring that its marketing campaign stayson point; rather than delving into complicat-ed questions concerning the country.

Ever since the BJP won the 2014 election,its go-to strategy has been to use marketingand advertising to paper over the cracks thathave emerged during its governance. Withthe state of the economy, the state of jobs andthe fact that India’s premier security agencyis currently engulfed in a full-blown crisis thatis unfolding each day in the Supreme Court,the BJP has its hands full. So one can’t blamethem for trying — it is harder to keep every-one’s attention away from the facts on theground and use its money power to do so.

On the influence of money in an elec-tion, ever since it came to power, the BJP hasdisplayed a singular focus not on limiting theinfluence of money in elections but lettingit run amok. It has set the example itself bynot only beating huge corporates in brand-ing but also by failing to change the systemin place or to check such influence. Take, forexample, the introduction of electoral bonds.As I have examined previously in thesecolumns in The Pioneer, the electoral bondsscheme recently introduced by thisGovernment permits any person who is a cit-izen of India or is an entityincorporated/established in India to purchasean electoral bond in favour of certain polit-ical party. Compared to other forms of fund-ing, disclosure requirements for these bondswere made minimal by this Government.

For example, under the Representationof the People Act, 1951, (RP Act) political par-ties are required to prepare a report of all con-tributions received in excess of �20,000 froma person or a company in a financial year.They are required to submit this report to theElection Commission. After the introductionof the electoral bonds scheme as also,amendments introduced under the FinanceAct, 2017, the RP Act now creates anexemption to this reporting requirement forcontributions made in the form of electoralbonds to political parties. These amendments

follow the same ethos as the BJP’spolitical strategy in dealing withspecific criticisms that arethrown at it, ie obfuscation overtransparency.

Another change that wasintroduced by the BJP was a capon spending for companiesunder the Companies Act, 2013.Prior to this, Indian companieswere restricted from spendingmore than 7.5 per cent of theiraverage profits towards fundingpolitical parties. Now such a caphas been done away with. Thesechanges inarguably allow forgreater influence by corporatesin our political discourse. Duringits tenure, the BJP has had to alsodefend itself against a number ofallegations of promoting cronycapitalism. Whether it’s the‘Rafale’ controversy or the BJP’sineptness in failing to check eco-nomic offenders like VijayMallya, Nirav Modi and MehulChoksi from fleeing the countrywith public money etc, the BJPcan’t seem to shake this image.

The major problem I fore-see with this unabated rise ofcorporate influence on the polit-ical process is that there is nosuch thing as free lunch and theinfluence of such funding,whether through electoral bondsor otherwise, is inevitably at thecost of other stakeholders,whether it is an NGO advocat-ing for environmentally friend-ly policies or tribals fighting fortheir land. We must be wary andguard against such fate.

Another reason why gen-uineness and transparency inour political discourse havetaken a back-seat is the problemof ‘fake news’. The buck here, too,must stop with Prime MinisterModi. ‘Fake news’ has skewedour political discourse by mak-

ing it almost impossible to deter-mine what the true picture is.While a responsibleGovernment should take steps tocheck the influence of fake news,this Government has singularlyfailed to tackle an issue that hasrisen unabatedly since 2014.

Last year, for example, atleast 30 Indians lost their livesdue to rumours that were circu-lated on WhatsApp. However,rather than taking ownership ofthe matter, the Governmententrusted the responsibility oftackling this problem to theintermediary.

The problem has been exac-erbated by the Government notonly because of its lack of seri-ousness in approaching the mat-ter but also because of the sig-nalling that the Prime Ministerand the BJP engage in. A recentBBC study bolstered the stand ofthe Opposition and victims ofvicious trolls, that there is a sys-tematic effort in subvertingdemocracy that is in operationby trolls online who spread fakenews and aim to discredit actu-al facts. The BJP, however, hasturned a blind eye to it.

As per the report, “Manymore of the Twitter handles thathave published fake news sit inthe pro-BJP cluster than in theanti-BJP cluster”. This is not newsto me. Within minutes of a poston Twitter criticising theGovernment, Prime MinisterModi or the BJP, there is almostan immediate outflow of abuseand vitriol that one is subjectedto. Such systematic targetingsuggests that there is a commit-ted mass that has been hired todo just this.

The fact that theGovernment has taken noaction against this form of

online attack is at the very leastshameful but borders on com-plicity. It is especially disheart-ening that a number of thesetrolls and vitriol-spewing peo-ple are followed by the PrimeMinister wear this as a badge ofhonour. The Prime Ministerwould do well to disassociatefrom such entities and theirhateful abuses. Perhaps, though,this may be too much to expectfrom a politician who has him-self rarely shown restraint andinsulted family members ofOpposition leaders and thenturned around and played vic-tim when he is criticised fordoing so.

To end this piece, one mightask what the Government mustdo to answer these uncomfort-able questions on limiting theinfluence of money and fakenews. The answer is not compli-cated. For one, the Governmentand especially the PrimeMinister should come out specif-ically against hate and abuse thattrolls spread and clamp down onany such action within its camps.For another, it can just agree ona cap to election spending. Iwouldn’t hold my breath oneither though.

Lucky for the BJP then,who competes with big corpo-rate entities on advertising but isoutside the ambit of the laws ofthe EU, that I mentioned at thebeginning of this piece. If the BJPdid have to similarly comply tosuch regulations, a change inbranding would be deemed nec-essary: “Suit-Boot Ki Sarkaar”, forexample, has a nice ring to it andmay be more authentic than “Nakhaaonga, Na khaane doonga”.

(The writer is JharkhandPCC president, former MP andIPS officer. Views are personal)

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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Hail Mary” (November 27).Mary Kom’s feat, wherein sheoutclassed Ukraine’s HannaOkhota during the final roundof women’s 48 kg bout at the2018 women’s world boxingchampionship, is but a replica ofthe semi-finals of the SilesianOpen in Poland last Septemberwhere she won with a 5-0 score-line.

Mary Kom won a silver onher debut in 2001 and between2002 and 2010, she won fivestraight gold medals. After sixyears (2011-2016) of hibernationfrom the boxing ring, MaryKom returned to competitiveboxing ring under the 48 kg cat-egory in 2017.

Her uniqueness lies in thefact that she is the only womanboxer to have won a medal ineach one of the seven worldchampionships. Kudos to thewoman boxer, who showed tothe world that hard works payback. Mary Kom is an inspira-tion to lakhs of sport enthusi-asts, especially women.

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Sir — This refers to the article,“When terrorism rules the roost”(November 27) by IshaanSaxena. Whether Pakistan isruled by the military or a demo-cratically-elected Governmentmakes no difference. Any talkswith Islamabad will be an exer-cise in futile. The only way is to

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sions to the citizen under the guiseof a referendum. The result: Astoic, imperial and trading nationsuch as Britain voted needlesslyfor Brexit, inviting isolationovernight and a substantial cost ofseparation besides extending theperiod of uncertainty. The ensu-ing cost of its complex repair willbe largely borne by Britain.

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The ‘Mental Health Status ofAdolescents in South-East Asia:Evidence for Action’ report pub-

lished by the World HealthOrganisation (WHO) in 2012 statedthat 86 million people in South-EastAsia suffered from depression and that25 per cent of all children between 13-15 years of age suffered from this dis-ease in India. The report further saidthat India has the highest suicide rateamong 10 South-East Asian nations.The most common reported reason forteen depression was anxiety and stressdue to academic performance, peerpressure and poor self-esteem.

Given that depression can leadto suicide, which is the second high-est cause of death among people in

15-29 age group in the region, it isessential that the school curricula berevised so as to ensure proper men-tal health and well-being of people.

Recent brain research has exposedthe vulnerability of the adolescentbrain. During adolescence, the brainundergoes tremendous neural growthand pruning, leading to massive re-organisation of connections betweendifferent brain areas.

During teenage brain develop-ment, prefrontal cortex, which isresponsible for executive decisions,begins to connect with other parts ofthe brain, primarily those connectedwith emotion. This connectionbetween the prefrontal cortex and theemotion areas (the limbic cortex)regulate reward, risk, problem solving,planning and regulation. Short-cuttingof neural networks from externalreceptors to the limbic cortex in someway explains irrational decision-mak-ing among teenagers.

But we must return to brain sci-ence for answers. Drawing fromresearch on doctors, nurses andArmy veterans, who have long been

vulnerable to stress, fatigue anddepression, neuroscientists recentlyshowed that focused and explicittraining in mindfulness, empathyand compassion can provide solu-tions for better mental health.Research from the laboratories ofRichard Davidson at the universityof Wisconsin, Madison and TaniaSinger at the Max Planck Institute inLeipzig showed that each of thesecompetencies employ a distinctneural circuit and build new connec-tions between the prefrontal cortexand limbic cortex.

Mindfulness is the conscious pay-ing of attention to experience and lifethat is unfolding right now and to cul-tivate conscious regulation of attention,emotion, thought and belief. Thisallows responses to be made as opposedto just reacting to them. Empathy andcompassion need to work in synchronyand are particularly helpful in handlinganxiety and peer pressure. Whileempathy is our general capacity to shareemotional states of others, compassionensures that we are not swayed by themand, instead, handle them with kind-

ness and positive action. Importantly, the practice of self-

compassion has emerged as a power-ful antidote to handle anxiety. Whenfaced with life challenges or while con-fronting failure, if adolescents respondwith compassion and kindness toself, rather than inflicting harsh pun-ishment, they accept and recognisethat limitation and weakness is a partof the human experience. This processnot only allows students to handle aca-demic pressure but also builds ahealthier and realistic representationof self — a process now acknowledgedto be critical for good mental health.

The process of building thesenetworks has been coined as FiringGandhi Neurons, which is inspired bythe seminal work of Neuroscientist VSRamachandran’s work on mirror andempathy neurons. The differencebetween this approach and conven-tional approaches is that rather thanfocusing purely on building intellec-tual knowledge, of why reducing stressis good and its benefits, focus is onbuilding emotional resilience to stress.

The key here is to create a neural

network across the intellectual andemotional such that these neural net-works can in actuality produce thevirtues and values that drove Gandhito practice empathy, kindness andcompassion to all beings, irrespectiveof religion, gender, ideology, and caste.

The good news: Recent studiesinvolving adolescents in schoolsshow similar promise. Initial resultspoint towards more pro-socialbehaviour on the part of the studentswho were exposed to mindfulnessand empathy cum compassion train-ing. The research and experiences arestill at an infancy stage but the sci-ence suggests promise.

Therefore, if schools are to be ‘true’centres of learning, they need to beable to empower our youngsters tonot only acquire intellectual andtechnical skills, as required by the jobmarkets, but also provide them a bet-ter understanding of themselves,their identities and relationship withother beings. But there is a dichoto-my here that we must address andalert all stakeholders in the educationchain; this includes not only the

teachers, school administrators, andeducation policy-makers but alsoparents.

We all must move away from thepresent assessment-obsessed system toa structure that rewards kindness andconsideration for social good. If notthen we can expect learners to be in astate of perpetual cognitive dissonance,which might even cause further dis-comfort, stress and anxiety, wonder-ing which path they should take.

With that sobering warning, wesee optimism for the future as theyounger generation do begin to ques-tion values and beliefs of the past andexplore new multivariate identities thatemerge from a system that encouragesunderstanding the self, understandingand helping others but with a criticaleye to facts and evidence. Once theydo, then what they think, what they sayand what they do is in harmony. Andthat according to the Mahatma is thesecret to creating happy schools.

(Anantha Duraiappah is Director,UNESCO MGIEP. Nandini ChatterjeeSingh is Cognitive Neuroscientist atUNESCO MGIEP)

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Wildlife in India hasbeen in a state of his-toric crisis sinceMughal times. Thetigers were then con-

sidered as “merciless blood suckingbeasts” and the sport of killing themcame to be known as trophy hunting.Mughal Emperor Jalal-ud-DinMuhammad Akbar enjoyed this big-game. His reign gave rise to the tra-dition of trophy hunting or shikar inIndia. It passed on from him to hissuccessors until his dynasty fell in1857. The hunters would often keepa part of the hunted animals as a souvenir.

Paintings from the Mughal peri-od depict Mongol, Rajput, Turk andAfghan nobilities hunting on ele-phants or horsebacks. These outingswere considered exotic and heroic —the tigers being the ultimate trophies.

The British were no different.They would stage elaborate hunts toshowcase their pride, wealth, machis-mo and honour. After ascending thethrone in 1911, King George V andhis aides travelled north to Nepal,slaying 39 tigers in just 10 days.Colonel Geoffrey Nightingale shot more than 300 tigers in India.In less than 50 years of our existence,from 1875 to 1925, we managed tokill more than 80,000 tigers in the country.

While most killings were trophyhunts, some considered tigers as ver-min, and were systematically erasedand ‘exterminated’ with incentivesfrom the Government. In otherwords, the authorities legitimisedtheir act by vilifying the big cats, cast-ing them as terrible, bloodthirstybeasts with an insatiable hunger forhuman flesh.

After India’s independence,killing tigers for sport escalated.Hunters from around the worldcame to this country for a guaranteedtrophy advertised by the Indiantravel industry. Because the biggestanimals made the best trophies, the largest, strongest cats disap-peared from the gene pool.

By 1971, when hunting was out-lawed by the Indian Governmentwith the Wildlife Protection Act,1972, coming into play, we hadalready killed thousands of tigers.

Illegal land encroachments dueto overpopulation, demand of tigerskin and bones for beauty and med-icine, and illegal hunting practices forentertainment reduced the tiger pop-ulation in the country to 1,800 by1971. Condition was such that therewere assumptions of tigers gettingextinct by the end of the year 2000.

