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I n a clear indication of the dif- ficult road ahead for its implementation, the Opposition on Tuesday decid- ed to oppose Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious “one nation, one election” pro- posal, for which he would make the first serious push dur- ing his meeting with party presidents on Wednesday. The decision was taken unanimously at a meeting of the Opposition parties con- vened by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and attended by leaders from Congress, TMC, DMK, NCP, NC, RSP, Left and others. However, BJP’s allies like JD(U), Shiv Sena and Shiromani Akali Dal are on board the PM’s plan. So are those like Samajwadi Party, BJD and TRS. Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said the parties were opposed to the idea in principle. “Since some issues are to be sorted out, the UPA will meet again on Wednesday morning to discuss the issue further and take a common stand at the meeting called by Modi in the evening.” The Opposition’s tone was set during the day itself with West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee excusing herself from attending the meeting citing lack of sufficient time to come up with a “proper response” to the matter and calling for cir- culation of a white paper on the subject to all political parties inviting their views by provid- ing adequate time to respond if the Centre indeed wanted “con- crete suggestions”. In her letter to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, who had sent out invites to all party presidents, she said such a “serious and sensitive subject” required con- sultation with constitutional and election experts and that to frame a proper response, she needed to consult all the mem- bers of her party. The PM will be meeting with presidents of political parties having at least one Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha member on the issue. The Left parties — CPM, CPI — are strongly opposed to the idea but their presidents Sitaram Yechury and Sudhakar Reddy may, however, join the deliberations. The Left parties term the proposal totally “unrealistic and non-practi- cal” one. The CPM Politburo in a detailed statement said this proposal is not workable as the duration of the Lok Sabha and Assemblies are based on the floor strength. When the Government loses majority, elections have to be conducted within six months. They cited how in 1996, 1998 and 1999 Lok Sabha elections had to be held when Governments lost the majority. CPI national secretary D Raja said, “We will oppose this proposal, which is already rejected by many parties as it is totally non-practical.” The main Opposition Congress said the idea per se is not bad but has preferred to go along with consensus of the Opposition parties. But the Congress was yet to name its representative for the meeting for want of a party chief fol- lowing Rahul Gandhi’s resig- nation. BJD chief and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will be here to attend the meet- ing, party leaders said. But Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray would not make it as he is busy with party’s foun- dation day events. Sanjay Raut is likely to represent the party. Related report on Page 5 Continued on Page 4 O ne of the key conspirators of the February 14 Pulwama terror attack, whose car was fabricated and later handed over to the suicide bomber, was among two ter- rorists gunned down by the joint team of security forces in Marhama area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Tuesday. One Army jawan sacrificed his life in the oper- ation. Meanwhile, two Army jawans, injured in the IED blast late on Monday evening in Arihal area of Pulwama succumbed to their injuries in the command hospital in Srinagar early on Tuesday. Late evening, unidentified terrorists lobbed a grenade outside Pulwama police station causing injuries to several pedestrians. Police said two civilians received serious injuries. In the last five days, 10 security personnel — five CRPF men, four Army men, including a Major, and an Inspector of the J&K Police — have sacrificed their lives. The martyred soldiers were identified as Havildar Amarjeet Kumar and Naik Ajit Kumar Sahoo. Another soldier, Rifleman Anil Kumar Jaswal, made supreme sacrifice in anti- terror operations in Marhama on Tuesday. Confirming the identity of the two terrorists killed in the operation, J&K Police DGP Dilbagh Singh said, “Two dreaded terrorists of Jaish-e- Mohammad, identified as Sajjad Ahmad Bhat and Tauseef Ahmad Bhat, were eliminated during fierce gunfight in Marhama area of Anantnag on Tuesday morning.” The DGP claimed, “Sajjad Ahmad Bhat’s car was fabri- cated as IED and the same was handed over to the suicide bomber before targeting the CRPF convoy in which 40 CRPF personnel were mar- tyred.” Singh said, the duo were well trained members of the JeM suicide squad. “Two other terrorists killed in Achabal and KP road attack were also part of the same JeM group,” he added. According to police, “Sajad Ahmad Bhat, alias Afzal Guru, had joined militancy days before the Pulwama terror attack. He hailed from village Marhama in Anantnag. Kashmir Valley has wit- nessed third vehicle mounted IED attack on the security forces this year. Continued on Page 4 A special court sentenced four persons to life impris- onment and acquitted one in connection with the 2005 ter- ror attack on a makeshift tem- ple at the Ram Janmabhoomi- Babri Masjid complex here in which two locals were killed and seven CRPF personnel injured. Special judge Dinesh Chandra, who announced the verdict inside the Naini Central Jail where the accused are lodged, also imposed a fine of Rs 2.4 lakh on each of the four, Public Prosecutor Gulab Chandra Agrahari told reporters here. Agrahari said that the four who got life imprisonment are: Doctor Irrfan, Shakeel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Mohammed Naseem; while Mohammed Aziz was acquitted for lack of evidence. Chief Minister Yo g i Adityanath welcomed the con- viction. On the sole acquittal in the case, he said the state gov- ernment would take appropri- ate action after examining the ruling. “The court judgement is welcome. For one person who has been acquitted, nec- essary action will be taken after seeking legal opinion. The government will keep an eye on the case,” he said in a statement. Five heavily-armed terror- ists attempted to carry out a suicide attack near the makeshift temple at the dis- puted site on July 5, 2005. After blasting the outer barri- cade of the complex, they tried to move towards the inner barricading where troops of the 33rd battalion of the CRPF were deployed. The terrorists fired heavi- ly at the troops and lobbed grenades in order to storm the Sanctum Sanctorum. Agrahari said that Naseem procured a mobile SIM card using docu- ments attested by Aziz and on the direction of Pakistan-based terrorist Kari. He said that the vehicle, having a Jammu regis- tration number, that was used to carry weapons for the attack was owned by Shakeel Ahmed. Kari paid Rs 2.20 lakh to Shakeel to use the vehicle but the latter was told it will remain in his name, Agrahari said. The vehicle was used to bring weapons to Aligarh on June 5, 2005 and it returned to Jammu on June 7. The public prosec- tor said Asif Iqbal was the main accused in the case and Kari gave him the SIM purchased by Naseem. He said that one of the terrorists killed during the gunfight has been identified as Arshad. The verdict in the case came nearly 14 years since the attack and after 371 hear- ings and testimonies by 63 Continued on Page 4 D eaths due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) or “chamki fever” in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur had crossed the three-digit mark before 2019 also. Not once but in as many as four calendar years. An analysis by experts has found that the death toll has been high whenever tempera- ture and humidity were record- ed to be more than 38 degrees Celsius and 50 per cent respec- tively for consecutive days. This happened in 2011 (197 deaths), 2012 (275) 2013 (143), 2014 (375) and 2019 (106). The epidemic had been at its worst in 2014, when 375 deaths were reported. Bihar Health Secretary Sanjay Kumar said so far 106 children have died this year and more than 430 others between the ages of 4 and 10 years are being treated at Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) and Kejriwal hospi- tal in Muzaffarpur. AES is fatal viral infection hitting the brain and leading to coma. At times survivors are left with serious disabilities — mental and physical. While 2019 has not been an isolated year when the AES deaths have been reported, it is only now that the Bihar Government has woken up to announce a string of measures to contain the deadly disease. In fact, the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar Government also did not learn lessons from nearby Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh which had reported outbreak of the disease in 2017. On Tuesday, Nitish, whose visit to the hospital met with a protest from the angry relatives over the Government’s cal- lousness in ensuring timely preventive steps, announced to increase bed strength in hos- pitals in the district and ordered an environmental study on AES. At the Central level, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan too held a meeting of a multi-disciplinary group of experts in the national Capital and deliberated on the factors causing high child mortality in the AES/JE cases in the district. Harsh Vardhan also stressed the need for research on AES to identify the disease that is still not identified and for that research facility should be developed in Muzaffarpur. The socio-economic pro- file of the households which have reported the cases, their nutrition profiles, issues such as the ongoing heatwave, report- ed high percentage of hypo- glycemia in the children who have died, the prevailing health infrastructure in the district and other factors that could have aggravated the cases were deliberated threadbare. According to the health experts, most of the children dying from AES belong to the poorest of the poor — the Mahadalit community, includ- ing Musahar and Scheduled Castes — and most of them were malnourished. Senior paediatrician Dr Arun Shah was of the opinion that only awareness pro- gramme would not help in pre- venting the deaths. The kids are afflicted with another disease or are malnourished. Continued on Page 4 W ith Rahul Gandhi refus- ing to budge from his stance on not leading the party either in Parliament or outside, the Congress on Tuesday named its five- time MP from West Bengal and former Union Minister Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury as its leader in the Lok Sabha. He will succeed Mallikarjun Kharge, who lost the Lok Sabha election, forcing the party to decide on anoth- er name. Chowdhury’s name was cleared by the top party leadership during a meeting at UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s residence, after which a letter of his appointment was handed over to the Lok Sabha Secretariat. Chowdhury, who took part in the meet- ing, initially denied any deliberation over the issue. However, later on he confirmed say- ing, “I have been given this responsibility (the leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha). I was asked to stand in the front. I said okay. I am a foot soldier and foot soldiers stand in front. So I will fight as a foot soldier.” Continued on Page 4 T wo-time member of Parliament Om Birla from Rajasthan is set to be the Speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha. In a surprise move, the BJP on Tuesday nominated him as the candidate of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the constitutional post, to which he is expected to be elected unopposed. The Congress and its UPA partners have decided to sup- port Birla’s candidature but they have not been forthcom- ing on the issue of Deputy Speaker. According to sources, the NDA could back someone from the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) for the Deputy Speaker’s post. Birla would be the second two-term MP to be Speaker after GMC Balayogi, who was succeeded in 2002 by Shiv Sena’s Manohar Joshi, a first- time Lok Sabha member. Balayogi, a TDP MP, was elect- ed as Speaker in 1998 and thereafter in 1999, but he could not complete his term due to his untimely demise. Conventionally, a senior MP is saddled with the respon- sibility of Speaker’s post. The Speaker-designate’s predecessor Sumitra Mahajan was an MP from Indore, from where she won for a record eight times before she reached the BJP’s prescribed cut-off age of 75 years for retirement and did not contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Birla, the low-profile 57- year-old BJP MP from Kota, is a confidant of party president Amit Shah and is known for his number crunching skills besides being data savvy. “He sends birthday greetings to his voters in Kota,” said sources close to Birla, a hands-on organisational man. With the NDA having a clear majority in the Lower House, that Birla’s election will be unanimous is a foregone conclusion. A notice has been given to the Lok Sabha Secretariat by the BJP propos- ing Birla for the post and bringing a motion for his elec- tion on Wednesday. Continued on Page 4 D ays after sacking a dozen- odd errant Income Tax officers, the Government on Tuesday dismissed from service 15 senior Customs and Central Excise officials, including one of the rank of Principal Commissioner, on charges of corruption and bribery. Invoking rule 56(j) of the Fundamental Rules, the Government has sacked these Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) officers, ranging from the ranks of Principal Commissioner to Assistant Commissioner, some of whom were already under suspension, according to a Finance Ministry order. These officers either had corruption cases registered against them by the CBI or were involved in bribery, extor- tion and disproportionate assets cases, Government sources said. Among those dismissed include Principal Commissioner Anup Srivastava, who was serving as Principal ADG (Audit) in the CBIC in Delhi, and Joint Commissioner Nalin Kumar, the order said. Sources said the CBI had in 1996 registered a criminal con- spiracy case against Srivastava and alleged that he had shown favours to a house building society which was trying to obtain NOC for land purchas- es in violation of law. Continued on Page 4 U ttar Pradesh government has brought an ordinance to make an umbrella Act to reg- ulate, monitor and control mushrooming private univer- sities in the state. The move is aimed at improving the qual- ity of higher education in the state. The proposal for the UP Private Universities Ordinance has been approved by the state Cabinet on Tuesday which will now be sent to Raj Bhawan for approval. Later, this ordinance will be tabled in the state leg- islature as a bill during the coming monsoon session next month. State government spokesperson Sidharth Nath Singh said on Tuesday that the ordinance had been brought to regulate and control all 27 pri- vate universities. “The gov- ernment has made new laws to improve the quality of educa- tion in private universities and secure the future of students as more often than not these uni- versities fail to give degrees at the last moment,” he said. Singh said that the new ordinance would have a say on the fee structure, teachers’ appointment and other issues like maintaining quality of education and management of those universities. “Besides, the government will imple- ment the UGC norms in these universities and revise the salary structure of the teachers,” he added. “There are around 30 to 32 new rules for these private universities, including keeping Continued on Page 4
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In a clear indication of the dif-ficult road ahead for its

implementation, theOpposition on Tuesday decid-ed to oppose Prime MinisterNarendra Modi’s ambitious“one nation, one election” pro-posal, for which he wouldmake the first serious push dur-ing his meeting with partypresidents on Wednesday.

The decision was takenunanimously at a meeting ofthe Opposition parties con-vened by UPA chairpersonSonia Gandhi and attended byleaders from Congress, TMC,DMK, NCP, NC, RSP, Left andothers.

However, BJP’s allies likeJD(U), Shiv Sena andShiromani Akali Dal are onboard the PM’s plan. So arethose like Samajwadi Party,BJD and TRS.

Congress leader AdhirRanjan Chowdhury said theparties were opposed to theidea in principle. “Since someissues are to be sorted out, theUPA will meet again onWednesday morning to discussthe issue further and take a

common stand at the meetingcalled by Modi in the evening.”

The Opposition’s tone wasset during the day itself withWest Bengal Chief Ministerand TMC chief MamataBanerjee excusing herself fromattending the meeting citing

lack of sufficient time to comeup with a “proper response” tothe matter and calling for cir-culation of a white paper on thesubject to all political partiesinviting their views by provid-ing adequate time to respond ifthe Centre indeed wanted “con-

crete suggestions”.In her letter to

Parliamentary Affairs MinisterPralhad Joshi, who had sent outinvites to all party presidents,she said such a “serious andsensitive subject” required con-sultation with constitutional

and election experts and that toframe a proper response, sheneeded to consult all the mem-bers of her party.

The PM will be meetingwith presidents of politicalparties having at least one LokSabha or Rajya Sabha memberon the issue.

The Left parties — CPM,CPI — are strongly opposed tothe idea but their presidentsSitaram Yechury and SudhakarReddy may, however, join thedeliberations. The Left partiesterm the proposal totally“unrealistic and non-practi-cal” one. The CPM Politburoin a detailed statement said thisproposal is not workable as theduration of the Lok Sabha andAssemblies are based on thefloor strength. When theGovernment loses majority,elections have to be conductedwithin six months. They citedhow in 1996, 1998 and 1999Lok Sabha elections had to beheld when Governments lostthe majority.

CPI national secretary DRaja said, “We will oppose thisproposal, which is alreadyrejected by many parties as it istotally non-practical.”

The main OppositionCongress said the idea per se isnot bad but has preferred to goalong with consensus of theOpposition parties. But theCongress was yet to name itsrepresentative for the meetingfor want of a party chief fol-lowing Rahul Gandhi’s resig-nation.

BJD chief and OdishaChief Minister Naveen Patnaikwill be here to attend the meet-ing, party leaders said. ButShiv Sena president UddhavThackeray would not make itas he is busy with party’s foun-dation day events. Sanjay Rautis likely to represent the party.

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One of the key conspiratorsof the February 14

Pulwama terror attack, whosecar was fabricated and laterhanded over to the suicidebomber, was among two ter-rorists gunned down by thejoint team of security forces inMarhama area of SouthKashmir’s Anantnag districton Tuesday. One Army jawansacrificed his life in the oper-ation.

Meanwhile, two Armyjawans, injured in the IEDblast late on Monday eveningin Arihal area of Pulwamasuccumbed to their injuries inthe command hospital inSrinagar early on Tuesday. Lateevening, unidentified terroristslobbed a grenade outsidePulwama police station causinginjuries to several pedestrians.Police said two civiliansreceived serious injuries.

In the last five days, 10security personnel — fiveCRPF men, four Army men,including a Major, and anInspector of the J&K Police —have sacrificed their lives.

The martyred soldiers wereidentified as Havildar AmarjeetKumar and Naik Ajit Kumar

Sahoo. Another soldier,Rifleman Anil Kumar Jaswal,made supreme sacrifice in anti-terror operations in Marhamaon Tuesday.

Confirming the identity ofthe two terrorists killed in theoperation, J&K Police DGPDilbagh Singh said, “Twodreaded terrorists of Jaish-e-Mohammad, identified asSajjad Ahmad Bhat and TauseefAhmad Bhat, were eliminatedduring fierce gunfight inMarhama area of Anantnag onTuesday morning.”

The DGP claimed, “SajjadAhmad Bhat’s car was fabri-cated as IED and the same washanded over to the suicidebomber before targeting the

CRPF convoy in which 40CRPF personnel were mar-tyred.”

Singh said, the duo werewell trained members of theJeM suicide squad.

“Two other terrorists killedin Achabal and KP road attackwere also part of the same JeMgroup,” he added.

According to police, “SajadAhmad Bhat, alias Afzal Guru,had joined militancy daysbefore the Pulwama terrorattack. He hailed from villageMarhama in Anantnag.

Kashmir Valley has wit-nessed third vehicle mountedIED attack on the securityforces this year.

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Aspecial court sentencedfour persons to life impris-

onment and acquitted one inconnection with the 2005 ter-ror attack on a makeshift tem-ple at the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid complex here inwhich two locals were killedand seven CRPF personnelinjured.

Special judge DineshChandra, who announced theverdict inside the Naini CentralJail where the accused arelodged, also imposed a fine of

Rs 2.4 lakh on each of the four,Public Prosecutor GulabChandra Agrahari toldreporters here.

Agrahari said that the fourwho got life imprisonment are:Doctor Irrfan, Shakeel Ahmed,Asif Iqbal and MohammedNaseem; while MohammedAziz was acquitted for lack ofevidence.

Chief Minister YogiAdityanath welcomed the con-viction. On the sole acquittal inthe case, he said the state gov-ernment would take appropri-ate action after examining the

ruling. “The court judgementis welcome. For one personwho has been acquitted, nec-essary action will be takenafter seeking legal opinion.The government will keep aneye on the case,” he said in astatement.

Five heavily-armed terror-ists attempted to carry out asuicide attack near themakeshift temple at the dis-puted site on July 5, 2005.After blasting the outer barri-cade of the complex, they triedto move towards the innerbarricading where troops of the

33rd battalion of the CRPFwere deployed.

The terrorists fired heavi-ly at the troops and lobbedgrenades in order to storm theSanctum Sanctorum. Agraharisaid that Naseem procured amobile SIM card using docu-ments attested by Aziz and onthe direction of Pakistan-basedterrorist Kari. He said that thevehicle, having a Jammu regis-tration number, that was usedto carry weapons for the attackwas owned by Shakeel Ahmed.

Kari paid Rs 2.20 lakh toShakeel to use the vehicle but

the latter was told it will remainin his name, Agrahari said. Thevehicle was used to bringweapons to Aligarh on June 5,2005 and it returned to Jammuon June 7. The public prosec-tor said Asif Iqbal was the mainaccused in the case and Karigave him the SIM purchased byNaseem. He said that one of theterrorists killed during thegunfight has been identified asArshad. The verdict in thecase came nearly 14 years sincethe attack and after 371 hear-ings and testimonies by 63

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Deaths due to AcuteEncephalitis Syndrome

(AES) or “chamki fever” inBihar’s Muzaffarpur hadcrossed the three-digit markbefore 2019 also. Not once butin as many as four calendaryears.

An analysis by experts hasfound that the death toll hasbeen high whenever tempera-ture and humidity were record-ed to be more than 38 degreesCelsius and 50 per cent respec-tively for consecutive days.This happened in 2011 (197deaths), 2012 (275) 2013 (143),2014 (375) and 2019 (106). Theepidemic had been at its worstin 2014, when 375 deaths werereported.

Bihar Health Secretary

Sanjay Kumar said so far 106children have died this year andmore than 430 others between

the ages of 4 and 10 years arebeing treated at Sri KrishnaMedical College and Hospital

(SKMCH) and Kejriwal hospi-tal in Muzaffarpur.

AES is fatal viral infectionhitting the brain and leading tocoma. At times survivors areleft with serious disabilities —mental and physical.

While 2019 has not beenan isolated year when the AESdeaths have been reported, it isonly now that the BiharGovernment has woken up toannounce a string of measuresto contain the deadly disease.In fact, the Nitish Kumar-ledBihar Government also didnot learn lessons from nearbyGorakhpur in Uttar Pradeshwhich had reported outbreak ofthe disease in 2017.

On Tuesday, Nitish, whosevisit to the hospital met with aprotest from the angry relativesover the Government’s cal-

lousness in ensuring timelypreventive steps, announced toincrease bed strength in hos-pitals in the district andordered an environmentalstudy on AES.

At the Central level, UnionHealth Minister HarshVardhan too held a meeting ofa multi-disciplinary group ofexperts in the national Capitaland deliberated on the factorscausing high child mortality inthe AES/JE cases in the district.

Harsh Vardhan alsostressed the need for researchon AES to identify the diseasethat is still not identified andfor that research facility shouldbe developed in Muzaffarpur.

The socio-economic pro-file of the households whichhave reported the cases, theirnutrition profiles, issues such as

the ongoing heatwave, report-ed high percentage of hypo-glycemia in the children whohave died, the prevailing healthinfrastructure in the districtand other factors that couldhave aggravated the cases weredeliberated threadbare.

According to the healthexperts, most of the childrendying from AES belong to thepoorest of the poor — theMahadalit community, includ-ing Musahar and ScheduledCastes — and most of themwere malnourished.

Senior paediatrician DrArun Shah was of the opinionthat only awareness pro-gramme would not help in pre-venting the deaths. The kids areafflicted with another diseaseor are malnourished.

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With Rahul Gandhi refus-ing to budge from his

stance on not leading the partyeither in Parliament oroutside, the Congress onTuesday named its five-time MP from WestBengal and formerUnion Minister AdhirRanjan Chowdhury asits leader in the LokSabha.

He will succeedMallikarjun Kharge, who lostthe Lok Sabha election, forcingthe party to decide on anoth-er name. Chowdhury’s namewas cleared by the top party

leadership during a meeting atUPA Chairperson SoniaGandhi’s residence, after whicha letter of his appointmentwas handed over to the Lok

Sabha Secretariat. Chowdhury, who

took part in the meet-ing, initially denied anydeliberation over theissue. However, lateron he confirmed say-ing, “I have been given

this responsibility (the leader ofCongress in the Lok Sabha). Iwas asked to stand in the front.I said okay. I am a foot soldierand foot soldiers stand in front.So I will fight as a foot soldier.”

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Two-time member ofParliament Om Birla from

Rajasthan is set to be theSpeaker of the 17th Lok Sabha.In a surprise move, the BJP onTuesday nominated him as thecandidate of the NationalDemocratic Alliance (NDA)for the constitutional post, towhich he is expected to beelected unopposed.

The Congress and its UPApartners have decided to sup-port Birla’s candidature butthey have not been forthcom-ing on the issue of DeputySpeaker. According to sources,the NDA could back someonefrom the Telangana RashtraSamiti (TRS) for the DeputySpeaker’s post.

Birla would be the secondtwo-term MP to be Speakerafter GMC Balayogi, who wassucceeded in 2002 by ShivSena’s Manohar Joshi, a first-time Lok Sabha member.Balayogi, a TDP MP, was elect-ed as Speaker in 1998 andthereafter in 1999, but he couldnot complete his term due tohis untimely demise.

Conventionally, a seniorMP is saddled with the respon-sibility of Speaker’s post. TheSpeaker-designate’s predecessor

Sumitra Mahajan was an MPfrom Indore, from where shewon for a record eight timesbefore she reached the BJP’sprescribed cut-off age of 75years for retirement and did notcontest the 2019 Lok Sabhaelections.

Birla, the low-profile 57-year-old BJP MP from Kota, isa confidant of party presidentAmit Shah and is known for hisnumber crunching skillsbesides being data savvy. “Hesends birthday greetings to hisvoters in Kota,” said sourcesclose to Birla, a hands-onorganisational man.

With the NDA having aclear majority in the LowerHouse, that Birla’s election willbe unanimous is a foregoneconclusion. A notice has beengiven to the Lok SabhaSecretariat by the BJP propos-ing Birla for the post andbringing a motion for his elec-tion on Wednesday.

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Days after sacking a dozen-odd errant Income Tax

officers, the Government onTuesday dismissed from service15 senior Customs and CentralExcise officials, including oneof the rank of PrincipalCommissioner, on charges ofcorruption and bribery.

Invoking rule 56(j) of theFundamental Rules, theGovernment has sacked theseCentral Board of Indirect Taxesand Customs (CBIC) officers,ranging from the ranks ofPrincipal Commissioner toAssistant Commissioner, someof whom were already undersuspension, according to aFinance Ministry order.

These officers either had

corruption cases registeredagainst them by the CBI orwere involved in bribery, extor-tion and disproportionateassets cases, Governmentsources said.

Among those dismissedinclude PrincipalCommissioner AnupSrivastava, who was serving asPrincipal ADG (Audit) in theCBIC in Delhi, and JointCommissioner Nalin Kumar,the order said.

Sources said the CBI had in1996 registered a criminal con-spiracy case against Srivastavaand alleged that he had shownfavours to a house buildingsociety which was trying toobtain NOC for land purchas-es in violation of law.

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Uttar Pradesh governmenthas brought an ordinance

to make an umbrella Act to reg-ulate, monitor and controlmushrooming private univer-sities in the state. The move isaimed at improving the qual-ity of higher education in thestate.

The proposal for the UPPrivate Universities Ordinancehas been approved by the stateCabinet on Tuesday which willnow be sent to Raj Bhawan forapproval. Later, this ordinancewill be tabled in the state leg-islature as a bill during thecoming monsoon session nextmonth.

State governmentspokesperson Sidharth NathSingh said on Tuesday that theordinance had been brought to

regulate and control all 27 pri-vate universities. “The gov-ernment has made new laws toimprove the quality of educa-tion in private universities andsecure the future of students asmore often than not these uni-versities fail to give degrees atthe last moment,” he said.

Singh said that the newordinance would have a say onthe fee structure, teachers’appointment and other issueslike maintaining quality ofeducation and management ofthose universities. “Besides,the government will imple-ment the UGC norms in theseuniversities and revise thesalary structure of the teachers,”he added.

“There are around 30 to 32new rules for these privateuniversities, including keeping

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After the debacle in LokSabha elections, the

Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) brasswill brainstorm to identifyfactors that went against iteven though RLD fought thepoll in alliance with theSamajwadi Party and theBahujan Samaj Party.

“We will convene a meet-ing at party headquarters inLucknow on June 24. SeniorRLD leaders and office-bear-ers of the state unit will be par-ticipating. Besides other issues,we will also review the reasonbehind the defeat,” RLD leaderand spokesman Anil Dubeysaid in Lucknow onTuesday.

Party sources said partypresident Ajit Singh and hisson Jayant Chaudhary, whocontested from Muzaffarnagarand Baghpat respectively,faced defeat by a slim margin.“Both leaders had a closefight with BJP contestantsand the RLD candidates werebaffled at the defeat. Thealliance formula worked in theRLD’s favour when its contes-tant fought the byelectionfrom Kairana Lok Sabha seat.Also the SP snatched the seatsof Gorakhpur and Phoolpur.But the same formula did notwork in favour of the RLD orits alliance partners in the2019 Lok Sabha elections.The BSP, however, improvedits tally in the election,” RLDsources said.

“The RLD is supposed tohave broad vote bank in westUP due to its reach among Jatvoters. In the recent elections,the RLD was confident of its

win due to the alliance formu-la. Party leaders will assess ifthe formula did not work in itsfavour,” the sources said.

RLD sources said thatparty leaders had been askedto find out areas where theRLD polled low in the elec-tion. “The review meeting is

aimed at analysing areaswhere the RLD had a weakhold among voters or areaswhere its hold on voters wasdimming. After this, thesenior leaders may opt tochange some of the leaderswho were steering the elec-tion,” RLD sources said.

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Hitting a political low afterlosing three elections in

the last five years, SamajwadiParty chief Akhilesh Yadav isnow faced with the uphill taskof reviving the party.

Despite Akhilesh repeated-ly urging party cadres to startpreparing for 2022 Assemblypoll, there is little enthusiasmamong the rank and file, whoare clueless and crestfallen afterthe crushing defeat in therecent Lok Sabha poll.

Besides, Akhilesh’s deci-sion of forging alliance with the

Bahujan Samaj Party also tooka hit, as in the Lok Sabha elec-tions, his party but ended upwinning only five seats. Thebold political experiment hasonly weakened Akhilesh’s posi-tion within and outside the SP.

While many Yadav leadersended up biting the dust in thiselections, Akhilesh’s bête noireand uncle Shivpal Singh Yadavemerged stronger and smugger.

Shivpal and Mulayamtogether built the SP into aYadav-dominant party thatenjoyed considerable supportamong Muslims. However,after the ascension of Akhilesh

as the Chief Minister in 2012and later the party’s nationalpresident, relations betweenthe uncle and nephew soured.

After being totally margin-alised in the SP, Shivpal found-ed Pragatisheel SamajwadiParty (PSP) and fielded candi-dates against SP nominees inUP and other states. His specialfocus was to ensure defeat ofAkshay Yadav in Ferozabad, hisother nephews and clan mem-bers who supported Akhileshin the past.

SP patron Mulayam SinghYadav is now keen to reunitethe feuding family and there are

speculations that after the polldebacle, he reached out toShivpal for a merger.

However, Shivpal, a veter-an of UP’s complex caste-basedpolitics, played the victim cardclaiming that he was treatedunfairly by Akhilesh and ruledout any possibility of re-joiningthe SP fold. At the same time,he left open the possibility of astrategic tie-up for 2022Assembly polls.

