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A damant on his resignation from the post of the Congress president, Rahul Gandhi has conveyed to senior party leaders Ahmed Patel and KC Venugopal to look for his replacement as he has made up his mind not to continue as chief of the grand old party. Patel is a close confidant of the Congress’ first family and was one of the most powerful politicians during the 10 years of the UPA rule. After the dis- astrous performance of the party in the Lok Sabha polls, Rahul has cancelled all meet- ings and appointments and has declined to meet even elected MPs. Taking responsibility for the drubbing at the hands of the BJP, Rahul on Saturday offered to resign as party pres- ident at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision- making body of the party, but it was “unanimously rejected”. “He has conveyed that the party will have to find a new chief as he won’t change his mind. It is believed his moth- er Sonia and sister Priyanka, who were earlier advising Rahul to continue, too have backed his decision. The future course will be decided in some time now,” said a top AICC leader. While majority of the Congress leaders hoped that Rahul will “not abandon the post”, sources close to him said he is determined not to take back his decision. The Congress has mostly been led by members of the Nehru-Gandhi family except for the period after former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991. The party did not do well under Sitaram Kesri and then sever- al leaders convinced Sonia Gandhi to take charge of the party. At the CWC meeting, Rahul had accused three senior leaders — Ashok Gehlot, Kamal Nath and P Chidambaram — of placing their sons above the party. Priyanka said the entire top brass of the party left Rahul alone to fight it out against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the midst of the disqui- et, several State Congress chiefs, including Punjab’s Sunil Jakhar, Jharkhand’s Ajoy Kumar, and Assam’s Ripun Bora, too offered to resign from their posts following the party’s drubbing in the elections. The party won only 52 seats in the Lok Sabha polls, just six more than its 2014 tally. The party could not open its account in 18 States and Union Territories. As crisis beset the Opposition party, its chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala on Monday urged everyone to respect the sancti- ty of the CWC meeting and asked the media not to fall into the trap of “conjectures, insin- uations, gossip and rumour- mongering”. Surjewala said it is a demo- cratic forum for exchange of ideas and taking corrective action. It was a “closed-door” meeting and any speculation about it was unwarranted and uncalled for. He was reacting to news reports about happenings at the May 25 meeting, the first of the CWC after the Congress’s humiliating defeat in the par- liamentary polls. “The Congress party expects everyone, including the media, to respect the sanc- tity of a closed-door meeting of the CWC. Various conjectures, speculation, insinuations, assumptions, gossip and rumour-mongering in a section of the media is uncalled for and unwarranted. “The CWC held a collec- tive deliberation on the per- formance of the party, the challenges before it as also the way ahead, instead of casting aspersions on the role or con- duct of any specific individual. The gist of the deliberations was made public in the CWC resolution of May 25, 2019,” the Congress leader said in a statement. C hemistry has beaten arith- metic in the recent Parliamentary election, said Prime-Minister designate Narendra Modi, who is going to assume the charge as the PM for second time on May 30. “It was not for the first time when this political change was seen in Indian politics when the chemistry of social strength was clearly visible but shock- ingly, the political pundits were not ready to change their estab- lished perception,” he said. Modi was addressing party workers in thanksgiving func- tion at Deen Dayal Updhyay Haskala Sankul (Trade Facilitation Centre) at Bada Lalpur here on Monday. “We had made a hat-trick of victories performing remarkably well in 2014, 2017 and 2019 but, unfortunately, the political pundits were not ready to change their estab- lished perception of the last 70 years and sometimes they used logical and illogical analysis to prove their point,” Modi added. Earlier, Modi offered prayer at Kashi Vishwanath temple, seeking the blessings of the Almighty again as he did five years ago before assuming the charge as PM. Modi appealed to the party workers to overlook estab- lished negativity in politics and continue to adopt positiv- ity. “Our success is the result of our perfect synergy between Government policies and organisational politics,” he said, asking the party workers to continue with the same so that the people of the country can get optimum benefits of Government schemes. “Work and workers create a wonder,” said Modi, adding that “with our work we suc- ceeded in winning the faith of the people. We have not done any favour to them but it was their rights.” Modi went on to highlight the violence let loose against party workers in several States, and said, “Undoubtedly, in achieving the same, our party workers faced crises. Several of our workers sacrificed their lives in Kerala, Kashmir, West Bengal and Tripura and our workers are still being beaten up in West Bengal, but shock- ingly a section of the national media had seen a selective humanism behind such sacri- fices of our party workers.” “We’d also faced political untouchability,” he said, citing the example of Gujarat when a section of film industry had raised strong voices when his Government had invited a senior star (Amitabh Bacchan) for tourism promotion. In his marathon address, Modi highlighted how for vote- bank politics the Opposition parties never showed courage to look into the pains of the common peo- ple. I n a huge relief for the Congress in Rajasthan, six BSP MLAs cancelled their pro- posed meeting with Governor Kalyan Singh at the last minute and downplayed speculation about pulling out of the Gehlot Government. However, the Congress faced trouble from within amid speculation of a Rajasthan Minister quitting in the wake of the party’s electoral debacle. Two State Ministers came out in the open to demand a detailed assessment by senior leaders of the party. Sources said the six BSP MLAs were scheduled to meet the Governor on Monday in the evening. However, later the Governor was informed that the meeting could not proceed due to illness of one of the MLAs, Deepchand. The BSP has extended its support to the Congress in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, thus the news of its MLAs seeking appointment with the Governor sparked wild speculation. BSP MLA Wajib Ali sought to downplay the significance of the MLAs’ scheduled meeting with the Governor. “It was supposed to be a routine meet- ing,” he said. Sources, however, said the BSP MLAs changed their minds on the instructions from the party’s Central leadership fol- lowing the circulation of appre- ciation letter by UPA chairper- son and senior most Congress leader Sonia Gandhi hailing the role of BSP workers along with the SP cadre in the just con- cluded general elections. Meanwhile, a review meet- ing scheduled in Delhi to eval- uate reasons for party’s drub- bing in Rajasthan was post- poned in the wake of unavail- ability of Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Party sources said the meeting would be held on Tuesday at Sonia’s res- idence in the presence of Ashok Gehlot, Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot and Congress State incharge Avinash Pandey. Senior party leader Ahmed Patel and Venugopal are likely to participate in the meet. I n the wake of deaths of 22 students at a coching institute blaze in Surat on Friday, Delhi Home Minister Satyender Jain on Monday issued directions to the chief of Delhi Fire Services (DFS) to “take strict action as per the fire safety standards and guidelines to prevent recur- rence of such accidents” in the national Capital. The Director (Fire Services) has been asked to immediately inspect and shut and seal coaching centres oper- ating in highrise buildings above the fourth floor. The Delhi Government further issued notice to all the civic authorities to enforce the ‘Unified Building Bylaws’ in coaching centres. “In the first phase, all coaching centres operating in high-rise buildings (more than four floors excluding the stilt floor) shall be inspected by the Director (Fire Service),” the order read. As per the law, kitchen/cooking and storage of inflammable material are not allowed on rooftops. Multi- storey buildings, hotels and commercial buildings will lose No Objection Certificate (NOC) for violation of norms. H eads of BIMSTEC group- ing which includes Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan would be attend- ing the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 30. The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi- Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIM- STEC) is an international organisation of seven nations of South Asia and South East Kyrgyz President, cur- rently Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) chair, and Mauritius Prime Minister are also invited for swearing- in ceremony, according to the Ministry of External Affairs. In his 2014 swearing-in- ceremony, Modi had invited Government heads of SAARC which included Pakistan. The then Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had attended the oath taking of Modi. However, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would not be attending Modi’s swearing-in this time too as she would be on a three- nation tour close to May 30 . Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq will represent her at the ceremony. F ormer Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar is on official leave to Varanasi for three days and will not be able to appear for ques- tioning in connection with the Saradha Ponzi scheme, accord- ing the letter by the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). A CID official delivered Kumar’s letter to the CBI’s office at Salt Lake in Kolkata on Monday. Citing personal reasons, Kumar has sought a week’s time to appear before the CBI for questioning in the case. “The CBI was awaiting Kumar’s presence at the agency’s Kolkata office but he did not turn up (on Monday). The CBI office in Kolkata received a letter from the West Bengal CID regarding his absence,” sources said, adding several calls to the West Bengal cadre IPS officer went unan- swered. T he Balakot air strikes notwithstanding, over three dozen terror camps along the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) are getting active again. Post-Pulwama attack, these camps were shifted deep inside Pakistan fearing retaliation by India. However, after lying dormant for nearly three months, the ISI and the Pakistan Army are bringing these terrorists clos- er to the LoC to enable them to infiltrate to stoke violence in Jammu & Kashmir. This alarming develop- ment comes even as Jaish-e- Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar was recently proscribed as a global terror- ist by the UN Security Council. Most of the terrorists now regrouping in the camps are from JeM and Lashkar-e- Tayyeba (LeT). The Indian Army has thus increased vigil to thwart any Border Action Team (BAT) action besides infiltration. Mixed teams of terrorists and elite Special Services Group (SSG) commandos of the Pakistan Army comprise BAT which carries out cross border raids to ambush Indian Army patrols. As it is, the several teams of SSG commandos, along with the Pakistan Army troops, moved forward towards the LoC post Balakot air strikes by the IAF and remain deployed even now thereby increasing the threat perception, officials in the security establishment said here on Monday. Indicating that after the Balakot strikes, in which the JeM major camps were tar- geted and destroyed, notwith- standing, the State sponsored terrorism machinery of Pakistan is now active again with the terror camps along the LoC reorganising them- selves, they said. Most of the 40 odd camps along the vulnerable stretch- es of the long LoC are locat- ed not more than one to two kms from the border and sta- tioned close to the Pakistan Army and Pakistan Rangers locations. Following the Pulwama suicide attack on February 13 in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) person- nel were killed, nearly all the terror camps were shut down as the Pakistan Army antici- pated surgical strikes. In fact, many terrorists took refuge in the JeM camp in Balakot. With the three dozen odd camps now regrouping, the Indian security establishment is bracing for renewed bids to sneak into Jammu & Kashmir in the following weeks with the Pakistan Army providing covering fire to the terrorists. Due to prolonged winter this year and heavy snowfall, most of the ingress routes especially in North Kashmir remained blocked due to snow till about a few days back. As snow is now melting, the LoC is likely to see increased infiltration bids, officials said, adding the Indian Army has taken all necessary measures to prevent any misdeed by the Pakistani terrorists. In fact, during the winter months, troops were not withdrawn from the LoC, as in the past few years, as a precautionary measure, they said. Moreover, taking note of the terror camps across LoC getting active, the Indian Army has increased patrols all along the LoC besides further strengthening its multi-tiered anti-infiltration grid. The main objective is to neu- tralise the infiltrators within a km or so near the LoC if they are successful in coming in, officials explained. O ne of the two Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLAs in Madhya Pradesh Ramabai here on Monday revealed that the BJP has offered her 50 crore and a ministerial berth if she quits. Ramabai, who is an MLA from the Pathariya Assembly constituency, claimed that the same proposal was made to several other MLAs to make the Kamal Nath government lose majority in the 230-mem- ber house. While talking to media persons here, she said, “They (BJP members) are making offers to everyone, only fools will come under their influ- ence. I get phone calls offering both ministerial berth and money but I have denied the offers. They are offering Rs 50-60 crore to a number of people.” Before the results of the Lok Sabha elections were announced, Kamal Nath had accused the BJP of trying to poach Congress MLAs. On May 21, Kamal Nath had claimed, “At least 10 MLAs told me that they are getting calls and are being enticed with offers of money and positions.” Now with the party's dis- mal performance in the Lok Sabha elections, several Congress leaders have expressed suspicion over the BJP's attempts to destabilise the state government. Congress managed to win only a single seat of the 29 Parliamentary constituencies in the state. In the 2018 state elections, the Congress bagged 114 seats of a total of 230 seats, while the BJP got 109 seats, the BSP two, the Samajwadi Party one and Independents four. RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008
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Adamant on his resignationfrom the post of the

Congress president, RahulGandhi has conveyed to seniorparty leaders Ahmed Patel andKC Venugopal to look for hisreplacement as he has made uphis mind not to continue aschief of the grand old party.

Patel is a close confidant ofthe Congress’ first family andwas one of the most powerfulpoliticians during the 10 yearsof the UPA rule. After the dis-astrous performance of theparty in the Lok Sabha polls,Rahul has cancelled all meet-ings and appointments andhas declined to meet evenelected MPs.

Taking responsibility forthe drubbing at the hands ofthe BJP, Rahul on Saturdayoffered to resign as party pres-ident at a meeting of theCongress Working Committee(CWC), the highest decision-making body of the party, butit was “unanimously rejected”.

“He has conveyed that theparty will have to find a newchief as he won’t change hismind. It is believed his moth-er Sonia and sister Priyanka,who were earlier advisingRahul to continue, too havebacked his decision. The futurecourse will be decided in sometime now,” said a top AICCleader.

While majority of theCongress leaders hoped thatRahul will “not abandon thepost”, sources close to him saidhe is determined not to take

back his decision.The Congress has mostly

been led by members of theNehru-Gandhi family exceptfor the period after formerPrime Minister Rajiv Gandhiwas assassinated in 1991. Theparty did not do well underSitaram Kesri and then sever-al leaders convinced SoniaGandhi to take charge of the

party.At the CWC meeting,

Rahul had accused three seniorleaders — Ashok Gehlot,Kamal Nath and PChidambaram — of placingtheir sons above the party.Priyanka said the entire topbrass of the party left Rahulalone to fight it out againstPrime Minister Narendra

Modi.In the midst of the disqui-

et, several State Congress chiefs,including Punjab’s Sunil Jakhar,Jharkhand’s Ajoy Kumar, andAssam’s Ripun Bora, toooffered to resign from theirposts following the party’sdrubbing in the elections. Theparty won only 52 seats in theLok Sabha polls, just six more

than its 2014 tally. The partycould not open its account in18 States and Union Territories.

As crisis beset theOpposition party, its chiefspokesperson RandeepSurjewala on Monday urgedeveryone to respect the sancti-ty of the CWC meeting andasked the media not to fall intothe trap of “conjectures, insin-uations, gossip and rumour-mongering”.

Surjewala said it is a demo-cratic forum for exchange ofideas and taking correctiveaction. It was a “closed-door”meeting and any speculationabout it was unwarranted anduncalled for. He was reacting tonews reports about happeningsat the May 25 meeting, the firstof the CWC after the Congress’shumiliating defeat in the par-liamentary polls.

“The Congress partyexpects everyone, includingthe media, to respect the sanc-tity of a closed-door meeting ofthe CWC. Various conjectures,speculation, insinuations,assumptions, gossip andrumour-mongering in a sectionof the media is uncalled for andunwarranted.

“The CWC held a collec-tive deliberation on the per-formance of the party, thechallenges before it as also theway ahead, instead of castingaspersions on the role or con-duct of any specific individual.The gist of the deliberationswas made public in the CWCresolution of May 25, 2019,” theCongress leader said in a statement.

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Chemistry has beaten arith-metic in the recent

Parliamentary election, saidPrime-Minister designateNarendra Modi, who is goingto assume the charge as the PMfor second time on May 30.

“It was not for the first timewhen this political change wasseen in Indian politics when thechemistry of social strengthwas clearly visible but shock-ingly, the political pundits werenot ready to change their estab-lished perception,” he said.

Modi was addressing partyworkers in thanksgiving func-tion at Deen Dayal UpdhyayHaskala Sankul (TradeFacilitation Centre) at BadaLalpur here on Monday.

“We had made a hat-trickof victories performingremarkably well in 2014, 2017and 2019 but, unfortunately,the political pundits were notready to change their estab-lished perception of the last 70years and sometimes they used

logical and illogical analysis toprove their point,” Modi added.

Earlier, Modi offeredprayer at Kashi Vishwanathtemple, seeking the blessings ofthe Almighty again as he didfive years ago before assumingthe charge as PM.

Modi appealed to the partyworkers to overlook estab-lished negativity in politicsand continue to adopt positiv-ity. “Our success is the result ofour perfect synergy betweenGovernment policies andorganisational politics,” he said,asking the party workers tocontinue with the same so thatthe people of the country canget optimum benefits ofGovernment schemes.

“Work and workers createa wonder,” said Modi, addingthat “with our work we suc-ceeded in winning the faith ofthe people. We have not doneany favour to them but it wastheir rights.”

Modi went on to highlightthe violence let loose againstparty workers in several States,and said, “Undoubtedly, inachieving the same, our partyworkers faced crises. Several ofour workers sacrificed theirlives in Kerala, Kashmir, WestBengal and Tripura and our

workers are still being beatenup in West Bengal, but shock-ingly a section of the nationalmedia had seen a selectivehumanism behind such sacri-fices of our party workers.”

“We’d also faced politicaluntouchability,” he said, citingthe example of Gujarat when asection of film industry hadraised strong voices when hisGovernment had invited asenior star (Amitabh Bacchan)for tourism promotion.

In his marathon address,Modi highlighted how for vote-bank politics the Oppositionparties never showed courage to look into the pains of the common peo-ple.

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In a huge relief for theCongress in Rajasthan, six

BSP MLAs cancelled their pro-posed meeting with GovernorKalyan Singh at the last minuteand downplayed speculationabout pulling out of the GehlotGovernment.

However, the Congressfaced trouble from within amidspeculation of a RajasthanMinister quitting in the wake ofthe party’s electoral debacle.Two State Ministers came outin the open to demand adetailed assessment by seniorleaders of the party.

Sources said the six BSPMLAs were scheduled to meetthe Governor on Monday inthe evening. However, laterthe Governor was informedthat the meeting could notproceed due to illness of one ofthe MLAs, Deepchand.

The BSP has extended itssupport to the Congress inRajasthan and Madhya

Pradesh, thus the news of itsMLAs seeking appointmentwith the Governor sparkedwild speculation.

BSP MLA Wajib Ali soughtto downplay the significance ofthe MLAs’ scheduled meetingwith the Governor. “It wassupposed to be a routine meet-ing,” he said.

Sources, however, said theBSP MLAs changed their mindson the instructions from theparty’s Central leadership fol-lowing the circulation of appre-ciation letter by UPA chairper-son and senior most Congressleader Sonia Gandhi hailing therole of BSP workers along with

the SP cadre in the just con-cluded general elections.

Meanwhile, a review meet-ing scheduled in Delhi to eval-uate reasons for party’s drub-bing in Rajasthan was post-poned in the wake of unavail-ability of Congress presidentRahul Gandhi. Party sourcessaid the meeting would beheld on Tuesday at Sonia’s res-idence in the presence of AshokGehlot, Deputy Chief MinisterSachin Pilot and Congress Stateincharge Avinash Pandey.Senior party leader AhmedPatel and Venugopal are likelyto participate in the meet.

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In the wake of deaths of 22students at a coching institute

blaze in Surat on Friday, DelhiHome Minister Satyender Jainon Monday issued directions tothe chief of Delhi Fire Services(DFS) to “take strict action asper the fire safety standards andguidelines to prevent recur-rence of such accidents” in thenational Capital.

The Director (FireServices) has been asked toimmediately inspect and shutand seal coaching centres oper-ating in highrise buildingsabove the fourth floor. TheDelhi Government furtherissued notice to all the civicauthorities to enforce the‘Unified Building Bylaws’ incoaching centres.

“In the first phase, allcoaching centres operating inhigh-rise buildings (more thanfour floors excluding the stiltfloor) shall be inspected by theDirector (Fire Service),” theorder read.

As per the law,kitchen/cooking and storage ofinflammable material are notallowed on rooftops. Multi-storey buildings, hotels andcommercial buildings will loseNo Objection Certificate(NOC) for violation of norms.

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Heads of BIMSTEC group-ing which includes

Bangladesh, India, Myanmar,Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepaland Bhutan would be attend-ing the swearing-in ceremonyof Prime Minister NarendraModi on May 30. The Bay ofBengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical andEconomic Cooperation (BIM-STEC) is an internationalorganisation of seven nationsof South Asia and South East

Kyrgyz President, cur-rently Shanghai CooperationOrganisation (SCO) chair,and Mauritius Prime Ministerare also invited for swearing-in ceremony, according to theMinistry of External Affairs.

In his 2014 swearing-in-ceremony, Modi had invitedGovernment heads of SAARCwhich included Pakistan. Thethen Pakistan Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif had attended theoath taking of Modi.

However, BangladeshPrime Minister Sheikh Hasinawould not be attending Modi’sswearing-in this time too asshe would be on a three-nation tour close to May 30 .Liberation War AffairsMinister AKM MozammelHuq will represent her at theceremony.

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Former Kolkata PoliceCommissioner Rajeev

Kumar is on official leave toVaranasi for three days and willnot be able to appear for ques-tioning in connection with theSaradha Ponzi scheme, accord-ing the letter by the WestBengal Criminal InvestigationDepartment (CID) to theCentral Bureau of Investigation(CBI).

A CID official deliveredKumar’s letter to the CBI’soffice at Salt Lake in Kolkata onMonday.

Citing personal reasons,

Kumar has sought a week’s timeto appear before the CBI forquestioning in the case.

“The CBI was awaitingKumar’s presence at theagency’s Kolkata office but hedid not turn up (on Monday).The CBI office in Kolkatareceived a letter from the WestBengal CID regarding hisabsence,” sources said, addingseveral calls to the West Bengalcadre IPS officer went unan-swered.

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The Balakot air strikesnotwithstanding, over

three dozen terror campsalong the Line of Control(LoC) in Pakistan OccupiedKashmir (POK) are gettingactive again. Post-Pulwamaattack, these camps wereshifted deep inside Pakistanfearing retaliation by India.However, after lying dormantfor nearly three months, theISI and the Pakistan Army arebringing these terrorists clos-er to the LoC to enable themto infiltrate to stoke violencein Jammu & Kashmir.

This alarming develop-ment comes even as Jaish-e-Mohammad ( JeM) chiefMasood Azhar was recentlyproscribed as a global terror-

ist by the UN SecurityCouncil.

Most of the terrorists nowregrouping in the camps arefrom JeM and Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT). The IndianArmy has thus increased vigilto thwart any Border ActionTeam (BAT) action besidesinfiltration.

Mixed teams of terroristsand elite Special ServicesGroup (SSG) commandos ofthe Pakistan Army compriseBAT which carries out crossborder raids to ambushIndian Army patrols.

As it is, the several teamsof SSG commandos, alongwith the Pakistan Armytroops, moved for wardtowards the LoC post Balakotair strikes by the IAF andremain deployed even now

thereby increasing the threatperception, officials in thesecurity establishment saidhere on Monday.

Indicating that after theBalakot strikes, in which theJeM major camps were tar-geted and destroyed, notwith-standing, the State sponsoredterrorism machiner y ofPakistan is now active againwith the terror camps alongthe LoC reorganising them-selves, they said.

Most of the 40 odd campsalong the vulnerable stretch-es of the long LoC are locat-ed not more than one to twokms from the border and sta-tioned close to the PakistanArmy and Pakistan Rangerslocations.

Following the Pulwamasuicide attack on February 13

in which 40 Central ReservePolice Force (CRPF) person-nel were killed, nearly all theterror camps were shut downas the Pakistan Army antici-pated surgical strikes. In fact,many terrorists took refuge inthe JeM camp in Balakot.

