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C ongress leader Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra on Wednesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case for the alleged possession of illegal foreign assets. The Congress tried to tactically turned the focus away from him by having Priyanka drop her husband at the Enforcement Directorate office. In what could be seen as a political message, Priyanka said, “I stand by my family. He is my husband, he is my fami- ly...I support my family.” Asked if it was a political vendetta, she said that everyone knows why this is being done. Priyanka’s show of support to her husband came days after an emotional message from Vadra on her appointment as AICC general secretary. Vadra entered the ED office around 3.45 pm, and soon a team of his lawyers reached the ED office at Jamnagar House here. This is the first time Vadra turned up before a probe agency for ques- tioning on charges of dubious financial dealings. However, Vadra has denied the allegations and claimed the cases are an outcome of a political witch-hunt. After dropping Vadra off outside the ED office, Priyanka, who is an SPG protectee, went back in her white Toyota Land Cruiser with a convoy of vehi- cles carrying the elite com- mandos. Vadra was directed by a Delhi court to cooperate with the ED investigation after he approached the court seeking anticipatory bail in the money laundering case. The court had asked him to appear before the ED on Wednesday on his return from London. A team of three ED offi- cials asked Vadra about trans- actions, purchase and posses- sion of certain immovable assets in London. His statement was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), offi- cial sources said. The case relates to the pur- chase allegedly by Vadra of a London-based property locat- ed at 12, Bryanston Square worth 1.9 million GBP (British pounds). The agency had told the court that it has received information about various new properties in London which belong to Vadra. In December, rhe ED had raided and questioned Vadra’s aide Manoj Arora, an employ- ee of Skylight Hospitality LLP, a firm linked to Vadra. The ED has alleged that the London-based property was bought by arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari for 1.9 million GBP and sold in 2010 for the same amount despite incurring addi- tional expenses of approxi- mately 65,900 GBP on its ren- ovation. “This gives credence to the fact that Bhandari was not the actual owner of the prop- erty but it was beneficially owned by Vadra who was incurring expenditure on the renovation of this property,” the ED had told the court. Arora, a key link in the case, was aware of Vadra’s over- seas undeclared assets and was instrumental in arranging funds, the ED had alleged. Vadra has also been direct- ed by the Rajasthan High Court to appear before the ED again on February 12 in connection with another money launder- ing case being probed by the agency. P riyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday took charge as AICC general secretary at the party headquarters amid celebration and sloga- neering. Priyanka was appoint- ed as general secretary and incharge of Uttar Pradesh east on January 23 by her brother and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. Along with Priyanka, senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia took charge as the AICC general secretary incharge for Uttar Pradesh west. Both Priyanka and Scindia have been appointed with Rahul’s resolve to strengthen the party in the cru- cial State of Uttar Pradesh, which has 80 Lok Sabha seats. AICC leaders said Priyanka is likely to begin her Uttar Pradesh tour from February 11. She may hold a road show in Lucknow and then address a meeting of UPCC office- bearers. Party workers engaged in UP election related activities exuded confidence that Priyanka would go to Prayagraj also to take a dip in the Sangam on the occasion of Kumbh Mela. She along with Rahul may also address a rally later this month. While she met several party workers particularly those hailing from the eastern region of UP, Priyanka had a nearly two-hour long meeting with Rahul and Scindia to chalk out the Congress’ UP game plan. G reen chilli, red chilli, Paan, butterscotch, coconut and praline are some of the many flavours of chocolates which are being made by the rural tribal women of Nagri block of Ranchi. Ranchi district adminis- tration, along with Jharkhand IAS Wives’ Association (JIA- SOWA) is training around a dozen women of a self help group of Jajpur village in the art of chocolate and confectionary making, the first batch of which will go on sale on February 14, the Valentine’s Day. The women are being trained by a Mumbai based consultancy, Chocoindulge. The training started on February 5 and in just two days these women have learned the art of making different flavoured chocolates and lad- doos. Shanta Xalxo, member of the SHG, who is among the women being trained said, “Initially we thought we will not be able to do it but now that we have started, I am confident that with a bit of time man- agement, our business would flourish.” The women have procured a refrigerator, oven and blender with the money of SHG and once the training is completed on February 12, the electrical equipment will be moved to the SHG office in their village Jajpur, where the women will continue making chocolates and confectionaries to be sold in the market. Neelam Devi, a trainee said, “This is for the first time that we are making something for the urban population and we are hoping a really good response. This is a very good opportunity of income gener- ation and once we are back in the village we will train other women who are interested in baking and chocolate mak- ing.” The items being made at the training includes over 20 varieties of chocolates and truf- fles, a number of cookies and biscuits including oat, chocochips, cashew and butter and also a variety of laddoos like moong, ragi and besan. However, the women are not just being trained in bak- ing and packaging but also in time management. Harmeet Kaur of Chocoindulge, who is training these women said, “They are quick learners but they will also need to know the importance of time manage- ment. When one starts their business, they have to manage the time for the business as well as their family and this is something they need to learn here.” Just a day after the training session started, the women got their first order by the Ranchi DC’s office of delivering over a 100 packets of chocolates. Nagiya Tigga, a trainee said, “This is such a wonderful opportunity for us and we are really lucky to get the first order in just a day. I hope that we continue getting the orders like this.” Ranchi Deputy Commissioner Rai Mahimapat Ray said that the chocolates were distributed among DCs of various districts who really enjoyed the taste. “We have already got some confirmed orders and are looking forward to see the chocolates get a good market,” he said. DC Hazaribag, Ravi Shankar Shukla praised the taste of chocolates. “The choco- lates were good, both in taste and spirit and all of us enjoyed it. It is really good to taste handmade chocolates in today’s time of machine manufactur- ing,” he said. JIASOWA secretary Richa Sanchita said that this initiative will help make women self dependent. "Once trained, these women will earn a good income to support their fami- lies," she said. T op leaders of prominent political parties of the State including Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Jharkhand Vikas Morcha, Indian National Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal today attended a high level meeting of Mhagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) in Delhi to discuss the seat sharing formula for general elections in Jharkhand. Although the meeting con- tinued at the time of filing of this report, sources said that a draft has been prepared for an amicable agreement between the parties. Jharkhand has 14 Lok Sabha constituencies and these seats need to be distributed among the parties in the lead- ership of Congress in the Lok Sabha polls. Sources confided that the JMM was keen on Giridih, Dumka, Rajmahal and Khunti Lok Sabha seats, while Congress is likely to contest from Dhanbad, Chaibasa and Lohardaga. The JVM may get Koderma for party chief Babulal Marandi and Plamu seat. The RJD is eyeing the Chatra Lok Sabha seat, sources added. Notably, the Bharatiya Janta Party had bagged 12 out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the JMM holding just two seats and Congress failing to win a sin- gle seat. The Grand alliance is strategising to corner the BJP with each party’s traditional voters in different constituen- cies. T he Jharkhand Legislative Assembly today passed Jharkhand State Scheduled Tribes Commission 2019 Bill with an amendment proposal brought by MLAs Radha Krishna Kishore, Shivshankar Oraon, Ram Kumar Pahan and Laxman Tuddu. In its earlier provision of the Bill, in chapter 2 of section 3, A, B, C appointment process of chairman, vice-chairman and three members of com- mission have been defined. In the provision it has been stat- ed that any person having knowledge about history, tra- dition, custom and culture can be appointed as chairman, vice-chairman and three mem- bers of commission. However, Kishore the chief whip of ruling party sought an amendment in the appoint- ment process. Kishore said, “The post of chairman, vice- chairman and three members of the commission should be reserved for scheduled tribes (ST), as any non-tribal person can have knowledge about his- tory, culture, custom and tra- ditions of the tribals.” Kishore also stated that posts should be reserved for such tribal persons who from birth follow the traditions, cul- ture and customs of scheduled tribes. Chief Minister Raghubar Das, who was pre- sent in the house gave his approval for the amendment. Das said, “The decision to constitute Jharkhand State Scheduled Tribes Commission was taken in the tribal adviso- ry committee meeting.” With the approval of Chief Minister, the House unanimously passed the bill. Das, while participating at a public meeting in Dumka last year, had announced the plan to constitute tribal commission in the State. The Chief Minister had promised to pass a Bill in the budget session of the Assembly. The Commission, apart from having chairman, vice-chairman, would also have members from each divisions of the State. The CM had said that the BJP government is always seri- ous in working for emancipa- tion and uplift of tribal people and it was during the tenure of Atal Bihari Vajpayee that the State’s tribal language Santhali was added in the list of lan- guages in 8th schedule of the Constitution. The Assembly apart from passing the tribal commission Bill also passed Jharkhand State Housing Board Amendment Bill 2019 and Jharkhand Mines Area Development Authority Amendment Bill 2019. State Urban Development and Housing Minister, CP Singh said, “After the formation of separate State, the housing board had the power to sanc- tion housing projects worth 2 crore.However, project higher than 2 crore budgets needed approval from concerned min- istry. But with today’s amend- ment, the housing board will have the power to grant approval to the tune of 10 crore.” Singh said apart from exceeding the financial power of the board, the amendment will open the doors for private players in housing board pro- jects. The house also gave its approval to introduce Union Government’s Transplantation of Human Organs Acts and Rules. The Act aimed at regu- lation of removal, storage, and transplantation of human organs for therapeutic pur- poses and for prevention of commercial dealings in human organs. T he Travancore Devaswom Board, which runs Sabarimala temple, on Wednesday made a U-turn to support the Supreme Court’s order allowing women of all ages to enter the shrine as it joined the Kerala Government to oppose a batch of pleas seeking review of the historic verdict. A five-judge constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi reserved its deci- sion after hearing various par- ties for three and half hours, including those seeking re- consideration of the September 28, 2018 judgement, even as the Board later asserted that its lat- est position was not due to any political pressure. Some right-wing activists have alleged that the Board changed its stand before the court under pressure from the state’s CPI(M)-led LDF Government. The apex court, by a majority of 4:1, had lifted the ban that prevented women and girls between the age of 10 and 50 from entering the famous Ayyappa shrine in Kerala and had held that this centuries-old Hindu religious practice was illegal and uncon- stitutional. However, as many as 65 petitions — including 56 review petitions and four fresh writ petitions and five transfer pleas — were filed in the apex court after its verdict sparked violent protests in Kerala. The five-judge constitu- tion Bench, which had earlier agreed to hear the pleas in an open court, reserved its deci- sion after hearing the parties, including Nair Service Society, Thantry of temple, temple Board (TDB) and the State Government, in favour and against the review plea. The Bench, also comprising justices RF Nariman, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra, was in for a pleasant surprise as the temple board, which also comprises the State Government nominees, took a U-turn by supporting the ver- dict and said the people should gracefully accept it. A local court Wednesday held seven men guilty of killing two youths in Kawal vil- lage in an attack which is said to have triggered the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots that led to killings of over 60 peo- ple. Additional District and Sessions Judge Himashu Bhatnagar convicted Muzammil, Mujassim, Furkan, Nadeem, Janangir, Afzal and Ikbal for killing Gaurav and Sachin on August 27, 2013 and rioting, said district prosecution counsel Rajiv Sharma. The court will pronounce the quantum of their sentences on Friday.

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Congress leader SoniaGandhi’s son-in-law

Robert Vadra on Wednesdayappeared before theEnforcement Directorate (ED)in connection with a moneylaundering case for the allegedpossession of illegal foreignassets. The Congress tried totactically turned the focus awayfrom him by having Priyankadrop her husband at theEnforcement Directorate office.

In what could be seen as apolitical message, Priyankasaid, “I stand by my family. Heis my husband, he is my fami-ly...I support my family.”

Asked if it was a politicalvendetta, she said that everyoneknows why this is being done.Priyanka’s show of support toher husband came days after anemotional message from Vadraon her appointment as AICCgeneral secretary.

Vadra entered the EDoffice around 3.45 pm, andsoon a team of his lawyersreached the ED office atJamnagar House here. This isthe first time Vadra turned upbefore a probe agency for ques-tioning on charges of dubiousfinancial dealings.

However, Vadra has deniedthe allegations and claimedthe cases are an outcome of apolitical witch-hunt.

After dropping Vadra offoutside the ED office, Priyanka,

who is an SPG protectee, wentback in her white Toyota LandCruiser with a convoy of vehi-cles carrying the elite com-mandos.

Vadra was directed by aDelhi court to cooperate withthe ED investigation after heapproached the court seekinganticipatory bail in the moneylaundering case. The court hadasked him to appear before theED on Wednesday on hisreturn from London.

A team of three ED offi-cials asked Vadra about trans-actions, purchase and posses-sion of certain immovableassets in London. His statementwas recorded under thePrevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA), offi-cial sources said.

The case relates to the pur-chase allegedly by Vadra of aLondon-based property locat-ed at 12, Bryanston Squareworth 1.9 million GBP (Britishpounds). The agency had toldthe court that it has receivedinformation about various newproperties in London whichbelong to Vadra.

In December, rhe ED hadraided and questioned Vadra’saide Manoj Arora, an employ-ee of Skylight Hospitality LLP,a firm linked to Vadra.

The ED has alleged that theLondon-based property wasbought by arms dealer SanjayBhandari for 1.9 million GBPand sold in 2010 for the same

amount despite incurring addi-tional expenses of approxi-mately 65,900 GBP on its ren-ovation.

“This gives credence tothe fact that Bhandari was notthe actual owner of the prop-erty but it was beneficiallyowned by Vadra who wasincurring expenditure on therenovation of this property,” theED had told the court.

Arora, a key link in thecase, was aware of Vadra’s over-seas undeclared assets and wasinstrumental in arrangingfunds, the ED had alleged.

Vadra has also been direct-ed by the Rajasthan High Courtto appear before the ED againon February 12 in connectionwith another money launder-ing case being probed by theagency.

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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra onWednesday took charge as

AICC general secretary at the party headquarters amid celebration and sloga-neering. Priyanka was appoint-ed as general secretary andincharge of Uttar Pradesh easton January 23 by her brotherand Congress chief RahulGandhi.

Along with Priyanka,senior Congress leaderJyotiraditya Scindia took charge

as the AICC general secretaryincharge for Uttar Pradeshwest. Both Priyanka andScindia have been appointedwith Rahul’s resolve tostrengthen the party in the cru-cial State of Uttar Pradesh,which has 80 Lok Sabha seats.

AICC leaders saidPriyanka is likely to begin herUttar Pradesh tour fromFebruary 11.

She may hold a road showin Lucknow and then addressa meeting of UPCC office-bearers. Party workers engaged

in UP election related activitiesexuded confidence thatPriyanka would go to Prayagrajalso to take a dip in the Sangamon the occasion of KumbhMela. She along with Rahulmay also address a rally laterthis month.

While she met severalparty workers particularlythose hailing from the easternregion of UP, Priyanka had anearly two-hour long meetingwith Rahul and Scindia tochalk out the Congress’ UPgame plan.

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Green chilli, red chilli, Paan,butterscotch, coconut and

praline are some of the manyflavours of chocolates which arebeing made by the rural tribalwomen of Nagri block ofRanchi.

Ranchi district adminis-tration, along with JharkhandIAS Wives’ Association (JIA-SOWA) is training around adozen women of a self helpgroup of Jajpur village in the artof chocolate and confectionarymaking, the first batch of whichwill go on sale on February 14,the Valentine’s Day.

The women are beingtrained by a Mumbai basedconsultancy, Chocoindulge.The training started onFebruary 5 and in just two daysthese women have learned theart of making differentflavoured chocolates and lad-doos.

Shanta Xalxo, member ofthe SHG, who is among thewomen being trained said,“Initially we thought we willnot be able to do it but now thatwe have started, I am confidentthat with a bit of time man-agement, our business wouldflourish.”

The women have procureda refrigerator, oven and blenderwith the money of SHG andonce the training is completedon February 12, the electricalequipment will be moved to theSHG office in their villageJajpur, where the women willcontinue making chocolatesand confectionaries to be soldin the market.

Neelam Devi, a traineesaid, “This is for the first timethat we are making somethingfor the urban population andwe are hoping a really goodresponse. This is a very goodopportunity of income gener-ation and once we are back in

the village we will train otherwomen who are interested inbaking and chocolate mak-ing.”

The items being made atthe training includes over 20varieties of chocolates and truf-fles, a number of cookies and

biscuits including oat,chocochips, cashew and butterand also a variety of laddooslike moong, ragi and besan.

However, the women arenot just being trained in bak-ing and packaging but also intime management. HarmeetKaur of Chocoindulge, who istraining these women said,“They are quick learners butthey will also need to know theimportance of time manage-ment. When one starts theirbusiness, they have to managethe time for the business as wellas their family and this issomething they need to learnhere.”

Just a day after the trainingsession started, the women gottheir first order by the RanchiDC’s office of delivering over a100 packets of chocolates.Nagiya Tigga, a trainee said,“This is such a wonderfulopportunity for us and we arereally lucky to get the first order

in just a day. I hope that wecontinue getting the orderslike this.” Ranchi DeputyCommissioner Rai MahimapatRay said that the chocolateswere distributed among DCs ofvarious districts who reallyenjoyed the taste. “We havealready got some confirmedorders and are looking forwardto see the chocolates get agood market,” he said.

DC Hazaribag, RaviShankar Shukla praised thetaste of chocolates. “The choco-lates were good, both in tasteand spirit and all of us enjoyedit. It is really good to tastehandmade chocolates in today’stime of machine manufactur-ing,” he said.

JIASOWA secretary RichaSanchita said that this initiativewill help make women selfdependent. "Once trained,these women will earn a goodincome to support their fami-lies," she said.

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Top leaders of prominentpolitical parties of the State

including Jharkhand MuktiMorcha, Jharkhand VikasMorcha, Indian NationalCongress and Rashtriya JanataDal today attended a high levelmeeting of Mhagathbandhan(Grand Alliance) in Delhi todiscuss the seat sharing formulafor general elections inJharkhand.

Although the meeting con-tinued at the time of filing ofthis report, sources said that adraft has been prepared for anamicable agreement betweenthe parties.

Jharkhand has 14 LokSabha constituencies and theseseats need to be distributedamong the parties in the lead-ership of Congress in the LokSabha polls.

Sources confided that theJMM was keen on Giridih,Dumka, Rajmahal and KhuntiLok Sabha seats, whileCongress is likely to contestfrom Dhanbad, Chaibasa andLohardaga.

The JVM may getKoderma for party chiefBabulal Marandi and Plamuseat. The RJD is eyeing theChatra Lok Sabha seat, sourcesadded.

Notably, the BharatiyaJanta Party had bagged 12 outof 14 Lok Sabha seats in the2014 Lok Sabha elections, theJMM holding just two seats andCongress failing to win a sin-gle seat.

The Grand alliance isstrategising to corner the BJPwith each party’s traditionalvoters in different constituen-cies.

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The Jharkhand LegislativeAssembly today passed

Jharkhand State ScheduledTribes Commission 2019 Billwith an amendment proposalbrought by MLAs RadhaKrishna Kishore, ShivshankarOraon, Ram Kumar Pahanand Laxman Tuddu.

In its earlier provision ofthe Bill, in chapter 2 of section3, A, B, C appointment processof chairman, vice-chairmanand three members of com-mission have been defined. Inthe provision it has been stat-ed that any person havingknowledge about history, tra-dition, custom and culture canbe appointed as chairman,vice-chairman and three mem-bers of commission.

However, Kishore the chiefwhip of ruling party sought anamendment in the appoint-ment process. Kishore said,“The post of chairman, vice-chairman and three membersof the commission should bereserved for scheduled tribes(ST), as any non-tribal personcan have knowledge about his-

tory, culture, custom and tra-ditions of the tribals.”

Kishore also stated thatposts should be reserved forsuch tribal persons who frombirth follow the traditions, cul-ture and customs of scheduledtribes. Chief MinisterRaghubar Das, who was pre-sent in the house gave hisapproval for the amendment.Das said, “The decision toconstitute Jharkhand StateScheduled Tribes Commissionwas taken in the tribal adviso-ry committee meeting.” Withthe approval of Chief Minister,the House unanimously passedthe bill.

Das, while participating ata public meeting in Dumka last

year, had announced the planto constitute tribal commissionin the State. The Chief Ministerhad promised to pass a Bill inthe budget session of theAssembly. The Commission,apart from having chairman,vice-chairman, would also havemembers from each divisionsof the State.

The CM had said that theBJP government is always seri-ous in working for emancipa-tion and uplift of tribal peopleand it was during the tenure ofAtal Bihari Vajpayee that theState’s tribal language Santhaliwas added in the list of lan-guages in 8th schedule of theConstitution.

The Assembly apart from

passing the tribal commissionBill also passed Jharkhand StateHousing Board AmendmentBill 2019 and Jharkhand MinesArea Development AuthorityAmendment Bill 2019.

State Urban Developmentand Housing Minister, CPSingh said, “After the formationof separate State, the housingboard had the power to sanc-tion housing projects worth �2crore.However, project higherthan � 2 crore budgets neededapproval from concerned min-istry. But with today’s amend-ment, the housing board willhave the power to grantapproval to the tune of �10crore.” Singh said apart fromexceeding the financial powerof the board, the amendmentwill open the doors for privateplayers in housing board pro-jects.

The house also gave itsapproval to introduce UnionGovernment’s Transplantationof Human Organs Acts andRules. The Act aimed at regu-lation of removal, storage, andtransplantation of humanorgans for therapeutic pur-poses and for prevention ofcommercial dealings in humanorgans.

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Sabarimala temple, onWednesday made a U-turn tosupport the Supreme Court’sorder allowing women of allages to enter the shrine as itjoined the Kerala Governmentto oppose a batch of pleasseeking review of the historicverdict.

A five-judge constitutionBench headed by Chief JusticeRanjan Gogoi reserved its deci-sion after hearing various par-ties for three and half hours,including those seeking re-consideration of the September28, 2018 judgement, even as theBoard later asserted that its lat-est position was not due to anypolitical pressure.

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Alocal court Wednesdayheld seven men guilty of

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JVM supremo BabulalMarandi has intensified his

pre poll exercise here for theChatra Lok Sabha seat. The for-mer CM of Jharkhand is mak-ing extensive pre poll tours inPalamu and Latehar districtswhere he has so far addressednearly a dozen public gather-ings drawing huge support forthe lady Neelam Devi who isnursing the Chatra Lok Sabhasegment over the last fouryears.

Neelam Devi is accompa-nying Marandi everywhere asa day before his arrival here inPalamu she embarked uponher tour in villages asking peo-ple to be electorally withMarandi by way of sitting andtea taking with them inLesliganj, Panki etc places.

Chatra LS seat has parts ofPalamu like Lesliganj, Panki,Tarhassi, Manatu and Lateharand Chatra as well.

Marandi who is in thisregion over the last three daysaddressing gathering of people

last leg at Latehar’s Manika onWednesday today told this cor-respondent in Betla today peo-ple are too fed up with this BJPGovernment and are just wait-ing for polling to take place toroot out this BJP Government.The mood and the pulse of thepeople are against thisGovernment he said.

However, much this veter-an leader labours hard for aunified opposition to BJP in theLS election the RJD is throw-ing spanner in the scheme ofunified opposition fight to theBJP. And the Congress too isnot any behind.

RJD chief Annapurna Devi,who was here in Daltonganj onTuesday told media personsthat RJD stakes its claim forChatra, Palamu and Kodermaseats. Sources said if RJD sticksto its demand then it is surer tocause chink in the armour ofopposition’s united fight to BJP.

Sources said JVM has astrong pitch in Chatra,Koderma and Godda but every-where either RJD or theCongress is up like Congress

batting for Furqan Ansari fromGodda while Annapurna Devigoing for Chatra and Koderma.

RJD has parachuted oneSubhash Yadav from Bihar forChatra LS seat but the man isyet to increase his winnabilitythere. A RJD leader begging foranonymity said this man whohas come from Bihar has noidea of poll chemistry or pollmathematics here. On the otherhand Neelam Devi is fromChandwa of Chatra LS seg-ment.

Speaking to the Pioneer inBetla Marandi said, “I haveasked my fellow senior politi-cians to see the candidates’ win-ning chances than the symbolthat they carry with them.Candidates’ ability to magne-tize votes should be the onlycriterion and not his face at all.”

Marandi expressing hopesaid his party is set to sail mostsmoothly in these three seatsChatra, Koderma and Godda.He reiterated there will emergea consensus of opinion amongall likeminded parties fightingBJP’s misrule in the State.

