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E nding speculation about the much-hyped National Register of Citizens (NRC), the BJP-led Assam Government on Monday pub- lished the first draft of the his- toric document, which includ- ed names of over 2.89 crore out of 3.29 crore applicants in the State even as it left 40 lakh peo- ple out of the register for some “discrepancies”. While releasing the docu- ment in Guwahati on Monday around 10 am, Registrar General of India (RGI) Sailesh assured that the citizens who do not find their names in the document will be given ample opportunities to enter their names in the final NRC. “This is a draft NRC and not the final NRC. All genuine Indian citizens whose names did not figure in the NRC will get ample opportunities to enter their names in the final NRC,” said Sailesh. The RGI also termed the occasion a historic one for Assam and India and said the State has achieved the first milestone with the publica- tion of the NRC. The updation of the NRC assumes significance for the BJP-led Government in the State as the saffron party came to power in Assam in 2016 rid- ing on the promise of detecting and expelling the illegal for- eigners living in the State. The issue of illegal for- eigners is a sensitive one in Assam as the State had wit- nessed a six-year long stu- dents’ movement between 1979 and 1985, seeking to detect and deport illegal foreigners living in the State. Assam State coordinator for NRC Pratik Hajela said the no genuine Indian citizens whose name did not figure in the document need to worry as there is a laid down procedures for claims and objectives start- ing August 30. He said the 40 lakh people whose name did not figure in the NRC will neither be declared as Indian nor for- eigners. “The status quo will continue and they will be known as applicants till the whole process is completed. They will get every opportuni- ty to prove their Indian citi- zenship and they will be assist- ed to fill up claims and objec- tion forms,” Hajela said. He said the Government will not disclose their identities but they will be intimated per- sonally through individual let- ters. “Whoever, wishes to file a claim for inclusion of their names in the NRC can approach the NRC Seva Kendras and file claim from August 30. We will start distri- bution of claims and objection and correction forms from August 7. The process of filing of the claims, objection and corrections will continue till September 28,” Hajela said. Joint Secretary (Northeast) of the Ministry of Home Affairs Satyen Garg made it clear that no persons whose name did not figure in the NRC will be taken to detention camps or Foreigners’ Tribunals. Various organisations like Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) and Assam Public Works (APW), who have been fight- ing a legal battle over the issue in the Supreme Court, thanked the Government for publishing the NRC draft and appealed to people to cooperate with the Government so that a flawless final NRC could be prepared. Continued on Page 4 B engal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday came down heavily on the Narendra Modi Government accusing the Centre of “hatching a ploy” to drive Bengalis and Biharis out of Assam in the name of rec- tifying the National Register of Citizens. Joining her, Congress pres- ident Rahul Gandhi criticised the Government “for the man- ner in which the NRC has been undertaken”. Mamata said she along with her party MPs may visit Assam to take stock of the sit- uation. “Things are being done according to a dirty game plan to throw out Bengalis and Biharis,” she alleged. “Names of more than 40 lakh people have been struck out of the NRC. Where will these people go? Most of them have been living in this coun- try for the past 50 or 100 years. They have their lands, houses everything here. Continued on Page 4 F ormer Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK presi- dent M Karunanidhi, 95, who was admitted to a corporate hospital in Chennai on Saturday, is stable and fine, according to Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswamy who called on him on Monday. “I met Dr Kalaignar (as Karunanidhi wants people to address him) and was with him for some time. He is fine and recovering. I also had discus- sion with Leader of the Opposition MK Stalin and Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi about Dr Kalaignar’s health,” Palaniswamy told journalists while coming out of the hos- pital. The Chief Minister was accompanied by his deputy O Panneerselvan, Higher Education Minister KS Sengottiyan and Law Minister CV Shanmugham. Meanwhile, three people died after hearing the news on Sunday that Karunanidhi’s health had turned critical. While two persons died of heart attack at Pollachi and Ootti, a youth set himself on fire because he could not think of a State without Karunanidhi. Later another ministerial delegation consisting of Cooperation Minister Selur Raju and Health Minister Vijay Bhaskar visited the hospital and enquired about the health sta- tus of Karunanidhi. On Sunday night the situ- ation was tense as word spread that the health of the leader had deteriorated. A number of political leaders and celebrities made a beeline to the hospital ostensibly to enquire about the health of the veteran leader. New Delhi: The water level in the Yamuna river continued to rise and stayed over the danger mark for the third consecutive day on Monday. The river on Monday evening flowing at 205.78 metres with the danger mark being 204.83 metres, Delhi Government officials said. Even as officials said the peak water level is expected to reach 206.50 metres, a political blame game started over lack of proper rehabilitation of people who were left on streets after water entered their houses. Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal directed Revenue Minister Kailash Gahlot to make prop- er arrangements for affected people. As traffic movement on Old Yamuna Bridge in the National Capital have been closed after the water level in the river rose, commuters faced traffic woes on Monday with the Delhi police diverting traffic to Geeta Colony flyover and ITO flyover. Agencies F ormer Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran will face trial in the illegal telephone exchange case after the Supreme Court on Monday rejected the plea against the Madras High Court order. The HC had on July 25 directed the former Union Minister and other accused to face trial by setting aside the trial court order that discharged them from the case. Opening arguments before a Bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi, senior advocate Vikas Singh claimed rules restrict entitlement of tele- phone connections to an MP and not for Ministers. He argued that if Maran is prose- cuted for opening multiple telephone lines at his Chennai residence, then every Prime Minister in the country will go to jail for keeping multiple telephone connections. Continued on Page 4 W hile charting a roadmap to decongest Delhi’s 77 worst traffic corridors, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Delhi Police Commissioner to begin the clean up move from police sta- tions by bringing in a policy in four weeks to dispose of impounded vehicles lying inside and outside police sta- tion compounds. Delhi top cop Amulya Patnaik, who was personally present in the court to explain the steps taken to decongest traffic in the Capital, found it difficult to explain how 54 meetings held by the Delhi Police on the issue of traffic management with other con- cerned agencies had failed to yield desired results. The Bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta added a tinge of drama to the proceedings by remind- ing the Commissioner of Police about the famous dialogue from a Hindi flick where the protagonist is upset over courts for giving litigants “tareekh pe tareekh ” but no justice. Wondering if the same was true with the case of 54 meetings, the Bench asked, “In movies we heard tareekh pe tareekh. Here it is ‘meeting pe meeting’.” “You want the city of Delhi to crack up. You can’t have buses in Delhi, Capital of the most emerging economy of the world, going under water. What kind of impression are we giving to the world?” the court said. When the Bench asked the police chief about the steps being taken to clear the vehicles piling up inside and outside police stations, Patnaik said such vehicles were case property items and steps were taken to decongest the police stations. The Bench said, “By the time you will hand over these vehicles they will be junk that breed mos- quitoes... Bring it to the notice of the concerned courts what you should do with them. You may keep a photograph or document of the vehicle or auc- tion it after a fixed period. But there is no point in keeping it there till it becomes scrap.” Patnaik said he will come with solutions to the issue within four weeks. On fixing timelines to deal with traffic bottlenecks, the court directed PWD and all agencies concerned to cooper- ate with the Delhi Police and come up with timelines for completing pending works. Out of the 77 worst corri- dors, 28 were classified as high- ly congested, 30 congested and 19 less congested corridors. A llaying concerns of Opposition parties on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam that has excluded 40 lakh people from the list, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday asserted in the Lok Sabha the entire exercise is impartial and done under the supervision of the Supreme Court and those not finding their names in the NRC will get another oppor- tunity to prove their bona fide as citizens. The Minister was respond- ing following an uproar in the House with the Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) raising the issue and members of Congress, CPI(M) and RJD lashing out at the Government over the publication of the list, saying it puts “human rights and democratic rights” of people at stake. The TMC had moved an adjournment motion on the issue which was not accepted by the Speaker. Later, unsatis- fied with the Minister’s response, the Opposition staged a walkout. Claiming that the Government has no role in making of the draft NRC, Singh said the NRC was being demanded in Assam for a long and the previous State Government had set up foreign tribunals following the Supreme Court order. “Everything is being done as per Supreme Court order. The allegation of the Opposition against the Government is baseless,” the Home Minister said. Appealing to Opposition members not to create “panic” since it is a “sensitive issue,” the Union Minister said the NRC list published on Monday is not the final list and applicants will have the option of raising claims and objections. “People who feel their name should have been part of the NRC can file claims and objections. In how much time those claims and objections would be disposed off that will be decided by the Supreme Court,” Rajnath said. Continued on Page 4

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Ending speculation aboutthe much-hyped National

Register of Citizens (NRC),the BJP-led AssamGovernment on Monday pub-lished the first draft of the his-toric document, which includ-ed names of over 2.89 crore outof 3.29 crore applicants in theState even as it left 40 lakh peo-ple out of the register for some“discrepancies”.

While releasing the docu-ment in Guwahati on Mondayaround 10 am, RegistrarGeneral of India (RGI) Saileshassured that the citizens whodo not find their names in thedocument will be given ampleopportunities to enter theirnames in the final NRC.

“This is a draft NRC andnot the final NRC. All genuineIndian citizens whose namesdid not figure in the NRC willget ample opportunities toenter their names in the finalNRC,” said Sailesh.

The RGI also termed theoccasion a historic one forAssam and India and said theState has achieved the firstmilestone with the publica-tion of the NRC.

The updation of the NRCassumes significance for theBJP-led Government in theState as the saffron party cameto power in Assam in 2016 rid-ing on the promise of detectingand expelling the illegal for-eigners living in the State.

The issue of illegal for-eigners is a sensitive one inAssam as the State had wit-nessed a six-year long stu-dents’ movement between 1979and 1985, seeking to detect anddeport illegal foreigners livingin the State.

Assam State coordinatorfor NRC Pratik Hajela said the

no genuine Indian citizenswhose name did not figure inthe document need to worry asthere is a laid down proceduresfor claims and objectives start-ing August 30.

He said the 40 lakh peoplewhose name did not figure inthe NRC will neither bedeclared as Indian nor for-eigners. “The status quo willcontinue and they will beknown as applicants till thewhole process is completed.They will get every opportuni-ty to prove their Indian citi-zenship and they will be assist-ed to fill up claims and objec-tion forms,” Hajela said.

He said the Governmentwill not disclose their identitiesbut they will be intimated per-sonally through individual let-ters. “Whoever, wishes to filea claim for inclusion of theirnames in the NRC canapproach the NRC SevaKendras and file claim fromAugust 30. We will start distri-bution of claims and objectionand correction forms fromAugust 7. The process of filingof the claims, objection andcorrections will continue tillSeptember 28,” Hajela said.

Joint Secretary (Northeast)of the Ministry of Home AffairsSatyen Garg made it clear thatno persons whose name didnot figure in the NRC will betaken to detention camps orForeigners’ Tribunals.

Various organisations likeAssam Students’ Union (Aasu)and Assam Public Works(APW), who have been fight-ing a legal battle over the issuein the Supreme Court, thankedthe Government for publishingthe NRC draft and appealed topeople to cooperate with theGovernment so that a flawlessfinal NRC could be prepared.

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Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee on

Monday came down heavily onthe Narendra ModiGovernment accusing theCentre of “hatching a ploy” todrive Bengalis and Biharis outof Assam in the name of rec-tifying the National Register ofCitizens.

Joining her, Congress pres-ident Rahul Gandhi criticisedthe Government “for the man-ner in which the NRC has beenundertaken”.

Mamata said she alongwith her party MPs may visitAssam to take stock of the sit-uation. “Things are being doneaccording to a dirty game plan

to throw out Bengalis andBiharis,” she alleged.

“Names of more than 40lakh people have been struckout of the NRC. Where willthese people go? Most of themhave been living in this coun-try for the past 50 or 100 years.They have their lands, houseseverything here.

Continued on Page 4

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Former Tamil Nadu ChiefMinister and DMK presi-

dent M Karunanidhi, 95, whowas admitted to a corporatehospital in Chennai onSaturday, is stable and fine,according to Chief MinisterEdappadi Palaniswamy whocalled on him on Monday.

“I met Dr Kalaignar (asKarunanidhi wants people toaddress him) and was with himfor some time. He is fine andrecovering. I also had discus-sion with Leader of theOpposition MK Stalin andRajya Sabha memberKanimozhi about DrKalaignar’s health,”Palaniswamy told journalistswhile coming out of the hos-pital. The Chief Minister wasaccompanied by his deputy OPanneerselvan, HigherEducation Minister KS

Sengottiyan and Law MinisterCV Shanmugham.

Meanwhile, three peopledied after hearing the news onSunday that Karunanidhi’shealth had turned critical.While two persons died ofheart attack at Pollachi andOotti, a youth set himself onfire because he could not thinkof a State without Karunanidhi.

Later another ministerialdelegation consisting of

Cooperation Minister SelurRaju and Health Minister VijayBhaskar visited the hospital andenquired about the health sta-tus of Karunanidhi.

On Sunday night the situ-ation was tense as word spreadthat the health of the leader haddeteriorated. A number ofpolitical leaders and celebritiesmade a beeline to the hospitalostensibly to enquire about thehealth of the veteran leader.

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New Delhi: The water level inthe Yamuna river continued torise and stayed over the dangermark for the third consecutiveday on Monday.

The river on Mondayevening flowing at 205.78metres with the danger markbeing 204.83 metres, DelhiGovernment officials said.

Even as officials said the

peak water level is expected toreach 206.50 metres, a politicalblame game started over lack ofproper rehabilitation of peoplewho were left on streets afterwater entered their houses.

Meanwhile, Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwaldirected Revenue MinisterKailash Gahlot to make prop-er arrangements for affected

people.As traffic movement on

Old Yamuna Bridge in theNational Capital have beenclosed after the water level in the river rose, commutersfaced traffic woes on Mondaywith the Delhi police diverting traffic to Geeta Colony flyover and ITOflyover. Agencies

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Former Telecom MinisterDayanidhi Maran will face

trial in the illegal telephoneexchange case after theSupreme Court on Mondayrejected the plea against theMadras High Court order. TheHC had on July 25 directed theformer Union Minister andother accused to face trial bysetting aside the trial courtorder that discharged themfrom the case.

Opening arguments beforea Bench headed by JusticeRanjan Gogoi, senior advocateVikas Singh claimed rulesrestrict entitlement of tele-phone connections to an MPand not for Ministers. Heargued that if Maran is prose-cuted for opening multipletelephone lines at his Chennairesidence, then every PrimeMinister in the country will goto jail for keeping multipletelephone connections.

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While charting a roadmapto decongest Delhi’s 77

worst traffic corridors, theSupreme Court on Mondayasked the Delhi PoliceCommissioner to begin theclean up move from police sta-tions by bringing in a policy infour weeks to dispose ofimpounded vehicles lyinginside and outside police sta-tion compounds.

Delhi top cop AmulyaPatnaik, who was personallypresent in the court to explainthe steps taken to decongesttraffic in the Capital, found itdifficult to explain how 54meetings held by the DelhiPolice on the issue of traffic

management with other con-cerned agencies had failed toyield desired results.

The Bench of JusticesMadan B Lokur and DeepakGupta added a tinge of dramato the proceedings by remind-ing the Commissioner of Policeabout the famous dialoguefrom a Hindi flick where theprotagonist is upset over courtsfor giving litigants “tareekh petareekh” but no justice.Wondering if the same was truewith the case of 54 meetings,the Bench asked, “In movies weheard tareekh pe tareekh. Hereit is ‘meeting pe meeting’.”

“You want the city of Delhito crack up. You can’t havebuses in Delhi, Capital of themost emerging economy ofthe world, going under water.

What kind ofimpression are wegiving to theworld?” the courtsaid.

When theBench asked thepolice chief aboutthe steps beingtaken to clear thevehicles piling upinside and outsidepolice stations,Patnaik said suchvehicles were caseproperty items andsteps were taken todecongest thepolice stations.

The Benchsaid, “By the timeyou will hand overthese vehicles they

will be junk that breed mos-quitoes... Bring it to the noticeof the concerned courts whatyou should do with them. Youmay keep a photograph ordocument of the vehicle or auc-tion it after a fixed period. Butthere is no point in keeping itthere till it becomes scrap.”Patnaik said he will come withsolutions to the issue withinfour weeks.

On fixing timelines to dealwith traffic bottlenecks, thecourt directed PWD and allagencies concerned to cooper-ate with the Delhi Police andcome up with timelines forcompleting pending works.

Out of the 77 worst corri-dors, 28 were classified as high-ly congested, 30 congested and19 less congested corridors.

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Allaying concerns ofOpposition parties on the

National Register of Citizens(NRC) for Assam that hasexcluded 40 lakh people fromthe list, Union Home MinisterRajnath Singh on Mondayasserted in the Lok Sabha theentire exercise is impartial anddone under the supervision ofthe Supreme Court and thosenot finding their names in theNRC will get another oppor-tunity to prove their bona fide

as citizens. The Minister was respond-

ing following an uproar in theHouse with the TrinamoolCongress Party (TMC) raisingthe issue and members ofCongress, CPI(M) and RJDlashing out at the Governmentover the publication of thelist, saying it puts “humanrights and democratic rights”of people at stake.

The TMC had moved anadjournment motion on theissue which was not acceptedby the Speaker. Later, unsatis-fied with the Minister’s

response, the Oppositionstaged a walkout.

Claiming that theGovernment has no role inmaking of the draft NRC,Singh said the NRC was beingdemanded in Assam for a longand the previous StateGovernment had set up foreigntribunals following theSupreme Court order.

“Everything is being doneas per Supreme Court order.The allegation of theOpposition against theGovernment is baseless,” theHome Minister said.

Appealing to Oppositionmembers not to create “panic”since it is a “sensitive issue,” theUnion Minister said the NRClist published on Monday is notthe final list and applicants willhave the option of raisingclaims and objections.

“People who feel theirname should have been part ofthe NRC can file claims andobjections. In how much timethose claims and objectionswould be disposed off that willbe decided by the SupremeCourt,” Rajnath said.

Continued on Page 4

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With intermittent rain andsubsequent waterlogging

in the national Capital, thecases of vector borne diseasesare on the rise, taking cases ofmalaria to staggering total 173in which 42 fresh cases werereported in till July 28.

Two cases of malaria werereported in February, one eachin April and March, 17 in May,25 in June and 42 till July 28,according to the report releasedby the South Delhi MunicipalCorporation (SDMC), whichtabulates data on vector-bornediseases for the city. Accordingto the report 25 new malariacases reported last week.

Also, 107 dengue caseshave been reported this seasonso far with 17 cases reportedlast week. Out of total denguecases, 19 were reported in July,six in January, three inFebruary, one in March, two inApril, 10 in May and eight inJune. 62 cases of chikungunyahave also been reported in thecity, according to the report.

The report further statedthat domestic breeding check-ers (DBC) have found mos-quito-breeding in 80,411households in the city till July

28. It said 76,293 legal noticeshave been served for variousviolations and "8,878 prosecu-tions have been initiated".

The North Corporation hasalso started dropping an envi-ronment-friendly mosquito lar-vae-eating fish Gambusia inwater-bodies and fountains inits areas. "A young fish is capa-ble of consuming 100 to 300 lar-vae in a day and even surviveson weeds," a senior official ofnorth corporation said.

On June 28, Delhi LtGovernor Anil Baijal had direct-ed local bodies and other agen-cies to intensify vector-controlmeasures. He had also asked forregular meetings at the level ofdistrict magistrates with allstakeholders to review the situ-ation in their respective districts.

Overall, the vector-bornedisease had affected 9,271 peo-ple in the city last year.

A senior corporation offi-cial said the civic body hastaken a number of measures toprevent mosquito breeding,including creating awareness byusing various media, deployingmore dengue breeding check-ers to check breeding anddesilting of drains to avoidwaterlogging.

The total number of thepeople affected by dengue was9,271in 2017 and the numbersof malaria and chikungunyacases recorded in 2017 stood at1,142 and 940 respectively. Ofthe 9,271 dengue cases, 4,726patients were from Delhi, while4,545 had come to the city fromother States for treatment.

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In yet another case of fetusbeing abandoned in the

national Capital, a fetus wasfound in the women wash-room of Dr Ram ManoharLohia hospital on Sundayevening. Police are trying todetermine the identity of thewoman who abandoned thefetus and then went out of thehospital.

Ther Delhi Police onSunday were informed of anabandoned fetus found in thelavatory of the female wash-room in Ram Manohar LohiaHospital. A case has been reg-istered in North Avenue policestation, police said.

DCP (New Delhi district)Madhur Verma on Mondayrevealed that it was an abort-ed fetus. As the fetus was notclaimed on police enquiry, acase under Section 318 of theIndian Penal Code (IPC) hasbeen registered, which dealswith intentional concealment

of birth — either by buryingor disposing the body secret-ly — irrespective of deathbefore or after birth and ispunishable with a maximumterm of two years and a fine.

The cr ime team hasinspected the location of theincident and a medico-legalcase is being prepared. AnFIR has been registered inNorth Avenue police stationand investigation is underway, he said. The fetus wassent for postmortem to ascer-tain its gestational age, theDCP said.

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A based jeweller was robbedoff Rs 2.1 lakh in cash, a

gold chain and his licensedrevolver by unidentified bikeborne armed robbers. Theincident occurred on theNational Highway 24.

According to police,Brahm Swarup Gupta, ownerof a jewellery shop in Dasnatown, was going to his shopand it was then that threerobbers on a bike knockeddown Gupta who was on amotorcycle. Before Guptacould react, the three robberssnatched a gold chain from hisneck, snatched a bag contain-ing the cash and keys of hisshop and took away hisrevolver too.

Gupta later lodged a com-plaint with police that the goldchain weighed 130 grams andwas worth Rs 400,000. He alsolost Rs 2.1 lakh in cash andother articles worth Rs 7 lakh.

"We have registered a com-plaint and efforts are beingmade to arrest the robbers atthe earliest," said policeInspector Umesh BahadurSingh.

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Anew cyber lab was inau-gurated at the Central

Bureau of Investigation (CBI)Academy, Ghaziabad to facili-tate training to the investigat-ing officers. The cyber lab,along with three other newlyconstructed facilities aug-menting the existing infra-structure, was inaugurated byCBI Director Alok KumarVerma on Monday.

In the wake of growingdemand for training on cybercrime investigation the thirdcyber lab is expected to facilitate"niche" training to the investi-gating officers of the CBI.

Verma also inaugurated asports complex with onesquash court, two badmintoncourts, a gymnasium and ayoga Centre meeting interna-tional standards.

On the occasion he alsoreleased 4 books and 7 digestspublished by the CBI Academy.These books included"Investigation of Anti-Corruption Cases"~ book com-piles effective and efficientmethods and procedures, rec-ommended for the investiga-tors and prosecutors of Central

Bureau of Investigation forsuccessful investigation andprosecution of the corruptioncases. While second book"Handling of ElectronicEvidence" is to guide theinvestigators and prosecutorsregarding accurate acquisition,maintaining integrity, in-depthanalysis and structured pre-sentation of electronic evi-dence before the court of law.

The book "Scientific Aidsto Investigation and ForensicMedicines" explains differentmethods used for collection,handling, packing and for-warding the physical evidencefor forensic examination andtheir evidentiary value. Thisbook also deals with the foren-sic medicine which provides abasic understanding of medico-legal aspects of the crime andthe book "ScientificInterrogation & InterviewTechniques" examines in detailvarious aspects of

interview/interrogation tech-niques and provides techniquesfor detecting deception in thestatements made by the wit-nesses/suspects, including legalaspects for bringing out theconcealed information.

The seven digests of caselaws launched included Digestof Case Laws on Cheating,Digest of Case Laws onConspiracy, Digest of CaseLaws on Confession, Digest ofCase Laws on DisproportionateAssets and other.

"These handbooks anddigests have been preparedafter painstaking effort with sig-nificant contribution of retiredand serving officers of thisagency. I have always believedthat a major part of institutionbuilding is to document theexperience of old, which can beanalyzed and distilled to pro-vide a beacon of guidance to theyoung investigators and prose-cutors," said Verma.

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The Delhi University (DU)will come up with its sev-

enth cut-off list for admissionto its merit basedUndergraduate (UG) coursesfor academic session 2018-19on August 6.

The seventh cut-off is to befollowed by eighth cut-off liston August 13 which will be a"special drive" for admitting theScheduled Caste (SC),Scheduled Tribe (ST), OtherBackward Class (OBC),Persons with Disability (PwD),Kashmiri Migrant (KM) andSikh Minority (SM).

The admissions to meritbased UG courses in DU arebased on cut-off on the basis ofbest four subjects. DU alreadycame up with six cut-offsagainst five "realistic"announced earlier.

The number of admissionshad already crossed the totalnumber of seats but at somecourses and colleges seats arestill vacant for the unreservedand reserved category. The

seventh cut-off and the eighththat would be a special drive isimperative to fill these seats andalso to make admissions figuresof different categories in tunewith reservation policy,informed a DU official.

