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W omen in Odisha are wait- ing for a big-ticket announcement from Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on May 29. Patnaik, who especially thanked women community after getting a landslide victo- ry in the State Assembly elec- tions, is likely to make the women folks happy with big bonanza, feel many in the BJD. During Patnaik’s entire election campaign, women flocked to see and support the BJD supremo in a big way and he strongly feels that they voted for his party in a determined manner. Therefore, Patnaik consid- ers it his duty and responsibil- ity to express his thanks to the women community by doing something significant to please and honour them. With an endearing elder sister, Gita Mehta, present in the Naveen Niwas, Patnaik is inclined to announce a big bonanza for the women in the State, insiders say. During the election cam- paign, Patnaik in the BJD elec- tion manifesto had announced that Government work worth Rs 5,000-crore would be pro- vided to the Self Help Groups (SHGs) every year under Mission Shakti. "As women are the real double engines of growth, BJD's manifesto for them promises Rs 5,000 crore of work to further strengthen Mission Shakti, which will give them a profit of Rs 500 crore," the Chief Minister had said. Patnaik had also promised to provide accidental insurance facility for every member of the SHGs and zero-interest loan up to Rs 5 lakh to all SHGs. The State Government had initiated Mission Shakti pro- gramme in 2001 to strengthen women’s social and financial status.Till date, more than 70 lakh women in the State are playing active role through 6.25 lakh Women Self Help Groups (WSHGs). That apart, such WSHGs have also formed 370 block- and district-level federations with their strength increasing day by day. And most importantly, with senior-most WSHG leader Pramila Bisoyi being elected with huge margin from Aska Lok Sabha seat, it has energised them in a big way. Patnaik had promised to hike medical assistance for women under Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) from Rs 7 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. He had also promised to provide free education for girls from KG to college level, including medical and engi- neering courses, if BJD came out with flying colours at the hustling. Besides, Patnaik had made another important promise in his party’s election manifesto: To provide marriage assistance of Rs 25,000 to poor families. So a pleased Chief Minister may, in all probability, make an announcement of a compre- hensive package for women on May 29, the day he re-assumes power as Chief Minister for the fifth time in a row, sources said. R attled by increasing fatali- ties due to road mishaps on the NH-16 between the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack in the last few days, the traffic police on Tuesday iden- tified five black spots on the highway. Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Traffic DCP Bijay Kumar Sahu said the Batabhuasuni temple near Janla, Aiginia, the road near Hotel Crown, the Acharya Vihar over-bridge and Pahal have been marked as black spots. “We have decided to instal barricades and put up signages on the said areas for the first time on an experi- mental basis. Due to previous records of those areas, we have identified the spots; but since there are also several other accident-prone regions, we will subsequently mark them as black spots as well,” said Sahu. As part of the plan to reduce speed of vehicles, the traffic police would put up bar- ricades from morning hours to 9 pm. Since plying of local vehicles reduces on the NH in night, the road would be cleared off the barricades after 9 pm to allow unhindered movement of heavy vehicles. Notably, after five persons were killed in road mishaps in Bhubaneswar within a span of three days, Twin City Police Commissioner Satyajit Mohanty had on Monday directed the traffic cops to regulate the speed of vehicles by using interceptors wherever necessary. T here seems to be no respite from the intense heat wave conditions in the State as 12 stations record maximum day temperature above 40 degree Celsius on Tuesday. The Regional Office of the Indian Metrological Department (IMD) here said Sambalpur was the hottest place with 44.7 degree fol- lowed by Balangir with 44.5, Angul 41.7, Jharsuguda 43.6, Keonjhar 40, Sundargarh 42, Hirakud 43.7, Talcher 41.2, Bhawanipatna 42.6, Titilagarh 44, Malkangiri 42 and Sonepur 44.6. The IMD predicted that heat wave conditions would continue to prevail in the dis- tricts of Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Deogarh, Angul, Subarnapur, Bargarh, Balangir and Nuapada for the next cou- ple of days. C hief Minister-designate Naveen Patnaik visited the Jaganath Temple here on Tuesday afternoon and offered prayers to the Trinity before his Ministry’s swearing-in in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. He entered the shrine accompanied by outgoing Puri MLA Maheswar Mohanty, Pipili MLA Pradeep Maharathy, Nimapara MLA Samir Ranjan Dash and some other legislators. On behalf of the temple administration, Chief Administrator Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra and Puri Collector Balwant Singh received him. IG Soumendra Priyadasrshi and Puri SP Umasankar Dash were also present. It was Patnaik’s first visit to Puri after the elections. E ven as lobbying for Ministerial berths intensi- fied in the State with Chief Minister-elect Naveen Patnaik giving finishing touches to his Ministry ahead of the Ministry’s swearing-in cere- mony at the Idco Exhibition Ground here on Wednesday, the following 21 MLAs were reported to have received phone calls from the Naveen Niwas on Tuesday for inclusion in the team. According to sources those who received the calls are Sushant Singh (Bhatli), Ashok Panda (Ekamra-Bhubaneswar), Tukuni Sahu (Titilagarh), Niranjan Pujari (Sonepur), Ranendra Prasad Swain (Athagarh), Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi (Simulia), Padmanabh Behera (Biramaharajpur), Bikram Keshari Arukh (Bhanjanagar), Pratap Jena (Mahanga), Dibya Shankar Mishra (Junagarh), Samir Ranjan Dash (Nimapara), Naba Kishore Das (Jharsuguda), Pratap Deb (Ali), Manohar Randhari (Nabarangpur), Snehangini Chhuria (Attabira), Jagannath Saraka (Bissamcuttack), Prafulla Kumar Mallik (Kamakhyanagar), Raghunandan Das (Balikuda- Erasama), Padmini Dian (Kotapad), Sudam Marndi (Bangirposhi) and Tusharkanti Behera (Kakatpur). As many as 15 new faces, including two women, are going to take oath as Ministers. The new Ministry would have three women members. Sources also revealed that Surjya Narayan Patro (Digapahandi) has been chosen for the Assembly Speaker post and Pramila Mallick (Bijharour) as the Government Chief Whip. The list revealed that only six members of the last Ministry were called to take oath as Ministers. Prafulla Samal, Dr Nrusingha Charan Sahoo, Shashi Bhushan Behera, Ananta Das, Badri Narayan Patra and Usha Devi were excluded from the team this time. Pradeep Kumar Amant and Amar Prasad Satpathy, who were Speaker and Government Chief Whip, respectively, last time have also been excluded. A day after Additional Director General of Crime Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police and former Kolkata Commissioner of Police Rajeev Kumar failed to appear for questioning in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam, the CBI on Tuesday sent a fresh summons to the IPS officer, sources said. Through the first CBI sum- mons, Kumar was asked to appear before the agency’s office in Kolkata on Monday but Kumar sent a letter stating he was on a leave for three days and had sought a week’s time to be available for questioning in the case. This is the second sum- mons to Kumar after the Supreme Court lifted the pro- tection granted to him from coercive action by the CBI earlier this month. Meanwhile, the agency is likely to approach a relevant court for issuance of an arrest warrant against him if he con- tinues to evade summons. The other option being considered is to get him declared an absconder, sources said, adding he has been evasive during questioning and has not responded to the agency’s offer to turn an approver in the case. On Saturday, the CBI had also issued a Lookout Notice against Kumar to prevent him from leaving the country. The CBI is seeking custo- dial interrogation of Kumar in connection with the scam as his role as the police’s special inves- tigation team to probe the Saradha case was under cloud. The CBI later took over the probe into the scam at the behest of the Supreme Court. T hree West Bengal MLAs — one from Left and two from TMC, including BJP leader Mukul Roy’s son Subhranshu Roy — and over 50 councillors joined the BJP on Tuesday in an affirmation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comments at a Lok Sabha poll rally that about 40 Trinamool Congress MLAs are in contact with the BJP. With this the saffron party gave an unambiguous mes- sage that it is not to rest at its recent victory of 18 Lok Sabha seats in the State and will go all out to bring in more strength to its fold from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s party. BJP general secretary and Bengal incharge Kailash Vijayvargiya claimed the BJP’s ranks are to grow with TMC leaders. Asked whether it is not horse trading, he said “it is exchange of hearts”. “Three MLAs and 50-60 councillors are joining BJP today. This is the first phase. Such joining will continue in future also,” said Vijayvargiya. He said Mamata’s partymen are not happy with her authoritar- ian style of working. TMC MLAs Subhranshu Roy, Tushar Kanti Bhattacharjee and CPM MLA Debendra Nath Roy joined the BJP at its headquarters here. While joining they chanted “Jai Shri Ram” and “Bharat Maata ki Jai”. Subhrangshu Roy was sus- pended by the TMC for his “anti-party” activities after the general election results were announced. “Like seven-phase of LS poll, the movement from TMC to BJP would be in phas- es,” quipped Mukul Roy. Roy is seen to be instru- mental in engineering the defection of TMC leaders to the BJP and, political watchers believe, he is one of the key architects of the party’s best ever show in West Bengal, where TMC president Mamata has been in power since 2011. While the BJP won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats, the TMC bagged 22 seats in the Lok Sabha polls. Meanwhile, senior TMC leaders and Ministers Firhad Hakim and Jyotipriya Mullick said the “defection” was not a major setback and that most of the party had faith in Mamata who would “provide an effec- tive leadership against BJP’s cultural invasion of Bengal like the way she led us against the Marxist misrule.” With hordes of councillors quitting the TMC in West Bengal, four municipalities drifted the BJP’s way. A fifth in Katwa looked like moving away with rebellion already noticed in this municipality. “Like the rats quit the ship in the face of storm and sink in turn, there are some people who are leaving the ship. But these people are cowards and have no ideology. They are doing this just out of fear. They have no faith themselves. But finally these people will sink and Mamata will emerge triumphant,” Hakim main- tained. His party colleague and another Minister Jyotipriya Mullick, who is also the party’s charge de affairs of North 24 Parganas adjoining Kolkata from where the TMC has lost two out of five Lok Sabha seats, said, “The leaders joined the BJP not because they wanted to do it from within. They only did it at the point of bayonet. Their heart is with us and they are physically with the BJP.” The TMC will soon bounce back under the leadership of Mamata “like we did after the colossal defeat in 2004 — when we were left with just one seat — but winning 20 seats in 2009. Just wait and see what we will do in 2020 and 2021.” C ongress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday held a series of meetings with party leaders, including his sister Priyanka Gandhi, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his deputy Sachin Pilot, amid his insistence on quitting the top post over the Congress debacle in the Lok Sabha polls. While these meetings were held at intervals, most of the day the Gandhi scion remained closeted with senior leader Ahmed Patel, considered to be the chief strategist of the grand old party for over 15 years now. Rahul met Pilot and Gehlot separately in the presence of Priyanka during these meet- ings. Party general secretary KC Venugopal and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala too held discussion with the Congress chief, who is adamant on having a non- Gandhi installed as the party head. Rahul had cancelled all meetings on Monday and had become incommunicado, even though he visited a local hotel in the evening, the sources said. While names like Jyotiraditya Scindia are doing the rounds for the top post, one of the formulas making rounds is to have Rahul as the leader of the party in the Lok Sabha if he steps down as the party chief. In the last Lok Sabha, senior leader Mallikarjun Kharge was the leader of the Congress. But he has lost the Lok Sabha election. After its electoral debacle, the Congress is undergoing acute internal turmoil while it struggles to safeguard its Governments in Karnataka, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh with reports suggesting the BJP may try to wrest power in these three States. Not only this, the Congress leadership may also do a com- plete overhaul of its media and communications depart- ment. Currently the team is led by Surjewala. In addition to Congressmen, DMK chief MK Stalin and RJD chief Lalu Prasad have appealed to Rahul not to step down as party chief. Stalin said Rahul has won the hearts of the people though his party lost the elections, while Lalu termed Rahul’s offer to quit as “suicidal”, asserting it would amount to “falling into the BJP’s trap”. Stalin called up Rahul and “appealed to him to give up the idea of resigning as party president”. “Any new president of the Congress would be considered a puppet of Rahul and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the perception would continue till the next general election,” Lalu said. Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday confirmed that she will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister on May 30. Mamata told reporters at the State secretariat that the invi- tation for the ceremony arrived on Tuesday and she will be attending it as “constitutional courtesy”. “I have spoken to a couple of other Chief Ministers and decided to attend it,” she said. “There are certain cere- monial programmes under the Constitution. We try to attend such programmes when get invitation for swearing-in pro- grammes of the president and the PM,” she added. PTI

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Page 1: # ˆ $%& ˚ ˚’ ˙( ˙ %˘ ˛ ˛ ˆ...Mission Shakti. "As women are the real double engines of growth, BJD's manifesto for them promises Rs 5,000 crore of work to further strengthen

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Women in Odisha are wait-ing for a big-ticket

announcement from ChiefMinister Naveen Patnaik onMay 29.

Patnaik, who especiallythanked women communityafter getting a landslide victo-ry in the State Assembly elec-tions, is likely to make thewomen folks happy with bigbonanza, feel many in the BJD.

During Patnaik’s entireelection campaign, womenflocked to see and support theBJD supremo in a big way andhe strongly feels that they votedfor his party in a determinedmanner.

Therefore, Patnaik consid-

ers it his duty and responsibil-ity to express his thanks to thewomen community by doingsomething significant to pleaseand honour them.

With an endearing eldersister, Gita Mehta, present inthe Naveen Niwas, Patnaik isinclined to announce a bigbonanza for the women in theState, insiders say.

During the election cam-paign, Patnaik in the BJD elec-tion manifesto had announcedthat Government work worthRs 5,000-crore would be pro-vided to the Self Help Groups(SHGs) every year underMission Shakti.

"As women are the realdouble engines of growth,BJD's manifesto for them

promises Rs 5,000 crore ofwork to further strengthenMission Shakti, which will givethem a profit of Rs 500 crore,"the Chief Minister had said.

Patnaik had also promisedto provide accidental insurancefacility for every member of theSHGs and zero-interest loan upto Rs 5 lakh to all SHGs.

The State Government hadinitiated Mission Shakti pro-

gramme in 2001 to strengthenwomen’s social and financialstatus.Till date, more than 70lakh women in the State areplaying active role through6.25 lakh Women Self HelpGroups (WSHGs).

That apart, such WSHGshave also formed 370 block-and district-level federationswith their strength increasingday by day.

And most importantly,with senior-most WSHG leaderPramila Bisoyi being electedwith huge margin from AskaLok Sabha seat, it has energisedthem in a big way.

Patnaik had promised tohike medical assistance forwomen under Biju SwasthyaKalyan Yojana (BSKY) from Rs7 lakh to Rs 10 lakh.

He had also promised toprovide free education for girlsfrom KG to college level,including medical and engi-neering courses, if BJD cameout with flying colours at thehustling.

Besides, Patnaik had madeanother important promise inhis party’s election manifesto:To provide marriage assistance of Rs 25,000 to poorfamilies.

So a pleased Chief Ministermay, in all probability, make anannouncement of a compre-hensive package for women onMay 29, the day he re-assumespower as Chief Minister for thefifth time in a row, sources said.

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Rattled by increasing fatali-ties due to road mishaps on

the NH-16 between the twincities of Bhubaneswar andCuttack in the last few days, thetraffic police on Tuesday iden-tified five black spots on thehighway.

Cuttack-BhubaneswarTraffic DCP Bijay Kumar Sahusaid the Batabhuasuni templenear Janla, Aiginia, the roadnear Hotel Crown, the AcharyaVihar over-bridge and Pahalhave been marked as blackspots. “We have decided toinstal barricades and put upsignages on the said areas for

the first time on an experi-mental basis.

Due to previous records ofthose areas, we have identifiedthe spots; but since there arealso several other accident-prone regions, we willsubsequently mark them as black spots as well,”said Sahu.

As part of the plan toreduce speed of vehicles, thetraffic police would put up bar-ricades from morning hours to9 pm. Since plying of localvehicles reduces on the NH innight, the road would becleared off the barricades after9 pm to allow unhinderedmovement of heavy vehicles.

Notably, after five personswere killed in road mishaps inBhubaneswar within a span ofthree days, Twin City PoliceCommissioner SatyajitMohanty had on Mondaydirected the traffic cops toregulate the speed of vehicles byusing interceptors wherevernecessary.

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There seems to be no respitefrom the intense heat wave

conditions in the State as 12stations record maximum day temperature above 40 degree Celsius onTuesday.

The Regional Office of theIndian MetrologicalDepartment (IMD) here saidSambalpur was the hottestplace with 44.7 degree fol-lowed by Balangir with 44.5,Angul 41.7, Jharsuguda 43.6,Keonjhar 40, Sundargarh 42,Hirakud 43.7, Talcher 41.2,Bhawanipatna 42.6, Titilagarh44, Malkangiri 42 and Sonepur44.6.

The IMD predicted thatheat wave conditions wouldcontinue to prevail in the dis-tricts of Jharsuguda,Sambalpur, Deogarh, Angul,Subarnapur, Bargarh, Balangirand Nuapada for the next cou-ple of days.

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Chief Minister-designateNaveen Patnaik visited the

Jaganath Temple here onTuesday afternoon and offeredprayers to the Trinity before hisMinistry’s swearing-in inBhubaneswar on

Wednesday.He entered the shrine

accompanied by outgoing PuriMLA Maheswar Mohanty,Pipili MLA PradeepMaharathy, Nimapara MLASamir Ranjan Dash and someother legislators.

On behalf of the temple

administration, ChiefAdministrator Pradipta KumarMohapatra and Puri CollectorBalwant Singh received him. IGSoumendra Priyadasrshi andPuri SP Umasankar Dash werealso present.