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After Uttar PradeshChief Minister

Adityanath Yogi, formerState Chief Minister andsenior tribal leader ArjunMunda was denied per-mission to hold meetingby the Mamata BannerjeeGovernment in WestBengal.

The three times for-mer Chief Minister and member of the 15-mem-ber BJP election manifesto committee, ArjunMunda, who was scheduled to attend a rally atBishnupur in Bankura district of Bengal, around170 km from Jamshedpur at around 2 pm today,had to return from Bandwan in Purulia districtafter being informed around 11:15 am by partymembers about decision of the Bankura districtadministration.

“I was scheduled to go to Bishnupur toattend a rally and also hold meeting with BJPsupporters and had crossed Katin in Patamdablock (in East Singhbhum) district and reachedBandwan when party leaders phoned me up andinformed about denial of permission by the dis-trict administration,” said Munda, while address-ing a press meet at Dimna here.

Attacking the Bengal CM, Munda said thatBengal Government working style is a threat fordemocracy in the country and a desperateattempt to curb the rising popularity of the BJP

in Bengal.It is only creating ten-

sion and fear amongst thepeople and the electoratewould give a befitting replyin the ensuing Lok Sabhapolls.

“It is really surprisingthat leaders of politicalparties are being deniedthe right to hold meetingand rallies during elec-tion time.

It is unprecedented and can be termed asan attempt to demean democracy and the worstscenario witnessed anywhere in the country. Iwill definitely go at a later date and attend partymembers,” said Munda. The BJP leader said thathe would be sending a detailed report to theparty high command.

Munda has served as the Chief Minister ofJharkhand for the maximum time and is one ofthe stalwart leaders of the BJP. He had turnedstar campaigner for the candidates in fray forChhattisgarh elections.

In his own style, he talks to the voters in theirlocal language. His reach has expanded.

"He is not only famous in our State but peo-ple especially Bengali speaking community inneighbouring states like West Bengal alsoreveres him.

He has turned into a star campaigner. Hehas devoted his time for campaigning for theparty," said a close aide.

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Tragedy struck as two steelcity archers Jaspal Singh

(23) and Saras Soren (28) diedin a road mishap at Shahdol,about 500 km from Bhopal inMadhya Pradesh earlyWednesday morning.

The speeding car hit a sta-tionary truck at about 6 am inBurhar police station area .Jaspal and Saras were headingto Bhopal for selling archeryequipment when the tragedystruck.

The Madhya Pradesh cap-ital is hosting the Junior National ArcheryChampionship beginning fromFebruary 8. Jaspal, a resident ofBagan area along KalimatiRoad in Sakchi ,and Saras diedon the spot. Jaspal runs anarchery equipment business in

partnership with HarenderSingh, a Jamshedpur-basedarchery coach.

Compound archer Jaspalhad won gold medal at theWorld Indoor InvitationalChampionship held at Bangkokin 2018 while Saras used tocompete in Indian Round.Saras was as topper NationalInstitute of Sports coachingdiploma conducted at SAI,Kolkata last month.

Jaspal did his schoolingfrom Carmel Junior College.His father Awtar Singh is abusinessmen while motherSharanjeet kaur is a home-maker.

Former Chief MinisterArjun Munda, who was recent-ly appointed as the president ofJharkhand Archery Association( JAA) expressed shock overthe incident.

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In a shocking incident, a 35-year-old tuberculosis patient,

jumped from the third floor ofMGM Medical College andHospital in Sakchi, in the weehours of Wednesday to end hislife. The deceased, SanjayMachua, an unemployed person,was suffering from tuberculosisfrom January last year and wasdepressed over his poor healthand financial condition. No sui-cide note has been found.

MGM Hospital superinten-dent S N Jha said that the patientwas undergoing treatment at themedicine ward for the last fewmonths.

“As per our information, hejumped from the third-floorbalcony around 1 am. As wecame to know we rushed him tothe emergency ward, where hewas declared dead,” Jha. Thepatient took the step after he toldone of his brothers who wasattending him that he was goingto toilet.

Machua was a resident of

Mango. He was undergoingtreatment at the medicine wardof the hospital for more than twomonths. He has a son (3) and adaughter (5). His wife Pinki,who is suffering from breast can-cer, was also admitted to the hos-pital last week.

As the news spread Sakchipolice team reached the hospi-tal to investigate the incident.Sub-inspector of Sakchi policestation V K Jaiswal said home-guards on duty at the govern-ment hospital first saw Machuawhen he jumped from the thirdfloor.

“They took him to theemergency where he wasdeclared dead. The patient hadsustained injuries on his headand spinal cord. The MGMpolice outpost has prepared aninquest report. The body wouldbe sent to MGM College inDimna for post-mortem," saidJaiswal

Hospital sources said thefamily members of thedeceased were insisting to handover the body instead of send-ing it for post-mortem.

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In a bid to save childrenbetween one to 19 years of

age from worm and malnutri-tion National Health Missionwill begin 7th phase of NationalDeworming Day fromFebruary 8 in the State.

Addressing a press meet onWednesday the MissionDirector, NHM, Kripa NandJha, informed that in order todeal with the risk of worminfection in children ofJharkhand, the NationalDeworming Day will beobserved on February 8 in theState. “Under this programme,children and adolescents from1 to 19 years of age in allschools of Jharkhand and

Anganwadi centers will bemade free from worms byadministering medicine calledAlbendazole. On the otherhand, due to absence or illness,children who are unable to getworm-control medicines on

Deworming Day will get it on14th of February during mop-up exercise.”

Speaking on the occasionJha said that worm transitionin India is emerging as a com-mon problem. “According to

World Health Organizationmore than 22 million childrenare worm inflicted under theage of 5 in the country for 14years. “National DewormingDay aims to make worm freefor improvement in childrenand young people’s health,nutritional status and cognitivedevelopment and quality oflife. Worm transition does notappear directly, but it also neg-atively impacts the health ofchildren and their homogenousdevelopment. Albendazole isone of the best medicines forprevention and control of thisnegative impact,” he added.Jha also appealed to the mediato propagate the awarenessabout the programme so thatno child could be left.

Informing the objective ofthe programme the MissionDirector said, in February 2019,as many as 1,42,17,169 childrenhave been targeted to get rid ofworms.

“Including 25,08,154 chil-dren from private schools.Keeping in view the danger ofpublic health of intestinal infec-tions in children and youth of1 to 19 years, drug delivery willbe provided in various gov-ernment and private schools ofthe State, at Anganwadi centers,in inter-colleges, in technicalcolleges.

On the occasion IPRD,Director, Ram Lakhan PrasadGupta and Ranchi CivilSurgeon, BV Khalko were alsopresent.

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The State Government onThursday claimed that

Jharkhand’s roads are in bettershape meeting all the guidelinesof road safety manual. StateRural Development Minister,Neelkanth Singh Munda, whilereplying to a query made by BJPlegislator from Garhwa,Satyendra Nath Tiwari, said,“Around 90 per cent of roads inState are in good conditions,meeting the safety manuals inconstruction process.” Mundaadmitted that some roads mighthave faulty constructions, butmajority are in good shape.

Earlier, the BJP MLA inquestion hour raised the issuethat safety manuals have notbeen followed in constructionof major roads includingnational highways. These roads

have numerous and haphaz-ardly constructed culverts,bridges and diversions. Theseculverts, bridges and diver-sions have not been construct-ed as per civil engineeringmanuals. Tiwari said, “Faultyconstructions of diversionsleads to death of more thanthousands of people in past fewyears in road accidents. Worse,many a times the family mem-bers of road accidents victim donot get compensation. Even theState government does not havethe figure of such road accidentvictims.”

Tiwari demanded the StateGovernment to take strictaction against the constructioncompanies and engineers forconstructing such roads.Munda said, “Road construc-tion department does not havethe figure of number of deaths

in road accidents, also theState Disaster Managementprovides compensation to vic-tim of road accidents.” Theminister also claimed death fig-ure as quoted by concernedMLA due to faulty construc-tions of diversion, culvert and

bridges is not correct and ifTiwari has an example of suchroads where civil engineeringguidelines has not been fol-lowed the department will takeup the case.

Tiwari on minister’sremark posed a challenge to

him, he said, “I am ready toquit my membership fromhouse if the statement given byme is incorrect. He also statedthat the Ranchi-Daltonganjnational highway 75 is anexample. I request the ministerto visit NH 75 for reality check.”

Speaker intervening on theissue asked the minister tolook into the grievances raisedby concerned lawmaker.

The issue of delay in allot-ments of houses by JharkhandState Housing Board was alsoraised by Bokaro MLA,Biranchi Narayan in the ques-tion hour. The legislator raisingthe issue stated that theJharkhand State Housing Boardin 2011 issued an advertise-ment for construction of hous-es in Ranchi, Jamshedpur,Dhanbad, Hazaribagh andDaltonganj followed by which

houses were allotted to 209applicants. Out of 209 appli-cants, 39 applicants haddeposited 100 per cent of totalmoney, while 116 applicantshad deposited 50 per cent oftotal money. Later, in 2015 theHousing Board in its 40th gov-erning board meeting can-celled the allotment of housesin Ranchi. The victims laterapproached Jharkhand HighCourt with their pleas later thecourt intervening on the issuequashed the housing boarddirective. Biranchi urged theconcerned minister to provideallotment of houses to con-cerned beneficiaries.

State Urban Developmentand Housing minister, CPSingh replying to the lawmak-er said that by end of Marchthis year, the beneficiaries willget the houses as allotted.

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On invitation from the UttarPradesh Government,

Governor Droupadi Murmu visit-ed Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj onWednesday and praised the facili-ties available for the devotees.

A special pavilion by Jharkhandhas been set up at Sector 19 on thefair premises offering a glimpse of the State’s art, culture and tradi-tion.

Joint Director of tourism direc-torate, Rajeev Ranjan said, “Themajor attraction at the pavilion isthe replica of Baba Dham temple ofDeoghar in which a huge idol ofLord Shiva is established.

The pavilion is attracting ahuge footfall every day, since itsinauguration on February 1.”

The pavilion has a number ofstalls offering crafts and cuisines ofJharkhand. “Around half a dozenstalls of various crafts of Jharkhandlike Dokra, Sohrai painting and oth-ers and visitors are showing greatinterest in them,” Ranjan said.

A stall of tribal food set up byprivate agency ‘Jharkhand Cuisines’in association with the tourism

department is serving a variety oftribal delicacies like Dhuska, Peetha,Chilka, Madua Roti and many oth-

ers. “The stall owners there haveinformed us that the food is sold offwithin two to three hours of settingup the stalls which shows that peo-ple are really enjoying it,” Ranjansaid.

Cultural programmes ofJharkhand mesmerize the crowd inevenings. Ashok Kumar Singh,director, cultural directorate said, “Atotal of seven dance troupes will beperforming at the fair. The variousperformances include Chhau,Paika, Nagpuri, Santhali amongother local dance forms.”

The reason behind setting upthe pavilion at Kumbh is to makethe visitors, both national andinternational, familiar with theculture of Jharkhand.

Ranjan said, “This will help usin branding. Even in India, manypeople do not have any knowledgeabout the art, culture and traditionof Jharkhand.

This pavilion has helped usreach a huge crowd at one place. OnTuesday, around 5 crore people,which is 5 per centof India’s popu-

lation took a dip in the holy water,even if 10,000 of them reach our stall,it will be a huge number.”

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Over 1000 patients at theRajendra Institute of

Medical Sciences (RIMS) hadto suffer as all the OPDs at thepremiere state-run hospitalremained non-operational fornearly two hours onWednesday morning. The doc-tors were present at the OPDsbut refused to write prescrip-tions as a part of their pen-down strike in demand of aMedical Protection Act (MPA).

There are a total of 10OPDs at RIMS and all of themremained non-operationalfrom 9.30am to 11.30am, doc-tors said. Around 1200 patientshad to wait at the OPD to gettheir prescriptions, they added.

“Medical Protection Act isnot only for the benefit ofdoctors but also for the welfareof patients. Under this Act, hos-pitals cannot refuse to handover the body of a deceasedpatient to family even if the billshaven’t been cleared,” said Dr.Ajit Kumar, president, JuniorDoctor’s Association (JPA),

RIMS.The Act mandates impris-

onment of up to three years anda fine of �50,000 for attacks ondoctors, nurses and hospitalestablishments.

There have been severalincidents of attacks on doctorsat RIMS too in the past. InFebruary last year, a doctor washeckled by attendants of apatient at RIMS promptingmedicos at the hospital to go onan indefinite strike.

A couple of months later, inJune, a nurse was thrashed byattendants of a patient who

died in the hospital. This inci-dent too caused uproar byRIMS staff.

Implementation of MPAhas been a long pendingdemand of the Jharkhandchapter of the Indian MedicalAssociation (IMA). The Acthas already been implementedin 18 states in India and IMAwants Jharkhand to be the19th state to implement theMPA.

“The Cabinet hadapproved the MPA inJharkhand in 2017. Later, aselect committee too gave a

report on it. But it is yet to bepassed by the Assembly,” saidDr. Pradeep Kumar Singh,General Secretary, of IMA’sJharkhand chapter.

The government has beendelaying the implementation ofthe Act on pretext of addingmore patient-friendly clauses toit, Singh added.

“This entire Act is in favourof patients. It makes the hos-pital and doctors answerable totheir queries. It specifies thatdoctors have to give all detailsof the treatment that any par-ticular patient is undergoing ifhis or her family asks for it,” hesaid.

The issue was also raised inthe Assembly on Wednesday.

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The members of Ranchi MunicipalCorporation (RMC) Workers’

Association will go on indefinite strikefrom February 26 putting all essentialservices at stake. According to the pres-ident of RMC workers’ union, NareshRam, over 300 workers will support thestrike.

“Our major demands include pay-ment to employees in accordance toseventh pay commission norms,appointment of more numbers of staffson contractual basis, clearance ofarrears including other perks,” saidRam.

This is for the third time, the asso-ciation members have called for anindefinite strike. Earlier in 2014 and2016, both contractual and permanentemployees have raised the issuedemanding intervention of seniorauthorities.

“Payment of arrears of around 500employees according to the fifth paycommission has yet not been fulfilled.Also, increasing the family and regu-lar retirement pensions and providingjobs on compensation grounds areamong few other major demands that

are taken into consideration,” he added.According to a protesting employ-

ee, “The workers’ union has beenputting the demands for last two yearsbut nothing has been done yet by theconcerned authorities.

The retirement pension of bothgrade 3 and 4 is comparatively less,which should be increased. Besides, themonthly wage, we want that the pen-sion amount must be increased to�20,000.”

Also, permanent sanitation work-ers are expected to join the protestbesides the contractual sanitation work-ers hired to manage, segregate and dis-perse solid wastes from across the city.“Another meeting has been scheduledon February 12 with the staffs.Sanitation workers are also expected tolend support to the protest, bringing thecleanliness work to complete standstill.

“We have invited them to talk onthe matter, considering their demands;the decision will be made accordingly.The matter has been taken to the seniorauthorities. As far as cleanliness of cap-ital city is concerned, garbage cleaningand door to door garbage collection willnot suffer,” said RMC Officer (PR),Bijendra Kumar.

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State Bio-diversity Board hasset an ambitious target of

opening bio-diversity manage-ment committees (BMCs) frompanchayat to district level withan aim to conserve the flora andfauna of the state and alsoensure equitable distributionof natural resources.

Chairman of the Board LRSingh stated the committeeswould be opened in all the 4397panchayats, 266 blocks, 24 dis-trict and 31 municipal bodies ofthe state.

“Till March 18, 1800 BMCswere set up but work in thisregard was taken up on warfooting afterwards. Till date3400 BMCs have been formedand we aiming to achieve 100percent of the target by the endof the year,” he said. He addedthat People Biodiversity Registeris also to be prepared at the pan-chayat, block, district and themunicipal levels.

The register would be acomprehensive document ofthe natural resources and theirtraditional uses. Biodiversityhas a vast assemblage andincludes every living beingincluding micro-organisms,”the chairman said.

According to the forestdepartment Jharkhand is a partof biodiversity rich regions ofIndia because of its diversephysiographic and climatic con-ditions.

The forests are largely trop-ical dry deciduous forest, moistdeciduous forest, dry peninsu-lar forest and dry mixed decid-uous forest. The forests of thestate form catchments of thethree main rivers — Koel,Damodar and Subernrekha.

The State is also rich inwildlife. The species found hererepresent a wide range of plantsand animals. This can be attrib-uted to the vaeirty of terrain andland forms (including waterbodies).

Besides, there is diversity ofhuman influenced eco-systems.Various ethnic groups such asMunda, Ho, Oraon and Santhalhave also influenced their eco-systems in varying practices ofagriculture and pasture.According to Bio-diversity lawsuse of natural resources must besustainable.

A fee has to be paid fortrade of natural products at dif-ferent places and the moneywould be used for conservationof the bio-diversity of the local-ity.

Any violation would attractstringent punishment includingimprisonment for five yearsand a fine of 15 lakh. While Bio-diversity Board has a gigantictask before it, the board is ham-pered by inadequate infra-structure. It has currently achairman, a divisional forestofficer and only about half adozen employees on contractbasis.

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Jharkhand is all set to co-host the 20thedition of international theatre festival

of India –Bharat Rang Mahotsav fromFebruary 9. The seven day event will beorganised in Ranchi at AryabhattaAuditorium from 6:30 PM onwards. Thecultural event is hosted annually by thenodal theatre training institution of India– National School of Drama (NSD) at NewDelhi to showcase the vibrancy of rich the-atre culture.

“For the first time, besides New Delhi,the international theater extravaganza isbeing hosted at the five cities in Indiawhich includes Dibrugarh (Assam),Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Mysuru(Karnataka), Rajkot (Gujarat) and Ranchi(Jharkhand). The event inaugurated atNew Delhi on February 1 will continue tillFebruary 21 while the event here inRanchi will conclude on February 15,” saidAssistant Professor – NSD, AmiteshGrover during the press meet on Tuesday.

According to the organisers, as manyas seven plays including two internation-al theater shows from Bangladesh and

Nepal will be performed in Ranchi. “Theplays will be organised in three languages– Hindi, Bengali and Nepali. Also, theatreenthusiasts and students can engage ininteractive sessions with renowned theatrepersonalities. The themes of the theatreperformances are mostly mythological andhistorical correlating it with a few social-ly-relevant issues,” added Grover.

Being organised in association with theDepartment of Art, Culture and Youth

Affairs, GoJ, the event will be inaugurat-ed by Minister, Amar Kumar Bauri. Thecommuniqué released by the organisingagency suggests, “On the premier day,Hindi play ‘Mahabrahaman’ written byPremanand Gajvi will be showed followedby ‘Nagin Tera Vansh Bade’, ‘Agnipariksha’,‘Macbeth’, ‘Rakta Kalyan’ written by GirishKarnad, ‘Three Sisters’, ‘Mayamridanga’.”

Performances of the local theaterartists from Jharkhand will be also show-cased during the event depicting the richinheritance of the tribal land. Related activ-ities such as Director’s Meet, LivingLegends and Master Class will be con-ducted at the 20th edition of Bharat RangBaro Mahotsav every evening.

“The event responds to the need tofacilitate a critical reflection of tradition-al and folk theatre forms, as well asemboldening performing artists from var-ious countries to bring their work to theIndian audiences. It is an interactive space- fertile for practitioners, academicians,directors and actors to exchange ideas anddebate, generate new understandings,besides developing new proclivities,”Grover further added.

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The Skill Acquisition andKnowledge Awareness for

Livelihood Promotion(SANKALP) programme ofUnion Government will soonbe implemented at Jharkhand.The scheme is being launchedwith the aim to preparing andimplementing high qualitytraining modules and will beaided by World Bank.

The programme waslaunched at centre on July 15,2018 under National SkillDevelopment Mission byMinistry of Skill Developmentand Entrepreneurship (MSDE).

A state level workshop forthe implementation of the pro-gramme will be organized inRanchi on February 27 and 28in which stakeholders fromnot just Jharkhand but otherstates including HimachalPradesh, Meghalaya, Delhi andTelangana would participate.

Juthika Patnakar, addi-tional secretary, MSDE was inRanchi on Tuesday andWednesday to review thepreparations for the workshop.

Meanwhile, in another

instance, secretary, higher, tech-nical education and skill devel-opment department RajeshSharma held a meeting withindustrial units, public sectorunits and educational institu-tions to discuss the operationof engineering colleges andpolytechnic colleges of the stateon public private partnership(PPP) mode.

Tata Steel Ltd., Jindal SteelPvt.Ltd., CCL, Orion Edutech,OP indal, Centurian University,Centum Learning, Team Lease,Centurion University wheresome of the major participat-ing institutions.

The representatives wereinformed that the operations oftechnical institutions wouldbe given up to 25 years and thecompanies can run the insti-tutions using their CSR funds.

The 12 newly constructedtechnical institutions whichhave to be run on PPP modeinclude four engineering col-leges, one each at Ramgarh,Jamshedpur, Koderma andPalamu and eight polytechniccolleges at giridih, Godda,Lohardaga, Hazaribag, Chatra,Khunti, Jamtara and Palamu.

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Isn response to aquestion raised by

Rajya Sabha MPMahesh Poddar,Union Minister forSkill Developmentand Entrepreneurship,Dharmendra Pradhan has saidthat of the 40 lakh candidatesnominated in the PrimeMinister Skill DevelopmentScheme under 2016-2020, 45per cent are women.

However, the participationof women labour force of theage of 15 and above hasdropped from 30 per cent in2011-2012 to 27.4 per cent in2015-16, he added. He attrib-uted the figures to surveys con-ducted by the Labour Bureau ofthe Ministry of Labour andEmployment “In the subse-quent years, attempts by theGovernment to motivatewomen for employment havehad considerable success. Asper figures available on January21, 2019, of the 40 lakh candi-dates nominated in the PrimeMinister Skill DevelopmentScheme under 2016-20, 45 per-cent are women. In his ques-tion, Poddar had raised concern

over the low par-ticipation ofwomen labourforce in India andsought a replyfrom the minis-ter.

In his reply,Pradhan said that in order toencourage women participationin skill training, provision hasbeen made to provide travelallowance to women trainees.Woman trainees, who havetheir training centre in theirhome district, get travelallowance of �1,000 per month.

The ones who have to trav-el to other districts for trainingget an allowance of �1,500 permonth. “Skill fairs are organizedregularly for spreading aware-ness about the Prime MinisterSkill Development Plan,” he saidin his reply.

After receiving the reply,Poddar suggested that in a bidto achieve better results, par-ticipation of social institutionsand intellectuals was neces-sary “All these efforts can beeffective only when non-gov-ernment, social organizationsand the intellectuals of thesociety participate in theprocess,” he said.

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Tshe Reserve Bank of India(RBI) organised a sensiti-

sation programme on NonBanking Financial Companiesand cyber fraud in joint col-laboration with the CentralBureau of Investigation, Policeand the State Government inRanchi on Wednesday.

The programme wasinaugurated by Sanjeev Dayal,General Manager, ReserveBank of India, Ranchi.

Neeraj Kumar, DeputyGeneral Manager, ReserveBank of India; Jaya Roy,Superintendent of Police, CID;S Bose, Superintendent ofPolice, CBI; Neeraj Kumari,Deputy Secretary, Departmentof Finance, Jharkhand

Government andGyanendra Neeraj, In-charge Officer, SEBIaddressed the work-shop. Various officersof CBI, CID, policeand State were partic-ipated in the work-shop. Participants werebriefed on the guide-lines issued by variousregulators on non-cor-porate bodies andcyber crime relatedissues.

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Amajor fire broke out at afactory manufacturing

Coal-tar at Nawdiha area inChandankiyari in Bokaro dis-trict in the early afternoon ofon Wednesday, but no casual-ties were reported, said a FireBrigade official. The blaze inthe factory, located in an indus-trial area of the Chandankiyariin Steel City, was brought undercontrol by 3.30 pm, said facto-ry Site in-Charge Suresh Singh.

Eyewitnesses said thickplumes of black smoke couldbe seen rising in the sky.

Though no casualties werereported, the plant, owned byCoal-tar Pvt Ltd, sufferedextensive damage,Singh said.The fire site is around 5 kmfrom Bokaro town.

Fire officials said that theywere informed about the inci-dent at around 1.15pm.

"It was a major fire. Sevenfire tenders were pressed intoservice to douse the flames.The company is involved inrepairing the road. The firecould have been triggered by ashort-circuit," the Site-inCharge added.