Document verification andapproval of admission by col-leges and centers against 7thcut-off would be made fromAugust 6 to August 8 whileadmission against eighth cut-

off or special drive would bemade from August 13 toAugust 16 except on August15.

Also, admissions for theSports and ExtracurricularActivity (ECA) quota and wardquota shall be carried out alongwith seventh and eighth cut-offprovided seats are available.However, the final schedule ofECA and Sports would beannounced separately.

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The Delhi Police has informedthe Chief Vigilance Officer

(CVO) of the New Delhi MunicipalCorporation (NDMC) that theyhave completed the investigation inconnection with using of fake castecertificate by the accused PardeshiMahto to get job in the civic body.

Police said following the com-plaints, the accused was arrested andan investigation carried out to veri-fy the veracity of the caste certificateproduced by the accused at the timeof appointment.

"Verification of the alleged castecertificate was sought from office ofdistrict welfare officer, Saran (Bihar)and register of ST caste certificate1985 was seized and placed onrecord. Police said it is preparing acharge sheet and will submit itbefore trail court shortly.

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The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)will open the door of its upcoming

"School of Management andEntrepreneurship" for the wards of artisans,weavers, craftsman etc. so as pave their wayfor making successful entrepreneurs out ofthem.

The "School of Management andEntrepreneurship" slated to launch in July2019 has planned to launch some certificatecourses from 2020 onwards wherein youngtalented weavers from the allays and lanes ofVaranasi, youths involved in traditionalbrass business from Moradabad and likewisewould be admitted in short term certificatecourses of duration 6 months to 1 year. Theywill be trained in their traditional art by mod-ern means and would be skilled to becomeentrepreneur, said a JNU official on anonymi-ty.

The University has been included in thelist of non-IIM member institutes whoadmit management students throughCommon Admission Test (CAT) conduct-ed by Indian Institute of Management (IIM).JNU will admit students to its upcoming

school starting from July 2019 session basedon CAT-2018 scores.

CAT is a pre-requisite for admission tovarious Post Graduate and Fellow programof IIMs. CAT scores are allowed to be usedby listed non-IIM member institutions how-ever IIMs have no role in the selectionprocess of non-IIM institutions.

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In a daring heist carried outon Monday morning, two

armed robbers looted �40 lakhin cash and shot at two employ-ees who were travelling in a carat Wazirabad f lyover inNorthwest Delhi. The duo —carrying the cash to be deposit-ed in SBI bank branch atWazirpur — was rushed to anearby hospital and are recu-perating, police said.

According to police, at12.37 pm a call was receivedon the Police Control Roomthat cash has been robbed andtwo people have been injuredin firing.

“The employees of Sanyogenterprises private ltd (HQ at

Nangloi in West Delhi) weregoing in I 20 car with the cash.

“On Wazirpur flyover thecar was hit by swift desire andwhen they came out they wereshot by assailants. Two injuredhave been identified as Tejpalof Mongolpuri area andRajkumar, a resident of SubziMandi,” said police.

Meanwhile, police officialssaid robbers were tipped offabout the cash being carried andthe specific route and they werewaiting for the car to arrive atWazirabad flyover. A case hasbeen lodged and probe hasbeen launched, an official said.

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Notice Inviting e-Tender

The Executive Engineer, Building DivisionSouth-East (M-421), PWD (GNCTD),Police Colony, Hauz Khas, New Delhiinvites on behalf of the President of Indiapercentage/item rate tender in two bidcondition for following work(s):-

1. NIT No. 03/SE/SOUTH-EAST(M)/PWD/2018-19, Name of Work:-Installation of Rain Water HarvestingSystem in various School under SubDivision-Ill, Sunlight Colony, New Delhiduring 2018-19, Estimated Cost:- Rs.1,17,43,434/, Earnest Money:- Rs.2,34,869/-drawn in favour of EE, CBMDM-421, PWD, New Delhi, time of com-pletion of work 02 Months, The Last date& time for receipt of Tenders through e-procurement is 03.08.2018 upto 15.00Hours & Tender ID No2018_PWD_155258_1.

2. NIT No. 04/SE/SOUTH-EAST(M)/PWD/2018-19, Name of Work:-Installation of Rain Water HarvestingSystem in various School under SubDivision-II, Hauz Khas, New Delhi during 2018-19., Estimated Cost:-Rs. 1,61,84,471/, Earnest Money:-Rs. 3,23,689/-drawn in favour of EE,CBMD M- 421, PWD, New Delhi, time ofcompletion of work 02 Months, The Lastdate & time for receipt of Tendersthrough e-procurement is 03.08.2018upto 15.00 Hours & Tender ID No2018_PWD_155259_1.

Further details of the tender can be had from:-http://govtprocurement.delhi.gov.in/nicgep/app

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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

The Executive Engineer, (C) KKD CotirlDivision, PWD Under Akshardham Flyover.Metro Pillar No. SO. Noida Mor Delhi-91invites percentage rate tender on behalf ofthe President of India, from approved andeligible contractors of CPWD, and alsoMBS, BSNL and other state Govt.Departments dealing with buildings androads and others experienced contractorsby E-Tendering for the following work

1. Name of Work: A/R & M/O toKarkardooma Court Complex ShahdaraDelhi dg. 2018-19. S Head: Misc.repairs.at JKL&B- BlocksNIT No 55/EE/KKD COURTDIVN./PWD/NIT/2018-19 ID No.2018_PWD_55399_1 Estimated Cost.Rs. 10,60,067/- Earnest money Rs.21,201/- Period of completion 60 Days

2. Name of Work: A/R & M/O to KKDCourt Complex, Delhi. dg. 2018-19. SH:-P/L G.l. pipes from ‘E’ block toHorticulture office and other misc civilworks.NIT No:- 57/EE/KKD COURTDIVN./PWD/NIT/2018-19 ID No.2018_PWD_55503_1 Estimated Cost.Rs. 10,90,026/- Earnest money Rs.21,801/- Period of completion -15 Days

3. Name of work; EOR to SarvodayaKanya Vidyalay at Anand Vihar, DelhiSchool ID-1001009 SW: Renovation oftoilets Blocks, Making Footpath, LayingPaver blocks & IRC febrie Barricadingaround Proposed Horticulture areaother misc works. SH:- Provision of misc.civil work.NIT No:- 58/EE/KKD COURTDIVN./PWD/NIT/2018-19 ID No.2018_PWD_155150_1 Estimated Cost.Rs. 17,67,469/- Earnest money Rs.35,349/- Period of completion:- 60Days

4. Name of work: EOR to Govt. Girls Sr.Sec. School No. 2 New Seelampur,(School ID-1105025) Delhi SH:-Renovation of toilet & other misc civilwork.NIT No:- 59/EE/KKD COURTDIVN./PWD/NTI/2018-19 ID No.2018_PWD_155519_1 Estimated Cost.Rs. 15,92,865/- Earnest money Rs.31,857/- Period of completion 60 Days

Last date and time of Reciept of tender upto 15:00 PM on 01.08.2018Date & time of opening of bid on 01.08.2018at 15:30 PMExecution of similar works please sec in NITEarnest Money in favour of ExecutiveEngineer CBM Divn. M -231, PWDOther details of tender can be obtained fromthe website:https://govtprocurememt.delhi.gov.in

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The rift between the AAPand its ally in Punjab, the

Bains brothers-led Lok InsaafParty (LIP), widened furtherafter Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal accused thelatter of insulting his party'sDalit MLA Harpal SinghCheema.

AAP leaders in Punjab hadon Sunday accused the Bainsbrothers — Simarjeet SinghBains and Balwinder SinghBains — of “breaking” theparty's Punjab unit.

After Simarjeet SinghBains reportedly dubbedCheema, the newly appointedLeader of Opposition in thePunjab Legislative Assembly,“AAP Da Pappu”, the national

convener of the AAP accusedthe brothers of having a “lowopinion of the Dalit commu-nity”.

“Bains brothers have a lowopinion of the Dalit commu-nity. Highly shameful. Theyshould apologise to the Dalitcommunity. BJP, Congress,Akali Dal and Bains have thislowly opinion of Dalit com-munity. They have beenoppressing dalit community(sic),” he tweeted.

The criticism by Kejriwalcame amid the crisis involvingreplacement of Sukhpal SinghKhaira as the Leader ofOpposition with Cheema, aDalit legislator of the AAP inPunjab.The Punjab unit of theAAP is currently embroiled ina factional war. Eight of the 20

AAP legislators in Punjab havealso reportedly opposed theappointment of Cheema.

On Sunday, a section ofPunjab AAP legislators metDelhi Deputy Chief Ministerand the party's Punjab in-charge Manish Sisodia onSunday night amid a crisisover Sukhpal Singh Khaira'sremoval as the leader of oppo-sition in the state Assembly.

The Lok Insaaf Party hadan alliance with the AAP in thelast Punjab Assembly elections,but in the ongoing tussle theBains brothers have sided withKhaira. The brothers had alsoopposed Kejriwal's apology toformer Punjab minister andsenior Shiromani Akali Dalleader Bikram Singh Majithiain a defamation case.

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Cases of ticketless travellingin Delhi metros are noth-

ing unheard of, but shocking-ly, a data shared by the DelhiMetro Rail Corporation(DMRC) in reply to a RTIrevealed that during last sixmonths around 363 passengerscomplained against the staffersof overcharging during thepurchase of tickets/tokens fortravelling in the metro rail.

Witnessing several inci-dents of overcharging, ZeeshanHaider an RTI activist filed anRTI to know how many suchcomplaints were filed and whatkind of actions the DMRC hastook against its staffers to tack-le the situation to solve theproblems of its commuters.However, the Delhi Metroreplying to the questions said,“ As per the record keeping anddisposal process of DMRC,

only record of complaints andsuggestions are kept in thecommuters complaint cell fora period of six month only.Hence, as per the availabledata, from November 2017 toApril 2018, a total number of363 complaints have been reg-istered with the authority.”

“Yes, it happens most of

the time, I have faced such inci-dents several times as I wastravelling from the MayurVihar Phase-I and purchased aticket where the ticket vendorover-charged me by five rupeessaying that he does not havechange. Also, in some other sta-tions, found they take cut extramoney while purchasing the

token and many time peopledon't notice as they are inhurry,” said the RTI activist.

The DMRC received a totalof 119 complaints betweenNovember17- December- 17.Further, around 244 plaintswere registered from January toApril 2018.

An another commuter who

use Delhi Metro daily said,“Most of the time, passengersreach on time but the exit gatedo not open and they areforced to approach customercare of the station. They arethen asked to pay extra bucksand are even accused of cheat-ing, even after a passenger ishaving smart card with enoughmoney”, said a passenger butdid not want to be names.

When asked for the com-ments, Anuj Dayal, ExecutiveDirector (CorporateCommunications), DMRC,said, “DMRC takes cases ofovercharging very seriously.All such complaints are inves-tigated and necessary action istaken. Token vending machineshave been installed at many sta-tions to eliminate such possi-bilities. Passengers are alsoadvised to check the value oftheir tokens before leaving thetoken counters,” he said.

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Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal on Monday

directed Transport MinisterKailash Gahlot to make prop-er arrangements for peopleliving on roads after waterfrom flooded Yamuna enteredtheir houses.

Several people living on thebanks of the river were evacuat-ed after water level in Yamunabreached the danger mark onSaturday. “Directed KailashGehlot, Minister-in-charge, tovisit the area along with all offi-cers and ensure proper arrange-ments,” Kejriwal tweeted.

The Chief Minister's direc-tion came following reportsthat there was no properarrangements for shelter forthese people. The water levelin Yamuna may rise to 206metres with the danger markbeing 204.83 metres, officials

said.The traffic movement on

the Old Yamuna Bridge in Delhi,closed on Sunday after the waterlevel in the river rose due to rain,was restored on Monday. OnSunday evening, the river wasflowing at 205.5 metres.

The Yamuna's water level atthe Hathini Kund barrage hadcrossed the danger mark of90,000 cusec and till 7 pm onSaturday, 5,63,186 cusec ofwater was released, accordingto an official.

On Saturday, an alert wassounded by the DelhiGovernment after the waterlevel of the Yamuna rivercrossed the danger mark. Thehighest water level recorded atOld Yamuna Bridge was 207.49metres in 1978. It was 207.11metres in 2010 and 207.32 in2013, according to the DelhiDisaster ManagementAuthority.

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Union Minister Harsh Vardhanon Monday alleged that there

was no advance planning to reha-bilitate people hit by rising Yamunawater in Delhi as people are at the“mercy of an insensitive” dispensa-tion.

Also, he attacked the AamAadmi Party (AAP) for failing tokeep its election promise to installCCTV cameras in the city, a dayafter Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal tore apart a report of apanel set up by the Lt Governor (L-G) Anil Baijal on installation andmonitoring of surveillance cam-eras.

“People along the Yamuna inDelhi are at the mercy of an insen-sitive Government. As the river isrising above danger mark due to

incessantrains, no advance plan-ning in place, not enough shelterfor people caught up in floodwaters. @BJP4Delhi, @BJP4India,”he tweeted.

Several people living along thebanks of the river were evacuatedafter water level in the Yamunabreached the danger mark onSaturday. The water level in theYamuna may rise to 206 metreswith the danger mark being 204.83metres, officials said.

On Kejriwal tearing the reportin front of a gathering on Sunday,Vardhan said the AAPGovernment has come up with justa “plan” to install 1.4 lakh CCTVsacross the city to “bamboozle” thepublic after failing to keep its pollpromise.“Three years ago the AAPhad promised in its#ElectionManifesto to install 15lakh #CCTV cameras in Delhi.After failing in its promise, now#ArvindKejriwal comes up with

just a 'plan' to install 1.4 lakhCCTVs across the city to bam-boozle the public. @BJP4Delhi,@BJP4India,” the Union environ-ment minister tweeted.

In an act of defiance, Kejriwalhad said “no mandatory permis-sion” should be required frompolice to install CCTV cameras andtore apart the report. He wasaddressing a representatives of res-ident welfare and market associa-tions, and NGOs at the IndiraGandhi Stadium here.

The Chief Minister had claimedthat crime in Delhi would be“reduced by half” once surveillancecameras were set up across the city.The L-G office in a statementissued on Sunday had said the ruleswere only at a “draft stage” and hadbeen put out in public domain forsuggestions and clarifications.

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Dubai:A 15-year-old Indiangirl has been molested alleged-ly by a 40-year-old Bangladeshi'Quran teacher' in the UAE,media reports said on Monday.

The schoolgirl said theman had been teaching herQuran verses four times a weekfor three months at her housein Dubai's Al Muraqqabat area,Khaleej Times reported.He hasbeen charged at a Dubai courtfor molesting the schoolgirl.He, however, denied the chargeat the Court of First Instance,the report said.The manmolested the girl five times lastmonth, according to the pub-lic prosecution records.

Prosecutors referred him tocourt on a molestation chargeand recommended stiff penal-ty as per the law."I felt scaredand stepped away from him.He then said he was sorry andrequested that I would not tellanybody about it," the girl said.

She told her parents abouther ordeal and revealed that herprivate tutor had behaved sim-ilarly five times on five differentoccasions.The man had admit-ted to the charge during thepolice interrogation and thepublic prosecution investigation.He confessed he touched the girlinappropriately. He remains indetention. A court ruling will beheard on August 12. PTI

Kathmandu: Five Nepalinationals have been arrested forallegedly coercing gullible vil-lagers to sell their kidneys,which they used to smuggleinto India, police said onMonday.

Chitwan district policearrested the accused fromChitwan, Kathmandu andRasuwa districts, DeputySuperintendent of Police(DSP) Prabhu Prasad Dhakalsaid.

They used to target gulliblevillagers and take them in con-fidence with fake promisesbefore extracting their kidneysand sending it to various hos-pitals in India, he said.

"They used to charge acommission of Rs 50,000 toRs 1,00,000 for finding peo-ple willing to sell their kidneyin exchange of monetarygains and establishing theircontact with smugglers,"Dhakal said.

Earlier, District PoliceOffice Chitwan had formed aseven-member team of MedicalResponse Team (MRT) to lookcrimes related to health.

Following which this rack-et was busted.

They will be charged underthe Human Trafficking andTransportation (Control) Act,2007, the police said. PTI

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India is a key partner inAmerica's efforts to ensure

peace, stability and prosperityin the Indo-Pacific region, theTrump administration has said.

The remarks by a seniorUS diplomat came ahead of theannouncement by the US ofinitiatives for development andeconomic assistance in theentire region.

Brian Hook, senior policyAdvisor to the US Secretary ofState, said the US and India arenot only working bilaterally, butalso cooperating with otherlike-minded partners, especial-ly Japan, Australia and SouthKorea to advance their sharedvision of the Indo Pacific.

"India is a key partner in

our efforts to ensure that theentire Indo Pacific region is aregion of peace, stability andgrowing prosperity.

We work very closely withIndia (in this regard)," Hooktold reporters during a confer-ence call.

"I would say last year anda half of this administration hasbeen a great deal of focus ondeepening economic, securityand diplomatic ties between theUnited States in India. Andthere's so much more goodwork to come," Hook said.

Observing that India andthe US share enduring interestsand values as the oldest andlargest democracies, the topAmerican diplomat said thatIndia-US partnership is rootedin shared democratic values.

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Separatist ULFA(Independent) 'commander-

in-chief ' Paresh Baruah's namewas in the final draft NationalRegister of Citizens (NRC) onMonday. His name had alsoappeared in the first draft pub-lished on the intervening nighton December 31-January 1.

Paresh Baruah, wholaunched his revolution for'sovereignty' of Assam nearly 40years ago and leading it report-edly now from somewherealong the China-Myanmar bor-der, has his name in the com-plete draft also, along with thenames of five of his familymembers, according to hisbrother Bikul Baruah.

The Complete Draft NRCwith his photo states PareshBaruah's birthplace asChakalibhoria village (alsoknown as Jeraigaon) in theChabua area of upper Assam'sDibrugarh district and date ofbirth as February 15, 1957, thebrother said. The names ofParesh Baruah's wife BobyBhuyan Baruah and his two sonsAnkur and Akash could not beincluded in the list "becausesome documents were missing.We will complete the process inthe next phase," he added.

The names of his five otherfamily members, who appearalongside his name, are hisdeceased mother MilikiBaruah, brother Bikul Baruah,

sister-in-law Renu Baruah,niece Dimpi Baruah andnephew Sukapha Baruah.Baruah's sister-in-law RenuBaruah told reporters, "PareshBaruah may not be aware of hisinclusion in the draft NRC. Ihad submitted the legacy dataand the application at the NRCseva kendra. So we were certainthat his name would feature inthe list. Our family is happyabout it."

However, the names ofBaruah's wife Boby BhuyanBaruah and his two sons Ankurand Akash could not be includ-ed in the list "because somedocuments were missing. Wewill complete the process in thenext phase," Renu said.

The ULFA leader's brotherBikul Baruah, who is a teacher,said his 11 years senior siblinghad left home 37 years agowhen he was just 12 years old.The Complete draft of theNational Register of Citizenswas published with 2.9 crorenames out of nearly 3.29 croreapplications in Assam for inclu-sion of their names in the NRCsubmitted in 2015. Releasingthe Complete Draft here today,Registrar General of IndiaSailesh announced that2,89,83,677 persons were foundto be eligible for inclusion in thecomplete draft of the ambitiousNational Register of Citizens(NRC) out of a total 3,29,91,384applicants, leaving the names of40,07,707 people.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Monday spoke to

former Pakistani cricketerImran Khan, whose PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) partyhas emerged as the largest partyon the country's general elec-tions last week, and called forpeace and development in theSouth Asian neighbourhood.

"Prime Minister spoke toImran Khan, Chairperson ofPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf partyand congratulated him for hisparty emerging as the largestpolitical party in the NationalAssembly of Pakistan in therecently conducted generalelections," the External AffairsMinistry said in a statement.

"Prime Minister expressedhope that democracy will take

deeper roots in Pakistan," thestatement said, adding Modi"also reiterated his vision ofpeace and development in theentire neighbourhood".

Imran Khan has said thathe will take oath as PrimeMinister on August 11, themedia reported on Monday.

Although PTI has emergedas the single largest party in theNational Assembly in the July25 polls, it is short of numbersto form its government inde-pendently.

To meet the required num-ber of votes, the PTI leadershiphas reportedly approached theMuttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan, the GrandDemocratic Alliance, PML-Quaid and the BalochistanAwami Party, as well asIndependents.

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ing Justices R Banumathi andNavin Sinha, said, “In a regu-lar case a Minister may be enti-tled to more than three phones.But the allegation is that as theTelecom Minister, you openedan entire exchange (with 700phone lines) and utilised it forthe benefit of running yourbrother’s business.” Maran’sbrother Kalanidhi heads theSun TV group.

As the SC dismissed theplea and directed Maran to facetrial, advocate Vikas Singh toldthe court that he was appear-ing for an accused BSNL offi-cer. Senior advocate AbhishekManu Singhvi stood up forMaran and pointed out that theHigh Court passed the orderwithout hearing the accused.The SC replied, “That is thecomplaint of every litigantagainst every judge.”Dismissing the bunch ofappeals filed by all the accused,the SC observed, “These arematters to be decided at trial.Go and face the trial.”

Other accused challengedthe HC order on the groundthat the judge decided on mer-its without hearing argumentson merits. The SC said, “We arenot inclined to interfere.However, as recording our rea-sons for the above conclusionmay affect the trial, we refrain

from doing so. It will, natural-ly, be open for each of theaccused to urge all contentionsbefore the trial court and thetrial will be held without beinginfluenced by any of the obser-vations/findings recorded inthe impugned orders.”

The case relates to theUPA-1 regime whenDayanidhi, the grandnephew ofDMK chief M Karunanidhi,was the Minister forCommunication andInformation Technology.According to the CBI, over 700high-end telecommunicationlines were installed at Maran’sresidences in the Boat Club andGopalapuram areas of Chennaifor which bills were not raised,causing a loss of Rs 1.78 croreto the exchequer.

The Special CBI court onMarch 14 discharged theMaran brothers and five otheraccused, holding there was noprima facie case against them.The other accused are formerBSNL general manager KBrahmanathan, former deputygeneral manager MP Velusamy,Dayanidhi Maran’s private sec-retary Gauthaman and someSun TV officials. The CBIappealed against this order inthe Madras HC that set asidethe ruling and directed the spe-cial court to frame chargesand conclude the trial within ayear.

From Page 1Why the Centre did not

make laws for them so that theycan be rehabilitated,” Banerjeeasked.

Mamata said she would tryto meet Home MinisterRajnath Singh to sort out theissues. The Chief Minister isscheduled to visit Delhi toaddress a congregation ofCatholic Bishops where she isalso likely to meet Oppositionleaders in the Central hall ofParliament.

When pointed out thatSingh had told Parliament that

the situation was absolutelynormal and that there is noneed to panic because no coer-cive action would be takenagainst the de-registered peo-ple, she retorted, “Had every-thing been normal then whythe Centre has clamped Section144 in the affected districts?Why have they disconnectedinternet services and brought inCentral forces? This meansthat they are apprehendingproblem in those areas.”

“If there is any problem inAssam then the BJP will beresponsible for it as they have

created thisprovocative sit-uation there,”she said.

W h e nasked as towhether shesaw a commu-nal angle in thewhole affair shesaid, “There isno Hindu-Muslim issue. Itis simply a driveagainst theBengali popu-lation living inAssam fordecades. This isbeing done togain narrowp o l i t i c a lmileage duringthe elections.

“This issimply a divide

and rule policy being pursuedby the BJP Government.”

“The names of people havebeen struck out of the NRC juston the basis of their surnames.Is this not a discriminationagainst the people of the samecountry on the basis of a lan-guage?,” she said.

Meanwhile, Congress pres-ident Rahul Gandhi said theNRC was initiated by the UPAunder Manmohan Singh tofulfill the commitment made inthe Assam Accord of 1985.“However, the manner inwhich this exercise has beenundertaken by the BJPGovernments at the Centreand in Assam leaves much tobe desired. There are reportspouring in from all corners ofAssam of Indian citizens find-ing their names missing in thedraft NRC, creating massiveinsecurity in the state,” Rahulsaid in a Facebook post.

He alleged that after spend-ing close to Rs 1,200 crore fromthe exchequer, the execution ofthis critical and highly sensitiveexercise has been tardy.

“I appeal to all members ofthe Congress party to helpmaintain peace and help allthose against whom an injus-tice has been done in the draftNRC, no matter what their reli-gion, caste, gender, linguisticgroup or political affiliation,” heremarked.