In the year 1973, “Project Tiger”

was launched. With the aim to savethe steadily declining population oftigers in the country, “Project Tiger”still stands out as one of the mostcomprehensive project to protectthe big cats.

Today, we have less than 2,500tigers left in the wild, which is morethan 50 per cent of the total tigerpopulation across the world.

In recent years, special focus hasbeen given to tiger conservationwith several organisations, like theWorld Wide Fund for Nature(WWF), Wildlife Protection Societyof India (WPSI) and WildlifeConservation Society (WCS), amongothers, working towards protectingthe endangered species.

Here, a question arises: Havethese efforts been stopped by thebureaucrats and the politicians toimpose their will? Royalty in earlieryears and the Government machin-ery now have continued to hunt thetiger which seems to stand no chancein a world dominated by humans.

Recently, Avni (T1), a six-year-old tigress in the forests of Yavatmalin Maharashtra was hunted and shotdead due to claims of her being aman-eater. According to locals andforest officials in Maharashtra, shewas accused of killing and devour-ing 13 people in the past year-and-a-half.

Many assert that there was noproof of Avni killing those 13 peo-ple in the village, and the shoot-to-

kill order was given to free up theland from tigers so as to aid indus-trialists to start work in the area.

A hunter, Nawab Shafath AliKhan, was given the task to tran-quilise or kill Avni, a mother of two10-month-old cubs. Post-mortemreports have revealed that noattempts were made to capture theanimal and she was directly shot afterseveral months of search.

In order to protect the tigressfrom a torturous death, there was aloud uproar on social media. On-ground campaign with hashtag#LetAvniLive and several marches inmajor cities across the country werealso held.

An appeal was made to the President and the Prime Ministerof our country to save Avni. But theGovernment as well as the forest offi-cials in Maharashtra failed to capturethe tigress alive.

Avni’s death is a big questionmark on the conservation effortstaken up by the Government inprotecting these endangered species.The highest court in the countryupheld the order to shoot the tigress,in spite of several attempts by celebri-ties, media and animal activists tostop Avni’s death.

It was not just the death of atigress, but of democracy, and ourefforts of conservation of the last bitof wildlife left in the country.

Next in line was a leopard whowas labeled as a man-eater in

Bageshwar district of Uttarakhand.Private shooters were called for thekilling of the cat. These cases alsoraise a question as to why privatehunters and shooters are appointedwhen India’s forest departments havenearly 90,000 workers on their roll,who are trained with tranquilisingguns to prevent such inhumanekilling of an animal.

These are just a few examples ofthe many, where human greed hasbeen the cause of wildlife destruc-tion. We continue to grow andencroach their land, leaving them tolive in only about 10 per cent of thecountry’s total potential tiger habi-tat of 300,000 sq km (115,830 sqmiles).

Animal density in many of theseforest areas is high and surplustigers sometimes venture outsidefor food. Poachers have gained fromthe man-animal conflict by killingthe tigers and bribing the villagers toset up traps.

What we need from theGovernment is the expansion ofreserved land for animals and anincreased awareness on the issueswhich pertain to the extinction oftigers across the world.

Stricter forest administration isrequired to prevent poaching of notjust tigers, but all other animals fortheir skin, tusks, horns and bones.

(The writer is an ExecutiveDirector of Federation of IndianAnimal Protection Organisations)

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At last Chief Minister NitishKumar clarified on his

neech (below standard)remarks he allegedly hurled atUnion Minister and RLSP chiefUpendra Kushwaha which cre-ated a brouhaha in political cir-cles and gave opportunity to hisbete noire and his supporters tomount attack on him.

At the JD(U) legislatureparty meeting on Monday lateevening, Nitish said he neverused this word against anybody.He said a TV news channel dis-torted and gave wrong colourto what he had said about thelevel of debate.

He said, “A TV channelinvited me at its programme andwanted to discuss developmentissues. I had said that no polit-ical questions should be asked.But the anchor started askingpolitical questions. I raised ques-tion on the standard of thechannel and said that the mediahouse should not stoop so low(Itna neeche star par nahi utar-na chahiye). My comment wasnot aimed at any individual.”

The comment had comewhen the anchor asked himabout the charges of Kushwahaagainst him. The RLSP chiefwho is struggling to negotiatewith BJP leadership on seatsharing and found himself cor-nered, tried to take advantage ofthe situation by accusing Nitishthat he called him “neech.”

While he demanded a clar-ification from Nitish, his sup-

porters protested and leaders ofsome other parties like JitanRam Manjhi, Shivanand Tewariand Arun Kumar supportedKushwaha and attacked theCM. Deputy CM Sushil KumarModi went on record sayingthat the remark was not againstKushwaha or anybody else andthat he was present at that pro-gramme. He also accused RLSPleader of raking up a non-issuefor political gain.

The clarification of Nitishis unlikely to satisfy Kushwahabecause he too knows that theCM had not called him nameand that he used this opportu-nity only to malign the JD(U)president and make an issue inbargaining seat sharing.

But despite all his effortsand antics, Kushwaha hasemerged to be a loser. His bothMLAs Lalan Paswan andSudhanshu Shekhar haveturned against him and wereseen at the meeting of the BJPlegislature party on Monday.

They said that they are inRLSP and NDA and Kushwahais free to go anywhere. Theyalso claimed that party’s sym-

bol ceiling fan is theirs. Paswanrefused to accept Kushwaha aspresident of RLSP and said heceased to hold the post. Both ofthem also have called on Nitish.

“RLSP is already dividedbut Kushwah should say who isinsulting him,” said Paswanand added that whenKushwaha failed to have con-trol over his three MPs and twoMLAs how he could rule Bihar.

After failing to get anappointment with BJP chiefAmit Shah, the RLSP leadersaid he is seeking time fromPrime Minister Narendra Modito discuss the poll issues andseat sharing. Kushwaha whohad earlier given a deadline ofNovember 30 to the BJP to takea decision, urged the PM togive him appointment betweenNovember 27-30.

The political circles heresaid that an appointment or noappointment with the PMwould clear how much weightthe BJP leadership was givingto him. In the first week ofDecember the RLSP has calleda meeting at Motihari to chartout future course of action.

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Business came to a standstillin both Houses of Bihar

legislature on Tuesday, thefirst working day of the week-long short winter session, asthe Opposition forced theiradjournment motions anddebate on law and order situ-ation. But their moves wereturned down in the Assemblyas well as in the Council lead-ing to turmoil and slogan shouting.

Leader of Opposition in theAssembly Tejashwi PrasadYadav said the criminals wereruling the roost and adminis-tration was sleeping. “DeputyCM Sushil Modi is appealingthe criminals with foldedhands not to commit crime.The law and order situation isat its nadir. Police is mutespectator and criminals ofRSS and BJP are creating socialtension and lynched an oldperson in Sitamarhi recentlyand burned him alive andagainst the wishes of his kinburied him in Muzaffarpur,”said Yadav and sought replyfrom the CM who was not pre-sent in the House.

He said questions related tothe departments held by theCM were not being answered.Nitish also hold home depart-ment. Amid the slogan shout-ing and waving of placards byRJD legislators, he said therewas total breakdown of law andorder and even Supreme Courtwas reprimanding BiharGovernment.

His mother and leader ofopposition in the Upper HouseRabri Devi said Nitish shouldfeel ashamed as hisGovernment was being run bycriminals and such elementswere being protected.

In the council adjourn-ment notice was pushed byRJD chief whip Subodh Kumarwho said gang rape of minorgirls, kidnapping, murder andcommunal violence were orderof the day.

Despite the request by thechair in both houses the oppo-sition members continuedstanding in the Well of thehouses and raising slogansforcing the adjournment inboth sessions.

Parliamentar y af fairsMinister Shrawan Kumar said,“Our Government is readytom accept their demand,hold debate on whateverissues they want and reply butthey should raise any issue asper parliamentary norms andrules. But they have no faithin parliamentary democracyand its institutions.”

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Polling in Mizoram will beheld on Wednesday with

over 7.7 lakh voters expected toexercise their franchise in theState where Chief Minister LalThanhawla is seeking a thirdconsecutive term and the BJPlooking to uproot the Congressin its last bastion in the North-east.

The Congress and theMizoram National Party (MNF)have ruled Mizoram since 1987when it became a full-fledgedstate. Interestingly, no party hasbeen able to form Governmentthrice since that year.

Elections to the 40-mem-ber assembly in Mizoram,which has a population ofabout 10 lakh, is significant forthe BJP that considers it to bethe 'final frontier' in the region.

In the 2013 elections, theCongress had won 34 seats,while its main opposition, theMizo National Front (MNF),got five and the MizoramPeople's Conference baggedone seat.

The Congress and theMNF have fielded 40 candi-dates each, while the BJP iscontesting in 39 seats. TheZoram Peoples Movement(ZPM), an alliance formed bytwo political parties and fourgroups, is contesting in 35 seats.

A total of 209 candidatesare in fray for the November 28polls and the fate of the candi-dates would be decided by7,70,395 voters, which include3,94,897 women.

Electronic voting machines(EVMs) will be used in thepolling that would begin at 7am and end at 4 pm.

Ahead of elections, thestate witnessed intense protestsby civil society groups over theplace of voting for 12,026 Bruvoters. The issue led to replace-ment of Chief Electoral OfficerSB Shashank in less than twoweeks before the polls.

Ashish Kundra, whoreplaced Shashank, said onMonday that the ElectionCommission has made exten-sive preparations for the Bruslodged in six relief camps ofTripura to cast their votes atKanhmun village in Mamitdistrict where 15 temporarypolling stations have been setup. The village is located on thestate's border with Tripura.

"The people of Kanhmun

village have even erected awelcome gate at the borderexpressing heartiest welcome toBru voters," Kundra said.

Campaigning in the statesaw paradigm shift this elec-tion season with political par-ties making extensive use ofsocial media platforms likeFacebook and Whatsapp towoo young voters.

The ruling Congressbanked heavily for the electionson its flagship New Land UsePolicy (NLUP), which broughtthe party to power for two con-secutive terms.

The campaign had reachedits peak in the final week withthe visit of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, BJP presidentAmit Shah and Congress pres-ident Rahul Gandhi.

Other prominent leaderswho campaigned in the stateincluded Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh, DoNERMinister Jitendra Singh,National People's Party (NPP)leader and Meghalaya ChiefMinister Conrad Sangma.

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Thiruvananthapuram: KeralaAssembly Speaker PSreeramakrishnan has disal-lowed the introduction of aprivate Bill by a Congress leg-islator in the Assembly on theissue of entry of women of allage into the Sabarimala tem-ple.

The Bill, urging the LDFGovernment to consider devo-tees of Lord Ayyappa as a sep-arate religious group and a newlegislation to protect their tra-ditional rituals and customs,was proposed by KovalamMLA M Vincent.

The Speaker's office toldPTI that the private bill wasrejected based on the advice ofthe Law Department that alegislation in this regard wouldbe "unconstitutional" and

against the September 28 apexcourt verdict, permittingwomen of all age groups intothe hill shrine.

"The Speaker used to referthe private bills to the LawDepartment to know whethersuch bills had constitutionalbacking. We had sent thisproposed bill on Sabarimalaalso to the state Law secretaryfor legal scrutiny," an official said.

"According to the LawSecretary, such a bill is uncon-stitutional and not qualified tobe presented in the House as itwill be against the SupremeCourt verdict," the official said.

The Sabarimala LordAyyappa Temple has beenwitnessing intense protests bydevotees and right-wingactivists against the CPI(M)-led LDF Government's deci-sion to implement the apexcourt verdict.

The 13th session of theKerala Assembly, which gotunderway here Tuesday, wasadjourned for the day as a markof respect to MLA P B AbdulRazak, who passed away recent-ly. The session is expected to bestormy as the OppositionCongress-led UDF and the BJPhave announced that they wouldrake up the Sabarimala issue inthe House.

Meanwhile, a crucial UDFmeeting here decided to stallproceedings of the 13 day-longassembly session till the PinarayiVijayan government withdrawsthe prohibitory orders invokedby police in Sabarimala and sur-rounding areas. A BJP statementsaid here that the saffron partywould cooperate with the P CGeorge-led Kerala Jana Pakshamin the ongoing assembly sessionon the Sabarimala issue. PTI

Thiruvananthapuram: TheCongress-led UDF on Tuesdayannounced that it will contin-ue the protests till the Keralapolice withdrew the prohibito-ry orders enforced inSabarimala.

The decision was conveyedby the United DemocraticFront (UDF) convenor BennyBehanan to the media here,soon after the liaison commit-tee of the leadership met here.

"We have decided that ourprotests will continue till theprohibitory orders in the tem-ple town in Sabarimala are lift-ed. Our protests will be seenboth inside and outside theAssembly," said Behanan.

The business session ofthe state assembly begins onWednesday.

The Kerala Police onMonday extended Section 144of the CrPC that prohibitsassembly of more than fourpersons in one place, tillNovember 30.

Sabarimala town has beenwitnessing repeated protestsever since the September 28verdict of the Supreme Courtthat allowed women of all agesto enter the temple that hith-erto banned girls and women

aged 10-50.The apex court had on

November 13 refused to stay itsearlier order, three days beforethe temple opened for a two-month long season.

The Left DemocraticFront (LDF) government-ledby the Communist Party ofIndia-Marxist (CPI-M) hasbeen trying to implement thetop court's order even as theCongress, the BharatiyaJanata Party and severalHindu groups have been up inarms against it.

Behanan added that therewas "an unholy alliancebetween the Pinarayi Vijayangovernment and the BJP/RSSforces".

"Vijayan and the SanghParivar forces are hand-in-glove and the former hasgiven the chance to the latterto get glorified through theirprotests and arrests of their leaders.

