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I n an unprecedented order of its type, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre and the Assam Government to immediately transfer the State’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) Coordinator Prateek Hajela to Madhya Pradesh for the maximum period possible. Hajela has been facing threats and criticism from several quarters for exclusion of names from the updated NRC list. A native of Madhya Pradesh and a 1995 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre with BTech in Electronics from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Hajela was appointed the NRC coordina- tor by the top court to oversee the mammoth and sensitive exercise of finalising and pub- lication of Assam NRC data. A special Bench compris- ing Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices SA Bobde and RF Nariman ordered the inter- cadre transfer of Hajela on deputation to his native State for maximum possible period. Attorney General KK Venugopal, appearing for the Centre, sought to know the reason behind the unprece- dented order of the top court, to which the CJI responded, “can any order be passed with- out a cause or reason”. The Bench, however, did not spec- ify the cause or the reason for passing the order, leading to speculation that the officer might be apprehending some kind of threat. Two FIRs were filed last month against Hajela for “dis- crepancies” in the final updat- ed NRC list. A lawyer and indigenous Muslim students’ organisation — All Assam Goriya-Moriya Yuva Chatra Parishad (AAGMYCP) — filed separate FIRs against Hajela in Dibrugarh and Guwahati. Chandan Mazumdar, whose name does not figure in the final NRC list, filed the complaint against Hajela at Dibrugarh police station. Mazumdar alleged that he had submitted all documents, but his name was not included in the updated NRC due to “inef- ficiency and criminal conspir- acy of employees”. The FIR held Hajela responsible for “discrepancies”, as he was tasked with super- vising the NRC updation exer- cise in Assam. Another complaint was lodged against the NRC coor- dinator at Guwahati’s Latasil police station by the AAGMY- CP, claiming “deliberate” anom- alies in the final list. “The names of many indigenous people were excluded from the list, and it was done deliberately by the NRC State Coordinator,” the FIR filed by the students organisation said. Meanwhile, IG (Special Branch) Hiren Nath said no report was sought from Assam police about threat to Hajela. “Reports about threat per- ception to Hajela have not been sought from us. There have been, however, criticism against Hajela in the social media. Various organisations in Assam are vocal on the NRC with many speaking against the NRC and the State Coordinator,” he said. P utting Pakistan on notice, the international terror financing watchdog FATF on Friday warned it will be black- listed if it does not control ter- ror funding by February next, voicing serious concern over that country’s failure to deliv- er on most of its 27 targets. The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gave the warning to Pakistan at its five-day plenary which con- cluded here on Friday while deciding to again put the coun- try on the “Grey List”. By making this decision on Pakistan public, the FATF has given notice to the global financial institutions that they need to prepare to red flag the jurisdiction and ready their systems in February 2020 if the country falters in meeting the targets. “It was again decided by consensus that FATF would retain Pakistan on the Grey List and warn Pakistan that if it did not complete its full Action Plan and show signifi- cant and sustainable progress action will be taken,” said an official privy to the develop- ment said. Since Pakistan continues to be in the FATF “Grey List”, it would be very difficult for the country to get financial aid from the IMF, the World Bank, ADB and the European Union. There is also the risk of reduction in rating by Moody’s, S&P and Fitch, making Pakistan’s financial condition more precarious. According to a FATF state- ment, the FATF plenary noted that Pakistan addressed only five out of the 27 tasks given to it in controlling funding to ter- ror groups like the Lashkar-e- Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen, responsible for a series of attacks in India. The FATF said it strongly urges Pakistan to swiftly com- plete its full action plan by February 2020. “Otherwise, should signif- icant and sustainable progress not be made across the full range of its action plan by the next plenary, the FATF will take action, which could include the FATF calling on its members and urging all juris- dictions to advise their Financial Institutions to give special attention to business relations and transactions with Pakistan,” the global body said in the statement. Such action could include calling upon global financial institutions to give special attention to business relations and transactions with Pakistan. This language is the same as used for Iran, which is already in the blacklist category. I n an embarrassment for the Congress, two days before the crucial Assembly elections in Haryana, party chief Sonia Gandhi cancelled her only poll rally scheduled for Friday in Mahendragarth. Partymen had prepared round the clock to make the rally a huge success and expect- ed that Sonia will use the occa- sion to counter the high- pitched campaign by BJP lead- ers, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This was scheduled to be Sonia’s first public appearance after taking as interim presi- dent from her son Rahul Gandhi post the Lok Sabha debacle. In her place, Rahul Gandhi addressed the rally. “She has a viral infection, so she asked me to meet you and talk to you. I will come even at the last second on your call,” Rahul Gandhi said at the rally. The news of Sonia’s can- celling her programme came through a social media message from Haryana Congress. “@RahulGandhi ji will be addressing a public meeting at Mahendragarh today, at 2 PM. @INCIndia president Sonia Gandhi ji will not be able to attend the meeting due to unavoidable reasons,” the Haryana Congress said. Rahul Gandhi has already held rallies for the October 21 Assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana and it was his sec- ond rally in Haryana. T he CBI on Friday filed a chargehseet in the INX Media corruption case, naming 14 individuals and entities, including former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, his son Karti, and then additional secretary in Department of Economic Affairs Sindhushree Khullar. They have been charged with com- mitting offences under various IPC sec- tions relating to criminal conspiracy and cheating and also under the Prevention of Corruption Act for causing loss to the exchequer. Then Director in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board Prabodh Saxena, then Joint Secretary and Undersecretary in Department of Economic Affairs Anup K Pujari and R Prasad respectively have also been chargesheeted, CBI officials said. All the chargesheeted persons have been accused of involvement in criminal con- spiracy for irregular clearance of FDI to INX to the tune of 307 crore. Two companies allegedly controlled by Karti — Singapore unit Advantage Strategic Consultancy Private Limited and Chess Management Services Private Limited — have also been named in chargesheet. F or those of you who have seen the new 100 note, you would have noticed that there is a stepwell featured on it. Stepwells are a common feature across many parts of western India and were commonly used by Rajput kings and their pre- decessors in the earliest exam- ple of rainwater harvesting. Many of them have fallen into disrepair and disuse though they were all ornate at one time. Many, because they were often associated with religion, were destroyed when invading armies came into the region. But not the stepwell we see on the 100 note. The Rani Ki Vav at Patan, Gujarat, survived thanks to it being covered in sand and mud. Whether that was a delib- erate act to protect it from armies that raided the pros- perous traders of Gujarat is unknown, but it survived. It was not affected by the large-scale loot of antiquities by colonial powers thanks to it being lost in time and it was not “discov- ered” until after Independence and excavated in 1958. We might criticise the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) for several things, includ- ing the large-scale “disappear- ance” of historical monuments in a city like New Delhi but it must be complimented for the astounding work it has done in restoring the Rani Ki Vav, which is a major reason that UNESCO made it a world her- itage site. However, if there is any criticism of the ASI, it is that there can be much more information on the impor- tance of the gods and goddesses of the Hindu pantheon, who have been painstakingly carved in three-dimensional ways into the stone. This site is a tremen- dous validation of the skills of craftsmen from Gujarat. There is also the spectacu- lar Surya Mandir in Modhera an hour from Patan, with its 12 carved “adityas” or manifesta- tions inside, which is a must- visit. Both the well and the tem- ple were built during the rule of Bhima I, the founder of the great Solanki dynasty, the well being built by his consort, Queen Udaymati. These sites, just a couple of hours from Ahmedabad, are a reminder of not only the great wealth of this part of the nation, which is as true now as it was then, but also the skill and patience of the rulers and the people. It is a crying shame that there are fewer and fewer peo- ple taking up some of these intricate crafts. The Patola saris of Patan for example, with geometrical designs inspired by patterns on the vav, and the “double-ikat” method, requiring an under- standing of complex mathe- matics, used to be made by 200 families. C hief Minister Raghubar Das on Friday handed over joining letters for grade four Government jobs to at least 65 dependants of peo- ple killed in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) violence. Das also gave away joining letters to 85 paramedics, who will offer their services in jails across Jharkhand. Addressing the benefi- ciaries in Ranchi, Das extended his support to the families that lost their bread earners in attacks by LWE groups. “What was the fault of those innocent men who died in Maoist attacks? They were our people and their loss is agonizing for all of us,” said Das. The Chief Minister pledged to bring an end to the LWE menace in Jharkhand and said that the days of rebel outfits in Jharkhand were numbered. “Our aim is to make Jharkhand Maoism-free. We want peace, harmony and development in our State,” he said. As per records with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), at least 18 of 24 dis- tricts in Jharkhand are LWE- affected. Besides the main CPI (Maoist), there are at least 17 splinter outfits active in Jharkhand. A majority of these groups, police say, have unleashed a reign of terror on innocent villagers. Most of them are involved in trafficking chil- dren, smuggling opium, abducting for ransom and killing for sport, police say. “The Government will always stand in support of the dependants of people killed in Maoist incidents. The Maoists have been on the back foot since our Government came to power as we paid special attention to bringing an end to Maoism,” Das said. Das also remembered the sacrifice of all the soldiers who attained martyrdom while fighting Maoists in Jharkhand. Das said that many cases of innocent vil- lagers being killed in Maoist violence were brought to light even during the Seedhi Baat programme. “We can- not bring back the dead, but we stand in support of their families. Our Home Department is committed to provide all possible support to such families,” said Das. Before handing over the joining letters to the 85 para- medics, Das said that ensur- ing good health of prisoners was also a priority for the Government. The para- medics will offer health facil- ities to jail inmates and ensure that diseases don’t go unreported, he added. He also said that there were many employment opportunities in the health sector here and the Government was imparting special trainings to women for the jobs. Later in the day, Das met Union Coal and Mines Minister Pralhad Joshi spoke at length about the various problems people living in mining areas have to face. Das said that mines where mining works have been completed should be filled and developed into parks. “People living in min- ing areas often contract dis- eases due to the dust in the air. We want to provide a safe and healthy environment for these families. The places were mining work is com- plete should be developed into parks and housing soci- eties can come up around them,” he said. Joshi said that Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) will provide jobs to people who lose their land in mining activities. “The jobs will be pro- vided on the basis of qualifi- cation and eligibility,” he said, adding that coal com- panies will also work for welfare of the people living in the mining areas. Das attended a ‘Jan Chaupal’ later in the day at Chaibasa and pulled up offi- cials for negligence towards work. Warning officials who fail to perform their duties, Das said that such officials will be given voluntary retire- ment. He asked officials to pay frequent visits to villages and interact with villagers in order to understand the problems at the ground level.
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In an unprecedented order ofits type, the Supreme Court

on Friday directed the Centreand the Assam Government toimmediately transfer the State’sNational Register of Citizens(NRC) Coordinator PrateekHajela to Madhya Pradesh forthe maximum period possible.Hajela has been facing threatsand criticism from severalquarters for exclusion of namesfrom the updated NRC list.

A native of MadhyaPradesh and a 1995 batch IASofficer of Assam-Meghalayacadre with BTech in Electronicsfrom Indian Institute ofTechnology, Delhi, Hajela wasappointed the NRC coordina-tor by the top court to overseethe mammoth and sensitiveexercise of finalising and pub-lication of Assam NRC data.

A special Bench compris-ing Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoiand justices SA Bobde and RFNariman ordered the inter-cadre transfer of Hajela ondeputation to his native Statefor maximum possible period.

Attorney General KKVenugopal, appearing for theCentre, sought to know thereason behind the unprece-dented order of the top court,to which the CJI responded,“can any order be passed with-out a cause or reason”. TheBench, however, did not spec-

ify the cause or the reason forpassing the order, leading tospeculation that the officermight be apprehending somekind of threat.

Two FIRs were filed lastmonth against Hajela for “dis-crepancies” in the final updat-ed NRC list. A lawyer andindigenous Muslim students’organisation — All AssamGoriya-Moriya Yuva ChatraParishad (AAGMYCP) — filedseparate FIRs against Hajela inDibrugarh and Guwahati.

Chandan Mazumdar,whose name does not figure inthe final NRC list, filed thecomplaint against Hajela atDibrugarh police station.Mazumdar alleged that he hadsubmitted all documents, buthis name was not included inthe updated NRC due to “inef-ficiency and criminal conspir-acy of employees”.

The FIR held Hajelaresponsible for “discrepancies”,as he was tasked with super-vising the NRC updation exer-

cise in Assam.Another complaint was

lodged against the NRC coor-dinator at Guwahati’s Latasilpolice station by the AAGMY-CP, claiming “deliberate” anom-alies in the final list. “Thenames of many indigenouspeople were excluded from thelist, and it was done deliberatelyby the NRC State Coordinator,”the FIR filed by the studentsorganisation said.

Meanwhile, IG (SpecialBranch) Hiren Nath said noreport was sought from Assampolice about threat to Hajela.

“Reports about threat per-ception to Hajela have notbeen sought from us. Therehave been, however, criticismagainst Hajela in the socialmedia. Various organisations inAssam are vocal on the NRCwith many speaking against theNRC and the StateCoordinator,” he said.

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Putting Pakistan on notice,the international terror

financing watchdog FATF onFriday warned it will be black-listed if it does not control ter-ror funding by February next,voicing serious concern overthat country’s failure to deliv-er on most of its 27 targets.

The Paris-based FinancialAction Task Force (FATF) gavethe warning to Pakistan at itsfive-day plenary which con-cluded here on Friday whiledeciding to again put the coun-try on the “Grey List”.

By making this decision onPakistan public, the FATF hasgiven notice to the globalfinancial institutions that theyneed to prepare to red flag thejurisdiction and ready theirsystems in February 2020 if thecountry falters in meeting thetargets.

“It was again decided byconsensus that FATF wouldretain Pakistan on the GreyList and warn Pakistan that ifit did not complete its fullAction Plan and show signifi-cant and sustainable progress

action will be taken,” said anofficial privy to the develop-ment said.

Since Pakistan continues tobe in the FATF “Grey List”, itwould be very difficult for thecountry to get financial aidfrom the IMF, the WorldBank, ADB and the EuropeanUnion. There is also the risk ofreduction in rating by Moody’s,S&P and Fitch, makingPakistan’s financial conditionmore precarious.

According to a FATF state-ment, the FATF plenary notedthat Pakistan addressed onlyfive out of the 27 tasks given toit in controlling funding to ter-ror groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammadand Hizbul Mujahideen,responsible for a series ofattacks in India.

The FATF said it strongly

urges Pakistan to swiftly com-plete its full action plan byFebruary 2020.

“Otherwise, should signif-icant and sustainable progressnot be made across the fullrange of its action plan by thenext plenary, the FATF willtake action, which couldinclude the FATF calling on itsmembers and urging all juris-dictions to advise theirFinancial Institutions to givespecial attention to businessrelations and transactions withPakistan,” the global body saidin the statement.

Such action could includecalling upon global financialinstitutions to give specialattention to business relationsand transactions with Pakistan.This language is the same asused for Iran, which is alreadyin the blacklist category.

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In an embarrassment for theCongress, two days before

the crucial Assembly electionsin Haryana, party chief SoniaGandhi cancelled her only pollrally scheduled for Friday inMahendragarth.

Partymen had preparedround the clock to make therally a huge success and expect-ed that Sonia will use the occa-sion to counter the high-pitched campaign by BJP lead-ers, including Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

This was scheduled to beSonia’s first public appearanceafter taking as interim presi-dent from her son RahulGandhi post the Lok Sabhadebacle. In her place, RahulGandhi addressed the rally.

“She has a viral infection,so she asked me to meet youand talk to you. I will comeeven at the last second onyour call,” Rahul Gandhi saidat the rally.

The news of Sonia’s can-

celling her programme camethrough a social media messagefrom Haryana Congress.

“@RahulGandhi ji will beaddressing a public meeting atMahendragarh today, at 2 PM.@INCIndia president SoniaGandhi ji will not be able toattend the meeting due tounavoidable reasons,” theHaryana Congress said.

Rahul Gandhi has alreadyheld rallies for the October 21Assembly polls in Maharashtraand Haryana and it was his sec-ond rally in Haryana.

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The CBI on Friday filed a chargehseetin the INX Media corruption case,

naming 14 individuals and entities,including former Finance Minister PChidambaram, his son Karti, and thenadditional secretary in Department ofEconomic Affairs Sindhushree Khullar.

They have been charged with com-mitting offences under various IPC sec-tions relating to criminal conspiracy andcheating and also under the Preventionof Corruption Act for causing loss to theexchequer.

Then Director in the ForeignInvestment Promotion Board PrabodhSaxena, then Joint Secretary andUndersecretary in Department ofEconomic Affairs Anup K Pujari and RPrasad respectively have also beenchargesheeted, CBI officials said. All thechargesheeted persons have beenaccused of involvement in criminal con-spiracy for irregular clearance of FDI toINX to the tune of �307 crore.

Two companies allegedly controlledby Karti — Singapore unit AdvantageStrategic Consultancy Private Limitedand Chess Management Services PrivateLimited — have also been named inchargesheet.

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at Patan, Gujarat, survivedthanks to it being covered insand and mud.

Whether that was a delib-erate act to protect it fromarmies that raided the pros-perous traders of Gujarat isunknown, but it survived. It was

not affected by the large-scaleloot of antiquities by colonialpowers thanks to it being lostin time and it was not “discov-ered” until after Independenceand excavated in 1958.

We might criticise theArcheological Survey of India

(ASI) for several things, includ-ing the large-scale “disappear-ance” of historical monumentsin a city like New Delhi but itmust be complimented for theastounding work it has done inrestoring the Rani Ki Vav,which is a major reason thatUNESCO made it a world her-itage site. However, if there isany criticism of the ASI, it isthat there can be much moreinformation on the impor-tance of the gods and goddessesof the Hindu pantheon, whohave been painstakingly carvedin three-dimensional ways intothe stone. This site is a tremen-dous validation of the skills ofcraftsmen from Gujarat.

There is also the spectacu-

lar Surya Mandir in Modheraan hour from Patan, with its 12carved “adityas” or manifesta-tions inside, which is a must-visit. Both the well and the tem-ple were built during the rule ofBhima I, the founder of thegreat Solanki dynasty, the wellbeing built by his consort,Queen Udaymati. These sites,just a couple of hours fromAhmedabad, are a reminder ofnot only the great wealth of thispart of the nation, which is astrue now as it was then, but alsothe skill and patience of therulers and the people.

It is a crying shame thatthere are fewer and fewer peo-ple taking up some of theseintricate crafts.

The Patola saris of Patanfor example, with geometricaldesigns inspired by patterns onthe vav, and the “double-ikat”method, requiring an under-standing of complex mathe-matics, used to be made by 200families.

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Chief Minister RaghubarDas on Friday handed

over joining letters for gradefour Government jobs to atleast 65 dependants of peo-ple killed in Left WingExtremism (LWE) violence.Das also gave away joiningletters to 85 paramedics, whowill offer their services in jailsacross Jharkhand.

Addressing the benefi-ciaries in Ranchi, Dasextended his support to thefamilies that lost their breadearners in attacks by LWEgroups. “What was the faultof those innocent men whodied in Maoist attacks? Theywere our people and theirloss is agonizing for all of us,”said Das.

The Chief Ministerpledged to bring an end tothe LWE menace inJharkhand and said that thedays of rebel outfits inJharkhand were numbered.“Our aim is to makeJharkhand Maoism-free. Wewant peace, harmony anddevelopment in our State,” hesaid.

As per records with theMinistry of Home Affairs

(MHA), at least 18 of 24 dis-tricts in Jharkhand are LWE-affected. Besides the mainCPI (Maoist), there are atleast 17 splinter outfits activein Jharkhand. A majority ofthese groups, police say, haveunleashed a reign of terror oninnocent villagers.

Most of them areinvolved in trafficking chil-dren, smuggling opium,abducting for ransom andkilling for sport, police say.

“The Government will

always stand in support ofthe dependants of peoplekilled in Maoist incidents.The Maoists have been onthe back foot since ourGovernment came to poweras we paid special attentionto bringing an end toMaoism,” Das said.

Das also rememberedthe sacrifice of all the soldierswho attained martyrdomwhile fighting Maoists inJharkhand. Das said thatmany cases of innocent vil-

lagers being killed in Maoistviolence were brought tolight even during the SeedhiBaat programme. “We can-not bring back the dead, butwe stand in support of theirfamilies. Our HomeDepartment is committed toprovide all possible supportto such families,” said Das.

Before handing over thejoining letters to the 85 para-medics, Das said that ensur-ing good health of prisonerswas also a priority for theGovernment. The para-medics will offer health facil-ities to jail inmates andensure that diseases don’t gounreported, he added.

He also said that therewere many employmentopportunities in the healthsector here and theGovernment was impartingspecial trainings to womenfor the jobs.

Later in the day, Dasmet Union Coal and MinesMinister Pralhad Joshi spokeat length about the variousproblems people living inmining areas have to face.

Das said that mineswhere mining works havebeen completed should befilled and developed into

parks. “People living in min-ing areas often contract dis-eases due to the dust in theair. We want to provide a safeand healthy environment forthese families. The placeswere mining work is com-plete should be developedinto parks and housing soci-eties can come up aroundthem,” he said.

Joshi said that BharatCoking Coal Limited(BCCL) will provide jobs topeople who lose their land inmining activities.

“The jobs will be pro-vided on the basis of qualifi-cation and eligibility,” hesaid, adding that coal com-panies will also work forwelfare of the people living inthe mining areas.

Das attended a ‘JanChaupal’ later in the day atChaibasa and pulled up offi-cials for negligence towardswork.

Warning officials whofail to perform their duties,Das said that such officialswill be given voluntary retire-ment. He asked officials topay frequent visits to villagesand interact with villagers inorder to understand theproblems at the ground level.

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The countdown for Assemblyelection is yet to begin in State,

but political parties including rulingBJP and Opposition have pulled upthe socks for crucial battle. While theChief Minister Raghubar Das lead-ing BJP’s campaign in State is busywith Johar Jan Ashirwad Yatra party,the Opposition parties too haveplanned yatras as part of mass con-tact programme.

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha(JMM) Baldao Yatra which startedon August 26 will conclude onOctober 19 with JMM executivepresident Hemant Soren holding apublic rally at Harmu ground.

JMM general secretary, SupriyoBhattacharya said, “JMM executivepresident Hemant Soren with apledge to overthrow the autocraticRaghubar Das Government fromState is visiting every Assembly con-stituencies for past three months aspart Baldoa yatra.”

The yatra planned in five phasehas touched entire State will con-clude on October 19 with HemantSoren holding a public rally in StateCapital. While the JMM Baldaoyatra will conclude on October 19,Congress will kick start its mass out-

reach programme on October 17with rallies in all five administrativedivisions. The Congress rallies havebeen planned at Latehar, Jamtara,Bokaro, Chaibasa and Ranchi. TheCongress rallies will be attended byState Congress in-charge RPN Singh,State Congress bigwigs includingState Congress president RameshwarOroan, Leader of Opposition inAssembly Alamgir Alam, DhirajSahu among others.

State Congress spokesperson,Lal Kishorenath Shahdeo said, “Therallies will be held at division wiseand being attended by senior centreand state Congress leaders,Chhattisgarh chief minister BhupeshBhagel will address two rallies.”Shahdeo said that after divisionwise rallies, Congress will hold a bigrally in State Capital likely to beaddressed by Congress interim pres-ident Sonia Gandhi.

Sources said that throughCongress was late in starting its elec-tion campaign due to internal riftwithin its state leadership, party’scampaign gained momentum inpast few months. After the consti-tution of new State Congress unit,the first task was to assess the per-formance of booth committee. Boothcommittees which were found

defunct was dissolved at the sametime new members were added inbooth committees.The Grandalliance other constituent, JharkhandVikas Morcha (P) too has plannedrallies across the State. The JVM(P)Janadesh rally lead by JVM chief andformer state chief minister BabulalMarandi started on October 12 fromTorpa. On October 13, Marandiaddressed rallies at Saraikela andJamshedpur. The JVM has plannedto touch maximum seats Assemblyconstituencies ahead of electionthrough its Janadesh yatra. TheJVM chief started its election cam-paign in State with JanadeshSamagam rally at Prabhat Taraground in State Capital.

The Congress, JMM and JVMwhich is part of grand alliance(Mahagathbandhan) are holding ral-lies separately as till now the threeparties have not worked out allianceformula for year-end election.However, the opposition leaders areconfident that before the electiondates are announced seat sharing for-mula will be chalked-out. A seniorCongress leader requestinganonymity said, “The seat sharingformula with all three parties will beshorted out within a week before theelection dates are announced.”

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Safety of our children is also ofparamount importance.

Satyarthi has been of the view thatby protecting our children we pro-tect our Constitution.

The Government in last fiveyears has created a strong legalframework for protection of chil-dren such as enactment of JuvenileJustice Act in 2016 by replacing theearlier law of 2000 with new pro-visions and clarity in procedures;POCSO Act in 2012 and amend-ed in 2019 by making punishmentsharsher and increased focus onchild pornography- a fast growingcrime against children.

It is ironical that despite sucha robust legal structure, childrencontinue to being exploited, abusedand trafficked. Over one lakh chil-dren were victims of crime in2016.

The numbers have risen dur-ing the last three years too. To addthe woes of victim children, thenumber of exclusive courts dealingwith cases is highly inadequateresulting in overburdening ofcourts.

In the national capital alone,7,277 cases filed under the POCSOAct are awaiting trial or on an aver-age 383 cases per court! Taking aserious note of the situation, theApex Court has ordered to set upspecial courts in each district in thecountry which has over 100 pend-

ing cases of child sexual abuse. Thisis a welcome step and might bringrelief and justice to the victim chil-dren.

The status of well-being of chil-dren has been brought out in sta-tistics given above including men-tion of new laws launched in lastfive years; let us now see as towhether allocations of funds is suf-ficient for the seinitiatives.

The budget allocation for chil-dren as a percentage of total UnionBudget has remained almost con-stant from 3.26 per cent in 2015-16 to 3.25 per cent in 2019-2020.Slightly over 3 per cent ofbudget for 39 per cent of the chil-dren population of the country isfar from being adequate.

India has witnessed a number

of National-International confer-ences, aimed to eradicate the socialsin of Child Labour under the lead-ership of Nobel Laureate.

Our nation has become a glob-al leader to raise the issues of Childlabour, trafficking and sexualharassments. My association withSatyarthi proved worthy as hisleadership played a vital role inbringing these issues into limelight.

Indians have been awardedwith the Nobel Prize in the fieldsof Science, Economics andLiterature in the past but it is for thefirst time an Indian was recognisedat the prestigious world forum forhis decade long struggle to eradi-cate crimes against the children.Seeing his continuous efforts, it can

be believed that India can be freedfrom child labour and other suchpractices.

In conclusion, while there hasbeen progress towards securing therights of children, much remains tobe done. The biggest gain of theNobel to Satyarthi has been recog-nition of children’s issues in thePolicy space. It would not be anexaggeration to say that past fiveyears marked the beginning of newepoch for child protection and pro-motion of their rights.

However, to realize the effortsof Satyarthi of every child beingfree, safe and happy, our countryneeds to work in a mission modeby putting children in forefront ofpolicies, budgets and all develop-ment initiatives.

We need fully functional insti-tutions, trained functionaries anda child friendly environment wherechildren feel safe wherever they are;be at home, in the playground, inschool or in the community.

Unless, each adult takes up theresponsibility of caring of not justhis own children but also thosearound him or her, we will not suc-ceed in creating a child friendlyIndia nor shall achieve acceleratedeconomic and social development.