For the SP, the future looksuncertain. In terms of LokSabha seats, it has not improvedits tally, and in terms of percep-tion, Akhilesh’s decision to ally

with the BSP is being seen as animmature move made despitewarnings from SP old-timersand Mulayam himself.

The 2022 Assembly elec-tions are still far away but witheach party claiming it wouldfight alone, the work is clearlycut out for Akhilesh-led SP.They have to become the alter-native to the ruling BJP in thestate, and whether they do soby allying with breakaway fac-tion PSP and other smaller par-ties, or going solo is a politicalcall that has to be thoughtthrough now and not on theeve of elections.

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Bahujan Samaj Party chiefMayawati on Tuesday

attacked the state governmentfor having no concern for acommon man. She alsoaccused the BJP regime offailing to extend security toDalits, minorities and margin-alised sections of the society.

Highlighting the doctors’stir in support of striking doc-tors in West Bengal, the formerCM in a tweet claimed that allnewspapers on Tuesday morn-ing were full with informationof causalities due to protest bydoctors but it was surprising

that the state government wasleast bothered and had donenothing to intervene and urgedoctors to attend to emer-gency services..

She said that the Bengalgovernment had bowed todoctors’ demands after whichthe stir was called off but in UPand other states, the govern-ments took no interest inensuring proper medicare ser-vices.

Mayawati targeted the Yogigovernment over the sensa-tional killing of a Dalit farmerin Pratapgarh whose body wasburnt along with his hut onSunday night.

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Downplaying the proposedhike in power tariff, the

state government on Tuesdayblamed opposition parties forthe step-motherly treatmentto consumers in supplyingelectricity during their regime.

“The BJP government iscommitted to providing powersupply at affordable rates topeople.

Uninterrupted power sup-ply has been ensured even invillages and discriminationsenforced by the previous

Akhilesh regime has been abol-ished,” claimed Energy MinisterSrikant Sharma.

“The days of blackoutsacross the state, except for fourdistricts, during the SamajwadiParty rule has ended,” he toldreporters in Lucknow whileblaming the SP, BSP and theCongress for the poor condi-tion of the power sector.

Asked about the proposedhike in power tariff as soughtby the power utility UP PowerCorporation Limited (UPPCL),Sharma clarified that the pro-posal was sent to power regu-lator — UP State ElectricityRegularity Commission(UPSERC) — for theirapproval.

“You will have to wait andsee what the regulator decidesand then come up with anyconclusion,” the minister said.

Opposition leaders, includ-ing BSP chief Mayawati and SPpresident Akhilesh Yadav, crit-icised the Yogi governmentfor the proposed hike in powertariff and demanded a rollback.

Last Friday, the UPPCLhad proposed hiking powertariffs by more than 25 per centfor domestic consumers.Against the prevailing tariff of�4.90 per unit for the first 150units of monthly consump-tion, UPPCL proposed toincrease the slab by more than26 per cent to �6.20 per unit.

Similarly, the variable slabfor consumption between 151-300 units, 301-500 units and500 units upwards has beenproposed to be increased by12-20 per cent to �6.50 unit(�5.40 at present), �7 per unit(�6.20) and �7.50 per unit(�6.50) respectively.

Additionally, the fixed month-ly charge for a domestic con-nection is also proposed to beupped by 10 per cent. Besides,power tariffs for commercialconsumers have also been pro-posed to be hiked by 10-15 percent.

The UPPCL has alreadysubmitted the proposed powertariff structure for 2019-20with the UPSERC for vettingand approval. The regulatorwill conduct public hearingand issue a notice before tak-ing a call on the new tariff forthe current fiscal.

Interestingly, the statepower utility had kept powertariffs unchanged for 2018-19in run-up to Lok Sabha elec-tions. Power tariffs witnesseda hike in November 2017,when UPERC — while sparingindustrial sector for 2017-18 —

had announced average tariffrise of 12.72 per cent acrossboard. The average tariff hikewas then steepest compared topreceding two years with aver-age hike in 2015-16 and 2016-17 figuring at 5.47 per cent and3.18 per cent, respectively.

The Energy departmenthas sought to justify the pro-posed increase in tariff for thecurrent year over steeper pricesof fuel, including coal, andconsequently higher cost ofpower generation. In its pro-posal filed with UPERC, theUPPCL has pegged 2019-20annual revenue requirements(ARR) at �76,495 crore, whileestimating revenue-expendi-ture gap at �18,091 crore, thusoffering a precursor to its jus-tification of increasing tariffs inthe state for economic viabil-ity and sustainability.

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Amuch-awaited exercise torevamp Uttar Pradesh

Congress is likely to be delayedas All India CongressCommittee general secretaryand UP (East0 inchargePriyanka Gandhi seems to bein no hurry to go in for achange.

Priyanka met district coor-dinators of eastern districtsfor a deeper understanding oforganisational problems andthrash out possible remedies.

Congress sources claimedthat Priyanka was more inter-ested in working out a roadmap for the future thananalysing causes of poll defeator taking action.

Priyanka also removed herpersonal secretary DheerajSrivastava replacing him witha CPI leader from JawaharlalNehru University (JNU)Sandeep Singh on Mondayevening, a move which could

further delay changes in UP.However, the delay could

prove to be a blessing in dis-guise for sitting UPCC chiefRaj Babbar, as he will contin-ue for few more months despitehis poor performance in thelast Assembly and recentParliament polls.

While the Congress got itslowest tally of seven seats in theAssembly poll in 2017, theparty could manage only SoniaGandhi’s Rae Bareli seat inParliament elections.

After holding a series ofmeetings with coordinatorsfrom UP in New Delhi ,Priyanka reportedly said thatshe would revamp the UPCongress Committee, alongwith district-level organisa-tions, after getting inputs oflocal leaders.

She asked AICC secre-taries Sachin Nayak andBajirao Khade, along withcoordinators, to visit everydistrict and prepare a dossierof each Congressman, with

details of their contribution sothat deserving leaders could begiven key posts and blacksheep could be kept aside. Shealso directed secretaries tovisit every district, interactwith local leaders and thensend their proposal namingactive Congressmen.

During her interactionwith coordinators, Priyankagot some interesting facts. Likein Varanasi zone, a seniorleader got his driver appoint-ed as district president. Similarinput was also received fromGorakhpur zone too. Likewise,another coordinator revealedthat in Faizabad zone, a seniorleader was running a schooland he got one of his collegeteachers nominated as districtchief. Priyanka seemed to beknowing the harrowing factsand admitted that she hadinputs of district units beingrun as fiefdom with ‘yes men’of local leaders ruling theroost.

Priyanka was also told

about a disconnect between thesystem developed by local lead-ers and district unit that oftencaused disharmony betweenparty workers and candidate.

Among other complaintswere allegations of localCongress politicians colludingwith other parties, the absenceof booth committees, inabilityto match BJP’s resources andinadequate presence on socialmedia.

Priyanka promised tochange the prevailing cultureand create new mechanisms toensure that party workers hada say and promised to meetworkers directly twice a week.

She was told that the break-up between BSP and SP hadcreated a new opening for theCongress. Most district coordi-nators insisted that people werefed up with Mayawati andAkhilesh and that the Yogigovernment was losing popu-larity, no matter how manyParliamentary seats the BJPwon.

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struck Sitapur on Monday night,when eight persons of a mar-riage party were killed and adozen others were criticallyinjured when a tanker collidedwith a tractor at Tedva Chilolaarea on Sitapur-Lakhimpurhighway. The ill-fated tractorcarrying villagers was heading toa wedding ceremony fromDalwalpur hamlet to Machrehtawhen the mishap occurred.

Anil (30), Vinod (36), Tejpal

(32), Chotelal aka Gendanpal(35), Ankit (24) and tractordriver Chota Babu (21) werekilled in the accident. Jogendra(13) and Arun (16) later suc-cumbed to injuries at TraumaCentre of KGMU in Lucknow.Nearly 15 others suffered criti-cal injuries.

Top police and administra-tion officials met the injured atthe hospital. While a case wasregistered at Kotwali Sitapur, thetanker driver has been arrested.

Meanwhile, inMuzaffarnagar, four labourerswere killed when a tractor-trol-ley carrying bricks overturned inMeerut on Tuesday. Thedeceased, identified as Nazim(28), Kamil (32), Rizwan (30)and Kamil (34), belonged to Jollavillage of Muzaffarnagar.

In another case inMuzaffarnagar, three of a fami-ly were killed when their motor-cycle was hit by a car nearMirna village on Monday. The

deceased were identified asAfsana Begum (30), her seven-year-old daughter Shiba andnephew Irfan (22). The driver ofthe car was arrested.

Elsewhere in Ballia, twopersons were killed when themotorbike they were riding washit by another vehicle inBharsauta village on Monday.Jawaharlal Tiwari (65) and AjayPandey (32) were going on a bikewhen a four-wheeler hit it. Thebodies were sent for autopsy.

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Lucknow DevelopmentAuthority completed its first

road made of plastic waste inGomtinagar Extension here.LDA chief engineer InduShekhar, while talking to ThePioneer, said they would nowuse the same technology for allthe roads which they would bemaking in the coming future inthe state capital. He admittedthat this would be the first roadin Lucknow which was madewith plastic waste.

This stretch of road whichthe Lucknow DevelopmentAuthority has built on a pilotbasis is 300 metres long and840 metres wide and was con-structed in front of the Policeheadquarters in GomtinagarExtension. He said that theyhad constructed this road usingprimarily plastic which was oflesser than 50 microns thickness.

“This is not an easy processand requires a proper engineer-ing procedure through whichthe plastic is mixed with thebitumen with which the road ismade,” he said. The ChiefEngineer said that over onetonne of plastic was used whichwas collected through the solidwaste management of the wastecollected from the LDAcolonies.

He said that the road used

all those plastics which wereused by the vegetable vendorsand also milk pouches and theywere even discarded by the rag-pickers. “These plastics lie onvacant plots and are ofteneaten by animals such as cows.We tried to think as to how wecan use it as even the CentralRoad Research Institute haslaid down guidelines on thisand allows their usage in theconstruction of roads. We alsotook the expertise from RVasudevan from Madurai whohas done extensive work on thisand is known as the PlasticMan. Both Vasudevan and theCRRI (Central Road ResearchInstitute) have jointly worked

to come up with this technol-ogy. I sent my men to Maduraito learn about it as we contact-ed both of them,” he added.

He said that the technolo-gy was not as simple as justthrowing plastic in hot bitumenand that it was important tomake modifications in theplant which they had set up forthe making of the bitumen con-crete.

Explaining the advantagesof using such waste materials,he said that it enhanced all theengineering parameters whichwere judged in well-construct-ed roads. “It not only strength-ens the road but reduces thewater permeability to a large

extent. Water is the enemy ofbitumen and the lesser theamount goes into the bitumenthe stronger it will be. Ourstudies show that the roadwhich is made with plasticwaste is 30-40 times morestronger in comparison to theone which is made withoutplastic waste,” he added.

He said that cost-wise toothere was not much differencebetween the two. However, hesaid that what was of signifi-cance was the fact that this kindof construction was usefulenvironmentally.

“Plastics take almost 1000years to degrade which isharmful for the environment,”

he added. Asked if they woulduse it to fill the potholes, he saidthat it could be used for thispurpose but currently theywere using it for the construc-tion of the upper crust of theroad.

On being asked if othergovernment departments hadasked for a similar technology,he said that some of them hadoffered to give up plasticswhich they had procured. “Wewill also purchase plastic wastefrom the ragpickers becauseultimately they will come to usfor selling it. This managementof plastic wastes should bedone in a more organised man-ner because it is currentlybeing done in an unorganisedway,” he added.

He said this plastic waswashed and shredded and wasa tough engineering process.“The temperature is very cru-cial when the plastic is mixedwith bitumen. This road will begot tested from the CRRI,” headded. Regarding the sharingof this technology with othergovernment departments, hesaid that they were planning tohold a workshop and a seminarin the month of July whichwould witness the presence ofthe Plastic Man and this tech-nology would be shared withthe Awas Vikas Parishad and allthe development authoritiesof the state.

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The Forest department is focusing on plan-tation of drumstick species in Lucknow this

year. According to SDO Jawahar Lal Gupta, itis beneficial because it is nutritious and givesadded income to the farmers. He said from thepublic they were getting the demand of planta-tion of drumsticks, teak and sheesham.“Drumsticks can be planted on the sides of theroads and also in farms. In Lucknow, they willbe mostly planted on the edges of the farmers’land. The farmers have been demanding drum-sticks and we are also encouraging the same,”he said. He said that drumsticks did not requireany care as such and thus were good for plan-tation. The official said that most of the otherdepartments which are part of the plantationprocess would also be carrying out plantationof this species.

Regarding the height of the saplings to beplanting, he said it depended on the species.“Normally, 3-4 feet would do and near the sidesof the roads, we are also planting 12-feetsaplings,” he said, adding that LucknowMunicipal Corporation would mostly be plant-ing decorative species. In Lucknow, over 26 lakhsaplings will be planted, including 10 lakh by theForest department and 16 lakh by other depart-ments. The Forest department is carrying outthe biggest plantation drive this year and plant-ing 22 crore saplings. The department has namedthe drive ‘Vriksh Mahakumbh’.

The department had raised 26 crore saplingsin the nurseries of the state for the plantationexercise. Officials said it was the first time thatthey had a micro plan as each of the gram pan-

chayats was visited and feedback was taken fromthe farmers as to what kind of plantation theywanted. Over 59,000 gram panchayats were vis-ited and details were taken in terms of the specieswhich they desired. Accordingly, the species wereraised in the nurseries.

The other departments to be taking part inthe plantation drive include Gram Vikas,Education, Awas Vikas and industries. Last year,9.25 crore saplings were planted by the state gov-ernment across the state on the occasion ofIndependence Day on August 15. The planta-tion was carried out at 61,000 spots across thestate. The planting exercise was monitored bythe Forest department officials. Last year too,there was a lot of demand for drumstickssaplings. In schools, fruit trees were planted sothat children could get nourishment.

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Launching a drive againstdrug peddlers, the Lucknow

police arrested three personsferrying psychotropic sub-stance in Gosainganj andKakori on Tuesday.

In Gosainganj, a policeteam nabbed Atul KumarMishra of Rae Bareli and recov-ered 1.75 kg of ganja from hispossession. “Atul has been intodrug peddling for a long time.We got a tip-off about hismovement in Lucknow wherehe had to hand over drugs to alocal peddler. We laid a trap onthe road alongside canal andnabbed him,” the police said.

“Atul disclosed the names

of the persons in his contact inGosainganj locality. He alsodisclosed the name of the per-son to whom he had to deliv-er ganja. We are searching forhim,” the police said.

In Kakori, a joint team ofpolice and Crime Branchsleuths nabbed two accusedinvolved in drug peddling.One of their aides managed toescape. Those arrested wereidentified as Zubair Ahmed ofUnnao and Ram of Barabanki.“The accused who managed toescape was identified as KaranVerma of Barabanki,” the policesaid. The police team recovered35 kg of opium powder, calledduda choora in local language.“The accused had filled the

goods in three sacks and werecarrying it in an SUV. Ourinformer tipped off about theconsignment and we workedon the case. We laid a trap nearthe toll tax plaza on AgraExpressway where cops incivvies nabbed the accused,” thepolice said.

Sources said the drug ped-dlers had expanded their areaof operation to rural parts ofthe city. “A number of collegesand schools have come up inrural parts of the city. The drugpeddlers trap the students stay-ing in rented accommodationsor in hostels,” the sources said,adding that the police swunginto action after getting direc-tives from their bosses.

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Two bike-borne youths loot-ed two mobile phones from

a man in Keshav Nagar local-ity of Madiaon on Mondaynight. However, the miscreantsran out of luck as one of themwas identified by the victimwhen spotted in a CCTVfootage. The duo were nabbedby the police on Tuesday.

As per reports, Deep Singhof Keshav Nagar was going tosee an acquaintance around10.30 pm on Monday while

carrying both the phones in hishand. “The miscreants camefrom behind while the pillion-rider snatched both the phones.I caught the rear guard of thebike but as they accelerated themotorcycle, I fell down,” Singhtold the police. Singh said hecould identify one of the mis-creants. On Tuesday, he wasshown some footages in whichone of the miscreants was spot-ted. The police said a teamworked on the clue and got atip-off about the miscreantsroaming in the area.

“The team raided the placeand nabbed both the miscre-ants,” the police said. Theywere identified as GauravBajpai and Deepak Yadav, bothof Madiaon. The mobilephones of Singh were alsorecovered. They told the policethat they had deprived severalpeople of their mobile phonesin the past. “We recovered acountry-made pistol and Rs7,800 in cash from the posses-sion of the accused. Their bikehas also been impounded,” thepolice said.

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Ayoga organisation of the city,Shri Patanjali Janmabhumi Nyas

has written a letter to the UnitedNations and UNESCO to declare thebirthplace of Patanjali in Gonda inUttar Pradesh as a heritage site. DrSwami Bhagavadacharya, president ofthe organisation, said that in the let-ter they had written that yoga, as weknow, was an ancient Indian systemof meditation and self-restraint. Yogabesides meditation, comprises variousexercises and postures which facilitateproper flow of oxygen in the veins ofthe human body.

“Yoga was propounded by sagePatanjali about 5000 years ago.According to him, yoga strengthensthe immunity of human mind andbody. So the importance that has beengiven to yoga by the UN is in theinterest of mankind.The birthplace ofsuch a great sage, Patanjali, is KondarWazeerganj village in Gonda districtof UP in India. Several ancientSanskrit language books, includingBhojvritt and Raghavendra Charit,have mentioned it. Konder is situat-ed about 20 kilometres north of theholy city of Ayodhya, birthplace ofLord Rama. The birthplace of thefamous Hindi poet, GoswamiTulsidas,Rajapur (Sukarkhet) is also

situated about 40 kilometres northeast of Konder,” he said. He has fur-ther written that such an importantplace like Konder has still not beendeveloped. “It is a cultural place.Therefore, we requested the UnitedNations and UNESCO to declare it asa heritage site and develop it as atourist resort,” he added.

Meanwhile, the fifth InternationalDay Yoga will be observed withenthusiasm and fervour across theCentral Command zone on June 21.A large number of Army personneland their families across the sevenstates of Central Command zoneunder trained instructors will partic-ipate in yoga sessions being organised

at various formations and establish-ments. For the Army personnel post-ed at Lucknow, yoga sessions will beorganised at 11 Gorkha RiflesRegimental Centre, Army MedicalCorps Centre and College and SuryaKhel Parisar.

The Traffic departmentannounced traffic diversions for themain programme on the occasion ofInternational Yoga Day and itsrehearsal will take place on June 20and 19 respectively at the RajBhawan. The officials of the Trafficdepartment said that the traffic diver-sions would remain in force till thetime the programme began. No traf-fic will be allowed to move from theBandariya Bagh Crossing to the DSOCrossing from in front of the RajBhawan. This traffic will be divertedtowards the Golf Club or Lal BattiCrossing. No traffic will be allowed tomove from the DSO Crossing towardsRaj Bhawan and BandariyabaghCrossing. This traffic will be divert-ed towards the Park Road and GolfClub. City buses will not be allowedto move from the Hazratganj Crossingtowards the DSO and they will bediverted towards the Park Road.Officials said that if the general pub-lic faced any problem because of thesediversions it could contact the trafficcontrol room.

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The Lucknow police look tobe resolute about imple-

menting ‘No helmet no ride’rule in the city. On Tuesday,several bikers were challanedfor not wearing helmets evenas an intensive checking drivewas conducted at severalprominent crossings of thecity. The police had also con-tacted the heads of differentdepartments of UP govern-ment, asking them to makethe employees wear helmetsand follow traffic rules.

The police issued a total of4,120 challans to commuters

caught violating traffic rulesthrough the day. Out of thetotal number of challans,1,509 were issued for ridingbikes without helmets. Thepolice issued 1,759 challanswhile the traffic cops 2,361challans at different cross-ings in the city on Tuesday.The police realised a totalfine of Rs 2.13 lakh. A sum ofRs 4,300 was realised throughon-spot challan while Rs45,500 through e-challans.

“Barring the sporadicincidents in which the trafficviolators confronted the policeteams, the drive was by andlarge peaceful,” a police offi-

cer said. The Lucknow policehad planned the drive onMonday and the same waspropagated on different socialmedia platforms. UP DGP OPSingh had kicked off a trafficawareness drive at 1090 cross-ing on Sunday and seniorofficers had participated in it.

“Most of the offendersare those who do not wearhelmets for one reason or theother. The police want tomake them aware that theymust wear helmets for theirown safety. The drive is beingpropagated on social mediaand in newspapers too,” theofficer said.

On Tuesday, traffic copswere present at almost everycrossing, keeping a close eyeon bike-riders without hel-mets. Circle officer AK Mishrasaid the policemen would bedeployed at the gates of gov-ernment establishments likeJawahar Bhawan and IndiraBhawan in time to come. “Wehave asked the heads of theseoffices to make their employ-

ees aware about traffic rules.Thereafter, a drive will becarried outside the officestoo,” he said. He added thatthe police were propagatingtraffic awareness throughsocial media and other plat-forms.

“After the schools open inJuly, we will also hold meet-ings with their officials inthis regard,” he said.

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Atempo driver died while six passengerswere injured in a road mishap which

took place in Mohanlalganj on Tuesdayafternoon. The deceased was identified asIndra Kumar of Mohanlalganj. As perreports, Indra Kumar was ferrying passen-gers to Mohanlalganj when a speeding trac-tor knocked the tempo at Ganesh Khedalocality in Mohanlalganj. The tempo over-turned and Indra Kumar got trappedunder it. The passengers also sufferedinjuries. Police said the driver was takento KGMU Trauma Centre where he wasdeclared dead. The injured passengerswere rushed to a hospital and were dis-charged after primary treatment.

Meanwhile, a 50-year-old man, iden-tified as Ramswaroop of Sitapur, wasfound hanging from a tree in Bharatnagarlocality of Madiaon on Tuesday. Police saidthe man was suffering from some mentaldisorder. “His brother Shivdeen informedthe police about the incident. Ramswaroopwas found hanging from a tree with adupatta tied around his neck,” the policesaid. Ramswaroop lived with Shivdeen ina house on rent and was a rickshaw-puller.

Besides, a two-day-old infant of anunidentified man was recovered fromGomti River near Mankameshwar Templein Hasanganj police station area on Tuesday.Police recovered a handkerchief and a bot-tle of whitener from the pair of trousers thatthe deceased was wearing. The police sus-pected that he died of drowning whilst ina sedated state. The identity of the deceasedcould not be ascertained.

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The Met department hasforecast rain and thunder-

storm in Lucknow on Tuesday.The maximum and minimumtemperature is expected to bearound 38 degree Celsius and27 degree Celsius, respective-ly. Besides, rain and thunder-showers are very likely at iso-lated places over the state. Thedepartment has also warnedagainst dust storm and thun-derstorm accompanied bygusty winds and lightning atisolated places over UttarPradesh.

Meanwhile, city residentscontinued to bear the brunt ofhot weather as the state capital.However, there was a slight let-up as the maximum tempera-ture at 39.4 degree Celsius onTuesday was just a notch abovenormal. The minimum tem-perature at 29.4 degree Celsiuswas also a notch above normal.Most of the people complainedthat even nights were warm.Some of them expressed con-cern that long durations in air-conditioned environment wasnot good for their health.

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Bollywood superstarAmitabh Bachchan reachedLucknow on Tuesday to shootfor the film ‘Gulabo Sitabo’. Hewill be in the state capital forover a month. He was given atraditional welcome at a cityhotel by the staff. The movie isbeing directed by Shoojit Sircarwho has directed Bachchanearlier in ‘Piku’. Fans who hada chance to have a glimpse ofthe superstar said he lookedenergetic at the age of 77 yearsand was affable with thosesurrounding him. His co-starin the film is AyushmannKhurana, who is already shoot-ing for another film titled ‘Bala’in Lucknow with YamiGautam. Khurana will beshooting for both the films.

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From humble beginningsin Lucknow as a shop sellingradios and analog hearing aidsin 1939 to becoming one of themost recognisable names in the

hearing aid industry of thecountry, Mathur Radios hascome a long way. Celebratingtheir 80th anniversary, thecompany opened a new BestSound Centre in collaborationwith Signia/Sivantos to furthertheir reach. The inaugurationceremony was held on June 17.

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Seth MR Jaipuria Schoolsbegan ‘Upskill - Scale up your

skills’ centralised learning anddevelopment programme forover 1,250 of its teachers in 25schools. The programme,planned for six days, will have136 varieties of trainings con-ducted by 72 subject expertsfrom New Delhi, Jaipur,Chennai, Mumbai, Bengaluru,Varanasi and Lucknow. Theprogramme was inauguratedon June 17 in Gomti Nagarpremises in the presence ofjoint director, Madhyamik

Shiksha department,Vishnukant Pandey and vice-chairperson of Jaipuria GroupAnjali Jaipuria among otherdignitaries.

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Capitalising on the hotweather conditions which

were prevailing in India theNepal Tourism Board has ini-tiated an endeavour to get moretourists to their country fromUP and Bihar. Its manager,Bimal Kedal, while talking to‘The Pioneer’ said that thiswas the right time to bring inmore tourists because Nepalhad relatively a cooler climateat this time of the year. A pressconference had been organisedat a city hotel on Monday in thisregard.

He said that they were try-ing to attract the tourists pri-marily to the Chitwan NationalPark and Lumbini, which wasthe birthplace of GautamBuddha. “We want to have aconnect with the borderingareas of the states of UttarPradesh and Bihar with thesetwo places and shift the focusfrom Kathmandu. The ChitwanNational Park has attracted a lotof tourists in the past.We are inLucknow to promote the NepalSales Mission-2019 which is athree-city event being heldfrom June17-21, 2019, inLucknow, Varanasi and Patna.The Mission aims to bring alltravel trade partners together toupdate them about DestinationNepal, educate them on whatthe country has to offer whichwill be of great interest to theirIndian clientele and allow themto explore opportunities that liewithin,” he said. He pointed out

that they had had over 22Nepali travel agents for themeeting who had various trav-el packages. It was said thatNepal recorded a growth ofmore than 25 per cent in visi-tor arrivals from India in 2018attaining a remarkable surgeover the previous year.

“The Nepal Tourism Boardhas confirmed recording2,00438 visitors from Indiaduring this period. The Indianmarket continues to be one ofthe most important contribu-tors of international visitors toNepal and this year’s SalesMission aims to achieve agreater number in this regard.

The Nepalese delegationlooks forward to interactingwith over 60 agents from eachof the cities, where the partic-ipants include destination spe-cialists and other key tradepartners. Nepal Sales Mission-2019 has witnessed and contin-ues to witness participation

from several private playersfrom Nepal eager to meetindustry partners in Indiancities,” it was further informed.

Speaking about Nepal SalesMission, a member said that“the Indian outbound to Nepalhas been growing rapidlyowing to the fact that the des-tination caters to the demandsof all the age groups. Thisgrowth will surge in the com-ing years.” He also added thatthere had been a steadyincrease in FITs and smallgroups travelling to Nepal fromIndia. It was further informedat the press conference that thegovernment of Nepal is notleaving any stone unturned toensure a successful tourismperiod till 2020 and theTourism Board has set a targetof two million tourist arrivalsby the end of next year.Currently the country seesnearly one million visitorsannually, whose number is

expected to double as theBoard continues promotingthe ‘Visit Nepal Year 2020’campaign aggressively.

By 2020 the governmentplans to operate two new inter-national airports - Pokharaand Lumbini - and introducethe Airbus 330-200 to provideairline services to the increas-ing number of tourists. Thegovernment also plans to runthe Tribhuvan InternationalAirport for an additional threehours from the regular 18 toensure continued availability ofservice to both the incomingand outgoing tourists.

The private hotel sector,too, has planned to add 4,000rooms in the four and five-starcategories in Kathmandu,Chitwan and Pokhara. A num-ber of international hotelchains, including Hilton andMarriott, are expected to oper-ate properties in Nepal in thecoming years.

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Appealing to the public touse the UPCOP App

launched by UP Police, SSP(Lucknow) Kalanidhi Naithanisaid it was aimed at addressingpeople’s grievances.

“The App has been creat-ed to help the public. For get-ting FIRs registered for auto-lifting, loot, snatchings, orcyber crime, people are forcedto visit police stations on sev-eral occasions. But using theApp, one can lodge an FIReven from their homes,” hesaid. The SSP said the police

officers concerned had beenasked to promote the App. “Acomplainant will get a copy ofFIR bearing digital signature ofthe police officer concerned onhis or her e-mail,” the SSP said.

“With the Lucknow policepromoting UPCOP App, it isevident that the top bosseswant to do away with thecomplexities involved for thepublic. A number of peoplecomplain that police stationofficers do not register theirFIRs or deliberately use dilly-dallying tactics and it showsthe police in bad light,” policedepartment sources said. They

added that there was a plan to ensure smart policingin the state.

“The App will lessen theload on policemen deployed atstations and they may bedeployed for field duties tokeep the crime graph in check,”the sources said.

They added that it wouldhelp in reducing the com-plaints of bribe in the depart-ment also help improve theimage of the police.

Earlier, the SSP had ameeting with officers at hiscamp office on Tuesday. Hedirected them to work out the

pending cases. He asked thecops to give special care to peo-ple visiting the police stationsand behave politely with them.

The SSP expressed dis-pleasure over the increase incrime cases in Para, Madiaon,PGI, Vibhuti Khand andAliganj police station areas. Hedirected the officers to preparea list of top ten criminals andbring them to the books. Theofficers were also asked tobring down the number ofcrimes against women.Hazratganj circle officer wasasked to keep a close tab oncyber crimes.