The Congress asked theGovernment to immediately

convene an all-party meetingon the NRC issue and informthe Opposition on the pro-posed steps to ensure that noIndian citizen is left out. “TheGovernment must immediate-ly call a meeting of leaders ofall parties and should informabout the steps it proposes totake,” said party spokespersonAnand Sharma, adding thereshould be no politics over theissue.

The former UnionMinister said till all mattersrelated to the NRC are dis-posed, people and familiesshould not be separated and thematters be kept in abeyance.The NRC issue is of interna-tional importance as it affectsrelation with neighbouringcountries, includingBangladesh. It also has interand intra State repercussions,Sharma said.

“Questions have beenasked over the methodologybeing followed in finalisingthe NRC. It raises questionmarks on the credibility of theprocess,” he said.

He also urged theGovernment to remove short-comings in the entire processand that all issues be settled asper the 1985 Assam Accordsigned in the presence formerPrime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.The problems should be sort-ed out in the ambit of theAssam Accord of 1985, theCongress leader said.

From Page 1Raising the NRC issue dur-

ing the Zero Hour, SudipBandyopadhyay (TMC) askedwhere the 40 lakh people willgo and sought the Centre toensure that justice should notbe denied to the people whohave been living in Assam fordecades now.“It is inhumanand is a torture on people. Irequest the Centre that amend-ments be moved so that these40 lakh people get to stay inAssam,” he said.

Congress leader

Mallikarjun Kharge said “orig-inal citizens” of the State arebeing asked questions and thisis creating division in the Statebased on caste and creed.

Mohd Saleem (CPI-M)said the situation in Assam isfragile and “human rights anddemocratic rights” of the peo-ple of the State are at stake.

Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav(RJD) said the move wouldlead to “hatred” and “violence”in Assam and dubbed it as a“war on people” who are livingin the State for the last 40 years.

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The Supreme Court onMonday questioned the

Election Commission's notifi-cation allowing none of theabove (NOTA) option in theballot papers for the RajyaSabha polls saying it was meantto be exercised by individualvoters in direct polls.

A bench headed by ChiefJustice Dipak Misra alsoreserved its verdict on a plea ofShailesh Manubhai Parmar,who was the Congress' chiefwhip in the Gujarat Assemblyduring the last Rajya Sabhapolls, in which the party hadfielded sitting MP AhmedPatel.

Parmar had challenged thepoll panel's notification allow-ing NOTA option in ballotpapers.

"Why should aConstitutional court be party toan unconstitutional act... If aperson does not vote, he couldbe expelled by the party. But byintroducing NOTA, you (EC)are legitimising the act of notvoting," the bench, also com-prising Justices A MKhanwilkar and D YChandrachud, said.

It said the NOTA option

was meant for individual vot-ers in direct elections and forpolls for Rajya Sabha and MLCseats.

The idea behind havingan open ballot voting systemin polls for the Rajya Sabhaand the Legislative Councilswas to restrain cross-votingdue to corrupt practices, itsaid.

The bench also said thata lawmaker has to voteaccording to the directions ofhis or her party in such pollswhere preferences have to bedisclosed on party lines andthe voter cannot say that hewould give first preference toa candidate and then giveNOTA.

"Whether to vote and notto vote falls under the domainof the member of the houseand the Election Commissioncannot issue notification giv-ing NOTA option," it said.

"How can the ElectionCommission can enter intothis arena," the bench asked,while taking note of the sub-missions of Attorney General KK Venugopal, who opposed thepoll panel's notification, thatNOTA should not be madeapplicable in Rajya Sabha andMLC elections.

Bhadohi (UP): A 17-year-oldgirl died here after she was setablaze allegedly by a jiltedlover in the Alamnagar areahere, police said on Monday.

The man later ended hislife, they said.The incidentoccurred yesterday under theCity Kotwali police station areahere, police said.

The accused, identified asZahid Ansari (22), allegedlybarged into the house of theminor victim and set her ablazeafter sprinkling kerosene overher, Circle Officer AbhishekPandey said.

The victim gave theaccused a chase in an attemptto catch him but lost uncon-scious as the flames engulfedher, he said.

She was rushed to a localhospital from where she wasreferred to a hospital inVaranasi, where she died,Pandey said, adding that shehad suffered about 80 per centburn injuries.

The accused often harassedthe girl, he said.

Police said when raids wereconducted to nab Ansari, theywere told that he had commit-ted suicide by coming under atrain at the Revara Paraspurrailway crossing. Ansari's fam-ily members identified him,and his body was sent forpost-mortem, they said.

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Touted as the first such facil-ity in the country, the cow

sanctuary in BJP-ruled MadhyaPradesh has stopped acceptingmore cattle due to "shortage" offodder and water, an officialsaid on Monday.

Around five months afterinauguration, the KamdhenuGau Abhayaranya, located inAgar-Malwa district, stoppedaccepting cows for want ofwater and fodder sinceFebruary this year.

"The sanctuary has stoppedadmitting the cows sinceFebruary, as it is facing short-age of water and green pasturefor grazing," the AnimalHusbandry department officialsaid, adding that admission ofthe cows will resume once theshortage ends.

The sanctuary, spread in anarea of 472 hectares, wasopened with a view to accom-modate 6,000 stray and aban-doned cows in its 24 sheds, andto promote pesticides and med-icines derived from cow dungand urine, he added.

"Right now, the shelter has4,120 cows," the official said.

He said the Public Healthand Engineering departmenthas started digging wells toovercome the water shortage,and green grass is grown on thecampus of the sanctuary.

The official dismissedreports that the shelter homewas facing any paucity of funds.

"The cow shelter home isgetting sufficient funds to man-age its affairs, contrary toreports that it has run short onfunds," he said.

Kamdhenu GauAbhayaranya chairman anddistrict collector Ajay Guptatoo dispelled reports aboutshortage of funds.

"Our recurring monthlyexpenditure to run the shelteris around Rs 30 lakh. We aregetting funds from the gov-ernment regularly," he added.

The sanctuary is depen-dent on the government fundsfor managing its affairs.

It does not have its ownsource of income as it only getscows which are old and sick orhave stopped producing milk.

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Talking tough, the SupremeCourt today said authori-

ties in India should display a"far greater concern" thanshown by the UNESCO overthe upkeep of Taj Mahal thathas been affected by pollution.

The apex court earlier thismonth said protecting TajMahal has become a "hopelesscause" and slammed theCentre, Uttar Pradesh govern-ment and ArchaeologicalSurvey of India for their apa-thy in protecting the monu-ment from pollution.

The court had alsodeplored the Taj TrapeziumZone (TTZ) authority on envi-ronment protection in andaround the Taj Mahal in Agra,asking it whether preservationof the monument was a"tamasha" (drama) or a "joke".

During the hearing on apetition on the preservation ofthe monument, the court wasinformed today by AttorneyGeneral K K Venugopal thatthe joint secretary in theMinistry of Environment,Forest and Climate Changeand the commissioner of AgraDivision would be the officersresponsible for the mainte-nance of the Taj Trapezium

Zone (TTZ).The bench was apprised

that director general of the ASIwould be responsible for themaintenance of Taj Mahal.

TTZ is an area of about10,400 sq km spread over thedistricts of Agra, Firozabad,Mathura, Hathras and Etah inUttar Pradesh and Bharatpurdistrict of Rajasthan.

The remarks relating to theUNESCO by the bench ofJustices Madan B Lokur andDeepak Gupta came after theArchaeological Survey of India(ASI) said it has given a plan onTaj Mahal to the UN body in2013.

The apex court then askedwhy "from 2013 till 2018, noth-ing was done?."

When the ASI's counselsaid that the UNESCO wasinformed about the status of Tajmatter, the bench said, "This isthe problem."

"Organisation likeUNESCO has to express con-cern about the situation(regarding Taj Mahal). It is anorganisation of the UnitedNations. Our concern shouldbe far greater than that shownby the UNESCO," it said. Theivory white marble mausoleumis a UNESCO World HeritageSite.

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The Supreme Court said onMonday that cases of

alleged fake encounters inManipur by the Army, AssamRif les and state policeinvolved the issue of "life anddeath" of people and asked theCBI's SIT to expeditiouslycomplete its investigations inthese matter.

A bench comprisingJustices Madan B Lokur and UU Lalit was informed by CBIdirector Alok Kumar Verma,who was present in the courtin pursuance to its direction,that two charge sheets werefiled today before the compe-tent court in the encountercases and five more finalreports would be filed byAugust 31.

Verma said that 14 per-sons have been chargesheetedin two cases for the allegedoffences of murder, criminalconspiracy and destructionof evidence under the provi-sions of Indian Penal Code(IPC).

The CBI director was ear-lier summoned by the apexcourt which was unhappy overthe "unduly long time" taken bythe special investigating team(SIT) in probing the cases ofalleged extra-judicial killingsand fake encounters inManipur.

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New Delhi: Congress presidentRahul Gandhi continues toattack Prime MinisterNarendra Modi everyday overthe ‘Rafale scam’ and onMonday he took a swipe atModi, saying his “minions”are threatening journalistsagainst reporting on the scam.The Gandhi scion, however,lauded the media persons whohave the guts to defend thetruth and stand up to “Mr 56”.

“Supreme leader’s minionsare now sending threateningmessages to journalists report-ing on the Rafale scam askingthem to “back off or else... “I’m

really proud of the few bravePress people who still have theguts to defend the truth andstand up to Mr 56,” he said ina tweet. Rahul’s dig at Modicame over his “56-inch chest”remark made during the lastLok Sabha elections to tacklePakistan and China.

The Congress alleged Modiwas indulging in “theatrics” toskip questions on the Rafale deal.“When he has been exposed onthe Rafale deal, he used all thepossible theatrics to say that heis a ‘bhagidar’ but has evadedanswering the questions raised,”Congress spokesman Raj Babbar

said. The question still remainsas to why the Rafale deal wassnatched from the HAL, whichis a Government undertaking,and handed over to a privatecompany floated just 15 daysbefore by someone with noexperience even of the bicyclebusiness, said the RS member.

“Rahul Gandhi has fullyexposed them...They will getmore entangled if they try tofree themselves of the blame...The reality is that the industrialgrowth rate presently is 3.3 percent while it was 6 per cent dur-ing the UPA rule,” Babbar said.

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The Supreme Court onMonday declined the

Centre’s offer to place on recordthe report of Justice BNSrikrishna committee on “DataProtection” before a five-judgeBench that has reserved its ver-dict on the validity of theAadhaar Act.

Days after the report wassubmitted to the Centre,Attorney General KKVenugopal on Mondayappeared before a three-judgeBench headed by Chief JusticeDipak Misra carrying a copy ofthe same. He informed theBench that though the reportis in the public domain yet theCentre wished to supply hardcopies of the report to the five-judge Bench also headed by CJIDipak Misra.

CJI said, “I do not thinkthat is required,” followingwhich the report was nottabled. The Justice Srikrishnapanel has suggested measuresto be taken to protect person-al information of citizens, therole and duties of data proces-sors and the rights of individuals.

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Looking forward to a grandOpposition alliance of non-

BJP parties, TMC chief andWest Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee is likely callon Congress leader SoniaGandhi to invite her for herplanned ‘federal-front’ rally inKolkata on January 19, in theGeneral Election year. Mamatawho had called on NCP chiefSharad Pawar last week is alsolikely to meet other Oppositionleaders during her New Delhivisit this week.

TMC sources said that theWest Bengal CM is likely tomeet Sonia Gandhi, RJD leaderTejashwi Yadav and otherOpposition leaders during herthree-day visit to the nationalCapital.

Banerjee, who was earlierseen as wary of involving theCongress in any federal coali-tion to take on the BJP, has inrecent weeks appeared to bemore open to joining handswith the national party to con-solidate the Opposition forces.

Though the meeting withSonia Gandhi has not beenscheduled, but Banerjee wouldtry to meet her and all otherprominent leaders fromOpposition parties during hervisit.

“There could be certaincircumstantial meetings with

leaders of Opposition partieswhen Mamata Banerjee wouldvisit Parliament on August 1.She may meet Sonia Gandhi,and also RJD leader TejashwiYadav as he will be in Delhiduring Banerjee’s visit,” said asenior TMC leader.

The West Bengal ChiefMinister, who would be visit-ing the Central Hall ofParliament, is expected to per-sonally invite Opposition partyleaders for her rally of “feder-al forces” in Kolkata on January19, 2019.

The rally will help catapultBanerjee to the centrestage ofnational politics and also showher capacity to unite allOpposition parties to take onthe BJP in the coming LokSabha elections, according toanother TMC leader.

TMC sources also said thatapart from Opposition leaders,Banerjee will also meet RamJethmalani, former BJP leader

Yashwant Sinha and disgrun-tled BJP MP Shatrughan Sinhaduring her visit. Arun Shourie,a bitter critic of the ModiGovernment, would meetBanerjee later in Kolkata as hewould not be present in Delhiduring TMC chief ’s visit.

Banerjee had recently metNational Conference leaderOmar Abdullah on the issue ofcobbling an alliance ofOpposition parties to take onthe BJP. Abdullah has main-tained that the Congress has tobe the “backbone” of theOpposition unity with its chiefRahul Gandhi at the forefrontof the campaign for the 2019Lok Sabha polls.

Banerjee, who will be deliv-ering a lecture at the conclaveorganised by Catholic BishopsConference of India on July 31,is expected to attack the BJP onincidents of violence againstmembers of minority commu-nities.

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The country’s mango pro-duction is estimated to be

up by 8 per cent to 21.02 mil-lion tonnes in the 2017-18crop year on higher output bymajor growing States.Production of mango stood at19.50 million tonnes in the pre-vious crop year (July-June).The country achieved this tar-get despite uneven rainfall andweather conditions whichimpacted the quality of thefruit. In the retail market,mango is being sold between�70 and �100 a kg dependingon the quality and location inthe national Capital.

Officials of AgricultureMinistry said that the country’smango production has been

increasing every year. “TheGovernment has taken severalsteps to boost production andexport of mangoes,” officialssaid. “There has been a focus onimproving productivity of man-goes under the central spon-sored scheme Mission forIntegrated Development ofHorticulture”, officials added.

As per the latest data, max-imum mango production isprojected to be from UttarPradesh, followed by AndhraPradesh and Karnataka duringthe 2017-18.

Mango output in UttarPradesh is pegged higher at 4.54million tonnes in 2017-18 asagainst 4.34 million tonnes inthe preceding year. The pro-duction in Andhra Pradesh isestimated at 4.48 million tonnes

as against 4.04 million tonnes,while in Karnataka at 1.81 mil-lion tonnes as against 1.71 mil-lion tonnes in the period underthe review.

Despite higher output, thecountry’s overseas shipmentsremained minuscule, not evenat 50,000 tonnes level annually.

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After almost a year since theSupreme Court set up a

special CBI team to probe 41cases of alleged fake encounterkillings by Army, Assam Riflesand Manipur Police, the agencyfiled the first lot of twochargesheets in the case onMonday and assured the apexcourt of completing the entireinvestigation by early next year.

Not satisfied by the slowpace of investigation, the apexcourt had summoned CBIDirector Alok Kumar Verma tocourt and wished to know thecauses for delay and remedialmeasures, if any. Verma admit-ted that since the cases had ear-lier been probed by way ofCommission of enquiry, judicialenquiry and enquiry conduct-ed by National Human RightsCommission, initial time waslost in gathering documents.

The Bench of JusticesMadan B Lokur and UU Lalitinsisted upon a timeline fol-lowing which CBI Directorassured the court of filingchargesheets in seven cases by

August 10. As regards remain-ing cases, efforts will be madeto complete probe by year endwhile in 14 out of 41 cases, hesaid, investigation could spillover to the next year. At theinstance of the court, theDirector agreed to spare moreofficers for assisting the SpecialInvestigation Team (SIT) head-ed by Joint Director SharadAgarwal that is probing thecases.

Disclosing the contents ofthe two chargesheets filed onMonday, Verma told the courtthat 14 out of the 15 accused inthe FIR have been found guiltyof murder (302), criminal con-spiracy (120B), and destructionof evidence (201) under theIndian Penal Code (IPC). TheBench posted the matter forAugust 20 to monitor theprogress and requested Directorto be present on that date.

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With traditional elephantcorridors being increas-

ingly diverted for develop-mental projects, the country iswitnessing terrible ‘human-elephants conflict.

Sample this: In 2017-18 (upto November 2017), 275 peo-ple were mauled to death byjumbos. In 2016-17, 515 per-sons were killed and a com-pensation of �14.78 crore wasgiven, said Minister of State forEnvironment Mahesh Sharmain a written reply in RajyaSabha on Monday.

He said that in 2017-18 (upto November 2017) an ex gra-tia amount of �5.91 crore hasbeen awarded.

He said that the tradition-

al corridors of elephants andtheir habitats have been frag-mented due to utilisation offorest land for agricultural pur-poses, development works likehydro-electric power process,irrigation dams, canals, trans-mission lines, rail lines, roadsetc. Such fragmentation hascaused human elephant con-flict.

The Minister added thatsecuring of elephant corridors,including acquisition of landand removal of encroachmentsalong the corridors, is theresponsibility of StateGovernments, although theMinistry provides financial andtechnical assistance to states forthis.

The Ministry has request-ed all States through letters sent

on August 24 and November 17last year, and May 1 this year toprotect elephant corridors forthe long-term conservation ofAsian elephants, Sharma said.

“Some States have securedsome elephant corridors byprocuring the private lands orby relocating the families fromthe areas falling within thesecorridors,” the Minister said.

As elephant herds areknown to migrate across 350-500 sq. km. annually main-taining corridors for them istherefore of crucial impor-tance to both jumbos andhuman habitats, according to areport ‘Right of Passage’released last year by theWildlife Trust of India (WTI)in collaboration with ProjectElephant and the UK based

NGO Elephant Family. It iden-tifies and records details per-taining to 101 elephant corri-dors across India.

Of these 101 corridors, 28are located in south India, 25in central India, 23 in north-eastern India, 14 in northernWest Bengal and 11 in north-western India.

In terms of their function-ality or usage by elephants,almost 70 per cent of the 101corridors are regularly used, 25per cent are occasionally used,and 6 per cent rarely.

Almost all elephant corri-dors in south India (93 percent) and northern WestBengal (86 per cent) are regu-larly used; 66 per cent of cor-ridors are regularly used innortheastern India.

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The Supreme Court onMonday delegated the

responsibility of taking all deci-sions related to preservation ofthe Taj Mahal to the Director-General of ArchaeologicalSurvey of India (ASI). It alsogave the sole authority to fileaffidavits with regard to imple-mentation of the VisionDocument prepared for over-all development of Agra townand neighbouring districts to aJoint Secretary in the UnionEnvironment Ministry and theAgra Commissioner, acting onbehalf of the Centre and theUttar Pradesh Government,respectively.

After the apex court hadrebuked the Centre and Statefor not owning up to save the17th century iconic monu-ment, Attorney General KKVenugopal informed a Bench ofJustices Madan B Lokur andDeepak Gupta that all decisionswith regard to Taj Mahal andthe Taj Trapezium Zone will betaken by the Joint Secretary inthe Ministry of Environment,Forests and Climate Change. Atthe State level, theCommissioner, Agra Divisionwho is the ex-officio Chairmanof TTZ Authority will be thedecision making authority.

As regards the preservationand upkeep of monument, ASIDirector General will be fullyresponsible for any activitythat takes place inside themonument or within its 500metre radius. Even with regardto preparation of HeritageManagement plan, ASIinformed that they share thisreport with UNESCO every sixyears and the last report wasdispatched in 2013.

The Bench wondered whyno report was sent since thenwhen the court has beenexpressing concern on a dailybasis about the fading beauty ofthe Taj, which features as theonly Indian monument to bedesignated as a World HeritageSite. The Bench said, “Anorganisation like UNESCO hasto express concern about Taj

Mahal. This is our problem.Our concern should be fargreater than that shown by theUNESCO.” Environmentalistand petitioner in this case,MC Mehta submitted that itwas high time the TTZ author-ity is revamped. He called it a“club” and demanded inde-pendent members to be induct-ed into the authority who havevision and dedication to thecause of environment.

A-G Venugopal supportedsuggestions from the petition-er and was open to have a spe-cial committee on the lines ofan expert panel to replaceTTZ. The State Governmentwas more cautious claimingthat any suggestions for revampwill be appreciated. The courtasked Mehta to file his sugges-tion by August 28.

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The Defence AcquisitionCouncil (DAC), apex body

for approving procurement forthe three Services, on Mondayapproved the much awaitedguidelines for implementingthe Strategic Partnership Policy.It came into being in May lastyear but could not take off dueto lack of an implementationroad map.

Chaired by DefenceMinister Nirmala Sitharaman,the DAC also gave the nod forbuying 8 fast patrol vessels forthe Indian Coast Guard worthover �800 crores to enhancemaritime security day andnight.

The Strategic Partnershipmodel envisages involving theIndian private sector in man-ufacturing big ticket items likewarships, submarines and heli-copters within the country incollaboration with foreign ven-dor. The policy also aimed atmaking India the hub ofdefence manufacturing andofficials said with the DACapproving the guidelines thelast hurdle was removed forspeedy take off the ambitious

programme.The guidelines lay empha-

sis on incentivisation of trans-fer of niche technology andhigher indigenous content, offi-cials said. All procurementunder Strategic Partnershipmodel will be executed by aspecially constituted empow-ered committee to providefocused attention and ensuretimely execution of projects.

The model aims to revi-talise defence industrial ecosys-tems and progressively buildindigenous capabilities todesign, develop and manufac-

ture complex weapon systemsfor future needs of the armedforces. The StrategicPartnership policy has foursegments including sub-marines, single engine fighteraircraft, helicopters andarmoured carriers or main bat-tle tanks. The Indian privatesector can now vie for makingthese platforms within thecountry.

Under this policy oneIndian private company will beselected in each of the four seg-ments which would tie-up withshortlisted local OriginalEquipment Manufacturers(OEM) to manufacture theplatforms in India under tech-nology transfer.

The DAC also approvedplatform specific guidelinesfor procurement of NavalUtility helicopters (NUH).Similar guidelines for the othercategories under the SP modelwill be issued soon, they said.

As regards clearance forfast patrol vessels, officials saidthe boats will be designed andmanufactured in India forundertaking missions like anti-sabotage, anti terrorist, andanti-smuggling operations.

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New Delhi: After a few days ofnormal functioning which evensaw passage of Bills and shortduration discussions, the RajyaSabha on Monday witnesseduproarious scenes and adjourn-ments over the issue of publi-cation of Assam’s NationalRegister of Citizens (NRC).

While Trinamool Congressand the Samajwadi Partyprotested and demanded a dis-cussion on the issue, Congresslater in the day said the Centreshould immediately convene anall-party meeting on the issue.The House witnessed threeadjournments due to the con-tinued uproar over the issuebefore the Chair called it a daysoon after its assembled postlunch. When the House recon-vened at 2 pm after the lastadjournment, TMC leaderDerek O’Brien stood updemanding a discussion onthe notice given by him on theNRC. Brien said it is not apolitical issue but question ofhuman rights, humanitarianand a national issue, “We needto look after Indian citizens.Please allow me to raise thisissue sir,” Brien said.

Alleging that theGovernment did not consultWest Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee on the issue,the TMC leader said that a del-egation of TMC MPs wouldsoon visit Assam. SP membersand some from the Congresstoo started raising the issueleading to a din. Sources saidWest Bengal CM has sought anappointment with the UnionHome Minister Rajnath Singhto discuss the issue.

However, Chairman MVenkaiah Naidu said he hadtaken the initiative earlier in theday and even called HomeMinister Rajnath Singh to theHouse to respond on the issue,but the House was not in order.Naidu first said he had notreceived any notice and later saidthat some members had methim and expressed their desireto raise the NRC issue. PNS

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New Delhi: Over five dozenMPs and MLAs in the countryhave declared they are facingcharges of abduction. Of thetotal 64 such MPs and MLAs, 16are from the BJP while six eachare from the Congress and theRJD. Others who are on the listare 5 from NCP, 4 each from theBJD and the DMK, 3 eachfrom the SP and the TDP as wellas 2 each from the TMC, CPM,CPI-ML and Shiv Sena. Oneeach from the Lok JanashaktiParty, the JD-U, the TRS and theNishad Party in Uttar Pradeshbesides four Independents arealso on the list. The findings

were released on Monday bythe Association for DemocraticReforms (ADR, an NGO thatworks for electoral and politi-cal reforms. According to ADRfindings, 1,024 MPs and MLAshaving serious criminal chargesagainst them. Among these,1,024 MPs and MLAs, 64 havedeclared charges related to kid-napping against themselves.Majority of them are fromBihar and Uttar Pradesh.