The factory ownersclaimed that property damagedhad been estimated at morethan �25 lakh.

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The Government has soughtapplications for chairman

and members of anti-corrup-tion ombudsman Lokpal, near-ly five years after the LokpalAct came into force, officialssaid Wednesday.

An advertisement seekingapplications from desired andeligible candidates has beenissued by the PersonnelMinistry.

For the appointment asthe chairman, a person who isor has been Chief Justice ofIndia or a Supreme Courtjudge is eligible to apply.

Besides, individuals with“impeccable integrity and out-standing ability” having specialknowledge and expertise ofnot less than 25 years in mat-ters related to anti-corruptionpolicy, public administration,vigilance, finance includinginsurance and banking, and lawand management are eligible toapply.

Those with less than 45years of age are not eligible toapply.

According to rules, there isa provision for a chairpersonand a maximum of eight mem-bers in the Lokpal. Of these,four need to be judicial mem-bers.

“Not less than 50 per centof the members of the Lokpalshall be from amongst the per-sons belonging to theScheduled Castes, theScheduled Tribes, OtherBackward Classes, minoritiesand women,” the advertise-ment seeking the applicationsreads.

Upon selection, the chair-person and members shall holdoffice for a term of five years ortill they attain 70 years of age.

The salary and allowancesof the chairman of the Lokpalwill be same as that of the ChiefJustice of India. The memberswill be paid salary andallowances same as that of ajudge of the Supreme Court.

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At the backdrop of protestsfrom various sections,

including Parliamentarians, theCentre on Wednesday said theGovernment will file a reviewpetition in the Supreme Court after its Special LeavePetition (SLP) on faculty reser-vation mechanism for univer-sities was rejected by the apexcourt.

“We will file review peti-tion soon and we will put ourpoint strongly. We are confi-dent there will be justice andreservation will continue as perthe earlier system. The gov-ernment will ensure that reser-vation for SC/ST/OBC is nothampered,” HRD MinisterPrakash Javadekar said.

The announcement comesin the wake of protests byteachers and students bodiesafter the SLP seeking restora-tion of earlier mechanism of

faculty reservation, which iscalculating total posts institu-tion-wise rather than depart-ment-wise, was dismissed bythe Supreme court last month.

The roster system providesthat number of vacancies areconsidered department or wingwise in a college or universityand not total number of postsavailable for recruitment inany institution. This results inlimited seats available forrecruitment by each depart-ment or wing under reservedcategories.

“Earlier universities weretreated as a unit for reservationwhich was the right thing andthe SC/ST/OBC were treated ina just manner.

Initially the AllahabadHigh Court and then theSupreme Court decided thatdepartment wise reservationwill happen which meantreduction in reservation forSC/ST/OBC. The Modi

Government filed an SLPagainst it and it was argued wellbut the Supreme Court did notaccept the SLP,” Javadekar saidbriefing the media outside theParliament.

The University GrantsCommission (UGC) had issueda communication to all uni-versities and higher educationinstitutions (HEIs) to “postpone the recruitmentprocess” till the Supreme Courtissued its verdict on the SLPand that decision has not beenwithdrawn yet, the Ministersaid.

The UGC had announcedin March last year that anindividual department shouldbe considered as the base unitto calculate the number ofteaching posts to be reservedfor Scheduled Caste (SC) andScheduled Tribe (ST) candi-dates following an order by theAllahabad High Court in Aprilin 2017.

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The Union Home Ministryhas launched a massive

recruitment drive to fill 76,578vacancies, including 7,646 postsfor women, in Central ArmedPolice Forces (CAPFs).

In a statement onWednesday, the HomeMinistry said out of thesevacancies, 54,953 posts are forthe constable cadre and theywill be hired through the Staff Selection Commission(SSC).

Out of the 54,953 posts ofconstables, the CRPF, theworld’s largest paramilitaryforce, has the maximum 21,566vacancies, followed by the BSF(16,984 posts), the SSB (8,546posts), the ITBP (4,126 posts)and the Assam Rifles (3,076posts) with the remainingbeing in the CISF and otherCAPFs.

For the entire exercise, theSSC will start a computer-based written examinationfrom this month itself, thestatement said.

The CRPF, which has astrength of 325 operationalbattalions (3,25,000 person-nel) will get nearly 22 more bat-talions (22,000 personnelapproximately). The CRPF is adesignated anti-Naxal, counter-terror and anti-insurgencyCentral Force.

The paramilitary is heavi-ly deployed in Jammu andKashmir, Naxal areas and theNortheast.

The addition of the 22 bat-talions will give a boost to theForce that has for long beendeprived of the reserve com-ponent, leading to fatigueamongst personnel due to continuous deployment in hardareas.

After the completion of therecruitment, the personnel willbe able to get soft postings liketraining and the areas not hitby insurgency or terror.

There are 1,073 vacanciesin various CAPFs at the level ofSub-Inspector, out of which 38posts are reserved for women.The BSF has the maximum 508vacancies of SI, followed by the

CRPF (274), the SSB (206)and the ITBP (85). D i r e c tRecruitment for these postsalso will be made by the SSCthrough a written examinationbetween February-March.

At the level of the AssistantCommandant, there exist 466vacancies for which directrecruitment is being madethrough the UPSC. The resultof the written examination tofill these posts has beendeclared on January 1.

The shortlisted candidateswill appear for physical andmedical examination to beconducted by the SashatraSeema Bal (SSB), the nodalforce, from February 25onwards.

In addition, 20,086 vacan-cies pertain to promotionalposts and in other cadres suchas tradesman, ministerial, med-ical, paramedical, communi-cation and engineering andthese are also being filled by theCAPFs.

Thus, in all 76,578 vacan-cies are getting filled up, thestatement added.

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The BJP on Wednesdayquestioned whether

Congress chief Rahul Gandhiwas behind planting the Armycoup story in 2012 even as itsought the StandingCommittee on Defence to takenote of “fresh reports” on thealleged episode.

Taking a serious note ofwhat he described “new reve-lations” on the alleged coupattempt in 2012, BJPspokesperson GVL NarsimhaRao said he has raised the issuewith the Standing committeechairman Kalraj Mishra who isalso a Union Minister and asenor BJP leader.

“I am a member ofParliamentary Committee onDefence and (this fresh report)is a matter of great concern andI have raised the issue with ourchairman and requested himthat we should find answers tothese questions,” Rao toldnewspersons here.

The BJP’s Rajya Sbhamember claimed that four ofNarsimha Rao Government’sCabinet Ministers were in theknow of things and one ofthem had leaked the report to

a section of the press. Hesought the name of theMinister who had leaked theinformation to the media.

The report in a nationalEnglish daily on April 12, 2012,had claimed that the “alarm’ wasraised in January 16, 2013. Thelead story of the daily suggest-ed an attempt of coup by theArmy. The report then alludedthat an entire unit of infantrybased in Hisar (Haryana) hadstarted moving towards Delhiwhile a section from Agra alsomoved towards Palam.

The BJP leader was react-ing after ‘fresh report’ in anEnglish Weekly ‘SundayGuardian’, this month, allegedthat the UPA dispensationunder Manmohan Sigh hadasked Intelligence Bureau toestablish that the then armyChief Gen. V K Singh (now a

Minister in the Modi-Government) was attempting acoup against the Government.

“The top leadership of theUPA 2 government, in the lastfew months of 2011 and early2012, had informally indicatedto the Intelligence Bureau (IB)to try and establish that theArmy, under its chief, GeneralVK Singh, was attempting acoup to topple theGovernment. This was at atime when the UPA 2Government was reeling undercharges of immense corruptionand the Anna Hazare move-ment was going on. A fewmonths later, despite the IB cat-egorically reporting that therewas absolutely no chance thatGen Singh would carry out anycoup, this fiction was “leaked”to the media..”, the report of theWeekly alleged.

Rao asked if Congressleader Rahul Gandhi was the‘brain’ behind these conspira-cies, and wondered why UPAministers spread these ‘lies’despite the Intelligence Bureaucalling any news about theseattempts ‘false’.

“This Congress party hadnot only indulged in loot, butthey have also played havoc with

national security of this coun-try and played with security,” theBJP spokesperson said.

“This is not just a politi-cal conspiracy but also anattempt to defame the Indianarmy. In January 2012, therewere media reports thatclaimed that the Indian Armywas staging a coup against thethen-Manmohan SinghGovernment. The stories wereplanted by senior leaders of theCongress party, including cer-tain Cabinet Ministers. Thiswas a manufactured coup.Based on the information thatwas given to him, the then-Prime Minister asked the IB topresent facts on the rumour.Even after the IB had clearedthe rumours, the UPA stillplanted the story in mediathat attempted to malign theIndian Army,” he said.

Reacting to the charges, ex-Defence Minister and seniorCongress leader A K Antonysaid in a brief reply, “AsDefence Minister at that time,there were lot of questions inRajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. Ihad given detailed answers.Please go through Parliamentwebsite, you’ll get the answer Ihad given,”

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Both the Houses ofParliament were adjourned

on Wednesday without trans-acting any business. While theproceedings of Lok Sabha wereadjourned for the day after pay-ing obituary to sitting BJDmember from Odisha LaduKishore Swain, Rajya Sabha toowere washed out completely forthe third day in a row over var-ious issues including theCitizenship (Amendment) Billand roster system for reserva-tion in educational institu-tions.

As soon as the Lok Sabhamet for the day, SpeakerSumitra Mahajan informedmembers about the demise ofthe Biju Janata Dal member inBhubaneshwar on Wednesdaymorning.

The debate on Motion ofThanks to the President’sAddress to the joint sitting ofParliament is likely to contin-ue on Thursday where PrimeMinister is expected to reply tothe debate.

The MP from Aska was71. Swain was a member of theparliamentary committee onRural Development and OBCs.Prime Minister Narendra Modiand UPA chairperson SoniaGandhi were among memberspresent when the obituary ref-erence was made.

The Rajya Sabha proceed-ings were within seconds in themorning for post lunch.Thereafter as soon as the upperhouse resumed its proceedingsat 2 PM, RJD, SP, BSP and

TMC members trooped into the well protesting overvarious issues mainly intro-duction of roster system in edu-cational institutions which theyclaim limits the scope of reser-vation for jobs. BesidesCongress members were alsoon their feet to lodge theirprotest.

Deputy Speaker Harivanshasked protesting members inthe well to return to theirrespective seats.

However, the members did

not relent and kept on raisingslogans like “Anti-poor gov-ernment cannot function”.They were also holding plac-ards to protest against the ros-ter system.

He then requested SPleader Ramgopal Yadav to endthe protest as he will be givena chance to speak on the issueduring the Zero Hour. Yadavsaid the government has devi-ated from its promise made inthe House on this issue.

In the meantime,Parliamentary Affairs MinisterVijay Goel tried to pacifyYadav. However, the protestcontinued.

HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar saidGovernment is working on theissue and preparing a specialleave petition and review peti-tion for filing in the SupremeCourt.

When the members con-tinued raising slogans andshowing placards, Harivanshsaid, “In this situation, I haveno other option but to adjournthe House till February 7.”

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Ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabhapolls this year, the Ministry of

Finance’s Public Investment Board(PIB) on Wednesday approved metrorail projects of Agra, Kanpur,Ahmedabad phase II and Patna besidesthe Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RapidRail Transit corridor.

Meanwhile, the Delhi Governmentonce again made it clear that its shareof �1138 crore towards the project costhas to be borne by the Centre as it didnot have adequate funds. The questionthus reminas as to who will pay theshare of Delhi Government, sourcessaid.

Sources in the Government saidthat financial implications of the afore-mentioned metro rail projects have beenapproved. The proposals would be sentto the Union Cabinet for approval.

On the Delhi-Ghaziabd-Meerutcorridor of RRTS, Delhi government

has written to Ministry of Housing andUrban Affairs that proposed change inalignment of the project as well aschange of station at Sarai Kale Khanfrom underground to elevated wouldaffect the construction plan of ISBTSarai Kale Khan and the proposed hotelunder the PPP mode to fund the rede-velopment of the ISBT. This will leadto delay in the entire project. Accordingto sources, the after refusing the sharethe project cost by the DelhiGovernment, the question arise whetherthe Centre will pay the share of DelhiGovernment.

The metro rail project of Patna willcost �13,400 crore. As per the DPR, the14.5km east-west corridor will coverSaguna Mor, Bailey Road, PatnaJunction and Mithapur bus stand. The16.5km north-south corridor, on theother hand, will connect Patna Junctionwith the proposed bus stand at Barriyavia Ashok Rajpath, Gandhi Maidan andRajendra Nagar terminal. While the

east-west corridor will mostly be under-ground, the north-south corridor willbe elevated.

For Kanpur and Agra metro, theUttar Pradesh government had reducedthe cost of the projects after the Ministryof Housing and Urban Affairs’s objec-tion. For the Kanpur project, a proposalof �18,143 crore was sent earlier. Now

it has been made �10,908 crores. A total of 32.385 km of metro rail

will be built in Kanpur. As per therevised DPR, two corridors will be builtunder the Kanpur Metro project. Theproposed metro rail of Kanpur city willcover IIT, Rawatpur, Bada Chauraha,Motimahal, Kanpur Central, ISBTJhakarkatti and Naubasta. The Agrametro project cost was estimated to�13,781 crores. Now it has been made�8,262 crores. A 30 km metro rail net-work is to be built in Agra which willconsist two corridors.

The Ahmedabad metro phase IIprojects will cost Rs 7500 crore. As perthe revised DPR for phase-II, the routelength has been shortened to 28.26 km.It will have two corridors - the first onehaving a length of 22.84 km will linkMotera with Mahatma Mandir and thesecond one about 5.42 km-long branchfrom GNLU (Gujarat National LawUniversity) and linking PDPU andGIFT City.

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Defence Minister NirmalaSitharaman will discuss

the entire range of bilateralstrategic and defence issueswith Germany and Swedenrespectively during her four-day two-nation tour startingFebruary 11.

Incidentally, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi hadpaid an official visit to the twocountries in April last year tohold high level discussionsespecially focussing on strate-gic and defence relations.

During her visit toSweden, the defence ministerwill explore possibilities ofindustries from there partici-pating in the “‘Make In India’’programme especially in the

field of defence manufacturing.Sweden’s fighter jet Gripen isin the race for the 110-fighter jet proposed dealfor the IAF costing more than ten billion dollars forwhich the global tender wasfloated last year, sources said

here on Wednesday. Sitharaman will hold wide

ranging discussions with herSwedish counterparts and isalso likely to visit some state ofthe art defence industries there,they added.

In her talks with Germanleaders, the Defence Minister will discuss issueslike terrorism, possibility ofexchanges between officers atthe military level and strategicmatters.

Though India andGermany do not have muchdefence trade, the two sidesmay hold discussion aboutpossible tie-up for manufac-turing submarines as Germanythree decades ago had helpedIndia in manufacturing HDWsubmarines here.

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The bereaved family of lateSquadron Leader Samir

Abrol, one of the two testpilots who died in a Mirage-2000 crash in Bengaluru lastweek, has said while thebureaucracy enjoy its “corruptcheese and wine”, the air war-riors are given “outdatedmachines” to fight.

An emotional poempenned by Abrol’s brotherSushant, posted on Facebook,states it is an “unforgiving” jobto be a test pilot given the risksit posses.

“While the bureaucracyenjoyed its corrupt cheese and wine. We give our warriorsoutdated machines to fight, They still deliver it with all their prowess and might,” Sushant said in thepost that was widely shared.

Abrol and Squadron

Leader Siddhartha Negi, both from Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment,died after their fighter jetcrashed.

They were conducting anacceptance sortie of theMirage-2000 trainer, whichhad been newly-upgraded bystate-run aerospace companyHindustan AeronauticsLimited, when it crashed onFriday.

Though the two pilotsmade a bid to eject, they werecaught in the flames as theplane crashed with a hugeexplosion.

In another post, Sushant said, “It’s high time wecare not just for lost votes, butalso for our lost pilots to thenegligence of this corrupt sys-tem!!”

The post was also sharedby Abrol’s wife Garima onInstagram.

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The Supreme Court onWednesday sought a

response from activist andlawyer Prashant Bhushan oncontempt pleas by AttorneyGeneral K K Venugopal andthe Centre for his tweetsallegedly criticising the courtover the appointment of MNageswara Rao as interim CBIdirector.

Bhushan was given threeweeks to reply.

A bench of Justices ArunMishra and Naveen Sinha saidit would deal with the largerquestion of whether it is openfor lawyers or any other personto criticise the court in a subjudice matter which wouldlead to influencing public opin-ion. Criticising the court mayalso lead to interference in thecourse of justice, the benchadded.

“This issue required to beheard in length, notice issued,”

it said, listing the matter for fur-ther hearing on March 7.

Bhushan, in his tweets,alleged that the Centre, repre-sented by Venugopal, misledthe apex court on the issue ofRao’s appointment.

On Tuesday, the Centremoved the apex court seekinginitiation of contempt pro-ceedings against Bhushan forhis tweets and said theyamounted to making falsestatement in a pending case.This was days after Venugopal’scontempt petition againstBhushan.

Venugopal, in his con-tempt plea, referred to theextracts of the minutes of the

meeting of the high poweredselection committee compris-ing Prime Minister NarendraModi, Justice A K Sikri andleader of the largest oppositionparty Mallikarjun Kharge.

The Centre’s plea alsoreferred to the contents ofVenugopal’s petition and sub-mitted that they be also read aspart of its plea.

Venugopal’s petitionreferred to Bhushan’s February1 tweets in which he allegedthat the government appearedto have misled the apex courtand perhaps submitted fabri-cated minutes of the meeting ofthe high-powered selectioncommittee.

Through his tweets,Venugopal said, Bhushanappeared to have deliberatelyintended to cast aspersions onthe “integrity and honesty” ofthe attorney general who hadplaced the minutes of the meet-ing before the apex court dur-ing the February 1 hearing.

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The Supreme Court has saidthat linkage of PAN with

Aadhaar is mandatory for filingof Income Tax returns.

A bench comprising Jus-tices A K Sikri and S Abdul Naz-eer said the top court has alre-ady decided the matter andupheld the section 139AA of theIncome Tax Act. The court’s dir-ection came on an appeal filedby the Centre against a DelhiHigh Court order allowing twopersons, Shreya Sen andJayshree Satpute, to file IncomeTax returns for 2018-19 withoutlinking their Aadhaar and PANnumbers.

“The aforesaid order waspassed by the High Court havingregard to the fact that the matterwas pending consideration in thisCourt. Thereafter, this Court hasdecided the matter and upheldthe vires of section 139AA of the

Income Tax Act. In view there-of, linkage of PAN with Aadhaaris mandatory,” the bench said.

The top court noted thatwith regard to Assessment Year2018-19, it has been informedthat the two petitioners had filedthe Income Tax returns in termsof the orders of the High Courtand the assessment has alsobeen completed. “We thereforemake it clear that for the assess-ment year 2019-20, the incometax return shall be filed interms of the judgment passed bythis court. The special leave peti-tion is disposed of in the aboveterms,” the bench said in anorder on Monday.

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Bengaluru: India’s latest com-munication satellite GSAT-31was successfully put into orbit inthe early hours on Wednesdayby an European rocket fromFrench Guiana, in a mission thatis expected to enhance connec-tivity for ATMs and provide foruninterrupted DTH services.

Blasting off from ArianeLaunch Complex at Kourou, aFrench territory located innortheastern coast of SouthAmerica at at 2.31 am (IST),the Ariane-5 vehicle of theEuropean launch servicesprovider Arianespace injectedthe “high power” satellite intothe orbit in a flawless flight thatlasted about 42 minutes.

With a mission life of 15years and weighing about 2,536kg, GSAT-31 is the country’s40th communication satellite tobe built by the Indian SpaceResearch Organisation (ISRO)

and will provide continuity tooperational services on some ofthe in-orbit satellites.

“It gives me great pleasureon the successful launch ofGSAT-31 spacecraft on boardAriane-5,” ISRO’s SatishDhawan Space Centre (SDSC)Director S Pandian said atKourou soon after the launch.

“Congratulation toArianespace on the successfullaunch and precise injection ofsatellite into the orbit,” headded. The GSAT-31 is a “highpower” communication satel-lite with Ku-band, and it isgoing to serve and replacesome of the satellites that aregoing to expire soon, he said.

Arianespace CEOStéphane Israël tweeted: “2019is off to a roaring start for#Arianespace! Flight #VA247,carrying Saudi GeostationarySatellite 1/Hellas Sat 4 andGSAT-31, is a confirmed suc-cess that underscores our lead-ership position in the geosta-tionary launch market.@KACST #HellasSat @ISRO@LockheedMartin.” PTI

Thiruvananthapuram: ThePandalam royal family, the cus-todian of the Sabarimala tem-ple’s jewellery, on Wednesdayslammed the TravancoreDevaswom Board (TDB) forchanging its opinion and nowsupporting the entry of allwomen to the hilltop shrine.

After the TDB announcedits stand in the Supreme Courtas it heard numerous reviewpetitions against its September28 verdict lifting the ban onentry of women of all ages tothe Lord Ayyappa temple, theroyal family’s spokesperson PSVerma said the “true colours”of the TDB had been revealed.

“They have toed the line ofthe Kerala Government. Whenthey earlier said they are with

the wishes and aspirations ofthe Sabarimala devotee, it wasall a bluff.

“Today their true colourshave surfaced and this meansboth the government and theTDB are out to destroy the cus-toms and traditions of theSabarimala temple,” he said.

Noting the court had nowdecided to give another sevendays for written submissions,Verma alleged that this meansthat the temple premises weregoing to witness another show-down when it opens for themonthly pujas on February 12.

“So as far as we are con-cerned, we have not lost hopeas we feel that if there is goingto be another setback, there isan option to file a curative peti-

tion. We will go to any extentto protect the traditions andcustoms of the temple,” headded. TDB president A.Padmakumar denied the board

had changed its stand.“We did not file a review

petition. Instead we filed a‘delay petition’ (requesting thecourt to defer the judgment).

What I have been told is thattoday we were asked about ourstand in relation to theSeptember 28 verdict.

“It was to this that ourcounsel said that they will abideby the court verdict. The courthas also given time till February13 to give in writing if there areany more things that should bebrought before the court.

“We will meet to discuss onwhat needs to be given in writ-ing,” said Padmakumar, a for-mer CPI-M legislator.

“The TDB will abide bywhatever the verdict is,” he said.Asked if there was a shift in thestand, the TDB reminded themedia that the Bharatiya JanataParty’s organ had soon after theSeptember 28 verdic ran a

headline hailing it as “historic”.Former Chief Minister and

Congress leader OommenChandy said the TDB’s somer-sault showed that it was handin glove with the PinarayiVijayan Government.

“Just what Vijayan wanted,the TDB has done,” he said.State BJP president PSSreedharan Pillai said Vijayanhas taken everyone for a ride.

“The people have beencheated and very soon thepeople will give a fitting replyfor what has happened,” hesaid. Former TDB presidentPrayar Gopalakrishnan, whoalso filed a review petition, saidhe was confident the templecustoms and traditions will beprotected. IANS

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Fresh rain and snowfall dis-rupted normal life in

Srinagar and other parts ofKashmir Valley on Wednesdayamid forecast for inclement fortwo more days.

The bad weather forced theauthorities to close the strate-gic 270-km Srinagar-Jammunational highway for vehicularone way traffic. Besides, the airtraffic was also disrupted withcancellation of several flights toand from Srinagar airport.

The MeT department saidthat plains of the Jammu divi-sion will receive rain whilehigher reaches both in Jammuand valley region will receivemoderate to heavy snowfall.

MeT Director SonamLotus said that there will begradual increase in rain andsnowfall across the State fol-lowed by improvement from

Friday forenoon.The fresh snowfall in the

Banihal area caused slipperyroad condition at Zig Postupto Jawahar Tunnel amid badweather condition.

The Officials said freshsnowfall occurred in theKashmir mountains includingon the Pir Panjal range.

Srinagar recorded 1 degreeCelsius while Pahalgam minus0.6 and Gulmarg recordedminus 4.6. In the Ladakh area,Leh recorded minus 4.3, Kargilminus 16 and Drass minus 6.3degrees Celsius.

The Indian MetrologicalCentre in Srinagar has alreadyissued weather forecast thatwestern disturbance will like-ly to affect the J&K.