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meritorious student of CityMontessoriS c h o o l ,Mahanagar,has beenselected forK i s h o r eVaigyanikProtsahanY o j n a( K V P YFellowship)of theCentral government. He will bereceiving the scholarship of Rs5,000 per month and Rs 20,000as annual contingency grantduring graduation. At post-graduation level, he will be get-ting a monthly stipend of Rs7,000 per month and an annu-al contingency grant of Rs28,000. Thus, he will be gettingscholarship of Rs 4,64,000 dur-ing five years of higher education.

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Congress’ face in Bengal, waschosen over party’s seniormost MP K Suresh fromKerala and Shashi Tharoor, theMP from Thiruvanathapuram.Suresh could get an anotherimportant position, sourcessaid.

The Congress failed tosecure the post of Leader ofOpposition in the Lok Sabhaas it did not get the requisite10 per cent seats of the House.This is for the second time ina row that the grand old partyhas failed to get the post. In2014, its tally stood at 44while in 2019 it is 52, three lessthan the required number toget the Leader of Oppositionpost.

Chowdhury is a five-timeMP from West Bengal and hasnot lost the Lok Sabha electionsince 1999. He represents theBerhampore Lok Sabha con-stituency in Murshidabad dis-trict of West Bengal. EarlierChowdhury was a member ofthe West Bengal Assemblyfrom 1996 to 1999.

He has been the chief ofthe West Bengal Congress,besides also being the Ministerof State for railways between2012 and 2014 during theUPA Government.Chowdhury’s fighting spirithelped him win the party’sconfidence, said sources.

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the cases of AES for last twoand half decades. I haveminutely studied the cases ofthe deaths. I have found thatthese children, either fallenprey to the disease or havebeen undergoing treatment,are affected with lack of sugarin their body. This is calledhypoglycaemia in medicalterm. The affected children areeither suffering from anotherdisease or are malnourished.These kids are from belowpoverty line and have been fedvery poorly. So, they don’thave stock of glucose in theirbody to release in emergencycondition,” Dr Shah has beenquoted saying in a report.

Dr Gopal Shankar, theacting HOD of SKMCH haspointed out that deathsoccurred due to “environmen-tal factors” such as the heat-wave and poor rainfall in the

area. He said that in otherparts of northern India thereis fluctuation in temperatureand humidity, and the nightsare cooler, but in Muzaffarpurhumidity increases at nightmaking it worse than the day,especially for children.

He added that rainfall isthe only remedy to this out-break. “When it rained a fewdays ago, the following daywitnessed a drop in the num-ber of AES patients in the hos-pital. Now when it hasn’trained, the numbers areincreasing,” he said.

Refuting the litchi theory,Dr Shankar asked if peoplehad stopped eating litchis dur-ing the years when there wereno cases of AES inMuzaffarpur. “Sick childrenalso do not have symptoms ofabdominal pain to prove thelitchi theory,” he pointed out.

In 2017, Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh Governmentlaunched Action Plan 2018 incollaboration of the WorldHealth Organisation (WHO)and Unicef for containingAES. A massive vaccinationdrive and a sanitation cam-paign were launched. By virtueof this rampant drive, cases ofAES dropped by about two-thirds in 2018 -- as comparedto 2017.

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backed by all NDA parties,including AIADMK, besidesparties like YSR CongressParty and Biju Janata Dal.Prime Minister NarendraModi proposed the name ofBirla for the post, partysources said.

The Opposition did notannounce any candidate forthe post till Tuesday, the lastday to file nomination. “Wehave talked to the Congress.They won’t oppose,” saidParliamentary Affairs MinisterPralhad Joshi, who had metCongress leader Gujam NabiAzad after Birla was nominat-ed for the high post. TheSpeaker-designate visitedSumitra Mahajan’s house andtook her “blessings”. Birla,who was also a three-timeMLA from Rajasthan and avice president of BJP’s youthwing, first won the Lok Sabhapolls in 2014 from Kota,Rajasthan, defeating Congresscandidate and scion of Royal

family Jiyaraj Singh by twolakh votes. In the 2019 LokSabha election, Birla defeatedCongress’s RamnarayanMeena with a margin of over2.5 lakh votes from the Kota-Bundi Lok Sabha seat.

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chief Akhilesh Yadav joins itremains to be seen even as BSPchief Mayawati’s presence isuncertain. The idea of simul-taneous polls of Lok Sabha andState assemblies is also fraughtwith many hurdles includingconstitutional and legal. Onthe plus side, its backers con-tend it would save the countryfrom being continuously in“an election mode”, could savean estimated Rs 4,500 crore aselection expenditure andwould help in developmentalworks not getting affected.

In the previous Lok Sabha,a Parliamentary panel headedby BJP MP Bhupender Yadavhad initiated the process tocome out with recommenda-tions, entailing major changesin legal provisions, to holdone-time Lok Sabha andAssembly polls in the country.Politically, many Oppositionparties are apprehensive ofthe “one nation, one election”apprehending national pollsissues could subsumeAssembly poll issues and thuscould marginalise or prove tobe disadvantageous to theregional parties.

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convoys were made targetsand in the third strike Armymobile patrol vehicle wasattacked by terrorists to senda chilling reminder to thesecurity forces that they mayhave lost top commanders inthe sustained anti-terroristoperations this year but theirfirepower to hit back remainsintact. Soon after the Pulwamaterror attack sleuths of Jaish-e-Mohammad had trackeddown the owner of the carwhich was fabricated and con-verted it into IED before tar-geting the CRPF convoy inwhich 40 CRPF personnelwere martyred.

Official sources said,before Sajjad Bhat purchasedthe car on February 4, 2019 ithad already exchanged handsmany a times.

The last person to own itwas Sajjad Bhat, son ofMuhammad Maqbool Bhat, aresident of Bijbehara,Anantnag. In Srinagar, Armypaid befitting tribute to threeof its comrades, who made thesupreme sacrifice duringCounter Terrorist Operationson June 17 and 18, 2019 in theValley.

In a solemn ceremony atBB Cantt, Lt Gen KJS Dhillon,Chinar Corps Commanderand all ranks, paid homage tothe martyrs on behalf of aproud nation.

Representatives fromother security agencies alsojoined in paying their lastrespects to the martyrs.

Defence spokesman inSrinagar said, late HavildarAmarjeet Kumar, 35 years ofage, had joined the Army in2005 and hailed from VillageDighawlia in Siwan district ofBihar. He is survived by hiswife and two sons.

Late Naik Ajit KumarSahoo was 27 years old andhailed from VillageBadasuanalo in DhenknalDistrict of Odisha. He hadjoined the Army in 2015 andis survived by his parents.

Rifleman Anil KumarJaswal belonged to villageSaroh of Una District ofHimachal Pradesh. He was26 years of age and had joinedArmy in 2013. He is survivedby his wife and a son. Themortal remains of the martyrswere flown for the last rites totheir native places, where theywould be laid to rest with fullmilitary honours, defencespokesman said.

������%�7��,,,people. While Irrfan belongsto Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur,the four others are fromPoonch district of Jammu andKashmir. Meanwhile, ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath wel-comed the verdict of a specialcourt of Prayagraj on the ter-ror attack at RamJanmabhoomi at Ayodhya in2005, but said that legal opin-ion would be taken on theacquittal of one accused. TheChief Minister said that thegovernment would move courton acquittal of the fifthaccused. “Legal opinion will betaken and necessary actionwill follow,” Chief Ministersaid in a statement.

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From Page 1an endowment amount of Rs5 crore with the governmentfor any lapses. Besides, the newordinance will make compul-sory that 75 per cent of theteachers are appointed on per-manent basis and in a trans-parent manner,” he said.

Tribunal: In another deci-sion, the government hasdecided to bring an ordinanceto set up UP Teachers’ ServicesTribunal to look into the dis-pute of the higher, secondaryand primary governmentteachers. The tribunal willhave a chairman along withthree administrative membersand three judicial members.The members may be retired

administrative and judicialofficials, whose age should notbe more than 65 years.

Plantation drive: The gov-ernment has set a target ofplanting 22 crore saplings thismonsoon to enhance the greencover in the state. Governmentspokesperson said the planta-tion drive for 2019-20 would belaunched with public participa-tion. The Forest Survey ofIndia, in its 2017 report, saidthat the forest cover in the statehad increased by 666 kilome-tres from 2015 and the totalforest cover, including dense,moderate and open forest areas,had gone up to 9.18 per cent ofthe total area of the state. Hesaid that the government hadalso decided to provide freesaplings during this drive.

Zoo: The government hasapproved Rs 181.82 crore forthe Martyr Ashfaq UllahKhan Zoo in Gorakhpur. Thefunds wi l l be used forenhancing facilities in thezoo along with the construc-tion of administrative build-ings and plantation drive.Gorakhpur is the third cityaf ter Lucknow and Kanpur, which has a zoo inthe state.

The government has alsoapproved a re-estimated bud-get for the construction ofhostels, buildings and otherfacil it ies at the MahantAvaidnath GovernmentCollege in Gorakhpur. TheCabinet has approved �30.34crore, while earlier, theamount was �10.75 crore.

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From Page 1The CBI had booked

another case against him in2012 for allegedly demandingand accepting bribe from animporter to cover up a dutyevasion case. He also had com-plaints of selective arrests,harassment and extortionagainst him. JointCommissioner Nalin Kumar,who was under suspension,had CBI cases against himrelating to allowing fraudulentdrawback and disproportionateassets, was also dismissed fromservice on Tuesday.

“In exercise of the powersconferred by clause (j) of rule56 of the Fundamental Rules,the President of India hasretired 15 Officers of IndianRevenue Service (C&CE) inpublic interest with immediateeffect on completing 50 yearsof age,” the Finance Ministrytweeted. All these 15 officersshall be paid a sum equivalentto the amount of pay &allowances for a period of 3

months calculated at the samerate at which they were sup-posed to be withdrawing them(pay & allowances) immediate-ly before their retirement, itadded. Rule 56(j) of theFundamental Rules allows theappropriate authority to retireany Government servant, inpublic interest, by giving noticeof three months.

Commissioner in KolkataSansar Chand, who wasallegedly involved in bribery,while Chennai-basedCommissioner G Shree Harsha,who had a disproportionateasset case to the extent of Rs2.24 crore, too were sacked. Incase of these two officers, CBIhad laid a trap and nabbedthem. Two Commissioner rankofficers -- Atul Dikshit andVinay Brij Singh-- who wereunder departmental suspen-sion have also been dismissedfrom service by theGovernment. While Dikshithad disproportionate asset caseand a CBI case of fraudulentdrawback against him, Singhhad a DRI case against him ofover-invoicing.

Deputy Commissioner

Amresh Jain of the Delhi GSTzone, who had a Rs 1.55 croredisproportionate asset case andcash recovery of Rs 95.24 lakhagainst him, was also sacked.

The other Customs andCentral Excise Officers whowere dismissed from serviceinclude AdditionalCommissioner Ashok Mahida(DG Systems, Kolkata),Additional CommissionerVirendra Agarwal. Besides,Assistant Commissioners -- SS Pabana (under suspension),S S Bisht (Bhubaneshwar GSTzone), Vinod Sanga (MumbaiGST zone), Raju Sekar (VizagGST zone), Mohd Altaf (inAllahabad) -- and DeputyCommissioner Ashok Aswal(directorate of Logistics, Delhi)have also been ‘compulsorilyretired’ by the Government, theorder said. Last week, theGovernment had sacked 12Income-Tax officers on chargesof corruption, forgery and pro-fessional misconduct, besidesdemoting four JointCommissioner rank I-T offi-cers to Deputy Commissionerrank over charges of corruption.

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New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Tuesday deferred thehearing on a plea seeking pro-tection of doctors inGovernment hospitals, sayingsince doctors have called offtheir strike in West Bengaland other states, there is nourgency to hear the matter.

The top court observedthat it understand’s that safetyof doctors is a serious issue butit cannot direct to depute policepersonnel with each and everydoctor without taking intoaccount the holistic picture.

A vacation Bench ofJustices Deepak Gupta andSurya Kant refused to issuenotice (to the Centre) at presentbut said that it is keeping thelarger issue of protection ofdoctors open.

“When this matter wasmentioned yesterday, we haddirected to list it today becausethe strike by the medical fra-ternity in West Bengal and insome other States was contin-uing. On Monday, the strike

was called off. Therefore wefind no urgency to take up thematter. List the matter aftersummer vacation before appro-priate bench,” it said. TheBench said safety of doctors isa serious issue and it needs totake a holistic view in provid-ing security to doctors.

“We understand it is a seri-ous issue but we can’t providesecurity to doctors at the costof other citizens. We have totake a holistic view. We have tolook at the larger picture likeavailability of police personneland other things. We are notagainst protection to doctorsbut at the same time we cannotdirect to depute police per-sonnel with each and everydoctor,” the Bench said.

Meanwhile, the IndianMedical Association (IMA)also filed an impleadmentapplication seeking the court’sintervention into the pleaalready filed, saying protectionneeds to be provided to doctorsacross the country. PTI

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The Government has restored supplyof rations to Defence officers posted

in peace areas following a recommen-dation by the Defence Ministry.

The scheme in practice since mid1980s was scrapped in 2017 following arecommendation by the Seventh PayCommission and in lieu officers werepaid Rs 117 per day.

Doing away with providing rationshad led to discontentment amongst thearmed forces and taking note of it theGovernment gave the nod for the Defence Ministry proposal forrestoration of ‘ration in kind,’ officials saidon Tuesday.

Rations include butter, eggs, cheese, pulses and vegetables besidesother such items.

Incidentally, this is one of the firstdecisions taken after Defence MinisterRajnath assumed charge.

The provision of ‘ration in kind’ wasearlier applicable to junior officers andlater allowed for all officer ranks.

The officers were given a choice to optfor allowance instead of rations in kind byvery officers opted for it, sources said. Theyalso said the Defence forces had appealedfor restoration of the scheme soon after itwas scrapped in 2017.

However, officers deployed in oper-ational areas continued to get ration inkind besides those posted in peace sta-tions in counter-insurgency areas.

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The CBI has booked notedlawyer Anand Grover and

his Mumbai-based voluntaryorganisation, LawyersCollective, for alleged violationof Foreign ContributionRegulation Act (FCRA) afterreceiving funds from abroadand other offences under theIndian Penal Code.

The agency has filed an FIRon the basis of a complaint fromthe Union Home Ministrywhich has alleged several dis-crepancies in the utilisation offoreign aid received by theLawyers Collective.

The CBI has bookedLawyers Collective and its pres-ident Anand Grover, andunidentified office-bearers ofthe organisation, besidesunidentified Government offi-cials. According to the com-plaint of the ministry, which isnow a part of the FIR, the grouphad received foreign aid worthover Rs 32.39 crore between2006-07 and 2014-15, whereinirregularities were committedthat amounted to violation ofthe Foreign Contribution(Regulation) Act (FCRA).

Based on available infor-mation and scrutiny of recordsof the NGO available with theMHA, prima facie violations of

various provisions of theFCRA, 2010 were noticed, theMinistry said.

It added on-site inspectionof books of accounts and recordsof the NGO was conductedfrom January 19 to 23, 2016.

The Ministry has claimedthat comments were soughtfrom the NGO on the basis ofviolations reported during theinspection, but those were notfound satisfactory, followingwhich its FCRA registrationwas suspended and a show-cause notice issued.

Grover, known for hissocial activism, is the husbandof former additional solicitorgeneral and Supreme Courtlawyer Indira Jaising.

Grover and his outfit hasbeen booked for criminal con-spiracy, criminal breach oftrust, false statement made indeclaration, violation of FCRAand criminal misconduct. Thecase was registered on June 13

by the CBI’s office in Mumbai. Recently, a PIL was filed by

Lawyers Voice, a voluntaryorganisation of advocates, in theSupreme Court, alleging that thefunds collected by LawyersCollective were misutilised for“activities against the nation”.

A bench comprising ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi andJustice Deepak Gupta hadissued notice to Jaising, Groverand the MHA, asking them tofile their responses on the alle-gations, including that themoney received by LawyersCollective was used to “influ-ence political activities”.

Jaising, Grover andLawyers Collective had issueda press statement, disputing“any allegation of misutilisationof any funds”.

“It is obvious to us that thisis victimisation on account ofMs Jaising taking up the issueof the procedure adopted inrelation to the allegations ofsexual harassment against theChief Justice of India by a for-mer employee of the SupremeCourt, which Ms Jaising hasdone so in her capacity as aconcerned citizen, a seniormember of the bar and awomen’s rights advocate, with-out commenting on the meritsof the allegations,” the pressstatement had said.

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The second day of oath-tak-ing in the 17th Lok Sabha

on Tuesday was marked byraising of slogans such as JaiShri Ram, Jai Maa Durga, JaiBheem, Tamil Vazhuka andAllahu Akbar by memberswith some even engaging inheated exchanges and bravadosand countering. The sloga-neering went unabated ignor-ing the Chair’s direction todesist from it.

Many MPs were addingtheir own slogans related toreligion and cheering upregionalism from the podiumafter Oath taking. Ruling partyalso paid tit for tat for thosewho on Monday made hue andcry during the Bhopal MPSadwi Pragya Singh Thakur.

Asaduddin Owaisi, AIMIMMP from Hyderabad, chanted“Jai Bheem, Jai Meem, TakbeerAllahu Akbar, Jai Hind”, aftermembers from the ruling sideshouted slogans of ‘Jai ShriRam’, ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and

‘Vande mataram’. Chanting ofJai Shri Ram was at its peak,when Owaisi was called to takeoath. At one point, Owaisi wasseen asking Chair to control the

sloganeering BJP MPs, askinghow could take oath duringsuch a nosy situation.

Slogans of Vande Mataramrose at its peak in Lok Sabha after

Samajwadi Party’s MP ShafiqurRahman Barq made commentsagainst Vande Mataram from thepodium after his Oath taking.“Jahan tak Vande Mataram kataaluq hai, it is against Islam wecannot follow it” he said afterconcluding his oath.

While many BJP MPsended their oath with chants of

‘Bharat mata ki jai’ and Jai ShriRam, Samajwadi Party MP fromSambhal, Shafiqur RahmanBarq, objected to VandeMataram slogan, drawingprotests from members of trea-sury benches who demanded anapology from him. BSP mem-ber Shyam Singh Yadav con-cluded his oath with ‘Jai Bheem,Jai Bharat and Jai Samajwad’.

Some of the membersespecially from West Bengaland Tamil Nadubegan andended their oath with sloga-neering despite the presidingofficer ruling that that no slo-gans will go on record. ManyDMK MPs ended with slogal‘Tamil Vazhuka’ (Let Tamilwin), BJP MPs and pther MPs from North India alsocountered them from shouting back Bharat Mata KiJai and Jai Hind.

When the members from the West Bengal, espe-cially those belonging toTrinamool Congress, tookoath, those from the treasurybenches teased them with ‘Jai

Shri Ram’ slogan. TMC members countered

with slogans like Jai Hind, JaiBengal, Jai Maa Durga and JaiMamata. Kalyan Banerjee ofTMC recited ‘Durga Path’ afterconcluding his oath while hisparty colleague Abu TaherKhan began his oath with‘Bismillah, ar-Rahman, arRahim’ and ended with AllahuAkbar. Devendra Singh Bhole began with ‘Om Namah Shivay’, while Ravindraconcluded his oath ‘Jai Yogi, Jai Modi’. Nisith Pramanikcame to the House with‘rajbongshi pagdi’ and tookoath in Bengali.

As West Bengal CMMamata Banerjee’s nephewAbhishek Banerjee’s name wascalled for oath, BJP memberschanted Jai Shri Ram.

Responding to chantingby treasury benches, he saideven Modiji is not so muchpopular in the House. Banerjeehoped that he will continue toget blessing from members oftreasury benches.

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The recent spurt in terrorattacks in Jammu &

Kashmir is a ploy of thePakistan Army-ISI combineand their terror affiliates to cre-ate a Burhan Wani type char-acter to lambast India at a slewof events coming up at theinternational level, includingFinancial Action Task Force.

Assessments here suggest,the latest Pakistani tactic comessoon after neighbouring coun-try’s Prime Minister Imran Khanwas isolated at the ShanghaiCooperation Organisation(SCO) meet in Bishek amid atowering presence of India’sPrime Minister Narendra Modideclared at the meet to call outnations that sponsor terror.

Earlier, then Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif has used theUnited Nations platform in 2016to hail Wani as a “young leader”who was “murdered” by India.Wani was a Hizbul Mujahideenterrorist who was neutralised bythe security forces in anencounter in 2016.

A slew of events at UNand European Union arecoming up in the next fewmonths and a desperatePakistan is seeking toexploit these platformsfor an anti-India tiradeby projecting liquida-tion of terrorists ashuman rights abuse bysecurity forces in Jammu& Kashmir.

“The spiraling terrorattacks in the KashmirValley by Pakistan spon-

sored terror groups are aimedat creating hero out of a ter-rorist to exploit the interna-tional audience as well asdeflect domestic pressures onthe failing economy in the ter-ror sponsoring nation,”counter-terrorism expert DrRituraj Mate said.

The Pakistani tactic alsocomes days ahead of the visit ofUS Secretary of State MikePompeo’s visit to New Delhi andIslamabad to provoke securityforces in Jammu & Kashmir toinitiate major counter-terroroperation in the Valley.

In its bid to deceive theinternational community aheadof the FATF meeting later thismonth, the PakistanGovernment has also sent analert to India and the US that anattack might be carried out in theValley by terror groups throughexplosives-laden vehicle to pro-ject to the international anti-ter-rorist financing body and theinternational community thatIslamabad has begun taking

action against terror groupsand sharing intelligence with

New Delhi andWashington, sources said.

Apart from the cor-don and search opera-

tions, the security forceshave been engaged bythe ultras in encounters,

firing and throwing ofgrenades at security forces’personnel in the last oneweek leading to a numberof casualties of the Army,paramilitary and statepolice forces.

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West Bengal Chief Ministerand TMC chief Mamata

Banerjee on Tuesday excusedherself from attending themeeting convened by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onWednesday on the issue of‘one nation, one election’.

She cited lack of sufficienttime to come up with a “prop-er response” to the matter andcalled for circulation of a whitepaper on the subject to all polit-ical parties, inviting their viewsby providing adequate time torespond if the Centre indeedwanted “concrete suggestions”.

The PM-convened meeting will also hold deliber-ations on celebrations for 75years of Independence and the150th birth anniversary ofMahatma Gandhi.

In her letter toParliamentary Affairs MinisterPralhad Joshi, who had sent outinvites to all party presidents,she said such a “serious andsensitive subject” required con-sultation with constitutionaland election experts and that toframe a proper response, sheneeded to consult all the mem-bers of her party.

“A proper response on sucha sensitive and serious subjectlike ‘one country, one election’in such a short time would notdo justice to the subject. Thematter requires consultationswith constitutional experts,election experts and above all,the party members. Instead ofdoing the matter hurriedly, Iwould request you to kindlycirculate a white paper on thesubject to all political parties,inviting their views by provid-ing adequate time. If you onlydo so, we will be able to giveconcrete suggestions on this

important subject,” she wrote inthe letter.

The TMC supremo’s deci-sion to stay away fromWednesday’s meeting in Delhicomes against the backdrop ofheightened tussle between theruling party and the BJP inWest Bengal after the saffronparty made inroads into theeastern State.

Mamata had skipped theNITI Aayog meeting lastSaturday and also did not attendthe swearing-in ceremony ofPrime Minister Narendra Modifor his second term on May 30.She had called the NITI Aayogmeeting “fruitless”.

Reacting to Banerjee’s deci-sion, West Bengal BJP chiefDilip Ghosh said she was yet torecover from her defeat in theparliamentary polls and wasmaking excuses to avoid anymeeting convened by the Centreor the saffron party. “All thepolitical parties are attending itexcept the TMC. They shout themost about the federal structurebut are busy destroying every

aspect of a healthy democracy,”he said in Kolkata.

With 22 Lok Sabha mem-bers, the Trinamool Congress(TMC) is the fourth-largestparty in the Lok Sabha alongwith the YSR Congress, whichalso has 22 members in theLower House.

The TMC chief stated thatregarding the development ofaspirational districts, her partyhad already conveyed that theywere not in favour of the selec-tion of a few districts as itwould not conform to the over-all objective of achieving a bal-anced and uniform developmentof all the districts of the State.

Banerjee, nevertheless, saidshe and her party would whole-heartedly participate in thecelebrations for 75 years ofIndependence and the 150thbirth anniversary of MahatmaGandhi. And for ways toimprove the productivity ofParliament, the parliamentaryaffairs ministry might consult the matter with all thepolitical parties.

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Opposition parties havedecided to oppose Prime

Minister Narendra Modi’s callfor ‘One Nation, One Election’.The decision was taken unani-mously at a meeting of theOpposition parties convened byUPA chairperson Sonia Gandhiand attended by leaders fromthe Congress, the TMC, theDMK, the NCP, the NC, theRSP, the Left and others.

Prominent leaders whoattended the meeting includedSonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi,Adhir Ranjan Choudhary, KSuresh all from the Congressparty, TR Baalu, Kanimozhi ofthe DMK, Supriya Sule of theNCP, Farooq Abdullah of theNC, Thirumaavalan Thol(VCK), NK Premachandran (RSP), PK Kunhalikutty(IUML), and ThomasChazhikadan of KC-M. TMCchief Mamata Banerjee hasalready opposed by declining toattend the meeting called todiscuss the issue of ‘OneNation, One Election’ idea.

The meeting by SoniaGandhi was called to chalk outtheir joint strategy for theParliament session and to takea decision of the choice of LokSabha Speaker. Newly appoint-ed leader of the Congress in theLok Sabha Adhir RanjanChoudhary said the Congressand other UPA allies havedecided to support the BJP can-didate Om Birla for the post ofthe Lok Sabha Speaker but

remained silent on the issue ofDeputy Speaker. Chowdhurysaid the Congress has alreadymoved a motion supporting theruling party candidate for thepost of Speaker of Lok Sabha.

The Congress and otherOpposition parties, have how-ever, not decided on the strate-gy for the post of Deputy Speakerof Lok Sabha and are adoptinga “wait and watch” policy.

On the issue of One NationOne Election, Chowdhary saidthe parties were opposed to theidea in principle. Since someissues are to be sorted out, theUPA will meet again onWednesday morning to discussthe issue further and take acommon stand at the meetingcalled by Modi in the evening.

Earlier in the day a meet-ing of the Congress top brass,including Sonia Gandhi andparty chief Rahul Gandhi, was

held to decide the strategy onkey matters such as Lok Sabhaspeaker’s election and PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s callto discuss the one nation, oneelection issue.

Sources said the meeting,chaired by CongressParliamentary Party leader SoniaGandhi and attended by RahulGandhi and former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh, dis-cussed the strategy to be adopt-ed by the party during the meet-ing called by the Prime Minister.

Senior Congress leadersAK Antony, P Chidambaram,Ghulam Nabi Azad, AnandSharma, Jairam Ramesh, KSuresh, and Adhir RanjanChowdhury, were among thosepresent at the meeting held atSonia Gandhi’s residence 10,Janpath. The strategy for thedinner-meeting was also dis-cussed at the Congress meeting.

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The slow progress of the monsoon,which irrigates more than half of

India’s farms, may worsen the drought-like situation prevailing in many Stateswith an overall 45 per cent rain defi-ciency recorded till June 18 since itsadvent on June 8.

The monsoon is yet to mark itsarrival in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and Odisha.The country has so far received 46.1mm of rainfall against the normal of82.4 mm for this time.

Due to deficiency of rainfall, kharifsowing area was 82.20 lakh hectarescompared to 90.34 lakh hectares dur-ing the corresponding week in 2018-19. The Telangana Government hasissued advisory asking farmers not torush into sowing. The farmers are alsoadvised not to grow maize on light soils.

According to India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD), south peninsula,including Kerala, Telangana, AndhraPradesh and Tamil Nadu, are witness-ing deficient rains of over 38 percenttill June 18. “As many as 14 subdivi-sions, including drought-riddenMaharashtra, Madhya Pradesh andChhattisgarh, are facing a deficiency ofmore than 60 per cent,” the IMD said.

IMD’s Director General Dr KJRamesh said the monsoon shouldhave reached Central India till June 18.But this year it hasn’t even coveredKarnataka properly or entered theNortheast.

The East and North East region recorded 43 per cent rain defi-ciency while North West recorded 27per cent deficiency. Except

Lakshadweep, all subdivisions of mete-orological department recorded defi-cient rainfall till date.

June-to-September monsoon madea delayed onset over the Kerala coaston 8 June and has been advancing at asluggish pace over the mainland. It lostmomentum because of Cyclone Vayu,whose formation in the Arabian Seacoincided with the monsoon onset andended up draining it of moisture. Thecyclone eventually drifted away fromthe Gujarat coast. Adequate rainfall in

the monsoon season is critical forIndia’s agricultural output and theoverall economy. A deficit rainfallduring the early part of the seasoncould delay sowing and reduce cropoutput even if rainfall gathers pace later.

According to IMD, the delayedsouthwest monsoon is now expected toarrive in Maharashtra by June 21. Themuch-awaited monsoon is expected toreach southern Konkan and Goa byJune 21, and is likely to cover the entireMaharashtra by June 24 or 25.

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In a move to benefit skilled per-sons from economically under-

privileged sections of the society,the Ministry of Road Transportand Highways has decided to doaway with the requirement ofminimum educational qualifi-cation for driving a transportvehicle. A notification to thiseffect will be issued soon.

At present, under Rule 8 ofthe Central Motor Vehicle Rules,1989, a transport vehicle driverneeds to have passed Class VIII.