It was Patnaik’s first visit toPuri after the elections.

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Even as lobbying forMinisterial berths intensi-

fied in the State with ChiefMinister-elect Naveen Patnaikgiving finishing touches to hisMinistry ahead of theMinistry’s swearing-in cere-mony at the Idco ExhibitionGround here on Wednesday,the following 21 MLAs werereported to have receivedphone calls from the NaveenNiwas on Tuesday for inclusionin the team.

According to sources thosewho received the calls areSushant Singh (Bhatli), AshokPanda (Ekamra-Bhubaneswar),Tukuni Sahu (Titilagarh),

Niranjan Pujari (Sonepur),Ranendra Prasad Swain(Athagarh), Jyoti PrakashPanigrahi (Simulia),Padmanabh Behera(Biramaharajpur), BikramKeshari Arukh (Bhanjanagar),Pratap Jena (Mahanga), DibyaShankar Mishra (Junagarh),Samir Ranjan Dash(Nimapara), Naba Kishore Das(Jharsuguda), Pratap Deb (Ali),Manohar Randhari(Nabarangpur), SnehanginiChhuria (Attabira), JagannathSaraka (Bissamcuttack),Prafulla Kumar Mallik( K a m a k h y a n a g a r ) ,Raghunandan Das (Balikuda-Erasama), Padmini Dian (Kotapad), Sudam

Marndi (Bangirposhi) andTusharkanti Behera(Kakatpur).

As many as 15 new faces,including two women, aregoing to take oath asMinisters. The new Ministry

would have three womenmembers. Sources also revealedthat Surjya Narayan Patro(Digapahandi) has been chosenfor the Assembly Speaker postand Pramila Mallick(Bijharour) as the GovernmentChief Whip. The list revealedthat only six members of thelast Ministry were called to takeoath as Ministers.

Prafulla Samal, DrNrusingha Charan Sahoo,Shashi Bhushan Behera,Ananta Das, Badri NarayanPatra and Usha Devi wereexcluded from the team thistime. Pradeep Kumar Amantand Amar Prasad Satpathy,who were Speaker andGovernment Chief Whip,respectively, last time have alsobeen excluded.

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Aday after AdditionalDirector General of Crime

Investigation Department(CID) of West Bengal Policeand former KolkataCommissioner of Police RajeevKumar failed to appear forquestioning in connection withthe Saradha chit fund scam, theCBI on Tuesday sent a freshsummons to the IPS officer,sources said.

Through the first CBI sum-mons, Kumar was asked toappear before the agency’soffice in Kolkata on Mondaybut Kumar sent a letter statinghe was on a leave for three daysand had sought a week’s timeto be available for questioningin the case.

This is the second sum-mons to Kumar after theSupreme Court lifted the pro-tection granted to him fromcoercive action by the CBIearlier this month.

Meanwhile, the agency islikely to approach a relevantcourt for issuance of an arrestwarrant against him if he con-

tinues to evade summons. Theother option being consideredis to get him declared anabsconder, sources said, addinghe has been evasive duringquestioning and has notresponded to the agency’s offerto turn an approver in the case.

On Saturday, the CBI hadalso issued a Lookout Noticeagainst Kumar to prevent himfrom leaving the country.

The CBI is seeking custo-dial interrogation of Kumar inconnection with the scam as hisrole as the police’s special inves-tigation team to probe theSaradha case was under cloud.The CBI later took over theprobe into the scam at thebehest of the Supreme Court.

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Three West Bengal MLAs —one from Left and two

from TMC, including BJPleader Mukul Roy’s sonSubhranshu Roy — and over 50councillors joined the BJP onTuesday in an affirmation ofPrime Minister NarendraModi’s comments at a LokSabha poll rally that about 40Trinamool Congress MLAs arein contact with the BJP.

With this the saffron partygave an unambiguous mes-sage that it is not to rest at itsrecent victory of 18 Lok Sabhaseats in the State and will go allout to bring in more strengthto its fold from Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee’s party.

BJP general secretary andBengal incharge KailashVijayvargiya claimed the BJP’sranks are to grow with TMCleaders. Asked whether it is nothorse trading, he said “it isexchange of hearts”.

“Three MLAs and 50-60councillors are joining BJPtoday. This is the first phase.Such joining will continue infuture also,” said Vijayvargiya.He said Mamata’s partymen arenot happy with her authoritar-ian style of working.

TMC MLAs SubhranshuRoy, Tushar KantiBhattacharjee and CPM MLADebendra Nath Roy joined theBJP at its headquarters here.While joining they chanted“Jai Shri Ram” and “BharatMaata ki Jai”.

Subhrangshu Roy was sus-pended by the TMC for his

“anti-party” activities after thegeneral election results wereannounced. “Like seven-phaseof LS poll, the movement fromTMC to BJP would be in phas-es,” quipped Mukul Roy.

Roy is seen to be instru-mental in engineering thedefection of TMC leaders to theBJP and, political watchersbelieve, he is one of the keyarchitects of the party’s bestever show in West Bengal,where TMC president Mamatahas been in power since 2011.

While the BJP won 18 ofthe 42 Lok Sabha seats, theTMC bagged 22 seats in theLok Sabha polls.

Meanwhile, senior TMCleaders and Ministers Firhad

Hakim and Jyotipriya Mullicksaid the “defection” was not amajor setback and that most ofthe party had faith in Mamatawho would “provide an effec-tive leadership against BJP’scultural invasion of Bengal likethe way she led us against theMarxist misrule.”

With hordes of councillorsquitting the TMC in WestBengal, four municipalitiesdrifted the BJP’s way. A fifth inKatwa looked like moving awaywith rebellion already noticedin this municipality.

“Like the rats quit the shipin the face of storm and sink inturn, there are some peoplewho are leaving the ship. Butthese people are cowards and

have no ideology. They aredoing this just out of fear.They have no faith themselves.But finally these people willsink and Mamata will emergetriumphant,” Hakim main-tained.

His party colleague andanother Minister JyotipriyaMullick, who is also the party’scharge de affairs of North 24Parganas adjoining Kolkatafrom where the TMC has losttwo out of five Lok Sabha seats,said, “The leaders joined theBJP not because they wanted todo it from within. They only didit at the point of bayonet. Theirheart is with us and they arephysically with the BJP.”

The TMC will soon bounce

back under the leadership ofMamata “like we did after thecolossal defeat in 2004 — whenwe were left with just one seat— but winning 20 seats in 2009.Just wait and see what we willdo in 2020 and 2021.”

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Congress president RahulGandhi on Tuesday held a

series of meetings with partyleaders, including his sisterPriyanka Gandhi, RajasthanChief Minister Ashok Gehlotand his deputy Sachin Pilot,amid his insistence on quittingthe top post over the Congressdebacle in the Lok Sabha polls.

While these meetings wereheld at intervals, most of theday the Gandhi scion remainedcloseted with senior leaderAhmed Patel, considered to bethe chief strategist of the grandold party for over 15 years now.

Rahul met Pilot and Gehlotseparately in the presence ofPriyanka during these meet-ings. Party general secretary KCVenugopal and chiefspokesperson RandeepSurjewala too held discussionwith the Congress chief, who isadamant on having a non-Gandhi installed as the partyhead.

Rahul had cancelled allmeetings on Monday and hadbecome incommunicado, eventhough he visited a local hotelin the evening, the sources said.

While names likeJyotiraditya Scindia are doing

the rounds for the top post, oneof the formulas making roundsis to have Rahul as the leaderof the party in the Lok Sabhaif he steps down as the partychief. In the last Lok Sabha,senior leader MallikarjunKharge was the leader of theCongress. But he has lost theLok Sabha election.

After its electoral debacle,the Congress is undergoingacute internal turmoil while itstruggles to safeguard itsGovernments in Karnataka,Rajasthan and Madhya Pradeshwith reports suggesting theBJP may try to wrest power inthese three States.

Not only this, the Congressleadership may also do a com-plete overhaul of its mediaand communications depart-ment. Currently the team is led

by Surjewala.In addition to

Congressmen, DMK chief MKStalin and RJD chief LaluPrasad have appealed to Rahulnot to step down as partychief.

Stalin said Rahul has wonthe hearts of the people thoughhis party lost the elections,while Lalu termed Rahul’s offerto quit as “suicidal”, asserting itwould amount to “falling intothe BJP’s trap”. Stalin called upRahul and “appealed to him togive up the idea of resigning asparty president”.

“Any new president of theCongress would be considereda puppet of Rahul and UPAchairperson Sonia Gandhi andthe perception would continuetill the next general election,”Lalu said.

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Kolkata: West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee onTuesday confirmed that shewill attend the swearing-inceremony of Narendra Modi asPrime Minister on May 30.Mamata told reporters at theState secretariat that the invi-tation for the ceremony arrivedon Tuesday and she will beattending it as “constitutionalcourtesy”.

“I have spoken to a coupleof other Chief Ministers anddecided to attend it,” she said.

“There are certain cere-monial programmes under theConstitution. We try to attendsuch programmes when getinvitation for swearing-in pro-grammes of the president andthe PM,” she added. PTI

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PURI: Even as BJD gainedlandslide victory by bagging112 MLA seats in the State, thedefeat of five-time legislatorand Cabinet MinisterMaheswar Mohanty in Puri hascast a shadow in the rulingcamp. While the BJD hasgeared up a secret operation toknow as to why Mohanty lost,winner BJP candidate JayantSarangi has opened a Pandora's

Box against the former.Sarangi has revealed in a

meeting that most of the out-going Puri BJD Councillorshad helped him for his win asthey opposed Mohanty’s auto-cratic approach.

Notably, Sarangi, formerPuri Municipality Chairman,had quit the BJD just before theelections to join the BJP as hewas not given BJD ticket tocontest.

Sarangi has alleged thatmany Central projects likeHruday and Amrut for the

municipality were illegallystopped by Mohanty asMohanty did not want him tocontinue as Chairman.

Although no reaction toSarangi’s revelation has comefrom the BJD, sources said ablame game has begun in theMohanty camp on anti-partyactivities and a search opera-tion is on to locate defectors.

Besides Sarangi, manyother local BJD leaders, whowere aspirants for party ticket,worked against Mohanty,sources said. PNS

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Port hasadded yetanother feath-er to its cap bysuccessfullycomplet ingmovement of30 vesselswithin 24hours begin-ning from7.30 am on May 27 till 7.30 amon May 28 morning.

It included 10 incomingvessels, nine outgoing vessels,three shifting of vessels andeight shipping support vessels.And as many as 39 vessels arestill waiting at the anchorage toenter the harbour.

This record achievementwas possible due to a responsiveHarbour Master, marine pilotsand other port staffs under theguidance of PPT DeputyConservator Capt Atulya KumarMohapatra, shipping agents,exporters and importers and

the cooperation by the TrafficDepartment.

The previous record was 27vessels handled in a period of 24hours on October 15, 2018.

The port is now gearing upto enhance its cargo throughputas it is vying for the coveted topposition in the country with aslew of other infrastructuresand modernisation facilities.Last fiscal, it clocked 109.27-MMT cargo handling andsecured the second positionamong the Major Ports of India.This fiscal, it is aiming at a 120-MMT cargo handling mark.

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Change of course of riverBudhabalanga has become

a curse for the riverside villagesof Baleswar Sadar block.

Due to change of course ofthe river while villages underGopinathpur GP likeManikula, Jagannathpur,Kathpal and Nalkuli are affect-ed, the worst-hit is Nalukuli.

Sources said in the villageNalakuli while about 150 fam-ilies were residing before fewyears, yet only 51 of them arestill residing in the village in thefear that the nature of river iseating into land from one sideand filling (deposition) inother.

The residents said theBudhabalanga has devouredtheir village land. The river hasentered into the village byabout 50 meters. In the fear oflosing their kuchha houses,

several residents have fled andsettled elsewhere. The villagerssaid that before several yearswhile one village Bhimadiawas existing in the oppositeside of the riverbank, it has per-ished when the river wasdevouring land patches fromother sides.

The residents of Nalakulialleged that due to the apathyof the department, they arebearing the brunt of change ofcourse of river Budhablanga.The department didn’t takemeasures like stone-patching,resulting in the erosion of land.

Superintending Engineer,Irrigation, Niranjan Mahaliksaid the department is aware ofthe situation at Nalakuli andappropriate action would betaken.

He said soon a surveywould be conducted by a tech-nical team and a report wouldbe placed before the Nabardrecommending stone-patch-ing to protect the riverbank.

BRAHMAPUR: The Ganjam policehave issued a lookout circular againstseven persons allegedly involved inthe murder of Congress’ Aska MLAcandidate Manoj Jena.

The lookout notice has beenissued to prevent the seven accusedfrom fleeing from the State whileinvestigation into the incident isunderway. Besides, the cops have alsoasked bank authorities to seize theaccounts of all accused.

The Aska and Brahmapur policehave formed three special teams forthe investigation. On May 22 evening,

four bike-borne miscreants hadopened fire at Manoj and fled thespot. Manoj was later admitted to theMKCG Medical College and Hospitalhere for treatment. However, he wasdeclared dead on May 24.

Earlier, police had rounded up 12persons, including seven from Aska,three from Bhanjanagar and twofrom Bhubaneswar, for interrogation.

“A particular gang of Aska areais involved in the murder. Policewould soon crack the case and arrestthe culprits,” said Brahmapur SPPrabhat Routray. PNS

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Farmers of Bargarh districton Monday alleged that the

millers have talen the yards intotheir control at paddy pro-curement centers and Dalals(middlemen) are selling paddyin Bargarh district, mintingmoney.

The Civil SupplyDepartment purchases paddythrough PACS (PrimaryAgriculture cooperativeSociety) and sends to the millers for custommilling.

The millers should trans-

port paddy from yards to mills. But farmers lift the paddy

to the millers on their own,bearing the cost.

Besides, they are forced tosell paddy less than the mini-mum support price as fixed bythe Government.

Meanwhile, the districtadministration has registered acase against miller Lath indus-try in connection with illegalstorage of 4,000 tone paddy.More than 111 mills have pro-cured paddy for custom millingin the district.

According to sources,some administration officialsand Dalals are in a nexus.

The farmers associationshave demanded a Vigilanceinvestigation into irregularitiesin procurement of paddy.

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Retina operation has started at theCapital Hospital from May 26 under

the Sunetra Yojana, which was launchedby Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inJanuary. This is first time that thissurgery is carried out in a Governmenthospital.

Capital Hospital ophthalmologistDr Ashwini Meherda had gone to theAIIMS, New Delhi for the necessarytraining, after which the operation hasstarted. Dr Meherda said 10 to 15cataract operations are being carried outin a day. Notablyh, for a retina operation,a person spends Rs 60-70,000 in a pri-vate hospital, but in the Capital Hospitalthe service free of cost.

Besides, injections used for the glau-coma suffering patients are also provid-ed free. The cost of injections is estimatedto be Rs 20-25,000 in the market.

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In the backdrop of Puri Rath Yatra beginningon July 4, DGP Dr RP Sharma presided over

a preparatory meeting on security issues here onTuesday.

The DGP called upon the officers to beproactive, extra serious and extra vigilant for theevent. Senior officers like Director Intelligence,Director SCRB, ADGP (L&O), ADGP Railway,IGP (CR), ADGP SAP, IGP, Headquarters andPuri SP were present.

It was decided that elaborate securityarrangements would be made during the majorevents such as Nabajauban Darshan (July 2),Gundicha Yatra (July 4), Bahuda (July 12),Sunabesha (July 13) and Niladri Bije (July 15).RAF and CRPF would be requisitioned to pro-vide extra security coverage. Bomb disposalsquad/ HHMD, DMFD and metal detectorswould be pressed in to service. Special empha-sis would be given on VVIP security.

Low-flying objects like helicopters anddrone cameras over the Bada Danda (GrandRoad) and temple premises would be prohibit-ed on the day of Rath Yatra for security reasons.CCTV cameras and X-Ray baggage scannerswould be installed. Beach patrolling and sea vigilwould be intensified.

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An officer of leading microfi-nance firm, Satin Credit Care

Network was arrested by theChhatrapur police here.

According to information avail-able, the accused is Chandra SekharSahu, Community Service Officer(CSO), of the financing firm.

Chhatrapur police station IICPiyush Ranjan Chottaray said the

accused is a resident of Puri.The company’s Chhatrapur

branch had given loan to 26 prospec-tive borrowers of the locality. Sahuwas entrusted with the loan moneycollection task. Sahu collected Rs91,000 from 26 borrowers but embez-zled the money.

On the complaints filed by theborrowers, company branch manag-er Smrutiranjan Mishra had lodgedan FIR in the police station againstthe accused. Police registered a caseand started investigation. The policesucceeded in arresting the accusedhere on Monday and forwarded himto court.

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The Vedanta Limited,Jharsuguda bagged ‘Par

Excellence’ accolades at thesixth “National Conclave on5S”, held at the AUROUniversity in Surat.

Plant 1 and CPP teamsreceived laurels for their pre-sentations on innovation/cre-ative ideas/kaizens in theimplementation of 5S at oper-ations. Team CPP was con-ferred with ‘Best PerformanceAward’ for achieving and sus-taining JUSE JAPANCertification.

“At Vedanta, we passion-ately believe in adopting andimbibing continuous business

improvement methodologiesfor better performance. Awardslike the QCFI 5S Par Excellenceare a strong reinforcement toour efforts towards synergizingsustainable operations withbusiness

Organised by the QualityCircle Forum of India,Secunderabad, this year’s“National Conference on 5S”was themed on‘5S for culturaltransformation at home, work-place and new India’.

