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H ello, I am an ISI agent. But I don't wish to continue any further and want to remain in India, said a passenger after he got off an Air India flight from Dubai at the IGI Airport on Friday. Sources said initial inves- tigations revealed that the pas- senger is mentally unstable and is giving incoherent answers. However, the ques- tioning is going on and a clear picture will emerge only after the passenger's claims are ver- ified and statements are cor- roborated, sources added. "We need to question the man further to get the entire picture. We have figured out that he appears to be mentally deranged as he is replying in fits and starts," a senior immigra- tion official involved in the questioning said. Muhammad Ahmad Sheikh Muhammad Rafiq, a Pakistani passport holder, approached a help desk at the airport and conveyed to a lady at the counter that he wanted to share information about Pakistan's notorious Inter Service Intelligence (ISI). Taken aback by his state- ment, the lady quickly informed the Central Industrial Security force officials, who detained him immediately and informed the Central Intelligence agencies. Continued on Page 4 F our years after he was arrested by the Delhi Police in connection with the cricket spot fixing scandal with Rs 5.5 lakh in cash, the now-acquitted man finds himself in a peculiar spot. What to do with the demonetised currency returned by the police to him in February this year? The man in question, Abhishek Shukla, approached the Supreme Court on Friday praying for a directive to the Reserve Bank of India to allow him deposit the demonetised currency. The Bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar, Justices DY Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan Kaul first sought proof to justify his story. The peti- tioner's lawyer Manjeet Singh Ahluwalia produced the seizure memo issued by the Delhi Police dated September 25, 2013. Ahluwalia submitted that his client was joined as a co- accused by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police in FIR no. 20/2013 lodged at PS Special Cell in Delhi. The FIR was in connection with the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot fixing scandal. Shukla was accused e of being an associate of cricketer S Sreesanth. The allegation was that Shukla entered the hotel room of Sreesanth and removed the ill-gotten money of Rs 5.5 lakh. The trial court on July 25, 2015 discharged him of all charges, but the money that the police seized from him on September 25, 2013 was still lying in the malkhana of the investigating agency. The Investigating Officer in the case directed release of the seized money to Shukla on February 1, 2017. The court has already reserved orders on a bunch of similar petitions where indi- vidual citizens and firms have sought exemption to deposit demonetised currency with the RBI. The Bench found this also to be a fit case to issue notice to the Centre and the RBI Governor. The court assured the peti- tioner that his plea will also be considered along with the other pending petitions that have questioned the arbitrary Ordinance issued by the Centre refusing to accept any money in old currency notes after December 30, 2016 and exempting only such persons who remained out of the coun- try from November 8- December 30, 2016 to deposit the demonetised currency with the RBI. Shukla now awaits the Court's final order. W ith schools and colleges shut in Srinagar, agitations on the streets taking a violent turn, and distrust against the security forces running deep among the local population of Jammu & Kashmir, the Supreme Court on Friday attempted to bring both the Centre and the people of Kashmir to the negotiating table, kindling hopes of a solution to the crisis, which politically seems unmanageable. Taking the unprecedented step, despite being confronted by the troubled past that surrounds the issue of finding permanent peace in Jammu & Kashmir, the Bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar urged the Jammu & Kashmir High Court Bar Association to consid- er the gravity of its offer and make pos- itive suggestions by May 9, the next date of hearing. The Bar had approached the court for banning use of pellet guns claiming it caused deaths and grievous injury to inno- cent bystanders. The claim has been refut- ed by the Centre, which asserted that in most cases, victims were stone-pelters. The Bench, also comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan Kaul, assured the senior members of the State HC Bar that they will direct the Centre to withdraw security forces pro- vided violence stopped. "There has to be an end to violence. Suggestions must come and dialogue must commence but this bloodshed should stop. The people must be off the streets only then there will be an environment for talks where core issues can be addressed," said the Bench. Although the Bar claimed it does not represent the entire population, the Bench said that the Bar has been the vehi- cle for change, reminding the historic role played by members of legal fraternity in the freedom struggle of the country. "This is historic. You are part of history stand- ing before this court where you can set- tle this issue. We will pass orders but there should be cessation of violence at your end. Get us this first step and we will con- sider directing the Centre not to use pel- let guns for the next two weeks." The Bar leaders contended that that people who could talk on their behalf are under house arrest or in jail. Continued on Page 4 C hief Minister Yogi Adityanath has issued directives to District Magistrate and District Police Chiefs to meet people between 9 and 11 am and said he would personally check their attendance by calling them on their landlines. "Officials should regularly meet people in the morning. They should discard working from camp office and should attend regular office. "Listen to the problems of the masses and try to solve them there and then," the CM said in Lucknow on Friday. Uttar Pradesh's Power Minister Shrikant Sharma said Adityanath would make these surprise calls on office land- lines of officers between 9 am and 6 pm. If the officials are not able to justify their absence and explain the rea- sons for not being able to take the Chief Minister's call, there could be penalties, Sharma told a Press conference on Friday. However, officers on field jobs will be given some relaxation, said Sharma, who is also a spokesman of the State Government. "The idea is that if the top bosses are present in office, juniors will fol- low their example," he explained. In another significant deci- sion, senior officers in the State have been ordered to imme- diately close their home- offices, Sharma said. The priest-turned-politi- cian, Adityanath, after he became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh had made it clear that he expects the admin- istration to put in long hours. After he took over in March, Adityanath had warned that anyone who had problems working at least 18-20 hours per day should take a dif- ferent path. Continued on Page 4 T he much-delayed periph- eral highway projects to decongest the national Capital are slated to be ready by the year end, all equipped with state-of-the-art technology and facilities. While the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE) will be ready by August 2017, the Western Peripheral Expressway (WPE) may take a few more months. Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, who undertook an aerial survey of the EPE on Friday, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation the Rs 11,000-crore 135-km-long access-controlled six-lane expressway anytime this year. "Sixty per cent of the work on the EPE project between Continued on Page 4 A major organisational reshuffle is expected soon in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the central and State levels as the party gears up for major 'vistar' (expansion) from the North to the South and from the West to the East before the 2019 General Elections. According to sources, though the party is confident of having elected its nominees for the posts of President and Vice-President, it would still "present its panel" before the Opposition unless the latter seeks a contest and puts up its own candidates. Sources said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will quit his Lok Sabha seat from Gorakhpur and contest Vidhan Sabha polls only after elections to the top constitu- tional posts in July. Changes in State presi- dents and a major organiza- tional reshuffle across the country, including in UP, would be carried out soon. One of the BJP's vice-presidents Dinesh Sharma is Deputy Chief Minister in the Yo g i Government, while two of the national secretaries, Shrikant Sharma and Siddharth Nath Singh, are Cabinet Ministers in UP. Another Deputy-Chief Minister in the UP Government, Keshav Prasad Maurya, will also be quitting as BJP State unit chief. "There are five to six leaders in the fray for the post," sources said. BJP president Amit Shah would be visiting Lucknow to attend a State Executive meet on May 2 where the issue of the new State president may figure, sources said. Amit Shah, who has just returned from West Bengal for consolidation of booth-level structures in the State, is visit- ing Jammu on Saturday where he would have "discussions with intellectuals." The situation in Kashmir Valley would also figure during the interaction. Shah would continue on his 95-day countrywide tour of the States until September. He embarked on it from Kolkata on Tuesday. Continued on Page 4 C hief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said his Government will build 20 lakh houses over the next two years for the urban and rural poor. Each house would be built with Rs 3 lakh in Centre-State subsidy and Rs 2 lakh in State- supported financing, Chouhan said at an event organised by CII here. He said the transformation of Madhya Pradesh from a BIMARU State to one with seven cities in the National Smart Cities Mission is a result of the State's policies and its implementation. BIMARU is an acronym for Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, which were considered to be financially sick ('Bimar' in Hindi) and backward States. Highlighting MP's achieve- ment since he took over as Chief Minister 12 years ago, Chouhan said that the State has ensured power and road con- nectivity. It has also become an investment destination for renewable energy, a highlight being the solar power plant of 750 MW at Rewa, which cre- ated history with the lowest- ever tariff of Rs 2.90 for the first year of operation, he said. The State has witnessed significant increase in irrigat- ed land from 7.5 lakh hectares in the early 2000s to 40 lakh hectares, and projects are now completed within 1-5 years, as against decades earlier, he claimed. An extensive river-linking project has ensured water avail- ability even in the remotest areas, Chouhan said. He also highlighted the State's agricultural policies and said, "Agriculture needs to be a profitable business. A food processing policy has been formulated. These efforts have doubled the agricultural output of MP in the last five years". On infrastructure, Chouhan stated the State Government is connecting every village to roads, power grid, Wi-Fi and drinking water systems. U ttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that inspired by the public campaign 'Namami Devi Narmade' Seva Yatra, 'Namami Gange' scheme will be implemented in Uttar Pradesh. Yogi was addressing the Jan-Samvad during the Narmada Seva Yatra at village Shehpura of district Dindori on Friday. Lauding Madhya Pradesh's Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan wholeheartedly, Yogi said that the yatra has become a matter of discussion all over the world. He further mentioned that this is the competent leadership of Chouhan that men and women in large number are participating in the yatra despite scorching heat. Yogi said that CM Chouhan has himself participated in the yatra at about 50 places, this indicates how much sensitive he is. Terming the yatra as a cam- paign to save human beings beside civilisation, Yogi greeted Chouhan. He praised Chouhan heartily for transforming Madhya Pradesh into a progressive State emerging from the Bimaru tag, for making Madhya Pradesh no.1 in wheat production, for increase in per capita income besides pro- viding electricity 24 hours a day. Chouhan told villagers in Jan- Samvad that Narmada river flow is to be made incessant as earlier at every cost to save Madhya Pradesh. He mentioned that whether it is food grains or elec- tricity availability etc. all have become possible due to the Amrut Jal of Narmada Ji. Besides, Chouhan said that crores of saplings will be planted by innumerable people on July 2. He mentioned that 12 crore saplings are being prepared for this unique plantation programme. He informed that plantation will be carried out in 2144 km area on that day. Repeating to make Narmada River a living entity once again, he stated that a proposal will be introduced in the next Assembly session in this regard. Chouhan while discussing on sewage water treatment plants to prevent pollution in Narmada River beside other solutions, urged all the people to become volun- teers in all the Narmada Seva Committees for these works. RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008 C M Y K C M Y K
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Hello, I am an ISI agent. ButI don't wish to continue

any further and want to remainin India, said a passenger afterhe got off an Air India flightfrom Dubai at the IGI Airporton Friday.

Sources said initial inves-tigations revealed that the pas-senger is mentally unstableand is giving incoherentanswers. However, the ques-tioning is going on and a clearpicture will emerge only afterthe passenger's claims are ver-ified and statements are cor-roborated, sources added.

"We need to question theman further to get the entirepicture. We have figured outthat he appears to be mentallyderanged as he is replying in fits

and starts," a senior immigra-tion official involved in thequestioning said.

Muhammad AhmadSheikh Muhammad Rafiq, aPakistani passport holder,approached a help desk at theairport and conveyed to a ladyat the counter that he wantedto share information aboutPakistan's notorious InterService Intelligence (ISI).

Taken aback by his state-

ment, the lady quicklyinformed the Central IndustrialSecurity force officials, whodetained him immediately andinformed the CentralIntelligence agencies.

Continued on Page 4

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Four years after he wasarrested by the Delhi Police

in connection with the cricketspot fixing scandal with Rs 5.5lakh in cash, the now-acquittedman finds himself in a peculiarspot. What to do with thedemonetised currency returnedby the police to him inFebruary this year?

The man in question,Abhishek Shukla, approachedthe Supreme Court on Fridaypraying for a directive to theReserve Bank of India to allowhim deposit the demonetisedcurrency.

The Bench of Chief JusticeJS Khehar, Justices DYChandrachud and SanjayKishan Kaul first sought proofto justify his story. The peti-tioner's lawyer Manjeet Singh

Ahluwalia produced the seizurememo issued by the Delhi Policedated September 25, 2013.

Ahluwalia submitted thathis client was joined as a co-accused by the Special Cell ofthe Delhi Police in FIR no.20/2013 lodged at PS SpecialCell in Delhi.

The FIR was in connectionwith the Indian Premier League(IPL) spot fixing scandal.Shukla was accused e of beingan associate of cricketer SSreesanth. The allegation wasthat Shukla entered the hotelroom of Sreesanth andremoved the ill-gotten moneyof Rs 5.5 lakh.

The trial court on July 25,2015 discharged him of allcharges, but the money that the

police seized from him onSeptember 25, 2013 was stilllying in the malkhana of theinvestigating agency. TheInvestigating Officer in thecase directed release of the

seized money to Shukla onFebruary 1, 2017.

The court has alreadyreserved orders on a bunch ofsimilar petitions where indi-vidual citizens and firms have

sought exemption to depositdemonetised currency withthe RBI. The Bench found thisalso to be a fit case to issuenotice to the Centre and theRBI Governor.

The court assured the peti-tioner that his plea will also beconsidered along with the otherpending petitions that havequestioned the arbitraryOrdinance issued by the Centrerefusing to accept any moneyin old currency notes afterDecember 30, 2016 andexempting only such personswho remained out of the coun-try from November 8-December 30, 2016 to depositthe demonetised currency withthe RBI. Shukla now awaits theCourt's final order.

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With schools and colleges shut inSrinagar, agitations on the streets

taking a violent turn, and distrustagainst the security forces runningdeep among the local population ofJammu & Kashmir, the Supreme Courton Friday attempted to bring both theCentre and the people of Kashmir to thenegotiating table, kindling hopes of asolution to the crisis, which politicallyseems unmanageable.

Taking the unprecedented step,despite being confronted by the troubledpast that surrounds the issue of findingpermanent peace in Jammu & Kashmir,the Bench headed by Chief Justice JSKhehar urged the Jammu & KashmirHigh Court Bar Association to consid-er the gravity of its offer and make pos-itive suggestions by May 9, the next dateof hearing.

The Bar had approached the court forbanning use of pellet guns claiming itcaused deaths and grievous injury to inno-cent bystanders. The claim has been refut-ed by the Centre, which asserted that inmost cases, victims were stone-pelters.

The Bench, also comprising JusticesDY Chandrachud and Sanjay KishanKaul, assured the senior members of theState HC Bar that they will direct theCentre to withdraw security forces pro-vided violence stopped. "There has to bean end to violence. Suggestions mustcome and dialogue must commence butthis bloodshed should stop. The peoplemust be off the streets only then there willbe an environment for talks where coreissues can be addressed," said the Bench.

Although the Bar claimed it does notrepresent the entire population, theBench said that the Bar has been the vehi-cle for change, reminding the historic roleplayed by members of legal fraternity inthe freedom struggle of the country. "Thisis historic. You are part of history stand-ing before this court where you can set-tle this issue. We will pass orders but thereshould be cessation of violence at yourend. Get us this first step and we will con-sider directing the Centre not to use pel-let guns for the next two weeks."

The Bar leaders contended that thatpeople who could talk on their behalf areunder house arrest or in jail.

Continued on Page 4

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Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath hasissued directives to District

Magistrate and District Police Chiefs tomeet people between 9 and 11 am andsaid he would personally check theirattendance by calling them on theirlandlines.

"Officials should regularly meetpeople in the morning. They shoulddiscard working from camp office andshould attend regular office. "Listen tothe problems of the masses and try tosolve them there and then," the CM saidin Lucknow on Friday.

Uttar Pradesh's Power Minister

Shrikant Sharma saidAdityanath would make thesesurprise calls on office land-lines of officers between 9am and 6 pm.

If the officials arenot able to justifytheir absence andexplain the rea-sons for notbeing able totake the ChiefMinister's call,there could bep e n a l t i e s ,Sharma told aPress conferenceon Friday.

However, officers onfield jobs will be givensome relaxation, saidSharma, who is also a

spokesman of the State Government."The idea is that if the top bosses

are present in office, juniors will fol-low their example," he explained.

In another significant deci-sion, senior officers in the Statehave been ordered to imme-diately close their home-offices, Sharma said.

The priest-turned-politi-cian, Adityanath, after hebecame the Chief Minister ofUttar Pradesh had made it

clear that he expects the admin-istration to put in long hours.

After he took over in March,Adityanath had warned that anyone who had problemsworking at least 18-20 hours per day should take a dif-ferent path.

Continued on Page 4

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The much-delayed periph-eral highway projects to

decongest the national Capitalare slated to be ready by theyear end, all equipped withstate-of-the-art technology andfacilities. While the EasternPeripheral Expressway (EPE)will be ready by August 2017,the Western PeripheralExpressway (WPE) may take a

few more months. Road Transport and

Highways Minister NitinGadkari, who undertook anaerial survey of the EPE onFriday, said Prime MinisterNarendra Modi will dedicate tothe nation the Rs 11,000-crore135-km-long access-controlledsix-lane expressway anytimethis year.

"Sixty per cent of the workon the EPE project between

Continued on Page 4

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Amajor organisationalreshuffle is expected soon

in the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) at the central and Statelevels as the party gears up formajor 'vistar' (expansion) fromthe North to the South and fromthe West to the East before the2019 General Elections.

According to sources,though the party is confident ofhaving elected its nominees forthe posts of President andVice-President, it would still"present its panel" before theOpposition unless the latterseeks a contest and puts up itsown candidates.

Sources said Uttar PradeshChief Minister Yogi Adityanathwill quit his Lok Sabha seatfrom Gorakhpur and contestVidhan Sabha polls only afterelections to the top constitu-tional posts in July.

Changes in State presi-dents and a major organiza-tional reshuffle across thecountry, including in UP, wouldbe carried out soon. One of theBJP's vice-presidents DineshSharma is Deputy Chief

Minister in the YogiGovernment, while two of thenational secretaries, ShrikantSharma and Siddharth NathSingh, are Cabinet Ministers inUP. Another Deputy-ChiefMinister in the UP

Government, Keshav PrasadMaurya, will also be quitting asBJP State unit chief. "There arefive to six leaders in the fray forthe post," sources said.

BJP president Amit Shahwould be visiting Lucknow toattend a State Executive meeton May 2 where the issue of thenew State president may figure,sources said.

Amit Shah, who has justreturned from West Bengal forconsolidation of booth-levelstructures in the State, is visit-ing Jammu on Saturday wherehe would have "discussionswith intellectuals." The situationin Kashmir Valley would alsofigure during the interaction.

Shah would continue onhis 95-day countrywide tour ofthe States until September. Heembarked on it from Kolkataon Tuesday.

Continued on Page 4

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Chief Minister Shivraj SinghChouhan on Friday said

his Government will build 20lakh houses over the next twoyears for the urban and ruralpoor.

Each house would be builtwith Rs 3 lakh in Centre-Statesubsidy and Rs 2 lakh in State-supported financing, Chouhansaid at an event organised byCII here.

He said the transformationof Madhya Pradesh from aBIMARU State to one withseven cities in the NationalSmart Cities Mission is a resultof the State's policies and itsimplementation.

BIMARU is an acronymfor Bihar, Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh,which were considered to befinancially sick ('Bimar' inHindi) and backward States.Highlighting MP's achieve-ment since he took over asChief Minister 12 years ago,Chouhan said that the State hasensured power and road con-nectivity.

It has also become an

investment destination forrenewable energy, a highlightbeing the solar power plant of750 MW at Rewa, which cre-ated history with the lowest-ever tariff of Rs 2.90 for the firstyear of operation, he said.

The State has witnessedsignificant increase in irrigat-ed land from 7.5 lakh hectaresin the early 2000s to 40 lakhhectares, and projects are nowcompleted within 1-5 years, asagainst decades earlier, heclaimed.

An extensive river-linkingproject has ensured water avail-ability even in the remotestareas, Chouhan said.

He also highlighted theState's agricultural policiesand said, "Agriculture needs tobe a profitable business. Afood processing policy hasbeen formulated. These effortshave doubled the agriculturaloutput of MP in the last fiveyears".

On infrastructure,Chouhan stated the StateGovernment is connectingevery village to roads, powergrid, Wi-Fi and drinking watersystems.

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Uttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath said that

inspired by the public campaign'Namami Devi Narmade' SevaYatra, 'Namami Gange' schemewill be implemented in UttarPradesh. Yogi was addressing theJan-Samvad during the NarmadaSeva Yatra at village Shehpura ofdistrict Dindori on Friday.

Lauding Madhya Pradesh'sChief Minister Shivraj SinghChouhan wholeheartedly, Yogisaid that the yatra has become amatter of discussion all over theworld. He further mentioned thatthis is the competent leadership ofChouhan that men and women inlarge number are participating inthe yatra despite scorching heat.

Yogi said that CM Chouhan hashimself participated in the yatraat about 50 places, this indicateshow much sensitive he is.

Terming the yatra as a cam-paign to save human beings besidecivilisation, Yogi greetedChouhan. He praised Chouhanheartily for transforming MadhyaPradesh into a progressive Stateemerging from the Bimaru tag, formaking Madhya Pradesh no.1 inwheat production, for increase inper capita income besides pro-viding electricity 24 hours a day.

Chouhan told villagers in Jan-Samvad that Narmada river flowis to be made incessant as earlierat every cost to save MadhyaPradesh. He mentioned thatwhether it is food grains or elec-tricity availability etc. all have

become possible due to the AmrutJal of Narmada Ji.

Besides, Chouhan said thatcrores of saplings will be planted byinnumerable people on July 2. Hementioned that 12 crore saplingsare being prepared for this uniqueplantation programme. Heinformed that plantation will becarried out in 2144 km area on thatday. Repeating to make NarmadaRiver a living entity once again, hestated that a proposal will beintroduced in the next Assemblysession in this regard.

Chouhan while discussing onsewage water treatment plants toprevent pollution in NarmadaRiver beside other solutions, urgedall the people to become volun-teers in all the Narmada SevaCommittees for these works.

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The school students ofKendriya Vidyalaya were

informed about the facts relat-ed to Hiroshima and Nagasakiattacks. The renowned poetArthur Binard visited KendriyaVidyalaya on Friday.

He interacted with the stu-dents and also highlightedabout the unknown facts ofHiroshima and Nagasakiattacks. It is to be noted thatArthur visited school under anevent ‘Beyond the Boundaries’.The event was organised byEklavya and The JapanFoundation.

During the event, the poetrecited few lines from his poemMain Dhoond Raha Hoon(Sagashiteimasu). As he inter-acted with the students, he toldthem about the attacks. He alsoshared his experience while hewrote this collection of poems.

He beautifully narrated thestory of Hiroshima andNagasaki to the students ofKendriya Vidyalaya. While nar-

rating the story, he connectedthe Bhopal Gas Tragedy withHiroshima tragedy.

Arthur told students about

the inhuman acts in both thetragedies.

It is to be noted that PoetArthur Binard is a well known

poet hails Michigan, USA.After graduation he came toJapan and started writing poet-ry and prose, in both Englishand Japanese. He wrote bookSagashiteimasu which narratesabout the Hiroshima attacks. Itis the collection of poemswhich describe in detail thetragedy. His poem was trans-lated in Hindi as Main DhoondRaha Hoon by TomokoKikuchi. The Hindi translationMain Dhoond Raha Hoon waspublished by Eklavya last year.

On the occasion, translatorTomoko Kikuchi was also pre-sent. She also recited MorningGood Morning, Khane KoMera Namaste and Khat seKhola Khat, three short poemsfrom Main Dhoond RahaHoon. The students listened tothe poems with rapt attention.

The members of Eklavyaand director of JapanFoundation Karu Miyamotowere also present.

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Online applications can besubmitted for admissions

in different courses ofMakhanlal ChaturvediNational University ofJournalism andCommunication, Bhopal forsession 2017-18 between April27, 2017 and June 5, 2017.

Deadline for submission ofapplications is 12 midnight,June 5, 2017. Candidates willhave to log-in athttps://mcrpv.mponline.gov.in/for online application.

Applications can also besubmitted through university'swebsite www.mcnujc.ac.in andwww.mcu.ac.in. Entrance testwill be held on June 11, 2017for admissions in differentcourses. Facility is being pro-vided by the University toScheduled Tribe and ScheduledCaste candidates of the coun-try to submit applications with-out fee.

Under two-year Post-Graduation courses, MJ(Journalism), MA (Advertisingand Public Relations), MA

(Mass Communication), MA(Broadcast Journalism), MSc(Electronic Media), MSc(Media Research), MSc (FilmProduction), MSc (NewMedia) and MA (New MediaContent Design) like coursesare being run. Besides, theUniversity has offered MBA inMedia Management (MM),Advertising and MarketingCommunication (AMC),E n t e r t a i n m e n tCommunication (EC) andCorporate Communication(CC).