"This is a ploy by the twoforces. We have had a consis-tent stand on the Sabarimalaissue.

“We will not withdraw ourprotest till the prohibitoryorder is withdrawn," Behananadded. IANS

Kochi: Activist Rehana Fathima,who had attempted to enter theAyyappa temple in Sabarimalawhen it opened for monthly pujalast month, was arrested onTuesday for allegedly hurtingreligious sentiments throughher Facebook posts, police said.

Fathima (32) was arrestedfrom her office in Palarivattomin Kochi, they said.

The activist, a BSNLemployee, was booked bypolice in Pathanamthitta on acomplaint by RadhakrishnaMenon, alleging that some ofher Facebook posts hurt reli-gious sentiments.

She was booked under IPCSection 295A (deliberate andmalicious acts, intended tooutrage religious feelings of anyclass by insulting its religion orreligious beliefs). She was latertaken to Pathanamthitta afterher arrest, police said.

Meanwhile, a BSNLspokesperson said Fathima wassuspended from service in viewof the police investigation againsther. Considering the protestagainst her by devotees of LordAyyappa and BJP activists, theBSNL had earlier transferred herto the Palarivattom telephoneexchange in the city where pub-lic contact is not required.

A controversy had eruptedin Kerala after Fathima made an

attempt to enter the Sabarimalatemple when it was opened formonthly puja in October fol-lowing the Supreme Courtorder allowing entry of womenin the age group of 10-50.

Anticipating arrest, shehad moved the high courtseeking anticipatory bail, but itwas rejected.

Dismissing the plea, thecourt had directed that policecould take appropriate steps in

the case. Fathima, who was alsopart of the 'Kiss of Love' move-ment in Kochi in 2014 againstalleged moral policing, wasamong the two women whohad reached the hilltop onOctober 19 but had to returnbefore reaching the sanctumsanctorum due to massiveprotests by Ayyappa devotees.

Fathima and Hyderabad-based journalist Kavitha weretaken to the hills under heavypolice protection. Some youngwomen who tried to enter thetemple were targeted by devo-tees when the temple wasopened for six days on October17 for the first time after theapex court order.

On September 28, theSupreme court had lifted the cen-turies-old ban on the entry ofwomen of menstrual age into theshrine, but a section of devoteesis protesting the decision. PTI

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ued her relentless attack on theBJP Government for failing onall fronts and burdening Indiawith a “botched business, bleakindustry, social conflict anddismal employment scenario.”

Picking up from where sheleft at Jhargram on Monday, theChief Minister told an audiencein Purulia how the saffronoutfit’s tall claims of acchhe din(good days) had ended up in a“big cipher.”

Mamata who on Mondayattacked the BJP for sellingRama for electoral gains, onTuesday said how “they (BJP)have failed to tackle Maoistproblem in Madhya Pradesh,Chhattisgarh and Jharkhandwhereas we have been able toeradicate the problem com-pletely from Jangalmahal areasof Bengal which was once a hotbed of Maoists.”

Wondering what broughtthe saffron workers to Puruliaand other Jangalmahal areas inthe time of peace Mamata said“there was a time when thewhole area was scared ofMaoists as there was bloodshedeverywhere. At that time nonehad the courage to come to thisarea. Only I came to these areasrepeatedly. But now they (BJP)are trying to create distur-bance by bringing in peoplefrom Jharkhand.”

Attacking the Centre forruining Indian economy byimposing demonetisation andGST Mamata said “Notebandihas literally ruined the Indianbusinessmen. The whole indus-try has fallen flat on its face”adding GST only added salt toinjury by “sucking out whateverwas left within the moribundeconomy.”

This Government does nowork save intimidating the

people Mamata said. “This isa Government which has nowork except intimidating thebusinessmen who do not fall inline with them. Today youraise a question and tomorrowthey will send EnforcementDirectorate, Central Bureauof Investigation and IncomeTax to your house. Today theentire industry is afraid ofthem,” she said.

The Chief Minister whowas touring south Bengal dis-tricts to take stock of the devel-opmental works said how theCentre only made false slogansof Beti Bachao Beti Padhao“but in reality they do nothing,”whereas her Government withlimited means had been imple-mented schemes for women,girl children and poor that hadbeen hailed all over the world.

Speaking to people in anarea bordering JharkhandMamata said the neighbouringState had everything that a richState should possess “but dueto the lack of intellect and plan-ning of their leaders they havefailed to raise the level of theireconomy.”

Meanwhile, in an unrelat-ed development the oppositionLeft and the Congress onTuesday staged a walk-outfrom the Bengal Assembly aftertheir demand for a no-trustmotion was turned down bySpeaker Biman Banerjee.

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The Central Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI) on

Tuesday filed a supplemen-tary charge-sheet against arecently arrested accused,Ahmed Kamal Shaikh aliasAhmed Lambum alias KhalidKamal Shaikh, for his allegedrole in the conspiracy behindthe March 12, 1993 Mumbaiserial blasts case.

In the supplementarycharge-sheet filed before thedesignated TADA court here,the CBI stated that Shaikh hadbeen absconding since the 1993blasts but was arrested on June1 this year.

Shaikh had been declareda proclaimed offender by des-ignated TADA court here anda non-bailable arrest warranthad also been issued againsthim on September 17, 1997.Subsequently a Red CornerNotice was also issued againsthim by the Interpol.

The CBI’s investigationsrevealed that Shaikh was partof the criminal conspiracyhatched to engineer blasts inMumbai.

Shaikh had gone to Dubaiand worked in close associationwith several other primeabsconders like DawoodIbrahim Kaskar, Tiger Memonand others.

Incidentally, Shaikh is thesecond absconding accusedarrested by the CBI this year.Earlier in March this year, theCBI had arrested DawoodIbrahim’s close aide

Mohammed Farooq YasinMansoor alias Farooq Takla forhis alleged role as a key con-spirator in the March 12, 1993serial bombings. The CBI fileda supplementary charge-sheetagainst Farooq Takla in theTADA court here the secondweek of August this year.

As many as 257 personswere killed and 713 othersinjured in the serial explosionsthat rocked the country’s com-mercial capital on March 12,1993. Property worth Rs 27crore was destroyed in the blasts.

The serial blasts were theoutcome of a larger conspira-cy hatched in Dubai, Mumbaiand other places in India.Initially, the investigation wasconducted by Mumbai Police.In all 27 crimes were registeredat various police stations. OnNovember 4, 1993, theMumbai Crime Branch hadfiled a consolidated chargesheet before a special court.

The trial involving the firstset of 123 accused had begun in1995 and concluded in 2002.Having begun to pronounce thejudgements in the first phase ofthe trial on September 12, 2006,then designated Judge P D Kodecompleted the first phase ofverdicts on December 6, 2006.

Of the 123 who faced thetrial, 100 were convicted and 23acquitted. Of the 100 convict-ed, Judge Kode awarded capi-tal punishment to 12 and lifeimprisonment to 20. Rest of theconvicts were handed sen-tenced to periods ranging fromtwo years to 14 years. Only one

of the 100 convicts – that isRussi Mulla – was set free bythe court by giving him reliefunder the Probation ofOffenders Act (POA).

Of the 12 convicts whowere handed capital punish-ment in the first phase of the1993 serial blasts trial, YakubAbdul Razzak Memon washanged to death at the NagpurCentral Prison on July 30,2015.

In the second phase of1993 serial blasts trial, therewere in all seven accusedMustafa Ahmed Dossa(deported from Dubai), AbuSalem (extradited fromPortugal), Riyaz AhmedSiddhiqui, Abdul Kayyum;Karrimullah Osan Khan, FirozAbdul Rashid Khan and TaherMerchant @ Taher Taklya ( allextradited from Dubai).

On September 7 last year,a designated TADA Court herehanded out death sentence totwo convicts Taher Merchantand Firoz Abdul Rashid Khanand life imprisonment to extra-dited underworld don AbuSalem and another convictKarrimullah Osan Khan. TheTADA court sentenced thefifth convict in the case RiyazAhmed Siddhiqi to ten years’rigorous imprisonment.

Of the six accused who hadearlier been convicted by theTADA court on June 16 lastyear, notorious smuggler andkey convict Mustafa Dossaalias Mustafa Majnu died of amassive heart attack at theState-run JJ Hospital here onJune 28. The court had earlieron June 16 acquitted seventhaccused in the case, AbdulKayyum for lack of evidence.

With both of them havingbeen charge-sheeted, Shaikhand Farooq Takla will under-go trial in what can be called asthe third phase of the 1993Mumbai serial blasts trial.

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Three terrorists and a soldierdied on Tuesday in two

encounters in south Kashmirwhere security forces hadlaunched a massive counter-insurgency campaign and neu-tralised 16 terrorists in less thana week’s time.

Police said that a joint searchoperation was launched by ajoint team of Rashtriya Rifles,Central Reserve Police Force(CRPF) and counter-insurgencypolice in Redwani village ofKulgam district in the wee hourson Tuesday following input onthe presence of terrorists.

While the security per-sonnel zeroed in on a suspect-ed house, the hiding terroristsopened fire triggering anencounter.

During the exchange offire, two local cadre of bannedLashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) out-fit were killed. They were iden-tified as Ajaz Ahmad Makrooand Waris Ahmad Malik, bothlocal residents.

Police said Makroo as hada long history of crime recordssince 2017. “He (Makroo) wasa close associate of terroristcommanders including NaveedJatt and Azad Dada. Severalcases were registered againsthim,” police said.

Police said that an Armysoldier, identified as PrakashYadav and two CRPF personnelidentified— sub-inspector Amit

Kumar and Constable Avnish-- sustained injuries. Yadav suc-cumbed to his injuries in hos-pital later. This is second fatalcasualty on army’s side since lastthree days.

On Monday, Lance NaikNazir Ahmad Wani, a formercounterinsurgent turned armysoldier, who was twice award-ed Sena Medal for his role infighting terrorism in Kashmir,was killed in an encounter inBatagund village of Shopiandistrict.

In another encounter inHafoo Reshipora area of Tralsub-district in south Kashmir’sPulwama district, a terroristidentified as Shakir HassanDar was killed. He was closeaide of Zakir Musa, the self-proclaimed leader of Ansar

Ghazwatul Hind, an al-Qaedaaffiliate.

Police said a search oper-ation was launched jointly bypolice and security forces in thewee hours following the inputsabout the presence of terroristsin the village.

"As the searches weregoing on, the search party wasfired upon by the gunmen. Thefire was retaliated leading to agunfight. In the ensuingencounter, one terrorist waskilled,” police said.

“Shakir was part of ZakirMusa group and had a long his-tory of crime records since2015,” police said adding thathuge quantity of arms andammunition including rifleswas recovered from theencounter sites.

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An overall 71.3 per centturnout was recorded in

the fourth phase of panchay-at elections in Jammu &Kashmir. The elections arebeing conducted in nine phas-es since November 17.

According to the ChiefElectoral Officer, an impres-sive 82.4 per cent polling waswitnessed in Jammu divisionand 32.3% in Kashmir divi-sion including Kargil and Leh districts.

The Kupwara witnessed56.1%, Bandipora 24.4%,Baramulla 62.4%, Budgam46.3%, Pulwama 0.6 %,Kulgam 14.5 %, Anantnag6.2 %, Kishtwar 82.3%, Doda84.6%, Ramban 81.1%,Udhampur 78.9%, Kathua80.7%, Jammu 85.2 %, Rajouri81.8% and Poonch 82.5%.

Pertinently, in Phase-I ofPanchayat Polls held on 17November 74.1% polling wasrecorded across J&K includ-ing 64.5% in Kashmir divisionand 79.4% in Jammu division.

In the Phase-II ofPanchayat Polls held on 20November overall 71.1%polling was witnessed acrossthe State with an overwhelm-ing 80.4% polling in Jammudivision and 52.2% inKashmir division.

Similarly, in Phase-III, theState witnessed a polling per-

centage of 75.2% whichincludes 55.7% in Kashmirdivision and 83.0% in Jammudivision.

The voting for Phase-fiveof the panchayat polls will takeplace on November 29.

Adequate security arrange-ments had been made includ-ing deployment of CentralArmed Police Forces (CAPF)in the poll-bound areas.

The overall poll percent-age of 71.3% was witnessed inthe Phase 4 of the nine-phased panchayat electionsin the State.

According to the ChiefElectoral Officer, an impres-sive 82.4% polling was wit-nessed in Jammu divisionand 32.3% in Kashmir divi-sion including kargil and Leh districts.

The Kupwara witnessed56.1%, Bandipora 24.4%,Baramulla 62.4%, Budgam

46.3%, Pulwama 0.6 %, Kulgam14.5 %, Anantnag 6.2 %,Kishtwar 82.3%, Doda 84.6%,Ramban 81.1%, Udhampur78.9%, Kathua 80.7%, Jammu85.2 %, Rajouri 81.8% andPoonch 82.5%.

Pertinently, in Phase-I ofPanchayat Polls held on 17November 74.1% polling wasrecorded across J&K includ-ing 64.5% in Kashmir divisionand 79.4% in Jammu division.

In the Phase-II ofPanchayat Polls held on 20November overall 71.1%polling was witnessed acrossthe State with an overwhelm-ing 80.4% polling in Jammudivision and 52.2% inKashmir division.

Similarly, in Phase-III, theState witnessed a polling per-centage of 75.2% whichincludes 55.7% in Kashmirdivision and 83.0% in Jammudivision.

The voting for Phase-fiveof Panchayat Polls will takeplace on 29 November 2018.

Adequate securityarrangements had been madeincluding deployment ofCentral Armed Police Forces(CAPF) in the poll bound areas.