According to a statementissued by the Ministry, theremoval of the requirement willopen up employment opportu-nities for a large number ofunemployed persons, especiallythe youth, and the decision willalso help meet shortage of near-

ly 22 lakh drivers in transport andlogistics sector, which is hinder-ing its growth.

“In a move to benefit skilledpersons from economicallyunderprivileged sections of thesociety, the Ministry of RoadTransport and Highways hasdecided to remove the require-ment of minimum educationalqualification for driving a trans-port vehicle,” the statement said.

The Ministry has initiatedprocess to amend Rule 8 ofCentral Motor Vehicles 1989and a draft notification in thisregard will be issued soon, itadded. There are large numbersof unemployed persons especiallyin rural areas of the country, whomay not have a formal education,but are otherwise literate andskilled, it said.

“In a recent meeting in the

Transport Ministry, the HaryanaGovernment had requested forwaiver of the educational quali-fication condition for driversfrom the economically back-ward Mewat region where thepopulation is dependent forlivelihood on low-income earn-ing pursuits including driving,”the statement said.

The State Government hadsubmitted that many people inthe region possess the requiredskill but not the required educa-tional qualification, and werefinding it difficult to obtain dri-ving license, it said, adding henceit was felt that driving being morea matter of skill than of educa-tional competence, the conditionof minimum educational quali-fication acts as a hindrance for theotherwise eligible unemployedyouth.

“However, while removingthe requirement of a minimumeducational qualification, theMinistry has strongly emphasisedupon training and skill testing ofdrivers so that road safety is notcompromised in any way,” thestatement said. Anyone applyingfor a driving license will have tomandatorily pass a stringent skilltest, it said, adding the Ministryhas emphasised that trainingimparted by a school or estab-lishment as mentioned in theMotor Vehicles Act 1988 shouldensure that the driver can readsigns and perform logistical dutysuch as maintenance of driverlogs, inspection of trucks andtrailers, submission of pre-tripand post-trip records, determi-nation of discrepancies in paper-work, effective communication toreport safety hazards.

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Fresh from her party’s unim-pressive show in the recent-

ly concluded parliamentaryelections and tormented by reg-ular exodus of party men,including MLAs and municipalcouncilors, to the BJP BengalChief Minister MamataBanerjee on Tuesday said thespate of emigration was not onaccount of any ideological trans-formation but “greed for cash.”

Addressing a meeting ofparty corporators at the NetajiIndoor Stadium Banerjee said“only those people who arebeing investigated for corrup-tion are quitting the party. Butthey do not know that they willstill be investigated for all theirpast corrupt activities.”

Though upset over a largenumber of TMC councilorsand an MLA on Tuesday join-ing the BJP in Delhi she said, “Iam not worried about 15-20councilors leaving us for cashbecause TMC is not a weakparty. Even the MLAs are alsofree to quit the party if theywant because for every suchleader quitting the party I will

produce 500 others. In fact Ihave my names ready for them.”

The TMC supremo said,“we don’t want thieves in ourparty. I call upon these thieveswho are more eager to get cutmoney out of every project toquit the party immediately sothat I can fill their places withhonest and hardworking work-ers,” adding she “won’t allowthe party leaders to extract cutmoney even from smallschemes worth even Rs 2,000.”

Claiming that she hadreports of party men wereextorting 10 per cent cutmoney for a grant of even Rs2,000, she said “TMC is not a

party of thieves and we shallnot allow you to cheat the com-mon people. For that if youwant to quit the party and jointhe BJP you are free to do so. Iask you to go now.”

However, she remindedthat “no one will be allowed tocome back to the party after-wards. None will be allowed toreturn and rejoin the party byholding some big leaders feet,”she said directing senior partyleaders Subroto Bakshi andFirhad Hakim to evolve strictconditions for returning to the

TMC after one had left it.The massive exodus from

TMC to the BJP started soonafter the conclusion of the LokSabha elections where the TMCwon 22 a deficit of 12 seatsfrom its 2014 tally where as theBJP got 18 seats 16 more thanwhat it got five years ago.

Already four TMC MLAshave left the TMC to join theBJP whereas the Bengal rulingoutfit has lost at least fivemunicipalities to a surging BJPin the wake of councilors join-ing that party in hordes.

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Meerut: Thousands turned up to pay their last respects to MajorKetan Sharma, who was killed in an encounter with militantsin Jammu & Kashmir’s Anantnag, as his mortal remains werebrought to his hometown Meerut in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday.The 29-year-old officer was killed in an encounter in Achabalarea of the south Kashmir district on Monday. A militant wasalso killed in the gun fight which broke out after the security forceslaunched a cordon-and-search operation in the area.

Sharma’s mortal remains were flown from Jammu & Kashmirto Delhi. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Army Chief GeneralBipin Rawat paid tributes to the slain officer at the Palam airportin the national Capital before his mortal remains were taken toMeerut. The slain Armyman, who will be cremated in Surajkundlater, was accorded a gun salute by his colleagues here. PTI

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Choosing not to proposeany fresh taxes on the peo-

ple ahead of the State Assemblypolls due in October this year,Maharashtra Finance MinisterSudhir Mungantiwar onTuesday presented Rs 20,292.94crore revenue deficit budgetwhich among other things con-tained several sops for thedrought-affected farmers,including 33.5 per cent con-cession in power tariff.

Amid a noisy walkout bythe Opposition from both theHouses of the State Legislatureover the alleged “leak” of bud-get papers, Mungantiwar pre-sented a budget for 2019-20which showed that the Statedebt had mounted to Rs 4.14lakh crore as on March 31, 2019.

“As per the revised esti-mates, at the end of March2019, the total State debt is atRs. 4,14, 411 crore. In view ofeconomic size of the State, thedebt is within the permissiblelimits of financial indicators,”Mungantiwar said.

The Minister said that dur-ing 2019-20, the state govern-ment expected a revenue ofRs.3,14, 64,012 as against ananticipated revenue expendi-ture of Rs.3,34,93,306 Thus, therevenue deficit will remain at

Rs.20,292.94 crore.Mungantiwar said that the

tax base of Maharashtra hadbroadened after the imple-mentation of GST with theincrease in number of regis-tered taxpayers from 7,75,000to 15,50,000.

Reiterating his govern-ment’s resolve stand solidlybehind the drought-affectedfarmers, Mungantiwar said thatthe State Government had cred-ited Rs 4,461 crore in the bankaccounts of 66,88,422 farmersfrom 17,985 villages from 151tehsils in 26 districts in the State.

Among the farmers thatMungantiwar came up withwere: concession in payment of

land revenues, Restructuring ofCo-operative loans, Stay onrecovery of agricultural loans,33.5 per cent concession in cur-rent electricity bill of agriculturalpump sets, waiver of examina-tion fee for school and collegestudents, relaxation in the cri-terion of works underEmployment Guarantee SchemeDrinking water supply by tankerwherever necessary and no dis-connection of agricultural pumpsets in the villages where scarci-ty has been declared.

The minister said thatscarcity control rooms hadbeen set up in all CollectorOffices in the state for redressof drinking water scarcity.

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Ahmedabad: After playing truant for a week, Cyclone Vayu wentpast the Kutch coast in Gujarat on Tuesday in a considerably weak-ened state, leaving moderate to heavy showers at several placeswith the mercury plummeting dramatically.

“Cyclone Vayu converted into a low pressure area and crossedover Kutch in the morning,” Manorama Mohanty, scientist at theIndia Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Ahmedabad Centre,told reporters.

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The RBI will examine con-cerns around its strict data

localisation rules that requirestoring of customer data exclu-sively in India without creatingmirror sites overseas, the gov-ernment said on Tuesday.

The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) in April last year askedpayment firms to ensure theirdata are stored exclusively onlocal servers, setting a tightsix-month deadline for com-pliance. That deadline wassaid to have been missed bysome foreign firms includingcredit card giants Visa andMastercard. Commerce andIndustry Minister PiyushGoyal on Monday held exten-

sive consultations with thetech industry and e-commercecompanies, a statement by hisministry said.

“All the companies whowere represented in this meet-ing put forth their concernsrelated to RBI data storagerequirements and processingrelated guidelines issued by theRBI. Deputy Governor of RBI,BP Kanungo, assured theindustry representatives thatthe Reserve Bank of Indiawill look into this,” it said.

The RBI in April 2018 putout a circular requiring that all“data relating to payment sys-tems” are “stored in a systemonly in India” within sixmonths. International giantsusually store data on global

servers and the requirement tostore data locally wouldrequire them to make an addi-tional investment. But policy-makers in India believe stor-ing data locally would helpmonitor and conduct investi-gations if the need arises.

Mastercard CEO AjayBanga joined the meeting viavideo conference, the state-ment said. Besides the RBIrule, concern was alsoexpressed at the meeting abouta draft e-commerce policythat requires exclusive localstorage and processing of datagenerated by users in Indiafrom various sources includ-ing e-commerce platforms,social media and searchengines.

While domestic compa-nies such as Reliance Jio havespoken up in support thegovernment’s data localisationefforts, others like Facebook,Amazon, Microsoft, andMastercard have led the wayin opposing it. “The e-com-merce industry representa-tives also put forth their con-cerns before the CommerceMinister about the e-com-merce draft policy which theyfelt was not adequately con-sultative,” the statement saidadding Goyal assured themthat each and every concernof the industr y wil l beaddressed.

He asked e-commercerepresentatives to send theirconcerns in writing within 10

days. On a draft data protec-tion bill released in July 2018that proposes a requirementfor data localisation as a rem-edy to concerns about pro-tection of personal data,industry representatives toldthe Minister that though theconsultations on it were sat-isfactory, a lot of time hadelapsed and they were notsure about the final shape ofthe Bill.

The statement said princi-ples of data protection and pri-vacy were discussed at length inthe meeting and industry rep-resentatives requested Goyal toensure that the Bill will havemore clarity around the classi-fication of data and the mannerof cross border flow of data.

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In addition to performing itsprimary duty of providing

security, the CRPF will launcha ‘save environment’ campaignduring the pilgrimage to the3,880-metre-high holy caveshrine of Amarnath in thesouth Kashmir Himalayas. The46-day annual yatra is sched-uled to begin from the twinroutes — the traditionalPahalgam track in Anantnagdistrict and the shortest Baltaltrack in Ganderbal district —on July 1 and will conclude onAugust 15, coinciding with theRaksha Bandhan festival.

CRPF is part of the multi-security grid comprising Army,local police and other securityforces to ensure smooth andincident-free yatra. “This year,CRPF is appealing pilgrims aswell as the public in general to

play their vital role in preserv-ing the fragile environmentespecially along the yatra area,”the Jammu-based PublicRelations Officer of the para-military force Ashish KumarJha told PTI.

He said the CRPF had pre-pared the hoardings and ban-ners and will display these onprominent places along theyatra route, including JammuTawi railway station, airport,bus stands, various base campsand ‘langer’ (communitykitchen) points before the yatrabegins. “It is our duty to safe-guard nature and we expect thepilgrims and locals to extendtheir cooperation and playtheir role in maintaining thecleanliness of the mountains,rivers and streams,” Jha said.

He said the hoardings willbe in both English and Hindito convey a powerful message

for the need to preserve thenature by avoiding plastic andpolythene and use environ-ment-friendly material anddustbins to dispose off thewaste in a proper manner.

Besides other securityagencies, the officer said theCRPF is deployed predomi-nantly for the safe and smoothconduct of yatra. “CRPF, likeother security agencies, willensure security of pilgrims,their camps and convoys andwill also provide all possibleassistance to the pilgrims inconsonance of its public friend-ly image,” he said.

Meanwhile, JammuDivisional CommissionerSanjeev Verma said the admin-istration is fully geared up forthe yatra and has made neces-sary arrangements for the pil-grims like medical services,banking facilities and food

court. A police control roomwas also set up at the Niwasbesides the State RoadTransport Corporationcounter, he said adding the firstbatch of pilgrims will beflagged-off from the Niwas onJune 30 by KK Sharma, theadvisor to the Governor.

Verma said efforts are underway to ensure wide publicity tothe pilgrimage. This year, he said,mobile bio toilets are beinginstalled enroute Jammu toBanihal and Jammu to Pir Ki Galialong Mughal road. “Though,Mughal Road shall be used as analternate route, there shall beample langers all along the routeas per past practice. Besides,buses for pilgrims shall be linedup separately for both Pahalgamand Baltal routes at Yatri Niwasto avoid any chaos while lookingfor the concerned route buses bythe pilgrims,” he said.

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In yet another relief aimed atmiddle class voters, the Aam

Aadmi Party (AAP)Government is going to grant50 per cent concession in theregistration and road taxcharges for CompressedNatural Gas (CNG) factoryfitted private cars. The proposalis a part of Delhi Government’s“Green Budget” to recreatebreathing space in the city andto reduce pollution level bypromoting the CNG usage.

The project was proposedby the Government in theBudget 2018-19 along withother projects such as 1,000electric buses, 900 electric feed-er buses for last mile connec-tivity, edge-to-edge paving andlandscaping of Public WorksDepartment (PWD) roads andothers. Under this GreenBudget project, 26 anti-pollu-tion schemes have been listedfrom various departments ofthe Delhi Government.

According to the officialsources, the finalisation of thescheme is at the last stages andwill be placed in the upcomingCabinet meeting which is like-ly to be held by end of thismonth. “The proposal wasannounced in last year’s Budgetand the Government is work-ing on it to implement thescheme as soon as possible topromote CNG vehicles in thecity for better environmentcondition. The file regardingthe same is under submissionand will be placed before theCabinet meeting,” said sources.

If everyone converts theirvehicles to CNG, the city will

be free from hazardous airpollution, said Jasmine Shah,the chairperson of DelhiDialogue Commission (DDC).

The Government is alreadypromoting CNG vehicles and istaking measures to curb pol-lution level in the city, saidJasmine Shah, the Chairman ofDelhi Dialogue Commission(DDC) adding that the peoplehave confusion about thescheme on which I would liketo clear that this scheme will beonly for the private car ownersand the remaining cab driversand taxi company can only useCNG fuel.”

The registration chargesfor any vehicle are a very min-imum amount which costs upto �1,000. But the road taxvaries car to car such as if avehicle is purchased for �10lakh then two percent of that ischarged for road tax. It willincrease and decrease depend-ing on upon the vehicles prices.However, if this scheme will beimplemented, the car owner

will be benefited, said transportofficial.

“According to the datacompiled by the Delhi pollu-tion Control Committee(DPCC), concentration of aparticulate matters in Delhi’s airpollution has declined by 20per cent. Data shows that aver-age PM volume in the air in2011 was 277, which increasedto 368 in 2012. Since then, ithas been continuously rising,and in 2018 it has againreduced to 277. Similarly, thequantity of PM 2.5 was 136 in2011 which became 164 in2012. it is registered 128 in theyear 2018. Another pollutingelement NO2, which was 71 in2011, increased to 90 in thenext years but in 2018 camedown to 50 with various effortsof this government. Thus, thisscheme will also help to curbpollution,” said another offi-cial. He added that it was stat-ed by the Deputy ChiefMinister in this year’s DelhiBudget speech.

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After a lull, the fear of‘Operation Lotus’ to topple

the Government returned tohaunt the coalition Governmentwith Chief Minister HDKumaraswamy Tuesday accus-ing the BJP of attempting tobribe one of his party MLAs.

Addressing a public meet-ing at a village in Ramanagar,Kumaraswamy said relentlessefforts have been made to pulldown the Government and heknew who have been behind it.

To back his claim, theChief Minister recalled thatwhen he was on the way fromRamanagara to Bidadi, one ofhis MLAs called him at about11 pm on Monday.

“The MLA said that half-an-hour ago a BJP leader calledhim. The leader said theGovernment’s fall was immi-

nent by Wednesday evening.Already nine MLAs from

Congress and the JD(S) havesigned. The leader told himthat if he (MLA) agreed hewould dispatch Rs 10 crore athis location,” the Chief Ministeralleged. Kumaraswamy saidthe MLA was shaken badlyafter the BJP leader told him tojoin them. “This is going oncontinuously. They have keptmoney ready to topple this gov-ernment,” the CM said.“Whatever attempts they make,the Government will not falland it will continue for the nextfour years,” he asserted.

Kumaraswamy did notreveal the name of the MLA northe BJPleader who approachedhim giving room for specula-tion. BJP spokesperson GoMadhusudan rubbished thecharge, saying the CM wasmaking a baseless allegation.

“Just to advance his vestedinterest and dynastic politics,the CM has been making base-less allegations against the BJP.

The BJP has neitherapproached his party MLAsnor has any ‘OperationLotus’.Let him focus on devel-opment instead of levellingallegations,” he said. Timeand again, the JD(S) and its allyin the Government, theCongress, have been accusingthe BJP of attempting to top-plethe Government by bribingtheir MLAs. Ahead of tablingthe state budget on February 8,the Chief Minister had held apress conference and claimedthat the BJPleaders wanted tobribe JD(S) MLAs.

To substantiate hisclaim, hehad released the audio clip ofa purported conversationbetween a JD(S) MLA and theBJP leaders.

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With reservoirs supplyingwater to Chennai drying

up and ground water levelsplummeting in absence of rain,water has become scarce butthe Government is taking nec-essary steps to supply drinkingwater to people, Tamil NaduChief Minister K Palaniswamisaid on Tuesday.

Interacting with reportershere, Palaniswami said owingto failure of rains, the groundwater levels have gone down.

People are using the watersupplied through tankers fordrinking and washing as theground water levels have gonedown and hence the shortage,he said.

The resorvoirs —Cholavaram (full capacity 1,081mcft) and Redhills (3,300 mcft)— which cater to the Chennai’swater needs are dry while thestorage at Poondi reservoir is 24mcft as against full capacity of3,231 mcft, according toChennai Metropolitan WaterSupply and Sewerage Board(Chennai Metro).

The Chembarambakkam

lake (full capacity 3,645 mcft)has water level of mere 1 mcft.

Palaniswami said waterfrom desalination projects isalso being distributed to peopleand urged people to cooperatewith the government as groundwater will be supplied for nextfour/five months till rains beginin October/November.

As regards water from theTelugu Ganga Scheme or

Krishna Water, Palaniswamisaid only water could only bereleased to Tamil Nadu if thereis 8 tmc of water in Kadalerudam in Andha Pradesh.

The water level at Kadalerudam is presently about 4 tmc.

Palaniswami also said thatwater from the Mettur Dam isbeing released to fill up theVeeranam lake to supply drink-ing water to Chennai.

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The Congress on Tuesdaysuspended rebel MLA R

Roshan Baig from the partywith immediate effect for “anti-party” activities.

“All India CongressCommittee has approved theproposal sent by KPCC to takeaction against R Roshan Baig,MLA on account of his anti-party activities,” the stateCongress said in a release.

“He has been suspendedfrom the party with immediateeffect, on the basis of inquiryconducted on this matter,” itsaid. Hitting out at Congressleaders for the party’s perfor-mance in the Lok Sabha polls,Baig, a MLA from Shivajinagar,had recently heldSiddaramaiah’s “arrogance” andKPCC president DineshGundu Rao’s “immaturity”responsible for the “flop show.”

He also called AICC gen-eral secretary KC Venugopal a“buffoon.” He had also droppedhints of quitting the party, and

appealed to Muslims to “com-promise” with the situation, onNDA returning to power.

The Karnataka PCC hadissued a show cause notice toBaig for his conduct, to whichhe has not responded, accord-ing to sources.

Earlier in the day, KPCCpresident Dinesh Gundu Raohad said Baig’s alleged links withIMA jewels involved in analleged financial fraud, dupingthousands of investors, would bebrought to the notice of Centralleadership for further action.

Revenue Minister RVDeshpande on Monday saidBaig had introduced the firm’sowner Mohammed MansoorKhan to him about two monthsago but denied doing anyundue favour.

Baig, a seven-time MLAand a former minister, hasbeen expressing displeasureagainst the Congress partyleadership on not being included in the coalition cabi-net headed by HDKumaraswamy.

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Telangana Chief Minister KChandrashekhar Rao on

Tuesday said that UnionMinister of State for Home GKishan Reddy has become ajoke by stating that Hyderabadis a “safe zone for terrorists”.

“People are laughing athim. He has become a joke,”Rao said at a news conferenceon Tuesday night.

KCR, as Rao is popularlyknown, said there was not asingle incident of communalviolence in Telangana duringlast five years and the UnionHome Ministry also went onrecord to state that the crimerate in the state had comedown.

“There was no terroristattack. We are an active gov-ernment. This is a neat andclean state. In fact there is no

other state like this in India,” hesaid.

Kishan Reddy, who is amember of Parliament fromSecunderabad, had said aftertaking oath as the Minister ofState on May 30 thatHyderabad had become safezone for terrorists as any terrorincident in the country wouldhave a link to the city.

KCR said since the AndhraPradesh government had hand-

ed back the buildings at the sec-retariat to Telangana, a newsecretariat complex would bebuilt at the existing premises.He said the foundation stonefor the new secretariat buildingwill be laid on June 27. Thecomplex with 5-6 lakh squarefeet space will be built at a costof Rs 400 crore.

The Chief Minister alsoannounced that the existingAssembly building will be pre-

served as heritage structure anda new legislature complex com-prising legislative Assemblyand legislative Council will bebuilt at Yerrum Manzil at a costof Rs 100 crore.

He said Telangana andAndhra Pradesh governmentshad agreed to hold talks tosolve all outstanding issueswith regard to distribution ofwaters of Godavari and Krishnarivers.

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The controversial plan tomake Asia’s popular market

and New Delhi’s iconic heartand global showpieceConnaught Place a car-freezone is being rolled out soon.

Top sources in the NewDelhi Municipal Council(NDMC) said the plan will beexecuted in two phases.

Senior officials in NDMCtold The Pioneer that bothphases will run at weekends.“We are yet to study the imple-mentation plans, hence we arelaunching this during week-ends,” said an official on thecondition of anonymity.

NDMC officials have met

Delhi Traffic Police top brassfor the required traffic man-agement plan to execute it.

The officials also disclosedthe date of the pilot project.“The first phase of experimentwill start from June 29, 30, thesecond on July 6, 7,” the officialssaid. Connaught Place isfavourite destination ofDelhiites at weekends as ithouses eateries, movie theatersand shops.

For many residents, whobelieve in spending time withtheir families and buyingauthentic stuff from here, thecouncil’s plan to execute thisproject at weekends only is notgood news for them.

This is the third attempt of

the council to make ConnaughtPlace car-free or pedestrianfriendly zone, purportedly tohelp maintain the beauty of thecolonial-era structure.

Readers may recall thetraders’ protest earlier as thisplan would hamper their busi-ness as shoppers in this area usetheir vehicles to visit CP.

Traders in the area claimedthat they have not been takeninto confidence by the NDMCofficials. “What is the need tomake CP area vehicle-freezone, the council is aware thenature of visitors. The CP mar-ket hosts banks, jewellers, pubsand eateries,” asked a trader.“Who will ensure the safety ofour visitors and this is an

attempt to divert our cus-tomers,” a trader claimed.

NDMC officials said theproject to make CP car-freezone is inspired from Paris andNew York. “We have studiedthe redevelopment structures ofbig cities of the world and wehave tried to cultivate suchfacilities here,” said the official.Although it is doubtful if anyof town planners are fully cog-nizant of the planning thatwent into pedestrian zones ofParis and New York’sWoodstock village.

The project was discussedon January 5 this year in ameeting of NDMC officials.

Then Union UrbanDevelopment Minister

Venkaiah Naidu had chairedthe meeting. And it was offi-cially announced that to makeConnaught Place area pedes-trian friendly, cars and buseswill not be allowed in the mid-dle and inner circle. Earlier,NDMC chairman NareshKumar in his address to themedia had ten said the ban ispart of a pilot smart city projectthat will be launched nextmonth. As part of the project, theimposing commercial area builtby Edwin Lutyens in 1933 will bebarred to traffic from February1 for the next three months.Officials say they will analyse thedata and then take the final callwhether to continue with thisplan or drop it.

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The consortium of 26bankers led by State Bank

Tuesday took the groundedJet Airways to the NationalCompany Law Tribunal torecover their dues of over Rs8,500 crore. The tribunal willhear the matter Wednesday.

Jet Airways, started over 25years ago by airline- ticketing-agent-turned-entrepreneurNaresh Goyal, stopped flyingon April 17 after it ran out ofcash and the unpaid lessorstook away most of its 100-oddoperational airplanes. Thelenders have been trying to sellthe airline as a going concernsince the past five months, butfailed due to many a reason.

Apart from banks, the air-line also owes over �10,000crore to its hundreds of ven-dors, primarily aircraft lessorsand over �3,000 crore to around

23,000 employees who havenot been paid since March.

The airline has been havingnegative networth for long andhas run a loss of over �13,000crore in the past few year. Thusit has over �36,500 crore of duesand being a services companynegligible assets to recover.

Also, most of its domesticairport slots have been givenaway to other airlines by thegovernment and so are some ofits slots at some key interna-tional airports.

On the aeroplane asset side,Jet had only 16 on its book whichare valued around �5,000 croreas per some media reports, as therest of its 123 fleet were on leaseand most of them have been de-registered or taken away by theforeign lessors already.

The Jet shares are at multi-year lows and plunged 41 percentTuesday to close at �40.45 on theBSE. During the day, it tanked

52.78 percent to hit an all-timelow of �32.25. In the past fivetrading sessions alone, the shareslost over 73 percent of their value.

When banks converted apart of their debt into equitywhen the stock was tradingover �250 apiece. The conver-sion price was fixed at a nom-inal Re 1, though.

Following a meeting of thelenders Monday, SBI had saidthat “after due deliberations, thelenders have decided to seekresolution for Jet Airwaysunder the bankruptcy codesince only a conditional bid wasreceived”.

The statement further saidthe move was necessitated asthe prospective investor (a con-sortium of Etihad Airways andHinduja group) wants someSebi exemptions waiving theopen offer requirement, whichcan be worked out better underthe bankruptcy laws.

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Patients heaved a sigh ofrelief on Tuesday after

junior doctors resumed work atall state-run hospitals followingtheir week-long stir that haddisrupted healthcare servicesacross West Bengal.

All the 14 medical collegeand hospitals in the state start-ed functioning, with normalwork resuming at outdoor facil-ities, pathological units andother departments. The patientturnout was high at all the hos-pitals, including the Nil RatanSircar (NRS) Medical Collegeand Hospital, which was theepicentre of the junior doctors’agitation.

“Most of our colleagueshave resumed work and theyare helping the seniors in deliv-ering regular services in theoutpatient departments (OPD)since Tuesday morning,” aspokesperson of a joint forumof junior doctors told PTI.

Since many junior doctors

were in Kolkata to take part inthe agitation, they could notreach their workplaces in far-offareas on Tuesday morning, hesaid, adding, “They will resumework as soon as they reach thehospitals.”

“It is a relief for us. We arepoor and have no other optionbut to go to government hos-pitals. The stir had impactedour treatment. I am happy thatit has been called off,” ArifulHaque from Malda district,

who regularly visits the NRShospital for the treatment of hisbrother’s cardiac ailments, said.

Santanu Hazra, a thalas-saemia patient undergoingtreatment at the SSKM hospi-tal in the city, was also happywith the doctors calling off theiragitation and rejoining work.

“It was a terrible experiencelast week when I had to go backhome almost everyday due tothe agitation. I am financiallynot that sound to visit private

hospitals. I am happy that mytreatment has resumed,” hesaid. Private hospitals, whichwitnessed a low patient turnoutand most doctors taking leaveon Monday owing to a strikecalled by the Indian MedicalAssociation (IMA), also saw anormal inflow of patients.

The junior doctors calledoff their week-long strike onMonday night after meetingChief Minister MamataBanerjee, who assured them ofsteps to scale up security at thegovernment hospitals in thestate. The medicos were onstrike since last Tuesday,protesting against the assault ontwo of their colleagues by thekin of a patient who died at theNRS Hospital and MedicalCollege.

Principal of NRS hospitalProf (Dr) Saibal Mukherjeesaid, “Doctors are having abusy time at the OPDs. Thepatients had come here lastweek but could not be attend-

ed to due to the agitation. Weare trying our best to treatmost of them as it is our dutyto serve them.” Senior policeofficials in the rank of assistantcommissioners, along withadequate force, are stationedon the hospital premises tokeep a check on the situation,as per the demands of thejunior doctors.

At an hour-long televisedmeeting with the representa-tives of the junior doctors onMonday, Banerjee announced anumber of steps, including ask-ing the police to appoint nodalofficers for the security of doc-tors at all government hospitalsin the state, following which thedoctors agreed to call off thestir.

They had received supportfrom across the country. On thecall of the IMA, medicos inDelhi and other states stayedaway from providing non-emergency healthcare serviceson Monday.

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Corbett Tiger Reserve author-ities have decided that it will

not entertain references fromVIPs requesting stay and safarifacilities among others either forthemselves or for their relativesand friends, instead theserequests would be reported totheir higher authorities. Themove comes as the Corbettadministration has been receiv-ing a large number of commu-nications, through explicituse/display of official posi-tion/state symbols, for arrangingsafari, stay, other privatearrangements of various highlyplaced authorities, which is oth-erwise a purely personal activi-ty and has nothing to do with dis-charge of any official duties of theauthorities concerned.

On many occasions, evencases of friends/other knownones have been referred to theauthorities at Corbett and some-times the matter has been triedto be pursued in coercive /intim-idating manners, according to arecent official order.

“This is nothing but brazenabuse of official position forseeking favour for personal ends.Such practices also put stress onan already overburdened admin-istration, primary duties of which

are habitat management andprotection works,” it said.

Therefore, in accordancewith constitutional principles,orders of the Supreme Court andother relevant rules/notificationsin this regard, it is hereby orderedthat any communication receivedthrough use of official positions,except for those entitled, in anymanner, for the said purpose willnot be entertained at all, by anyof the officials posted in theCorbett Tiger Reserve,Uttarakhand, the order said.