The forecast said the mainactivity of the system could befrom heavy to very heavy rain orsnow most likely to occur for twomore days. The weather warning

said that the system is likely tocause widespread rain or snowmainly in South Kashmir,Pirpanjal Range (Doda, Batote,Bhaderwah, Ramban, Banihaland Baramulla) includingJawahar Tunnel area.

Traffic Department hadscheduled one-way traffic fromSrinagar to Jammu. They saidnightlong rains triggeredshooting stones in some por-tions of the highway inRamsoo-Ramban sector. Theysaid a fresh major landslide hitthe highway at batteryChashma area in the sector.

The divisional administra-tion Kashmir has put in placerobust contingency plan andprecautionary measures havebeen taken at all levels to meetany weather related eventuality.

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Though the AIADMK lead-ership is yet to disclose the

party’s strategy for the upcom-ing Lok Sabha elections andwho would be its prospectivealliance partners in TamilNadu, many fringe groups havecome out with details of theruling party’s would-be allies.

“The AIADMK is certainto form a winning alliance forthe Lok Sabha elections. Weare in discussions with partieswhich stand for the welfare ofTamil Nadu. The AIADMKwould be the leader of thealliance which we are forming,”said O Panneerselvam, deputychief minister and convener ofthe AIADMK leadership whilespeaking to reporters atMadurai on Wednesday. Noamount of cajoling by thereporters could make theDeputy CM to reveal the par-ties with whom the AIADMKis in dialogue.

He said the elected repre-sentatives (MLAs, PMs includ-ed) and the district secretaries ofthe AIADMK would meet at

Chennai on Friday and a picturewould emerge by the next day.But the CPI, former allies of theAIADMK declared onWednesday that the BJP andAIADMK are going to forge analliance. “It does not require anyintelligence to understand thatthe AIADMK and the BJP havealready forged an alliance for theelections. We all know that the Edappadi PalaniswamyGovernment in Tamil Nadu isthe minion of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah,” saidMutharasan, State secretary, CPI.

While Mutharasanchurned out details of thealliance to be formed in TamilNadu by the AIADMK and theBJP, he was silent about thecombination of parties to be ledby the DMK.

According to Mutharasan,the PMK led by Dr S Ramadossand the DMDK of Vijayakanthtoo will figure in AIADMKfront. But leaders of the PMKand the DMDK remained tightlipped about it. Vijayakanth isundergoing treatment in a UShospital and his close rela-tions including wife Premalathaare attending to him.

Lucknow: BSP presidentMayawati has for the “firsttime” joined Twitter to interactwith the media and masses, herparty said on Wednesday,almost a fortnight after a han-dle in her name appeared onthe microblogging site.

She will be also expressingher views on national and mat-ters of political importance onTwitter, a BSP release said. “Thisto inform you BSP (BahujanSamaj Party) national presi-dent, former Uttar Pradesh CMand ex-MP Mayawatiji has forthe first time decided to joinTwitter for speedy interactionwith media and masses, besidesexpressing her views on various issues of national andpolitical importance throughTwitter,”the release posted onMayawati’s Twitter handle@SushriMayawati said.

The first tweet on@SushriMayawati was postedon January 22. “Hello brothersand sisters. With due respect letme introduce myself to the

Twitter family. This is myopening and inauguration.@sushrimayawati is my officialTwitter handle for all my futureinteractions, comments andupdates. With warm regards.Thank you,” the January 22post said. PTI

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Setting the record straightJammu & Kashmir Governor

Satya Pal Malik on Wednesdaysaid that nobody should takeformer Chief MinisterMehbooba Mufti’s statementsseriously as her PDP was break-ing up and she was trying tosave the party by commentingagainst the security forces.

“It is election time. Herparty is breaking up and isalready in a bad shape. She isvery worried and facing seriousproblems. Show some sympa-thy towards her by not takingher statements seriously,”Governor told reporters atJammu University.

“She had come to power bysupporting such elements,headded. Governor’s jibe at herinvited sharp reactions fromboth Mehbooba Mufti andOmar Abdullah, instantly.

Governor was apparentlyreacting to Mehbooba’sTuesday statement in theSMHS hospital in Srinagarwhere she had demandedaction against an Army officer,

who allegedly beat a man fromPulwama and threatened to killhim in an encounter.

Mehbooba Mufti took toTwitter to vent her ire. Shewrote, “Instead of taking cog-nizance of the brutality that theyoung boy has been subjectedto, and ordering action againstthe culprits, it is sad that thehonourable governor is talkingpolitics instead. Saddened tosee the constitutional authori-ties taking sides so brazenly.”

“Kashmir is a political issueand can’t be resolved throughmilitary power. Army menhailed as heroes for their brav-ery also need to be heldaccountable if they commithuman rights violations,”Mehbooba tweeted.

“So please lets call a spade

a spade instead of accusing usof demonising the army. I havealso spoken to the CoreCommander to take note ofthis incident,” she added.

Earlier, when Governorwas asked whether her irre-sponsible statements wouldlower the morale of the secu-rity forces, Govenor Malik hitback and said her statementswill not affect the morale of thesecurity forces.We are standingwith our forces and have issueddirections to them to deal withsuch situations. He said if anyspecific complaint is receivedwe order an inquiry to ascer-tain the truth of the matter.

Before Mehbooba Mufti,former Chief Minister andNational Conference VicePresident, Omar Abdullah hadalso reacted strongly to theGovernor’s utterances.“Governor Sb this is an unac-ceptable statement & an unnec-essary interference in politics.At this rate, it won’t be longbefore people stop taking RajBhavan seriously so please con-sider the office you occupybefore you give statements.”

Panaji: Turning the heat on theManohar Parrikar-led coali-tion Government in Goa, itsally Goa Forward Party (GFP)on Wednesday said it is work-ing on a “Plan B” to ensurepolitical stability, irrespective ofthe fact which party heads thenew dispensation in the state.

“Plan B is 100 per centready. Goa will not have sta-bility if it is not done. Does Goaneed a stable government ornot? Irrespective of the partywhich leads (the government),do people need stability ornot? Why do people elect us?For stability or to have a tot-tering government, which mayfall any day?” GFP presidentand Agriculture Minister VijaiSardesai said.

The veiled threat was madeby Sardesai while interactingwith reporters at the state sec-retariat, days after BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) legislatorand Deputy Speaker in theAssembly Michael Lobo saidthe government would be in acrisis if Parrikar steps down asthe Chief Minister.

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Oldest captive elephant inAsia and Guinness record

holder, 88-year old Dakshayani,died at a care centre atPappanamcode.

The end came followingold age illness, sources in theTravancore Devaswom Board,which owns the elephant said.

In 2016, she was conferredthe “Gaja Muthassi” title andentered the Guinness book ofrecords. Postal department hadalso brought out a postal coveron the elephant.

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Lucknow: BSP presidentMayawati on Wednesdayclaimed that the BSP-SP alliancehas left the BJP’s top leadership‘sleepless’ and ‘afraid’, due towhich the party curses thecoalition in all its meetings.

Mayawati’s counter camehours after BJP president AmitShah attacked the alliance at ameeting of booth-level workersin Aligarh. “The BSP-SPalliance has not only made theBJP’s top leadership sleepless,but also afraid and they are outto curse it in all the big andsmall programmes,” the BSPchief said in a party release.

“We got to hear the same inthe Aligarh programme, inwhich the alliance was termeda farce,” Mayawati said. “Thiscursing only encourages thepeople of the ‘sarv samaj’ asso-ciated with the alliance to workhard, in turn adding to the frus-tration of the BJP,” she added.

Mayawati said the BJPcould sense its defeat in theupcoming Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP is sensing that itwill face a drubbing in theupcoming elections and willlose power because of the BSP-SP alliance, and hence is out todefame it, she claimed.

“It is most unfortunate thatthey are trying their best toentangle the leaders of opposi-tion parties and conspiring todefame them among the peo-ple,” she added. The former UPCM said none of the BJP’s planswill work as people were awareof party’s designs and unhap-py about prevailing situation.

“Everyone is aware of howunder the BJP-led central andUttar Pradesh Governmentscasteism, political vendetta andcommunalism have increased,”Mayawati said. On the Ramtemple, she said construction ofthe shrine is not an issue, butthe real issue is whether thecountry will be run accordingto the Constitution or the nar-row mindsets of the BJP andthe RSS — the ruling party’sideological parent. PTI

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Guwahati: Assam FinanceMinister Himanta Biswa Sarmaon Wednesday presented a�1,193 crore deficit budget for2019-20 with no fresh taxesand introducing new schemeslike providing rice to poor at �1a kg and gold for brides.

The budget also proposedto provide financial assistanceto students, including girlsfrom the minority communi-ty. With an opening balance ofminus �1,799.84 crore, thebudget proposed to have trans-actions of �606.80 crore during2019-20, Sarma told the Houseon Wednesday.

Sarma said for special cat-egory States like Assam, com-

panies with turnover of �10 lakhare required to register forGoods and Services Tax (GST).However, to give succour tosmall businesses and consider-ing the small base, the govern-ment has raised the GST thresh-old limit to �20 lakh followingapproval of the GST Councileffective February 1, 2019.

Sarma further proposed toraise the threshold limit forregistration under GST forsuppliers of goods to �40 lakh.However, the limit stays at�20 lakh for suppliers of ser-vices. He said under theNational Food Security Act(NFSA), the Centre providesrice at �3 per kg to 57 lakh

households in Assam coveringa total population of 2.46 crore.

“To further strengthenfood security for our people, wewill provide rice at a furthersubsidized rate of �1 per kg,instead of the present Rs 3 perkg, and the move will benefit 53Lakh households,” Sarma said.

The Government has alsoproposed to give 1 tola of gold(11.66 grams) to brides’ parentsbelonging to the economical-ly weaker sections of the soci-ety. “We shall give one tolagold, costing around �38,000 asof today, to brides belonging toall such communities of ourstate where it is customary toprovide gold at the time ofwedding under the Arundhatischeme,” he said.

The scheme can be availedby formal registration of themarriages under the Special Marriage (Assam)Rules, 1954 and will reach thebeneficiaries at the time ofmarriage, he said.

Sarma added that the ben-efit is commensurate with thestate’s population policy andwould be made available forthe first two children of afamily and only in caseswhere the bride and groomhave both attained thelegal age of 18 yearsand 21 years,respectively.

The AssamGovernment willverify birth cer-tificates and con-duct medical exam-ination, if required,to ensure claimsare true, he said.

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Kolkata: West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee onWednesday slammed theCentre for the interrogation ofRobert Vadra by theEnforcement Directorate,claiming that the BJP wasdeliberately doing it ahead ofthe general election.

Asserting that the BJP willnot be able to scare the

Opposition by the tactics ofsending notices “casually toeverybody”, Banerjee said: “Wewill complain to the ElectionCommission against suchtrend.” “They (the Centre) aredoing it deliberately ahead of thepolls,” the Trinamool Congresssupremo told reporters at thestate secretariat.

Vadra was questioned by

the ED in connection with amoney-laundering probe, daysafter his wife, Priyanka Gandhi,was formally inducted into theparty. Banerjee also said shewould be in Delhi nextWednesday and Thursday,where the Opposition partieswould make a decision ontheir future course of action.

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Ignoring whip, nine CongressMLAs in Karnataka skipped

the legislature sitting onWednesday, keeping the rulingcoalition on tenterhooks on theopening day of the BudgetSession. The nine CongressMLAs, including RameshJarkiholi, Umesh G Jadhav, BNagendra, Mahesh Kumathalli,who had skipped the January18 Congress legislature party(CLP) meet, official and partysources said.

MLA JN Ganesh, who isdeclared absconding after analleged brawl with a colleaguelawmaker at a resort recently,was among the absentees.

The whip asking all rulingcoalition legislators to be presenton all days of the Budget Sessionof the Assembly was issued onTuesday amid allegations ofrenewed bid by BJP to destabilisethe Kumaraswamy Ministry.The joint Session of the legisla-ture began on a stormy note withthe Opposition BJP questioning

the legitimacy of the JDS-Congress Government.

Unruly BJP members cre-ated a ruckus disrupting theaddress of Governor VajubhaiVala, forcing him to cut shorthis speech and read the lastpara. “We don’t want a bundleof lies to be read. Down down...the Government that has lostmajority and trust,” BJP mem-bers said shouting down Vala.

Stung by the MLAs’ absence,Congress Legislature Party leader

and former CM Siddaramaiahissued another whip to partyMLAs asking them to “compul-sorily” attend the sessionbetween Feb 6 and 15.

Speculation are rife that thefour MLAs are still in touchwith the BJP and may jumpship, as they have not yetresponded to the second noticeissued by Siddaramaiah askingthem to appear before him andexplain their absence from theCLP meeting.

The MLAs had, however,replied pledging their completeloyalty to the party, in responseto the first notice.

MLAs being absent fromthe House om Wednesdaydespite the whip and warningof strict action has caused seri-ous concern to the edgy rulingCongress-JD(S) coalition inthe State.

Four BJP lawmakers werealso absent but the partysources said they had obtainedprior permission.

A JDS MLA also did notshow up. Frontline KarnatakaMinister DK Shivakumar hitout at the BJP for showing dis-respect to the Governor “out offrustration”, on not being suc-cessful to come to power.

“We are aware what threeto four BJP MLAs are doing sit-ting in Mumbai, our party willtake a call on it,” he said.According to BJP sources, theparty would continue its agita-tion against the government inthe assembly and during bud-get presentation on Friday.

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ALashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT)terrorist was killed in a

shootout with security forces atChakoora village of southKashmir’s Pulwama districtwhile one Central Reserve PoliceForce (CRPF) personnel wasinjured in a grenade attack inKulgam district, officials said.

They said a cordon andsearch operation was launchedby a joint team of Army, policeand CRPF after unknown ter-rorists fired upon an armyvehicle passing throughChakoora village in jurisdictionof Awantipora police district.

They said in the retaliato-ry action one terrorist waskilled. He was identified asIrfan Ahmad Sheikh, a localresident who was active as LeTcommander in the area for sev-eral years. The encounter tookplace amid heavy downpour inthe area. Sheikh’s bodydrenched in blood and mudwent viral after the encounter.

They said search operationwas launched by security forcesafter the attack in the area.They said some terrorists were

believed to be hiding in thearea. The search operationcontinued till late in theevening.

Massive clashes erupted inthe village after local youthstook to streets and clashedwith forces conducting theoperation. The protesters pelt-ed stones and bricks on secu-rity personnel who in turnretaliated with tear gas shells todisperse the protesters.

In another incident, sus-pected militants hurled agrenade on CRPF camp of 18Battalion at Laroo area ofKulgam district resulting ininjuries to one paramilitaryCRPF trooper. The injuredwas taken to nearby hospital fortreatment they said.

Meanwhile, a 13-year-oldboy Junaid Iqbal succumbed tohis injuries at a premier hospital after battling for life forfive days. He and his teenage friend had received injuries afteran explosive device they were fid-dling with exploded in a southKashmir village. The explosivewas left over after a gunfight inthe area last week that resultedinto killing of two terrorists.

Bengaluru: The black box ofthe Mirage-2000 trainer air-craft, which crashed inBengaluru last week killingtwo pilots, has been sent toFrance’s Dassault Aviation, theOriginal EquipmentManufacturer, for decoding ofits data, a senior HAL officialsaid on Wednesday.

A black box collects in-flight information and decrypt-ing it gives insights about theaircraft’s activities. PTI

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Even as senior officials of theforest department were in

serious discussion about thenext course of action in the ala Chinna Thambi incident, thehero of the story is continuinghis odyssey in search ofThadagam Forests, his hometurf. At the same time, a newguest in the form of a leopardhas started giving ‘headache’ tothe forest officials.

As on Wednesday evening,Chinna Thambi, who hasendeared himself to the localpopulation through his charm-ing style, was roaming aroundUdumalpet area, according to asenior Tamil Nadu ForestDepartment official. “He hadsugarcane for breakfast andlunch and is taking rest in amango orchard,” said the official.

He said the department hasdecided not to train him askumky (specialist elephant whotrains other elephants) as ChinnaThambi has crossed the maxi-mum age limit prescribed forsuch training. “We are monitor-ing his movements through theradio collar which we tied to hisneck when he was tranquilised

for re-locating. One of theoptions before us is to take himback to Thadagam, his favoritelocation,” said the official.

Meanwhile, on Tuesdaynight a four-year old leopardfrom the nearby reserve forest“trespassed” into an unoccu-pied house in Gudalur insearch of some eatables.

By Wednesday morning,the ‘guest’ was trapped and hasbeen moved to the forestinspection bungalow. “The ani-mal has suffered some minorbruises when it was caged andthe forest veterinary surgeon isattending to him. Once the ani-mal is found to be in goodhealth, we would release itinto the reserve forest at

Anamalai Tiger Reserve,” GRamakrishnan, Range Officer,told The Pioneer.

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In a gruesome incident,extremists believed to be

from the Islamic outfit PopularFront of India (PFI), mur-dered Ramalingam, a 45-year-old Pattali Makkal Katchiactivist at Thirupuvanam townin Thanjavur district of TamilNadu late on Tuesday night.

The incident occurredwithin hours of a video featur-ing the stand-off betweenRamalingam and some of theIslamist activists went viral allover the State.

Ramalingam could beheard in the video questioningand objecting the PFI activists’efforts to convert the people ofhis locality into Islam.

“Within hours of the argu-

ment, a group of people bargedinto the residence ofRamalingam and attacked himwith knives and swords. Theychopped one of his hands and aleg,” said a local resident who didnot want his name to be quoted.

Dr S Ramadoss, leader ofthe PMK condemned the actand asked the Government ofTamil Nadu to arrest the cul-prits behind the heinous crime.Office of the deputy superin-tendent of police, Thiruvidai-maruthur, under whose juris-diction the incident occurredrefused to reveal any informa-tion citing absence of staff.

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)president Amit Shah

ridiculed the Samajwadi Party(SP) and the Bahujan SamajParty (BSP) alliance for theupcoming Lok Sabha polls onWednesday, saying party work-ers would put “Aligarh locks”on the shop of “Bua-Bhatija”,referring to BSP supremoMayawati and SP chiefAkhilesh Yadav respectively.

Addressing a meeting of thebooth-level workers of the BJPhere, Shah used the “Aligarhlocks” coinage as the city wasonce known for the lock indus-try, which is now dying.

“BJP workers will putAligarh locks on the shop ofBua-Bhatija,” he said amid anapplause from the gathering.Shah said reporters often askedhim how the BJP hoped to win74 Lok Sabha seats in UttarPradesh with the SP and theBSP joining hands.

“I tell them that if you seethe sea of BJP workers, you willget to know where those 74 seatswill come from,” he added.

The BJP and its ally, ApnaDal, had won 73 of the 80 LokSabha seats in Uttar Pradesh in2014 and five years on, the saf-fron party hopes to increase itstally in the State.

Shah asserted that the gen-eral election would be foughton the lines of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi versus the rest.

The BJP had rid UttarPradesh of goons, he said,adding that Chief Minister YogiAdityanath had successfullytackled the land mafia problem.

“Upar Modi, neeche Yogi(Modi as Prime Minister andAdityanath as Chief Minister).This general election will beModi versus the rest.

“The BJP has rid UttarPradesh of goons, of parivarvad(dynasty). Yogi has tackled theland mafia in Uttar Pradesh.The goons are now scared ofpolice,” Shah said.

Shah claimed that the BJP

was different from other polit-ical parties as poll victorieswere guaranteed by the work-ers in the party and not on thebasis of any leader.

“When BJP workers ask meabout the Mahagathbandhan(the proposed Grand Allianceof opposition parties), I tellthem it is a sham and there isno need to fear it. If MamataBanerjee, Chandrababu Naiducome here to seek your sup-port, will it make any differ-ence? They are leaders only intheir respective states,” he said.

The BJP chief also claimedthat even if “Rahul Baba”(Congress chief Rahul Gandhi)went with “Bua and Bhatija”,the NDA’s tally of seats in theState will go up (from 73 to atleast 74).

“In 2017 (Uttar PradeshAssembly polls), a similaralliance was forged and twoboys (Gandhi and Yadav) fromUttar Pradesh had cometogether. At that point of time,I had declared that the BJPwould win 300 plus seats andthanks to the hard work of ourworkers, we won 325,” he said.

Shah also accused WestBengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee of making continuousefforts to stop the surge of theBJP in the State.

“If Mamata Banerjee thinksthat by denying permission tothe BJP to hold its programmesin West Bengal, she will be ableto stop the party from formingthe Government there, then sheshould clearly listen with earsopen that BJP workers willdemolish the TMC (TrinamoolCongress). The BJP will win 23of the 42 Lok Sabha seats inWest Bengal,” he said.

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Uttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath has asked

the Congress, the BahujanSamaj Party (BSP) and theSamajwadi Party (SP) to clari-fy their stand on the issue ofmembers of Scheduled Castes(SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs)and Other Backward Classes(OBCs) not getting reservationbenefits at the Aligarh MuslimUniversity (AMU).

Addressing a gatheringhere on Wednesday, Adityanathsaid while the Centre was giv-ing crores of rupees to AMU,the opposition parties were notcoming clean on the issue asthey were preoccupied withappeasing minorities.

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national President or an ordi-nary party worker could rise tothe position of the PrimeMinister, he said.

This could never happen inthe BSP, the SP or the Congressas they only think of their ownfamilies, he added.

The time has come toinform the people about thenegative politics of these par-ties and re-elect the BJP in theupcoming Lok Sabha polls, hesaid. The CM also asked theparty workers to work hard toensure that offices of the oppo-sition parties are shut forever.

Prime Minister NarendraModi had brought laurels to thenation and now every Indianheld his/her head high as thenation was galloping in globalrankings in various segments,Adityanath said.

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Jammu & Kashmir LightInfantry (JAKLI) to probe theirinvolvement in a conspiracy toreveal whereabouts of their col-league Lance Naik Aurangzebwho was killed by terrorists insouth Kashmir on June 14.

Affiliated with 44Rashtriya Rif les unit,Aurangzeb, who was posthu-mously awarded ShauryaChakra on Independence Daylast year, was travelling to hisnative place in a private vehi-cle on eve of Eid when terror-ists waylaid the vehicle andkidnapped him.

Sources said the trio isbeing quizzed to know if theysomehow leaked informationabout Aurangzeb’s movementout of his battalion headquar-ters in a private vehicle.Aurangzeb was known for hiscounterinsurgency offensivein the area and his proximitywith an Army officer who hascommanded several successfuloperations against militantsincluding killing of SameerTiger, a top-ranking com-mander of Hizbul Mujahideen.

Aurangzeb’s vehicle waswaylaid by terrorists atQalampora village and in ashort duration his body wasfound by a team of police andArmy officials at Gussu village.A video of his kidnapping wasalso released by his abductors.

Media reports earlierclaimed that Aurangzeb’swhereabouts were leaked by alocal woman who had alleged-ly developed a relationship

with him.The three soldiers Abid

Hussain Wani, TajamulAhmed and Adil Wani werehis colleagues. They are alllocal residents.

The Army has not reactedto the reports about the deten-tion and questioning of the sol-diers. The detention came tofore after a youngster AbidTauseef Wani was allegedlytortured by an Army officer inShadimarg camp. Former ChiefMinister Mehbooba Mufti wentto see Wani at Sri MaharajaHari Singh Hospital (SMHS)and accused an Army officerfor torturing the youngster.

A relative of Wani saidthey have lost touch with Abidsince June and the Army is nottelling them anything abouthis whereabouts. “We are wor-ried now. They (Army) alsocalled Tawseef and torturedhim inside the camp. Theywere asking about his involve-ment in the killing ofAurangzeb,” he said.

Aurangzeb was posthu-mously awarded Shaury Chakrawhile as Defence MinisterNirmala Sitharaman trekked along distance to travel to hisnative village in mountainousPoonch district to pay homage.

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Bibi Aasia Noreen, the PakistaniChristian woman who was ondeath row for blasphemy, is final-ly out of the woods. The SupremeCourt of Pakistan recently reject-

ed the final appeal against her acquittal. Butshe might still have to relocate to the West,as living in Pakistan could prove perilousfor her. India could have set an example byinviting her to live in this country.

Imagine if Aasia Bibi were a Christianwoman in India, working in an agricultur-al field alongside Hindu women. Considera hypothetical scenario. Thirsty afterworking under the hot sun, she fetches apail of water for fellow workers, but firstdrinks some herself from the metal muglying beside the well. The other women,suddenly realising that she is a Christian,wonder whether Aasia Bibi had “polluted”their well and “diluted” their religion. Andthen, angered and hurt, Aasia Bibi reactsby telling some horrible things aboutHindu deities as though she had been read-ing BR Ambedkar’s Riddles in Hinduism:The Annotated Critical Selection the pre-vious night.