Four-year BTech inPrinting and Packaging, three-year B. Tech. in Printing andPackaging (lateral entry) cours-es are also available for stu-dents. Under three-year grad-uation programmes, BBA (e-commerce), BA (Mass

Communication), BSc(Electronic Media), BSc(Graphics and Animation) andBSc (Multimedia) and BCAcourses are also being run inthe University. Post-Graduationprogrammes in computer, likeMCA, MCA (two-year lateralentry), MSc (CloudComputing), MSc (Big DataAnalytics), MSc (Informationand Cyber Security) courses arebeing offered.

PG Diploma in VideoProduction, WebCommunication, Yogik HealthManagement and SpiritualCommunication, DigitalPhotography and EventManagement under one yearevening courses in Bhopalcampus of the university.PGDCA and DCA courses arealso available in other cam-puses of the university, apartfrom Bhopal campus.Applications are invited also forMPhil. (Media Studies).Candidates can submit onlineapplications for PhD in com-puter and media but date forentrance test for PhD will beannounced later.

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The young television actorAvinash Kumar was in

Bhopal on Friday for the pro-motional activity of his ongo-ing show ‘Sethji’.

This is the debut ofAvinash on television and hewill portray the character ofyoungest son ‘Bajirao’ of pro-tagonist Gurmeet Kaur essay-ing the role of Sethji.Hailingfrom Raipur, Avinash talkedabout the show and his char-acter with the media persons.

Speaking about his char-acter Avinash shared, “My

character Baji is a young 20year old desi wrestler but withan adorable, innocent face, sothe kind of physical attributesrequired were a little differentfrom the usual.”Baji has neverbeen exposed to the outer worldbeyond their village Devsu thatis untouched by technologyand modernization. In a turn ofevents, he falls in love with amodern; city girl Pragati playedby actress Rumman Ahmedwho enters the village on a mis-sion.

“I had to create the char-acter ‘Bajirao’ as it is an imag-inary one,” he added.

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The Under-19 FootballTalent Hunt Tournament

2017 ‘Urja’ will be held fromMay 8 to May 15 in Bhopal.

The tournament will beinaugurated on May 8 at 3.30 pm at TT Nagar Stadium.Revenue, Science andTechnology MinisterUmashankar Gupta and MayorAlok Sharma unveiled the tour-nament ‘logo’ and mascot‘Gabru’ at Ravindra Bhavan.Tournament will be organizedby CRPF.

Revenue Minister Guptasaid that CRPF has a glorioushistory and a long series of sac-rifices. He said that we shouldencourage games at every level.Gupta said that no talent

should remain unnoticedbecause of shortage of funds.Government is making everyeffort to bring talents forwardand encourage them. He urgedthe Mayor to organize suchtournaments in future also.Gupta said that the budget ofSports Department was �5crore in 2003 which was hikedto nearly �220 crore.

Sharma said that sportsgenerate a spirit of competitionand discipline in life. He saidthat children should play andmake the state and countryproud.

CRPF Inspector Generalof Police Pankaj Kumarinformed that ‘Mission ElevenMillion’ programme has beenlaunched. The main objectiveof the programme is to link

1.01 crore children with foot-ball before FIFA Under-17World Cup – 2017. Four boysteams and four girls teams willtake part in the tournament.The boys team match will beheld at Barkatullah Universityand the girls team match at SAIComplex Bhopal.

Revenue Minister Guptaand Mayor honoured theTournament’s BrandAmbassador TaekwondoChampion Kumari LatikaBhandari, Ishan Sharma andVipul Tomar, students of CRPFSchool Rohini, Delhi.

A two-minute silence wasobserved in respect of martyrsduring the programme. DeputyInspector General of PoliceKB Sharma proposed the voteof thanks.

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Taking notice of 30-year-oldman’s death due to negli-

gence in treatment at districthospital Jhabua and later his50-year-old father’s death dueto shock, Madhya PradeshHuman Rights Commission(MPRHC) has demandedreport from medical boardformed to enquire the inci-dent.

The deceased RameshDamor visited the Jhabua dis-trict hospital to get treatmentfor his hip bone but the treat-ment got delayed and later hewas administered an injec-tion after which his conditionsstarted getting deterioratedwhich created panic amongdoctors and nurses. Aftersome time the family wasinformed by hospital Rameshdied and the treating doctortold that Ramesh’ hip bone wasdislocated and it was locatedproperly and pain killer wasgiven but it went into arteriesblocking the blood supply and

resulted in his death.Soon after the death of

Ramesh when his fatherSakaria Domar saw Ramesh’sbody he sustained cardiacarrest and died of cardiacarrest. The deceased was a res-ident of Thuwadra in RanapurTehsil.

Commission has demand-ed report in the incident frommedical board which has to beformed for enquiry of the inci-dent. In another incident ofgrave negligence by districthospital an elderly man diedafter needle was left inside hishand during treatment.

The deceased KanhaiyalalRaghuvanshi died under sus-picious circumstances and laterpost mortem was conducted atprimary health center wherethe reason of the death wasfound due to assault.

On February 17, 2017Kanhaiyalal was referred todistrict hospital for treatmentwhere broken needle was lefthis in hand and he was dis-charged but later he died.

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An 80-year-old woman BeniBai who had reached the

District Collector office withher complaint found a sympa-thetic officer, SDM CV Prasad,who not only immediatelysolved her problem of not get-ting ration from PDS shop, butalso provided her with othergoods.

As soon as Beni Baireached the office, Prasad pro-vided her a chair and a glass ofwater and then told her to nar-rate her problem. The officerprovided her with 10 kg ofwheat.

Besides, Prasad directedthe Assistant Supplies OfficerPankaj Karoria that the issue ofBeni Bai should immediately besolved so that she continuesgetting ration in her villagewith any hurdle.

Karoria provided informa-tion that the woman has one IDin Veera village of Pichor Tehsildue to which her ID in Teelagot blocked after which SDMPrasad instructed to generatenew ID and provide ration withthe new ID.

During public hearing cor-porator of ward 2 Sonu Dubeaccompanying his dozen sup-ports complaint regarding thenon-working of street lights.After hearing the complaintSDM Prasad instructedMunicipal Officer andElectricity department to repairthe street light and make themfunctional.

Assistant Engineer ofElectricity department provid-ed information thatMunicipality is due to pay Rs64000 towards street lightsconnection. Prasad assuredthat the dues would be clearedand light would be started atthe earliest.

Babulal came with com-plaint of problems in obtainingBPL card required for his wife’streatment and was assured thatafter the strike of Patwari getsover his BPL card would befacilitated. Same was the issueof Jaya Chhari of Amola Kresarwhose husband Indrabhan diedand she was in need of BPLcard for her survival. She wasassured that after the strikeends BPL card would be facil-itated.

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After a period of low tempera-tures hot and humid conditions

were witnessed on Friday with tem-peratures soaring. City recorded daytemperature at 40.4 degree Celsiuswhich was around 38 degree Celsiusfor the past 2-3 days.

Highest day temperature wasrecorded in Damoh at 42.5 degreeCelsius. Khajuraho and Nowgongrecorded day temperature at 42degree Celsius.

The pattern of increasing tem-peratures has started to make theweather conditions harsh fromThursday. Scorching heat was wit-nessed during the day. Night tem-peratures are providing relief from thehot and humid weather conditions.

Hoshangabad continue to wit-ness day temperature at higher lev-els and recorded day temperature at41.3 degree Celsius on Friday. Raisenrecorded day temperature at 39.6degree Celsius. Gwalior recordedthe highest day temperature for thethird consecutive day among themajor cities at 41.6 degree Celsius.

In the next 24 hours dust stormsand thundery activities are likely towitness in Chambal division andGwalior, Datia, Shivpuri andTikamgarh districts.

The major cities Indore record-ed day temperature at 39.6 degreeCelsius and night temperature at20.9 degree Celsius. Jabalpur record-ed day temperature at 40.9 degreeCelsius and night temperature at22.7 degree Celsius.

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Crime branch police have nabbedtwo miscreants involved in bur-

glary at Ratibad and recovered elec-tronic goods worth �55,000 fromtheir possession on Thursday.

Acting on a tip off, a person wasnabbed from Jawahar square andwhen he was searched one laptopand one mobile phone was recoveredfrom his possession which he wastrying to sell at very low price.

The miscreant was not able toprovide the details of the electronicgoods and confessed that the valu-ables were stolen from Ratibad.

The miscreant was identified asArif alias Gulfam Khan (25). In theinitial investigation Arif confessedthat he along with his brother-in-lawImran burgled valuables worth Rs 1lakh from Neel Sagar colony inRatibad around 10-15 days ago.

Based on the informationImran’s house was raided it wasfound locked. It was found thatImran is a watch list criminal underKoh-e-Fiza police station. Search forImran has been intensified.

Arif was given one laptop, twomobile phones and Rs 10000 cash.Arif has been booked by Koh-e-Fizapolice for burglary, stealing andgambling.

The victim lodged a complaintwith Ratibad police and in his com-plaint the victim stated that healong with his family had gone tomeet his relatives in Vidisha on April14, 2017 and on April 16,2017 hisuncle informed him that the locks ofhis house and later when he returnedhe found that on e TV, laptop andthree mobile phones and two pairsof gold ear rings, two pairs of silveranklets, camera and clothes and�50000 cash were burgled.

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The students of MadhyaPradesh School of Drama

(MPSD) are learning the cre-ative skills of movie making ina workshop.

The movie making work-shop is organised by MPSD forthe students of 2016-17 batch.Film maker Naresh Sharmafrom New Delhi is invited asthe guest faculty at MPSD toconduct the workshop.

Notably, the workshop isorganised as a part of class-room practice.

The 10-day workshop‘Film Making Process’ hasgiven the students an oppor-tunity to brush up their creativeskills and to know about vari-ous aspects of film making. Theworkshop began on April 20.

During the workshop thestudents are instructed in thebasics of writing, directing andother technical aspects of pro-duction. The workshop also

focuses upon the choice ofidea before making a film.Besides, the choice of targetaudience is also the part of theworkshop.

Naresh Sharma also toldthe students about the outdoorand indoor shootings. Heemphasized about the dos anddon’ts in film making process.Talking about the acting part,he highlighted about theexpressions and body languageof the actors.

During the workshop, thestudents were divided intogroups and were given tasksand assignments by NareshSharma. The groups of studentshave prepared four shortmovies on the basis of theworkshop.

The short movies ‘Waah ReBeta’, ‘Bills Sepnis’, ‘Half Ticket’,and ‘Firki’ will be screened onSaturday at MPSD. During thescreening of the films, the bestfilm will be selected on thebasis of audience reaction.

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To pressurise the StateGovernment to accede to

their demands, a Gwalior-based employee among protest-ing 108 ambulance employees,tried to commit suicide byself-immolation on Friday infront of 108 ambulance serviceoffice in the city.

Health services in the Statehave hit badly after strike of108 ambulance employeesentered third day on Fridayand on other side protestingemployees are not willing togive up protest till demandsare met.

Several lives of patientswould be at risk due to theongoing protest. Health min-ister Rustam Singh said that theprotest is inhuman and pro-testors do not have humanity.

Paramedical staff and pilots

of Ziqitza Healthcare operatingthe 108 ambulance servicesare protesting demandingreduce work burden andincrease salary.

Company only managed tooperate 400 ambulances out of606 ambulances and whichwere operated without para-medic staff.

Police FRV Dial 100 vehi-cles and Janani Express pro-vided support to the patientsand rushed them to hospitals.

On Thursday around10000 people seek help from108 ambulance service andaround 3000 people were ofaccidents, cardiac arrest, deliv-ery and other serious injuredpeople. Government hadclaimed the service level hasbeen maintained even afterthe protest.

On Friday a Gwalior basedemployee Shyam Sundar tried

to self-immolate in front ofoffice at Idgah Hills. Police per-sonnel at the spot tried torestrain him from self immo-lating and was later taken topolice station and when he wastaken by police protestors triedto rescue Shyam Sunder.

Around a dozen employeeswent on hunger strike fromThursday evening.

Company operating the108 ambulance services hasfiled a case in Jabalpur highcourt to end the strike. Courthas asked state government ofsteps taken to contain protest.

Media in-charge ofMadhya Pradesh 108 ambu-lance employee union AslamKhan said that employeeswould not give up strike untiltheir demands are met as everytime strike ends after districtadministration intervenes butdemands are never met.

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AHindi play ‘Trasadi’ show-casing the struggle

between relationships wasstaged at Madhya PradeshTribal Museum on Friday.

The play was performedunder the series of dramas‘Abhinayan’ organized by trib-al museum.

Directed by a known the-atre artist and playwright of citySaroj Sharma, the play was per-formed by the artists of KoshishTheatre Troupe, Bhopal. Theplay was written by ManishSoni.The story revolves aroundSharda and her family. The play

begins with birthday celebra-tion of Sharda’s grandson Rishi.The celebrations are on butSharda is not invites as she suf-fers with a disease due toBhopal Gas Tragedy.

On being forced by his wifeSunil asks his mother Sharda toleave the house in live with theinmates of old age home.Saddened by his act, Shardaleaves. On the other hand, theplay features the story of a girlwho lost her family in gastragedy.

Another part of the playshowcases the story ofRamakant who works in thesame old age home where

Sharda lives. Meanwhile, ayoung boy from America givesdonations in the same old agehome. He recognizes his auntSharda and asks her to comewith him to America.Focusingon the twisted relationships andtheir brutal reality is all aboutthe play Trasadi.

According to the directorof the play Saroj Sharma, theplay is more like a mirror tosociety. She said that this playbrings the audience to under-stand the equations of the rela-tionships. Each relationshiphas its importance and has itsplace in life and so they have tobe handled maturely.

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Besides making employmentopportunities available,

Mahatma Gandhi MNREGAhas made remarkable efforts tobring about social and eco-nomic changes in the ruralareas.

In this sequence, sportsgrounds are being developed invillages to bring out rural tal-ents and to create interest insports activities. TheGovernment has set a target todevelop sports grounds inevery gram panchayat. At least13,153 sports grounds havebeen developed in various dis-tricts of the State throughMNREGA and work in morethan 10,000 grounds is inprogress.

Detailed guidelines andtechnical standards have beensent to the districts by the RuralDevelopment Department todevelop sports grounds in ruralareas. As per the guidelines, thepremises adjacent to the schooland panchayat building will bemost appropriate for con-struction of the sport ground.This will ensure smart use of

the grounds.The sports grounds are

being constructed as per thestandard 10,000 square meterand 4,800 square metres. Atotal cost of �6.73 lakh has beenset for the work which includes�3.20 lakh for 10,000 squaremetre sports ground and �3.53lakh for construction of halland toilet. Again total cost of�3.39 lakh has been set for thework including �1.53 lakh for4,800 square metre groundand �1.86 lakh for hall and toi-let.

Rural children are nowpracticing games in villageswhere the sports grounds thatare ready. Games includingfootball, volleyball, cricket,kabaddi and kho-kho are beingplayed in the grounds. Sportscompetitions are being organ-ised in these sports grounds byschools and villagers. There isno dearth of talents in the vil-lage. There is need only ofresources, which can be fulfilledthrough MNREGA Yojana. Thishas increased the inclination ofrural children towards sportsand they now have the rightplace to nurture their talents.

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Indira Gandhi RashtriyaManav Sangrahalaya organ-

ised another chapter of itspopular series, Curatorial TalkShow today where MuseumAssociate of ManavSangrahalaya, Garima AnandDubey spoke on ‘Tribes ofPachmarhi: SomeA n t h r o p o l o g i c a lObservations’.

The programme waschaired by Prof Sarit KumarChaudhari (Director,IGRMS). Programme coordi-nator, Rakesh Bhatt said thatin the late 1980s museumeducation programme wasstarted to connect peoplewith the museum. Now theworkshops have become anecessity of the residents ofBhopal and have successfullyconnected to millions of newvisitors.

Dubey said,“Sangrahalaya as part of itsprogramme to salvage andpreserve local resource man-agement traditions, the muse-um organized demonstrationand training under its 'Do andLearn' Museum EducationProgramme. This programme

brings out not only theknowledge associated withdifferent traditional art formsbut also creates awarenesstowards such tradit ionsamongst the masses andmakes attempt for moralboosting of respective craftspersons.”

Garima said, “Frombeginning of this programmein 1988-89 till now more than200 workshops has beenorganised. Initially very lim-ited and easily affordable craftforms like clay, stitching andpainting were introduced lat-ter variety of art forms includ-ing traditional and innovativehas been incorporated and theseries covered Kashmir toKanyakumari.”

In her lecture GarimaAnand gave numerous exam-ples from past three decadeswhere school students or artenthusiasts undertook train-ing in all workshops for adecade or longer period andhas inculcated it in their life.Also gave example of fewtrainees who are now successful artist and art train-ers and taking these indige-nous arts to general public.

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From Page 1Rafiq, 38, had arrived in

the national Capital by AirIndia's flight from Dubai andwas further booked to fly forKathmandu.

However, he did not takethe next flight and decided tobreak journey and walked up tothe help-desk counter at theairport.

A team of IntelligenceBureau officials took him to anundisclosed located to questionhim.During questioning, Rafiqsaid he was connected with the

ISI but had decided to call it aday and remain in India, offi-cials said. "Rafiq further said hewanted to quit the ISI and stayin India and also wanted toshare information regardingthe Pakistani snooping agency,"said the source.He was whiskedaway later to another undis-closed destination where hewas being questioned bysleuths from various otherCentral Intelligence agencies,said the source, adding that theclaims of the man are beingverified.

From Page 1The BJP's "Vistar Yojna" in

the year of Deen Dayal's birthcentenary, would focus on theBJP's ideological and organi-zational expansion, besidestaking measures to improve itselectoral performance.

Apart from Bengal, Shah isvisiting Odisha, Telangana,Lakshadweep and Gujarat forthree days where "he would gotwice". There would be "reviewand stock taking" with an eyeto bring "uniformity and stan-

dardization" in the functioningof all the BJP units in the coun-try, sources said. "There wouldnot be a single booth in thecountry where BJP workers'presence is not felt," they said.

All the 11 crore membersof the BJP would be listed, con-tacted and given assignmentsin the party's work. The partyhas prepared a special strategyto win 120 Lok Sabha seatswhich is had lost from time totime.

From Page 1They were obviously refer-

ring to separatist leaders Syed AliShah Geelani and Yasin Malik.Attorney General MukulRohatgi objected to this andwondered how the Bar could beinterested in taking up the causeof separatists.

The AG made it clear thattalks cannot be held if the BarAssociation wanted separatiststo be their interlocutors. Healso drew the attention of thecourt to an affidavit filed by theHC Bar Association wherethey dubbed the AccessionAgreement of J&K to be "con-troversial" and called the elec-tions in the State as rigged.

"Is this a responsible barassociation speaking and arethey somebody to suggest weshould have dialogue with

Pakistan," the A-G remarked,demanding that the HC Barmust give a "roadmap" indi-cating what they wanted to dis-cuss and file an affidavit givingnames of their interlocutors.

The A-G also suggestedthat such matters involvingsecurity of the country aresensitive and must not bedebated by courts but politicalleaders of the Centre and theState, whom the people of theState have elected. However,when the court said it wasready to step back, the A-Gclarified that the Centre wasopen for talks but the roadmapand the players must be madeclear. He further indicated thatif the other side chose peoplewho are in custody, theirrelease will be considered onlyif the law permitted so.

From Page 1The 44-year-old Chief

Minister had told the officialsthat only those who were readyto work up to 20 hours will beable to work with him.

He has also taken measuresto ensure presence of theGovernment staff by directionthat biometric attendance sys-tems be put in place to deterlate-comers.

Surprise attendance checkshave been carried out in vari-ous departments to checkpunctuality.

The State Cabinet chairedby the Chief Minister hadrecently cancelled 15 holidays

ordered by the previousGovernments to commemoratethe birth or death anniversaryof famous Indian leaders aspart of an attempt to change thestate's work culture.

Sharma said after com-pleting a marathon round ofdepartmental presentations,the Chief Minister will followup after 100 days to seewhether his directions were fol-lowed or not.

He said after every review,each department had beenasked to release a 'white paper'on its functioning and a reportcard on completion of 100days of the Government.

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Deputy Chief MinisterManish Sisodia on Friday

said that the DelhiGovernment following thefootsteps of Uttar Pradeshhas decided to cancel holidayson birth and death anniver-saries of great icons.

A list will be issued afterDelhi Cabinet grants itsapproval to cancel holidays onthe birth and death anniver-saries of national leaders whoshaped the destiny of the country.

"Uttar PradeshGovernment's decision wasgood we support it. I havegiven instructions to theChief Secretary about this,"Sisodia tweeted. He addedthat the Uttar PradeshGovernment has taken a goodinitiative in this matter. "Wemust always be prepared tolearn from other States," hesaid.

Sisodia asserted that thesupportive gesture towardsthe initiative of MohallaClinic and red beacon issue atthe national level has encour-aged the Delhi Government.The Yogi Adityanath-ledUttar Pradesh Governmenthad on April 14 made anannouncement saying schoolsacross the State to remainopen on birth anniversaries ofgreat icons.

Instead of giving studentsa holiday on birth anniver-saries of legends, UttarPradesh schools will nowhave discussion on the life,work and ideology of thatspecific person on the leg-end's birth date. According toreports, the schools remainclosed for 120 days in thename of birth anniversaries

and national holidays.Stressing on the commit-

ment of the Government toextend all possible help to thepoor and marginalised peo-ple, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said he will workfor all sections of societywithout discrimination.

For the first time ever, theBJP in Uttar Pradesh hasordered al l primar yGovernment schools to cele-brate the birth anniversary ofDr BR Ambedkar this week,in an attempt to build itsimage as that of a pro-Dalitpolitical force.

All school children fromClasses one to eight will cel-ebrate the occasion with a dis-cussion on his life, strugglesan ideology.

The celebrations beganon April 13 since the follow-ing day has been declared aholiday.

Earlier on Thursday, theUttar Pradesh Governmentmade an announcement toend caste-based reservationsin private medical and dentalcolleges across State.

An order has been passedto do away with the quota forcandidates belonging to SC,ST and OBC categories.

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From Page 1Kundli and Palwal has

been completed. Efforts are on to wind it up by August,"Gadkari said.

Once the EPE is ready,vehicles headed for UttarPradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab,Haryana, Rajasthan, Jammu &Kashmir and HimachalPradesh will not have to enterDelhi. The same will be truefor reverse journeys.

After completion andbecoming fully operational,the Peripheral Expresswayswill see the diversion of aroundtwo lakh vehicles that dailypass through Delhi right now,reducing both traffic conges-tion and pollution. Gadkarisaid EPE will set a benchmarkin highway construction bybeing environment-friendlywith world-class safety fea-tures and smart/interactiveinfrastructure.

The Peripheral ExpresswayProject comprises two express-ways - WPE and EPE con-necting NH-1 and NH-2 fromthe Western and Eastern sidesof Delhi. The EPE and WPEconstitute one combined pro-ject forming a Ring Roadaround Delhi with a totallength of 270 km. About 183km of it passes through theState of Haryana whereas theremaining 87 kms passesthrough UP.

The EPS passes throughSonepat, Baghpat, Ghaziabad,Gautam Budh Nagar,Faridabad and Palwal inHaryana and UP. The pro-posed alignment crosses riverYamuna at Khurrampur/Khatain UP and Faizpur Khadar inHaryana and also crosses theriver Hindon. A 53 km stretchbetween Manesar and Palwalwas opened for public use lastApril.

Gadkari said that theCentre has requested theHaryana Government to meetthe August completion targetfor the WPE project. However,the State anticipates a delay bya few more months due to

some issues. The Minister saidhe was hopeful that the entireRing Expressway aroundDelhi-NCR would be fullyoperational this year.

"I have also written to theDelhi Government to consid-er shifting cold storages, foodstock sheds, and small indus-tries, etc., located on the sidesof the highway," said Gadkari.

The project had facedresistance from farmers overland and other issues whichhave since been solved by giv-ing higher compensation. TheSupreme Court has directedpolice chiefs of UP andHaryana to provide adequatesecurity for the expeditiouscompletion of the project.

The project will have smartand intelligent Highway TrafficManagement Systems (HTMS)and Video Incident DetectionSystems (VIDS) besides aclosed tolling system in whichthe collections will be madeonly on the distance travelledand not on the entire length.

In addition to automatictraffic management systems,landscaping, and solar panellightening systems, the stretchwill also have wayside ameni-ties like motels, toilets andpetrol pumps at regular inter-vals along the expressway oneither side."Most likely theEPS project will be completedin August this year. We havespent a huge Rs 5,900 crore onland acquisition, which ismuch higher than the cost ofconstructions at Rs 4,418 crore.The Prime Minister had man-dated 400 days for its comple-tion, and we together withHaryana Government are sureof meeting the deadline set bythe PM," Gadkari said briefingthe media at the Palwal spot.