It said the affidavits of 770MPs and 4,086 State legislatorsrevealed that 1,024 or some 21per cent of lawmakers in thecountry have declared “serious

criminal charges against them-selves”. Of the MLAs withdeclared charges related to kid-napping, the highest number— that is nine each — are fromBihar and Uttar Pradesh, fol-lowed by eight fromMaharashtra, six from WestBengal, four each from Odishaand Tamil Nadu, three eachfrom Andhra Pradesh, Gujaratand Rajasthan and one eachfrom Chhattisgarh, HimachalPradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka,Kerala, Punjab and Telangana.

The report comes at a timewhen it’s just a year to go for theLok Sabha elections 2019.PNS

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New Delhi: Contrary to theclaims made by the ElectionCommission that excessive heatand light were among the fac-tors behind the large-scalemalfunctioning of EVMs andVVPATs in the Kairana LokSabha by-polls held in May thisyear, the Government onMonday said that hot weatherwas not the reason.

In a written reply to aquestion in Rajya Sabhawhether as per the ElectionCommission, malfunctioningin EVM machines was due tohot weather, Minister of Statefor Law and Justice PPChaudhary replied in the neg-ative. The Minister also ruledout any possibility of adoptingany alternative method otherthan using electronic votingmachines (EVMs) and voterverifiable paper audit trail(VVPAT) machines for the2019 Lok Sabha electionswhich are scheduled to be heldin April-May 2019.

The MPs — NeerajShekhar, Javed Ali Khan andRavi Prakash Verma — hadasked if the ElectionCommission proposes to con-duct next general election inany other manner as April-Mayare peak hot months.

The Minister said in thereply that such a possibility“does not arise”. PNS

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The yet to release pic-ture “Zila Gorakhpur”

is embroiled in a politicalcontroversy as BJP leaders have threatenedto stall its release in UttarPradesh saying it haswrongly projected theimage of Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath.

The bone of con-tention is a poster wherethe back of a saffron cladbald man carrying a pistolis shown. Though thefilmmakers say it was notthe picture of the CM, BJPleaders are not convincedand a party leader hasfiled an FIR against film-maker Vinod Tiwari.

The poster also showspart of a temple, whichBJP leaders say is depic-tion of Gorakhanth temple inGorakhpur.

Yogi is Mahant of thattemple. The poster was releasedon Sunday.

Though the film was being

seen as a biopic of Adityanath,buzz is that it is based on a moblynching incident.

BJP leader IP Singh hasfiled an FIR against Tiwari andothers with the Lucknow

police. The FIR was regis-tered at Hazratganj PoliceStation in the State capitalunder section 153(A),295(A), 500,501,503,507and 66(A) of the IPCagainst the filmmakers fortrying to insult PrimeMinister Narendra Modiand Mr Adityanath.

Demanding that aprobe should be orderedon the source of funding ofthis film, he said BJPwould not allow therelease of this film.

In a tweet, Singh said,“The filmmaker hascrossed his limit. For earn-ing some money he wastrying to create distur-bances in the society.

In another tweet, theBJP leader said, “The film-maker has attacked theHindu culture to gain

cheap popularity and it was aneffort to malign the image ofChief Minister YogiAdityanatah hence I havelodged an FIR against the film-maker in Lucknow.”

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Claiming himself to be muchbigger “dramebaj” (the-

atric) than Narendra Modi,State Congress president, RajBabbar on Monday accused thePrime Minister for hangingaround the industrialists inthe name of “Bhagidari” just todivert the public attention fromRaffle deal and large scale cor-ruption of his Government.

“The speech of PM inLucknow on Sunday was noth-ing by a pure dramebaji toshow himself as innocent andeven pointed out an ill man (Amar Singh) to prove his inno-cence. He said that NarendraModi is just trying to divert themedia attention by his theatri-cal act in the Parliament andlater by hanging around withbusinessmen in the name ofInvestors Summit”, assertedBabber while claiming that ifthe party allows him then hecould do better dramebaji thanthe PM. “The people of thecountry wanted to know whythe Raffle deal was so impor-tant for the NDA Governmentand that why the contract hasbeen snatched from aGovernment owned organisa-tion HAL and handed over toPM’s industrialist’s friend”,Babbar added.

Addressing a Press confer-ence here on Monday, a dayafter the PM alleged thatOpposition leader used to haveclose door meetings with theindustrialists and took all ben-efits from them, Raj Babbarclaimed that Party presidentRahul Gandhi had the courageof making charges openly in

the Parliament but the PMlacked the same and was afraidto take any name. “RahulGandhi had never met anyindustrialists and hence thereis no photograph of him withthem. The people who are thepartner(bhagedar) of the indus-trialists have photographs withthem,’ he said.

Questioning the PM on theRaffle deal, he said why the PMis afraid of disclosing the rea-son for handing over the Raffleaircraft manufacturing con-tact to a private companywhich was registered just 15days before the award and didnot have any experience of evenmaking a bi-cycle. “The com-pany which was given theaward was just erecting polesbut suddenly the NDA gov-ernment felt it was capable ofmanufacturing aircraft,” hesaid. Besides he said it was forthe first time in the history ofthe country that a private com-pany was given the contractinstead of the governmentowned HAL.

“The PM should also replywhy the aircraft, which wasslated to be purchased at Rs 550crores per aircraft in the con-tact made by the UPA govern-ment has gone up to Rs 1650crores per aircraft in just fouryears. Is this not a bhagidari?”,Babbar questioned with refer-ring to the Pol-Khol of RahulGandhi in the Parliament.“Modi said everything goodabout his four year gover-nance, but can he reply aboutthe industrial growth whichwas 6 per cent during UPAperiod but in 2018 it plungedto 3.3 per cent,” he said.

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Heavy rain in the several cities sinceearly Monday morning has dis-

rupted normal life in the State leadingto traffic snarl and reports of house col-lapse and roads caving in.

Officials here on Monday con-firmed that 80 people have died so farin the rain related incidents in the Statewhile 84 people were injured. More than451 houses have been damaged and 44cattle were also killed. “10 persons werekilled and seven injured in differentparts of the UP since Sunday. The tollsince last week in such incidents hasreached 80 while total injured are 84 till11.30 am on Monday,” ReliefCommissioner Sanjay Prasad said.

As today was the first Monday ofthe holy month `Shravan’, hence thedevotees had a hard time to go to thetemples to offer Jalaabhisekh to theShivlings in the entire state. Due to therains, the water level of Ganga, Yamunaand other rivers flowing through thestate was also rising and thus threat-ening the people living near the banks.

The situation in the state capitalLucknow was worst with rain watersentering the residences of several min-isters. Water logging was witnessed inmost of the localities when heavy rainssince morning has made the life of thepeople miserable. Reports said a roadnear the Vidhan Sabha caved in but no

incident was reported there and inanother incident in Chowk area, somepeople were injured and vehicles weredamaged when a portion of a wall col-lapsed due to rains this morning. Waterlogging was reported from other partsof the state including Allahabad,Faizabad, Kanpur and other areas.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathhas directed senior officials of all dis-tricts to alert people and asked them toundertake extensive tours in the affect-ed areas and identify dilapidated build-ings and get them vacated, a govern-ment spokesperson said here.Adityanath has directed officials to givefinancial and medical assistance topeople severely affected by rains.Weatherman has predicted rain accom-panied with thunder and showers arelikely to occur at most places over eastand central parts of the state for the next48 hours.

Meanwhile, according to CentralWater Commission report, river Shardais flowing above danger mark inPaliakalan (Lakhimpur) while Ghagrariver is above the red mark at ElginBridge (Barabanki) and Ayodhay(Faizabad). The Ganga is overflowingin Fatehgarh, Kannauj, Kanpur Dehat,Garhmukteshwar, Fafamau inAllahabad, Varanasi, Ghazipur andBallia. The Yamuna is rising in Baghpat,Mathura, Agra, Auraiya, Kalpi andHamirpur, the report said.

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On a day when a fresh spi-ral of violence and arson

erupted in different parts ofwestern Maharashtra, theOpposition parties and theruling Shiv Sena on Mondaymounted pressure on StateGovernment for quick imple-mentation of the Marathareservations, with the Congressindicating mass resignation byits MLAs and the Sena tellingthe Devendra Fadnavis admin-stration not to wait for thebackward class panel’s report toimplement reservation.

With no let up in the vio-lence and arson over theMaratha reservations, the pro-testors owing to allegiance toMaratha reservations set ablaze25 to 30 State transport buses,damaged another 30 to 40buses at Chakan and sur-rounding areas of Pune district,blocked traffic on the Pune-Nashik high court and resort-ed to violence in several otherparts of Maharashtra, includingSolapur, Alandi, Bhimashankarand Navi Mumbai. The policeburst teargas shells at Chakanto quell the rioting mobs.

One more incident of sui-cide came to light on Monday,with the police recovering thebody of a 35-year-old manfrom the railway tracks nearAurangabad. One PramodJaising Hore-Patil had allegedbefore a running train inMukundwadi area, after a post-ing a message on the FaceBook and sharing a messagewith his friends on his plans toend his life on Maratha reser-vations issue.

Meanwhile, in no mood toaccept the assurance given byChief Minister DevenraFadnavis at an all-party meet-ing held on Saturday that hisGovernment would call aSpecial session of the StateLegislature after it received a

report from the MaharashtraState Backward ClassCommission (MSBCC) on thesocio-economic status of theMaratha community, theOpposition Congress, NCPand the ruling Shiv Sena andasked the State Government toact swiftly on the issue.

Interestingly, the Congress,NCP and Shiv Sena expandedthe scope of their demandover reservations. They saidthat apart from the Marathas,the reservations be extended tothe Muslims and other eco-nomically backward classcommunity.

Though the State Congressdid not make a formalannouncement in this regard,the sources in the party that itwas planning to ask its MLAsresorts to mass resignationsfrom the State Assembly todemand reservations toMaratha, Muslims, Dhangarand other economically back-ward communities.

Talking to media personsafter a legislature party meet-ing at the Vidhan Bhavan here,former Chief Minister and

State Congress chief AshokChavan said: “ At the meetingour MLAs expressed strong sentiments about the reserva-tions issue. Without waiting for a report from MSBCC, thestate government shouldannounce reservations toMaratha and other economi-cally backward communitieswithout affecting the existingreservations”.

At the meeting, seniorCongress leader and formerchief minister PrithvirajChavan charged that theDevendra Fadnavis govern-ment was trying to delay deci-sion on the reservations by say-ing that the matter was pend-ing before the courts.

After its legislators’ meet-ing, the NCP also urged thestate government to take animmediate decision to extendreservations to Marathas atthe earliest. It also made it clearto the state government toextend the reservations to theother economically backwardcommunities like Muslim andDhangar. The party leaderslater met MSBCC chief Justice

(retired) M G Gaikwad and Governor Vidyasagar Rao and submitted memoran-dums.

Making some amends inhis party’s earlier stand that thereservations be made only onthe economic criteria, ShivSena President UddhavThackeray : “Apart fromMarathas, other communitieslike Dhangar, VanjarisMahadeo Kolis and Mulsimshave been demanding reserva-tions for a long time. Withoutwaiting for the MSBCC report,the government should take adecision on reservations.

you do not accept our longpending that the reservationson the basis of economic status but take decision onextending reservations toMarathas, other backwardcommunities like Dhangar,Vanjaris Mahadeo Kolis and Mulsims without any fur-ther delay”.

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The ongoing agitation byMarathas over reserva-

tions has so far claimed threelives, with one more personcommitting suicide by jump-ing in front of a running trainnear Aurangabad.

Indentifying the personwho committed suicide as onePramod Jaising Hore-Patil, thepolice said that they recoveredHote-Patil’s body from near thetracks on Monday morning.

Ahead of committing sui-cide, Hore Patil had posted amessage on his Facebook pageand shared the same messageon WhatsApp on Sunday, say-ing he would be committingsuicide in support of the reser-vation demand. Hore-Patilallegedly jumped before therunning train at Mukundwadinear Aurangabad.

In his Facebook massage,Hote-Patil had stated inMarathi, “Chala aaj ek Marathajaatoy, pan kahi tari Marathaarakshanasathi kara, jai jijau-aapla Pramod Patil (today oneMaratha is leaving... but dosomething for the Marathareservation... ),” a police offi-cial said. Hore-Patil, who waspreparing for the MaharashtraPublic Service Commissionexams, later posted anothermessage, saying “Marathareservation will claim one life”.

Earlier, two persons —Kakasaheb Dattareya Shinde,and Vishwanath Sonaware –had committed suicide on theMaratha issue. While Shindeplunged into a river from abridge near Aurangabad on July23, Sonavane who had con-sumed poison on July 24 diedat the hospital in Aurangabadthe following day.

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The Bombay High Court onMonday admitted a peti-

tion filed by two accusedSadhvi Pragya Singh andSameer Kulkarni seeking dis-charge from the 2008 Malegaonblasts case. The developmentcame five weeks after it admit-ted a plea filed by the 2008Malegaon blast case accusedLieutenant Colonel PrasadShrikant Purohit, challengingearlier court verdicts rejectinghis pleas for discharge from thecase.

After Advocate Prashnt

Maggu made a strong case infavour of his clients Pragya andKulkarni, a HC bench ofRanjit More and Anuja PrabhuDesai admitted the dischargepleas of the 2008 Malegaonblasts accused.

Maggu told the court thata special court had earliererred in rejecting the dischargepleas. He said that the NIA, theprosecuting agency in the case,had granted a clean chit toThakur in its charge sheet.

Maggu also argued beforethe HC bench that during the

hearing on a bail plea filed byThakur in the high court lastyear, the NIA had even told theHC on record that it had noobjections to Thakur beingdischarged from the case.

The HC bench scheduledthe case for August 13.

It may be recalled that animprovised explosive keptunder the seat of a LMLFreedom motor-bicycle hadexploded between BhikkuChowk and Anjuman Chowk,near Noorani Masjid on thenight of September 29, 2008,

leaving sixpersons deadand injuring101 others.

On June22, 2018, theHigh Courthad admitteda petition filedby ColPurohit, chal-lenging earlier

court verdicts rejecting his pleasfor discharge from the case.Earlier on December 27, 2017,a special National InvestigatingAgency (NIA) court haddropped charges under thestringent Maharashtra Controlof Organised Crime Act(MCOCA) against SadhviPragya Singh Thakur, Lt ColPrasad Purohit and five otherkey accused in the much-dis-cussed case.

However, AdditionalSessions Judge SD Tekale hadrejected the applications of keyaccused Sadhvi Pragya, Lt ColPurohit, Sameer Kulkarni,Ramesh Upadhyay andSudhakar Dwivedi for dischargefrom the case. The sevenaccused against whom MOCCAcharges were dropped, but con-tinue to face charges underUnlawful Activities PreventionAct (UAPA) are: Sadhvi Pragya,Col Purohit, Dwivedi, Major(Retd) Ramesh Upadhyay,Sameer Kulkarni, SudhakarChaturvedi and Ajay Rahirkar.

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President Ram Nath Kovindwill inaugurate MSME

summit for promoting the“One district one product”scheme here on August 10. Thesummit to boost micro, smalland medium enterprises wouldbe corollary to the UPInvestor’s Summit held here onFebruary. The ODOP designedto promote traditional indus-tries and spur local economy.The ODOP scheme seekinginternational branding waslaunched on January 25 thisyear.

The MSME and Khandiand Village Industries MinisterSatyadeo Pachauri said that thesummit is being organized toboost the Micro, Small andMedium Enterprises sector.The summit aims at propellingYogi Adityanath Government’sflagship ‘One District, OneProduct’ scheme on a big scalefor international branding andmarketing the theme. TheODOP seeks to promote tra-ditional industries synonymouswith the respective districts ofUP to spur local economy andcreate jobs. The aim of theODOP is optimising the pro-duction, productivity andincome, preservation anddevelopment of localcrafts/skills and promotion ofthe art and improvement inproduct quality and skill devel-opment.

MSME sector is the back-bone of UP’s industrial land-scape and contributes 60% toits annual industrial output. Itemploys around 4 crore people,generating direct economicactivity worth Rs 1.2 Lakhcrore annually.

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UP Governor Ram Naik willpreside over the first meet-

ing of the 55-member com-mittee to commemorate thesesquicentennial or 150 birthanniversary of MahatmaGandhi here on Tuesday. Themeeting will deliberate on thepolicies and programmes forcelebrating the 150th anniver-sary and giving its approval.The brief of the committee is tolay the guidelines and supervisethe programmes and takingfinal decision on detailed pro-grammes and their dates.

The committee is all inclu-sive and its members are drawnfrom different walks of lifeincluding educationists, reli-gious leaders, media, historiansand other different fields.

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Nalini Chidambaram, thelawyer wife of former

Union Finance Minister PChidambaram, her son KartiChidambaram and daughter-in-law Srinidhi KartiChidambaram were directed bya Chennai court on Monday toappear before it without fail onAugust 20 in connection withthe black money case filedagainst them by theDepartment of Income Tax.

Though the family mem-bers of the Congress strongmanhad been asked to presentthemselves before the court onMonday, they failed to do sowhich made ChiefMetropolitan Magistrate SMalarvizhi issue an order ask-ing them to be present in thecourt on August 20.

The case was filed by theIncome Tax departmentbecause Karti Chidambaramfailed to disclose details about

his accounts with the MetroBank in Britain and the invest-ments he had made in NanoHoldings LLC, USA.

Karti had also failed to dis-close the investments made byChess Global advisory, a com-pany co-owned by him, whichis an offence under the BlackMoney Act. According to theDepartment of Income Tax,Karti, Nalini and Srinidhi didnot disclose the �5.37 croreworth of properties they joint-ly own in Cambridge, Britainand the �3.38 crore worth ofproperties in the USA.

The Income TaxDepartment initiated prose-

cution against them underSection 50 of the Black Moneyand Imposition of Tax Act . Themagistrate had summoned thefamily of Chidambaram undersection 50 of the Act anddirected them to appear beforethe court on June 25. TheChidambaram family hadappeared before the court onJune 25 and sought exemptionfrom personal appearance.

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Once again, a separate Statedemand for North

Karnataka has surfaced withKarnataka Chief Minister HDKumaraswamy’s Budget as thetrigger. Also a recent statementby Kumaraswamy has fuelledthe demand by some organi-sations and activists for a sep-arate Statehood for the NorthKarnataka. HoweverKumaraswamy blamed themedia and politicians for themisreading of his statementand said he stands for a unit-ed Karnataka.

He told the media inBengaluru on Monday thatsome politicians and a sectionof the media are misinterpret-ing his statements relating tothe Northern Karnataka."While speaking atChannapattana recently, I hadmentioned what BJP leader BSriramula had stated on theissue and questioned from

where they will get funds forthe separate State. What waswrong in my statement? Butsince last one week, a sectionof the media is terming it as abig mistake done by me andinterpreting my statement asagainst people of NorthKarnataka," he added.

"I have repeatedly statedthat I am for 'AkhandaKarnataka' (Unified KarnatakaState) but you (media) are pos-ing it as I am against develop-ment of North Karnataka, " headded.

He said, "I don't need todiscuss a separate State issue;this issue has been creation ofOpposition politicians and themedia. When I spoke inChannapattana, I was onlyreplying to what Sriramalusaid in the Assembly regardingNorth Karnataka... I have saidtime and again— I want aAkhanda Karnataka. If State isdivided, you (media) will alsobe responsible, if anything goeswrong in the coming days," headded. "I never blamed thefarmers, yet they protested.You people distort what I sayand put it out. You shouldintrospect,” he told the media.

North Karnataka compris-

es the districts falling underBombay Karnataka andHyderabad Karnataka. Whilethe demand for a separate Statehad subsided after UPAGovernment's decision to givespecial status to HyderabadKarnataka region under Article371(J) of the Constitution in2012. But after the Budget pre-sented by Kumaraswamy, thishas triggered again, demandinga separate State for northKarnataka districts.

A bandh has been called onThursday demanding a sepa-rate State for North Karnatakawith several institutions innorthern Karnataka set to sus-pend activities.

Meanwhile, the State BJP iswaiting for direction from HighCommand to capitalise on this

issue, as an opportunity to pre-pare a ground for the 2019 gen-eral elections. BJP strongmanand leader of the OppositionBS Yeddyurappa said he is forunified Karnataka and blamedcollation Government led byChief Minister Kumaraswamyfor the fiasco. He said in a state-ment, “Thousands of our eldershave shed their blood for the formation of unifiedKarnataka. However, going bythe recent statements of Chief Minister HDKumaraswamy it looks likethat he is conspiring to dividethe unified Karnataka.

Even though the peoplehad voted BJP by electing 104MLAs, the Congress with 79seats and JDS with 38 seatshave entered into an unholy

alliance to form theGovernment and thus cheatedthe people. Kumaraswamyhas meted out step-motherlytreatment to North Karnatakaregion. By asking themwhether they have voted forhim to demand for loan waiv-er, the Chief Minister has notonly exhibited arrogance buthas also violated and insultedthe Constitution”.

“ The inexplicable silencemaintained by the Congressparty — which isproviding asilent support — has raisedmany doubts. In this back-ground, I will leave for Belagavitomorrow in order to dissuadeand persuade seers of variousmutts and other leaders whoare holding demonstration forseparate Karnataka in front ofSuvarna Soudha.

I will pray and request theseers to remain steadfast forunified Karnataka. The peopleof North Karnataka are painedand hurt by the insensitivestatement of the Chief Minister.Some people are trying to takeadvantage of the irresponsiblestatement of Kumaraswamy.BJP will not allow the State tobe divided at any cost” headded.

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Gujarat BJP has formed afive-member team to

assess different socio-econom-ic factors in 26 Lok Sabhaconstituencies across the Statein order to win all the seats inthe upcoming general elec-tions in 2019.

The team was formed dur-ing a meeting in the presenceof Gujarat Chief Minister VijayRupani and State BJP presidentJitu Vagahani apart from othertop leaders of State BJP unit.On the basis of the findings ofthe team, BJP would strategisefor the Lok Sabha polls inGujarat’s 26 seats.

“The 5-member teamwould visit all the Lok Sabhaconstituencies across the Stateand prepared a detail reportconsidering social, economic,caste and religious equations.The members of the teamswould also suggest what theparty should do in order tosecure win for its candidates,”said a senior BJP leader.

Sources in the party saidthat repeating 2014 Lok Sabhapoll’s performance would bethe biggest challenge for theparty, as the saffron brigadewon all the seats in the State inlast elections. The top leader-

ship of BJP has become alert,especially after 2017 Assemblypolls in which the partyreduced from 115 seats to 99.

A detailed analysis of all 26Lok Sabha constituencieswould be done by the teamkeeping office-bearers of BJPYuva Morcha, Mahila Morcha,district presidents and secre-

taries and other key BJP lead-ers in the State.

In the meeting discussiontook place on strategies forbooth management, arrange-ment of page-presidents, for-mation of social media teams,legal teams, and appointmentsof in-charges for all 26 LokSabha constituencies.

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Gujarat Congress hasopposed unprecedented

hike in fees for undergraduatemedical, dental and physio-therapy courses in the State.According to Congressspokesman Manish Doshi, feesfor these courses have beenincreased nearly five times inthe current academic sessionin all six Government medicalcolleges.

Though the hike in the feescame after almost one and a halfdecades, but Doshi said that theState Government shouldn’tincrease fees by 400 to 500 percent as it would affect those stu-dents who were coming fromlower middle class and poor

families. According to him,nearly 1300 students studying insix Government medical co-lleges in Ahmedabad, Vad-odara, Surat, Bhavnagar, Jam-nagar and Rajkot would beimpacted due to increase in fees.Another 500 students studyingin two dental and six physio-therapy Government collegesacross the State would also beimpacted due to fee hike.

In the case of medical col-leges, fees have been increasedfrom �6000 to �25000 annual-ly. Students of dental and phys-iotherapy colleges will have topay �20,000 and �15000 annu-ally instead of �4000 and �3000respectively.

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Agitated with the arrested of8 persons, including 7 engi-

neers of the Uttar Pradesh StateBridge Corporation (UPSBC),the members of BridgeCorporation Junior EngineerSangh wore black badges andremained away from work onMonday, boycotting the workall over the State.

Terming the action asunwanted harassment of onlythe engineers and employees ofthe corporation, the associationpresident, claimed that if such

one sided action will continueagainst their colleagues andthey will be not immediatelyrelease than the employees willchalk out strategy for furtheragitation and they would evenwent on strike across the Stateand will also not work in theKumbh Mela in Allahabad.

Shree Prakash Gupta, pres-ident of the Bridge CorporationDiploma Engineers Associationquestioned that why theGovernment just blamed theengineers when the incidenttook place also to the negligenceof the local administration.

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A28-year-old woman andher paramour were report-

edly killed by her husband inShahjahenpur. The sensation-al killing came to light after thebody of the woman, who washacked to death, was foundlying near the village pondwhile her lover’s body wasfound hanging with a tree.Local police sent both the bod-ies for post-mortem examina-tion and are waiting for the out-come of the report before tak-ing the suspect in custody.