Pertinently, separatistleadership amalgam "JointResistance Leadership-JRLhad called for shutdown in al l pol l bound areas inKashmir region.

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Rashtriya Lok Dal’s seniorleader Anil Dubey on

Tuesday said the BJP hadignored the farmers’ issueswhile it was portraying itself tobe their well-wishers. “It is thetime of sowing of crops but thefarmers are not getting fer-tilisers and seeds easily as thecooperative societies remainclosed in most of the districts,”he pointed out.

The senior RLD leader saidthe party would launch a mas-sive agitation to expose theBJP’s misgovernance in thetime to come. Dubey said theBJP leaders were now coveringup their failures and misleadingfarmers by making false claims.“Even as farmers are facing a lotof difficulty in getting fertilisersand seeds and cooperative soci-eties are lying closed, the stateBJP government is claiming thatthe same is available in abun-dance at different centres in thestate,” he said.

Hitting out at the UnionGovernment led by BJP, Dubeysaid the Government had utter-ly failed in fulfilling its promise.“It has failed to provide jobs toyouths, one-and-a-half timesmore price for crops to farm-ers and doling out �15 lakh toeach of them. Contrary to it, thecorruption and price hike arehitting the all-time high. Thelaw and order in the BJP-ruledStates has derailed. To divert theattention of the public from itspoor performance, the BJPleaders are raking up templeissue,” he said.

The RLD leadersexpressed surprise over thehike in fuel prices. “In theinternational market, the priceof crude oil is low. Despite this,the price of diesel and petrolis witnessing steep spurt,” hepointed out.

Dubey said the BJP mis-governance had been exposedand public would give a befittingreply to the BJP in the 2019 LokSabha election. “We will holdagitation in different districts inthe time to come. The party is

planning to hold a meeting withthe district level RLD workersand leaders. Right now our lead-ers are busy in Assembly election

in Rajasthan. The plan of hold-ing the agitation will be decidedby the senior leaders in the timeto come,” he said.

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RBI Governor UrjitPatel on Tuesday

committed to aP a r l i a m e n t a r yCommittee to give inwriting his views onsome of the controver-sial issues, which mayinclude theGovernment citingnever-used powers toget the central bankon the discussion table,said sources.

Patel, whoappeared before the 31-member ParliamentaryStanding Committeeon Finance, said theeconomy would get aboost from oil prices coolingoff from four-year highs andsaid fundamentals were“robust”, they said.

The RBI Governor alsotold the Members ofParliament that credit growthwas 15 per cent and the impactof November 2016 demoneti-sation has a transient impact onthe economy.

Patel was earlier sched-uled to appear before the panelon November 12.

He, however, did notanswer specific questions onthe Government invokingSection 7 of the RBI Act, NPAs,the autonomy of the centralbank and other contentiousissues, sources said.

Sources said Patel made apresentation about the state of

the economy as well about theworld economy to the com-mittee and several membersasked questions. His views onthe economy were “optimistic”.

“He stayed clear of contro-versial questions likeGovernment invoking specialpowers, instead he gave intel-ligent replies without sayinganything,” they said.

Members also asked ques-tions on the implementation ofthe Basel III capital adequacynorms for banks. To this, asource said the Governorreplied that adherence to theglobal norms was India’s com-mitment to G-20 nations.

Another source said that asthere were a large number ofquestions, the Governor wasasked to file written replies in

10-15 days.The RBI Governor

appeared before the panel daysafter the RBI’s face-off with thefinance ministry over issuesranging from the appropriatesize of reserves to be main-tained by the central bank toeasing of lending norms forsmall and medium enterprises.

Former prime ministerManmohan Singh is also amember of the committeeheaded by senior Congressleader and former Union min-ister M Veerappa Moily.

India’s banking system,particularly state-owned banks,are grappling with huge badloans. Recently, there has beena liquidity crisis for the impor-tant NBFC sector following re-payment default by IL&FS.

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Moody’s Investors Serviceon Tuesday downgraded

Yes Bank’s ratings to non-investment grade and changedoutlook to negative from stableon the back of various resig-nations from the Board.

The resignations, whenseen in conjunction with RBI’sSeptember directive to restrictthe term of the bank’sMD&CEO Rana Kapoor, tillJanuary 31, 2019, have raisedconcerns over corporate gov-ernance, it said.

“Although the bank’sreported credit fundamentalsremain stable, the develop-ments surrounding the transi-tion in leadership as well as thegovernance issues are creditnegative because they compli-cate management’s effectiveimplementation of the bank’slong-term strategy,” it said.

Furthermore, these devel-opments could constrain thebank’s ability to raise new cap-ital, Moody’s said.

Moody’s has downgradedforeign currency issuer ratingto ‘Ba1’ from ‘Baa3’, and alsothe bank’s baseline creditassessment (BCA) and adjust-ed BCA to ‘ba2’ from ‘ba1’. Therating implies that these instru-ments are non-investmentgrade, speculative.

The outlook, where applic-able, has been changed to neg-ative from stable.

Moody’s said although YesBank’s capitalisation is ade-

quate, the bank would need toraise capital from the market tocontinue to grow its balancesheet more rapidly than theIndian banking system.

“If Yes Bank experiencesdifficulty in raising externalcapital, this will impede thebank’s ability to grow its loanbook,” the US-based agencysaid in a statement.

Moody’s said while YesBank’s current asset qualitymetrics are superior to those ofits Indian peers, its aggressivegrowth strategy poses assetrisks.

“In particular, Moody’s hasnoted significant divergencein the bank’s reported assetquality metrics compared withthe RBI’s assessment of assetquality in 2016-17 and 2015-16While the results of RBI’s risk-based supervision report for2017-18 are not known as yet,nevertheless, any adverse find-ings from its assessment will becredit negative,” it said.

“Nevertheless, its fundingprofile is relatively weakercompared to other public sec-tor banks in India, as measuredby its low current and savingsaccount deposit ratio and thedominance of corporatedeposits,” it said.

The outlook has beenrevised to negative, after takinginto account the uncertaintyrelating to the bank’s asset qual-ity and profitability perfor-mance and in particular anyadverse findings from RBI’srisk-based supervision report.

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Tuesday said he has taken upthe issue of declining credit toexporters with the FinanceMinistry to ensure adequateavailability of funds to them.

Prabhu said exports aregrowing and the ministry istaking steps to further acceler-ate the growth rate.

“One of the main chal-lenges for export is finance.There is a decline in (export)finance, so we have taken upthe issue with the finance min-istry...I think, the finance min-ister is also looking into this (asin) how we can improve thecredit flow into the export sec-tor,” the minister told reportershere.

Federation of Indian ExportOrganisations (FIEO) PresidentGanesh Gupta has time andagain demanded augmentationof credit flow to the export sec-tor, as a sharp decline in creditwould impact exports growth.

The minister has earliersuggested that loans toexporters should be consideredas priority sector lending by thebanks.

Prabhu also said that toboost shipments, exportersshould explore new marketsincluding in Africa, LatinAmerica, East Asia, south Asia,and the Middle East.

He said logistics sector willplay a key role in enhancing thecompetitiveness of Indiangoods in the global markets.

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and reliable products to its cus-tomers, seized significantamount of counterfeit productsfrom trader in Greater NoidaIndia recently. The trader, whohas been selling SKF productsillegally, was a non-authorisedtrader of SKF.

The raid was carried out bythe local police authorities incooperation with SKF India. Alarge number of counterfeitpacked bearings in SKF Cartons,some additional SKF look-alikecartons and duplicated SKFholographic stickers of varioussizes were seized. A number ofcounterfeit SKF packed bearingsof various sizes were seized fromthe retailer’s shop and godown.

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Senior CPI(M) leader MYTarigami on Tuesday called

for united struggle to fight theonslaught of the “anti-labour”policies of the centralGovernment, alleging thatevery section of the society hasbeen bearing the brunt of itsneo-liberal economic policies.

“The BJP-led centralGovernment is formulating thelabour laws which are totallypro-corporate and anti-labourclass in nature, which arebound to curtail the socialsecurity benefits to the work-ing force.

“As a result of this regres-sive step, the condition of theworking force is bound to beaffected adversely,” Tarigamisaid the two-day state com-

mittee meeting of Jammu andKashmir chapter of Centre ofIndian Trade unions (CITU)here.

The meeting concludedafter a discussion on the plightof working class under theBJP-led dispensation anddecided that conferences andseminars on tehsil and districtlevels will be organized to fur-ther the struggle against the“anti-people” policies of thegovernment.

Tarigami, who is also pres-ident of the state CITU, said theclaims of economic growth donot carry any weight when thestatistics reveal that 73 percent of the additional wealthcreated during 2017-18 hasbeen earned by one per cent ofthe population.

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terial when its fruits do not per-colate to the larger sections ofthe society...

“Every section of thesociety has been bearing thebrunt of the neo-liberal eco-nomic pol icies of theGovernment and we witnessthat farmers suicides gounabated despite the tallclaims of the Governmentthat measures have beentaken to provide assistance tothem,” he said.

He emphasised that CITUmust take lead in uniting var-ious trade unions to fight theonslaught of the “anti-labour”policies pur-sued by thec e n t r a lGovernment.

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CITU, Kashmir Singh Thakur,highlighted the move of thecentral Government to dole outthe Public Sector Undertakings(PSUs) including banks, insur-ance, railways, defence andBSNL to the corporate housesand multinational corpora-tions (MNCs) which is “boundto put the future of lakhs of theworking force engaged in theseprestigious organizations intojeopardy”.

“As such, it becomesimperative for the workingclass to get united to fight thisdraconian move of theGovernment,” he said.

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Amitabh Kant on Tuesday pitchedfor ban on use of fossil fuel basedgensets saying that the governmentneeds to do it before a court ordersix months down the line.

He also made case for phasingout more than 25 year old coal basedthermal power plants, creating ofopen access power market, com-mercial coal mining and promotingrenewables.

“You need to prohibit use andsale of gensets including captivewhich are using petrol, diesel,

kerosene, pet coke and furnace oil forpower supply. This is polluting andbrings inefficiency in power sector....Whether we like it or not, ifGovernment does not do it, sixmonths down the line courts will dothat,” Kant said addressing an inau-gural session of 21st India PowerForum 2018 here.

Kant further noted that, if theGovernment bans generator sets(gensets), the strengthening distrib-ution system would be required toensure round-the-clock power sup-ply and said “we need to do heavypenalty for load shedding. Thisrequire series of tough measure.”

In the proposed Electricity

Amendment Bill, consumer wouldbe able to switch service providers inelectricity sector like they do for tele-com services.

On the issue to safeguard newinvestments in power sector, hesaid, “We clearly need to phase outplants which are more than 25years old. NTPC, BHEL and someothers may not like it but this is nec-essary”.

Strongly recommending pri-vatisation of coal mining, he said,”allthis theories of nationalisation coalmines is not worth” and said thatGovernment should allow privatesector to step in for commercial min-ing.

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Prime Minister Imran Khanwill on Wednesday lay the

foundation stone for the much-awaited corridor linkingGurdwara Darbar Sahib inPakistan’s Kartarpur - the finalresting place of Sikh faith’sfounder Guru Nanak Dev - toDera Baba Nanak shrine inIndia’s Gurdaspur district tofacilitate visa-free movement ofIndian Sikh pilgrims.

Kartarpur Sahib inPakistan is located across theriver Ravi, about four kilome-tres from the Dera Baba Nanakshrine. It was established by theSikh Guru in 1522. The firstGurdwara, GurdwaraKartarpur Sahib, was built here,where Guru Nanak Dev is saidto have died.

The Kartarpur Corridor,which will facilitate the visa-free travel of Indian Sikh pil-grims to Gurdwara DarbarSahib in Kartarpur, is expect-ed to be completed within sixmonths, Pakistan ForeignOffice Spokesman MohammadFaisal said on Tuesday.

The development comesahead of Guru Nanak’s 550thbirth anniversary next year.

India has also said it willbuild and develop a corridorfrom Dera Baba Nanak inGurdaspur district to theInternational Border to facili-tate Sikh pilgrims visitingGurdwara Darbar SahibKartarpur.

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Areligious corridor linking arevered Sikh shrine on the

bank of Ravi river here withIndia’s border district ofGurdaspur has the potential tobring “hope and peace”between the two countries,feels people on both sides of theborder on the eve of its ground-breaking ceremony.

The foundation stone lay-ing ceremony of the corridorbetween Gurdwara DarbarSahib in Kartarpur, the finalresting place of Sikh faith’sfounder Guru Nanak, and theinternational border with Indiawill be held here Wednesday.

Prime Minister ImranKhan, senior politicians ofPakistan’s Punjab province anda host of top officials will beattending the event at Narowal

– around 120 Kilometers fromLahore. The foundation stoneof the corridor on the Indianside, from Dera Baba Nanak inPunjab’s Gurdaspur to theinternational border, was laidMonday by Vice President MVenkaiah Naidu.

“We have fought a lot in thelast 70 years. There was no gainfrom those fights by either Indiaor Pakistan. It is now time webegin a new journey and theKatarpur corridor has the poten-tial to bring peace,” says AbbasKhan, a 60-year-old Pakistantrader, a resident of Narowal.

Another Pakistani citizen –Bilal Mohammed - who is fromLahore said Prime MinisterNarendra Modi is an influentialleader and both he and hisPakistani counterpart ImranKhan can bring changes in thebilateral relations if they want.

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Three US soldiers were killedand three wounded by a

bomb in Afghanistan Tuesday,NATO said, taking the numberof American service personnelto die in the war-torn countrythis year to 12.

NATO’s Resolute Supportmission would not immedi-ately release any details aboutthe soldiers, but said they hadbeen killed when an impro-vised explosive device (IED)detonated near Ghazni city incentral Afghanistan.