BHUBANESWAR: TheLions Club BhubaneswarOrissa organised its pre-boardof directors meeting 2019-20here recently under the lead-ership of new-elected presi-dent Ram Prasad Patra.

Patra said it has beendecided that the club in asso-ciation with the InternationalLions Club would hold planta-tion drives in Fani-affectedareas. It has also been decidedto hold blood donation camps,

cataract treatment programmesand other social activities dur-ing the year.

He also informed that dif-

ferent programmes like traf-fic awareness, competitions inessay, dance, etc., and cultur-al programmes would beorgansied in different schoolsand colleges in the city.

Club secretary SiddhartaMohanty, treasurer TapanHarichandan, PROJagabandhu Sadangi,

Mahendra Singh and mem-bers of working committee andother committees were presentin the meeting. PNS

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Going another step ahead, the Neelachal Ispat NigamLimited (NINL), Kalinga Nagar has sealed a deal

to supply steel billets to projects of the Power GridCorporation of India Limited (PGCIL) for an initialperiod of one year

The PGCIL will use the MS channels and anglesproduced from the NINL steel billets for electricaltransmission towers across the country.

The 1.1-MT-capacity integrated steel plant has settarget for major share in the special grade steel billetsupply for the power transmission and distribution seg-ments, which is growing in an accelerated pace in thecountry.

The NINL is also going to market its own brandof TMT, wire rods and structures through conversionagents. Billet produced by the NINL has already beenwidely accepted as it has immense value.

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As dynasty politics continuesto prevail across the nation,

the phenomenon reigns itssupremacy in Odisha as well,especially after the declarationof Lok Sabha and Assemblypoll results. Sons of over adozen prominent political lead-ers of the State have successfullyassumed the mantle from theirfathers and excelled also.

BIJU PATNAIK-NAVEENPATNAIK

This father-son duo needsno introduction. Bijubabu,arguably Odisha’s best states-man of all time, served as theChief Minister of the Statetwice, besides being elected tothe Lok Sabha and LegislativeAssembly several times.Carrying forward his father’spolitical legacy, Naveen led theBJD in registering five consec-utive thumping victories inAssembly elections between2000 and 2019.

DD A MA M OO DD A R RA R R OO UU TT --SAMBSAMBIT RIT ROOUU TRTR AAYY

Damodar Rout’s expulsionfrom the BJD followed by hisson Sambit Routray’s candida-cy from the party for theParadip Assembly seat hadunfolded a series of drama inthe recent past. While Damalost the Balikuda-ErasamaAssembly seat contesting as aBJP candidate this time, his sonwon from the Paradip seat.Interestingly, Dama had suc-cessfully contested as a BJDcandidate from the Paradipseat between 2009 and 2014elections.

BIJAYSHREE ROUTRAY-BISHNUBRATA ROUTRAY

The Basudevpur Assemblyseat continues to witness therise of Routray family asBijayshree Routray’s sonBishnubrata secured win fromthe constituency as a BJD can-didate. Bijayshree was himselfelected to the Assembly fromthe seat six times in 1990,1995, 2000, 2004, 2009 and2014.

PPRRAAVVAAT TRIPT TRIPAATHYTHY-D-DEBEBIIRR ANJANJAN TRIPAN TRIPAATHYTHY

Three-time Banki MLA

Pravat Tripathy decided not tocontest the polls this time andlater his son Debi Ranjan wasgiven a BJD ticket for the veryAssembly seat. Living up to theexpectations, junior Tripathysecured victory and is now allset to take oath as the newBanki MLA.

RAMA CHANDRA ULAKA-SAPTAGIRI ULAKA

Though the performanceof the Congress was dismalboth in Lok Sabha andAssembly polls, late RamaChandra Ulaka’s son Saptagirimanaged to clinch the lone vic-tory for the grand old partyfrom the KoraputParliamentary constituency.Rama Chandra was himself atwo-time MP from Koraputand seven-time MLA fromRayagada.

PARSURAM PANIGRAHI-JYOTI PRAKASHPANIGRAHI

Four-time Simulia MLAParsuram Panigrahi’s son JyotiPrakash won from theAssembly seat for the secondconsecutive time as he was alsoelected to the Assembly fromthe very constituency in 2014

elections.

HAREKRUSHNA MAHTAB-BHARTRUHARI MAHTAB

Bhartruhari Mahtab, son offirst Chief Minister of OdishaHarekrushna Mahtab, hasmade the CuttackParliamentary constituency anunbreachable fort for the BJDsince 1998. Junior Mahatabhas been elected to the LokSabha from the seat six con-secutive times in 1998, 1999,2004, 2009, 2014 and in therecently-concluded polls thisyear.

PRAVAT BISWAL-SOUVIKBISWAL

Two-time Cuttack-Choudwar MLA PravatBiswal’s son Souvik Biswal roseto the occasion after beingnamed BJD’s candidate for theAssembly seat and sealed a vic-tory for him and the party.Senior Biswal had won fromthe seat in 2009 and 2014.

KALPATARU DAS-PRANABBALABANTARAY

Late BJD leader KalpataruDas’ son Pranab Balabantaraywon from the DharmasalaAssembly seat for the second

consecutive time and carriedforward his father’s legacy inthe constituency. Das was elect-ed to the Assembly from theseat four times between 1995and 2009.

PRAFULLA GHADAI-PRITIRANJAN GHADAI

Veteran politician PrafullaGhadai's son Pritiranjan con-tinues to strengthen the party’sstronghold in SukindaAssembly constituency.Pritiranjan won from the seatfor the second consecutivetime while his father hadsecured victory from the con-stituency five consecutive timesbetween 1990 and 2009.

ASHOK DAS-PRANABPRAKASH DAS

Six-time Korei MLA AshokDas’ son Pranab Prakash Dascontinues his winning streakfrom Jajpur Assembly seat.Besides being elected to theAssembly from the con-stituency this time, he hadearlier won from the seat in2009 and 2014.

PPRRADADIPTIPTA GANA GANGA DGA DEB-EB-NITESNITESH GANH GANGA DGA DEBEB

After being elected as

Deogarh MLA twice in 2004and 2014, Nitesh Ganga Debcontested the Lok Sabha pollsthis time from SambalpurParliamentary constituency asa BJP candidate and wonagainst BJD’s NalinikantaPradhan and Sarat Patnaik ofCongress. His father PradiptaGanga Deb was a two-timeDeogarh MLA.

S A RS A R AA T DT D E B - PE B - P RR AA TTA PA PDDEBEB

BJD Rajya Sabha MPPratap Deb made a comebackin the Aul Assembly seat thistime after being defeated in2014. Son of four-time AulMLA Sarat Kumar Deb, Prataphad earlier won the con-stituency thrice in 2000, 2004and 2009.

KALINDI CHARANB E H E R A - C H A N D R ASARATHI BEHERA

Chandra Sarathi Behera,son of late BJD leader and for-mer Odisha Minister KalindiCharan Behera, secured a back-to-back win from CuttackSadar Assembly seat (2014 and2019). He had earlier wonfrom the Salepur seat in 2009.

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Six days after a female post-graduate medical student

Payal Tadvi hanged herself inher hostel room of theBrihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC)-run BYLNair Medical College here, theMumbai police on Tuesdayarrested one of the threeabsconding doctors of the samecollege for allegedly abettingher suicide through casteistinsults.

The arrest of BhaktiMehere came on a day whenMaharashtra MedicalEducation Minister GirishMahajan confirmed that therewas evidence in the anti-rag-ging report to suggest that thevictim student ended her lifeafter the three accused doctorsallegedly harassed her throughcasteist insults.

Bhakti, who had beenabsconding ever since Tadvicommitted suicide onWednesday last, was arrestedby the Agripada police, after anintense search.

The police are on the look-out for two other accused doc-tors—Hema Ahuja and AnkitaKhandelwal— who have also

been on the run since Tadvi's suicide. The twoabsconding doctors havereportedly moved the court foran anticipatory bail.

In a related development,the Hospital has suspendedthe three senior doctors —Bhakti, Hema and Ankita andalso the Head of DepartmentDr Yi Ching Ling — forallegedly abetting Dr Tadvi'ssuicide.

The three accused doctorshad earlier been suspended byMaharashtra Association of

Resident Doctors (MARD) forallegedly abetting the juniordoctor’s suicide with casteistinsults.

A second-year PG studentof Gynaecology and Obstetricsat the Topiwala NationalMedical College, attached to the BYL Nair Hospital,Tadvi was found hanging inher hostel room that she sharedwith three other students onMay 22.

The victim student’s hus-band Salman and motherAbida Salim have accused three

senior women doctors —Bhakti, Hema and Ankita — ofdiscriminating, harassing and torturing Tadvi, who hailed from a Muslim-tribalbackground. They havedemanded "strictest action"against the three women doctors.

The three doctors' sus-pension from the service bythe BMC came after theAgripada police registeredoffences against them onSunday last under theAtrocities Act, the Anti-Ragging Act, IT Act and sec-tion 306 (abetment of suicide)of Indian Penal Code.

Tadvi’s husband Salmanhas told the police that she wassingled out for harassment asshe belonged to lower caste. Aspart of the ragging that theyallegedly subjected to Tadvi to,the accused doctors would notlet her study and humiliatedher on WhatsApp messages,Salman alleged.

Tadvi's mother Abeda toldthe police that her daughterhad been sternly advised by theaccused doctors not to lodge aformal complaint against thelatter as it would impact hercareer.

Mumbai: Three female doc-tors of a South Mumbai hos-pital booked for allegedly abet-ting suicide by a junior col-league by tormenting her withcasteist slurs on Tuesdaymoved a session court here foranticipatory bail, claiminginnocence.

The three doctors, HemaAhuja, 28, Bhakti Mehere, 26,and Ankita Khandelwal, 27,said in their bail plea they werenot even aware of the victim'scaste and had only profes-sional interaction with her.

Hours after they movedthe court, one of them, Mehra,however, was arrested afterinitial interrogation by thepolice.

The trio, attached to NairHospital at Agripada in SouthMumbai, has been bookedunder the SC/ST (Prevention

of Atrocities) Act, the Anti-Ragging Act and the IT Actand section 306 (abetment tosuicide) of the IPC.

In their bail application,which is likely to come up forhearing Wednesday, the doc-tors claimed they had notcaused any harm to the victim,Dr Payal Tadvi, 26, whoallegedly hanged herself onMay 22.

Her family has alleged thatthe three doctors taunted herfor belonging to a ScheduledTribe.

The trio, in the pre-arrestbail plea, said they had onlyprofessional interaction withthe deceased and it was work-related only.

The accused doctors fur-ther said they were not awarethat the deceased belonged to"any reserved category".

"The applicants neverknew her caste. They, day inand day out, treat peoplefrom all castes and cate-gories.

"If they never wantedthe deceased to work there(at the hospital), they wouldhave never worked with her.The deceased had assistedthe applicants in variousoperations," it said. PTI

Jaipur: Rajasthan's six BSPMLAs will meet party chiefMayawati in Delhi on June 1during which the party's per-formance in the Lok Sabhapolls in the State will bereviewed, a legislator said onTuesday.

BSP MLA Wajib Ali toldPTI that the party's support tothe Ashok Gehlot-led CongressGovernment would continue.

"There is no agenda ofwithdrawing support from theGovernment, rather we willdiscuss how efficiently we canwork with the Governmenthere," he said.

"We will discuss the party'sperformance in the Lok Sabhaelections in the State. Futurestrategy will also be discussedin the meeting," the MLAadded.

The six BSP MLAs werescheduled to meet GovernorKalyan Singh here on Mondaybut the meeting was cancelledat the last moment.

Ali said that based on thediscussions with the party chief,a decision would be takenregarding the meeting withthe Governor.

In the house of 200 MLAs,the Congress has 100 and itsally Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)has one. Besides the BSP,which has 6 MLAs, theCongress has the support of 12out of total 13 independentMLAs. PTI

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Jaipur: The Rajasthan Government on Tuesdayissued an order for appointment of the Alwargangrape case victim as a police constable.

The woman, a Dalit, was allegedly raped byfive men in Thanagaji area of Alwar on April 26in front of her husband.

"The order to appoint the victim as a policeconstable has been issued. She will soon get theappointment letter," Additional Chief Secretary(Home) Rajeeva Swarup told PTI.

On the fateful day, the woman was goingwith her husband on a motorcycle when theaccused stopped them and took them behind asand dune on the roadside.

They thrashed the woman's husband, tiedhim up and raped her in front of him. The cou-ple was held captive for nearly three hours beforebeing let go in the evening.

A sixth accused shot a video of the incidentand later circulated it on social media.

Initially, the couple kept quiet but theaccused called up the husband and demandedmoney, threatening to upload the video on socialmedia. The husband then narrated the incidentto family members and lodged a police com-plaint on April 30.

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Jodhpur (R'than): Twelve peo-ple, including two children,died when two vehicles collid-ed head-on in Rajasthan'sJodhpur district, police said onTuesday.

The incident occurred nearAgolai village in Balesar area,73 km west of Jodhpur city, onMonday night. The collisionwas so intense that the heads oftwo passengers were severedand some of them got badlystuck in the mangled vehicles,an officer said.

Ten people died on thespot, while two succumbed toinjuries in a hospital. Thedeceased include two childrenand six women. Six others areadmitted to a hospital and

undergoing treatment, Balesarpolicie station inchargeDevendra Singh said.

The people in one of thevehicles were going to attend amarriage function, the officeradded.

Chief Minister AshokGehlot expressed grief overthe incident.

"Deeply anguished by theloss of lives in a severe roadaccident near Agolai village onBalesar-#Jodhpur road,"Gehlopt tweeted.

"My heartfelt condolencesto the families who have lostdear ones, may God give themstrength to bear this loss. Maythe injured recover soon," headded. PTI

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Jaipur: A court here onTuesday awarded life impris-onment to a tutor for sodomis-ing over 25 minor boy studentsover a period of six years.

Ramiz Raja was convictedunder sections of theProtection of Children fromSexual Offences (POCSO) Act,the Indian Penal Code and theInformation Technology Act bythe POCSO court-3.

Magistrate Rajesh Kumarawarded life imprisonment tothe teacher under the POCSOact.

"Raja sodomised the stu-

dents who used to go to hishome for tuition classes. Hemade video clippings of thecrime and had been asking thestudents to bring money forhim," the counsel of one of thevictims, Aslam Khan, said.

He circulated some clip-pings on social media and par-ents of one of the victims sawit, following which an FIR waslodged in February 2017.

Besides Raja, a privateschool owner, Sarwar Alam,was also booked in the case buthe was acquitted by the court.

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Kolkata: The West BengalGovernment on Tuesday trans-ferred 43 IPS officers includingthe Police Commissioners ofBidhannagar, Howrah andSiliguri, an officer said.

Bharat Lal Meena the CP ofSiliguri Police Commissioneratewould be the new CP ofBidhannagar Police, an officialnotification said. The orderappointing Nishant Pervez as

the CP of Bidhanagar was can-celled and he would continue asDIG of state CID, the officersaid. Gaurav Sharma,Superintendent of Police ofHowrah was named as the newcommissioner of Siliguri PoliceCommissionerate, it saidadding that DIG BurdwanTanmay Roy Chaudhuri wouldtake over as the CP of HowrahPolice Commissionerate. PTI

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With the TMC’s bastionpenetrated by the BJP, it’s

the CPI(M) which is benefit-ting as the Left party has in thelast four days reclaimed morethan 150 of its offices in WestBengal. The CPM alleged theoffices had been taken overforcibly by the rulingTrinamool Congress after theLeft was ousted from power inthe State in 2011.

Party offices in Bankura,Purulia, Coochbihar,Bardhaman, Hoogly, North 24Parganas and Howrah amongothers have now not only beenretaken by the CPI(M) cadres,but the party symbol is alsobeing painted on them andparty flags are flying atop thebuildings, CPI(M) leadersclaimed.

They said the party wasreclaiming its offices because itwas the first time since 2011that Chief Minister MamataBanerjee’s TMC was “weakand vulnerable”.

The TMC, which had won35 of the 42 seats in the 2014Lok Sabha polls, managed only22 this time as the BJP gainedsignificantly, improving itsstrength from two to 18.

Though the TMC allegedthat the BJP, which hasemerged as the mainOpposition in the State in the

Lok Sabha election, was help-ing the Left, the CPI(M) lead-ers denied it.

“We have recaptured ouroffices which had been takenaway from us by the TMC. We

have been able to do this becauseTMC has been weakened, itserosion is clear. Our people hadbeen preparing to take over theoffices,” senior CPI(M) leaderand Politburo member Nilotpal

Basu told PTI. In 2011, following the loss

of the Left Front in Assemblyelections, its party offices wereallegedly occupied by Mamata’sTrinamool Congress whose

activists replaced the hammerand sickle symbol with theTMC’s twin flowers.

TMC leader Sisir Adhikariadmitted that the Left hasreclaimed some of its offices.“The CPI(M) has managed toget back some of its partyoffices in the State with the helpof the BJP. The BJP has gotsome seats and now they areusing force and violence. Theyare definitely helping them. Butit’s only a handful offices, noth-ing great,” Adhikari said.

However, CPI(M) leaderBasu dismissed claims thatthey were being helped by theBJP. “BJP’s IT cell is running apropaganda saying that theBJP is helping the CPI(M) toreclaim its offices in the State.It is a complete lie,” he said.

BJP’s Howrah Town dis-trict president Surajit Saha toldPTI that there was no instruc-tion from the party to help theCPI(M) reclaim their officesbut conceded that TMC officeswere being taken over by rivalparties.