The writer is the SecretaryGeneral of JD (U) and formerMember of Parliament. And, theviews expressed in the article are per-sonal

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In a lucky escape, Ranchi MPSanjay Seth survived a major

road accident near Nimiaghatat 7:30pm on Thursday.

SDPO, Niraj Kumar saidthat Seth was travelling fromRanchi to Dhanbad viaNimiaghat on his own XyloSUV on Thursday eveningwhen the incident occured.

The accident took placenear Pratapur village underNimiaghat police station ataround 7.45pm when Seth wasgoing to Dhanbad.

On the way, a speedingTata Magic hit his car near

Pratapur in National Highway-2. Officer in Charge ofNimiaghat Police Station, VijayKumar Kerkatta said that Seth’scar got severely damaged in thecrash but the MP escapedunscathed.

Kerketta said that the dri-ver of Tata Magic fled the spotsoon after the accident. "We areconducting a probe into thematter and the culprit will faceaction as per law," saidKumar."I am fine now andheading towards Ranchi," saidSeth.

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City based B-school XLRI isgearing up for Ensemble-

Valhalla, the annual flagshipfestival. The fest will be heldfrom November 1 to 3. Famousrapper Vivian Fernandes, bet-ter known by his stage nameDivine will be performing forits final pro-show night onNovember 3.

Known for his uniquecompositions and his series ofpopular singles and Bollywoodsongs, Divine has gained phe-nomenal recognition throughhis hits in movies likeMukkabaaz, Blackmail, andGully Boy.

He has a number of acco-lades to his name such as the2013 Rolling Stone IndiaAward for the Best Video forYeh Mera Bombay, the 2018Outlook Social Media Awardfor the Musician of the Year,and the 2015 GIMA Award forthe Best EDM Track of the Year

for “Jungle Raja”. He was thesubject of the 2019 DiscoveryChannel documentary, GullyLife: Story of Divine.Bollywood blockbuster GullyBoy was based on his life. Heis the only rapper in India tohave been the subject of botha documentary and aBollywood movie.

“We are all set for the fes-tival. The event promises to bebigger than ever before. It isalready witnessing an over-whelming involvement, withthe highest ever participantturn out for its pre-event com-petitions and the overall prizemoney being as high as �15.5lakh. The fest’s theme promis-es to be an attempt to inspire

people to break free from thestereotypes and encourageinnovation among them,” saida student. Xavier School ofManagement ( XLRI) is a pre-mier, private managementinstitute in India founded in1949 by Fr Quinn Enright, S.J.in the ‘steel city’ of Jamshedpur.

Over the last six decades,the institute has grown into atop-ranking business manage-ment school of internationalrepute with a wide portfolio ofmanagement programs andresearch publications.

Its alumni are spreadaround the globe and havedemonstrated responsible busi-ness leadership in their organ-isations.

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Famous singer Daler Mehndienthralled the audience

with his songs, 'tunak tunaktun' and 'Ho gayi teri balle balle'at ‘Bhairav Mahotsav’ inBokaro district’sChandankiyari. A large gath-ering of music enthusiastsenjoyed performances. Besideothers famous singer MamtaSharma and Arun Pathak pre-sented several evergreen hitsongs that mesmerized theaudience.

‘Bhairav Mahotsav’, whichkicked-off with cultural amity,

left an indelible impact on all’shearts. A two-day long effort tobring Chandankiyari in thelist of important religioustourist spots of Jharkhand wasconcluded with vibrant and tra-ditional tone on Thursday. Theprogramme was organised byJharkhand TourismDepartment in joint associationwith the district administrationof Bokaro. Aiming to enhancetourism in Jharkhand and tomake the state a cultural hub,a two day event was started atBhairavh Sthan, inChandankiyari block of Bokarodistrict on Saturday.

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Medicos in the first year ofthe newly started Palamu

Medical College at PokhrahaKhurd village, about 7 Kmsfrom Daltonganj, have nooption but to risk carryingextra cash as there are noAutomated Teller Machines(ATMs) or banks around thecollege campus. The practice,they fear, invites unwantedattention and compels them tostay cautious 24x7.

The ATM nearest to thecollege is at least 7 Kilometresfrom the main campus andtravelling all the way to theATM on a regular basis is notfeasible, say students. Besides,the lone ATM in the area isoften out of cash.

Divisional Commissionerof Palamu, Manoj Kumar Jhaadmitted that the lack of ATMsin the area was causing prob-lems for the medicos. Jha saidhe held a meeting recentlywith principal of medical col-lege J R Prasad, civil surgeon DrJohn F Kennedy and otherstakeholders to improve theinfrastructure at and aroundthe college.

Jha said that the adminis-tration would welcome pro-posals from banks to openbranches or ATMs here.

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Bokaro DeputyCommissioner Mukesh

Kumar launched a unique ini-tiative — 'Matdan Aawasy KareKyunki Bokaro bemishal hai'(Must vote because Bokaro isunmatched or unparallel) — onFriday. Under the initiative hedistributed armbands to theofficials and employees toincrease the voting percentagein the forthcoming assemblyelections in Bokaro.

In order to raise voters’awareness and participation inensuing assembly poll, thebands have been launchedunder the Systematic Voters’Education and ElectoralParticipation (SVEEP) pro-gramme, said Kumar. "We aretrying our best to draw votersto the booths by educatingthem on their right to vote," headded. All the district admin-istration officials will have towear this armband till the endof the election. Beside others,Bokaro Superintendent ofPolice P. Murugun and all thepolice officers will also beinvolved in this initiative toexplain the importance of vot-ing for each person in democ-racy. Appreciating the initiative

of Bokaro DC, famous play-back singer Daler Mehndi andfamous singer Mamta Sharmahave also participated in rais-ing awareness. They releasedvideo messages urging themass to cast their votes here inBokaro. Under SVEEP, Specialawareness campaigns havebeen launched for women,youth, and nomads includingother residents, said an official.

The SVEEP contains thefollowing activities:Dissemination of Information,Motivation Message, andApproach (Strategy). The mainobjectives include increasingthe registration of voters, espe-cially women, newly eligiblevoters, youth and socially mar-ginalised sections; improvingthe voter turnout by way ofmotivation; photo inclusion inelectoral roll; issue of EPIC; andethical voting, said the official.

SVEEP was first rolled outin 2009-2010 Assembly elec-tions and in last three years,voter registration, especiallyamong youth has gone up from15 percent to 35 percent.Almost all Assembly electionsheld since 2010 recorded highvoter turnout with greater par-ticipation from youth andwomen.

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One of India’s largestHackathon, Hack-A-BIT

2019 was inaugurated at BirlaInstitute of Technology (BIT),Mesra in Ranchi on Friday.The Hackathon will concludeon Sunday.

The Chief Guest for theinaugural ceremony wasProfessor Ganapati Pandafrom IIT-Bhubaneshwar whohas been awarded as“Outstanding Teacher Award2017” conferred by theGoverning Council of IndianNational Academy ofEngineering (INAE) for hisoutstanding contributions inteaching in the field of engi-neering.

Addressing the gatheringof the students, Panda said, “Intoday’s world, Data Analytics,Machine Learning andStatistics can be used to solvethe real world problems.

The learning that ispreached in classes andschools is very different fromthe one that is used in thehacakthon, Hack-A-Bit 2019.The amount of data availablein today’s world is huge, from

finance, agriculture, manu-facturer and others.” TheProfessor emphasized on theneed of processing data beforeit is used. Missing data isreconstructed by methods of

interpolation and extrapola-tion, he said.

“The data is then nor-malised by any one of the 8methods. The noramlised datais then in the range of 0 and 1

and makes it easier to analysedifferent models. The dataneeds to undergo featureextraction by methods. Thefeatures are then reduced bymethods like Factor analysis to

decrease complexity andincrease accuracy”, he added.

Panda also said machinelearning models can bedeployed to solve real worldproblems. “Problems like sup-pressing the noise in mixergrinder. Other than the ACbogies of trains, the noise andvibration makes the peoplementally tired.

How can models bedeployed to repel the noise?Distributor Noise Cancellationcan be used to make the jour-ney comfortable,” he added.

Students in a hackathonlearn by cooperative methodsto develop and explore ideasuseful in the real life.

The dignitaries were flo-rally felicitated by the facultyadvisors and were invited tolight the ceremonial lamp.The institute’s prayer teamthen sung the BIT Prayerwhich was followed by a briefdescription of Hack-A-BIT bythe anchors.

Panda, Dean (studentswelfare) AK Sinha, and facul-ty advisor Vijayalaxmiexpressed their opinions onthe second edition of one ofIndia’s largest Student

Hackathon, Hack-A-BIT.Panda was presented with atoken of gratitude from Sinha.The Dean Students’ Welfarewas presented with a memen-to from the faculty advisors.Thereafter, the faculty advisorswere presented with a token ofgratitude from the organizers.

The anchors briefed theaudience about the judges,speakers, prizes, code of con-duct, rules, and regulations.This was followed by a doubtsession conducted by the orga-nizers.

The hosts for the inaugu-ration ceremony werePrashanta Purkayastha, andMuskan Srivastava.

The ceremony was gracedby the presence of SwaroopBhanskota, Head of Marketingat Zeit, Nimesh Ghelani, MLEngineer, LP Bloomberg,Dean Students’ Welfare , AK.Sinha, and Faculty Advisors,Vijaya Laxmi, DK. Upadhyay,Sumit Srivastava, facultiesVijay Nath, G Sahoo, SanjayKumar, SS Sahoo, SK Mishra,and PP Das. The inaugurationceremony of Hack-A-BIT wasorganized at the CAT Hall ofthe institute.

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In a bid to increase miningcapacity, Central Coalfields

Limited (CCL) launched a newtechnology, Miner, onWednesday in presence ofUnion Minister of Coal andMines and ParliamentaryAffairs, Pralhad Joshi.

According to the Companythe Miner will add a new chap-ter in the long history of ChuriUG mines with commence-ment of mass production tech-nology having capacity to pro-duce up to 4000 tonne per day.

Earlier, the production atChuri UG was 4000 tonne perannum, after installation ofthe mass production technol-ogy through continuous minerproduction is expected to riseup to 5 lakh tonnes per annum.The coal reserve at Churiunderground mine has lowash content with high heatingcapacity. Churi UG under NKArea of CCL has extractablecoal reserve of 7.5 MT.

The Union Minister alsovisited Ashoka Project Minesunder Piparwar Area of CCL.Joshi took stock of the day toknow operation and challengesfaced by the company.

Addressing the gatheringon the occasion, Joshi saidthat Government will go all the

way to achieve 1 billion coalproduction at its earliest andend dependence on importedcoal. “Government under thedynamic leadership of PrimeMinister, Narendra Modicommitted to help CCL andother coal companies to clearall the hurdles and challengessuch as environmental clear-ance, authentication of land bystate machinery and others,” headded.

Joshi was accompanied by

Chairman cum ManagingDirector (CMD), CCL GopalSingh, Functional Directors,Chief Vigilance Officer andother senior officials during hisvisit. On the first day of his visitthe Union Minister chaired areview meeting along with theCMD, Functional Directors,CVO along with senior offi-cials. During the review meet-ing, Joshi discussed in lengthon the performance as well aschallenges faced by the com-

pany. He exhorted CCL man-agement to make all roundeffort to boost coal productionto register themselves in 100million clubs as it has all thepotential and resources toachieve it. The Union Ministerassured to provide all helpfrom both State Governmentand Centre Government.

Earlier, addressing the CCLworkers during the “ShramSamman Samaroh” at CCLBhawan, Joshi said

Government is committed tostrengthen Coal India. Heappreciated the hard work anddedication of coal worker,which provides light to almostthree fourth households of thecountry.

“I salute the hard work anddedication of coal workers andtheir family, who work in oneof the most difficult terrains inthe remote part of the country,”said Joshi.

The Union Minister appre-ciated the various welfare andCorporate Social Responsibilityprojects of CCL under theleadership of the CMD, whichhas brought social transfor-mation in the heartland ofJharkhand along with recordbreaking production and dis-patch in last 5-6 years. He alsofelicitated CCL employees fortheir exemplary contributiontowards the company duringthe function.

During the visit Joshi alsodedicated a newly built“Musical Fountain Point” builtby CCL to the people of Ranchiand inaugurated the new “CCLBhawan”, a completely greenbuilding with four star GRIHA(Green Rating for IntegratedHabitat Assessment) Ratingwith state of art auditorium,board rooms, meeting hallsand office space.

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The State BJP vice president-cum-Rajya Sabha MP

Sameer Oraon on Friday saidthat the Nirmal Hriday, theinstitutions run under theMissionaries of Charity, hasbecome ‘ruthless heart’involved in immoral and ille-gal act and the credit goes toOpposition parties underwhose guidance such organi-sations flourished and encour-aged child trafficking.

He said that leaders of allOpposition parties includingJMM and Congress had visit-ed Nirmal Hriday due to whichthe organization, Missionariesof Charity had become a cher-ished place for the Oppositionparties. The leaders of theseOpposition parties haveremained silent on immoraland illegal act of NirmalHriday, but have also beensympathetic towards all thecriminal activities runningunder the wrap of these organ-isations, he added.

Referring to the allega-tions on Nirmal Hriday, Oraonsaid that unmarried and minorpregnant women who wereraped were given shelter there

and the information of therape victim was not given to thepolice. After delivery, the orga-nization used to keep the chil-dren and ask the mother toreturn. He said that more than900 newborns were trafficked,ignoring the rules of childsafety and rights.

Referring to the rulesregarding the adoption oforphans or abandoned chil-dren, he said that orphans areconsidered legally adoptableonly if they are reported to theChild Welfare Committeewithin 24 hours of the birth orrecovery of the child. But theorganization ignored all therules and indulged in immoralchild trafficking, he said. Heaccused the Opposition leaders

of appeasement of religiousleaders, saying that HemantSoren and Babulal Marandishould clear their stand aboutreligious leaders whether theyhave served or bargained in thename of Nirmal Hriday.

Meanwhile, a meeting ofBJP Scheduled Tribe MorchaSouth Chotanagpur was held atBJP office. The meeting waschaired by Morcha state pres-ident cum Khijri MLA RamKumar Pahan. BJP State VicePresident cum Rajya SabhaMP Sameer Oroan among oth-ers. Oraon said that BJP hasalways remained active in upliftof tribals and in this directionthe State Government is first toset up scheduled tribes com-mission.

The BJP Rajya Sabha mem-ber also listed out the stepstaken by Raghubar Das gov-ernment for uplift of tribalssuch as starting of scholarshipschemes for tribal students.

ST Morcha president, RamKumar Pahan said that leadersof morcha will camp at tribalvillages in all 24 districts andwill create awareness aboutthe developmental works beingcarried out by DasGovernment.

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Team Green, a Ranchi-basedyouth led organisation has

decided ‘to be the change’ inmaking a visible difference tothe environment-both physicaland social. The NGO in lastfour and half months haveplanted 5,500 odd saplings atdifferent parts of Capital intheir endeavor in makingGreen Ranchi. The NGO hasput up a stall at the ongoingJharkhand IAS Officers WivesAssociation (JIASOWA) fairat Morhabadi ground.

The stall is also distribut-ing purple hedge and moneyplants among the visitors at thestall. Harsh Mittal one of themembers of Team Green spot-ted at the JIASOWA fair said,“We are thankful to JIASOWAmembers as they have allowedus to put the stall in the fair.

The NGO aims to makeCapital ‘Green Ranchi’ byplanting more and more treesand in this connection we havecarried out plantations drive atSapphire International School,Children Park, Morhabadi nearLine Tank, Sahyog village andother area around the capital.”

Echoing the views of

Mittal, Akshita Agarwal anoth-er member of the team saidfrom the stall they are also dis-tributing plants such as purplehedge and money plants and inreturn we are urging people tomake small donations. Hedgesare usually planted to defineproperty boundaries and pro-vide privacy or to give shelterfrom prevailing winds.

Set up by Ranchi businee-man Nipun Jain, the NGOmain task is to create environ-ment awareness makingCapital Green Ranchi.Meanwhile, JIASOWA fair iswitnessing as huge rush ofshopping enthusiasts lining upthe stalls to buy items of theirchoice. Chief MinisterRaghubar Das inaugurated theDiwali Utsav, an annual Fairorganised by the JharkhandIAS Officers Wives Association(JIASOWA) on Thursday.

The fair has alreadybecome a hit on the first dayitself with flocking the venue inhuge numbers for shoppingand enjoyment. Differentwomen SHG groups have putup several stalls with productsof domestic use in the fair thatwill continue till October 21.The women SHG groups have

put up stalls of wafers, pickles,pulses and many other edibleitems. The slippers and sandalsmade by the groups are alsobeing provided to the visitorson reasonable rates.

The second day of the fairturned out to be a family enter-tainer as people with theirfamilies comprising young andold indulged in a shoppingspree. The fair has somethingis store for everyone. One of thekey attractions of the event isthe stalls which put on display

handmade goods whether it isjeweler or clothes or items ofdecoration. Parikrama, a jew-ellery designer and grader toohas put the stall in the fair. Thestall attraction is jewellery onsemi precious metal. ParikarmaSaboo, the owner of the stallsaid, “We have jewellery itemsmade of silver and brass. Theprice range of these jewellery isat Rs 1800 to Rs 15000.” Saboosaid that much of the items areprepared by artisans in Calcuttaand it takes ten to fifteen days

to prepare an item. LikeParikarma, the Silver Studio theshop selling silver items atLalpur Chowk too has put upstall in the fair. The SilverStudio sells puja items, utensils,baby gifts, home décor, arti-facts, festive collection, wed-ding gifts, coins and bullionand jewellery made of silvermetal.Archana Poddar, theproprietor of the Silver Studiosaid, “We have wide range ofsilver items. We are differentthan others because of purity of

our products.” Idols of LordGanesha are much in demandthis Diwali. The idol ofGanesha is silver plated onwood with varying sizes. Thesilver puja utensils is also muchin demand this Diwali.

JIASOWA media in-chargeRicha Sanchita said, “As womenseem to be more attractedtowards household items atthe fair. A variety of designsand quality clothing collec-tions are available for womenat the fair. Clothing vendors

from different states of thecountry have set up their stallsat the fair.” The visiting hoursfor the fair is from 10am to 8pm. With more than 300 stallsat display, the fair have entre-preneurs from across the coun-try like Delhi, Punjab, Jammu,West Bengal and Kerala. Itemsincluding artifacts, kitchenware, winter wear, lac bangles,bamboo products and textileslike silk are too available underone roof.The main attraction ofJiasowa fair was visit of Chief

minister Raghubar Das"s wifeand his daughter in law. Das'wife Rukmani Devi and daugh-ter in law Purnima Sahu in theevening visited the fair andtook kneen intreast at artifactsdisplayed at various stalls.

Moreover, the districtadministration also put up thestall creating awareness onVVPAT machine. The districtadministration officials alsourged the people to participatein large number in year endAssembly election.

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Making a stinging attack onthe Congress, Prime

Minister Narendra Modi onFriday said no one - neitherjawans nor farmers orsportspersons were safe underthe Congress misrule, termingabrogation of Article 370 hisreal tribute to brave soldiers.

Lashing out at the party fornot supporting it on Balakot orArticle 370 decisions, Modiasked ‘what sort of chemistrythe Congress has with Pakistan’."Pakistan uses the Congress tostrengthen its case globally onissues against India," he said ashe slammed the oppositionparty for not supporting itsdecision taken in the nationalinterest.

"Whenever we talk ofSwachh Bharat or surgicalstrike, the Congress gets stom-ach ache. And if by chance any-one says Balakot, thenCongress starts jumping withpain. Pakistan uses them tostrengthen their case globally,what sort of chemistry is this?"he added.

Confident of his partyBJP's return in the state, Modisaid the Congress indulged incorruption in agriculture anddid scams in sports.

He was addressing publicmeetings, first in Gohana inSonipat district and later inHisar town, ahead of polling forthe 90-member HaryanaAssembly on Monday.

Modi said the Congress inthe state has already accepteddefeat. "It was clear in theirtalks in the video that they weresaying that it would be enoughif they win 10-15 seats. Theseare their words and made justbefore the elections. Thosewho have already acceptedtheir defeat and gave up theground can't do anything forHaryana," Modi said whilereferring to a purported videowhich went viral a few daysback.

The video showed

Congress leaders counting seatsoutside Parliament and arguingabout their dismal prospectsacross the state. In his addressboth in Gohana and Hisar,Modi didn't forget to remindthe public that Monday beinga holiday owing to polling,making it an extended week-end, they should not miss theopportunity to exercise theirfranchise.

"Since October 21 isMonday, people will get twoleaves -- Sunday (October 20)and Monday (October 21), theday polling will take place.You should remain present attheir local booth and ensurehuge turnout."

On the Centre's decision toabrogate Article 370 in Jammuand Kashmir, Modi said: "OnAugust 5, the unexpected hap-pened. Jammu and Kashmirsaw a change it needed. No onecould have imagined. India'sConstitution in entirety becameapplicable in Jammu andKashmir." The Prime Ministersaid corruption was rampant insports during Congress' rule.Referring the number of ath-letes Sonipat has produced, hesaid: "This region has madeIndia proud in every field, beit fighting in the wrestling ringor fighting against terrorism.Sonipat means Kisan, Jawanaur Pehlwan."

"The Congress can blameme as much as they want butpeople of this country are withme. I thank you all for the sup-port." He also dismissed theopposition as a "divided lot"."When the BJP government inHaryana was taking decisive

steps for development of state,what was the opposition doing?They couldn't fight with us, sothey were busy fighting amongthemselves. They destabilisedtheir parties for self-interest,can they give stability toHaryana?" asked Modi.

Modi also attacked theDushyant Chautala-ledJannayak Janta Party, statingthat people of the state hasrejected its politics and strate-gy.

Lauding the five-year termof the Khattar-led governmentin the state, the PM told peo-ple that they would have todecide between those whodelivered and those whoindulged in misdeeds.

Patting Chief MinisterManohar Lal Khattar's back,Modi said corruption was ram-pant during the Congress' rule.Even in sports, there was cor-ruption. "But it all changedafter 2014. Since then the gov-ernment has taken several stepsin the field of sports."

“Congress is neither con-cerned about unity of India northe Constitution given by BabaSaheb Ambedkar. Those whoare not worried about MaaBharti and the soil, and digni-ty of the Constitution, shouldHaryana show any concernfor them. Should they be pun-ished or not. "In these elections,you send them back packingand ask them to relax. Theydestroyed the country a lot,” hesaid. Gohana falls in Sonipatdistrict, which is considered asa stronghold of former ChiefMinister Bhupinder SinghHooda.

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Hitting out the BJP-led cen-tral Government over the

slowdown, Congress leaderRahul Gandhi on Friday saidthat Prime Minister NarendraModi ''does not know anythingabout economics''. Addressinghis second rally atMahendragarh in the Ahirwalregion of the State, seen as aBJP citadel, ahead of theOctober 21 Assembly elec-tions, the former CongressPresident warned that the eco-nomic situation will becomeworse and ‘'big corporates willrun away like Mehul Choksiand Nirav Modi’.

As the poll campaign forthe 90-member Haryanaassembly entered the final lap,Gandhi stuck to the issues ofeconomic slowdown, unem-ployment and farm distress toattack the government. Theelections are scheduled to beheld on October 21 and count-ing will take place on October24.

Addressing a public rallyhere in place of his mother andCongress president SoniaGandhi, who he said was downwith a viral infection, the for-mer party chief also trained hisguns on media, alleging that itwas scared and not showing

the truth. "Our friends fromthe media who are under pres-sure, show PM Modi's speech-es 24/7. Have you ever seen themedia showing news of ram-pant unemployment andfarmer suicides. Media willonly show Modi ji's face, hisspeeches, talk of Article 370,moon (Chandrayaan), Modi'spicture in Corbett Park," hesaid.

"Media persons say ''weknow the truth but we can''tshow it because we will loseour jobs''...The media, thechannels and newspapers arein the hands of 5-10 business-men," Gandhi alleged. "Modihas just one job -- to divert" theattention of the country fromthe real issues, he claimed.

"India is being mocked atby the world. The country

which used to show the way tothe world, used to live withlove, used to progressfast...Today one caste is fight-ing the other, one religion isfighting the other and thecountry''s pride -- its economy-- Narendra Modi hasdestroyed it by demonetisationand Gabbar Singh Tax,"Gandhi said. He has beenusing ''Gabbar Singh Tax'' torefer to Goods and ServicesTax. "What they (the BJP) aredoing, that is the most dan-gerous is wherever they go,they make one Indian fightanother.

They make a Hindu fighta Muslim, Jat fight a non-Jat,people from north fight south,they will go to Maharashtraand say ''thrash and throw outthe people of UP and Bihar'',

and in Bihar say ''we will pro-tect you''," Gandhi said. "Thecountry cannot progressthrough division. This countryhas progressed by workingtogether. If the country will bedivided, it will not be able toprogress," he asserted.Attacking the government overthe state of the economy,Gandhi said unemployment isthe highest in the last 40 yearsand farmers are committingsuicide. However, he did notcite any any official data to sup-port his claims.

"Small and medium busi-nesses --the spine of the coun-try-- say demonetisation andGabbar Singh Tax havedestroyed them," Gandhi said.He also said under the UPArule, then US President BarackObama used to say that Indiaand China are competitionfor America.

The Congress leaderasserted that in order to spurgrowth money should be put inthe pockets of the poor."When we introduced MNRE-GA, news papers used to say itis a useless scheme.

PM Modi said inParliament that there is noscheme worse than MNREGA.Narendra Modi has no under-standing of economics,"Gandhi alleged. Slamming thegovernment''s move to cut cor-

porate tax, Gandhi claimedthat after just three days "itsballoon burst and thingsbecame clear". Gandhi claimedthat if the Congress would havewon in the Lok Sabha polls andits minimum income guaran-tee scheme NYAY implement-ed, unemployed would havebeen "wiped out" and the farm-ers would not have been facingproblems.

"But, Modi won the elec-tions, how he won all of yousaw, where he took the atten-tion of the people. Don''t makethat mistake in Haryana, makethe Congress win," he appealedto the people. Slamming thegovernment over privatisation,Gandhi said Modi was pri-vatising PSUs such as BSNLMTNL, Bharat Petroleum andalleged that this was "destroy-ing jobs".

"This country''s strengthcannot be in billionaires. Indiais for poor," he said, adding thestrength of this country is in itspoor -- farmers, labourers andunemployed youth.

He also highlightedCongress'' promise to give 50per cent reservation in pan-chayats and 33 per cent in jobsto women. He accused PrimeMinister of taking lakh ofcrore of rupees from the peo-ple and giving it to 15 busi-nessmen.

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With the Government giv-ing a determined push to

‘Make in India’ in the defencesector to achieve indigenisa-tion, Army Chief GeneralBipin Rawat on Friday saidattempts are on to further“lower bureaucratic barriers”and simplify procedures topromote domestic defencemanufacturing. He also said theGovernment is reducingprocesses and focusing res-olutely on the outcome of theseprocesses.

Reiterating what DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh said afew days ago, the Army chiefsaid exports of Indian weaponsystems will touch the �35,000-crore mark by 2024 from the�11,000 crore annually at pre-sent.

The energy and enterpriseof ‘Make in India’ will bespanned further in defencecorridors being set up with a“bouquet of advantages weoffer in the form of land clear-ances and tax concession. Theinitiative will fundamentallytransform the defence land-scape in our country,” Rawatsaid. He also urged to thedefence industry to providesolutions for the armed forces.

In the last few years,numerous initiatives have beentaken and various schemeslaunched to energise thedefence sector in India, so weremain deeply committed tothe ethos of indigenisation,Rawat said.