Rules framed by theUttarakhand government regard-ing state guests allow very fewconstitutional functionaries likethe president, prime minister,chief justice of India, Lok Sabhaspeaker, among others to availsuch facilities.

“In future such requests arenot to be taken cognizance of atall and the same has to bereturned immediately, in origi-nal, to the office concerned andthe matter has to be reported tothe higher authorities of suchoffices for action against them,regarding such abuse of officialpositions,” said SanjivChaturvedi, director of theCorbett Tiger Reserve, in theorder. He said the Right toEquality guaranteed underArticle 14 of the Constitution, is

one of the bedrocks of democ-ratic polity.

“However, over the years, a‘VIP culture’ has crept into ourpolity, where persons occupyinginfluential positions, started usingtheir official position and pow-ers to create a distinct class forthemselves, and using it as a priv-ilege to make undue claim overpublic resources, for purposeswhich had nothing to do withdischarge of their official duties,”Chaturvedi said.

This VIP culture, which isanathema to the cherished prin-ciples of equality and fraternity,has created distortions in systemof governance and has causedresentment in general public, hesaid, citing a central governmentdecision on prohibiting use of redbeacons on official vehicles.

Chaturvedi said the com-munications received by thosenot entitled to the facilities of stayat the Corbett Tiger Reserve “arenothing but brazen misuse ofofficial positions/symbols forabsolutely private purposes”.

A lot of people, includingthose in the judiciary and bureau-cracy, seek favour from theCorbett Tiger Reserve adminis-tration for stay and safari, amongother VIP facilities for themselvesor for their friends/relatives, offi-cials said.

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The Supreme Court onTuesday agreed to hear on

June 19 a plea of GujaratCongress challenging the deci-sion of the ElectionCommission to hold separatebypolls to two Rajya Sabhaseats in the state. The RajyaSabha seats fell vacant follow-ing the election of BJP chiefAmit Shah and party leaderSmriti Irani to Lok Sabha fromGandhinagar and Amethi,respectively.

A vacation bench of JusticesDeepak Gupta and Surya Kantagreed to list the matter on

Wednesday after senior advo-cate Vivek Tankha mentionedit for urgent hearing. The peti-tion filed by Congress MLAfrom Amreli and Leader ofOpposition in GujaratAssembly, Pareshbhai Dhanani,has sought a direction to the ECto hold the bypolls together.

A press note issued by thepoll panel on June 15 scheduledthe election for both the seatson July 5. The EC clarified thatthe vacancies for bypolls to allHouses, including Rajya Sabha,are considered “separate vacan-cies” and separate notificationsare issued and separate polls areheld, though the schedule can

be the same.Shah has been given the

charge of Union HomeMinistry and Irani Women andChild Development Ministry.In his plea, Dhanani has soughta direction to quash and declarethe poll panel’s order as “uncon-stitutional, arbitrary, illegal,void ab initio” and said it vio-lated Article 14 of theConstitution.

He submitted that the pollpanel be directed to hold simul-taneous by-elections andpolling for filling of all vacan-cies in all states, includingGujarat.

The MLA, through his

lawyer, submitted that separateelections for the two RajyaSabha seats in Gujarat wouldupset the scheme of propor-tional representation as man-dated under the Representationof People Act.

In the petition, it is statedthat the basic principle, bothunder the Constitution andRepresentation of People Act1951, is that if regular vacanciesare existing at the time whenthe election is held, it should beheld together so that the systemof proportional representationby means of single transferablevote can be applied to thoseelections.

The petition contendedthat if the Election Commissionis given a free hand to issue oneor more notification withrespect to vacancies in Councilof States (Rajya Sabha) and ifseparate elections are held forthe same purpose, it may resultin abuse of power in as muchas the majority party will alwaysbe able to arrange the mattersin such a way that it gets max-imum seats.

In the 182-member Housein Gujarat Assembly, BJP has100 members and theOpposition-led by Congress75 members, while seven seatsare vacant.

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Two months after the Easterbombings, while the dots havebeen connected, accountabilityis still playing truant. Besidesothers, India had alerted Sri

Lanka on April 4, 10, 16, 20 and 21 butincredibly, security agencies in Colombotook no action. On this page, after the hor-rendous bombings, this writer had calledthe catastrophic event a mystery.

Both President Maithripala Sirisenaand Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesingheof what was once a National UnityGovernment of two rival parties have saidthey received no official information on ter-ror attacks. Sirisena is the Minister forDefence and Minister for Law and Order,which place all intelligence, defence, secu-rity and police agencies under his com-mand. The Minister of State for Defencefor good optics is in Wickremesinghe’sCabinet. While Sirisena has ordered a pres-idential commission to investigate thebombings, the powerful speaker, KaruJayasuriya, has appointed a parliamentaryselect committee (PSC) for enquiry. ThePSC has had public hearings aired on tele-vision which has upset the President, whohas since prohibited all serving defence,intelligence and security officials from tes-tifying before it. It has been boycotted bySirisena’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)and Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka PodujanaPeramuna (SLPP).

Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando,who was forced to resign, told the PSC thatintelligence was available on April 9 of a pos-sible threat on April 21 and had assumedthat Sri Lanka’s state intelligence serviceschief would have informed the President aswas the practice. He added that as DefenceSecretary, he could not meet the President— not even once in two weeks — as he hadno time. The shocker was the revelation thatSirisena had told Fernando not to invite thePrime Minister, MoS for Defence andInspector General Police, Pujith Jayasundarafor National Security Council meetings sinceNovember 13, 2018, following theConstitutional crisis in which Sirisena hadsacked Wickremesinghe and appointedOpposition leader and his presidentialrival, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as Prime Minister,which was later revoked by the courts.

IGP Jayasundara, who refused toresign, was suspended by the President andmoved the courts, told the PSC that priorintelligence was available, giving specificdetails about the catastrophic intelligencefailure adding: “No emergency wasdeclared.” He said Sirisena offered him anambassadorial post for his resignation,assuring him that the presidential commis-sion would clear his name. Jayasundarastruck the final nail in the coffin by say-ing there was “total unpreparedness ofGovernment to act on intelligence reports.”

The head of national intelligence,Sisira Mendis, a former police chief who

reported directly to thePresident, testifying before thePSC said that the bombingscould have been averted.Mendis also said that thePresident failed to hold regu-lar security meetings to assessthe threat from Islamic radicalslinked to National TowheedJamaat (NTJ). Sirisena has dis-missed Mendis.

Linked to the suicidebombings is the revelation thatin 2018, the premier spyagency, state intelligence chief,Nilantha Jayewardene, orderedthe IGP to stop investigatingIslamic militants as well asNTJ. He also did not take seri-ously the information provid-ed by India on the radicalNTJ. While in India for PrimeMinister Modi’s swearing in,Sirisena said there was noproof that the bombers visitedIndia, contradicting ArmyCommander MaheshSenanayake, who told BBCthat they did go to India fortraining. Clearing himself ofany responsibility for the intel-ligence failures, Sirisena said: “Iwas in Sri Lanka upto April 16before going to Singapore on aprivate visit. None of thedefence Chiefs informed me ofany such intelligence”.

All that one wished toknow about the nine suicide

bombers is now in the publicdomain. Zahran Hashim, theradical preacher linked to NTJfrom Kattankudy in Batticaloa,which has Sri Lanka’s biggestmosque, was the ring leader.How the suicide bomber insideTaj Samudra hotel panicked,walked out and blew himselfup along with two others in asmall hotel in Dehiwala suburbof Colombo is well-known.None of the nine bombers wasimpoverished, physically ormentally challenged, but allhighly educated and affluent,two of them millionaires andall roped in by Hashim. It wasa small group connected withHashim.

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’scapacity to self-destruct may behurtling it towards anotherethnic conflict. The majoritySinhala Buddhists, spearhead-ed by the clergy and politicalOpposition, have demonisedthe Muslims. Anti-Muslimriots, surpassing in scale theworst ones in 2018 in Digana,have occurred after the bomb-ings. A false narrative of hatredand prejudice is being spreadagainst Muslims. Fake talesabout swords stored inmosques and mass sterilisationof Sinhalese by a Muslim doc-tor are being circulated.

Vilification of Muslims will

further divide society asMuslims live across the coun-try. Calling for unity amongcommunities, it was disingen-uous on part of Sirisena towarn them of the emergence ofa Muslim Prabhakaran, anavoidable simile to the dread-ed Tamil supremo of the LTTEwho fought an ethnic conflictfor three decades, ending 2009.

The mass resignation oftwo Muslim Governors andnine Ministers to enable theGovernment to conduct inves-tigations, clearing them of link-ages to suicide bombings, hasopened a new front.Organisation of IslamicCountries (OIC) envoys basedin Colombo have appealed tothe Government to protectMuslims and their properties.

The presidential pardonto reactionary monkGnanasara Thero, who wasimplicated in the anti-Muslimviolence of 2018 and stormeda court hearing old cases of“enforced disappearances”, willadd fuel to fire. Rumoursagainst Muslims and anti-Muslim riots are a smokescreen to shift focus from thepresidential and parliamen-tary enquiries to resurgentSinhala Buddhist extremismdirected at Muslims. TheGovernment is drafting a leg-

islation to change Muslim lawsdealing with burqa, hijab, halal,mosques and madrasas in con-sultation with Muslim clergyand leadership.

The question of account-ability will be drowned in theconflict between parallelenquiries reflecting the break-down of the co-habitationGovernment. Why did Sirisenanot know about the intendedbombings and why did intelli-gence and security forces fail toact? Sirisena can only be inves-tigated after January 2020 by anew President. But the broken-down Government cannotafford to wait to be fixed tillafter the elections.

The ultimate irony for SriLanka was whenWickremesinghe, after a meet-ing with Modi, who was on afive-hour visit to Colombothis month, sought India’s helpin counter-terrorism. Since2009 after vanquishing LTTE,Colombo has proudly show-cased its unique prowess andskills in eliminating root andbranch, terrorism in the 21stcentury — a historic first!

(The writer is a retiredMajor General of the IndianArmy and founder member ofthe Defence Planning Staff, cur-rently the revamped IntegratedDefence Staff)

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Sir — Like a raging wildfire, themedical fraternity across thelength and breadth of the coun-try lent support to agitating doc-tors in West Bengal, seeking aCentral legislation against hospi-tal violence and attacks by infu-riated attendants. Failing to graspthe seriousness of the situation,when a 200-strong mob beat updoctors and nursing staff andgenerally indulged in rowdy acts,West Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee used harshlanguage against the agitatingdoctors and threatened to lock allof them in case they failed toresume work immediately.

Instead of controlling the sit-uation, Banerjee let it get out ofhand by dismissing it as aBharatiya Janata Party-Communist Party of India(Marxist) conspiracy. This fuelledthe protests. Creating an image ofa victim of the conspiracy andmachination of the BJP is no wayto help reclaim the situation.

Violence against doctors try-ing to follow the best line of treat-ment for a patient is unacceptable.They may have a demi-god statusin the public eye, but they are no

gods. They work long, strenuoushours and may err, which maycause grave complications or eveninadvertent death. But in thosecircumstances, too, law can’t betaken in one’s hands, no matterhow grave the sense of loss.Thankfully, Banerjee assured thedoctors about new security mea-sures and the strike was called off.

JS Acharya Hyderabad

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Sir — The oath-taking ceremonyfor the 17th Lok Sabha sessionwitnessed several membersaffirming in different languageswhile assuming the position. Theday-long event witnessed themembers reading transcript of theoath presented in the presence ofpro-tem speaker.

However, in today’s times, asingle day reserved only for oathtaking holds no relevance and isonly a wastage of tax payers’money. The archaic oath readingceremony could have beenreplaced by mere signing of thepapers through necessary parlia-mentary business procedures andthe session could have started offdirectly through business pro-ceedings from day one. There are

many crucial Bills that are pend-ing and require sufficient time tobe discussed.

Varun DambalBengaluru

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Sir — The Prime Minister isreported to have unveiled hisvision for a $5 trillion dollar econ-omy at the NITI Aayog meetingheld last week. This is indeedencouraging. But what is of graveconcern is that more than 80 percent of the population is reelingunder abject poverty. There aremany villages which do not haveaccess to either potable water orelectricity. Without proper health-care, roads and education, peopleare suffering. Development mustbe inclusive. It should not be fordata or record. Oureconomy/GDP should speak wellabout people’s standard of living.On the economic front, India hasa long road to traverse. Will a $5trillion dollar economy spin thefortune of the poor?

NR RamachandranChennai

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On May 23 this year, the United States(US) successfully launched 60 of itsStarlink internet satellites. Starlink is one

of the most ambitious projects of Space X, theprivate rocket company of high-tech entrepre-neur, Elon Musk. The aim of the firm is tolaunch as many as 2,000 satellites per year, withthe ultimate objective of placing up to 12,000of such satellites into the orbit. Space today hasbeen a witness to numerous projects that arefunded by both Governments and private, com-mercial entities. In the present era of bound-less technological capabilities, the use of theouter space for military purposes has becomea cause of concern.

“It is not enough to have an American pres-ence in space, we must have American domi-nance in space,” US President Donald Trumpsaid, adding that he didn’t want to see “Chinaand other countries leading us.” With this aim,the Trump administration is in the process ofcreating a US Space Force, the sixth branch ofthe US military service, which will undertakemissions and operations in the rapidly evolv-ing space domain.

With a global quest for military suprema-cy and dominance, other space-faring countrieshave not remained mute spectators. Take theexample of India, which recently launched ananti-satellite (ASAT) weapon on March 27.Indian military scientists successfully destroyeda low-Earth orbit satellite in space by using amissile which covered a distance of 300 km toengage the target. In a televised address,Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “India hasentered its name as an elite ‘space power’. Ananti-satellite weapon, ASAT, successfully tar-geted a live satellite on a low-Earth orbit.”

ASAT weapons can be used in warfare asthey have the capability to incapacitate ordestroy enemy satellites for strategic militarypurposes. With the recent accomplishment,India became the fourth country to possesssuch a weapon alongside the US, Russia and China.

Given the increased militarisation of spaceand the immense threat it poses to nationsacross the world, it is essential to take a lookat the laws which govern the military use ofspace. The use of space is governed by fivespace-related international treaties of theUnited Nations. One of them, the Outer SpaceTreaty, came into effect in 1967 and was signedby most nations on the globe. It has been signedand made official, or has been ratified, by 105countries across the world. With regard to theuse of space, the treaty prohibits militarymanoeuvres, weapon testing, establishment ofmilitary bases, installations and fortification oncelestial bodies. Moreover, objects carryingnuclear weapons or any other kind of weaponsof mass destruction is forbidden in the orbit.

However, the use of military personnel —any equipment or facility on the celestial bod-ies — is not forbidden unless used for peace-ful purposes. So far, the treaty has worked wellbut lacks clarity on several issues, which has leftplenty of wiggle room.

Questions have been raised as to what con-stitutes “mass destruction”; whether the outer

space can be used for exploration ofresources to be used in militarymachinery; if weapons of massdestruction can be placed in spacewithout fully achieving orbit; and whatabout weapons that would not causemass destruction? The treaty remainsambiguous in some crucial aspectsabout the use of the space.

Another issue that has attractedmuch debate in the arena of publicinternational law is “peaceful purpos-es.” According to the treaty, the outerspace is a “common heritage ofmankind” and is to be used exclusive-ly for “peaceful purposes.” However,the term, “peaceful purposes” lacksclarity of definition. There has beena plethora of debates to decidewhether the term is supposed toadopt the ideology of being “non-aggressive” or “non-military.” Majorityview it as “non-military” but thesame has not been substantiated uponany of the space treaties.

Another treaty, commonly knownas the ‘Moon Treaty’, falls within theoverarching ‘Outer Space Treaty’. The‘Moon Treaty’ specifically is applica-ble to the Moon and other celestialbodies in the solar system excludingplanet Earth. It explains that thesebodies should be used exclusively forpeaceful purposes; that their environ-ments should not be disrupted; andthat the UN should be informed of thelocation and purpose of any stationestablished on those bodies. It alsoplugs a loophole in the Outer Space

Treaty by banning ownership of anyextra-terrestrial property by anyorganisation or private person, unlessthat body is international orGovernmental.

However, the most controversialpart of the ‘Moon Treaty’ pertains tothe natural resources on the Moon. Itprovides that the Moon and its natur-al resources are the common heritageof mankind and harvesting of theseriches is prohibited except by way ofan international regime established togovern the exploitation of such capi-tal. The exact nature of this regime isnot detailed, nor the term “resources”is defined.

It becomes a cause of concern forthe international community when the‘Moon Treaty’ is neither signed, acced-ed to, nor ratified by any of the space-faring nations. Also, the ambiguity ofthe provisions of the treaties canleave the nations to interpret theprovisions in a way that comple-ments their self-interest in the issue.

Take the example of the US’National Space Policy. On the onehand, it emphasises the country’scommitment to the exploration anduse of outer space by all nations forpeaceful purposes but at the sametime, it declares US’ defence andintelligence-related activities in pur-suit of national interests to be consis-tent with “peaceful purposes”.

Ever since the treaties were formu-lated in the 1960s, there was a limit-ed view of the potential of utilisation

of the outer space. But with rapidadvancements in the use of technol-ogy and intelligence in the space, thereis a dire need that the laws governingthe use of space be revisited so as toaddress some important space issuesof the 21st century like that of min-ing, space tourism, Artif icialIntelligence and intellectual propertyof space resources among other things.Meanwhile, the international commu-nity can only live in the hope that theworld does not see warfare and attackmissions in space.

The creation of an internationalregime, much like the World TradeOrganisation, is the need of the hour.An international platform needs to beset up wherein deliberations on peace-ful use of space can be taken upthrough negotiations. Since only fourcountries officially have the ASATtechnology, negotiations must startamong them.

It is highly possible that an Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT)-type ofregime may be established, whereinASAT’s powers are recognised andfurther militarisation of the space maybe scaled down. India needs to exer-cise its diplomatic heft to materialisethe same because then the country’sstrategic and security interests willalso be secured while discouragingfurther space militarisation.

(Raghav Pandey is an AssistantProfessor and Anoushka Mehta is a stu-dent at Maharashtra National LawUniversity, Mumbai)

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American writer and philoso-pher George Santayanafamously said, “Those who

cannot remember the past are con-demned to repeat it.” We would dowell to remember that on December7, 1941, the Japanese fleet, underAdmiral Isoroku Yamamoto,launched its devastating attack onthe US Pacific Fleet at PearlHarbour, leaving it all but crippled.

While to the uninitiated it maywell have seemed the first act of thetragedy that would ultimately leaveHiroshima and Nagasaki devastat-ed by fireballs, millions dead andJapan utterly defeated, but in truth,it was only a denouement of eventsset in motion nearly a centurybefore.

Incidentally, while the attackmay have surprised the PacificFleet, Washington had broken theJapanese code and was fully conver-sant with Yamamoto’s operationalplans. Whether it was sheer incom-petence or a deliberate strategy tonot inform the Pacific Fleet of theimpending attack, to arouse publicopinion against Japanese “perfidy”and allow Franklin D Roosevelt toenter the war, still remains a mat-ter of conjecture and debate.

Of course, the delay on the partof the Japanese Ambassador toWashington to convey hisGovernment’s decision to declarewar on the US, inadvertently deliv-ered after the attack, obviouslyplayed into Roosevelt’s hands aswell. However, what is now wellknown is that the JapaneseGovernment was fully aware —even before the first shots hadbeen fired — that it was a conflictthey could never win.

Yet, they had little choice but totake on the might of the US if theywere not to be economically andmilitarily strangled and denied

their rightful place in the world.Ninety years before, on July 8,1853, Commodore Matthew Perryof the US Navy, commanding asquadron of two steamers and twosailing vessels, sailed into Tokyoharbour aboard the fr igateSusquehanna and imposed anunequal treaty on the Japanese,making full use of the technologi-cal superiority that his forceenjoyed. A supposedly powerfulJapan was forced to retreat.

From this humiliating eventemerged the understanding that ifthey were to avoid the fate that hadbefallen a weak and divided China,they would have to copy theWestern imperialist powers. Theyear 1868 saw the start of thereformist movement — the MeijiRestoration — which turned feudalJapan into a modern industrialistnation, best exemplified by itsdefeat of Russia in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 that gaveit control over parts of Manchuria.

Subsequently siding with alliesin the World War-I allowed it totake control of Germany’s colonies

in the Pacific. In effect, it emergedas another great colonial powerengaged in competit ion forresources with the British, Dutchand the US, something these pow-ers did not take kindly to, evenrefusing to treat it as an equal in theLeague of Nations.

It was only a matter of timebefore an expansionist Japan founditself in the cross hairs of the US. In1937, following the Marco PoloBridge incident, Japan found itselfbogged down in a war with Chinathat put extreme strains on its mil-itary capabilities and economicresources. The Nanjing Massacre,the occupation of Korea and aseries of other incidents led to theimposition of an economic and oilblockade on Japan by the US thatfinally forced the former to confrontthe US at Pearl Harbour and take onthe British in the Malayan Peninsulain a desperate bid for oil, rubber, tinand other metals required to keepits factories going.

Today, approximately 73 yearsafter Hiroshima and Nagasaki, theworld finds itself in similar straight-

ened circumstances as the US onceagain puts into motion steps to curbthe rise of another Asian power, thePeople’s Republic of China.

The meteoric r ise of USPresident Donald Trump, his‘America First’ ideology and thefocus on trade restrictions to curbthe exponential growth of theChinese economy are no differentfrom the embargoes we saw on theJapanese those many years ago.

The ratcheting up of tensions inthe Persian Gulf from where theChinese receive most of their oil, isobviously no coincidence and whilesome may see the US’ actionsdirected at Iran, one cannot rule outthe fact that the ultimate target maywell be the Chinese.

Many analysts believe that amiscalculation in the Gulf maywell ignite an unwanted conflictbetween Iran and the US. If so,while extremely serious, it wouldonly be one aspect of a larger glob-al problem. What should be of evengraver concern is the possibility thatAmerican attempts to stymieChinese growth may lead to conflict

if China finds itself economicallycornered and responds much in themanner that the Japanese did in1941, preemptively if it feels it isbeing cornered.

Incidentally, a scenario, whichcould apply to Iran, in its currentstandoff with the US as well. In sucha situation, where would our bestinterests lie? Would we want to beat the forefront of the confrontationas a close US ally or would we pre-fer to keep our powder dry?

Whatever be our choice, onething is very clear, we better initi-ate substantive actions to revampand reorganise our military if wewish to be ready to tackle the fallout of the ongoing US-China tus-sle for power. This is an issue thatdiplomacy alone cannot solve andwe would do well to remember MaoZedong’s prophetic words that“power flows out of the barrel of thegun.”

(The writer, a military veteran,a consultant with the ObserverResearch Foundation and a SeniorVisiting Fellow with The PeninsulaFoundation, Chennai)

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Snapping its four-day losingstreak, BSE benchmark

Sensex Tuesday regained 86points in a session marked byhigh volatility as investorstreaded cautiously ahead ofthe crucial US Fed meet.

Overall market sentiments,however, turned a bit optimisticin view of lower crude oilprices and strengthening rupee.

The BSE gauge swungnearly 300 points before set-tling 85.55 points, or 0.22 percent, higher at 39,046.34. Theindex hit an intra-day high of39,167.83 and a low of

38,870.96.The broader NSE Nifty

closed 19.35 points, or 0.17 percent, higher to close at11,691.50. During the day, theindex touched a high of11,727.20 and a low of11,641.15.

Top gainers in the Sensexpack included Vedanta, CoalIndia, ICICI Bank, PowerGrid,HCL Tech and Bajaj Finance,rising up to 2.65 per cent.

On the other hand, YesBank was the biggest losers,cracking 5.94 per cent, followedby Maruti, Asian Paints, SunPharma and HDFC twins,shedding up to 2.20 per cent.

Shares of Jet Airwaysplummeted 40.48 per cent afterState Bank of India-led con-sortium of lenders Mondaydecided to send the groundedJet Airways to the NationalCompany Law of Tribunal(NCLT) as they have not yetreceived any concrete propos-al for the airline.

Investors have turned cau-tious ahead of the US FederalReserve’s policy meeting,scheduled to begin later in theday, traders said.

According to experts, mar-ket is finding it difficult to sus-tain at elevated levels on theback of muted corporate earn-

ings, slow monsoon season,continuous corporate defaultsand developing concerns ofIndia-US trade disagreements.

Elsewhere in Asia, whileNikkei ended significantlylower, Hang Seng, Nikkei andKospi settled on a positivenote. Stock exchanges inEurope were also trading in thegreen in early deals.

On the currency front, theIndian rupee appreciated 22paise to 69.69 against the USdollar intra-day.

Brent crude futures, theglobal oil benchmark, slipped0.64 per cent to USD 60.55 perbarrel.

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The share of Khadi fabricin the total textile millproduction has doubled

to 8.49 per cent in five years to2018-19, the Khadi and VillageIndustries Commission saidTuesday.

While the mill fabric pro-duction was 2,486 millionsquare metres in the 2014-15fiscal, the production of Khadiwas 105.38 million squaremetres – showing a share of4.23 per cent of the overall tex-tiles production.

The mill fabric productiondropped to 2,012 millionsquare metres in 2018-19 whilethe Khadi fabric productionwas 170.80 million squaremetres – a share of 8.49 percent in overall fabric produc-tion.

Khadi and VillageIndustries Commission(KVIC) Chairman VinaiKumar Saxena said the rise inKhadi fabric production from4.23 per cent to 8.49 per centcould be possible due to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s clar-ion call to adopt Khadi.

“It is encouraging for usthat rise in share of Khadi pro-duction in the textiles sector inthe last five years has gone from4.23 per cent to 8.49 per cent,which is more than 200 percent. While from 1956 to 2013-14, the Khadi sector fabricproduction could reach thefigure of 105.38 million squaremetres, in the last five years(from 2014-15 to 2018-19) itproduced another 65.42 squaremillion metres,” he said.

Saxena further said that thenumber of artisans are increas-ing in the Khadi sector because

of the new policies and initia-tives taken by MSME Ministryand KVIC in recent years.

“We started registration ofnew Khadi institutions forwidening the scope for employ-ment as well as revival ofdefunct Khadi institutions,consequently rising the artisansnumber to 4,94,684.

Not only that, the KVIChad also laid stress on manyartisan-centric programmessince 2015 like distribution of32,000 New Model Charkhasand 5,600 modern looms,” headded.

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Commerce and IndustryMinister Piyush Goyal has

asked e-retail companies to sub-mit their concerns pertaining tothe draft e-commerce policy ofthe government within 10 days.

The issue was discussedduring a meeting between theminister and representatives ofe-commerce and technologyindustry here Monday.

In a statement Tuesday, theministry said that e-commerceindustry representatives alsoflagged their concerns about thedraft policy which they felt wasnot adequately consultative.

“The Commerce Ministerassured the e-commerce indus-try representatives that eachand every concern of the indus-try will be addressed and for thatthe minister requested repre-sentatives to send their concernsin writing to the DPIIT within10 days,” it said.

Department for Promotionof Industry and Internal Trade(DPIIT) is an arm of the min-istry which deals with the issue.

All the companies alsoraised concerns related to theReserve Bank of India’s (RBI)data storage requirements andprocessing related guidelines.

On this, Deputy Governor

of RBI BP Kanungo, assured theindustry to look into the issues.

Further, Secretary in theMinistry of Electronics andInformation Technology(MeitY) Ajay Prakash Sawhneyassured e-commerce compa-nies that the Data Protection Billwill reflect all the consultationsthat had taken place with theindustry during the formulationof the bill.

“The principles of data pro-tection and privacy were dis-cussed at length in the meetingand industry representativesrequested the minister to ensurethat the bill will have more clar-ity around classification of data

and the manner of cross borderflow of data. The ministerassured that MeitY will addressthis concern too,” it said.

Goyal stated that MeitYand National Association ofSoftware and ServicesCompanies (NASSCOM) maydeal with the concerns of com-panies that build products inIndia and store their data in thecountry.

The meeting holds signifi-cance as the ministry is in theprocess of finalising a nationale-commerce policy. Multi-national firms have raised con-cerns over certain provisions ofthe draft policy.

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RSS-aff i l iate BharatiyaMazdoor Sangh Tuesday

said it will run a nationwidecampaign against divestmentof PSUs in the wake of NitiAayog listing 92 state-ownedcompanies for sell-off.

“In the background ofNiti Aayog listing 92 PSUs fordisinvestment, a meeting ofPublic Sector National Coordination Committee ofBharatiya Mazdoor Sangh

(BMS) was held in Delhi,” aBMS statement said.

The meeting decided tohold nationwide awarenessprogramme on “Save PublicSector” during September 1-7.

Unit level meetings, dhar-na, processions etc will beconducted as part of the cam-paign. On November 15, anational convention of PSUemployees will be held atDelhi.

The convention will pre-

pare a policy document onthe role of PSUs in nationbuilding, release a Charter ofDemands of PSU workersand declare future agitationprogramme, it said.

As a prelude of this,industr y wise seminars,roundtable discussion oftrade unions, managementand experts will be conduct-ed during July-August.

At national level, meet-ings will be held with policymakers and the government.

Further, parliamentarians andother dignitaries will be con-tacted as a part of mass con-tact programme, it added.

The coordination com-mittee meeting was attendedby the union representativesfrom coal, banking, insur-ance, steel sectors, amongothers.

Union representativesfrom BSNL, MTNL, IOC,ONGC, FCI, NTPC, NHPC,and other PSUs were also pre-sent.