According to reports, 22-year-old Rajveer, hailing fromShahbajnagar area ofShahjahenpur, was having anaffair with 28-year-old Urmila,a resident of the same localityand already having three chil-dren. The family members ofRajveer opposed the affairwhile Urmila’s husbandGabbar, also threatened theyouth with dire consequencesif he did not stop meeting hiswife. About a month back,Rajveer’s family members afterfinding no solution had forciblymarried him with some othergirl. Reports further said thatRajveer still kept meetingUrmila. However,Mondaymorning, people were shockedwhen the body of Rajveer wasfound hanging with a treewhile few meters away, Urmila’sbody was found lying in poolof blood.

She was hacked to death with some sharp edgedweapon. Local police rushed tothe spot and dispatched thebodies for post-mortem exam-ination. They claimed thatabout 100 meters from Urmila’sbody, they recovered an axewith which she was killed.

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Anew mother in the family is particularabout sending her three-year-old daugh-ter to pre-school, stuffing her up with lay-

ered clothing. The frocks are not safe atschool. Or innocent enough for predators. Infantrapes in the school premises have been report-ed with all too much frequency to fuel her anx-ieties. Then there’s the shadow of child-liftersprowling around everywhere.

Until sometime ago, we would look forwardto Eid to demand home-cooked, love-laden andvery motherly kebabs of our colleagues com-ing back from their towns by Shatabdis. Thekilling of Junaid, who was stabbed to death ona train by cow vigilantes claiming he was car-rying beef in his tiffin carrier and not normalmeat which he insisted, changed everything.They do not want to draw attention to them-selves with their casseroles while travelling andrisk their lives as distrustful vigilantes could be

lurking anywhere. But they do not want to upsetus either. So the tradition continues with justa box of home-made sweets, very neutral andyes, very sweet.

It’s 9.30 pm and a woman executive is tog-gling with the idea of dialling a taxi aggrega-tor or trading waiting hours for the safety ofan office drop. There was a time when shewouldn’t have stopped to think about swipingthat app but what if she were waylaid on thatdeserted approach road that had to be nego-tiated before she entered the safety of her gatedcommunity?

A youth in Bihar’s Muzaffarnagar districtis lynched for stealing a cellphone, a crime forwhich he had been booked earlier by cops. Thistime locals decided to teach him a lesson with-out waiting for the police or handing the thiefover to them.

Our society is living in a fear psychosis,becoming fragile, frazzled and confused.And it is kicking out with the only “off withyour head” pandemic of a solution in protect-ing itself. Violence is then seen as an affirma-tive action, one that is a legitimate solutionto an imagined problem that a societal archi-tecture is not designed for. It is ironic that thisnegative emotion happens to have us in itsgrip at a time when we believe that we aremore empowered, knowledgeable and con-

nected to each other. Technological evolution,we have reckoned, has already made ussupra human beings. Or is it that the bubbleof our acquired abilities is feeding our ego-ism over enlightenment and breeding a newclass system? It would be easy to narrow downthis induced fear to the political dynamics ofthe time, no matter what the colour of ideol-ogy, but there is a far deeper systemic malaiseat play here. One that goes beyond just polit-ical protectionism and posturing. Remember,politics grows on the bedrock of societal mal-adies.

So who are fear mongers that havespawned angry lynch mobs and muscular vig-ilantes? You cannot pinpoint anyone in thecrowd. Rumour is a faceless monster thatstrikes almost gutturally and insidiously toestablish its standout value. Perhaps, weweren’t aware of the impact that digitalclasslessness would have in the real world.With a platform large enough to accommo-date every shade of opinion, intelligent andstupid, no doubt there has been an attempt-ed equilibrium of individual expressions. Butlike in society, power play came with the num-bers of likes, shares, forwards, endorsementsand followers. It was not just enough to be anindividual with an identity, hunting for yourspace and gathering opinions to yourself. Youhad to be a chieftain of a digital tribe with a

sameness of subscribed ideas. The heftier thebeehive mentality, the easier it was to declarea perceived mass mindset and opinion thatsadly marketers and brand players relied uponto create value and capital — social, econom-ical, political and importantly, credible.

That has been our undoing and cost uslogic, reason, understanding and compassion.Memes, that we so love to begin our day with,are far more dangerous than cruise missiles.For, according to evolutionary biologistRichard Dawkins, a meme is an idea, behav-iour or reaction to a stimulus that spreadsfrom person to person within a culture ofmimicry, much like a self-replicating gene thatcan mutate horrendously. In all this newnessof a world driven by imposed intelligence, weforget that human civilisation is older than thedigital one and it is perhaps the latter thatneeds to ride out its own stages of evolution.We ought to make that distinction, fast andfuriously. And we do not need to subject our-selves to its medievalism and let it play outwith renewed vigour in civil society structures.Yet sadly, that replication is exactly what hashappened.

Fear of the “otherness” has been a unify-ing tool like no other. The more you believeit, the more likely you are to feel insecuresingly and inclined to be drawn to a mindsetthat manifests itself through a united and

aggressive counter response and safety ofnumbers. As part of a venting mob, a human’sbestial instincts are primed and inflamed, thepsychological equivalent to a pack of wolves.Research has proved this insane predatoryinstinct. And the best part is that there is notone single person or cause that you canattribute the agency to. A judicial inquiry can-not pinpoint a perpetrator, simply becauseeveryone can pass the buck to the next manstanding, much like the forwards rolling onsocial media, and absolve himself or herselfof social responsibility. This anonymity sadlyguarantees their infallibility. If the victim isin the clear, then it is the failure of the law andorder machinery. If the victim is dead, thenit is easily the politicians who have foment-ed polarities with their gangs, never mind thatthey cannot galvanise a mob of hundreds atan instant unless the hit-back conditions arelatent in a community. Anybody can be ascapegoat.

Political establishments across the worldhave, therefore, used baser emotions to foista mob that will dispense and justify violenceas an elaborate and pointed system of a cor-rective, which in turn will create a series ofcrises to divert eyeballs from existing ones. So,if it is racism in the West, in the Indian con-text these base emotions are being used toconsolidate majoritarian mindsets whether

relating to gender, class or faith; the “other”being defined as a threat to be kept undercheck and reminded of its subservience. Forthe minority, coping with fear has its ownpocket riots or simple transmission of ideasthat coalesce into vicious, radical “revenge”hits. Societally, violence of the gruesome kindis the expression of a refusal to accommodateassertive and empowered groups be it womenor so-called lower castes. They are easily con-signed to being collateral damage in the tus-sle for supremacy of the established order.

The problem with our modern lynch mobphenomenon is that it is not just seen as pop-ular exasperation or rebellion against a failedstate but as an extra-judicial adjunct of theestablishment. One needs to only look backat the administrative responses that have beendelayed at best, reactive on a medium scaleand silence at worse. Despite attempts to giveteeth to several laws and bringing in new ones,crimes against women, children and lowercastes are going up undeterred. Societal vio-lence cannot at any scale be seen as havingstate sanction and if such a perception is gain-ing ground, mere denials and words won’t do.Only strong counter-measures can calmfears. For the lies are dangerously on theprecipice of becoming truths.

(The writer is Associate Editor, ThePioneer)

��������������Sir — This refers to your editorial,“Imran’s Pakistan” (July 27). India andPakistan should wage an all-out waragainst poverty, hunger, malnutri-tion, unemployment, child labour,illiteracy, tuberculosis, malaria, dengueand other diseases in their own coun-tries and not against each other. Forbest results, both India and Pakistanneed to start a healthy competition inhuman development.

India and Pakistan are the back-benchers in the class of human devel-opment. The former is at 131st posi-

tion and the latter at 147th in theHuman Development Index rank.

Indeed, a new welfare diplomacyis the need of the hour. The bottomline of the diplomacy will be to say thetruth loud and clear that in the caseof conflict, it is the weapon sellers whoalways win at the cost of the people ofboth the countries.

And of course, any war in gener-al and Indo-Pakistan war in particu-lar are nothing but staging of Aesop’sstory of a monkey winning the breadwhile two cats fight for the same.

Sujit DeKolkata

� �������Sir — Whatever be the charges of rig-ging, the election results make it clearthat the voters of Pakistan were tiredof both the Pakistan Muslim League(Nawaz) and the Pakistan PeoplesParty and wanted a change. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan broad-ened his voter base by promising a“new Pakistan” that is free of corrup-tion. It is time for him to keep hispromise and bring about that changefor the better.

Khan’s innings as Prime Ministerwill be closely watched for his initia-

tives on the social and economicfronts, his equation with the militaryand religious hardliners, and his pol-icy towards India. He should handleIndia-Pakistan relations with greatsensitivity.

It is vital for India and Pakistan toestablish peace. Pakistan could do wellto invite Prime Minister NarendraModi for Khan’s swearing-in ceremo-ny as a goodwill gesture. And if it does,Prime Minister Modi should definite-ly make use of that opportunity torepair relations.

G David MiltonMaruthancode

�����������������Sir — One heartening thing aboutPakistan elections is that the countryrejected the Hafiz Saeed-backed Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek. India hopes that itsrelations with Pakistan becomes nor-mal, but given that Imran Khan calledNawaz Sharif “an agent of Pakistan’s oldenemy India”, it seems that he wouldbe more keen to please the military.

Bidyut Kumar ChatterjeeFaridabad

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It is my request that he (Modi) should grabthe opportunity and respond positively to

the offer of friendship by Imran Khan.—Former J&K Chief Minister

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Imran Khan has in the past praised the dubiousattempt of ISI to mainstream terror. How can

the Prime Minister be friends with him?—BJP leader

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Aprominent midfielderof the German footballteam, Mesut Özil ,recently announcedthat he was quitting

the team. Özil is a German-Turk.Weeks after the German squadmade a shocking exit from thisyear’s FIFA World Cup in Russia,Özil claimed that he had facedracial slurs in Germany for being an immigrant. In a state-ment, he said, “I am a Germanwhen we win, but an immigrantwhen we lose.”

This is a classic case of scape-goating which is quite rampant incountries where sports oftenbecome entangled with certainaspects of contemporary populistpolitics. After shock defeats, pas-sionate fans frequently pick outscapegoats on the basis of someunderlying racial or ultra-nationalist biases. Verbalattacks and taunts targeted at thescapegoats then become an exer-cise in collective catharsis that hasabsolutely nothing to do with on-the-field facts.

Of course, those having a goat Özil for being a Turk — andthus somehow not entirely com-mitted to Germany’s football for-tunes — conveniently forgot thathe was part of the German squadthat won the 2014 World Cup too.Also, what about the many immi-grants in the French squad whichlifted this year’s trophy?

Scapegoating in this context issimply about picking out a mem-ber of a defeated sporting teamwho belongs to a minority com-munity and then using him or herto project one’s frustration andanger. This can include slursagainst the scapegoat’s race, eth-nicity or even faith.

British sports journalist, JonSpurling, in his book, ‘Death OrGlory: The Dark History of theWorld Cup’ dedicates a wholechapter on the tragic fate of theonce much-loved Brazilian foot-ball goalkeeper, Moacir BarbosaNascimento.

Between 1940 and 1950,

Barbosa was commonly hailed asbeing one of the world’s finestgoalies. He was also one of the firstblack Brazilian players to make itto the national side.

During the 1950 Fifa WorldCup in Brazil, the home sidestormed its way into the finals.Barbosa was instrumental inBrazil’s rampant march. However,even though Brazil was a favouriteagainst Uruguay in the decidinggame, it lost 2-1. Brazilian fanswere furious.

Spurling wrote that close to95,000 people watched the gameinside Rio de Janeiro’s hugeMaracana Stadium. After thedefeat, most Brazilians were seeneither weeping or walking in adaze on the streets. And then ascapegoat was found. It was theonce celebrated Barbosa — one ofthe first black men to be picked toplay for the national squad.

According to Spurling, thereason Brazil lost was because,after scoring the first goal, theteam coach and captain decided toplay defensively and guard theirmeagre lead. Uruguay exploitedthis and Brazilian defenders werenever up to the task of stopping adesperate Uruguayan side whichmanaged to run past the Braziliandefence and find Barbosa stand-ing alone and on his own.

But the Brazilian Press had notime for such analysis. It justscreamed that the team had‘shamed the country’s prestige’. Allthe shame was then laid onBarbos’s doorstep. It began withpeople accusing him of “makingBrazil cry in shame”. Then theybegan to ignore him. He couldn’tget any employment as a player asclubs turned him away.

Some of his colleagues lashedout at the critics, telling them thatthe Uruguay side had four blackplayers and still won. But nothingstopped Barbosa from being acondemned man; a “fakeBrazilian” because he was black.

Yet, just eight years later, thesame disgruntled fans would behailing perhaps Brazil’s greatestfootball player ever: Pelé, a blackBrazilian who was in the Braziliansquads that thrice won the WorldCup. Wonder what his fate wouldhave been had he not been part ofwinning teams.

Scapegoating in sports on thebasis of race, faith or ethnicity isusually the sudden explosion of

biases present in a society, butrepressed or discouraged by theState. The German State, or beforeit the Brazilian state, was notracist. But racial tensions didexist in society that came to thesurface due to sporting losses.

Interestingly, in India andPakistan — societies wrought byethnic, communal and sectariantensions — these tensions havehardly come to the surface duringsporting losses. For example, effi-gies of cricketers are often set onfire but never on the basis of theirfaith or ethnicity.

Maybe this is because there areso many other outlets in thesecountries to express communal,sectarian or ethnic prejudices.After all, politicians in India andPakistan do excel in playing theso-called ‘religious and/or ethniccard’ during elections, galvanisingtheir supporters to openly expresstheir biases in this context.

But whereas States andGovernments largely discouragescapegoating on the basis of faithor race, a whole new ball gameemerges when they actually sup-port it. After losing World War I,

Germany under the Nazis wasconvinced that the war was lostdue to Jews, Communists, gypsiesand Germans with non-Aryanblood. As the regime went about eliminating such scum, it alsodecided to use the 1936 SummerOlympics in Germany to demon-strate the prowess of “pure, whiteAryan athletes”.

But a gloom of sorts set overthe nation as it saw a black-American sprinter, JesseOwens, outdo the Aryan athletesin the 100 and 200-metre sprintsand long jump. Then in June1938, a black United States boxer,Joe Louis, downed German box-ing champion, Maz Schmeling.

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler waslivid. On his insistence, the State completely sidelined Schmelingfor being a disgrace to the German nation. But whereasHitler committed suicide as adefeated leader in 1945, Schmelingwent on to live till 2005.

State-backed scapegoating canbe far worse, as exhibited by theNazis. In 1974, when Zaire (pre-sent-day Democratic Republic ofCongo) became the first African

side to qualify for the FIFA WorldCup, Zaire’s then dictator, Mobutu,hailed the team as the pride ofAfrican nationalism.

But after the team lost all itsgames at the event, the ZaireGovernment denounced the teamfor humiliating African national-ism, rather Mobutu’s idea ofAfrican nationalism.

Many players were picked upby Mobutu’s police and made todisappear, while others were driven into poverty. In this casethe whole team was made the scapegoat.

This was recently related to meby a veteran Algerian journalist inDC. And as I was smiling, heasked, “What do they do toAhmadi players in Pakistani hockey and cricket teams?” Hethen added: “Scapegoating themmust be easy.” All I could say was,“I have never known a Pakistanicricketer or hockey player whowas an Ahmadi.” He looked sur-prised: “They weren’t any, or theyremained quiet about it?”

Most probably quiet. And forgood reason.

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Recently, on July 20, when Congresschief Rahul Gandhi was making animpassioned speech in the Lok Sabha

during a debate on no-confidence motionagainst the Modi Government, humanrights activists and river activists waited withbated breath, hoping that he would also high-light, among other narratives, the patheticstate of the holy river Ganga. Spearheadedby noted environmentalist Prof GD Agrawal,alias Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand, theseactivists have launched a stir for the conser-vation of river Ganga.

The Gandhi scion had invoked burningissues in the House, such as violence againstminorities and Dalits, cow vigilantism andmob lynching, and Rafale deal. But just likethe ruling National Democratic Alliance(NDA), he too failed many river activists,including Sanjay Singh from Jal-Jan JodoAbhiyan, Ramon Magsaysay Award andStockholm Water Prize winner RajendraSingh, also known as ‘waterman of India’, andDr Agrawal, who has been on a fast-unto-death for the last several months in protestagainst the Government’s negligence towardsthe holy river, that now is one of the mostpolluted rivers in the world.

Eighty six-year-old Agrawal’s health isdeteriorating day-by-day. But theGovernment is yet to speak its mind on thedemand of the river expert: To stall all damson the river and pass the Ganga Protectionand Management Bill which has been draft-ed by the ilk of eminent environmentalists,ex-judges and advocates like Paritosh Tyagi,MC Mehta, Arun Kumar Gupta, SantoshKumar, Govind Sharma, SS Kulshrestha andAgrawal himself.

Ironically, for long, politicians haveused or rather misused the Ganga for gar-nering votes. Before the 2014 Lok Sabha elec-tion, the then Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi,had said in Varanasi: “Mujhe Ganga maiyyane bulaya hai (Mother Ganga has summonedme). Main Ganga ka beta hun (I am son of

Ganga river)” He promised the people thatif voted to power, he would work to bringback the pristine glory of the holy river. Hehad pledged for making it ‘aviral’ (flowingadequately) and ‘nirmal’ (pure and unpolluted).

After coming to power, the NDAGovernment approved the Namami Gangeprogramme, an integrated conservationmission as the flagship programme of theGovernment with a Budget outlay of �20,000crore to accomplish the twin objectives ofeffective abatement of pollution, conserva-tion, and rejuvenation of the Ganga.However, while the Prime Minister is yet todeliver on his promises, crores of rupees havegone in vain in the name of cleaning theGanga as it continues to be in a big mess, asit was recently pointed out by the NationalGreen Tribunal (NGT). The Tribunal right-ly observed that the situation of the Gangawas extraordinarily bad and hardly anythingeffective has been done to clean the river.

A bench headed by NGT chairpersonJustice AK Goel lamented that despiteclaims by authorities, the work done onground for Ganga rejuvenation was inade-quate and called for regular monitoring toimprove the situation. The green panel alsoordered a survey to seek views of the com-mon people on what they feel on groundabout pollution of the Ganga and said thatthe feedback could be given through e-mail

to authorities concerned.The Tribunal noted so far that nine sta-

tus reports have been filed before it in thelast two years, but results were hardly visi-ble on the ground. A string of measuresordered by it included monthly testing ofwater samples of the river. Advocate MCMehta, who filed a petition for the cleaningof the Ganga, told the Bench that the waterin the river was unsafe for drinking and therewas no hygiene in and around the river. Healleged that there was a lot of water pollu-tion and a lot needs to be done for munici-pal and industrial waste management.

Though the Modi Government set anambitious deadline of 2018 to clean the river,it has now been extended to March 2019.The goal seems to be a far-fetched idea, giventhat only 15 per cent of �20,000 crore Budgethas been released in the last four years forthe cleaning of Ganga.

Rajendra Singh feels that ignoring theGanga is akin to cheating one’s mother. Formany Hindus, she’s the mother, he said as hereferred to Prime Minister Modi’s speech of2014 when he had sought votes in Varanasiin the name of the river. He rued that theyhad been writing to the Government regu-larly to know what is being done to bring itspristine glory back but there has been noanswer. To drive home his point, he said thatthe Government was nonchalant towards thefast undertaken by Agrawal, someone whohas in-depth knowledge of the rivers andnature. The Ganga is our national river. Singhargues, “Why can’t we have a national pro-tocol for the national river like the one wehave for our national flag?”

Sanjay Singh, who is known as ‘water-man of Bundelkhand’ too lamented theGovernment’s apathy towards the health ofthe river that is the lifeline for millions of peo-ple. A consortium of seven IITs who submit-ted their report on “Ganga River BasinManagement Plan, 2015” is gathering dustin the Government office. It has suggestedthat the sewage going to the Ganga shouldbe cleaned and used for irrigation. TheMonsoon Session is on. It is to be hoped thatour elected representatives, irrespective ofparty loyalty, will take up the cause of Gangawhich is not only a source for water for over40 million people but also a symbol of faithand centre of a healthy ecosystem.

(The writer is Special Correspondent, The Pioneer)

Clean Ganga: A dream too far?

Finding scapegoatsSport is no different from other fields when it comes to victimising easy targets for indulging in ‘dirty politics’.Scapegoating on the basis of race, faith or ethnicity is usually a sudden explosion of biases present in society

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rose by over 150 points to37,496.80, while the Nifty hit afresh high of 11,300 in openingtrade ahead of RBI policy meetbeginning today. The 30-shareindex spurted 159.95 points, or0.42 per cent, to an all-timehigh of 37,496.80.

The gauge had gained 840.48points in the previous five record-setting sessions and closed at anall-time high of 37,336.85 pointsin Friday’s session.

The broader NSE Niftytoo hit a new high by rising 31points, or 0.27 per cent, to11,309.35.

Trading sentimentremained bullish backed bysustained capital inflows by for-eign funds and widespreadbuying by retail investors, dri-ven by strong earnings by somemore bluechip companies thathelped key indices to scalenew peaks, brokers said.

All eyes will be on ReserveBank of India’s Monetary PolicyCommittee (MPC) meet to

decide on its policy rates. The Reserve Bank is likely

to maintain status quo on thekey interest rate on Wednesdaynotwithstanding elevated oilprices and government’sannouncement to steeply hikeminimum support price forkharif crops, experts said.

Reliance Industries roseby 0.94 per cent to quote at1,140.25 after the companyfriday reported its highest-ever quarterly net profit asbumper earnings from theretail business, improved prof-itability of telecom arm andnear doubling of earnings frompetrochemical business offsetlower margins from oil refin-ing business.

Other gainers were SBI,ONGC, ICICI Bank, Vedanta,Coal India, Power Grid, TataMotors, HUL, Tata Steel, TCS,Bharti Airtel, M&M, NTPCand Adani Ports, rising up to3.24 per cent.

PSU, oil & gas, banking,power, metal, Infrastructure,consumer durables and realtysector stocks were leading therally.

According to provisionalexchange data, foreign institu-tional investors (FIIs) put in anet of Rs 738.05 crore anddomestic institutional investors(DIIs) bought shares worth anet of Rs 406.12 crore onFriday.

Asian stocks declined asmarkets took cues fromdeclines in Wall Street’s last ses-sion, with focus this week shift-ing to the Bank of Japan, whichwill declare its interest ratedecision on Tuesday.

Nikkei shed 0.75 per cent,Hong Kong’s Hang Seng wasdown 0.66 per cent, whileShanghai Composite index fellby 0.16 per cent in early tradetoday.

US stocks closed lowerFriday, following disappointingresults from Twitter Inc. Andbellwethers, including Exxonand Intel.

Meanwhile, the FederalReserve’s Federal Open MarketCommittee will embark on itstwo-day meeting on Tuesday,with the US central bankexpected to announce its deci-sion on Wednesday.

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American motorcycle man-ufacturer Harley-Davidson

on Sunday announced that aspart of their ‘More Roads toHarley Davidson’ growth plansfor the next five years that itwill, in collaboration with anyet unknown Asian motorcy-cle manufacturer, produce amotorcycle in the 250-500ccsegment aimed at the Indianand other Asian markets inIndia. Given that US President,Donald Trump, has railedagainst high Indian tariffs onimported motorcycles alleged-ly at the behest of Harley-Davidson, and actually led toIndia reducing tariffs onimported motorcycles.

However, Harley-Davidsonwill not be the first globaltwo-wheeler brand usingIndian scale manufacturing,

Bajaj Auto is a partner ofAustrian brand KTM, wherethey own a substantial stakeand have incorporated fea-tures in their Pulsar andDominar motorcycles. BMW’snew G310R and G310GSmotorcycles are manufacturedin collaboration with TVS atHosur and TVS using the sameengine manufacture theApache RTR310. WhileHarley-Davidson did not spec-

ify the name of their ‘Asian’partner, speculation has restedon a partner with significantengineering and manufactur-ing facilities in India. India’slargest motorcycle manufac-turer, Heo Motocorp is specu-lated to be a potential partner,company officials refused tocomment. This product will beaimed at the Indian market aswell as other emerging markets,unlike BMW which sells the

310 products globally, andlaunched them in India onlylast week, a year after its glob-al launch.

In a surprise, Harley-Davidson also announced that ithas developed an all-new electricmotorcycle called the ‘LiveWire’that will go on sale next year aswill the company’s first adventuretourer, the ‘Pan America’ which

is the first product on their newmodular middleweight platform.These new products are seen bysome to make Harley-Davidsonmore relevant in a highly com-petitive global market for pre-mium motorcycles. The Indian250-500cc segment has alsobecome an important battle-ground for global manufacturersand electric motorcycles are thefuture in European cities andHarley-Davidson announcedthat by 2022 they will have acomprehensive range of electricmotorcycles.