“We have received no suchinstruction from the party.However, I have heard that inmany places TMC offices arebeing taken over by the CPI(M)and BJP. These things happenpost poll,” said Saha whenasked if the BJP cadres werehelping the CPI (M) to“reclaim” their party offices.

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India’s policy of not havingtalks with Pakistan unless it

stops cross border terrorismremains unchanged and nodecision has been taken as yeton any meeting between PrimeMinister Narendra Modi andhis Pakistani counterpart ImranKhan on the sidelines of theSCO summit in Bishkek nextmonth, official sources said.

India has not been engag-ing with Pakistan since early2016 following a terror attackon the Indian Air Force base atPathankot in January that year,maintaining that talks and ter-ror cannot go together.

Modi is attending theannual summit of ShanghaiCooperation Organisation(SCO) in Kyrgyztan’s capitalBishkek on June 13-14. Khan isalso scheduled to participate inthe annual meet of the China-dominated grouping.

Government sources saidno decision has been taken onany meeting between Modiand Khan on the sidelines ofthe SCO summit.

“A decision on the issue willbe taken by the new govern-ment,” said a source, withoutcompletely ruling out the pos-sibility of a meeting between thetwo Prime Ministers.

Another source saidreports appearing in a sectionof the media about a possiblemeeting between Modi andKhan are entirely speculative.

In a reflection of India’sreluctance to engage withPakistan, the government haspreferred to invite leaders of theBIMSTEC (Bay of BengalInitiative for Multi-SectoralTechnical and EconomicCooperation) countries for theswearing-in ceremony ofNarendra Modi as Prime

Minister for a second term onMay 30.

Besides India, BIMSTECcomprises Bangladesh,Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand,Nepal and Bhutan.

In 2014, Modi had invitedall SAARC leaders includingthe then Pakistan PrimeMinister Nawaz Sharif for hisswearing-in ceremony, in amajor initiative to reach out tothe neighbourhood.

Sharif ’s attendance at theswearing-in ceremony had trig-gered hopes of better tiesbetween the two countries andthere were several engagementsbetween the leaders of the twocountries. However, the tiesderailed again after January

2016. In a carefully craftedmove, the Government has thistime decided to invite BIM-STEC leaders apart from KyrgyzPresident Sooronbay Jeenbekov,who is the current chair of theShanghai CooperationOrganisation, and MauritiusPM Pravind Jugnauth for theswearing-in ceremony.

“This is in line withGovernment’s focus on its‘Neighbourhood First’ policy,”the Ministry of External Affairssaid on Monday. On Sunday,Khan called up Modi to con-gratulate him on his re-election.

It was their first telephon-ic conversation after theBalakot airstrikes. During theconversation, the Ministry ofExternal Affairs said, Moditold Khan that creating trustand an environment free of vio-lence and terrorism was essen-tial for fostering peace andprosperity in the region.

Recalling his initiatives inline with his government’s“neighbourhood first” policy,Modi referred to his earlier sug-gestion to Khan to fight pover-ty jointly, the MEA said.

New Delhi: Puducherry LGKiran Bedi told the SupremeCourt on Tuesday that confu-sion was prevailing over thefunctioning of bureaucracydue to the Madras High Court order on the issue ofadministrative control in theUnion Territory.

Bedi has moved the apexcourt challenging the MadrasHigh Court verdict which heldthat Puducherry LieutenantGovernor (LG) “cannot inter-fere” in the day-to-day affairs ofthe UT’s elected Government.

A Bench of Chief JusticeRanjan Gogoi and JusticeAniruddha Bose said it willhear the plea next week.

At the outset, counselappearing for Bedi told theBench that “there was confu-sion prevailing over the func-tioning of bureaucracy in theUnion Territory since theMadras High Court verdict”.

On May 10, the apex courton pleas of Centre and Bedi hadsought response from CongressMLA K Laksminarayanan, onwhose plea the high court hadpassed the verdict on April 30.

Solicitor General TusharMehta, appearing for the Centre,had told the Bench that the HighVourt verdict should be stayed asgovernance has come to a stand-still because of the order. The HChad set aside two communica-tions, issued in January andJune 2017 by the Union Ministryof Home Affairs, “elevating” thepowers of the administrator.

Referring to the SC judge-ment on the tussle betweenDelhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal and Lt Governor AnilBaijal, the high court had saidthat restrictions imposed on theGovernment of Delhi are notapplicable to the Government ofPuducherry. PTI

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After having reaped divi-dends from its ‘Digital

Village’ initiative in the LokSabha polls, the Narendra ModiGovernment in its second termis all set to scale up the projectwith renewed focus on expand-ing the reach of its socialschemes.

Pilot schemes of NDA-1like Ayushmaan Bharat andPradhan Mantri Shram YogiMaan-dhan (PMSYM) Yojanabesides those related to finan-cial services, basic healthcareand skill development in ruralIndia will be provided through

the concept of digital Indiaprocess, official sources said.

Of the 303 Lok Sabha seatswhich BJP won, 274 con-stituencies are those where theCentre pushed its DigitalVillage scheme providingaccess to information, knowl-edge and skill to the citizenusing various components ofDigital India initiative. Frommaking Government servicesavailable to villagers on theirdoorsteps to creating youngrural entrepreneurs, DigitalVillages have become agent ofchange in rural India, theysaid.

“Apart from States like

Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh,Gujarat, Maharashtra, MadhyaPradesh, Assam, Jharkhand,Chhattisgarh and Bihar, BJP’sperformance in States like WestBengal, Odisha, Telangana,Jammu & Kashmir andNortheastern States hasbeen remarkable,” saidan official of Ministry ofElectronics andInformation Technology(MEITY), who has beenactively monitoringDigital Villagescheme implement-ed by — CommonService Centre(CSC) — a

Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)created by Centre. IT MinisterRavi Shankar Prasad had him-self monitored implementa-tion of Digital Village scheme.

MEITY sources said

Ministry officials have beensounded to prepare a detailedroadmap to take Digital Villagescheme to next level. The ModiGovernment is keen to repli-cate the success of DigitalVillage scheme in remainingvillages across India. Todaythe scheme is being imple-mented in 700 villages, one in

every districtacross India.

“The initialimpact of Digital

Village initiativehas been

huge. We are providing bank-ing, education, healthcare, skilltraining digitally at CSCs. Webelieve that CSC can con-tribute in a substantial way tothe Digital India program byhelping extend its reach intorural and remote corners of thecountry. We are uniquely posi-tioned to take forward the taskof making digital technologyextend to villages,” said CSCCEO Dr Dinesh Tyagi. Heclaimed that CSC can get onelakh villages transformed intoDigital Villages within oneyear which would require sup-port from all Ministries of theGovernment.

New Delhi: The Lakshadweepadministration on Tuesday helda multi-agency security reviewmeeting following intelligencereports that a boat carrying 15ISIS terrorists had set off fromSri Lanka to the scenic islands.

Farooq Khan, theAdministrator of the UnionTerritory, held a meeting atKavaratti with senior officialsof the local administration,Navy and Coast Guard, aLakshadweep administrationspokesperson said. He saidNaval officers briefed Khan thatboth the Navy and CoastGuard vessels are undertakingenhanced patrolling across allthe islands of Lakshadweep.

“The surveillance by Naval

maritime patrol aircraft is alsoin progress and all possiblemeasures have been taken toprevent such intrusion in anyof the islands in Lakshadweep,”the spokesperson said, quotingthe defence officials.

The Navy officer alsoinformed the meeting that aboat from Tamil Nadu, namedSS Rafai, with eight crew mem-bers and bearing false registra-tion documents has been seizednear Suheli island, he said.

Senior Superintendent ofPolice (SSP) Shibesh Singhbriefed the meeting that hispersonnel are maintaining highalert in the area and all the pas-senger jetties and fish landingjetties have been kept on strict

surveillance.Khan directed all the secu-

rity forces including Navy,Coast Guard, CRPF, localpolice and intelligence units toexercise high alert. The admin-istrator also directed theseagencies to give special atten-tion to the uninhabited islandsand take up frequent jointpatrolling, he said.

Khan also directed theagencies that special securityshould be ensured at the Agattiisland, the spokesperson said.

The Intelligence about thesuspected movement of the ter-rorists was first received on May23 from Sri Lankan authoritiesand the Kerala police has alsobeen on alert since then. PTI

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The Supreme Court onTuesday asked the brothers

of a cattle trader who waslynched in Uttar Pradesh’sHapur in June last year toplace their additional state-ments before the trial court forits consideration.

A Bench of Chief JusticeRanjan Gogoi and JusticeAniruddha Bose said, “Theorder that would be appropri-ate to be passed, at this stage,would be to permit the peti-tioners to draw the attention ofthe learned trial Judge to theaforesaid statements of thebrothers of the deceased record-ed under Section 164 CrPC.

“The petitioners may actaccordingly, where after appro-priate orders will be passed bythe learned trial court.”

However, the court refusedto direct the Uttar PradeshPolice to file any supplementarychargesheet in the matter assought by Samiuddin, a sur-vivor of the attack, who sub-mitted before the court that theinvestigation did not appear sat-isfactory and was apparentlynot going in the right direction.

Samiuddin sought furtherinvestigation with respect to thestatements made by Saleemand Nadeem, two brothers ofthe victim Qasim, recordedunder Section 164 of theCriminal Procedure Codebefore Chief Judicial Magistrateof Hapur on May 15.

On the other hand, theUttar Pradesh Police, in its latestaffidavit filed in response toSamiuddin’s plea, said it couldnot connect the 2018 Hapurlynching case to a religious angleor find trail of any conspiracy.

“The incident had notoccasioned on the basis of reli-gious feelings, no evidenceindicating the same has so farbeen brought on record eitherby way of oral evidence or bemeans of documentary evi-dence,” the affidavit said.

Police have also deniedany conspiracy behind thelynching. “The fact of commonintention or that of hatching aconspiracy is not reflected evenin the FIR. No facts could berevealed to point out the issueof common intention or con-spiracy during the course ofinvestigation.”

To Samiuddin’s demandfor inclusion of a police officerfrom a different State in theSIT, the police stated that theofficers conducting the probeare competent. “It is assuredthat no slackness/carelessnesshad been shown by the officersinvolved in the investigation,”the police said in the affidavit.

Rejecting all the accusationswith regards to the distortion ofthe investigation, they, instead,blamed Samiuddin for “twistingthe facts”.

Regarding the bail of theaccused, the police said it had norole play in it as the matter wasat the discretion of the trialcourt. Police also informed thecourt that it had closed thedepartmental inquiry againstthe Circle Officer and twoInspectors concerned, as thereno evidence to prove their delin-quency in handling the incident.

In June last year, 38-year-old Qasim was killed and 65-year-old Samiuddin was severe-ly injured in Hapur after agroup of people attacked themon the suspicion of beinginvolved in cow slaughter.

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An accused who has beendiagnosed with third stage

oral cancer in jail and wants to“die in the lap of his mother”has moved a bail plea in theSupreme Court which soughtRajasthan Police’s response onit on Tuesday. A vacationBench comprising Chief JusticeRanjan Gogoi and JusticeAniruddha Bose issued noticeto police on the petition andsought its response by June 5,the next date of hearing.

The petitioner is accused ofbeing in possession of coun-terfeit currency and a case waslodged against him in Jaipur last

year. He has moved the apexcourt against the April 24 orderof the Rajasthan High Courtwhich had dismissed his pleaseeking interim bail in the case.He said he has been diagnosedwith third stage oral cancer injail and is getting daily radiotherapy at a hospital in Jaipur.

“The petitioner was diag-nosed with cancer at jail and hasbeen undergoing radiotherapy

on daily basis for the last eightmonths. His successive bail appli-cations were dismissed for thereason that he has been receiv-ing treatment at Sawai ManSingh Hospital, Jaipur,” he said inhis plea, claiming that he hasbeen denied the right treatmentfor the ailment. He has soughtinterim bail saying trial in thecase would take a long time andby then, he may be dead or evenlose his mental balance to under-stand the trial proceedings.

“The cancer patient loseshope like the petitioner whohas lost hope of living, wants todie in the lap of his mothercraving for emotional supportof the mother and near anddear,” he said.

New Delhi: India on Tuesdayissued a fresh advisory askingcitizens travelling to Sri Lanka to be careful and vigilantin view of last month’s bomb-ings in which over 250 peoplewere killed.

In the advisory, theMinistry of External Affairs(MEA) said security situationin Sri Lanka is graduallyreturning to normal with thelifting of curfew and restric-tions on social media and theopening of schools.

At the same time it said,“Indian nationals travelling toSri Lanka are advised to becareful and vigilant.” It alsoasked Indian nationals requir-ing any assistance to get intouch round the clock with theIndian High Commission inColombo and Assistant HighCommission in Kandy as wellas Consulates in Jaffna andHambantota.

In the aftermath of theblasts last month, the MEA hadasked citizens not to undertakenon-essential travel to theisland nation. PTI

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The Union Ministry ofHealth has asked the

Medical Council of India(MCI) to extend the last datefor PG medical admission inStates to May 31, 2019, to fill upthe remaining vacant seats inthe academic session 2019-20.

According to the timeschedule notified by MCI, thelast date for filling up of PostGraduate Medical seats by theStates is May 18.

The move followed repre-sentations from various insti-tutions and State Governmentsto the Centre seeking extensionof the last date for filling up ofvacant PG medical seatsbeyond May 18, an officialstatement said.

“The Ministry of Healthand Family Welfare hasrequested MCI to considerextension of the last date for PGmedical admission in Statesfrom May 18 to May 31, 2019to fill up the remaining vacantseats in the academic session2019-20,” the statement said.

It added, “The HealthMinistry has thus requested theBoard of Governors (BoG),MCI to examine the matter andmake suitable recommenda-tions,” the statement said.

The Ministry, recently, inconsultation with the BoG hadreduced the qualifying marksfor NEET-PG for 2019-20 bysix percentile.

The decision was taken tofill up around 2,000 seats thatremained vacant even after the

second round of counselling, asenior official said.

Now, general category can-didates with minimum mark of44 percentile, persons with dis-abilities category with mini-mum of 39 percentile andSC/ST and OBC category can-didates with 34 percentile havebecome eligible for admission topostgraduate medical coursesfor the academic year 2019-20.

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Berlin: Chancellor AngelaMerkel says Germany has to bemore vigilant when it comes tonationalist movements acrossEurope because of the country’sNazi past.

Merkel, who was inter-viewed by CNN’s ChristianeAmanpour in Berlin, said inexcerpts released Tuesday thatGermany has to face up to pop-ulists who are finding mainstream support andrecount “what history has

brought.”Referring to populist par-

ties across the continent thatwere boosted by EuropeanParliament elections on theweekend that, Merkel said, “inGermany, obviously, theyalways have to be seen in a cer-tain context, in the context ofour past, which means we haveto be that much more vigilantthan others.”

European Union leadersare set for a night of haggling

on Tuesday over who shouldlead the 28-nation bloc’s keyinstitutions for the next fiveyears after weekend electionsshook up Europe’s politicallandscape.

Presidents and PrimeMinisters will meet informal-ly over an evening meal tochoose who should take over ashead of the EU’s powerfulexecutive branch, the EuropeanCommission, currently led byJean-Claude Juncker.

Sunday’s elections haveredrawn the EU’s political map.Mainstream center-right andcenter-left groups that longheld power lost seats in theEuropean Parliament. Manyvoters, concerned about climatechange, migration or securityturned instead to the Greens,the pro-business ALDE groupor far-right parties.

It’s unclear what workablemajority will emerge in thehouse. AP

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Kushner is accompanied byJason Greenblatt, Trump’s spe-cial representative to interna-tional negotiations, and BrianHook, the special US repre-sentative for Iran, the WhiteHouse said.

They “will travel from May27 to May 31 to Rabat, Amman,and Jerusalem,” said a WhiteHouse official speaking on con-dition of anonymity. AFP

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Bobigny (France): A Paris courton Tuesday began hearing acase brought by a mother anddaughter who, in a legal first inFrance, are suing the State fordamages over ill health caused byair pollution. The mother andthe daughter are asking for160,000 euros ($179,000) in

damages from the state at theadministrative court ofMontreuil in the east of Paris.

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currently see the need formediation with the UnitedStates, as it played down thechances of a military clashwith Washington.

Spokesman Abbas Mousavitold a press conference thatTehran “does not feel any ten-sion or (the possibility of)clashes” and said concerns hadbeen “created by others”. Hetold journalists that the Islamicrepublic “does not presentlybelieve in” mediation.

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strike on Tuesday, leaving airand bus passengers stranded asprotesters piled pressure on themilitary to hand power to acivilian administration.

The leaders of an umbrel-la protest movement remain atloggerheads with army gener-als who ousted president Omaral-Bashir last month overwhether a civilian or a soldiershould head a new governingbody.

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The economic situation acrossthe world is fraught with sev-eral uncertainties today, whichare clearly the result of a num-ber of political developments

that have taken place in recent times. Onemajor factor that is likely to lead to anoverall decline in global economic activ-ity is the trade war between the US andChina, possibilities of resolving whichseem extremely distant at this point oftime. There are some economists whohave taken the position that perhaps bythe end of this year and in 2020, the worldcould face an economic recession.

In the case of India, we do have a newGovernment, which has received a mas-sive mandate under the leadership ofPrime Minister Narendra Modi. It wouldbe extremely important for a quick set ofmoves by the new Government so thatthere is very little loss of time in correct-ing some of the distortions, which rep-resent historical flaws. We also need toaccount for global factors such as an eco-nomic slowdown in large parts of theworld and a possible decline in externaltrade. In these columns earlier, it wasemphasised that wherever we have trendsthat are unfavourable and which mayresult in some kind of catastrophe or dis-aster, there is a need for bringing aboutdisruptive change. Examples of these canbe seen with some economic policies andchanges in institutions attempted inIndia itself and in other countries to bringabout major corrections in past trends.