“We are manufacturingweapons and ammunition notjust to arm our defence forcesbut now we are graduallybecoming an export orientedindustry. Our defence exportscurrently range just about�11,000 crore annually are setto grow to �35,000 crore by2024,” he said while addressingthe 4th Defence Attaches con-clave jointly organised by theDefence Ministry and news

portal Bharat Shakti. Thetheme of the event was‘Enhancing DefenceCapabilities throughCooperation’.

Newly-formed IDEEA(Indigenous DefenceEquipment ExportersAssociation) was also launchedon the occasion.

Talking of Def Expo 2020to be held in Lucknow, Rawatsaid several new technologieswill be on display and added,“We will be coming forward tocertify some of the equipmenton display.”

Speaking at the conclave,Vice Chief of Army Lt GeneralMM Naravane said Indian offi-cers posted as Defence Attachesabroad “have been tasked tointeract and advertise withhost countries of the Indianequipment available.”

Addressing the conclave,Navy Chief Admiral KarambirSingh spoke of the foreigncooperation initiatives whichinclude capacity building,training, exchanges and jointexercises. “India is hosting a

large multilateral exerciseMILAN 2020 atVisakhapatnam and we haveinvited 41 countries,” he stated.

All patents developed bythe Defence Research andDevelopment Organisation(DRDO) numbering over 1,700are now available for use by theIndian industry, said Dr.Sateesh Reddy, ChairmanDRDO. He added that theDefence Ministry has justunveiled a policy under whichall technologies will be availablefree of cost for use by theIndian industry.

Rawat also said India iscommitted to peace and stabil-ity in the neighbourhood as alsoin the “wider region” and theArmy will continue to partnerwith friends to “confront anykind of emerging threats.”

The Navy chief cited mar-itime threats such as piracy,which, he said, has “trans-national” ramifications. Hepitched for having greater mar-itime cooperation and lever-aging “collective military com-petency” of the world.

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From November 1, next year,import, manufacture and

sale of the ultrasound machineswill be allowed only under thelegal ambit of the Drugs andCosmetics Act, 1940.

The Union HealthMinistry has issued a notifica-tion in this regard on Thursdayaccording to which the deviceintended for external or inter-nal use in human beings hasbeen categorised as drug witheffect from November 1, 2020.

The step aims to regulatethe import, manufacture andsale of the devices to stem thedrastic decline in India’s sexratio, as per the Ministry. Themove followed recommenda-tion from the Drug TechnicalAdvisory Board (DTAB), theGovernment’s chief advisorybody on drugs.

According to an officialfrom the Ministry, fromNovember next year, theCentral Drugs Standard

Control Organization(CDSCO), the nationalregulatory body forIndian pharmaceuticalsand medical devices, willbecome the approvingauthority for import,manufacture and sale ofultrasound machines.The companies will alsohave to apply for per-mission from the DrugController General ofIndia, who is responsiblefor approval of licences,before the scanners aresold in India.

The health ministryfeels that the move iscrucial to save the girlchild as it will checkmisuse of such tech-niques for sex selectionafter conception.Imported machines haveflooded the market, in theabsence of any regulatorycheck, they cannot be tracked.

The Pre Conception andPre Natal Diagnostic

Techniques (PC-PNDT) Act,1994 currently regulates thesale of ultrasound machinesonly to entities registered underthe law. However, the Ministry

was not finding theexisting rules suffi-cient to deter the med-ical professionals andthe user, to avoidultrasound to deter-mine the sex of thefoetus. Mainly becauseof its easy availabilityon online as well.

Under theMedical Device Rules(MDR) and the D&CAct the governmentwill regulate addition-ally the quality importand manufacturing ofthe equipment, hesaid.

While welcomingthe move, Rajiv Nath,Forum Coordinatorof the AiMeD, anumbrella associationof Indian

Manufacturers of MedicalDevices covering all types ofmedical devices including con-sumables, disposables, how-ever was not happy at the

Government’s ‘pick and choosepolicy.”

He said that the manufac-turers have been confused withinformally and arbitrary choos-ing of products and notifyingthem as drugs. “At AiMeD wewelcome regulations but not ofthese kinds . Our membersseek a predictable and com-prehensive regulatory frame-work that allows for adequatetransition and is predictable.Only then will investmentsspeed up as manufacturers getdiscouraged to be regulated asDrugs , item by item and not asa category,” said Rajiv Nath.

The move is also not inkeeping with the HealthMinistry- DTAB Roadmap thataimed to regulate all devices ina phased manner and assuredan adequate transition periodof nearly four years for highRisk and near High RiskDevices. “The one year transi-tion period is not as per theassurance given of four years,”he added.

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The Narendra ModiGovernment’s vision to pro-

mote Khadi as a global fabrichas received a boost with a pro-posal to set up Khadi India’sfirst international venture inBhutan. Indian Embassy inBhutan, Khadi and Villageindustry Commission (KVIC)and Royal Textile Academy(RTA), Thimpu has organisedan event ‘Khadi-Thago’ , onOctober 16 to jointly celebratethe textile heritage fo Khadi andtraditional Bhutanese fabric onthe 150th birth anniversary ofMahatma Gandhi. The FashionDesign Council of India (FDCI)curated the fashion show.

Khadi-Thagzo, organisedat the RTA, which is also one ofthe most prominent touristspots in Thimphu, witnessed

presence of high-profile audi-ence including Her Majestythe Queen Mother Ashi SangayChoden Wangchuck as theChief Guest, Vinai Saxena,KVIC Chairman as the Guest ofHonour, Prime Minister ofBhutan Dr. Lotay Tshering,Cabinet Ministers,Ambassadors and several otherdistinguished guests, duringthe event.

The Indian ambassadorRuchika khamboj said that theobjective of this event was topromote environmental friend-ly fabric Khadi of India withBhutanese designers, toenhance the Khadi foot print inthe country. KVIC chairmanVinai Saxena said khadi meansSincerity, purity, honesty andswaraj.

Indian designers AnamikaKhanna, Rajesh Pratap Singh

and Samant Chauhan show-cased innovative Khadi-basedgarment lines along with worksof Chadrika Tamang, KenchoWangmo, Tshering Chodenand Sangay Choden of Bhutan.In addition,Anjana Bhargav,Nitin Bal Chauhan, ParasGairoliya, Payal Jain, RahulMishra & Renu Tandon curat-ed special Khadi ensembleswhich were also displayed in theevent followed by BanarasiSatvik Bhojan. Sunil Sethi ofFDCI was also present.

Interestingly the fourBhutanese textile designers whoshowcased their work at theKhadi-Thagzo, had also visitedIndia on invitation from FDCI .

A Bhutanese designer,Dorothy Gurung, would beopening the first Indian Khadioutlet in Bhutan towards theend of the year.

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Maintaining that ruralhousehold consumption

had slumped to a seven-yearlow, CPI(M) general secretarySitaram Yechury on Fridayalleged the “callous”Government was enthusiasticabout writing off unpaid loansof rich borrowers and tax cutsfor the super-rich but shows nosigns of concern over the slow-down.

Yechury said the signs ofthe agrarian distress and near-stagnant rural incomes havebeen there for long but theModi government is busy withtrying to “divide and polarise”.

A media report said in theSeptember quarter, rural India

grew at five per cent in termsof value, sharply slower than 20per cent reported in the yearearlier. Urban India grew ateight per cent compared with14 per cent in the year-agoperiod, he said. “A callousCentral government shows nosigns of concern over the slow-down tumbling into a muchgraver problem. There is enthu-siasm in Modi govt only for taxcuts for the super-rich andwriting off unpaid loans of richborrowers.

“The signs of the pro-longed agrarian distress andnear-stagnant rural incomeshave been there for long. Butthis govt is busy with trying todivide and polarise,” Yechurysaid in a tweet.

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Muslim parties, sans theSunni Waqf Board, made

clear on Friday that they do notaccept the Supreme Court-appointed mediation panel’sproposal on purported settle-ment to resolve the Ayodhyaland dispute and expressedsurprise over reports suggest-ing that the Board was willingto withdraw the claim on thesite of the mosque.

The mediation panel head-ed by former apex court judgeJustice FMI Kallifulla had fileda report in a sealed cover in theSupreme Court indicating a“sort of a settlement” betweenthe Hindu and the Muslim par-ties in which the Wakf Boardagreed to give up its claim over2.77 acre disputed land at theRam Janmbhoomi-Babrimasjid site if certain conditionsare fulfilled.

“We are taken aback by themedia reports attributed by

Shahid Rizvi, advocate onrecord that Uttar Pradesh SunniCentral Waqf Board was willingto withdraw the claim on site ofthe Babri Masjid,” EijazMaqbool, counsel for legal rep-resentatives of key Muslim lit-igants M Siddiq andMisbahuddeen, and four otheradvocates for Muslim partiessaid in a statement.

The lawyers said the medi-ation panel’s report was leakedto the media and they do notapprove the procedures adopt-

ed in the processand the suggest-ed compromiseformula of with-drawal of thelawsuit.

“Accordingly,we must make itabsolutely clearthat we the appel-lants beforeSupreme Courtdo not accept theproposal made

which has been leaked out tothe Press, nor the procedure bywhich the mediation has takenplace nor the manner in whicha withdrawal of the claim hasbeen suggested as a compro-mise,” the statement reads.

“This was broadcasted byall Media agencies and news-papers that UP Sunni CentralWaqf Board has agreed toabandon their claim subject tocertain conditions. This newswas obviously leaked out eitherby the Mediation Committee or

Nirvani Akhara which claimthe right on the Mosque or oth-ers,” it said, adding that the“leak was in total violation ofthe orders of the Supremecourt that had directed thatsuch proceedings shouldremain confidential.”

The statement said it was“difficult” to accept that anymediation could have beendone especially when the main Hindu parties (deity ‘RamLalla’ through next friend andothers) had clearly stated thatthey were not open to any set-tlement and wanted a judicialdecision.

“The recent attemptsbefore Mediation Committeewere not representative,” it said.

On October 16, when afive-judge Constitution benchheaded by Chief Justice ofIndia Ranjan Gogoi reserved itsverdict in the case after 40 daysof hearing, the mediationpanel’s report was also submit-ted to the court.

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Chief Justice of India RanjanGogoi on Friday sent a let-

ter to the Centre recommendingJustice SA Bobde, who is next inseniority, as his successor.

Official Sources told PTIthat Justice Gogoi wrote a letterto the Ministry of Law andJustice recommending JusticeBobde to be the next chief jus-tice.

Justice Gogoi, who wassworn in as the 46th ChiefJustice of India on October 3,2018, will demit office onNovember 17.

Official sources said thechief justice has gone by the con-vention to recommend the nameof the next senior judge afterhim as his successor.

Justice Gogoi as the ChiefJustice has a tenure of 13 monthsand 15 days while Justice Bobde,who will be sworn in as CJI onNovember 18, will have a tenureof about 18 months.

According to theMemorandum of Procedure,which governs the appointmentof members of the higher judi-ciary, “appointment to the officeof the Chief Justice of Indiashould be of the senior-mostjudge of the Supreme Court con-sidered fit to hold the office”.

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The ruling NDA will winbyelections to all five

Assembly seats and one LokSabha seat in Bihar on October21, claimed BJP ally and UnionMinister Ram Vilas Paswan onFriday.

He said a “divided anddiscredited” Opposition in theState stands no chance to givean equal fight to the rulingalliance.

Polls will be held in fiveAssembly seats and the LokSabha constituency ofSamastipur as incumbentMLAs were elected toParliament during the recentgeneral election while MP RamChandra Paswan, brother ofRamvilas Paswan, died of aheart attack.

All three NDA parties —BJP, JD(U) and LJP — are con-testing elections. While ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar-ledJD(U) is contesting on fourAssembly seats, the BJP and theLJP have put up their candi-dates in an Assembly and theLok Sabha seat respectively.Ram Chandra Paswan’s sonPrince Raj is fighting fromSamastipur.

“All our candidates willemerge victorious. We have runa united campaign and peoplehave full faith in the leadershipof Prime Minister NarendraModi and Nitish Kumar,” LJPpresident Ram Vilas Paswansaid.

BJP president this weekgave a boost to the unity of BJP-JDU-LJP alliance in the state bydismissing any change in thealliance pattern in Bihar andsaying unambiguously that thenext assembly elections to thestate would be fought collec-tively under the leadership ofJDU leader Nitish Kumar.

Paswan said the opposition‘mahagathbandhan’ (grandalliance) is divided and dis-

credited. With unity eluding the

grand alliance, some of itspartners have put up their can-didates after its two main part-ners, RJD and the Congress,divided all the seats betweenthem.

His party, he said, has alsodeployed its workers to cam-paign for the BJP inMaharashtra and HaryanaAssembly polls. He expressedconfidence that the saffronparty will retain power in boththe states.

BOXLeaders from other parties

continued to switch over to theBJP. Former MLA Kartar SinghBhadana from poll-boundHaryana quit the BSP to joinBJP on Friday. He said BJP isnot new to him as he was withthe party earlier. Bhadana isbrother of Congress leaderAvtar Singh Bhadana and thefamily has influence, especial-ly in the Gurjar community.Kartar Singh Bhadana has beenan MLA from Haryana twotimes and from Uttar Pradeshonce. Haryana is scheduled tohave assembly election onOctober 21 and the counting ofvotes is due on October 24.

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Citing unsatisfactory per-formance, the EC on

Friday replaced the policeobserver and a returning offi-cer of Nashik in Maharashtra,and the expenditure observerof Ambala in Haryana, aheadof the October 21 Assemblyelections. It also appointed aformer IPS officer as a specialobserver for the Assemblybypolls being held in Sikkim onMonday.

“The Election Commissionhas replaced police observer ofNashik and one returning offi-cer of Nashik district afterreviewing the electoral pre-paredness of the state ofMaharashtra,” the EC said in astatement. It said the policeobserver was removed for “notperforming the task of obser-vation satisfactorily”.

On the basis of inputregarding progress of photovoter slip distribution, whichwas very important to informeach and every elector timely,it was found that the perfor-

mance of an assembly con-stituency in Nashik districtwas “very poor”, it said.

Reviewing this, the com-mission ordered replacement ofthe returning officer of NashikWest. The new officers will joinon Friday itself.

The poll panel also orderedreplacement of the expenditureobserver of Ambala for “notsupervising the enforcementactivities in right earnest”. Itsaid his overall performancewas not found satisfactory.

The EC has appointedretired IPS officer of AndhraPradesh cadre Vivek Dube asspecial observer for the assem-bly bypolls of Sikkim.

Dube has been deputed tospecifically report to the ECabout the law and order situa-tion and oversee the deploy-ment and other security relat-ed issues there. “The commis-sion has taken the decision inview of inputs and complaintsreceived,” it said. Three seats inSikkim are going for by-elec-tions on Monday.

Dube was deputed earlieralso as special observer to West Bengal during the LokSabha in April.

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The Supreme Court onFriday refused to

entertain a plea filed onbehalf of scam-hit PMCBank account holdersseeking lifting of restric-tions imposed by theReserve Bank of India oncash withdrawals.

A bench headed byChief Justice of IndiaRanjan Gogoi said, “We are notinclined to entertain this peti-tion under article 32 (writ juris-diction). Petitioner canapproach the high court con-cerned for appropriate relief ”.

The Punjab & MaharashtraCo-operative Bank has been putunder restrictions by theReserve Bank of India (RBI) fol-lowing the discovery of a Rs4,355-crore scam.

Deposit withdrawals havebeen capped at Rs 40,000 overa six-month period, causingpanic and distress amongdepositors.

During the hearing onFriday, Solicitor General TusharMehta said the government isaware of the seriousness of thesituation and the EnforcementDirectorate is taking appropri-ate action against the culprit.

Advocate Shashank Sudhi,

appearing for petitioner BejonKumar Mishra, said he hasfiled the petition on behalf of500 PMC Bank account hold-ers seeking lifting of restrictionsimposed by the RBI on cashwithdrawals.

On Wednesday, around 50depositories of the PMC Bankstaged a protest outside the RBIdemanding revoking restric-tions on cash withdrawal, cur-rently capped at Rs 40,000 overa six-month period.

A depositor of PMC Bankallegedly committed suicide inMumbai on Tuesday whileanother died of a heart attack afew hours after taking part in aprotest by bank customers seek-ing their money back.

The petition filed before thecourt sought a direction forissuance of “exhaustive andcomprehensive guideline” to

safeguard the banking andcooperative deposits in theeventuality of emergencyfinancial crisis where citi-zens are financially strand-ed by acts of a few“unscrupulous persons”.

The plea said theCentre and the RBI shouldbe directed to ensure com-plete insulation and insur-ance of the hard-earneddeposited money of people

in various cooperative banks,including nationalised banks,by enacting an appropriatemeasure of 100 per cent insur-ance coverage towards thedeposited amount.

It said that a high-poweredcommittee should be consti-tuted to look into completeaffairs of working and theiroperation in all cooperativebanks in order to have a robustand transparent mechanismwhich can inspire confidence ofcommon public in cooperativebanks.

Real estate firm HDILallegedly accounted for 70 percent of the bank’s Rs 9,000 croreadvances. According to theMumbai Police’s EconomicOffences Wing, HDIL’s loansturned non-performing assets,but the bank management hidthis from the RBI’s scrutiny.

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The Centre on Friday told theSupreme Court that it was

willing to hand over land mea-suring 200 sq m to devotees forconstruction of Guru Ravidastemple in South Delhi but withcertain conditions.

A bench of justices ArunMishra and S Ravindra Bhattook on record the offer made byAttorney General KKVenugopal, appearing for theCentre, and asked parties seek-ing construction of the templeto submit objections, if any, byOctober 21. At the outset,Venugopal said he had held con-sultation with all parties includ-ing devotees and governmentofficials and Centre has agreedto give the same piece of landconsidering sensitivity and faith

of devotees for the site.“That same 200 square

metre area of the site can behanded over to a committee ofdevotees for construction oftemple but with certain condi-tions,” Venugopal said, addingthat five out of seven petition-ers, who approached courtagainst demolition of templehave agreed to the proposal.

He said that only two of thepetitioners are not agreeable tothe proposal but “the entirebelief and faith of the devotees ofGuru Ravidas is at the site wherehe stayed and therefore in theinterest of peace and harmonywe want to return the site to thedevotees”. Counsel appearingfor one of the petitioner, whohave objected to the proposalsaid that they need to see theoffer and file their response.

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The Bengal political parties andcivil society have slammed Union

Minister Piyush Goyal for attackingNobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee forhis alleged Leftist leanings.

Faulting Goyal for, “unneces-sarily bringing politics to malign aNobel Laureate who has made Indiaproud” Bengal Congress leader andMP Pradip Bhattacharya on Fridaysaid “it is unfortunate that ourMinisters are so uneducated andbiased that they do not even think twice to belittle a NobelLaureate who has made India proudby unnecessarily brining politics tomalign him.”

Scoffing at Goyal he said, “the lit-eracy level of our Ministers is so highthat they do not even think twice toinvoke Newton’s second law in AlbertEinstein’s name,” and wondered“why a stalwart will have to be belit-tled just because he has Left lean-ings.”

Earlier while congratulatingAbhijit for his remarkable achieve-ments in the field of economics

Goyal said, “I congratulate AbhijitBanerjee for winning the NobelPrize … (but) you all know that histhinking is totally Left-leaning.” Hebacked his comments by sayinghow “Banerjee supported Nyay(poverty alleviation scheme of theCongress) but people of India reject-ed that ideology.”

Questioning Goyal’s “politicalwisdom” the Congress MP said “justbecause a political party got a man-

date and another party did not get ityou get the license to negate a NobelLaureate’s scholarly findings. It is apolitical party that got the people’smandate and not the theory of‘Nyay’ which was supported byAbhijit Banerjee,” he said.

“Considering the sliding eco-nomic condition of the countryduring the BJP’s rule the time is com-ing when the people who are attack-ing day will go to him and sit at his

feet to take lessons on economicdevelopment,” he maintained.

Bangla poet Subodh Ghosh alsoattacked Goyal for “failing to under-stand Banerjee’s achievements as aneconomist.” He said “it is irrelevantwhether the Nyay found politicalsuccess or not. The question iswhether the prescription of Banerjeewhich has won him the Nobel Prizeis relevant and affective in conquer-ing poverty.”

Economist and State FinancialAdvisor Abhiroop Sarkar said, “it isunfortunate that someone of AbhijitBanerjee’s strature will get suchreception from the national govern-ment.”

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Even as the distance between RajBhavan and Nabanna (State

Secretariat) widened, BengalGovernor Jagdeep Dhankhar onceagain lambasted the TrinamoolCongress Ministers for repeatedlymaking adverse comments againsthim.

Speaking to an audienceDhankar on Friday said “every timeGovernor (Dhankhar) does some-thing sensible you (Ministers)come out with a statement defyingdecorum. I am not a tourist. I amhere to discharge my constitu-tional duties which I will continuedoing.”

The Governor was particular-ly referring to senior State leaderand Minister Subroto Mukherjee’scomments questioning his initiativeto hold an administrative meetingin North Bengal town of Siliguri.“It is nothing but a gimmick,”Mukherjee had said adding the

Governor was just a “tourist in theState.”

He said “some call me a tourist,others called the Siliguri visit a gim-mick” and vowed to “continue dis-charging” his constitutional duties,reminding that he was not the onewho crossed his Laxman Rekhaand adding it was upon ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee to takeaction on her Ministers.

The distance between theTrinamool Congress andDhankhar had been widening eversince he personally went down toJadavpur University to rescueUnion Minister Babul Supriyo whowas trapped amid agitating stu-dents.

Subsequently he told the mediaabout his being “humiliated” by theState Government during theDurga Puja carnival which washosted by Chief Minister MamataBanerjee.

An emotional Governor saidhe “felt insulted at the carnival. I am

deeply hurt and disturbed. Theinsult was not to me but to everypeople of West Bengal. They willnever digest such as insult. I am aservant of the people of WestBengal. Nothing can deter mefrom performing my constitution-al duties,” with his voice literallytrembling.

“Speaking out of my injuredheart” the Governor said “for fourhours or more I was there and yourpress coverage was totally blackedout...This is unheard of. You willnever find it anywhere else.Someone told me it was reminis-cent of the Emergency.”

Meanwhile, SubrotoMukherjee once again attackedthe Centre for breaking all consti-tutional norms and rules of feder-alism by bringing the Governorunder Z category security to beprovided by the central forces.“This is an utter infringement onState’s federal rights,” Mukherjeesaid.

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The president of a littleknown Hindu Samaj Party

was found murdered at hishome in the congested NakaHindola area of the city here,police said on Friday.

Kamlesh Tiwari (45) wasearlier associated with a factionof the Hindu Mahasabha, theysaid.

The Akhil Bharatiya HinduMahasabha in a statement condemned the incident.

Police said briefs protestswere held in the area by localresidents after the murder.

“Kamlesh Tiwari wasfound murdered inside hishouse. Two persons had cometo meet him. Both were speak-ing to Tiwari when the lattersent one of his aides to get‘paan’ for them,” Vikas Tripathi,ASP (Lucknow West), told PTI.

“When his aide returnedfrom the market, he foundTiwari in a pool of blood,”Tripathi added.

A senior UP Governmentofficial said the visitors shotTiwari dead after talking to

him for little over half an hour. Police reached the spot

and gathered the CCTVfootage.

UP DGP OP Singh toldreporters, “Those who havemurdered Tiwari are said to behis acquaintances. They spentover half an hour with him andeven gave Tiwari a box ofsweets and after it the murdertook place. We have got some vital clues and basedon CCTV footage and otherevidences, we are working onthe case.”

He said teams had beenformed to crack the case.

“We have also got some calldetails. The special task forcehas been engaged in the case,”he said, adding that it was“purely a criminal activity”done by two people.

The UP DGP said therewere “some minor law andorder problem” in the areaafter the murder took placewith local people saying thatsuch incidents should not takeplace.

“But, the situation now isunder control. Police officers

are patrolling the area. In thenext 48 hours, we will catch theculprits,” he said.

When asked whether therewas any possible terror angle inthe incident, AdditionalDirector General of Police(Law and Order) PVRamasastry told PTI, “All theangles are being looked into.And, it would be improper tojump to any conclusion.”

Senior Superintendent ofPolice Kalanidhi Naithani saidprima facie it seemedto be a case of personal enmi-ty.

He added that teams hadbeen formed to crack the case.Naka Hindola SHO SujeetKumar Dubey said there werebrief protests by angry localresidents after the incident.

The situation was normal,Dubey said.

An eyewitness, SaurashtraSingh, told reporters shortlyafter the incident that thepolice constable deployed at thehouse of Tiwari was sleepingwhile the gunner attached tohim was not coming for thepast a couple of days.

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Rajasthan Chief MinisterAshok Gehlot on Friday

said the country’s economywas weakening and the Centreshould follow the policies offormer prime minister P VNarasimha Rao and thenfinance minister ManmohanSingh to upend the downwardtrend.

He said the World Bank,International Monetary Fund(IMF), Manmohan Singh andeven the husband of UnionFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman have expressedconcern over India’s economy.

In a newspaper article pub-lished on October 14,Sitharaman’s husbandPrabhakar took a swipe at theBJP-led government over itseconomic vision and asked itto embrace the economic archi-tecture offered by NarasimhaRao and Manmohan Singh.

“They (central govern-ment) should follow the poli-cies of Narasimha Rao and

Manmohan Singh, and startworking. Then only the coun-try will saved,” Gehlot said ata public rally here.

“Democracy is underthreat... We are becomingweaker economically. Theentire country and the world issaying this,” he said, adding,“You can imagine the state ofaffairs when the finance min-ister’s husband is writing anarticle that the governmenthas no understanding of theeconomic situation.”

Because of the non-vision-ary policies of the governmentthe country was headingtowards a wrong direction.Growth rate is slowing, thechief minister said.

“People are chanting

(Prime Minister Narendra)Modi’s name despite the factthat there is no business, econ-omy is falling and there are nojobs. Such is the situation, howlong will this country tolerate?”he asked.

“We don’t have any enmi-ty with Modi, (Amit) Shah, theBJP or RSS. This is a fight ofideology,” he said.

“They talk about national-ism during elections. Are wenot nationalist? Will we haveto seek certificate from BJP tobecome nationalists? Doingpolitics in the name of religion,provoking people of one reli-gion against another, is this(the way of doing) the politicsin a democracy?” Gehlotposed.

In the rally, he called uponthe people to vote for Congresscandidate Rita Chaudhary inMandawa Assembly bypollwhich will be held on October21. State Congress presidentSachin Pilot and other leaderswere also present in the meet-ing.

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Rajasthan’s Deputy ChiefMinister Sachin Pilot on

Friday questioned his ownGovernment’s decision on elec-tions to the posts of heads ofurban local bodies.

Taking a stand thatappeared to go against theview of Chief Minister AshokGehlot, Pilot made it clear hewas not consulted on the deci-sion that was notified onWednesday.

Two other Ministers in theCongress-run State have sepa-rately opposed the move thatallows people who are notelected councillors to contestfor posts like mayors and chair-persons of corporations andmunicipalities.

The non-councillor candi-dates still have to be elected bycouncillors to the top posts.

“This is not a good deci-sion and I do not agree withthis. The decision is not prac-tical and not politically rightand there is a need to makechanges to the decision,” Pilottold reporters in Jhunjhunu.

“We decided to hold indi-rect election for the posts ofmayor and chairperson. Thiswas fine. But suddenly a newdecision appeared that I cameto know from newspapers.This was not discussed in thecabinet or the legislative partymeeting,” he said.