Gadkari was joined byBaghpat Lok Sabha MPSatyapal Singh, Faridabad MPKrishna Pal Gujjar and NHAIChairman YS Malik besidesmedia persons during theinspection of the project sitesin Delhi, UP and Haryana.

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To protest against terrorattacks on security forces

in Jammu and Kashmir, theShiv Sena activists on Fridayallegedly burnt a Pakistanif lag on the National Highway 1.

Led by Sena’s State vice-president Inderjit Karwal, theprotesters began the marchfrom Hanumangarhi templeand came to NH 1, converg-ing at sugar mill crossing.

Sporting Sena’s flags, theyallegedly raised slogansagainst Pakistan and also tar-geted the Centre and theJammu and KashmirGovernment.

They allegedly burnt aneffigy of the BJP-led NDAGovernment at sugar millcrossing.

The protesters alleged thatPakistan's ISI was “sponsoringterror attacks” on securityforces in Jammu and Kashmir

while the Union Governmentwas “soft-pedalling” over it tosave the state government inwhich the BJP was a coalitionpartner.

“Our army and paramili-tary jawans are being target-ed by Pakistan-sponsored ter-rorists in order to destabiliseIndia and create a fear psy-chosis but Modi theGovernment is doing pre-cious little to control the sit-uation,” Inderjit Karwalalleged.

He claimed that a fear-psychosis was being createdahead of the annual Amarnathyatra. “Amarnath pilgrimagewill be held at every cost forwhich foolproof securityarrangements should bemade,” he demanded.

Karwal batted for theGovernor’s rule in Jammuand Kashmir and alsodemanded snapping of all tieswith Pakistan, including dis-continuation of the Indo-Pak

bus service.Meanwhile, Phagwara SP

Harwinder Singh Sandhu,who was present at the protestsite, said that the agitation hadno effect on the movement ofIndo-Pak international buseswhich cross through the town.

“Both the buses fromDelhi to Lahore and vice-versa had crossed Phagwarasmoothly a little before theprotest had started,” he said.

Meanwhile, a right-wingoutf it in the State alsodemanded scrapping ofArticle 370 that grants specialstatus to Jammu and Kashmir,and also called for the coun-try to take the initiative todeclare Pakistan a terrorist State.

“Provision of special sta-tus to Jammu and Kashmirtantamount to discriminationwith other States of the coun-tr y,” said Punjab AkhilBharatiya Hindu SurakshaSamiti president Deepak

Bhardwaj on Friday.He said: “This must be

shelved at the earliest byscrapping Article 370 to haltthe growing attacks on secu-rity forces in J&K.”

Reminding the ModiGovernment that it had cometo power on the agenda ofconstruction of Ram Templein Ayodhaya, Uniform CivilCode and scrapping of Article370, Bhardwaj said: “Whilethe first two issues are beingaddressed, the third issue isbeing sidelined under thepressure of Mehbooba Mufti’sGovernment in J&K.”

Demanding continuationof surgical strikes againstcross-border terror camps forcurbing terrorism, Bhardwajargued that non-Kashmirisshould be allowed to buyproperty in J&K while theHindus uprooted from thestate should be rehabilitatedthere for bringing Kashmirinto the national mainstream.

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The Women’s Expedition toGokyo Everest Grand Circle

led by Bachendri Pal , chiefadventure programme, TataSteel, was successfully com-pleted when all six members ofthe expedition reached EverestBase Camp via Gokyo RI.

The team comprisingPremlata Agrawal, SwarnalataDarai from Odisha, ShantiHembrum from Noamundi,Poonam Rana fromUttarakhand, V Saraswatifrom Border Security ForceDelhi and Amla Rawat fromDehradun are part of themission.

Bachendri Pal with years ofleading behind her, coached themembers during the journeyon various matters of expedi-

tioning. From eating food (forproviding calories/energy) todrinking fluids to maintainthe physiological changes in theinternal body systems to highaltitude travel taking all pre-cautions including the protec-tion of eyes from the deadly

ultra violet rays. Sharing her experiences

Pal says, “Every day I used toshare my experiences and teachthe team members why peopleclimb mountains. What is thelearning from it? It’s a journeyof workshops where every day

is different with new tasks. Twogirls (Saraswati and Shanti)were in the mountains for firsttime. I used to share withthem about psycology in highaltitude, high altitude sickness,Ultra violet rays and its effectson eyes and skin”.

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Punjab MLAs saved moneybut earned votes. At least 39

percent of the 117 legislatorsspent half the permissibleamount for poll expenditure,yet returned home victorious.

Out of the 117 MLAsanalysed by the Association forDemocratic Reforms (ADR), asmany 46 MLAs have declaredelection expenses of less than50 percent of the expense limit— �28 lakh - in their con-stituency.

Congress party has, to itscredit, the highest and the leastspenders. Party MLA fromBassi Pathana Gurpreet SinghGP spent the maximum �26.89lakh during the Punjab assem-bly elections held in February,while his party colleague andAjnala MLA Harpartap Singhspent the lowest �4.13 lakh —just 15 percent — in run up topolls.

Congress’ MLAs —Sukhpal Singh Bhullar fromKhemkaran and RakeshPandey from Ludhiana North

— are the second and thirdlowest spenders with �6.57lakhs (23 percent) and �7.19lakhs (26 percent) expensesrespectively.

Even as the ShiromaniAkali Dal (SAD) and BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) failed tosecure a respectable number ofseats along with the place ofmain opposition party inVidhan Sabha, its MLAs spentas much as 56 percent and 55percent of the expense limit.While SAD’s 15 legislators, onan average, spent �15.76 lakhs,its ally BJP spent �15.49 lakhs.

As per the party-wise aver-age election expenses, twoMLAs from Lok Insaaf Party—Simarjeet Singh Bains andBalwinder Bains (popularlyknown as Bains Brothers ofLudhiana) — spent �20.01lakhs, which is 71.5 percent ofthe expense limit.

Simarjeet, MLA fromAtam Nagar assembly segment,is also the third highest spenderon his election campaign,spending 90 percent of thelimit—�25.18 lakhs. On the

second spot is Congress MLAfrom Chamkaur Sahib andCabinet Minister CharanjitSingh Channi with �26.83 lakhexpenditure — 96 percent ofthe total prescribed limit.

As the Congress succeed-ed in securing people’s mandatewith 77 MLAs emerging vic-torious, it average spending onelections is �15.25 lakhs — 54.5percent of the expense limit.

For 20 MLAs from thedebutant Aam Aadmi Party(AAP), the average electionexpenditure is �14.86 lakhs —53 percent of the expense limit.

AAP which mainlydepends on funding from othersources, especially public dona-tions, on an average con-tributed 39 percent of the totalfunding of its every MLA,while 45 percent of the amountspent by every MLA was raisedfrom the funds from any per-son, company, firm, associa-tions or body of persons asloan, gift or donation.

Based on the electionexpense declarations, the aver-age spending by every MLA is

�15.34 lakhs.As per the declarations

made by the MLAs, 45 ofthem, 38 percent, submittedthat they did not spend any-thing on public meeting, rally,and processions with star cam-paigners, while 50 (43 percent)MLAs declared that they havenot spent any amount on cam-paigning through electronicor print media.

As many as 35 (30 percent)MLAs have declared that theyhave not spent any amount oncampaign workers, while justone MLA maintained that noexpenditure was made for vehi-cles during the campaign. Forthe campaign materials, eightMLAs (seven percent) declaredthat they have not spent anyamount.

Maximum �2.71 lakhswere spent by the Akali Dal, onan average, on the public meet-ings, processions etc with starcampaigners; followed by �1.82lakhs by the BJP, �1.55 lakhs bythe Congress, �1.03 lakhs byAAP, and none by Lok InsaafParty of Bains Brothers.

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The Supreme Court onFriday got down to some

straight talk with men askingthem to respect a woman’sindividual choice when it cameto matters involving love.

Wondering why women inthe country are not allowed tolive in peace, the court sent astrong signal to eve-teasers bysending a man to jail for sevenyears on the charge of harassinga woman to the point that shedecided to end her life. Thisaction of the accused was seen assufficient evidence by the courtto hold him guilty of abetting thegirl’s suicide under Section 306of the Indian Penal Code.

The accused, PawanKumar, was in love with the vic-tim, a teenager who hailedfrom a poor family in HimachalPradesh. Both eloped but theboy was caught by the police asthe girl’s father lodged a com-plaint of kidnapping and rape.Although the court finallyacquitted him of these seriouscharges, the boy nursed a deeprevenge against the girl.

The girl wished to moveahead trying to forget the pastbut the accused constantlyharassed her and threatened toruin her life. Unable to bear theharassment any further, onJuly 19, 2008, the victim pouredkerosene and set herself ablaze.Her dying declaration revealed

the acts of the accused, whichled the police to lodge a case ofabetment to suicide againstthe boy. He was lucky to getacquitted by the trial judge in2010 but the Himachal PradeshHigh Court reversed theacquittal sending him to jail forseven years.

Feeling deeply for the girl,who fell victim to the “deplorabledepravity” of an eve-teaser, theBench of Justices Dipak Misra,AM Khanwilkar and Mohan MShantanagouder wondered whythe society had yet not accept-ed a woman’s individual choiceand developed a sense of equalrespect to their likes and dislikes.The Bench said, “One is com-pelled to think and constrainedto deliberate why the women inthis country cannot be allowedto live in peace and lead a lifethat is empowered with dignityand freedom.”

In a civilised society like

ours, the Bench noted that eve-teasing had become rampant ineducational institutions, publicplaces, parks, railway stations,etc. “This only goes to show thatrequisite sense of respect forwomen has not been sociallycultivated.” Making it loud andclear that instances of eve-teas-ing will be harshly dealt bycourts, the Bench termed suchan act as “obnoxious” and some-thing that creates an “incurabledent” on women’s rights of notto be discriminated againstunder Article 15.

“No one can compel awoman to love. She has anabsolute right to reject. In acivilised society male chauvinismhas no room…A man shouldnot put his ego, or for that mat-ter, masculinity on a pedestal andabandon the concept of civility,”said Justice Misra, writing thejudgement by which the accusedwas sent back to jail.

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mit weekly details of sales andproduction of the medicaldevices post-price ceiling, theNational PharmaceuticalPricing Authority (NPPA) onFriday threatened to invoke theEssential Commodities Act fornon-compliance of its order.

The country’s drug pricingregulator reminded them to fallin line or face prosecutionunder relevant provisions of theEssential Commodities Act.

The Department ofPharmaceuticals, under theChemical and FertilisersMinistry, had on February 21directed all the companiesmanufacturing coronary stentsin the country to maintain arecord ofproduction/import/supply ofthe medical gadgets.

They were also asked tosubmit a weekly report toNPPA and DCGI on coronarystents produced and distributedby them to hospitals.

A NPPA memorandumissued by its Deputy DirectorDr R Nihal Pedric said, “It hasbeen found that, the manufac-tures/importers of coronarystents have not followed theinstructions of the Departmentof Pharmaceuticals so far as noweekly report has been receivedin NPPA in this regard.

Therefore, all manufac-tures/importers/marketers ofcoronary stents are once againdirected to follow the direction

of the Department ofPharmaceuticals and to submita weekly report on coronarystents produced and distributedas per the proforma preparedby the authority.”

He also said that the orderregarding submission of thedetails will be valid for sixmonths and NPPA and DCGIwill recommend withdrawalor extension as the case may be,two weeks before the expiry ofthe period.

The NPPA has also direct-ed hospitals/nursinghomes/clinics utilising coro-nary stents to specifically andseparately mention the cost of

the coronary stent along withits brand name, name of themanufacturer/importer/batchnumber and other details, ifany, in their billing to thepatients or their representa-tives.

The NPPA had notified theceiling price of coronary stentsat �7,260 for bare metal stentand �29,600 for drug-elutingones.

The regulator has alsorejected applications frommultinational stent makersAbbott and Medtronic to with-draw their stents from theIndian market over commercialviability concerns.

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Aday after cricketer GautamGambhir announced his

decision to take care of the edu-cation expenses of kids of allthe 25 CRPF soldiers killed byNaxalites in Sukma, the IASofficers’ association on Fridaycame out to offer its help tofamilies of all jawans who losttheir lives in Maoist combat,anti-terror operations or whilemaintaining law and order. Italso declared that 700 IAS offi-cers will be asked to adopt atleast one such family in the areaof their posting.

Detailing their noble ven-ture, Sanjay Bhoosreddy, hon-orary secretary of Indian Civiland Administrative Service(Central) Association, toldmedia that they have instruct-ed all IAS officers to meet allfamilies of martyred soldiers ofArmy, paramilitary and policeforces to understand theirneeds and provide help in get-ting all assistance fromGovernment.

“The bureaucrats willapproach such families withintheir area of posting and offerthemselves as facilitators tohelp them (families) get theirdues like pension, gratuity orallotment of services like petrolpump, jobs etc”, saidBhoosreddy, adding the offi-cers, however, would not beproviding any direct financialhelp to such families.

“Their job would be to helpthe families get their dues fromrespective Governments. Theymay also help the children insuch families to get admissionin a school,” he said.

The association representsall members of IndianAdministrative Service (IAS).Initially, about 700 young offi-cers, of past four batches —2012 to 2015 — will be askedto adopt at least one family inthe area of their posting.“Senior officers, or those fromstate civil services, can alsoadopt such families voluntari-ly,” said Bhoosreddy.

The officers will overseewhether the support (both incash and kind) pledged by theState or local Governmentshave been provided to the fam-ily concerned. They will ensurethat the children of the mar-tyred soldiers continue get-ting good education and men-tor them so that they can pur-sue the career of their choicebased on their aptitude and tal-ent, said the statement issuedby the association detailingtheir plan of action for helpingall families of martyred soldiersacross India.

Cricketer Gambhir onThursday declared that hismanager would meet CRPF toget the details of the 25 fami-lies of the martyred jawans inSukma Naxal attack. He saidhis foundation would meet allthe educational expenses of thekids of the soldiers.

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The Union Home Ministryhas asked the Jammu &

Kashmir Government toensure that the ongoingprocess to recruit 10,000Special Police Officers (SPOs)is free from political interfer-ence. This was conveyed at ahigh-level meeting, chaired byHome Minister Rajnath Singhon Thursday, which took stockof the progress in implemen-tation of the �80,000-croredevelopment packageannounced by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi for the State.

The representatives of theJammu & KashmirGovernment in the meetingwere told to ensure that therecruitment process of SPOs isfree from political interferenceso that the people have faith inthem, official sources said.

In the past, many surren-dered militants were recruitedas SPOs, who gained notorietyfor allegedly committing excess-

es in anti-militancy operations.There were also allegations ofappointing PDP cadre as SPOs.Many BJP leaders from Jammuhad accused alliance partnerPDP of appointing the partycadre as SPOs.

Currently, the recruitmentprocess for 10,000 SPOs in theState is on. The Home Ministerhad given approval for hiringthe SPOs, especially for secu-rity-related requirements, lastyear. There are already 25,000SPOs in the State, engaged ona monthly honorarium of�6,000.

When the recruitmentprocess of the SPOs had start-ed late last year, thousands ofyouths across Kashmir hadturned up, defying militants’threats and the separatists’ boy-cott call. The authorities havereceived over 25,000 applica-tions from aspiring candidateswilling to serve as SPOs fromacross the 10 districts of thevalley.

The highest number ofapplications at 8,600 were

received from north Kashmir’sKupwara district followed byBudgam (4,000), Baramulla(3,853), Anantnag (2,400),Ganderbal (1,600), Kulgam(1,258), and Bandipora andSrinagar (1,000 each). While800 applications were receivedfrom Pulwama district, 500youths applied for the job inShopian district, sources said.

Separatists, on the otherhand, had asked the youths toignore the “enticement aimedat breaking their ranks”, alleg-ing that the Government byabsorbing the youths as SPOswas trying to revive “IkhwanMilitia” of 1990s to crush the“freedom struggle”.

An SPO will initially drawa salary of �5,000 per month,�5,300 after completion of oneyear and �6,000 after comple-tion of three years. The reim-bursement of the expenditureto the State Government by theCentre in respect of 10,000SPOs will be as per existingapproved Security RelatedExpenditure (SRE) guidelines.

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New Delhi: India and Cypruson Friday signed four pacts,including one for air servicesand another for cooperation inmerchant shipping.

The two countries alsosigned an agreement onExecutive Programme onCulture Education and ScientificCooperation (EPCEC) for theyear 2017-2020.

The agreement wasexchanged between ExternalAffairs Minister Sushma Swarajand Cyprus’ Finance MinisterHarris Georgiades in the pres-ence of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and CypriotPresident Nicos Anastasiadesafter holding delegation-leveltalks at the Hyderabad Househere.

An agreement on ‘WorkPlan under Programme ofCooperation in the Field ofAgriculture for 2017-18’ wasalso signed between the twonations, apart from a mer-chant shipping agreement.PTI

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The Ministry of UrbanDevelopment has asked the

land owning agency of thenational Capital — DelhiDevelopment Authority (DDA)— to reduce its staff strength byupto 40 per cent, as it is inexcess. The authority has beenstalling the process of staffreduction for last two years cit-ing to the Ministry that the“average age of the employeesin DDA is 54 years and in nextfour-five years, there will be lotof retirements”.

The Ministry, under whichthe DDA comes, also directedthe authority recently to“analyse the loss of revenue asa result of excess staff in DDA

and take appropriate steps todeal with the situation at theearliest”. Secretary of UrbanDevelopment has asked theDDA to implement the processof staff reduction soon.

The DDA has 11,200employees including contractualstaff and the average age of anemployee is 54 years. However,DDA employees are not happywith the decision — they fearmany will be forced to retire.

On delay in process ofrestructuring, the Secretary ofUrban Development Ministryhad noted that it should havenot taken such a long time andwarned authority against keep-ing the report pending.

The delay, sources said,happened ostensibly “due to

lack of initiative and lack-adaisical attitude of DDA”. “Ananalysis of this sequence ofevents reveals that there is totallack of coordination amongstthe ministry and the authority,”said officials of Ministry ofUrban Development.

The DDA also failed toassess the current manpower

requirement and streamlineprocesses for efficient func-tioning in the authority.

The National ProductivityCouncil (NPC) in consultationwith the authority had onOctober 29, 2014 conducted amanpower audit which foundthe excess staff in DDA. It thensuggested a 40 per cent reduc-tion of existing staff by carry-ing out comprehensive com-puterisation and outsourcingcertain functional activities.

Sources said, NPC had rec-ommended a major cut in thenumber of sanctioned postsunder various departments.According to officials, DDAhas been stalling the process ofimplementation of the reportciting several reasons and even

stating that (NPC) should carryout study afresh. In July, 2016,the DDA then informed theMinistry that NPC has submit-ted a draft revised proposal onrestructuring the authority.

In November, last year, thecouncil submitted its draftreport in which it yet again rec-ommended scrapping postsand identifying works that canbe outsourced to professionalservice providers.

DDA, however, kept quieton the report fearing protestsand chalking ways to restruc-ture the authority so that theydo not have to send people forvoluntarily retirement. Theyare also delaying the process ina bid to get more time where-in most of the staff retires.

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Congress president SoniaGandhi’s son-in-law

Robert Vadra made an “illegalprofit” of over �50 crore froma 2008 land deal without invest-ing a penny, according to apanel that probed suspectHaryana land deals.

The Economic Times citingunnamed people familiar withthe SN Dhingra commissionreport said the committee hadprobed transactions betweenOnkareshwar Properties andVadra-owned SkylightHospitality and subsequentlybetween Skylight and develop-er DLF.

The Dhingra commission

investigated over 20 propertiessaid to have been purchased byVadra and his companies, saidthe paper.

The panel has observed analleged collusion between deal-ers and the then CongressGovernment of BhupinderSingh Hooda, aimed at bene-fiting Vadra’s Skylight. Thecommission was set up by theManohar Lal Khattar’s BJPgovernment in May 2015 tolook into the grant of licencesfor change in land use in fourvillages of Gurgaon, includingthe licence granted to Skylight.

The Economic Times saidthe Vadra-owned hospitalityfirm had bought land fromOnkareshwar Properties.

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New Delhi: In line with theWHO direction, theGovernment will soon launcha ‘test and treat policy’ ensur-ing anti-retroviral therapy(ART) as soon as a person istested and found to be HIVpositive.

The treatment will beginirrespective of his medical sta-tus. “This will be for all posi-tives men, women, adolescentsand children. This will improvelongevity, improve quality oflife of those infected and willsave them from many oppor-tunistic infections, especially

TB,” said Union HealthMinister JP Nadda on Friday atan event here.

He also said that out of 21lakh estimated with HIV,almost seven lakh are missingie not getting treatment. Todetect them, we have revisednational HIV testing guidelinesand are aiming to reach out tothem and test them wherethey are, of course with prop-er counseling and consent, theMinister added. India haspledged “ending AIDS by 2030”as a part of the SustainableDevelopment Goal (SDG).

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The prospect of the USrelenting on its propos-al to drastically slash thenumber of H-IB visasand also stiffen the con-

ditions for issuing them, do notseem very bright. Apart fromPresident Donald Trump’s pre-election pronouncements, thereare strong pressures from diversequarters that believe that peoplearriving with these visas are takingaway American jobs. The argumentthat, contrary to such belief, theemployment of people with thesevisas strengthens the Americaneconomy and increases job oppor-tunities for Americans, may bevalid. But people often believe notwhat is valid but what they want to.The very large section of the US’population and political establish-ment that believes that these visassnatch American jobs, will keepgrowing as long as the slow processof the American economy’s recov-ery from the 2008 crisis continuesto cause high unemployment rates.

Hence, even if there are someconcessions on these visas, these areunlikely to be such as to make theIndian Information Technologygiants and techies, the principalbeneficiaries, sigh with relief.Besides, even these concessionsmay prove ephemeral if declining— or even stationary — employ-ment opportunities generate strongpressures for their removal. The jobsituation is directly linked to thestate of the American economy,which is unlikely to improve signif-icantly without some fundamentalcorrective measures. As JosephStiglitz says in his book, Free Fall:Free Markets and the Sinking of theGlobal Economy, “The current (US)crisis had uncovered fundamentalflaws in the capitalist system, or atleast the peculiar version of capital-ism that emerged in the latter partof the twentieth century in the US”.It was “not just a matter of flawedindividuals or specific mistakes.”

Identifying these fundamentalflaws, Stiglitz states, “America’sfinancial markets had failed toperform their essential societalfunctions of managing risk, allocat-ing capital, and mobilising savingswhile keeping transaction costslow. Instead they had created risk,misallocated capital, and encour-aged excessive indebtedness whileimposing high transaction costs. Attheir peak in the years before the cri-sis, the bloated financial marketsabsorbed 40 per cent of profits inthe corporate sector.”

The Trump Administration’scozy relationship with Americanbig business has been sharplyunderlined by huge tax cuts it has

proposed and its disastrous policieson global warming and the envi-ronment, that are supported by sec-tions of the US’s corporate world.Despite its increasingly proverbialunpredictability, it appears mostunlikely that it would take measuresthat would correct the “fundamen-tal flaws” mentioned above andcurb the activities of thoseAmerican corporations that refuseto play by the book. The results ofinaction can be disastrous.

Francis Fukuyuma, the authorof the celebrated The End of Historyand the Last Man, writes in After theNeocons: America at the Crossroads,“establishing or reforming institu-tions is almost always more of apolitical than a technocratic prob-lem. For example, poor fiscal man-agement (such as Governmentsspending more than they take inthrough tax revenues or else spend-ing public money for private pur-poses) continually bedevils manydeveloping countries”.

Governmental action and/orinaction can play havoc with thedeveloped countries as well. In thecase of the US, the dismantling ofthe regulatory mechanism formoney markets from the Reaganera prevented corrective stepsbeing taken on time against cor-porate recklessness and malfea-sance. This failure, in turn, fol-lowed from the belief that the mar-

ket was self-correcting. As hasbeen seen above, it is most unlike-ly that the Trump Administration’spolicy will be any different. If any-thing, it is going to be moreindulgent toward big business.

The US economy’s fundamen-tal flaws would, therefore, remainand, some sporadic upturnsnotwithstanding, it will continue tobe vulnerable to crises. The employ-ment situation, therefore, willremain problematic despite tempo-rary improvements at intervals.Every decline will spur demands forreducing the number of H-IB visasbesides raising and numericallyincreasing the hurdles in the way ofaccessing them.