What options would Hindu womenhave against Aasia Bibi? First, a cat-fightto teach her a lesson on the spot. Second,tell the owner of the land to dismiss herfrom services. Third, to complain to theirrespective husbands about the defilement.Fourth, to tell the priest about a local tem-ple. Fifth, go to Rashtriya SwayamsevakSangh (RSS) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad(VHP) karyakartas. Sixth, to go to the lawenforcing authorities like police and court.

The third and fourth options wouldhave been treated as nothing more than gos-sip-mongering. Also, since Aasia Bibi is nota Bible-thumping Christian missionary,there would be little to excite the RSS andVHP karyakartas. The fifth option ofapproaching the law enforcing authoritieswould be positively dangerous for them asthey would be hauled up under Section 3of the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955,to enforce religious disabilities (denyingaccess to water sources). Thus, rather thandoing any harm to Aasia Bibi, they them-selves would have ended up in prison for upto six months besides depositing a penalty.

But on June 14, 2009, Aasia Bibi wasunfortunately in an alternate universecalled Pakistan. She was arrested on chargesof making derogatory remarks aboutProphet Mohammed, based on the evidenceof Mafia Bibi and Asma Bibi. QariMohammed Salam, a local cleric, filed acase of blasphemy with the police, based onhearsay. The case spiralled in importancewith a local court awarding death sentenceto Aasia Bibi for denigrating ProphetMohammed in 2010, and later a Lahorecourt upholding its judgement in 2016.

The Pakistan Penal Code has severalcontroversial sections (and sub sectionsthereof) ranging from 295 to 298-C under

offences related to religion,commonly called “blasphemylaws” that are discriminatoryagainst non-Muslims. The mostdangerous of them are 295-C(use of derogatory remarkswith respect to ProphetMohammed) and 295-B (defil-ing the Holy Quran) whichcarry a punishment of manda-tory death sentence and lifeimprisonment respectively.

Some of these deadly pro-visions were inserted inPakistan’s Penal Code not whenthe Islamic Republic wasfounded but in the 1980s, whenthe rest of the world was seizedwith the idea of progress.Pakistan had inherited someblasphemy laws from theBritish period but those werereligion-neutral. Their basicpurpose was not to defendreligious principles but main-tain communal peace.

In three decades between1947 and 1977, there were only10 reported court judgementsin Pakistan pertaining tooffences against religion. Thecomplaints were made mostlyby Muslims against otherMuslims, by non-Muslimsagainst Muslims. No case wasregistered by a Muslim againstnon-Muslims for committingan act of blasphemy againstProphet Mohammed or “defil-ing” the Quran. But all thesewas about to change soon.

In 1974, when Zulfikar AliBhutto was the Prime Minister,the first amendment in the

Constitution of Pakistan, 1973,was carried out to exclude theAhmediyas from the legal def-inition of being a Muslim. Thelanguage of the amendmenthad a theological overtoneincompatible with modern con-stitutions. It says that a person,who does not believe in theabsolute and unqualified final-ity of the prophethood of theMohammed, is not a Muslimfor the purpose of theConstitution or law.

In 1977, General Zia-ulHaq came to power through acoup d’état. The ensuing 11years saw increasedIslamisation of Pakistan in var-ious spheres. These includedinsertion of five provisionsrelating to blasphemy in thePakistan Penal Code between1980 and 1986. Close to 1,500people have been chargedunder those sections till datethough none were actuallyhanged.

A Federal Shariat Court(FSC) was established in 1980,with the power to “examine anddecide the question whetherany law or provision of law isrepugnant to the injunctions ofIslam”. The FSC’s decisions arebinding upon the Governmentunless the latter successfullyappeals to the Shariat bench ofthe Supreme Court.

When Section 295-C wasintroduced in 1986, it had aprovision of life imprisonmentas an alternative to capital pun-ishment. But in 1990, the FSC

recommended the removal ofalternative provision of lifeimprisonment. Since thePakistan Government did notappeal against this recommen-dation in the Supreme Court bythe deadline of April 30, 1991,the capital punishment withoutan alternative attained finality.

A judgement of PeshawarHigh Court in 2006 expressedserious concern that whenevera person was charged withsuch an offence, the mediagave extensive coverage and theaccused person was abused bythe society/people at large.Even under Islamic injunc-tions, the court added, it is forthe Qazi alone to decide theguilt or innocence of theaccused and none could beallowed to forejudge and con-demn any person accused ofsuch offence without facingproper and fair trial.

Right to fair trial is what theSupreme Court based its caseupon in its judgements (datedOctober 7, 2015, and January,28, 2019). But unfortunately,the court could not discard orchallenge the atrocious rubricof blasphemy laws. This meansthere will be no end to thismadness in Pakistan. Thecourts could not counteractblasphemy because they knowit is an integral part of Islam. Itsmisuse though has been possi-bly as old as its application itself.

Nicholas Mannucci (1638-1717), the Italian adventurer toIndia, relates in his Storia do

Mogor how a rich Jew inAleppo (Syria) outwitted aMuslim Governor, who want-ed to deprive him of his wealth,life and religion by abettingblasphemy in the 16th century.The Governor asked the Jew,who was the greatest Prophetamong Moses, Christ andMohammed? Had the Jew saidMohammed, he would be askedto accept Islam. Had he men-tioned the others, it would beconsidered a blasphemy and hewould be put to death.

The Jew, however, provedcleverer than expected. He nar-rated a story of how a rich manhad a precious stone, whicheach of his three sons wantedto inherit on his death. So hegot two exact replicas madefrom the lapidaire; and gaveaway those to each son so thatone had the original and theother two had replicas. But hetold each to keep it a secret thathe had given him the originaland the false one to others. Butonly the father knew who gotthe original. So God gave threeProphetic religions viz Judaism,Christianity and Islam to threeraces. While each thinks hisreligion is true, God aloneknows the truth. The Muslimgovernor conceded defeat in hismission and even rewardedthe Jew.

(The writer is author ofrecently published book, ‘TheMicrophone Men: How Oratorscreated a Modern India’. Viewsexpressed are his personal)

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No Budget, however, canappease every section of society.The standard deduction limithas been increased from �40,000to �50,000; taxpayers with anannual income higher than fivelakh rupees are surely not ashappy as the ones who will beexempted from taxes for earningless than the stated amount.

One must note that thisyear’s Budget has not made amention about the exact figureof the effective taxpayers’ base.

Last year, the figure was shownto have increased from 6.46crore to 8.27 crore. But this time,only the number of returns filedhas been mentioned. Now, itremains to be seen if this is anintentional one. In any case, ina country with a population ofover 130 crore, a lot remains tobe done.

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Sir — In an election year, theBudget was expected to be inter-im. Ironically, this year’s Budgetsounded like a full-fledged one.Earlier, it was the announcementof indirect taxes that added somerelevance to an otherwise large-ly inconsequential presentation —the interim Budget is imple-

mented for only four months ofthe new fiscal year.

Unfortunately, most suchindirect taxes have been ren-dered obsolete by Goods andServices Tax. In their absence, theCentre has proceeded to outlinepolicies that go beyond the usualpractice of setting broad pointersfor the incoming Government.The foray into direct taxationshould have been avoided. The

Budget, at best, should havereduced tax incidence on thelower rungs of taxpayers ratherthan completely exempting alarge chunk from the tax radar.This is misplaced populism. Thesaving grace is that it did not cutdown tax on corporate entities.Fiscal discipline seems to havebeen adhered to, but it looks likeit is based more on hope than onsubstance.

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February 4, 2019, was a signif-icant day for the Himalayas ason this ver y day, the

Kathmandu-based InternationalCentre for Integrated MountainDevelopment (ICIMOD) releasedthe much-awaited first ever assess-ment report on the impact of cli-mate change on the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region.

The region — spread over 3,500square kilometres across eightcountries, including India, Nepaland China — is also known as theWater Tower of Asia due to itsreserve of frozen water. The regionis considered to be the core area ofthe Himalayas, which by them-selves, are not the only youngestmountain range but are also con-

ceptually the Third Pole.But thanks to rapid climate

change, the Himalayas hog theheadlines and mostly for all thewrong reasons. The ICMOD’sassessment report is an effort by theinter-governmental body, involvinga massive scientific exercise, com-prising over 300 researchers andspanning over four years.

The report said that the HKHregion is warming faster than theglobal average. And it would con-tinue to do so during this century.This assessment is very concerningas the HKH region is an incrediblyimportant asset for Asia and theworld. It is a key source of water,energy, carbon stocks as well as richbiodiversity. For example, the riversstarting from HKH are home toabout two billion people with thepotential to generate 500 gigawattsof hydropower.

The region is, however, underthreat from climate change in addi-tion to a host of other changes,including ecosystem degradation,outmigration and air pollution.

Usually, mountains warm up fasterthan global averages. Even if welimit global warming to 1.5 degreeCelsius, mountain temperatureswould rise above two degree Celsiusand if current trends continue,temperatures could go up by fourto six degrees Celsius.

This holds dire consequencesnot only for our glaciers but also forfood, energy, ecosystems and for thepeople, who rely on them in termsof ecosystem change, changingwater flow patterns and increasedhazards of disasters.

In a 1.5 degree Celsius world,about one-third of our glacierswill disappear by 2100 and underthe current emission scenario, wewill lose two-third of our glaciervolumes. Many major cities in andnear the HKH region have annualaverage PM2.5 concentrations ofalmost 10 times higher than theguidelines made by the WorldHealth Organisation.

In addition to negative healthimpacts, this also adds to meltingof our glaciers. Already, 70 to 80 per

cent of the habitat in biodiversityhotspots has been lost over the last500 years and one-fourth of theendemic species could be lost by 2100.

Even now, overall condition inthe HKH region is not good aspoverty incidence is one-third ascompared to the national averagethat’s one-fourth.

Besides, over 30 per cent of theHKH population suffers from foodinsecurity and 50 per cent arefaced with some form of malnutri-tion. Moreover, about 80 per centof the rural population living inHKH countries lack access to cleanenergy for cooking. Added to this,there remains persistent genderand social imbalance in develop-mental activities.

Given these circumstances, it iscrucial to bring global attention tothe Himalayas. The ICMOD, withits 350 researchers, practitionersand policy-makers, has put mindstogether to bring out this scientif-ic assessment so that the message isspread without any confusion.

The Himalayas are the lastcitadel of nature and climate changeis breaching it. There is an urgentneed for the HKH countries to stepup efforts to lower greenhouse gasemissions so that runaway temper-atures can be controlled.

In order to get there, it isimportant that they rein in air andwater pollution and promote sus-tainable energy. This will help con-tain biodiversity loss and assistsome of the most poor and vulner-able people to adapt to the environ-ment. Inter-governmental cooper-ation has to be the foundation forthis effort and the ICMOD’s reportcan make for a good start.

Yet another method is to drawthe countries into a meaningful dia-logue so that the importance ofhealth of the HKH region in par-ticular and the Himalayan region ingeneral is emphasised. This willhelp politicians, Government offi-cials, media, business and otherinfluential people work together, intandem with the goals of preserv-ing the environment.

Countries in the HKH regioncan take inspiration from the ArcticCouncil where countries have unit-ed to share information, to jointlydevelop solutions and to speakwith a common voice to the global communities about theimpacts of climate change andother concerns.

The world will not realise as itwill not stand to lose if the HKHregion is climatically compromisedbut HKH countries will surely feelthe adverse impacts of climatechange on the region, and Indiabeing part of the same, must takethe lead and sensitse the countriesof the impending environmentalproblems of the region and do theneedful.

The uniqueness of the HKHregion is its topography and ecol-ogy. They have to be preserved.Ditto for its traditional culture andcommunities. However, this can bepossible only by keeping climatechange at bay at any cost.

(The writer is an environmentaljournalist)

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It was expected that the fury and furoregenerated by the Sabarimala imbrogliowould subside with the seasonal closingof the shrine. But controversy has resur-faced and resulted in a public outcry in

Kerala once again. The latest provocation forthe Hindus was the news widely publicised thatthe affidavit submitted by the lawyers of theMarxist Government of Kerala — that con-tained the names of women below the age of50, who entered the Sabarimala shrine — is afabricated list of lies. It has names of men andwomen over 50 years of age, whose age hasbeen deliberately reduced and also the nameof a woman, whose address cannot be traced.

A heap of lies concocted by theGovernment is beginning to get exposed. Butthe question of larger significance, whichmore and more Hindus are asking themselves,that too vocally now is: Why this haste toreform our rituals alone? Why resort to lies,police brute force and false propaganda todemolish Hindu faith?

Marxism and Hinduism in Kerala:Marxism anywhere cannot be tolerant of reli-gion. But in Kerala (and in West Bengal too)the party confronted an Indian reality. Theycould not attack the faith of the organised reli-gions who had well-established vote banks. InKerala, therefore, Hindu faith became the pri-mary object of derision. In this task, they alwayshad the unstinted support of the Western-biased media.

Sanatana dharma and Marxism: As theerudite Purohit Swami wrote in his autobiog-raphy, “Civilisations superstructure may be veryfine indeed but it totters like a house of cards,for the everlasting kingdom is established inman’s hearts and not an inevitable denouementoutwardly to dazzle these eyes.” MarxistGovernments in USSR, Czechoslovakia,Yugoslavia and East European countries did totter like a pack of cards because they did notimprove the inner man.

Marxism and social maladies: Hinduyouths have been the most vulnerable targetsfor this loss of values and Marxist indoctrina-tion. If weaned away from religious moorings,youth become rebellious and Marxist ideolo-gy can then be easily driven into such discon-tented minds. In northern Kerala, these unem-ployed and under-employed youth are beingused as volunteers to carry out the political murder.

The intellectual pauperism: Sloganeeringand repetitions of cliché have stunted indepen-dent thinking minds in the State. “Idioticallypompous” that is what most people have beenreduced to by the communists’ propaganda.They vainly mouth fascism, sangh parivar,renaissance (navodhanam) or any other phrase-ology coined by the communist bandwagon.While Vedantic traditions and faith holdthrough time, the communists are flogging adead ideology.

Sabarimala and its unique tradition:Sabarimala has always been a temple that wasintended to instill qualities of renunciation,peace and bramhacharya. A 41-day period ofdiscipline regarding diet restriction, sleep

control and celibacy is followed by the devo-tees as they prepare for a visit to the holy shrine.Once they put on the bead garland, they arecalled swamys, suggesting they are worthy ofrespect. When the devotee reaches Sabarimala,he is better qualified to realise the ultimatetruth, tatvam asi (thou art that) inscribed at theentrance of the temple. Sabarimala is not justa place of worship, it is a nursery for thosedesirous, who follow the path of yoga. It is forthis very reason that the unique tradition ofSabarimala needs to be preserved.

Yogic traditions and media lies: Can’t thewomen too practise these very virtues and dis-cipline? They can, and it for this very reasonthat all temples, including the temple ofAyyappa, are open to women of all ages. TheSabarimala idol is conceived by the devotees asa naishtika brahmachari, a youth who has con-served all his vital energy and performs tapasfor God’s realisation. He is depicted as sittingin a unique posture, yoga pattasana, whichtantric science says is conducive for the arousalof the Kundalini Shakti. If one observes the idol,with even a rudimentary knowledge of tantraand yoga (the writer claims nothing more), itcan be seen that in this posture of sitting, pres-sure is put on the mooladhara chakra and thelower energy centres of the body. This postureis unique and Ayyappa idol at Sabarimala is theonly deity depicted in this posture.

Is the total sublimation of the vital ener-gy, conceived in the idol, ideally suited to beworshipped by women of reproductive age?

To denounce esoteric religious practices interms of modern-day rationality would be asabsurd as dismissing the bread and wine takenby the faithful Christians during Eucharist asbeing bakery items of gastronomical delightsor giving a biological explanation to the vir-gin’s motherhood of Christ.

Romo Rolland knew the dangers of stateinterference in spiritual matters and he was

prompted to say that had Shri Rama KrishnaParamahansa been born in the West, he wouldhave been subjected to shock treatments.

Gender and Sabarimala: If my right toswing my walking stick ends where your nosebegins, then the feminist bandwagon shouldrealise that the right place to swing their walk-ing stick is not the Sabarimala shrine. The faith-ful women devotees of Kerala realise thisunique nature of the deity and this is the rea-son why they spontaneously carried out ralliesagainst Government interference in Sabarimala.The faithful respect the right to worship for oth-ers and Sabarimala is the only temple (one ortwo local exceptions apart) where age restric-tion for women is followed.

The feminists, who still insist on swingingtheir walking sticks at other worshippers’noses, are State-sponsored activists of varioushues. Many have shady pasts, police cases pend-ing against them and have Maoist affiliationstoo. When the State Government manipulatesthe list of young women, who have alreadyentered the temple premise, it was the culmi-nation of a large game plan that divine inter-vention has exposed.

Gender, Sabarimala and some commonsense: Gender parity is a pre-requisite for thefunctioning of democracy. There are timeswhen you have to give Caesar what is his dueand to God what is due to him. But again, whoshall decide where Caesar’s domain ends andGod’s begin? Justice Indu Malhotra said in herdissenting note that the judiciary itself shouldnot judge matters of spiritual significance.

Media and the propaganda oflies: Ayyappa is no misogynist, nor is his celiba-cy under threat if women visit the shrine.Neither Ayyappa nor his devotees have con-tempt for menstruating women or considerthem unclean. These are arguments concoct-ed by Western-biased media and the commu-nist propaganda machinery. If the true signif-

icance of Sabarimala’s rituals and tradition isto be understood, surely it has to be by usingthe semantics of spiritual literature and not newfangled words imported from an alien culture.To paraphrase Sri Aurobindo’s observations onWestern psychology, the secret of the beautyof a lotus flower cannot be unravelled byanalysing the composition of the mud in whichit grows but it can only be done by looking atthe ideal of a lotus existing in some heavenlysphere above.

The last citadel and the long fight: Keralais the last communist citadel and the LDFwould fight with all collective strength of theGovernment machinery, police force and thenumerical strength of its well-knit party cadreagainst any consolidation of the forces of Hindudharma. They will try to buy over the Christianand Muslim vote banks and also use nefarioustactics of widening caste divide to split the con-solidation of Hindu votes.

For the Hindus of Kerala, the battle is a longdrawn out one. They will be isolated, malignedby the media and curbed by police power. Whatthe Hindus of Kerala need is belief, the peren-nial nature of Sanatana Dharma that has sur-vived greater onslaughts and invasions. ButHindus need to fight without forsaking the spir-it of tolerance and compassion fostered by theirfaith, without becoming cowards in the bargain.

But in the political battle f ield,Governments of the day will only acknowledgethe strength of the vote bank. In the neo-Darwinian political scene of India, it is the sur-vival of the vote bank. And it is here that divid-ed Hindus will have to think wisely, decisive-ly and cast their votes. Hindu religion never didstoop to fascism. It fostered civilisational val-ues and strengthened nationhood. The writingon the wall is clearer now for the Hindus ofKerala than ever before.

(The writer is President, Thapasya Art andLiterary Forum)

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The rupee on Wednesdayended almost flat at 71.56

per US dollar as participantspreferred to wait for theReserve Bank’s interest ratedecision for further cues.

The domestic currency hasbeen trading in a narrow rangeahead of RBI’s monetary poli-cy meeting outcome, scheduledfor February 7.

At the Interbank ForeignExchange market, the rupeemoved between 71.68 to 71.49during the session, before final-ly ending at 71.56, showing again of just 1 paise.

On Tuesday, the rupee hadsettled 23 paise higher at 71.57against the greenback.

“This week, there are rela-tively thin volume trades incurrency markets, as manyAsian markets are shut onLunar New Year,” HDFC

Securities Head, PCG andCapital Markets Strategy, V KSharma said.

He added that volatility forthe USD-INR pair could beconfined to a narrow rangeuntil the release of the policystatement.

According to SunilSharma, Chief InvestmentOfficer, Sanctum WealthManagement, though Indianrupee is the worst performingemerging market currency overthe last one month, it is expect-ed to recover “should crudeprices continue to slide and RBIannounces a rate cut inThursday’s meeting”.

Meanwhile, the dollarindex, which gauges the green-back’s strength against a basketof six currencies, was trading at96.21, higher by 0.16 per cent.

Foreign funds purchasedshares worth �694.97 crore ona net basis Wednesday, and

domestic institutional investorsbought equities worth �525.26crore, provisional data showed.

The benchmark Brentcrude futures fell 0.76 per centto $61.51 per barrel.

Meanwhile, domestic equi-ty indices darted up for the fifthstraight session Wednesday onacross-the-board buying amidexpectations of a shift in RBI’spolicy stance.

The BSE Sensex vaulted358.42 points, or 0.98 per cent,to close at 36,975.23, while thebroader NSE Nifty gained128.10 points, or 1.17 per cent,to 11,062.45.

The Financial BenchmarkIndia Private Ltd (FBIL) set thereference rate for therupee/dollar at 71.5731 and forrupee/euro at 81.5461. Thereference rate for rupee/Britishpound was fixed at 92.6886 andfor rupee/100 Japanese yen at65.21.

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The Kerala Government willslash the tax on aviation

fuel to 5 per cent from the cur-rent 28.75 per cent for domes-tic airlines, state FinanceMinister T M Thomas Isaacsaid on Wednesday.

Isaac made the significantannouncement in the assemblyduring the discussion on thestate budget for 2019-20.

“The tax on ATF will bereduced to 5 per cent from theexisting 28.75 per cent fordomestic airlines operatingservice from the state air-ports. A revenue loss of �100crore is expected throughthis,” he said.

Aviation fuel accounts fora major portion of operatingcost for airlines.

Not only airports under theUDAN (regional connectivityscheme), but non-UDAN air-ports would also get the newtax breather, Isaac said.

The tax cut is expected tobenefit three international air-ports- Thiruvananthapuram,Kochi and Karipur in the State

as the LDF Government hadalready decided to levy only 1per cent fuel tax from airlinesoperating service from thenewly commissioned Kannurairport.

The announcement comesa day after the Congress-ledUDF opposition had staged awalkout in the State assemblyalleging bias in the tax cut onaviation fuel announced forKannur airport and urgedthem to extend the relief tothree other airports in thestate.

Chief Minister PinarayiVijayan had defended the deci-sion to levy only 1 per cent taxon ATF for airlines operatingfrom the Kannur airport, say-ing it was given as a support tothe newly commissioned air-port.

However, he had evadedthe repeated question of theUDF on why the Governmenthad not implemented the deci-sion of its own cabinet in 2017to reduce the fuel tax to 5 percent for airlines operating ser-vice from all airports in theState.

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The Government hasallowed export of bio-fuels

from special economic zones(SEZs) and export-orientedunits (EoUs) with certain con-ditions, according to a notice ofthe directorate general of for-eign trade.

In August 2018, theGovernment imposed restric-tions on export of bio-fuels fornon-fuel purposes.

After this restriction,exporters operating from SEZsand EoUs made representationsto remove this prohibition stat-ing they only use importedmaterial for export of finalproduct.

They also informedGovernment authorities thatSEZ units have been grantedletter of approval for export ofbio-fuels and EoU units haveobligations to fulfil under anexport promotion scheme.

“Considering the hardshipfaced by the trade communityand the fact that production ofbio-fuels in EoU/SEZ would befrom imported feedstock,therefore, it would not impactthe domestic production/con-sumption. Hence, the restric-tion as applicable to DTA

(domestic tariff area) may notbe extended to EoU/SEZ,” theDGFT notice said.

SEZs and EoUs are export-oriented units outside theambit of domestic customslaws.

“Members of trade andindustry are informed thatexport of bio-fuels for non-fuelpurposes from EoU/SEZ willbe regulated” under certainrules of SEZs and foreign tradepolicy, it added.

It said that the feedstock forproduction of bio-fuel forexport from these areas shouldbe from imported sources only.

Bio-fuels include ethylalcohol, petroleum oil and oilsobtained from bituminousminerals, bio-diesel and mix-tures.

Before August 2018,exports of these items wereallowed without any restric-tions.

India exported ethyl alco-hol worth $276.35 million in2017-18 as against $224 millionin the previous fiscal.

Similarly, export of petro-leum oil and oils obtainedfrom bituminous mineralsincreased to $8 million in2017-18 from $0.54 million inthe previous fiscal.