Pilot, who is the RajasthanCongress president, claimedthat the new system, which isbeing called a hybrid, willallow people to become urbanbody heads through the backdoor.

He said democracy is notstrengthened if a candidatewho could not win a council-lors’ election is allowed to con-test for the mayor’s post.

“Our party and theGovernment have always saidthat democracy should bestrengthened,” he said.

“I do not think such a sys-tem has been implemented inany state of the country,” hesaid, adding that the decisionneeds to be changed.

A gazette notification toamend the rules on election ofmayors and chairpersons was

issued on Wednesday.On Thursday, Food and

Civil Supply Minister RameshMeena and Transport MinisterPratap Singh Khachariyawasseparately expressed appre-hension, saying it could lead toresentment among party work-ers.

Khachariyawas said thesystem was injustice to thosewho worked in the field andwon councillors’ elections.

When asked about thecomments by these two min-isters, Chief Minister Gehlotsaid everyone is concernedabout delivering good gover-

nance.“The cabinet, all MLAs

and the entire Government isengaged in that. Elections forthe local bodies and thePanchayati Raj are coming.We will fight and will win theelections,” the chief minister told reporters inJhunjhunu.

Pilot and Gehlot weretogether in Jhunjhunu wherethey addressed a rally in sup-port of Rita Chaudhary, who iscontesting the assemblybypolls for the Mandawa seat.

Later, they talked sepa-rately with the media.

Rifts in Rajasthan Congresssurfaced after the Assemblyelections last December thatwere followed by intense lob-bying for the chief minister’spost.

While Gehlot was pickedby the central leadership for thetop post, Pilot had to settle forthe deputy’s spot.

Recently, Pilot expressedconcern over the law and ordersituation in the state and hisremark were seen as a com-ment on Gehlot’s performance.

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Uttar Chief Minister YogiAdityanath attacked the

opposition in his election ral-lies in the State on Friday andsaid their anti-developmentface has been exposed.

Adityanath also accusedthe Opposition of indulging inhooliganism and corruptionwhile in power and claimedthat the BJP worked for thewelfare of people.

The CM was addressingrallies in Aligarh, Rampur andSaharanpur for the bypolls inthe state.

“Only those people are notadmiring our work duringwhose tenure the power wasmerely a synonym for anarchy,corruption and hooliganism.The SP, BSP and the Congresswere all involved in this,” hesaid.

“They never had develop-ment on their mind. And nowwhen their anti-developmentface has been exposed, peoplehave been rejecting them since2014,” he claimed.

Mentioning the develop-

ment works carried out by hisparty, the UP Chief Ministersaid during the tenure of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi,around three crore people gothouses.

“The Ayushman BharatYojana has become a boon forthe destitute. Free houses andgas connections were distrib-uted among the poor. Farmersof the state were benefitedunder the Pradhan MantriKisan Samman Yojana,” saidthe CM, adding that the gov-ernment had been working to“double” farmers’ income.

“By making them happy,we want to realise dreams ofChaudhary Charan Singh,” he

said. Lambasting the Congress,

the chief minsiter said, “It onlygave us terrorism, corruptionand insulted BabasahebBhimro Ambedkar by granti-ng a special status to Jammuand Kashmir under Article370.”

He claimed that the BJPachieved what the other partiescould not in the past 70 years.

“The Congress needs thepower to loot. The SP and BSPcontinued with their corruptpractices. The BJP brought anend to all this and paved a wayfor the prosperity of people,” hesaid.

Referring to AligarhMuslim University, Adityanathsaid Raja Mahendra PratapSingh played a very significantrole in establishing the institu-tion.

“He had given land for itbut his name has not beenmentioned on any plaque,”Adityanath said, adding thatthe UP government was reviv-ing the lock industry inAligarh through the ‘one dis-trict, one product’ programme.

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The Uttar PradeshGovernment on Friday

increased the dearnessallowance for state govern-ment employees to 17 per centfrom 12 per cent.

In a statement, an officialsaid apart from the state gov-ernment employees, staff ofaided educational institutions,technical educational institu-tions and urban local bodieswould also get the enhancedDA.

The state government offi-cial said the increased rateswould be applicable from July1. The arrears of dearnessallowance from July 1 toSeptember 30 will be deposit-ed in the PF account. Theamount payable from October1 will be paid along with thismonth’s salary, the officialadded.

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West Bengal Governmenthas decided to run 100

minibuses in the northern out-skirts of the city fromNovember one to reduce thehardship of people caused byclosing of Tallah Bridge on thearterial B T Road for heavyvehicles, State MinisterSuvendu Adhikary said onFriday.

Movement of buses hasbeen stopped across the bridgeafter experts found it to be ina rickety condition.

The Barrackpore Trunk (BT) Road connects vast parts ofthe northern outskirts andNorth 24 Parganas district tothe city. Adhikary, the transportminister, said several 24- seater

buses have already been putinto service to reduce the problem of the people travel-ling on these routes.

Diversion of bus routes toavoid Tallah Bridge have alsoled to pulling off services bymany operators citing lossesowing to increased fuel costsand lack of passengers.

To compensate for thereduced number of buses onthis route, the government willrun 100 minibuses of WestBengal Transport Corporation(WBTC) on diverted routesbypassing the bridge, Adhikarysaid.

He said the Metro Railwayhas also agreed to run 10 extratrains from northern terminalstation Noapara to cater to theincreased load of passengers.

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West Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee on

Friday assured the relatives ofthe murdered schoolteacherof Murshidabad district of pro-viding all legal help if neededin connection with the case.

Six relatives of the deadteacher Bondhu Prakash Paul,whose body was found alongwith that of his wife Beauty andsix-year-old son lying in pollsof blood at their house atJiagunj on October 8 during theDurga Puja festival, had metMamata at the State Secretariaton Thursday.

The killings took on apolitical colour when the BJPslammed the state governmentover the incident and claimed

that the man was its support-er. Both RSS and BJP hadclaimed that Pal used to par-ticipate in ‘Milan’ the Sangh’sweekly programme.

The man’s mother and hisrelatives have denied anyinvolvement by him with RSS.

The chief minister assuredus of providing legal assis-tance if required. We have not

asked for any financial helpfrom her, Rajesh Ghosh, hiscousin, told newsmen at thesecretareiat, .

We are happy with thepolice investigation into themurder and appier now aftermeeting the chief minister, headded.

Asked they said, “There isno political connection withthe family.

A mason, from whom Paulhad taken money promising aninsurance policy has beenarrested for allegedly killing thefamily.

Earlier in the day, the Paul’srelatives went to the statepolice headquarters at BhawaniBhawan in the city and metsenior police officers in con-nection with the case.

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Uttar Pradesh will onMonday see a mini version

of Assembly elections withbypolls in 11 constituencies,coming just months after theBJP swept the State in the LokSabha elections.

The UP bypolls forGangoh, Rampur, Iglas (SC),Lucknow Cantonment,Govindnagar, Manikpur,Pratapgarh, Zaidpur (SC),Jalalpur, Balha (SC) and Ghosiseats are being held along withthe Assembly elections inMaharashtra and Haryana.

It is a four-cornered con-test with the BJP, BahujanSamaj Party (BSP), SamajwadiParty (SP) and Congress field-ing candidates on all 11 assem-bly seats.

While the ruling BJP willtry to build on its Lok Sabhasuccess, the opposition partieshope the results will help themgalvanise its cadres ahead of the2022 elections for the 403-member Uttar Pradesh

Assembly.The Congress, in particu-

lar, hopes to show signs ofrevival in UP after its batter-ing in the Lok Sabhapolls in when it won just one

seat, party chief Sonia Gandhi’s Rae Bareli con-stituency.

In contrast, the BJP won 62of the 80 parliamentary seats inthe state and an ally baggedtwo more.

“We have several chal-lenges before us. But with theblessings of the seniors and thesupport of the youth, no onewill be able to stop the partyfrom coming to power in 2022,” newly appoint-ed Congress state presidentAjay Kumar Lallu said recent-ly.

Lallu said the Congresswill become the voice of thedeprived, farmers, youth andwomen in the state.

He exhorted workers toovercome all hurdles throughdetermination and hard work,and function unitedly.

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Calling Veer Savarkar a murderer, formerKarnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah

slammed the BJP on Friday for its plan to bestowBharat Ratna to him posthumously.

He said Savarkar was one of the accused in theassassination of Mahatma Gandhi, but the chargescould not be proved due to lack of evidence andhe was freed.

“The murderer of Mahatma Gandhi is gettingBharat Ratna! Those who conspired to eliminateGandhiji are getting Bharat Ratna!

Should BJP be allowed to gain a foothold inMangaluru, known as a land of intellectuals?”Siddaramaiah asked party workers at a meetinghere.

The Maharashtra BJP unit had said in its elec-tion manifesto that the party would ask the Centreto confer the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civil-ian award, on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, popu-larly known as Veer Savarkar.

Claiming that the accused in 90 out of 100 casesare acquitted, Siddaramaiah alleged that Savarkarwas part of the conspiracy to assassinate Gandhi.

“Now they have moved ahead to bestowBharat Ratna to him! What will happen to thenation? That’s why somebody said you give it(Bharat Ratna) to(Nathuram) Godse too. Godsewas the one who assassinated Gandhiji,” he said.

Alleging that RSS and Hindu Mahasabha nevertook part in the freedom struggle, the former ChiefMinister said they all had ganged up with theBritish.

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Over 90,000 people, mostlystudents, availed free

Internet facility at 20 kiosks setup at the deputy commission-er’s office here, officials said onFriday.

The officials said the students availed the facility toregister for various competitiveexaminations and access otheracademic information, besidesto know their results or down-load admit cards for differentexaminations at the local andnational level.

“Till date, 90,000 people,mostly students, availed theservices of Internet facilities inthe kiosks free-of-cost, besidescontractors also availed theservices to submit tenders forvarious developmental activities,” the Srinagar dis-trict administration said in astatement.

The prominent exams forwhich students were facilitatedin making registration includ-ed the GATE, the JointEntrance Examination (JEE)Mains, the Council of Scientific

and Industrial Research (CSIR)NET and the NationalEligibility Cum Entrance Test(NEET), they said.

Internet facility has beenshut down across Kashmirsince August 5 when theCentre announced its decisionto withdraw Jammu andKashmir’’s special status underArticle 370 of the Constitution.However, the State adminis-tration has set up Internetkiosks in every district in thevalley to facilitate students andpeople. The officials said theInternet facility was also usedby students for filling admis-sion forms and making appli-cations for scholarships atnational and international insti-tutions. The State administra-tion has set up six terminalswith operators at the touristreception centre (TRC) toprovide Internet facility.

The administration hasalso made the Internet facilityavailable at the NationalInformatics Centre (NIC) atdistrict headquarters where e-tendering facilities are beingprovided to contractors as well.

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Highlighting the multifarious dutiesbeing performed by Jammu &

Kashmir Police, its chief DilbaghSingh on Friday said the force hasbeen inthe forefront of tacklingPakistan-sponsored terrorism, radi-calisation and law and order situationin the State.

In addition to the fight against terrorism along with other securityagencies, the force has been very effec-tive in dealing with unlawful activities,Singh told a group of about 50 IPS offi-cers from Sardar Vallabhbhai PatelNational Police Academy Hyderabadhere.

The probationary officers weregiven know-how about the function-ing of Jammu and Kashmir Police.

“J&K Police is doing multifariousduties and is countering terrorism atdifferent fronts and a large number ofterrorists have been eliminated andhuge quantity of arms and ammuni-tion has been seized in last threedecades,” the Director General ofPolice (DGP) said.

He said the force has been in theforefront of tackling Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, radi-calisation and law and order situationsalong with all other security

forces working in Jammu &Kashmir.

“Police personnel are doing mul-tifarious tasks which include policebandobast (arrangements), investi-gation and providing various ser-vices to the general people. Besides the police personnel are doingother specialized works to check social crimes and handle socialmedia, terror funding, OGW (over-ground worker) networks of terrorists and separatists,” the DGPsaid.

IGP CRPF (Administration)Kashmir Ravideep Sahi, DIG centralKashmir V K Birdhi and other offi-cers of CRPF and police were also pre-sent in the interactive session, a police spokesman said, adding acouple of days back, AdditionalDirector General of Police, Armed, S J M Gillani also had aninteractive session with the visitingofficers.

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Authorities have set up safezones for fruit dealers in

Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopiandistrict to procure and sendthe produce outside the Statefollowing recent attacks inwhich two traders were killed,officials said on Friday.

Officials in the districtadministration said eight tonine “safe zones” have beenearmarked in Shopian alongthe main roads in southKashmir, to facilitate the fruitdealers to procure the fruitsfrom the farmers.

“Following the recentattacks on fruit dealers, theGovernment first identifiedfive areas and designated themas safe zones to facilitate thefruit growers and dealers. Now,we have eight to nine of them,”an official said.

These zones are on themain roads of the district andcloser to police, army andparamilitary CRPF establish-ments, the official said.

“The zones are secure,there are RoPs (road openingparties of security forces) whoaccompany them along withthe forces’ deployment. Thefruit dealers and trucks havebeen pushed into these safer

zones as a security measure.The Government has beenworking on this idea for thelast couple of days. It is a stop-gap sort of measure we havetaken to ensure that there areno continued attacks,” the offi-cial said.

Following the attacks, theofficial said, there were appre-hensions that fruit trade wouldbe severely affected, but “thatdid not happen” andthe loading of fruits was goingon.

“After these back-to-backattacks, we expected that peo-ple will be discouraged and thewhole season will get derailedseverely. That did not happen.The loading is still going on.The people have brought theirproduce in smaller vehicles tothese secure zones which we have created andthey are loading their fruitover there. There has notbeen a serious exodus of thetruckers following the attacks,”the official said.

There were inputs aboutpossible attacks on fruit deal-ers and as a security measure,the district administration hasalso asked about 600 truckersto stay put in Poshana area -near Pir Ki Gali on the MughalRoad, the official said.

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Singling out the Congress-NCP alliance leaders for a

blistering attack on issues ofcorruption and alleged linkswith terrorists, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi indirectlyslammed former FinanceMinister P Chidamdaram for“destroying” the country’seconomy and banking systemand former Civil AviationMinister Praful Patel for hisalleged with late Iqbal Mirchi,an erstwhile close aide ofKarachi-based underworldDawood Ibrahim.

Addressing a large publicrally at Bandra-Kurla Complexin north—central Mumbai,Modi took on Chidambaramand Patel without actually naming them but making anunmistakable reference to theformer Finance Minister’s pres-ence in Tihar Jail and theongoing investigations by theEnforcement Directorate (ED)into the an alleged propertydeal between the former CivilAviation Minister and HajraIqbal, the wife of late IqbalMirchi.

Castigating Chidambaram

for “destroying” Indian econo-my and banking system for tenyears, Modi said: “Take the caseof those (Congress) who hadimposed angel tax in the coun-try. Compare them with us: weare making corporate tax in thecountry conducive to theworld. They had imposed heftycorporate tax in the world.Here we are who transfermoney directly into theaccounts of common people.

“They (congress) werethose who had transferredlakhs of crores of rupees ofmoney through `phone bank-ing’.

The people in Maharashtraand across the country knowwho did all this. Those whodestroyed the country’s econ-omy and banking system for 10long years are languishing inDelhi’s Tihar Jail or Mumbaijail. This is just beginning oftyhe cleaning up operation.You will get us speed up thework in the coming day,” thePrime Minister said.

Charging that the Congressand allies failed in doing justiceto the victim families of 1993Mumbai serial blasts and triedto protect those behind theblasts, Modi targeted Patel for

his alleged links with lateMirch’s family. “Whenever theissue of doing justice to the vic-tim families comes up, theCongress and its allies try toprotect the terrorists. Mumbai,Maharashtra and the countrywill never forget the wounds of1993 blasts.

The Government of thetime did not do justice to thevictims. Those behind theblasts fled the country. The rea-son behind the same has nowcome into the open.

“Instead of catching hold ofthe people (Dawood Ibrahimand his aides), these people are

indulging in the trade of mirchiwith them. Kabhi mirchi kavypar, Kabhi Mirchi se vyapar..I request the people of Mumbaiand Maharashtra to know theseand get cautious about theparties they represent. They arenot bothered about the prestigeof Maharashtra and country,” the Prime Ministersaid.

He also went onto slam theCongress and its supporters forcreating an impression thath itwas only the one family(Gandhi Nehru) that broughtfreedom to the country. “Theseare the same who had insultedlate B R Ambedkar. These arethe same people who are doingthe same thing with the memo-rial being built in the name ofChhatrati Shivaji. Right fromday one, they are creating hur-dles in the way of constructionof the Shivaji memorial,” Modisaid.

The Prime Ministerannounced that the work onthe mid-sea Shivaji memorialwould begin. “The moment weget a green signal from thecourt, we will start the con-struction of the memorial,” hesaid.

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NCP chief Sharad Pawar onFriday hit back at Chief

Minister Devendra Fadnavisover his jibe that `there is nowrestler to fight with’ in theMaharashtra Assembly polls,saying one doesn’t fight with“kids”.

The NCP patriarch wasspeaking at a campaign rally atAmbejogai in Beed district.

“The Chief Minister saystheir wrestler is in the poll bat-tle but there is no wrestlerfrom the opposition in sight.

“There is this organisa-tion called Maharashtra StateWrestling Association, and itspresident’s name is SharadPawar,” the former Union min-ister said.

“I stand behind all thewrestlers, and he is telling usabout wrestlers. We don’t fightwith kids,” Pawar, 78, said.

If there was no contest,why Prime Minister NarendraModi, Union Home MinisterAmit Shah and Uttar PradeshChief Minister Yogi Adityanathare holding rallies in the state,he asked.

He himself was not con-testing, but leaders of the rul-

ing BJP and Shiv Sena cannotmake a single speech withoutmentioning him, Pawar said.

The NCP chief also hit outat Shah for repeatedly askingwhat did Pawar do forMaharashtra, and listed hisdecisions such as giving 50 percent reservation to women inlocal governing bodies andrenaming MarathwadaUniversity after Dr B RAmbedkar.

The only answer the BJPhas for every issue includingunemployment and agrariancrisis is “abrogation of Article370”, Pawar said.

The NCP was not opposedto the scrapping of the provi-sions of the article which gavespecial status to Jammu andKashmir, but people’s concerns needed to beaddressed, he said.

He also reiterated thecharge that “not even an inchof work” has been carried outfor constructing ShivajiMaharaj’s memorial off theMumbai coast.

Similarly, the work onAmbedkar’s memorial in cen-tral Mumbai’s Dadar also hasnot made any headway, Pawarsaid.

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Aam Aadmi Party leaderand Delhi Chief Minister

Arvind Kejriwal on Friday saidhis state’s development modelwould be implemented inMaharashtra if it is elected topower in the October 21Assembly polls.

Speaking at a rally inBrahmapuri, some 90 kilome-tres away from here, Kejriwalsaid Delhi was developing onall fronts because AAP hadgiven “corruption-free admin-istration”.

“We are providing freeelectricity upto 200 units permonth, and 20,000 litres ofwater per person annually. Weimproved the education sys-tem and standard ofGovernment schools, and theyare now better than the onesoperated by the private sector,”he said.

He said such initiativeswould be replicated inMaharashtra to better the for-tunes of its people.

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Union Home Minister AmitShah on Friday dared

Congress leader Rahul Gandhiand NCP chief Sharad Pawar tobring back Article 370 inJammu & Kashmir if they everreturn to power.

Addressing a poll rally inRajura seat here, Shah said theCongress, NCP and otheropposition parties did notabrogate provisions of Article370 due to vote-bank politics.

Article 370 had become the“gateway for terrorists” in thelast 70 years, leading to 40,000killings in J&K, he claimed.

He said the Narendra Modigovernment was elected with abigger mandate in 2019because people had full faith inhis leadership and developmentworks carried out by theCentre.

“I am throwing a directchallenge to Rahul Gandhi andSharad Pawar to restore Article370 in Jammu & Kashmir after

coming to power,” he said.He said the Congress,

despite ruling the country for“70 years” had done nothingfor Adivasis and OtherBackward Castes, while theBJP government at the Centrehad launched a slew of schemesfor their welfare.

Vote for the BJP as it stoodfor development, while partieslike Congress and NCP werecentred around families, heexhorted the gathering.

The State goes to poll onOctober 21 while results will bedeclared on October 24.

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There was no vote inParliament on the

abrogation of provisions ofArticle 370 and Prime MinisterNarendra Modi was misleadingthe nation on the issue, seniorCongress leader Anand Sharmaclaimed here on Friday.

Addressing a Press confer-ence ahead of the October 21Maharashtra Assembly polls,Sharma said the Congress didnot need a certificate from theBJP on patriotism, as two of itsPrime Ministers sacrificed theirlives in the fight against terror.

Modi and the BJP havebeen targeting the Congressduring the campaign forAssembly polls, claiming thatthe grand old party opposedthe scrapping of Article 370.

Article 370 was a tempo-rary provision which was to goin a span of time. Parliamentonly needs to be notified aboutit. On August 5-6, the Government informedParliament and there was novote.

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Acomparatively low-profileAssembly segment, Ausa

in central Maharashtra shotinto limelight when ChiefMinister Devendra Fadnavis’sformer PA Abhimanyu Pawarjumped into the fray as the BJPcandidate and all eyes will beon how he fares in his maid-en poll foray.

The Ausa Assembly seat inLatur district in the aridMarathwada region will seePawar locking horns with two-time Congress MLA BasavrajPatil.

Traditionally a Shiv Senaseat, the BJP convinced its allyto part with the segment andgave nomination to Pawar,Fadnavis’s former personalassistant (PA).

Overnight, Ausa becameone of the most talked aboutAssembly seats of this electionand Fadnavis’s shadow loomslarge over the constituencygiven that he handpicked hisclose aide Pawar as the BJP can-didate.

However, Pawar is unlike-ly to have a cakewalk as he ispitted against a strong candi-date, sitting Congress MLAPatil.

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Political parties are central to thefunctioning of a representativedemocracy because a multi-partysystem generates different policyoptions for the public. The options

thus considered are aimed at fulfilling theinterests and aspirations of the electorate. TheOpposition, especially inter-party coali-tions, is a key concept in a liberal democra-cy. However, interestingly, political partieshave one function in common: All of themseek political power to form a Governmentor to take the role of the Opposition.

The 2019 Lok Sabha elections are over.While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ledNational Democratic Alliance’s (NDA’s)roaring success in both 2014 and 2019 par-liamentary elections has made it the largestparty, the Congress has been facing debacleafter debacle in successive elections. In thisyear’s general election, the BJP won 303 seatsand along with its allies, the NDA took its tallyto 352 seats. The United Progressive Alliance-led Congress was reduced to 91 seats with itbarely crossing the half-century mark with52 seats. With the BJP’s winning percentagereaching 70 per cent (it contested in 437 seatsand won 303 of them), the main Oppositionparty, the Congress, stared at a major exis-tential crisis. The BJP’s spectacular win hasleft the Opposition, the Congress in partic-ular, weak, clueless and irrelevant.

But why is the Opposition so significant?Its importance lies not just in providing ameans to express negative reaction to theGovernment’s decisions but to also tireless-ly hold the ruling party to account, offer con-structive criticism and project a progressivealternative to the Government. On this front,the Congress lacks comprehensive strategyand stamina to take on the might of the BJP’spower duo of Prime Minister NarendraModi and Home Minister Amit Shah.

It’s true that people are often accused ofseeing the world the way they want it to berather than how it is. But do we really needbinoculars to see the fall of a once great polit-ical party? Leaders from the top-level to thelow-rung as well as legislators have been quit-ting the Congress. The prominent amongthem are airing their views against the partyline. Indications are also there of deep intra-party disputes and conflicts. On a close look,however, one will find the real reason why theleaders took the decision to leave the party/airviews. And it wouldn’t be surprising for thosewho have a grasp of the reality.

Last April, I had mentioned in an arti-cle titled, Congress Needs to Make aComeback for Democracy to Sustain Itself: “Inthe world’s largest democracy, the shrinkingpolitical space of a 133-year-old nationalparty is as disconcerting for the party as itis for democracy itself. And, therefore, theCongress’ revival is crucial for the nation andchallenging for its party leadership. The taskis made tougher as sub-optimal leadershipfaces the task of rebuilding the party andrestructuring its shattered image and appeal.”

One and a half years later, theCongress’ state of affairs is evenworse than what people hadfeared. I had earlier explained theto-do list for the grand old party,which remains prerequisite tilldate.

�The stark reality is that theCongress has, for far too long,functioned as an autocrat, deny-ing many deserving party func-tionaries their rightful place in theorganisation. Loyalty towardsindividuals doesn’t necessarilyimply loyalty towards the party.It should take serious note of it.

��An internally-democra-tic political party is always goodfor a democracy. And, therefore,establishing intra-party democ-ratic norms is no longer anoption but a necessity. It’s likelyto prevent disintegration of theparty, make politicians account-able and encourage meaningfuldeliberation.

�� It should get rid of self-seeking and corrupt old guards.There are capable young leaders,who can flush out the party’s old,withered arteries.

� Short-term politicaladvantages have always assuredlong-term political disadvan-tages. Compromising politicshad the Congress falling from364 out of 489 Lok Sabha seatsin the first-ever general electionin 1952 to 44 out of 545 in2014. While people’s expecta-tions from the party are reallylow, the need for it to rise hasnever been greater.

Change is as constant a fea-

ture in politics as it is in life, itis said. Those who resist sucha change will find themselvespushing against a sea of opin-ion and positioned on thewrong side of history.

Most relevant for present-day Congress is an observationby Mohammed Ayoob, Professor,Michigan State University, whowrites that even after two majorelectoral debacles, the dynastyrefuses to give up control anddeliberately fails to realise that itis destroying the chances of theCongress bouncing back. Theequation of the party with thefamily has destroyed any possi-bility of its renaissance.

Buoyed by its stupendousvictory in this year’s parliamen-tary elections when the BJP isgearing up for the 2024 gener-al election, targetting 333 MPs,the Congress is seen as a small,snivelling, struggling party. Asa matter of fact, the Congress’decline began years ago butaccelerated in 2014 with theelection of Narendra Modi.

It’s not that the BJP-ledNDA Government is runningflawlessly. Apart from the eco-nomic mess, the political cultureborn out of the personalitycult, ultra-nationalism and hatepolitics concerns the commonman the most. Besides, theGovernment has failed toaddress other critical issues:From agrarian distress to unem-ployment to dissatisfactionamong the urban middle class-es and the poor. India’s rank in

the Global Hunger Index (GHI)has slipped further — from 95in 2010 to 117 this year.

So, for the Congress, thereare enough political opportuni-ties. It’s just about how to makean opportunity fit, not the otherway around. It’s about seizingopportunities in right earnestand at the right time.

By giving the reins of theparty again to a family member,the Congress might have arrest-ed disintegration within but itwill commit a grave mistake ifit thinks that it can emergestronger anytime soon. Theparty leadership must recognisethat something far bigger anddeeper is at work in the intra-party realm of politics. In theprevailing political culture, forthe Congress, if it wishes to bean alternative to the BJP, evendisintegration would be a bet-ter option if a wider acceptabil-ity of the younger generationeludes the party rank and file.

INC, minus Sonia-Rahul-Priyanka, is thinkable butIndian politics minus theCongress is unthinkable and ifindeed it happens, it would besad and may be the most unfor-tunate turn, which may forev-er change who we are. TheCongress may be criticallyweakened but it is not wreckedas yet.