India has to learn to live withthis situation and devise its policiesaccordingly. Besides curbs on H-1Bvisas, there may be tariff walls andpolicies to promote and protectdomestic manufacture. In January,President Trump had said in his firstaddress as the 45th US President,“We must protect our bordersfrom the ravages of other countriesmaking our products, stealing ourcompanies and destroying ourjobs.” He had further stated,“Protection will lead go great pros-perity and strength.”

The US has made it clear thatit would follow President Trump’s“America First” policy andrevise/scrap existing international

trade agreements to advanceAmerican interests. These includethe North American Free TradeAgreement, the Trans-PacificPartnership (TPP) between 12countries around the Pacific rim,excluding China, and the agreementbeing negotiated between the USand Europe, known as theTransatlantic Trade and InvestmentPartnership (TTIP). These are injeopardy, as is the US-South Koreatrade agreement that gives Seoul alarge balance of trade surplus.

A foreign policy statementput up on the White House web-site as Trump delivered his firstspeech as President, indicated thatthe US will come down hard onnations that, it felt, violated tradedeals and harmed “American work-ers in the process.” It added thatPresident Trump will ask the UScommerce secretary “to use everytool at the federal Government’sdisposal to end these abuses.” Allthis cannot be music to Indian ears.Given the sentiments beingwhipped up against the H-IB visasand the employment of Indianworkers, which has even led to fatalattacks on Indians in the US, it isdifficult to believe that India willnot be targeted.

It is not just the US.Protectionist and exclusivist sen-timents have been rising in Europe.The affirmative Brexit vote is amanifestation of it. As early as2007, the then British PrimeMinister, Gordon Brown, had saidthat his Government wouldimpress upon business housesthat they should create “British jobsfor British workers.” British work-ers have agitated and struck workdemanding an end to the recruit-ment of workers from EuropeanUnion countries and even a repa-triation of those already in the UK.Similar demands have been raisedin France and Germany amongother European countries.

India needs to note all this andrecalibrate its policies. It needs tofocus more on its domestic mar-ket as the principal sustainer of theeconomy. Simultaneously, it needsto forge closer economic ties withneighbours like Bangladesh,Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and,to the extent possible, Afghanistan.It must also move closer to theBRICS countries other than itself— Brazil, Russia, China, andSouth Africa. The gigantic exerciseinvolved will not be easy to com-plete, particularly given China’spolicies and economic health.The sooner, however, the processbegins the better.

(The writer is Consultant Editorof The Pioneer and an author)'

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The World Intellectual PropertyDay, observed on April 26, was

first celebrated in 2000. The WorldIntellectual Property Organization(WIPO), a specialised agency of theUN, had decided in the same year todesignate a World IP Day mainly toaddress the gap between the IP as abusiness or legal concept and its use-fulness for the common people.And this particular date was chosenfor the occasion as on the same day,the convention establishing WIPOwas held in 1970. Since then, theWorld IP Day has been observedacross the world with an aim toenhance the common man’s aware-ness and understanding of IP. As IP has always remained an exclu-sive domain of lawyers, profession-als and corporate giants, there is anurgent need to bring it to the public domain.

What do people exactly do onWorld IP Day? The WIPO, with 189nations as members, enjoys a world-wide network and it has grown expo-nentially since its inception. It close-ly works with various government,non-governmental organisations(NGOs), civil society organisations(CSOs), community groups and indi-viduals to hold events and activitiesto popularise the IP, its application,safeguards and benefits emergingfrom the same. Such activities mayinclude, but not restricted to:

a. Organise concerts or live per-formances around the theme ofeach year’s IP Day so as to spreadawareness to highlight respect for theinnovators and innovations acrossthe world.

b. Essay contests for young peo-ple on IP, piracy, innovation, coun-terfeiting, and other emerging issueslike the protection of traditionalknowledge, etc.

c. Free seminars, workshops anddialogues in educational institu-tions to discuss about the benefits ofprotecting IP.

d. Finally, exhibitions in publicgalleries, halls, museums and inschools, colleges and in universitiesto demonstrate the link betweenexhibitions, innovations and IP.

As the World IP Day is not a des-ignated public holiday, there is muchmore scope to promote, debate anddiscuss the fruits of protecting thefuture and existing creations, whilestrongly condemning the massivecounterfeiting efforts made by mil-lions across the globe.

This year’s theme of the IP Daybeing “Innovation-Improving Lives”,we need to explore how a creativeeffort can bring home change ineveryday life. Surely, with giant tech-nological moves coming in, innova-tion has become much easier thanwhat it used to be some 100 yearsback. Indeed, improving livesthrough innovation and creativityhave long been a part and parcel ofmankind. Not to move far, what wecould rightly see in the 19th centu-ry was that only two prominent andtrendsetting inventions — the arrivalof the “steam engine and electricity”

— had successfully changed the lifeand times of human civilisation.Further, the subsequent researchand its application into these twoareas led to the development of trans-portation; telegraph, etc, that revo-lutionised the entire dynamics of reg-ular mode of our movement andcommunication. These technologi-cal developments are indeed morethan innovations. And undoubted-ly, such innovations have helpedhuman civilisations erase theprimeval boundaries of our experi-ence and usher in a new age. Itseemed to be an annihilation of timeand space wherein we had wit-nessed the turning of a century. Formany of us, it has brought a uniquehistorical rupture. Thus, innova-tion and development travelledtogether and left a huge impact onour socio-cultural, economic, polit-ical, psychological and surely on ourphilosophical dynamics. It is felt asif these path-breaking creations wereaptly reflected in Jesse HutchinsonJr.’s (of the Hutchinson Family Singers) 1850 song ‘UncleSam’s Farm’:

“Our fathers gave us liberty, butlittle did they dream

The grand results that pour alongthis mighty age of steam;

For our mountains, lakes andrivers are all a blaze of fire,

And we send our news by light-ening on the telegraphic wires”.

What an amazing journey thatwe all have taken as far as scientificprogress moved on. Much before theinvention of steam engine and elec-tricity, what made all of us helpspread our knowledge was no otherthan the arrival of the printing pressway back in 1440. Knowledge gath-ering and information sharing hadthen only taken a leap from whereearlier generations started. In fact, bythe invention of the Internet, infor-mation revolution has surprisedhumanity beyond imagination. Thusknowledge-based industries havemoved to the centre stage of inno-vation. Precisely, the “leadership ofthe world in the 21st century willincreasingly be in the hands of thosewho create and harness knowledge.The century often called the centu-ry of knowledge, is indeed the cen-tury of the mind” (Alikhan andMashelkar 2009). This century of themind has redefined the contours ofcivilisational dialogues, narrativesand even the very shape of our rural-urban divide. Just before the estab-lishment of the WTO in 1995,Kenichi Ohmae (1994) popularisedthe concept of a “borderless world”and in 1992, Marshall McLuhancoined the term “global village”. Butthen by 2005, when ThomasFriedman gave the world his mas-terpiece, “The World is Flat: A BriefHistory of the 21st Century”, he toldus entirely a different tale quiteopposite of what we could gatherfrom Christopher Columbus’s 1492historic voyage wherein he found “theworld as round”. However, Friedman’s

was neither a sea voyage nor a glob-al expedition, but his was conditionedby gigantic movements of all newtechnology and geo-economics of ourtime. He saw a fundamental reshap-ing of our lives much more quicklythan anyone had ever realised. From2005 to 2017, we have seen too manydevelopments that this planet couldhave even not imagined a centuryago. It is all about the emergence ofone after another invention that hasaltered the very concept of mobilityin our life. Global has become localand the local has crossed all the men-tal and physical boundaries ofhumanity. But more than inventionswhat we could simply say is that weare undergoing a vast process of inno-vation chain. We are using andreusing the knowledge that we havereceived from our predecessors,wherein IP plays a significant role.Again, IP is different from physicalproperty because of some of itsunique features. But “there is nodoubt that most of IP or ideas, be ittechnological breakthroughs or ratherincremental innovations, is basical-ly the result of individual effort,labour and/or cooperative work”(Freytag and Pehnelt 2007). It is verynatural that a person who applies hislabour and ideas for producing some-thing usable will always have the rightto own that particular product.Because anything on which youlaboured upon can create an addi-tional value for the existing object oridea. The person who creates theextra value to the existing thing oridea must be rewarded. Therefore,philosophers like John Locke (1690)and Robert Nozick (1974) regardedthis kind of right as natural right toproperty. From a normative per-spective, we can always say that anindividual’s labour must be respect-ed. Thus, issuing legal rights by theState and its agencies to exploit thenew creative work is always justifiedand this can be regarded as a rewardfor someone’s labour. Arendt clearlystates that “the ownership of the inno-vation put individuals or groups in aneconomic and psychological positionthat gives them the opportunity andthe duty to use this new resourcesoundly”. An innovative activitymight boost the economic standardof an individual or a group and in

turn it helps the society at large.While celebrating the World IP

Day this year, WIPO DirectorGeneral Francis Gurry correctlysaid, “Intellectual property is a cru-cial part of a successful innovationsystem. It provides a return forthose who take the risk to introducethe ‘new’ — in terms of products andservices — into the economy. It pro-vides a framework for the rather dif-ficult and challenging journey thatany idea has to undertake beforebecoming a commercially availableproduct or service.”

Ideas are more precious than itsapplication. More and more innova-tions improve lives and bring well-being to humanity. When knowledgeand information becomes subject toownership, the IPRs offer legal ben-efits for the rightful owner or theinnovator. There are three main fea-tures which precisely highlight thesebenefits: first, “the ability to chargerent for use, second, the right toreceive the compensation for loss, andthird, the right to demand paymentfor transfer to another party throughthe market” (May and Sell, 2008).And with the expansion of the glob-al knowledge economy (GKE), theoriginal owners of information havebecome increasingly aware aboutthe worth of their intangible prop-erties. However, two most prominentcategories of IPRs, which normallygenerate more controversy and alsobring enormous revenue are indus-trial IP i.e. patents and literary orartistic IP i.e. copyrights.

With the coming of the TradeRelated Aspects of IntellectualProperty Rights (TRIPS) Agreementin 1995, the global IP governancesystem has technically moved fromthe WIPO to the World TradeOrganization (WTO). It was sup-posed to bring in “one-size-fits-all”kind of a universal system forstreamlining complex rules, regula-tions and mechanisms that existed sofar till that year. But amid growingdebates on globalisation and inequal-ity, this historic opportunity (asmany quoted) became a liability forthe developing and the least devel-oping nations as they had to under-go extreme coercive measures tooverhaul either their archaic or nearnon-existent IP governance systems

to standards of the advanced nations.Thus, the skeptics say that IP is

nothing but another tool to imposewestern imperialism and this timewith a new wave of grand multina-tional structures which are at the fore-front to strongly protect their com-mercial interests than safeguardingthe interests of the common man.They argue that IPRs violate basicrights, particularly human rights.Also they say that human rights aremore important and crucial for thesurvival of mankind than the IPRs.The “Maximise Principle” proposedby Rawls (1971) tries to maximise theutility of individuals who are worstoff within a society. His maximisingprinciple opposes a strong IPR sys-tem purely on moral grounds.Therefore, many such as Nobel lau-reate Joseph Stiglitz, who generallyhad voiced his concerns againstuneven globalisation and call the lais-sez faire economists as “free marketfundamentalists” say that “IntellectualProperty reinforces inequality”. Whenbusiness interests overshadow peo-ple’s interests, it will be the same oldgame — the poor and the under-privileged are destined to be hurt bythe massive exploitation of indige-nous and traditional knowledgemainly in Africa and in Asia. In thisregard Stiglitz’s apprehensions cannotbe brushed aside in entirety. Since theaccession of the global IP traderegime by the WTO in 1995, variousNGOs, the CSOs and independentsocial movements across the devel-oping nations have raised their con-cerns against the over imposingagenda inbuilt in the TRIPS. Theopponents of IP say that some of theinnovations made by pharmaceuticalcompanies are found to be max-imising more profits than savinginnocent civilians. Today, costs ofmany diagnostic tests required foressential health checks are exorbi-tantly high, which the private play-ers could have really made muchcheaper. Not surprisingly a numberof such pharmaceutical giants quiteoften make laboured arguments todemonstrate that how their patentsare truly essential to encourage futureresearch. Anyway, patents of anynature offers exclusive rights to theowner for at least a period of 20 years.Then how have such innovations,contributing to improve the lives ofmany in the periphery, alwaysremained a serious question notonly when we celebrate the World IPDay each year but also when weencounter roadblocks to avail thebasic necessities such as food, shel-ter, essential medicines, etc?Unfortunately on many occasions,“when the devastating effects of itspatents became apparent, and itremained adamant in exerting its fullmonopoly rights, these pretensions ofinterest in the greater good were woe-fully unconvincing” (Stiglitz 2013).This kind of a situation repeatedlywarns the poor and economicallyweaker sections about the dangers ofonce again being encircled by cor-porate greed in the name of just pro-

tecting their IP rights.Is it worth talking about IP as

tool for social well-being or simplyan age-old system to exploit theresources of the developing nations?Truly speaking, IP can be used asboth. If applied in the true sense ofthe term, IP can generate massiveemployment opportunities and canbe a driver for social well-being. Butthen the moot question is how IP canbe of any help to those millions whodo not have the bare minimum tosurvive. When they have no singletangible asset, how can they bemade a part of the grand innovationefforts spearheaded by rich nations?Will it continuously bother the crit-ics of IP forever? Making IP all-inclu-sive will remain a paper dream,unless we shed some of the profitmotives while extracting maximumbenefits of our creations.

There is an urgent need toexplore and exploit divergent disci-plinary resources and convergencesso as to develop a comprehensiveidea about the complexities involvedin the IP landscape. The WIPO,being the pioneer internationalorganisation in this field, has offereda vast pool of opportunities,resources and mechanisms througha network of its member states toaddress interminable IntellectualProperty (IP) issue linkages in glob-al governance. According to FBI,Interpol, World CustomsOrganization and InternationalChamber of Commerce estimates,roughly 7-8 per cent of world tradeevery year is in counterfeit goods.That is the equivalent of as much as$512 billion in global lost sales. Ofthat amount, US companies losebetween $200 billion and $250 bil-lion. Which sectors are most affect-ed? IP theft poses a risk to all indus-try sectors; those most commonlyaffected by IP theft are manufactur-ing, consumer goods, technology,software, and biotechnology, includ-ing pharmaceuticals.

In the epilogue, the internation-al community in general and mil-lions of innovators in particularmust ensure that original creators gettheir due: the dignity of their labourand full benefits for commercialexploitation of every creation thatthey have made. And for this, we allmust be guided by the propheticwords of Albert Einstein who oncesaid, “If I have seen further than oth-ers, it is only by standing upon theshoulders of the giants”. The messageis plain and simple — with everyeffort that we take up for creativedestruction; we must unabashedlyacknowledge the initial steps oncecreated by our forerunners. Theroad to creativity was long andarduous; and it has remained so.Hence, it’s our moral and legalresponsibility to recognise the orig-inal inventor. So the real stakes aremuch higher than what they arecommonly understood.

(The writer is an expert on international affairs)

Turkish President Recep TayyipErdogan is slated to visit India fromApril 20 to May 1, 2017. This is his first

foreign visit after the April 16 controversialreferendum, which has transformedErdogan’s rule from a de facto to de jureunfettered Executive Presidency. As Turkeyslides into one man’s rule under Erdogansince December 2013 corruption expose, hisvisit to India with possible conferment ofdoctorate degree from Jamia Millia Islamiahas an implication of securing a “democra-tic legitimacy and acceptability” to his ruleat a time when the mature democracy of theWest has largely shunned him.

President Erdogan is known to carry hispersonalised, domestic anti-Gülen agendaduring his foreign trip. In all likelihood, hewould push for his anti-Gülen agenda,including shutting down of Gülen-inspiredschools and coaching institutions in recip-rocation of a promise to support India’sefforts for membership of Nuclear SuppliersGroup (NSG), cooperation on anti-terrorismmeasures, and endorsement of India’s diplo-macy of bilateralism on Kashmir issue.However given the closeness of Turkey-Pakistan relationship and in view ofErdogan’s affinity to political Islam, it is dif-ficult to secure Turkey’s support to any ofthese concerns of India, including isolatingPakistan globally, beyond an empty promise.

A far more important issue from Indianpoint of view is impact of Erdogan’s visit onIndian Muslims. The failed military coup andits aftermath in Turkey have found its rever-ence among Indian Muslims too. The Turkishembassy in India has approached manyprominent Muslims, Islamic scholars andinstitutions to mobilise their opinion infavour of the Erdogan Government and todenounce the Gülen movement — a faith-based world-wide Islamic civic social move-ment. It seems that a dominant section ofIslamic and Muslim intelligentsia in Indiaspread across Islamic institutions, universitiesand media appears to be supportive of at leastthe Erdogan regime, if not its brutal crack-down and action over the Gülen movement.

What makes a section of Indian Islamicand Muslim scholars and opinion makerslend their support to the TurkishGovernment? A couple of observations canbe made in this regard. First, the Sunni HanfiIslamic position, the school of law domi-nantly prevalent in Turkey and in Indian sub-continent, derides any form ofIslamic/Muslim opposition — whether real,constructed or imaginary — to “Muslim”Government and hence suppression of suchopposition is considered lawful and legiti-mate act. Second, in Sunni Islamic tradition,the religious authority (ulema) enjoys sub-ordinate position to political authority. Thebureaucratisation of ulema is a facet of polit-ical life in most of predominantly SunniMuslim countries, including Turkey.Fateullah Gülen himself was state appoint-ed salaried imam in various public mosquesof Turkey for 30 years before moving to theUSA. Hence in the ensuing conflict betweenErdogan and Gülen, the dominant SunniMuslim public opinion would rest with theformer. Third, the prevalence of conspiracyparadigm among the large section of Muslimcommunity on account of its marginalisationleaves them with nothing, but presents theevent of December 2013 corruption expose,July 14-15, 2016 failed military coup andApril 16 controversial referendum onExecutive Presidency in Turkey as a “west-ern conspiracy” to destabilise and defame the“rising”, “powerful” Erdogan regime. A his-tory of Western opposition to such popularfigures as Mosaddegh, Nasser, Arafat,Khoemieni, Saddam and others confirmstheir conspiracy paradigm. Finally, the verypossibility of revival of Caliphate under theErdogan regime, which was abolished by theKemalist regime in 1924, resonates well withsection of formally, literate urbanite Muslimsof India as it connects them with legacy ofthe Khilafat movement in early 1920s.

Political Islam of all varieties, includingTurkish AKP, survives and thrives in theabove context with its inherent anti-demo-cratic moorings, though they may champi-on the modern idea of democracy and sec-

ularism for instrumental purposes. Noneother than AKP signifies this political tra-jectory of political Islam. Besides, all tradi-tions of political Islam have inherent ten-dencies to erode internal catholicity (human-ism, spiritualism and pluralism) of Islam andtransform it into an “object of an identity”and erect an identity marker discourses ofIslam as “essential of faith” (such as jehad,ummah, sharia, dawa, etc) with a conse-quence of contributing to the process of for-mation of Islamic radicalism and later itsdegeneration into terrorism depending uponthe political context. With his aspiration ofbecoming a political leader of Muslim worldand in view of his Islamically lashed anti-West polarising discourses, Erdogan is fastbecoming a source of Islamic radicalismacross the Muslim world, a point noted byformer National Security Adviser ShivShankar Menon in his latest work, Choices:Inside Making of India’s Foreign Policy(2016). It is worth quoting him, “If the glob-al war on terror has been a failure, it isbecause it did not target the epicentres ofjehadi terrorism, whence terrorism derivedits ideological, financial and state support —Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan and nowTurkey’’ (p. 117-118).

On the other hand, the Gülen movementis the polar opposite to political Islamism.Within the specific Turkish setting, theGülen movement is a nationalist socialmovement for “equity” and “social justice” fora large number of Anatolian Turkish Muslimsbrought through his sustained educationalactivism, which helped in bringing them intothe mainstream of Turkish political-eco-

nomic life. It refrained itself from directly par-ticipating in the “political” process as it con-siders that politics has inherent tendency tode-spiritualise Islam. The movement con-tributes in two significant ways to counter thespectre of Islamic radicalism and terrorism.First, by focusing on quality education, dia-logue and service ethics as Islam’s core val-ues, the movement inculcates the value ofhumanism, tolerance and negotiation, whichin turn produces a counter Islamic narrativeagainst the discourse of Islamic radicalism andterrorism. Second, the movement outrightrejects the binary, conspiracy and discrimi-nation paradigm, mostly associated with polit-ical Islamists, and focuses on motivating,encouraging and generating confidenceamong Muslims to compete and participatein the modern global opportunity structureand values without fear of compromisinghis/her Islamic faith. This helps in integrat-ing the Muslim community in the modernstructure of governance and economy. Third,this is the only Islamic movement in moderntimes, which, unlike other Islamic movements(political or non-political) that has pro-duced a chain of faith oriented humanresources and linked them with domestic andglobal opportunity structure, the relativeabsence of which among other Islamic move-ments has contributed in pushing a sectionwithin them towards Islamic sectarianism,radicalism and militancy across the globe.

It is for the above reasons and contextsthat the mature democracy of the world andinternational community, while supportingresistance of Turkish people against militarycoup, remained circumspect in buyingTurkish Government’s narrative of castigat-ing the Gülen movement as terrorist outfit(FETO) and later its crackdown on Gülenmovement linked people, business housesand institutions — more so in the light ofthe fact that movement does not have a sin-gle incident of participation in violenceeither by itself or by its volunteer, directly orindirectly, either within or outside Turkeyduring its entire history of existence of morethan five decades.

Given this, the Indian Governmentmust be cautious in responding to Erdogan’santi-Gülen request from legal and politicalpoint of view but also must take into con-sideration the relevance of the Gülen move-ment for integration of Indian Muslims inthe country. Sharing the legacy of Sir Syed’seducational reform, which, unlike the polit-ical Islamists, has immensely contributed tomaking of a sizeable section of Muslim mid-dle class in post-Independence India, theGülen movement is most aptly relevant forlifting the Indian Muslims from its mass illit-eracy and identity-centred insular, conspir-atorial, discriminatory perspective — oftenreinforced by the practitioner of “Muslimpolitics” as well as “secular politics”. Themovement, drawing strength from withinIslamic traditions, has strong ideationaland action-oriented resources to self-critique,motivate, encourage and build confidenceamong Indian Muslims for participation inmodern value system and structure ofopportunity without being fearful of losingtheir Islamic faith.

The “fear of losing Islamic faith”, paral-lel to Muslims living under Kemalist Turkey,has long kept the Indian Muslim communityaway from participation in modern systemof education, which ultimately proved dis-aster for the community as it came to lagbehind all communities in public and pri-vate opportunity structure on account of itseducational deficit, though popular discourseamong Muslim and secular intelligentsiapoints out discriminatory practices by stateagencies for this poor health of the com-munity. All credible research and surveys,including the Sachar Commission report,have discounted the thesis of discriminationfor low level of presence of Muslims in pub-lic opportunity structures, they rather pointout the reason being low number of Muslimapplications/participation for the same.

(Prof Anwar Alam is Senior Fellow,Policy Perspectives Foundation, New Delhi.Earlier, he taught international relations atZirve University, Gaziantep, Turkey.)

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With the CBI sword alreadyhanging above their

heads the ‘stung thirteen’ of thetop Trinamool Congress lead-ers would now face the sting ofEnforcement Directorate inthe Narada case.

The ED has initiated suomoto action in the Naradasting operation case under thePrevention of Money Laund-ering Act and would follow itup with issuing summons tothe 11 Trinamool MPs andMinisters apart from an IPSofficer and a third person,sources said.

The ED action comes aweek after the CBI registeredFIRs against the accused per-sons following a Calcutta High

Court order that asked theagency to register case. The CBIhad registered a case underPrevention of Corruption Act.

A case under PMLA meansthe ED would now proceedagainst the accused personsand try to investigate sources ofmoney that was given to theaccused persons and its traildetermining thereby how thecash was spent. The agencywould also prepare a list ofproperties of the accused per-sons which would also includethe properties acquired underbenami transactions.

Declarations of assets givento the Election Commissionfrom time to time would alsobe tallied with the ED’s sourcesand cases under Disproport-ionate Asset could also be filed

if required, sources said.A video film shot in 2014

from a hidden camera showedat least 11 Trinamool Congressleaders — Sougato Roy, KakoliGhoshdastidar, PrasunBanerjee, Sultan Ahmed,Mukul Roy, Aparupa Poddar,alias Afreen Ali all MPs andSubhendu Adhikary, SubhenduAdhikary, Sovan Chatterjee,Madan Mitra, SubrotoMukherjee, Firhad Hakim,Iqbal Ahmed, all Ministersand MLAs apart from SNHMirza a senior IPS officer —accepting wads of currencynotes from a sting journalistwho faked as a prospectiveinvestor allegedly to get his filesmoved and works facilitated.