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TECHM 737.20 744.50 736.25 741.10ICICIPRULI 354.05 361.40 351.90 358.90STARCEMENT 117.05 131.90 115.10 118.80CANFINHOME 338.35 347.95 337.50 344.50PETRONET 228.45 241.40 226.15 234.00ORIENTBANK 90.80 93.65 90.00 92.90BRITANNIA 2899.90 2899.90 2860.10 2867.10CHOLAFIN 291.40 295.60 287.25 289.30BPCL 378.00 386.70 376.50 386.20PVR 1635.00 1677.05 1589.25 1652.95LUPIN 708.00 713.70 705.10 708.75ADANIPORTS 423.30 425.50 418.95 421.10IGL 335.10 342.35 335.10 339.85HEXAWARE 356.50 362.00 354.00 360.55RAIN 100.75 102.10 98.20 98.90BDL 302.50 314.20 301.70 312.10J&KBANK 41.40 41.45 37.20 37.20BHARATFIN 898.70 909.75 883.30 884.35BANDHANBNK 540.00 562.10 540.00 555.30ICICIGI 1159.30 1171.95 1128.40 1134.80GRASIM 881.00 882.60 866.10 880.45FRETAIL 457.55 471.05 456.50 462.00TATAMTRDVR 78.55 78.75 76.15 76.85ULTRACEMCO 4451.00 4543.60 4438.20 4543.60TATAGLOBAL 246.80 248.75 244.95 247.55ONGC 165.00 166.90 163.30 166.10EQUITAS 133.50 135.70 133.50 134.20DRREDDY 2540.00 2599.45 2540.00 2590.00RECLTD 152.00 155.95 152.00 154.45SOUTHBANK 13.30 13.74 13.15 13.28KSCL 463.00 473.95 448.10 453.15GLENMARK 521.40 537.50 521.40 527.60DBL 447.00 448.00 429.20 431.25DCBBANK 226.00 228.00 221.10 222.20APOLLOHOSP 1361.00 1366.25 1338.50 1352.00AUROPHARMA 625.00 627.90 620.55 621.00KEI 444.50 448.65 436.25 446.45SBILIFE 700.00 707.00 699.35 703.35RCOM 1.35 1.35 1.33 1.33HINDZINC 234.85 234.85 230.35 232.80UBL 1356.90 1356.90 1316.15 1343.20INTELLECT 264.75 269.60 264.75 268.10NAUKRI 2217.85 2240.00 2090.00 2112.65BHARATFORG 443.00 445.20 437.20 439.35ABCAPITAL 92.70 93.40 90.20 90.85NHPC 24.00 24.55 23.90 24.45BAJAJ-AUTO 2858.70 2880.75 2839.20 2873.05NATIONALUM 48.90 48.90 47.55 47.90

JAICORPLTD 106.50 107.05 101.55 102.45SPARC 129.00 129.70 122.80 123.95CASTROLIND 141.95 141.95 140.35 140.80MANAPPURAM 140.10 142.55 139.25 142.50NBCC 56.90 57.35 55.75 56.85VENKYS 1798.00 1821.75 1760.00 1771.20SYNDIBANK 35.25 36.75 35.25 36.15JUBILANT 470.65 489.80 470.45 481.20HEROMOTOCO 2650.00 2682.00 2639.70 2673.75RCF 59.60 59.60 57.75 58.20AMBUJACEM 207.80 210.65 206.05 210.15BAJAJFINSV 8135.00 8290.00 8135.00 8261.25WESTLIFE 320.85 320.85 293.00 304.15HCLTECH 1073.50 1094.00 1073.50 1090.85FORCEMOT 1431.00 1444.00 1392.05 1395.60COLPAL 1160.00 1161.50 1134.00 1142.20RADICO 276.90 280.00 270.15 272.05GUJFLUORO 1006.05 1014.80 980.00 1013.55MARICO 366.75 366.75 360.70 364.60UPL 995.00 1002.00 988.00 998.35GODREJPROP 916.45 923.85 905.85 916.00INDIANB 258.95 264.15 256.00 259.00FSL 50.20 50.70 49.80 50.45MAHSCOOTER 4720.00 4741.95 4430.10 4444.30DIVISLAB 1540.50 1551.50 1525.50 1543.95GNFC 252.10 253.90 242.25 244.65BERGEPAINT 327.00 327.00 314.55 320.40DEEPAKNI 270.10 278.40 265.00 276.70CENTURYTEX 946.00 949.00 934.25 945.85ASHOKA 139.10 145.35 137.00 138.65SIEMENS 1255.00 1275.75 1244.65 1259.90TATAPOWER 64.75 65.05 64.00 64.25ACC 1511.00 1532.00 1502.40 1530.90WABAG 317.15 317.15 290.00 304.65CROMPTON 239.00 239.00 227.00 231.65OMAXE 202.95 202.95 200.35 201.25EXIDEIND 203.90 203.90 199.50 200.70CHAMBLFERT 173.00 179.40 172.10 176.75LAKSHVILAS 63.80 64.60 59.60 60.35SUNTV 517.85 528.10 514.20 523.00AJANTPHARM 960.00 964.75 936.15 937.00ITI 88.00 88.70 85.70 86.50PHILIPCARB 126.40 126.60 121.30 122.05

PIDILITIND 1242.00 1245.00 1232.55 1238.65ABFRL 205.05 205.05 201.10 203.40MGL 879.70 881.65 856.75 861.75DELTACORP 189.15 191.05 187.25 190.40EICHERMOT 19772.30 19918.50 19549.65 19660.30TATACOMM 500.75 506.65 497.55 500.95SYNGENE 317.90 322.70 315.00 318.20NAVINFLUOR 746.90 754.60 740.00 743.95TVSMOTOR 460.00 461.20 451.60 454.40DCAL 231.70 233.45 222.00 224.20AARTIIND 1744.95 1744.95 1692.20 1733.80LTI 1769.00 1771.25 1741.05 1750.00INOXLEISUR 319.00 329.70 316.25 323.95ALBK 40.75 41.10 39.80 40.15RNAM 219.50 222.00 219.50 221.25BBTC 1059.30 1078.60 1025.10 1029.15NMDC 106.20 106.65 104.10 106.05ASTRAZEN 1833.20 1923.95 1828.05 1883.75REDINGTON 105.50 110.00 104.65 109.40IFCI 8.50 8.69 8.15 8.30NESTLEIND 11525.00 11544.95 11305.00 11447.80AUBANK 690.00 703.20 680.95 690.70GRANULES 96.05 96.05 90.25 91.25AMARAJABAT 595.60 609.60 594.60 602.30AVANTI 347.00 355.80 345.10 352.95VIPIND 469.70 474.00 467.30 470.50JKCEMENT 985.35 1023.95 975.05 1001.00VOLTAS 596.00 603.05 593.00 603.00HINDCOPPER 40.00 40.30 39.65 39.80NOCIL 117.85 119.90 117.05 118.75RAYMOND 785.00 786.00 772.25 778.55HAVELLS 767.90 777.65 763.05 773.25PNBHOUSING 769.00 793.55 769.00 784.50HSCL 104.60 108.85 102.35 107.60AIAENG 1688.00 1700.00 1677.80 1700.00GMRINFRA 15.10 15.15 14.65 14.85ADANIGREEN 41.70 42.30 40.25 40.80IPCALAB 909.65 915.00 898.10 902.80PAGEIND 20024.10 20398.00 19738.40 20166.05DCMSHRIRAM 482.70 497.00 474.25 487.35INDHOTEL 146.95 149.30 145.55 148.10MCX 792.45 803.90 784.65 789.60MEGH 63.25 63.35 60.40 61.55KAJARIACER 584.90 592.55 576.05 579.45GODFRYPHLP 866.95 875.00 836.75 851.25INFRATEL 274.95 274.95 265.80 270.15IDFC 34.90 35.45 34.45 35.00MUTHOOTFIN 623.50 630.60 616.00 616.00LINDEINDIA 516.95 530.75 516.95 520.00MAXINDIA 68.65 68.65 63.55 63.80JKTYRE 76.55 77.85 75.45 76.15TORNTPHARM 1482.00 1515.00 1475.30 1512.15TATACHEM 622.50 626.55 618.95 623.45OIL 174.55 174.65 171.55 173.45QUESS 590.40 596.85 575.45 586.75GSFC 96.50 97.50 94.70 95.45IDBI 35.15 35.35 34.65 34.80CYIENT 537.00 546.00 531.55 542.30ITDCEM 107.95 108.35 103.00 104.20TV18BRDCST 25.85 26.10 25.40 25.65NAVKARCORP 30.00 31.65 29.00 29.80PIIND 1176.15 1207.10 1170.20 1195.85PGHL 3850.50 3968.90 3839.00 3948.60KEC 315.00 318.00 312.30 314.60ABB 1531.05 1545.70 1531.05 1545.00HIMATSEIDE 179.90 181.20 171.70 172.50FDC 172.05 177.10 170.30 175.30BAJAJHLDNG 3598.00 3643.95 3549.30 3556.00SUNTECK 449.20 451.95 443.80 446.80TRIDENT 62.20 63.80 61.95 62.10HFCL 20.40 20.60 20.20 20.25MFSL 415.40 418.75 409.00 414.55UCOBANK 19.10 19.35 18.75 19.20FCONSUMER 39.05 39.60 38.40 39.20CUMMINSIND 750.60 752.60 730.45 736.15TATACOFFEE 84.70 84.70 81.00 81.40JCHAC 1720.00 1743.30 1680.00 1687.35SREINFRA 20.70 20.75 19.55 19.55FINOLEXIND 509.00 509.00 494.80 500.00MPHASIS 974.00 976.70 967.05 973.65ATUL 3970.00 4021.15 3931.50 3990.00LALPATHLAB 1080.00 1113.20 1075.35 1106.00CONCOR 530.00 534.20 525.60 528.75SWANENERGY 105.25 105.85 103.10 104.50CENTRALBK 22.75 23.20 22.50 22.50GSPL 182.00 184.25 179.00 183.90WHIRLPOOL 1506.15 1561.00 1506.10 1531.00TRENT 393.20 399.00 392.00 395.70MINDTREE 970.95 975.00 967.10 973.55NH 229.45 231.55 223.35 228.00CENTRUM 27.75 27.90 26.50 27.30LUXIND 1279.30 1323.65 1259.40 1320.50ADVENZYMES 175.00 175.00 167.50 169.70MMTC 24.00 24.15 23.50 23.65REPCOHOME 360.25 369.05 359.90 367.75WELCORP 139.15 139.85 137.05 137.85SOMANYCERA 424.95 440.00 416.50 427.00THYROCARE 470.00 476.35 466.00 466.00SUVEN 267.90 270.20 265.60 267.75HUDCO 38.80 39.90 38.70 39.35RELAXO 832.95 843.70 803.10 834.05HSIL 253.00 254.20 248.95 252.00VGUARD 234.90 237.20 233.00 235.80MOTILALOFS 670.60 693.00 670.30 682.30JSWENERGY 66.30 67.40 65.85 67.00SOBHA 549.55 563.70 549.55 551.50SADBHAV 256.05 258.45 255.00 258.45TORNTPOWER 245.90 247.30 244.25 245.65IBULISL 210.00 212.00 201.65 201.65

SYMPHONY 1180.00 1217.40 1150.00 1205.05FORTIS 129.80 131.70 128.75 130.70GREAVESCOT 141.95 143.40 140.50 142.45NESCO 562.25 562.25 554.00 558.50GODREJAGRO 507.10 513.25 507.05 512.75PRSMJOHNSN 91.60 92.45 90.00 92.45ENGINERSIN 115.05 115.40 113.10 113.80JAMNAAUTO 53.35 54.00 52.40 52.40JBCHEPHARM 383.50 383.50 374.00 378.50SHK 135.00 139.55 132.55 133.30JINDALSAW 81.25 81.60 80.20 80.70SKFINDIA 1941.45 1977.95 1920.00 1964.00ZENSARTECH 251.35 257.00 245.00 257.00KALPATPOWR 504.65 515.95 502.75 507.80BAJAJELEC 507.00 507.00 500.65 505.10ASTERDM 139.50 141.05 133.20 134.20RAMCOCEM 776.70 795.80 776.70 792.90ASTRAL 1286.25 1320.05 1263.20 1315.00VINATIORGA 2091.60 2102.90 2070.90 2102.10KANSAINER 447.40 456.00 441.40 455.00PNCINFRA 208.35 208.35 203.00 204.35GRINDWELL 568.85 576.75 566.85 571.20BLISSGVS 160.00 161.05 157.00 157.40LTTS 1729.95 1740.00 1721.40 1735.00NATCOPHARM 521.95 523.80 512.20 516.55GHCL 236.45 241.65 235.70 237.80SONATSOFTW 352.00 353.00 347.25 347.35CUB 219.50 219.50 213.30 214.75MAHABANK 15.70 16.00 15.40 15.60JMFINANCIL 87.45 87.75 85.50 85.50APLAPOLLO 1534.05 1560.60 1527.40 1548.05THERMAX 1058.90 1058.90 1022.50 1047.70GODREJIND 460.00 461.00 454.00 454.75SUPREMEIND 1052.15 1066.80 1026.55 1048.00CARBORUNIV 338.00 339.00 331.50 332.40CENTURYPLY 160.40 163.50 160.10 162.10GULFOILLUB 905.00 905.00 890.10 900.00SHREECEM 19937.95 20709.00 19937.95 20580.25CARERATING 946.65 952.45 940.00 949.25CHENNPETRO 207.55 212.40 207.40 207.40DEEPAKFERT 127.50 127.90 125.00 126.55HEIDELBERG 194.00 197.35 193.15 194.90PARAGMILK 244.45 245.75 243.25 244.05WELSPUNIND 55.05 56.00 55.00 55.95FINCABLES 450.00 452.25 441.40 450.60GUJGAS 182.10 184.80 181.00 181.50ISEC 215.15 219.45 214.50 218.00BLUESTARCO 767.15 777.00 752.15 764.20JYOTHYLAB 165.30 166.60 157.10 159.15COCHINSHIP 383.50 387.90 381.25 384.40SCHNEIDER 93.35 94.00 89.05 89.70PRESTIGE 266.45 267.30 263.45 264.40BOSCHLTD 16480.00 16525.00 16340.00 16473.95GICHSGFIN 241.40 244.65 241.00 243.10SHANKARA 473.70 475.00 466.65 475.00MOIL 149.80 151.40 149.00 149.85KRBL 323.45 330.00 320.05 327.60PTC 65.55 66.25 65.40 65.70OBEROIRLTY 513.00 521.80 511.60 521.80CAPPL 410.00 410.00 399.00 399.00MRPL 58.65 59.45 58.65 59.20ORIENTCEM 112.90 115.50 111.10 111.10MRF 54849.95 54970.00 54161.90 54624.00ADANITRANS 228.30 229.40 224.95 226.20COROMANDEL 406.50 411.90 401.40 411.10JKLAKSHMI 357.80 358.00 344.80 347.00NETWORK18 27.15 28.30 26.75 26.95APLLTD 489.00 489.00 478.00 480.10BASF 1375.00 1375.00 1332.90 1349.35PHOENIXLTD 639.30 640.05 630.00 633.95GUJALKALI 512.00 514.00 505.50 511.60THOMASCOOK 220.00 220.75 216.60 217.50SCI 29.35 29.35 28.90 29.00GPPL 81.00 83.00 79.00 82.45EIDPARRY 167.25 170.40 166.00 170.40JSL 35.50 35.55 32.50 33.40JAGRAN 106.45 106.45 102.95 104.85EIHOTEL 169.00 174.00 165.00 165.25AEGISLOG 223.15 227.20 217.40 223.55KNRCON 283.20 287.55 282.00 284.45TAKE 130.00 131.15 127.10 129.05ISGEC 464.85 464.85 450.00 457.00TEJASNET 159.45 166.00 158.20 159.20APARINDS 586.00 604.65 583.90 600.60ANDHRABANK 23.70 24.15 23.60 23.95SUNDRMFAST 525.00 537.00 524.80 535.00PGHH 10705.90 11023.00 10441.00 10545.00JSLHISAR 77.40 77.50 73.65 74.20NLCINDIA 63.95 64.35 63.35 63.35MAHINDCIE 226.90 229.60 225.70 225.95GSKCONS 7675.00 7699.90 7610.00 7655.00HERITGFOOD 408.00 410.45 396.85 405.50GESHIP* 270.35 271.15 266.30 268.40BIRLACORPN 620.80 623.00 609.95 614.20BAYERCROP 3406.00 3406.00 3325.00 3325.00GICRE 211.30 214.40 209.10 210.00NIACL 153.85 154.75 152.10 153.50OFSS 3227.50 3275.00 3227.50 3265.00CERA 2955.00 2960.90 2902.85 2950.00PFIZER 3166.70 3185.00 3145.00 3158.00MINDAIND 335.00 335.00 325.25 326.45RALLIS 148.50 149.10 146.85 148.20FORBESCO 1861.05 1898.85 1840.00 1841.55ALKEM 1797.05 1813.00 1771.55 1771.55GMDCLTD 72.30 73.00 71.80 73.00TEAMLEASE 3072.95 3082.80 2986.70 2986.70AKZOINDIA 1788.30 1805.00 1771.65 1805.00KPRMILL 610.60 622.00 606.25 617.60CORPBANK 23.15 23.45 22.90 23.05

MAGMA 131.50 132.30 129.20 129.50IFBIND 780.00 797.60 770.70 790.00SJVN 24.60 24.85 24.55 24.85ALLCARGO 104.45 107.00 102.90 107.00NBVENTURES* 95.65 97.70 95.60 96.00MONSANTO 2272.00 2272.00 2195.00 2205.75BAJAJCON 330.00 332.00 321.55 322.75IOB 11.48 11.73 11.48 11.60EVEREADY 78.00 79.75 77.65 77.65MAHLIFE 418.35 418.35 408.50 409.00MINDACORP 111.10 111.10 107.90 108.90ABBOTINDIA 8504.10 8537.50 8491.10 8494.00NIITTECH 1319.80 1325.55 1317.15 1325.50TNPL 180.00 180.00 176.00 178.00IEX 147.80 148.65 144.10 144.65BALMLAWRIE 186.45 187.75 185.00 185.95TTKPRESTIG 6880.00 6880.00 6705.00 6721.60INDOSTAR 375.00 381.80 370.55 375.00BLUEDART 2750.00 2850.00 2720.00 2727.25SANOFI 5414.85 5440.00 5414.85 5427.00LAXMIMACH 5200.05 5270.00 5165.85 5269.00WABCOINDIA 6176.10 6180.45 6100.10 6130.00GAYAPROJ 160.05 160.75 157.65 158.00TRITURBINE 110.00 111.40 106.10 106.15RATNAMANI 976.55 981.00 959.20 971.60ECLERX 880.00 885.90 876.75 878.20SUPPETRO 212.00 214.00 201.00 202.00ITDC 261.40 265.90 261.40 263.40GREENPLY 163.90 163.95 156.80 160.80GLAXO 1254.00 1254.00 1245.10 1247.05ZYDUSWELL 1348.00 1348.00 1301.95 1329.50TIMKEN 666.00 668.90 657.40 659.05COFFEEDAY 221.80 223.00 219.70 220.00CHOLAHLDNG 482.50 487.00 476.15 486.00TIINDIA 388.55 391.55 382.10 382.10LAOPALA 188.00 188.00 184.00 184.00SHOPERSTOP 473.90 476.40 471.35 471.35HAL 685.00 689.95 682.00 682.00LEMONTREE 67.35 67.50 66.80 67.30ASAHIINDIA 212.15 222.65 212.10 221.00FLFL 457.60 457.60 440.00 445.40UFLEX 243.10 243.10 241.40 241.40UNITEDBNK 10.00 10.10 9.89 10.01GALAXYSURF 1169.55 1179.95 1160.00 1178.45MAHLOG 492.00 495.15 487.55 491.25TIMETECHNO 94.50 96.70 94.25 95.50LAURUSLABS 341.00 341.60 337.60 338.15SUDARSCHEM 318.50 319.75 315.95 318.05SUNCLAYLTD 2500.00 2500.00 2350.00 2401.85TATAMETALI 601.85 601.95 598.90 598.90GDL 131.45 132.90 130.90 131.20NILKAMAL 1205.00 1205.00 1194.65 1200.65INOXWIND 66.10 67.00 66.00 66.00ERIS 490.00 492.95 484.20 484.20TATAINVEST 865.00 870.25 862.10 862.50TVSSRICHAK 1900.75 1919.80 1875.10 1875.10VMART 2225.65 2270.00 2225.65 2247.10TVTODAY 259.05 260.90 257.10 257.10VTL 1077.70 1085.85 1077.65 1080.10DHANUKA 381.15 388.95 380.00 380.00SOLARINDS 1165.00 1190.85 1155.30 1180.00GET&D 232.45 235.45 230.25 230.25MANPASAND 29.45 29.45 29.45 29.45DBCORP 190.60 190.90 190.00 190.80MHRIL 224.30 224.70 222.75 223.65ENDURANCE 1180.00 1184.45 1169.50 1174.45HONAUT 24880.00 24912.65 24602.00 24847.00GEPIL 856.25 856.25 840.15 849.05HATSUN 690.75 709.00 684.00 696.90SCHAEFFLER 4819.35 4874.00 4808.00 4818.00CCL 264.30 264.30 258.95 259.703MINDIA 22200.00 22340.00 22000.00 22106.10GILLETTE 7433.25 7433.25 7313.00 7313.00CRISIL 1410.85 1420.00 1401.25 1420.00ESSELPRO 130.00 130.00 129.10 129.75SIS 938.00 950.00 938.00 950.00SHARDACROP 334.30 338.75 331.80 334.25NAVNETEDUL 109.45 109.45 108.55 108.55SHILPAMED 338.00 341.55 338.00 341.55SHRIRAMCIT 1426.00 1432.65 1413.25 1432.65KIOCL 118.50 129.45 118.10 127.00SUPRAJIT 204.00 204.00 201.00 201.30SFL 1294.00 1294.00 1275.00 1275.00ELGIEQUIP 266.05 268.00 265.40 265.50

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 11677.05 11727.20 11641.15 11691.50 19.35VEDL 164.00 169.30 164.00 168.15 4.10BPCL 378.95 386.90 376.30 386.00 7.85COALINDIA 255.45 260.90 255.25 260.40 5.10ICICIBANK 415.45 426.05 415.10 422.40 8.20POWERGRID 194.70 198.85 194.15 197.70 3.65ULTRACEMCO 4437.25 4536.00 4437.05 4531.05 75.75BAJAJFINSV 8144.00 8275.00 8130.00 8250.00 128.70IOC 154.80 158.00 153.90 157.60 2.30INFY 740.20 752.45 740.20 751.45 10.90JSWSTEEL 261.00 265.00 254.90 264.00 3.80BAJFINANCE 3474.00 3530.00 3469.05 3514.30 47.80HCLTECH 1074.90 1094.15 1074.65 1089.55 14.65BAJAJ-AUTO 2837.00 2882.05 2837.00 2873.00 36.80ONGC 164.00 166.95 163.25 166.50 2.10DRREDDY 2555.00 2600.00 2542.05 2584.05 29.90ZEEL 340.00 350.00 333.30 341.85 3.75HEROMOTOCO2650.05 2683.00 2635.00 2672.00 23.75SBIN 335.50 344.00 333.80 340.80 2.95CIPLA 545.20 555.50 545.05 549.50 4.35GAIL 306.70 308.85 304.10 308.00 2.05BHARTIARTL 345.40 347.35 341.20 346.20 2.20TECHM 737.90 744.40 736.05 741.05 4.50LT 1500.00 1519.95 1497.80 1506.00 7.25M&M 624.00 629.80 620.10 628.00 2.95INDUSINDBK 1410.50 1444.85 1400.10 1406.00 6.35TITAN 1256.05 1261.00 1235.00 1260.00 3.95UPL 994.00 1003.50 988.00 998.00 3.05GRASIM 878.00 883.90 866.00 881.80 2.45ITC 276.15 277.85 274.00 275.60 0.60KOTAKBANK 1465.00 1474.50 1455.15 1463.60 3.25TCS 2244.00 2260.00 2231.20 2253.50 4.30TATASTEEL 473.25 478.50 463.65 474.00 0.90NTPC 132.60 133.35 131.90 132.25 0.00TATAMOTORS 159.00 161.00 156.75 158.70 -0.05ADANIPORTS 424.90 425.70 418.60 422.35 -0.50EICHERMOT 19750.00 19938.00 19565.80 19699.95 -27.90HDFCBANK 2418.00 2432.00 2404.00 2418.00 -4.00WIPRO 299.50 300.50 296.00 298.45 -0.70HINDUNILVR 1810.50 1818.15 1793.00 1813.50 -4.55RELIANCE 1278.90 1287.95 1269.10 1278.50 -3.80AXISBANK 781.95 784.85 770.10 775.10 -2.60HDFC 2178.90 2194.60 2134.65 2156.00 -17.00INFRATEL 272.50 273.15 265.15 269.65 -2.50BRITANNIA 2905.00 2905.00 2860.00 2865.00 -34.20MARUTI 6604.50 6649.00 6390.00 6485.00 -96.65SUNPHARMA 381.40 385.60 374.30 377.05 -5.85ASIANPAINT 1405.00 1410.40 1376.05 1380.10 -21.85HINDALCO 193.45 195.30 189.30 190.30 -3.30YESBANK 116.00 117.50 107.10 109.25 -6.90IBULHSGFIN 650.00 655.20 604.20 606.60 -48.10

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY NEXT 50 26691.60 26811.50 26580.20 26705.00 32.70SRTRANSFIN 1022.10 1067.60 1022.10 1054.95 37.00DMART 1300.40 1349.90 1300.30 1341.25 43.75BANDHANBNK 543.45 562.00 541.00 556.70 16.80SHREECEM 19961.00 20726.00 19876.95 20543.40 551.65HINDPETRO 296.75 303.60 295.15 301.45 6.90PETRONET 227.50 238.90 226.80 234.00 5.30AMBUJACEM 205.70 210.90 205.70 210.00 4.40GODREJCP 655.00 681.75 647.60 671.75 13.70NHPC 24.00 24.55 23.90 24.50 0.50ICICIPRULI 354.60 361.65 351.50 359.50 6.80BHEL 68.00 69.10 67.05 68.90 1.25INDIGO 1668.95 1674.10 1648.05 1668.00 25.45OFSS 3220.00 3275.00 3212.90 3268.50 44.55ACC 1506.05 1532.00 1501.70 1528.80 19.65MOTHERSUMI 123.95 126.65 123.30 124.40 1.40PAGEIND 20012.00 20399.00 19700.00 20180.00 167.15DLF 172.60 175.50 170.00 173.95 1.30SIEMENS 1254.00 1275.50 1243.85 1259.50 8.80BAJAJHLDNG 3545.15 3653.95 3545.00 3560.00 23.75HAVELLS 766.00 777.15 763.05 776.20 5.15ABB 1538.90 1547.00 1531.00 1543.00 9.30ASHOKLEY 82.70 84.65 82.65 84.15 0.50SBILIFE 700.95 708.00 699.15 703.80 3.80DIVISLAB 1545.00 1552.00 1525.00 1547.85 7.35SAIL 48.00 48.40 47.00 47.80 0.10PIDILITIND 1242.35 1245.70 1232.00 1244.60 2.55NMDC 106.10 106.80 104.05 106.20 0.20BANKBARODA 117.30 118.40 115.10 116.80 0.20UBL 1344.75 1360.00 1316.00 1345.00 0.25AUROPHARMA 624.00 627.90 620.60 623.00 -0.30MRF 54555.00 54950.00 54123.80 54675.00 -49.70L&TFH 118.00 120.85 115.30 117.20 -0.10CONCOR 529.10 534.90 525.25 528.90 -0.45MARICO 366.80 366.80 360.75 366.35 -0.50LUPIN 708.70 714.00 705.10 705.95 -1.00NIACL 153.85 155.00 152.30 153.40 -0.45HDFCLIFE 443.35 445.15 440.05 441.95 -1.40BOSCHLTD 16522.90 16549.95 16327.35 16455.00 -67.90GICRE 215.00 215.00 209.00 210.00 -1.30MCDOWELL-N 540.00 541.70 529.05 534.20 -5.25HINDZINC 233.55 234.25 230.15 232.35 -2.40BIOCON 247.05 247.40 239.00 242.65 -2.65COLPAL 1160.00 1162.75 1133.00 1138.95 -15.75ICICIGI 1150.00 1174.00 1127.00 1133.10 -17.50IDEA 12.00 12.10 11.80 11.90 -0.20PGHH 10782.35 11050.00 10421.00 10560.00 -257.95DABUR 398.00 399.25 382.30 387.40 -13.45CADILAHC 242.50 244.00 233.00 233.00 -9.90HDFCAMC 1886.00 1886.00 1800.00 1803.70 -127.95PEL 2009.00 2038.50 1851.30 1864.95 -137.25

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week, President Donald Trumpsaid Monday, adding thatGuatemala is preparing to signa safe third country deal.

“Next week ICE will beginthe process of removing themillions of illegal aliens whohave illicitly found their wayinto the United States. Theywill be removed as fast as theycome in,” Trump said onTwitter, referring to theImmigration and CustomsEnforcement agency.

He added that “Guatemalais getting ready to sign a Safe-Third Agreement,” an apparentreference to a pact in whichmigrants entering Guatemalanterritory would have to applyfor refugee status there, not inthe United States.

The US is facing a surge inmigrant arrivals fromGuatemala and other impov-erished Central Americancountries which are plagued bygang violence. The numbershave overwhelmed the abilityof US authorities to temporar-ily shelter and process them.

Trump has called it “aninvasion,” and has made thefight against illegal migration a

central plank of his adminis-tration.

Earlier Monday the USsaid it would not offer anymore aid to El Salvador,Guatemala and Hondurasunless they take “concreteactions” to deter undocu-mented migrants from headingfor the US.