An American contractorwas also wounded, it said,adding that the four injured inthe blast were receiving med-ical care.

The casualties come just

days after another US soldierwas killed in Afghanistan’sNimroz province on Saturday.

An initial review showedthe soldier was “likely acci-dentally shot by our Afghanpartner force”, a NATO state-ment said Tuesday, addingthat the “tragic” incidentoccurred as they engaged in abattle with al Qaeda militants.

“There are no indicationshe was shot intentionally,” thestatement added, naming thesoldier as Sgt Jasso without giv-ing a first name.

General Scott Miller, thetop US and NATO comman-der in Afghanistan, said Jassowas killed “defending ournation, fighting al Qaedaalongside our Afghan part-ners”.

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Greenpeace protestors onTuesday scaled a massive

chimney at Poland’s Belchatowcoal-fired power plant as oneof Europe’s largest pollutersgears up to host the COP24global climate summit.

“We want to draw theworld’s attention to the factthat climate change is real, thathuman tragedies are takingplace before our eyes and thataction is urgent,” Greenpeace

Poland activist KatarzynaGuzek told AFP via tele-phone.She said nine activistsfrom around the world hadscaled the 180 metre (560feet) tower as part of aGreenpeace campaign aimedat phasing out coal use.

“Belchatow is the largestcoal-fired power station inthe EU, one of the largest inthe world and therefore thesymbol of a system that killslife on our planet,” Guzekadded.

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Russian President VladimirPutin warned Ukraine

against any “reckless acts” onTuesday after Kiev declaredmartial law in response toMoscow’s seizure of three of itsnavy vessels.

The Ukrainian parliamentlate on Monday voted in favourof President Petro Poroshenko’srequest for the introduction ofmartial law in parts of thecountry for 30 days. The deci-sion came as Ukraine andRussia face their most danger-ous crisis in years after Russianforces fired on, boarded andcaptured Kiev’s ships onSunday off the coast of Crimea.

The incident was the firstmajor confrontation at sea inthe long-running conflict pit-ting Ukraine against Moscowand Russian-backed separatistsin the country’s east.

It has raised fears of awider escalation -- in a conflictthat has killed more than10,000 people since 2014 -- and

prompted international calls forrestraint and offers of media-tion.

Martial law givesUkrainian authorities thepower to mobilise citizens withmilitary experience, regulatethe media and restrict publicrallies in affected areas.

Moscow has accused Kievof planning Sunday’s con-frontation as a provocationaimed at drumming up supportfor Poroshenko ahead of elec-tions next year and convincingWestern governments toimpose further sanctions onRussia. In a phone conversationwith German ChancellorAngela Merkel, Putin expressed“serious concern” over theintroduction of martial law, theKremlin said in a statement.

Putin said Kiev’s actionswere “clearly taken in view ofthe election campaign inUkraine”. He said he hopedBerlin could intervene withUkrainian authorities “to dis-suade them from further reck-less acts”.

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Donald Trump’s formercampaign chairman Paul

Manafort violated his pleaagreement by lying to investi-gators, prosecutors saidMonday, as another formeraide began serving a jail sen-tence for making false state-ments to the FBI.

Manafort had agreed tocooperate with special counselRobert Mueller’s investigation ofpossible collusion between theTrump campaign and Russia aspart of a plea deal in September.

“After signing the pleaagreement, Manafort commit-ted federal crimes by lying tothe Federal Bureau ofInvestigation and the SpecialCounsel’s Office on a variety ofsubject matters, which consti-tute breaches of the agree-ment,” prosecutors said in acourt filing.

“A breach relieves the gov-ernment of any obligations ithas under the agreement.” Inthe same joint status report fil-

ing, Manafort’s legal teampushed back against the gov-ernment’s assertion.

“Manafort has providedinformation to the governmentin an effort to live up to hiscooperation obligations,” it said.

“He believes he has provid-ed truthful information anddoes not agree with the govern-ment’s characterization or thathe has breached the agreement.”

Manafort, who worked forthe Trump campaign for near-ly six months in the middle of2016, agreed to plead guilty toone count of conspiracy againstthe United States and anothercount of obstruction of justicein a deal to avert a second trialon money laundering and ille-

gal lobbying charges.He was already convicted

in a separate jury trial on eightcounts related to financial fraudin August, but those charges, aswell as the counts covered inthe plea deal, were unrelated tothe campaign.

Instead, they derived fromhis work for former Ukrainianpresident Viktor Yanukovychand his pro-Moscow politicalparty between about 2005-14.

As prosecutors accusedManafort of lying, GeorgePapadopoulos — the formerTrump campaign aide whoseRussia contacts set off the col-lusion investigation -- entereda minimum security unit tostart serving out his two-weekjail sentence at the Oxford,Wisconsin federal prison.

Papadopoulos was anobscure oil industry analystwhen he joined the Trumpcampaign’s foreign policy advi-sory team in March 2016.Basedin London, he made contactswith what he believed wereimportant

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The US on Monday warnedRussia that “outlaw actions”

like the seizure of Ukrainianships in the Sea of Azov are pre-venting normal relations fromdeveloping between Washingtonand Moscow.

US Ambassador Nikki Haleytold an emergency meeting of theUN Security Council that “theUnited States would welcome anormal relationship with Russia.But outlaw actions like this onecontinue to make that impossi-ble.” Tensions have flaredafter the Russian navy on Sundayboarded and seized threeUkrainian ships off the coast ofCrimea, accusing Ukraine ofillegally entering Russian watersin the Sea of Azov.

The confrontation at searaised fears of a wider militaryflareup. Haley put the blamefirmly on Russia for the clash, call-ing the seizure of the ships an “out-rageous violation of sovereignUkrainian territory” and slam-ming “yet another reckless

Russian escalation.” But she didnot specifically threaten furthersanctions, instead calling for a de-escalation of tensions over Crimea,which Russia annexed in 2014 ina move never recognized by theinternational community. “TheUnited States will maintain itsCrimea-related sanctions againstRussia. Indeed, further Russianescalation of this kind will onlymake matters worse,” said Haley.

“It will further undermineRussia’s standing in the world.It will further sour Russia’s rela-tions with the US and manyother countries. It will furtherincrease tensions with Ukraine”.Haley said her remarks fol-lowed conversations withPresident Donald Trump andSecretary of State MikePompeo and reflect “concernsat the highest level of theAmerican government.” TheUS warning comes ahead of aplanned meeting betweenTrump and his Russian coun-terpart Vladimir Putin, on thesidelines of the G20 summit inArgentina later this week.

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Avote on a controversial lawthat would cut govern-

ment subsidies to cultural insti-tutions deemed disloyal to theJewish state was Monday post-poned indefinitely, Israel’s cul-ture minister said.

The bill, submitted byCulture Minister Miri Regev,would give the finance and cul-ture ministries the power toslash subsidies to institutionsbacking films or plays that donot show “loyalty” to the state.

Such institutions wouldinclude those which deny Israel’sexistence as a “democratic andJewish state”, or those incitingviolence, racism or “terrorism”.

Any organisation thatmarks Israel’s independenceday as a national day of mourn-ing, or present artistic workthat attacks the national flag orother state symbols would alsobe denied funding.

For Palestinians, theanniversary of Israel’s 1948independence marks theNakba, or “catastrophe”, whenmore than 700,000 fled or wereexpelled during the war sur-rounding Israel’s creation.

A ministerial committeehad voted to advance the bill inOctober but it needed twomore parliamentary readingsbefore becoming law.

Monday’s vote was post-poned indefinitely because of alack of a majority, said Regev,a member of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu’srightwing Likud bloc.

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Armed with a sense of togetherness,self- belief and a strong crowd back-ing them every moment, India will

seek to end 43 years of hurt when they beginthe Hockey World Cup campaign againstSouth Africa here on Wednesday.

The hosts' Pool C encounter at theKalinga Stadium will be the showpieceevent's second game.

Eight-time Olympic champions India'sonly glory at the World Cup came way backin 1975 when Ajit Pal Singh and his men'screated history for the past masters of thegame.

Since then India has failed to match thestandards of the Europeans — Netherlands,Germany — and Australia, who have beenruling the game for over four decades now.

In the last 10 editions since its maidentriumph in 1975, India's best performancewas a fifth-place finish at the 1982 editionin Mumbai (then Bombay).

Now, the world ranked fifth Indianswould be eager to recreate the magic byreaching the semifinals, and possibly a podi-um finish.

That is though easier said than done asbesides tackling powerhouses like two-timedefending champions Australia,Netherlands, Germany and Olympic cham-pions Argentina, the Indians will be underpressure to live up to the expectations ofmillions of fans.

The last time India played a World Cupat home, in 2010 in New Delhi, it finisheda lowly eighth and going by records, the hostnation has never fared well in the tourna-ment.

All the nine countries to host a WorldCup till date have finished eighth or abovebut Harendra Singh's men would be hop-ing to rewrite that in front of home fans.

For chief coach Harendra Singh, whohas come under the scanner after India'sfailure to defend its Asian Games title ear-lier this year, the tournament is a do-or-die

one and a failure is sure to cost him his job.Harendra would be hoping to recreate

the magic of two years ago when he guid-ed the junior Indian team to the World Cuptitle in Lucknow.

To achieve his goal, Harendra hasdrafted in seven of 18 junior World Cupwinners in the senior team alongside seniorpros like skipper Manpreet Singh, PRSreejesh, Akashdeep Singh and the ever-reli-able Birendra Lakra.

The Indian team for the World Cup isa mixture of youth and experience withseven of the 18 featuring in the last WorldCup. The squad also has youthful exuber-ance in 19-year-old striker Dilpreet Singhand debutant Hardik Singh.

But two notable absentees from thesquad are dragflicker Rupinder Pal Singh,who has been dropped and striker SV Sunil,who is unfit.

In the 16-nation tournament India areplaced alongside South Africa, Belgium andCanada in their group.

Barring world No 3 Belgium, India isexpected to win hands down against worldNo15 South Africa and world No 11Canada.

The match against Belgium is India's bigtest in the pool stages and a win against theRed Lions is a must for the hosts to avoidthe cross-overs and qualify directly for the

quarterfinals.After South Africa, India's opponents

are Belgium on December 2 and Canada onDecember 8.

It is only the second World Cup after2002 to feature 16 teams. From four poolsof four teams each, the toppers will direct-ly qualify for the quarterfinals while the sec-ond and third placed sides will have to playfour cross-over matches to earn theirplaces in the last-eight round.

Just like all big-ticket hockey events,Australia, Netherlands and Germany willonce again start favourites to lift the title.

The Kookaburras, in fact, will be vyingto create history by becoming the first teamto win the trophy for the third time in a row.

In the other match of the opening day,Belgium will take on Canada.

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India's chief coach HarendraSingh on Tuesday defend-

ed presence of several juniorplayers in the squad for theFIH World Cup, saying theyare good enough to create his-tory.

The current Indian teamhas seven out of 18 playersfrom the junior World Cupsquad, which underHarenedra clinched the worldtitle two years ago inLucknow.

Junior players such asHarmanpreet Singh, VarunKumar, Sumit, MandeepSingh and golakeeper KrishanBahadur Pathak were select-ed in India's squad.

"Constitution gives us theright to marry after 18. So thisis not a young team. It's ateam that can create history,"Harendra said on the eve ofIndia's opening match againstSouth Africa on Wednesday.

"You have to havepatience. Selectors have con-sidered the young players tobe good enough to wear Indiacolours, so we need to be

proud of them. Every playerin the team understands it.My advice to the playerswould be to stick to the basicsand strategy and considercrowd as 12th man and usetheir energy," he added.

Citing the example ofIreland, who went on to winthe women's World Cup ear-lier this year despite beingrated as underdogs, Harendrasaid India's first aim would beto top Pool C and qualifydirectly for the quarterfinals.

"Did anyone thinkIreland will reach women'shockey World Cup final andCroatia will make it to FIFAWC final. Every team workson their strategy. It's aboutthat particular day. We wantto top the pool and avoidcrossovers because then wewill get an extra day and know

who we will play in the quar-ters," the chief coach said.

However,the inability todefend the Asian Games titleearlier this year will remainHarendra's biggest failure butthe coach said that episode isa thing of the past now.

"The hard fact is that allof us have forgotten the AsianGames defeat and you shouldalso forget. We learn from his-tory, gain experience but thereis no point recalling it. Wetook collective responsibility.We don't talk about it now inour meetings," he said.

Ranked 10 places aboveworld No 15 South Africa,India will go into their tour-nament-opener as over-whelming favourites.

"We understand that thefirst match is important inevery tournament. It releas-es 40 to 50 per cent of pres-sure. We want full pointsfrom the first match. But forpoints, we can't forget andsacrifice the basics of hock-ey, the strategy," he said.

"We won't compromiseon playing attacking hockeyagainst any team. We want to

think ahead of the oppo-nents."

With two matchesscheduled for each day, thereare significant gaps betweenmatches in the 16-teamWorld Cup and Harendrasupported the format, sayingit will help all the teams tocome out with fresh legs inevery game.

"I support this format asa coach. Hockey is a fast-paced, result oriented, high-ly demanding game. It (thegaps) will help us to come outwith fresh mind and legs inevery match," he said.

Conceding last minutegoals has been India's peren-nial problem in the last fewyears but Harendra said it' iswith all hockey playingnations.

"We always discuss Indiaconcede last-minute goal tolose. It has happened in thelast 4-5 years, including theAsian Games. But that does-n't only happen with theIndian team. I can give youhistory where other teamsalso have lost the same way,"he said.