The ED action comes a dayafter Bengal Chief Minister

Mamata Banerjee lambastedthe Central Government forthreatening the Oppositionleaders including those fromTrinamool Congress with arrestby ‘unleashing CBI and ED.’“The Centre was doing sobecause they feel threatened bythe emergence of theTrinamool Congress whichmay one day go to influencepolitical developments inDelhi,” Mamata said.

Reacting to her statements,BJP MP and its observer forBengal Kailash Vijaybargiyasaid the Trinamool MPs whowere corrupt would face theconsequence. “They will not bespared,” he said adding “OnThursday when our nationalpresident Amit Shah was inKolkata, the poor investors were

complaining us about how theyhad trusted the TrinamoolCongress leaders before invest-ing their hard-earned money inthe chit funds.”

Meanwhile in a relateddevelopment, the Calcutta HighCourt on Friday directed theCBI to continue the probe in theNarada case against TMC MPAparupa Poddar who had peti-tioned the court against the CBIaction drawing FIR against herunder Prevention of CorruptionAct stating the case related to aperiod when she was not an MPand hence the Act did notapply on her.

Poddar’s counsel submittedbefore Justice Joymalya Bagchithat the CBI had not taken theMP’s version with regard to thealleged sting operation.

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Even as the stalemate in themerger talks between the

two warring factions of theAIADMK is continuing, TamilNadu is witnessing a rare polit-ical spectacle. The BJP, whichmanaged to win 2.8 per cent ofpopular votes in the 2016Assembly election has emergedas the favourite whipping boyof all major political parties inthe State for the internecinefight in the ruling AIADMK.

Whether it be the DMK,the Congress, the Lefts, theVCK or the Islamist parties, allare blaming the BJP for the fac-tional war between the O Panneerselvam and ChiefMinister Edappadi KPalaniswamy camps. The Stateleadership of the BJP is per-plexed and surprised over thenew found aggressiveness inthe attack against the party bythese political outfits.

Tamilisai Soundararajan,the State chief of the BJP, isforced to issue statements afterstatements on a daily basis tomake her party clear of all con-troversies. “How can these par-ties blame the BJP for theproblems in the AIADMK?They are targeting the BJP forthe income tax raids held in thehouses of Minister VijayaBhaskar, his friends and busi-ness associates. Raids are hap-pening all over the country and

how come BJP is being blamedfor the same,” asked Soundar-arajan while speaking toreporters on Friday

Vanathi Sreenivasan, Stategeneral secretary, BJP, said theDMK’s aggressiveness isbecause of a fear psychosis.“The DMK leadership is upsetover the inroads made by theBJP in Tamil Nadu over the lasttwo years. MK Stalin, the work-ing president of the DMK ischarging that the BJP is tryingto impose Hindi over non-Hindi speaking States which isa blatant lie,” said Sreenivasan.

The arrest of TTVDinakaran, the deputy generalsecretary of the AIADMK, whois also the de facto chief of theparty in the absence of his jailedaunt VK Sasikala, the party gen-eral secretary, has come inhandy for parties which arepiggy-riding the DMK. ThoughDinakaran has been held overcharges of hawala transactions

and attempts to bribe the offi-cials of the ElectionCommission of India to get the‘Two Leaves’ symbol for his fac-tion of the AIADMK, theCongress, the Lefts and theVCK allege that the Hindutwaparty is out to disintegrate theAIADMK so that it could get afoothold in Tamil Nadu.

What has upset these par-ties is the goodwill between theAIADMK and the BJP. Thepresence of Union Minister MVenkiah Naidu during the finalhours of former Chief MinisterJayalalithaa and the smoothtransition of power was seen asa sign of goodwill between theCentre and the State which wasunthinkable during the days ofCongress rule.

Barring Anwar Raja, theRamanathapuram MP, nobodyin the AIADMK has criticisedthe BJP. The AIADMK leader-ship is following the dictumissued by late MG Ramachan-dran, the founder of the party,to the cadre that at no point oftime should fight with theparty ruling the Centre.

Though there were strongreports during the 2014 LokSabha election and 2016Assembly election that theAIADMK would forge analliance with the BJP, there wasno such tie-up. Whether the BJPwould form an alliance with theAIADMK or it would cobble upa front with old friends like thePMK is not known.

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The Gujarat Governmentwill hold a special one-day

session of the State Assemblyon May 9 to ratify the Goodsand Services Tax (GST) Bill,2017.

“To implement the GST inthe State from July 1, we havedecided to call this special ses-sion to pass the Bill,”Pradeepsinh Jadeja, Minister ofState for Legislative andParliamentary Affairs said.

On April 6, the Parliamentpassed four legislations to pavethe way for roll out of GST fromJuly. As the Speaker had notpronounced the last budget ses-sion that ended on March 31,2017, the special sitting wouldbe considered as a continuationof the budget session.

Meanwhile, Leader ofOpposition in the StateAssembly, ShankarsinhVaghela, has sought a three-daysession instead of one-day spe-cial session. In a letter addres-sed to Speaker, Vaghela hassought to discuss issues relat-ed to Justice MB Shah panelreport on corruption againstprevious Modi Governmentin the State, CAG report, situ-ation of drinking water, irriga-tion, support price to farmersfor their farm produce, unem-ployment amongst youth aswell as law and order situationin the State.

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The Kerala CPI(M) onFriday ruled out the

removal or resignation ofMarxist Power Minister MMMani, a State secretariat mem-ber of the party, from theparty-led LDF Cabinet over theextremely dirty remarks hehad made against Munnar’swoman tea estate workersdespite the protests mountingagainst him across the Stateeven as the Kerala High Courtcame down heavily on theMinister and the State policechief over the issue.

“The party does not viewthis issue as one that warrantsthe removal of the Minister,”said State CPI(M) secretaryKodiyeri Balakrishnan.

The CPI(M)'s State com-mittee had on Wednesdaydecided to publicly censureMani over of his speech lastweek in which he made someobscene remarks against thewomen tea workers.

“The (Congress-led Oppo-sition) UDF is in the habit ofdemanding Ministers’ resig-nation whenever an issuecomes up. The call for Mani’sresignation from the Cabinet isonly a political slogan of theCongress. The party does notaccept this political slogan ofthe Opposition,” Kodiyeri said.

While criticising someaspects of the recent anti-encroachment activities inMunnar, Mani had in a speechlast week made some disgust-ingly obscene remarks againstthe Penpilai Orumai (Women’sUnity), a forum of Munnar’swomen tea workers who hadheld a legendary struggledemanding higher wages andbonus in 2015, and some rev-enue officials and mediamen.

“Many things had hap-pened during the PenpilaiOrumai (struggle of 2015).Boozing and other dirty thingshad taken place. The ‘work’ wasin the nearby forest,” Manisaid in his speech triggeringprotests instantly across theState and leaders of the Orumailaunched an indefinite protestin Munnar demanding his res-ignation and direct and uncon-ditional apology.

While considering a Public

Interest Litigation seeking ini-tiation of legal action againstMani in the name of his speechinsulting woman plantationworkers and womanhood, theHigh Court on Friday harshlycriticised the Minister, the StateGovernment and the DirectorGeneral of Police, observingthat the matter was extremelyserious.

Expressing concern overthe goings-on in the State, thecourt asked whether the Statepolice chief was not seeingwhat was happening around. Atthis point, the Governmentcounsel claimed that Mani’scomments were not againstwomen but against some medi-amen and added that therecording of his speech couldbe produced to prove this.

This irked the court furtherand it asked whether anybodyhad the right to do anythingagainst mediamen. They werealso human beings and theyhad their fundamental rights,the court pointed out. It alsodirected all the concerned par-ties including the Governmentand the DGP to make theirpositions clear on the issue.

Minister Mani said he didnot want to respond to theobservations of the High Courtbut claimed that the observa-tions had nothing to do withPenpilai Orumai. Mani alsosaid that he could not changehis style of speaking. ChiefMinister Pinarayi Vijayan hadjustified Mani earlier in theState Assembly by saying thathe was speaking in rustic style.

Meanwhile, the Rajakkadpolice in Idukki district wouldrecord the statement of theMinister on the basis of a com-plaint lodged by the YouthCongress in connection withhis controversial speech.However, no date has been setfor this. The police have alreadyrecorded the statements ofthose who had listened toMani’s speech. They have alsoexamined its recording.

On Friday, the PenpilaiOrumai successfully resistedthe police’s efforts to removetheir leaders, whose protestfast in Munnar demandingMani’s resignation and apolo-gy entered the fourth day, to thehospital.

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The strength of the rulingBJP-led alliance in Manipur

continues to swell as four moreCongress MLAs have joinedthe saffron party on Friday,making the total strength of theruling alliance to 38 in the 60-member House.

Congress MLAs— YSurchandra, NgamthangHaokip, O Lukhoi and S Bira —joined the saffron party on

Friday at the BJP headquartersin Imphal.

“This is the indication ofthe good governance initiatedby Prime Minister NarendraModi at the Centre and by ourGovernment here. TheCongress legislators are joiningthe BJP at their will,” saidManipur BJP president KBhabananda while welcomingthe four Congress leaders to theparty-fold.

Congress legislator T

Shayamkumar had joined theBJP after the saffron party ledalliance formed the Governm-ent in the State. Last weekanother Congress MLA G Zouhad left the party with hissupporters to join the BJP.

In the recent Assemblyelection, the Congress hademerged as the single largestparty by winning 28 seats.The BJP came second with 21seats but had managed toform the Government with

support from four NationalistPeoples’ Party MLAs, fourNaga Peoples Front legisla-tors, one each from theTrinamool Congress, LokJanshakti Party and oneIndependent legislator. TheTrinamool Congress latermerged with the BJP.

With the six Congress leg-islators coming to BJP fold, thestrength of the BJP in Manipuris 28 while the Congressstrength came down to 22.

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Afew days after AAP co-founder Mayank Gandhi’s

stinging criticism of ArvindKejriwal’s credentials, party’schief spokesperson for GoaDr Oscar Rebello, has nowclaimed that one of AAP’sbiggest mistakes and a keyreason for its electoral failureswas its ‘obsession’ with PrimeMinister Narendra Modi.

Rebello, a respected citydoctor, in an article publishedon a popular local news website,has also slammed the party’searlier decision to sack socialworkers and founder membersof the Aam Aadmi Party,Yogendra Yadav and PrashantBhushan from the party, whichhe says could have alienatedAAP from a significant sectionof the intelligentsia.

In the article ‘Oh Arvind,My Arvind’, Rebello, who is theparty’s chief spokesperson forGoa and its most popularleader, however says that it notcorrect to write of Kejriwal,who he has compared to theangry-young Amitabh Bachc-han, who in the iconic moviesof the bygone era, fought cor-ruption alone.

“Crushing black economy isthe life blood of AAP anddemonetisation should havebeen welcomed, with caveats ofcourse, but our blind rage ofModi-Shah blinded us to theobvious,” Rebello said in hisarticle. “There can be no doubtthat the Modi-Shah combina-tion is cleverly evisceratingdemocracy, one institutionaland media pillar at a time, butin public perception we fell intotwo of their well-laid-out traps.One, condemning the surgicalstrike, while doubting theArmy version and secondlydoing a ballistic on demoneti-sation,” Rebello said.

Dubbing AAP’s anti-cor-ruption stance as a one-trickpony, Rebello said that thecombination of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and the party’snational president Amit Shahhad the attention of the Hinduvoter, at least for now.

Referring to the sacking of Bhushan and Yadav, Rebellosaid that the crude action was not in the best interests of the AAP.

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Samajwadi Party leaderShivpal Yadav on Friday

said that the unity in the fam-ily was possible only if AkhileshYadav steps down and handsover the post of national pres-ident to Mulayam Singh Yadav. He said that Akhilesh wasresponsible for the SP’s worst-ever poll debacle as he was at

the helm and took all impor-tant decisions during theAssembly poll.

“Akhilesh Yadav shouldown the moral responsibilityfor the crushing defeat of theparty in the recent Assemblypoll and step down from thepost of party chief,” saidShivpal.

“Akhilesh has abysmallyfailed in keeping the family and

the party together after takingover as the Samajwadi Partynational president. Only he isresponsible for the present dis-mal state of the party. He couldneither handle the affairs of theparty nor keep the family unit-ed,” said Shivpal at Jaunpur inUttar Pradesh.

“In January, after takingover as SP chief, Akhilesh hadmade two promises — the SP

will form the next Governmentand he will hand over the post of national president toNetaji after the elections. Butthe SP failed to form theGovernment, so he should atleast honour the secondpromise,” said Shivpal.

“During the 2014 LokSabha poll, Akhilesh was theChief Minister and the partytally was reduced to mere 5

seats. In 2017 Assembly poll,Akhilesh was also the nation-al SP chief and claimed to form the next Governmentafter forging alliance with the Congress. But he failed. So it’s high time thatAkhilesh steps down,” saidShivpal.

After the recent Assemblypoll rout, Shivpal has beenrunning a campaign and

mobilising support within theparty to mount pressure onAkhilesh to step down from the post of national president.He has maintained thatAkhilesh should honour hispromise and hand over reins of the party to his fatherMulayam.

During the elections inJanuary, Shivpal had said hewould float a new political

party after Assembly poll. Laterhis meeting with the ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath andBJP president Amit Shahfuelled speculations that hemight join the BJP.

Samajwadi Party sourcessaid Shivpal was ‘very restive’over his non-entity status in the party and wants an earlyend to the deadlock in the family.

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Srikant Sharma lambasted boththe Samajwadi Party and theBahujan Samaj Party for criti-cising the BJP Governmentover different issues.

“The electorate of UP hadrejected both Akhilesh Yadavand Mayawati during therecent Assembly poll. Henceboth are frustrated and makingbaseless allegations against theBJP Government thereby ind-ulging in cheap politics. TheOpposition parties should waitfor sometime before assessingthe performance of the YogiGovernment,” said Sharma.

“People should questionthe performance of theGovernment at least after itcompletes 100 days in office,”he said while responding toallegations by both the SP andthe BSP that the law and orderhas deteriorated in UP after theBJP came to power.

On the raid by SpecialTask Force on seven petrolpumps and subsequent seizurefor tampering measurement

meter, the Minister said that theState Government has com-municated the matter to UnionMinistry of Petroleum foraction.

Asked about the contro-versy over exorbitant fee charg-ing by private schools and col-leges, the Minister said that theGovernment is aware of thematter and it is committed toregulating the fee charged byprivate schools.

Sharma refuted chargesthat action against illegalslaughter houses and tannerieswas aimed at targeting a par-ticular community.

He said that the StateGovernment has only imple-mented the directives ofNational Green Tribu-nal and Supreme Court whichwere enforcing laws for controlling pollution, environ-ment protection and main-taining sanitation and publichealth.

The Minister said that theGovernment was committed tocleaning Ganga and Yamunarivers and there would be nodiscrimination in implemen-tation of the court orders.

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After attacking PrimeMinister Narendra Modi

for delay in appointment ofLokpal to check corruption athigh places, Bahujan SamajParty chief Mayawati on Fridayflayed him for the pathetic

condition of Dalits in Gujarat. With her eyes on Assembly

polls in Gujarat scheduled forthis year-end, Mayawati claimedthat Dalits were living in pitiablecondition there and that theyshould ‘unite and uproot’ theBJP in the upcoming poll.

“The condition of Dalits,

Adivasis (tribals) and the pooramong the ‘sarva samaj’ is verybad in Gujarat. The capitalistswere ruling the roost. The socialfabric there has been disturbed.There is excessive discrimina-tion with Muslims and theyhave no place to get justice,” shesaid.

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Alocal militant was arrestedon Friday after he tried to

snatch the service rifle of aCentral Reserve Police Force(CRPF) jawan inside a bankbranch near the DeputyCommissioner Office in southKashmir’s Anantnag district.The militant and his accom-plice who fled away from thesite had arrived to loot the bankbranch.

A police official said that agroup of two militants bargedinto the bank premises andattempted to snatch the servicerifle of CRPF personnel guard-ing the sensitive branch. Hesaid the militants opened fireon the guard with a pistolinjuring his hand.

However, the bid was foiledand one of the two militantswas arrested. He has beenidentified as 30-year-oldMuneeb Ahmad Malla ofReshipora Behibagh in southKashmir’s Kulgam district.Another militant managed toescape from the spot. Later inthe evening, police released avideo with confessional state-ment of Malla.

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Weeks after the red meatserved as the key politi-

cal ingredient for controversiesand violence in the politicallymore significant States, theissue of beef, consumed bymore than 30 per cent of theState’s population as well asthousands of tourists in theState, is back on the boil in thecoastal BJP-ruled State.

Senior leaders of partiesacross the State, barring the rul-ing Bharatiya Janata Party, haveraised their hackles after seniorSangh Parivar leaders, includ-ing the saffron party’s MPSubramanian Swamy ques-tioned the State’s beef-eatinghabits, ominously suggestingthat it needed to be stemmed.

While the BJP as well as itsMinisters has been mum on thesubject, the party’s rulingalliance partners have criti-cised the overtures of the SanghParivar leaders, with Town andCountry Planning Ministerand Goa Forward MLA VijaiSardesai demanding a ban onthe Vishwa Hindu Parishad inGoa.

“As a Minister, I want to tellVHP very clearly that it shouldnot tell us what to eat. There isa Constitutional freedom for it.The VHP will be banned in Goais such utterances are rep-eated,” Sardesai told The Pioneer.

Sardesai was responding torecent utterances of theParishad’s central secretaryAcharya Radhakrishna Manori,who on Sunday had claimedthat beef-consumption could bebanned in Goa within twoyears. “If the Government isunable to stop it (beef), we arecapable of imposing a completeban on cow slaughtering andbeef eating across the country,including Goa,” Manori hadsaid at a public meeting earlierthis month in South Goa, addi-ng that the outfit had enoughcadres to enforce the ban.

Cheaper than mutton,beef is also commonly con-sumed in the tourism-orientedcoastal belt which sees nearlythree million tourists, half amillion of which are foreigners.

According to official sta-tistics from the Goa MeatComplex, the State’s only abat-toir facility allowed to slaugh-ter cattle and buffaloes, theState consumes more than 40tons of beef every day.

While cow slaughter isalready banned in Goa, Swamy,a Rajya Sabha MP from the BJP,has also said earlier this month,said that beef-eating habits inGoa needed to be altered,something which TourismMinister Manohar Ajgaonkar,a member of the Maharashtra-wadi Gomantak Party,opposed. “We cannot tell peo-

ple what to eat and what not to.Eating habits need to berespected,” Ajgaonkar told ThePioneer.

The Aam Aadmi Party alsowants action against Manori forhis ‘threat’ to ban beef.

“The highly vitriolic pub-lic statement of Manori sug-gesting that private armies ofthe VHP will take law in theirhands to impose a beef ban inGoa is despicable and a gravecrime. It attracts criminalcharges under provisions of theIPC dealing with causing dis-cord among different commu-nities in Goa,” AAP’s ValmikiNaik said.

The Congress has also con-demned the statements by theVHP leader and Swamy, accus-ing the BJP of trying to polarisecommunities in Goa.

“This is also part of hiddenagenda to make such state-ments, in order to create arti-ficial shortage of beef and thentake a cut on the increasedprice of beef,” Faleiro said.

While senior BJP leadersand its Ministers have beenmum on the subject, the onlyBJP leader to offer comment onthe subject is its MLA anddeputy speaker in Goa legisla-tive assembly MichaelLobo.“Beef politics will notwork in Goa. Thirty per cent(of the population) are minori-ties,” Lobo said.

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Aday after the death ofVinod Khanna, yesteryear

superstar and veteran actorAmitabh Bachchan on Fridayheaped ultimate praise on hisfriend for 48 years, when hesaid, “No one walked the wayhe did... no one had the pres-ence he had in a crowdedroom... no one could lighten upthe surroundings he was in, likehim... no one...”

In a post uploaded on hisblog “Bachchan Bol”, Amitabhshared his fond memories ofKhanna, beginning with hismeeting with the departedactor way back in 1969, whenhe was looking for a break andthe latter was already an actor.

The veteran actor said hewas then a new comer to thefilm industry, while Khannawas already big star who wasalways most humble with self-less concern for others.

Making no bones about thefact that Khanna made anexcellent impression on himwhen he saw the latter for thefirst time 48 years ago, Amitabhwrote: “I first saw him enteringthe Ajanta Arts office inBandra, of Sunil Dutt, where Iwas making my way to seek ajob .. a most good lookinghandsome young man .. a bodyin elegant frame .. a swagger inhis walk .. and a gentle smile ashe looked towards me .. it was1969 .. he was working in theAjanta Arts film, ‘Man ka Meet’.. I was struggling to get a role,any role, anywhere ..”

Amitabh, who had workedwith Khanna in hit films likeAmar, Akbar, Antony,Muqaddar Ka Sikandar,Parvarish, Khoon Pasina,Zameer and Hera Pheri,recalled his experience of work-ing with Khanna for the firsttime in late Sunil Dutt’s film ,‘Reshma aur Shera’:

“In time we ( Vinod and I)met again within the sameprecincts .. he and I were work-ing in the same film of DuttSaheb, ‘Reshma aur Shera’ ..took trials in the office of thefilm .. travel and sittings on thestory .. Thapa saheb, Ali Raza,Sukhdev and those all nightmeets, most novel for me .. myfirst brush with the way thefilm industry functioned .. thetime for the shoot and theexcitement of travel on a loca-tion in Jaisalmer ..”

“The months we spenttogether and after .. driving inthe scorching heat of the

deserts of Rajasthan to thelocation, Pochina, in the sandsof nowhere near civilisation ..living under one tent - Vinod,Ranjit, Thapa Saheb, Ali Razasaheb about seven of us in thesame tent .. then similar num-ber at a make shift residence inthe city of Jaisalmer - AmrishPuri joining us in that roomfilled with all of us, livinglaughing, working .. care-freedays .. the rigours of that loca-tion and its environs,” Big-brecalled.

“On return from the loca-tion his continued connectwith me .. he a big star .. butalways most humble with self-less concern for others .. therides he would take me on, inhis recently acquired BeetleVolksWagen, yellow in colour.. his generosity in smugglingme into the only Disco Club inthe city at the Taj, where he wasa member, and I not evenremotely in any state to becomeone ..,” Amitabh wrote.

Big-B also spoke aboutKhanna’s marriage withGeetanjali, “Whom he and weall fondly called Gitly .. thebirth of his sons, Rahul andAkshay, whom he often brou-ght on to the sets of AAA...”

The veteran actor said thatKhanna was not the one to takethings lying down. “That inci-dent at a restaurant in SoBo,where someone made a snideremark, and he took him on,getting knifed in the arm dur-ing the scuffle, but being vic-torious ...”

With a touch of emotion,Amitabh remembered the pass-ing away of Khanna’s fatherand happy times he had work-ing together with the latter“The sudden passing of hisfather soon after our worktogether in ‘Reshma’ .. I beingwith him in his hour of grief ..and then .. the amazing chem-istry of the several historicfilms that we did together .. anassociation that was so loveableand considerate...”

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Reiterating his Govern-ment’s policy of zero tol-

erance against corruption,Chief Minister Yogi Adity-anath has asked all Ministersto issue a White Paper on theirrespective departments andalso to re-evaluate improve-ment after 100 days.

In an elaborate directive tohis Ministers issued on Friday,Yogi said that Ministers shouldfollow directives given duringthe presentation of theirdepartments.

“After completing 100days in office, the Governmentwill re-evaluate its policiesand will also issue a reportcard for the public,” Yogi said

in a statement which was readout by spokesman and PowerMinister Shrikant Sharma inLukcnow on Friday. This is thefirst time that Chief Ministerhas set a time limit for hisMinisters. By giving a periodof 100 days, the CM has madeit clear that he meant business.

Similar directives wereissued for bureaucrats whereYogi made it clear that officialsof the districts from where hewould get maximum com-plaints would be pulled up.

“Ministers, who are in-charge of districts, should visittheir respective areas and edu-cate people about policies ofthe State and CentralGovernments. They shouldalso meet beneficiaries of

Government Schemes to gettheir feedback. People knowabout many Central Schemesin cities but villagers are igno-rant about these projects.District officials have beeninformed that thisGovernment will not toleratelaxity on this front,” Th ChiefMinister said.

Yogi also asked Ministersto get feedback about powerdistribution, operation ofwheat and potato purchasecentres. Besides, they shouldalso evaluate law and order sit-uation at village level.

“Basic education is a biggrey area. The quality of edu-cation should be improved.Teachers’ attendance should be ensured and there is need

to improve facilities madeavailable to the students,” Yogisaid.