Biodiesel and mixturesshipments rose to $5.36 millionin the last financial year from$2.73 million in 2016-17.

Last year, the directoratehad also imposed restriction onimport of bio-fuels includingethyl alcohol and other dena-tured spirits, bio-diesel, petro-leum oils and oils obtainedfrom bituminous mineralsother than crude.

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Telecom regulator Trai hasserved a showcause notice

to Airtel over the blackoutfaced by some of its DTH cus-tomers during the switchoverto the new tariff regime,sources said.

The showcause notice wasissued by Telecom RegulatoryAuthority of India (Trai) earli-er this week, and Airtel hasbeen given three days time torespond, they told PTI.

When contacted, an Airtelspokesperson said a few cus-tomers may have experienceddelays in provisioning of chan-nels, owing to a massive surgein last minute requests duringmigration, and that the serviceprovider remains committed toensuring compliance with allregulatory norms.

Trai has unveiled the newtariff order and regulatoryregime for the broadcast andcable sector, which would pavethe way for consumers to optfor channels they wish to view,and pay only for them.

It had said every channelshould be offered a la carte, witha transparent display of rates onelectronic programme guide.

The new framework cameinto effect from February 1.

In a statement onWednesday, Trai said it had“received information thatwhile migrating consumers,one large service provider hascaused blackout on the TVscreen of a few thousand sub-scribers”.

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Jet Airways on Wednesdaystated that a new framework

would be implemented fromFebruary 7 onward under whichif any changes or cancellationsare made seven days prior toflight departure, the domesticpassenger would attract a small-er penalty compared to the rateafter this period.

The carrier also announcedimposition of cancellationcharges of �3,800 on “flex cat-egory” of business-class pas-sengers from February 7onward. Till date, this catego-ry of passengers was exemptfrom cancellation fee, accord-ing to the airline’s website.

According to the newpenalty framework, an econo-my-class passenger would haveto pay an amount in between�2,000 and �3,800 if he or sheis cancelling the seat seven daysprior to flight departure.

If an economy-class pas-senger cancels seat within sevendays of flight departure, he orshe would have to pay anywherein between �2,800 and �4,600.

The new framework statesthat if an economy-class pas-senger makes a seat change, datechange, flight change, etc,. Priorto seven days of flight departure,the charges would be in between�1,500 and �3,500.

However if the passengermakes any such change with-in seven days of flight depar-ture, he or she would have topay a penalty in between�2,300 and �4,300 as per thenew framework.

Business-class passengers,who belong to “classic” catego-ry and “flex” category, would

have to shell out �4,800 and�3,800 respectively, if they arecancelling ticket.

According to the airline’swebsite, no cancellation chargewas imposed on “flex” catego-ry of business-class passen-gers till date.

From February 7, business-class passengers, who belong to“classic” category, would have toshell out �2,300 for making anyseat change, date change, flightchange, etc. The “flex” catego-ry of business-class passengerscan continue to make any suchchanges free of cost.

“As part of the new policy,charges for various changesincluding those for flight, date,sector, booking class, cabin,etc., and refund penalties forticket cancellations at leastseven days prior to the date oftravel will attract lower penal-ties compared to those whoundertake booking changeswithin seven days,” the airlinesaid in its statement.

Senior Vice-President —Worldwide Sales &Distribution, Jet Airways, RajSivakumar said: “The tieredpolicy is a carefully craftedendeavour that allows ourguests the opportunity toamend their domestic travelahead of time offering addi-tional value, choice and con-venience.”

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The Government onWednesday gave its nod to

a proposal for setting up 12,000MW grid-connected solar pho-tovoltaic (PV) power projectswith an estimated viability gapfunding of �8,580 crore.

The decision was taken bythe Cabinet Committee onEconomic Affairs (CCEA)chaired by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, Law MinisterRavi Shankar Prasad saidhere.

The proposal seeks toimplement “the Central PublicSector Undertaking (CPSU)Scheme Phase-ll for setting up12,000 MW grid-connectedSolar PV Power Projects, by theGovernment Producers withViability Gap Funding (VGF)support of �8,580 crore for self-use or use by Government orGovernment entities, bothCentral and StateGovernments”, an official state-ment said.

With the implementationof the scheme, 12,000 MW ormore of grid connected solarPV power projects would be setup by government producers infour years (2019-20 to 2022-23), thereby creating invest-ment of about �48,000 crore, itsaid.

“The Scheme will mandateuse of both solar photovoltaic(SPV) cells and modules man-ufactured domestically as perspecifications and testingrequirements fixed by MNRE(Ministry of New & RenewableEnergy),” it added.

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The National StockExchange will revise the

trade execution range for cur-rency futures and options con-tract from February 11.

In a circular Wednesday,the exchange said orders shallbe matched and trades shouldtake place only if the trade priceis within the trade executionrange based on the referenceprice of the contract. The ref-erence price for each contractwould be computed on thebasis of various parameters.

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New Delhi: MG Motor India on Wednesday said it has tied up with fiveleading private banks to offer vehicle loans to its customers and dealers. Thecompany said it has signed agreements with Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank,Kotak Mahindra Bank and Yes Bank. “This is in addition to the MoU signedwith India's leading public sector lender State Bank of India by the companyearlier this week,” MG Motor India said in a statement. The partnerships willprovide financing solutions to MG's customers and dealer partners starting withits first launch, the Hector SUV, in the second quarter of 2019, it added. “Throughthese partnerships, MG Motor India will offer term loans to its customers whilealso facilitating inventory funding and access to credit solutions for its dealer-ships,” MG Motor India Chief Commercial Officer Gaurav Gupta said. He fur-ther said: “Joining hands with the largest financial institutions in the countrywill facilitate credit to our dealer partners and customers.” The carmaker saidit plans to operate 110 sales and service touch points across India ahead of thelaunch and is working to provide financial packages to meet requirements ofcustomers.

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Flipkart, Wednesday said it is committed to the Indian market and is optimisticdespite recent changes in the FDI policy for e-commerce firms in the country.The Bentonville-based retailing major's statement came after a recent report byglobal consultancy firm Morgan Stanley, which had hinted that Walmart mayquit Flipkart as the new foreign direct investment (FDI) policy came into effect,which would lower its profitability in the long run. Morgan Stanley, in a reporttitled ‘Assessing Flipkart Risk to Walmart EPS’ dated February 4, claimed that“an exit is likely, not completely out of the question, with the Indian e-commercemarket becoming more complicated”. “Walmart's and Flipkart's commitment toIndia is deep and long term. Despite the recent changes in regulations, we remainoptimistic about the country,” said Dirk Van den Berghe, Executive Vice Presidentand Regional CEO Walmart Asia and Canada. He added: “We will continue tofocus on serving customers, creating sustained economic growth and bringingsustainable benefits to the country, including employment generation, supportingsmall businesses and farmers, and growing Indian exports to Walmart's globalmarkets.” Tightening norms for e-commerce firms having foreign investment,the government, from February 1, barred online marketplaces like Flipkart andAmazon from selling products of companies where they hold stakes and bannedexclusive marketing arrangements that could influence product price. The revisedpolicy on FDI in online retail, issued by the commerce and industry ministry,also said that these firms have to offer equal services or facilities to all its ven-dors without discrimination. Last year on August 18, Walmart had completedacquisition of 77 per cent stake in Flipkart for about USD 16 billion (Rs 1.05lakh crore), a deal which gave the US retailer access to the Indian e-commercemarket.

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Benchmark indices darted upfor the fifth straight session

Wednesday on across-the-board buying amid expecta-tions of a shift in RBI's policystance.

The BSE Sensex vaulted358.42 points, or 0.98 per cent,to close at 36,975.23, while thebroader NSE Nifty gained128.10 points, or 1.17 per cent,to 11,062.45.

Both the indices closed atfive-month highs, led by finan-cial services, IT and metalstocks, amid persistent for-eign fund inflows.

Analysts said investor sen-timent was bullish ahead of theReserve Bank of India's mon-etary policy meeting outcome,scheduled for Thursday.

The RBI’s Monetary PolicyCommittee (MPC) began itsthree-day meet Tuesday todecide on key rates amidexpectations that it may changeits policy stance to 'neutral'from 'calibrated tightening' onlow inflation footprint, even asa rate cut was ruled out bymany experts.

Only two of the 30 Sensexstocks ended in the red --IndusInd Bank and Axis Bank,which slipped up to 0.54 percent.

Bajaj Finance, Tata Steel,ONGC, Bajaj Auto, ICICIBank, NTPC, Coal India,M&M and RIL led the winners'pack, spurting up to 4.34 percent.

Broader indices, however,ended on a mixed note. TheBSE LargeCap index rallied1.13 per cent, mid-caps slipped0.12 per cent and the small capgauge inched up 0.05 per cent.

Sectorally, metal, IT, ener-gy and auto led the rally, jump-ing up to 2.44 per cent.

“Domestic market rallied 1per cent led by broad-basedbuying across sectors, Niftybreached its narrow tradingband of 10650-10950 onexpectation of a shift in RBI'spolicy stance and strong FIIinflows.

“Additionally, drop in bondyield and marginal strength inrupee added strength to thisexpectation," said Vinod Nair,Head of Research, GeojitFinancial Services.

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Capital markets watchdog Sebiand stock exchanges have

stepped up their live surveillance ofintra-day trading in select stocks inthe wake of increased volatility seenin these scrips; and any manipula-tor would face strict regulatoryaction.

Sources said the Securities andExchange Board of India (Sebi) hasasked the exchanges to beef uptheir vigil for any possible manipu-lation in stocks that are witnessinghuge volatility and to report anyirregularity urgently to the regulatorfor further action.

These surveillance measuresinclude identification of unusualconcentration of positions intra-day, stepping up of the alreadyexisting order-level surveillance inaddition to the trade-level surveil-lance, a source familiar with the reg-ulatory move said. Besides, Sebi willalso look at intra-day trading in thesestocks through its own surveillancemechanism and take necessaryaction wherever required.

The regulator has its own state-of-the-art integrated surveillancemechanism in addition to the sur-veillance systems of the stockexchanges.

Following a directive from Sebi,top exchanges BSE and NSE, onTuesday night, also asked theirrespective trading members toenhance their own monitoring ofintra-day trading activities of theirclients, and proactively report anyadverse observation immediately tothe bourses.

The stepped-up vigil by the reg-ulator and the exchanges followshuge volatility seen in some stocksamid adverse news flow regardingtheir promoters and top manage-ment, and other issues. Theexchanges have already sought expla-nations from these companies aboutvolatility as well as the media reports.

In separate but similar circulars,the BSE and the NSE said they havestepped up their surveillance inview of the recent volatility in themarket, and the trading membersalso have a responsibility of moni-toring the trading activity of their

respective clients.“Accordingly, trading members

are advised to step-up monitoring ofthe trading activity of their clientsincluding intra-day activity andproactively report to the exchangeobservations/findings, if any,” the cir-cular said.

A source said the Sebi’s directiveto the exchanges followed a signifi-cant stock-level volatility seen in themarket and is aimed at keeping awatch on possible manipulation ofprices of these stocks.

There are already robust sur-veillance systems in place, and thesenew measures are in addition to theexisting vigil mechanism.

There has been an overflow ofnews regarding various scrips whichhas contributed to the volatility,and the regulator wants to ensurethat these situations should not bemisused to manipulate the market.

“Such additional surveillancemeasures are taken by Sebi andexchanges whenever the market isvolatile and it also serves as a cau-tion to manipulators,” the sourcesaid.

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solidated net loss narrowed to�1,180.78 crore for the quarter endedon December 31, 2018, from�1,313.74 crore in the year-ago quar-ter, helped by a healthy growth inincome, according to a companystatement. Total income of the com-pany rose to �6,667.11 crore in thequarter ending December from�4,916.34 crore in the year-ago quar-

ter, the statement said. The averagePlant Load Factor (PLF) or capacityutilisation of power generating plantswas 73 per cent in the third quarterof 2018-19 compared to 58 per centin the same quarter of last fiscal.Commenting on results GautamAdani Chairman, Adani Group said,"We are witnessing rapid progress inthe resolution of regulatory issues thathave affected cash flows of our pro-

jects in the past. We hope to see time-ly approval of supplementary PPAs(power purchase agreement) by the(power regulator) CERC, which willhelp the Mundra power plant to oper-ate sustainably.”

He said: “We have also receiveda substantial amount of compensatorypayments under Change in Law forDomestic Coal Shortfall, for theTiroda and Kawai plants.” PTI

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SAIL 45.95 47.8 44.6 47.35ESCORTS 685.25 689.7 671.25 683.1JUSTDIAL 476.45 484 468 482.05JISLJALEQS 53 55.2 51.3 54.55NESTLEIND 11,666.00 11,672.00 11,469.95 11,648.00NCC 78.25 79.95 76.9 79.75RBLBANK 589.5 589.6 578.75 583.05IBREALEST 69 70.3 63.05 69.7STRTECH 220.05 221.3 210.65 218.4BHARATFORG 479 487.05 472.5 485SRTRANSFIN 1,078.75 1,078.75 1,050.45 1,067.50CGPOWER 31.4 32.9 30 32.5ORIENTBANK 92.6 92.85 88.7 91.65DABUR 454 454 448 452.8TORNTPOWER 245.8 252.1 238.15 244GAIL 336 340.6 330.45 340VIPIND 501.15 522 501.15 519INDIANB 215.3 217.4 207 216.6APOLLOTYRE 203 203 193.85 198.85NIITTECH 1,322.90 1,333.60 1,289.95 1,292.85BEL 80.3 82.1 78.35 81.9AMARAJABAT 771 796 771 784TVSMOTOR 508.9 508.9 486.75 491MGL 974.4 974.4 959.1 965.15OMAXE 212.75 213.7 211.2 211.9CUMMINSIND 795.7 805.15 771.5 801.15CEATLTD 1,107.00 1,109.35 1,069.15 1,088.00COALINDIA 217 221 216.4 220.15NBCC 53.7 54.3 52.4 53.7RAYMOND 730.2 731.35 698.3 710.75AJANTPHARM 924.8 941.35 903.1 932.25CENTURYTEX 750 764.5 738.65 760.15SUZLON 3.66 3.99 3.45 3.82UNIONBANK 78.2 79.6 76.1 79.35IBVENTURES 323 327.9 311.8 318.85RAJESHEXPO 576.9 591 570 573.15ONGC 143 147.5 142.7 146.65OFSS 3,838.50 3,899.95 3,827.20 3,899.95IOC 133.95 137.9 133.75 137.5INDIACEM 79 81 77.3 80.4RADICO 442.5 442.7 433 440.45BALKRISIND 796.4 800.3 776 788.6DELTACORP 229 230.35 221.5 222.25RNAM 137.6 163.1 134 162.3SUVEN 202.4 231.45 202.4 220.3PIDILITIND 1,124.90 1,131.25 1,114.95 1,123.65JPASSOCIAT 5.09 5.35 4.72 5.2

CADILAHC 320 324.4 311.4 323.25COLPAL 1,293.00 1,306.95 1,291.65 1,294.25MOTHERSUMI 136.7 138.75 135.55 137.5MEGH 50 50.6 42.1 44.7NTPC 136 137.35 135.05 136.65SBILIFE 583.2 589.2 576 576ALBK 42 43 40.15 42.35FORCEMOT 1,399.95 1,419.00 1,351.00 1,359.30SREINFRA 23 23 19.15 22.2MARICO 371.3 371.3 361.25 367.8ABCAPITAL 83.4 83.9 81.6 82.45JAICORPLTD 95.4 95.6 87.5 90.2MFSL 369.3 378.45 361.1 373.55ITI 91.4 93.5 88.55 91.25FINCABLES 396.15 409 380.1 407.9GRUH 221.95 230.4 220.3 229.55HEXAWARE 356.4 363 353.4 360INDHOTEL 142.05 143.55 138 141LTI 1,811.00 1,852.95 1,811.00 1,844.95PHILIPCARB 162.5 165.9 158 161.6TATAPOWER 69.55 71 68.4 70.95INTELLECT 170.3 185.1 169.05 182.3RCF 57.5 58 55.5 56.6HDFCLIFE 373.6 377.35 368.1 369.75LICHSGFIN 463.9 463.9 450.3 459.6NOCIL 128 130.05 122.4 123.85M&MFIN 403.4 405.5 394.55 400NMDC 93.35 95.4 91.75 95.15ALKEM 1,900.10 1,917.45 1,841.55 1,882.35INFRATEL 289.75 298 288.75 295.7WABAG 291.35 292.95 281.7 290.45IDFC 36.5 37.3 35.15 36.9CASTROLIND 152.75 153.55 148.05 149.85MPHASIS 1,018.60 1,040.00 1,014.00 1,028.00EXIDEIND 223.5 223.5 216 219MRF 60,300.00 60,300.00 59,584.00 60,052.65JUBILANT 757 760 715.9 723.5SUNTECK 344.95 349 342.7 346.25LINDEINDIA 419 453 417.15 438.55AVANTI 320 327.15 312.05 317.55

EDELWEISS 141.5 142.85 140 141.3JSLHISAR 80.05 83.35 78 79.7GODREJCP 684 708.65 683.95 707SOUTHBANK 12.8 13.09 12.65 12.94TORNTPHARM 1,860.00 1,860.00 1,780.00 1,790.10AMBUJACEM 210 215.1 208.5 214.8PRSMJOHNSN 67.5 76 65.1 75.153MINDIA 20,600.00 20,691.00 20,260.00 20,650.00NATIONALUM 58 59 57.15 58.85TATAMTRDVR 91.3 92.75 88.85 92.25VGUARD 194.1 195.1 188.7 190.4AIAENG 1,617.50 1,620.00 1,600.00 1,603.00FCONSUMER 43.55 44.5 41.9 42.85LAXMIMACH 5,320.00 5,743.45 5,285.25 5,578.05WHIRLPOOL 1,462.15 1,491.05 1,420.00 1,442.00PERSISTENT 641.85 673.8 634.25 658.05UBL 1,434.80 1,434.80 1,396.00 1,406.60ATUL 3,519.50 3,519.50 3,475.00 3,477.00GODFRYPHLP 933.2 972 922.15 964.35APOLLOHOSP 1,300.00 1,316.35 1,288.80 1,306.50CONCOR 522.9 524.2 503.8 509.1EQUITAS 123.6 123.6 117.55 120.25ENGINERSIN 112.9 114.3 112.35 114HONAUT 21,087.10 21,345.00 20,999.95 21,082.50PAGEIND 24,299.00 24,335.00 24,055.00 24,230.00GLENMARK 636 644.4 628.75 642.2MCX 709.85 709.85 684 693.45KTKBANK 115 117.2 113.3 116.8GNFC 321.2 322.5 314.65 317.3HSCL 110.5 114.95 107.3 114.4TV18BRDCST 31.3 32.1 30.7 31.95GILLETTE 6,498.95 6,499.50 6,445.00 6,455.20PNBHOUSING 908.5 950 906.9 949MANPASAND 64.45 77.15 58 77.15CRISIL 1,633.55 1,657.00 1,620.15 1,653.00SPARC 149.2 149.35 140.95 143.15KSCL 585.25 589.5 564.05 567.55IBULISL 248.1 256 245.75 245.75SWANENERGY 98.05 98.8 96.2 96.25LALPATHLAB 1,050.00 1,120.00 1,050.00 1,083.05AKZOINDIA 1,728.80 1,757.55 1,719.00 1,725.00ICICIPRULI 286.25 289.85 285.5 287.9KAJARIACER 550 550.05 541.2 548.2CERA 2,321.35 2,354.15 2,296.50 2,321.40MINDAIND 286.65 295 276.4 284.7JBCHEPHARM 313.95 317.5 312 315.5KRBL 363 364.4 350.3 353.85FSL 47.8 48.05 46.15 46.5CHOLAFIN 1,238.20 1,260.00 1,223.90 1,246.60AARTIIND 1,700.50 1,700.50 1,601.00 1,625.90FRETAIL 444 444 434 438.6PVR 1,598.80 1,603.65 1,585.05 1,589.00POWERGRID 186 188.4 185 187.1CANFINHOME 245.05 248.15 240.2 244.15PETRONET 219.3 220.75 215.8 219.35ERIS 645 655 635 644.25HFCL 21.65 21.9 21.4 21.65OIL 170.6 173 169.05 172.4DBL 315.55 322.6 313.2 320.8TATACOMM 493.95 495.95 487.8 489.45BERGEPAINT 308 312.5 307.05 312ENDURANCE 1,211.95 1,220.10 1,196.15 1,214.85KEI 368.65 371 356.2 363.35APLAPOLLO 1,127.70 1,136.00 1,078.35 1,105.00BOSCHLTD 19,190.00 19,295.40 19,053.95 19,224.00CHENNPETRO 229.7 231.85 225.7 229.65SHREECEM 15,750.00 16,070.00 15,642.60 16,005.00ABFRL 212.5 216.5 209.1 210.3ABB 1,260.15 1,274.60 1,254.60 1,265.00RAMCOCEM 596.35 609.9 589.7 601.25GODREJIND 488 494.55 479.8 494ADANITRANS 215.45 218.55 214.65 216JMFINANCIL 76.3 79 74.5 79TATAINVEST 850 855.75 820.1 825.95NHPC 23.75 24.3 23.7 24.3DEEPAKNI 221.7 229 218.25 229CHAMBLFERT 161.15 172.9 160.5 170.65LTTS 1,600.00 1,609.40 1,569.00 1,580.00PARAGMILK 209.85 217.95 206.05 217.95BBTC 1,176.35 1,185.40 1,166.55 1,185.00AUBANK 591.6 605 583 598.9PGHH 9,999.80 9,999.80 9,858.10 9,978.00GSFC 92.6 93.9 91.95 93.5HSIL 248 252 243 246BHARATFIN 920 957.05 920 946.2SYNDIBANK 35.65 35.65 34.75 35.45IFCI 12.5 12.7 12.15 12.57HUDCO 40 40.45 39.2 39.55OBEROIRLTY 450 463.6 449.55 450.2DCBBANK 178 179.95 175.95 178.3VMART 2,700.05 2,725.00 2,640.20 2,709.25SONATSOFTW 328.95 331.5 316.45 328.8HINDZINC 256 258.4 253.5 256.4QUESS 631 675 629.1 675SOBHA 487.8 487.8 471.8 480TRIDENT 62.15 62.7 59.75 61REPCOHOME 385.95 390.6 378.85 382.05TATAMETALI 608.55 614.4 590 600MRPL 63.5 65.6 62.85 65.55DEEPAKFERT 112.05 116.5 111.9 115.65WELCORP 102.55 104.9 101 102.35JKTYRE 89.5 90.55 87.2 89.2WELSPUNIND 55.25 55.45 52.95 54.7PFIZER 3,002.00 3,078.90 2,970.05 3,042.55HINDCOPPER 44.15 44.95 43.5 44.75CYIENT 610 614 606 610.8NATCOPHARM* 698.95 698.95 655.7 673INOXLEISUR 270.05 275.05 263 263KEC 247.05 252.7 247.05 251