.�;.��:�With world rankedfifth India at the other end in their firstmatch, South Africa have a tough taskat hand but their coach Mark Hopkinsis looking at the positives.

"Every game at the World Cup is abig match. You try to start the tournamentas well as you can. It's exciting that we areplaying our first match against the hostnation. We will go into the game fairlyconfident. We feel we have the squad, skillset and tactics to play really good hock-

ey and get results from the match," hesaid.

"I think the pressure is on both sides.Being the host nation there is more pres-sure on India than us. We will just go outthere and play the brand of hockey thatis successful for us."

Hopkins said his side's goal cominginto the tournament is to be become themost successful South African hockeyplaying nation in the history of the WorldCup. "We are a proud sporting nation and

as a group we are looking to create his-tory. The goal for us is to finish the tour-nament as the most successful SouthAfrican hockey team in the men's WorldCup," he said.

"We probably are a team that oppo-sition has seen less videos off. Peopleknow less about our players because wedon't play much in the European leaguesor Test matches than other nations. Thatis an advantage for us," Hopkins added.

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Deadline: December 25,2018.

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Strathclyde, Glasgow, is invit-ing applications for MSc inCancer Therapies starting inSeptember 2019. It is a multi-faceted course that combinescancer biology, drug discovery,formulation and delivery withradiation biology. Students willalso get an understanding ofthe practical, ethical and eco-nomic implications of person-alised cancer therapy.

The degree is for graduatesseeking experience in the rangeof topics essential to the under-standing and development ofcancer therapies. Students willbe taught in the StrathclydeInstitute of Pharmacy andBiomedical Sciences, recog-nised as one of the leadingdepartments of its kind in theUK. The institute has majorfacilities for radiobiology andradiopharmaceutical research.It also hosts the CancerResearch UK DrugFormulation Unit.

The course is set up to helpproduce world-class graduateswith the skills to contribute tothe global drive in advancingcancer treatment throughresearch, teaching, industryand public sector employment.

Students on the MSc inCancer Therapies degree willundertake a major project tai-lored to their interest andfuture career aspirations in anactive research lab with enthu-siastic and dedicate researchersand students.

Eligibility: Minimumsecond division in honoursdegree or international equiv-alent in a science or healthrelated subject

Fee: The fee for interna-tional students for 2019/20 is£19,500. For further informa-tion, log on email at [email protected] or log on tohttps://www.strath.ac.uk/cours-es/postgraduatetaught/can-certherapies/

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UK, is inviting applicationsfor BSc and MBiolSciBiomedical Science coursesstarting in September 2019.Students will study everythingfrom the gene to whole bodysystems, and gain a thoroughunderstanding of the geneticand molecular processes thatunderpin the development,structure and function of thehuman body in health and dis-ease.

Students will have theopportunity to spend a year oftheir studies at another top uni-versity around the world,putting their knowledge intopractice with a year in indus-try or undertaking an extrayear of research training withMBiolSci. As a biomedical sci-ence graduate, you'll beequipped to work at the fore-front of advances in medicalresearch.

Fee: £22600 for overseasstudents per year

Eligibility: 80 per cent inClass XII including two sciencesubjects and an overall IELTSgrade of 6.5 with a minimumof 6.0 in each component, or anequivalent English languagequalification.

Last date to apply: June 30,2019. For further informationemail [email protected];or log on tohttps://www.sheffield.ac.uk/prospectus/courseDetails.do?id=B9002019#contactDetails

To conduct a campus-wide sur-vey about how students prefer

watching movies, and also estab-lish a collaboration with DPGInstitute of Technology &Management, Gurugram to set upan incubation programme, amobile file transfer and sharing appXender paid a surprise visit at thecampus.

The team was welcomed bythe Dean and college’s head profes-sor (Engineering) Randhir Kumar.One of the leading companies inthe mobile industry, Xender is ona hunt to hire local talents fromIndia. Through this collaboration,both the college and the organisa-tion will get to exchange ideas onthe development of mobile Internetand also inculcate the trend of

entrepreneurship.A Computer Science student,

Ravi Khan, said: “It was a wonder-ful experience for me to interactwith the team. The interaction wasvery enriching for B-School stu-dents like us. If given a chance, Iwould love to work for this com-pany.”

The company aims to collab-orate with more such colleges inIndia to create more job avenues forthe local talents. Especially after themovie platform has been launched,it will evolve into a brand newproduct and hire more talentedyouth. J��/�

�What prompted you to start the 17,000Feet Foundation?

I had quit my IT job spanning 12 yearsto work in the education sector. While work-ing as a middle school teacher at Shri RamSchool, Gurugram, I build many outdooreducation programmes. But I constantlyquestioned the meaningfulness of my roleand the impact that I was making in theworld. My answers came during a solo trekto Ladakh in 2010 where I spent time inremote villages and taught foreign languageto a handful of children in schools whichwas having staff crunch. The aspiration ofthe parents to educate their children anddream of a better future for them was theinspiration that led me to start the foun-dation. It is a non-profit organisationfounded with my husband Sandeep Sahuand our Ladakh partner Dawa Jora.�Tell us about the initiatives

Our programmes focus on improvingGovernment schools in remote areas,

and delivery of quality education. Someof the initiatives are:�School infrastructure improvementprogramme: We’ve set up 134 play-grounds in some of the remotest villages.Around 24 schools already have classroomfurniture, with this number increasing to140 in the coming months. Around 120schools have been electrified and poweredthrough solar energy. �Teacher training programme: We annu-ally train hundreds of teachers in multi-ple methodologies to improve the teach-ing-learning process in the classroom. Our

training programmes are held in theharshest of winters in Ladakh, with tem-peratures dipping down to minus 25degree celsius and teachers walking forhours to reach the training centres. Wehave so far trained over 1,500 teachers inthe last seven years.�Library programme: We’ve set uplibraries in 250 schools and are workingwith the local administration to replicatethe library programme across all 900schools. We’ve translated 40 titles intoBhoti and distributed over 21,000 story-books to school children across Ladakh.

�Map my school: We’ve built a technol-ogy platform that has every school geomapped and placed on a map of Ladakhgiving travellers an opportunity to findabout these schools on their travel route. �DigiLab project: This is our mostambitious programme that brings offlinehybrid digital learning solutions to theremote village through the provision ofsolar electricity, tablets, customised andpersonalised digital curriculum in a well-furnished lab that is supported by multi-ple workshops by the foundation’s teamthrough the year.

The content will enable each child tolearn independently while being guided byhis teacher and also allow for tracking ofstudent performance centrally. The solu-tion has been designed to work anywhere,in any remote village, and works even inareas with no electricity, mobile connec-tivity or network.

We’ve set up DigiLabs in 103 schools

with that number being increased to 150in the coming months.�How did the crowdfunding platformImpactGuru.com help in this mission?

We recently ran a campaign onImpactGuru to fund one of our BookTranslation projects and we successfullyreached our campaign goal.

Our recent campaign helped usfundraise to set up a complete play-ground set in a very remote school inKargil district, Ladakh. We have been veryhappy with the visibility that these cam-paigns have given us, not to mention thefact that we have been able to reach ourfundraising goals each time.�What are the upcoming projects?

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Development and Entrepreneurship(MSDE) empowers the youth of thecountry to become more employableso that they can significantly con-tribute towards the formation of newIndia. Different sector skill councilsare highly committed towards devel-oping world-class skilled manpow-er for their sectors.

Each council has a comprehen-sive list of job roles that create aunique employment opportunity fora candidate in the organisation. Onesuch job role is tower technician,one of the 39 jobs in the Telecomindustry, which has a huge demand.As per the study of skilling require-ment in this sector, there is approx-imately 3,56,332 job demand for thenext five years.

The training partners likeTelecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC),play a vital role in the enrollment ofcandidates to respective job roles andenable them to make the decision.

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known as site engineers, tower engi-neers and or site technicians in thetelecom industry. Their job involvesmaintaining and repairing level-1faults at telecom tower site, preven-tive and corrective maintenance andreport faults to the supervisor intime.

The technician is responsible forall that and also need to travel inter-state and work during odd hours,when required.

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ification required for this job role is10+2 and/or Industrial TrainingInstitute (ITI) diploma in electrical/ mechanical and maximum qualifi-cation is graduate. Moreover, theminimum age required for towertechnician is 18 years and 0-threeyears of experience is desired for it.

If candidates want to make acareer as a tower technician, they canenroll themself for training at BSNLCentres through Telecom SectorSkill Council (TSSC) who havemany training partners across India.The duration of this course is 300hours and it is available free of chargethrough Pradhan Mantri KaushalVikas Yojna (PMKVY).

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Standards (NOS) are applicable bothin the Indian as well as global con-texts. It states the standards of per-formance a candidate must attainwhen performing any role in theorganisation. An individual musthave knowledge and understandingof the job role which is required tomeet that standard consistently.

Following are some of the stan-dards of this job role that must bemaintained at the tower site. Theyare:

� Site hygiene: This occupationalstandard unit is about maintainingthe site hygiene of AC, DG, PowerInterface Unit (PIU), Switched ModePower Supplies (SMPS) and batterybank, as per the organisation’snorms. The candidate must know thebasic use of mechanical equipment,the layout of the tower site, generalaspects of electrical wiring and safe-ty requirements at the site.

� Preventive maintenance: Theindividual conducts regular preven-tive maintenance activities at thetower site under this operating sys-

tem (OS) unit. The candidate on thejob must stick to preventive mainte-nance (PM) plan, conduct site PM,keep a check on site up-time, executeunique site down PM and providetimely resolutions to trouble ticketsraised.

The candidate needs to under-stand how to diagnose the reasonsfor downtime through up-timeanalysis. Also, he must know how toconduct fault analysis to identify andrepair recurring faults on site.

� Site management: Under this OSunit, an individual has to performoperational activities at the tower sitelike submission of the electricity bill,alarm check and others.

Few of the performance criteriafor this unit include monitor readingas per the Electricity Bill (EB) againstreading on power interface unit,timely collect and submit the EB at theoffice, check a number of alarms activeat the site and interact with site own-ers with respect to rent and accessissues. In an organisational context,the candidate needs to know andunderstand EB collection and pay-ment process.

�Task reporting: It’s about report-ing and record-keeping as per com-pany’s processes and defined ServiceLevel Agreement (SLAs). The candi-date must be able to escalate faultsto a supervisor at the site, fill the pre-ventive and corrective maintenancechecklists, accurately report dieselfilling, EB and DG reading.

He/she must have a great knowl-edge and understanding about thepreventive maintenance and correc-tive norms as per the company as wellas the company’s repair and mainte-nance guidelines. The candidate mustalso have a good communication, ana-lytical, planning and execution skills.

�Corrective maintenance: Fromthe timely identification of the needfor corrective maintenance to stickto maintenance plan, the candidatemust be able to fill the correctivemaintenance reports and solve amaximum number of issues reported.

He/she must have a deep func-tional knowledge of all equipment andsystem components as well as a greatunderstanding of PM and correctivemaintenance norms, site up-time tar-gets and repair guidelines of thecompany.

If you are looking forward tobuilding your career as a towertechnician in the telecom industry,you must adhere to the basic funda-mentals required for this job role.Due to the huge demand of towertechnician in the market in the nextcoming years, TSSC strives to facil-itate quality certifications in theirrespective job roles to meet theneeds of the industry.

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This 30-hour online pro-gramme with a personal train-er that includes tips and tricksof cracking IELTS, speakingskills, listening skills, readingskills, writing skills and doubtclearing sessions.

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and other public health emer-gencies. These training pro-grammes will be conductedfor States of Rajasthan,Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.The participants would besenior hospital administra-tors (medical superintends &deputy medical superintends).

Annually, three trainingprogrammes will be conduct-ed by IIHMR Universityunder this agreement thatwill help to prevent immedi-ate risk to health & life & alsotrain & educate the senior hos-pital administrators aboutpublic health emergencies.

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The University ofPittsburgh is offering Full-Tuition ScholarshipCompetition for studentswho are admitted as a full-time freshman student forfall 2019. Students from theUSA are eligible to apply forthese scholarships.

Eligibility: Studentsmust meet the following cri-teria: Admitted as a full-timefreshman student to Pitt-Greensburg by January 15,2019 (Direct applicants only;option students are not eligi-ble to apply). Achieved acumulative high school GPAof 3.8 or higher (at time ofapplication). Scored a mini-mum of 1250 on SAT – or –26 on ACT. Student must bea United States citizen.English language require-ments: Scored a minimum of1250 on SAT; 26 on the ACT.

How to apply: Studentsmust mail an envelope con-taining a printed application,two (2) letters of recommen-dation, and official highschool transcript includingSAT/ACT scores by post.

Application deadline:The last date to apply isJanuary 22, 2019.

The Technical Universityof Munich invites applica-tions for PostdoctoralFellowship or PhD studentposition in Machine

Learning forPatient Data Analysis at

the Helmholtz CenterMunich. International stu-dents can apply.

Eligibility: MSc or PhDdegree in Computer Science,Statistics, Maths, DataScience or equivalent; Strongbackground in machinelearning (graphical models,Bayesian and neural net-works), Statistics, and prefer-ably causal inference meth-ods; Knowledge of and orexperience with time-seriesdata, preferably clinical data;Programming expertise inPython, R, and SQL; Interestand or experience in workingwith healthcare problems(surgical procedures);Demonstrated skill in scien-tific writing; Excellent inter-personal skills with the abili-ty to work independently andin collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team of surgeonsand engineers. Experiencewith healthcare data andbuilding real-world systemsis a plus. English languagerequirements: Applicantswhose first language is notEnglish are usually requiredto provide evidence of profi-ciency in English at the high-er level required by theUniversity.