The CM also spoke aboutcorruption and said that theGovernment has a policy ofzero tolerance against cor-ruption. “A corrupt officershould not be allowed to goscot free by giving warning.An FIR be lodged against himand strict action be takenagainst that officer,” he said.

Special directives wereissued on cleanliness. Peoplewere asked not to use plasticcups as it results in chockingof nullahs. Officials were askedto get all sewer lines cleanedbefore rains set in. The DMswere asked to start cleanlinesscampaign in villages.

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Prakash Javadekar announcedhere on Friday that the Centrehad decided to increase thewomen representation in IITsfrom the current 8 per cent to20 per cent.

Talking to media personsafter the 51st meeting of theCouncil of IITs held at IIT-Bombay at Powai in north-eastMumbai, Javadekar said:“Although a number of womenstudents cleared the IITentrance examinations, notmany joined the coursesoffered by the various IITsacross the country. We havedecided to increase the numberof seats for female students inIITs. In effect, we would like toincrease the female represen-tation in IITs from the current8 per cent to 20 per cent”.

The Minister said that inan effort to prevent brain drain,a proposal was afoot to provide

an assistance of �75,000 permonth per selected studentfor Research and Innovation,under the Prime Minister’sScholarship Scheme.

Javadekar said that theHigher Education FinanceAgency Fund which wasannounced in the budgetwould be augmented by raisingmoney through bond market tocreate research infrastructure inIITs. He said that wellness cen-tres would be created for stu-dents of IITs to enable them tohandle stresses.The Ministersaid that at the IITs’ councilmeeting, it had been decided tohave a strong induction pro-gramme for students to adaptto the IIT campus life.

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Keeping growing volumes inmind and company’s plan to

launch eight new products by2021 Hyundai Motor India hasinaugurated its Global Quality andTraining Centre in India atFaridabad in Haryana which willwork towards development ofproducts for the Asia-Pacific mar-ket starting from the pilot stage tofull production volumes.

“India Quality Centre(INQC) is one of the 5 HyundaiQuality Centres worldwide whichwill be exchanging datas withother centres worldwide based onthe feedback and findings fromtesting, the upcoming vehiclewhich will be developed from thepilot stage to full production vol-umes. This means first under-standing the needs of customersand keeping them in mind creat-ing a concept of the car and thena prototype and design and thencoordinating with vendors forspecified materials so that theproduct is ready with zero defect,”said Hyundai Motor IndiaDirector Sales and MarketingRakesh Srivastava while talking to

The Pioneer.“Actually India has got prime

importance for Hyundai Motor aswe have global launches of ourfour products --Grand i10, Elite,Creta and Axcent. All these prod-ucts are exported to differentcountries also, so we have tounderstand their changing needsand aspiration. Moreover, Indiancustomers also want cars of glob-al standard with zero defect, sohere comes the utility of GlobalQuality and Training Centre,”added Srivastava

Hyundai plans to bring newtechnology products ranging fromthe mild to the full hybrid to auto-mated manual transmission to

turbocharged gasoline engine forits new models which will requirea high degree of localisation formaking them cost effective in aprice sensitive market like Indiaand again Global Quality andTraining Centre will contributesignificantly in this endeavor.

HMIL has been witnessing anincrease in sales as its portfolio of10 vehicles sold about 6.62 lakhunits last year and over 53 lakhHyundai cars were serviced in thelast yet itself. Hence, the centre willensure that the quality of serviceprovided remains up to theplanned benchmark set by by theparent company.

Hyundai also said that they are

currently tied up with 38 ITIs andplan on increasing that to 48 thisyear and more than 95 percent oftrained personnel at these ITIs arecurrently hired within the Hyundainetwork.

The new facility also has theworld-class training center alongwith first of its own Body & PaintTraining Centre. The new servicetraining centre will ensure overallskill development of entire serviceprofile of dealership manpower toprovide unmatched customerService experience while the Body& Paint Training Centre willensure the best quality finish of thecar.

Hyundai has 6 Training cen-ters across India and plans to trainmore than 15,000 dealer man-power in calendar year 2017 andadditionally plans to inauguratetwo new training centers atGuwahati and Ahmedabad byend of the year. Furthermore, tosupport the Skill India initiativeHyundai Motor India has alreadystarted tie-ups with minimum 1ITI in every state and is associat-ing with Polytechnic colleges acrossIndia for employment generationthus contributing to the automo-bile sector for skilled manpower.

���!�� � Reser ve BankDeputy Governor ViralAcharya on Friday said thetime may have come to “re-privatise” some of the nation-al ised banks, as theGovernment scurries forfunds to capitalise bad loan-saddled lenders.

“Perhaps re-privatisingsome of the nationalisedbanks is an idea whose timehas come ... This wouldreduce the overall moneyGovernment needs to injectas bank capital,” Acharya said,addressing a Ficci women’swing event here this evening.

Such a move will alsohelp preserve government’s“hard-earned fiscal disci-pline” that has made thecountry a “darling” for for-eign investors along with sta-ble inflation outlook and thediverse nature of the growthengine, he said.

The remarks were madewhile suggesting credibleways of resolving the currentstress in the state-run banks,which included private capi-tal raising, asset sales, merg-ers, tough prompt correctiveactions and divestments.

On divestments, Acharyasaid once the Government

gets the banks in shape, it canwork towards divesting itsstake in them as it has donewith various other state-runundertakings.

A bulk of the state-runlenders were private entitiesbefore the 1969 nationalisa-tion by the then prime min-ister Indira Gandhi.

While the reach of bankscontinued to remain restrict-ed, governance issues at thesebanks, including interferenceby governments, resulted inPSBs ending up with dispro-portionate size of bad assetswhich the system is plaguedwith.

On prompt correctiveaction (PCA), Acharya said

there is a case for showing“tough love” to undercapi-talised banks and make themadhere to the revised PCArules including restrictions ondeposit taking and lending.

“This will ensure a grad-ual run-off of such banks, andencourage deposit migrationaway from the weakest pub-lic sector banks to healthierpublic sector banks and pri-vate sector banks,” Acharyasaid.

Acharya said healthierstate-run banks missed anopportunity in 2013 whentheir asset quality was muchbetter and could raise privatecapital by going for a deepdiscounted rights issue, but

can do so again to reducestress on the Government.

Days after GovernorUrjit Patel made a case ofmerger of weak state-runbanks, Acharya also saidthere is a case formerging the26 state-run banks into a fewhealthier entities.

“Some banks can bemerged, as a quid pro quo fortimely Government capitalinjection into the combinedentity. It would offer theopportunity to rejig manage-ment responsibility awayfrom those who have under-performed or dragged theirfeet the most,” Acharya said.

Synergies in lending andbranch locations can be iden-tified, real estate made avail-able through redundantbranches which could be sold,VRS can be offered and ayounger, digitally-savvy talentpool can be hired, he said.

Acharya said when theyfind themselves in a difficultsituation, banks resort toeither evergreening of loanswhere an entity is given a freshloan to service a previousone, or lend to riskier assets,and underlined that both theapproaches are fraught withrisks.

He said the recentlyreleased global financial sta-bility report by the IMF alsohighlighted the problem byflagging industrial sector asone of the most heavilyindebted in the world.

In the report, IMF listsdomestic banks as “worse-off ” compared to otheremerging economy peersbecause of the “little bank cap-ital” set aside to provide forlosses on its NPAs, Acharyasaid.

“A bank not keeping ade-quate capital buffer to absorblosses on its loans that aremore or less known to bearriving soon is akin to notpreparing to rescue withemergency a person who hasslipped off the terrace of a sky-scraper, and instead in themidst of his almost surelyfatal descent, hoping that thelaws of gravity would some-how freeze and work differ-ently this time,” Acharyawarned.

It can be noted that thequantum of NPAs is amongthe highest in the world, withover 10 per cent of assetsstressed and classified either asNPAs or restructured undervarious dispensations. �%�

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The ambitious Goods and Services Tax to beimplemented from July 1 would help raise

India’s medium-term growth to above eight percent, the IMF has said, but expressed concernover the health of the country’s banking system.

Observing that India is the “fastest growingemerging market economy” in the region, TaoZhang, Deputy Managing Director of theInternational Monetary Fund,said the IMF believes thatIndia will continue to grow ata fast pace, with a projected6.8 per cent rate for FinancialYear 2016-17 and 7.2 per centin 2017-18.

“The Government hasmade significant progress onimportant economic reformsthat will support strong andsustainable growth going forward,” Zhang toldthe news agency in an interview.

“We expect that the Goods and Services Tax(GST), which is targeted to be applied startingin July, will help raise India’s medium-termgrowth to above 8 per cent, as it will enhanceproduction and the movement of goods and ser-vices across Indian states,” he said.

Zhang said the IMF is “extremely impressed”by the work that is being done.

“We expect it will pay off in terms of high-er growth in the future,” he said in response toa question on the reforms being undertaken bythe Indian Government.

Lower global oil prices have boosted eco-nomic activity, and helped lower inflation. Inaddition, fiscal and monetary policies havehelped foster economic stability, he said.

“The currency exchange initiative led to aslowdown in economic activity. However, thereare initial signs of recovery as the currencyexchange has been progressing well,” Zhang, who

assumed the role of Deputy Managing Directorat the IMF in August last year, said on demon-etisation.

Zhang, who worked at the World Bank from1995 to 1997 and at the Asian DevelopmentBank from 1997 to 2004, said a key concern forthe IMF in India is the health of the banking sys-tem which is still dealing with a large amountof “bad loans” as well as “heightened corporatevulnerabilities” in several key sectors of the econ-

omy.In India, bad loans of

public banks rose by over Rs1 lakh crore to �6.06 lakhcrore during April-Decemberof 2016-17, the bulk of whichcame from power, steel, roadinfrastructure and textiles sec-tors. The gross bad loansstood at �5,02,068 crore at theend of 2015-16.

Zhang also stressed on the need for labourmarket reforms in India.

“As India persists with its strong reformefforts, labour market reforms should take pri-ority,” he noted.

These would facilitate greater and betterquality jobs, raise female labour force partici-pation and enhance the impact of recent prod-uct market reforms, he observed.

“While there has been important progressgenerally, we see scope to pursue better target-ing and greater efficiency of subsidy and socialspending programmes through greater use of thetrio of Aadhaar unique beneficiary identifica-tion, direct benefit transfers and informationtechnology,” Zhang said.

“Finally, more could be done to raise agri-cultural productivity and enhance market effi-ciency. This would help increase the supply ofhigh-value foods, enhance returns to farmers,and dampen food inflation pressures,” said theIMF official responding to a question.

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����������The initial pub-lic offering of the NationalStock Exchange (NSE) willtake “a few months” as co-location issues need to besorted out, Sebi chief AjayTyagi said on Friday.

NSE, which filed its draftpapers with regulator Sebi inDecember to raise an esti-mated over �10,000 crorethrough the IPO, is awaitingfor the regulator’s go-ahead.

“They (NSE) have cometo conclusion and rightlyso... that co-location issueneeds to be sorted out beforethey go for IPO that will takesome time... A few months.It could be a few months, itis not happening immedi-ately,” Tyagi told reportershere.

The offer may give theexchange a valuation of�50,000 -55,000 crore, offi-cials said, adding that theIPO itself could be worthabout �10,000 crore.

The IPO will see existing

shareholders offloading 20-25 per cent shares to thepublic through the offer forsale (OFS) route.

Co-location in marketparlance refers to brokerslocating their servers on thepremises of the exchange.This reduces the time for anorder and provides speedadvantage over those whoare farther away from thepremises.

The bourse is facing reg-ulatory scrutiny for alleged-

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He also sounded a note ofcaution on growing tendency ofprotectionism in nations aroundthe world, saying the jury is stillout if such moves would makethe global economy more effi-cient or sluggish.

Comments by Jaitley at CIIannual conference came againstthe backdrop of fears of globaltrade and investment beingimpacted by increasing protec-tionism in nations like the US,which has tightened visa regimeand is insisting on usingAmerican products.

To the domestic industry,Jaitley asked them to pass on toconsumers the benefit of reduc-tion in taxes under Goods andServices Tax (GST) which willeliminate the current com-pounding effect of different cen-tral and state levies.

The GST Council, headed byJaitley and comprising repre-sentatives of all the states, isscheduled to meet in Srinagar onMay 18-19 to finalise tax rates ondifferent goods and services afterunifying at least 10 indirect taxesinto the GST.

He said rules and regulationsgoverning GST have been framedand fixing of tariffs for differentcommodities is in “final stages.”

“The formula under whichit is being done has also beenexplained and therefore nobodyis going to be taken by surprise,it’s not going to be very signifi-cantly different (from present),”he said.

The GST Council hasfinalised four rate categories of 5per cent, 12 per cent, 18 per centand 28 per cent after unifyinglevies like central excise, servicetax and VAT.

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The Delhi High Court onFriday upheld the award of

$1.17 billion damages to be paidto Japanese telecom major NTTDocomo by Tata Sons for its fail-ure to find a buyer for the foreigncompany’s stake in their jointventure.

The court said the award canbe enforced in India and no spe-cial permission from the ReserveBank of India (RBI) was required.

Justice S Muralidhar, in hisverdict, also rejected the RBI’splea to intervene in the matter,saying it was not a party to theaward.

“In the absence of a provisionthat expressly provides for it, thequestion of permitting RBI tointervene in such proceedings tooppose enforcement does notarise,” the court said.

It said “if neither of the par-ties has any objection to theenforcement of the award, andthe court finds no impediment toits enforcement, then the awardwhich takes a view on the

requirement of RBI’s permissionwill be enforceable as such. RBIwill be bound by such determi-nation and cannot refuse per-mission”.

The RBI, during the pro-ceedings, had contended thatonce it had denied special per-mission for transferring themoney overseas, the issue hadattained finality.

It had said that till date, itsdecision has not been challenged.

Rejecting its argument, thecourt said as long as the awardstands, there is no need for anyspecial permission of the RBI forremission by the Tatas of theamount awarded to Docomo asdamages.

“The refusal by RBI of suchpermission which is notrequired in the first place, or thefact that such refusal has notbeen challenged, would there-fore not affect the enforceabil-ity of the award,” the judgementheld.

Docomo and Tata had gonefor arbitration as the Indiancompany was not able to find a

buyer for the Japanese telecommajor’s 26.5 per cent stake intheir joint venture, TataTeleservices Ltd (TTSL), whenit exited from it.

The LCIA in June 2016awarded damages of USD 1.17billion in favour of Docomo forTata’s inability to find a buyer asper the shareholding agree-ment.

Docomo had moved theDelhi High Court for enforce-ment of the award after Tatacited refusal of permission bythe RBI to make the payment.

Later the two companiesentered into a settlementagreement to settle their two-year-old dispute regardingTTSL with the Indian compa-ny withdrawing its objections tothe enforcement of the award.

Under the terms of the set-tlement, the Japanese companyhad said it will “suspend itsrelated enforcement proceed-ings in the United Kingdom andthe United States” for a periodof six months. RBI had opposedthe settlement agreement.

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Washington: US PresidentDonald Trump has said hewould like to solve the NorthKorea crisis diplomatically,but that a “major, major con-flict” is possible.

China’s Foreign Ministercalled for negotiation and dia-logue. The UN Security Cou-ncil is meeting to discuss NorthKorea on Friday and will con-sider further measures tocounter its nuclear and missileprogrammes.

The country has made sev-eral military shows of strengthin recent weeks but a missile itwas testing failed.

America sent warships tothe region and began installinga controversial anti-missile sys-tem in South Korea earlierthis week.

US Secretary of State RexTillerson said Washingtonwould negotiate with NorthKorea with a view to removingnuclear weapons from thecountry, not changing theGovernment.

He told NPR radio in theUS, “We do not seek regimechange, we do not seek a col-lapse of the regime, we do notseek an accelerated reunifica-

tion of the peninsula.North Korea has carried

out repeated missile tests in

recent months and is threat-ening to conduct its sixthnuclear test. Agencies

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Kabul: The Afghan Talibanlaunched their “spring offen-sive” on Friday, heralding freshfighting in the drawn-out con-flict as embattled securityforces struggle to recover froma devastating attack on a mili-tary base one week ago.

Operation Mansouri —named after the group’s formerleader, who was killed in a USdrone strike in May 2016 —will target foreign forces withtactics including “convention-al attacks, guerrilla warfare,complex martyrdom attacks,insider attacks,” a statementfrom the insurgents said. “Theenemy will be targeted,harassed, killed or captureduntil they abandon their lastposts,” it continued.

The annual spring offensivenormally marks the start of the“fighting season”, though thiswinter the Taliban continued tobattle the Government forces,most successfully in last week’sattack on the military base out-side the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The assault on lastFriday, wherein the militantsdressed in Afghan Army unifor-ms and with valid passes to theinstallation slaughtered at least135 young recruits, is believedto be the deadliest by the Talibanon an Afghan military target.

It sparked widespreadanger and led to the resigna-tions of the Defence Ministerand the Army chief of staff,along with a reshuffle of armycorps commander, leavingsecurity forces facing disarrayas fear and suspicion grewthat the militants had insidehelp. AFP

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Dhaka: Four militants blewthemselves up in Bangladeshafter a 24-hour standoff with thesecurity forces which raidedtheir ‘den’, the latest such incidentamid an intensified nationwidecrackdown on Islamist mili-tants, police said on Friday.Police raided a house in North-Western Chapainawabganj onWednesday night, triggering astandoff.

“We found bodies of fourmilitants as we entered the hide-out,” a police headquarters’spokesman told reporters inDhaka as elite Special WeaponsAnd Tactics unit wrapped up thesecurity clampdown codenamed‘Operation Eagle Hunt’. PTI

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For the first time in more than40 years, Queen Elizabeth II

will “dress-down” for the newUK Parliament opening follow-ing the snap elections on June 8due to shortage of time torehearse for the event.

British Prime MinisterTheresa May had taken every-one by surprise when shedeclared a snap general electionearlier this month. The 91-year-old monarch is responsible forthe ceremonial opening ofParliament business every year,which involves considerablepomp and ceremony includingbeing dressed up in flowingrobes.

According to ‘The Times’,this time the Queen will wear aday dress and hat for the cere-mony instead and not the impe-rial State crown as she deliversthe Queen’s Speech outlining theGovernment’s plans for the yearahead on June 19.

It will be the first time since1974, when then Prime MinisterEdward Heath had called asnap election, that the Queenhas not worn the full ceremonialregalia for a State opening.

The changes have beenagreed between BuckinghamPalace, the UK Governmentand Parliamentary authoritiesbecause rehearsals for the Stateopening, which will now takeplace on June 19, clash with theannual Trooping the Colourceremony held to mark themonarch’s official birthday in thesecond week of June.

The date also means that theQueen has had to cancel theOrder of the Garter ceremonywhen she hands over royalmedals at Windsor Castle.

Buckingham Palace said ina statement, “To allow hermajesty to attend in support ofthe parliamentary and consti-tutional process, the Queen’sprogramme of engagements hasbeen revised.”

Washington: Pakistan’s ISI issupporting terrorist organisa-tions inside the country, USlawmakers were told by a newlyformed Muhajir (refugee)group which alleged terroroutfits like Taliban and al-Qaeda are trying to take con-trol of the port city of Karachi.

“Nowadays Pakistan hasbecome a safe haven forextremist groups with full sup-port of Pakistani intelligenceagency ISI,” World MuhajirCongress said in a letter tomembers of The HouseForeign Affairs Committee

during a Congressional hearingon Afghanistan here yesterday.

Representatives of theWorld Muhajir Congress metmembers of The HouseForeign Affairs Committee andbriefed them on alleged strongconnection between the ISIand the terrorist groups.

“We are afraid as Jihadioutfits are getting strongerwith the support of ISI, impor-tant port city of Karachi whichis the supply line of US andNATO could fall into the handsof these terror groups,” the let-ter said. PTI

Cairo: Pope Francis began a visitto Egypt on Friday to promote“unity and fraternity” amongMuslims and the embattledChristian minority that has suf-fered a series of jihadist attacks.The 80-year-old pontiff toucheddown at Cairo airport before hewas ushered in a car to meetEgyptian President Abdel Fattahal-Sisi, who welcomed him witha military brass band and priestslining up to greet him. PTI

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Nepal Government onFriday got the approval

from the president to deploythe army for the smooth con-duct of local-level polls onMay 14 amid a stiff resistanceby the Madhes-centric parties.President Bidya Devi Bhandarihas granted her approval tomobilise Nepal Army person-nel during the elections underthe Constitution, said a state-ment issued by her office.

United Nations: Turning todiplomacy after flexing mili-tary muscle, the United Stateswill urge the UN SecurityCouncil on Friday to increaseeconomic pressure on NorthKorea over its nuclear weaponsprogram, leaning on China inparticular to turn the screws onits wayward ally. Secretary ofState Rex Tillerson met withhis counterparts from alliesJapan and South Korea andwas set to chair a ministerialmeeting of the UN’s top deci-sion-making body.

The US wants to tightenthe implementation of sanc-tions and build internationalresolve to isolate North Koreaso it eventually disarms. That’sa goal that has eluded U.S.administrations for twodecades, and the threat isintensifying. North Korea mayalready be able to strike its US-allied neighbors with anuclear-tipped missile, andcould have the US mainlandwithin range by the end ofPresident Donald Trump’s firstterm. AP

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A56-year-old Indian man hasbeen killed after getting

caught in a crossfire outside amotel in the US State ofTennessee, becoming the fifthfrom the community to be killedin the country since February.

Khandu Patel, father of two,worked as a housekeeper atAmericas Best Value Inn andSuites in Whitehaven, a report

in Fox13Memphis said. Theincident occurred on Mondaywhen about 30 shots went off.

Investigators say one ofthose bullets hit Patel. He wasstanding at the back of themotel when he was shot andlater died at the RegionalMedical Center.

Khandu had worked at theinn for about eight months.His wife and children lived at themotel with him.

“He finished his days’ workand was out walking aroundthe property. Next thing youknow he hears some gunshotsflying around and one caughthim in the chest,” Jay Patel, thevictim’s nephew, was quoted assaying by the report. “He did-n’t even make it to the hospi-tal to be saved,” he added.

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Washington: The US shouldreview its options for dealingwith Pakistan, including takingunilateral actions against terroristsafe havens in the country, if itdoes not cease its support to themilitant outfits attacking neigh-bours like India, eminent expertstold American lawmakers.

Seth G Jones, directorInternational Security andDefence Policy Centre RANDCorporation, in his testimonybefore the House ForeignAffairs Committee saidCongress has reduced its mil-itary assistance to Pakistan inrecent years and curtailedPakistan`s access to foreignmilitary financing. PTI

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Kolkata Knight Riders skipperGautam Gambhir and RobinUthappa's pyrotechnics with the

bat on Friday handed Delhi Daredevilsa seven-wicket defeat and pushedthem on the verge of elimination in theIndian Premier League.

This was Delhi's fourth loss on thetrot.

Chasing a modest 161, KKR werenine for one in the second over, butUthappa (59 from 33 balls) andGambhir put together a 108-run part-nership off just 66 balls to lay the foun-dation.

After Uthappa was run out,Gambhir held fort and led the teamfrom the front with an unbeaten 71from 52 balls (11x4) to complete thechase with 22 balls to spare. He alsocompleted 6000 runs in T20 cricket.

This was their fourth century part-nership while chasing in IPL.

KKR (14 points) have one foot inthe playoff with seven wins from ninematches, while DD's campaign is all butover following a four-match losingstreak to languish at the bottom of thetable with four points from sevenmatches.

If Delhi batsmen made a mess oftheir spectacular start, their fieldersadded to their woes. Uthappa made fulluse of a reprieve on nine and he over-came a niggle on his left leg to lead thecharge, smashing a 24-ball half-centu-ry, his fourth from nine games this sea-son.

Making a comeback in place ofDarren Bravo, Nathan Coulter-Nile(3/34) led a KKR fightback to restrictDelhi Daredevils to a below-par 160 for

six.Put in to bat, Delhi were 41 for no

loss from four overs, but Sunil Narine'sfirst-over breakthrough stymied theirrun- flow before Nathan Coulter-Nileproduced some excellent bowling.

Delhi clearly lost their way at thedeath as they managed only 29 in thelast five overs and lost four wickets.

Sanju Samson (60 from 38 balls;4x4, 3x6) and Shreyas Iyer (47 from 34;4x4, 1x6) gave them a solid start buttheir run-rate slipped as KKR foughtback through Coulter-Nile.

Credit should also be given toNarine, who had 1/25, and was KKR'smost economical bowler.