With the three dozen oddcamps now regrouping, theIndian security establishmentis bracing for renewed bids tosneak into Jammu & Kashmirin the following weeks withthe Pakistan Army providingcovering fire to the terrorists.

Due to prolonged winterthis year and heavy snowfall,most of the ingress routesespecially in North Kashmirremained blocked due tosnow till about a few daysback.

As snow is now melting,

the LoC is likely to seeincreased infiltration bids,officials said, adding theIndian Army has taken allnecessary measures to preventany misdeed by the Pakistaniterrorists. In fact, during thewinter months, troops werenot withdrawn from the LoC,as in the past few years, as aprecautionary measure, theysaid.

Moreover, taking note ofthe terror camps across LoCgetting active, the IndianArmy has increased patrols allalong the LoC besides furtherstrengthening its multi-tieredanti-infiltration grid. Themain objective is to neu-tralise the infiltrators withina km or so near the LoC ifthey are successful in comingin, officials explained.

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One of the two BahujanSamaj Party (BSP) MLAs

in Madhya Pradesh Ramabaihere on Monday revealed thatthe BJP has offered her �50crore and a ministerial berth ifshe quits.

Ramabai, who is an MLAfrom the Pathariya Assemblyconstituency, claimed that thesame proposal was made toseveral other MLAs to makethe Kamal Nath governmentlose majority in the 230-mem-ber house.

While talking to mediapersons here, she said, “They(BJP members) are making

offers to everyone, only foolswill come under their influ-ence. I get phone calls offeringboth ministerial berth andmoney but I have denied theoffers.

They are offering Rs 50-60crore to a number of people.”

Before the results of theLok Sabha elections wereannounced, Kamal Nath hadaccused the BJP of trying topoach Congress MLAs. OnMay 21, Kamal Nath had

claimed, “At least 10 MLAs toldme that they are getting callsand are being enticed withoffers of money and positions.”

Now with the party's dis-mal performance in the LokSabha elections, severalCongress leaders haveexpressed suspicion over theBJP's attempts to destabilise thestate government. Congressmanaged to win only a singleseat of the 29 Parliamentaryconstituencies in the state.

In the 2018 state elections,the Congress bagged 114 seatsof a total of 230 seats, while theBJP got 109 seats, the BSP two,the Samajwadi Party one andIndependents four.

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To remove obstacles inindustrial services and

business and to resolve prob-lems at the earliest so that inall these areas the develop-ment of the State, economic

progress and employmentopportunities for the youth ofthe business and industrialindustries grow and increasethe opportunities saidPresident of Confederationof MP for Industry, Service &Trade (COMPIST) is Govind

Goyal while speaking withthe media persons onMonday.

The team of foundingmembers of COMPIST wouldbe visiting Shirdi on 29thMay, 2019 for a meeting tocreate a framework for future

activities with mutual consentin the meeting and workwould be done by COMPISTto increase industry, serviceand businesses leading togrowth of the state and focuson the ‘Ease of doing business’.

Providing it functioningCOMPIST Goyal told thatthey have worked hard for theinterest of the FoodgrainTransporter Association,working with the CivilSupplies Corporation.

The transporters were fac-ing issues in tenders of trans-portation of goods from pro-curement centers to c ware-houses. COMPIST has under-stood the problems and heldseveral meetings with thetransporter and meeting anddiscussed with Neelam ShamiRao, Principal Secretary,Madhya Pradesh FoodSupply Corporation andSofia Farooqui, ManagingDirector.

COMPIST believes that ifdifficulties can be overcome inestablishing business enter-prise and running smoothly inMadhya Pradesh, then thedevelopment of MadhyaPradesh can be speeded up asthe growth of business indus-try will give employment tothe youth and revenue of thegovernment will increase.

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Raghav Diwan, a city boy hascreated a niche for himself

in the world of web screen. Ina web series Raghav has essayeda role of a cancer patient. Helived the character of the can-cer patient for his upcomingshort film Metamorphosis.

Highlighting the state ofcancer patients and the state oftheir families, Metamorphosistalks about human relations ina very subtle way.

To be released this month,the short film is about howhelpless the underprivilegedsection of society feels. Raghavwho plays the cancer patient inthe film has done more than 70short films but states that thiswas till now the most chal-lenging role for him to playbecause even when he knewhow a cancer patient looks like,he could not feel and dreadedthe idea of feeling what a can-

cer patients might have felt.Raghav pursued his career

as a magician and his Guru ShriNafees Hussian carved him inmagical skills when he was just14 years old and after he ran

away from his house. In notime he became a popularmagician and started per-forming regularly at Pizza out-lets. Later on, he rediscoveredhimself as an actor and after 3years of ongoing career as amagician he decided to turn asan actor for films and shifted toMumbai.

He relocated from Bhopalto Mumbai and joined PassionActing School to refine his act-ing skills. There, he learned act-ing and nuances of filmmakingbut the struggle after schoolcontinued. In absence of goodfood, he starved, in absence ofroof he slept in Mumbai’s busyplatforms but all these hurdlesmade him stronger to pursuewhat he wanted to do.

He continued his effortsand finally got his first projectwith a veteran actress PoojaBhatt in a music video of MotoG5 Plus. But what after that?Raghav had no assignments

thereafter in hands but he keptsending his work to PoojaBhatt in a hope that she willacknowledge his work one dayand that happened. That wasthe day where Raghav’s effortswere at the edge of hope andsince then he has been work-ing continuously in variousshort films and ads.

He was invited as a speak-er in FIICI Frames 2017 DigitalDream Session where he sharedthe stage with experts likeAshish Kulkarni, Vivek Kajaria,Paula McGlynn and TiscaChopra. His short film “Wallet”crowned him 1 million viewson youtube whereas “Falling inlove “ got huge recognition andawards which was no less thana success for him so far.Following his journey, he didmany films like 18+ jobseeker,Sutta Chhod Na Yarr, Death ofan IITian, Oh shit, which wereproduced under the banner ofChai Stories.

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Smart and intelligent in polic-ing is required to present

correct situation in court toprove police side in right man-ner in the investigation of sex-ual offences, said DGP VKSingh while addressing allInspector Generals, DeputyInspector General andSuperintendents through VideoConferencing (VC) from StatePolice Headquarters onMonday.

He emphasized that thedirectives of the High Courtmust be followed in the inves-tigation in cases related toharassment of women andchildren.

During the VC, DGPSingh directed that the sexualoffences should not be assignedto the police officer below therank of sub-inspector.

He stressed on adopting a

scientific approach and followthe protocol, collect the samplefor DNA test and send it fortesting at laboratory and at thesame time.

In addition to DNA otherevidence should also be col-lected and emphasized onincreasing the capacity of theDNA laboratory. The labora-tory at Bhopal should be start-ed as soon as possible toincrease the capacity of DNAtesting in the state. AllInspectors Generals were

instructed to review the crimeagainst children and womenwith Superintendents of Policeand other police officers oftheir respective ranges.

ADG Anivesh Mangalamsaid that the budget has beenallocated to keep DNA samplessafe in all the districts. In 25cases of atrocities with womenand girl children, the accusedhave been sentenced to deathby the trial court, due to thebetter investigation by theMadhya Pradesh Police.

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Food, Civil Supplies andConsumer Protection

Minister Pradyumna SinghTomar has said that an amountof �11,500 crore has been paidto farmers of the State underRabi procurement 2019.

He said that this year,record 73.60 lakh metric tonnesof wheat has been procured.

Tomar instructed the offi-cials to deposit the pendingamount in the accounts offarmers immediately duringthe review of Rabi procure-ment.

Food Minister Tomar saidthat efforts should be made toaccelerate the efforts for imme-diate payment of amount ofcrop sale to farmers.

Tomar told that specialarrangements were made forthe procurement of Rabi crops

this year. Arrangements were made

by the state government topurchase electronic weighingmachines, prior information ofthe purchase to the farmers andonline transfer of the cropamount along with increasingthe number of procurementcentres.

Special arrangements ofcool drinking water and sittingwere also made for the farmersat all the procurement centres.He said that this year, 73.60lakh metric tonnes was pro-cured from a record 9.65 lakhfarmers, which is a record.Total �13,043 crores is to bepaid to farmers.

The last date for purchasewas May 25. ManagingDirector of Civil SuppliesCorporation Sufia Farooquiwas also present during themeeting.

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Bhopal: A 26-year old driverwas stabbed to death byunknown miscreant atBaghmughalia area underBaghsewania police stationarea on Monday.

Panic prevailed in the areaafter a man was found in anunconscious state at openground in Baghmughalia area.Locals informed police andpolice team reached the spotand started investigation. Thedeceased was identified asVimal Mehra of Pipaliya PendeKhan. He used to works as dri-ver.

During the investigation,police found that in the eveningon Sunday someone came tohouse and later accompaniedwith Vimal who later stabbedhim to death. Police have foundtwo deep wounds in the chestand glasses and liquor bottlewhich suggests that the killer

was acquainted had drink withthe deceased and later stabbedto death over some issue.

The body was sent for thepost mortem after the prelim-inary investigation. The policehave registered a case undersection 302 of the IPC and havestarted further investigation. Atthe spot deceased was lying ina pool of blood while weaponused in the murder was notfound from the spot. Signs ofstruggle were found but mis-creants were more in numbercould not be ascertained.

Till the filing of the reportthe police were not able to tracethe killers. Police told that thesearch for the miscreants hasbeen intensified and call recorddetails of the deceased would beinvestigated. The deceased usedto work as driver with a profes-sor who would be questioned inthe further investigation. SR

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The victory of BJP in thecountry was celebrated by

Sindhi and Gujarati commu-nities in Hong Kong. A largenumber of these communitiesNRIs and social activists basedat Hong Kong celebrated this intheir own style with joy.

Raju Sabnani, NRI of HongKong told MaheshDayaramani, Secretary of JeevSeva Sansthan (JSS) of SantHirdaram Nagar, Bhopal thatone NRI has opened NAMORestaurant at Hong Kong.

He distributed 353 kg ofLaddu (Sweets) free of cost onthe victory of Narendra Modi.

Notably, the NRIs in Hong

Kong help financially the JSS inconducting selfless activities inBhopal.

Sabnani’s other compan-ions TK Daryani and SohanGuenka have also cooperated alot in celebrating the occasion.

Raju Sabnani told thatmany Hong Kong based Indian

Hoteliers have fed meals free ofcost on that day.

People at large numbervisited at the hotels and enjoyedIndian meals.

Raju Sabnani said that theNRIs often face problems toprocure VISAS and Passportetc.

He hoped that if Indiaeconomically strengthens infuture then the goodwill of thecountry will grow and theNRIs will automatically befreed from various problems.

Not only Hong Kong but inwhole of the world NRIs arefull of enthusiasm.

People from Beijing,Shanghai and china also par-ticipated in the celebration, headded.

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With increasing tempera-tures 15 districts record-

ed day temperature at 44 degreeCelsius in the state on Monday.Night temperatures dipped lit-tle from harsher levels.

Bhopal recorded 44 degreeCelsius which the peak of theseason reached for the secondtime in the season while nighttemperature have dipped to27.4 degree Celsius which wasrecorded at around 30 degreeCelsius.

The day temperature wasrecorded 3 degree Celsiusabove normal temperature inBhopal.

Bhopal, Hoshangabad andUjjain divisions recorded tem-peratures above the normaltemperatures. The highest daytemperature was recorded at45.5 degree Celsius.

Warning of hot wave con-ditions has been issued by Metdepartment and regions whichare likely to witness hot waveconditions are Chambal divi-sion, Raisen, rajgarh, Khargone,

Khandwa, Badwani, Ratlamand Shajapur districts.

According to the forecastBhopal is likely to receive daytemperature at 43 degreeCelsius and night temperatureat 28 degree Celsius onTuesday.

The weathermen told thatthe conditions are likely tobecome favourable for furtheradvance of SouthwestMonsoon into some more partsof South Bay of Bengal ,Andaman Islands and northAndaman Sea during the next72 hours.

Apart from the highest daytemperature several regionsrecorded high day tempera-

tures. Damoh recorded daytemperature at 45 degreeCelsius, Nowgong recordedday temperature at 45.3 degreeCelsius and Chhindwararecorded day temperatures at44.5 degree Celsius.

U m a r i a ,Hoshangabad,Gwalior, Betul,Narsinghpur, Guna, Bhopal,Khandwa, Jabalpur, Raisen,Rajgarh, Shajapur, Rewa,Sheopur and Shivpuri record-ed day temperature around 44degree Celsius.

Only Damoh recordednight temperature at 29.2degree Celsius while otherregions recorded moderatenight temperatures.

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Pratibha Syntex, the leadingtextile sector company, has

bagged the 2019 CO LeadersAward, leaving behind the fash-ion industry veterans. PratibhaSyntex has achieved this suc-cess among more than 700applicants across the world.The CO Leaders Award isgiven to the champions of thetextile sector, who have workedto take the fashion industry upbeyond the boundaries of cre-ativity.

The CO Leaders Award isgiven by evaluating the func-tions of the companies thatendeavor to connect market tothe world class products andservices with their new andtrending fashion products,which offer environmentfriendly products as a benefi-cial deal for the customers.

On this occasion, the com-pany’s managing director,Shreyashkar Chaudhary, said,& We have been selected to setup new trademarks in the fash-ion industry with our products.

This appreciation will motivateus to work hard and to set newdimensions in the fashionworld. As the entire spectrumof the fashion industry is beingseen in a new way today, weneed to update ourselves on aregular basis, so that we canoffer those products to our cus-tomers, they are expectingfrom us.

Since 2016, we are workingon a baseline to reduce 50 percent consumption of freshwater and 20 per cent of elec-tricity by 2020.”

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Chhola police have bookeda youth for sexually assault-

ing and exploiting a 20-year-old girl after making herobscene photographs. The vic-tim lodged a complaint withcrime branch and later case wastransferred to Chhola Mandirpolice.

Police said both theaccused and victim wereacquainted and accused tookobscene photographs and usedto blackmail her and sexuallyexploit her. The victim in hercomplaint stated that she metAkhsay Ahirwar of Misrod ayear ago who was acquaintedwith her friend. The two laterdeveloped relationship and lur-ing her of marriage accusedtook her to a hotel and unawareof the ill intentions the victimaccompanied her where shewas sexually assaulted.

After committing theheinous crime the accused

assures that he would marryher and later continued to sex-ually exploit her. Later whenthe victim asked to marry theaccused he refused and threat-ened her life if the victiminformed to her family andpolice about the incident. Butthe victim informed the inci-dent to the family.

Later the victim was sched-uled to marry but the accusedpressurized her to have rela-tionship and tried to blackmail

her by using obscene pho-tographs which he had takenearlier of the victim.

The victim along with thefamily members lodged a com-plaint with the crime branch.After the initial investigationcase was transferred to ChholaMandir police.

Police have registered acase under sections 376 and506 of the IPC and have start-ed further investigation. Theaccused is yet to be arrested.

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Marking the third day ofMadhya Pradesh

Rangotsav, play Burry TheDead (Dafan Karo) wasstaged at Antarang Hall,Bharat Bhavan. Rhe play wasperformed here on Monday.

The play was directed bySuryamohan Kulshreshtha. Itwas beautifully performed bythe students of MPSD batch2018-19. Bury the Dead(1936) is an expressionist andanti-war drama by theAmerican playwright IrwinShaw. It dramatizes the refusalof six dead soldiers during anunspecified war who repre-sent a cross-section ofAmerican society to beburied.

Each rises from a massnameless grave to express hisanguish, the futility of war,and his refusal to become partof the "glorious past".

First the Captain and theGenerals tell them it is theirduty to be buried, but theyrefuse. Even a Priest and aRabbi try to convince them tono avail.

Newspapers refuse toprint the story in fear it willhurt the war effort. Finallythey bring in the women whohave survived them, wives,sister and even mother. Nonesucceed in the end. It was firststaged in New York City in1936 to great acclaim. Thestudents staged it brilliantlyleaving the audience mes-merised.

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Chandigarh: Soon after themodel code of conduct ended,IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singhwas back into the SIT probinginto the sacrilege cases and theunprovoked incidents of sacri-lege & police firing that hadrocked Punjab under the SAD-BJP regime.

He was shifted out of the

post when model code of con-duct was in force in the state aftera complaint by the ShiromaniAkali Dal. Two people werekilled and many others injured inBehbal Kalan village on October15, 2015, when police resorted tounprovoked firing on hundredsof people protesting the allegeddesecration of the Guru Granth

Sahib in Bargari village inFaridkot a few days earlier. Theincident came a day after policeused force to disperse agitators inKotkapura village. Chief MinisterCapt Amarinder Singh, whoalso heads the HomeDepartment, had, during hiselection campaign, announcedthat Vijay Pratap would be back

to complete and take the SITinvestigations to their logicalconclusion the day after the elec-tion code of conduct is lifted. Itmay be noted that the code ofconduct formally ended onSunday evening. In the ordersissued on Monday, HomeSecretary NS Kalsi said KunwarVijay Pratap Singh is transferred

and posted as IGP, OCCU(Organised Crime Control Unit),with Additional Charge of IGP,Counter Intelligence, Amritsar.

The IG had been posted toCounter Intelligence after hewas shifted out of OCCU on ECorders for alleged violation of themodel of code conduct, a chargewhich even the Chief Minister

had stated as incorrect. KumwarVijay Pratap Singh was an activepart of the SIT investigations intothe Bargari and other sacrilegeincidents, and the subsequentBehbal Kalan and Kotkapurafiring, when he was shunted outby EC orders.

Capt Amarinder had allegedthe orders were issued at the

behest of the ruling BJP – an allyof the Shiromani Akali Dal(SAD), whose top leaders, includ-ing the Badals, have figured in theinvestigations so far. The RanjitSingh Commission, set up by theCaptain Amarinder governmentto probe the cases, had suggest-ed further investigation into therole of the Badals, which the SIT

was further probing.The chief minister has

repeatedly maintained that thefiring on peaceful protestorscould not have been possiblewithout the knowledge of thenChief Minister Prakash SinghBadal and then Deputy CMSukhbir Badal, who also held theHome portfolio. PNS

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Bhopal: Eid is a festival toembrace modest wear whichkeeps trending season after sea-son. This year the Bhopal fash-ionistas have chose to go simpleand elegant than to wear thoseheavy dresses.

Besides, with the onlinefashion trending heavily, theBhopal market has got morevariety of dresses this time. The

indo western look has taken upthe market on fire.

Kaftaans, maxi dresses,abayas, plazzos and pants havebeen in style like never before.The market of the city is flood-ed with those floral prints andfull length gowns with subtle,classic and edgy touches.

For men fashion freaks toothere is a lot of varieties available.

The Pakistani pattern pathanisuits are in this season for men.Moreover, the Bhopali boys areopting for colourful and con-trasting jackets over simple t-shirts giving a total indo-westernlook. Looking back in the timesof about four to five years back,the zari zardozi karigari was anessential phenomena over theEid dresses, but with the chang-

ing scenarios, youngsters aremore into simple yet classywears.

Waseem Khan, a shopkeep-er at Nadeem Road said, “In thisweather people are consideringpure fabric and vibrant colours.Also the floral prints in pure silk,chiffon, crape and georgette withvery light stone motifs are thepreferable one this season. SR

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The Manohar Lal KhattarGovernment in Haryana

will be conducting a writtenexamination on June 10 underthe ‘Super 100’ initiative to pro-vide free coaching for JEE,NEET and boarding facility tomeritorious students of gov-ernment schools.

The students who haveattained more than 80 percentmarks in class 10th would beeligible to participate in theentrance test. The last date ofregistration students for thisprogramme is May 31.

Selected students in exam-ination will be provided free ofcost training for NEET, IIT andJEE by the State Government,a spokesman of theDepartment said.

He said that the expenses

of boarding and lodging wouldalso be borne by the govern-ment. All the district educationofficers have been directed bythe Directorate of SchoolEducation to appoint the dis-trict Science expert and districtMath expert in their respectivedistricts as the nodal officer ofthe “Super-100” programme.

The Directorate has alsodirected to establish contactwith Parents, School Headsand students who secured morethan 80 per cent marks in

Class X to encourage them tocome for “Super-100” pro-gramme, the spokesman said.

More than 100 studentswill be enrolled under the pro-gramme to undergo the com-plete two years free of costtraining for medical and engi-neering competitive entranceexams. Equal number of girlsand boys are proposed to beenrolled under the scheme.

Notably, a total of 3.64lakh candidates had appearedout of which 57.39 percentpassed in the Haryana BoardClass 10 examination. The passpercentage has gone up by sixpoints compared to last year’s51.15 percent.

However, the poor showcontinued as 1.4 lakh studentsfailed the exams, while anoth-er 18,000 got compartments inclass X in the state.

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The maximum tempera-tures at most places in

Haryana and Punjab includingtheir common capitalChandigarh hovered abovethe season's average onMonday.

Chandigarh recorded amaximum of 39.9 degrees

Celsius, a notch above average,said the weather report by theMeteorological departmenthere.

In Haryana, swelteringheat prevailed in Narnaulwhich recorded a high of 44.3degrees Celsius, three notch-es above average. Ambalarecorded a high of 40.5 degreesCelsius while Bhiwani's max-

imum settled at 41.9 degreesCelsius.

Similarly, Hisar recorded amaximum of 41.1 degreesCelsius while Karnal's maxi-mum settled at 40.6 degreesCelsius.

In Punjab's holy city ofAmritsar, the mercury rose to40.2 degrees Celsius whileLudhiana and Patiala record-

ed near similar maximumtemperatures at 40.7 degreesCelsius and 40.8 degreesCelsius respectively, up by onedegree each against normal.

Meanwhile, as per theMeT Department, no respite isin sight as the weather is like-ly to remain dry over the nextfour days in Punjab andHaryana.

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In the run up to upcoming7th Economic Census, a

one-day state level trainingworkshop of the trainers fromPunjab was organised here onMonday.

Inaugurating the event,Director, Statistics andPlanning DepartmentChandigarh Harish Nayar saidthe participants were trainedon the key concepts and defi-nitions, processes, digital plat-form and application to beused for the enumeration (datacapture and supervision) inthe field.

M.L. Sharma, EconomicAdviser and Planning, Punjabsaid that the census wouldcover all entrepreneurial unitsin the state which are involvedin any economic activities ofeither agricultural or non-agricultural sector which areengaged in production, distri-bution of goods and servicesnot for the sole purpose ofown consumption.

The task would providedetailed information on oper-ational and other characteris-tics such as number of estab-lishments, number of personsemployed, source of finance,type of ownership etc. and thisinformation would be utilizedfor micro level planning and toassess contribution of varioussectors of the economy in theGDP, he added.

An official spokesman saidthat the 7th Economic Census-2019 is being conducted byMinistry of Statistics andProgramme Implementation(MoSPI) to provide dis-aggre-gated information on variousoperational and structuralaspects of all establishments inthe country. He further saidthat the fieldwork for the 7thEconomic Census will com-mence in June 2019 in order tocomplete the task in a timeframe of three months.

He said that Ministry ofStatistics and ProgrammeImplementation (MoSPI) haspartnered with CommonService Centres, CSC e-Governance Services IndiaLimited, a Special PurposeVehicle under the Ministry ofElectronics and InformationTechnology as the imple-menting agency for 7thEconomic Census. An ITbased digital platform for datacapture, validation, report gen-eration and dissemination willbe used in this EconomicCensus.