(The writer is former DeputyGeneral Manager, IndiaInternational Centre, New Delhi,and General Manager,International Centre, Goa)

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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Ayodhya closure” (October18). A five-judge Constitutionbench, headed by Chief Justiceof India Ranjan Gogoi, hasreserved its verdict on one of themost sensitive case of the RamJanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid landdispute in Ayodhya. What willfollow next is a race against timeas the verdict will be deliveredin a month’s time before Gogoidemits office.

In a democracy, any judicialverdict is premised on facts,which entail reliable evidence,satisfactory proof and eyewit-nesses. If indeed a settlement isreached, it will be a victory forparties concerned and the medi-ators, too. Whatever decision thecourt takes must be acceptedgracefully.

Finally, the country mustmove out from its past andfocus on more important issuespertaining to the economy. Theyoung generation is faced witha serious unemployment crisis.We need a strong economy andnot court cases.

Azhar A KhanRampur

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Lessons from PMC” (October17). The purpose of setting upcooperative banks was to furthereconomic development and social

life of the people. While thesebanks have been able to fulfilltheir role partially, a majorimpediment has been the electedmembers of borrowers, who aremore concerned about furtheringtheir own interests.

Cooperative banks offer

attractive deposit rates thancommercial banks and this iswhy they strive on an ecosystemof small business, traders andpetty service providers. In acountry like ours, where finan-cial literacy is not so high, it isessential that all banks come

under the purview of the ReserveBank of India (RBI). The Centralbank must maintain a strict vigiland audit all ailing banks so thatscams like PMC never happenagain and the faith of the depos-itor remains intact.

Harvinder Singh ChughVia email

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Sir — This refers to the editori-al, “Still too hungry” (October18). It is unfortunate that despitebeing the second-largest foodproducer, India ranks poorly onthe hunger levels. To tackle theproblem, there is a need for theGovernment to increase the bud-get for children’s health.

The problem is all the morecomplex because the food basketdiffers from region to region. It is,therefore, essential that we havean efficient integrated system forfood production, processing,preservation and distributionwhich can cater to the changingtastes of the nation.

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Despite loud talk by successiveGovernments about increasing domesticproduction of oil and gas to make India

self-sufficient in energy, we are producing lessthan 20 per cent of our requirement. The balance,over 80 per cent, continues to be imported. Thisheightens our vulnerability to a point wherebythe slightest disruption in any of the majorsources of imports (be it imposition of sanctionsby the US against Iran or an attack on oil instal-lations in Saudi Arabia) creates major ripples thathave the potential to destabilise the country’seconomy.

The problem is not lack of resources. Indiahas 26 Sedimentary Basins (SBs) covering an areaof 3.14 million square kilometres (sq km). But,the lack of a conducive policy environment andcumbersome regulatory processes have deterredglobal firms (who have the technology, expertiseand capital) from investing in their exploration,development and commercialisation. At present,only six SBs covering 0.518 million sq km or bare-ly 16 per cent of the total area are under com-mercial exploitation. Even these six SBs are sub-optimally utilised.

An overwhelming share of throughputcomes from fields discovered over four decadesago in the 1970s, namely Bombay High and theSouth Bassein fields and so on, with no majordiscoveries in recent times. The only exceptionwere finds in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basinin the early 2000s, touted as ones that would con-tribute nearly 50 per cent of the country’s totalgas production. Even that turned out to be adamp squib with the high-profile KG-D6 oper-ated by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) end-ing up with meagre reserves of about two tril-lion cubic feet (Tcf) against an initial estimate of10 Tcf.

The Narendra Modi Government has triedto entice global energy giants by assuring a high-er price for difficult deep/ultra-deep waterfields on the one hand and giving flexibility tooperators in choosing new areas with freedomof pricing and marketing under the 2017Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy(HELP) on the other. It has also tried to simpli-fy processes for approval and reduce bureaucrat-ic red tape. But controls on supply, distributionand use remain, even as multiple pricing regimes,depending on the supply source and hydrocar-bon type, give confusing signals.

In the absence of any major breakthrough insecuring a jump in production from fields alreadygiven under the 1999 New Exploration andLicensing Policy (NELP) and given the lukewarmresponse to the first three rounds of bidding heldunder HELP, it is unlikely that India would beable to reduce dependence on imports even by10 per cent as committed by the ModiGovernment. The Centre will, therefore, need toexplore other options for meeting the country’soil and gas requirements.

The first option involves sourcing a majorshare of requirements under long-term arrange-ments with exporters, leaving a small gap, say 10-15 per cent, for buying spot to take advantage ofprice fluctuations, depending on global-demandsupply at any given time.

India being the third-largest importer of oiland gas, we may leverage this to negotiate bet-ter prices. Joining hands with another major

buyer, say China, could further improvethe country’s bargaining power (but thisis easier said than done). However, thethreat of disruption always remains; dueto the force majeure clause in such tie-ups.

A second alternative is for Indiancompanies to pick up equity stakes inforeign oil and gas assets with arrange-ments for buy-back. For instance,ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), a PublicSector Undertaking (PSU), holds par-ticipating interest in over 40 assets in20 countries. RIL, too, acquired assetsin several jurisdictions. But this routeis subject to a huge downside risk oferosion in the value of investment —as already experienced by both RIL andOVL.

A third alternative is one in whichglobal behemoths such as Aramco —the Saudi Arabian Government-ownedbiggest petro giant and the world’slargest oil exporter — pick up stake inIndian companies which are focussedon refining and marketing of oil prod-ucts. This route is free from the vulner-abilities inherent under the above twooptions.

Already, in sync with Saudi Arabia’sintent to invest $ 100 billion in India’sdownstream sector, including refining,petrochemicals, retailing and so on,Aramco has proposed to acquire 25 percent equity in the $ 60 billion WestCoast refinery (another 25 per cent willcome from the Abu Dhabi National OilCompany-Adnoc) and petrochemicalproject in Maharashtra in which theother 50 per cent will be owned byIndian Oil Corporation Limited(IOCL), Bharat Petroleum CorporationLimited (BPCL) and Hindustan

Petroleum Corporation Limited(HPCL).

It is also contemplating picking up20 per cent equity in oil and gas assetsof RIL. The most crucial feature of thispartnership/joint venture is assuredsupply of crude oil by Aramco to meet50 per cent of the requirement of theWest Coast refinery. The arrangementis mutually beneficial. While, on onehand, India gets what it needs the most,that is crude in desired quantities on along-term basis without any disruption,on the other, Saudi Arabia also getswhat it needs the most, which is anopportunity to diversify its sources ofincome, thereby reducing its over-dependence on crude alone. Therecould not be a more apt example of thetwo countries exploiting synergies tothe advantage of both.

Indian companies can pursue sim-ilar arrangements with other major sup-pliers of crude oil like Iraq, Iran and theUnited Arab Emirates (UAE), who willalso be very keen to reduce their over-dependence on crude alone andmake their economies immune to vul-nerabilities resulting from price fluctu-ations.

From our perspective, even if thereis loss of output in their crude produc-tion facilities, being a co-owner inIndian firms, they won’t cut supplies tothe country. To take it a step further, theGovernment may even consider divest-ing its entire stake in oil refining andmarketing PSUs to strategic investorswho have ownership and control overcrude assets.

As part of its ambitious programmeof disinvestment to garner �105,000crore during the current year, it has

decided to divest all of its 53.3 per centshareholding in BPCL. If, it is sold tosay Aramco or Adnoc, this will not onlyyield a whopping �57,000 crore (at cur-rent market capitalisation of �107,000crore) but also ensure assured suppliesof crude.

The Modi Government may alsoconsider sale of HPCL — at presentowned by ONGC which in turn ismajority-owned by itself — to globalenergy majors. The sale of BPCL andHPCL won’t face any legal hurdles asthe relevant legislations, which led tothe creation of these PSUs, have alreadybeen repealed in 2016.

While, pursuing these initiatives,India’s political class needs to broadenits vision of oil security which shouldgo beyond increasing indigenous pro-duction to cover arrangements forassured supplies of crude from allsources. It also needs to unshackle itselffrom the “socialist era” mindset thatcrucial assets such as oil must necessar-ily be owned by PSUs. In a world where-in supply chains are globally integrat-ed, the focus should be on how best oureconomic interests are served ratherthan worrying about ownership.

The Modi Government shouldorchestrate its strategy combining thebest of all available options like boost-ing domestic production, long-termcontracts for supplies, letting global oilmajors own equity in the country’srefiners and retailers and Indian com-panies acquiring oil assets abroad forensuring adequate supplies of crude andgas to meet our growing requirementson a sustained basis.

(The writer is a New Delhi-basedpolicy analyst)

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Successful healthcare deliverydepends both on the availabilityof personnel and technologies.

Medical devices are an important cogin the delivery system as they equiphealth service providers with the nec-essary tools to perform their jobeffectively. Though the country’shealthcare industry has grown signif-icantly over the last decade, ourhealth ecosystem is plagued by the lackof availability and affordability ofquality services. In fact, India lagsbehind Brazil, Russia, China andSouth Africa and a number of otherdeveloping countries in this regard.While technological advancementshave expanded to encompass almostevery stage of the healthcare contin-

uum, accessibility and democraticavailability remains a hurdle. Indiafaces a dual challenge as the rising bur-den of lifestyle diseases is added to theburden of communicable diseasessuch as tuberculosis. Non-communi-cable diseases are currently responsi-ble for 61 per cent of the deaths in thecountry, a number that is only set togo up in the coming years. While boththe Government and private partici-pants have undertaken several mea-sures to address the lack of quality ser-vices, these efforts have been execut-ed in discrete silos.

In this scenario, medical appli-ances play a key role in offering bet-ter screening, diagnosis and treatmentalong with restoration and monitor-ing of health indicators to boost pre-vention. While equipment manufac-turers have mostly focussed onimproving the quality of care and lifeexpectancy, they also need to increaseaffordability so that there is a largescale impact.

Technology has improved thecomplexity and accuracy of screening

of diseases. Portable/point-of-careaccessories have made it possible toimprove diagnostic mechanisms at theprimary healthcare level, provide careat home and resulted in improvedhealth outcomes and patient satisfac-tion. It has also improved the accessto quality care in underserved andremote regions, while also making itpossible for patients to avail treatmentoutside traditional healthcare facilities.

Technological advancements insurgical equipment have enabled doc-tors to treat highly complex and crit-ical cases and reduce the length ofextended hospital stays. It has increas-ingly made it possible for elective andcomplex operations such as kneereplacement and bariatric surgery tobe moved to short stay/outpatientsurgery centres. For example, lapro-scopic surgery procedures remarkablyimprove outcomes; reduce length ofhospital stays as well as cost of treat-ment.

Rehabilitative centres and hospi-tals are making it easier for patients torecuperate and return to a relatively

normal life with the help of advancedrestorative and assistive devices.Advancements in curative technolo-gy have also allowed people with dis-abilities to lead productive lives.

Advancements in screeningdevices have enabled patients to mon-itor their condition at home, keepinga close track on all major health indi-cators. Furthermore, smart appli-ances are being increasingly used toremotely monitor patients and diag-nose life-threatening conditions early,reducing the need for hospital visitsand bringing down the pressure onoverburdened healthcare centres.However, there is a need for a morecongenial ecosystem for indigenousmanufacturers as medical technologyis a significant contributor to the costof healthcare delivery. According toconservative estimates, medical equip-ment contributes to at least 30 per centof the capital of setting up a secondaryor tertiary care center. Moreover,diagnostics and medical devices con-tribute to at least 20 per cent of the costof medical services. Unfortunately, the

ecosystem is not very conducive forthe sector to drive affordability andaccessibility. The Goods and ServicesTax (GST) on devices currently standsat 12 per cent. On the other hand, cus-toms duty is low. This tax policy neg-atively impacts indigenous productionand supports imports, which iscounter-intuitive to the ‘Make inIndia’ initiative. As the inverted dutystructure favors bringing in finishedgoods over raw material, importsconstitute 75 per cent of the industry’ssales. As a result, local manufacturersmake products at the lower end of thevalue chain.

The Government must considerrevising its tax policy to help localmanufacturers gain a larger share ofthe market. This will also help themmake products at more affordablecosts.

With a changing regulatory andeconomic environment, the medicaldevice sector is set to grow in thefuture and there are a range of factorsfuelling it. According to estimates,non-communicable diseases will cause

75 per cent of the deaths in the coun-try by 2025, with an increasing num-ber of people suffering from diabetes,heart disease and progressive lung dis-eases. The geriatric population is alsoset to increase and would require ahigher need for quality healthcare andmedical devices, both at homes andhealth facilities.

Apart from devising a more con-genial tax structure, the countryneeds to strengthen its regulatorymechanisms and testing procedures toensure highest standards of quality aremet. According to news reports, theNITI Aayog has prepared a roadmapto ensure better regulation of medicalequipment under which all devices —imported or locally manufactured —will have to be certified by the CentralDrugs Standard Control Organisation(CDSCO). While improving regula-tion is welcome, the authorities mustensure that the process remainssmooth, hassle-free and fast.

(The writer is director of a medicaldevice marketing and distributioncompany)

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Reliance Industries (RIL) onFriday added another

feather to its cap by becomingthe first Indian firm to hit the�9 lakh crore market valuationmark in intra-day trade.

The company’s market val-uation zoomed to �9,05,214crore on the BSE during theday. However, at close of trade,the company’s market capital-isation (m-cap) settled at�8,97,179.47 crore.

Shares of the country’smost valued company rose by1.37 per cent to close at�1,415.30 ahead of its earningsannouncement. During theday, it spurted 2.28 per cent toa record �1,428.

In August 2018, RILbecame the first domestic firmto cross the �8 lakh crore markin terms of market valuation.

TCS is the second most

valuable company after RILwith a m-cap of �7,71,996.87crore, followed by HDFC Bank

(�6,72,466.30 crore), HUL(�4,55,952.72 crore), HDFC(�3,61,801.97 crore), Infosys(�3,29,751.88 crore), KotakMahindra Bank (�3,08,708.32crore), ITC (�3,02,861.98crore), ICICI Bank(�2,82,783.39 crore) and BajajFinance (�2,39,947.60 crore) inthe top-10 list.

The m-cap figures of com-panies change daily with stockprice movement.

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India’s most valuable compa-ny Reliance Industries on

Friday posted a record quar-terly net profit of �11,262 croreas a steady rise in the share ofits consumer businesses ofretail and telecom counteredlower earnings from tradition-al petrochemical and refiningsegment.

The oil-to-telecom con-glomerate, led by richest IndianMukesh Ambani, reported anet profit of �11,262 crore, or�18.6 per share, in July-September, up from �9,516crore, or �16.1 a share, in thesame period of the previousfinancial year, the companysaid in a statement.

This is the highest quar-terly net profit earned by anyprivate company, surpassing itsown previous best of �10,362crore in the January-Marchperiod.

State-owned Indian OilCorp (IOC) holds the distinc-tion of posting highest everquarterly profit by any Indianfirm when it had reported a netprofit of �14,512.81 crore inJanuary-March 2013.

Reliance’s standalone netprofit of �9,702 crore was alsoa record high.

It clocked a 4.8 per cent risein consolidated revenue at�163,854 crore in Q2.

The company opened 337more retail stores and added 24million subscribers to its Jiomobile phone service thathelped increase the profitabil-ity of the venture, even as itstraditional oil refining andpetrochemical businesses con-tinued to see weak earnings.

Reliance reported recordpre-tax profit from its retail andtelecom businesses. The twonow account for a third of itsEBITDA, up from close to 25per cent last financial year.

With its retail storestrength rising to 10,901 from10,644 at the end of Q1, theretail business posted a 67 percent jump in pre-tax profit to�2,322 crore and a 27 per centrise in revenue at �41,202crore.

Reliance Jio, the group’stelecom arm, posted a stand-alone net profit of �990 crore,which was 45.4 per cent morethan the previous year, as sub-scriber base swelled to 355.2million from 331.2 million atthe end of the June quarter and252 million in Q2 of the pre-vious fiscal. Net subscriberaddition was a shade lowerthan 24.6 million added in theprevious quarter.

Earning per subscriberdeclined to �120 a month from�122 in the previous quarter.Earning per subscriber hasbeen on a decline since the firstquarter of 2018-19 when itclocked �134.3.

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An 83-year-old depositor ofthe troubled PMC Bank

died on Friday, with his fami-ly claiming that it could notraise money for his heartsurgery after restrictions wereimposed on fund withdrawals.

This is a fourth incident ofthe death of a depositor of thePunjab & MaharashtraCooperative Bank after theRBI appointed administratoron the city-headquarteredlender.

Two of the depositors haddied of cardiac arrest, whileanother, a woman doctor,allegedly committed suicide.

Murlidhar Dharra (83)died at his home in suburbanMulund on Friday, his sonPrem Dharra told PTI.

The family had a total of�80 lakh in deposits with tbebank (which was placed underrestrictions since September24), he said.

Doctors had recommend-ed heart surgery for his father,but they could not arrange themoney as the deposits are stuckat the bank, Prem said.

It can be noted that underthe RBI directions, exceptionscan be made for medical emer-gencies. It was not knownimmediately whether the PMCBank refused a request fromthe family under this provision.

After an alleged �4,355crore scam came to light at thebank, the RBI initially cappedwithdrawals at �1,000 in viewof liquidity crisis, and laterhiked it to �40,000 in three

moves. The depositors havebeen protesting over the lastthree weeks, seeking theirmoney back.

On Tuesday, 51-year-oldSanjay Gulati, who had recent-ly lost his job with Jet Airwayswhen the airline was ground-ed, died of a heart attack hoursafter attending a depositors’protest.

It was followed by allegedsuicide of Dr Nivedita Bijlani,and death of Mulund-residentFatto Punjabi due to cardiacarrest.

The crisis at the bank isbeing attributed to loans givento realty player HDIL, whichwere allegedly hidden fromregulators’ scrutiny, turningnon-performing assets.

Five persons includingHDIL promoters have beenarrested in the case.

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Traders’ body CAIT onFriday said it has held dis-

cussion with the CCI on“unethical competition” per-petrated by e-commerce firms,a day after Union ministerPiyush Goyal said the govern-ment was looking into allegedpredatory pricing by Walmart-owned Flipkart and Amazon.

According to a statementissued by the Confederation ofAll India Traders (CAIT), CCIChairman Ashok Kumar Guptasaid it is committed to estab-lishing a uniform and compet-itive business environment in

the country and if anyoneadopts unhealthy trading prac-tices, influencing prices in anymanner, the Commission willsurely take action as per law.

CAIT Secretary GeneralPraveen Khandelwal claimedthat due to unethical com-mercial practices of Amazonand Flipkart, around 40,000mobile shops are on the vergeof closure by Diwali.

A delegation of CAIT metwith the CCI Chairman andapprised him about how e-commerce companies are trap-ping the country’s business invicious cycle of unethical com-petition, CAIT said.

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China’s growth slumped to 6per cent in the third quar-

ter of 2019, its lowest level innearly three decades, as theworld’s second largest economystruggled to overcome theimpact of a bruising trade warwith the US and sluggishdomestic demand, according toofficial data released on Friday.

The GDP figures emergedjust one week after the US andChina reached a tentative tradetruce to avoid more damages tothe world’s two largesteconomies. China’s grossdomestic product grew at 6 percent in the quarter endedSeptember, the weakest quar-terly growth rate since 1992.

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The United States imposedtariffs on a record $7.5-bil-

lion worth of European Uniongoods on Friday, despite threatsof retaliation, with Airbus,French wine and Scottishwhiskies among the high-pro-file targets.

The tariffs, which tookeffect just after midnight inWashington (0401 GMT),came after talks betweenEuropean officials and US traderepresentatives failed to win alast-minute reprieve.

The WTO-endorsedonslaught from US President

Donald Trump also comes asWashington is mired in a tradewar with China and could riskdestabilising the global econo-my further.

In the line of fire are civil-ian aircraft from Britain,France, Germany and Spain --the countries that formedAirbus -- which will now cost10 percent more when import-ed to the US.

But the tariffs also targetconsumer products such asFrench wine, which Trumphad vowed to attack in recentmonths. Wine from France,Spain and Germany will nowface 25 percent tariffs.

Bangkok: Global markets large-ly brushed off more disconcert-ing economic signals fromChina, which on Friday report-ed that its economy grew at itsslowest pace in 26 years last quar-ter. The 6% growth pace Chinareported for July-September wasworse than most economistswere expecting, highlighting aglobal economy that is slowing.

Domestically, Beijing isunder significant pressure tohead off job losses as a tradewar with the US drags on.

Some of the latest data forSeptember, such as investmentand lending, showed improve-ment, but “pressure on eco-nomic activity should intensi-fy in the coming months,”Julian Evans-Pritchard ofCapital Economics said in acommentary. AP

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India remains among thefastest growing economies of

the world and efforts are beingmade to make it grow faster,Union Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman has said.

The InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) has pro-jected a reduced growth rate forIndia, but the country’s econ-omy is “still growing as thefastest”, she told a group ofIndian reporters on Thursday.

The minister is here toattend the annual meeting ofthe IMF and the World Bank.

Sitharaman said she is “cer-

tainly not risking a compari-son” with China, even thoughthe two countries growth rateshave been projected at 6.1 percent in a latest IMF report.

“The IMF (in its latest pro-jections) reduces the growth(rate) for all the globaleconomies. It reduces thegrowth for India too. But evenotherwise, even with that Indiais still growing as |the fastest growing economy,”she said.

As against India’s realgrowth rate of 6.8 per cent in2018, the IMF in its latestWorld Economic Outlookreleased on Tuesday.

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New Delhi (PTI): Markets regulator Sebi onFriday said it will auction nearly 200 propertiesof Sai Prasad Group firms and three of its direc-tors next month in order to recover funds worththousands of crores raised by the entity throughillicit collective investment schemes.

The regulator has been auctioning proper-ties of the group’s companies and their directorsfor the past two years. Besides, it has put up onsale, jewellery, ornaments and other valuablesof Sai Prasad Group.

In separate notices, Sebi said it will auction90 properties in Madhya Pradesh, 62 in Odishaand 46 in Maharashtra at a total reserve priceof over �74 crore. The auction will be conducted

on November 22.The companies whose properties will be

auctioned are Sai Prasad Corporation, SaiPrasad Properties and Sai Prasad Foods, whilethe directors are Balasaheb Bhapkar, ShashankBhapkar and Vandana Bhapkar. The propertiesto go under the hammer include agriculturalland, land parcels, office space and commercialpremises across the three states.

The regulator has asked the intending bid-ders to make their own independent enquiriesregarding the measurement, nature, type, clas-sifications, encumbrances, litigations, attach-ments and liabilities of the properties put on auction.

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Indian equities rose for thesixth straight session onFriday, the longest gaining

streak since mid-March, boost-ed by unabated foreign fundinflows and positive Brexitdevelopments.

The BSE benchmarkSensex closed 246.32 points or0.63 per cent higher at39,298.38. It hit an intra-dayhigh of 39,361.06 and a low of38,963.60.

The NSE gauge Nifty toorose 75.50 points or 0.65 percent to settle at 11,661.85.

Both benchmark indicesalso posted their second con-secutive weekly rise.

During the week, theSensex advanced 1,171.30points or 3.07 per cent, and theNifty gained 356.80 points or3.15 per cent.

Yes Bank was the top gain-er in the Sensex pack, rallyingup to 8.44 per cent, followed byMaruti, PowerGrid, NTPC,L&T and SBI.

On the other hand, TataMotors, Bajaj Auto, Bharti Airtel,ICICI Bank, Axis Bank andInfosys fell up to 1.05 per cent.

PSU stocks were in hugedemand on Friday, led byBHEL, in-tandem with a bull-ish broader market trend.

On the BSE, shares ofBHEL, Hindustan Copper,

MMTC, Shipping Corporationof India and NationalAluminium Company climbed.

Also, SAIL along withNBCC, NMDC, RashtriyaChemicals and Fertilizers,SJVN and Oil India alsoadvanced.

“BHEL closed up by 22.2per cent today as news emergedthat government is looking toreduce its stake from 63.2 percent to 26 per cent in thecompany. Based on the strate-gic stake sale news of BHEL,other PSUs such as HindustanCopper, SAIL etc also ralliedtoday in anticipation of gov-ernment reducing its stake inthem as well,” said Jaipal Shetty,fundamental analyst atBonanza Portfolio.

Shares of RelianceIndustries ended 1.37 per centhigher ahead of its quarterlyearnings, scheduled to beannounced later in the day.

RIL’s market valuationzoomed to �9,05,214 crore on

the BSE during the day.However, at the close of trade,the company’s market capital-isation (m-cap) settled at�8,97,179.47 crore.

Sectorally, among the topgainers were BSE power, capi-tal goods, realty, utilities, metaland energy indices — rising asmuch as 2.63 per cent.

All 19 sectoral indicesended in the green. In broad-er market, BSE midcap, small-cap and largecap indices out-performed the Sensex.

“Indian equities outper-formed major global marketsfor the week. Equity marketswitnessed a sharp rally on for-eign investor buying, progressin US-China trade talks aswell as a deal being reachedbetween UK and EU on Brexit,”said Sanjeev Zarbade, vice-president, PCG Research,Kotak Securities.

Foreign portfolio investors(FIIs) bought equities worthUSD 1.2 billion over the past

five trading sessions, whiledomestic institutional investorspoured in USD 263 millioninto stock market.

FIIs purchased 1,158.63crore shares on Thursday, stockexchange data showed.

Market experts also saidthat investor sentiment wasupbeat after Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman hinted atfurther stimulus in FY20.

Meanwhile, the rupeeclosed almost flat at 71.14 perUS dollar on Friday amid hard-ening crude oil prices andlacklustre global cues.

Brent crude futures, theglobal oil benchmark, rose 0.12per cent to USD 59.98 per barrel.

Elsewhere in Asia, bours-es in Shanghai, Hong Kong andSeoul ended on a negative noteafter data showed that Chineseeconomy expanded at its slow-est pace in nearly three decadesin the third quarter. Exchangesin Tokyo, however, settled inthe green.

Equites in Europe weretrading on a mixed note intheir respective early deals.

Britain and the EuropeanUnion have struck an outlineBrexit deal after prolongednegotiations.

The deal, however, muststill be formally approved bythe bloc and ratified by theEuropean and UK parliaments.

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Premium denim companyLevi Strauss & Co is

expanding retail presence insmall towns, which it consid-ers as one of the pillars ofgrowth in India, said a topcompany official.

Besides, the company isstrengthening its base in metroand tier I cities by building larg-er stores.

“Our tier II, III & IV strat-egy is to continue to expandour reach to the consumer inthe market. It’s one of the crit-ical pillars for expansion in themarket and growth for India,”Levi Strauss Managing Director(South Asia, Middle East &

North Africa) Sanjeev Mohantytold PTI. According to him,small towns are “one of the keydrivers” for the Indian market,which has large number of mil-lenials.

Levi’s premium assort-ments and collaborations asHello Kitty, Super Mario Brosand special assortments as levi’smade and crafted would caterto metro markets. The compa-ny is registering a good growthin women’s segment andexpects this trend to continue.

Levi’s brand, which is pre-sent in the country since 25years, has a network of over 450retail stores and most of themare operated by its franchisepartners. The company has a

mixed omni channel retail pres-ence here and is witnessing twoto three times higher growthrate from online sales channelsas the base is low and is attract-ing new set of customers.

When asked about thegrowth in the Indian market,he said Asian market grewaround 12 per cent last yearand India is keeping pace withthat growth. “India is definite-ly among the top 10 marketsglobally and from volumepoint of view, we are among thetop five markets,” he said.