Delhi sent Karun Nair to open withSamson. The duo dealt in boundariesagainst the home team's pace attackbefore Narine drew first blood bytrapping Nair (17). The boundariesdried up and it took 46 balls for Delhito score their first boundary whenSamson notched up his sixth IPL fiftywith a six off Kuldeep Yadav. The sec-ond-wicket partnership was worth 75runs and came in 55 balls, after a 48-

run opening stand from 29 deliveries,setting the stage for a 200-plus total.

Having completed his fifty, Samsontried to break free but failed as KKRstruck thrice — Pant (6), Iyer (47),besides Samson.

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Opener Shikhar Dhawan hit a flu-ent 77 before Kane Williamson

conjured up an unbeaten 54 to pro-pel Sunrisers Hyderabad to a chal-lenging 207 for three against Kings XIPunjab in their IPL match, here onFriday.

Home skipper Glenn Maxwellinvited Hyderabad to bat but couldhardly trouble the visitors who nego-tiated the attack with remarkableease.

The platform for Hyderabad'ssecond 200-plus total was set by thewhirlwind 107-run stand betweenDhawan and skipper David Warner(51).

After Dhawan and Warner did thejob with their half- centuries, Kiwibatsman Williamson provided the fin-ishing touches to Hyderabad innings

with his fiery knock that came off just27 balls.

Dhawan and Warner struck theball hard and clean, sending thefielders on a leather hunt even as theball swung a bit initially, suggestingthat pacers may dictate the terms.

However, none of the bowlerscould make an impression with thetwo left-handers finding boundariesat will. The runs came at a good paceand Hyderabad had put on board 100runs before the half-way mark.

Skipper Maxwell (2/29) intro-duced himself to the attack and suc-ceeded in sending back his counter-part, who swept and missed only tosee his stumps rattled. Warner's 51came off just 27 balls with four sixesand and as many fours.

By that time the damage wasalready done and Hyderabad were setfor a big total. Kane Williamson

joined Dhawan at the crease and therewas a period of 18 balls when noboundary was scored.

Williamson broke the shackles ashe opened his arms to smack AxarPatel for a huge six over mid-wicketregion.

Mohit Sharma dismissedDhawan, who holed out to Maxwellin the mid-wicket region. Dhawantook 48 balls for his knock which hadnine shots to the fence and one overthe ropes. His fall brought Yuvraj (15)to the crease and the onus to exploitthe good work done by the openerswas on him and his Kiwi partner.However the left-hander could notcontribute much, becoming secondvictim of Maxwell. Williamsonthough ensured that Hyderabad crossthe 200- run mark with his inningswhich was laced with six boundaries,including two sixes.

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IPL hopes alive when they meetan equally inconsistent RisingPune Supergiant in an IPLencounter, here on Saturday.

Virat Kohli's team has lostsix out of their nine games andare second-last on the tablewith five points in their kitty.

For RCB, a defeat will meanthat the tournament will be asgood as over. They still have slimhopes if they can win all theirremaining five games and hopefor some favourable results fromthe other games.

Rising Pune Supergiant areslightly better off with eightpoints from eight games withfour wins in their kitty. But evenRPS has been inconsistent at onelevel. They have been good oncertain days and very ordinaryon other days.

Skipper Steve Smith will liketo address that issue when theyface RCB, who are already downin the dumps after a string ofdefeats.

Virat Kohli, Chris Gayleand AB de Villiers can destroyany bowling attack on a givenday and RPS save Ben Stokes (6wickets) and Imran Tahir (10wickets), don't have much towrite home about.

In the batting department,the find of the season for Punehas been local boy RahulTripathi, who has scored 216runs in six games but moreimportantly at an impressivestrike-rate of 154.28 whichincludes 24 boundaries andeight sixes.

Only Smith with 275 runshas scored more than him.Mahendra Singh Dhoni hasmustered only 152 runs at astrike-rate of 120. India inter-national Ajinkya Rahane's formhas also been a concern as he hasbeen able to score only a single50 batting at the top of the orderin all the matches. There willalso be some pressure on Stokesto prove his whopping price tagof Rs 14.5 crore. He has bowledsome really good overs includ-ing superb death bowlingagainst MI which earned himMan of the Match award.

But he has been a bit off-colour when it comes to battinghaving scored only 127 runs ineight games.

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High on confidence afterdecimating a high-profile

RCB, an upbeat Gujarat Lionswill be aiming to lift their gamea notch higher when they facetitle contenders Mumbai Indiansin an IPL encounter, here onSaturday.

The Lions will be hopingthat their skipper Suresh Rainais fully fit. The India interna-tional will not like to miss out amatch at this crucial juncture,having already scored 309 runsin the tournament so far.

One of the more balancedoutfits with all bases covered,Mumbai's primary aim will beto get two more wins as quick-ly as possibly which will all butensure a smooth passage into thePlay-Offs.

Lions on the otherhand need to win five outof their next six games.

James Faulkner andAndrew Tye with their vari-ations in bowling alongwith two T20 dashers likeBrendon McCullum andAaron Finch at the top of theorder is proving to be help-ful for the Lions. Theyhave a new-found talent inBasil Thampi, who canbowl yorkers at will.Nathu Singh has givena glimpse of his talent.The firework fromDinesh Karthik in themiddle-order keepsthem in good stead.

But in terms ofpure talent, MumbaiIndians are way aheadwith Jos Buttler at the topfollowed by explosiveplayers like skipper RohitSharma, who is slowly com-ing into his own and KieronPollard - an undoubtedmatch winner on his day. The

Pandya brothers— Krunal andHardik are alsovital component

with both theMitchells —Johnson andMcClenaghan

intimidating thebatsmen with pace

and swing. JaspritBumrah's presencemeans that LasithMalinga's off-formhas not been adeterrent. Last butnot the least isHarbhajan Singh,who has nowbowled 26 overs inseven matches withan astounding

economy rate of5.88 and thebatsmen haven’t

been able toattack him.

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Gujarat Lions' star per-former Aaron Finch is

confident that their team canwin five out of the next sixmatches to make it to theplay-offs of the IndianPremier League after com-prehensively defeating RoyalChallengers Bangalore.

Lions are currently sixthwith six points from eightgames.

"Yes, we are still veryconfident to go into playoffs,"Finch said. "Last year, wewon six out of first sevengames. We are probably nowin a position to win five outof last six. That is a great chal-lenge, though."

Finch, who smashed hisway to 72 off 34 balls, was allpraise for young Basil Thampiand Nathu Singh, who keptRCB batsmen under check.

"It was a pretty polishedperformance and we sawsome young quicks Nathuand Basil, really stand up

with the new ball againstsome of the best players tohave ever played this format,"Finch said.

The Australian batsmansaid it was a conscious effortto attack because in a low-scoring match, a batsmancan make mistake of trying tobat slow.

"Sometimes, in a smallrun-chase, you can make themistake of trying to bat too

slowly and before you know,the run rate reaches 9 perover," he said.

Finch also said he andSuresh Raina were trying toget ahead of the run-rate sothat in an eventuality of los-ing wickets, the remainingfirepower of batting in theform of Dinesh Karthik andJames Faulkner, could takecharge get the winning runs.

"We were just trying toget ahead of the run-rate. Soeven if something did happen,there were a couple of guyslike Jadeja, Faulkner, DineshKarthik, who could still pickup the pieces," he said.

Finch said that at thisstage of the tournament, theycan't afford to lose any gamesfurther.

"At this stage, you still gotto keep winning games. If youare in a position where youcan really accelerate and makesure you finish as quickly aspossible, it's great. We arelucky we got into a positionlike that tonight," he said.

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Royal Challenger Bangalore skipper ViratKohli today said his team needs to play pos-

itive cricket to come out of their losing streakafter they suffered yet another defeat in IPLon Thursday.

RCB were today comprehensivelyoutclassed by Gujarat Lions, who notchedup a seven-wicket win with 6.1 overs tospare to revive their IPL play-off hopes.

It was the sixth loss in nine matchesfor RCB, who were bundled out for 134by the Lions.

"It is never easy to lose games.Tonight was not clinical. We need to getbetter with our performances. You got tocome out and play with intent," Kohli saidafter the match. "We tried to do itwith the bat. The only way to comeout of it is to play positive crick-et. We are putting too much pres-sure on the team. Individualsneed to stand up and take respon-sibility."

Kohli didn't give any excuse for their top-order collapse as they were reduced to 23-3 byAndrew Tye early in the innings. "The ball was com-ing on decently well. Both the innings under lightsthe ball behaves the same."

The RCB skipper also praised Aaron Finch, whoblasted a 34-ball 72 while chasing 135 to win.

"Credit to Finch he played a fantastic knock.

In a small chase it is important if one guys takesthe momentum."

Gujarat Lions skipper Suresh Raina saidTye's two wickets in two balls was the turning

point."The wicket did something with the

new ball. AJ took back-to-back wickets.That was the turning point. It was a team

effort today. Basil and Nathu were alsoaccurate," he said. "We did very well

in all departments. AJ, Faulkner, andJadeja bowled really well. Then

Finchy batted brilliantly."Raina played the sec-

ond fiddle to Finch, whowas dealing in sixes and

fours during his innings."Finch was smashing everything, I

was just looking at ones and twos.Today's win gives us a lot of confidence,"Raina said.

Tye, who had taken a hat-trick onIPL debut against Rising PuneSupergiant in another match, once againhad a hat-trick chance when he scalped

two wickets in two balls."The execution of the hat-trick ball

was not as good as the last time (laughs).Glad we got the result tonight," Tye, theMan of the Match, said. "My plan to Gaylewas to hit a good length and not give any-

thing away. I got it on the right spot. Theball came on nicely, it was a good pitch.”

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Antibiotic resistance is a global phenomenon.But its epicentre is India. The country isafflicted by easy access to the strongest of

antibiotics without prescriptions or diagnoses; byqualified doctors, not just quacks, who prescribedrugs with little thought; by hospitals whereoveruse has created colonies of these superbugs; byexcessive usage on livestock; and by poor sanita-tion. All this has created a kind of perfect storm forthese super-resistant microbes to menace ourhealth.

In a study which analysed global trends ofantibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2010, dis-covered that India now consumes the most antibi-otics in the world.

The massive increase in use, both appropriateand inappropriate, is leading to increases in drugresistance. Antibiotic use is the single most impor-tant reason for resistance. Also use of last resortdrugs like carbapenems has gone up significantlyin India, and it is difficult to justify why such pow-erful antibiotics are being use so much more fre-quently. We have to remember that before we hadantibiotics, it was pretty easy to die of a bacterialinfection. And we’re choosing to go back into aworld where you won’t necessarily get better froma bacterial infection. It’s not happening at a massscale, but we’re starting to see the beginning of whenthe antibiotics are not working as well.

One solution to this crisis is to develop newerand stronger antibiotics. No new class of antibioticshas been developed for several years, since, asexperts point out, it is not as profitable as produc-ing other more expensive drugs. But you don’t wantto be throwing money at this problem. Inventingnew antibiotics alone will only perpetuate the cycleof bacteria developing resistance to every new drug.

Growing numbers of bacterial and viral infec-tions are resistant to antimicrobial drugs, but no newclasses of antibiotics have come on the market formore than 25 years.

In a scenario where the misuse of antibioticsis rampant, regulations to tackle the problem aretoo lax to be effective. As strong strains of multi-drug resistant microbes have emerged, however, sev-eral healthcare professionals and hospitals havebegun to establish strict antibiotic policies. Themicrobiology department at Fortis, for instance,issues new guidelines every few months on whatantibiotics can be used, in what dosages, and forwhat ailments. Every time there is an emergencyand the doctor believes a stronger dose is essential,he has to fill a form justifying the action, append-ed with an approval signature from another physi-cian.

Antibiotics are a group of medicines that areused to treat infections caused by germs — bacte-ria and certain parasites. They do not work againstinfections that are caused by viruses — for exam-ple, the common cold or flu. Antibiotics are nor-mally only prescribed for more serious bacterialinfections — for example, pneumonia. When pre-scribed, it is important to take the entire course ofantibiotics which helps to prevent resistance devel-oping to that antibiotic. Most side-effects of antibi-otics are not serious — for example, diaorrhea, ormild stomach upset such as feeling sick (nausea).Although some people develop a serious allergy tosome antibiotics, this is rare.

It is important to remember that antibiotics onlywork against infections that are caused by bacte-ria and certain parasites. They do not work againstinfections that are caused by viruses (for example,the common cold or flu), or fungi (for example,thrush in the mouth or vagina), or fungal infectionsof the skin. Occasionally, a viral infection or minorbacterial infection develops into a more serious sec-ondary bacterial infection.

There are various antibiotics available and they

come in various different brand names. Antibioticsare usually grouped together based on how theywork. Each type of antibiotic only works against cer-tain types of bacteria or parasites. This is why dif-ferent antibiotics are used to treat different typesof infection. There are a number of other antibi-otics that specialist doctors or hospital doctors mayprescribe for more uncommon infections such astuberculosis (TB).

Some antibiotics work by killing germs (bac-teria or the parasite). This is often done by inter-fering with the structure of the cell wall of the bac-terium or parasite. Some work by stopping bacte-ria or the parasite from multiplying.

Antibiotics are normally only prescribed formore serious infections with germs (bacterial andsome parasitic infections).

Most common infections are caused by virus-es, when an antibiotic will not be of use. Even if youhave a mild bacterial infection, the immune systemcan clear most bacterial infections. For example,antibiotics usually do little to speed up recoveryfrom bronchitis, or most ear, nose,and throat infec-tions that are caused by bacteria.

So, do not be surprised if a doctor does not rec-ommend an antibiotic for conditions caused byviruses or non-bacterial infections, or even for amild bacterial infection.

It is important to take antibiotics in the correctway. If you do not, this may reduce how well theywork. For example, some antibiotics need to betaken with food and others should be taken on anempty stomach.

If you do not take your antibiotics in the rightway it will affect how much of them get into yourbody (their absorption) and therefore they may notwork as well. So, follow the instructions as givenby your doctor and on the leaflet that comes withthe antibiotic you are prescribed.

It is not possible to list all the possible side-effects of each antibiotic in this leaflet. However,as with all medicines, there are a number of side-effects that have been reported with each of the dif-ferent antibiotics. If you want more information spe-cific to your antibiotic then you should read theinformation leaflet that comes with the medicine.

Most side-effects of antibiotics are not serious.Common side-effects include soft stools (faeces),diarrhoea, or mild stomach upset such as feelingsick (nausea).

Less commonly, some people have an allergicreaction to an antibiotic and some have died froma severe allergic reaction - this is very rare.Antibiotics can kill off normal defence bacteriawhich live in the bowel and vagina. This may thenallow thrush or other bad bacteria to grow.

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Merely by looking at the footpath,I can say whether it isBhowanipur or Bowbazar in

Kolkata. It is with this kind of intensitythat I studied the the city for five yearsfor a series on it,” says artist SanjayBhattacharya. That one sentenceencapsulates a lot of what the painter isabout. Intense, obsessed with his subjectand intent on capturing all possiblevariations and nuances. Bhattacharyastudied the city with absolute focus. “Ihave seen Kolkata like no one has. I havegone under the Howrah bridge, stoodabove New Market to get a differentperspective of the place. Not manyresidents can claim that they have seenthe city the way I have,” he says with aguffaw.

But having mastered one subject,Bhattacharya is also quick to move on toa new one and takes it up with equalintensity and focus when it strikes hisfancy. “I can’t stick to a particular subjectand that’s why I change. This happensspontaneously, it isn’t planned. If I likesomething, I jump,” he says.

The gamut of his work and differentseries can be seen in a recently publishedbook, Mirror to the World, whichfeatures his collection of watercolours,oil on canvas, sketches and photographsover a span of four decades from 1977-2017.

The taking up of something thatappeals to him extends to his professionas well. Painting happened to him bychance as Bhattacharya had no plans ofbecoming an artist. One of the threesons of an accountant, he was a badstudent, not interested in books, whocleared his exams in the third division ashe was often given to doodling sketchesof comic characters like Mandrake,Phantom and occasionallyRabindranath Tagore during class.

“I had joined the City College inKolkata in the Arts stream when I heardthat there is a college where there are no

books,” he remembers.Though arts was notconsidered a payingprofession, his parents wererelieved that this good-for-nothing boy could “at leastpaint sign boards for a living.”He appeared for an entrance testand joined the GovernmentCollege of Art and Craft inCalcutta.

But initially, life even in artscollege wasn’t smooth here. Hescored the lowest grade possiblein the first year but from secondyear onwards, he was hooked topainting. “It’s in my character ifI get interested in something, Ireally go for it. In college, wehad one Vacation Award, and Igot it every single year,” hesays. Bhattacharya’s devotioncan be gauged from the factthat while the person who wonthe second prize, might havedeposited 60-70 works for theaward, Bhattacharya was wayahead with nothing less than200-250 works.

The artist believes in goingthat extra mile outside his workspace too. When asked to posefor a photograph, he wants tomake it outstanding rather thanhave a “conventional frame.” So abrass cobra materialises fromnowhere which he promptly fixeson top of his head. He follows it upby peeking out from in-between apalette and a handful of brushes. Atcollege, his focus helped andthings started looking up. Thegrowth was assisted bylegendary painter BikashBhattacharjee, who washis teacher in thefourth and fifth yearof his college.While he was

attracted to realistic paintings, it wasunder Bhattacharjee’s influence that hetook it up in his work. “Bikash was astar in the college. He would teach us inthe morning and in the evening wewould attend his exhibition and beinspired to work like him,” says thepainter, who has done a series on RajivGandhi, Santiniketan, on Salvador Daliand Rembrandt amongst others.

Bhattacharya’s last exhibition was atthe Jehangir Art Gallery inMumbai and featured 12 huge oilpaintings on Santiniketan.

However, it was a long andoften arduous road. Aftercompleting his course,Bhattacharya worked first atthe ad agency, Clarion fornine months in Kolkatawhere he was paid �800 permonth. But the atmosphereand the work were not to hisliking and he resigned andcame to Delhi and joinedanother ad agency HTA, wherehe worked for seven monthsbefore quitting.

For five years, from 1982-87, it was a tough phase for thepainter. Money was hard tocome by and times were toughfor Bhattacharya who wasmarried to Bulbul by that time.For the lack of a drawing table,Bhattacharya used to spread outhis canvas on the floor and drawthere. “Once I got some moneyfrom some commercial work andit was a toss-up between buying

the table and a sweater for mywife,” he remembers.

However, those dayscontinue to inspire him.

“It inspires me to workhard,” says

Bhattacharya whoworks with oil,

water colour and sketches.Bhattacharya worked hard to create

a series which was a tribute to SatyajitRay’s movies in 1999. “Ray not onlymade films but also created twodimensional posters. As a tribute, Iadapted his technique but did not usethe faces of actors in my work. The faceswere of common, normal people.” Herecalls that Pritish Nandy was reallytaken up with the deposit of oils in thisseries which was in monochrome.

But there were others before Nandywho appreciated his work. In 1988,Bhattacharya held an exhibition at thenow defunct Aurobindo Art gallerywhere writer, hotelier, and architecturalrestorer Aman Nath came along withLekha Poddar, who now has the mostcomprehensive collection ofcontemporary Indian art. Nath advisedPoddar to buy Bhattacharya’s work andalso commissioned a single water colourof a haveli in Haryana. WhenBhattacharya saw the place, he felt it wasmade for him and did 10-12 watercolours, thinking that Nath would selectthe one that he liked and Bhattacharyawould retain the rest. However, Nathasked him to do 20 more and organiseda show which also featured the watercolour works of Sir David Goodhall, theBritish High Commissioner andCatherine Kleemo, the FrenchAmbassador’s wife. At the exhibitiontitled, Indian, French and British WaterColours at Karma Galleries in Mehrauliin 1989, 17-18 of Bhattacharya’s workswhich cost between �3,000 and �4,000were sold out within 15 minutes.

Alka Pande, art historian andcurator says, “Bhattacharya is atraditionalist who has mastery overwater colours.” He believes in theprimacy of the subject as far as his workis concerned. “The painter is a nobody.It is the subject that decides how big apainting would be, whether it be square,rectangle, horizontal or vertical. We areslaves as we get the demand and obey.The work is the master,” he assertsemphatically.

Bhattacharya is dressed casually in ared and grey T-shirt and jeans. He looksrelaxed amongst the huge canvassesstacked up in his studio in west Delhi. Aplay of light and shadow is somethingthat emerges consistently in his work.“Light and shadow represent life. If youput out the light, it is dark and theshadow is not there. These are my ownrealisations. This is my belief. Othersmight believe something else,” hephilosophises.

The winner of AIFACS Award andthe Sahitya Kala Parishad AnnualExhibition Award, Bhattacharya has twoshows lined up on the Popular Shrines ofIndia but he hasn’t narrowed down onthe venue or the dates. “Sometime in2017 or 2018,” he says signing off as heonce again delves deeply into his work.

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When a professor from the School ofPlanning and Architecture decides to

hang up her boots and probe hiddenembers of firing, glazes and clay construc-tions, it becomes more than a mere pilgrim’sjourney. Architect turned sculptor ManjariSharma exhibited her works titled Sculptorthat broadly represented the physicalembodiments of human emotions.

About her inspirations, Sharma said,“Busy with my architectural practice, myheart longed for a deeper connect with mysoul. In a world of money, power and com-petition, I longed for the random fluidityof life. The timelessness where life couldbe still and be full. Where it didn’t matterwhat you did but who you were. I foundall my answers, in the first lump of clay thatI touched. It was a deeply transformingmoment.”

The exhibition, according to Sharma,is a representation of human expression. “Ibelieve that we are not human beings hav-ing a spiritual existence, but spiritualbeings having a human existence. It cele-brates being human and its playfulness, theimperfections and nuances of the desireexpressed in the articulations of humanexpressions. No two humans look thesame and here we celebrate the wonder ofthis creative miracle,” said Sharma explain-ing the concept of the exhibition.

Talking about the new trends in sculpt-ing, Sharma commented,“I find that unlikebefore, people want the entire meaning spelt

out for them. They don’twant to slow down andexperience it. Its moreabout diversity and havingmany things to look atsimultaneously, ratherthan absorption in the

depths of one. Colourand attractive formsare more appealingthan raw engagingdepths.” According

to Sharma, creating apiece is nothing shortof madness, “I quietlyescape from the clutter

of everyday rou-tine, into the

quiet of mystudio tocreate. After

p r e p a r i n gclay, which isnothing short of aworkout, I sit and

stare at the lumpof clay, until itstarts speakingto me. And

then a madnesstakes over.

Submerged and almost trance like, I amalways surprised to see what has emergedin the work created.

“The work must then sit for days to dryup, before being fired to bisque in the kiln.The firing can take six hours. The pieceis then taken out of the kiln after it cools.It is now ready to be glazed. It is firedagain for about eight hours before we cansee a finished work,” she explained.

Art is receiving much appreciation inIndia and abroad and various artists arenow experimenting with new styles andtechniques. “In the world of ceramics , weoften envy the systems and technologyavailable to our counterparts abroad. Forinstance, here we struggle for months toevolve one perfect glaze. While abroadthere are readymade glazes available. Thisapplies to tools and machinery too. But allclouds have a silver lining. Because eachceramist here creates his own glaze, thereis a definite identity to his work.Something that all creative people aspirefor,” she said.

About the scenario of sculpting as anart form in India, she said, “In times wheneverything is becoming virtual, sculpturewill become more valued and aspirational.These pockets will be rare and exclusive.In a country like India where a tactile andsensual culture survives the onslaught ofWestern minimalism, sculpture can neverbecome obsolete. Our wonderful crafts,carvings and traditional sculptures havealso stood firm in this virtual haze.”

With the advent of technology, artistsare now using various instruments to taketheir art to new heights. “I think it allowsto scale up expression, to add more com-plexity and to add to more production.Somewhere it also takes away the sacredties between an artist and his creation,because it now can involve many peopleworking on a piece as a team,” mentionedSharma.

AMumbai court sentenced model Preeti Jain for plot-ting the murder of award-winning Bollywood direc-

tor Madhur Bhandarkar 12 years ago.The Sessions Court, which also fined her �10,000,

found two other co-accused — Naresh Pardesi andShivaram Das — and sentenced them to three yearsin jail. Two more accused were acquitted.

Shortly after the verdict, Jain moved an applica-tion for bail which was granted on a surety of �5,000.

When the matter was first highlighted in 2005, Jain hadcharged Bhandarkar with rape but the case was quashed

by the Supreme Court in 2012 after she dropped the chargesagainst him. Earlier, in July 2004, Jain filed a complaint withthe police, alleging that Bhandarkar raped her 16 times

between 1999 and 2004 on the pretext of giving her impor-tant roles in his films. The director denied the allegations.

However, he didn’t cast her in any of his films. Barelymonths later, police investigations revealed that Jain had hireda contract killer to eliminate Bhandarkar and was arrested.During the long trial, the court examined 51 witnesses includ-ing Bhandarkar.