About 200 participantsfrom Central and State Govt.Offices namely RegionalOffices of Mohali & Jalandharand their Sub Regional Offices,Punjab State-Industries Dept.,Punjab State-Economic andStatistics and DistrictManagers & DistrictCoordinator of CSC also par-ticipated in the workshop.

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Alandslide victory forNarendra Modi-led

National Democratic Alliance(NDA) propelled a sense ofjubilation in Dalal Street in lastfew days, with Sensex gainingnearly 300 points when themarket reopened on Monday.

Trade analysts opine thatthe markets will grow in com-ing days, but investors shouldbe cautious while investing.On Thursday, when the resultsof Lok Sabha were out withtelevision screen showing earlytrends for BJP led government,markets jumped to nearly 900points, but next day the sta-bility was not seen in DalalStreet as market crushed to1300 points. However, thetrade analysts believe that inlong run the markets will def-initely grow with Sensex cross-ing 4500 bench mark.Presently, the Bombay StockExchange (BSE) is at 40000points.

Dindayal Barnwal, vicepresident of Federation ofJharkhand Chamber ofCommerce and Industries(FJCCI) said, “The strong andstable Government is advan-

tageous for market. The mar-kets prefer a strong, stableregime because it ensures con-tinuity in economic policies.”However, it is not sure that themarkets will grow in the sameway in coming days.

Barnwal terming the sharemarket as weather said, “TheSensex is like weather. As it isdifficult for a common man tomake prediction on weather,same is for share market.There are various factorswhich influence share marketswhich includes national aswell as international develop-ment. If there is crisis in Gulfand middle-east leading tosurge in international oil

prices, the markets across theglobe including India will wit-ness a fall.”

Echoing the views ofBarnwal, Soni Mehta anothervice president at FJCCI said, “Astable and strong governmentis good for economy. Weexpect that under the Modiregime in next five years themarket will reach 45,000points. However, it is alwaysadvisable for an investor toinvest carefully. While invest-ing money a person should gothrough the portfolio details ofthe company in which he orshe is investing.”

Mehta further said, “Theother important aspect is that

investors should not think ofshort term gain as it is alwaysadvisable to invest for longerperiod.” FJCII treasurer, RahulMaroo said, “The strength ofthe mandate for the BJPassures stability in govern-ment, stability in governanceand continuation of the devel-opment agenda for next fiveyears.” However, Maroo saidthat share market too haschances of manipulationwhich was evident last week.

According to Maroo, onMay 19 when the exit pollresults were out market gained1000 points and the gainremained for next three days,on May 23 when the resultswere out the market againgained to 900 points, but nextday crushed to 1300 pointswith a negative of 400 points.Maroo said, “The fall in mar-ket was primarily due toinvestors withdrawing theirmoney after initial gains.” Thetrade bodies member claimedthat though volatility is partand parcel of the stock marketsit does not last forever. Themarkets factor in major eventslike the Lok Sabha electionsbut eventually go back to theirnormal functioning.

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Even after repeated protest byvendors affected by the

anti-encroachment drive of theMunicipal Corporation ofDehradun (MCD) no solu-tions have come up so far.Expressing anger on not gettingany relief from the officials thevendors protested in MCD onMonday.

About 50 vendors gatheredand raised slogans seeking thechance to pursue their solemeans of livelihood.

Interacting with the mediaduring the protest local vendorGauri Devi said, “Officials tookour materials a day ago whichis why we are holding thisprotest. We know of the driveconducted by the MCD toremove encroachment but thisis the only source of ourincome.

We do not have carts orvehicles we sit near the roadonce a week and other days wemove from one place to anoth-

er. We have been meeting var-

ious officials for a year now,seeking a solution to the prob-lem.”Another local vendor JyotiKumar said, “We are tired ofprotesting repeatedly. If officialsfrom the MCD will not help uswe will hold our protest at dis-trict magistrate SA Murugesan’soffice.

We only want that a spe-cific area be provided for us.”Itis pertinent to mention herethat MCD has only been ableto shift 300 vendors of theSunday market to a new loca-tion so far.

However, a large propor-tion of such vendors who setstalls on Sunday still exists inthe city.

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ASanskrit play which waswritten about a decade ago

but keeps a relevance eventoday ‘Hasya Chudamani’ wasstaged here on Monday atShaheed Bhavan.

The play HasyaChudamani, originally writ-ten by Vatsaraj Virchit in the12th century was performed byVihaan Theatre Workers,Bhopal. Directed by SourabhAnand, the play was performedin Bundeli style. It was trans-lated into Hindi by SangeetaGundecha.

The play was staged in atwo day theatre festival.

This one and a half hourplay started with a theft atKapatkeli's house. She suspectsher daughter's loverKalakarandak and visits anexpert of Kevli art Gyanrashi tounearth the truth.

Gyanrashi did not earnfame and money on the basisof his art but by cheating andhis follower Kaudinya knows

that. After Kapatkeli's com-plaint, he sends his servantsKokil and Parawat with her tofind out the truth and collectthe stolen money.

Meanwhile he also pays avisit to Kapatkeli's house with

Kaudinya and they both fall forher daughter Madansundari.Gyanrashi tries to attract her bychanting a mantra with her-name.

The story then takes a dif-ferent turn when Kaudinya

recites the mantra and replacesMadansundari's name withthat of her mother. When ser-vants Kokil and Parawat returnto the ashram and learn aboutGyanrashi's act of attracting alady, they thrash him. Thestory ends when Kalakarandakvisits the ashram to save hisguru Gyanrashi and proves hisinnocence.

The play comprised ofeight artists where actorsbagged special appreciation fortheir flawless acts and beauti-fulexpressions.

The play narrated aboutthe prevailing society in a com-ical manner. The wondrous useof different stage craft andtechniques made the play evenmore interesting. Moreover theuse of props, tuneful music, anddance and above all thematured acting skills of theartists the show managed tobring smiles to audience. As therib tickling situations takesplace one after the other theaudience burst out laughing.

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With the Lok Sabha results out, theBJP on Monday named

Kamakhya Prasad Tasa as its candidatefor the Rajya Sabha elections in Assam.

Tasa, who has long been associat-ed with the BJP and working for tea gar-den workers, was elected to the LokSabha in 2014 from the Jorhat seat, butthe party did not field him in this gen-eral election.

The party has not named the can-didate for the second seat from the State,but it may support its Assam ally AGPfor this.

There has been speculation that theBJP may back Union Minister RamVilas Paswan, its ally in Bihar, for oneof the seats in Assam after it promisedto send him to the Rajya Sabha at theearliest opportunity during seat sharingtalks for the Lok Sabha polls.

Paswan did not contest the gener-al elections this time.

The Congress held the seats, includ-

ing one by former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh.

With the BJP Government now atthe helm and the party enjoying over-whelming majority in the StateAssembly, its candidates are likely to winthe two seats.

The BJP also named its candidatesfor the MLC election for one seat each

in Bihar and Maharashtra. It has field-ed Radha Mohan Sharma from Biharand Pruthvi Raj Deshmukh fromMaharashtra.

The election of party presidentAmit Shah, Union Ministers RaviShankar Prasad and Smriti Irani, cur-rently members of the Rajya Sabha tothe Lok Sabha, would leave three more

vacancies in the upper house for the BJP.Shah, 54, was elected to the Upper

House of Parliament in August 2017,making his parliamentary debut.

He won his first Lok Sabha electionfrom the Gandhinagar constituency bya margin of over 5.57 lakh votes againsthis nearest rival Congress' C J Chavda.

Irani, 43, who had earlier alsoserved as an HRD Minister and I&BMinister in the Modi Government,proved herself to be a giant-killer as shedethroned Congress chief Rahul Gandhiin Amethi by a margin of 55,120 votes,while Prasad, 64, dislodged sitting MPand former BJP member ShatrughanSinha who fought on a Congress tick-et by a margin of over 2.84 lakh in PatnaSahib constituency.

The TV actor-turned-politicianhad twice fought the Lok Sabha electionunsuccessfully in 2004, losing toCongress leader Kapil Sibal in ChandniChowk constituency and in 2014 suf-fered defeat at the hands of RahulGandhi in Amethi.

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BJP vice-president VinaySahasrabuddhe on Monday

said the grammar of electoralpolitics has changed in thecountry with development andnationalism taking centrestagein the political discourse.

The massive mandate hasgiven a "body blow" to theestablished norms of politics inthe country, he said.

The BJP won 303 of the 542Lok Sabha seats that went topolls this time while theOpposition was left way behindwith the Congress winning only52 seats, two less than it needsfor the Leader of Oppositionpost in the Lower House.

The discourse of politicswas earlier confined to "social-ism, welfarism and patronage",

but now development andnationalism dominate it, the BJPleader claimed.

"The 2019 election's resultis a watershed mandate. It haschanged the very grammar ofelectoral politics in India.Traditional discourse of politicsearlier used to remain con-fined to socialism, welfarismand patronage.

"This time it has gone farbeyond all this as people haverealised that development alonecan bring a real change in theirlives," Sahasrabuddhe said.

Development and nation-alism are now the centre stageof the country's political dis-course, he added.

Sahasrabuddhe underlinedthat this verdict has corneredidentity politics and a newmodel of politics engineered by

the BJP based on developmentand nationalism has emerged.

The Modi- government hasensured that developmentbecomes a part of one's every-day life bringing it at the expe-riential level, the BJP vice pres-ident said.

Development has also givenpeople a new aspirational iden-tity.

Instead of being known bytheir caste, they feel better to beidentified as those who have gascylinders or electricity at theirhomes, he said, adding that thishas enhanced their social dig-nity as well.

Sahasrabuddhe, who is thepresident of the Indian Councilfor Cultural Relations (ICCR),is in-charge of BJP's policyresearch and good governancedepartments.

New Delhi: The Centre will askthe Telangana and AndhraPradesh Governments to iden-tify tribals who allegedly fledChhattisgarh due to the SalwaJudum movement around 15years ago and settled there,according to officials.

Salwa Judum was a militiathat had been deployed as partof anti-Maoist operations inChhattisgarh. It was opera-tional between 2005 and 2011,before it was banned by theSupreme Court.

The action came on a com-plaint of an NGO, CGNetSwara Foundation, that wroteto the ministry claiming thatover 5,000 families had fledChhattisgarh due to the con-troversial militia force formedby late Congress leaderMahendra Karma in mid-2005to counter the Maoists.

"We received a complainton May 12 stating that a num-ber of tribal families fled toAndhra Pradesh and Telanganafrom Chhattisgarh due to SalwaJudum. We have to take all state

governments on board andverify these cases," a senior offi-cial of the Tribal AffairsMinistry said.

"Once the verificationprocess is completed, we will sittogether and decide the nextcourse of action. We will haveto see what political stand theChhattisgarh government willtake on it... Whether itacknowledges that these werefamilies were displaced due toSalwa Judum," the official said.

Another official fromChhattisgarh said that once itis established that these fami-lies belonged to the state, aprocess can be initiated torehabilitate them under the

Forest Rights Act, 2006. Experts say the previous

BJP-led administration hadbacked the movement and theCongress government at theCentre was seized of it.

The Supreme Courtbanned the militia force in 2011after it acquired a notoriousreputation for allegedly burn-ing villages, killing people andsexually assaulting women afterterming them Maoist sympa-thisers.

According to CGNet SwaraFoundation, the militia forceled to the displacement of5,000 families fromChhattisgarh. These familiessettled in Andhra Pradesh,which got bifurcated in 2014.

The NGO claimed thesefamilies had been living with-out basic facilities in AndhraPradesh and Telangana, andcould not benefit from theForest Rights Act, which pro-vides for giving land rights tothose living on forest land forat least three generations beforeDecember 31, 2005.

New Delhi: In a setback to newlyelected BSP MP Atul Rai, theSupreme Court on Monday refusedto grant him protection from arrestin a rape case while noting that 16other criminal cases were pendingagainst him.

A vacation bench of Chief JusticeRanjan Gogoi and Justice AniruddhaBose said it was not inclined to enter-tain the petition of Rai, who has wonLok Sabha election from Ghosi con-stituency in Uttar Pradesh by a mar-gin of more than one lakh votes.

At the outset, the bench askedthe counsel for Rai about the num-ber of criminal cases were pendingagainst him.

The counsel replied that the MPhad 16 criminal cases pendingagainst him and he was out on bailin all the cases except the rape case.

The counsel also said that Raihad sought that the FIR against himin the rape case be quashed.

"Sorry, we are not inclined toentertain this petition. Dismiss," thebench said.

The counsel then sought towithdraw the petition which wasallowed by the court.

"Counsel for the petitioner seeksleave of this Court to withdraw the

present special leave petition. Thespecial leave petition is dismissed aswithdrawn," the bench said.

Earlier on May 17, the apex courthad refused to grant interim protec-tion from arrest to Rai who was thena SP-BSP alliance candidate fromGhosi Lok Sabha constituency inUttar Pradesh.

Rai, who was accused of rapinga college student from Varanasi hadthen sought interim protection fromarrest saying polling in his con-stituency was scheduled on May 19.

"It is not a case for quashing.Fight it out. Fight the election and thiscase too," the top court had told him.

An FIR was registered againstRai on May 1 on a complaint by a col-lege student who had alleged that hetook her home on the pretext ofmeeting his wife but sexually assault-ed her. The SP-BSP alliance candi-date, who has denied the rape alle-gations, has been on the run since thelodging of the FIR.

Rai had contended that there wasno provision of anticipatory bail inUttar Pradesh and the high court hadon May 8 dismissed his petition seek-ing protection from arrest.

Ghosi constituency falls in Maudistrict of Uttar Pradesh. PTI

New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Monday dis-missed a plea challengingthe Telangana High Courtverdict that a person can bearrested by the concernedauthority in cases of Goodsand Service Tax (GST) eva-sion.

The plea came up forhearing before a vacationbench of Chief JusticeRanjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose and the apexcourt said it was not inclined to interfere with the April18 judgement of the high court.

"Having heard counsel for the petitioner and uponperusing the relevant material, we are not inclined tointerfere. The special leave petition is accordingly dis-missed," the bench said.

On April 18, the high court had said it was not inclined to grant relief against arrest to the petitionerswho had approached it challenging the summons issuedby Superintendent (Anti-Evasion) of the Hyderabad GSTCommissionerate under the Central Goods and ServicesTax Act, 2017 and invocation of penal provisions under the law.

The high court had delivered the verdict which deal-ing with a batch of petitions filed by some private com-panies, its top officials and others.

The Government had told the high court that peti-tioners before it were allegedly involved in incorporat-ing several partnership firms and had claimed input taxcredit on the basis of certain invoices, without therebeing any actual physical receipt of goods.

It had alleged that the fraudulent input tax creditclaimed by them was to the tune of �224.05 crore. PTI

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Months after its big cat relo-cation plan in Odisha's

Satkosia Tiger reserve wenthaywire, the National TigerConservation Authority(NTCA) has now decided toshowcase the locals examples ofother tiger habitats where vil-lagers are peacefully co-habit-ing with the wild animals.

The locals had fiercelyopposed the relocation ofSundari, a tigress andMahaveer, a tiger, in theSatkosia forest from MadhyaPradesh last year. The area hadwitnessed serious law and orderproblem when Sundari alleged-ly killed two persons. She hasbeen held captive since then bywildlife authorities. For hispart, Mahaveer fell to poaching.

Since then the tiger reloca-tion plan has been put on holdby the NTCA.

Now realising that its relo-cation plan will not see the lightof the day unless locals areengaged in the conservationplan, the top tiger body lastweek shot off a letter to theChief Wildlife Warden ofOdisha to organise a tour/expo-sure visit for capacity buildingof local community and forestofficials of Satkosia Tiger

Reserve to Terai Arc landscapecomprising of Corbett TigerReserve in Uttarakhand andPilibhit Tiger Reserve inUttarakhand.

The NTCA preferred tochose the two tiger reverses asit felt they were "very goodexamples of conservation wheremovement of tigers in humandominated areas has been mon-itored with involvement of localcommunities and forest depart-ments of both the States havesuccessfully ensured the reha-bilitation of tigers back to for-est areas."

During the tour, the localswill be educated to how to livepeacefully with the animalsand how they can earn theirlivelihood.

The move is in keepingwith the NTCA guidelineswhich envisage involvement oflocal people in conservation forfulfilling the agenda of co-exis-

tence in buffer or fringe areas."People's involvement becomesmore crucial in tiger relocatedsites like Satkosia tiger reservewhere local communities arehistorically dependent on theseforests. Therefore ist quite rel-evant to ensure role of localcommunities as co-partners inconservation instead of justpassive stakeholders.

"To achieve this, capacitybuilding of local communitiesis very important so as to seektheir active participation inconservation to achieve the co-existence agenda while mini-mizing man-animal conflicts,"said the NTCA letter.

The tigress Sundari wasbrought from Bandhavgarh onJune 28 last year while tigerMahaveer was brought fromKanha in Madhya Pradesh toSatkosia Tiger Reserve in Julylast year. Mahaveer's carcass wasfound on November 15.

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The new Government willhave to bring the contro-

versial Citizenship(Amendment) and Triple TalaqBills once again as they lapseddue to the dissolution of the16th Lok Sabha and the twolegislations not being passed inthe Rajya Sabha due to stiffOpposition.

The Government may con-tinue with the contents of theTriple Talaq Bill but may con-sider minor changes in theCitizenship Bill taking intoconsideration opinions fromthe stakeholders in Assam andother North Eastern States.

The Muslim Women(Protection of Rights onMarriage) Bill which made thepractice of instant triple talaq(talaq-e-biddat) a penaloffence, was opposed by theopposition parties which hadclaimed that jail term for thehusband for divorcing his wifeis legally untenable.

The Government had pro-

mulgated the ordinance ontriple talaq twice. Under theMuslim Women (Protectionof Rights on Marriage)Ordinance, 2019, divorcingthrough instant triple talaqwill be illegal, void and wouldattract a jail term of threeyears for the husband

A Bill to convert the earli-er ordinance, issued inSeptember 2018, was cleared bythe Lok Sabha in Decemberand was pending in the RajyaSabha.

Since the Bill could not getparliamentary approval, a fresh

ordinance was issued. Seekingto allay fears that the pro-posed law could be misused,the Government has includedcertain safeguards in it such asadding a provision for bail forthe accused during trial.

These amendments werecleared by the Cabinet onAugust 29, 2018. While theordinance makes it a "non-bail-able" offence, an accused canapproach a magistrate evenbefore trial to seek bail. In a non-bailable offence, bail cannot begranted by police at the policestation itself. A provision was

added to allow the magistrate togrant bail "after hearing thewife", the Government had said.

The Citizenship(Amendment) Bill, 2019 pro-vided for according Indian cit-izenship to Hindus, Jains,Christians, Sikhs, Buddhistsand Parsis from Bangladesh,Pakistan and Afghanistan afterseven years of residence inIndia instead of 12 years, whichis the current norm, even if theydo not possess any document.The legislation was passed byLok Sabha during the WinterSession on January 8 but couldnot be cleared by the upperhouse. There has been strongOpposition to the bill in Assamand other Northeastern States.

Student organisations,political parties and socio-cul-tural bodies have been protest-ing on the grounds that itseeks to grant nationality tonon-Muslims who have comeinto India up to December 31,2014, thereby increasing thedeadline from 1971 as per theAssam Accord.

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New Delhi: India on Mondaysuccessfully test fired an Akash-MK-1S missile from the inte-grated test range at Chandipurin Odisha, the DefenceMinistry said on Monday.

The surface-to-air anti-air-craft missile with a strike rangeof 25 km and capability to carrywarhead of 60 kg was test firedon May 25 and May 27, theysaid.

"Defence Research andDevelopment Organisation(DRDO) has successfully testfired AKASH-MK-1S missilefrom ITR, Chandipur, Odhisaon May 25 and 27," the defenceministry said in a statement.

It said the Akash weaponsystem has combination ofboth command guidance andactive terminal seeker guid-ance.

"Seeker and guidance per-formance have been consis-tently established in both themissions. All the mission objec-tives have been met," theMinistry said. PTI

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New Delhi: Four members of Bodoinsurgent group NDFB(S) were con-victed by a special NIA court inGuwahati on Monday for a terrorattack in Assam's Kokrajhar district in2014 in which five tribals were killed,officials said.

Bina Basumatary, JayantaMushahary, Dwithai Basumatary andKhanda Daimary were sentenced to fiveyears imprisonment and a fine wasimposed on each of them, an NIAspokesperson said here.

"?The case pertains to the terroristattack on 23.12.2014 by NDFB(S)

cadres upon innocent people of Pakiriguri village under SerfanguriPolice Station in Kokrajhar district of Assam, in which five adivasis were killed and another five sustained grievous injuries due toindiscriminate firing by the terroristgroup," he said.

He said one of the accused GautamMahalia had earlier pleaded guilty inApril 2019.

"He was sentenced to 4.5 years. Trialagainst 10 other accused persons whoare in judicial custody will continue,"the spokesperson said. PTI

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Narendra Modi on Mondaythanked world leaders for theirmessages congratulating him forreturning to power in the LokSabha elections.

Iranian President HassanRouhani wished Modi for histhumping electoral victory.

Thanking him on Twitter,the PM said, India and Iranenjoy civilizational links. "Wewill work to strengthen close tiesbetween the two countries,"Modi wrote. MEA spokesper-son Raveesh Kumar tweetedthat Kim Jae Ryong, the Premierof Cabinet in Democratic

People's Republic of Korea, alsocongratulated Modi on beingelected to the office for a secondterm. In his response to wishesfrom Jamaican PM AndrewHolness, Modi said the victoryis a reflection of the aspirationsof 1.3 billion people of India. "Ilook forward to working withyou to strengthen our friendlyrelations for the mutual progressand prosperity of our people,"he said. Responding to SouthAfrican President CyrilRamaphosa's greetings, Modireturned the wishes on inaugu-ration of his second term ofpresidency. PTI

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court onMonday asked the EnforcementDirectorate (ED) to file a reply on a pleaby corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar, anaccused in a money-laundering case,seeking interim bail on medical grounds.

Justice Chander Shekhar also askedthe jail authorities to file a medicalreport of Talwar and listed the matter forMay 30 for further hearing. The court alsodirected the jail superintendent to providenecessary medical treatment to Talwar.

Talwar has been accused by the EDof acting as a middleman in negotiationsto favour foreign private airlines over seat-sharing on Air India's profitable routes.

The ED is also probing various othercases related to money-laundering

against Talwar, who was deported fromthe United Arab Emirates (UAE) onJanuary 30. Meanwhile, another divisionbench headed by Chief Justice RajendraMenon asked Talwar's son Aditya toappear before the ED and satisfy it.

The bench's direction came after itwas informed that Aditya was a "fugitive".The court was hearing Wave HospitalityLtd's plea challenging a notice related toprovisional attachment of its hotel inAerocity area. The ED told the court thatAditya Talwar is connected with WaveHospitality and since he is a "fugitive"from law, the company's plea should notbe heard. But the company said thatTalwar was neither one of its directorsnor a shareholder. IANS

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi isaccused of making the 2019 gen-eral election a presidential race cen-tred on his formidable personali-ty and powerful oratory, thus

ensuring the landslide victory of theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 303; NDA 353.However, his principal challenger, Congresschief Rahul Gandhi, made the contestmonarchical with his family-driven rhetoricand entitlement brigade — scions of politi-cal families close to the Nehru-Gandhis, whoowe their eminence to proximity. RahulGandhi’s closest colleague is sister, PriyankaVadra, and his political advisors and men-tors (Digvijay Singh, Sam Pitroda) are alsoinherited.