The ‘More Roads toHarley-Davidson’ will requiresignificant investments fromthe American manufacturer,totally over $800 millionincluding both operational andcapital expenditure and thecompany expects a $1 billionboost in revenues in 2022 over2017.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi’s reassurance to the

industry will not only allayindustries’ concerns but alsohelp in the country’s inclusiveand sustained growth, accord-ing to industry bodyAssocham.

“The Prime Minister’s reas-surance to the corporate sectorwill boost confidence and allayindustries’ concerns. This willgo a long way in achieving thecommon desire of inclusive andsustainable growth,” Assochampresident Sandeep Jajodia saidon Monday.

“Engagement with indus-try will pave the way for largeinvestments in diversified sec-tors, spur job creation, promoterapid industrialisation andinfrastructure development inUttar Pradesh,” he said in astatement.

His remarks came a dayafter the Prime Ministerreached out to the businesscommunity at an event here,looking to reassure industrial-ists that they have a significantrole to play in nation building.

The Assocham presidentalso suggested the UP

Government to form an inter-ministerial committee to takestock of the progress in invest-ment proposals attracted by thestate in investors’ summit heldearlier this year.

“A task force may be con-stituted to review the status ofimplementation of the invest-ment projects as actual benefitsof an investment are onlyderived upon completion,” hesaid.

Such an initiative wouldfurther repose business com-munity’s trust in the govern-ment and help the state inattracting private investors, hesaid.

Assocham also suggestedYogi Adityanath government toconduct countrywide roadshows to draw large pool ofinvestments and simultane-ously keep monitoring on-ground implementation ofinvestment projects to createemployment opportunities foryouth of the State.

“The state governmentshould further strive to improvethe industrial and businessecosystem to come on a parwith states like Gujarat, Odisha,Maharashtra and others,” saidthe Assocham president.

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Rating agency Moody’s onMonday said the recent

GST rate cuts on 88 items willweigh on government’s rev-enue collection and is ‘creditnegative’ as it will put pressureon efforts of fiscal consolida-tion.

The GST Council, chairedby Union Finance Minister,last week cut tax rates onwhite goods as well as varioushandicrafts items and paints.

“We estimate revenue lossfrom the most recent tax cutsto be about 0.04 per cent-0.08per cent of GDP annually.

“Although the proportionof revenue loss is small, thevacillation in tax rates createsuncertainty around govern-ment revenue and comes amidpersistent upside risks to itsexpenditures,” Moody’s said ina statement.

It said the Governmenthad budgeted gross tax rev-enue growth of 16.7 per centfor the current fiscal, whichends March 2019, and GSTcollections will be an impor-tant driver of futureGovernment revenue becauseof a wider tax base and taxbuoyancy.

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from telecom operator BhartiAirtel and budget airline Indigoon whether the goods and ser-vices tax (GST) or creditallowed on inputs in the newregime has created room forreduction in prices.

Taking suo-moto cogni-sance of the impact of GST onprices in telecom and aviationsector, the National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAA)has asked the market leaders inthe sectors to calculate theinput tax credit (ITC) benefitsthat have accrued to them andwhether it was enough to passon to end-consumers, accord-ing to sources.

“The companies have beenasked to submit the calculationwithin a fortnight,” the sourcesaid.With regard to telecomsector which saw a rise in tax

incidence post GST, the sourcesaid “there may not be enoughroom for passing on the bene-fits, but the NAA is seeking cal-culation from market leaders toassesses industry wide impact”.

When reached out forcomments, Indigo spokesper-son said, “The benefits of theGST rate reduction on ticketshave been passed on to the cus-tomers by all airlines. We hada meeting with the competentauthority to discuss the relevantdetails and have submitted thesame for their review.”

Airtel spokesperson, how-ever, said “We have notreceived any notice from theauthorities asking for a report”.

The tax rate for telecomservice providers was hiked to18 cent in the GST regime,which was rolled out from July1, 2017, from the erstwhile ser-vice tax rate of 15 per cent,including cess.

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and gas fields being offered inthe second round of bidding forDiscovered Small Field (DSF)on August 9, regulator DGHsaid. DSF-II was supposed to belaunched around mid-June,but it was deferred.

“Launch of DiscoveredSmall Field (DSF) Bid Round-II on August 9, 2018, in NewDelhi,” the upstream regulatortweeted. The 60 discoverieshave been clubbed into 26contract areas spread over

3,100 sq km spread over eightsedimentary basins, it said.

The fields are being offeredin Rajasthan, Gujarat, Kutch &Cambay shallow waters,Mumbai offshore, Assam andTripura, Mahanadi shallowwater, Andhra Pradesh onlandand KG offshore.

DGH said the main fea-tures of DSF-II include a sin-gle license for conventionaland unconventional hydrocar-bon, prior technical experiencenot a pre-qualification criteri-on, no upfront signature bonusand full pricing and marketingfreedom.

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New Delhi: The Government is taking legislative as well as admin-istrative measures for an integrated strategy to reduce logisticsrelated hurdles for boosting domestic and global trade,Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Monday.

High cost of logistics impacts competitiveness and movementof goods, he said.

The Indian logistics industry is estimated at around USD 215billion, which is growing at over 10 per cent annually.

“We have to increase our share in global trade and logis-tics plays a very important role in that,” Prabhu said whilelaunching a logo for India Logistics. The logo was designed bythe National Institute of Design. PTI

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of India, Hyderabad is home to South EastAsia’s smallest baby. Baby girl Cherry was

born to proud parents Nitika and Saurabh hail-ing from Chhattisgarh and delivered at RainbowChildren’s Hospital in Hyderabad.

She was born premature at 25 weeks gesta-tion under the extensive care received at thehands of a multi-disciplinary team of medicalexperts led by Dr Dinesh Kumar Chirla,Director, Intensive Care Services at RainbowHospitals. The baby was discharged weighing1.980 Kg.

This was Nitika’s fifth pregnancy. She hadfour previous abortions. This was her onlychance to have a live baby. Around 24 weeks theultrasound showed that there was very less amni-otic fluid around baby. She weighed just 350grams. The blood flow from mother to baby wasseverely compromised. There was no way babywould have survived in womb. Parents consult-ed many hospitals and doctors. No one gave anychance for survival. They were than referred toRainbow Children’s Hospital.

The parents then met the neonatologist andthe team assured the couple that they routine-ly manage babies born as early as 24 to 25 weeksof gestation. However, the smallest baby savedearlier was 449 gm.

The Perinatal team comprising an anes-thetist, senior gynecologist and neonatologistcame up with a detailed delivery plan. Nitikadelivered the baby girl on February 27, weigh-ing 375 gm. She was only 20 cms in length andfitted in the palm.

Speaking about Cherry’s case, Dr RameshKancharla, Chairman and Managing Director, ofthe Rainbow Group of Hospitals said, “twentyyears of hard work has gone in to developing theexpertise to save small babies. A dedicated nurs-ing team was instrumental in saving Cherry. TheNeonatal Intensive Care unit is the most advancedand well equipped in the country,” he added.

Elaborating on the case, Dr Dinesh KumarChirla, Director Intensive Care Services, said:“The initial three-four days post birth are verycrucial as babies are most fragile during this time.In this case, there were many health challengeslike a drop in oxygen and BP level. Owing to thesize of the baby, we had to find the smallest pos-sible breathing tube to be inserted. Moreover, thebaby had a heart problem which normally clos-es in everyone after birth but did not inCherry's case, causing oxygenation for which wehad to give special medication and keep the babyon ventilator for breathing support. Fortunatelyfor this child, there was no bleeding in the brain.”

On Day five, Cherry had bleeding in herlungs and needed to be shifted to special ven-tilator called High Frequency Oscillation ven-tilator. She was successfully managed. She waskept on a ventilator for nearly 105 days.

Cherry's case was a particularly complicat-ed one with multiple hurdles including jaundice,feeding difficulties, multiple blood transfusionand chronic lung disease.

She was discharged after spending 128 daysin hospital. She is breathing without support. Sheis feeding directly. She is maintaining temper-ature and looks like any other normal baby.

Tourette Syndrome is a neuro-behavioural disorder, which ischaracterised by repetitive, stereotyped, involuntary move-

ments and vocalisations called tics. It affects the children and adultsdue to genetic and environmental factors that usually manifestsin adolescence before 18 years of age and can occur in people fromany age group. Males are four times more affected than females.The conditions can be chronic and symptoms can last lifetime.

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brief, intermittent movement or sound of muscles. It can rangefrom mild to severe. Severe symptoms can interfere with com-munication, daily functioning and quality of life.

���������������Simple Tics: Movement that are sudden, brief and repetitive andinvolves a limited number of muscle groups. Examples are eyeblinking and other eye movements, facial grimacing, shouldershrugging, and head or shoulder jerking. Vocal sounds like repet-itive throat-clearing, sniffing, or grunting sounds.�Complex Tics: Distinct and coordinated patterns of movementswhich involves several muscles. It includes some examples likefacial grimacing combined with a head twist and a shouldershrug. Also grunting, repeating one’s own words or phrases,coughing, repeating others’ words or phrases, throat clearing,using vulgar, obscene or swear words, barking, touchingobjects, hopping, jumping, bending, or twisting. It can get worse

with excitement or anxietyor can also get better dur-ing focused activities. Ticsoccur during sleep also.

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but it doesn’t mean that ifsomeone has Tics their sonor daughter will also beborn with it. Studies indi-

cate that person with Tics has between a five-15 per cent chanceof having a child, sibling or parent with the condition. It nowbelieved believed that Tics involves multiple genes.

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or managed. It is a premonitory urge that built a pressure, ten-sion or energy that is relieved when the tic is expressed. The tem-porary ability to withhold or suppress a tic is something like thefeeling of holding in a sneeze or trying not to scratch an insectbite. Suppressing tic can take a lot of energy. It involves a highlevel of concentration and it makes it difficult for the child topay attention to other tasks such as paying attention in class.

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tics for at least one year. There is no blood, laboratory, or imag-ing tests needed for diagnosis. Just the MRI or CT scan, electroen-cephalogram (EEG) studies in the rare cases are done.

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all people with Tics, nor any medication completely eliminatessymptoms. In fact, all the medications have side effects that canbe managed by initiating treatment, slowly and reducing the dosewhen side effects occur. Common side effects are sedation, weightgain, and cognitive dulling, tremor, dystonic reactions, parkin-sonian- like symptoms, and other dyskinetic movements are lesscommon and are readily managed with dose reduction.

������� ���Person with Tourette syndrome often lead healthy, active lives.

However, it frequently involves behavioral and social challengesthat can harm your self-image. Conditions that are associatedwith Tourette syndrome include sleep disorders, hyperactivitydisorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism spectrum dis-order, learning disabilities, depression, anxiety disorders, painrelated to tics, especially headache and anger-management prob-lems.

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ity, their tics are milder and less frequent. Exercise, sports and hob-bies are amazing ways for kids to focus mental and physical ener-gy. Help them in sensitive way you can this will build confidencein them. Embrace creativity. Activities such as writing, painting,or making music help to focus the mind and to develop.

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We have all seen the iconic 16th centuryportrait of Queen Elizabeth I with herpale white complexion bereft of expres-

sion or colour. Strictness aside, her pallor camefrom ceruse — a mix of white lead and vinegar—that was meant to cover scars from a previous ill-ness, but actually poisoned her over the years. Leadis now known to be highly dangerous on inges-tion, but at the time it was used as the equivalentof modern-day makeup. Although obviously-harmful metals are now off limits for cosmeticcompanies, makeup is more widely used todaythan ever before, even amongst the younger gen-eration. Which is why it is so important to knowwhat goes into the beauty products that we useon our faces and bodies almost everyday.

The “good stuff” that promises to whiten,lighten, clean, clear and zap away our externalimperfections such as skin spots, yellow teeth andbody odour comes with invisible clauses that wedon't see. Here’s why you should care.

Many of the ingredients in cosmetics havebeen linked to endocrine disruption (or an unnat-ural effect on the hormones in our bodies) thatis a leading cause of cancer in the long run, whileothers contain carcinogenic chemicals that areknown triggers of the disease. After all, whattouches the skin eventually makes its way into yourinner cells and bloodstream. Let's take a look atsome seemingly harmless products in your dailyroutine which may really be doing you and yourhealth more harm than good.

Did you know that your Brazilian blowouttreatment may be giving you more than juststraight hair? Formaldehyde, classified as a majorcarcinogen, is one of the traditional chemicals usedin keratin treatments. When heated and subse-quently inhaled through the use of a straighten-ing iron, formaldehyde can cause a host of prob-lems, from irritation in your nasal passage andthroat to skin allergies, and even leukemia.

Recent conversations surrounding the pos-

sibility ofdeodorants causingbreast cancer are alarm-ing, and definitely causefor concern consideringour heavy dependenceon antiperspirants inthe summer heat. Theculprit-aluminium that

blocks sweat glands, andparabens that accumulate

in breast tissue.There has also been a lot

of talk surrounding parabens inskin and hair products, tooth-

paste and more that may cause thegrowth of tumours when they pile up

in the body over time. This is because theymimic the role of estrogen in the human body,

creating an excess of the hormone, which, in turn,can cause breast cancer in women. Though manyproducts now advertise themselves to be paraben-free, many leave the question open-ended and takeadvantage of unknowing customers.

Washing away these problems isn’t as easy asyou may think. Certain soaps, handwashes andtoothpastes contain an antimicrobial agent calledtriclosan. And while it may do a good job ofdestroying microorganisms, it also creates unnat-ural changes in the body's hormones. Meaningthat with prolonged usage, triclosan can cause can-cer, besides reproductive and thyroid problems.

Despite the warning signs that surround lead,it continues to be present in several lip cosmet-ics for women. Though in small doses, lipsticksare ingested over the course of the day when youeat and drink, and their re-application just addsmore lead to your system. Here’s another shock-er— mercury, a highly toxic heavy metal is alsoused to bind and stablilise some lip products.Cosmetics companies have claimed that weingest more of these two killer ingredientsthrough contaminated food and water, but doesthat suffice?

How do we tackle the issue of chemical-ladencosmetics, especially today, when they are a partof our daily grooming rituals? Is it worth the riskcontinuing to blindly trust products? The answer,obviously, is no.

The solution then? Au naturale (organic) forthe win. Although time consuming and requir-ing manual effort, the best option is the usage oforganic, homemade, or cold pressed ingredients.Apple cider vinegar for hair cleanser and skintoner, honey as a facewash, and sugar as a scrubare both effective and risk-free.

When buying drugstore products, go throughtheir ingredients labels and look for paraben-free,or even better, organic product certification. High-end products with thermal water and lab-testedand perfected ingredients are worth their priceif they help avoid health complications in the longrun. When we pay so much attention to the foodwe eat, why not extend the concern to the stuffthat sits on our skin all day? After all, beauty isn’tonly skin-deep.

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As per a new study, in medical officesand emergency departments, about fiveper cent of all fluoroquinolones pre-scribed for adults are completely unnec-essary. About 20 per cent of all fluoro-quinolone prescriptions don’t adhere torecommendations about their use as afirst-line therapy. The study also indicatesthat fluoroquinolones are commonly pre-scribed for conditions when antibioticsare not needed at all.

Based on the FDA's warning, fluo-roquinolones should only be used inpatients with acute bacterial sinusitis andbacterial exacerbation of chronic bron-chitis, or uncomplicated urinary tractinfections in the absence of other treat-ment options. Prescribing the rightantibiotic, at the right dose, for the rightduration, and at the right time helps opti-mize patient care and fight antibioticresistance.

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Skin cancer is one of the mostcommon types of cancer in

the world affecting 70 per centmen than women in India. Thecauses range from genetic factors to exposure toultraviolet radiation.

Padma Shri Awardee, Dr KK Aggarwal,President, HCFI, said: “One of the deadliest formsof skin cancer is melanoma. Some common symp-toms are skin changes; skin sore that fails to heal;a spot or sore that becomes painful, itchy, or ten-der, or which bleeds; a spot or lump that looks shiny,waxy, smooth, or pale; a firm red lump that bleedsor appears ulcerated or crusty; and a flat, red spotthat is rough, dry, or scaly”.

Some tips of prevention are:�Avoid the sun during the middle of the day.Schedule outdoor activities for other times of theday, even in winter or when the sky is cloudy.Clouds offer little protection from damaging rays.Avoiding the sun at its strongest helps you avoidthe sunburns and suntans that cause skin damageand increase your risk of developing skin cancer.�Wear sunscreen year-round. Sunscreens don’tfilter out all harmful UV radiation, especially theradiation that can lead to melanoma, but they dogive overall sun protection. Use a broad-spectrumsunscreen with an SPF of at least 15.�Cover your skin with dark, tightly woven cloth-ing that covers your arms and legs and a broad-brimmed hat.�Opt for sunglasses that block UVA and UV rays.�Avoid tanning beds. It emits UV rays and canincrease your risk of skin cancer.�Become familiar with your skin so you’ll noticechanges. Examine your skin regularly for new skingrowths or changes in existing moles, freckles,bumps and birthmarks.

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Every house has ginger,jeera, honey and saunf intheir kitchen. Add these to

the regular dishes. Or make teausing these ingredients anddrink at regular intervals. Makesure that you eat small mealsand chew itproperly.

As long asyour stomachdoesn’t settledown, do notdrink alcoholas the acid in itcan aggravatethe condition.

Fatty, spicy,and rich foods can worsenindigestion. So does coffee, tea,and cola. Avoid these.

Eat a banana to help youtackle indigestion as it has nat-ural antacid properties. Bakingsoda is yet another cure forindigestion. Add half a tea-spoon of baking soda to half a

glass of water and mix well.Drink this for relief.

Baking soda has naturalantacid that can help treatindigestion and heartburn. Itneutralises the stomach acid tocure indigestion. A word of

caution: Do notconsume it ifyou feel fullafter a meal.

M o s thomes todayhave applecider vinegar.Mix one to twoteaspoons ofapple cider

vinegar in a glass of warmwater. Add some honey if theflavour is too strong for yourliking. Drink this once ortwice a day.

Milk can help buffer theacids in your stomach. Drinka cup of fat-free skim milktwice a day till you feel better.

When you eat street food duringthe monsoon season indigestion

and nausea is common. The bloat-ing or heartburn leaves you feeling

uncomfortable throughout thedays. ROSHANI DEVI has the

perfect antidote

As monsoons seem to intensify in dif-ferent parts of India, the spike in

water-borne diseases may go up. Oftensymptoms of these diseases can be con-fusing and hence it is important to accu-rately diagnose the cause of the under-lying condition.

Metropolis Healthcare has launcheda patient care initiative called FeverFighters Campaign, which is a 24X7 ser-vice for the benefit of the patients.Patients can avail this facility by order-ing home visits for their testing require-ment at any time in the day or night.Metropolis will deliver pathology reportswithin six hours of sample collection.Furthermore, packages are subsidised andtests have been combined to give a holis-tic report to ensure that patients are ableto begin their treatment in time.

Dr Nilesh Shah, group president,Metropolis Healthcare, said: “Drinkingclean water, keeping the surroundings

clean and consuming freshly made hotfood can greatly reduce the risk of infec-tions. Consult your doctor immediatelyon first signs of fever and illness to startyour treatment immediately.”

It is best to keep a check on foodhabits, water hygiene and mosquito con-tact to avoid other viral diseases such asviral fever, cholera, among others. Onehas to avoid street food and cold foodbesides washing hands on regular inter-val. It is also highly advisable to watch outfor symptoms and consult a generalphysician or family doctor once they areobserved. This will not only ensuretimely diagnosis and consequent treat-ment at the initial stages, but also ensurethat the disease does not spread to otherfamily members or peers.

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Zimbabweans voted onMonday in the country’s

first election since ageing auto-crat Robert Mugabe was oust-ed last year, with the oppositionvowing to overcome allegedballot fraud and defeat theruling ZANU-PF.

President EmmersonMnangagwa, Mugabe’s formerally in the ZANU-PF party,faces opposition leader NelsonChamisa of the MDC(Movement for DemocraticChange) in a historic vote forthe southern African nation.

Long lines of voters waitedoutside polling stations frommorning, with election author-ities saying early signs sug-gested a high turnout nation-wide.

“I just have to do this. Ihave to see a better Zimbabwefor my kids. Things have beentough,” Tawanda Petru, 28, anunemployed man voting inMbare, a low-income district ofthe capital Harare, told.

“I’m going to vote forChamisa, for change. I am notafraid, I can tell you.”

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Imran Khan said on Mondaythat he will take oath as

Prime Minister on August 11,even as his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party was striving to getthe required numbers to forma Government.

The PTI, led by 65-year-oldKhan, has emerged as the sin-gle largest party in the NationalAssembly after the July 25elections, but it is still short ofnumbers to form the govern-ment on its own. Khan’s partyyesterday announced that it istrying to reach out to smallerparties and independents toform the next government.

Khan said he will take oathas Prime Minister on 11th ofnext month (August), state-runRadio Pakistan reported.

“I have also decided aboutchief minister of KhyberPakhtunkhwa which I willannounce in the next 48 hours.Whatever I have decided in thisregard is in the best interest ofpeople,” he said while address-ing PTI members of provincialassembly in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

London: In a landmark judge-ment, the UK Supreme Courton Monday ruled that legal per-mission will no longer berequired to end care forpatients in a long-term per-manent vegetative state.

The ruling makes it easi-er to withdraw food and liquidto allow such patients to diewhen families and doctors arein agreement. Medical staffwill now be able to removefeeding tubes in such caseswithout having to apply to theCourt of Protection, underprevious laws.

Currently, both euthanasiaand assisted suicide are illegalin the UK with the only excep-tion “passive euthanasia” - whentreatment that might extendsomeone’s life is withdrawn.PTI

Nairobi: The presidents ofSomalia and Eritrea on Sundaysigned an agreement to estab-lish diplomatic ties after over adecade of animosity, in the lat-est lightning rapprochementbetween Horn of Africa rivals.

Somali PresidentMohamed AbdullahiMohamed’s three-day visit toAsmara coincides with anextraordinary peace processbetween Eritrea and Ethiopia -- part of dizzying change in aregion burdened by war, proxyconflicts, isolation and iron-fisted rule.

“The two countries willestablish diplomatic relationsand exchange ambassadors,” reada “joint declaration on brother-ly relations” signed in Asmara byEritrean President Isaias Afwerkiand Mohamed. AFP

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Along-awaited official reportinto the disappearance of

Flight MH370 gave no newclues today about why theMalaysian plane vanished,sparking anger and disap-pointment among relatives ofthose on board.

The report from the officialinvestigation team pointed tofailings by air traffic controllersand suggested the MalaysiaAirlines plane was likely divert-ed from its flight path manu-ally, rather than due to amechanical fault.

But it said the Boeing 777jet, which vanished over fouryears ago as it flew from KualaLumpur to Beijing with 239 peo-ple on board, was airworthy andthe pilots were in a fit state to fly.

After years of fruitlesssearching in the world’s mostenduring aviation mystery, thereport offered nothing concreteto grieving relatives of passen-gers -- most of whom wereChinese -- and crew hoping forsome sort of closure.

“The team is unable todetermine the real cause for thedisappearance of MH370,” con-cluded the largely technical

400-page report. Relatives whowere briefed at the transportministry before the report’spublic release expressed angerthat there was nothing new inthe document, with somestorming out of the briefing asfrustration boiled over.

“It is so disappointing,” saidIntan Maizura Othman, whosehusband was a steward onMH370. “I am frustrated. Thereis nothing new in the report.

“Those who gave the brief-ing from the ministry of trans-port were not able to giveanswers as they were not (theones) who wrote the report.”She said the meeting betweenrelatives and officials descend-ed into a “shouting match” asfamily members’ frustrationboiled over.

“Many asked questions,”said G. Subramaniam, wholost a son on the flight, butadded that “unsatisfactoryresponses left many angry”.

The disappearance ofMH370 triggered the largesthunt in aviation history. But nosign of the jet was found in a120,000-square kilometreIndian Ocean search zone andthe Australian-led hunt wassuspended in January last year.

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China’s former internet czar,who oversaw a tightening

of online censorship during histenure, has been charged withtaking bribes, state media saidon Monday.

Throughout his career, LuWei used his political offices tobenefit himself including “ille-gally receiving a huge amount ofproperty”, according to the offi-cial Xinhua news agency, quot-ing a statement by the office ofthe country’s top prosecutor.

It said Lu is alleged to haveused his position to benefithimself and unspecified otherpeople during his time work-ing at Xinhua, for the Beijinggovernment, for the party’scentral propaganda depart-ment and as the head of theCyber Administration of

China, among other offices. China’s top graft watchdog

expelled Lu from the rulingCommunist Party in February,issuing an unusually floridstatement that accused him offailing to carry out his dutiesand having a “tyrannical” man-agement style.