For fiscal 2019, USD 370million initially planned will beallocated to other foreign pol-

icy priorities, the StateDepartment said, and all futureaid is now conditional.

“We will not provide newfunds for programs in thosecountries until we are satisfiedthe Northern Triangle govern-ments are taking concreteactions to reduce the numberof illegal migrants coming tothe US border,” Ortagus said.

Under a deal between theUS and Mexico this month to

avert threatened tariffs, Mexicoagreed to deploy 6,000 NationalGuardsmen to reinforce itssouthern border, and to expandits policy of taking backmigrants as the United Statesprocesses their asylum claims.

“Mexico, using their strongimmigration laws, is doing avery good job of stopping peo-ple long before they get to ourSouthern Border,” Trump saidon Monday.

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China on Tuesday warnedagainst opening a

“Pandora’s box” in the MiddleEast after the United Statesannounced the deployment of1,000 additional troops to theregion amid escalating ten-sions with Iran.

Foreign Minister Wang Yialso urged Tehran to not aban-don the nuclear agreement “soeasily” after Iran said it wouldexceed its uranium stockpilelimit if world powers fail to ful-fil their commitments underthe agreement in 10 days.

The United States ratchetedup pressure on Iran Monday,announcing the deploymentof additional troops to theMiddle East and producingnew photographs it saidshowed Tehran was behind anattack on a tanker ship in theGulf of Oman last week.

“We call on all parties toremain rational and restrained,not to take any actions to pro-voke the escalation of tensionin the region, and not to opena Pandora’s box,” Wang toldreporters in Beijing during ajoint press conference withvisiting Syrian Foreign MinisterWalid Muallem.

“In particular, the UnitedStates should change its prac-tice of extreme pressure,” Wangsaid. Tensions between Tehranand Washington have escalat-ed ever since the US quit the

nuclear deal and withWashington blacklisting Iran’selite Revolutionary Guards asa terrorist organisation.

Wang urged Iran to “makeprudent decisions” and not “soeasily abandon” the deal thataims to keep Teheran’s nuclearambitions in check.

Iranian President HassanRouhani announced on May 8that Iran would stop observing

restrictions on its stocks ofenriched uranium and heavywater agreed under the deal, amove he said was in retaliationfor the unilateral US with-drawal.

Iran has threatened to goeven further in scaling downnuclear commitments by July 8unless remaining partners tothe deal — Britain, China,France, Germany and Russia —

help it circumvent US sanctionsand especially enable it to sellits oil.

“China’s determination tosafeguard the comprehensiveagreement has not changed,”Wang said.

“We are willing to workwith all parties to continue tomake efforts for the full andeffective implementation ofthe agreement.”

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Amidst an escalation of ten-sions with Iran, the US has

approved the deployment of1,000 additional troops in theMiddle East for “defensive pur-poses” to address air, naval andground-based threats.

The announcement byActing US Defence SecretaryPatrick Shanahan came hoursafter Iran said it would surpassthe uranium-stockpile limit setby its nuclear deal in the next10 days against the backdrop ofsoaring tensions betweenTehran and Washington.

The action of deploying1,000 more troops is beingtaken to ensure the safety andwelfare of US military person-nel working throughout theregion and to protect its nation-al interests, Shanahan said onMonday.

The United States does notseek conflict with Iran, he said.

“I have authorised approx-imately 1,000 additional troopsfor defensive purposes toaddress air, naval and ground-based threats in the MiddleEast,” Shanahan said.

“The recent Iranian attacks

validate the reliable, credibleintelligence we have receivedon hostile behaviour by Iranianforces and their proxy groupsthat threaten United Statespersonnel and interests acrossthe region,” he said.

The US will continue tomonitor the situation “dili-gently and make adjustments”to force levels as necessarygiven intelligence reportingand credible threats, Shanahansaid. Last month, NationalSecurity Adviser John Boltonsaid that the US was deployingthe USS Abraham LincolnCarrier Strike Group and abomber task force to theMiddle East in response to a“number of troubling and esca-latory indications and warn-ings” from Iran.

America has blamed Iranfor last week’s attacks on two oiltankers in the Gulf of Oman, anaccusation Tehran has deniedas “baseless.”

Following the Shanahan’sannouncement, House SpeakerNancy Pelosi demanded animmediate briefing from theTrump administration.

“Congress must be imme-diately briefed on the admin-

istration’s decisions and plans.“This deeply concerning

decision may escalate the situ-ation with Iran and risk seriousmiscalculations on either side.Diplomacy is needed to defusetensions, therefore Americamust continue to consult withour allies so that we do notmake the region less safe,”Pelosi said.

Earlier in the day, the StateDepartment urged Iran not toobtain a nuclear weapon, toabide by their commitments tothe international community.

Earlier Iran announcedthat it will increase its nuclearfuel supply beyond limits set inthe 2015 nuclear agreement.

“I think it’s unfortunatethat they’ve made thisannouncement today. It does-n’t surprise anybody,” StateDepartment SpokespersonMorgan Ortagus told reportersat her news conference.

Reiterating that the Iraniannuclear deal needs to bereplaced, she said Iran, as evi-dent by its announcement andpattern of behaviour over thepast few years, is keen onexpanding – or seems to bekeen on expanding its nuclear

programme, and it now wantsto exceed these nuclear limitsin advance of these so-calledsunset clauses.

“We have made it veryclear since this President cameinto office and since theSecretary came here that wewill not tolerate Iran obtaininga nuclear weapon. Full stop.

“So any actions that theytake to get a nuclear weaponwill be countered by a maxi-mum pressure campaign by theUnited States Government thatcontinues to this day. Thereshould be no relieving of sanc-tions for their malign andunacceptable behaviour,”Ortagus said.

Senator Dianne Feinsteinurged all parties to worktowards a diplomatic solutionto avoid further escalation.

“The Trump administra-tion inflamed tensions by with-drawing the United States fromthe agreement and reimposingsanctions on Iran. Iran nowsays it will violate the agree-ment unless our Europeanpartners can make up for theeconomic loss caused by USsanctions,” the DemocraticSenator said.

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Egypt’s first democratically-elected President Mohamed

Morsi was buried in Cairo onTuesday, his lawyer said, a dayafter he collapsed in court anddied.

Rights groups called for anindependent probe into thedetention conditions and deathof the Islamist, who was oust-ed in 2013 after a year of divi-sive rule.

State TV said the 67-year-old’s death was due to a cardiacarrest.

“He was buried in MedinatNasr, in eastern Cairo, with hisfamily present,” said AbdelMoneim Abdel Maksoud, oneof his lawyer.

Morsi, also the country’sfirst civilian president, hadappeared “animated” during ahearing in a retrial over chargesof collaborating with foreignpowers and militant groups,judicial and security sourcessaid.

“The court granted him hisrequest to speak for five min-utes... He fell to the ground inthe cage... and was transport-ed immediately to the hospital.A medical report found... nopulse or breathing,” said theattorney general’s office.

“He arrived at the hospitaldead at 4:50 pm exactly andthere were no new, visibleinjuries found on the body.”

Another of Morsi’s legaldefence team described themoment he received news ofhis death.

“We heard the banging onthe glass cage from the rest ofthe other inmates and themscreaming loudly that Morsihad died,” the lawyer, Osama ElHelw, told AFP.

Since Morsi’s overthrowon July 3, 2013, his formerdefence minister, nowPresident Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,has waged an ongoing crack-down that has seen thousandsof Muslim Brotherhood sup-porters jailed and hundredsfacing death sentences.

A judicial source saidMorsi had fainted during abreak in the trial hearing.

The court officials “had justfinished the session for theespionage case and theyinformed the judge that he hadfainted and needed to be trans-ported to a hospital where helater died”, he told AFP.

Morsi last saw his family inSeptember 2018. A month later,one of his sons, Abdallah, wasarrested.

Abdel Maksoud was the

last member of his defenceteam to see the former Islamistpresident, in November 2017.

The Brotherhood’s politicalwing — the Freedom andJustice Party — accusedEgyptian authorities of “delib-erately killing him slowly”.

They “put him in solitaryconfinement... they withheldmedication and gave him dis-gusting food... they did notgrant him the most basichuman rights,” it said in astatement.

Rights group AmnestyInternational called onEgyptian authorities to open“an impartial, thorough andtransparent investigationprobe” into Morsi’s death andhis detention conditions.

Human Rights Watchechoed that demand, sayingMorsi had suffered years of“insufficient access to medicalcare”.

“The United NationsHuman Rights Council...should establish an investiga-tion into ongoing gross viola-tions of human rights in Egypt,including widespread ill-treat-ment in prisons and Morsi’sdeath,” it said.

Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan, a strong ally ofMorsi and the Muslim

Brotherhood, paid tribute tothe “martyr”.

The Gaza-basedPalestinian movement Hamas,originally an offshoot of theBrotherhood, also hailedMorsi’s influence.

Iran’s Foreign AffairsMinistry spokesman AbbasMousavi called his death “sadand unfortunate” and said that“while respecting the views ofthe great nation of Egypt, offersits condolences.”

Internationally he receivedsome support, but in his home-land, Morsi has a chequeredlegacy.

He spent just one turbulentyear in office after the 2011uprising, before being toppledby the military after millionstook to the streets demandinghis resignation.

The Islamist leader hasbeen in prison since his ouster,on trial in several cases includ-ing for spying for Iran, Qatarand militant groups such asHamas.

Morsi was also accused ofplotting terrorist acts.

He was sentenced todeath in May 2015 for his rolein jailbreaks during the upris-ing that ousted his predeces-sor, longtime autocrat HosniMubarak.

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Aprogramme funded byNASA in the US has pro-

duced a series of videos aboutfamous archaeological sitesand institutions in India alongwith lesson plans in Hindi toteach the language interna-tionally in the context of sci-ence and technology.

The videos focus on scien-

tific innovations at varioussites like Amer Fort palaceand Hawa Mahal in Jaipur, therust-resistant Iron Pillar ofDelhi, UNESCO Heritage siteQutub Minar, the Chand Bawristep well and headquarters ofthe Jaipur Foot, a prostheticgiven free to impoverishedamputees in 80 countries acrossthe world.

The NASA-funded pro-

gramme STARTALK, whichmakes it a priority issue fornational security to expandthe teaching and learning ofHindi, Arabic, Chinese andother world languages, made aUSD 90,000 grant to VedChaudhary, director of theproject.

The programme is supple-mented by funding fromChaudhary’s New Jersey-based

foundation Educators’ Societyfor Heritage of India.

The programme is admin-istered by the National ForeignLanguage Centre at theUniversity of Maryland.

“This was a unique expe-rience. I never knew I wasgoing to have so much fundoing my research,” AlokKumar, principal investigator inthe project, said.

Supported by researchstudies, Kumar said, context iscrucial in learning new lan-guages. Each video, designedfor learners from middle schoolthrough college, employs aSTEM (science, technology,engineering and math) per-spective “to provide interestingand incredibly rich context tocreate learning experiencesthat can push learners to the

advanced level of Hindi.”Kumar, professor of physics

at State University of NewYork, has published severalbooks on ancient Hindu sci-ence, mathematics and medi-cine. “I met a number of high-quality individuals who havemade a profound impact on mylife,” he said.

The University ofMaryland said that science-

based innovations are aboundin the sites Kumar chose.

With no air conditioning in1799, a Hindu architectdesigned the honeycomb-pat-terned Hawa Mahal as a“Palace of Breezes,” takingadvantage of what is known asthe “Venturi effect,” Kumarsaid, adding that air entersnarrow passages of the build-ing, increasing the speed of

flow and producing naturalcooling.

The nearly 24-foot-tall IronPillar of Delhi, built in the year402, is a testament to the skillof Hindu metal smiths whoprocessed phosphorus-richiron that, instead of corroding,creates an even, protective layerthat has withstood centuries ofmonsoons and scorching sum-mer heat, the university said.

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China on Tuesday refutedreports that President Xi

Jinping’s sudden move to makea rare visit to North Korea thisweek was aimed at usingBeijing’s close ties withPyongyang as a “leverage” todeal with his US counterpartDonald Trump’s threat toimpose tariffs on more Chineseimports.

China on Mondayannounced that President Xiwould make his maiden visit toPyongyang on Thursday —the first by a Chinese leader in14 years — in a big boost to theNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who is under heavy pres-sure from the US to give upnuclear weapons programme.

The sudden announce-ment of Xi’s visit to Pyongyangahead of his much-speculatedmeeting with Trump at the G-20 summit in Osaka on June28-29 led to speculation that hewants to flaunt Beijing’s impor-tance in any future deal

between US and North Koreaover denuclearisation.

Answering a spate of ques-tions over Xi’s visit to NorthKorea, Chinese ForeignMinistry spokesman Lu Kangdenied that the trip was aimedat using Beijing-Pyongyangclose ties as leverage in China-US trade talks.

China is under pressure asTrump, who had imposedadditional tariffs on USD 250billion worth of Chineseimported goods, threatened toimpose tariffs on the remain-ing USD 300 billion Chineseimports if no deal worked outin his likely meeting with Xi atOsaka. “You said ‘China mayuse this visit as leverage on US’.I shall say certain people withsuch thinking may over inter-pret that,” Lu said.

“China and DPRK (NorthKorea) are close neighboursenjoying the friendly relations.The two countries alwaysmaintained good exchanges.We hope you can get clear ideaabout this visit and our firm

determination to developfriendly ties with DPRK and donot make unnecessary links orconnections,” Lu said.

He also took exception toreports questioning the timingof Xi’s visit to North Korea andspeculation linking the trip toXi-Trump meeting, whichChina is yet to confirm.

Kim already had two failedsummits with Trump, who inthe past accused Xi of “influ-encing” the North Korean

leader against working out adeal to give up nuclearweapons. “The timing of Xi’svisit has nothing to do withtalks with US,” Lu said.

“Trade disputes betweenUS and China have dragged onfor one year or so. I don’t seewhy it is getting more sensitivefor the moment,” he said,adding that China was sur-prised by the outcome ofTrump-Kim summit at Hanoiin February.

The summit failed to yieldany results to end the deadlockover denuclearisation of theKorean Peninsula.

“But after that the situationis moving forward with theresumption of dialogue. I won-der why the situation is moresensitive than February,” Lusaid. After his Singapore sum-mit with Kim last year, Trumpaccused Xi of influencing theNorth Korean leader againstgoing for a deal. Kim met Xifour times in recent months.

“It could very well be thathe’s influencing Kim Jong-un.We’ll see what happens.Meaning the President ofChina, President Xi, could beinfluencing,” Trump said inMay 2018.

Another Chinese officialSong Tao, head of theInternational Department ofthe ruling Communist Party ofChina, said Xi’s visit to NorthKorea is of great significancefor efforts to build on past suc-cesses to further advance bilat-eral relationship.

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Hong Kong leader CarrieLam apologised Tuesday

for the political unrest sparkedby a proposed Beijing-backedlaw that would have allowedextraditions to mainlandChina.

Unprecedented mass ralliesagainst the bill have rocked thecity’s government — plungingthe city into its biggest politi-cal crisis in decades — withprotesters calling for Lam tostep down.

“I personally have to shoul-der much of the responsibility.This has led to controversies,disputes and anxieties in soci-ety,” Lam told a press confer-ence.

“For this I offer my mostsincere apology to all people ofHong Kong.” Lam suspendedthe bill after the city saw mas-sive rallies on June 9 and 12 —

with bouts of violence betweenthe police and some protesters.

But that failed to quellpublic anger, and was followedby an even bigger protestSunday that organisers saiddrew over two million people— more than a quarter of thepopulation — to the streets.

Lam gave no indication shewas prepared to step down, say-

ing instead she wanted to “con-tinue to work very hard... tomeet the aspirations of theHong Kong people”.

Critics of the extraditionbill fear the legislation willentangle Hong Kong residentsin China’s notoriously opaqueand politicised justice system,and damage the city’s reputa-tion as a safe business hub.

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As college admissions are under-way especially for private insti-tutes. Students have already

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For those coming from a Sciencebackground, there are a myriad ofpromising career avenues to choosefrom. The adoption and innovation ofemerging technologies such asArtificial Intelligence (AI), machinelearning (ML), Internet of Things(IoT), and Robotics are increasingimpressively high, especially nowwhen the underlying potential ofthese techs is unlocked. From softwaredevelopment to robotics engineering,diverse industries call for scientificknowledge and technical skills toregister double-digit growth. In fact,Indian Engineering Research andDevelopment (ER&D) is also expect-ed to double to $42 billion by FY 2022.Therefore, the students setting an eyeon Science, Technology, Engineering,Math (STEM) jobs will hit the nailright.

The STEM as the industry is con-tained with a pool of education andcareer prospects because the world is

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The NASSCOM predicts thatnearly 65 per cent of four million jobsin IT are going to change over the nextfive years. With it, skills and talent indemand will also change. In the pre-sent case scenario, most of the high-ly-paid jobs require an engineering ortech degree as well as digital engi-neering skills at the least.

Lately, AI has emerged as one ofthe most interactive fields of thestudy. It is the technology that keepson bestowing us with smart andintelligent creations that makes our lifea lot easier. Whether it is Siri orNetflix, these AI powered softwarehelp us type message without usingfingers, turn on the lights at home, andeven discover new shows and moviesthat are a delight to our eyes. As busi-nesses strive to offer us more conve-nience through AI technologies, thefield is going to expand creating over2.3 million jobs by 2020, as Gartnerestimates.

To work in this domain, studentsshould have a BTech degree in com-puter science, artificial intelligence,

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There are many institutes likeSRM Institute of Science andTechnology, Delhi-NCR and ManavRachna University (MRU) that havestarted offering these courses fromthis new academic year.

The mightiest of tech advance-ments are born out of small bit-sizedinformation, otherwise called data.The present is futuristic age whereeven a human gene is a source of thepertinent data and information andcan open a whole new world to us.The organisations understand thereal value of this data as it allows themto innovate and serve the customersthrough a result-driven approach.For example, a brand can introduce anew product line that fulfils therequirements of the customers, on thebasis of their previously shown behav-iour. But, the world produces an infi-nite amount of raw and unstructureddata the value of which is insur-mountable for businesses, governmentbodies, and scientists.

To derive insights from the com-plex data, there is an urgent need fordata scientists, data analysts, data engi-neers, and data managers. The jobmarket for data science jobs has wit-nessed a hike of nearly 76 per cent in

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The Indraprastha Instituteof Information

Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi)has announced BTech inComputer Science andArtificial Intelligence pro-gramme for the academic year2019-20. The students can logon to the websitewww.iiitd.ac.in to get moredetails about the eligibilitycriteria and admission process.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)has become an integral part oftechnology in our daily lives.With its rapid adoption, thereis a significant requirement ofresearchers and technologistswho can build AI technolo-gies. Being one of a kindcourse in India, IIIT-Delhi’sBTech in CSAI programmewill provide students anopportunity to learn bothfoundational and practicalcomponents of AI andMachine Learning. Presently,

only a few universities offerfour-year engineering coursededicated to ArtificialIntelligence.

Highlighting the impor-tance of the course, ProfessorRanjan Bose, Director, IIIT-Delhi, said: “Even thoughmany institutions today areembracing AI-powered prod-ucts and applications, stillthere is a scarcity of job-ready talents who can engi-neer home-grown AI tech-nologies. The objective behindoffering this course is to equipour future engineers withexpertise in AI so that we canalso significantly contributetowards ground-breakingdevelopment and innovationin the field.”

A student completing thisprogramme will be able tobuild a career in varied indus-tries as well as can become aresearcher in niche AI-relatedfields such as computer vision,robotics and many others.

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The IIT-Gandhinagar isorganising the JEE Open

House at three different loca-tions with the first being heldat New Delhi on June 22, 2019at the PHD Chamber ofCommerce and Industry,Nipccd Campus, Hauz Khas.

The second and thirdevents will be held on June 23,2019 at Mumbai in theWalchand Hirachand Hall,Churchgate, and at the IITGandhinagar campus.

Interested students visit:http://events.iitgn.ac.in/2019/openhouse/. Highlighting theobjectives of these Open

House Events, Prof PratikMutha, Dean (AcademicAffairs), IIT Gandhinagarsaid: “The JEE Open Houseaims to address doubts andqueries of prospective stu-dents and their guardiansregarding various disciplines,course structures, activitiesand opportunities at IITs sothat they can take informeddecisions. The Open Housebeing organised at three dif-ferent locations will make itconvenient for them to attendat a place of their choice.”

The New Delhi sessionstarts from 10 am. TheMumbai session will startfrom 3 pm onwards.

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As odd education is becoming mainstream, the field is wit-nessing an increase demand of institutions which offercross-disciplinary courses with contemporary curriculum.

There are very few educational institutions in India that offer futur-istic odd-ball courses for the students.

Shankar’s Academy of Art equipped with one of the largestportfolio of art and design courses is offering many cutting-edgeprogrammes including art, book illustration and computer graph-ics for which it awards diplomas.

These professional future-oriented odd-ball courses aim toproduce skillful professionals who will shape up seamlessly withthe work environment and readily meet the requirements of thefast-growing global design economy. These courses offer uniqueplatforms that not only aim at academics but also look to spreadawareness of newer, emerging career streams and even lead to jobcreation.

“We aim at providing experiential learning through a mix ofin-studio learning, field-work and theory. The odd-ball cours-es are in fact well-researched well-thought out courses that havebeen designed keeping the future requirements in mind. Thesecourses will prepare the students in various streams other thanthe traditional ones thus making them future ready,” said direc-tor, Children’s Book Trust and Shankar’s Academy of Art.

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Jason Roy is targeting England’s match againstarch-rivals Australia for a World Cup return

after being sidelined with a torn hamstring.The in-form opening batsman was ruled out

of England’s match against Afghanistan at OldTrafford and their pool encounter with Sri Lankaat Headingley on Friday.

He tore his left hamstring in the field dur-ing England’s eight-wicket win over the WestIndies last week and did not bat. But having suf-fered a similar injury during England’s tour ofthe Caribbean earlier this year and with the WorldCup featuring a long pool phase that sees all 10teams play each other ahead of the semi-finals,the 28-year-ol Roy is confident of returning toaction.

“I did it in the West Indies and it was a lotworse,” Roy told Sky Sports. “It could be wayworse — the scan told me it’s minimum 10 days.We’ve got to assess it as we go along.”

“It’s a huge understatement being frustrated,but I’ve got to keep smiling,” the Surrey staradded.

Roy hit a fifty in England's opening win overSouth Africa and then struck a commanding 153in the host nation's victory over Bangladesh.

But he fell for just eight during England's sur-prise 14-run defeat to Pakistan at Trent Bridge.

Now he hopes to face reigning championsAustralia at Lord's on June 25.

“We’re targeting Australia but we’ll see howthis week goes,” said Roy, whose opening part-nership with Bairstow has been a key factor inEngland’s rise to the top of the one-day interna-tional rankings and their status as favourites towin the World Cup.

“If this week goes to plan, then Australia. Ifnot, then who knows. Hamstrings are such a greyarea.”

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Gurjit Kaur slammed four goals,including a hat-trick as India

thrashed lowly Fiji 11-0 to storminto the semifinals of the FIHWomen’s Series Finals hockey tour-nament, here on Tuesday.

Gurjit struck in the 15th, 19th,21st and 22nd minutes, whileMonika (11th, 33rd)scored a bracefor India in a lop-sided Pool Amatch.

Lalremsiami (4th), Rani (10th),Vandana Katariya (12th), LilimaMinz (51st) and Navneet Kaur(57th) were also among the goalscorers for the winners.

World No 9 India dominatedtheir lowly ranked opponentsthroughout the match, allowingFiji to only have one circle entry inthe entire 60 minutes, whilst mak-ing 74 entries into the opposition'sstriking area.

The first quarter was dominat-ed by India which saw them takethe lead in the fourth minute whenLalremsiami’s cross-field ball wasdeflected by a Fiji defender into theback of the net.

Captain Rani scored India’ssecond goal in the 10th minutefrom a penalty corner. In

the next minute Monika made thescoreline 3-0 from Neha Goyal'sassist.

Forward Vandana Katariyascored only her second goal of the

competition when she struck in the12th minute.

Gurjit then scored her first offour goals by converting a penaltycorner in the last minute of the first

quarter to hand India a 5-0 advan-tage.

In the 19th minute, Gurjitscored from another penalty cornerby slotting home in the left bottomside of Fiji goal to make it 6-0 inIndia's favour.

Two minutes later, Gurjit com-pleted her hat-trick when shescored from a rebound with areverse stick shot after her drag-flick was blocked by a defender.

Gurjit struck again in the 22ndminute from another penalty cor-ner to make it 8-0 in India’s favour.

Early in the third quarter, mid-fielder Monika scored India’s ninthgoal of the match, deflecting inSushila Chanu Pukhrambam’s shotfrom just outside the circle in the33rd minute.

Lilima then joined the partyand registered her name in thescoresheet with reverse stick shot inthe 51st minute.

Six minutes later, Navneetpounced on a loose clearance by theFiji goalkeeper to round off the tallyfor India.

India will play their semifinalencounter on Saturday.

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Real Madrid's new signingRodrygo has said he

models his game on Neymarand Robinho as the 18-year-old on Tuesday became thelatest arrival unveiled at theSantiago Bernabeu.

Madrid completed a 45-million-euro ($50.3 million)deal for Rodrygo Silva deGoes in June last year butagreed to let the Brazilianstriker stay at Santos foranother season.

He is the fifth players tojoin Madrid this summer,following Eden Hazard, EderMilitao, Ferland Mendy andLuka Jovic for a minimumtransfer outlay to 300 millioneuros.

"For me it is a dreamcome true," Rodrygo said ata press conference. "I havealways said it is the dream ofevery child in Brazil and theworld. I'm living a dream, it'sthe happiest day of my life."

Rodrygo has signed forMadrid's first team but saidhe would be happy to play

for Castilla, the club's B side,to gain experience.

After being presented inthe stands by club presidentFlorentino Perez, Rodrygoemerged on the pitch at theSantiago Bernabeu, wherehe kicked balls into a crowd

of around 2,000 fans."I'm a fast striker, I score

and dribble," he said. "I'mBrazilian and we're a bit likethat, like Robinho andNeymar, I identify a littlewith them.

"I like to play on the

wings, on the left especially,but I have no preference. I'mready to play."

Neymar has been linkedwith a return to Spain, justtwo years after he joinedParis Saint-Germain fromBarcelona for a world record222 million euros.

Asked if he would likeeither to play alongside oremulate his compatriot,Rodrygo said: "Neymar is agreat player but he's onanother team and I can't talkabout him.

"No, I would like to bethe Rodrygo of Madrid.There is only one Neymar,there can't be another."

Madrid struggled forgoals last season in the wakeof Cristiano Ronaldo'sdeparture to Juventus,despite another Brazilianteenager, Vinicius Junior,enjoying an impressive firstyear in the Spanish capital.

Vinicius began the sea-son playing for Castilla butwas promoted by coachSantiago Solari. Rodrygohopes to follow suit.

"I have spoken toVincius since I signed andwhen we met in the nation-al team we talked about theclub," Rodrygo said.

"Madrid always has thebest players in the world, Iknow there will be a lot ofcompetition but I am avail-able to the club to play in thefirst team or for Castilla.

"The pressure is there atall football clubs but here itis much higher. Vinicius toldme about his experience. Hetold me to be patient. I'myoung, I have a big futureahead of me and everythingwill happen naturally."

Perez said: "Today marksa momentous time in yourcareer, soon you will wearthe white shirt.

"Your growth has beenspectacular and you nowface the challenge that youhave chosen. Here you willsucceed with work andhumility, the fans will alwaysbe on your side but youmust know the highdemands of our club, it is ahallmark of Real Madrid."

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Eduardo Vargas scored twice asChile launched the defense of

their Copa America crown withan emphatic 4-0 defeat of Japanin Sao Paulo on Monday.

Vargas, who plays for Mexicoclub Tigres UANL, netted twicein the second half as Chile grad-ually overpowered a skillful butlimited Japan, who are playing inthe South American showpiece asone of two invited teams fromAsia.

Erick Pulgar had opened thescoring for Chile in the first halfbefore Vargas doubled the 2015and 2016 champions’ advantagewith a deflected second-halfstrike.

Manchester United’s AlexisSanchez then took his Chileanrecord goals tally to 42 after div-ing to head home in the 82ndminute before Vargas scored thepick of the goals moments laterwith a deft lob over Japan goal-keeper Keisuke Osako.

The win saw Chile joinUruguay at the top of Group C,level on points and goal differ-ence.

“The important thing is thatwe move on now with humility,”said Chile coach Reinaldo Rueda.

“This win doesn’t suddenlymake us a dream team, just as weweren’t the disaster that our crit-ics were saying we were before.”

The scoreline was harsh onJapan, who had carved out sever-

al promising chances but were letdown by poor finishing fromyoung striker Ayase Ueda.

“We deserved to score a goal,”said Japan coach HajimeMoriyasu. “The difference wasthat they were clinical and tooktheir chances. We’re sad to losebut proud that we really took it tothem.”

Japan had started confident-ly, dominating territory and pos-session albeit without threateningthe Chile goal.

Their best early chance cameafter nine minutes when ShoyaNakajima let fly after bursting for-ward only to see his shot saved byChile goalkeeper Gabriel Arias.

As the first half wore on,Chile looked increasingly morethreatening, and Sanchez sound-ed the alarm in the Japanesedefense in the 35th minute whenhis low shot flashed just wide.

Sanchez then almost playedin Charles Aranguiz but theBayer Leverkusen midfielder tooktoo long to get his shot away,allowing Japan to deflect behindfrom a corner.

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though, in the 41st minute bydelivering the set piece whichgave Chile the lead.

The goal reflected Chile’sdominance, but Japan were givena glorious opportunity to equal-ize just before half-time.