The Congress was hobbled by this bag-gage. In an age of soaring aspirations andquest for equality, it was clueless how toappeal to rural or urban voters, women,youth, farmers, traders, entrepreneurs andprofessionals among others. Decision-mak-ing within the party has shrunk to closeddoor meetings with unknown membershipand little regular communication with therank and file. In contrast, BJP president AmitShah kept the party on its toes round the yearand gave tasks to every booth worker.

The result of the lustreless campaign isevident in the collapse of the political blue-blooded: Rahul Gandhi (Amethi), SheilaDikshit, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Milind Deora,Jitin Prasad, Salman Khurshid, Ajay Maken,Kumari Shailja, Priya Dutt, Meira Kumar,Vaibhav Gehlot, Manvendra Singh, RPNSingh, Ashok Chavan, Bhupendra Hoodaand son Deependra Hooda and Kirti Azad.Indeed, hereditary politicians fared badlyacross State-based political parties, virtual-ly a guillotine by ballot box.

The more disturbing news for Congressis that it has been reduced to a fringe party,with a decent presence only in Punjab andKerala. It drew a blank in ArunachalPradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat,Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu andKashmir, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland,Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura,Uttarakhand, Daman Diu, Dadra NagarHaveli, Lakshadweep, Andaman & NicobarIslands and Chandigarh. A comeback wouldtake a miracle. Meanwhile, the BJP vote sharerose to over 50 per cent in several States.

The Left collapsed with the Congress,given its deep symbiotic relationship. TheLeftist stranglehold over the media gothuge coverage for Kanhaiya Kumar (CPI,Begusarai, Bihar), who was trounced. Butpublic fatigue with the Left’s shrill and neg-ative rhetoric caused its fall from 59 seats in2004, 26 in 2009, 10 in 2014 and five in 2019;recovery is unlikely.

Modi’s success lay in shifting the electoraltemplate away from the Nehruvian paradigmof default Muslim vote bank plus sprinklingof castes to fill the electoral kitty towardsmore inclusive voter participation. Theprocess began in 2014 but was largely

ignored by analysts. Fine-tunedand implemented with greatervigour in 2019, it is beingmaligned as the rise of “majori-tarianism.” Western newspapersand their Indian echo chambersare warning of danger to minor-ity groups. Yet none of theseeminences ever criticised minor-ity religious leaders, who askedtheir flocks not to vote for theBJP, thus tampering with the freewill of voters and perverting thedemocratic system.

Simply put, Modi hasremoved the minority veto in thepolity, a Nehruvian aberrationthat denied equality to the myr-iad groups comprising the non-monolithic Hindu community.Henceforth, minorities, like oth-ers, must vote as individuals onthe issues of the day – national-ism, terrorism, farmer distress,budget and employment amongothers. The ancien régime,which pressured citizens to “voteyour caste/community”, whilelampooning them for doing so,has made way for “vote yournation/issue”. This caused therout of the Samajwadi Partydespite its pact with the BahujanSamaj Party in Uttar Pradesh.The Congress won only SoniaGandhi’s seat, which meansPriyanka Vadra (who failed toretain Amethi) may not win RaeBareli if Sonia Gandhi vacates it.

With hindsight, it seemsamusing that Sonia Gandhi,Sharad Pawar and TeluguDesam Party’s ChandrababuNaidu were so oblivious of thesimmering Modi wave that theyproposed a grand Oppositionalliance in the event of BJP-NDAfailing to win a clear majorityand even wanted the President

to call the post-post alliancebefore the pre-poll pact. Theycast aspersions on the integrityof the Electronic VotingMachines (EVM) even afterdodging a previous challenge bythe Election Commission topublicly demonstrate that themachines could be hacked.Sadly, former President PranabMukherjee joined this chorusand blotted his copybook.

The truth is that EVMscannot be tampered withoutphysically handling eachmachine (which is impossible).Each machine is an independentrecording device with no inter-net connection and cannot behacked via internet/Wi-Fi. TheVVPAT trail found no discrep-ancies. Anyway, ChandrababuNaidu vanished after the TDP’srout; Trinamool Congress chiefMamata Banerjee was chas-tened. At its working committeemeeting, the Congress agreednot to question the EVMs.

In Jammu and Kashmir,the National Conference wonAnantnag (Hasnain Masoodi),Baramulla (Akbar Lone) andSrinagar (Farooq Abdullah) andthe BJP won Jammu (JugalKishore), Udhampur (JitendraSingh) and Ladakh (J.T.Namgyal). The People’sDemocratic Party’s rout is amessage to the BJP to fulfill itspromise to abolish Articles 370and 35-A, which only needs aPresidential order and politicalwill. In Assembly elections laterthis year, if a coalition is neces-sary, the BJP must cut a dealequal to that crafted by theCongress when it gave the ChiefMinister’s post to OmarAbdullah. In Delhi Assembly

elections, the BJP must fieldleaders with an electoral baseand shun paratroopers whoruined the party in 2015.

Modi has promised cooper-ation to the new Governmentsof Odisha, Sikkim, AndhraPradesh and Arunachal Pradesh;they will naturally reciprocate inParliament. For India as a whole,some urgent priorities includeupdating the National Registerof Citizens, passing theCitizenship Amendment Bill toprotect Hindus fleeing persecu-tion or instability in the neigh-bourhood, giving equal rights toHindu refugees languishing inJammu and Kashmir and scrap-ping the discriminatory Right toEducation Act or applying itsprovisions equally.

Above all, Modi must givepriority to the economy bysecuring investments andincreasing the pace of infrastruc-ture development. Agricultureneeds a rethink outside the dis-credited paradigm of costly fer-tilisers, pesticides and depletedwater tables. The growing healthconsciousness in society willmake organic farming feasibleand remunerative.

Modi’s victory marks a tec-tonic shift in the history of therepublic. Unlike Rahul Gandhi,who embodied elected monar-chy and had little to offer the cit-izen, Modi wove city and chau-pal together in a grand narrativeof nationalism, national resur-gence and regeneration. He mayhave seemed presidential but thespirit was republican.

(The writer is Senior Fellow,Nehru Memorial Museum andLibrary; the views expressed arepersonal)

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Sir —There is no doubt that theModi magic did wonders thiselection. How else can oneexplain the fact that a terror-accused won by a huge margin?Even though the Prime Ministermade his communal agendaplain, it did not affect the pollresults. BJP chief Amit Shah’sorganisational skills, too, hadtheir impact. People seem tobelieve that Narendra Modi issome kind of a messiah who cansolve all their problems. A studyby the Centre for the Study ofDeveloping Societies found thatnearly one-third of the peoplewho voted for the BJP did so insupport of Modi rather than theparty or the local candidate.

In a bitter and divisive cam-paign, Modi effortlessly createdbinaries — nationalists versusanti-nationalists, the watchmanversus the entitled and the cor-rupt and so on — that eclipsedthe other fai lures of hisGovernment. Of course, thebountiful coffers of the BJP —funded by secret donations —helped his cause. This majorityverdict proves that Modi has anappeal that cut across barriers of

caste and class.Bidyut Kumar Chatterjee

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Sir—This refers to the edito-rial, “What’s next for Britain”(May 27). By agreeing to leave theEuropean Union (EU), Britaininflicted self-harm. With such a

massive divide between the peo-ple across the society, no oneknows what lies ahead and whatshould be done. Some support nodeal at all, others still hope noBrexit at all. The best option,however, is to go back to the EUand seek better terms. If not, thenit’s better to stay put as Britain inEU is a far better proposition forthe rest of the world.

British Prime Minister

Theresa May tried her best to sal-vage the situation and handleBrexit well but probably damagewas too big to be sorted out.Around 1.3 million British are liv-ing in 27 European countrieswhile 3.8 millions EU citizens areliving in Britain. Their interestsneed to be taken into account.The nations’ interest must not becompromise. Hopefully bettersense will prevail with the succes-

sor who occupies 10 Downingstreet.

Bal Govind Noida

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River valleys over the centurieshave cradled and nurturedsome famous civilisations. For

obvious reasons, this pattern hascontinued and even today most of thelarge cities continue to flourish on theriver banks. Excavations and discov-eries undertaken by Sir MortimorWheeler during the earlier decades ofthe last century unravelled the secretsof the Indus Valley civilisation hith-erto lying buried under centuries ofhistory.

We may have known about theIndus Valley civilisation much earli-er had the original discoveries byCharles Mason, a noted archaeologistin the 1820s, been given more seriousconsideration. It may come as a sur-prise but some of the Harappan sites

around the Indus are known to havebeen pillaged by contractors for brickballast to build a portion of the Lahorerailway in the later half of the nine-teenth century.

Archaeological evidence showsthat Indus was highly prone to floodsand frequent changes of course. As thesister river to the Indus, the Mihranalso carried large volumes of wateralong a course parallel and eastwardsof Indus. But over the millennia, theMihran has ceased to exist, so also thetowns on its banks. In later studies,the Mihran came to be identified withHakra as well as the Saraswati (alsoextinct).

Recent (May 2019) excavationsreported from Ganweriwala indicatethe town to have been located on thebanks of old river Hakra, often citedas the mythical Saraswati. There hasbeen a renewed interest in the recentyears in river Saraswati, as the depart-ment of culture has initiated a projectfor research on satellite imagery toascertain and chart out the entireroute of this ancient river. It would bein the general area of the present states

of Haryana and Rajasthan that evi-dence would be attempted to be col-lected to ascertain whether the civil-isation around the Saraswati was anextension of the Indus valley or viceversa.

The mythical Saraswati River,which is now extinct, has foundwide mention in the Puranas andancient Indian history. The SkandaPurana mentions that the KanyakubjaMahadesh of Bhoja, comprising 36lakh villages, extended up toKurukshetra and Saraswati. In theRigveda, a river course has been men-tioned, which now corresponds to theSaraswati and Ghaggar. The Saraswatihas been mentioned as a mighty riverfrom the pre-Vedic times. By the timethe Manusmriti and the Mahabharatacame to be written, it had alreadydeveloped its present character. Manucalls the place where it disappears asVinasana. The Mahabharata statesthat after disappearing, the riverreappeared at three places. It disap-pears in sands near the village ofChalaur and reappears at Bhavanipur.At Ballchapart, it again disappears,

only to appear again at Barakhera. AtUrnai, near Pehova, (ancientPrithudaka), it is joined by theMarkanda stream. At Sirsa (ancientSairishka), it is joined by Drishavadior Chitang.

The area between the Saraswatiand Drishadvati is known to be thesacred land of Brahmavarta, thehome of the Vedic rishis. After disap-pearing, the dry bed reappears southof Rohri and runs parallel to the Indusinto the Arabian Sea, which is anal-

ogous to the ancient Mihran HakraSystem. The other cities of theSaraswati era were Kapishthala(Kaithal), Sonaprastha or Sonepat andPaniyaprastha or Panipat.

Reports of the appearance ofsweet water in certain dry areas ofKutch after the earthquake also led toa revival of interest in the archaeolo-gy of the Indus Valley and the impactof tectonic movements on the riversystems. It is widely believed that theSaraswati river system may havebecome dry on account of one suchupheaval. There is sufficient data toshow that the original course of theSutlej was to follow a southward flowfrom Ropar (Punjab) towards theGhaggar, the two coming togethernear Shatrana in Sangrur district andthen flowing towards Kutch. Thesharp bend and a directional changeat Ropar, which is extremely unusu-al considering the flat terrain, mayappear to have been possible onaccount of a tectonic uplift. This mayhave led to the ultimate drying up ofthe Ghaggar-Saraswati system asSutlej was the only perennial source

of water in the area, which may havechanged course due to an earthquake.

That the Sutlej was earlier joinedto the Ghaggar-Saraswati system isalso borne out from a legend in theMahabharata, where it is mentionedthat Vashistha threw himself into theSutlej to commit suicide. TheSaraswati might have been a myth forsome but satellite imagery clearlyshows that such a river system didexist in line with the present dayGhaggar, and had a very wide basinright up to the Rann of Kutch.

Another interesting feature of theancient history of this area is the spec-ulation on the possible linkagebetween the Harappan civilisationand the Gangetic plain. Is it that theriver Saraswati could provide themissing link? Only forthcomingresearch would be able to decipherthis centuries-old secret whetherSaraswati was originally joined bySutlej or by river Yamuna, both theserivers having changed course cen-turies ago.

(The writer is a formerCommissioner of Police, Delhi)

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Imust admit to being gobsmacked when theelection results gathered momentum and theinevitable stared me in the face.Disappointment would be a severe under-statement, I was completely devastated. The

numbers seemed unreal, fictitious, as the BJPcounter clocked above 300 while that of theCongress party plateaued around 50. A historicmandate, screamed one channel; an unprecedent-ed landslide, suggested another. For once, their egre-gious hyperbole was not misplaced. Prime MinisterNarendra Modi had made a triumphant return, andin fact, bettered his previous performance of 2014of 282 seats. I say Modi’s victory and not that ofthe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or the NationalDemocratic Alliance (NDA) that he representsbecause essentially general elections 2019 becamelike a US presidential contest, where a personali-ty-centric pitch overwhelmed compelling issuesthat most thought would be the determining fac-tors affecting voter sentiment. That was not to be.There are reports that many voters did not evenknow the name of the Lok Sabha candidate theywere voting for; just the lotus symbol on the EVMmachine was sufficient motivation. Not unexpect-edly, Congress was facing the predictable onslaughtof acerbic scrutiny marinated with dollops of unre-strained sarcasm; is the party now facing an irre-versible terminal decline? Did NYAY (theMinimum Income Guarantee scheme) fail to per-colate down to the last mile? Was the campaignstrategy flawed ? Was the Congress party unableto answer Modi’s rhetorical fusillade of the GrandOld Party being soft on terror? Some partially saf-fronised TV anchors could barely conceal theirschadenfreude when mocking the Congress pres-ident Rahul Gandhi’s leadership. For many of us,it was a dark dismal nightmare. We have seen itbefore in 2014. But this one hurt a lot more.

The BJP has indulged in asymmetrical warfarewith a bountiful treasury, chaperoned by a capti-vated mainstream media and backed by rent-seek-ing corporate behemoths who are opportunisticaccessories with big ticket deals to formalise. Thetraditional template of political contestationsstood completely upended by the time the victorwas formally announced. So where does theCongress party go from not aggregating even 100Lok Sabha seats in two consecutive elections, whileup against a formidable monstrosity that has madewinning elections its raison d’etre? To understandthat, first we need to know what really happened.

Modi and BJP president Amit Shah had clear-ly recognised the clear and present danger follow-ing the Congress party wins in the State electionsof Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthanin December 2018. This electoral adversity followedthe sledgehammer blow in Karnataka when theCongress-Janata Dal (Secular) formed the govern-ment, by checkmating the BJP’s Chanakya.Rahul Gandhi was seeing stratospheric traction onsocial media, and his relentless assault on Modi onthe Rafale corruption scandal, had created a pop-ular leitmotif of Chowkidar Chor Hai. Frequentinteractions with different sections of peoplewithout a pre-arranged script, impromptu pressconferences and a refreshingly honest politician,who talked compassionate politics, had the toxicBJP nonplussed. Despite a prodigiously jaundicedmedia that was sand-bagging Modi, the percep-

tion battle had now become a competi-tive one. And Modi was feeling thecracks. The farming community was fac-ing diminishing incomes due to fallingprocurement and lower prices whileModi dilly-dallied on Minimum SupportPrices. The agrarian crisis is an alarm-ing reality and a pandemic problem.India’s storied demographic dividend hasbecome an onerous liability, as we areconfronted with an epic catastrophe onjob creation. The macro-economic fun-damentals are a manifestation of an econ-omy in virtual stagnation.Demonetisation, which was nothingbut an atrocious hocus-pocus econom-ics and the clumsy execution of Goodsand Services Tax (GST) had plunderedthe informal economy, pauperising mil-lions in its wake. India’s GDP appearsmanipulated and government data whenunpalatable to Modi ( like the job num-bers) have been unceremoniouslydumped. The latest figures on the auto-mobile industry sales show a conspicu-ous downward trend and the manufac-turing sector appears to be in rigor-mor-tis. The stressed assets in the banking sec-tor are kissing some dark clouds. Sumand substance, a rejuvenated and resoluteRahul Gandhi and a faltering economyhad Modi outwitted, foxed. ThenPulwama happened.

For a man who sold the “develop-ment” spiel in 2014, Modi calculatedlydumped his flaky past promises whichhave been nothing but embarrassing sna-fus such as 2 crore jobs per annum, theobliteration of black money, doubling offarm incomes and creation of monochro-matic smart cities, among a few. Post theterror attack at Pulwama and the Balakotcounter-strike, Modi had found his 2019trumpcard; muscular nationalism. Thisbecame for him what the Kargil war wasfor former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee. Theheart-stopping capture of WingCommander Abhinandan and his sub-sequent release by Pakistan were seizedby Modi as his own superman prowess

that intimidated Islamabad. Ghar MeGhus Ghus Ke Maroonga (I will entereach and every home and kill them all)was his thundering pomposity thatsought to resurrect his attenuated 56”machismo. People whistled and clappedlike they once did watching AmitabhBachchan bash up goons in Deewaar.

The new global authoritarian leaderis now an elected autocrat who presidesover an illiberal democracy. For him themost marketable weapon is fear;Islamophobia is popular political curren-cy. An enemy at the border is usuallyenough. Modi found one at home too.His speech at Wardha, Maharashtra, lam-basted Rahul Gandhi for contestingfrom Wayanad in Kerala because it wasa Hindu-minority parliamentary con-stituency. This was scare-mongering, andan “othering” of the fellow Indian. APrime Minister takes an oath on India’sConstitution to embody its consecratedprinciples in his impartial political con-duct; Modi cast them aside, making hispreferred religious choice publiclyknown. It was dog-whistle politics. As thevotes closed in on May 23, it was clearModi's stratagem worked. And how.

In 2014, there were large billboardsin Marine Drive, Mumbai that hadModi vaingloriously promoted as aHindu Hriday Samrat. This time the BJPchose another Hindutva icon, SadhviPragya Singh Thakur. The political mes-saging behind the questionable choicewas unambiguous; even a terror-accusedallegedly responsible for a bomb blast thatkilled six persons in Malegaon andinjured several from the minority com-munity was kosher. Modi was legitimis-ing an orchestrated violent attack, evenproposing to give the controversial can-didate a haloed seat in the Parliament. Itwas an abject low even by BJP’s polaris-ing standards. But there it was. ForThakur, Mahatma Gandhi’s assassinNathuram Godse was a patriot. Thakur’selectoral victory from Bhopal on May 23is perhaps the defining moment of this

election, and of the reshaping of India. The Congress party will have to

aggressively defend the IndianConstitution, which is being systemati-cally annihilated by ridiculing its quin-tessential credo. It is an ideological warwhere BJP’s Hindutva enterprise clever-ly disguised through cultural nationalismis getting fresh tailwinds. First, the BJPtrivialised communal harmony by creat-ing the term pseudo-secular, and now theIndian liberal is called an Urban Naxal.The Saffron Project is to gradually infil-trate institutions and convert impression-able Indians through religious chauvin-ism. The Congress faces an arduous chal-lenge given BJP’s propaganda machine,social media troll army and theWhatsApp fake news manufacturingcapabilities. The party is up against anasty adversary that has altered the rulesof the game. Playing within the BJP’scomfort zone will be like trying todefeat Rafael Nadal on red clay at theFrench Open. There is only one option;force your opponent to a surface wherethe ball skids faster and the grass is green.

The Congress party will have to rein-vent the political discourse, while simul-taneously maximising its enormoushuman talent currently performing at lowproductivity on account of bureaucrat-ic cholesterol in its organisational struc-ture. Internal disorganisation is costingthe party dear, as was expressed by theCongress president himself. There istremendous energy that needs to be lib-erated for the great struggle ahead. It istime to take bold pragmatic risks, beunpredictable and practise political plas-ticity. There is too much at stake. It is abattle that must be won.

Rahul Gandhi correctly said that the2019 election was a battle for India’s soul.That soul is today splintered intosmithereens. But the soul is indestruc-tible. And it will find its voice again.

(The author is a national spokesper-son of the Indian National Congressparty. The views are his own.)

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Days after the NationalDemocratic Alliance

(NDA) scripted a resoundingvictory in the Lok Sabha elec-tions, Rashtriya SwayamsevakSangh (RSS) chief MohanBhagwat said that “Ram kakaam karna hai, Ram ka kaamho kar hi rahega (Ram’s workneeds to be done and Ram’swork will be done).”

Bhagwat made the com-ments during his visit toUdaipur on Sunday for a“mandir pran pratishtha” pro-gramme in Pratap GauravKendra, where he was accom-panied by spiritual leaderMorari Bapu.

The programme was firstaddressed by Morari Bapu.Speaking on the occasion, hesaid, “Since centuries this coun-try has been chanting the nameof lord Ram. Today the coun-try is passing through such cir-cumstances that we need tothink of doing Ram’s worktoo. It makes me happy to seeRam’s name written on theyouth’s hands.”

Soon after his address,Bhagwat said, “We shouldremember the message givenby Morari Bapu. Ram’s workneeds to be done and Ram’swork will be done. Ram residesin our hearts. We all need to beactive and move ahead to ful-fil our goals.”

Bhagwat was on a four-daytrip to Udaipur since Friday toattend the RSS-run ‘SanghShiksha Seva II’ training camp.

Soon after landing inUdaipur airport on Friday,Bhagwat told the media, “Aagaayi hai sarkar wapas (Thegovernment is back).”

Even before the Lok Sabhaelections, the RSS had pitched

for the construction of Ramtemple in Ayodha, and hadasked the Narendra Modi-ledgovernment to hasten theprocess of temple construction.The Ram Temple has been onthe BJP manifesto since 2014.

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Maulana Khalid RashidFirangi Mahali, Imam ofEidgah and a well known Sunnicleric, said. “It is not right tomake such statements when thematter is in the Supreme Court.The mediation process is alsoon under the court supervision.

“Muslims are waiting for adecision and the Hindu leadersshould also exercise patience.Such statements will only serveto create controversy and panic.”Shia cleric Maulana YasoobAbbas said that since matter issub-judice, leaders of both com-munities should refrain frommaking statements. IANS

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Former Rajasthan educationminister Vasudev Devnani

on Monday flayed the StateCongress Government foraffixing “son of Portugal” toRSS ideologue VinayakDamodar’s description in ClassX social science textbooks.

Recently, the CongressGovernment constituted a text-book revision committee in theschool education department.Based on the committee’s find-ings, the department revised ashort biography of RSS ideo-logue Vinayak DamodarSavarkar introduced by theprevious BJP Government.

Now, in the textbooks it ismentioned Savarkar haddescribed himself as “son ofPortugal” when seeking

clemency from the BritishGovernment in 1910-11.

In a series of tweets onMonday, Devnani said the StateGovernment should take inspi-ration from former PrimeMinister Indira Gandhi whohad described Savarkar as the “byword for daring andpatriotism.”