KANSAINER 458.95 469.9 457.1 463.25FORTIS 135.65 138.2 134.2 134.9VTL 1,030.30 1,075.00 1,015.05 1,015.05J&KBANK 40 40 38.3 38.8JINDALSAW 81 81.25 79.25 79.6GODREJPROP 750 750 737.5 750NAUKRI 1,760.00 1,760.00 1,722.00 1,746.00GRANULES 88 88 84.5 85.5JAMNAAUTO 53.55 53.7 52.15 52.65GUJALKALI 508 513.5 499.05 505SYMPHONY 1,212.00 1,218.00 1,186.80 1,210.00NAVINFLUOR 614.5 622 609.85 614VBL 800 843 800 840THERMAX 1,082.40 1,087.85 1,061.20 1,067.70ASTRAZEN 1,615.80 1,667.60 1,590.95 1,606.10CROMPTON 217.95 217.95 208.55 217.5ISGEC 5,096.90 5,097.05 5,000.00 5,050.00ISEC 199.4 201.1 196 201UFLEX 251.55 255.25 250.75 254.85GDL 108.5 115 105 110JSWENERGY 67.25 67.3 66.6 67.2SHANKARA 337 337 321.2 322.65HEIDELBERG 145 149.5 143.3 147ORIENTCEM 65.3 66 61.9 63.5INOXWIND 61.4 61.4 56.85 58.2MMTC 24.9 25.1 24.15 25GUJFLUORO 841.65 859.6 841.65 854.95GLAXO 1,391.40 1,393.00 1,370.00 1,374.50GICHSGFIN 220.4 220.4 212.7 217.2VINATIORGA 1,595.50 1,618.00 1,584.75 1,600.00GODREJAGRO 471.1 474 470.6 473.7BAJAJELEC 473.25 478 465.75 474.05EMAMILTD 407.85 408 400.65 402BIRLACORPN 451 460 447.05 454NILKAMAL 1,364.00 1,364.00 1,281.00 1,288.00ASTRAL 1,155.20 1,191.00 1,140.25 1,167.95GSKCONS 7,610.00 7,641.50 7,591.70 7,625.00WESTLIFE 377 377 366 366.55TTKPRESTIG 7,792.30 7,916.90 7,786.15 7,786.15RATNAMANI 850.55 850.55 830.05 846CARBORUNIV 341.75 341.75 337 337TIINDIA 342 342.5 331.55 331.55DCMSHRIRAM 347.75 351.4 340 345.45PTC 76.2 77.75 74.55 77.6TIFHL 456 456.7 440 442.2COFFEEDAY 260 268 256 268EIHOTEL 199.7 199.7 190.1 190.1TIMETECHNO 90 90.7 85.05 85.05TATACOFFEE 87.05 87.05 84.2 85.3NH 197 202.8 194.85 197.95MERCK 3,203.55 3,270.00 3,203.55 3,265.00MOIL 163.5 163.9 161.55 163TRENT 352.6 359.15 350.4 353.45APLLTD 580.05 585.6 575 580CENTURYPLY 155 167.95 155 162.2UCOBANK 17.6 18.25 17.6 18.05TEJASNET 144.45 153.1 140.05 151.1DENABANK 11.71 11.72 11.46 11.66EIDPARRY 201.7 202 195.9 196.85SCI 38.45 38.65 37.4 37.45GET&D 278.6 298.35 272.3 295.3VIJAYABANK 42.05 42.9 41.3 42.9BLUEDART 3,081.15 3,117.00 3,080.00 3,089.25GHCL 242.55 245.8 238.55 242.25BASF 1,332.00 1,350.50 1,305.00 1,310.05JSL 24.7 25 24.2 24.4BLUESTARCO 585.05 597 573.65 584.25TVTODAY 348.4 348.4 326.6 336ANDHRABANK 24.35 24.65 23.9 24.4SUDARSCHEM 312.4 317.45 306.05 315.1HAL 666.65 680 655 665JYOTHYLAB 185 186.95 176.6 178BOMDYEING 104 104 104 104LAKSHVILAS 57 60.25 56.1 58.9SYNGENE 605.1 606.5 591.25 599SJVN 25.1 25.6 25.1 25.55GREAVESCOT 119.85 121 119.05 120RALLIS 157.15 159.5 154.85 155.45CARERATING 975.15 997 963.3 976.4ADVENZYMES 160 164 160 162.25COCHINSHIP 364 366.45 360.6 361ALLCARGO 101.4 105.2 99 102.35NBVENTURES 110.8 111.15 106.5 109.8SUNDRMFAST 522.1 531.9 520.25 526.85SUPREMEIND 994.1 1,000.50 994.05 1,000.50ADANIGREEN 34.5 34.5 33 33.25MAHINDCIE 229 230 224.5 230CENTRALBK 29.25 29.6 28.55 29.35NAVKARCORP 44.7 44.8 43 43.05DCAL 198 201 190 193.55NLCINDIA 62.3 62.7 61.5 62.55FORBESCO 1,985.00 2,023.80 1,956.00 2,020.00SUNCLAYLTD 2,723.00 2,796.95 2,650.00 2,789.90AEGISLOG 198.2 200.1 194 199.85INDOSTAR 312 336 301.65 322.55MAXINDIA 73.2 77 72.9 76.95GEPIL 750.05 788 738.75 770.05THOMASCOOK 212.25 220.9 210.65 217.7SUPRAJIT 194.1 199 191 192.05MAHLOG 475 475 427.5 440.15TAKE 132.7 135.4 129.9 130.35WABCOINDIA 6,450.00 6,450.00 6,275.20 6,313.00CAPPL 340.1 349.5 340.05 345.5ZENSARTECH 225.05 227.4 220.05 221.8ABBOTINDIA 8,095.00 8,132.00 8,075.00 8,105.00NETWORK18 35.75 35.75 34.55 35.05GULFOILLUB 890.45 895 884.9 886.05IEX 161.35 164 159 162.8ZYDUSWELL 1,328.25 1,333.90 1,310.00 1,310.50

NAVNETEDUL 106.5 107.8 103.1 105.05BDL 243.95 243.95 232 233.05MAHABANK 13.64 13.86 13.5 13.72CUB 188 188.1 185.3 187GESHIP 295.05 303 290.9 297.4BAYERCROP 4,317.75 4,379.85 4,301.05 4,379.85IOB 13.1 13.26 12.75 12.81GPPL 82.05 83 81.55 82.85KALPATPOWR 364.2 369.5 358.85 367.85PIIND 842.2 845.05 833 837GICRE 248.25 248.3 240.5 240.8NESCO 443 443.5 439.05 440ASTERDM 152.15 159 152.1 157.95LEMONTREE 72.9 72.9 69.9 70.55FLFL 432.95 433.9 427.95 430GMDCLTD 80.9 80.95 78.1 78.85FDC 171 173 162.5 166.3JKLAKSHMI 306.3 308 300.1 305.9PHOENIXLTD 573.3 581.4 549.4 567.7SADBHAV 190.1 190.1 184.7 187.75TEAMLEASE 2,767.00 2,800.00 2,759.90 2,800.00GRINDWELL 522.05 523.05 510.05 512COROMANDEL 456 456 444.7 445.4ITDCEM 107 109.3 104.8 107.9APARINDS 607.7 612.25 602.45 612.25BALMLAWRIE 183.85 185 181.95 184CORPBANK 25.2 26.25 25 25.6MAHLIFE 372.3 372.3 367 370LUXIND 1,190.50 1,205.00 1,184.05 1,197.00SHARDACROP 323.55 324.85 316 320SHRIRAMCIT 1,570.00 1,570.00 1,550.00 1,550.00DBCORP 178.5 182 176 178.5EVEREADY 212.2 213.05 210.5 210.5SANOFI 6,404.90 6,484.95 6,404.90 6,458.00ESSELPRO 109.05 112.15 109.05 110.7GUJGAS 126.65 128.25 124.95 126TNPL 209.1 209.4 204 208.65MHRIL 195.35 200.65 193.35 197.55SHK 166.3 169.8 160.75 166.25SHOPERSTOP 502.35 502.8 495.65 499.7HIMATSEIDE 183.25 188 178.3 187.1KIOCL 132.15 133.1 126.5 128.2CENTRUM 31.85 32.2 30.95 31.4JAGRAN 99.5 100.05 96 96.7SKFINDIA 1,895.70 1,928.00 1,895.70 1,928.00GALAXYSURF 1,097.55 1,097.55 1,064.05 1,066.00ECLERX 1,001.05 1,038.45 985 1,023.50KNRCON 204.6 207 204.55 206.5NIACL 175 177.1 170.15 175MOTILALOFS 619.8 622.2 615.3 615.85FINOLEXIND 505.45 505.45 492.05 492.8JKCEMENT 690.05 700.75 685 700MONSANTO 2,600.00 2,668.00 2,600.00 2,668.00CCL 269.55 272 268.2 270.55RELAXO 737.75 740.4 717 717.05SCHNEIDER 85.2 86.25 84.15 85.55SCHAEFFLER 5,480.00 5,530.30 5,351.05 5,351.05TIMKEN 555.05 563.55 554.3 555.55ASHOKA 116.5 117.6 114.55 117.4ELGIEQUIP 237.1 243.95 237 240.25BAJAJCON 349 354.25 345 352.8IFBIND 764.95 765.05 726 726LAOPALA 208 214.05 205 209.05TRITURBINE 105 105.5 101.05 102.2PNCINFRA 143.35 144.05 139.05 141.05HERITGFOOD 480.25 488.4 473.8 479.9GAYAPROJ 164.5 165 162.05 165GREENPLY 130.3 130.3 127 129.75MINDACORP 139.6 142.15 138.4 139REDINGTON 68.8 69.25 66.9 69.25LAURUSLABS 350.1 350.1 345 345SUPPETRO 190.05 197.4 190 197.4MAGMA 97.85 97.85 96.1 96.9TVSSRICHAK 2,308.05 2,336.00 2,296.95 2,299.60PRESTIGE 200.5 201.35 197.1 199SHILPAMED 373.6 381.65 372.3 381.65DHANUKA 410 415.2 406 406ITDC 277.05 277.15 268.8 269.45STARCEMENT 88.65 90.95 88.2 88.8THYROCARE 542.9 547.2 539.2 544.95KPRMILL 518.4 521.3 513.2 520SOMANYCERA 340.35 343.9 338.4 343.75HATSUN 695 705.45 695 700JCHAC 1,854.00 1,854.00 1,764.15 1,805.00SOLARINDS 991.8 999 978.05 998SFL 1,280.00 1,280.00 1,235.00 1,260.00ASAHIINDIA 257.75 257.75 255 255SIS 755 763.35 755 758.6

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into the US based on merit, USPresident Donald Trump saidon Wednesday that tolerancefor illegal immigration is notcompassionate — it is cruel.

Trump, in his annual Stateof the Union address, said:“We have a moral duty to cre-ate an immigration system thatprotects the lives and jobs ofour citizens”.

The lawless state of thesouthern Mexico border is athreat to the safety, security andfinancial well-being of allAmericans, he said.

“This (moral duty)includes our obligation to themillions of immigrants livinghere today, who followed therules and respected our laws.Legal immigrants enrich ournation and strengthen our soci-ety in countless ways. I wantpeople to come into our coun-try, but they have to come inlegally,” said the US Presidentin his address to a joint sessionof the US Congress.

Trump said his adminis-tration has sent to Congress acommonsense proposal to endthe crisis on southern border.

“It includes humanitarianassistance, more law enforce-ment, drug detection at ourports, closing loopholes thatenable child smuggling, andplans for a new physical barri-er, or wall, to secure the vastareas between our ports ofentry.

“In the past, most of thepeople in this room voted fora wall — but the proper wallnever got built. I’ll get it built,”

Trump said.This is a smart, strategic,

see-through steel barrier --not just a simple concrete wall,he said.

“It will be deployed in theareas identified by border

agents as having the greatestneed, and as these agents willtell you, where walls go up, ille-gal crossings go way down.

“Simply put, walls workand walls save lives. So let’swork together, compromise,and reach a deal that will trulymake America safe,” said theUS President.

Asking the Congress todefend the very dangeroussouthern border, Trump saidno issue better illustrates thedivide between America’sworking class and America’spolitical class than illegal immi-gration.

He said that wealthy politi-cians and donors push foropen borders while living theirlives behind walls and gates andguards. Meanwhile, workingclass Americans are left to paythe price for mass illegal migra-tion -- reduced jobs, lowerwages, overburdened schoolsand hospitals, increased crime,and a depleted social safety net,he told members of the USCongress.

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France’s yellow vest protestmovement joined ranks

with a major union, a first forboth, in a day of nationwideprotests over taxes and buyingpower that brought tens ofthousands into the streets.

Brief scuffles marked themostly calm Paris demonstra-tion on Tuesday.

Police fired several roundsof tear gas, clearing trouble-makers from the Place de laConcorde, which borders theUS Embassy.

Tear gas was also used inLille and elsewhere.

However, tension was min-imal compared with the week-ly protests held since mid-November by the yellow vestmovement to demand fiscaland social justice in a majorchallenge to PresidentEmmanuel Macron.

As protesters marched,lawmakers in the nationalAssembly, the Lower House ofParliament, voted 387-92 topass a bill aimed at preventingviolence during protests, andhelping authorities maintainorder.

The Bill would, forinstance, authorise regionalprefects to prevent people seenas a serious threat to publicorder from protesting, or forceprotesters involved in violenceto pay for damage.

The Bill, which must go

before the Senate, would alsomake it a crime for protestersto conceal their faces — acommon occurrence duringSaturday protests by the yellowvest movement, by both thosetrying to offset the effects oftear gas and by troublemakersconcealing their identities.

Meanwhile, theCommunist-backed CGTunion marched from Paris CityHall to the Place de laConcorde side-by-side withprotesters from the yellow vestmovement, which takes itsname from the safety veststhey wear that are required inall cars.

Union chief PhilippeMartinez cheered the hand-in-hand protests with the yellowvests, promising daily initiativesand “something big” eachTuesday.

He noted overlappingdemands between his unionand yellow vest protesters.“There’s no reason why weshouldn’t demonstrate next toeach other or one behindanother.

What’s important is thatour first day together is a suc-cess, in the middle of theweek,” he said.

“I find business leadershave it easy and it’s time wehold big company bosses in thiscountry accountable,” Martinezsaid. The grassroots yellowvest movement has no anoint-ed leader and an array ofdemands.

However, increasing buy-ing power and ending whatthey perceive as favoritismtoward the powerful at theexpense of the less fortunate areleading demands.

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US President Donald Trumpon Wednesday called for

rejecting politics of revenge,resistance and retribution, butinsisted on building a wallalong the US-Mexico border ashe appeared before a dividedCongress for his annual State ofthe Union address.

His calls for reconciliationwere met with mostly stone-faced silence from Democrats,who bitterly oppose his agen-da and accuse him of hasten-ing the decline in cross-partycooperation.

The president had a record35-day standoff with theDemocrats led by HouseSpeaker Nancy Pelosi over hisproposed controversial wall

along the US-Mexico border,which shut down the govern-ment and postponed theaddress which was earlierscheduled on January 29.

“We must reject the politicsof revenge, resistance and ret-ribution,” Trump told Congressnear the beginning of his Stateof the Union address, claimingin his speech that he is puttingforward “the agenda of theUnited States.”

“An economic miracle istaking place in the UnitedStates — and the only thingthat can stop it are foolish wars,politics or ridiculous partisaninvestigations,” the presidentsaid.

He said that tolerance forillegal immigration is not com-passionate — it is cruel.

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Caracas: Venezuelan militaryofficers blocked a bridge on heborder with Colombia ahead ofan anticipated humanitarianaid shipment Tuesday, as oppo-sition leader Juan Guaidostepped up his challenge toPresident Nicolas Maduro’sauthority. The Opposition-dominated National Assemblyhad earlier warned the armedforces, which make up much ofMaduro’s power base, not tocross a “red line” by blocking aid.

Guaido, who proclaimedhimself acting president onJanuary 23 -- sparking an inter-national crisis -- claims that upto 300,000 people face death ifthe aid is not delivered.

“You know there’s a redline, you know well there’s alimit, you know that medicines,food and medical supplies arethat limit,” lawmaker MiguelPizarro said in a message to themilitary. AFP

Colombo: Sri LankanPresident Maithripala Sirisenasaid on Wednesday that he willimplement death penalty fordrug dealers within threemonths, ending a 42-yearmoratorium on capital pun-ishment in the country.

Sirisena said that executionof drug convicts is a necessityin view of the fast spreadingdrug menace in the islandnation.

“I will implement the deathpenalty during the next 2-3months,” he said while address-ing the parliament. Sri Lanka’slast hanging took place in June1976. Since then successivepresidents have refused to signdeath warrants to hang con-victs. Sirisena took the decisiondespite Sri Lanka becomingparty to a UN moratorium ondeath penalty in 2016.

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Iraq’s most senior Shiite cler-ic on Wednesday joined a

chorus of Iraqi politicians andclerics criticizing recent state-ments by President DonaldTrump in which he said UStroops should stay in Iraq tokeep an eye on neighbouringIran.

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said Iraq aspires to have“good and balanced relations”with all of its neighbors “basedon mutual interests and with-

out intervention in internalaffairs.”

Iraq “rejects being alaunching pad for harmingany other country,” he saidduring a meeting with UNIraq envoy Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert at the cleric’s basein Najaf.

Both Iraq’s President andPrime Minister have hit back atTrump’s statements to USmedia this week stating that UStroops should stay at a base inIraq so that America can“watch Iran.”

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He added, “We’ll see whatcan be done.” But speaking toreporters en route home fromthe United Arab Emirates, herecalled that a previous Vaticandiplomatic effort to facilitatetalks between Maduro and theopposition “went up in smoke.”

And he insisted on thebasic diplomatic requirementthat two sides to any conflictmust jointly request externalfacilitation or mediation ofnegotiations.

Vatican City : PopeFrancis says his pil-grimage this week to theUnited Arab Emirateswrote a “new page inhistory of the dialoguebetween Christianityand Islam” and in pro-moting world peacebased on brotherhood.

Telling pilgrims atthe Vatican onWednesday about mak-ing the first-ever papaltrip to the ArabianPeninsula.

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Did you know that a woman can’t bearrested after six in the evening andif she is being taken into the policecustody after that, there has to bea woman guard around her all the

time till she’s there. Well, actress Swara Bhaskercame to know the fact recently.

There are laws that lay down the substan-tive rights of the masses, pertaining to the ben-efits of the people. However, due to lack of prop-er awareness, such provisions hardly yield anyjustice, highlights Swara as she speaks about theforthcoming drama on Colors, Courtroom.

She says, “There are numerous laws whichpeople don’t know about but should be awareof. The show will make these legal proceduresand important laws accessible to people in aninteresting way.” It is because none will everspecifically open a book to read about laws, elsethey would have been lawyers.

She says that there’s a fear that grips peo-ple when they first hear of court and legal pro-cedures. “They always want to avoid them.They start thinking about the high court andrepeated visits to the lower ones for case pro-ceedings, feeling that the next 25 years of theirlives might just get wasted doing this.Pendency is a great issue in our country. Butthat is also because common people hardlyknow the exact court procedures and the waylaw works in the country,” says Swara. Shehighlights that it’s interesting “how law ismade for people’s protection and that in turn

puts them into trouble.”The actress says that when she got to know

about the show, she found it very “interesting”even though she is not a part of it, she wanted

to support it.The Anarkali of Aarah actress believes

that it’s important for our society to ques-tion the right and wrong of things. She

says, “In our country most people actwithout thinking. We are just reacting

to things. Such shows are important forthem to know, think, question and actaccordingly.”

There have been shows likeCrime Patrol, Savdhaan India, thathave showed numerous real-lifecases of crime against humanity andalerted the society. Swara believesthat such shows are capable ofanalysing fear as well as tracing the

criminal mindset.She says, “It depends on the way

a particular crime is portrayed. Nosubject in itself is good or bad.” Shebelieves that if you choose to“fetishise” a crime or “sensationalise”it and show it in a “dhinchak way byusing sensational headlines around it,it will only make it seem justified to

those who have a pervert mindset. Wedon’t need to look at fiction for sensation-alising any crime as our TV soaps and

news channels are enough. Many ofthem report on such heinous events

in an irresponsible manner.”Giving an example, she talks

about the film Talvar, a repertoryon Arushi-Hemraj murder case of

2008. She exclaims, “There’s adifference in the way the filmshows the case as compared tosome TV shows that have triedto show the same case in a sen-sational manner. No subject initself is good or bad. It’s impor-tant for people who create fic-tion to show a crime in a sensi-tive manner that makes peoplealso delve deeper into it serious-ly and as something that isunjustified.”

Adding on to that, she saysthat showing a rape or molesta-tion of a woman that objectifiestheir body and fetishises the vio-lence in a perverse manner “canonly make the crime appearpleasurable and justified to somepeople. It’s all a game of percep-tion.”

Even though the actress hasbeen trolled by multipleaccounts, she continues to bevery active on social mediawhen it comes to raising con-cerns over crimes againstwomen. She says that she does-n’t believe in making socialmedia as a courtroom of justicejust like it increasingly is becom-ing one.

“Social media has become acourt in itself and I am verymuch against this idea. Youcan’t replace the judiciary withmob lynchings, virtual trails orany kind of revolution onTwitter. It’s for connecting andsocialising and spreading views,not for making a jury out of it,”says she.

Recalling the Mumbaiattacks of 26/11, she says thatwhen Kasab had been caught,“there was an anger and joshamong people to kill him byhanging him on the streets.Such a dangerous thing to doand ask for! There was mob vio-lence all around. Indeed he wasterrorist and had to be punished.But not in this way.”

She goes on to add, “Wehave to be very careful when wetalk about justice. We can’t turninto inhuman carnivores ordevils in order to get justice.Hence, there’s a court and aroom of people who have readabout the Constitution and lawto give justice to us. They knowthe way and are much qualified,trained and smarter than uscommon people to take law intheir hands. Let it happen therational way.”

Swara, who was trolledincessantly for her masturbationscene in her film Veere DiWedding, says that she doesn’tregret doing or saying anythingthat she does, especially onsocial media. “I don’t ever regretit. I don’t feel the need to. When

you are under the public eye,you have to have a thick skinand be firm on whatever yousay. People will always dig some-thing out of it. This doesn’tmean you stay quiet against thewrong.”

Talking about challengingpatriarchy at home, she says thatit will be done only when westart speaking up. It is some-thing that equally affects theboys as it does to the girls. “Thefirst step to challenging it is tosay something against it andstop it. If someday a girl is tiredor has an injury and she has toserve tea to her father, why doesnot the son do it in that case?Why only the daughter? If thechild comes back at 3 ‘o’ clockin the night, the mother willwake up to ask about servingfood for him/her. Why?”

Hence, it “begins” with suchbasic habits, she says, addingthat “fighting for it is a later sce-nario, the first thing is to learnhow to recognise it.”

Talking about her previousopening on sexual harassment atthe workplace, she says thatwomen don’t know what is hap-pening to them. “When I sharedabout the incident, I realisedthat just because the harassernever touched me, it doesn’tmean that it wasn’t harassment.I managed to save myself. Irealised at that time it didn’t feellike harassment to me becauseof a lack of awareness. To recog-nise, we need to break thesilence and start conversations.”

She says that women havebeen raising their voices sincetime immemorial but it’s onlynow that our ears have risen tohear them out. “The Vishakhacase is an example and it was inthe late 1990s. We are fightingfor the same thing even today —sexual harassment at workplace.It’s been three decades since,”says Swara.

Talking about the #MeToomovement, she says that we arelooking at the movement in justone way — how many womenhave come and spoken againsttheir harassers.

But she feels we shouldn’tjudge the campaign only on thatbasis. “We should look at it as acathartic movement which isbreaking a silence and teachingto recognise the wrong. It is alsoabout accepting and recognisingthat this happened to me yearsago and today I have the courageto speak up against it. Peoplethrough this, could realise thata certain person wasn’t just astupid or insane man, rather hewas a predator,” she says.

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From kundali to tarot card reading,people across the globe have beencurious about predicting their future.

Everyone has been trying to alter their des-tiny with gemstones to warding off evil andwanting to know what future has in storefor them. But do these fortune-tellers evenexist? They sure do, in tales.

Actress Sana Sayyad plays the charac-ter of Drishti in StarPlus’ new offering —Divya Drishti, a narrative of twin sisterswho are blessed with powers, they havebeen separated by fate but hope of reunit-ing with each other keeps them going.Sana’s character, who is born with a super-power, can see the impending forthcom-ing and Divya, on the other hand, canchange them.

Sana explains that in the show, asDrishti and Divya try to reunite with eachother on every full moon’s night, a threatlooms over them. The wicked witch orpishachini, who is equipped with a power-ful dagger and has a hollow eye, hauntsDrishti by malevolent visions of her. Thereare certain events including the witch’s reg-ular appearances that make her wonderwhether her gifted superpowers are reallya boon or a mere jinx?

Sana says, “The show has been con-ceived keeping in mind the new wave ofconcepts that comes with a little elementof thrill and keeps viewers on the edge ofthe seats.”

She feels that these days, such kind offictional shows are “quite in trend.” Eventhough people don’t believe in it, they enjoywatching it. She says, “Every genre has acertain kind of audience.”

She hasn’t done anything of this kindbefore and this is the reason why Sana isexcited to play such a character. “InitiallyI had no idea how to react on the script. I

had to do a lot of home work like watch-ing a few series and films. I am still tryingto adapt to a lot of things. The whole ideaof working hard, showcasing somethingnew and the challenges that I had to ful-fill just got me on it,” says Sana.

The actress shares that the show has gotmany layers to it. Having superpowers isthe “USP” but apart from that there areother relevant things as well. “You’ll see thebonding between two sisters, a lot of thrill,suspense, twist and turns, moral values,romance and friendship.”