Lu was once named amongthe world’s 100 most influentialpeople by Time magazine andhad rubbed shoulders with thelikes of Facebook founder MarkZuckerberg.

But in June 2016 hestepped down from his posi-tion supervising controls overonline expression as head of theCyberspace Administration ofChina.

And in November 2017officials announced he wasbeing investigated for suspect-ed disciplinary violations.

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Indian-American SeemaNanda, who took over as the

CEO of the oppositionDemocratic NationalCommittee, has vowed to fightfor the “soul of the country”and ensure the victory ofDemocrats in every corner ofthe US in the crucial upcom-ing mid-term elections.

“We are fighting now forthe soul of our country -- forour democracy and for oppor-tunity,” Nanda, the first Indian-American ever to be the ChiefExecutive Officer of either theDemocratic NationalCommittee or the RepublicanNational Committee took overreigns of the main oppositionparty last week on July 23.

Mati(Greece): Fire officials inGreece raised the death toll froma wildfire that raged through acoastal area east of Athens to 91and reported that 25 peoplewere missing today, six daysafter Europe’s deadliest forestfire in more than a century.

Before the national fireservice updated the officialnumber of fatalities, it stood at86 as hundreds of mournersattended a morning memorialservice today for the victims inthe seaside village hardest-hitby the blaze.

The fire sped flamesthrough the village of Matiwithout warning on July 23. Adatabase maintained by theCentre for the Research on theEpidemiology of Disasters inBrussels shows it as the deadliestwildfire in Europe since 1900.AP

Nabi Saleh (PalestinianTerritories): Palestinianteen Ahed Tamimi, whobecame an internationalsymbol of resistance toIsraeli occupation after slappingtwo soldiers, walked out of anIsraeli prison today and toldthrongs of journalists and well-wishers that she now wants tostudy law to defend her people.

In a news conference in thecourtyard of her family home,the curly haired 17-year-old

briefly raised her fist andsaid the “occupation mustleave,” speaking againstthe backdrop of a largemodel of a slingshot

meant to symbolise Palestinianstone-throwing protests.

However, the once feistyteen appeared to be subdued,stopping short of committingto continued acts of protestsand saying her eight-monthprison stint had taught her toappreciate life. AP

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Berlin: After #MeToo comes#MeTwo. The hashtag hasbecome a rallying point forscores of second- and third-gen-eration immigrants in Germany,who have taken to Twitter toshare their accounts of everydayracism and how they still strug-gle to be accepted as Germans.

The hashtag, which echoesthe #MeToo movement againstsexual harassment, was createdby Ali Can, a 24-year-old jour-nalist of Turkish descent, fol-lowing the furor over Turkish-German soccer star MesutOzil’s recent resignation fromthe German national team.

Ozil, the son of Turkishimmigrants, quit earlier this

month after fierce criticism ofhis decision to pose for a pic-ture with Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan.

In reaction, Ozil attacked theGerman soccer federation, itspresident, fans and the media,criticizing what he said wasracism and double standards inthe treatment of people withTurkish roots. “I am Germanwhen we win, but I am an immi-grant when we lose,” he said.

Can used the #MeTwo hash-tag because he wanted to showthat ethnic minorities often feelconnected to two cultures orplaces at the same time: Germanyand the country of their or theirancestors’ origin. AP

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US President Donald Trumphas threatened to shut down

the Government if theDemocratic Party does not coop-erate on border security issues.

“I would be willing to ‘shutdown’ Government if theDemocrats do not give us thevotes for Border Security,which includes the Wall!

“Must get rid of Lottery,Catch and Release etc. andfinally go to system ofImmigration based on MERIT!We need great people cominginto our Country!” Trumptweeted on Sunday.

The threat came on top ofanother fiery tweet posted ear-lier on the same day, which said:“Please understand, there areconsequences when people crossour Border illegally, whetherthey have children or not -- andmany are just using children fortheir own sinister purposes.

“Congress must act on fix-ing the DUMBEST andWORST immigration lawsanywhere in the world! Vote‘R’,” referring to Republicans,Xinhua news agency reported.

The tweets were in responseto attacks on the US govern-

ment’s family separation policy,which saw thousands of minorsseparated from their parentswho entered the US illegally.

The controversy that ensuedthe family separation policycaused many Republican law-makers to distance themselvesfrom Trump’s tough immigra-tion agenda. It also stalled leg-islative progress in Congress forcomprehensive immigrationreform, which had been a majorpromise for his supporters dur-

ing his 2016 campaign.However, Trump’s menacing

tweets were rebuffed even by hisown party members, who said“shutting down the governmentwill not be helpful”.

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Spectacularly decorated with an assort-ment of leaves, the stage looked elegant

as it took on the appearance of an eter-nal heavenly garden where princes andprincesses would walk around. Withoodles of nature, glamour and splendour,designer Rahul Mishra showcased his col-lection at the India Couture Week 2018on the fourth day.

The idea behind the lush greenery onstage was based on Maraasim (relation-ships in Urdu) and explored the connec-tion between nature and man-madearchitecture, traditional and modern,according to Rahul. He said, “My idea isthat when you create a man-made struc-ture, is there a way that you can bring anelement of nature in it?”

While other designers focus on glam-our, art and rhetoric, the style-statementfor Rahul was, “the cross-pollination ofideas that resulted in entirely unique andunified aesthetic expressing a genuinedelight in the creation of beauty,” sincenothing could be created in isolation.The theme also reflected the Mughalaesthetics, which he said was not aninvention of any single artist, nor any

particular group of artists. “It was a blendof art practices from Persia, Europeaninfluences and the rich indigenous Indiantraditions,” said he.

His designs were an amalgamation of

Mughal designs and florals, whichextended to menswear as well and heexplained, “I tried to simplify the graph-ic rather than over-do it. Sometimes it isgreat to follow gender-neutral trends andideas for your designs.”

From zardozi to aari, Kashmiriembroidery, tile-work, inspired from thetomb of Asif Khan and some from the TajMahal, Rahul’s designs defined eleganceand reminisced history.

With this collection, he applauded thecraftsmanship and the artists that workedon it and said, “Many of the pieces weredone at my studio, but around 80 per centof the craftsmen were in their villages.Some of them even live in the slums ofMumbai and by employing them I feel,they can also improve their and their fam-ily’s lot.”

Rahul explains his idea of an idealbride and his designs that follow a 100 per

cent sustainable approach, “She isextremely intelligent, very well-travelled,and doesn’t get impacted by the sea ofinfluences around her. She is very strong-headed and inspires me the most. Shechallenges conventionality and is the onewho creates a new look, a new role forherself. She also recycles everythingwhat she creates so beautifully. Her ideais to re-invent, re-create and re-wear a

lehenga which would otherwiselie in her wardrobe.” ForRahul, fabrics are important fordesigning, “For me, textileshave always been a startingpoint and an inspiration.Ultimately, the designer makesthe two dimensional fabriclook 3D. It is almost like a can-vas for me. But as a designer,the beauty is that you haveso much variety and beau-ty in every fabric that theinnovation comes outin each. The result isso beautifullyunique eachtime.”

The col-lection col-laborated withSwarovski, to repli-

cate tender features of a dewdrop.The designer experimented whiledesigning and revealed, “A lot of newelements like Swarovski crystals were

used. The experiments extended tothe shapes where I tried a lot oflayering. The blouses had two-three layers and the dupattawas draped differently, some-times even like a shrug. Ontop there was an over-layeringof the blouse.

“We did play a lot withstyles and designs. In thisprocess, the idea was tocreate a new version in

terms of how people canperceive fashion and howthey can wear same kindof things differently.

Initially, the first piecesare all about showcas-ing lehengas, whichcan be worn with ajacket or a shrug,which looks differ-ent. Hence, mydesigns are aboutexploring possi-bilities,” headded.

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Dreamers come in allshapes, sizes and ages.

When Rakeysh OmprakashMehra wanted to adapt theDutch movie, Everybody’sFamous, into Hindi becauseof its universal appeal, he toohad a dream. It took a cou-ple of years to convince themakers to sell the rightswhich they finally did. Ittook another half a decade towrite and produce it.

“I fell in love with thestory and chased the writerand director for three yearsand persuaded them thattheir work will be done jus-tice to. Then came the dis-cussion about who will writethe movie that took anotherfive-six years,” Mehra said ofFanney Khan. “The story isabout dreams and aspira-tions and I decided to put amusician in the centre of achanging world. There weremany artists who did not getan opportunity to showcasetheir talent in the 80s and90s. Things improved from2000 onwards as the indus-try expanded. But I won-dered what happened tothose who couldn’t fulfilltheir dreams to earn theirsurvival? Usually our dreamsare transfered to our chil-dren, that is what the storyis about,” said director AtulManjrekar.

Mehra, who was alsopresent on a stormy day inDelhi to promote his latestventure as a producer, saidthat cinema that goes beyondentertainment has alwaysattracted him. “Films are

written by people, they arethen conceived and the cap-tain of the ship directs it.There are music directors,writers, cameraperson andeveryone puts their emotionsinto the film that is finallywatched by people. Cinemais not a need. If I remove cin-ema from your life, there willbe a vacuum. What it does isto fulfill the emotional needto connect,” said he.

The movie, which starsAnil Kapoor, Aishwarya RaiBachchan, Rajkummar Rao,Pihu Sand and Divya Dutta,will also deal with issues likebody shaming.

“Women are subjectedto a gaze. From the momentshe wakes up to the momentshe sleeps and even in herdreams, she’s subjected to itespecially if she doesn't looka certain way. If she’s not fair,if she’s too thin or too dark,everything is an issue. Wealways go to ‘see’ a girl formarriage and not a boy. Theconversation is centredaround testimonials abouther as if she’s standing ontrial. Our cinema, literatureand society too have propa-gated this stereotype. Thebeautiful way in which Atulhas told the story is for youto interpret and experienceyourself. It doesn’t point fin-gers against anyone but is areflection of the society,”added Mehra. “The film at itscore is about the relationshipbetween a father and hisdaughter while body sham-ing adds a layer to it. Howsomeone perceives the mes-

sage is up to them. I justwanted people to be aware.There is an idea of perfectbody for men and women.People care about height,weight, skin colour and peo-ple are competing to lookbetter than each other andthat pressure is consumingall of us,” added Manjrekar.

Both have workedtogether so far but for thisfilm, Mehra handed overthe reins to Manjrekar.Asked whether he was free tomake the film the way hewanted to, he answered inthe affirmative. Mehra addedthat since he has been botha producer and director andunderstands the freedomone craves for in making afilm, it would be a joke to notgive the same to Manjrekar.

“Being a director, I

understand the working of adirector. It was obvious thatI would apply all that whenI become a producer,” Mehrasaid. One of the questionsthat Manjrekar asked whilemaking the film was wheredid the junior artists, whosometimes imitated big starsand did street shows, go?That answer will be articulat-ed by actor Anil Kapoor,who is the protagonist,unsuccessful in life but nur-tures his daughter for the bigstakes. The versatile Kapoorwas attracted by the solidityand depth of the story. “Ibegan my career with tellinggood stories. Starting fromWoh Saat Din, I have chosendifferent scripts. Whenmovies were being made 35years ago, the hero was eitherplaying a guitar, riding the

bike or dancing. But I stillbroke convention. Even nowI don’t think about who is thehero or supporting role or ifthe story is pivoted around agirl or boy,” he added.“Earlier, people made fun ofme but that has stoppedafter years of proving myself.For instance, before shooting1942, a Love Story, I calledthe media to tell them that Iwas going to publicly cut myhair for the role but nobodyturned up. I wanted to dothis with the set in the back-drop 20 years ago. Today,even a minute detail isreported in the media.” Thepoint being gimmickry,which is prized today, justdidn’t matter in the end.

Kapoor has been in theindustry for more than 35years and talked about how

technology has aided in pro-duction. “For Mr India,everything was done on theset. I used to sit on a chair forthree hours just to get a shotof a chair having an impres-sion of someone sitting there.Special effects can be gener-ated on computers now,”said he.

He also believes that thelatest generation of actors isvery hard-working. “Theywork 1,000 times hardernow. During my time, therewere times that actors wouldtake on multiple projectsand not give enough time toone but now actors work onone movie in two years andgo deep into the character,”he added. The veteran alsosaid that every actor has astruggle phase. But he hasbeen lucky that way sinceproducers have chosen himfor the right story. “Duringthe initial phase, I didn’t askwhat the role was. I was get-ting an opportunity and thatwas enough. If I asked ques-tions about the role ormoney there was the dangerof losing the role. (Laughs)Then you reach a stage whenyou can make decisions foryourself. There are timesyou make wrong decisions oryou’re in a position todemand a pay packet. I havebeen through all those phas-es,” Kapoor said.

Rao concurred that hetoo was lucky as he was ableto choose the kind of workafter his first film. “As an out-sider, you don’t have anoption to choose your films

but right after the first one,the filmmakers that I workedwith and the films that I wenton to do were in my hands,”he said. “I learnt a lot fromAnil Kapoor. His disciplineand commitment to his workis amazing. When I am hisage, I hope I am as energetic,”he added.

Sand, who’s making herdebut and will be one of thecentral characters, said thatshe always wanted to be anactor. “We did a lot of read-ings with Atul sir, Anil sirand Divya ma’am (who playsher mother in the movie).Nothing was forced becauseof how beautiful the scriptwas. I play a pure personwho thinks that she knows alot and her inner journeyovershadows her messyclothes or her plus size.”

Dutta, who will be seenas an ordinary housewifestruggling to keep everyonehappy within the limitedincome of her husband, said,“It’s a story which is relatableto every family. Every parentwants their kid’s dreams tocome true even if they mightdiffer in the way they see life.Somewhere there is a com-mon ground. Your own isyour own,” said Dutta.

She also clarified thatwhile feature films do makepeople aware about issues,this film was definitely notpropagandist. Issues are notpicked up in isolation,instead the film talks aboutthem from the point of goodstory-telling.

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When you cover a Rohit Bal show,you go in with certain expecta-tions and an air of classicism. No

two ways about it. But on Sunday, whenhe unravelled his very heartfelt ode to hispassion through a collection calledGuldasta, not only did he top expectationsbut his own work over the last couple ofyears to say the least. Little wonder thenthat he did not do any previews or shareinformation of his almost 90-piece elab-orate portfolio that had the crowd and evenpeers gasping with surprise at the finale ofthe Indian Couture Week. For no twopieces were alike by association. And ifindeed beauty has a purpose that manypageants have now rubbed into us, Bal toohad one. Having inspired love and respectfor his creativity, he sent out a powerfulmessage, a cross denouncing Section 377embroidered in lush red thread on hisblack shirt. Question is can we return thelove and respect?

Of course, some of the silhouettes andyardage were trademark but it is in the wayhe played them together that had us in

thrall, sometimes using accents than thefull play of each, repurposing each to mod-ern sensibilities and the core Indianessence. The very structured Renaissancestyle jacket and high necks on flared skirts,translucent peeks through fluid mono-chromes, the sari with off-shoulder capesand quilted boleros making for an elegantstrut, the collection was as much courtlyas it was about individual grace anywhere.

There was an interplay of textures,quilted with crushed, of embroidery andprints and of colours. We loved his ivorycollection, beginning with the indigostriped cape thrown casually on flared off-white skirts and then progressing withembossed prints, threadwork and broach-es, to gold motifs, all subtly creeping uplapels, folds and trails to lend an under-stated extravagance. And then there was

a blush of colour to lift a look, a flamin-go splashing a dulcet glow on white.Finally there was the boldness of the coloursplash, his usual greens and reds onblack. In one cape on supermodelNayanika Chatterjee, he played with yel-low, gold and red leheriya style stripes. Thetrails were emblazoned with huge florals,sometimes incandescently ornate, at othertimes muted matte, but draping the model

with a swirl of self-confidence that wasorganic rather than dramatic. The luxuryhere is not about wearing it on your sleevebut owning it with your mind.

And finally, a word on the flowers, Bal’svery own tribute to the Kashmir Valley andimages he has grown up with — sunflow-ers, poppies, tulips and peonies, in hiswords. From thread embroidery to goldwire and zardozi, he has tried to createthese flowers in both realistic ways andimaginative sweeps. A lover of history, Balhas been academically faithful to theinspirations of botanical paintings andworks by some of the great masters of theRenaissance period. Yet for his Europeaninspirations, his fabrics are home-grownand organic — cotton silk blends, chan-deris, silk organzas, silks and velvets.

No couturier understands Indianwomen better than Bal when it comes tobody type and sensibilities. And there’ssomething for everybody in this edition’sbespoke lookbook.

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Ram Kinkar Baij’s cement bustof Tagore opens the show andpersonifies a rare and primor-

dial passion. Rough hewn and pon-dering, Baij’s cement bust of Tagoreis not an eulogy; it is an exercise inreverence, it personifies Tagore as theGurudev in all aspects — the thinker,the poet, the radical, the story-tellerand above all the creator of Gitanjali.

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after his recognition as a writerworld wide,” says AdwaitaGadanayak, DG, NGMA. “At theripe old age of 63, Tagore became apainter.” His first exhibition of paint-ings and drawings was held at theGalerie Pigalle in 1930, Paris.Scholars say that Tagore had an earlyinclination toward representationalart but had given up the hope ofbeing a professional painter around1900.

But he had private journalswhere he used to doodle and sketch.In 1924, on a visit to Argentina aseditor and friend Victoria Ocampo’sguest, his doodles assumed moreelaborate and expressive intent.

���������� %�����Tagore, the world traveller, had

a deep interest in cross-culturalcontacts. He deeply studied the artof the countries he travelled to. Theyformed an absorptive awarenessand subliminally guided histhoughts. His inclination to knowand understand other cultures con-tributed to his evolution as an artist.He became a painter and catalyst ofmodern art.

These influences on Tagoreevolved over his lifetime andemerged as expressions of innova-tion and modernity through hispaintings. Tagore’s paintings ofheads, nature and women at NGMAare an outstanding example of histechnique — the use of erasure, theapplication of colour and ink, theworking and reworking of con-tours, the enigmatic energy, rhythmand freedom that attracted anddrew people who saw his works.

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painted, there are large soulful eyesand pensive faces, which move withmelancholy. When Tagore paintedwomen, he drew them as if theybelonged to the world of femininefables, wrapped in their own circum-stances, eyes filled with expressivegloom. When he wrote his short sto-

ries and plays, he linked humanappearance with an inner humanessence.

In his paintings, he represent-ed the human face in the same man-ner. Here we see his representation-al skills and expressive assurance aswe glimpse shadows of faces heencountered or remembered as hecreated them with a dark resonanceand expansiveness of animatedexpression.

In yet another work, two loversunite. For a moment, their delicategaze gets locked. What is unforget-table in these heads and womenseries? With simple strokes, we seethe outline of consistent contoursthat delineate the dark backgroundreminiscent of a stormy night, as weimagine the power of a RabindraSangeet song sung by the veneratedRezwana Banya, the melody mirror-ing silently the cloud that gathers,emanating from an aerial kiss, per-haps between the messengers of love.

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scapes and a few tree studies. Didpainting allow Tagore to break awayfrom the limitations of language?Gadanayak answers, “Tagore felt thatpainting, unlike any other art form,

was closer to nature and could beuniversally understood and shared.Through his travels, Tagore observedfirst-hand the rapid changes in theworld during the early 20th centu-ry and the shaping of modern art inEurope and America.”

This show culled from theNGMA archives is a lesson in thehistory of art in the birth of mod-

ernism. Tagore’s own words reflecthis deeper ruminations, “TheUniverse... talks in the voice of pic-tures and dance. In a picture, theartist creates the language ofundoubted reality and we are satis-fied with what we see. It may not bethe representation of a beautifulwoman but that of a commonplacedonkey or of something that has no

external credential of truth in naturebut only in its own inner artistic sig-nificance.”

� ��� ���� ������Tagore’s landscapes are a telling

testimony of his love for nature.Wecan recall his poems Crescent Moon,The Palm Tree, as well as the peren-nial power of Gitanjali. In a letterfrom 1928 to Rani Mahalanobis,Tagore wrote, “The most importantitem in the bulletin of my daily newsis my painting. I am hopelesslyentangled in the spell that the lineshave cast all around me. I havealmost managed to forget that thereused to be a time when I wrote poet-ry.”

“The subject matter of a poemcan be traced back to some dimthought in the mind. While paint-ing, the process adopted by me isquite the reverse. First, there is thehint of a line, then the line becomesa form. This creation of form is anendless wonder. If I were a finishedartist, I’d probably have followed apreconceived idea in making a pic-ture. But it is far more exciting whenthe mind is seized by something out-side of it, some compulsive surpriseelement gradually assuming anunderstandable form.”

It was at the quiet riversidetown of Mandla in Madhya

Pradesh that one of India’s bestknown modern artists, S.H. Raza,fell in love with nature and beganto find pleasure in it. Nine decadeson and the picturesque sight —lush with green foliage and riverNarmadas nurture — emanates acalm, meditative energy that heheld close throughout his life.

Mandla lies at the end of along, serpentining road fromJabalpur, is dotted with villagesand small towns, sprawling greenfarmlands and low hills. It maynot top the lists of possible tourdestinations but on a closer look,one finds a rawness about theplace that the renowned artistdrew inspiration from. The imme-diate surrounding, still lulled inyesteryear’s charm, and blessedwith nature’s bounty came acrossas something soft and subtle forthe traveller, calming one’ mind —just as one can imagine themcalming Raza’s.

And it was not a coincidencethat Raza was born here. Morelike a plan of destiny, Raza’s oldand well known family from

Delhi, had lived in what wouldlater become India’s capital, till thefirst war of independence in 1857.But they knew that they mustleave Delhi as they had opposedthe British rule. Some of his fam-ily members left for Bundelkhand,Raza recalled in Itinerary (origi-nally written in French in 2003),and began a new life there whilehis grandfather’s love for forestspulled him to Mandla. His fatheralso loved forests and would laterbecome the Deputy Forest Rangerin the region.

But art found Raza, or ratherRaza found art, in Mandla. Adusty enrollment register in a vil-lage, where Raza and his twobrothers were schooled for a briefwhile, still holds their names inbeautifully written Hindi letters.

It was here that his most icon-ic and widely recognised motif ofthe bindu was born. When askedto concentrate on a small dotmade on the school wall by histeacher Nandlal Jharia, Raza firstdeemed it only to be a exercise inself-discipline. However, later hebegan to meditate on the bindu,and as he writes: “One night, inGorbio, in the south of France, Ihad the enlightenment aboutbindu which was a starting pointfor me.”

Before going to NagpurSchool of Art, and later Mumbai’sJ.J. School of Art, the iconic

painter’s tryst with all thingsartistic had already found utter-ance. He had begun to paintwhat he saw around him — therivers, the gardens and villages.

The painter would later shiftto France in 1950s and return in2010 but all through this journey,he made it a point to regularly visitIndia, and often Mandla, whichseemed to replenish his love andgratitude for the place.

“I opened my eyes in the vil-lage of Kakaiya, in MadhyaPradesh. My most vivid memoriesare those of the forest of Mandla.It is there that I began to see,” hehad written. “The ghats weresuperb. There was a Gondfortress, some splendid templeswith statues. Our residence wason the edge of the city, from wherethe forest began, without anyconstruction between the two,and one could see the Narmada.It was very beautiful.”

What meanders through clus-ters of these forests is the linch-pin of life in the small town pop-ulated by just several thousandpeople — Narmada. The deepconnection Raza shared withNarmada stayed with himthrough most of his life.

He writes of Narmada asnearly encircling the city ofMandla like a pushpanjali or anoffering of flowers. He also calledthe river floods supernatural andincredible, and later wrote abouthis fascination with it as some-thing that “could become a source

of anguish, could even kill”.Even after nine decades of his

childhood encounters with thenature, the forest villages sur-rounding Mandla are bereft ofindicators of modernity and com-mercialisation, and emanate still-ness and pristinity. The unpollut-ed air, a pristine environment, anda sustenance-based rural lifestyleseem to be nature's way of paint-ing its own virgin and unadulter-ated beauty. The RazaFoundation, set up by the latepainter himself, recently organised“Raza Smriti” a five-day event.The programme sought to bringart out of silos and engage localsin the creation of art as a way ofremembering him on his seconddeath anniversary. Participatoryworkshops and musical pro-grammes held at the Narmada’sshore turned out to be interestingoutlets for creativity and artsappreciation among locals.

Raza was awarded the PadmaShri in 1981, the Padma Bhushanin 2007, and the PadmaVibhushan in 2013. He was con-ferred with the highest Frenchcivilian honour, the Commandeurde la Legion d’honneur (Legion ofHonour) on July 14, 2015. Hepassed away in July 2016 at the ageof 94 and upon his will, now liesburied in a small graveyard inMandla, next to his father.