The former Prime Ministerhad called Savarkar “a classicalrevolutionary and countlesspeople drew inspiration fromhim”, Devnani said.

“Former Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi recognised andhailed the legacy of great free-dom fighter Veer Savarkar.The then Government hadissued a commemorative stampon Veer Savarkar in 1970.

“Indira Gandhi had donat-ed a sum of Rs 11,000 from her

personal account to SavarkarTrust and ordered the FilmsDivision to produce a docu-mentary on his life,” Devnanitweeted.

The former State Ministersaid calling the freedom fight-er “son of Portugal” is an insult.

He alleged the CongressGovernment had the single-

point agenda of insulting hero-ic characters and eulogisingonly one family. In response,Rajasthan Education MinisterGovind Singh Dotasara said thechanges were made by theexperts committee.

“What can I say? A com-mittee of experts have writtenit based on authenticity andtheir recommendations. I canonly say that whatever hasbeen written in the textbookshave been written based on therecommendations of educa-tionists,” Dotasara told PTI.

In other changes, the com-mittee removed the prefix‘Veer’ from Savakar’s name inthe textbooks and it now refersto him as Vinayak DamodarSavarkar who “plotted assassi-nation” of Mahatma Gandhi,who was killed by Nathuram

Godse on January 30, 1948, lessthan a year after India gainedindependence from Britain.

The revision of textbooksnot only drew flak from theOpposition but also from acouple of leaders in the rulingCongress.

The panel had recom-mended the removal of a pic-ture suggesting self-immolationunder Sati or Jauhar from aClass VIII English textbook. It was replaced with that of ahill fort.

“We need to understandthe practice of Jauhar. Withoutunderstanding the sensitiveissue, any leader, be it from theCongress or the BJP, shouldrefrain from making a state-ment,” said State TransportMinister Pratap SinghKhachariyawas.

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Newly-appointed SikkimChief Minister PS Golay

on Monday announced a five-day working week for StateGovernment employees.

After taking charge of theoffice at Tashiling state secre-tariat, he also held a meetingwith top Government officials.

Talking to reporters afterinteracting with senior officials,Golay said there will be five-day working week for the Government employeesin Sikkim.

“We have fulfilled one ofour election promises to reducethe working week forGovernment employees fromsix days earlier to five days,” hesaid. The Government employ-ees will get an additional day asholiday which they will use to

take care of their health andthat of their parents and fam-ily members, he said.

The Chief Minister alsoannounced his Ministers andMLAs, including himself, willuse Scorpio vehicles instead ofFortuner SUVs which werebeing used by the elected rep-resentatives earlier.

“For the time being wehave no option but to useFortuner SUVs, but we will useScorpio vehicles once they aremade available to us,” Golaysaid. The SKM supremo hadearlier accused the SDF gov-ernment headed by his prede-cessor PK Chamling for “mis-using public money”.

Golay said the moneysaved on using less expensivevehicles like Scorpio will beused for betterment of thepeople of Sikkim.

Lucknow: The Uttar PradeshAnti-Terror Squad (ATS) hasarrested six Bangladeshi citi-zens for allegedly preparingfake passports using false doc-uments, an official said onMonday.

The accused were arrestedfrom Agra. “The UP ATS wasgetting information that someBangladeshis, living illegallyin Uttar Pradesh, used to call

other Bangladeshis and makefake documents (used for iden-tity) such as Aadhaar cards andration cards. Based on thesefake documents, they used toeven get their passports made,”Asim Arun, AdditionalDirector General of Police, UPATS, said in a statement.

He added the sixBangladeshi nationals werepicked up from the Agra railway

station on Sunday. “Duringinterrogation, it was revealedthat all of them were residentsof Bangladesh, who were livingin India on the basis of fake doc-uments. A case has been regis-tered against them and theyhave been arrested,” Arun said.

He added the dataretrieved from the accusedrevealed that they had also vis-ited Punjab and Rajasthan.

“During interrogation, theysaid they had unsuccessfullytried to go to Pakistan bycrossing the barbed-wire fence.Their Pakistan-based accom-plices had told them to sneakinto Pakistan with the help ofan electric tester to find outwhether current was flowingthrough the fence. Four testerswere seized from their posses-sion,” the officer said. PTI

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Security forces averted amishap on Monday by time-

ly detecting a suspected impro-vised explosive device (IED)near Kallar chowk alongJammu-Poonch highway infrontier Rajouri district.

According to spokesman ofthe J&K Police, “a road openingparty (ROP) of the Army firstdetected the suspected IEDlying near Kallar Chowk along-side the highway that connectsRajouri district with Jammu”.

Police spokesman said,“during close examination, abottle filled with liquid mater-ial and a polybag filled withsome solid material was found.The ROP immediately flashedan alert and traffic was halted onboth sides of the road to preventany untoward incident”.

“After senior army andpolice officers, took stock of the

situation, army’s bomb dis-posal squad launched its oper-ation following SOP and afterhour long exercise, the said sus-pected IED material wasdestroyed on the spot therebyaverting any possible mishap”,police spokesman added.Traffic on the busy road wasrestored to clear the rush ofstranded vehicles.

Senior superintendent ofpolice, Rajouri, Yougal Manhassaid that timely action by thealert jawans of army ROP avert-ed any untoward incident.

He also clarified that duringinitial investigation of the mat-ter, it has come to fore that nobanned explosive material waspresent in the suspicious objectfound along highway in Rajouri.

“It seems that some mis-creant placed a suspicious objectin a disintegrated form to giveit the shape of an IED to createsocial disorder”, he added.

Guwahati: Incumbent PemaKhandu will be sworn in asArunachal Pradesh ChiefMinister on Wednesday after theState BJP won the recentAssembly and Lok Sabha polls.

The BJP legislature party inArunachal Pradesh has electedKhandu as their leader during ameeting on Monday. Later,Khandu accompanied by legis-lator and former Deputy ChiefMinister Chowna Mein andstate BJP chief and MP TapirGao called on State GovernorBrig BD Mishra at Raj Bhavanin Itanagar and staked claim toform the next Government.

Khandu informed theGovernor about the meetingconsisting of 41 elected membersof Arunachal Pradesh LegislativeAssembly from the BJP andsaid 40 members have unani-mously elected him as theirleader in seventh LegislativeAssembly of the State. IANS

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Though the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government at

the Centre has a comfortablemajority in the Lok Sabha, theTamil Nadu brigade led by theDMK is all set to make life dif-ficult for the ruling party.

The Secular ProgressiveAlliance (SPA) led by the DMKhas 37 members and it is expect-ed to win the rescinded VelloreLok Sabha as and when it isheld making the rally to 38.

“We were able to sustain theanti-Modi campaign throughoutthe last few years abd in everynook and corner of the State,”said RS Bharati, Rajya Sabhamember as well as the organis-ing secretary of the DMK.

The immediate target of theDMK is winning the LocalBody elections in Tamil Nadu asand when they are held . “Thiswill be precursor to the assem-bly election to be held in 2021which we are sure to sweep,”said a senior party leader. Hencethe DMK and its allies wouldkeep the heat going on againstthe Modi government in bothHouses of Parliament.

The DMK has promised tonominate Vaiko, the MDMKleader as a member of Rajya

Sabha when election is due onJuly 2019. Vaiko is expected tomake life difficult for the rul-ing dispensation at the Centre.He had already assured thepeople that he would make theCentre agree to exempt TamilNadu from the NationalEligibility and Entrance Test(NEET) , the qualifying exam-ination for dmission to undergraduate and post graduatecourses in the country’s med-ical colleges.

Vaiko has already “fired”warning shots by asking thePrime Minister to ensure thesafety f the minority commu-nities in the country. He con-demned the BJP and Modi forthe attack on a couple belong-ing to the minority communi-ty at Bhopal allegedly by cowvigilantes. Adding headache tothe Modi government would beThol Thirumavalavan, theVCK leader who scrapedthrough from Chidambaramconstituency by a margin of3,219 votes, the smallest mar-gin in Tamil Nadu.

The southern bench is amyriad combination of youthand experience. MK Kanimozhi,former DNK chiefKarunanidhi’s daughter by histhird wife, Dayanidhi Maran,Karunanidhi’s grand nephew, ARaja, the 2G spectrum fame for-mer Union Minister, TamizhachiThangapandian who wasKaruinanidhi’s beloved discipleand Kalanidhi Veersamy, son offormer DMK minister ArcotVeerasamy are the leading lightsin the DMK array.

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Ahigh-level meeting to reviewthe arrangements being put

in place for the upcomingAmarnath yatra in southKashmir Himalayas was heldhere on Monday, an official said.

The annual 46-day pil-grimage to the 3,880 metrehigh holy cave shrine is sched-uled to begin from the twinroutes of Pahalgam inAnantnag and Baltal inGanderbal districts on July 1.

Principal Secretary HomeShaleen Kabra chaired themeeting which was attended byDivisional Commissioner,Jammu Sanjeev Verma, IGPMK Sinha, IG Traffic AlokKumar, IG CRPF AV Chauhanand other senior civil andpolice officers, the official said.

The DivisionalCommissioner gave a detailedpresentation on the arrange-ments being put in place by dif-ferent departments to ensuresmooth conduct of the yatra,the official said. The commis-sioner also apprised those pre-sent in the meeting about thenumber of SRTC busses beingmade available, halting pointsset up in Kathua, Samba,Jammu, Udhampur andRamban districts, langar (com-munity kitchen) points enroute,shelter sheds, accommodationfor pilgrims and other relatedarrangements, the officialadded. PTI

Ahmedabad: Ahead ofRathyatra in Ahmedabad,Special Operations Group(SOG) on Monday detained 47Bangladeshi nationals fromvarious parts of the city for ille-gal stay, police said.

The Ahmedabad SOG hadformed five different teams tocarry out a search operation, asper an official statement.Patrolling was conducted indifferent areas of the city dur-ing which as many as 47Bangladeshis were detainedfrom areas including Chandolalake in Ishanpur, Danilimda,Chirag Park Society, NarodaPatiya, Juna Wadaj etc, andbrought to SOG police station,it said.

They were detained as theywere found to be staying ille-gally in the city without anyvalid documents. PTI

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Former Prime Minister andJD(S) supremo HD Deve

Gowda had a discussion withKarnataka Congress chiefDinesh Gundu Rao onMonday, following the com-bine’s rout in the just-conclud-ed Lok Sabha election.

After the meeting that last-ed for over an hour, Rao toldreporters that Deve Gowda hadasked him to come home to dis-cuss various issues. He, howev-er, refused to divulge what tran-spired between the formerPrime Minister and him.

“I cannot disclose whatdiscussion we had because hehas said something outrightabout the two parties. We willhave to take certain decisionsafter discussing with the seniorleaders in our party,” Rao said.

The Congress and the JanataDal (Secular) only managed towin one seat each of the 28 inKarnataka, while the BJP won 25seats. The other seat was baggedby BJP-backed Independentcandidate SumalathaAmbareesh, who defeated DeveGowda’s grandson NikhilKumaraswamy in Mandya.

Deve Gowda too lost from

Tumkur. BJP leaders have pre-dicted the collapse of theCongress-JD(S) coalition inKarnataka and an increase inthe saffron party’s tally in theAssembly after the Lok Sabhapoll results, claiming that 20-odd Congress MLAs

were unhappy with the StateGovernment.

The Deve Gowda-Raomeeting comes amid coalitionworries and discontent withinthe Congress, with its MLARamesh Jarkiholi, who hasbeen rubbing shoulders with

the BJP for some time, eventhreatening to resign, alongwith a few other lawmakers.

The Congress has con-vened a meeting of its legisla-ture party on Wednesday todiscuss the political develop-ments in the southern State.

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Three suspects have beenarrested in connection with

the killing of a BJP worker inAmethi two days ago, policesaid on Monday.

Director General of Police(DGP) OP Singh said there wasa local-level political rivalrybetween the deceased,Surendra Singh, 50, and thefather of one of the accused.

“We have arrested threepersons. After the incident wasreported, as many as sevenpeople were taken into custodyand they were thoroughlyquizzed,” Singh told reportershere. “Among the seven people,there were three who werelinked with the incident.”

Amethi Superintendent ofPolice Rajesh Kumar said thosearrested have been identified asRamchandra, Dharmanath andNaseem, while two personswere absconding.

Singh, a close aide ofnewly-elected Amethi MPSmriti Irani, was shot when hewas sleeping in his house atBaraulia village, 25 km fromthe district headquarters, onSaturday night. The formervillage head was referred to aLucknow hospital, but suc-cumbed to injuries duringtreatment.

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The simmering discontent inRJD has come to the fore

following its rout in Lok Sabhaelection with a senior party leg-islator Maheshwar PrasadYadav on Monday askingTejashwi Yadav to resign fromthe post of Leader ofOpposition taking moralresponsibility of the drubbing.

Alleging that parivarwad(family politics) has cost theparty most, Maheshwar, RJDMLA from Gaighat Assemblyconstituency in Muzaffarpurdistrict, claimed the party will break if his demand is notfulfilled.

As a party MLA, I wouldrequest Tejaswhi Yadav toresign from the post of LOPtaking moral responsibility ofthe Lok Sabha poll debacle andappoint any other senior partyleader hailing from a casteother than Yadav to the post ofLOP, failing which the partywill have to face crushing defeatin 2020 Assembly elections, hetold reporters.

The RJD is the secondparty of the five membersmahagathbandhan to face theheat of resounding defeat in thehands of NDA in Bihar.

Except for one seat ofKisanganj won by theCongress, the BJP, JD(U) andLJP combine bagged 39 out of a total 40 Lok Sabha seatsin Bihar.

Earlier, UpendraKushwaha led RLSPs three leg-islators — two MLAs and oneMLC — merged with theJD(U) on Sunday followingthe massive drubbings at thehustings.

If my demand (to appoint

someone else as LOP) is notfulfilled, then the legislatureparty will break as party’s sev-eral legislators are with me, Maheshwar Prasad Yadav claimed.

Asked whether he has thesupport of two-third of RJDlegislature party to avoid dis-qualification under anti- defec-tion law, he answered in affir-mative saying that he has thesupport of large numbers ofparty MLAs as no one wants toboard the sinking ship...Butplease, dont ask me the namesand numbers at the moment.

Asked whether he wouldattend the two-day RJD meet-ing scheduled to be held onMay 28 and 29 to discuss thepoll debacle, the rebel MLAsaid he would not participate inthe meeting till his demand(Tejashwi resignation) is met.

Maheshwar, who has beenseen in close company of BiharCM Nitish Kumar in the recentpast, said Lalu Prasads affectionfor his family cost the partymost and the party (RJD)would not have staged a come-

back in the 2015 Assemblypolls, if the RJD would not havestitched an alliance withKumar’s JD(U).

It was because of Kumarthat the RJD came to power in2015 in the State, he said,adding but the party supremoagain chose to anoint his bothsons as Deputy CM andMinister in Nitish Kumar-ledGrand Alliance Governmentignoring senior party leaders.

When Nitish Kumar part-ed his ways, RJD chief againfoisted his son Tejashwi andwife Rabri Devi as LOP inlower and upper house respec-tively. I had opposed the partychiefs move to make RabriDevi as the CM in 1997 andhad suggested him to appointany other senior leader of theparty as CM but he ignored myopinion. There was a timewhen the party was reduced to22 MLAs and four MPs. Butpeople in recently held gener-al elections have thoroughlyrejected the RJD for carryingout ‘parivarwad’ politics, theMLA added.

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After almost a month-and-half, the much awaited

Cabinet meeting of the YogiAdityanath Government will beheld on Tuesday in which thestate government is expected tofinalise the transfer policy and take decisions on pending issues.

A Government official toldThe Pioneer here on Mondaythat the Cabinet meeting would be held at 11 am and waslikely to continue for an houror so.

Many decisions, whichwere pending because of theModel Code of Conduct beingin force, were expected to betaken up on Tuesday, he said.

The last Cabinet meetingwas held on March 8 before the

Model Code of Conduct cameinto force for 78 days.

Sources say the Cabinetmay finalise the transfer poli-cy whose nitty-gritty awaitsCabinet nod.

Generally, the deadline fortransfer ends on May 31 butthis year the deadline is sure toincrease.

The Cabinet will decide themodalities as generally only 10per cent of the staff are trans-ferred and the policy also con-tains many riders.

The spokesman said thegovernment may also takedecision on wheat purchaseand set guidelines for the con-struction of Purvanchal andBundelkhand expressways.

“There are around a dozenissues which need Cabinetapproval and these will be dis-

cussed threadbare in the meet-ing,” the official said.

The Cabinet is also likely tocongratulate Prime MinisterNarendra Modi for theresounding success in the LokSabha election.

Three Cabinet ministers— Rita Bahuguna Joshi(Tourism), Satyadeo Pachauri(Khadi and Gramodyog) andSPS Baghel (AnimalHusbandry) are also likely toattend the Cabinet meeting,their last in UP.

They have been elected tothe Lok Sabha and would betaking oath as members of the17th Lok Sabha.

Rita Bahuguna Joshi hasbeen elected to the Lok Sabha from Allahabad,Pachauri from Kanpur andBaghel from Agra.

T h i r u v a n a n t h a p u r a m :Congress president RahulGandhi would visit Wayanad inthe first week of June to thankthe electorate for his recordbreaking win from this LokSabha seat in Kerala, said aCongress leader on Monday.

Leader of OppositionRamesh Chennithala said thisafter the Congress-led UnitedDemocratic Front (UDF) metfor the first time after register-ing a resounding victory in theLok Sabha polls, winning allbut one of the 20 seats in the State.

A source in the know ofthings said Rahul Gandhi’svisit could be either onSaturday or Monday.

Rahul won with the high-est ever margin of victory inany Lok Sabha election with4,31,770 votes.

He defeated his nearestrival PP Suneer of theCommunist Party of India whosecured 2,74,597 votes whileCongress president received7,06,367 votes.

“This huge victory hasplaced more responsibility onus and we assure the people thatthis victory will not get intotheir heads. They will alwayswork for people of the State,”said Chennithala. IANS

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Bengaluru: Former KarnatakaChief Minister Siddaramaiahon Monday asserted that theJDS-Congress Governmentwas a ‘strong’ one and ridiculedState BJP president BSYeddyurappa for repeatedlyclaiming that the coalition will collapse.

In a series of tweets, healso said the people’s mandatewas for continuation of theBJP-led Government at the

Centre and not for ‘toppling’the State Government.

“Yeddyurappa has beensaying for the past one year theGovernment will fall. He willcontinue to say the same forthe next four years. I am con-fident the Government isstrong,” Siddaramaiah said.

Referring to Prime MinisterNarenda Modi bowing to theConstitution after being elect-ed leader of the BJP-led NDA

on Saturday, he sought to knowwhich article in the Constitutiongave the BJP the right to topplea State Government.

Siddaramiah said the out-come of the Lok Sabha elec-tions, in which the BJP won 25seats, was for continuation ofthe NDA Government at theCentre and not for toppling theGovernment in the State andmake Yeddyurappa ChiefMinister again. PTI

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Investors’ wealth has gone up by �3.86 lakh crore intwo days of market rise where the Sensex has gained

872 points after the decisive mandate for the BJP in thegeneral election.

The 30-share BSE key index has gained 871.9 pointsin two days. The Sensex Monday closed 248.57 pointshigher at 39,683.29.

Led by the rally in the equity market, the marketcapitalisation (m-cap) of BSE-listed companies rose by�3,86,220.41 crore to �1,54,11,395.90 crore on the BSE.

At the close of trade on Thursday, the market val-uation of BSE-listed firms was �1,50,25,175.49 crore.

The Sensex had hit its all-time high of 40,124.96 dur-ing the trade on May 23, the day election results wereannounced.

Hemang Jani, Head (Advisory), Sharekhan byBNP Paribas said, “Indian markets end the day on a pos-itive note. The markets continue their upward trend sup-ported by FII (foreign institutional investor) buying inthe past two consecutive trading days. The current gov-ernment wining the general elections by a two-thirdsof majority will clam the political environment in thecountry.”

He said slowdown in global growth, US-China tradewar along with rise in oil prices pose an immediate threatto domestic markets

“However, post the elections, we now expect themarket to revert to fundamental issues such as earningsgrowth,” Jani added.

From the 30-share pack, 17 scrips gained led by TataSteel, YES Bank, NTPC, Larsen and Toubro, Axis Bankand State Bank of India.

Among sectoral indices, the BSE capital goods,power, industrials, utilities, metal and realty indices ral-lied up to 3.06 per cent.

In the broader market, the S&P BSE Midcap indexgained 1.13 per cent and BSE Smallcap 1.77 per cent.

On the BSE, 1,793 scrips advanced, while 785declined and 188 remained unchanged.

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Trump saysthe US isn’tready tomake a tradedeal withChina, buthe’s leavingopen thepossibi l itythat the twon a t i o n scould strikean agree-ment some-day.

Speaking in TokyoMonday, Trump said of China,“they would like to make a deal.We’re not ready to make a deal.”

He added, “We’re taking intens of millions of dollars of tar-iffs and that number could goup very, very substantially, veryeasily.”

Still, Trump predicted a“very good deal with Chinasometime into the futurebecause I don’t believe thatChina can continue to paythese really hundreds of billionsof dollars in tariffs.”

The world’s two largesteconomies are in a tense stand-off over trade. Trump has saidhe expected to meet with his

Chinese counterpart, XiJinping, next month at a G-20meeting in Japan.

Trump said he knows thathis advisers think that NorthKorea violated UN SecurityCouncil resolutions when itfired off short-range missilesearlier this month. But Trumpsaid he sees it differently — andthat it doesn’t matter anyway.

Trump said perhaps NorthKorean leader Kim Jong Unwas trying to get attentionwith the tests.

Trump spoke Monday inTokyo alongside JapanesePrime Minister Shinzo Abe,who also believes North Korea’srecent tests violated UN reso-lutions.

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Anil Ambani’s RelianceGroup will sell its FM radio

business by divesting its entirestake in BIG FM Radio toJagran Prakashan-owned MusicBroadcast Ltd (MBL) for an esti-mated value of �1,200 crore, anofficial statement Monday said.

Reliance Capital andReliance Land (a part of RelianceCapital Group) will divest theirentire equity stake in RelianceBroadcast Network Ltd (RBNL)to Music Broadcast Ltd (MBL).

The move would help inreducing the loan burden of theReliance group firms, it added.

“This transaction is part ofour overall strategy to reduceexposure in non-core busi-nesses and will reduce ourdebt by an estimated �1,200crore,” the statement RelianceCapital CFO Amit Bapna saidin a statement.

RBNL operates under thebrand name BIG FM Radio net-work with 58 stations across thecountry. MBL will initiallyacquire a 24 per cent equity stakeof RBNL by way of a preferen-tial allotment for �202 crore.

Thereafter, subject to thereceipt of all regulatoryapprovals, MBL will acquire allof the remaining equity stakeheld by Reliance Capital andReliance Land in RBNL at a totalenterprise value of �1,050 crore.

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Weakness in consumer spending andsoftening commodity prices have led

India Inc to deliver a six-quarter low rev-enue growth of 10.7 per cent for January-March period, a report said Monday.

From profitability perspective, oper-ating margins also narrowed 0.78 percent to 16.8 per cent during the period,but were up 0.93 per cent on lower com-modity prices and price hikes, ratingagency Icra said in the report.