How to apply: Interestedindividuals should send acover letter, a CV and contactinformation for two refer-ences to Dr. Narges Ahmidi(narges.ahmidi-at-helmholtz-muenchen.de).

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was X-Ray which was used only in devel-oped countries. Gradually came in ultra-sound which was considered harmful andlater accepted. It will undoubtedly con-tinue to play a critical role in the deliv-ery of healthcare services making expe-rience with tech-based clinical learningimperative to the success of the next gen-eration of doctors. Enhanced imaging, forinstance, will revolutionise and improvethe accuracy of diagnoses. The use ofsuch technology at the most basic levelof clinical practice will become thenorm. Indeed, the portable ultrasoundmay soon replace the stethoscope.

Technology is bridging huge gapsamong the people who are physicallylocated in different places. When wemake use of technology, St George’sUniversity (SGU) makes sure that med-icine which is both science and art doesnot lose its essence.

In medicine, it helps to teach andimpart medical knowledge to students 50per cent better which almost covers halfof what we actually teach. People are notjust suffering from infectious diseases, butalso from different mental problems. Thematters of the mind highly impact thefatal disease like Diabetes, hypertension,obesity and even heart attack for thatmatter. Making use of technology forincreasing the availability of medicine tothe patient will only take the patient clos-er to being better and cured for a longertime.

Technology will help us keep arecord of all the details related to med-ical science happening in the patient'sbody. So, when the person goes in for acheck-up, the doctor will be able to diag-nose and understand of what wentwrong, when and due to what — con-sidering the clinical history.

Technology is now developing tostage where robots for general examina-tion, AI learning and much more wouldbe applied for curing the human mindand body, along with keeping updatedrecords of growth."

Tips for medical aspirantsThe SGU is a premier medical insti-

tution which aims at bringing medicaldevelopments on an even level to all thepeople worldwide. Medical knowledge isglobal and is spreading and connectingthe population through the ever emerg-ing and dynamic technology, used both

as science and art.It aims at enrolling students not just

regionally but internationally to create anenvironment where the future aspiringmedical students can learn about the dif-ferent health conditions which are notjust prevalent in one particular country,but also in different regions all over theworld, stating the obvious that patientsnever just belong to one place.

It allows the students to pursuetheir first year in MS Ramaiah College,Bengaluru and they complete the restinternationally, either in Grenade or inUK, as per the students’ requirements. Bybringing students from all over theworld, the university wins in creating acreative learning atmosphere about dif-ferent cultural differences, religious dif-ferences and how different religionscould impact health.

For a successful five-year pro-gramme, its curriculum has been mappedwith the partnered medical institutions— MS Ramaiah College, India andMaldoh College, Thailand for providingperfect ambience both academically andin residency, which makes it a trulyInternational education.

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Students who went into thesecond slot expecting asimilar paper as that of the

first slot (or for that matter theCAT 2017 paper) were on theright track. It too started withan ‘easy’ VARC section. Thepassages were on similar linesas those of the first slot. TheDILR section continued to givea sigh of relief to the students.However, some are of the opin-ion that it was slightly tougherthan the first slot’s DILR sec-tion. Overall, it was of a mod-erate level of difficulty. And thereign of QA continued. Itremained the toughest sectionin the second slot too.

The break-up of the paper(Slot 2):

�Verbal Ability andReading Comprehension: Totalquestions 34 — Non-MCQ: 7— Easy: 28+

�Data Interpretation andLogical Reasoning: Total ques-tions: 32; Non-MCQ: 8;Moderate: 16+

�Quantitative Ability:Total questions: 34; Non-MCQ:12; Difficult: 15+

The VARC section contin-ued to be the feel good section.The pattern remained the sameas that of the first slot. Therewere no instructions providedfor the number of questions ineach passage. However, thereremained five passages. Onepassage had four questionswhile the rest had five questionseach. The topics of the remain-ing Reading Comprehension(RC) passages were also fromfamiliar areas. They were easyto read. There were quite a fewinference-based questions, butthese were easy to attempt,thanks to the option choices.The options were not reallyvery close. Only four-five ques-tions from RC were tricky.However, a student should havefollowed the process of elimi-nation to be able to achieve adecent accuracy rate as theoptions were not straight for-ward. The Verbal Ability (VA)section had one major change.

There were four subjectivepara-jumble questions, and allof these had four sentenceseach. There were three odd sen-tence para-jumble (OSPJ) ques-tions. These questions wereeasier than expected. A studentcould have easily managed toget four questions correct outof the seven PJs. These wereTITA questions.

The three para-summaryquestions were of moderatelevel of difficulty. The para-graphs continued to be short inthe range of 450 to 500 wordseach. However, as compared tothe first slot, the summaryquestions were slightly easier.Only one summary questionappeared to be tough. So,VARC continued to be the eas-iest of the lot.

The second section of thepaper — DILR — continued tobe a pleasant surprise. Therewere 32 questions in total witheight non-MCQs. Unlike lastyear’s paper, the theme of thesets was more conventional.There was one very direct DIset with basic calculations. Thefocus and strategy should have

been the quality of the select-ed sets rather the quantity of thenumbers of questions attempt-ed. A couple of sets did have aquestion each which shouldhave been ‘left alone’. Two setsincluded calculation but nonewas on the tougher side. On theother hand, the LR sets wereeasy-moderate in terms of levelof difficulty.

Overall, 15-17 attempts,with an accuracy of 90 per centwould be considered good.

Once the QA section wasover, students would have comeout with much less satisfactionas they would have had theycome out at the end of DILR.If you expected a happy endingin QA, you were definitely notpaying attention to all the dis-cussions following the first slot.An overall attempt of 18-20with 85 per cent accuracy willbe good.

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with an even easier than 2017 VerbalAbility and Reading Comprehension(VARC) section. Then the level of dif-ficulty of the Data Interpretation andLogical Reasoning (DILR) sectionprovided a major reprieve to thenervous aspirants as it broke with thetrend of the last three years. It was amoderately difficult as compared to anout and out difficult section that hasbeen observed over the last two-threeyears. However, this relief was short-lived as Quantitative Aptitude (QA)came out all guns blazing. IIM-C keptits reputation intact, with its empha-sis on the QA section. The break-up of the paper (Slot 1):The VARC greeted students with aneasier than expected paper. However,the pattern of the paper didn't strict-ly match that of the sample paper pro-vided by the CAT team. The topics ofthe remaining RC passages were alsofrom familiar areas. They were easy toread. There were quite a few inference-based questions, but these were easyto attempt.

The options were not really veryclose. Only four-five questions fromRC were tricky. However, a studentshould have followed the process ofelimination to be able to achieve adecent accuracy rate as the optionswere not straight-forward. The VAsection had one major change. Therewere four Subjective Para Jumble(PJ) questions, and all of these hadfour sentences each. There were threeodd sentence para-jumble questions.These questions were easier than

expected. A student could have easi-ly managed to get 4 questions correctout of the seven PJs. These were TypeIn The Answer (TITA) questions. Thethree summary questions were diffi-cult. The paragraphs focused entire-ly on research methodology and aca-demic concepts. So, they were diffi-cult to read and comprehend.However, the options were not reallydifficult. For many CAT aspirants thisyear (especially those who reliedheavily on QA), VA may just turn outto be the saviour.

Major surprise: The PJs were easyand the sentences were short.

The next section was DataInterpretation and Logical Reasoning(DILR). After three consecutivetragedies, DILR-2018 must have beena pleasant surprise. There were 32questions in all with eight non-MCQs. Unlike last year’s paper, thetheme of the sets was more conven-tional. With the smart selection,around four sets in the section couldhave been attempted easily with accu-racy. A couple of sets had one diffi-cult to crack question each. A studentshould have been wise enough to leavethese aside. Calculation wasn’trequired at all in the DI sets. On theother hand, the LR sets were easy-moderate in terms of level of difficulty.

For students who were alreadyscared of QA section, it could have feltlike a nuclear disaster. But for the engi-neering group, this was not impossi-ble to attempt. The questions were cal-culation and logic intensive, not the-ory intensive.

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hatchback Swift has crossed 20 lakh sales milestone since its launch the coun-try in May 2005. The model raced past five lakh sales mark in September2010, 10 lakh sales mark in September 2013, 15 lakh mark in March 2016and 20 lakh milestone in November this year. “Swift achieving two millionsales milestone is a proud moment for all of us at Maruti Suzuki India. BrandSwift has consistently featured among the top five best-selling cars in Indiafor more than a decade,” MSI senior executive director (Marketing & Sales)R S Kalsi said in a statement. With increased output aimed at reducing thewaiting period, the company would like to reinforce its commitment towardscustomers, he added.

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of its vehicles across models by up to 4 per cent from January 1, 2019, tooffset increasing manufacturing costs due to rupee depreciation. The com-pany considered the price hike after periodically reviewing the continuouspressure of increasing manufacturing costs, which is also a general indus-try phenomenon, Toyota Kirloskar Motor said in a statement. “There hasbeen an impact in the cost of manufacturing of vehicle primarily due to rupeedepreciation," the company said. Toyota has been absorbing the additionalcosts all this while, protecting the customers from price increase, it added.

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The BSE benchmark Sensexrose for the second day,

gaining over 150 points on hec-tic buying in banking and ITstocks as easing concerns onthe macro-economic front bol-stered investors’ risk appetite.

The broader NSE Niftytoo witnessed a rise of 57points. Market sentiments wereboosted by a host of positivefactors including stable rupee,falling crude oil prices, subduedretail inflation and steps toimprove liquidity situations.

Both equity benchmarksSensex and Nifty smartly recov-ered from day's low towards thefag-end of the session, butglobal trade tensions ahead ofG20 meet this week and mixedAsian peers kept participantscautious, restricting the gainson domestic bourses.

Analysts said that “risk ele-ment on inflation is subsidingwith rise in oil production,strong rupee and drop in yield;CPI inflation is expected to beunder the control range”.

The 30-share Sensex settled159.06 points, or 0.45 per cent,higher at 35,513.14, while thebroader NSE Nifty jumped 57points, or 0.54 per cent, to fin-ish at 10,685.60. The rally wasled by mainly IT and bankingstocks. The government’sannouncement of Rs 42,000crore fund infusion in the state-

owned banks by March-endkept the participants interestedin buying banking stocks.T

Meanwhile, the rupeeweakened slightly against theUS dollar after US PresidentDonald Trump suggested afurther tariff hike on Chinesegoods.

Infosys, Reliance Industries,TCS, HDFC, HDFC Bank,Maruti, SBI, IndusInd Bankand Kotak Bank led the gainson the Sensex, rising up to 2.53per cent. While, Sun Pharma,Hero MotoCorp, Yes Bank,Wipro, Bajaj Auto, Bharti Airteland Tata Steel fell up to 3.34 percent. On a net basis, foreignportfolio investors (FPIs)bought shares worth �62.74crore Monday and DIIs werenet buyers to the tune of�351.78 crore, provisional dataavailable with the BSE suggest-ed. The broader markets tooadvanced with BSE Smallcaprising 0.43 per cent and BSEMidcap ending 0.32 per centhigher.

Elsewhere in Asia, Korea’sKospi was up 0.79 per cent andJapan's Nikkei rose 0.64 percent. While, Hong Kong’s HangSeng fell 0.17 per cent andShanghai Composite Index wasdown 0.04 per cent.

In Europe, Frankfurt’s DAXwas down 0.09 per cent, whileParis CAC 40 fell 0.05 percent. London’s FTSE climbed0.21 per cent.

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Former Sebi chairman NDamodaran on Tuesday said the

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) contin-ues to be a strong institution and itsrecent differences with the govern-ment does not challenge its autono-my.

He said RBI has been enjoyingfunctional autonomy and nothing hashappened in the recent past that hastaken this away. “There have been dif-ferences between the government andRBI many times. But the institution(RBI) has never suffered. I think nowalso to say that RBI’s autonomy isbeing curtailed is wrong,” Damodarantold reporters here on the sidelines ofa financial distribution summitorganised by CII.

He said in the past, differencesbetween the central bank and the gov-ernment were sorted through privateconversations between the governorand the finance minister, and peopleoutside would not hear of it.

Now, it has become a matter ofpublic discourse and all sorts ofpeople, outside of the governmentand RBI, have jumped into the fray.

“I think this stand-off is notinsurmountable. Everybody thinks itis a major loss, but nothing of thatkind has happened,” Damodaranstressed. He said a mature conversa-tion between both the sides, carriedout in private, will help iron out thedifferences.

“The government’s agenda willalways be pro-growth and RBI has theresponsibility to see that the price line

is maintained and inflation doesn’t getout of control. How to harmonious-ly construct both, will have to bethrough conversation,” he said.

It doesn’t help if people go to thepress and make statements, he added.

Earlier in his speech, he saidwhen it comes to financial literacy,there is a huge knowledge asymme-try between those selling and con-suming financial products.

Speaking of the interdependenceof trust and technology in the finan-cial sector, he said if trust disappears,technology will be irrelevant. “Youneed technology and transparency,but you need trust,” he said.

Talking about risk management,he said it has been and always beimportant but is not been given ade-quate attention.

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Amway Tuesday announced its forayinto herbal skincare segment in Indiato tap the growing demand of suchproducts among youths in its pursuitof USD 1 billion total sales by 2025.

In the next six years, the compa-ny expects its Attitude range of skin-care products to become a �500-crorebrand accounting for 10 per cent ofits total sales. The figures are basedon foreign exchange rate during thetime when the announcement wasmade earlier this year.

Commenting on the foray intoherbal skincare range, Amway India

CEO Anshu Budhraja said the mar-ketplace is becoming more attuned tothe herbal category.