According to Mohanty,earlier when the companystarted to expand, the focus wason tier I and top 20 cities onlybut now things are changing.

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�=8)���88��=&�76�1��8=��8�+�6&)�New Delhi (PTI): Gold prices on Friday declined �145 to �38,925per 10 gram in the national capital on weak global trends and astrong rupee, as per HDFC Securities. On Thursday, the preciousmetal had closed at �39,070 per 10 gram. Silver also lost ground and fell by �315 to �46,325 per kg fromthe previous close of �46,640 per kg. In the international mar-ket, gold was ruling lower at USD 1,488 an ounce and silver atUSD 17.46 per ounce.

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ATUL 4224.80 4278.00 4166.20 4207.60GRASIM 724.75 749.00 718.00 746.50ICICIPRULI 472.00 477.90 467.00 476.55BERGEPAINT 487.00 505.00 487.00 499.05HINDCOPPER 33.70 38.75 32.55 38.65VOLTAS 677.40 697.00 677.40 691.40GODREJPROP 999.55 999.55 967.40 974.05ABB 1525.00 1565.00 1524.00 1552.65SPICEJET 121.70 121.70 119.00 119.50DELTACORP 178.15 191.90 177.30 187.40PVR 1845.00 1846.45 1816.00 1827.80CEATLTD 974.00 993.40 955.50 965.35TECHM 724.85 737.40 723.05 734.20DISHTV 17.25 17.25 15.75 16.65WIPRO 248.10 250.65 248.10 248.80JUBLFOOD 1343.35 1372.00 1332.00 1359.00UJJIVAN 310.90 311.05 303.75 306.45BHARTIARTL 385.00 386.15 380.50 383.25SRTRANSFIN 1072.00 1100.60 1058.00 1096.25ACC 1533.40 1558.00 1529.20 1553.10SIEMENS 1630.00 1656.00 1622.45 1649.60HINDALCO 189.00 191.25 186.75 187.40SCI 43.50 47.40 43.00 46.95EDELWEISS 86.40 90.80 85.50 89.90BRITANNIA 3244.00 3259.00 3224.50 3252.55IBREALEST 45.00 46.50 44.25 46.50VENKYS 1684.90 1742.00 1673.30 1713.35AMBUJACEM 207.25 209.80 206.35 207.65IDFCFIRSTB 40.05 40.65 39.50 39.75BOMDYEING 75.60 79.85 74.60 77.30NTPC 119.80 121.50 118.50 121.00EVEREADY 38.00 39.75 36.50 39.75CONCOR 600.00 620.05 596.00 611.20PCJEWELLER 32.40 34.00 32.40 33.30SUNTV 497.70 518.65 490.60 517.20RAJESHEXPO 673.50 677.00 672.00 673.25BANDHANBNK 565.05 566.90 549.00 554.10BIOCON 258.00 262.90 255.95 259.55GAIL 128.90 130.30 127.85 129.60INDHOTEL 153.00 153.00 148.20 149.65OFSS 3105.30 3125.00 3058.00 3116.00BAJAJCON 262.00 267.00 252.35 264.20VIPIND 463.00 476.95 461.30 465.20PAGEIND 21440.30 21648.55 21245.05 21497.45JUBILANT 479.90 510.50 472.95 505.35CASTROLIND 132.10 136.40 131.80 133.85STRTECH 141.95 148.50 141.20 147.20WOCKPHARMA 259.05 274.85 258.05 266.30HCLTECH 1103.00 1105.65 1088.25 1095.90POWERGRID 197.00 203.00 197.00 202.55LAKSHVILAS 19.00 20.00 19.00 19.00BLISSGVS 118.35 135.90 115.15 127.05GLENMARK 288.90 301.20 287.50 299.70ADANIGAS 149.20 153.50 149.20 151.00MARICO 388.95 392.95 385.00 391.65PFC 95.10 98.40 94.80 98.15GODREJCP 714.70 729.50 713.40 717.40PETRONET 262.75 267.75 262.75 267.10AVANTI 391.40 415.00 389.30 408.35MRF 64600.00 65000.00 63800.00 63996.00MUTHOOTFIN 653.10 679.00 653.10 675.95NAUKRI 2298.10 2357.00 2285.65 2301.30DEEPAKNI 320.00 323.30 312.45 317.80DIVISLAB 1721.00 1742.40 1718.45 1738.70OMAXE 198.00 198.00 185.95 186.90HAVELLS 686.00 694.00 679.95 689.50RVNL 23.55 24.50 23.45 23.75ENGINERSIN 107.70 114.55 107.70 108.75GODREJAGRO 480.50 525.20 480.45 518.70ITDC 346.60 368.45 341.65 349.95HINDZINC 216.85 218.85 211.90 216.50TATACHEM 607.30 618.60 606.00 613.45BBTC 1155.00 1198.20 1150.45 1172.35MOIL 134.90 154.35 134.90 140.50SUNTECK 419.90 419.90 399.05 401.20NOCIL 110.90 116.00 110.55 115.00MINDTREE 727.00 742.55 727.00 735.60KANSAINER 530.00 545.60 520.75 540.85BHARATFORG 455.00 455.00 443.05 445.45SRF 2674.25 2721.05 2674.25 2691.25GODREJIND 393.00 403.80 390.75 399.55TORNTPHARM 1661.50 1721.70 1661.50 1682.25RAIN 93.10 95.50 91.10 94.30IGL 370.90 381.20 370.20 379.80APOLLOTYRE 179.90 186.80 179.35 185.95JAICORPLTD 82.00 84.50 81.40 83.00SUVEN 265.45 284.00 262.50 280.50STAR 351.60 355.35 344.80 353.80OIL 162.90 174.80 162.90 172.95CUMMINSIND 575.00 594.95 575.00 583.55CANFINHOME 386.95 406.00 386.95 401.90CHOLAFIN 285.00 303.85 284.80 301.85

FSL 49.95 50.90 49.25 50.40RELINFRA 19.80 21.85 19.45 21.85RAYMOND 574.90 599.95 574.90 594.35IEX 134.90 149.60 131.20 146.75PIIND 1317.95 1318.40 1259.30 1277.80MMTC 15.75 18.65 15.75 18.25RITES 263.50 271.80 262.50 265.85DBL 373.00 392.00 372.90 388.50BALRAMCHIN 148.50 156.00 147.10 153.80EXIDEIND 178.10 184.00 177.25 182.85ISEC 286.00 296.80 277.55 286.00RCF 48.20 51.40 48.20 50.90GNFC 205.80 205.80 197.45 200.15SOUTHBANK 10.30 10.60 10.22 10.31ORIENTBANK 52.15 53.90 49.40 49.55FINEORG 1904.30 1980.00 1901.15 1943.45EMAMILTD 345.90 355.00 335.40 351.20DRREDDY 2722.50 2744.25 2711.00 2723.80GODFRYPHLP 1051.00 1095.75 1051.00 1090.50LTTS 1595.00 1657.00 1593.20 1644.40RELCAPITAL 12.45 13.45 12.40 13.45PHILIPCARB 118.30 123.50 117.60 122.55INDIACEM 80.00 81.35 79.60 80.65RPOWER 1.98 2.32 1.97 2.32BALMLAWRIE 173.50 179.15 172.00 176.45EQUITAS 105.40 106.20 102.15 103.35SPARC 130.15 135.00 130.15 132.30ITI 82.60 84.35 81.15 82.90KAJARIACER 553.50 564.95 539.00 553.05FORCEMOT 1063.05 1090.00 1056.00 1076.20WABAG 190.90 200.10 183.80 192.65WHIRLPOOL 2174.95 2202.00 2150.05 2163.55SHREECEM 18246.05 18757.95 18246.05 18661.20IRB 67.95 70.80 65.75 67.40DHFL 20.80 21.45 19.55 21.45ABFRL 204.40 211.45 201.60 209.30CADILAHC 241.95 242.80 236.85 240.40INFRATEL 257.50 262.90 254.45 261.80HEIDELBERG 184.50 196.00 184.50 192.95IDBI 29.80 32.40 29.55 30.70CUB 219.00 223.00 213.00 216.15INDIANB 117.00 124.00 115.90 122.70BOSCHLTD 14105.00 14383.30 14100.00 14123.60HEXAWARE 370.05 381.00 369.60 378.80MEGH 50.95 53.20 50.90 51.95KALPATPOWR 442.20 452.00 442.05 448.45IBULISL 71.10 75.95 70.30 71.00BLUESTARCO 830.00 848.60 815.40 824.60SWANENERGY 104.50 105.95 102.60 103.35ADANITRANS 234.45 247.50 234.00 238.00HFCL 17.75 19.00 17.55 18.75RADICO 305.40 319.00 304.35 316.60CYIENT 459.90 459.90 439.95 447.75TRENT 502.35 522.00 500.20 519.60KTKBANK 69.00 71.50 68.00 69.25SUPREMEIND 1222.00 1255.00 1220.00 1227.30OBEROIRLTY 516.85 544.50 516.20 539.70HSCL 74.60 75.90 74.10 75.45PTC 53.65 57.25 53.65 56.90UBL 1331.00 1333.50 1308.10 1329.05GLAXO 1442.75 1467.05 1433.35 1440.15JINDALSAW 84.80 88.80 84.45 87.95METROPOLIS 1273.20 1425.00 1273.20 1349.95LALPATHLAB 1386.00 1435.00 1386.00 1416.80INFIBEAM 41.00 42.45 40.50 42.10AMARAJABAT 669.50 675.85 662.00 667.80IBVENTURES 89.00 89.60 85.70 89.60INOXLEISUR 341.00 358.00 338.70 354.10JISLJALEQS 11.65 12.15 10.65 11.25HUDCO 33.55 35.40 33.35 34.95MOTILALOFS 643.55 654.10 640.25 645.70KPRMILL 589.40 610.65 585.35 605.15GICHSGFIN 152.00 160.35 151.80 155.95GREAVESCOT 132.35 134.35 126.75 128.10GALAXYSURF 1472.35 1543.55 1461.20 1508.00AUBANK 650.65 666.60 642.00 654.30VGUARD 234.20 239.00 234.20 236.60INTELLECT 187.50 195.00 187.20 192.05J&KBANK 29.75 32.50 29.70 31.60DCBBANK 182.40 182.75 180.70 181.30RELAXO 502.65 532.00 500.50 529.10BAJAJHLDNG 3644.00 3750.00 3644.00 3740.65JAMNAAUTO 38.40 41.25 37.25 40.80PARAGMILK 154.45 159.70 154.15 157.10NAVINFLUOR 754.15 780.00 745.00 771.20CHENNPETRO 160.30 161.90 155.00 159.80IRCON 368.35 384.00 366.95 381.60GHCL 205.00 205.25 197.50 200.65FINOLEXIND 602.50 624.75 594.00 616.80RAMCOCEM 743.30 758.00 741.90 754.40JMFINANCIL 73.45 77.10 71.20 72.30GILLETTE 7650.10 7890.00 7650.10 7837.00MFSL 409.30 411.50 406.10 410.35GUJGAS 180.00 180.00 175.50 177.85THOMASCOOK 127.40 129.60 122.25 124.40NLCINDIA 53.40 57.30 53.25 55.95POLYCAB 723.45 729.95 720.05 723.30ZYDUSWELL 1682.25 1745.00 1659.75 1736.30WELSPUNIND 49.75 54.90 49.75 51.80PHOENIXLTD 703.00 735.00 699.95 731.05BASF 980.00 999.00 960.00 965.90MINDAIND 358.00 373.65 357.85 367.90ASHOKA 100.25 104.35 100.05 103.90JKTYRE 68.00 68.95 67.30 67.90JKCEMENT 1068.50 1140.10 1068.50 1128.85BIRLACORPN 539.10 592.00 539.10 588.15AJANTPHARM 980.00 1024.00 978.80 1011.05TV18BRDCST 20.50 21.40 20.15 20.45JSWENERGY 66.50 68.85 66.50 68.55

LAXMIMACH 3645.05 3732.35 3600.05 3629.80EIDPARRY 158.00 161.60 155.60 160.00SJVN 24.35 25.85 24.35 25.60ALBK 24.70 26.00 24.55 25.65NHPC 23.35 24.10 23.35 23.90COFFEEDAY 36.70 36.75 33.45 33.75NATCOPHARM 576.00 580.00 554.10 566.50RALLIS 172.10 172.50 163.50 164.70SUZLON 2.50 2.59 2.41 2.56REDINGTON 108.55 113.55 108.55 111.55KEC 279.40 283.00 274.95 277.35MPHASIS 920.30 941.15 920.20 932.75PGHL 4445.00 4460.00 4395.00 4421.85BAJAJELEC 387.00 398.00 381.40 397.40ALKEM 1943.85 2029.80 1939.70 1959.65MRPL 51.50 52.70 48.65 49.00IPCALAB 917.10 953.25 917.10 947.75TCNSBRANDS 702.35 720.10 689.00 698.75ORIENTELEC 161.20 175.75 161.20 173.30COCHINSHIP 330.25 342.65 327.15 329.25GMDCLTD 61.00 64.50 58.05 58.70KEI 545.00 549.30 539.05 544.40CHAMBLFERT 153.65 158.90 153.65 155.55GSPL 211.00 214.55 208.00 209.55TRIDENT 56.85 60.70 56.75 60.35GSKCONS 8895.00 8993.85 8895.00 8959.60MAHSCOOTER 4600.00 4678.75 4582.00 4629.80VINATIORGA 2120.00 2127.45 2083.40 2098.40CROMPTON 265.00 268.95 264.25 266.05FINCABLES 361.00 367.80 361.00 365.90WABCOINDIA 6130.05 6199.85 6117.50 6147.30SHANKARA 290.85 299.00 285.00 286.40VMART 2072.35 2128.80 2071.00 2089.55PGHH 11676.05 11950.00 11572.00 11759.10ASTRAL 1197.00 1197.00 1158.10 1164.35IDFC 32.00 33.30 31.95 33.05AKZOINDIA 1963.90 2023.20 1955.90 2010.65SOBHA 449.85 472.30 449.00 451.40RCOM 0.73 0.76 0.72 0.74GSFC 76.65 78.70 76.60 77.95ABBOTINDIA 10995.60 10997.85 10655.00 10715.00CRISIL 1348.00 1382.50 1343.90 1367.70CENTURYPLY 158.30 164.25 158.30 162.80DEEPAKFERT 92.50 93.70 91.35 92.35PERSISTENT 605.00 629.85 598.00 620.10ENDURANCE 1010.55 1053.95 986.50 1044.20AIAENG 1717.90 1754.85 1705.25 1746.20SYNGENE 327.60 334.00 317.00 331.90CCL 229.50 231.95 227.10 228.20VBL 627.50 645.40 627.50 641.50HIMATSEIDE 139.05 145.00 138.00 141.80TATAMETALI 576.85 583.00 570.05 571.30DCAL 168.90 168.90 143.40 155.35FCONSUMER 23.90 24.70 23.80 24.55INDOSTAR 185.00 199.80 178.80 190.95SONATSOFTW 302.40 314.00 302.15 311.50WESTLIFE 329.10 342.00 325.25 331.20FRETAIL 383.95 401.75 383.50 395.40HONAUT 28668.50 28790.00 28379.25 28732.00GRANULES 97.50 102.50 97.50 101.50JBCHEPHARM 360.00 371.00 358.00 365.40IFCI 6.64 7.07 6.49 6.62JPASSOCIAT 2.02 2.24 2.02 2.18VARROC 475.00 498.60 457.60 494.70EIHOTEL 172.00 183.20 171.05 180.80TATAINVEST 830.00 838.30 807.00 808.00THERMAX 1108.80 1128.65 1107.80 1119.90TAKE 108.10 114.00 108.10 111.25TATACOFFEE 76.00 77.35 75.80 76.70UFLEX 203.75 207.70 201.40 203.25ZENSARTECH 211.70 222.75 208.75 213.35SUDARSCHEM 375.80 380.55 374.45 375.15ASTRAZEN 2328.60 2331.25 2265.00 2275.85BDL 280.45 292.15 280.45 286.65WELCORP 130.80 134.00 130.75 131.50DALBHARAT 810.40 830.00 809.70 815.45ADVENZYMES 151.85 154.70 151.85 153.95KRBL 205.00 222.00 205.00 216.25PFIZER 3230.00 3230.00 3211.60 3218.75QUESS 463.75 475.00 463.75 470.85CARERATING 535.05 537.25 510.05 516.20MINDACORP 82.05 89.00 82.05 84.20APLLTD 541.40 565.00 536.50 540.10CENTRALBK 16.85 17.55 16.85 17.35CAPPL 399.20 402.90 395.00 395.80DBCORP 159.00 159.00 155.30 155.80COROMANDEL 416.45 421.70 410.50 418.30STARCEMENT 93.80 95.90 93.55 94.50CGPOWER 15.14 15.14 15.14 15.14CREDITACC 632.50 640.00 628.10 639.05PRSMJOHNSN 76.30 77.90 76.30 77.50ITDCEM 37.25 40.25 36.85 40.25GET&D 193.00 201.25 182.50 194.30AEGISLOG 168.50 172.00 164.30 169.75TIMKEN 816.50 816.50 785.00 786.65DCMSHRIRAM 390.00 398.50 385.00 389.95TTKPRESTIG 5950.00 5999.90 5931.20 5958.85BAYERCROP 3311.65 3400.00 3255.30 3296.55JYOTHYLAB 161.10 173.85 161.10 171.25APLAPOLLO 1413.40 1413.75 1387.85 1391.95SYNDIBANK 24.35 25.15 24.35 25.00GAYAPROJ 118.25 122.85 116.55 121.55IIFL 112.00 123.30 110.50 116.85TIMETECHNO 56.40 61.85 55.90 60.50MAHLIFE 434.75 434.75 424.45 426.40SHK 121.75 128.00 121.15 126.00IOB 9.43 9.80 9.43 9.69GPPL 79.60 80.05 77.20 78.30NILKAMAL 1206.70 1246.30 1204.05 1228.85

ORIENTCEM 84.40 89.90 84.40 89.20ECLERX 412.90 442.45 412.90 427.45REPCOHOME 294.90 294.95 287.80 290.85SUNDRMFAST 460.00 467.00 455.25 460.60JCHAC 2000.30 2048.00 2000.30 2035.85GUJALKALI 435.40 451.20 435.00 437.00TEJASNET 76.20 83.00 76.15 81.50AAVAS 1690.00 1695.20 1670.00 1679.65LINDEINDIA 520.30 534.10 517.00 523.90HATHWAY 23.00 23.00 22.05 22.30SADBHAV 141.15 141.90 138.00 138.85ALLCARGO 100.15 102.00 100.15 101.35TNPL 187.80 189.90 186.60 187.30TEAMLEASE 3153.20 3175.75 3002.80 3039.40JSL 33.95 35.00 33.95 34.60CHOLAHLDNG 462.00 465.90 461.35 463.80VSTIND 3853.95 3898.00 3752.45 3833.75LEMONTREE 58.00 58.00 56.20 56.60GEPIL 703.30 716.00 703.30 712.75PRESTIGE 288.80 302.10 287.70 299.00LUXIND 1167.05 1236.45 1167.05 1215.55INOXWIND 38.00 38.00 34.50 34.80CERA 2470.15 2600.00 2467.90 2574.70GRINDWELL 595.85 603.00 594.85 600.30SCHAEFFLER 4116.95 4158.15 4090.85 4099.70NETWORK18 19.85 20.35 19.70 20.20MAHINDCIE 144.40 149.60 143.65 148.15SYMPHONY 1260.55 1268.80 1244.10 1248.95SREINFRA 7.86 8.30 7.80 8.23MAHLOG 353.60 372.40 353.60 370.30CARBORUNIV 303.50 311.60 298.10 308.85GDL 92.25 94.80 92.05 93.90LAURUSLABS 311.10 320.95 310.65 314.95DHANUKA 294.10 304.15 290.05 292.15JSLHISAR 65.00 66.45 64.55 65.20ANDHRABANK 16.00 16.50 15.80 16.30VTL 916.80 926.10 916.80 919.60SKFINDIA 2120.15 2172.00 2120.15 2152.95CENTRUM 23.00 24.50 23.00 24.10HAL 715.00 715.15 702.25 704.90MAGMA 51.70 53.40 49.20 52.60HERITGFOOD 323.70 326.05 317.10 319.60ESSELPRO 114.50 121.70 113.80 116.70JKLAKSHMI 287.00 291.65 285.65 287.65PNCINFRA 173.10 173.95 170.10 170.85THYROCARE 501.00 509.20 498.15 506.90NESCO 575.00 575.00 566.80 568.10TRITURBINE 97.20 101.05 97.20 100.20

MHRIL 212.20 218.60 212.20 216.55KNRCON 224.20 234.65 224.20 228.95IFBIND 664.35 680.85 659.00 675.40MAXINDIA 64.15 65.50 63.05 65.00MAHABANK 9.60 9.90 9.50 9.75UCOBANK 11.57 11.97 11.57 11.85MAHSEAMLES 358.00 363.00 356.60 359.75SCHNEIDER 71.50 73.45 71.50 73.20MASFIN 675.00 675.00 661.00 665.35CORPBANK 14.00 14.55 13.75 14.20JAGRAN 58.70 59.85 58.60 59.25GULFOILLUB 847.00 874.90 847.00 871.90APARINDS 514.60 515.00 507.65 510.05FLFL 405.70 412.25 403.40 407.75FDC 162.90 162.90 160.00 160.90SOMANYCERA 181.25 193.25 181.25 188.00ASTERDM 118.20 119.45 117.25 118.00BLUEDART 2370.50 2370.50 2270.00 2273.05SHILPAMED 260.00 268.50 252.15 260.90TVTODAY 312.20 312.20 305.55 308.95SHRIRAMCIT 1355.50 1355.50 1331.90 1335.50UNITEDBNK 7.15 7.55 7.15 7.29TVSSRICHAK 1799.30 1850.15 1799.30 1833.75NBVENTURES 74.00 75.40 73.50 74.20TIINDIA 383.00 383.00 364.10 365.40SIS 905.00 907.45 890.00 896.15SOLARINDS 1086.05 1097.60 1085.10 1089.75LAOPALA 174.00 175.05 174.00 175.00JSWHL 2701.00 2854.95 2701.00 2750.45NH 232.00 240.00 230.05 237.65SHOPERSTOP 394.70 396.00 391.50 394.40SUPRAJIT 179.00 184.00 179.00 182.85ERIS 415.00 430.95 415.00 421.30SFL 1212.00 1262.00 1212.00 1259.00CHALET 320.00 327.85 315.05 319.65

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 11580.30 11684.70 11553.15 11661.85 75.50YESBANK 46.60 52.70 46.00 51.30 3.90COALINDIA 198.80 206.50 197.75 206.00 6.60ADANIPORTS 410.00 423.80 408.00 422.20 13.05MARUTI 7081.30 7450.00 7061.65 7350.00 226.10GRASIM 725.50 749.00 718.30 746.00 21.45NESTLEIND 14519.10 14943.35 14403.30 14900.00 383.15POWERGRID 197.70 203.25 197.00 202.50 4.80LT 1428.00 1457.00 1425.40 1452.00 27.65BPCL 510.00 534.90 506.75 523.00 9.70TITAN 1278.00 1305.00 1274.05 1301.25 24.20NTPC 118.80 121.50 118.40 120.90 2.20INFRATEL 256.80 263.00 254.00 261.55 4.60SBIN 264.40 271.35 263.20 269.20 3.75RELIANCE 1404.00 1427.90 1398.70 1416.00 19.50TCS 2037.50 2063.90 2025.00 2059.00 28.05TECHM 724.45 737.75 722.70 734.35 10.00ONGC 140.10 144.50 139.90 142.90 1.50UPL 591.00 603.50 588.50 598.00 6.05VEDL 148.40 152.20 147.80 149.75 1.45BAJFINANCE 4100.00 4199.00 4080.00 4139.00 32.20HDFCBANK 1225.45 1233.85 1220.35 1229.00 9.00KOTAKBANK 1603.80 1619.60 1591.00 1616.00 11.45HEROMOTOCO2629.00 2662.05 2605.85 2645.00 15.80GAIL 128.50 130.40 127.80 129.50 0.75TATASTEEL 355.95 362.80 351.75 357.70 1.60WIPRO 247.85 250.70 247.85 248.80 0.95HDFC 2089.00 2102.00 2065.10 2096.00 6.25BRITANNIA 3227.85 3259.20 3222.55 3257.20 9.35ULTRACEMCO 4268.70 4363.00 4255.65 4272.20 11.75ASIANPAINT 1815.00 1824.45 1786.70 1816.80 4.50ITC 246.00 247.80 245.10 246.35 0.50HINDUNILVR 2100.00 2116.00 2090.70 2108.00 4.15HCLTECH 1094.95 1105.45 1088.40 1094.95 1.90M&M 589.00 595.50 583.60 594.20 0.90AXISBANK 709.85 715.70 705.25 710.35 0.05INDUSINDBK 1332.00 1361.70 1317.10 1338.50 -1.60SUNPHARMA 401.00 406.50 397.50 400.95 -0.55DRREDDY 2720.00 2744.95 2710.05 2722.00 -5.40INFY 763.80 773.80 760.00 767.50 -2.00JSWSTEEL 222.10 225.20 220.30 222.15 -0.80BAJAJFINSV 8316.00 8437.60 8230.00 8285.00 -31.65IOC 146.10 148.20 144.75 145.55 -0.85BHARTIARTL 384.95 386.40 380.50 383.30 -2.55BAJAJ-AUTO 3119.00 3119.95 3075.00 3090.00 -21.50ICICIBANK 437.70 443.70 435.25 437.10 -3.50HINDALCO 187.95 191.35 186.65 186.85 -1.95EICHERMOT 20600.00 20680.00 20065.10 20226.15 -265.70CIPLA 448.50 451.15 440.10 440.20 -6.10TATAMOTORS 139.00 141.80 135.60 136.60 -2.90ZEEL 248.30 262.75 239.55 249.70 -14.75

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Regulator Sebi on Friday putin place stricter norms for

auditors, including prompt dis-closures about reasons for theirresignation and requirement toapproach chairman of auditcommittee directly in case ofany concerns with manage-ment of the firm concerned.

The norms have beenissued against the backdrop ofrising instances of auditorsquitting companies as well asthose of auditors coming underthe scanner in connection withalleged financial irregularitiesat firms.

The circular on'Resignation of statutory audi-tors from listed entities andtheir material subsidiaries' willcome into force with immedi-ate effect.

According to Sebi, resig-nation of an auditor of a listedentity before completion ofthe audit of financial results forthe year due to reasons such aspre-occupation may seriouslyhamper investor confidenceand deny them access to reli-able information for takingtimely investment decisions.

Coming out with the cir-cular, Sebi has asked all listedentities and material sub-sidiaries to ensure that an audi-tor issues the audit report.

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Istanbul: Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan onFriday warned that Ankarawould restart its operationagainst Kurdish forces in Syria on Tuesday evening ifthey do not withdraw from a"safe zone".

After US Vice-PresidentMike Pence came to Ankara fortalks with Erdogan on Thursday,the NATO allies agreed Turkeywould suspend its offensive forfive days in northern Syriawhile Kurdish fighters withdrawfrom the area.

"If the promises are keptuntil Tuesday evening, the safezone issue will be resolved. If itfails, the operation... Will startthe minute 120 hours are over,"Erdogan told reporters duringa foreign media briefing inIstanbul.