The agency analysed the results of304 listed entities while arriving at theaggregate.

It said for the consumer companies,the revenue growth declined to 2.3 percent for March quarter, 2018-19, downfrom 9.8 per cent in the precedingquarter, while the same for companies inthe commodity-linked sectors was 12.4per cent as compared to 31 per cent.

The weakness in the consumer-linked sectors was visible in the declinein wholesale dispatches of passengervehicles and two-wheelers and sequen-tial decline in same store sales growth ofquick service restaurants, retail chainsand FMCG companies, its Vice PresidentShamsher Dewan said.

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Adoption of artificial intel-ligence is expected to help

double the rate of industrialinnovation, and may result inover two times jump inemployee productivity in Indiaby 2021, a study by tech giantMicrosoft said Monday.

The study, conducted byresearch firm IDC on behalf ofMicrosoft, said organisations

that have adopted AI saw tan-gible improvements in therange of 8-22 per cent in areaslike customer engagement,margins and competitiveness.

“By 2021, artificial intelli-gence (AI) will more than dou-ble the rate of innovation atorganisations (2.2 times) andemployee productivity (2.3times) in India,” the studytitled ‘Future Ready Business:Assessing Asia Pacific’s GrowthPotential Through AI’ said.

However, only one-third ofthe organisations (respondents)in India said they haveembarked on their AI journeys.

The study found that Indiabusiness leaders and workershold positive viewpoints about theAI’s impact on the future of jobs.

About 64 per cent of businessleaders and 63 per cent of work-ers believe that AI will either helpto do their existing jobs better orreduce repetitive tasks.

When it comes to creatingor replacing jobs, 16 per cent ofbusiness leaders believe that AIwill create new jobs, but 18 percent also feel that the technol-ogy will replace workers.

The report said that about85 per cent of businesses pri-

oritise skilling and re-skilling ofworkers in the future and planto invest in the human capitalevenly or even more comparedto investing in technology.

“Economies and business-es that have yet to embark ontheir AI journey run a real riskof missing out on the compet-itive benefits that are enjoyedby leaders. Businesses mustnow embrace a new culture,where innovation and contin-uous learning are core compo-nents of the organisational cul-ture,” Microsoft India NationalTechnology Officer RohiniSrivathsa told reporters here.

The Asia Pacific study wasbased on response from 1,605business leaders and 1,585workers, including 200 businessleaders and 202 workers inIndia. Fifteen countries werepart of the report includingAustralia, China, Japan, Korea,Malaysia, and Singaporeamong others.

ICICI Lombard GeneralInsurance Company, whichused Microsoft’s AI expertise,showcased a new solution thatdeploys AI to process vehicleinsurance claims and renewpolicies more efficiently.

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As a result of strategic ini-tiatives taken, Bharat

Heavy Electricals Limited(BHEL) has registered quan-tum growth in its profitabilityand entered several new busi-ness areas in fiscal 2018-19,ending the year with significanttraction in growth drivers. Thecontinued commitment andefforts to deliver on its purpose— to help in building a NewBHEL, and a New India, haveresulted in the company con-tinuing on the path ofimproved performance.

During the year, the com-pany achieved a profit beforetax (PBT) of �2,058 Crore,compared to a PBT of �1,585Crore in the year before, regis-tering a surge of 29.8%. Netprofit (PAT) for the year standsat �1,215 Crore, against �807Crore in the previous fiscal, a50.7% jump. Earning Per Share(EPS) for FY18-19 is �3.35 asagainst �2.20 in FY17-18, up by52.3%. The topline has alsogrown by 5.4% to �29,349Crore, as against �27,850 Crorein the previous year.

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India’s crude steel outputremained almost flat at 8.662

million tonne (MT) duringApril 2019, according to officialdata.

The domestic crude steelproduction stood at 8.653 MTduring April 2018, according toa report by the Joint PlantCommittee (JPC), whichcomes under the Ministry ofSteel.

“Crude steel productionstood at 8.662 MT in April2019, up by 0.1 per cent overApril 2018,” the report said.

State-run Steel Authority ofIndia Ltd, Rashtriya Ispat

Nigam Ltd along with privatefirms Tata Steel, Essar Steel,JSW Steel, and Jindal Steel andPower produced 5.082 MT andthe remaining 3.58 MT camefrom other producers, it added.

During April this year, theproduction of hot metal was 1.4per cent down at 5.825 MT,against 5.907 MT in April2018.

The output of pig irongrew 3.9 per cent to 0.537 MTin April, compared with about0.517 MT in the same montha year ago.

The JPC is the only insti-tution in the country that col-lects data on the domestic ironand steel sector.

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The Commerce Ministry hascome out with a compre-

hensive draft of the exportpolicy which includes productspecific rules with a view toprovide a ready reckoner forexporters.

“Based on inputs receivedfrom various partner govern-ment agencies, it is proposedto bring out a comprehensiveexports policy for all ITC (HS)tariff codes (including itemswhich are ‘free’ for export anddo not currently exist in thepolicy), coveringc o n d i t i o n s / r e s t r i c t i o n simposed by partner govern-ment agencies on exports,” theDirectorate General of ForeignTrade said. The draft policyaims at consolidating theexport norms for each productas applicable at differentGovernment agencies.

ITC-HS Codes are IndianTrade Clarification based onHarmonized System of Coding.It was adopted by India forimport-export operations.Every product has been accord-ed eight digit HS codes.

The compendium will helpan exporter know all theapplicable norms pertainingto a particular product, helpinghim/her understand policyconditions for that item.

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Liberals and Greens say theyhave broken the two centrist

blocs’ grip on power in theEuropean Parliament based ona projected shift in the electoralfortunes of the four.

Liberals and Greens arenow pushing harder to snag thehead of the EuropeanCommission, the 28-nationEU executive, and shape keylaws, such as on climate changeand taxation.

The centre-right EPP(European People’s Party) stillhas the most seats, followed bythe centre-left Socialists, but thepair no longer control a major-ity, according to partial andprojected results.

“The monopoly of power isbroken,” said Margrethe

Vestager, whose Alliance ofLiberals and Democrats(ALDE) wants her to head thenew commission.

ALDE is projected to havearound 100 seats, making itthird in the assembly behindsome 180 seats for the EPP and152 for the Socialists andDemocrats.

But ALDE and the Greensalso hope to work with the EPPand the Socialists to check biggains by Eurosceptics, pop-ulist and right-wing partieswho could have around 150seats. Though power is set to befragmented, the mainstream,pro-European Union groupsstill control the lion’s share ofthe 751-seat assembly.

Vestager alluded to herown credentials for the top jobon the Commission, where

she served as the anti-trustcommissioner and gained areputation for toughness.

She said EU voters have

broken the EPP and Socialistmonopoly the way she stoppedUS hi-tech firms and othermultinationals from under-

mining market competition.Vestager hailed signals

from both the Socialists and theGreens to forge a new kind ofcoalition “of those who want totake actions progressively tochange things.” The Danish

politician said that meant a“different composition of lead-ership” of the main institutions,long dominated by the EPP andthe Socialists.

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Voters in Sunderland innortheast England voiced

hope on Monday that theBrexit Party’s strong showing inEuropean elections would trig-ger a quick break with the EU,expressing anger and disbeliefat Britain’s two main parties.

The polls delivered majorlosses for both the rulingConservatives — who havetwice delayed Britain’s sched-uled departure from the EU —and the main oppositionLabour, which has remaineddeeply ambiguous over Brexit.

In the North East region,the Brexit Party won 38.7 percent of the vote in last week’selection — its highest result inthe country.

“The sooner we get out thebetter,” said Stephen James, a55-year-old council worker inthe former shipbuilding city, atraditional stronghold for the

Labour Party.“I’m Labour through and

through but you can’t trustLabour or Conservatives anymore now. They’re just back-stabbing each other,” he said -- a comment on the months ofbickering in the British par-liament over Brexit.

The Brexit Party has saidit will seek a better deal withBrussels than the one negoti-ated by outgoing PrimeMinister Theresa May but willembrace no-deal if it does notget one. Several contenders toreplace May have the sameposition. Sunderland played astarring role in Britain’s seismicdecision to leave the EuropeanUnion in 2016.

The city’s 61-per cent votein favour of Brexit during thereferendum signalled early onwhere the nation was headingon the night of June 23 and cel-ebrations at the count werebeamed worldwide.

Warsaw: Poland’s governingright-wing Law and Justiceparty (PiS) won European elec-tions, complete official resultsshowed on Monday, with itsleader Jaroslaw Kaczynski urg-ing a wider victory in theautumn general ballot.

The PiS took 45.38 per centof the vote to win 27 of Poland’s51 seats in the EuropeanParliament compared with

38.47 per cent and 22 seats forthe liberal European Coalition,according to official results.

The progressive Springparty, led by openly gay formerMP and mayor Robert Biedron,took 6.06 per cent for threeseats while the far-rightConfederation group failed tocross the five-per cent thresh-old required to enter theEuropean Parliament. AFP

Vatican City: Pope Franciswarned Monday against a riseof intolerance and racism as far-right nationalists and euroscep-tic parties made historic gainsin European elections.

“The signs of meanness wesee around us heighten ourfear of ‘the other’, theunknown, the marginalised,the foreigner,” he said in a mes-sage for the World Day ofMigrants and Refugees. AFP

Paris: If French far-right leaderMarine Le Pen gets her wish,her National Rally party, vic-torious in the EuropeanParliament election, will forcea dissolution of France’s ownparliament and lure opponentsto her cause, enlarging herbase. But there’s one majorroadblock: French PresidentEmmanuel Macron. AP

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Several Maoist activists werearrested in Nepal as a gener-

al strike called by an outlawedcommunist group on Mondaydisrupted normal life in thecountry, a day after a series ofexplosions rocked the capitalKathmandu, killing at least fourpeople. Educational institutionsand business establishments

remained shut in major citieswhile traffic was thin due to thestrike called by the NetraBikram Chand (Biplav)-ledCommunist Party of Nepaltoprotest against the killing of itscadre during an encounter acouple of months ago.

Just a day ahead of thenationwide strike, a series ofbombs exploded at differentparts of the capital city, killing

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President Donald Trumpsaid Monday he is not “per-

sonally” bothered by recentshort-range missile tests thatNorth Korea conducted thismonth, breaking with JapanesePrime Minister Shinzo Abe,who is hosting the president onfour-day state visit full ofpageantry.

Standing beside Trump ata news conference after hoursof talks, Abe disagreed with theUS president, saying the mis-sile tests violated UN SecurityCouncil resolutions and were“of great regret.”

Abe, who has forged astrong friendship with Trumpand agrees with him on manyissues, is concerned because the

short-range missiles pose athreat to Japan’s security.

Trump was invited to Japanto be the first world leader tomeet with its new emperor.

Despite being far fromWashington, he didn’t missthe chance to lob anotherbroadside against former VicePresident Joe Biden, one of theDemocrats seeking to chal-

lenge Trump in next year’spresidential election. NorthKorea’s Kim Jong Un recentlycriticized Biden as having a lowIQ, and Trump told the worldhe agreed with the authoritar-ian leader’s assessment.

The visit was designed tohighlight the US-Japan allianceand showcase the warm rela-tions between the leaders.

Trump said he and Abedeliberated over economicissues, including trade andIran, during hours of talks atthe Akasaka Palace, but NorthKorea’s recent firing of short-range missiles emerged as anarea of disagreement.

When asked if he wasbothered by the missile tests,Trump said: “No, I’m not. I ampersonally not.”

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Israel’s energy minister said on Monday hiscountry had agreed to enter US-mediated talks

with Lebanon on maritime borders that wouldhave an impact on offshore oil and gas explo-ration. Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said in astatement after meeting US State Departmentofficial David Satterfield that Israel agreed tomove forward with the talks.

Lebanese officials said last week thatSatterfield, the acting assistant secretary for NearEastern affairs, had informed them that Israelagreed to the negotiations. Israel had not com-mented at the time. Last year, Lebanon signedits first contract to drill for oil and gas in itswaters, including for a block disputed by itssouthern neighbour Israel, with which it hasfought several wars.

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Madagascar held parliamentary elections onMonday in what is being seen as the lat-

est round of a bitter feud between PresidentAndry Rajoelina and his longstanding rival MarcRavalomanana. Beaten to the top job inDecember, Ravalomanana has been pushinghard in support of candidates of his TIM (“I LoveMadagascar”) party, determined to secure a vic-tory in his rivalry with President Rajoelina.

The two men have dominated politicssince the early 2000s, sometimes cooperating butmostly fighting for advantage and high office.

“These elections will define our future forthe next five years,” said Rajoelina after votingin the capital Antananarivo.

“The candidates who will be elected MPshave the duty not only to pass laws, but also torepresent the aspirations of the people.”Ravalomanana also voted in the capital, and heraised allegations of fraud in the presidentialelection last December.

“People are less enthusiastic to vote becauseof the fraud that has already been noted in pre-vious elections,” he said.

Paris: French police havearrested a suspect following ablast in the city of Lyon thatwounded 13 people last week,Interior Minister ChristopheCastaner said Monday.

Castaner announced thedevelopment on Twitter. Astatement later from Paris pros-ecutors, who handle all terror-ism-related cases, said a 24-year-old was arrested in Lyon and has been placed in

custody.Police had launched a large

manhunt after a device explod-ed Friday on a busy pedestri-an street in the central city.Regional authorities said the 13wounded suffered mostlyminor injuries.

President EmmanuelMacron called the explosion an“attack” but no group hasclaimed responsibility for theexplosion yet. AP

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Defending champion RafaelNadal got his bid for a

record-extending 12th FrenchOpen title off to the perfect startby brushing aside German qual-ifier Yannick Hanfmann, whileworld number one NovakDjokovic was also a comfortablevictor in the first round atRoland Garros on Monday.

Nadal, a 17-time GrandSlam champion, cruised to a 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 victory on the rebuiltCourt Philippe Chatrier to set upa clash with another Germanqualifier — world number 114Yannick Maden — in round two.

Nadal had suffered threeconsecutive semi-final defeatsearlier in the clay-court season,but appeared to find his best inan Italian Open title successsealed with victory over oldrival Djokovic, while his FrenchOpen win-loss recordnow reads 87-2.

"It's alwaysamazing to playhere, the newChatrier is verynice," the secondseed said. "It's beenan important placein my career.

"I played a goodtournament in Rome whichwas very important for my con-fidence. Now we'll see."

�# � 6���������Djokovic laid down an early

marker in his bid to hold all fourGrand Slam titles simultaneous-ly for the second time, poweringpast Polish youngster HubertHurkacz.

The 15-time major champi-on impressed in a 6-4, 6-2, 6-2triumph and will face Swisslucky loser Henri Laaksonen inround two.

"I was very solid. I'm happywith my game today," said thetop seed. "It's a long tourna-ment... But I just want to concen-trate on my next match."

Twelve months ago,Djokovic dropped out of theworld's top 20 after a shock quar-ter-final loss to MarcoCecchinato and even ponderedskipping Wimbledon, but he hasinstead reclaimed his place at thetop of the game.

The 22-year-old Hurkacz,who has claimed three wins overtop-10 players this season, hadno answer to the 2016 FrenchOpen winner, as Djokovic sealeda second-round spot withoutbreaking sweat, hitting 27 win-ners.

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world number one CarolineWozniacki collapsed to a 0-6,6-3, 6-3 loss to Russian worldnumber 68 VeronikaKudermetova in the firstround.

The Danish 13th seed hadretired injured from her two pre-vious matches in the lead-up toRoland Garros, and fell awaybadly after a strong first set.

"I think she got very luckyat the start of the second set andtook advantage of the opportu-nities she got," said Wozniacki.

Sixth seed and two-time Wimbledon

champion PetraKvitova was forcedto pull out beforeher scheduledopener againstSorana Cirstea

with a left arminjury, but said she

should be fit forWimbledon, which starts on

July 1."(I'll be out for) two to three

weeks, so I'll do some fitnessand everything that I can do toprepare my body for the tennison the grass," said the Czech.

Dutch fourth seed KikiBertens looked in fine fettle,though, beating home playerPauline Parmentier 6-3, 6-4.

Elsewhere in the women'sdraw, Australian eighth seedAshleigh Barty saw offAmerican Jessica Pegula 6-3, 6-3.

In the men's event, three-time Grand Slam championStan Wawrinka progressed witha 6-1, 6-7 (3/7), 6-2, 6-3 winover Slovakian Jozef Kovalik.

Australian Alex De Minaur,seeded 21st, beat the UnitedStates' Bradley Klahn 6-1, 6-4,6-4, although Georgian 15thseed Nikoloz Basilashvili andRussian 12th seed DaniilMedvedev both exited the tour-nament.

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Former Pakistan captainand bowling great WaqarYounis feels Sarfraz

Ahmed and his boys can pull offan upset this World Cup, muchlike they did in 1992 by winningthe coveted trophy.

"It is 27 years since Pakistanwon the World Cup for the firsttime and this year feels like it didback then," Waqar was quotedas saying by ICC.

"No one gave us a chanceand we arrived as the underdog.But the momentum came andwe won the whole thing, that isthe beauty of Pakistan cricket.

"I was not part of the teambecause I was injured just beforethe World Cup, but I rememberthe team coming home. Thewhole country was out on thestreets, the lights were on and wehad a trophy parade.

"It was party-mode, it was acarnival. Hopefully, that willhappen again, but there is work

to do," said Waqar who coachedPakistan, besides being creditedwith the man who really put thereverse into swing bowling.

In 262 ODIs, Waqar hastaken 416 wickets while in 87

Tests, he has returned with 373wickets to his name.

"I think Pakistan arrive asunderdogs and they need to startwell. If they lose a couple of earlygames, then it will be an uphill

task for them after that."If they don't start well then

the negativity from series defeatsto England and Australia couldseep back in. They have beenlosing a few games and need towin early so settle nerves."

Since winning theChampions Trophy in 2017,Pakistan have won only two ofthe seven series they haveplayed. The first of these wasagainst a dismal Sri Lankan sideand the second was againstZimbabwe. Three of the seriesdefeats have been whitewashes.

Despite that, Waqar feels ifSarfraz and Co can get theirfielding right, they have talent intheir arsenal to pull it off.

"The positive for Pakistan isthat they have started scoring bigtotals. They have showed theyare capable of scoring 300 plusand we saw that in their seriesagainst England.

"The batsman have got usedto the surfaces very quickly andhave piled on the runs. They are

all in good form, especiallyBabar Azam and Haris Sohail,"he said.

Pakistan lost the series toEngland 0-4 but managed to putup 300+ totals on three occa-sions.

Waqar said the top fourlooks sorted for Pakistan withFakhar Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq doing well.

"Fakhar Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq have also done well sothe top four looks really good.That issue has been solved.

"But the biggest issue for meis the fielding. The fielderslooked out of sorts in the seriesagainst England and that couldshake their confidence.

"I am sure that will get a bitbetter but if the fielders don'ttake their chances and catchballs and stop the extra 15 or 20runs then they could struggle."

Waqar said he looks for-ward to watching MohammadAmir in action, adding theoverall bowling is headed in the

right direction although theylooked all over the place againstthe mighty English.

"The bowling is moving ina good direction, with WahabRiaz coming back into the sideand Mohammad Amir restored.I am intrigued to see howMohammad Amir gets on."

"He is a match-winner, thereis no doubt about that. If he getssome rhythm back, then hecould be the difference forPakistan.

"On the flip side, ShaheenAfridi and Mohammad Hasnainare so talented and have longfutures ahead of them. I amexcited to see what they can do."

Pakistan will take on WestIndies in their opener on May31.

"That first game againstthe West Indies will be vital. Itis will be worth watching that!Both are very exciting teamsand very unpredictable, younever know what you are goingto get.

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Australian pace legend GlennMcGrath has handpicked

England as the favourites to liftthe upcoming World Cup butsaid going by current form,India and Australia too areserious contenders for the title.

McGrath, who retired frominternational cricket after win-ning the Player of theTournament in Australia's vic-torious 2007 World Cup, saidgoing by their recent prowess inODI, Eoin Morgan's men arethe ones to beat in the show-piece.

"England, a very good one-day unit. To me they are thefavourites going into this WorldCup, so I think they'll do verywell," McGrath was quoted assaying by ESPNcricinfo.

"Probably! I can't remainbiased my whole life. You've gotto go on current form. TheEngland team — the way theygo about it, they have impressedme. They have scored some big,big totals.

"Most teams used to gohard in the first 15 and the last15, and consolidate in the mid-dle. But teams like England,India are just going hard thewhole 50 overs, and that's theimpact T20 cricket has had. Soyeah, I don't think I've ever said'England are the team to beat' orthe 'favourites'," he added.

McGrath, however, was ofthe view that India andAustralia have the capability togive England a tough fight.

"I didn't say they (England)were going to win the WorldCup though! So they are thefavourites and are going to betough to beat in their own con-ditions, but fingers crossed,Australia can do well," he said.

"The two standouts to mewere India and England, withfingers crossed, Australia doingwell."

The former lanky right-arm pacer also picked SouthAfrica, West Indies and Pakistanas the teams to watch out for inthe World Cup, but predictedAustralia to make the final.

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Hashim Amla is still not acertainty in the South

African playing XI but thesenior opener has made a casefor himself with successivefifties in the warm-up gamesahead of World Cup openeragainst India in Southamptonon June 5.

Amla, one of South Africa'sgreatest Test match players,scored 65 and 51 not outrespectively in the two warm-up games against Sri Lanka and

West Indies (rain affected) andwill be keen to add to his tallyof 27 ODI hundreds.

However with young AidenMarkram in the side, there iscompetition as to who wouldopen with Quinton de Kock.

"Scoring runs is alwaysimportant. Whether I make theplaying XI or not is not up tome. I do what I can do and what

happens after that is for thebenefit of the team," Amla wasquoted as saying by the ICCwebsite.

The veteran opener wantsto make every opportunitycount and that was the reasonhe opted out of a domestic T20competition's knock-outrounds to prepare for the WorldCup.

"T20 is different to fifty-over cricket. I had two weekswith (batting coach) DaleBenkenstein and spent time inthe nets batting the way a fifty-over cricketer would bat It wasimportant to have that time.Sometimes it works out; some-times it doesn't," said Amla,who needs another 90 to reach8000 runs in ODIs.

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Sri Lanka, the 1996 WorldCup champions and two-

time runners-up, come intothe tournament as the No 9ranked ODI side. They havewon only six of the 22 one-dayinternationals they have playedsince January 2018. Adding totheir task is that several mem-bers of their World Cup squadare returning after a spell on thesidelines. Captain DimuthKarunaratne himself, until lastweek, hadn't played any ODIsince the last World Cup.

The experienced Mathews,however, urged his side to putthe past behind them and "enjoythe moment". "The biggestchallenge will be in overcomingpressure situations," Matthewstold the ICC. "Quite a lot of ushave played in England, so we

know the conditions. But han-dling the pressure and the sit-uations well is going to be thechallenge."

Matthews, who had cap-tained Sri Lanka during the lastedition of the multi-nationtournament, advised his team-mates to embrace the chal-lenge and express themselveswith freedom.

"In a big tournament likethis, you've got to play with free-dom and embrace it, rather thanputting too much pressure onyourself. Yes, it's a World Cup,you have to perform well to winit, but at the same time you haveto embrace the challenge. If youput a lot of pressure on yourself,it adds to your burden. But tryand embrace it, look at it as anopportunity to perform, to dosomething better for the coun-try," he explained.