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�While the theatrical release ofUdta Punjab followed numerousedits, the Censor Board has sug-gested a three-minute cut for tele-vision viewing. Your take?

Television is a medium that isavailable to a majority and is thelowest common denominator. Intheatres, there is a provision whereonly adults can walk in and at thattime we should have the ability toexpress and stretch ourselves in thebest interest of the film. As a film-maker, I am responsible enough tounderstand that the content of myfilm cannot be shown to a child. Sothe kind of cuts that were asked forTV viewing were truly acceptable tome.

�Were you present when themovie was being edited for televi-sion viewing?

Yes, they wanted me to be partof the process. I made a few sugges-tions completely from the aesthet-ic point of view because we had tofollow the guidelines.

�Punjab has always been shown asa land of music, farmers and joiede vivre in Bollywood. How chal-lenging was it to change theonscreen portrayal of the state?

I did not have any intention ofchanging the image or portrayal orshow Punjab in a different manner.I think if a film-maker talks abouta problem prevailing in a particu-lar area, he is talking out of a lot oflove and concern. Since I lovePunjab and care for it, I made thefilm. Those who deny the existingsituations or hide the problems arepeople who do not love the state. Ishot Punjab for what it is. I took abig risk in shooting the film pre-dominantly in Punjabi so that itlooks real and not a fantasy. I shotit for what it is.

�Any interesting insight you cameacross while researching for thefilm?

The most shocking revelationwas the number of youngsters whowere addicted to drugs in Punjab. Wewent to various rehabs and sawpatients from different strata of soci-

ety. People from all walks of life wereailing because of this problem. It wasa true eye-opener. But more than thechallenges the drug addicts facewhile recovering, what I took homewas the spirit of the activists, doctorsand healthcare professionals workingin Punjab. Their strength and zest forlife to fight this menace really inspiredme.

�Was casting Diljit Dosanjh a con-scious choice for lending relevanceto the film?

Not really. After, Shahid, Alia andKareena were on board, we were stillsearching for someone to play Sartaj.Then somebody told me about Diljit.He usually does comedy films so Iwas hesitant. But when I saw Punjab1984, I knew that he had the poten-tial for dramatic acting as well. Ispoke to Kareena and she was alsoopen to working with him. It was afresh pairing. But I was still in twominds till he walked into my officeto meet me. Within ten minutes I hadfound my Sartaj.

�Are the characters played byShahid and Alia inspired fromanyone in real life?

Not anyone in particular.

�Alia’s character has no name in thefilm. Why?

When Sudip and I were writingthe script, it happened very organi-cally. Neither did we force it, nor werewe trying to act smart or cool. Aliais this extremely poor girl, living onthe margin of the society she does-n’t belong to, barely earns enough tokeep her body and soul intact andhardly has any friends. Her sorrowdeepens when she chances upon theworld of drugs. At that point too, thecharacter is interacting with peopleshe doesn’t know. She is a nobody;and nobody cares for her. There wasno situation in the film that led us toname her.

�Do you feel the film has had a pos-itive impact in Punjab?

I don’t know if cinema reallychanges the world. It just makes peo-ple aware of what is happening in ourneighborhood. Movies at times area truer representation of reality thanTV or newspapers. Cinema is not justa repository of information but alsogets into the personal and emotion-al lives of people who are affected bya problem. Our duty was to representthe problem in all its dimensions andtell a human story about it. When thefilm came out, it did very well inPunjab. This means people some-where connected with what we weretrying to say and they wanted to seeall that was going on.

Watch Udta Punjab on &pictureson April 30 at 12 noon

The Mughal dynasty produced war-riors and intellectually curious mensuch as Akbar but prince Dara

Shikoh was its lone scholar. The son ofemperor Shah Jahan, he was the eldest andthe intended heir of the Mughal throne.Justifiably so, for he had an eclectic andassimilative mind. He judiciously studiedthe Holy Quran, the holy books of the Jewsand Christians and had a deep knowledgeof the Vedas and the Upanishads. He wasan avid yoga practitioner and laid the foun-dations of the Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb.

Before the Mughal policies of tolerancewilted under the rule of Aurangzeb, whobrought violence in the face of religiousplurality, Dara Shikoh resonated theMughal ideals of harmony among the peo-ple of the empire through his understand-ing and acceptance of holy texts and cul-ture from other religions apart fromIslam. He was an eminent scholar ofSufism and Vedanta philosophy andworked for the amalgamation of theHindu and Islamic cultures.

So Prof Lokesh Chandra, president ofICCR, took the initiative in re-establish-ing and reclaiming his holistic legacy toheal the torn extremities of Indic solidar-ity. “Because of Dara Shikoh, the wholeprocess of the study of India’s culturebegan. We have seen the Mughal courtsonly as Islamic courts and not seen theirMongol dimensions or the dimension ofencouraging Sanskrit. There were panditspresent in all Mughal courts,” he said whileaddressing a conference on Thursday.

Apart from translating Hindu textsfrom Sanskrit to Persian for encouraginga cross-cultural dialogue, Dara Shikoh alsowrote texts about the Hindu culture andway of life. His works include Majma-ul-Bahrain (The Mingling of Two Oceans), acomparative analysis of Hindu and Muslimreligious beliefs and Sirr-e-Akbar (TheGreat Secret), his translation of theUpanishads in Persian. Also poignant arehis Persian translations of the Yoga Vasishtaand Bhagvad Gita.

“India is a land of diversity, diverse tra-ditions, religious tolerance, culturalexchanges, dialogues and continuitybetween various religious and cultural

forms. Dara Shikoh as a historical entityrepresents such glorious principles ofIndian history, culture and heritage,”shared Amarendra Khatua, director-gen-eral, ICCR.

Akhtarul Wassey, president ofMaulana Azad University, Jodhpur, said,“The narrators of the legacy of Indian sec-ularism are often the names related to theBhakti and Sufi movements. Inside thewalls of the Mughal castles and in theatmosphere of monarchy, Dara Shikohwove together and celebrated the synony-mous nature of the Hindu and Islamic cul-tures. His efforts in bringing together thetwo religions by translations of ancienttexts like the Vedas and epics like theMahabharata worked to place the multi-

tude of cultures on the sameplatform. Aurangzeb assassi-nated Dara Shikoh once butby not remembering what herepresents in today’s multi-cultural India, we have killedhis spirit many times over.”

Prof Chandra felt thatShah Jahan chose DaraShikoh as his rightful heir notbecause of his seniority butbecause of his vision of har-mony and unity among peo-ple. His vision, his works, hismemory need to be resuscitat-ed to be presented to modernIndia.

Recalling the significance

of Dara’s legacy, the ambas-sador for Iran, Gholam RezaAnsari, remarked, “The schoolof thought that Dara Shikohrepresented can be inculcatedfor finding solutions for today’sproblems in societies andamong cultures which empha-sise on the essence of toleranceand introducing great civilisa-tions like India to the world. Itis important to bring nationstogether and teach each otherto accommodate and appreci-ate each other through our dif-ferences”.

Most of Dara Shikoh’sworks were completed in

Kashmir and some scholars urged that hisfavourite sites be protected there.

A 90-minute play, directed by NSDprofessor Tripurari Sharma, was staged aspart of the conference. It relived theintense conflict of Mughal India in themid-17th century and used the struggle ofsuccession among the sons of Shah Jahanas a setting to follow the evolution of DaraShikoh as a scholar and secular thinker.

The play began with Dara’s own desireto succeed his father as emperor of India,and the competing inclination withinhim to also venture into the realm of spir-itual enquiry and mystical realisation. Hewas engrossed in the study of major reli-gious texts and in discourses with spiritu-al leaders of the time. He was convinced

that there is a core unity in all religions.He was inspired in his search by the greatSufi saint, Hazrat Sarmad.

His untiring study, his translation ofSanskrit texts into Persian, as well as hiswork as a poet and philosopher, made himquite oblivious of what it took for a Mughalprince to ascend the Peacock Throne.

Further, this prince, having alwayslived in the comfort of imperial palaces,was no match for his younger brother,Aurangzeb, who was a shrewd militarystrategist with years of experience fight-ing and surviving in the Deccan. Resentfulof Dara being Shah Jahan’s favourite andfeeling bereft of the affection of his father,Aurangzeb became relentless in his ambi-tion and was determined to rule.

In parallel with the aspirations of thebrothers were the lives of their sisters,Jahanara and Roshanara. Without familiesof their own, they allied themselves withdifferent brothers, to find individual pur-pose, and thus had their own role in tak-ing the conflict beyond the perimeters ofthe family. But they were just as capableas the men.

Hazrat Sarmad was key to shapingDara’s political outlook. An Armenian Jew,who made his home in India, he calledhimself a Hindu priest, a Christian monk,a Jewish Rabbi, a Muslim as well as an infi-del. He went around naked, saying thatonly those with blemishes needed tocover themselves. His open support ofDara and his refusal to submit to any formof authority became a serious problem toan orthodox and ambitious Aurangzeb.

Mir Yekshatur, the outspoken camelkeeper, understood everyone’s inneranguish. Once a small man in charge of500 camels, he decided to become a one-camel man. In this fall was his ascent, sinceto understand one camel would take a life-time, and this understanding would leadto his self-realisation. Mir Yekshatur wasDara’s true companion even as many oth-ers deserted or betrayed him. The otherinterlocutor of Mir Yekshatur was Janab-e-Chatur, voicing the feelings and wisdomof the common people. These two were theonly fictional characters in the play, withall the others being historical. The playended with the execution of Dara followedby that of Hazrat Sarmad.

Shah Rukh Khan has done itagain. Won over everybody with

his self-deprecatory wit, charm andhumour at TED 2017 in Vancouver.The articulate actor, who is about tolaunch his own series of life lessonson Star TV, said love is the simplestyet greatest emotion known tomankind.

Introducing himself as a manwho offers dreams and sells love, thestar, in his trademark style, talkedlike a self-fixated onscreen charac-ter without feeling remorseful aboutit. “I’ve been made to understandthere are lots of you here who havenever seen my work, and I feel real-ly sad for you. That doesn’t takeaway from the fact that I’m com-pletely self-obsessed, as a movie starshould be.”

Likewise, the performer con-trasted mankind with himself —“Humanity is a lot like me, it’s anageing movie star, grappling with allthe newness around it, wonderingwhether it got it right in the firstplace and still trying to find a wayto keep on shining regardless.”

Alluding to the night when helost his dad as a 14-year-old, Khansaid, “From that night onwards,much akin to humanity in its ado-lescence, I learnt the crude tools ofsurvival.” He additionally reviewedhow life was more straightforwardin prior circumstances, not at all likethe present which is confused. “Theframework of life was simple then.You ate what you could find and youdid what you were told to do. Youmarried the first girl you dated andyou were a techie if you could fix thecarburettor in your car. You wentwherever life took you for work andpeople were mostly welcoming ofyou… Most important, you werewho you were, and you said whatyou thought.”

As the audience was charmedby his life lessons discourse, heattempted to spread energy with hisbiography. He recalled how hemoved to Mumbai to become a pro-

fessional actor and met many indi-viduals who changed his observa-tions and his thoughts. He addition-ally related how his innovativenesshelped him chart the course of fame.“By the time I was 40, I was reallyflying. I had done 50 films by thenand I’d been knighted by theMalaysians and given the highestcivil honor by the French govern-ment. Humanity waas soaring withme, we were both flying off the han-dle, actually” said Khan, who hasgotten the privileged doctorate at theUniversity of Edinburgh.

Reflecting upon his tryst with

social media, he said, “Everything Isaid took a new meaning; every-thing I did — good, bad, ugly — wasthere for the world to commentupon and judge. Everything I did-n’t say or do was also met with thesame fate.”

Appearing not exceptionallycontent with this innovation-riddenworld, where “Apple” is no longer anorganic product but an organisation,he said, “I started to feel that I could-n’t be who I wanted to be or say whatI actually thought. And humanity atthis time completely identified withme. Both of us were going throughour mid-life crisis. Humanity, likeme, was becoming an over-exposedprima donna. The whole worldand all of the humanity seemed aslost as I was.”

Finding the gathering of peo-ple totally identifying with eachword he uttered, the 51-year-oldattempted his best to inspire them.“The present you is brave. The pre-sent you is hopeful. The present youis innovative and resourceful. And,of course, the present you is annoy-ingly indefinable.”

“I’ve learnt that whatever movesyou, whatever urges you to create,build, whatever keeps you from fail-ing, whatever helps you survive, isperhaps the oldest and the simplestemotion known to mankind, andthat is love. You may use your powerto build walls and keep people out-side or you may use it to break bar-riers and welcome them in. You mayuse your faith to make people afraidand terrify them into submission.Or you can use it to give courage topeople, so they rise to the greatestheights of enlightenment,” Khancontinued. Closing his monologue,he said, “The future you has to belike an ageing movie star, who hasbeen made to believe that there is apossibility of a world which is com-pletely, wholly, self-obsessively inlove with itself.” Rounding off hispresentation, he did lungi dancewith some of the attendees.

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Manchester United held on follow-ing Marouane Fellaini's late send-ing-off for headbutting Sergio

Aguero to draw 0-0 at Manchester City inthe English Premier League on Thursday,keeping the race for Champions Leaguequalification congested.

A physical midfielder never far fromon-field flashpoints, Fellaini had just beenbooked for tripping Aguero when hefouled the City striker again, before con-fronting him and connecting with a buttto earn a straight red card in the 84thminute.

There were just 19 seconds between thetwo cards being shown.

United manager Jose Mourinho didn'tcriticize his midfielder for his recklessness,saying Fellaini felt he was sent off onlybecause of his reputation and Aguero per-haps overreacted.

"I saw Aguero in the tunnel," Mourinhosaid. "No broken nose, no broken head, hisface as nice as always. If Sergio doesn't goto the floor, for sure it's not a red card,although Marouane gave him the chanceto do that."

Fellaini's actions, which resulted in histhird red card in nine years in English soc-cer, nearly undermined another doggeddefensive effort by United in the 174thManchester derby.

City sent on fit-again striker GabrielJesus after Fellaini's departure in an attemptto grab a late goal and the striker had astoppage-time headed goal disallowed foroffside in a tense finish at Etihad Stadium.

Mourinho's defensive tactics suffocat-ed another heavyweight rival — it resem-bled an attack-vs-defense exercise in thesecond half — but whether a goalless drawdoes United any good is open to questionwith a month left in the season.

The result kept Mourinho's injury-hitteam in fifth place, both a place and a pointbehind City with five games remaining inthe race for a top-four finish to qualify forthe Champions League. Liverpool is a pointahead of City, and has played a game morethan both Manchester clubs, while Arsenalis four points behind United with a gamein hand.

"City will finish top four," Mourinhosaid. "The matches they have to play I seethem doing that. I think it's between us,Arsenal, and Liverpool."

United has a difficult run-in, with tripsto come to Tottenham and Arsenal, and isstill involved in the Europa League, witha two-leg semifinal looming against CeltaVigo. Its squad is also ravaged by injury, asituation that won't be helped by Fellaini's

upcoming three-game suspension.By becoming only the second team,

after Stoke, to stop City from scoring athome this season, United extended itsunbeaten run in the league to 24 games dat-ing to October and a loss at Chelsea.

Mourinho masterminded a 0-0 drawagainst Liverpool at Anfield in October,stopping at the time the league's most pro-lific attack, and recently delivered a tacti-cal masterclass in a 2-0 win over first-placeChelsea.

He relishes churning out results in thebig games, especially against a manageri-al rival like City's Pep Guardiola, and hisapproach for this one was clear andexpected - defend in two blocks andstrike on the counterattack using the longball and the pace of forwards MarcusRashford and Anthony Martial.

It worked to an extent, although it was-n't pretty.

"We have the talent," City manager PepGuardiola said, "but it's not easy with somany players behind the ball."

Mourinho said United was "the bestteam in the first half and ... the best teamin the second half. They were amazing, theway they fight."

Rashford was particularlylively in the first half, out-

sprinting defenderNicolas Otamendi

with embarrassingease on occasions,and City was oftenthankful for thecomposure of fit-again captainVincent Kompany

alongside Otamendiat the back.

City might bechallenging for the title

- and not just a place in thetop four - had Kompany stayed

injury-free this season.After the break, Rashford was left

increasingly isolated up front as United satback even more. City was utterly dominant,restricting its opponent to just seventouches in United's attacking third, butcouldn't find a way past goalkeeper DavidDe Gea.

City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was car-ried off on a stretcher with a calf injurymoments before Fellaini's red card afterinjuring himself collecting a corner. He hadlittle else to do.

In three matches between City andUnited this season - two in the league andthe other in the League Cup - Mourinhoand Guardiola have earned one win eachand drawn the other.

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With Manchester Unitedravaged by a mix of injury

and suspension, coach JoseMourinho is contemplating anextreme idea as his side looks tonavigate two competitions at theend of a grueling season. "I'malso training hard in the gym,"he said, breaking out into asmile, "so I can be an option."

Except United's list ofabsentees is no laughing mat-ter for Mourinho.

Already without injuredplayers Zlatan Ibrahimovic,Paul Pogba, Juan Mata, ChrisSmalling, Phil Jones andMarcos Rojo, Mourinho willnow be without MarouaneFellaini for Sunday's PremierLeague game against Swanseaafter the midfielder was sent offfor head-butting Sergio Agueroin the 0-0 draw at ManchesterCity on Sunday. Fellaini is fac-ing a three-game ban.

Late in that game, substituteTimothy Fosu-Mensah pickedup an injury that will see himbecome the latest defender to besidelined. "We are in trouble, butwe fight," Mourinho said."That's for sure."

Center back and centralmidfield are the obvious prob-

lem areas for United, which isthrough to the Europa Leaguesemifinals - the first leg againstCelta Vigo is on Thursday -and is in fifth place in thePremier League. It means twopotential routes remain open toqualify for next season'sChampions League.

"We are arriving at anextreme situation where now itmust be unique to football.Two cruciate ligaments in thesame match?" Mourinhoadded, referring to the injuriessustained by Ibrahimovic andRojo against Anderlecht lastweek. "In my career (as a man-ager), I had one, in 17 years.One cruciate in 17 years.Against Anderlecht I had two,in one match. We are veryunlucky, that's all we can say."

Mourinho said Pogbacould return from injuryagainst Celta, and that Matawas making good progressafter groin surgery.

United is making light ofits problems, though, with thehard-fought draw at Cityextending its unbeaten run inthe Premier League to 24games. The team is now onlytwo points behind third-placeLiverpool, having played onegame less.

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Formula One leader SebastianVettel recovered after spin in the

first practice session Friday and setthe fastest time of the day ahead ofthis weekend's Russian GrandPrix.

Vettel set a time of 1 minute,34.120 seconds in the second ses-sion. That was .263 seconds fasterthan teammate Kimi Raikkonen ina strong showing for Ferrari on atrack which had been widelyexpected to favor Mercedes.

Valtteri Bottas was .670 sec-onds off Vettel's place to claim, withMercedes teammate LewisHamilton fourth. Max Verstappenheld onto the fifth-fastest time eventhough his Red Bull broke downwith about 20 minutes remainingon a warm, dry day at the OlympicPark.

Earlier, Raikkonen led the first

session, narrowly ahead of Bottasand Hamilton, with Verstappenfourth and Vettel fifth.

Renault test driver SergeiSirotkin was given a rare run in thefirst practice session, but the carbroke down before he could set atime.

The session was briefly red-flagged when the engine cover flewoff Esteban Ocon's Force India caron a high-speed section.

There was more misery forMcLaren driver Stoffel Vandoorneas he picked up a 15-place gridpenalty for exceeding his allowanceof various power unit compo-nents. The Belgian, whose bestqualifying result this season was16th in China, is almost certain tostart Sunday's race from the backof the grid.

With an underpowered andunreliable Honda engine, McLarenhasn't scored a point in three

races this season. Vandoorne's13th place in the opening race inAustralia last month is the onlytime this season that a McLaren carhas reached the checkered flag.

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have had the upper hand so far inFormula One.

They don't expect to have it

against Lewis Hamilton this week-end at the Russian Grand Prix.

The long straights in Sochi suitMercedes, which has won all threeraces to date around Olympic Park.

With two wins from threeraces, Vettel is seven points aheadof Hamilton in the standings, butexpects that lead to come underpressure from the Mercedes driverson Sunday.

"On paper, it's a very, verystrong circuit for them," Vettelsaid. "A lot of straights, a power-sen-sitive circuit, so we'll see, but there'salso a lot of corners where I believelast year already the (Ferrari) carwas very good."

Vettel's wins in Australia andlast time out in Bahrain havealready disrupted the Mercedesdominance of the previous threeseasons. Turning those promisingsigns into a serious title challengeover the remaining 17 races is a dif-ferent proposition. "We had a greatstart, yes. We're very happy aboutit, yes. But have we, you know,achieved anything yet? No," saidVettel, a four-time champion."

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Maria Sharapova eased into the semi-finals of Stuttgart's WTA tournament

after seeing off qualifier Anett Kontaveit onFriday for her third-straight win on hercomeback after a 15-month doping ban.

The 30-year-old five-time Grand Slamwinner has yet to drop a set in Stuttgart andpowered past Estonia's Kontaveit, ranked73rd, for a 6-3, 6-4 quarter-final win in onehour, 23 minutes.

This was another impressive displayfrom the Russian, who hit four aces, 28 win-ners and just two double faults, while sheconverted five of her six break points.

"I served quite well and held my servewhich gave me confidence, so I'm happy,"said Sharapova.

"We haven't played each other before,so the first six games were just about work-ing each other out.

"I kept myself in good shape, becauseonce you lose it, it's hard to get it back," sheadded when asked about her fitness oncourt after 15 months out.

The former world number one willnow play either France's KristinaMladenovic or Spain's Carla SuarezNavarro in Saturday's semi-final.

Sharapova only made the main drawfor Stuttgart after being given a wild cardas her ranking was wiped out after testing

positive for meldonium at the 2016Australian Open.

Her rivals have heavily criticised thedecision to give her wild cards in Stuttgart,Madrid and Rome with Canada's EugenieBouchard branding her a "cheater" onThursday.

There has been nothing but support forthe Russian from the Stuttgart crowd witha few positive banners around the indoorarena.

She has been in commanding form onclay here as Sharapova waits to learn onMay 16 whether she will be granted a wildcard to play next month's French Open.

The 21-year-old Kontaveit had alreadyknocked out last year's French Openchampion and fifth seed GarbineMuguruza in the second-round.

The Estonian put up a fight, breakingSharapova's serve in the second set andmatched the Russian's tally of four aces.

But Sharapova made light work of herearly on, breaking Kontaveit's serve on theway to winning all of the last four gamesto take the first set in just 36 minutes.

The Estonian dug deep at 3-1 down inthe second and had the audacity to breakSharapova in the fifth game.

But with her superb array of baselineshots, Sharapova broke her opponentstraight away, then held her serve to go 5-2 up.

The plucky Kontaveit held her serve,then broke the Russian for the second time,but Sharapova also dug deep and broke thequalifier again to take the second set.

Sharapova has won three Stuttgartfinals, suffering just one defeat, in her fourprevious appearances.

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Runners-up at the last edition, Indiawould look to go one step further as

they start their campaign in the 26th SultanAzlan Shah Cup with a game against GreatBritain here on Saturday.

India were runners-up to nine-timechampions Australia last year andHarmanpreet Singh played a crucial role inthe team's success.

Making his senior India team debut atIpoh last season, Harmanpreet impressedone and all as he accompanied seasoneddefenders Rupinderpal Singh and VRRaghunath to the Champions Trophy inLondon and then to the Olympics withinfour months.

India team would be hoping thatHarmanpreet will be a big inspiration tothree uncapped players in this tournament.

Like Harmanpreet, midfielder HarpreetSingh, who captained the Junior World Cupchampion side, and striker Mandeep Singhhave in the past earned their senior gradespurs through the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.

Making their maiden journey with thenational squad now are defender GurinderSingh and the midfield duo of Sumit andManpreet Singh Junior.

"The script of Harmanpreet's gradua-tion to the senior team is a big inspirationto follow for the youngsters who have comehere," Oltmans said on the eve of India'sopening fixture against Great Britain.

"We also have many experienced play-ers who form the core of the squad andensure that the youngsters do not comeunder intense pressure. We'll be trying outnew combinations and formations as westart the year that leads to important tour-naments like the Asia Cup and the WorldLeague Finals," said Oltmans.

Having climbed to No. 6 in the worldrankings, India go into the tournament toprepare a team that can give an impressiveperformance at the World LeagueSemifinals in June. Oltmans and the sup-port staff will be looking at the players' per-formances closely here and see which ofthem can last the course.

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