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In the wake of UNESCO’s recent additionof Mumbai’s Art Deco buildings to theWorld Heritage List, the Art Deco style,

which was brought to India in the early 20thcentury through influential royal families andtrade merchants, has garnered interest again.It influenced not just architecture of Mumbai,but its interiors as well.

Saffronart will host an auction betweenAugust 8 and 9, featuring 59 lots of furniturefrom across India. On showwill be cabinets, chairs,tables and desks that herald-ed the arrival of modernistarchitecture in post-Independent India. Theiriconic style, rooted inattention to functionalityand comfort, provides acontrast to the intricatelycarved furniture fromAhmedabad that is alsoincluded in The Design Sale.

The lots on offer are

priced between �15,000 - 6.3 lakh. The ArtDeco Sideboard (lot 53), made of teak and esti-mated at �2.5 - 3 lakh, and an Art DecoSecretarial Desk (lot 44), estimated at �1.1 -1.3 lakh. The 20Art Deco lots offer an excel-lent opportunity to include a part of Mumbai’sunique design heritage into a modern home.

The highest value lot in this sale is an intri-cately Carved Davenport Desk (lot 1), attrib-

uted to the Ahmedabad Wood CarvingCompany. Estimated at �5.3 - 6.3 lakh, itrepresents Gujarat’s rich tradition ofwoodworking, seen in the local architec-ture and furniture. This decorative tradi-tion became popular in the internationalmarket through the pioneering efforts ofAmerican furniture designer Lockwood deForest, who set up the Ahmedabad WoodCarving Company in the late 19th centu-ry, combining local craftsmanship with hisunique design aesthetic.

Ahmedabad also hosted the interna-

tionally renowned American architect GeorgeNakashima, who was invited to design furni-ture for the National Institute of Design in1964. He incorporated a touch of Japanese sim-plicity into the complexity of woodcraft in hisdesigns.

The set of two Grass-Seated Chairs (lot37), designed in Ahmedabad and estimated at�1.8 - 2.2 lakh, embody Nakashima's spiritu-al aesthetic and the unique beauty of the IndianRosewood he admired. Also on offer is aGrass-Seated Stool, George Nakashima (lot38), estimated at�1.25 - 1.75 lakh.

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Bolstered by the campaign-savingdraw against a mighty USA, the

Indian women's hockey team willfancy its chances against lower-ranked Italy in the cross-over WorldCup match, in London on Tuesday.

Ranked 10th, India will start asoverwhelming favourites against 17thranked Italy in the crucial knock-outmatch, where a win will pit themagainst Ireland in the quarterfinals onThursday.

While India had to fight their wayinto the knock-out round from PoolB after registering two draws againstEngland and USA and a loss toIreland, Italy easily scrapped pastChina (3-0) and Korea (1-0) beforeslumping to a heavy 1-12 loss toNetherlands in their last match to fin-ish second in Pool A.

But going into Tuesday’s game themomentum surely would be onIndia's side and it would also be dif-ficult for Italy to bounce back fromthe morale-shattering loss againstthe Dutch.

Under pressure, the Indians, onthe other hand, produced a spiritedperformance against USA to come outof a difficult situation and salvagetheir World Cup campaign.

Having conceded a goal in the11th minute against USA, India'sbacks were against the wall and it tooka valiant all-round effort and aninspiring goal from skipper RaniRampal in the 31st minute to securethe all-important draw, a result whichshut the doors on the Americans.

The match would come as anadded motivation for the Indians asa win tomorrow would provide theman opportunity to avenge their 0-1loss to Ireland in the pool stages.

Experienced India captain Raniknows what it takes to win such cru-cial matches and said they need to gofull throttle.

"We need to just focus on our-selves, build on our strength andensure we use our positive points inthe match against Italy. There is nodoubt we need to go all-out in thiscrucial crossover match if we want tosee ourselves in the quarter-final," saidRani whose goal against USA enablesIndia to finish third in Pool B.

Rani emphasised on the need tohave a winning mentality to do wellin big tournaments.

"We all knew a draw would beenough, but we wanted to go for thewin. I think the hunger to win atti-tude helped us. We enter a match withthe attitude that if we play a goodmatch then the crowds will supportus and that we must fight for the ball.I am proud of how the team playedagainst USA and now we need to onceagain do everything we can to winagainst Italy," she said.

The Indians would also drawinspiration from their shoot-out vic-tory against the Italians at the 2015Hockey World League Semi-final.

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Indian shuttlers enjoyed a comfort-able outing on the opening day of

the Badminton World Championshipon Monday with HS Prannoy andSameer Verma sailing into the secondround of the men's singles while thedoubles shuttlers also marched to thenext round with ease.

Prannoy, seeded 11th in the tour-nament, hardly broke into a sweat incruising past unseeded New ZealanderAbhinav Manota in straight games 21-12, 21-11 in a match that lasted 28minutes. He will next take on BrazilianYgor Coelho in the second round.

Sameer also advanced comfortablyto the next round after thrashingFrance's Lucas Corvee 21-13, 21-10 ina 39-minute affair.

There was good news from thedoubles shuttlers too as the men's duoof Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddyand the mixed doubles pairs ofSatwiksairaj Rankireddy and AshwiniPonnappa, and Pranaav Jerry Chopraand N Sikki Reddy also advanced tothe second round.

While Manu and Sumeeth defeat-ed Bulgarian pair Daniel Nikolov andIvan Rusev 21-13, 21-18 in the 26-minute affair, the mixed doublescombo of Pranaav and Sikki com-fortably went past the Czech Republicduo of Jakub Bitman and AlzbetaBasova 21-17, 21-15 in a 30-minute tie.

Later in the day, Satwik andAshwini floored Denmark's NiclasNohr and Sara Thygesen 21-9, 22-20in a tie that lasted 36 minutes.

In another mixed doubles tie,Saurabh Sharma and Anoushka Parikhbeat Nigerians Enejoh Abah and PeaceOrji 21-13, 21-12 comprehensively in26 minutes while Rohan Kapoor andKuhoo Garg defeated Canada's TobyNG and Rachel Honderich 21-19, 21-6 in 28 minutes.

However, it was curtains for thewomen's doubles pair of SanyogitaGhorpade and Prajakta Sawant, wholost their opening round clash 20-22,14-21 to Turkey's Bengisu Ercetin andNazlican Inci in 34 minutes.

Among others, top seed anddefending champion Viktor Axelsen ofDenmark enjoyed a comfortable 21-8,21-7 win over Portugal's Duarte Anjo,while third seed and reigning All

England Champion Shi Yuqi of Chinabeat Adam Mendrek of the CzechRepublic 21-13, 21-11 to proceed tothe second round.

F��������������������World champion Viktor Axelsen

has begun his title defence with a dom-inating 21-8, 21-7 win over DuarteAnjo on the first day of the badmintonworld championships.

Axelsen controlled the matchthroughout Monday, taking an earlylead in both games before winning 12of the last 13 points to advance.

Despite being hampered by injuriesearly in the season, Axelsen won theEuropean Championship in April andappears to be in the kind of form thatlast year helped him become the firstEuropean in 20 years to win theworld title.

Third-seeded Shi Yuqi beat AdamMendrek of Czech Republic 21-13, 21-11 in his opening match. Shi, who wonthe All England earlier this year, hasthe highest seeding of any of theChinese men.

Five-time champion Lin Dan,seeded 9th, opened with a 21-14, 21-14 win over Mark Caljouw of theNetherlands. Caljouw leveled at 9-9 inthe second game before Lin pulledaway behind a series of precisionsmashes.

All of the seeded players inwomen's singles, men's doubles,women's doubles and mixed doublesreceived first-round byes.

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Shubhankar Sharma has two simple goals toachieve at this week's World Golf

Championships-Bridgestone Invitational andone of them is to gather enough courage andintroduce himself to Tiger Woods.

The second goal is of course to keep hisPGA TOUR dream alive with a strong show-ing at the iconic Firestone Country Club here.

The 22-year-old Indian will make his debuton Thursday in the $10 million showpiece head-lined by title holderHideki Matsuyama,World No 1 DustinJohnson, newly-crowned OpenChampionship win-ner FrancescoMolinari, 29 golfersfrom the top-30 ofthe FedExCup stand-ings and 14-timemajor winner Woods,who will be playing inhis first WGC eventin four years.

"I'm really look-ing forward to theevent as I've watchedit on TV over theyears," said Sharma.

"It's a tough setup but it is a greattournament whichhas celebrated greatchampions. Tiger haswon it so many times,and then guys likeAdam (Scott), Hidekiand other great play-ers have won it too, sojust to be a part ofthat is fantastic,"added the currentleader of the AsianTour Habitat forHumanity standings.

Speaking of Woods, Sharma caused a fewgiggles when he tweeted the following messageafter the Open Championship: "Last word onone and the only @TigerWoods. I am yet todirectly meet him. My nerves always get betterof me, each time. Maybe, he will have to helpme there:) A practise round will be ideal@WGC_Bridgestone, especially, looking athow it went for @F_Molinari :) @TheOpen."

Sharma hopes to have a normal conversa-tion with Woods and not get nervous.

"I think I'll go say hi to him (Woods), butI'm a bit nervous," said Sharma, who enjoyeda practice round with Molinari, Italy's first majorchampion, at the Open in Carnoustie.

"He's always with someone and I don't wantto disturb him but I'll definitely make it a pointto say 'hi'. He's been a hero of mine growing upand it'll be great to just meet him," the 22-year-old added.

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Championship leader Lewis Hamiltonhas no intention of lazing on a beach

as Formula One takes its annualEuropean summer break following hisresounding triumph in Sunday'sHungarian Grand Prix.

Instead, he plans to fine-tune hisphysical and mental fitness in readinessto turn up the heat in his closely-foughttitle duel with Sebastian Vettel nextmonth.

The defending champion, whoopened up a 24-point lead over his fel-low four-time title-holder by winningSunday's Hungarian Grand Prix for arecord sixth time, said he wants to comeback stronger and ready to apply morepressure.

"The second half of the season isalways intense, but it is usually when itgets a bit better on our side," he said,referring to his Mercedes team, in theaftermath of their polished triumph atthe Hungaroring.

"So we will go away and prepare andmake sure we come back stronger."Hamilton's victory was a near-perfectsend-off for him and Mercedes as the F1circus set off for a four-week closedownthat will end when the teams return toaction in Belgium at the end of August.

After his epic success in the rain inGermany, where he won from 14th onthe grid, his Hungarian victory wasanother blow to Vettel, and Ferrari, aftertwo race weekends they may prefer toforget.

Despite superior speed in practice,in dry conditions, they were unable toclaim the result they craved in a darkweek that followed the death of theteam's former chairman SergioMarchionne.

But Hamilton refused to be drawninto title talk and warned that, with nineraces remaining, more epic contests lay

ahead."Absolutely not," he said, dismissing

the idea that he was closing in on a fifthtitle.

"It is far too early. You have seen theups and downs we have had - we've beenahead, then behind, then ahead. I don'tbelieve there is ever a moment you havegot your hands on the trophy..."Hamilton was also full of praise forMercedes' teamwork on and off the cir-cuit.

"You see the teamwork me andValtteri had, it worked pretty well," hesaid, pointing to the start and openinglap when they fended off a concertedFerrari attack.

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ond, so we talked before the race," heexplained.

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"For instance, if I block him or cor-ner him in, it gives the opportunity tothe guys behind to pass him, so I triednot to make it too difficult for him inthat respect." Hamilton alsopraised Bottas for his selfless drivingduring the race, when he had to coverthe threat of Kimi Raikkonen in thesecond Ferrari, whose early pit-stop,forced Mercedes to follow suit.

"He had to cover Kimi and thatwas unfortunate because that's a long,long way to go on the soft tyres..." Forthe luckless Bottas, it meant his finallaps were reduced to a slitheringdefence of his position, two collisions,a late pit-stop and fifth place afterwhich he not only received a 10-sec-onds penalty, for colliding with DanielRicciardo's Red Bull, but was piquedby Mercedes team chief Toto Wolffpraising his work as a "wingman".

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Be angry and challenge Virat Kohli,urged former captain MichaelVaughan to an English side hosting

an ambitious India, for long seeking to shedthe poor travellers' tag, in a highly-antic-ipated Test series.

Besides, the 43-year-old who openedfor his country for almost a decade, wantsthe seasoned Alastair Cook to show con-sistency and skipper Joe Root to converthis starts into monumental knocks. Cookhas played alongside the player-turned-expert in the beginning of his career.

He prefers a five-man bowling attackand last but not the least, Vaughan goad-ed the pace duo of Stuart Broad and JamesAnderson to "step up and challenge ViratKohli's front foot".

"Joe Root needs to hammer home tohis men that they have a point to prove andtry to replicate that angry England teamthat arrived at Headingley and hammeredPakistan in their last Test. Go back and sayto the players: 'What were you thinking thatfirst day at Headingley?" Vaughan wrote inthe 'Daily Telegraph'.

"Sometimes it is not done in teamchats. Sometimes you are better off speak-ing to individuals. Go to each individualand ask: 'Why did you arrive in Leeds withmore intensity'?"

England crushed Pakistan by aninnings and 55 runs in the Headingley Testin June.

"This England team has to find thatattitude without first having to be stirredinto a response through criticism after ahammering. Maybe the Adil Rashid furorewill help," said Vaughan, who was one ofthe key characters involved in the Rashid"furore".

"England will not win every game, theyare not good enough, but their mindset andmentality can be the same every week."

Regarding the prolific Root, he said,"He averages over 50 from 16 Tests as cap-tain. I would have snatched your hand offfor that average. The only problem for Joeis that he has not scored the hundreds heshould have done.

"He has found his form in the one-daygame and got out of his system the frus-tration and anger, and trying to bat likesomeone else rather than trusting his own

game. All he needs is to be himself."He thought the way to go is to wear the

Indian bowlers down."This is the perfect series. The pitch-

es will be good, he is a great player of spinand you can wear India's seamers downbecause I don't think they will be that dis-ciplined. Outfields will be rapid. Everythingis set up for Joe to have a great series." Asfor Cook, Vaughan expects consistencyfrom the most experienced player in thecurrent set-up.

"Alastair Cook needs to find consis-tency. One massive score in a series alongwith loads of low scores is no good. Heneeds consistency over the next fivegames. And he has to drag Keaton Jenningswith him."

"Yes, Cook has to look after his ownperformance, but it would be nice to takeJennings with him so whenever he leaves

the Test team he has made sure Englandhave a decent, half-experienced openingbatsman to take on his mantle."

The ex-captain also expressed hisviews about the much-anticipated clashbetween Kohli and the pair of Andersonand Broad.

"I was critical of them beforeHeadingley. They were outstanding inthat game and they will have to be out-standing again.

"You expect Broad and Anderson tostep up and challenge Kohli's front foot.Bowl outside off-stump and then throw theodd one in straight to get him playing acrossthe line and scissor his feet," he added.

Speaking about the Indian run-machine's batting, he observed, "You needhis front left-foot going over to the off side,he then starts doubting where his off-stumpis and playing squarer on the off side which

is when the outside edge comes into play."England did it in the one-day series at

times. He was vulnerable a yard outside off-stump and the likes of Anderson and Broadhave to hang it out there and say 'Come tous'. If there is any movement in the air theywill be a real threat."

8��� �� ���� ������ ��% ����6Former England skipper Alastair Cook

feels India's pace battery has variety anddepth, something that they have lacked asa touring side all these years.

"India seem to have got a good varietyof bowlers, especially pace bowlers, whichis probably unusual. They have strength indepth in their pace bowling," said cookahead of the first Test beginning here onWednesday.

"Over the last couple of years - certainlyin the last 10 years I've played them - they

haven't had the option of playing five or sixdifferent types of seamers. That's differentto what I have experienced in the past butwe'll see over the next six weeks."

The form of the India's top order seemsto be a cause of concern for the visitors butCook backed struggling Shikhar Dhawanand Cheteshwar Pujara to come good in theseries.

"With very good players, form is cer-tainly temporary. The reason they're verygood players is the number of runs they'vescored in the past over a sustained periodof time," he said.

"That's why they're the number one sidein the world. You can go a couple of inningsnot scoring any runs, and suddenly you geta couple away and start to get that rhythmand timing back, and you get a big one.That is the nature of the beast, certainly withtop-order batting," Cook said.

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England pacer Stuart Broad has revealedthat he and James Anderson are likely

to be rotated through the five-Test seriesagainst India starting August 1 as part of theteam management's strategy to balance theduo's workload. At the back-end of theircareers, the 36-year-old Anderson took asix-week break to get rid of his shoulderinjury while the 32-year-old Broad hadlimped off during a county match earlierthis season.

"It will depend on tosses, pitches,workloads. If (there are) two Tests of 250overs in the field each, it's unrealistic tothink your seam bowlers will play five Testsin six weeks. But if you have a Test, whereyou bowl them out in 80 or 60 overs, thatchanges your thinking," Broad told reportersduring an interaction.

"If the pitches turn square and the spin-ners do a lot of the work, you might notbowl so much but come on when the ballstarts to reverse swing, so sometimes yourworkloads can be higher if it is green andnibbling," Broad added.

The senior speedster also revealedthat the team management has already con-veyed that rotation of seamers is on thecards.

"I think there has already been smallconversations saying don't be disheartenedif you are left out for a Test match. It's nota personal attack or dropping, it's man-agement of your bowlers to make sure wegive ourselves the best chance," Broadexplained about the rationale behind rota-tion with five Tests squeezed in six weeks.

The bowler said that he doesn't want asituation where he is dropped for poor form.

"I won't get to the stage where I am leftout at say, Lord's, and go back and playcounty cricket. It's you're missing out, freshbowlers come in, you stay around [thesquad], keeping talking, stay part of the unitso it's only natural to expect small changesthroughout five Test matches but thebowlers have to be able to take it," Broadsaid.

Broad, who is returning to action afteran ankle injury said he is completely fit and"in an exciting place".

"I am going in 100 per cent fit and youcan't say that too often," the 32-year-old said.

While all eyes will be on the battlebetween Kohli and Anderson Broad playeddown the rivalry.

"I really don't agree with the theory thatone particular bowler can target a world-class batsman. You have to have that pres-sure and theatre at both ends against thatsort of quality - that's when you get mis-takes.

"If he's able to really watch Jimmy(Anderson) and play carefully but score offme, you're taking away any advantage as ateam. As a bowling unit, we will just haveto make it as hard for all of their batsmento score early runs, but particularly a keyplayer like Virat. We have to try and createpressure that way," he said.

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India's attack will have toshow patience to take 20

wickets and in the fickleEnglish weather, it could bea virtue for the batsmen aswell, vice-captain AjinkyaRahane said on Monday.

The five-Test series startswith the first match inBirmingham on Wednesday.

"There is always help forbowlers in England, but thatdoesn't mean it is easier forthe bowlers. They need to bepatient and bowl in the goodareas. They have to backtheir own skills instead of try-ing to take wickets from bothends" Rahane said.

During a media interac-tion two days prior to theseries opener, the batsmanadded, "If one bowler canplay the support role wellthen it will lead to wickets. Tobowl patiently and on spot iscrucial to success.

"It is a great opportunityfor the bowlers to prove thatwe can take 20 wickets in aTest match consistently, likewe had done in South Africa.Nobody expected us to take20 wickets in all three Testmatches.

"At the same time theyshould not put extra pressureon themselves and theyshould just look to enjoy themoment. They need to backthemselves and believe thatour bowling unit is the bestin the world."

As far as his team's bowl-ing attack was concerned,Rahane was brimming withoptimism, despite theabsence of strike bowlerBhuvneshwar Kumar.

"Our pace bowlers arevery experienced.Mohammed Shami andUmesh were here in 2014 as

well. They've been doing sowell for us, not only in Indiabut outside as well. In SouthAfrica, we got all 60 wickets(during the Tests) and ourfast bowlers bowled reallywell.

"It is a challenge to bowlin England but I am reallyconfident about them - notonly Umesh and Shami butalso Ishant, who came hereand played some countygames.

India had an intensepractice session at Edgbastonafter their extra practice ses-sion on Sunday was washedout owing to heavy rains.Rahane said that they havehad ample practice and therest will come down to mind-set.

"In England, patience isthe key. It depends on theweather - if it's sunny it's goodto bat, but if it gets cloudythen definitely it's good forthe bowlers. As a battingunit, I feel that challenging

yourself and backing yourown game rather than copy-ing someone else is impor-tant.

"If you're set, try to playa big inning. If the weatherchanges, it's important for thebatsman to hold back, respectthe bowler and respect theconditions. If you're set here,you should really make itcount," he said.

With his team aiming towin their first series inEngland since 2007, Rahanestressed on the need to havebetter communication.

"You have to communi-cate well. In this weather, inthese conditions, communi-cation will be very crucial. Ifsomeone is really set, battingon 70 or 80, they will have tohold back if the weatherchanges.

"They will have to respectthe conditions and bowlers.From both teams, bowlers aregoing to bowl well. As a bats-man you should respect that.

Acceptance will be the key."The Indian vice-captain

had enjoyed the tour ofEngland in 2014, when hehad scored a match-winninghundred on a green top atLord's and finished with 299runs in five Tests with twoother half-centuries.

"We were here in 2014and we know what it takes toplay good cricket here. For us,we want to play good cricketrather than think about theresult. If you think about theresult you put pressure onyourself.

"This time we just want toexpress ourselves. Guys are ingood shape. Personally I enjoythose challenges of playingabroad. You know here inEngland the ball does a bit, inAustralia there's bounce, andagain in New Zealand the balldoes a bit.

"My mind is in the pre-sent, one match at a time. I'mreally looking forward to thisseries," he said.

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The series-opener against India willbe a milestone Test for England as

they will be taking the field for their1000th five-day match, startingWednesday at Edgbaston.

The International Cricket Councilcongratulated England ahead of thehistoric game.

Out of the 999 men's Tests thatEngland have played till date sincetheir debut Test against Australia inMarch, 1877, they have won 357 Testsand lost 297 Tests with 345 ending indraws.

At the Edgbaston alone, Englandhave played 50 Tests since their firstTest in May 1902 against Australia,winning 27, losing eight with 15 end-ing in draws.

"On behalf of the cricket family, Iwant to congratulate England on their1000th men's Test match, the firstcountry to reach this milestone," ICCchairman Shashank Manohar said ina statement.

"I wish England all the best in thishistoric match and may it continue toproduce players and performancesthat inspire the following of Testcricket, the oldest and most demand-ing format of the game."

England have dominated Indiasince their first Test in June 1932, win-ning 43 and losing 25 out of a total of117 Tests.

On home turf, England have won30 Tests and India have emerged win-ners on six occasions with 21 Testsending in draws.

Edgbaston has hosted six Testsbetween the two sides, with Englandleading 5-0 on a head-to-head.

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India captain Virat Kohli will look tosnatch the coveted number-one posi-

tion from Australia's Steve Smith in theICC Test Player Rankings during thefive-Test series which is beginning withthe first Test in Birmingham onWednesday.

Kohli trails Smith, who is currentlyserving 12 months ban due to his rolein ball tampering, by 26 points and willhave to produce a string of strong per-formances to leapfrog the Australian.

Amongst the batsmen, both England

and India have five each inside the top-50.

India's Cheteshwar Pujara is sixth,followed by Lokesh Rahul 18th, AjinkyaRahane 19th, Murali Vijay 23rd andShikhar Dhawan 24th, while England'sJoe Root is ranked third (48 pointsbehind Kohli), Alistair Cook 13th, JonnyBairstow 16th, Ben Stokes 28th andMoeen Ali 43rd.

Among the bowlers, England fastbowler James Anderson will aim todefend his number-one ranking.

Apart from Anderson, Stuart Broadis the other England bowler who features

inside the top-30 in 12th position.In contrast, India boasts six bowlers

inside the top-30, including two spinnersin Ravindra Jadeja (third) andRavichandran Ashwin (fifth), and fourfast bowlers, namely Mohammed Shami(17th), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (25th),Ishant Sharma (26th) and Umesh Yadav(28th).

India's left-arm spinner KuldepYadav, who caused problems for theEngland batsmen in the ODI series, isranked outside the top-50 in 56th posi-tion.

In ICC Test Team Rankings, England

are placed in the fifth place and will lookto improve their current ranking.

If England makes a 5-0 sweep, thenthey will jump to second on the table witha 10-point rise to 107 points, reducing thepre-series gap with top-ranked Indiafrom 28 points to just five points.

In contrast, if India can display theirstrength and prowess which has madethem the highest-ranked side in theworld, then they will further strengththeir grip on the top spot.

If India wins 5-0, then they will riseto 129 points and England will drop tosixth place on 94 points.

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