It is, therefore, particularly importantthat we size up the current situation sothat the Government implements a majorset of measures by which disruptivechange can be introduced, which getsaway from the trends and pathwayswhich define the past.

Indeed, this is an important juncturewhen given the massive majority of thePrime Minister’s new Government, wecould ensure that consensus is achieved. Itwould be useful to carry out some degreeof historical analysis of how the Indian econ-omy has performed since independence.There was a lost opportunity in the initialdecades after independence when India reg-istered a rate of growth, which can at bestbe described as anaemic. In the first threedecades after independence, per capitaincome increased at barely one per cent onan annualised basis. While this certainly didnot improve the economic lot of the com-mon man on the street, it was also respon-sible for a lack of investment in moderni-sation, industrialisation, improving liveli-hoods in rural areas and most important-ly, in the development of human capital.

It was vital to understand at that stagethat perhaps the very basic services thatsociety in India was deprived of in ear-lier years included education, health,investments in infrastructure, trans-

portation and communica-tions, which would certainlyhave opened up the Indianeconomy to a far moredynamic rate of growth. Nodoubt the prevailing philoso-phy during those earlier yearswas one of Fabian socialism.Even in the case of invest-ments in industr y, theIndustrial Policy Resolution of1956, which clearly enunciat-ed that the commandingheights of the economy shouldbe in the hands of the publicsector, was a drag on ensuringa rate of growth, which wouldhave provided higher welfareto Indian society.

A higher growth ratewould have generated sur-pluses that could have beeninvested in some of the basicservices mentioned above.But the mindset of thoseresponsible for administer-ing development activitiesafter independence contin-ued with approaches rooted incolonial practices and theinstitutions they had at theirdisposal remained unalteredand dominated by stagnationand chronic inertia.

In comparison with otherdeveloping countries, theshare of manufacturing in theIndian economy alsoremained stagnant and much

of the investment in manufac-turing came from the publicsector. There was an inherenthostility towards private sec-tor investments and regulato-ry institutions carried thisbias within the restrictions ofa Soviet-style planned econo-my. There was inadequateattention paid to profession-alising regulatory institutionsand raising the level of exper-tise for objectivity in eco-nomic decision-making.

India, therefore, accountedfor a share of only nine per centof the Gross Domestic Product(GDP) in 1950-51, reaching 16per cent in 1961 and 20 percent only in 1996; Brazilaccounted for 29 per centin1971; China for 35 per centin 1971; and in 1996 SouthKorea accounted for 27 percent, Malaysia 28 per cent andThailand 26 per cent respec-tively. A large part of the invest-ment was through the publicsector in large industrial units.

Mahatma Gandhithroughout his life empha-sised on the development ofvillages as India’s foremost pri-ority. This was neglected,which is the case even today.Urban growth is a fact of lifeand cities need major invest-ments to ensure their sustain-ability. But unless rural areas

are developed to create liveli-hoods and employmentpotential, urban locationswould be overwhelmed bymigrants from villages movingto towns and cities and livingunder miserable conditions.

One major option for gen-erating resources for prioritysectors would be in respect todisinvestment. Despite pastpolicy favouring this option,performance on this front hasbeen less than satisfactory. In aconversation that this writerhad with a former PrimeMinister suggesting the privati-sation of Air India, he receivedthe response, “Privatise AirIndia. But that’s our nationalcarrier!” Meanwhile, Air Indiahas slipped further into the red,even as the current CMD, com-petent as he is, is doing every-thing possible to stem the rot.

Arvind Panagariya, thefirst Vice Chairman of NITIAayog, has suggested that thenew Government must show“strong commitment to fiscalconsolidation, consolidationof Central ministries, aggres-sive privatisation of publicsector undertakings and cre-ation of a new internationaltrade negotiation entity tofast-track the economicgrowth of the country.” Allthese recommendations, if

accepted, would also requiresubstantial institutionalreform and professionalisa-tion of decision-making with-in the Government.

An outcome of privatisa-tion should also involve imag-inative measures for upliftingthe rural economy, whichrequires viable investments,particularly in small andmedium enterprise; genera-tion of requisite skills; marketaccess and connectivity; andbasic services, such as educa-tion and health care. In thewords of Mahatma Gandhi, a“village has to be self-sus-tained and capable of manag-ing its af fairs…theGovernment of the villagewill be conducted by the pan-chayat…These will have allthe authority and jurisdic-tion required…..” Can wetransform India’s economyand its rigid institutions to ful-fil Gandhiji’s vision andreduce our line Ministries tobreak down the insular silosthat exist? Can we privatiseIndia’s public sector undertak-ings efficaciously and pro-vide resources for building thecapacity of panchayats?

(The writer is formerchairman, IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change,2002-15)

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Sir — This refers to the editorial,“Rahul’s reckoning” (May 27).The Congress leadership is grap-pling with the distinct possibilityof its chief Rahul Gandhi refusingto withdraw his resignation offer.The dominant view is that hewon’t change his mind no matterhow intense the pressure. But cer-tain things are written in stone.One, only a member of theGandhi family will lead, nobodyelse. Two, the party will not holdits leadership accountable, comewhat may. Therefore, we shouldhave fully anticipated the charadethe so-called CWC enacted afterlosing. Let Gandhi prove uswrong. I wonder why he cried foulover senior Congress leaders likeAshok Gehlot, Kamal Nath and PChidambaram, putting their sonsbefore the party despite the factthat his own mother had done thesame. He should have thoughtthat had his mother prioritisedthe general well-being of herparty instead of making him topgun straight away, the Congressmight not have been in such a badshape.

Frankly, the party no longerhas a story to tell. It has lost its

elan. Having tied its destiny to asingle family, it is inevitable thatthe voter was right to reject suchcraven, cringing family-retainers.

KS Jayatheertha Bengaluru

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Sir — At a time when the NDA-2 Government is yet to begin itsjourney, yoga guru Baba

Ramdev’s advice to theGovernment to ban the manufac-turing, sale and purchase ofliquor across India and to deprivethird child voting rights andGovernment benefits has need-

lessly stirred a hornet’s nest. During an address to the

newly elected NDA MPs, thePrime Minister had already madeit explicitly clear to them that theyshould not discriminate and,instead, take everyone along whilemarching ahead towards the pathof development. The messagewas very clear that performanceshould be the yardstick. It will bein the best of interest of party MPsas well as Opposition parties andleaders to behave responsibly.

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Sir — It is unfortunate thatBritain is still struggling to leavethe European Union. BritishPrime Minister Theresa May’sresignation will throw the coun-try into further turmoil and itappears that a soft Brexit deal isvery unlikely. A snap parliamen-tary election and a second refer-endum on the issue appear to bethe only options.

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Arapidly growing population is a stupendousnational problem. Therefore, the sugges-tion of yoga guru Baba Ramdev to disen-

franchise those having more than two childrenmay sound preposterous but at least has raised acrucial issue, that of a demographic dividendquickly becoming a demographic slag. He has alsosuggested that such people should be deprived ofother Government facilities to send a strong mes-sage to others to effectively control the fast-grow-ing population of India. Whatever the nature ofhis suggestions, unless fresh restrictions areimposed, then India will soon surpass China tobecome the most populous nation in less than fiveyears.

At present, India’s population stands at near-ly 134 crore while China is inhabited by nearly140 crore. Which means in another two years,India will overtake China. There is no denyingthat urgent and aggressive steps such as strict con-trol policies and linking their observance withincentives are urgently needed to control the pop-ulation. Until and unless the Government goesfor some effective measures to adopt a compre-hensive population policy, all attempts at econom-ic progress and recovery will be a damp squibbecause the country will not be able to bear theburden of the burgeoning population. The pop-ulation of the United States (US) stands at 33 crorebut its landmass area is 9.834 million square km,making the density of the population 35 personper square km.

According to a UN survey, India will soonbecome the world’s most populous country as itspopulation is predicted to surpass that of Chinawithin the next decade. It is expected to contin-ue to grow until mid-century, reaching an esti-mated 1.68 billion in the 2050s. But an importantpiece of evidence tells us that population growthwill come to an end: The number of children inIndia peaked more than a decade ago and is nowfalling. But the effects of a boom will haunt us forthe next three decades at least.

If we study patterns of population changesince 1950 and the UN’s projections of popula-tion by age bracket, then we would see that thenumber of children under the age of five (under-5s) peaked in 2007; since then the number hasbeen falling. The number of Indians under 15years old peaked slightly later (in 2011) and is nowalso declining. These are landmark moments indemographic change. Still India’s populationwill continue to grow as a result of “populationmomentum” — the effect often referred to byHans Rosling and Gapminder as the “inevitablefill-up” when young generations grow older.Reaching “peak child” anticipates the later “peakpopulation.” The number of children has peaked;the total population will follow and reach its peakin four decades.

India’s landmass area is 3.287 million squarekm and the density of its population is 382 persquare km. Let us see the density of populationof some other countries: China (152 per squarekm), Canada (four people) Russia (8.4 people),England (259), Germany (227), France( 118) andItaly (201). Even in Pakistan, the density of pop-ulation is 251 per sq km, which is much less thanIndia. Except for Bangladesh (1,120 per squarekm), all other neighbouring countries have less

and lighter burden of population. In SriLanka, it is 325, in Nepal it is 201 andin Myanmar it is almost one-fourth ofIndia ie, 95.

Our neighbour China has adopteda very harsh population measure of aone-child policy, which mandated thatthe vast majority of couples in the coun-try could only have one child. This wasintended to alleviate the social, econom-ic and environmental problems associ-ated with the country’s rapidly growingpopulation. But the policy itself is nowbeing relaxed in view of the skewed gen-der ratio and a growing geriatric pop-ulation.

In India, however, it was a very lib-eral policy of “hum do aur humare do”(we two and ours two) adopted bySanjay Gandhi during Emergency. Itstiming and implementation were wrongbut the policy was certainly commend-able. Regrettably, successiveGovernments have thrown the childaway with the bath water. Australia is acontinent which is over twice theexpanse of India — its population is lessthan 2.50 crore. An example is given injest, which is also a fact, that the num-ber of children born every year in Indiais equivalent to the population ofAustralia. But jokes cannot be appreci-ated when the burden on resourcesbecomes unbearable. No country canthen think of making any progress.

With increasing population, Indiais already at the receiving end of infra-structural pressure. More houses, hos-pitals, educational institutions, roads,parks and space for offices, manufactur-ing units, factories and other establish-ments will be needed. Construction ofbuildings will certainly need more land,which will ultimately eat into agricultur-

al and forest areas. This can causeenough damage to the flora, fauna andthe environment.

When you have more people to feedand less soil for farms, then howsoeverscientific method of agriculture anddairy farming you adopt, there willalways be a crisis of food and milk. Onecannot expect to provide enough foodand milk to the entire population. Thedemand for food will double in the year2050 and even if India manages to feedits expanding population, its growth maynot be ecologically sustainable. In India,the global demand for water in 2050 isprojected to be more than 50 per centof what it was in 2000.

We are already at the receiving endof malnutrition and further compromis-ing national health may end up stress-ing hospitals and compounding the dis-ease burden. This resource crunch isIndia’s biggest decelerator.

UN experts have also pointed outhow India’s rate of urban populationgrowth will climb because of migrationand especially youths seeking jobs. “Bymid-century, half of India’s population,about 830 million people, is expected tobe urban dwellers, which will challengegovernment capacities to provide basicservices and infrastructure. About one-fifth of the population lives without elec-tricity,” wrote Joseph Chamie, the for-mer director of the UN population divi-sion and Barry Mirkin, former chief ofthe UN’s population policy section, ina research paper in 2017.

“Healthcare also lags with about halfof Indian children reported to be under-nourished. About two-thirds of them areimmunised for diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus, compared to nearly allin China. Tuberculosis in India accounts

for over a quarter of reported new casesworldwide, the highest of any country.Another public health challenge: the lackof sanitation facilities for more than halfof India’s rural population,” they con-cluded.

It must be understood that a law onpopulation control, if it is made, will beapplicable to not only one communitybut for all sections of society. It is real-ly very surprising that a senior advocatein the Supreme Court has come out witha bizarre logic, which does not have anyleg to stand upon. He has said that morethan a hundred Members of Parliamenthave got more than three children, doesit mean that they should be debarredfrom participating in the elections?There is no need to tell that no such lawcan have a retrospective effect and it hasbeen settled by the Supreme Court inGolak Nath case. So, there cannot be anyfear to anybody on that count. Moreover,this is a suggestion which should be dis-cussed by Parliament in detail. For teststudies have predicted an increase incases of desertion and bigamy, neglectand death of female infants, cases of pre-natal sex determination and inducedabortion of female foetus, child givenaway for adoption as fallouts of possi-ble legislation.

A consciousness has to be broughtabout, either by increasing the awarenessof the people with a sprinkling of somepunitive or coercive measures, which arebound to boomerang in a democracylike India. They can be successful onlyin authoritarian regimes like China, notin India. We do have existing policy andinitiatives but there is no doubt that therehas to be drastic enforcement.

(The writer is Advocate on Record atthe Supreme Court of India)

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The Congress is going throughan existential crisis even asparty chief Rahul Gandhi has

been authorised to restructure theorganisation at all levels last week.Indeed, the party needs such ruth-less surgery. Gandhi offered to resigntaking 100 per cent responsibility forthe defeat in 2019 polls but during aCongress Working Committee meet-ing, party leaders asked Rahul to stay.

There can be no doubt that theCongress has barely managed toimprove its tally from its all-time lowof 44 seats in 2014 — it has now won52 seats but the buck stops withRahul Gandhi as party chief. It is themedia, which has been demandingRahul Gandhi’s ouster but the ques-

tion is: Is Rahul Gandhi the onlyproblem the Congress is facing now?No. The problem lies elsewhere.The Congress is facing a combinationof issues, including a leadership cri-sis. The last time it faced a similar sit-uation was when there was erosionunder the leadership of SitaramKesri in 1998. That time, SoniaGandhi stepped in and arrested theerosion. Now, the lack of a thrivingorganisation, proper vision for thefuture and failure to project itself asa credible alternative to the BJP anddisconnect with the voters are thereal problems. The Congress alsocould not lead the Opposition tochallenge the Modi juggernaut.

Perhaps, the failure of Rahul isthat he did not choose the right peo-ple for the right job as he collectedaround himself non-political leaderswho had no electoral understandingor experience. He seemed a confusedlot as he could not spell out the pre-sent Congress ideology or its mes-sage. The NYAY scheme, too, wasannounced late and it could not per-colate down. The Congress scion didnot have any electoral strategy to

match the BJP’s excellent campaign.Rafale and chowkidar chor hai slo-gans were just not enough.Moreover, there were only two starcampaigners — Rahul and Priyanka.Senior leaders were not utilised in thecampaign. Even bringing Priyankainto politics was a decision too late.Also, the party did not build on sec-ond-rung leaders. How could theparty win the elections when it didnot have booth-level workers orfoot soldiers who could carry theparty’s message to the people?

The Congress may not dump theGandhi family as it has no otherleader on whom the party can reposetrust. The party will not allow RahulGandhi to quit even if he persists andwill go through the same drama afterSonia Gandhi resigned in 1999 whenleaders like Sharad Pawar ques-tioned her foreign origin. WhenSitaram Kesri was expelled in 1998,Sonia Gandhi was ready and waiting.Today, most senior leaders in theCongress are too old while mostjunior leaders have lost the recent

Lok Sabha polls. So who could steerthe party when its morale is so low?As a temporary reprieve, it will tryto find a buffer between Rahul andthe party and might go for a work-ing president to share Rahul’s work.This has been its formula all alongwhen leadership comes under attack.

There is no doubt that theCongress should reinvent itself if itwants to survive. Perhaps, it can takea leaf out of the former Former BritishPrime Minister Tony Blair had coinedthe word “new labour” in October 1994conference speech as part of the slo-gan “New Labour, New Britain” beforethe party came to power. The newCongress should take into account thechanging scenario in the country andstudy what the new voters and aspira-tional youth want instead of harpingon its past glory.

The Congress has reinventeditself earlier, too. Indira Gandhishowed them the way in 1969 whenthe party split and again in 1977 whenshe launched the Congress (I). RajivGandhi spoke of the power brokers inthe 1985 AICC session and tried tochange the party. PV Narasimha

Rao’s Congress moved towards theRight-wing with reforms while SoniaGandhi brought it back to Left-wingwelfare politics. Rahul’s failure is thathe was not able to sell his political oreconomic vision to the public.

There is still time to implementthe much-needed facelift, which canbe decided after a Pachmarhi orShimla kind of brainstorming ses-sion. The new strategy shouldinclude infusion of dynamic second-rung leaders and strong State-levelleaders. It must be a blend of expe-rience and youth. The party shouldre-establish connect with the public.

Even at this stage, all is not lostin the half-a-dozen States and theparty can hope to win some more inthe upcoming Assembly elections inthe next five years. If it decides tochange itself ruthlessly with the sin-gle aim of electoral gains, it shouldbegin now. It needs to look at the pre-sent crisis as an opportunity tochange itself to modern-day needs.Change is the only constant thingand the party should realise this.

(The writer is a senior political com-mentator and syndicated columnist)

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The rupee on Tuesdaydeclined by 18 paise to

close at 69.69 against the UScurrency, weighed down bymonth-end dollar demandfrom importers and risingcrude oil prices.