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Atalanta won at Sassuolo onSunday to secure their first ever

Champions League spot and InterMilan joined them while ensuringEmpoli were relegated after a franticsecond half in the San Siro.

AC Milan ended up fifth despitewinning at SPAL. Genoa andFiorentina stayed in Serie A after anerve-wracked goalless draw.

The evening started with Inter,Atalanta, AC Milan and Roma bat-tling for the two remainingChampions League spots and Empoliknowing that if they won they wouldsurvive.

Because their ground is beingredeveloped, Atalanta had to cedehome advantage and play at Sassuolowhere they quickly fell behind.

Duvan Zapata levelled beforehalf-time. After Sassuolo lost theirscorer Domenico Berardi, whoreceived a red card for his part in themass brawl that ended the first half,Atalanta comfortably sealed third asgoals by Alejandro Gomez and MarioPasalic completed a 3-1 win.

"It's been an extraordinary sea-son," Atalanta president AntonioPercassi told Sky Sport.

"My first hug was for (coach GianPiero) Gasperini, for a lifetime. It'salready a given that he'll still be herenext season."

Milan took a two-goal lead atSPAL, with goals by HakanCalhanoglu and Franck Kessie, butFrancesco Vicari and Mohamed Faresreplied.

Meanwhile at the San Siro, aftera goal-less first half, Inter brought onKeita Balde. The striker broke the

deadlock with a solo goal six minuteslater, earning a yellow card for rippingoff his shirt in celebration.

The home team had a chance toincrease their lead when MauroIcardi tumbled over Empoli goalkeep-er Bartlomiej Dragowski. After adelay for video review, Icardi missedthe penalty.

A few minutes later in Ferrara,Kessie rolled in a penalty to put ACMilan back in the lead against SPAL.

They held on to win 3-2.Back at the San Siro, Salih Ucan's

low cross from the right reachedHamed Traore unmarked in front ofgoal and he levelled to lift Empoli outof the relegation places and push Interout of the top four.

Five minutes later, RadjaNainggolan changed that when hepounced on a rebound to put Interahead.

In a frantic finish, Empoli cameclose several times with Inter centre-back Stefan de Vrij deflecting one shotonto his own bar.

In added time, with Dragowski inthe Empoli attack, Inter rolled the ballinto the empty net, but Balde hadpulled Dragowski back in the build-up. The goal was disallowed andBalde earned a second yellow card.

Yet the 2-1 win was enough tosave Inter and doom Empoli.

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above them meant Roma finishedsixth despite beating visiting Parma2-1. They also bid farewell to captainand local hero Daniele De Rossi whocame off to rapturous applause withnine minutes to play.

Earlier on Sunday, Massimiliano

Allegri ended his Juventus career indisappointing fashion as the champi-ons were undone by two late strikesat Sampdoria to finish the Serie A sea-son with a five-match winless streak.

Despite a poor final few weeksthey still finished 11 points ahead ofsecond-placed Napoli, who endedtheir underwhelming campaign beat-en 3-2 at Bologna on Saturday.

"I feel good because I ended fiveincredible years by winning the title... tomorrow a new era begins,"Allegri told broadcaster DAZN afterthe 2-0 defeat.

He leaves having also won fourItalian Cups and re-established theOld Lady as a force in Europe, reach-ing two Champions League finals andsigning Cristiano Ronaldo last sum-mer.

"I'll come back to work when Ihave the opportunity ... I need to finda team with which I can enjoy myselfand do a good job," he added.

Sampdoria's 36-year-old strikerFabio Quagliarella failed to add to his26 goals but still finished as the SerieA top scorer, three ahead of Zapata.

Torino finished their excitingcampaign in seventh place, level onpoints with Roma, following a 3-1 winover Lazio.

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Tottenham Hotspur manag-er Mauricio Pochettino has

said Harry Kane is in a "verypositive situation" and could befit to face Liverpool in Saturday'sChampions League final inMadrid.

England forward Kane hasbeen out of action since suffer-ing an ankle injury during thefirst leg of the quarter-finalagainst Manchester City.

But Pochettino, speaking toreporters on Monday, indicat-ed Kane was close to a return.

"Harry Kane in the lastweek, Friday and Saturday,started to be involved in thegroup, it's a very positive situ-ation for him," Pochettino said.

"We will wait and see howhe is progressing in his prob-lem."

The Spurs manager wasequally positive regarding theprospects for the injured trio ofDavinson Sanchez, JanVertonghen and Harry Winks.

Meanwhile Pochettinofaced fresh questions about hisown future.

The Argentinian has been

linked with Juventus followingthe recent departure from theItalian giants of MassimilianoAllegri, but Pochettino insistedhis focus was firmly on Spurs'first appearance in a EuropeanCup final.

"Today no one is moreimportant than the game that

we have ahead, Tottenhamdeserve that we are all 100 per-cent focused on the game. Wecan make history, we can pro-vide our fans the best happinessin football," he said.

Spurs midfielder MoussaSissoko said the players were ina positive frame of mind aheadof a final against English rivalsLiverpool, five-time kings ofEuropean club football.

"The spirit is fantastic, everytime we were close to be out butwe showed a lot of character towin the game," said Sissoko.

"We know we can challengeagainst every team," theFrenchman added. "I am notscared of Liverpool or any team.

"We all need to challengeand we have to give our best andif we do it, we can beat anyteam. In the past we haveshowed it."

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Former Italy coach AntonioConte is poised to replace

Luciano Spalletti as coach ofInter Milan, according to reportsin Italy on Monday.

Spalletti sealed Inter'sChampions League berth for asecond consecutive year with a2-1 win over Empoli on the finalday of the Serie A season onSunday.

Inter snatched fourth place,equal on points with Atalanta,but behind the side fromBergamo on head-to-head dif-ference, to edge city rivals ACMilan by just one point in therace for elite European football.

But multiple reports statethat the 60-year-old formerRoma and Zenit St Petersburg

coach will be axed in favour ofex-Juventus, Chelsea and'Azzurri' boss Conte.

Gazzetta dello Sport said"total agreement" had beenreached with 49-year-old Conte,with Corriere dello Sport and SkySport Italia reporting a three-year deal would be sealed beforethe end of the week.

Spalletti conceded his futurewas uncertain, despite returningthe club to the ChampionsLeague after a seven-yearabsence this season, where theywere knocked out at the group

stage."This result (against

Empoli) changes little. The clubwill talk now and I will listen,just as you will," Spalletti saidafter Sunday's game. "I wouldlike to continue to coach Inter.

Conte has also been linkedwith a return to championsJuventus, after his successor inTurin Massimiliano Allegri wasremoved, and AS Roma whereClaudio Ranieri has been theinterim coach since the sackingof Eusebio Di Francesco inMarch.

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Few people really want to workat night. It’s dark, it’s lonely andit sets you apart from prettymuch everyone else in the world— folks following the sensible

schedule of rising in the morning, work-ing during the day and sleeping at night.Oh, and then there’s the problem that anocturnal schedule places you at greaterrisk of heart disease, diabetes, gastroin-testinal illnesses and reproductive prob-lems and, for people whose body clocksare misaligned for many years, higherrates of some cancers.

That’s the bad news. The worsenews is that nobody knows really whydisrupting the dark-light, sleep-wakecycle should have such an impact onhealth. Though researchers are unpack-ing the problem bit by bit, there’s still alot of hand waving about circadianrhythms and body clocks and whoknows what. Now, however, a new paperin the journal Science offers some expla-nation for one biological system thatmight be involved — and perhaps a bitof a warning for those working the nightshift.

When workers force themselves tostay awake, it triggers the release of stresshormones such as cortisol—the same onethat rushes into your blood in a life-or-death situation.

The chemicals may keep you on yourfeet, but they are a bargain with the devil.

For example, cortisol works to sup-press the immune system and in the longrun can make you more susceptible to arange of illnesses, including cancer.

Such a lifestyle also opens one up toeating outside of normal times, when thebody's metabolism might be lower andthe calories are more likely to be convert-ed into fat instead of being burnt up.

You're raising your heart rate, rais-ing your blood pressure and insulin lev-els at a time that you would not ordinar-ily do that. You're body is basically notready for it and you're giving it a bit ofan insult.

Even short-term disruptions of thecircadian clock can wreak havoc with

your body. Just think jet lag.The results can be blunted interac-

tion with the world and a lack of empa-thy, complex thinking, or even clearmemories.

In such a state, people can do over-ly impulsive things—jump the red traf-fic light and fail to see the consequencesof actions.

Better understanding of the workingsof the body clock has opened up a fas-cinating field of scientific quest.

Circadian dysfunction has beenlinked to depression, bipolar disorder,cognitive function, memory formationand even some neurological diseases.

Over the past two decades, scientistshave been studying how the timing ofadministering a medicine can impacthow well it works.

Already they have found that chang-ing the timing can reduce the toxicity ofsome compounds.

Now we are moving to the excitingstage where we can start translating someof this knowledge into understandingwhat happens when these systems gowrong and more importantly to developnew therapeutic interventions

But research has been finding that thebody's clock is responsible for more thanjust sleep and wakefulness. Other sys-tems, like hunger, mental alertness, andmood, stress, heart function, and immu-nity also operate on a daily rhythm.

The existence of the biological clockcan be particularly apparent when it's offkilter: Jet lag and shift work can throw ournormal patterns out of whack and take atoll on physical and mental health. Evenshifting the clock an hour forward or back-ward when daylight savings time begins orends can disrupt our biological clocks.

Disrupting our body's natural cyclescan cause problems. Studies have foundthere are more frequent traffic accidentsand workplace injuries when we springforward and lose an hour of sleep. Heartpatients are at greater risk for myocardialinfarction in the week following theDaylight Savings time shift. But evenmore significant is that science contin-

ues to discover important connectionsbetween a disrupted clock and chronichealth issues, from diabetes to heart dis-ease to cognitive decline.

It turns out that the same genes andbiological factors that govern our inter-nal clock are also involved in how otherbody systems operate -- and break down.It can be hard to determine whether a dis-rupted clock leads to health problems, orwhether it's the other way around.

We're beginning to understand moreabout how the clock interacts with andhelps govern the function of other sys-tems and affects our overall health. Infact, keeping your body's daily cycle onan even keel may be one of the best thingsyou can do for your overall health.

Some of the best knowledge wehave about the roles the biological clockplays in our health come from instancesin which the cycle gets out of sync. Thiscan happen for different reasons, and

we're just starting to understand them ingreater detail. Sometimes we do thingsourselves that disrupt our normalrhythms, like flying to a distant time zone.Sometimes it's other factors, that play arole.

Shift work is another example of howwe can get ourselves off-cycle, and thistoo can develop into a circadian rhythmdisorder over the long term. People whowork the night shift not only have a hardtime with their sleep patterns, but othersystems in their bodies can also feel theeffects -- and they can be chronic. It's notbeen clear exactly why this connectionexists, but weight gain or metabolicchanges may be involved. These phenom-ena underline how particular behaviorsor lifestyles can affect the body's clock,but there are other factors at play, likegenetics and body chemistry.

The interactions of the clock arecomplex, and their effects on different

body systems are intricate, but we're start-ing to understand more about how thenuts and bolts of the clock work, andaffect each system of the body, from ourhearts to our moods.

Since the biological clock is, in fact,a biological entity, things can go wrongwith it that may have less to do withlifestyle or the environment, and more todo with the mechanisms of the clockitself. For example, there's more to theclock-diabetes link than just turning oursleep cycle around, though sleep canmake a difference.

The same genes that control thereceptors for the sleep hormone mela-tonin are involved in insulin release,which could also play a role in diabetesrisk. When melatonin receptor geneshave mutations that damage the connec-tion between the biological clock andinsulin release people have a significant-ly higher risk of developing diabetes.

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When something looks toogood to be true, it usu-ally is. But sometimes

things do turn out the way onewishes, as it happened with singerLisa Mishra of Tareefan Reprise-fame.

It was while driving backhome from work in Chicago thatshe was listening to the Tareefansong from the film Veere DiWedding on loop. She then record-ed a short video, mashing up thesong with DJ Snake feat JustinBieber’s Let Me Love You and post-ed it on Instagram. Little did sheknow that Rhea Kapoor andactress Sonam Kapoor wouldchance upon it, like her renditionof it so much that she would beasked to fly down to Mumbai toshoot for its reprise version.

“When I had recorded andput it out on Instagram, I neverexpected it to be liked by many. Itactually didn’t come out verywell, I thought. I never felt that itwas going to be a hit. But the nextthing to happen was that I was fly-

ing to Mumbai. It is actually a verybizarre thing to imagine. But withme, this ‘too good to be true’ thingdid happen and it was surreal,”says Lisa as she recalls the timewhen she first transitioned fromher social media videos to singingfor mainstream Bollywood.

The self-taught singer fromBerhampur (or Brahmapur),Odisha was six when she movedto Chicago and has been livingthere ever since. However, the lovefor Indian music just grew. Hernewest single, Sajna Ve has justreleased and she tells us how shelanded this song and why it tooka long time for her next single to

be released after Tareefan. Shesays, “Composer, Vishal Mishraand Rhea had originally writtenthe song for Veere Di Wedding,post which the song was supposedto be a part of the film Notebook(which starred Pranutan Bahl).And we had been planning it sincequite a while about what new ele-ment could we add to the song.However, it did turn out to be real-ly good, luckily.”

She laughs to add that therewas surely an inherent connectionbetween her and the SonamKapoor and Kareena KapoorKhan-starrer film.

Lisa’s social media posts are

evidence that the singer has ahuge heart for fusion music. Shemashes up The Doorbeen’sLambhergini and Maroon 5’sSugar with such an ease that thetwo songs look like naturally fit-ting into each others’ beats. Shesays, “After Tareefan, I also sangthe rap called Back to School. Ireally like to experiment with dif-ferent beats and genres of music.And I would like to follow that.And sometimes when you real-ly like two songs from two dif-ferent genres, why can’t youmash them up?”

For the one, who has beenpractising and following Indianmusic all her life, how has sheseen the music industry in Indiaevolve over the time? “There hasbeen a huge transition since thetime I began following Indianmusic. In the 90s, there weremore of melodies and soft tunes.Today, people are much moreinclined to good, dance beats.With the changing, fast-pacedlifestyles of people, their music

choices, especially of the young-sters, have seen a huge change.”

Talking about her variousperformances for music festivalsand concerts across differentcities, which are creating waves,she says that those are extreme-ly important, especially for theemerging artists who are able tomake their voices heard evenmore through them. “It is impor-tant to get a live audience whenit comes to singing becausetoday, with so many advance-ments and voice modificationsthrough technology, sometimesthe authenticity and the original-ity of an artist is put into ques-tion. But performing live, out-side of recording studios, isimportant for people to realisetheir true voice. No one knowshow the song is created insidethe recording studio. But themore audience gets to catch youlive, the more you get recogni-tion and the enthusiasm to keepperforming and giving yourbest,” says she.

Bollywood’s veteran action director VeeruDevgn, father of actor Ajay Devgn, passed

away, said family sources. He was 85.Back in the days when technology was not

as advanced as today, Veeru choreographed someof the most interesting action sequences forBollywood, making his actors’ and stuntmen’ssafety top priority.

Remembering Veeru as a responsible direc-tor, actress Madhuri Dixit Nene said, “He wassuch a caring action director who used toencourage us, but at the same time was very cau-tious about our safety. When he choreographedan action scene, he kept the safety in mind. Hewas such a wonderful human being.”

Veeru breathed his last on Monday after-noon at a hospital due to age-related problems,according to a source.

Apart from directing action sequences forfilms like Himmatwala, Mr India, Khatron KeKhiladi, Phool Aur Kaante, Dilwale and LaalBadshah, he had directed the 1999 filmHindustan Ki Kasam, starring Ajay and megas-tar Amitabh Bachchan.

Film fraternity members Shah Rukh Khan,Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, SajidKhan, Mahesh Bhatt and Harry Baweja visitedthe Devgn residence to pay condolences.

Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta said he was real-ly “saddened to hear about the demise of VeeruDevgnji.”

“I had the honour and pleasure of workingwith him in my (early) days as an assistant direc-tor. He was a fabulous human being and a mas-ter technician who always had a smile on his face.May God bless his soul,” he tweeted.

Filmmaker Anees Bazmee, who worked withVeeru Devgn in the 1997 film Sanam, tweeted,“My heartfelt condolences to Ajay, Kajol and thefamily. There will be no better action directorthan you Veeruji. Will miss you.”

Veteran actor Anupam Kher wrote, “Deeplysaddened to know about the passing away ofVeeru Devgnji. Worked with him in so manyfilms. He was a great action director. To him, thesafety of actors and his fighters team was ofutmost importance. A kind man with a greatsense of humour.”

Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit tweeted, “Sad toknow that veteran action director Veeru Devgnis no more. He was a genius in choreographingfights on the big screen when there were no facil-ities available. My heartfelt condolences to AjayDevgn and the entire family.”

“RIP Veeru Devgnji. A legend of Hindi cin-ema. Left his mark at a time when ‘pure action’without VFX was the order of the day. Heartfeltcondolences to Ajay Devgn and Kajol. May hissoul rest in peace. Prayers are with the family,”Kunal Kohli wrote.

The funeral was held at the Vile Parle WestCrematorium.

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Films like Padman have tried tobring the discussion about men-struation to centre stage. Women

(and men) are still under the impressionthat one must slow down during peri-ods. It’s time to wake up and embracethe innovation. Ahead of WorldMenstrual Hygiene Day, a report con-ducted by Donald W Reynolds NationalCenter for Business Journalism, says thatglobally, the feminine hygiene productmarket is expected to be worth over $36billion (approximately �2.40 lakh crore)over the next six years. Femininehygiene market in India has been grow-ing steadily and is already an �2,200crore market today. However, it is stillonly 1.5 per cent of the global marketand is bound to explode. It suggests thatout of approximately 35.5 crore men-struating women in India, only 12 percent use sanitary pads. The remaining88 per cent rely on cloth, rags, even hay,ash, wood shavings, newspapers, driedleaves or plastic.

Today, the market is brimmingwith products and disparate ways thatcan help you manage your periods withease.

DON’T SHY AWAYWhy is it that we celebrate pregnan-

cy but treat periods in a hush-hush man-ner? It’s about time we break out of thisregressive socio-cultural mindset.Periods should no longer be a secretbetween moms and daughters but canand should be discussed with brothers

and dads too.

EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TOCHOOSE

Menstrual care is not just about san-itary pads anymore. You have options,so why not choose the best? The bestaccording to you, that is. Choose wise-ly and look for a product that suits yourlifestyle and menstrual patterns. Forinstance, with internal use products liketampons, you can run, jump and evenswim while on your period. However,there are some common myths thatwomen have about tampons — such aslosing a tampon inside. Usually, the vagi-nal canal is three to five inches long withonly a limited space. Once you insert it,there is no chance that the tampon cantravel anywhere else. Another miscon-ception is that you must remove a tam-pon while peeing. Weird as it may sound,but there is absolutely no problem indoing so as the vagina, GI tract and blad-der are separate. A tampon, therefore,never stands in the way of urine or bowelmovements. Often it is said that it isunsafe to wear tampons overnight. Onecan absolutely do so. All you need to dois read and follow the guidelines shownon the leaflet. You can wear one for aslong as eight hours.

GO CRAMP FREEPeriod cramps are the worst, right?

We all experience them accompanied byheadaches, backaches and thigh pain.Opting for herbal period pain relief

patches will discreetly yet effectivelysoothe the cramping. The ultra-thin,waterproof patches are infused withmenthol and eucalyptus oil, along withcamphor which provide instant andlong-lasting relief from the pain. GauriSinghal, founder and ceo of FLOH, afeminine health and hygiene brand byVisionaari, says, “The idea of thesepatches is to make women forget thatthey are on their period and has beenthe core ideology. It will change the waywomen perceive their periods.”

SATIATE YOUR PERIOD CRAV-INGS IN HEALTHY WAY

It’s no secret that dark chocolate canchase away those period blues. So,always keep some handy during thattime of the month. Apart from that, itis also important to incorporate a dietthat is high in fibre and good fats.Indulge in green vegetables, fruits,soups, seeds and nuts to remain alert andactive during periods.

GIVE UTMOST IMPORTANCE TOPERSONAL HYGIENE Pay attention to personal hygiene all thetime, girls. But, make sure you pay extraattention during your periods. Tamponsand pads must be changed every four toeight hours depending on the flow dueto hygiene reasons. Make sure you dis-pose your sanitary products in the bininstead of flushing them.

After taking on the avatar of a fash-ionista, Bollywood’s representativeat the Cannes, actor and more,

Kangana Ranaut is now reinventingherself to increase her appeal by takingup a more spiritual path.

And like many other stars who havetaken to Instagram to communicatewith their fans, she too favoured the socialmedia site over the others. Recently sheshared a picture of herself at Sadhguru’sIsha Foundation Yoga Centre inCoimbatore. She can be seen sittingbeside a lotus pond which gives an ideaof the natural environment of the yogacentre. There is serenity on Kangana’s facewhich makes her look peaceful yet sheshines brighter than usual.

Kangana attributes it to theSamyama, an eight-day intense yogacourse consisting of meditation andsilence, which she attended here.Speaking on how she ended up attend-ing the programme, Kangana said,“When I first met Sadhguru after my ini-tiation in US, he looked at me and saidthat I should do Samyama, and then Irealised that it was like the Ph.D of Isha

universe. However, I was very happy (andcontent) with Shambhavi, the 21 minutekriya which was a part of inner engineer-ing programme. It gave me back my exu-berance and energy levels. And (so) I toldhim I should take it slow, but he insist-ed that I should do this.”

She goes on to describe what thecourse accomplished for her. “So, I start-ed taking advanced levels, and when Istarted Samyama, I was very scared.People attend this programme after five-six years of kadi sadhana (intense ded-icated practise), but for me, it was justone year. And then suddenly, on thefifth or sixth day, it just opened up. I amso grateful I did this. It’s difficult toexplain the experience in words, but

before this, Shiva for me was a dimen-sion and something I could mentallyunderstand. But after Samayama, he hasunleashed Shiva in me, he has becomemy breath. When I felt him for the firsttime, it took me back to my time as akid (when) I lost him, I could tell thiswas what was missing from me. I toldmy mother that I am home, I havefound what I lost, and everythingmakes sense. Something so profoundhas happened to me, that no amount ofsuccess, money, awards, relationshipshave ever touched me like that.”

The Queen star is known for herupfront attitude in the industry alsoorganised a premiere of Manikarnika: TheQueen of Jhansi at the centre. She shareda video with spiritual guru Sadhguru JaggiVasudev where the latter is seen request-ing the viewers to watch a historicalmovie like Manikarnika: The Queen ofJhansi. “Today is a different kind of dayat the Isha Centre as we are going to themovies. Today we are showing a specialmovie. And Kangana, herself is present-ing the movie... If you are not a historybuff and you are not going to read a his-

tory book, atleast see something at themovies to have a sense of how this nationwas made,” he says.

In the same video Kangana says, “Iam so honoured that Sadhguru and allthe volunteers requested for the screen-ing of the film. It is on nationalism.”