Chile coughed up posses-

sion inside their own half andGaku Shibasaki released Ueda ongoal.

The 20-year-old Ueda wasunable to make the chance count,though, rounding Arias but fail-ing to find the empty net with hisshot from a tight angle.

The half closed with Chilethreatening to add to their lead,Sanchez’s header from close rangesaved by Osako.

Chile picked up where theyleft off as the second half gotunder way, stroking the ballaround confidently to deny Japanpossession. In the 54th minutethe Chileans doubled their lead.

A f luent build-up sawMauricio Isla go clear down theright and he squared for Vargas,whose shot took a wicked deflec-tion off Takehiro Tomiyasu on itsway into the net.

Once again, though, aChilean goal was followed by agolden Japan opportunity whichthey again squandered.

Shibasaki’s fine cross pickedout an unmarked Ueda at theback post but the youngster’scomposure again deserted him,hooking his shot wide withArias and the Chile goal at hismercy.

Ueda missed another chancein the 69th minute but Chileslammed the door shut on hopesof a revival when Sanchez head-ed in Aranguiz's cross on 82minutes before Vargas made it 4-0 a minute later.

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England captain Eoin Morganset a new world record formost sixes in a one-day inter-

national innings as the World Cuphosts crushed Afghanistan by 150runs in their World Cup tie onTuesday.

Morgan hit 17 sixes in hiscareer-best 148, with England'stotal of 25 sixes also a new worldrecord, to pile up 397 for six.

Morgan, dropped on 28, dom-inated a third-wicket stand of 189with Joe Root (82), whose contri-bution to their partnership was amere 33. Afghanistan star leg-spinner Rashid Khan set anunwanted record with 0-110 innine overs — the most expensivereturn at a World Cup and secondcostliest in all ODI cricket.Morgan's tally surpassed the recordof 16 sixes in an ODI innings pre-viously shared by India's RohitSharma, South Africa's AB deVilliers and West Indies' ChrisGayle. But one ball after launchingGulbadin Naib for the record-breaking six, Morgan holed out offthe Afghanistan captain to end a71-ball innings that also featuredfour fours. His innings, which fea-tured 118 runs in boundaries, wasall the more impressive as Morganhad been doubtful for this matchwith a back spasm suffered inEngland's eight-wicket win over theWest Indies, in which he could notbat. Jonny Bairstow (90) gotEngland off to a solid start after

Morgan won the toss, with thehome side accelerating after JamesVince fell for 26 when hemishooked paceman DawlatZadran to short fine-leg. Rank out-siders Afghanistan, yet to win agame at this tournament, did nothelp themselves with some woefuloutfielding. Bairstow was untrou-bled until, and in sight of his eighthODI century, he chipped a returncatch to Naib. A visibly annoyedBairstow walked off having been incommand during a 99-ball inningsthat featured eight fours and threesixes. Morgan settled in quickly, hit-ting Naib for two sixes including afine hit over long-on.

But the left-hander shouldhave been out when he skiedRashid Khan only for DawlatZadran at deep midwicket to make

such a mess of the catch that theball bounced out of his hands andover the rope for four.

It was a costly error, withMorgan immediately hitting asoaring six. He cleared the bound-ary again in a 36th over that cost18 runs. Morgan then went to fiftywith his fifth six in 36 balls facedwhen he pulled off-spinnerMohammad Nabi high into an8,000-capacity temporary stand.

Root was denied a secondsuccessive hundred and third of thetournament when he holed out offGulbadin, whose three for 68 wasnot a bad return in the circum-stances. But the sixes kept coming,with Moeen Ali setting a new teamrecord when he launched thepenultimate delivery of the innings,from Dawlat, over long-on.

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With pacer Lungi Ngidi back inthe side, South Africa willlook to avenge their 2015

semifinal defeat while New Zealand willaim to reclaim their position at the topwhen the two sides clash in a World Cupmatch here on Wednesday.

South Africa, who suffered a heart-breaking loss to New Zealand in the lastedition, had a dismal start to theirWorld Cup campaign, losing threestraight games followed by a wash-outbefore registering their maiden winagainst bottom-placed Afghanistan.

In contrast, New Zealand are yet toface defeat in the tournament and arelying second on the table with threewins and a washout.

Injuries to pacers Dale Steyn andAnrich Norje have hurt the SouthAfrican bowling unit severely.

With Ngidi fully fit and the teamfinally tasting victory, skipper Faf duPlessis will breathe a sigh of relief.

"Hopefully this is a real confidencebooster for everyone on the team. Andthere's a little bit of weight that you feelthat's off your shoulders now. We needto win every game that we play" DuPlessis had said after the win againstAfghanistan.

South Africa will need their bowlersto step up to keep their World Cuphopes alive.

A lot will depend on veteran spin-ner Imran Tahir should the Edgbastonsurface offer turn. The 40-year-oldtook two wickets each against Englandand Bangladesh, before runningthrough Afghanistan.

The Proteas have been mostly donein by their batting but they will takeheart from the fact that openers HashimAmla and Quinton de Kock finallyclicked in the previous game.

The pair, alongside du Plessis, willhave to navigate their way through aquality seam attack led by Trent Boult.

However, considering South Africa'sdismal record against spin and the

brown Edgbaston wicket, the BlackCaps might consider deploying legspinner Ish Sodhi alongside the reliantMitchell Santer.

New Zealand have a solid battingunit. Skipper Kane Williamson anchoredthe side to victory against Bangladesh

and Afghanistan while Ross Taylor hasalso been among the runs but the teamwill hope for openers Colin Munro andMartin Guptill to start clicking.

New Zealand also have two destruc-tive all-rounders in Jimmy Neesham andColin de Grandhomme in their ranks

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South Africa pacer Lungi Ngidi hasconfirmed he is "100 per cent fit"

to take the field in their World Cupmatch against New Zealand today.

South Africa’s start to their WorldCup campaign has been far from ideal,having lost three opening games anda wash-out tie, with a slew of injurieshampering their progress.

Ngidi played just the two openinggames before sustaining a left ham-string injury in a match againstBangladesh.

“It’s been tough. Injuries are nevernice, but with the support staff that I’vehad around me it's been pretty goodand I've been alright," Ngidi wasquoted as saying by the official web-site of the Cricket World Cup.

“It’s just been frustrating notbeing able to play.

“I’ve just finished a fitness testtoday and passed that, so I’m match-fit ready. It’s 100 per cent. That’s howthe fitness test goes and if you’re notbowling at 100 per cent then you're notready to play,” the young fast bowleradded.

South Africa had been forced tofield a depleted pace attack with leg-endary fast bowler Dale Steyn ruledout of the entire tournament, whileNgidi sat out of three matches.

The 23-year-old pacer’s return isexpected to bolster South Africa,who have only an outside chance nowof making it to the semi-finals afterthree loses from five games.

In their last match, South Africafinally managed to get a win undertheir belt after beating Afghanistanand now they would need to win the

rest of the league stage matches inorder to make the last four, andNgidi feels New Zealand do have someweaknesses that could be exploited.

“I don’t think their middle andlower order have been tested enough.

They have got most of their runs at thetop of the order, so if we can get oneor two maybe we can test them. I thinkthen you could be looking at a differ-ent situation with their batting,” saidNgidi.

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Quinton de Kock has told hisSouth Africa teammates to

keep their heads when they faceNew Zealand in a must-win WorldCup match on Wednesday.

South Africa's hopes of mak-ing the semi-finals would effec-tively be over if they lose atEdgbaston after a wretched startto the tournament.

Defeats to England,Bangladesh and India have leftSouth Africa wicketkeeper-bats-man De Kock billing the NewZealand match as a "quarter-final".

A nine-wicket victory overAfghanistan on Saturday was theirfirst win in this World Cup inEngland and Wales.

The Proteas cannot afford anymore slip-ups in their remaininggames against New Zealand,Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Australiaif they are to maintain slenderhopes of a semi-final berth.

De Kock admits South Africa'schances of avoiding an embarrass-ingly early elimination will bewrecked if they do not cope withthe stress of playing in a do-or-diesituation.

"Obviously it's a big game forus but, in saying that, our nextthree or four games that we have,they are all going to be big gamesfor us for the rest of the tourna-ment," he said.

"We're just going to have to goout there, keep our heads steadyand play freely.

"Tomorrow is a quarter-final,I guess you could say it, but if we

do win it, then it's another biggame again.

"We have to win all the games,not just focus on tomorrow. But insaying that, we know how goodNew Zealand are playing at themoment. They are a big team inWorld Cups. They always seem tostep up."

Unbeaten New Zealand arefavourites to push South Africatowards the World Cup exit doorand De Kock admits moraleamong Faf Du Plessis's squad hasnot been as high as he would like.

But he hopes the comprehen-sive victory against minnowsAfghanistan will provide a much-needed spark in the nick of time.

"I think before our first gamethat we played against England, wewere in a pretty good space alsothen, mentally and with our prepa-ration," he said.

"Then obviously, during thecourse of the tournament, obvi-ously after losing all the time,there's always a bit of a slump inbeing mentally strong.

"Getting a win again has givenus high hopes. It just becomes amental game at a World Cup, try-ing to deal with all the pressuresand stuff.

"We've put a lot of emphasison our energy going into thegames, and the situation we're inright now, our energy needs to bebetter than ever."

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Not really too sure. It looks pretty light.Obviously, there’s been a lot of weatheraround, but it’s just going to be one of thosethings that we adjust to as it comes.Looking forward to getting out there. We’veobviously had a few quiet days. We can’twait to get started.�You’ve only got three wickets so far.What would you put that down to?

We’ve got 30 wickets that’s the onlymain thing I’m worried about. As a unitwe’ve been going really well. We’ve put theball where we wanted, and we’ve put a lotof pressure on the teams that we’ve comeagainst. If we can continue to do it as a unitthen I’ll be happy.�Which South African batsman areyou looking forward to bowling to?

We’ve got to respect all of them.They’ve got some classy players at the topof the innings. They’ve obviously had aninteresting start to their tournament, sothey’ll be hungry to come out and perform.Led by an experienced captain, they’ve gotsome dangerous hitters lower down in theorder. We need to be on the mark with howwe start 100 per cent. �Have you had to try a few other thingsduring this competition?

I’m always trying to get better, first ofall, but when the ball hasn’t swung, it’salways been the biggest challenge to try toget wickets and try to apply pressure. Interms of running on the wicket, it’s not real-ly something that I’m worried about. I’mjust trying to get close to the stumps and,I suppose, make the most out of the swingthat is available.�This is essentially a knockout match forSA. Does that confer an advantage?

There have always been exciting gamesbetween NZ and SA over the past WorldCups and past time that we’ve met eachother. 2015, the semis at Eaton Park wasone of the greatest games that the Kiwishave played. It obviously got a lot of atten-tion back home, and it was a cool one tobe a part of it. We’re looking forward to fac-ing them.�Why do you think NZ has had theupper hand over SA at World Cups?

I’m not too sure. Like I said, they’re biggames. Whether there’s a lot of pressure onthem, I'm not too sure. For us, we knowwhat works well. For me as a bowler, I’msure I want to lead the bowling attack asbest as I can. If we can do the things thatwe do well and we know that works well,put some early pressure on and get somewickets, then, hopefully they feel that pres-sure a little bit more.�NZ have come across as the nice guys.What do you think about that?

I don’t think we’re going out there toaim to be the nice guys of world cricket orput on a front of any sort. We’ve just beengenuine and been who we are. Just play-ing the game in good spirits and enjoyingit. That’s why I fell in love with the gameand that’s why a lot of people follow theteam is because we go out and have fun.�Has the NZ attack have been sufficient-ly challenged in the matches?

It’s definitely going to be a big challengeto see where we’re at. We’ve been lucky tobe on a couple of new surfaces that haveoffered a lot to our style of bowling. Thechallenge is always going to be to see whatwe can do on the wickets that don’t offertoo much, and that’s what we’re preparedfor here. It’s a quality wicket. There’s beena lot of runs scored here, so it’s definitelygoing to be a good challenge.

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Shakib Al Hasan admitted his match-winning 124in Bangladesh’s victory over the West Indies

ranked as one of the best moments of his career.Shakib’s majestic display paved the way for

Bangladesh to record the second highest run chasein World Cup history as they reached 322-3 atTaunton on Monday.

Hitting 16 fours in his unbeaten 99-ball innings,Shakib was well supported by Liton Das, whoscored 94 from 69 balls in his first World Cup appear-ance.

The pair’s unbroken stand of 189 was the secondhighest for the fourth wicket inWorld Cup history.

It was a memorableday for Shakib, whorated both his perfor-mance and his team'samong the greatest hehas experienced.

“It’s obviouslyone of the best,because the way wechased that run, theway I paced the innings,I was never in a rush. Ididn’t have to play toomany shots from agood ball,” hetold reporters.

“I had tobe patient.And I wasp a t i e n tenough toput the badball away.

"I thinkevery timeI did thatquite well.And it's oneof the keythings in mybatting in thischase.” OnlyIreland’s 329-7against England in2011 stands as a big-ger World Cup runchase.

But Shakib insist-ed Bangladesh never

doubted they could overhaul the West Indies' totalof 321-8.

In the end they reached the target with 8.3 oversto spare thanks to Shakib and Das.

“At the end of the first innings in the dressingroom no one felt that this was tough. Everyone wascomfortable and was chilling,” he said.

“It gave a lot of confidence in the dressing roomand belief that we could chase that run. Once we start-ed batting, I think the way the openers started theirinnings, everyone in the dressing room felt good andcomfortable and relaxed.

“That helped us a lot. So at no point of time wehad to panic.” Shakib has now scored two centuriesin this World Cup after hitting 121 against England.

In the course of the West Indies match he becamejust the second player to score

6,000 career ODI runs forthe Tigers.

His heroics havekept Bangladesh inwith a chance of mak-ing the semi-finals

and Shakib hopesthere are moregolden moments

to come.“I don’t know if

this is the best I havebeen batting or not,

but so far it’s going welland fingers crossed,

hope it continues,”he said.

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At this moment, I have to sayShakib Al Hasan is the mostin-form all-rounder in the

world.He is in very good touch with his

bowling and his batting has been bril-liant at this ICC Men’s Cricket WorldCup.

He made another century in thewin over the West Indies, his secondof this tournament with two otherhalf-centuries.

He is the number one all-rounderin the ICC rankings as well and he isin tremendous form. In fact, I havenever seen him play like this — theconsistency he is showing is incred-ible. I have played with him manytimes over the years but this is thebest form of his career.

That was a very good win forBangladesh against the West Indiesbecause they are a very, very goodside — they’ve played really goodcricket in this World Cup.

For Bangladesh it was a crucialgame because if they lost or even itrained, then they wouldn’t have hada great chance to go through to thesemi-finals.

It’s really, really important to startquickly, especially in England. If you

start well, either bowling or batting,most of the time those teams win —we’ve seen that at this World Cup. Westarted well with the ball by gettingChris Gayle out early and that wasimportant. When West Indies scored300+, I heard from quite a few peo-ple saying ‘Bangladesh will lose thisgame’. But I told them just wait andsee. I know the ground at Taunton,I’ve played over there, and on a wick-et which wasn’t seaming they had achance. It was a batter’s wicket and atTaunton, 320 isn’t an easy target butit isn’t that hard either.

They started well with the bat andthen Shakib and Liton Das did bril-liantly to put on that 189-run partner-ship and see them over the line.

It’s really difficult coming into theteam in the middle of this type oftournament, so Liton Das was defi-nitely under pressure. When a newplayer comes to play in a big game, ina big tournament, with this type ofatmosphere, it is really tough.

It was a pressure moment and hecoped very nicely. He showed what hecan do as a player and it's exciting forBangladeshi cricket. Bangladesh hadconfidence from their recent recordagainst the West Indies, which is now

eight wins in the last ten ODIs.They’ve beaten them in the West

Indies, in Ireland and in Bangladeshas well. If you keep beating any teamconsistently then it's really, reallyconfidence-boosting.

When they were set 320, the boyswould have still felt they were goingto win the game because they knowthey can do it against the West Indies.Importantly, their chances of reach-ing the semi-finals are still alive. Eachand every game is so importantbecause if you lose one now, it will bereally difficult to go through.

This one was crucial and thegame against Australia at Trent Bridgeon Thursday is the same but this con-fidence will help them and carry overto that clash. They will believe theycan beat anyone because they are play-ing really good cricket.

Bangladesh reached the quarter-finals at the 2015 World Cup and thenthe semi-finals at the ICC ChampionsTrophy in 2017 — they’ve done real-ly well at recent big tournaments —but I honestly believe they are play-ing even better than that at themoment.

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Jason Holder says the WestIndies face a tough task to

reach the World Cup semi-finalsafter their dismal seven-wicketdefeat against Bangladesh onMonday.

Holder’s side fell victim to thesecond highest run chase in WorldCup history as Bangladeshreached 322-3 with 8.3 overs tospare at Taunton.

It was a bitter pill to swallowfor Holder after they had posteda solid 321-8, only to implode witha combination of woeful fieldingand sloppy bowling.

The West Indies have lostthree of their five matches and,with four games left, captainHolder conceded there is only aslim chance they can make thesemi-finals in the 10-team tour-nament.

“It’s looking tough at this pre-

sent moment, but it’s not impos-sible. We have to play every gamehere now as a final,” Holder said.

“We’ve got to win every gameleft to give ourselves a really goodchance.”

New Zealand and India, bothin fine form, are the West Indies’next two opponents and theymust beat both to remain in con-tention.

“If we want to go through intothe semi-finals we’ve got to beatthe best teams,” Holder said.

“We’ve got to back ourselvesand be more clinical with the ball.

“A few top edges didn’t go ourway, but we didn’t help ourselvesas well.

“We’ve also got to score moreruns because we haven’t got a bats-man with a hundred yet.

“I thought with the pitchdimensions we could have got365-375 but we were well short, 40or 50 runs.”

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Injured al lrounder MarcusStoinis returned to the bowling

crease on Monday at Trent Bridgeas he aims to prove he can still playa part in Australia's World Cupcampaign.

Having injured his side againstIndia more than a week ago, timeis running out for Stoinis to holdonto his spot in Australia's 15-mansquad, with Mitchell Marsh readyand available to replace his stateteammate.

Under World Cup playingconditions, Stoinis cannot returnto the squad should selectorsdecide to officially draw a linethrough him and call up Marsh forthe rest of the tournament.

Australia will face Bangladeshin Nottingham on Thursday andStoinis is doing everything hecan to prove his fitness ahead ofthat match. He bowled four oversat Trent Bridge on Monday — thefirst time he’s bowled since theIndia game — and now faces abigger test at the team’s main train-ing session on Tuesday.

As the sole allrounder in thesquad, the absence of Stoinis left

Australia with an unbalanced XIfor their matches against Pakistanand Sri Lanka, something selectorswould be reluctant to repeat head-ing into the business end of thetournament.

With t ime running out,

Stoinis’ teammates remain hope-ful the popular allrounder cankeep his World Cup dream alive.

“He had a light bowl todayand he’ll have a better run aroundtomorrow at the main session,”wicketkeeper Alex Carey told

RSN. “Mitch Marsh is here as wellready to go and in really good con-dition.

“Hopefully Marcus gets up. It’ssuch an important role and he’sdone such a great job for Australiaover the past 12-18 months as

well.”With selectors keen to give

Stoinis every chance to return tofull fitness, they took a risk for thematches against Pakistan and SriLanka by picking a side with justfour frontline bowlers along withoff-spinner Glenn Maxwell, whoskipper Aaron Finch said lastweek is “a good part-timer”.

Maxwell impressed in bowlinghis full allotment of 10 oversagainst Sri Lanka while Finchchipped in with two overs himselfin the win against Pakistan.

But vice-captain Carey indi-cated Maxwell’s bowling was ide-ally viewed as a handy sixthoption, rather than a frontlinerrequired to bowl 10 overs in everymatch.

“His bowling is really handyfor us, ideally as an option, but not'we need the 10 overs (from him)’,”he said.

“But we went to him for 10(against Sri Lanka) and he didsuch a good job. Even Finch got awicket against Pakistan, so there’san option there.

“Maxi is bowling well, but fin-gers crossed the allrounder comesup.”

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Australia concede they’re stilluncertain of their best side for

the remainder of the World Cup,despite losing just one of the open-ing five matches of their title defence.

But assistant coach Brad Haddinbelieves their flexibility could be atrump card for the crunch matchesto come.

With a loss to India markingtheir only blip so far, the Aussies findthemselves in the unusual spot of sit-ting on top of the World Cup stand-ings yet openly admitting there arequestion marks hanging over sever-al crucial positions.

An injury to key man MarcusStoinis shapes as their biggestheadache, with the allrounder set totest out his troublesome left side inNottingham this week ahead ofThursday's clash with Bangladesh.

"At the moment, we're still try-ing to find that best XI," Haddinsaid.

"We're still trying to find whatworks best for us. Come later in thetournament, we'll start to under-stand what the conditions are like alot better and what … our best XI(is).

"At the moment, we're not set-tled on our best XI."

Haddin, the wicketkeeper inAustralia's 2015 World Cup-win-ning side that used all 15 of its avail-able squad members throughout thetournament, suggested the uncer-tainty isn't necessarily a bad thing.

"We're not too concerned aboutit all," he said. "One of the things wespoke to the squad about is we needto be a flexible squad to win a WorldCup.

"The players understand thatand we're training them according-ly. We make sure each and everyplayer is ready for game day.

"I don't think it's a concern,you'd like to start getting yourteam (right) at the back-end of thetournament. I think one of the lux-uries at the moment is we're stillwinning, and we still haven't found

the perfect rhythm for our game,which is a dangerous sign."

Usman Khawaja, having thrivedas an opener in the lead-in to theWorld Cup, has been forced to adaptto unfamiliar late-innings scenariosin a handful of Australia's matchesso far.

He performed admirably aftercoming in at No 4 halfway throughAustralia's run chase against India,scoring 42 at better than a run-a-ball, but has contributed scores of15, 14 and 10 when he’s been in theNo 3 spot he’s more accustomed to.

“He’s playing a different role. It’snot that he’s not having success, he'sbeen in a role where he's had lim-ited opportunities," Haddin said.

"Before he could go out and setthe pace of the innings and now theinnings is dictating the role he needsto play. He's been okay with it —he's a class act.

"He's had little cameos through-out … We're pretty happy withwhere he's at. He's just got to bat(according to) the situation."

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Communication had been thebiggest USP in Rohit Sharma andShikhar Dhawan's enormously

successful opening partnership and theIndian vice-captain wants to create thesame level of understanding with KLRahul by the time World Cup reachesbusiness end.

Dhawan's fractured left-hand hasput Rahul in the line of fire in a stage likeWorld Cup but his senior openingpartner is confident that they will slow-ly be able to build up the right level ofcommunication required in such bigevent.

In fact against Pakistan, Rohitallowed Rahul to take first strike, whichhe normally does when Dhawan isaround.

"Yeah, KL also likes to take the strike,and for me it was important to give himthat because just like me, he also has themindset of taking the first ball. That is

his comfort. He is playing his first gameas an opener here, so I wanted to makesure that he's comfortable," Rohit saidwhile making it clear what his respon-sibilities are as a senior player

Rahul, on his part, knows what a bigopportunity it is and he is ready to fillin the big boots of Dhawan till the timehe comes back (if at all in this tourna-ment).

"Obviously Shikhar and Rohit forthe last three or four years have beensuch a dangerous combination havingdone so well. They have owned thosepositions. I had to wait for my chanceand I am just happy that I got to bat inthe top of the order," Rahul told reportersin mixed zone.

However, during their stand of 136,there were a couple of occasions whenRohit could have nearly got run out pri-marily because of the lack of commu-nication between the two.

But the champion opener is gamefor this new challenge as that's what

international cricket is all about - clear-ing new obstacles every passing day.

"These are the sort of challenges youface — the understanding of when hewants to run that two, when I want totake that single, and things like that.

"These are very little things, but ofcourse, eventually they add up to a wholelot for the team because at that point wenever wanted to get run out. That wasthe last thing in our mind to do that,"said Rohit.

But since they batted for nearly 24overs (23.5 to be precise), they had com-municated a lot and it's only going toimprove from here on, feels Rohit

"But we had a lot of communication(during game against Pakistan) while wewere batting, so slowly we will build onit. Now that I know he's going to openfor the next few games as well.

"So that conversation between us isreally, really important, and I hope thatcontinues because it's going to only helpboth of us."

For Rahul, the biggest challengeagainst Pakistan was to play outMohammed Amir's first spell, whichthey did with a fair degree of success

"Look I mean, with the new ballagainst any bowler, you have to see offthe first few overs and didn't know whatto expect from the wicket as it was undercovers for the first two days. It wasimportant that we saw off the first spell,"the talented Karnataka batsman said.

Amir, whether it was ChampionsTrophy final in 2017 or the Asia CupT20, a year before that, he had alwaysstruck in the very first over that hebowled but this time around the Indianshad done their homework.

"We needed to focus from ball oneas he has earlier done damage in the firstover itself. We were switched on fromball one and we didn't take too manychances in the first few overs. We gavetheir bowlers and the ball the respect itdeserved and carried on from there,"Rahul said.

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Ateam that stays together,plays together.At least that's what the Indian

team management believes as itsplans various activities duringlong tours which has a two-foldgain — to switch off a bit and alsoenjoy each other’s company offthe field which is very importantfor on-field performances.

The current Indian teamalso actively take part in bondingsessions, which are carefullyplanned during an away series. Itcould be anything from fungames to having a simple meal ina group of four.

Before the start of the WorldCup, Indian team was seen play-ing paint ball and now that thereis a break before the next gameagainst Afghanistan on Saturday,some bonding activities areplanned.

The team members are pro-vided with a weekly activityschedule and they are told to dothings which are more organic innature than forced.

“In this Indian team, thebonding sessions have been a partfor some years now. It could besome fun games and at timessome other activity. Right now,the players are with their familiesenjoying a break. Once theycome back, some activities are

planned," a senior BCCI officialsaid.

While Virat Kohli is the cap-tain, the team's ‘LeadershipGroup’ has three members —Kohli, Rohit Sharma andMahendra Singh Dhoni.

At times, in a team of 15, the12 players are divided into groupsof four and they are handled byeach of the three senior members.

“It is always insisted thatplayers from different regionshang out together and at leasthave a meal together. Just forexample, Vijay Shankar, newestmember of the team will certain-ly feel more comfortable interact-ing with a Dinesh Karthik. Samelanguage, food habits, that is nat-ural.

“But there are times whenKarthik will need to have a mealwith another junior player. It's notsomething that is forced but itshould happen naturally,” theofficial said.

It’s not only about cricket butseniors are encouraged to speakto the junior players about otheraspects of life also where they cantake a cue from them.

“It could be anything fromhandling stardom to managinginvestments. The seniors withtheir practical experiences couldhelp the juniors out or may bedividing them into groups ofthree, with the same gym slot.

Bonding during some strenuousexercises isn't a bad idea either,"he added.

Team bonding sessions havebeen in vogue in Indian cricketfor long, only the terminology haschanged with changing times.

In 70's, it used to be SundayClubs, a concept that was bor-rowed from English countieswhere players were told to dressup in a certain way or enact cer-tain scenes.

There used to be punish-ments like walking from one'sown hotel room to the teamactivity room in underwear witha neck tie tied around the waist.

Or else, some were made toapply lipstick and told to dancelike 'Basanti of Sholay'. At timesit would be fun but other timesit could be bordering on raggingas some of the old timers recall.

It became more of a fun dur-ing Gary Kirsten's time andPaddy Upton's much acclaimedbook 'Barefoot Coach' has somecute pictures of Virender Sehwagand Gautam Gambhir dressed aswomen during a play they werepart of.

From the mid 90's till early2000s, the team bonding activi-ties hardly took place, especiallyduring Azharuddin's era whenthe Indian side was a disjointedunit with not much trust existingbetween the players.

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Promoted to the opening slot, KLRahul rated his performance

against Pakistan at six out of ten,saying he will only get better afterhis composed fifty helped India setup a challenging total against thearch-rivals.

With Shikhar Dhawan ruledout of three World Cup games fol-lowing a hairline fracture on histhumb, Rahul opened the inningswith Rohit Sharma in his firstinternational match againstPakistan here Sunday.

Rahul, who made 57 off 78balls as part of the record 136-runopening partnership with Rohit,said he is grateful to get the oppor-tunity to realise his dream of rep-resenting his country againstPakistan.

"Shikhar and Rohit, in the lastthree or four years, have been sucha dangerous combo. Their partner-ships, if you see anywhere in theworld, they've played so well for thecountry and they've been No 1 and2 — they've owned those posi-tions," said Rahul.

"I've had to wait for my chanceand I'm just happy that I got to batin the top three. It's my first inter-national game against Pakistanand it has come in a World Cup soI couldn't ask for anything biggeror better.

"As a kid or as a young crick-eter growing up this is what youdream to do - I'm really happy thatI got the opportunity and I givemyself six out of ten! Hopefully Icarry on the confidence and getbetter."

The 136-run partnership wasIndia's best first-wicket stand in anWorld Cup match against Pakistanas the two-time champions set anintimidating total of 336/5 againsttheir arch-rivals.

Rahul stressed on the need tofight in the initial few overs to

build up a partnership."With the new ball, against any

bowler, it's important to see off thefirst few overs. That was especial-ly true here because we didn'tknow what to expect from thewicket as it had been under coversfor the past few days," he said.

"Once we got through those,we felt a lot more comfortable. Foran opening batsman it's importantto hit a few balls in the middle ofthe bat and get a few boundariesgoing.

"Then you start to focus on thegame and all the pressure, the hypeof India-Pakistan and the WorldCup stage just goes away from yourhead. The initial few overs are thefight, so we were happy to getthrough that and happy to get thewin."

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