Forex traders said thatweakened Asian currenciesalso added to the pressure onthe domestic unit.

However, gains in domes-tic equities supported the rupeeand capped its losses to someextent, they added.

At the interbank foreignexchange (forex) market, thedomestic currency openedlower at 69.68 per dollar andfell further to touch the day’slow of 69.74. It finally settled at69.69, down 18 paise over itsprevious close.

The rupee had settled at69.51 against the US dollarMonday.

“Month end dollar demandfrom oil importers, weakerAsian currencies and probableforeign funds outflows byMSCI re-balancing draggedthe rupee lower in Tuesday’strade,” said V K Sharma, HeadPCG & Capital MarketsStrategy, HDFC Securities.

Going forward, the focus

will be onRBI mone-tary policyo u t c o m escheduledon June 6,on GDPdata andm a nu f a c -turing activ-ity numbersscheduledon Fridaythis week.

B r e n tcrude futures, the global oilbenchmark, climbed 0.53 percent to $70.48 per barrel.

The dollar index, whichgauges the greenback’s strengthagainst a basket of six curren-cies, rose 0.16 per cent to97.77.

Meanwhile, governmentbonds rose, leading to 0.39 percent drop in the yield to 7.14per cent.

Foreign institutionalinvestors (FIIs) remained netbuyers in the capital markets,putting in Rs 1,215.36 croreMonday, as per provisionaldata.

Continuing their record-setting spree for a third day ina row, domestic equity bench-marks Sensex and NiftyTuesday hit fresh closing highs

on sustained foreign fundinflows coupled with positivedomestic cues.

After swinging over 300points in a highly volatilesession, the 30-share indexended 66.44 points, or 0.17per cent, higher at 39,749.73— its all-time closing high.Likewise, the broader NSENifty inched 4 points, or 0.03per cent, higher to 11,928.75— another closing peak forthe index.

Meanwhile, FinancialBenchmark India Private Ltd(FBIL) set the reference rate forthe rupee/dollar at 69.4327and for rupee/euro at 77.8220.The reference rate forrupee/British pound was fixedat 88.4795 and for rupee/100Japanese yen at 63.38.

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Prosecutors in Stuttgart saidthey raided German sports

car maker and Volkswagensubsidiary Porsche on Tuesdayon suspicion that an auditorwas bribed to pass informationto the company’s tax advisor.

The investigators suspectthat “an official from theStuttgart business audit officerevealed confidential informa-tion to a tax advisor of PorscheAG and accepted benefits inexchange,” they said in a state-ment.

Almost 200 police andprosecutors searched the luxu-ry carmaker’s offices, tax col-lectors’ offices, a tax advisor’soffice and private homes in andaround Stuttgart for paper and

digital documents.On top of the bribery

probe, investigators suspectthe company made “unjusti-fied” and “disproportionatelylarge” payments to a formerworks council member. Sixpeople, including some fromthe company leadership, “mayhave committed fraud againstPorsche AG” they said.

Earlier this month, Porscheagreed to pay a fine of 535 mil-lion euros ($669 million) overits role in the separate “diesel-gate” emissions cheating scan-dal.

Its parent companyVolkswagen admitted in 2015to manipulating 11 millionvehicles worldwide to appearless polluting in the lab than onthe road.

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(NCLAT) on Tuesday gavefour weeks’ time to VikramBakshi to settle his disputewith state owned-HUDCOwhich is claiming dues of Rs195 crore from the McDonald’sestranged partner.

A two member bench ofthe appellate tribunal headedby Chairman Justice S JMukhopadhaya said this wouldbe the “last chance” to Bakshito settle the dispute withHousing and UrbanDevelopment Corporation(HUDCO).

“We allow four weeks timeto Vikram Bakshi to settle thematter with HUDCO,” saidthe NCLAT.

The tribunal also directedBakshi to file a report on thedevelopment by filing an affi-davit in the matter before it.

Earlier this month, fast-food chain McDonald’s andBakshi had announced to reachan out-of-court settlement,buying out its partner’s stake intheir JV Connaught PlazaRestaurants Pvt Ltd, whichoperates fast food chain innorthern and eastern India.

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The commerce ministry hasproposed creation of a sep-

arate department for tradefacilitation and logistics forbetter coordination among dif-ferent government units, anofficial said.

Currently, there is no sin-gle department to look at all theaspects related to logistics cov-ering various modes of ship-ment such as sea, roads andrailways.

The proposal is part of a

100-day action plan preparedby the ministry for the newgovernment, which will takeoffice on May 30.

“Creation of a separatedepartment for trade facilita-tion and logistics will lead tobetter coordination,” the officialsaid.

At present, a logistics divi-sion is functioning under thedepartment of commerce andheaded by a special secretary-level officer.

Logistics is a key compo-nent for increasing competi-

tiveness of exporters anddomestic traders by reducingtransport cost and time, andexpediting smooth movementof goods.

The official said that thesector needs lot of coordinationamong different ministries anddepartments including rail-ways, road and shipping.

In January this year,Economic Advisory Councilto the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) has suggested setting upa separate logistics depart-ment to boost transport sector

and improve ease of doingbusiness.

The ten-point action planhas also proposed rolling outof national logistics policy,multi-modal logistic policy,integrated national logisticsaction plan, and logistics plan-ning and performance man-agement tool.

As per the plan, a Multi-Modal Transportation ofGoods (MMTG) bill will beintroduced in Parliament,which will replace the existingMMTG Act, 1993.

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The National Company LawTribunal (NCLT) Tuesday

directed market regulator Sebi toconclude its probe into allega-tions against Hotel Leelaventureby the company’s two minorityshareholders ITC and LIC.

The NCLT’s Mumbaibench comprising V P Singhand Ravikumar Duraisamy saidthe regulator should concludeits examination on the matterbefore the next date of hearing,on July 8.

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India) in partnership withChief Electrical InspectorateDivision of CEA and BISorganised the fifth edition ofThe National Workshop onElectrical Safety. This year theworkshop focused on‘Emerging Challenges inElectrical Safety’, and saw pre-sentations and discussions onways to promote a safety cul-ture for an accident & injuryfree use of electricity.

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New Delhi: The scrip ofPunjab National Bank fell by3.5 per cent Tuesday even asthe company narrowed its lossto �4,750 crore during thefourth quarter of fiscal endedMarch 2019.

Shares of the companydeclined 3.47 per cent to closeat �86.20 on the BSE. Duringthe day, it plunged 4.59 percent to �85.20.

At the NSE, shares fell3.41 per cent to close at�86.20.

In terms of volume, 63.24lakh shares were traded on theBSE during the day, while over8 crore shares were traded onthe NSE.

The State-owned bankTuesday reported narrowing ofits loss to �4,750 crore duringthe March quarter. PTI

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Corporation Limited(NSIC) signs theMemorandum ofU n d e r s t a n d i n g(MOU) with Ministryof Micro, Small andMedium Enterprises(MSMEs) for the year 2019-20.The MOU was signed by RamMohan Mishra, AS & DC(MSME) and CMD (NSIC)with Arun Kumar Panda,Secretary, MSME, Governmentof India in the presence of AlkaNangia Arora, Joint Secretary,SME, Mercy Epao, Director(SME), P Udayakumar, Director— P&M (NSIC) and AK Mittal,Director-Finance (NSIC).

The said MOU envisagesprovision of enhanced servicesby NSIC under its Marketing,Financial, Technology and

Other support servicesschemes, for MSMEs in thecountry. The Corporation pro-jects to increase ‘Revenue fromOperation’ by 22% from�2540 crore in the year 2018-19to 3100 crore in the year 2019-20. Corporation also projectsgrowth of 32% in ‘Profitability’during the year 2019-20. NSICalso plans to enhance its activ-ities in the areas of impartingentrepreneurship and skilldevelopment training by tar-geting 45% growth in the num-ber of trainees.

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It is that time of the year where overthousands of students need tomake a critical decision; a decision

that can make or break their profes-sional lives. It is time to select a pro-fessional course such as engineering,medical, commerce and arts. When itcomes to making this decision, stu-dents often need to choose betweenthe two: Should I follow my passionand choose a stream that can help meearn well?

Most of the students in our coun-try often opt for the second option.This is because choosing an engi-neering stream which offers a secureand well-paying job seems like theright thing to do, or so their parentsand friends advise. But, is this reallytrue?

Let’s look at a few surveys to findout. According to a survey by Timesof India, 65 per cent of students enrolin engineering courses due to parentalpressure. The survey states that mostof these students do not have a strongaptitude for subjects such as physicsand maths; which are the key subjectsin engineering. Despite this, they are

forced into studying in one of themany engineering colleges in ourcountry. It is not only the parents thatforce students into taking up a coursethey do not want to.

The survey also states that stu-dents often enrol for a course becausetheir friends are doing it. A few of theother reasons why individuals pursuea particular stream or course isbecause it is considered the mostsought-after choice in the industryand offers excellent job opportunities.Most of the times students make adecision due to one of these factors.And, what happens next?

Making a decision because it willhelp you land with a fancy job or makeyour parents happy eventually leads todissatisfaction, low productivity andan increase in stress levels. At times,this can even become a fatal choice.According to an article published ina national daily, suicide is the leadingcause of death among those agedbetween 15-29; the youth in ourcountry.

These figures make it clear thatthe way we are doing things needs to

be changed immediately. Parents andstudents, both, need to get rid of thecommon myths that surround them.A few of these include one needs tostudy Civil Engineering to becomesuccessful, campus placement is every-thing and your marks define your life.Only when we, as a society, are ableto move on from such misconcep-tions, we can come closer to being aprogressive and productive country.

One of the ways to do this is bygiving students the freedom to choosewhat they want to study and lead acareer which they really want to pur-sue. Students can do this by identify-ing their interests and skills. Now,choosing a profession based on what'spassion might not always be the mostfinancially sound option. But, at least,one can lead a professional life whichthey chose and are really passionateabout.

Today, students have more optionsthan ever. This makes it easier forthem to pursue a career which piquestheir interest. All they need to do isask questions such as “What interestsme the most?”

Is it tinkering with different typesof devices? If yes, one can chooseMechanical Engineering. “Is it learn-ing how the automated world func-tions?” Then, Augmented Reality andVirtual Reality Engineering can be asuitable option. “Do I want to solve theenergy crisis and work towards build-ing a better environment?” If you do,then Environmental Engineering isthe right choice. Finding answers tosuch questions will help students fig-ure out a career which they are excit-ed about and evolve into an expert inthat field.

At the end of the day, studentsneed to be satisfied with their decision.They should know trends may comeand go, placement statistics canchange, and parents and friends willmove on. One thing which willremain constant is their decision;which can influence their profes-sional life positively. This is why stu-dents should consider choosing a pro-fessional course based on their passionand interests alone.

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The Indian Institute of TechnologyHyderabad researchers have developed

models and computational simulation studiesthat can predict the performance of road sur-faces or pavements and compare these pre-dictions with conventional road designs.Their work has been recently published in theJournal of Transport Engineering, a reputedpeer-reviewed journal.

This research offers a route to accurate pre-diction of pavement performance, which canhelp in construction of long-lasting roads inIndia.

Speaking about the importance of thisresearch, Professor Sireesh Saride, Departmentof Civil Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, said: “The

pavements are complex layered structuresinfluenced by many factors such as materialproperties, environmental and climatic con-ditions, traffic volume, subgrade soil profile,construction practices, and pavement agingprocess. Hence, transportation agencies requireinnovative techniques to address the variabil-ities associated with the influencing factors.”

“The advantages of flexible pavements arethat they are adaptable to stage-wise con-struction, can be made of low-cost materialsand can be easily opened and patched,” DrSaride adds. The Ministry of Road Transportand Highways of the Government of India aimsto construct 65,000 km of national highwaysby 2022. Such ambitious projects would ben-efit from studies such as those conducted byDr Saride and his colleagues.

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The Indian Institute ofTechnology Mandi has

become the first IIT to launch afull-fledged four-year bachelor’sprogramme in Data Science andEngineering. It will train studentsin computer science, appliedstatistics, applied mathematicsand machine learning, fieldsthat are required in the contextof data science and its applica-tions.

The programme is beingjointly offered by the School ofBasic Sciences (SBS) and the

School of Computing andElectrical Engineering (SCEE)from the coming academic year(2019-2020).

Speaking about the pro-gramme, Professor Timothy AGonsalves, Director, IIT Mandi,said: “All-pervasive sensors arecollecting exponentially-increas-ing amounts of data about ourmachines, our structures, andourselves. Our BTech in DataScience and Engineering willtrain students to collect, processand study these large data sets,discerning underlying patternsand deriving actionable insights.

Graduates of this programmewill have future-proof expertisethat will enable them to thrive inthe rapidly changing world of thenext few decades. The study ofData Science as a BTech disci-pline is becoming essential tocater to the growing need forprofessionals and researchers todeal with the future challenges ofIndia.”

This programme will helpstudents fulfil the increasingdemand of experts to capture,analyse and synthesise a largeamount of data in a number ofapplication domains.

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Indian Institute of TechnologyMandi Catalyst, the first tech-

nology-based Incubator inHimachal Pradesh, successful-ly organised the first edition of‘Himalayan InnovationChallenge’ for startups andinnovators on May 25-26, 2019.The Himalayan InnovationChallenge (HIC) — buildingsolutions for Himalayan Region— is an initiative to actuate aseries of innovative technology-based solutions designed specif-ically to solve social and eco-nomic problems in the

Himalayan region.Catalyst aims to create an

impact in a range of relevantareas that bear importance forHimalayan region.

Inviting all the buddingentrepreneurs to join this excit-ing journey to build the future,Professor Timothy Gonsalves,Director, IIT Mandi,said:“Understand, compare, assess,adopt and develop, are the keyfeatures required for a startup.I hope all the budding entre-preneurs and IIT MandiCatalyst will make a big markin the betterment of HimalayanRegion.”

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and Finance invites applica-tions for admissions to itsBCom programme from DelhiUniversity along with advancediploma in Banking & Finance.

Duration: Three yearsEligibility: Minimum qual-

ification for securing admissionto degree programme is ClassXII or HSC in Science/Commerce/Humanities from arecognised board with mini-mum 50 per cent marks in bestfour subjects including English.

Last date to apply: May 30,2019.

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Design invites application foradmissions to its bachelors,masters & diploma programmesin Fashion Design.

Eligibility: Class X passfor diploma, Class XII for bach-elors & diploma and graduatesfor masters degree or diplo-ma(any stream).

How to apply: Log on tohttp://www.insd.edu.in/apply-online.html.

Last Date to apply: May 31,2019.

3.:<��$:&$(��*Bhartiya Skill Development

University, Jaipur (BSDU)invites applications for admis-sions to its Bachelor of Vocation(BVoc) programmes. The BVocdegree is a UGC approveddegree, equivalent to any othergraduate/postgraduate degrees,and are based on the NationalSkill Qualification Framework(NSQF) to address the criticalrequirements of skill sets in thecountry and to make graduateindustry ready.

Duration: Three yearsEligibility: Students must

have passed Class XII or twoyears of ITI after Class X.Polytechnic diploma holderswill be considered for lateralentry into second year of BVoc.

Last date to apply: June 10,2019.

,&;�&��$:&$(��*�Manipal University Jaipur,

invites applications for admis-sions to its UG and PG pro-

grammes. Specialisations arein management, engineering,basic sciences, architecture,planning & design, humanities,journalism and mass commu-nication, commerce, law, hotelmanagement & social sciences.

Eligibility: For UG pro-grammes, candidates must havepassed Class XII with minimum50 per cent marks. Minimum 45per cent is required for HotelManagement and minimum 60per cent is required for BCom(Hons).

For admissions to PGcourses, bachelor’s degree in therelevant discipline is mandato-ry. For MBA programmes, stu-dents should have appeared forCAT/MAT/CMAT/GMAT/XAT.

How to apply: Log on towww.jaipur.manipal.edu.

Last date to apply: June 15,2019.

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(MRU) invites applications foradmissions to its AppliedSciences programmes.

Eligibility: For BSc pro-grammes (math and physics):Candidates having passed ClassXII examination from anyrecognised board with 50 percent or more marks in aggregateof three science subjects Physics,Chemistry, Math and English.

For BSc programmes(chemistry): Candidates havingpassed Class XII examinationfrom any recognised board with50 per cent or more marks inaggregate of two Science sub-jects Physics, Chemistry andEnglish.

For MSc programmes:Candidates having passed with50 per cent or more marks inrelevant subject.

How to apply: Log on towww.manavrachna.edu.in.

Students often reach that phase inlife, where they have to take

informed decisions about theircareers. Many students these dayskeep asking about career choices witha specific skill-set: Students who arereasonably good in communication,have good people-skills, can work forlong-hours, want to take up anindustry-ready, employable job; butare not willing to take up regularengineering courses or general degreecourses; what should their options be.Their skills match perfectly with acareer in the Hospitality Industry;specifically in Hotel and TourismManagement.

If students have what it takes tobe a part of the glamorous professionof the hospitality industry, then it’sabout the right time that one can starttheir journey towards their dreams.Travel and Tourism in India is thelargest service sector which current-ly employs approximately 49 millionpeople including skilled and semi-skilled workers and the demand forworkforce is expected to increase toapproximately 58 million by 2020.

There still exists a wide gap inthe hospitality job market which isyet to be filled and the Hospitality& Tourism industry still struggles tomeet its demand for skilled man-power.

The growing numbers of domes-tic and international tourists pouringin every year has increased thedemand for world class hotels, restau-rants, and excursion sites. The com-petition at its height, leaves no scopefor overlooking the growing demandsfor better facilities for our guests;hence the hospitality industryattempts to deliver quality andwarmth through its services.