Another photograph posted byTeam Kangana Ranaut, is accompaniedby the following description, “A specialscreening of #Manikarnika at the IshaYoga Centre in Coimbatore. The crowdwas cheering, clapping and whistlingalmost throughout the movie. A mem-orable screening indeed.”

Meanwhile, on the work front, shewill be seen next in Mental Hai Kya along-side Rajkummar Rao which is slated torelease on July 26, 2019.

Last year she had interviewed him forone hour and 53-minute long InConversation with the Mystic which waspromoted by Sadhguru’s YouTube chan-nel with the title India’s Youth Icon Meetsthe Epitome of Truth! Kangana Ranautwith Sadhguru. She had discussed a widevariety of issues along with nationalism,her film and more

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Most people associate the VeniceArt Biennale with the nation-

al pavilions in the Giardini (Biennalegardens) or the main site at theArsenale — the former dockyards.At the India Pavilion at the former,visitors are swirling around the canecages of the brilliant artist ShakuntalaKulkarni, and for once the languageof the selfie is inclusive of avant gardecontemporary Indian art. Utterlyfeminine, tall bamboo cane ensem-bles are catching the interest of thevisitors for their quaintness.

These artworks belong to herproject Of bodies, armour and cages(2013-2018) in which historicalobjects like the armour and the elab-orately designed costumes/dresses ofdifferent communities are broughttogether in the contemporary con-text by re-articulating the usageand the medium. In collapsing andmetamorphosing the two, she blurscultural and visual boundaries.

CAGED BIRDWhen you look at the long-skirtedcages and bodies, you can’t help butthink of Paul Dunbar’s famous poem,

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Inan interview to me in 2013 she said:“For long, I have been makinginquiries into body violence, atroci-ties and experiences of women in dif-ferent spaces. The impact of theseatrocities against women are uncer-tainty and loss of freedom and power.Women are often blamed for crimesthat happen against them; the menare set free and walk around withtheir heads held high. Morality ornorms make a woman lose power.”

But she was cautious to state thatshe didn’t want to show women asweak beings. “I never show womenas victims,” she said emphatically.“They are victimised. They are notcompletely weak. I show how theyfight it out, how they deal with it. My

question is simple: This is howsociety is. How do I, as a woman, livepowerfully?”

LINEAR AND DELICATE CANEShakuntala’s sculptures have anIndian insignia. “ I used the armouras a metaphor to explore how I couldprotect my body,” states Shakuntala.“I borrowed from all kinds of cul-tures; Naga masks, Rajasthani gha-gras, hair styles from Bollywood inthe 1960s — my pieces have no cul-tural, geographical or religiousboundaries. I used cane because I amcomfortable with it; also, it is linear,delicate and looks grand. There arerings, bangles, flared skirts and it isvery feminine.”

As you look through the cane —the ideation seems full of multipleperspectives.The cane is tenuous andtensile, flexible yet delicate in astrong sort of way. No doubt thereare many references — history cul-ture and the beauty of dances,Kathakali and Manipuri costumesand regalia become a translation —that are royal yet replete with rhyth-mic intonations.

BETWEEN DUALITIES Her thought process is fascinating,“I wanted to explore what happenswhen you have a costume as protec-tion... There’s a freedom you expe-rience when you’re in armour, butat the same time, some part of yourbody is caught. You’re trapped butyou’re also secure. That to me isinteresting.”

Visitors at Venice are fascinat-ed by the very structure and thegrandeur of the armour which ismasculine, stiff, strong, lasting andpeerless in nature. The cane figuresand heads provoke us to ask ques-tions. The cane armour /costumesin this project speak of the grandeurtoo. But the elaborately structureddresses look relatively feminine,linear, fragile, and organic in nature,protecting the body, breaking thegaze by the joineries of the pieces ofcane and the weave. In more waysthan one these cane installations arereflective of ‘interesting times’ in thewords of curator Ralph Rugoff.These sculptures were part of hersolo show at Chemould Gallery,Mumbai last year.

Ajade-hilted dagger once owned by ShahJahan, creator of the Taj Mahal, a jade cup

with an ibex head so realistically carved that theChinese Emperor Qianlong composed a poemin its honour and a diamond and enamel cov-ered gold huqqa pipe, revealing Indian opulenceat its best.... luxury could never be so lovinglycurated. Then there are bejewelled objects,including a gem-set mace set on finial with largeMughal-cut diamonds and an emerald, ruby anddiamond set gold pen case and inkwell, a sym-bol of power at court. Smitten by the descrip-tion?

You can see (and even buy) all of these arti-facts as they are a part of the Maharajas &Mughal Magnificence which will be unveiled ina historic sale at Christies New York on June 19.This landmark auction is poised to be the mostvaluable and precious collection of jewellery andMughal objects to ever come to auction.

MAHARAJAS AND MUGHALSMaharajas and Mughal Magnificence putstogether an unprecedented group of jewels, gem-stones and decorative objects. Consisting ofalmost 400 lots spanning over 500 years, thisauction showcases the illustrious culture ofIndian jewelled arts from the Mughal periodexploring the creative dialogue between Indiaand the West, to the present day.

The collection begins in Mughal India,under the most important dynasty that ruled thecountry, famous for its emeralds, diamonds, sap-phires, rubies, weapons and objects that arebejeweled beyond belief. It traces the history ofjewelry from early Mughal India through theMaharajas and their collaboration with theworld’s most renowned jewellery houses to cre-ate some of the most exceptional pieces of jew-elry ever made. The sale is presented in part-nership between Christie’s market-leading jew-ellery department, led by Rahul Kadakia andworld art department, led by William Robinson,along with the independent art advisory firmThe Fine Art Group.

MUGHAL INDIAThe collection showcases the sophistication ofartistic production from the royal courts of Indiafrom the 17th century onwards. These treasurescomprise the most delicate jades, vivid enam-els, opulent jewels, gemstones and magnificentroyal portraits.

From the regional courts within the Mughalempire, the collection encompasses sensation-al sarpechs (turban ornaments), necklaces likethe diamond rivière originally from the collec-

tion of the Nizam of Hyderabad comprisingalmost 200 carats of Golconda diamonds andthe Nizam of Hyderabad’s diamond-encrustedstate sword, which illustrates the rich history ofbejewelled-ornamentation in India. Also fea-tured are carved Mughal emeralds, ranging inweight from approximately 10 carats to over 200carats, the famed Arcot II diamond, presentedto Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III byMuhammad Ali Wallajah Nawab of Arcot, andthe magnificent Mirror of Paradise which is aninternally flawless Golconda diamond of 52.58carats.

MAHARAJAS The Patiala Ruby Choker created by Cartier in1931 is a superb example of the fusion betweenIndia and the West. Commissioned by MaharajaBhupinder Singh of Patiala, one of Cartier’s mostimportant Indian clients of the 1920s and 1930s,he often travelled to Paris with trunks of dia-monds and gemstones from his treasury forCartier’s workshops. Another significant exam-ple by Cartier is the ‘Carved Emerald Brooch’,which uses an impressive 19th century hexag-onal carved emerald of 380.98 carats. The two-sided carving depicts Lord Rama, his wife Sita,Hanuman, and a poppy blossom on the reverse.

Among more urban tastes, the Enamel andDiamond Peacock Aigrette, by Mellerio ditsMeller, was purchased by the Maharaja JagatjitSingh of Kapurthala in 1905 during one of histrips to Paris. The Maharaja was captivated bythe peacock motif of the aigrette, a bird that isstill greatly revered in India today. In later years,the aigrette would be worn by Anita Delgado,his fifth wife, whom he met while wearing thejewel on his own turban.

LANDMARK COLLECTIONGuillaume Cerutti, Chief Executive Officer ofChristie’s, remarks, “This landmark collectiontraces the history of Mughal jewels and objectsto the present day representing the most signif-icant collection of its type ever to come to auc-tion. The sale of this notable collection willtherefore present a truly significant culturalmoment and offers a milestone opportunity forcollectors. Having shared many of these impres-sive pieces over recent years through a series ofpublications and travelling exhibitions, we arehonoured that The Al Thani Collection hasentrusted us to find new homes for these exquis-ite objects. From next year, we can look forwardto exploring other areas of this diverse and ency-clopedic collection at the new museum spaceopening in Paris.”

In the land where Kama Sutra waswritten, explicit sculptures like theones at Khajuraho, Ajanta caves and

Konark temple prove how sex educationand awareness were part of public dis-course and sanctified under the hal-lowed portals of learning at temple com-plexes. India was not only rich in its her-itage and culture but also in its thoughtsand mentality which openly acceptednudity in art and public representationsof the free spirit beyond the body con-sciousness. History is evidence of howprogressive the mindsets were in thecountry until a series of invasions ledto the alterations in the culture. Ofcourse, things changed further as big-otry of all kinds became a political tool.

Director Prakhar Gautam’s playLet’s Have Sex, which is a rendition ofRussian playwright ValentinKrasnogorov’s drama, is based on thedichotomy of a liberated past and a con-fined present. He says, “I don’t knowmuch about the Russian societal norms,but the taboo has been there for so manyyears in our society. One has to admitthat it’s a highly patriarchal society. Wehave certainly evolved but the questionis, have we really? The society doesn’tjust consist of the urban population.”

The play is a satire which does notshy away from talking blunt on issuesthat we sugarcoat with humour or maskin daily interactions. It stays true to itsbasic objective of taking the taboo offsex and issues on mental health thatrequire dialogue and open conversationsrelating to patriarchy, sexual perfor-mance, sexual violence and masculin-ity. The director says that sex is just abiological process. “We never talk aboutit and even if we do it, the connotationbecomes funny. People start to giggle orshy away whenever the topic pops up,”adds he.

The characters in the play talk andthink only about sex. However, rendi-tions of the term differ for each of them.The play gets more complicated andtragic as it gets. But while its charactersare driven by the most basic of humanemotions — loneliness, their yearningfor love, their desire to escape theirproblems — they poignantly and hilar-iously never get past discussing, argu-ing about their favorite subject.

While there have been initiatives tomake sex education a part of main-stream curriculum, many people are stillreluctant to talk about it openly. Formany, it is considered to be an offenceto Indian “values.” Beyond the metros,there is no acceptance that virginitycould indeed be a rare commodity.However, most men are under peer-pressure to lose it and women are undersocietal pressure to maintain it till the“right” time.

Prakhar says, “If we want to get overwith this taboo, we need to start talk-ing more about it. Talking not just with-in close spaces, but as well in schoolsand universities. Initially, there will beinertia and resistance, only graduallythey will start understanding its impor-tance. Parents must talk about sexualintercourse as a biological process totheir children after a certain age. For

instance, when we had learnt how to eatfood, even that was a new process forus. We didn’t know whether the processwas acceptable. We thought that sinceeveryone was doing it, so it was social-ly acceptable. Same is the case with sex.It’s the need of a human body and a nat-ural process, common to all.”

Talking about the play, he says thatit has been written in a very genericmanner, so it is valid everywhere.Prakhar apprises us that there is a veryfine line between entertaining or vulgar-ity. The essence has to be in the hon-esty of the actors. “I am a big believerof method acting. I ask the actors to getinto the skin of the characters andanalyse the subtext and truth of everyline the writer has put on paper. If theactor can convince themselves thatthis isn’t vulgar or wrong in anyway orbeyond the acceptable lines, it won’teven show in their performance. Their

conviction should be natural and that’show it isn’t going to look vulgar in anyway. The title of the play has been saida lot of times. Never have I ever triedto make it overly seductive, nor tried toexaggerate the lines. It should not lookcaricaturish. Hence, I have tried to keepits commonality and relatability intact,”he says. The director tells us that he is“not” very fond of plays that give a veryout-and-out message as they come totalk about social issues but keep harp-ing on them throughout. “There needsto be a story. All the great films, whichtalk about a social issue, are alwaysbacked up with a strong storyline. Justlike my play is not an out-and-out satire,it’s not talking about this issue. It’s a storyof five people and how their lives are ananalogy to the Indian society.”

(Presented by The Cacophonee, theplay will be staged at 7 pm at AksharaTheatre on June 1 and 2.)

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The top-order will ideallylike an extended sessionin the middle but injured

Kedar Jadhav and VijayShankar's lack of game timewill certainly be a bigger worryfor India ahead of their finalWorld Cup warm-up gameagainst Bangladesh here onTuesday.

The top heavy Indian line-up flattered to deceive in bowl-ing-friendly conditions at theOval as Trent Boult troubledthem with both swing andseam movement.

The six-wicket defeatagainst New Zealand howeverwon't be a big worry for ViratKohli as he has some biggerissues to take care of.

Kohli is bound to be a wor-ried man if Jadhav and Shankarare unable to get a decent hitagainst Mashrafe Mortaza'smen before facing a trickyopposition like South Africa inits tournament opener atSouthampton on June 5.

India's primary objectiveduring the practice games is tofix their middle-order prob-lems but the two protagonists,who are likely to fill in the

important Numbers 4 and 6 inthe tournament proper, havenot fully recovered from theirrespective injuries.

While Kedar injured hisleft shoulder during the IPL,Shankar was hit in the nets bya Khaleel Ahmed short ball.

This, however, is aGodsend opportunity for KLRahul to score some usefulruns against an attack compris-ing Mortaza, MustafizurRahaman, Rubel Hossain andShakib al Hasan and cementthe No 4 slot. Unless RaviShastri and Kohli decide topromote Dinesh Karthik and

check him out.Shakib is recovering from

a niggle and Bangaldesh coachSteve Rhodes expects him toplay a pivotal role in the Tigers'campaign.

Rohit and Shikhar, whohave enjoyed a decent amountof success against Bangladesh,won't mind some runs whichis always a confidence boosterahead of the main event.

If the conditions in Cardiffremain overcast, playing out atesting first spell of Mustafizuror Rubel will certainly keep thetop-order batsmen in goodstead.

Apart from Rahul, theother player who will like toassert himself in the middle willbe Ravindra Jadeja, who wasthe only saving grace in the firstwarm-up game.

While Jadeja's corestrength remains batting, hisaccurate bowling and razorsharp fielding will keep Jadhavon toes once he gets hundredpercent fit.

An interesting move in thefirst game was to send HardikPandya at No 5 ahead ofMahendra Singh Dhoni, wholiterally struggled in tough bat-ting conditions scoring 17 off

42 balls.If Hardik is seen as an

enforcer at No 5 and Dhoni asa finisher at No 6, the seconddown slot will become all themore pivotal in the larger con-text as Rahul, Karthik orShankar, whoever fits in willhave to play the role of a sheetanchor.

The bowlers did a decentjob in the first outing with bothJasprit Bumrah andMohammed Shami being sharpand economical but a goodspell from Kuldeep Yadav islikely to keep him in good headspace after a dismal IPL.

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New Zealand have welland truly announced

themselves as a side to berespected at the ICC Men'sCricket World Cup 2019,after their convincing victo-ry against India on Saturday.Their new-ball pair of TimSouthee and Trent Boultexploited the conditions togreat effect to get rid of thestrong Indian top-order,before the all-rounders,Colin de Grandhomme andJames Neesham took over.Trent Boult's rhythm andaccuracy must've surelygiven ominous signs to allthe top-order batsmen inthe competition.

Ross Taylor continuedhis consistent run in 2019with a steady 71, whereasKane Williamson remindedeveryone of his battingprowess with a well com-piled 67. With most seniorplayers in fine form, theBlackcaps appear as a settledunit going into the WorldCup. They'll, however, hopethat their wicket-keeperbatsman, Tom Lathamrecovers quickly from hisfinger injury.

West Indies will be des-perate to get some matchpractice, after their firstwarm-up game was cut

short due to rain on Sunday.The essence of this matchincreases further given thefact that their senior playersChris Gayle, Andre Russellweren't a part of the recent-ly concluded tri-series inIreland. Chris Gayle's formduring the home seriesagainst England and ShaiHope's consistency in recenttimes will act as a hugemorale booster for the two-time World champions.

The bowling unit hasconsistently failed to takewickets in recent times. Thenew ball pair of captainJason Holder and SheldonCottrell have not been ableto create any opportunities,conceding runs at over run-a-ball in their nine-overcombined spell againstSouth Africa. To add to thewoes, Shannon Gabriel,who left the field after bowl-ing the first two balls of theninth over, didn't take thefield post the first raininterruption. He seems tohave suffered a strain ofsome sort. The team man-agement and the fans willhope that the Trinidadpacer recovers quicklybefore their first gameagainst Pakistan in the tour-nament proper.

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Former Australia skipper IanChappell believes the Virat

Kohli-led India has variety intheir bowling department, mak-ing them a strong contender towin the 2019 World Cup.

Chappell said the teamwhich has the ability to pickwickets at regular intervals,particularly in the middle overs,was likely to lift the covetedCup.

"In an era where big batsand big scores, with occasionalmonumental battering, haveproliferated ODIs, there arestill some seriously good bowl-ing attacks gearing up for 2019World Cup," Chappell wrote inhis column in ESPNcricinfo.

"Wicket-taking is going toplay a crucial role in decidingthis World Cup. Despite themodern gung-ho batting style,this is not an easy contract tofulfil when the tournament

reaches the knockout stage.The team that consistently takeswickets — particularly throughthe middle overs — is the onemost likely to lift the trophy," headded.

According to Chappell,India — despite not possessingthe "outright pace" like that ofEngland and Australia — dohave great variety and a trio offast bowlers who can be excep-tional in favourable conditions.

"If there's any moisture in

the pitches then Jasprit Bumrah,Mohammed Shami andBhuvneshwar Kumar are skilledenough to take full advantage.If, however, the pitches start towear and the conditions are dry,then Kuldeep Yadav andYuzvendra Chahal are a danger-ous wicket-taking combina-tion," said the 75-year-old.

"Throw in Hardik Pandya asa handy fast-bowling all-rounder and Virat Kohli hasplenty of options," he added.

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They missed out on a fairy-tale ending in the previous

edition but New Zealand willleave no stone unturned to lifttheir maiden World Cup trophythis time, says their swashbuck-ling opener Martin Guptill.

New Zealand started thewarm-up games with a bang,slaying tournament giants Indiaby six-wickets and 77 balls tospare.

"I wouldn't say we arefavourites to win the WorldCup this time but we havenamed a strong squad. Weknow it's going to be a toughtournament. We are going totry our best, do everything wecan to go and win the trophy wemissed out on the last time,"Guptill said.

New Zealand have landedin the UK with an experiencedand balanced side and theEnglish pitches are likely to suitbig hitters like Guptill, who willbe crucial to the team's success.

Guptill has an impressiverecord in England. He hasscored 652 runs with a strike-rate of 97.31 which includes anunbeaten 189 from 155 balls.

New Zealand, consideredperennial dark horses, knowhow to punch above theirweight.

"The tournament (2015World Cup) was really good for

us. We played some really goodcricket but unfortunately for us,we played our worst game inthe final."

Many of the players whowere part of the 2015 squadhave been replaced by young-sters including former captainBrendon McCullum and spin-ner Daniel Vettori and Guptillfeels the team needs to gel welltogether to achieve results likelast edition.

"To be honest, it's a com-pletely different team and it's adifferent time, it's four yearslater, so we need to cometogether and do what we dolike last time. We have to makesure everybody is gelling welland are having some funtogether because that was thebiggest take away from lasttime."

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Bangladesh coach Steve Rhodes believes theteam is well prepared going into the World Cup

and they are happy with the "underdog" title.Bangladesh didn't have an ideal start to their

preparation for the World Cup as their first warm-up game against Pakistan was washed out on Sunday.They will now take on India in their second prac-tice match on Tuesday before beginning their tour-nament campaign against South Africa on June 2.

"One of the things the dressing room feels is qui-etly confident," Rhodes told ICC. "But we are wellaware that we are playing against some very goodteams. We respect the opposition; we don't fear them.But what we have been trying to do is play that downa little bit, and actually it is great to be an underdog.

"Because if we can keep surprising all these bigteams, everybody is going to be commenting aboutwhat is going on with Bangladesh — 'how do theydo this sort of thing; how do they keep doing thissort of thing?' If we don't get too big for our boots,then we will keep surprising, and we should han-dle the pressure a lot better," he added.

One of the key boosts for Bangladesh will be theavailability of Shakib al Hasan, the number one all-rounder, who had missed the series against NewZealand due to a finger injury.

Shakib recovered from that injury in time for theIPL and played an important role in Bangladesh win-ning their first ever non-bilateral ODI tournamentin Ireland, scoring two unbeaten fifties and bowl-ing economically. However, he missed the final witha side strain.

The 32-year-old is now fit again in the lead-upto the World Cup, and, according to Rhodes, thepresence of the T20 captain will have a great impacton Bangladesh's campaign.

"When he (Shakib) doesn't play, it can cause afew issues. Not only (in) missing the best player thatyou have got, but also your balance of the team," saidRhodes.

The Bangladesh coach also heaped praise onMashrafe Mortaza saying, he leads in a warrior-likefashion.

"He (Mashrafe) is very much the person at thefront, very much the person that people respect. Hewouldn't ask anybody to do something that he could-n't do or wouldn't try himself," said the Bangladeshcoach.

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Jason Roy sealed an Englandthrashing of Afghanistan as

the tournament hosts cruisedto victory in their final matchbefore the World Cup.

Roy made 89 not out onhis Surrey home ground onMonday as England hammeredoutsiders Afghanistan by nine

wickets with nearly 200 balls tospare.

England, two days afterlosing their previous practicematch to world championsAustralia, returned to win-ning ways in convincing fash-ion ahead of their tournamentopener against South Africa atthe Oval on Thursday.

A target of 161 was never

likely to test England, with Royproving as much in a 46-ballinnings that included 11 foursand four sixes.

Jonny Bairstow wasstumped by Rahmat Shah offMohammad Nabi for 39.

Roy ended the match inthe 18th over of England'sreply with a six over midwick-et.

Earlier, Jofra Archer andJoe Root took three wicketsapiece as Afghanistan slumpedto 160 all out.

Fast bowler Archer strucktwice with the new ball to dis-miss Hazratullah and Rahmatbefore ending some late resis-tance from Nabi.

Opener Noor Ali scrappedhis way to 30 before he playedon to all-rounder Ben Stokes.

Asghar tried to drive Rootover the top but found Roy inthe deep instead.

Afghanistan lost their nextfour wickets in a mere sevendeliveries, Hashmatullah andNajibullah Zadran carelesslyrun out, Gulbadin Naib holingout to Moeen Ali and RashidKhan steering Root to slip fora golden duck.

Afghanistan were in dan-ger of being dismissed forunder 100 before Nabi, with 44,helped the last two wickets add68 runs.

Nabi's defiant hitting,which included three sixes,kept England at bay before hewas last man out when a thickedge off Archer carried toBairstow on the boundary.

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Australia were dealt an injury scare onMonday after top-order batsman

Usman Khawaja limped off the field aftergetting hit on his left knee during their sec-ond and final World Cup warm-up matchagainst Sri Lanka here.

Khawaja suffered a blow on his leftknee while fielding and had to be escort-ed off the ground by the team doctor.

Monday's injury scare came afterKhawaja was forced to retire hurt duringAustralia's first warm-up game againstEngland on Wednesday, which they wonby 12 runs.

During the match against England,Khawaja sustained a blow on his jaw whilebatting but scans later revealed that therewas no break.

The left-handed batsman is nowuncertain for Australia's World Cupopener against Afghanistan on June 1.

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