He said Turkish armedforces would remain in theregion "because the securitythere requires this", adding thatthere had been no issues so far.

But the Syrian Observatory

for Human Rights said Fridaythere were Turkish air strikeson the village of Bab al-Kheir,east of Ras al-Ain on the bor-der. The war monitor said 14civilians were killed.

Turkey launched the cross-border incursion on October 9after repeatedly threatening toclear the border area from theKurdish People's ProtectionUnits (YPG) militia.

The Turkish forces are sup-porting Syrian rebel fightersunder the "Syrian NationalArmy" banner but the proxieshave been accused by AmnestyInternational of committing"war crimes" including sum-mary executions.

Erdogan also condemnedthe abuses that some Syrianproxies are accused of com-mitting during the offensive.

"Whoever commits suchan act is no different from (theIslamic State group). We can-not accept such a thing," hesaid, adding that the army wasinvestigating the claims. AFP

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Washington: PresidentDonald Trump has said thatAmerica's proposed econom-ic sanctions on Ankara are nolonger necessary after the USand Turkey struck a deal for afive-day cease fire in Syria.

As per the deal announcedby Vice-President Mike Pencein Ankara on Thursday,Turkey will suspend its oper-ations for 120 hours to allowKurdish fighters to withdrawfrom a designated safe zonealong the Turkish and Syrianborder.

Protesting Turkey's mili-tary offensive in northeastSyria, US President DonaldTrump on Tuesday signed anexecutive order to slap sanc-tions against Turkish officials,raising of steel tariffs and end-ing negotiations on a $100 bil-

lion trade deal.“Sanctions won't be nec-

essary because Turkey is doingwhat they're doing,” Trumptold reporters on Thursday ashe congratulated his Turkishcounterpart President RecepTayyip Erdogan for reaching adeal with the United States.

“He's a friend of mineand I'm glad we didn't have aproblem because frankly, he'sa hell of a leader and he's atough man. He's a strong man.He did the right thing. And Ireally appreciate it. And I willappreciate it in the future,”Trump said, describing thecease fire as a great news.

Terming it as an incredi-ble outcome, Trump said thatTurkey had a legitimate prob-lem on the 22 mile (34 kms)strip for many years. PTI

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Tal Tamr: Deadly Turkish airstrikes Friday shattered anhours-old US-brokered deal tostop Ankara's military offen-sive against Kurdish forces innortheastern Syria.

The ceasefire announcedlate Thursday was meant toprovide a pause for the evac-uation of Kurdish fightersfrom the battleground bordertown of Ras al-Ain and otherareas Turkey wants to controlalong its border with Syria.

The five-day suspensionlooked designed to help Turkeyachieve its main territorialgoals without fighting but itsSyrian proxies continued toclash with Kurdish fightersFriday and an airstrike killed14 civilians.

"14 civilians were killed in

Turkish airstrikes on the villageof Bab al-Kheir, east of Ras al-Ain," Rami Abdel Rahman,head of the Syrian Observatoryfor Human Rights, said. AFP

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London: After winning thebacking of European Unionleaders for his new Brexit deal ,Prime Minister Boris Johnsonwas in London on Friday look-ing to secure enough support toget the deal through the frac-tious British Parliament.

Johnson returned from anEU summit in Brusselsovernight for a busy dayattempting to persuade law-makers to ratify the divorcedeal at a rare Saturday sitting ofParliament.

He was due to brief hisCabinet on Friday afternoon,

ahead of what's expected to bea knife-edge vote.

Johnson's ConservativeParty holds only 288 seats in the650-seat House of Commons, sohe will have to rely on supportfrom other parties and inde-pendent lawmakers to get overthe line.

Foreign Secretary DominicRaab started drumming up sup-port early. "We've got a realopportunity now to get Brexitdelivered faithful to the refer-endum, move on as a govern-ment, and I think as a country,and lift the clouds of Brexit," he

told the BBC. Raab said theGovernment has not given uphope of winning the support ofits Northern Ireland ally, theDemocratic Unionist Party,which has rejected the newdeal. But the chances of thatappeared slim.

The DUP's Brexitspokesman, Sammy Wilson,said Johnson's Brexit package— which carves out special sta-tus for Northern Ireland tokeep an open border with EUmember Ireland — is bad forhis region and its bonds withthe rest of the U.K. AP

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Macron declared on Friday thatFrance does not want to seeBritain's departure from theEuropean Union delayedbeyond October 31 now that anew divorce agreement has beenreached. "I think the October 31date should be respected. I don'tthink that new deadlines shouldbe given. We need to end thesenegotiations and get on negoti-ating the future relationship," hesaid at an EU summit. OnThursday, EU leaders approveda Brexit withdrawal agreementnegotiated between the EU andJohnson's Government to over-see Britain's departure. AFP

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Kabul: An explosion rocked amosque in eastern Afghanistanas dozens of people gathered tooffer Friday players, causing theroof to collapse and killing 62worshippers, provincial offi-cials said.

Attahullah Khogyani,spokesman for the governor ofNangarhar, said the militantattack wounded 36 others.

He said it was not imme-diately clear if the mosque wasattacked by a suicide bomber orsome other type of bombing."Both men and children areamong those killed and wound-ed in the attack," he said. Noone immediately claimedresponsibility for the attack, but

both the Taliban and the ISISgroup are active in easternAfghan, especially Nangarharprovince. Zahir Adil,spokesman for the public healthdepartment in NangarharProvince, said 23 of the wound-ed were transferred to Jalalabad,the provincial capital, and therest were being treated in theHaskamena district clinic. Theviolence comes a day after a UNreport said that Afghan civiliansare dying in record numbers inthe country's increasingly bru-tal war, noting that more civil-ians died in July than in anyprevious one-month periodsince the UN began keepingstatistics. AFP

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New york: Former US defensesecretary James Mattis said hewas honoured to be the "world'smost overrated general" in aswipe at his former boss DonaldTrump who insulted him earli-er this week.

At a gala charity dinner inNew York on Thursday evening,Mattis told diners he had now"achieved greatness."

"I'm not just an overratedgeneral. I am the greatest, theworld's most overrated," he said.

"I'm honored to be consid-ered that by Donald Trumpbecause he also called Meryl

Streep an overrated actress," hesaid. "So I guess I'm the MerylStreep of generals, and franklythat sounds pretty good to me,"he said to laughter and applauseat the annual Alfred E SmithMemorial Foundation dinner.

The retired Marine generalsaid he wasn't bothered byTrump's comments.

"Of course not, I earned myspurs on the battlefield... AndDonald Trump earned his spursin a letter from a doctor," Mattissaid, in a jab at the medical con-dition which allowed Trump toavoid the Vietnam draft. AFP

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Washington: A top WhiteHouse official found himself inthe middle of a political stormafter he indicated, only towalk back later, that PresidentDonald Trump asked hisadministration to withholdnearly $400 million in militaryaid to Ukrainian to further hispolitical interests.

Acting White House Chiefof Staff Mick Mulvaney's dur-ing a White House briefing onThursday suggested that theTrump Administration heldup the military aid to Ukrainein part because the presidentwanted it to investigate anunproven conspiracy theoryabout Ukraine's involvementin the hack of the DemocraticNational Committee (DNC)server in 2016.

Mulvaney, however, laterin evening recanted hisremarks and accused themedia of “misconstruing” hiscomments to advance a"biased and political witch-hunt" against PresidentTrump.

Responding to a question

during the press conference,Mulvaney said, “Did (Trump)also mention to me in the pastthat the corruption related tothe DNC server? Absolutely,no question about that. Butthat was it. That's why we heldup the money."

“The look back to whathappened in 2016 certainlywas part of the things that hewas worried about in corrup-tion with that nation. And thatis absolutely appropriate,”Mulvaney said, suggesting thatTrump wanted assistance withan ongoing investigation bythe Justice Department. PTI

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You see a real visual flair withoutit being sensationalised. It tookfive months to shoots all the fiveepisodes.

� In that time, how hard was itto go home at night? Do you letit go? Do you kind of wallow inthat for five months?

There’s no time for wallowingbecause you’ve got somethingenormous the next day. I mean, assoon as something’s finished, there’sa sort of relief. You get that off yourplate. And then you’re lookingahead. During the days you’reshooting something, if you’ve gotsome time off, you’re already try-ing to make sure that you’re goingto be ready for what’s coming downthe line.

� There were no light scenes thatcan give you a break. How didthat go for you?

Yes, I asked for some comedy.I did. I made a pitch to Craig. I said,you know, Russians have a verygood sense of humour. And he said‘no, no jokes for you.’ He can evenwrite funny but he didn’t want to.I really wanted some comic ele-ment. All he gave me was one joke.

� How difficult was it for youto prepare for a role like that?

Well, I was playing a real per-son and when you play a realcharacter, there’s so much infor-mation out there — books andvideos. But my character, theSoviets had, quite successfully,cut out of the story. They threat-ened to erase him from the his-tory. And so, in a lot of the booksthat I read, he wasn’t even men-tioned. This was probably thefirst time that I have played a his-torical character where theresearch wasn’t really that help-ful. Craig had a different thing inmind because the character I playis in contrast to Stellan’s(Skarsgard) character. I needed tooccupy a different space. In reallife, what I observed aboutLegasov was that he had kind ofSlavic Soviet swagger about him.He was an alpha male and pro-jected confidence and that wasexactly what Stallan’s characterwas. So I had to find somethingdifferent to serve the narrative.You do all your research but inthe end you’re not going to playyour research, you’re going toplay what the script demands.And the writer has made deci-sions on the story. You play theversion of the character that thewriter has written for you. Andthat makes for some tense shoot-ing days.

(Chernobyl will premiere onStar World with a special play ofback to back episodes on October20 at 12 pm.)

The warmth of the laughter whenyou mention Deepti Naval’s past co-stars is hard to miss even over the

slightly erratic phone line which connectsthe two metros — the capital and the mil-lennial city. But then, Ms Chamko, as shecame to be popularly known afterChashme Baddoor (1981) was the quin-tessential girl next door with her sunshinesmile and cheerful demeanour. However,the celebrated actor, painter and photog-rapher, who was last seen in the webseries, Made in Heaven, avers, “I was notthe girl next door in real life. I was a NewYorker where I had gone to college andgraduated in Arts as my major subject. Iwas running around theatre at Broadwayand Museum of Modern Art and livingin the neighbourhood of Andy Warhol.The sweet image was something that cin-ema created as this was the kind of girlspeople wrote about at that time. Therewas nothing dynamic where the femalecharacters were strong, bold, dynamic andconfident. I never got to play anythingthat came close to my own persona.”

However, Naval who recently got theExcellence in Cinema Award at the 21stJio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, doesagree that actors who were a part of theparallel cinema at that time weren’t vic-timised as much by the division betweengood and bad characters, something thatplagued commercial cinema. “We still gotto experiment with the characters thatcame our way. My very first film, Ek BaarPhir was in the grey zone.” She playedKalpana, a girl married to a film star, whofalls in love with a struggling painter. “Thefact that my character has secondthoughts about what she was doing andwhether it was morally right staying in amarriage of convenience rather than

being with the man she loved, certainlyfell in the realm of a grey area. For thatmatter, the three of us — Shabana(Azmi), Smita (Patil) and I had noqualms about playing those roles. It wasa really good time and you reminded meof it,” she laughs, her voice taking on atenor which can be described as richer asshe looks back nostalgically. “We dis-cussed each other’s roles. Smita was a dearfriend. And then there were the directorslike Basuda (Bhattacharya), Hrishda(Hrishishikesh Mukherjee) and so manymore,” she says.

Talking of the old times with Navalnaturally brings up the name of FarooqShaikh, with whom she was seen fre-quently in the early part of the eightiesin films like Katha (1982), Saath Saath(1982) besides Chashme Buddoor. Navalremembers, “He was one of the mostdelightful and adorable co-actors to workwith and had a great sense of humoureven though he always made people laughat my expense. He was a sensitive actorand somebody who continued to encour-age me and tell me my strong and weakpoints. He often said, ‘Dips, for that iswhat he called me, you have it in you.Please take your work more seriously.’”But the mention of Shaikh seemed to have

opened another floodgate of memories.“There was Sanjeev Kumar in Angoor andNaseeruddin (Shah) in Katha. I love theway I am positioned in the film and theway I was working with the two bestactors of the time. It was lovely,” she adds.

A remake of Chashme Buddoor wasreleased in 2013 but she feels that mostold films which are recreated are a letdown. “Though I encouraged it becauseDavid Dhavan is a dear friend but I did-n’t watch the whole film as it couldn’t holdme. I didn’t want to wash off the impactof our very original, adorable one,” shesays.

Since content, which was hithertoconsidered parallel, has now becomemainstream, does Naval feel that this isa better time to be a part of cinema?“Definitely. Today there is a much wideraudience for these subjects. We wanted todo so much more but we were alwaysfaced with the question whether it willwork at the box office or not. But havingsaid that, the films and the subjects werea record of that time and documented it.Today when I see these subjects and theway these films works, we too would haveloved to be watched by millions ratherthan thousands. And I want to be a partof this scheme of things where you can

work on experimental subjects in a muchinteresting way and for a much largeraudience,” she says. Naval, who directedManisha Koirala in Do Paise Ki Dhoop,Chaar Aane Ki Baarish, has three subjects

that she is looking at helming. “I will floataround the ideas and see which one wecan raise the money for,” she says.

As an actor, Naval sprung a surprisein NH10 (2015) where she played aSarpanch, who gets her daughter killed formarrying outside caste, a strange combi-nation of an empowered woman who isintensely regressive. “I didn’t see it com-ing either,” she says and laughs.

Even though most people talk aboutNaval in terms of her association with cin-ema, she is also a celebrated writer,painter and a photographer. She believesthat it was ingrained in her from herchildhood as her mother was a painterand her father, a writer. “In my childhoodmy dad would insist that I read books andmy mother would make me sit down onthe dining table and teach me to sketch.I inherited it and it depends on how youtake it forward,” she says.

All of them play an important part inher being. “These are my observations oflife. It can only happen when you have afeel for these things. It is not somethingthat you can acquire. It resides withinyou. I always felt a creative urge to expressmyself in one way or another. Writing andpainting has been with me since myschool days. Photography came in college

when I studied the subject.” Naval says that all of these ran par-

allel in her life. “There were a lot of times,when someone asked me if I had givenup acting, during an exhibition at theJehangir Art Gallery. But there was noconcept in my head of having giving upone thing for the other,” says Naval.

For her, all of the arts that she prac-tises are deeply connected. “I remembershooting for a film called Main ZindaHoon with Sudhir Mishra and I was soimpacted by it that I was reliving a phaseof my personal experience on camera. Inthe film’s climax, I land up in a mentalasylum and hallucinate that I am talkingto my father. But it was real for the char-acter. I went back home and painted thatphase of mine where I am sitting,wrapped up in my own world commu-nicating with my father who was longdead and gone,” she says and goes on totalk about another work, Black wind,which was a painting first and laterbecame a poem. “It came from a veryintense personal experience. I had furi-ously scribbled down my thoughts andthen made the painting. But I felt that itdidn’t convey enough and went back tothe notes and wrote the poem,” sheexplains.

Similarly, she visited a mental institu-tion to do homework for a script that shewas working on about an actress who hasto play a mentally disturbed character. “Icame back and wrote 24 poems on womenin mental asylums. If you know my work,you would connect the loose ends. It mightnot happen immediately but several yearsdown the line,” she says.

It as on account of her writing andinterest in arts that Naval shared a deep andabiding connect with the firebrand writerAmrita Pritam whom she also portrayedon stage in Ek Mulaqat where she was castwith Shekhar Suman who played the roleof poet Sahir Ludhianvi. She recalls, “I heldher in high esteem. Amritaji’s work wasalways very fascinating as she was aheadof her time. She was the sole woman’s voicein Punjabi poetry which was dominated bymale Sufi poets. She wrote unabashedlyabout female experience. It was nothingsensational but the fact that she wrote bla-tantly and boldly at that time made it so.She was a deep thinker. I knew her person-ally and I was very fond of her. On everysingle trip that I made to Delhi I visited herwhere she would be sitting or reclining onher bed and chatting while she smoked hercigarette and talked about life. In the play,I tried to remain as close to her as possi-ble. When people who saw me said that‘aapne Amritaji ko zinda kar diya’ , that wasthe best compliment.”

Naval believes that Pritam had a greatlove story between her and Imroz that shehugely admires. Naval says, “For the playthey chose the relationship with Sahir,which was also very intriguing and inter-esting between two talented writers. Theyhad a shared sentiment in language, so themutual fascination was there for a longtime.”

Just the way we share a fascination fora certain doe-eyed Ms Naval.

Fiction and reality TV shows, musicvideos, films and web series, actor

Hina Khan has done it all. But show-biz wasn’t a planned move. She saysentertainment happened by chanceand the journey has been wonderful sofar. She was part of one of the longestrunning TV shows, Yeh Rishta KyaKehlata Hai. She again won the audi-ence’s hearts when she got in the real-ity shows space with Fear Factor:Khatron Ke Khiladi and Bigg Boss. Herfilm Lines took her to the prestigiousCannes Film Festival this year.

“Entertainment happened bychance to me and the journey so farhas been wonderful. My dream is tocontinue growing as an actor, to tran-scend boundaries and work on projectswhich are across the world,” Hina said.

Her dreams are clearly comingtrue as she has taken the next step inthe international market by signing anIndo-American film, which is based onHG Wells’ novel, The Country of theBlind.

“I had never thought of becomingan actor and when my first show hap-pened, it wasn’t a plan. I went with theflow and the rest of course followed,”said Hina, who has bagged a film byfilmmaker Vikram Bhatt.

Bollywood or not, she says she ishere to entertain. “Give me a goodchallenge as an actor and I shall lap itup,” said the actor, whose negativeavatar in the show Kasautii Zindagii

Kay was loved by many.She also has an interest in doing

something in the fitness space. “Fitnessis a part of my life and hence doinganything related to it, comes natural-ly to me. I would love to do somethingin the fitness space soon but as of now,nothing is there in the pipeline,” saidshe. =&�)�

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No matter how much one rel-ishes world cuisine and its

impeccable delicacies, when itcomes to the most comfortingfood, it’s always Indian. Model-turned-chef Sarah Todd believesso too. She was much loved bythe Indian audience when shecooked the country’s favouritehousehold dish Aloo Gobhi dur-ing one of her tasks in season 6of MasterChef Australia.

However, she says that thecuisine still hasn’t become aglobal favourite. “I honestly feellike the world hasn’t seenenough of Indian food. I thinkit should take the centrestage. Ithas such a rich culture anddiversity that the world needs tosee it. The many healthy andnutritious facets in Indian cook-ing haven’t really been present-ed. Traditional Indian cookingis definitely on the rise, global-ly. It’s already becoming well-known for some of its signaturefavourites but the rest of Indianpalate needs to reach the world.”

Sarah, who recentlylaunched three restaurants inIndia — Antares in Goa, TheWine Company in Gurugram,NCR, and The Wine Rack inMumbai — tells us how shecurated the menus for all thethree restaurants. “Location isthe first aspect I take into con-sideration. In Goa, we are veryfocussed on seafood, very trop-ical and fresh. In Mumbai, againseafood is prevalent to someextent but since it’s a metro city,the dishes need to reflect that aswell. So we went a little bit morepremium with the fact that it’sThe Wine Rack. Delhi obvious-ly needs a bit of the typical NorthIndian influence. We have keptthat in mind too. I feel like whenwe are curating the menus, it’s

really important to be inspiredby the local influences and yoursurroundings,” says the chef,who recently embarked onCRED’s four-city tour in thecountry in New Delhi,Hyderabad, Pune andBengaluru.

So what are the essential ele-ments that she keeps in mindwhile working? For Sarah, it’simportant to always find a “wayto connect with the audience”whether it’s through nostalgia, anew technique, an ingredient orthe cooking style. She adds, “Ineed to find just a few Indianelements for the plate and it cancome by blending various mod-ern techniques as well, forinstance the classic style ofFrench cooking.”

Well, one of her mostimportant influences for hercooking has been travellingacross the world and tryingvarious cuisines — both knownand unknown. “I just feel thatexperiencing food from all overthe world and trying home foodis something that I am really pas-sionate about. I feel that has beenthe most major influence on mycooking and even my son. Hemade me think about food froma nutritious point of view. Itmade me realise that if I wantmy son to eat healthy food, it hasto be tasty as well. So I learnt

how to make healthy as well astasty food all in one,” she says.

Some learnings she alsocredits to MasterChef, thebiggest being how to balance adish, which is due to the con-stant pressure contestants face atthe competitive kitchen. Sheexplains, “So you have to thinkon your feet. I figured out a wayto balance a dish. There are threemain aspects that I think usual-ly about. First, balancing flavoursand making sure that all theflavours — sweet, tangy, sourand salty — are perfectly layered.Second, textures. In the kitchen,

they always want somethingcrunchy, which they can biteinto, and yet it should be smoothso that it melts in your mouth.Third, it should visually appeal.Your dish should look beautifulbecause you first eat with youreyes. It’s the first sense that hitsthe dish.”

There have been manycountries and cultures aroundthe world which have recreatedMasterChef in their own lan-guages and versions. However,the Australia one has been themost successful of all. Sarahbelieves that it’s because of its

multi-cultural aspect. “Australiais a multi-cultural country.When it comes to the variety ofdishes, they come from all overthe world. This is what appealsto people. Many different stylesof cooking and various cuisineshas definitely played a hugepart in the show’s success,” shesays.

Sarah’s journey has beenquite a dynamic one. Forinstance, she has transitionedfrom being a model to a moth-er to a MasterChef contestant toan author (The Healthy ModelCookbook) and then to a chain-

restaurant owner in India. Herstint as a model too has influ-enced her cooking in manyways. “As a model, people thinkthat they don’t eat but it’sabsolutely untrue. I have been amodel for 10 years and I haveconstantly looked for ways toprepare dishes that are healthy,nutritious and tasty. I used toexperiment a lot. I certainlycooked a lot when I was mod-elling. And travelling and livingat so many places, experiencingdifferent cultures also benefit-ted,” adds she.

However, the connectionwith understanding food wasn’tnew for Sarah. It had a link withher childhood. She says, “Wedidn’t have a lot of money whilewe were growing up so with ourChristmas presents, we used tomake huge cookie jars to give toall our families and friends. Weused to put a lot of time andeffort into it. One year, wedecided to buy only presents andnot add the cookie jars. I gotreally upset. It was our favoritegift. It made me realise that foodis a strong influence and couldbe a very emotional gift forsomeone.”

Apart from cooking, mod-elling and writing, Sarah’sfavourite pass-time activitiesare to spend time with her fam-ily, eating and travelling.

As he worked on early draftsof The Catcher in the Rye, a

novel which proved both scan-dalous and life-changing, JDSalinger considered adding hisgeneration’s idea of a triggeralert.

“I think there’s going to bea lot of swearing and sexy stuffin this book,” warns narratorHolden Caulfield, in a paragraphon page 18 of Salinger’s manu-script, part of an upcomingexhibition at the New YorkPublic Library. “I can’t help it.You’ll probably think I’m a verydirty guy and that I come froma terrible family and all.”

“The trouble is,” Holdenadds, “everybody swears all thetime. And everybody’s prettysexy.” Salinger apparentlychanged his mind. He drew alarge X through the passage andwrote “delete” in the margins.Starting in 1951, when the bookwas published, millions of read-ers would discover the truth forthemselves.

The library exhibit, titled JDSalinger, opens Friday and runsthrough January 19 at the his-toric Fifth Avenue branch inManhattan. It continues a sur-prisingly eventful centennial forSalinger, who died in 2010 andavoided publicity for much of hiswriting life. His literary estateapproved new print editions forthe first time in decades of thefour books he allowed to comeout in his lifetime — The Catcherin the Rye, Franny and Zooey,Nine Stories and Raise High theRoof Beam, Carpenters andSeymour: An Introduction. Andfor the first time ever, the liter-ary estate authorised e-bookeditions.

In announcing the exhibit,his son, Matt Salinger, cited thepublic’s lasting curiosity. “Whenmy father’s long-time publisher,Little, Brown and Company,first approached me with plansfor his centennial year myimmediate reaction was that hewould not like the attention,”Matt Salinger wrote. “He was afamously private man whoshared his work with millions,but his life and non-publishedthoughts with less than a hand-ful of people, including me. ButI’ve learned that while he mayhave only fathered two childrenthere are a great, great manyreaders out there who havetheir own rather profound rela-tionships with him, through hiswork, and who have long want-ed an opportunity to get to knowhim better.”

Drawing upon archivesmade available by Matt Salinger,the exhibit is not the tell-all thatsome fans might have wanted.There are no unreleased novelsor stories, and no images ofSalinger’s widow, ColleenSalinger, or of the mother ofSalinger’s two children, Claire

Douglas. His affair in the early1970s with author JoyceMaynard, a college student whenhe befriended her, is not men-tioned. But the library doesoffer an eclectic, revelatory andsometimes quirky range of mate-rials, from a Royal manual type-writer to a bowl Salinger madeas a boy to videocassettes ofMarx Brothers comedies andother films he liked to watch. Abookcase from his bedroomincludes The Oxford Book ofDetective Stories, a collection ofRobert Browning poems andthree volumes on Zen and theZen Classics, reflecting hisimmersion in Eastern religionand philosophy. Letters to his lit-erary representatives documenthis immersion in the publishingprocess.

Declan Kiely, the library’sdirector of special collectionsand exhibitions, said that thematerials on display demonstrat-ed Salinger’s “meticulousness,possibly bordering on the obses-sive,” although “obsessive in agood way.”

Salinger’s career as an authoris captured through clippings ofhis early stories, manuscripts,copies of his books and letters tohis publishers. A working draftof Franny and Zooey was titledIvanoff the Terrible, subtitled, AnOntological Comic Drama Witha Little Morning Music, andincluded an opening sectionwhich apparently refers to hisyears as a counter-intelligenceofficer in Europe during WorldWar II. (Salinger fans had longwondered whether Ivanoff wasa separate, unreleased book).

The one-room libraryexhibit tracks Salinger’s life.There are childhood photos andimages from his military service,many highlighting his dark eyes,extended jaw and the hint of aHolden-like smirk. Picturesfrom the 1960s and 1970s withhis children, Matt and Margaret,capture Salinger in middle age,in rural Cornish, NewHampshire. A handful of shotsshow him in old age. AfterSalinger’s death, an old friendfrom the military, John LKeenan, wrote to Matt, tellinghim about his father’s horrifyingexperiences, which led to hisbeing hospitalised after the war.

“He was among the firstAmerican troops to enter Paris,as well as with the first Americanto cross the German border atthe Siegfried Line. He enduredthe hardship and perils of thebattles of the Bulge and theArdennes forest,” Keenan’s letterreads. “Though like the rest ofus, not happy to be there, heaccepted his ‘lot’ and did morethan what was expected of him.He was brave under fire and aloyal and dependable partner.On many occasions in thecourse of an assignment,although pinned down byartillery, machine gun or smallarms fire, he did what had to bedone.

“I admired him then and Igrieve for him now.” =��

�Designers have a constant role ofmaking changes in their designs astrends vary with every season.How do you keep yourself updat-ed with the latest decor trends andhandle the pressure? What keepsyou going?

The execution of good design isan art by itself. So, in that regard, Ithink learning the art of design andhoning your skills consistently in thatarea is extremely valuable. Also,with experience, you tend to under-stand people’s minds better. As youtravel more, experiences in life equipyou to design multiple spaces forpeople from different backgrounds.