The Federation of Hotel &Restaurant Associations of India,commonly known as the FHRAI, isthe apex body of the four regional

associations representing theHospitality Industry. FHRAI works asa direct interface between the hospi-tality industry, academics, interna-tional associations and other stakeholders. Recently, on April 4, 2019,FHRAI, under the direction ofNCHMCT has opened a centralplacement cell, where they pledge toplace potential and successful candi-dates across different domains in thehospitality industry. This clearlyshows that the job market in the hos-pitality sector are gradually gettingbigger, more organised, centralised

and made effective in such a mannerso that any candidate who has beenproperly trained will not find it dif-ficult to get a job, after the success-ful completion of his/her course. Infact, standardisation of the job mar-ket has made it clear that the hospi-tality industry is in its bloom likenever before.

Hotel Management, itselfdescribes the capacity of managing ahotel; but to choose hotel manage-ment as a career is challenging andone should be ideally prepared tounderstand the nuances of taking upthis career as a full-time profession.A hotel management graduate ideal-ly begins as a trainee at a hotel inwhich he/she should be ready to doall kinds of basic works across depart-ments, to get the knowledge aboutsupervisory and managerial levelskills and techniques.

There are four major functionaldepartments and six other operativedepartments in a hotel. The fourmajor departments are: Front Office,Housekeeping, Food & BeveragesService, Food & BeveragesProduction.

The other operative departmentsrunning in a hotel are: humanresources, engineering, sales, mar-keting, finance, information tech-nology and others.

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Over the years, marketing tacticshave witnessed numerous

changes. What was once called aproduction-oriented era is nowreferred to as the relationship mar-keting era. Gone are the days, whenmarketers believed in the mantra‘availability and affordability arewhat the customer wants’. Today,marketers everywhere strive to builda relationship with every single oneof their customers. This is why mar-keters today are so keen on solvingproblems that allow them to comeup with new ideas that organicallyresonates with their audience. Thisapproach is also known as DesignThinking.

The question here is what exact-ly is design thinking and how doesone go about implementing it?

According to Ceo Leta Stafford,MD at IDEO U, “Design thinkingis a process for creative problem-solving”. She divides it into threemajor elements — empathy,ideation, and experimentation.

The first step to implementingdesign thinking, empathy, is to putoneself in the shoes of the customerand think from their perspective.This will allow an organisation togain insights about customers painpoints and what they really want.However, an organisation cannot

pretend to know the answer all bythemselves. They need to reach outto their customers and conduct sur-veys.

The next step is where ideationcomes to play. The world today hasimmense technological power.Therefore, organisations are in aposition to use their insights fromstep one and the technology avail-able to them, to innovate new solu-tions to age-old problems. However,targeted ideation is the key to suc-cessfully innovating the right solu-tions. It’s equally important thatpeople have a safe environmentwhere they can share their ideas.Some people like one-on-one dis-

cussions, others like bouncing offideas in a big group, and yet otherslike to submit their ideas anony-mously. It’s vital that an organisationallows for different methods ofideating.

The last step is experimentation.It’s an age-old belief that a productor idea needs to be absolutely per-fect before you send it out to theworld. Design thinking urges peo-ple to take on a more agile approach.This means organisations must letgo of older ideas and allow theirideas and creations to be tested outin public.

Design thinking is easy tounderstand and gets right to the rootof why organisations do what theydo. Therefore, it’s no surprise thatuniversities around the world havestarted to train their students in theart of design thinking. Through var-ious activities and projects, stu-dents are well versed with imple-menting design thinking beforethey set foot into the world of busi-ness. This knowledge and skill makethem highly sought after profes-sionals by companies known to beinnovators. After all, it's commonknowledge that the future is for thosewho can innovate and design think-ing is the perfect tool to do so. +�������������0��8�,����� �������������

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arship at a renowned institution. Whilescholarships are free money, you mustknow they won’t cover everything. Sobefore applying for them, let’s understandwhat most scholarships cover.

Scholarships can be both full or par-tial and even if you are granted a full schol-arship, you’ll still have to pay for your trav-el, food, and books. Students often have amisconception that scholarships are onlyavailable for the smartest students with thehighest GPA’s. However, students can alsoapply for athletic, creative, community ser-vice scholarships and more. Regardless ofyour grades, your interests and backgroundcan help you win a scholarship.

Tips for bagging a scholarship.Only apply for the scholarship that

interests you: Many students apply forscholarships that don’t include subjects orcourses they are interested in, whichdefeats the very purpose of vying for one.Do not rush into the first scholarship pro-gram that accepts your application. Looksfor what's right for you! You can find schol-arships through Fulbright Scholarships orthe Department of Education of your hostor home country. Apply for as many schol-arships as you can, based on your area ofinterest and of course your eligibility. Also,beware of the ‘Guaranteed Scholarship’programs. These programs may be led bysome deceitful companies that may takeyour money and vanish.

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Use a formal yet conversational tone:Be unique and build your SOP in a way thatdistinguishes it from the others. Use real-life examples. For instance, stating: ‘I amvery passionate about the course’, may notmake it conversational. Stating: ‘My grand-father was a motor mechanic. I learned thebasics from him which led me to pursue

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Proof-read all document: Proof-readall the documents/emails and especiallyyour SOP multiple times. Ensure every-thing is well-written and edited to make agood impression on the reviewer. You caneven ask your friends and family to gradeit.

Add financial proof: Your Statementof Purpose must be backed by financialproof. This may include the bank accountstatements, bank letters, loan capability cer-tificates, your credit score and other req-uisites required by the scholarship program.So, do your due diligence and get all yourpaperwork in order before you send yourapplication.

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The top performance ofHumanities students —Hansika Shukla and

Karishma Arora in Class XIICBSE results 2019 (499/500)caught attention of all. It clearlyindicates that Humanities stu-dents are motivated more by loveof subject than money or futurecareers.

Though, Science andEngineering are often presentedas better career choices for stu-dents than the Arts orHumanities, that’s why it is foundthat during the career mentoringsessions both parents and childrentry to show their inclinationtowards Science.

There are multiple factorsincluding ability, personality,motivation as well as family andeducational background, whichinfluences the stream student,chooses for their ongoing careersuccess. A new research hasshown that the importance of thedifferent types of motivationvaries depending on the subject astudent chooses.

This focus on an external goallike financial success, is an extrin-sic motivation, while enjoymentis intrinsic motivation. Both arevery important for career successbut in different ways. Extrinsicmotivation leads to better per-formance, while intrinsic moti-vation to a deeper, more thoroughway of learning.

In a recent survey, it shows

that students studying for differ-ent degrees differ in their level ofintrinsic and extrinsic motivation.We asked a sample of 500prospective students and 800 cur-rent students at few degree andengineering colleges the reasonsfor their degree choice. Theywere asked to rate how true state-ments: ‘I have chosen this degreebecause I was always interested inthis subject’ or ‘I have chosen thisdegree because it provides goodcareer options’ were for them.

It is found that differences inthe reasons that students of cer-tain subject’s chosen, current andprospective engineering studentsrated career options as a veryimportant reason for their choiceof degree, while interest in thesubject was a low one. YetCommerce and Humanities stu-dents have shown the opposite:Students reported enjoyment fac-tor as important in their degreechoice, while career was not asimportant on the agenda.

Both types of motivation areimportant to success on the careerpath, both in a person’s degree andtheir future job. Therefore, it isnecessary to have a goal to be suc-cessful in your career. It is alsoimportant to provide studentswith an opportunity to followtheir intrinsic motivation to enjoytheir studies because they will per-form better at what they enjoy.

Careers are often judged byfinancial success - and not with-

out a reason. In addition, gradu-ates from arts and humanitiesdegrees seem to make less moneyinitially than their STEM peers. Inorder to make more money, oneneeds to strive for that — itdoesn’t just come by itself.

In certain cases, externalrewards like open appreciation forbeing on top of your class actu-ally undermine intrinsic motiva-tion. This might lead to a surfacetype of learning where studentsare focusing on reproducingmaterial accurately for a testwithout necessarily understand-

ing it. If people start the degreebecause it is enjoyable and thenthey tend to focus too much onexternal achievements, it mightparadoxically make them enjoythe process of study less.

Moreover, if people are notthat keen on what they are doingand just do it for the pay, they maybe less likely to do a good job orthey might drop out if better-paidwork opportunities arise. So thekey is to let people choose whatthey enjoy and then help them tomake it into a career.

Today the employers valuecreativity and critical thinking asmuch as technical skills or train-ing. If you have both, you are awinner.

Industries have awesome jobopenings for the students aftergetting Humanities degree.

Content Strategist: One willneed a Bachelor's in Journalism toput great strategies for editorialand marketing content.

Communications Director orManager: A Bachelor’s inCommunication will prepare astudent to lead the communica-tion policy of companies andinstitutions.

Content Marketing Manager:Communication and Marketinggo hand in hand students willneed to plan the marketing con-tent that helps companies grow.

Technical Writer or Editor:All those nights students tried tounderstand Shakespeare for the

English Language and literaturestudies will pay off when studentswill be hired to find creativeways to make technical termsunderstandable. The study ofJournalism, might find a jobwhere one will not only edit, butalso manage an editorial team.Following the degree in EnglishLanguage & Literature, one canapply for a job where the creativ-ity and good writing skills are usedto obtain funds and financing fordifferent projects.

International Relations: If thestudies focused on a particularculture, one will have a greatchance of landing jobs atembassies in other countries as acultures specialist to understandthat country’s culture and repre-sent one's own country specialis-ing in International Relations.

Advertising: Advertising is allabout creative thinking and mak-ing people react too positively toads. As a Humanities graduateone can bring both to the table,thanks to the study of society, cul-ture and literature.

Teaching: If one is passionateabout the subject, pass it on toothers. The skills they learn in theown degree program can betaught to the next generationwhile one gains an academicprestige. Even more so if add aphilosophical touch to the teach-ing style.

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Arsenal are aiming to win afirst European trophy in aquarter of a century in

distant Baku on Wednesdayand their hopes of doing soappear to rest at the feet ofPierre-Emerick Aubameyangand Alexandre Lacazette.

After missing out on a top-four place in the PremierLeague, the assessment ofUnai Emery's first seasonin charge of the Gunnerswill be far kinder if theycan end the campaign withvictory in the Europa Leaguefinal.

It all comes down to this

London derby in an unlikely set-ting by the Caspian Sea — if

Arsenal win, they will have afirst piece of European sil-

verware since raising theCup Winners' Cup in1994 and with it theadditional prize of areturn to theChampions League.

And while theGunners have frequently

toiled defensively thisseason, conceding 51goals in the PremierLeague, Emery

knows he is the envy ofalmost every coach in

Europe with Lacazette andAubameyang in his ranks.

They have scored 50 timesbetween them this season, withLacazette getting 19 goals andbeing named the club's player ofthe year by Arsenal supporters.

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the shade by Aubameyang, who hasnetted 31 times, including a hat-trick in the second leg of theirsemi-final against Valencia and 22goals in the Premier League toshare the Golden Boot withLiverpool duo Sadio Mane andMohamed Salah in his first fullcampaign in England.

"I gave everything to try to bein the top four with the team andto get a trophy," Aubameyang said

recently."I am happy with my season,

not the best but I am happy."The Gabon star was not able to

feature in the Europa League lastseason after his arrival fromBorussia Dortmund in January2018 and watched as Arsenal lostto Atletico Madrid in the semi-finals, denying Arsene Wenger aEuropean final for his swansong.

Lacazette, meanwhile, mayhave played second fiddle toAubameyang in terms of purenumbers but the former Lyon starinsists he has produced the bestfootball of his career this season.

"Being able to contribute with-out scoring is important for theteam," he told Arsenal Player.

Their importance to Emery issummed up by the fact the nexthighest scorers in his squad all havesix goals — including the injuredAaron Ramsey and HenrikhMkhitaryan, who will not play inBaku due to well-publicised secu-rity concerns.

Their figures in front of goalare all the more impressive giventhey have often had to fight it outfor just one starting spot.

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pair are entirely reliant on successwith their clubs as they continue tobe frustrated at international level.

Aubameyang — born in Franceto a Gabonese father — will not beable to measure himself againstMane and Salah at the Africa Cupof Nations in Egypt next monthafter Gabon failed to qualify.

Lacazette, meanwhile, has beenunable to force his way back intothe France set-up, such is thestrength in depth available to coachDidier Deschamps with the worldchampions.

He has won 16 caps, but nonesince late 2017. Once again he wasignored when Deschamps namedhis squad last week for the upcom-ing Euro 2020 qualifiers in Turkeyand Andorra, with Sevilla 'sWissam Ben Yedder getting thecall instead.

"There is no reason to suggestwe won't see him again,"Deschamps insisted.

"Alex has had a good seasontoo with Arsenal, although he hashad some fitness problems.

"I am not going to say that thetwo of them don't deserve to bethere, but I have a choice to makeand I chose Wissam."

Winning the Europa Leaguewould make up for that disap-pointment for Lacazette, whilegiving Arsenal's end to the seasona different shine.

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Jurgen Klopp says his current Liverpoolteam are the strongest side he has taken

to a final as he plots Champions Leagueglory against Premier League rivalsTottenham on Saturday.

Liverpool are preparing for their sec-ond successive Champions League finalafter a run that included an incrediblecomeback to overturn a three-goal first-leg deficit against Barcelona in thesemi-final by winning 4-0 at Anfield.

It will be Klopp's fourth Europeanfinal as a manager, having been aChampions League runner-up withBorussia Dortmund in 2013, before los-ing the Europa League final withLiverpool in 2016.

Their run to Madrid this year hasbeen marked by a never-say-die spirit,with Klopp suggesting that his team of2019 is better than those that have losthis three previous European finals.

"I don't like to blame my other teams(for the European final defeats)," saidKlopp, whose side lost out to RealMadrid in the final last year.

"I love them all. They all gave every-thing but I have never been part of a finalwith a better team than this.

"I am not so surprised by thisbecause our boys mix our potential withattitude in the best way I have witnessed.That is brilliant."

However Klopp, speaking atLiverpool's training ground Tuesday,made clear that he has yet to surpass hisfirst major achievement as a manager,leading minnows Mainz into theBundesliga for the first time in their his-tory 15 years ago, on a minimal budget.

<($**$�'%&'�%&'�HAsked if Saturday's final marked the

pinnacle of his career, the manager,whose side finished a single pointbehind champions Manchester City inthe Premier League, said: "If I win it,

yes. It would be different to the lastfinals.

"Is bringing the team to theChampions League final (in itself) thebiggest moment in my career? No, thatwas 2004, getting promoted withMainz. If you had known the money wehad, the circumstances we had... Andthe fact was that nobody needed us inthe first league.

"If I win the Champions League,though, I will have to think about thisquestion again." Klopp is hopeful thatforward Roberto Firmino will be fit toplay a part in Saturday's final, havingmissed the final three matches of theseason with a muscle issue.

Midfielder Naby Keita, however,will not recover from his adductorinjury in time to face Tottenham.

"No chance for Naby," Klopp said."Naby is really progressing well. We willsee how it will work out for him for theAfrica Cup of Nations.

"Bobby was part of training lastweek, really good, everything lookedfine. He will be fine, I am pretty sure."Klopp expects a close contest againsta Tottenham side that Liverpool beathome and away in the Premier Leagueduring the season, winning 2-1 on bothoccasions.

He said: "It will be very tight. Thequality of Tottenham and us is prettysimilar. The distance between us is con-sistency.

"Emotions will be completely dif-ferent. You have to use the emotions butin the right circumstances. Bringingourselves in the right mood is the jobwe have to do.

"We know about Tottenham a lotbut after three weeks (without a gameto prepare), I would have known thename of the groundsman of Barcelonaif they had been the opponent.

"We know it is difficult, Tottenhamknow it is difficult, so let's play a dif-ficult game and let's win it."

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Real Madrid presidentFlorentino Perez confirmed

on Monday the club are keen tosign Eden Hazard this summerand claimed Sergio Ramos hasan offer to move to China.

Hazard could play his lastmatch for Chelsea in theEuropa League final againstArsenal on Wednesday, withthe Belgian's contract expiringnext year.

"I have a lot of interest inhim coming to Madrid, I'm notgoing to lie, and I hope this yearhe can play here," Perez toldSpanish radio station OndaCero on Monday night.

"We have wanted to signHazard for several years and Ihope he will come this year.Until now we have not achievedit, but this time his contractends next year."

After a disappointing sea-son, Madrid are expected tooverhaul their squad this sum-mer and Perez suggested theclub's captain Ramos is consid-

ering a move.Ramos and Perez argued

after Madrid's ChampionsLeague defeat to Ajax in March,with Ramos reportedly tellingPerez the team's failings weredown to a failure to replaceCristiano Ronaldo.

Perez claimed on Tuesdaythat Ramos had been offered a

move to China but said he hadblocked the defender's depar-ture.

"We met in my office andhe told me he had a very goodoffer from a Chinese team buta rule there means they cannotpay for the transfer," Perezsaid.

"It was no more than that,it was a conversation that hasno interest. It is impossible forReal Madrid to let their captaingo for free. I told him it'simpossible, nothing more."

Perez was also asked aboutthe possibility of Madrid sign-ing Kylian Mbappe or Neymarfrom Paris Saint-Germain.

"I have not spoken withZinedine Zidane about eitherMbappe or Neymar," saidPerez, insisting he wants tomaintain a good relationshipwith PSG.

"If we want a player of PSG,we will call the club's president."Gareth Bale's future remainsuncertain but Perez said "wehave not received any offers forany players of Real Madrid".