“There is a lot of traction forherbal products beyond nutrition,leading to beauty, in the market...Ourresearch shows that the youth ofIndia, consumer of this new segment,is growing exponentially and theproducts with traditional wisdom areappealing to them,” he told PTI.

Amway is kicking off its herbalskincare range with three products -a day cream, a night cream and a facewash - with all the locally-sourcedingredients, Budhraja added.

On the expectations from thenew range, he said, “currently Attitudeis about 6 per cent of the total busi-ness. We believe that this wouldbecome a �500-crore brand, withinthat USD 1 billion (target), that isalmost 10 per cent of the total sales”.

Earlier this year, Amway had saidit was looking to touch USD 1 billionsales in India by 2025, driven by newproduct launches and expansion ofsales network, including e-com-merce. In 2017-18, the direct sellingfirm had sales of �1,800 crore andexpects to touch Rs �2000 crore in2018-19. PTI

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Senior Indian woman cricketerMithali Raj on Tuesday slammedCommittee of Administrators

member Diana Edulji and coachRamesh Powar, saying the two arebiased against her and have tried to"destroy" her.

In a scathing e-mail to the BCCI,Mithali said her axing from the WorldT20 semifinal against England reducedher to tears and left her the most deflat-ed in her over two-decade long career.

In the note to BCCI CEO RahulJohri and GM (Cricket Operations)Saba Karim, one of India's finestbatswomen alleged that she was disre-spected by the duo of Edulji andPowar.

"...I felt deflated, depressed and letdown. I am forced to think if my ser-vices to my country are of any value toa few people in power who are out todestroy me and break my confidence,"Mithali, also the ODI captain, wrote inher mail.

While Powar refused to commenton Mithali's allegations, Edulji couldnot be reached for a response.

Mithali spoke about how Edulji'sstance backing her axing, made her feel"vulnerable". Edulji, in an earlier inter-view, had stated that the team man-agement's decision could not be ques-tioned on selection matters.

"To put things in perspective, I havealways reposed faith in Diana Eduljiand have always respected her and herposition as a member of the CoA.

"Never did I think she will use herposition against me, more after hear-

ing what all I had to go through in theCaribbean as I had spoken to her aboutit," Mithali wrote.

A source alleged that Mithali wasforced by Edulji to divulge the detailsof her meeting with Johri and Karimon Monday.

"Her brazen support in the presswith regard to the decision of mybenching in the semi final of the T20World Cup has left me deeply dis-tressed, more because she knows thereal facts having spoken to me," theplayer wrote.

Mithali has played 85 T20Is forIndia and has scored 2288 runs. Sheaverages more than 50 in both the Testand ODI formats.

"May I say that I am aware that bywriting this email I am making myselfeven more vulnerable. She is a CoAmember while I am just a player," shelamented.

"But the brazen support of a CoAmember is a clear sign of bias and alsothat a stance has already been takenagainst me. By saying 'I don't supportsomeone' and then going all out to sup-port my benching in the press is prej-udice of the clearest sort," said Mithali.

She, however, made it clear that shehas no hard feelings for T20 captainHarmanpreet Kaur, who was a party tothe decision of her being dropped forthe semi-finals and stood by it evenafter the defeat.

However, her relationship withPowar hit nadir in the West Indies andMithali said she still hasn't understoodthe breakdown.

"My issues with the coach startedimmediately as we landed in the WestIndies. At first there were small signs

that his behaviour towards me wasunfair and discriminatory," she alleged.

She said that Powar's behaviourcaused her "stress".

"For instance, walking off if I amsitting anywhere around, watching inthe nets when others bat but choosingto walk away when I am batting in nets,if I try to go up to him to talk to startlooking into his phone and keep walk-ing," she said.

"It was embarrassing and very evi-dent to everyone that I was beinghumiliated. Yet I never lost my cool.

"Finding the situation completelyout of control and realising that it isimportant to resolve issues as it affectsthe team I reached out to the teammanager and conveyed my griev-

ances."According to Mithali things went

from bad to worse after that."After the meeting his behaviour

turned worse. He would not evenacknowledge me. To him I didn't existin the team.

"If I was around he would imme-diately move away from the scene, if Ilooked to wish him he would deliber-ately start looking in other direction.He continued to behave badly as I havealready informed you yesterday. Itappeared to me that for him the meet-ing had hurt his ego."

Mithali said she was even asked notto show up at the ground by Powar dur-ing the game against Australia.

"In the evening after the team

meeting before the Australia game,Ramesh rings up in my room andinstructs me not to come to the groundas the media will be there," she alleged.

"I was taken aback as to what mediahas to do with me being with the team.I was told I was not to be with my ownteam in one of our biggest games. I wasshell shocked."

Mithali said Powar also deliberatelyignored her at nets to make it clear shewon't play the semi-finals after whichshe broke down.

"It was worrying and insultingbecause the coach was out to destroyand humiliate me," she wrote.

"I couldn't control my tears havinggiven it my all for 20 years. It seemedmy efforts had no value."

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Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur entered the top-five inthe latest ICC women's T20 International player rankings

with opener Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues alsoachieving their career-best rankings.

Harmanpreet, who was the second highest run-getterin the recently concluded Women's World T20, afterAustralia opener Alyssa Healy, has gained three slots to reachthe third position.

The Indian captain aggre-gated 183 runs including amatch-winning 103 in theopener against New Zealand.

Teenage sensation Jemimahmoved up nine places to acareer-best sixth and Smritijumped seven places to claimthe 10th spot.

Healy gained four slots toreach the eighth position for herPlayer of the Tournament effort, which saw her score 225runs.

Other batters to gain in the latest rankings update includeJaveria Khan of Pakistan, who has jumped seven places toreach a career-best 14th position, and Clare Shillington ofIreland, who has gained one slot to take the 19th slot.

In the bowlers' list led by Australia's Megan Schutt, NewZealand spinner Leigh Kasperek's seven wickets have liftedher seven places to third position while finalists England'sSophie Ecclestone has moved from 16th to fourth and fastbowler Anya Shrubsole from 12th to sixth place after a seven-wicket effort, which included a hat-trick against South Africa.

In the team rankings, England have overtaken NewZealand to second position in the list which continues to betopped by Meg Lanning-led Australia with 283 points.

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Leg-spinner Yasir Shah followedhis extraordinary first innings

performance with a six wicket haulas Pakistan beat New Zealand by aninnings and 16 runs in the secondTest in Dubai on Tuesday to level theseries 1-1.

The 32-year-old, who took 8-41on Monday, had figures of 6-143 inthe second innings for a match haulof 14-184.

New Zealand — following-onafter being dismissed for 90 in thefirst innings — were bowled out for312 soon after tea on the fourth day.

Yasir's figures are the secondbest match return ever for Pakistanin Test cricket, bettered only by for-mer captain and current PrimeMinister Imran Khan who took 14-116 against Sri Lanka in Lahore in1982.

Medium-pacer Hasan Ali wasalso at his best, taking 3-46 asPakistan gained a measure ofrevenge for losing the first Test byfour runs in Abu Dhabi last week.

Resuming on 131-2 and need-ing a further 197 to make Pakistanbat again, the New Zealand bats-men, led by Ross Taylor (82), HenryNicholls (77) and Tom Latham(50), dug in to make things toughfor the Pakistani bowlers.

Taylor smashed Hasan's firstball of the day to the cover bound-ary to reach his 29th half century inTests, a welcome return to form hav-ing scored just 21 runs in the threeinnings of this series.

Latham completed his 15thTest fifty but was dismissed the fol-lowing ball.

Harry Nicholls came to thecrease and set about frustrating thePakistan bowlers, adding 52 with

Taylor for the fourth wicket and 57with BJ Watling for the fifth.

Taylor tried to take the attack tothe bowlers, hitting seven bound-aries and a six in his 82 but grewimpatient after being tied down. Anattempted sweep off Bilal Asif endedin a top edge that looped to deepbackward square leg where Yasirtook a comfortable catch.

Yasir trapped Watling leg beforefor 27 to end another frustrating thestand and get into the Kiwi tail. DeGrandhomme made just 14 andSodhi was bowled behind his legs for

four, unwisely trying to sweep Yasirfrom well outside off-stump.

Nicholls stood firm amid thewreckage, striking Bilal Asif for astraight six, before Yasir nipped onebetween bat and pad to bowl himfor 77.

It was a brave stand fromNicholls but as skipper KaneWilliamson later admitted, the dam-age had been done in the firstinnings when New Zealand lost all10 wickets for just 40 runs in 14overs. The third and final Teststarts in Abu Dhabi from Monday.

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Bracing up for the "biggest opportunity" towin a maiden Test series Down Under,

India's Ishant Sharma on Tuesday also cau-tioned that Australia is good enough tocause problems, regardless of the turmoilin its cricket.

The Border-Gavaskar Trophybegins in Adelaide on December 6, withthe Indian team bedding in for prepa-rations at the Sydney Cricket Groundand taking on Cricket Australia XI ina four-day tour game fromWednesday.

"We don't really think aboutall these things. It depends on agiven day. In cricket whoever isplaying for the country is good enough.Till the time we get the results, we don'ttake anything lightly.

"We are pretty motivated. The aimright now is to win the series and that iswhat everyone is focussing on. We don'teven think of personal performances, justone aim, to win a series in Australia," saidSharma.

India were whitewashed 4-0 whenthey were here the last time, thoughcurrent captain Virat Kohli made his pres-ence felt with plenty of runs.

"The tour game is serious because it willset the tone for us. You get to know the con-

ditions because you are playing here after along time. So you can get into the groove andget used to the conditions," he added.

A lot of onus will be on the Indian paceattack to deliver the goods once againafter their terrific performances inSouth Africa and England earlier in theyear.

Kohli and coach Ravi Shastrihave praised them time and againas the 'best pace attack' in IndianTest history.

Sharma though said this tagdoesn't heap more pressure,instead provides an opportuni-ty for the pacers to perform evenbetter. Coming on his fourthtour here, he added that he iseager to win the Test series this

time, while not thinking about individ-ual performances.

"Pressure is there but I think it is agreat opportunity as well. We havea healthy competition in the paceattack. If you are not doing well, you

can be left sitting out and watching thegame.

"I think it's a great opportunity to do wellin any conditions. We did well on the last twotours of South Africa and England. We arenot even thinking like we have a pressure sit-uation. Instead, we always think that we havean opportunity to do well," said Sharma.

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In the absence of Steve Smith andDavid Warner, India must grab the

opportunity to win their maiden Testseries against an "ordinary" Australia,former stumper Farokh Engineersaid on Tuesday.

After drawing the Twenty20 series1-1, India and Australia will be lockedin a four-Test series, beginning inAdelaide on December 6.

"Australia have got two big namesmissing (Steve) Smith and (David)Warner. When you take two bignames out of an (playing) XI, the teamis weakened considerably," Engineer.

"India will never have a betterchance of beating Australia. Australiais a pretty ordinary team at the

moment, without these two people(Smith and Warner) and we shouldmake the best of this opportunity," 80-year-old Engineer said.

Smith and Warner are facing ayear-long ban after their involve-ment in the ball tampering scandal inSouth Africa.

Stressing that India have an all-round side, Engineer said the team isplaying good cricket and they shoulddefeat the hosts.

"India are playing very goodcricket, we have a great captain inVirat Kohli, he is doing superbly well.We have got a good all-round side,good pace bowlers, good spinners, solet's take advantage of that and beatAustralia in Australia, which weshould be doing and we will be

doing, God willing," added Engineer,who played 46 Test matches for India.

India are touring Australia withexperienced Parthiv Patel and rook-ie Rishbah Pant as their two-wicketkeepers in the squad and Engineerbacked the Gujarat player to play inTest matches.

Asked who is better among thetwo, Engineer said, "Well I would gofor a youngster. Rishabh Pant hasshown lot of promise in batting.Parthiv is still fit. I think the best keep-er should play Test match, ODI crick-et a better batsman (can play).Rishabh is certainly my choice forODIs but for a Test someone likeParthiv will be better, although he is35".

B�(�'��;��;��7�7��CFormer captain Michael Clarke

has advised the current side to "playtough Australian cricket" in the homeTest series, saying too much empha-sis on being nice guys on the field willlead them nowhere.

The mellowed down approach hasdrawn criticism from World Cupwinning skipper Clarke.

"Australian cricket, I think, needsto stop worry about being liked andstart worrying about being respected.Play tough cricket. Whether we likeit or not, that's in our blood," Clarkewas quoted as saying by MacquarieSports Radio.

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The Group B match betweenDelhi and Punjab, begin-

ning here on Wednesday, willsee Yuvraj Singh playing his firstmatch of the 2018-19 RanjiTrophy.

Yuvraj's return is a boost forPunjab, who conceded firstinnings lead in their first twomatches against Andhra andMadhya Pradesh.

The 36-year-old southpaw,who last played for India in June2017, will also be available forPunjab's next two matchesagainst Himachal Pradesh andTamil Nadu.

Rising star Shubman Gillwill not be playing the game ashe is with the India A team inNew Zealand.

Like Punjab, Delhi toowould be aiming for their firstwin of the season, having drawntheir matches againstHyderabad and HimachalPradesh. The Nitish Rana-ledside will be disappointed afterconceding the first innings leadin the away tie againstHyderabad.

Senior player GautamGambhir, who had missed theHyderabad game due to injury,is set to return for the homegame.

Lead Delhi pacer NavdeepSaini remains unavailable as heis in New Zealand on India Aduty.

Gambhir's presence willlend much needed solidity tothe batting line-up which fal-tered against Hyderabad.

Opener Hiten Dalal, LalitYadav and skipper Rana missedout on scoring big hundredswhich could have helped theteam overcome Hyderabad'sfirst innings total of 460.

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