I think most women are mas-ters at juggling roles, be it at workor on the personal front. For mepersonally, the key is to maintain acertain degree of discipline and alsohaving a supportive partner likeShah Rukh, who makes it easier tohandle the pressure.

�How do Indian aestheticsinspire you?

The sheer variety of culture,art and handicraft changes everyfew kilometres in a country likeIndia, so what could be moreinspirational! India could eas-ily have multiple luxury brandscoming out of here, especial-ly since we have excellentcraftsmanship. However, Ifeel the ecosystem aroundpromoting these arts andcraftsmen is not adequateenough.

In fact we at GauriKhan Designs did a pro-ject with local Indianartisans called Tattvam,which I am very proudof. It was our collectionfor Jaipur rugs,designed in collabora-

tion with womenweavers of Rajasthan. In

January 2018, it was dis-played at Maison & Objet,Paris. The weaving tradi-tions have been kept alive bythese women. It’s so wonder-ful and exciting to be part ofa project that champions bothwomen empowerment andour Indian heritage.

�Indians are increasinglybecoming comfortable with

global trends and styling. Hasit impacted your work ethics?

India is among the most difficultmarkets for design because there arevastly different tastes to cater to.However, due to extensive travel andexperiences around the globe,Indians are exposed to many more

design elements and are open tomore experimentation. So, it’s anexciting time to be in the designspace as you are constantly learningan evolving with your clients, it’s adynamic process and we haveworked with local and Indian design-ers to cater to our clients tastes.

�How would you define yourcredo?

We don’t just focus on interiorsbut on design as a broader concept.At the AD Design Show 2019, ouraim is to showcase that our designphilosophy can be applied to all areasof life. This includes extending mydesign philosophy to interiors andcommercial spaces like retail outlets,restaurants, spas and turnkey pro-jects. Apart from this we also doproduct designs, branding, endorse-ments, working with internationaldesigners and collaborations withlocal craftsmen. We have managedto execute multiple projects all overthe country and I want to continueto showcase this kind of varietythrough our work. This year will beshowcasing our premium range offurniture which is new line beinglaunched at the show, different fromthe range we showcase at the storeand will be available online at gau-rikhan.in.

�Where are the trends heading in2020?

As we enter a new decade, oneof the biggest trends seen in thedesign industry is the usage of recy-cled materials and handmade prod-ucts to make even the most high-endand luxurious designs. Sustainablepractices and renewable resourceshave been the focus of the design

industry of late and it’s a very posi-tive trend.

�How do you strike a balancebetween following your aestheticsand factoring in the clients’ brief aswell, while transforming spaces?

Being a designer is tougher thanit appears, people entrust you withtheir properties just on the basis ofyour vision, without any tangible evi-dence of what you are going to do.To be able to deliver somethingexcellent, not just satisfactory, to aclient is my goal and that’s whatkeeps me going.

Design comes to me naturallyand instinctively but I did spend a lotof time honing my skills, whether itwas designing our own homes andproperties to collaborating withfriends and then venturing out bymyself. Since most of my learninghappened on the job while dealingwith people from all backgrounds Ihave a certain sense of comfort andconfidence while designing for myclients which brings in that balance.

�If you want to transform theentire set-up with just one thing,what would it be?

Honestly depends on the set-up,as one needs to know what is miss-ing. But I think a signature piece offurniture, the right kind of lightingor the right pop of wall colour canmake all the difference.

�What’s the 2019’s trend of theyear?

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Kloppbelieves Manchester United willturn their floundering fortunes

around, but wants to make sure theyhave to wait at least another week to doso.

Klopp’s men travel to Old Traffordtomorrow already 15 points ahead oftheir rivals just eight games into thecampaign.

United manager Ole GunnarSolskjaer has called on his side to riseto the challenge of facing the Europeanchampions, citing it as the “perfectgame” to motivate his struggling side.

Klopp has sympathy for Solskjaer’sview, but he is confident of winning forthe first time at Old Trafford asLiverpool boss.

“I don’t think there are a lot ofteams who would love to play againstus at the moment. It looks like Man Utdis the only team that wantsto play us, and we have tomake sure that is a misun-derstanding,” said Kloppon Friday.

“I would do the sameif the situation was theother way around. This isthe game we can changethe world, that is the wayI would prepare it.

“They are in a situa-tion that they don’t like and they wantto change it. We just have to make surethat if they want to change it, they starta week later and that’s all.”

United will be without the injuredPaul Pogba and David de Gea, whileAnthony Martial and Aaron Wan-Bissaka remain doubts.

And Klopp expects the Red Devilsto improve once they get a number ofkey players back.

“They had a lot of injuries,” headded. “A number of really decisiveplayers for them. No one can play thesame football when five or six first-team players are out. That will change.”

By contrast, Liverpool could headto Old Trafford with a clean bill ofhealth, with goalkeeper Alisson Beckerset to return for the first time since theopening weekend of the season, whileJoel Matip and Mohamed Salah haverecovered from knocks.

“There are two more sessions tocome from this afternoon and wehave to see,” said Klopp on whether allthree will start. “Then we’ll makedecisions, that’s how it is. Nothing isfixed.”

‘MATCH CAN SPARK REVIVAL’Meanwhile, Manchester United

manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes

the visit of rivals Liverpool could helpgalvanize his struggling side to pullthemselves out of their alarming slump.

The difference in current fortunesbetween English football’s two mostsuccessful clubs could not be greater,with Liverpool top of the table aftereight wins out of eight and also on arun of 17 consecutive league victories,while United have made their worststart to a season for 30 years.

If results go against them today,United could even be teetering justabove the relegation zone by the timethey kick off tomorrow, but Solskjaeris bullish.

“They’re doing well in the leaguethat’s for sure but we’re looking forwardto this game,” said the Norwegian onFriday.

“This is a perfect game for the play-ers and the fans. We’ve had a toughtime and a difficult time lately but I amsure we will give them a good game.”

United have just nine points fromtheir first eight league matches of thisseason and are currently 12th in thetable.

Stretching back to Solskjaer’s per-manent appointment in March, theyhave won only five games out of 21 inall competitions.

It is far below expectations, whichthe manager knows, but he believesthat the work going on behind thescenes will pay dividends eventually.

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Barcelona and Real Madrid have agreed a new dateof December 18 for the Clasico after Spain’s biggest

football match was postponed on Friday due toprotests in Catalonia.

The fixture was set to be Barcelona’s first homegame since nine pro-Catalan independence leaderswere sentenced to imprisonment on Monday for theirrole in the illegal referendum in 2017.

Barca and Madrid swiftly came to an agreement,hours after the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF)announced they had until 10:00am (0800 GMT) onMonday to find a revised date for the game.

All that remains is for the RFEF to confirm thechange with La Liga, although the league would pre-fer the match take place on December 7.

December 7 is a Saturday and has more poten-tial for broadcasters but it would require moving bothBarcelona against Real Mallorca and Madrid againstEspanyol.

December 18 is a Wednesday and would clashwith the Copa del Rey but neither Barca nor Madridwill be involved at that stage of Spain’s domestic cupcompetition.

In a statement on Friday, Barcelona stressed theirbelief that the original fixture, scheduled for October26 at Camp Nou, should have gone ahead.

“The club’s desire was to play the Clasico at CampNou on the 26th, the date and time previously agreedand the Committee was informed of this in writing,”read the Barcelona statement.

“The club has the utmost confidence in the peace-ful behaviour of its members and fans who alwaysexpress themselves in exemplary fashion at CampNou.

“Nevertheless, having received the decision of theRFEF Competition Committee to postpone the gameciting ‘exceptional circumstances’ and given that it fallsto the clubs to agree a new date for the game beforeMonday, the club will propose December 18.”

Real Madrid later added: “Real Madrid wishesto communicate that the date proposed by both clubsis the 18th of December.”

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Former world number one Andy Murray cruised into the quar-ter-finals at Antwerp on Thursday with a 6-4, 6-3 defeat of

Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas.Murray, a three-time Grand Slam champion, currently

ranked 243rd in the world, held serve throughout against eighthseed Cuevas before sealing victory in 84 minutes.

He will take on Romania’s Marius Copil— who hit 13 aces past third seed DiegoSchwartzman in a 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (9/7) win —for a place in the last four.

“I felt a bit better today. I thought I servedquite well for most of the match and when Iwas able to get into the baseline rallies, I feltI was hitting the ball quite clean, which isgood,” Murray said.

“He served very well, which made itdifficult for me to get the breaks, but Ithought for me it was a good match.”

Italian teenager Jannik Sinnerdumped out top seed and 2018 runner-up Gael Monfils 6-3, 6-2 to reach his firstATP quarter-final.

Next up for the 18-year-old Sinneris American Frances Tiafoe, a straight-sets winner over seventh-seeded German Jan-Lennard Struff.

“I played avery solid game.He didn’t play hisbest tennis for sure.It’s not easy if youmake the final the year before and thento come here to play a young player andwild card,” world number 119 Sinner toldatptour.com

“I think I played solid today. Iserved good on the important points andI think that was the key today.”

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An exhilarating, three-month long season 7 of

VIVO Pro Kabaddi hasreached its culmination withDabang Delhi KC set tobattle Bengal Warriors forthe coveted title at the EKAArena by TransStadia inAhmedabad today.Judging by the sea-son’s performances,both table toppersand maiden finalistshave deserved theright to play in the final,after having finished theleague stages.

While the likes of Delhi’sNaveen Kumar and Bengal’sManinder Singh havewalked away with the plau-dits, the teams’ success onthe mat have come largelydue to their cohesion.Delhi’s semi-final matchagainst Bengaluru Bulls wasan example of how backupraiders Chandran Ranjit andVijay are vital cogs in theDabang unit, contributing inboth tackles and raids.Similarly in defence, whileRavinder Pahal and JoginderNarwal grabbed the lime-light, Vishal Mane has goneabout doing his work quiet-ly as a cover defender. Theseasoned defender now hasthe opportunity to becomethe first player PKL historyto win the title with threedifferent teams (having

already won with U Mumbaand Patna Pirates).

Bengal Warriors alsohave a fair share of unsungheroes. Sukesh Hegde, whowill be playing his 100th

match, has thrown downthe gauntlet to hisdoubters who called

him a ‘spent force’with vital raidpoints whenever

his team needed them. KPrapanjan has also had abreakout season for theWarriors as a raider. Bothplayers will be keen to avoida defeat having suffered aheartbreak while playing forGujarat FortuneGiants inearlier seasons.

STOPPING UNSTOPPABLEBoth Dabang Delhi and

Bengal Warriors have awealth of talent as far asraiders go which wouldmean that the match willcome down to which set ofdefenders play better. InRinku Narwal and BaldevSingh, the Warriors have astrong corner duo, who haveimpressed with tackle pointsthis season. Both are rela-tively inexperienced com-pared to Delhi’s defensivestalwarts Joginder Narwal,Ravinder Pahal and VishalMane. However, the inexpe-

rienced duo will be lookingto show that they are no easypushovers by trying to makea statement against an in-form Naveen Kumar whowill be targeting his 21stconsecutive Super 10. Boththe teams are also at the toptwo in terms of most all-outsinflicted and least all-outsconceded this season (netAll-Out of +16 for bothteams).

Maninder Singh’s avail-ability still remains undecid-ed but Bengal Warriorsshowed that against a talent-ed U Mumba side in thesemi-finals that they canproduce the goods evenwithout their star raider. Infact, when the teams firstmet this season, it wasPrapanjan who scored aSuper 10 after Maninderwas substituted for a poorfirst-half showing.

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Hockey India on Fridaynamed an unchanged

women squad, to be led by RaniRampal, along with the men’steam for the upcoming FIHHockey Olympic Qualifiers.

The 18-member men’ssquad will be captained byManpreet Singh and seasonedforward S V Sunil will be hisdeputy.

Goalkeeper Savita will be thevice-captain of the women’ssquad.

The two teams are sched-uled to take part in the two-

legged FIH Hockey OlympicQualifiers in Odisha where

the World No 5 men’steam will be up againstWorld No 22 Russia,while the World No 9women’s side will faceWorld No 13 USA.

The men’s team hastwo goalkeepers in P RSreejesh and KrishanBahadur Pathak.

Captain Manpreetleads the forward linewhich also includes

Mandeep Singh,Akashdeep Singh, andRamandeep Singh.

“After a good prepara-tion tour in Belgium, it wasalways going to be a very dif-ficult decision to pick thebest 18 players for this tour-

nament. We have chosen a well-balanced side with a number ofgood flexible options,” said men’schief coach Graham Reid. “Wenow need to focus on strategiesagainst Russia, and ensure we areat our best when we step ontothe field on 1st and 2ndNovember.”

The women’s team remainedunchanged from its tour ofEngland.

“We have a good balance

and mixture of players in thesquad. It is important to stay inthe rhythm with the same play-ers who performed well in thepreparatory tour. We now focuson making sure that we leave nostone unturned when we take onUSA in the two matches,” saidwomen’s team coach SjoerdMarijne.

The winners of theQualifiers will ensure place in the2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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Liverpool have nothing to lose in thePremier League title race despite

amassing an eight-point lead after justeight games, according to defenderVirgil Van Dijk.

The European champions are inpole position to end a 30-year wait towin a league title, but Van Dijk believesthe pressure is still on Manchester Cityto win the league for a third straightyear.

“I don’t think we have anything tolose,” Van Dijk told Sky Sports ahead oftomorrow trip to Manchester United.

“Man City are the champions,they’re defending their title and wewant to get it. In my point of view, wejust have to go for it.

“We definitely need to enjoy it andbe full of confidence, especially with theway we’ve got these points, having nothad the best games but still getting thewins.”

City’s shock defeats to Norwich andWolves have allowed Liverpool tosurge ahead thanks to their perfect startto the season.

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Liverpool to the title by a point last sea-son.

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Defending men’s and women’schampions Andamlak

Belihu and Tsehay Gemechu onFriday made their intentionsclear that they will go for thecourse records in the AirtelDelhi Half Marathon heretomorrow.

The 15th edition of theADHM will see one of the bestfields of international elite ath-letes with seven sub-60 minuterunners among men and ninesub-70 minute runners amongwomen.

An athlete finishing a men’shalf marathon in less than 60minutes is considered worldclass. In the women’s halfmarathon, a runner who cancomplete it in 70 minutes is con-sidered top class.

Ethiopian Belihu had wonthe prestigious IAAF Gold LabelRace, last year with a time of 59

minute 18 seconds and he said acourse record on Sunday cannotbe ruled out.

“It is possible to run betterthan the course record onSunday. I am in good shape andIndia has been a happy place forme,” said the 20-year-old, whohad finished second in his debutseason, in 2017.

“It was a little frustrating justmissing out on the course recordlast year but after running herein the last two years, I have expe-rience and think I know what ittakes to run faster. The mostimportant thing is to win but ifthe pace is good, I can beat thecourse record.”

The course record of 59minute 06 seconds still stands inthe name of Ethiopia’s GuyeAdola, set in the 2014 edition.

The temperature on Sundayis also likely to be an ideal one,hovering around 23 degreeCelsius.

Belihu finished fifth in the10,000m race in the WorldChampionships in Doha lastmonth and he said he has recov-ered from that race.

“I trained hard for two-threemonths for the WorldChampionships and I knew thisDelhi Half Marathon was also inmy schedule. So, I am prepared.I have recovered from the WorldChampionships race,” he added.

A big threat to Belihu’s bid toretain his title can come from aman who has yet to run the dis-tance, another Ethiopian HagosGebrhiwet, who is set to make hishalf marathon debut.

Gebrhiwet had planned tomake his half marathon debut inDelhi last year but a late bout ofillness curtailed his training andhe had to cancel his trip.

However, the two-timeWorld Championships 5000mmedallist wants to exorcise hisfrustrations at only being able to

finish 10th in 10,000m in Doha,despite having gone to the show-piece as the fastest man in theworld over the distance.

“I am excited to make mydebut at the half marathon.Andamlak has told me about thisrace and so I know that it is a veryfast course,” said Gebrhiwet, whowill be running his longest evercompetitive race on Sunday.

In the women’s elite section,Gemechu made a huge impact onher debut last season, setting awomen’s course record of 66:50.

This year she has produceda string of sparkling perfor-mances both on the road and ontrack, including winning a high-quality Valencia 10km race at thestart of the season. She finishedfourth in the 5,000m in theDoha World Championships.

“Last year, I did not knowmuch about running in this levelof race, but I have had a lot moreexperience since then. I have had

a good year, run a lot on the track.“I just missed out on a medal

in Doha but I am only 21 so I willhave more opportunities. It wasa fast race in Doha and I showedI was in good shape ahead of thisDelhi race, so I think anothercourse record here is a possibil-ity," she added.

Among Gemechu’s leadingrivals will be the Kenyan-bornCaroline Kipkirui, the fastestwoman in the race with a best of65:07, who now flies the flag forKazakhstan.

“This will be a very toughrace. The Ethiopian women arevery strong but don’t discount meand the Kenyans like (Edith)Chelimo and (Irene) Cheptai,”said Kipkirui, who is sixth on theall-time list for the distance.

Both the men’s and women’sraces have first prize cheques of$ 27,000 with a total prize moneypurse (combined men andwomen) of $ 275,000.

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�������He has quit longest for-mat five years back but local boyMahendra Singh Dhoni isexpected to watch the third andfinal Test against South Africabeginning here today, his man-ager Mihir Diwakar confirmed.

“Mahi will definitely comeand you will see him during thefirst day’s proceedings tomor-row (today). I was there withhim in Mumbai and he will flydown tomorrow (Saturday)morning,” Dhoni's managerand one-time Jharkhand team-mate Diwakar said.

The Jharkhand StateCricket Association president,Nafis Khan, has personally sentan invitation to Dhoni’s fami-ly.

“We have sent an invitationto his family. Yeh to unka hi sta-dium hai (It’s his stadium only).He is most welcome anytime,”Khan said. However his friend,Diwakar, who is the founder ofAarka Sports that runs MSDhoni Cricket Academy, saidDhoni is likely to come alone asthe Indian team is likely to havedinner at his sprawling farm-house in Simaliya, in outskirtsof Ranchi.

Dhoni has moved fromhis Harmu residence abouttwo years back and lives withhis parents at his farmhouseabout 30 kilometres from thecity.

Post India’s World Cupsemi-final exit, Dhoni’s where-abouts has been a matter ofspeculation as the ‘CaptainCool’ took a sabbatical andopted out of the series againstWest Indies and South Africa,fuelling retirement specula-tions. PTI

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It would have been a dead rubberbut with valuable World TestChampionship points on offer,

India would be eyeing victory whileSouth Africa would be desperate forsome consolation in a wretched tourwhen the third and final Test startshere today.

There are 40 points on offer anda 3-0 series whitewash, both ofwhich India would be targettingagainst the hapless visitors.

India, who have 200 pointsfrom four games, have a massive140-point lead over nearest rivalsNew Zealand and Sri Lanka in theWTC standings. Skipper Virat Kohlihas also made it clear that there isplenty to play for in the final Test andthe team cannot afford a drop inintensity. Going into the game,India have very few holes to plug, beit their batting or bowling.

The home team could not haveasked for more from their top-orderwith Rohit Sharma showing why heis such an impact player as hefeasted on the South African bowlerswith twin hundreds in the first Testwhile opening for the first time.

The Mumbaikar’s opening part-ner Maynak Agarwal on the otherhand went on to convert his maid-en hundred into a double inVisakhapatnam and followed it upwith another century in Pune.

Then it was the turn of ‘KingKohli’ who came to the party in thePune with a career-best doublehundred —a majestic 254 not out —and made it look like a routine job.

Rohit will be eyeing a big scoreafter not firing in the first innings

of the Pune Test while CheteshwarPujara, who has scored two fifties inthe series, would be looking to crossthe three-figure mark.

That India have lost only 16wickets while routing South Africain both the Tests sums up their dom-inance.

Toss has also been kind toIndia so far and things are likely toget more exciting if the stroke of luckfavours Faf du Plessis in the finalTest.

The last time South Africatoured the India, rank-turners hadwelcomed the side but this time boththe pacers and spinners have beenable to extract something out of thepitch.

Umesh Yadav made a finecomeback in the Pune Test to returnwith fine figures of 3/22 with somebrief hostile spells as wicketkeeperWriddhiman Saha who took somebreathtaking catches to aid to thepacer’s tally.

Kohli played an extra pacer inUmesh at Pune by benchingHanuma Vihari but only time willtell what combination he chooses forthe final Test.

South African captain Faf duPlessis has already predicted theRanchi pitch to be a turner, bring-ing a third spinner into picture.

Since Kuldeep Yadav has beenruled out of the match due to ashoulder injury, left-arm spinnerShahbaz Nadeem has been draftedinto the squad and he might sneak

into the playing XI as well.South Africa batsmen showed

some fight in Visakhapatnam butthey let themselves down in Pune.

It was only the tailenders whoshowed some character and frustrat-ed the Indian bowling. Du Plessishas urged experiences players likeDean Elgar, Quinton De Kock andTemba Bavuma to bat with respon-sibility.

Their batting woes are furthercompounded by the absence ofopener Aiden Markram who hasbeen ruled out of the third Test withan injury.

The pace attack comprisingKagiso Rabada, Vernon Philanderand Anrich Nortje has also not beenas effective as expected while theIndian pacers have managed toprovide the breakthroughs.

With their senior-most spinnerKeshav Maharaj also ruled out,South Africa will find it tougher tostop the Indian juggernaut.

SQUADSIndia: Virat Kohli (c), MayankAgarwal, Rohit Sharma, CheteshwarPujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vc),Hanuma Vihari, Wriddhiman Saha,Ravichandran Ashwin, RavindraJadeja, Shahbaz Nadeem,Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav,Ishant Sharma, Rishabh Pant,Shubman Gill.South Africa: Faf du Plessis (c),Temba Bavuma (vc), Theunis deBruyn, Quinton de Kock, DeanElgar, Zubayr Hamza, George Linde,Senuran Muthusamy, Lungi Ngidi,Anrich Nortje, Vernon Philander,Dane Piedt, Kagiso Rabada, RudiSecond.

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Sarfaraz Ahmed was on Friday sackedas Pakistan’s Test and T20 captain

with Azhar Ali and Babar Azam elevat-ed to leadership roles for the upcomingtour of Australia.

In an official announcement onFriday, the Pakistan Cricket Board(PCB) said that experienced batsman Aliwould lead the Test side in the two Testsin Australia while Babar Azam would bethe captain in the three T20 matchesDown Under.

Sarfaraz has been captain in all threeformats of the game since the last twoyears and led Pakistan to the 2017 ICCChampions Trophy title.

In Tests and ODIs, Pakistan’s rank-ing has slipped under his captaincy whilethey were whitewashed in the recent T20home series against Sri Lanka.

Sarfaraz, who was the toast of thenation after Pakistan beat India in theChampions Trophy final, has had a tor-rid time in the Test and ODI formats inthe last two years.

He came under fire recently whena depleted Sri Lankan team swampedPakistan 3-0 in the T20 series in Lahore.

With his own form suffering withthe bat, speculations were rife that thenew head coach cum chief selectorMisbah-ul-Haq would move to makechanges in the captaincy in the three for-mats but no one was expecting Sarfarazto be sacked so quickly.

The PCB said the squad for theAustralian tour would be announced onOctober 21.

The PCB also released a short state-ment from Sarfaraz.

“I wish the best for both Azhar andBabar in their new endevours and I must

thank my coaches, fellow players and theselectors for having supported me a lotin my tenure as captain,” Sarfaraz said.

This is the first experience forBabar, 25, to lead the national team inany format.

He has been Pakistan’s leading scor-er in the last two years in the white ballformats and is also slowly establishinghimself in Test cricket.

Azhar, 34, who has played in 73Tests and 53 ODIs led Pakistan in One-day Internationals between April 2015and February 2017, winning 12 and los-ing 18 matches.

He stepped down as ODI captainand was replaced by Sarfaraz in February2017 after a 1-4 loss in Australia.

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South African captain Faf duPlessis has urged his embat-

tled batsmen to take a leaf outof India’s book and “bat big” likethe hosts in order to salvagepride in the third and final Test.

“For me it’s important thatthe guys don’t feel like there isone week left in India andalmost when you get on thatplane to South Africa, the Testseries we play now is for Testchampionship, there is pointsstill up for grabs every Test

match. So for me the challengeis more mental,” the SouthAfrican skipper told reporters.

The Proteas’ batting showedsome fight in Visakhapatnambut disappointed in the secondTest. Urging his batsmen toconvert their starts, Du Plessissaid: “For all of us it is just aboutconverting and I am not differ-ent to any one of those playerswhen I get to 50, I want to get ahundred.

“The fact that I have doneit twice already this series, thereis no reason for me not to go and

get a big one. That’s a challengefor myself because I under-stand that sixties is not going towin Test matches for us. I needto bat big like the Indian teamhas done and score big runs.”

Du Plessis also asked hisbowlers to buck up as India lostonly 16 wickets in two Tests,clearly reflecting their domi-nance.

“From the bowling point ofview how can we get 20 wickets,we haven’t done that this series.If we do those things then wewill compete with India. It is

tough when we are losing. Weare very competitive people sofor us it does take a dent out ofyour confidence,” he said.

SOMEONE ELSE AT TOSSHaving lost nine successive

tosses in Asia, an exasperatedSouth Africa captain Faf duPlessis won’t mind sending“someone else” in his place forthe toss of the coin in the thirdand final Test.

South Africa have struggledin Indian conditions and notwinning the toss in the first two

Tests has only made thingstougher for them. Opting to batin Visakhapatnam and Pune,India put up 500-plus totals tovirtually bat the visitors out ofthe game.

“We really want to makesure that we compete with thisteam in their own conditions.We have done it in stages in thefirst Test. So, hoping that we canstart with the toss tomorrow.

“Probably we will change...Send someone else to the tosstomorrow. I can give you that...Because my records so far has

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The cut-throat competition fora place in India’s playing XI has

not affected Wriddhiman Saha’srelationship with his understudyRishabh Pant as the duo try to helpeach other with notes on glove-work.

Saha was out of the Indianteam for 20 months due to ashoulder surgery but his now backto his best as a keeper with somestunning catches in the second Testin Pune.

Six days short of his 35thbirthday, the sprightly Saha isoften seen helping Pant with keep-ing drills after his own training,something that has been directedby the team managed.

Ask him if he is mentoringPant and the ever-reticent Sahareplied in negative.

“There’s nothing (mentoring)like that. We just discuss normal-ly the way the wicketkeepers dis-cuss. With Sridhar and Pant, wethree jointly decide on how to goabout our wicketkeeping on aparticular type of wicket,” he said.

The co-ordination and rapportbetween them helps it easier forthem to work together.

“We always observe eachother’s wicket-keeping. We workhard in our practice sessions andhave a good understanding and co-ordination among ourselves. Wealways try to point out each other'smistakes. It’s been going well sofar,” he said.

Leading 2-0, Saha said, it’s timeto complete a whitewash againstSouth Africa.

“I have good memory of thelast match. I made 117 in the lastmatch. I remember how Iapproached the innings. I alsoremember the Steve Smith inci-dent. If you see we drew it last time.We are 2-0 up in the series so thistime we will try to make it 3-0 thistime,” he concluded.

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Du Plesiss said “anythingis possible” if his side get to batfirst.

“If you put big runs in thefirst innings, that’s where itneed to stop. Then anythingfrom there is possible.

Hopefully that will unfold inthe next couple of days andhopefully we can put someruns on.

“The pitch looks a little bitdrier and crustier so firstinnings runs will be vital andthen anything from there ispossible in the secondinnings,” Faf added.