$%:�)*�-(�*%$:> Dani Alveswill replace Neymar as thecaptain of the Braziliannational team in the CopaAmerica, the country's foot-ball federation (CBF)

announced on Monday."The decision was com-

municated to Neymar by(coach) Tite on Saturday,"CBF said in a statement aboutthe striker, who was handed

a three-match suspension forlashing out at a spectator fol-lowing Paris Saint-Germain'sshock defeat in the FrenchCup final earlier this month.

Eight-time winners Brazil

face Bolivia, Venezuela andPeru in the group stage, whichstarts on June 14, after twofriendlies against Qatar andHonduras.

Neymar, 27, missed the

humiliating 7-1 World Cupsemi-final defeat by Germanyin 2014 due to injury afterfracturing his back.

A year earlier, he wasnamed player of the tourna-ment at the ConfederationsCup as Brazil won it for arecord fourth time. AFP

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Harry Kane was included inEngland's 23-man squad for

next month's Nations Leaguefinals on Monday but TottenhamHotspur team-mates HarryWinks and Kieran Trippier wereboth left out.

Gareth Southgate, theEngland manager, has reducedhis group from the list of 27 henamed earlier this month, withSouthampton's James Ward-Prowse and Nathan Redmondalso sidelined.

England captain Kane, whohas not played since sufferingankle ligament damage in April,was retained by the Southgate onthe day he insisted he was "ready"for Spurs' clash with Liverpool inSaturday's Champions Leaguefinal.

Kane has not played sincesuffering the injury in the first leg

of Tottenham's quarter-finalagainst Manchester City on April9, which was also when Winksmade his last appearance.

Spurs subsequentlyannounced Winks had under-gone groin surgery, although themidfielder said he hoped it was

not the end of his season.Trippier, a full-back, was a

member of the England squadthat made it to the semi-finals oflast year's World Cup and was anunused substitute in the Euro2020 qualifiers against the CzechRepublic and Montenegro inMarch.

Redmond was a surpriseinclusion in Southgate's 27-mansquad, having been overlookedsince winning his only Englandcap in March 2017, with Ward-Prowse making just his secondappearance against Montenegro.

England face theNetherlands in their NationsLeague semi-final in Guimaraes,northern Portugal, a week onThursday.

Seven players in Southgate's23 could potentially be involvedin both the Champions Leaguefinal in Madrid five days earlierand the Netherlands match.

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India's seasoned striker RamandeepSingh was on Tuesday recalled to the

Indian squad to be led by ManpreetSingh at the FIH Men's Series Finals,commencing on June 6 in Bhubaneswar.

Ramandeep, who has been out ofaction due to a knee injury, has returnedafter a gap of nine months.

Varun Kumar, who was rested forthe Australian tour, and Amit Rohidashave also made a comeback, while mid-fielder Sumit also returns to the team.

Birendra Lakra has been namedManpreet's deputy for the upcomingtournament as Hockey India announcedthe much-awaited 18-member squad.

The 26-year-old Ramandeep will beseen tackling India's forward-line alongside Mandeep Singh, Gursahibjit Singh,Simranjeet Singh and Akashdeep Singh.

Experienced goalkeeper PR Sreejeshand Krishan B Pathak will defend thepost for the team.

Harmanpreet, Lakra, SurenderKumar, Varun Kumar, Amit Rohidasand Gurinder Singh will form India'sbackline, while the midfield will seeManpreet playing a key role along withyoungsters Hardik Singh, Vivek SagarPrasad, Sumit and Nilakanta Sharma.

India have been grouped in Pool Aalong with Russia, Poland andUzbekistan while Japan, Mexico, USAand South Africa are grouped in Pool B.

India will begin their campaign onJune 6 against Russia and will be aim-ing to finish at the top in order to makeit for the Olympic qualifying event,which will be held later this year.

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Alexander Zverev survived abruising four-hour battle to

reach the French Open secondround on Tuesday while dangermanJuan Martin del Potro also pro-gressed.

German fifth seed Zverev, aquarter-finalist in Paris in 2018, bat-tled past Australia's John Millman7-6 (7/4), 6-3, 2-6, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3.

The champion in Geneva lastweekend fired 57 winners pastworld number 56 Millman whostunned Roger Federer at the USOpen last year.

However, he also committed73 unforced errors on ablustery day in the Frenchcapital.

Next up for Zverevis Swedish qualifierMikael Ymer, the worldnumber 148 ofEthiopian origin, whomarked his Grand Slamdebut with a 6-0, 6-3, 7-6(7/5) win over Slovenia's BlazRola.

"He (Zverev) has very proventhat he belongs up there," said Ymer,the younger brother of fellow tourplayer Elias. "He is definitely one ofthe best in the game at the moment,so it's a tough challenge."

Argentine eighth seed DelPotro, a semi-finalist in 2009 and2018, made the second round witha 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 win over Chileanworld number 58 Nicolas Jarry.

Next up for the giant Argentineis a clash against Japan's YoshihitoNishioka.

Jarry lived and died by thesword on Court Suzanne Lenglen,his 47 winners almost cancelled outby his 41 unforced errors.

Two-time Grand Slam winnerand former world number oneVictoria Azarenka defeated 2017champion Jelena Ostapenko 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) in a match which featured13 breaks of serve.

Ostapenko has now lost in thefirst round in her last two visits toParis with her wretched perfor-mance highlighted by an ugly 60unforced errors.

Azarenka, ranked 43 in theworld, will face top seed NaomiOsaka if the Japanese star gets pastSlovakia's Anna KarolinaSchmiedlova in her tournamentopener.

Canada's Bianca Andreescu,the surprise champion at

Indian Wells, marked herRoland Garros debut bybeating Marie Bouzkovaof the Czech Republic5-7, 6-4, 6-4.

The 18-year-old,playing for the first time

since Miami after suffer-ing a shoulder injury, hit 58

winners and 60 unforced errors inthe tie suspended due to darknesson Monday night.

There were also 17 breaks ofserve in the match which stretchedto over three hours.

Other early winners Tuesdayincluded Monte Carlo championFabio Fognini, seeded nine, whodefeated Andreas Seppi in an all-Italian clash, 6-3, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3.

Later Tuesday, defendingchampion Simona Halep facesAustralia's Ajla Tomljanovic, theworld number 47, in her firstround tie.

Tomljanovic reached the fourthround in Paris in 2014, beating for-mer champion FrancescaSchiavone in the first round.

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Batsmen may be constantlypropelling their teams to

high scores everyday but SriLanka veteran pacer LasithMalinga believes that thebowlers will be the "game chang-ers" in the upcoming World Cupdespite the flowing runs.

"Cricket is going towards thebatsmen but bowlers can changethe game, they get the wicketsand that wins a match," Malingawas quoted as saying by ICC

Media after Sri Lanka's five-wicket defeat to Australia in theirsecond warm-up game atSouthampton on Monday night.

"Whoever has the skilfulbowlers, in any condition on anypitch, will have the advantage inthe team.

"Bowlers need to have askill, then know how to analysea game. They need to improveas quickly as they can and getconfidence from their perfor-mances," he added.

The 35-year-old was a vital

cog in the IPL franchiseMumbai Indians bowling unitthis year, claiming 16 wickets tohelp his side win a recordfourth title in the T20 cash-richleague.

"In the last couple of years,I have worked on the variationsand it boosts confidence, but sit-uation analysis is very impor-tant," Malinga said.

After the warm-up match,everyone was surprised to seeMalinga sharing tips with theAustralian all-rounder Marcus

Stoinis on how to deliver a slow-er ball.

"Variations is very impor-tant in the short-format game.During IPL also he (Stoinis) hadwanted to know how I bowl(it)," Malinga revealed.

"I wanted to give him tips -that's how cricket moves for-ward. Whoever wants to know,I will help them. I'll share trickson how to bowl slow balls,which situation you will use it,why you want to use the slowone," he said.

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Asuccessful cam-paign at the World

Cup will not only end afour-decade longdrought but will alsounite the people of theCaribbean, feels WestIndies skipper JasonHolder.

"It would mean alot to us if we were towin it. It's somethingwe've won before andit's always said in theCaribbean that if WestIndies cricket is doingwell then the WestIndian people arehappy," Holder told'The Guardian'.

West Indies, whoare the reigningTwenty20 champions,

have a proud history atthe ODI World Cup,winning the first twoeditions of the tourna-ment in 1975 and 1979and making the final ofthe third.

However, afterstruggling for nearlytwo decades, a fewstunning wins againstEngland in Tests recent-ly lifted their spirits.

"You saw it in therecent England series.Everywhere we went inthe Caribbean, peoplewere full of high praisefor our efforts and win-ning performances.

"Success on thecricket field puts a smileon West Indian faces.Seeing us succeed andeven dominate again

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Hosts England and Indiahead into the World Cup as

firm favourites, but Australiangreats like Allan Border andBrett Lee feel two-time champi-ons West Indies and last edition'srunners-up New Zealand wouldprove to be the dark horses.

"I look at the West Indiesside and I think that's a verydangerous cricket team. If theyget some momentum goingthey could be very, very danger-ous. I know as the game getsshorter they get more danger-ous, but I think the 50-overgame suits them playing inEngland.

"I think their cricket is well-suited to that. Watch out for theWest Indies," Border told crick-et.Com.Au.

Former fast bowler Lee,meanwhile, has put his moneyon the Black Caps. He also saidAfghanistan, who are featuringin just their second World Cup,will showcase some qualitycricket.

"The dark horse would beNew Zealand, but Afghanistanwill play some good cricket.They probably don't have thebatting that they would like buttheir bowling unit is outstand-ing," Lee said.

Former Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds hasput his weight behind the menfrom the Caribbean, saying theEnglish grounds are well suitedfor big hitters like "Universe

Boss" Chris Gayle."West Indies. I just think

they've got a quiet little bit ofconfidence going on there at themoment. They've played pret-ty well of recent times. AndChris Gayle will be itching topotentially go out on a winningnote. The grounds will suit theway he plays. They're my darkhorse."

Australia's former nationalselector Mark Waugh alsopicked the Kane Williamson-ledNew Zealand for their ability toperform well in all depart-ments.

"Probably New Zealand.They were in the last World Cupfinal. They're probably going torely on a few players like KaneWilliamson, Martin Guptill andTrent Boult but they alwaysseem to play well. They fieldwell, they're disciplined, theyrun between wickets well,they're always well coached,always in for the fight. I thinkthey could make the semis.They're probably the darkhorse," Waugh said.

The 53-year-old opined thatWest Indies although have thebatting firepower, they lack inbowling.

"The West Indies probablyhave the batting but not thebowling to be a threat. SouthAfrica, I suppose, they're goingto rely on Quinton de Kock, Fafdu Plessis and maybe KagisoRabada. They'll be a threat butprobably New Zealand will bea roughie."

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Anew day, but it was thesame old story for theIndian top-order as the

overcast conditions got thebetter of the much-famed bat-ting line-up in their warm-upgame against Bangladesh inCardiff. While New Zealandhad gone for the kill aftersniffing blood, the Bangladeshbowlers couldn't manage thesame as the Indians finished on359/7 in their 50 overs, ridingon a brilliant century by KLRahul and a dominant 113 byold warhorse MS Dhoni.

Keeping aside those twoknocks and the quickfire 46-ball 47 from skipper ViratKohli, it was again a case ofconditions making the bats-men sweat. While ODI deputyRohit Sharma managed 19,opening partner ShikharDhawan scored just 1. Themuch spoken about VijayShankar also managed just 2 asthe Indian scoreboard read ascary 102/4 at one stage. Butthe 164-run partnershipbetween Rahul (108) andDhoni ensured that anotherembarrassing collapse wasavoided.

Even though Rahul scoreda century, it wasn't before heplayed and missed quite a few.In fact, while the Indian teammanagement decided to stickwith Rahul at the much-debat-ed No 4 slot, it would havebeen interesting to see whethera bowling attack with betterpenetration would have letRahul fly away to a centuryafter a start that saw him woe-fully short on confidence.

The sun peeping throughthe clouds and Dhoni's acu-men also helped as the formerIndian skipper looked to easepressure off Rahul by takingthe attack to the Bangladeshspinners. In fact, it almostlooked like the Dhoni of old ashe used the depth of the creaseto perfection against the

Bangaldesh spinners.But then, these warm-up

matches are to fine-tune theareas that need attention. Andgoing by the form of the Indianbatsmen in the top half, thereis plenty to worry for skipperKohli and coach Ravi Shastri.

Dhawan was the first to goas he was trapped plumb infront after he planted his foot

across the line of the ball fromMustafizur Rahman. Hisworry with the one that leavesthe left-hander was clearlybehind his undoing in thiscase.

In case of Rohit, it has tobe more of disappointmentand frustration at the way hechopped one onto his stumpsdue to his inability to read the

slowness of the ball. Trying apull off the front foot, helooked to have played the shota tad bit early.

Kohli's dismissal wasagainst the run of play and itdoesn't and it was a case of overattacking. While it is no justi-fication, but then, Kohli's formis definitely not a worry whenit comes to adapting to English

conditions. But Shankar's typ-ical dismissal behind the wick-et off pacer Rubel Hossain willdefinitely be a cause for con-cern. Trying to play at one tooclose to leave, all Shankar man-aged was an edge to the keep-er.

But every dark cloud has asilver lining and on Tuesday, itwas Dhoni putting up a bril-

liant show of batsmanship as hefirst guided Rahul and thenwent into a zone as he sent theBangladesh bowlers on aleather hunt in the death overs.It was only poetic justice thathe brought up his 100 with a sixin the 49th over of the inningsas skipper Kohli cheered onfrom the dressing room withteammates for company.

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Australia batsman UsmanKhawaja said the win-

ning feeling is back inAustralian cricket and theirform ahead of the World Cupis no fluke.

Australia concluded theirWorld Cup preparation on anemphatic note, beating a strug-gling Sri Lanka by five wick-ets in their second and finalwarm-up game inSouthampton on Monday.

In the run-up to theWorld Cup, Australia turnedtheir fortunes around whenthey registered a come-from-behind 3-2 ODI series victo-ry over India in India.

"Behind the scenes we'veput in a lot of hard work, youneed that to be able to competeat this level. Everyone has putin a lot of effort. We had Indiaover in our place for a seriesand while we lost, that was abig turning point for us,"Khawaja, who scored 89 off105 balls in Australia's finalwarm-up match, said.

"They're one of the bestsides and we gave them a runfor their money. Then wewent to India, lost the first twomatches and went on to winthe series. We always had theconfidence we could do that,"he was quoted saying.

The 32-year-old is hope-ful that their positive dressingroom would translate to vic-tories on the biggest stage ofall when the defending cham-pions begin their campaignagainst Afghanistan on June 1.

"Winning is a habit, we saythat a lot among the team. Wewant to keep that going, wemight have lost that before, butwe might have found thatagain heading into the WorldCup.

"I know what it feels likewhen you're losing and I knowwhat it's like when winning, it'sobvious which one you want,"said Khawaja, who faced aninjury scare on Monday whena blow to the knee brought apremature end to his day inthe field he recovered well toanchor the Australian runchase.

Although Australia's toporder remains a point of dis-cussion but Khawaja is happyto fulfil his role in the team atwhatever position.

"I wasn't thinking aboutsecuring an opening berth,we've looked to be clinical andnot take it lightly. We've wonthree warm-ups here, and itwas more about us continuingthe winning ways in Dubaiand India.

"I was concentrating oncontributing to that winningrun - some things are just outof your control. It's a mindsetthing, opening is slightly dif-ferent to three which in itselfis different to five," heexplained.

"I do love opening, that'swhere I've batted my whole lifein one-day cricket. But it'sabout winning games anddoing the best of the team - I'drather score a duck and winthan a century and lose,"Khawaja added.

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Australia vice-captain Pat Cumminssaid teammate Glenn Maxwell will be

a vital cog in the team as the all-rounder'sperformance with the bat and ball wouldhold the key to their aspirations of winningthe sixth World Cup.

Australia have won back-to-back ODIseries — in India and against Pakistan —in the run up to the World Cup andMaxwell has played an important role, hit-ting three half-centuries in their 5-0 serieswin in the UAE.

A spell at Lancashire has also helpedhim adapt to the English conditions beforethe mega event.

"I think the way he has turned gamesaround for us in the last couple of monthshas been impressive with the bat and thenhe is also an option to bowl ten overs,"Cummins was quoted as saying by ICCmedia.

"He is also able to get run-outs and takecatches. You get all three facets out of himand he is always there in tough situations.He is probably our sixth bowler but on agood day he can get through all ten. He'sin good form," the fast bowler added.

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gave the whole region a hugelift. Hopefully we can contin-ue to bring the people of theregion closer," the 27-year-oldsaid.

Holder, who is West Indies'youngest captain, believes thatthe return of big hitter ChrisGayle can boost the confi-dence of the side.

"Chris is an excellent indi-vidual. Prior to the Englandseries, I said I've never battedwith him in a one-day game.Lo and behold I went in and hewas at the crease. He gave mea big hug, and that meant a lotpersonally. He was an out-standing man of the series.

"I batted with him when he

got that 162. I'm sure themany batting partners Chrishas had over the years wouldsay it's a great spectacle to seehim flay bowlers all over thepark. He can really fire us tothe heights in this tourna-ment."

West Indies were savedthe blushes after heavy rainhelped them qualify for theWorld Cup by the narrowest ofmargins against Scotland.

"I never once thought itcould slip away. We felt in con-trol most of the games but, yes,it was a different dynamic. Wehad never played a qualifiertournament to reach a WorldCup before.