Sana explains that the show’s storytelling value is good versus evil. She says,“Conflict of good and evil is a concept thathas survived for over ages and has longbeen ingrained into literature. The fight isconsidered to be universal. It is usually seenthat the good must defeat the evil, and thisis also that journey in its simplest form. It’salways important to showcase the achayiki burayi pe jeet type of content.”

Today, we cannot imagine ourlives without the internet. It’s notan era of gaining knowledge

through spending hours in librariesand with books. It’s a Google Searchera. However, not many are aware ofthe impact it has on people and aboutcreating a safer and better internet.

On the Safer Internet Day, anonline marketplace company releaseda survey about 2019 internet behaviourand impact. The survey with 26,000+netizens revealed internet behaviourand attitude towards safety — bothonline and in general — with an aimto drive awareness and call for actionto all users and play an active roletowards creating a better and saferinternet for all, especially the youngerlot. The survey covers respondentsbetween 18 to 55 years of age fromDelhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore,Ahmedabad, Chennai and Hyderabad.

As per the survey, a majority ofnetizens neglected cybersecurity prac-tices in their personal lives. Around 57per cent respondentsshowed negligencetowards their safety —both online and offline.Around 56 per cent ofnetizens freely sharedtheir personal detailslike mobile number ontheir professional or offi-cial social mediaaccounts. Over 14,543users made theircontact numbersvisible online onaccounts l ikeL i n k e d I n ,whereas only11,648 users did-n’t share it.

There were some personalrevelations too. While 6,355 netizenssaid that they regularly monitor theirchildren and what they do online,

9,600 of them never did it, whereas,around 10, 236 netizens said thatthey don’t have children. The totalgraph showed that 60 per cent of theparents in the surveyed group didn’tmonitor the content their kids con-sume online.

Moving on to personal awareness,around 67 per cent said they skippedreading the ‘terms & conditions’ or anyother safety/legal guidelines whilesigning up to a website or using a prod-uct. There only 8,689 users who readthe terms and conditions against17,502 users who didn’t.

The survey also revealed some reg-ular habits like changing of pass-

words. While 54 per cent of the peo-ple said they had not changed the pass-words to their social media accountsin the last six months to a year, 31 percent admitted they cannot even recallhow long had it been since they lastchanged their passwords.

A similar neglect towards safetymeasures was also observed withpolice verification of household staff.Around 75 per cent confirmed thatthey had not conducted a police ver-ification or did not know if one had tobe done. About only 25 per cent con-firmed having observed this processfor household staff. Respondents fromDelhi were the highest among thosewho said they observe this process forhousehold staff, followed by thosefrom Mumbai.

However, contradictory to theoverall neglect, there also existed ahigh degree of awareness with finan-

cial safety. Around 68 percent said that they had

never shared their OTP orpassword for their bankaccount, social media

accounts, laptop orphone with any-one.

L a v a n y aChandan, gener-al counsel of thesaid company,said, “The inter-

net dominates ourlives like nothing

else. It is in our inter-est, therefore, to useit in a manner thatcontinues toimprove the qualityof our lives whilestaying safe by

implementing thesame level of cautionwe exercise in the realworld.”

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Valley Power Projects PrivateLimited (CVPPPL) and is ajoint venture between theNHPC Limited, Jammu andKashmir State PowerDevelopment CorporationLimited (JKSPDC), and PTCIndia Limited.

Satya Pal Malik, Governorof Jammu and Kashmir, DrJitendra Singh, Union Ministerof State for Development ofNorth Eastern Region, DrNirmal Singh, Speaker, Jammuand Kashmir LegislativeAssembly, Jugal KishoreSharma, Member ofParliament, Lok Sabha andShamsher Singh, Member ofParliament, Rajya Sabha alsograced the occasion.

During the address Modisaid that the hydro electric pro-ject shall not only meet theincreasing energy requirementof the state but also providedirect and indirect employ-ment opportunities to thou-sands of persons during theconstruction phase and there-after during the operationphase.

Kiru HEP, to be construct-ed on River Chenab in theDistrict Kishtwar, in Jammuand Kashmir, is one of thebiggest hydroelectric projectsunder implementation in thestate. The project is scheduledto be completed in 54 monthsat an estimated cost of Rs. 4708

crore. The annual generationfrom the project shall be 2272MU. The project envisagesconstruction of 135 m highconcrete gravity dam and anunderground power housewith four units of 156 MWeach (624 MW).

The Government ofJammu and Kashmir hasaccorded a waiver of free powerat decremental rate for thefirst five years and the waterusage charges for the first tenyears after the commissioningof the project besides theexemption of levy of tolls on allimports. It has also given a con-sent for wavier of nine per cent

state GST for the project onorder to keep the project costand its tariff at the minimum.The government will get 12 percent free power from the sixthyear of the commissioning andthe water usage charges after 10years.

The welfare of the peopleaffected from the hydroelectricproject shall be taken care ofthrough the proper implemen-tation of a comprehensive reha-bilitation and resettlementplan. The cost of the land forhouse and house constructionassistance, scholarship to chil-dren of the project affectedfamilies, training program for

skill development and so onhas been included in the plan.Also, a provision of Rs 29crore has been earmarked inthe plan for infrastructuraldevelopment in the projectaffected areas to improve thesocio economic condition ofthe people.

An additional one per centfree power towards Local AreaDevelopment Fund (LADF)shall be provided by the CVPP-PL with a matching contribu-tion by the Jammu andKashmir Government after thecommissioning of the projectas per the Hydro Power Policyof the Government of India

and an annual revenue ofapproximately Rs. 25 croreshall be available for the infra-structural development andwelfare schemes for the ProjectAffected People on a continu-ous basis over the life of theproject.

Extensive corporate socialresponsibility (CSR) activitieshave also been taken up in theregion for the development oflocal area. The construction ofthe project will also lead to aconsiderable improvement ofthe roads and bridges as well asthe communication systemsand electric supply system inthe region, thereby developingthe area socio-economically.

The state of Jammu andKashmir is bestowed with hugehydro potential and in theKishtwar region there are manyprojects in the pipeline forconstruction. This potentialhas to be harnessed so that thestate can become the powerhouse of the country which willbring about an overall develop-ment of the region as well.

In a similar instance, theFFoundation Stone of the 1000MW Pakal Dul HE Project ofCVPPPL was also laid by thePrime Minister Narendra Modiin May 2018 and the construc-tion of the project is inprogress. The third project ofthe company- 540 MW KwarHE Project, is also ready tobegin construction after gettingan investment approval of theproject.

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The Vezley Foods is showcas-ing its range of soya-based

products for the vegetarianfood lovers at the ongoing 33rdInternational Crafts Mela atSurajkund in Faridabad. Thevisitors to the fair can enjoy fin-ger-licking snacks like nugget's,shawarma, chop sticks andsoya chhika.

The company’s managingdirector, Amit Bajaj said,“Unfortunately soya has beenignored in the food market fora long time. We have intro-duced this magic bean with anew thought which tastes goodtoo. Today we face many healthrelated problems like bloodpressure, obesity, diabetes andso on and one of the biggest rea-sons behind this is an unbal-anced and an unhealthy diet.Our products are an alternateto junk food since they arehealthy. We believe in healthy

and delicious food for all andno compromise is made withthe quality, hygienic and thenutrition value of the products.”

Commenting on the healthbenefits of the key ingredient—soya, Bajaj said that soya is oneof the best sources of protein.Soya has a substance namedLecithin, which is very good forthe skin and is also beneficialfor a healthy heart. “Soya con-

tains all essential amino acidproteins which are required forthe body. Besides, soya is richin vitamin, carbohydrate, fibre,iron and calcium and can pro-vide all necessary nutrition tothe body in case one does notconsume meat, fish or eggs.One can consume good, unsat-urated fat from soya whichcontrols cholesterol,” addedBajaj.

The 20th edition of the largest theatre festi-val of Asia-Bharat Rang Mahotsav (BRM),

is being hosted in Delhi which has broughttogether over 100 national and internationaltheatre acts in a 21-day long spectacle.Organised by the National School of Drama,the 20th BRM has put forth some very innov-ative ambiance performances and street playssince its beginning.

Some interesting plays included ‘BesureGramophone Wala Mechanic’, a play by IndiraGandhi Delhi Technical University for Women(IGDTUW). The play revolved around an oldmechanic who owns a repairing shop and isgiven a 72-year-old gramophone to repair. Whatif the instrument goes beyond repair? Anotherplay, ‘Kahkasha’ by the Jesus and Mary College,revolved around hyper masculinity. It exploredthe themes of childhood learning at hom, howmasculinity and femininity are complete oppo-sites with no flexibility. The play talked aboutissues of body image and how it’s not just awoman’s problem. Special emphasis was placedon eating disorders and muscle dysmorphia andnormalising the fact that men have them too.The play also addressed the correlation betweenthe problematic representation of male char-acters in pop culture and how it propagatesideas of hyper masculinity.

Some notable plays that have been per-formed in this year’s festival were ‘AbhimanyaSundari Thirukalyanam’, a Tamil play drama-tised from the Mahabharata’s story ofAbhimanya Sundari Thirukalyanam; ‘Titas

Ekti Nodir Naam’, a Bengali play which talkedabout the fishermen societies residing on thebanks of Titas in Bangladesh; ‘King Oedipus’,a Bengali play which followed the abode ofCadmus, who was burnt to ashes because of thewrath of the Gods; ‘Ananyaa’, a Marathi playwhich is a story of an ordinary girl, Ananya,who possessed the potential to do somethingextraordinary and ‘Shifa…The Healing’, aHindi play which was based on the HIV+ peo-ple talking about the positivity of life and aboutsearching within oneself, to find a new way oflife.

Ambiance performances are a daily featureof the BRM which showcase a colourful land-scape of the culture. These performancesshow the lesser known local, traditional, andfolk forms from the states to the heart of thenational capital. They are being performed atintervals within the NSD premises at the audi-toriums before the plays. Some notable perfor-mances include Laihroba, Bamboo Dance andGidda.

The Prime MinisterNarendra Modi dedicated

the 220 kV Srinagar-Drass-K a r g i l - K h a l t s i - L e hTransmission System, in astep towards powering Ladakhand connecting the country’snorthern most part to theNational Grid. He comment-ed, “I got the opportunity oflaying the foundation stone ofthis project and today, again,I have got the opportunity todedicate this project. Withthis over �2,000 crore project,the problem of electricity inLeh-Ladakh is going to beminimised.”

The PM had laid the foun-dation stone for this project onAugust 12, 2014 and within 4.5years, the project has been suc-cessfully completed.

Built at a height of around3000-4000 meters, thisapproximately 335 km longtransmission line has beenconstructed by the Power GridCorporation of India Limited(POWERGRID), a Navratnacompany of the Governmentof India, under the Ministry ofPower. Under this project, thefour new state-of-the-art220/66 kV Gas Insulated Sub-stations built at Drass, Kargil,Khaltsi and Leh, will help toensure 24x7 quality power inall weather conditions.

This project will not onlyhelp evacuate surplus power ofthe Kargil and Leh Hydel sta-tions of NHPC in summers,but will also supply power tothe region in winters whentemperatures dip and thehydro electricity generation

does not match up. The pro-ject will meet the powerdemand of Ladakh region ateconomical rates.

This transmission projectof approximately �2,266 crorewill result in minimising themassive use of diesel generat-ing sets during winters, andthus will not only help inprotecting the environment,but will also save on theimport expenditure in for-eign currency, which is beingincurred on crude oil, there-by benefiting the state exche-quer. It will also give a boostto the tourism sector, especial-ly the hospitality industry inLadakh, as quality electricity atreasonable rates will be acces-sible due to non-reliance ondiesel.

This task executed byPOWERGRID in unforeseenweather conditions was madepossible by immaculate projectmonitoring skills, high teamspirit and strategic planningand with the use of moderntechnologies. The line remainssnow covered for nearly six

months with the minimumtemperature going down to aslow as -40 degree Celsius atDrass. Therefore, speciallydesigned tower foundationswere constructed with theassistance from the Snow andAvalanche StudyEstablishment (SASE) to spothe tower foundations, as thework force braved the chal-lenge of working at lesser oxy-gen levels.

The event, where the PMmade the announcement, dur-ing his recent visit to Jammuand Kashmir, was attended bySatya Pal Malik, the Governorof Jammu and Kashmir, DrJitendra Singh, Union Ministerof State for Development ofNorth Eastern Region alongwith Haji Anayat Ali,Chairman, Legislative Council,Jammu and Kashmir, JamyangTsering Namgial,Chairman/Chief ExecutiveCouncillor, LAHDC, FerozAhmed, Chairman, LAHDC,Kargil, and Chering Dorjay,Member of LegislativeCouncil, Leh.

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England Lions will be one ofthe innumerable stops that

out-of-form opener KL Rahulwill encounter in his road toredemption as he gears up toplay for India A in the first unof-ficial Test.

The match will also featuretwo of India's quickest bowlersin young Avesh Khan and thenot so young Varun Aaron,who will be keenly watched bythe national selection commit-tee.

Virat Kohli wants threemore fast bowlers which willbroaden the base of the currentpool of speed merchants andthat's the specific reason whyinjury prone not known for hisconsistency has been recalled.

It's all about sheer speed andsame for Avesh, who has reallyintimidated the domestic bats-men during the season.

Rahul hasn't exactly set thestage on fire during the limitedovers games having come backfrom an interim suspension forhis sexist comments on a televi-sion chat show.

India chief coach RaviShastri has recently made it clearthat he would like Rahul to playa lot of A games in order toregain form.

The India 'A' team led byAnkit Bawne, comprisingdomestic performers, will befavourites against the Lions,who have not had the best oftime on the tour so far.

Kerala all-rounder JalajSaxena finds a place after astrong Ranji Trophy season ashas Siddhesh Lad along withspinners Shahbaz Nadeem andMayank Markande.

The visiting Englishmen,on the other hand, have had atough time, being hammered inthe five-match ODI series, los-ing 1-4 and will look forredemption.

Captain Sam Billings hasbeen in good form and will lookto carry it into the longer formattoo. The young team includesplayers with Test experience,including Ben Duckett and OlliePope.

Lanky paceman JamieOverton has impressed withhis performances and will beassisted by Tom Bailey. Thespinners-Danny Briggs andAmar Vardi will have a big roleto play on a track expected to bebowler-friendly on the evidenceof the recent Ranji matches.

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Saurashtra stared down the barrelafter Cheteshwar Pujara's secondsuccessive failure that put defending

champions Vidarbha on the brink of anencore after a stirring fourth day of theRanji Trophy final on Wednesday.

Left-arm spinner Aditya Sarwate onceagain turned out to be star batsman'snemesis as he was trapped leg before fornought with Saurashtra tottering at 58 for5 in their pursuit of 206.

Sarwate (3/13 in 10 overs) bamboo-zled the Saurashtra batsmen after beinghanded the new ball on a track that offeredturn and variable bounce.

Saurashtra were best chasers duringthe knockout stage but their reliable bats-men came a cropper in the most-impor-tant clash.

Going into the final day, Saurashtrawho have ended runners-up twice in thepast, need to score 148 more runs on atricky track with Vishvaraj Jadeja (23) andKamlesh Makvana (2) set to resume thechase.

It will be more about the battle ofnerves, considering that lower-order bats-men from both the sides have shown thatscoring runs is not impossible, if the appli-cation is correct.

Earlier, left-arm spinnerDharmendrasinh Jadeja (6/96) had cleanedup the Vidarbha top-order early in the dayto hand Saurashtra an advantage but totheir credit, the hosts did extremely wellto reach 200 after being reduced to 147 foreight.

Mohit Kale contributed 38 off 94 ballsand Sarwate, batting at number eight, pro-duced a combative 49 after hosts resumedthe day at 55 for two.

Sarwate faced 133 balls in hisfighting knock and hit five bound-aries, negating the good workdone by Saurashtra bowlers.

Sarwate, who was thelast man out in Vidarbhainnings, then returned torattle the Saurashtra top-order with his left-armspin. In a mesmerising spell,Sarwate dismissed first inningscenturion Snell Patel (12), HarvikDesai (8) and Pujara (0) in his firstfive overs, and conceded just 13runs in his 10 that he bowled onthe day.

India pacer Umesh Yadav,who was expensive in his first twoovers, returned for a second spellto sent back young Arpit Vasavada(5), who fished one outside off tobe caught behind.

Sheldon Jackson (7) was guiltyof playing a reckless shot as hestepped out to hammer Akshay

Wakhare, completely missed theball and was bowled.

At the start of the day,Jadeja came out with aclear plan of bowlingwicket-to-wicket on theslow VCA stadiumtrack to register the

most significant figuresof his first class career,

helping Suarashtra bundle outthe hosts for an even 200.

Jadeja scalped four batsmen,including key man Wasim Jaffer(11) and Ganesh Satish (35), in thefirst session.

This was after Suarshtra beganwith a two-pronged pace attackwith captain Jaydev Unadkat andChetan Sakariya attacking in tan-dem. But it was Jadeja, who pro-duced a sensational spell in whichhe dismissed both the overnightbatsmen.

First it was Jaffer, who strug-

gled when a delivery kept low. Theresultant faint edge was pouched bysubstitute wicket-keeper Avi Barot.

Barot has been doing the dutybehind the stumps since Vidarbhainnings in place of Snell Patel, whowas hit on helmet by Umesh.

Jadeja then trapped Satishwith a full-length ball. The TVreplays showed an inside edgecarried to the silly-point fielder.Later the officials changed thedecision as he was declared caughtby Vishvaraj.

Vidarbha failed to recoverfrom the twin blows even asSaurashtra skipper Unadkatuprooted stumps of AkshayWadkar, who went without both-ering the scorers.

In first 11 overs of the morn-ing, Vidarbha had lost three wick-ets and added just 18 runs.

Unadkat after bowling eighttesting overs, took himself off theattack but continued with a pacerfrom one end, handing the ball toleft-arm seamer Chetan Sakariya.

Soon off-spinner KamleshMakwana was introduced into theattack, replacing Sakariya and hedelivered in his third over of thespell, sending back dangerousAkshay Karnewar (18).

It was a flighted ball outside off,Karnewar went for an expansivedrive and ended up edging to firstslip where Desai took a comfort-able catch.

The hosts lost remaining fourwickets in the post-lunch sessionwith Jadeja taking two more tocomplete his six-wicket haul.

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The fairy tale run of RealKashmir Football Club in

the I-League continued as theclub from the Valley defeatedGokulam Kerala FC by a soli-tary goal to go to the top ofpoints table on Wednesday.

The match between the'Snow Leopards' and Gokulamwas played at the TRC Groundin chilling weather conditionsamid a mix of rain and snow-fall with none of the teamswilling to yield the ground.

Ivorian strikerGnohere Krizo scoredthe all-important goalin the 51st minute tohand Real Kashmirfull three points from thematch.

The win propelled theJammu and Kashmir side tothe top of the table with 32points, dislodging ChennaiCity FC (30 points) which,however, have two games inhand over Real Kashmir.

Chennai City will take onIndian Arrows on Friday whileReal Kashmir will meet EastBengal at home on Sunday.Each team will play 20 match-es in the league.

It started snowing beforethe match and heavy rainslashed the ground later on. Thetwo sides played a goal-lessfirst half as controlling the ballbecame difficult for the play-ers of both the teams due towaterlogging in many patches

of the SyntheticAstro Turf pitch.

Real Kashmirshould have taken

the lead in the first half butKrizo missed several easychances to put his side ahead.

Mason Robertson, son ofhead coach David, who wasplaying behind Krizo in a 4-4-1-1 formation, also missed acouple of chances to score.

However, it was Krizo whobroke the deadlock after thebreak, pouncing on a reboundin front of the Gokulam goalin the 51st minute.

Local boy Farhan Ganiaesaw his fierce shot from thetop of the box stopped byGokulam custodian ArnabDas but Krizo was well placedto tap in the rebound.

After taking the lead, RealKashmir players relaxed a bit,allowing a window of oppor-tunity for the team from

Kerala to push for an equalis-er.

While Kerala strikerMarcus Joseph was waywardin most of his attempts at thegoal, Real Kashmir goalkeep-er Bilal Khan was in top formto deny the visiting team.

Real Kashmir had thechance to double their lead inthe 80th minute butAbednego Tetteh, who cameon for Krizo in the 73rdminute, shot wide of Das'right post from 15 yards.

This was the ninth cleansheet for the Real Kashmir,which has the meanestdefence in the I-League thisyear, having conceded onlyeight goals in 16 games so far.

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German Cup on Tuesday, losing apenalty shoot-out at home to WerderBremen following a 3-3 draw afterextra time.

Goalkeeper Jiri Pavlenka wasBremen's hero in the shoot-out as hesaved Dortmund's opening attemptsfrom Paco Alcacer and MaximilianPhilipp as Bremen won the last-16 tie4-2 on penalties.

It finished 1-1 over 90 minutesafter Dortmund captain Marco Reusrifled home a direct free-kick to can-cel out an early goal by Bremen's MilotRashica.

The game exploded into life withfour goals in extra time as Brementwice equalised, through substitutes

Claudio Pizarro and Martin Harnik,to force penalties after Chelsea-boundChristian Pulisic and Achraf Hakimihad scored for Dortmund.

"It's a bitter defeat," admittedDortmund striker Mario Goetze.

"We shouldn't have concededtwo equalisers in extra time and thento lose on penalties is really tough."

Peru veteran Pizarro, who turns41 in October, was delighted with his56th German Cup goal.

It meant third-choice keeper EricOelschlaegel made his Dortmunddebut against Bremen, the club he leftlast June after six years.

Earlier on Tuesday BayerLeverkusen, who pulled off a shock 3-1 win over Bayern last Saturday, wasanother big name casualty as theyslumped to a 2-1 defeat at second-divi-sion Heidenheim.

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I-League leaders Chennai City FC on Wednesday signed a dealwith Swiss champions FC Basel, which has nurtured current

Liverpool star Mohamed Salah, to sell 26 per cent of its share,becoming the first Indian side to do so with a foreign club.

Established in 1893, FC Basel has been Swiss national cham-pions 20 times and has qualified for the group stages of the UEFAChampions League more times than any other club of Switzerland.They made it to the Round of 16 in 2017-18 of the top-flightEuropean club competition.

Both Chennai FC co-owner Rohit Ramesh and FC BaselPresident Bernhard Burgener refused to divulge the financialaspect of the deal but said the partnership will focus on co-oper-ation for setting up of, among other things, a residential YouthAcademy in Coimbatore and rolling out of football schools acrossTamil Nadu in Phase-1.

Rohit said that despite the sale of 26 per cent stake to FC Basel,his club has not given anything to the Swiss club in terms of deci-sion making.

Burgener said his immediate focus would be on making thealready established academy (at Coimbatore) a word class facil-ity with expertise from FC Basel and also produce good coach-es through the introduction of a top-class coach education sys-tem.

Asked why he chose an Indian club instead of one in China,he said, "In China, most of the academies have government con-trol. It is not so in India."

As part of the plan for the Coimbatore academy, it was revealedthat it would provide free education and boarding facilities fortalented players from the age group of 10-18 so that they couldstudy, play and focus on a career in football.

All India Football Federation General Secretary Kushal Dassaid:"This (26 per cent share) deal with a legacy club ofSwitzerland to provide capital and technical know-how is to mindthe first ever in Indian football. I will all the success to both theclubs."

Das said a new coach of the Indian senior football team tosucceed Stephen Constantine is not expected before April-May.

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serve will be the key on indoorcourts when Ankita Raina andKarman Kaur Thandi fight itout with higher-ranked playersin the Fed Cup.

India will begin their cam-paign at the Asia/OceaniaGroup I against Thailand onThursday before clashing withformidable hosts Kazakhstanon Friday.

Getting past Thailand isnot expected to be too hard forIndia with Ankita and fast-improving Karman in goodform.

Thailand's best-ranked sin-gles player is PeangtarnPlipuech, who is placed at 297while Punnin Kovapitukted isway lower at number 657.

"To be very honest, the girlsare improving every year.Karman is stronger and fitterwhile Ankita is also strong andhas more experience. Theyneed to put it together,"Bhambri said.

The matches will be playedindoors due to the sub-zerotemperature in the city.

"It is important to servewell (indoor) and reach out tothe ball faster. If you start apoint well, the chances of end-ing it well also get better,"Bhambri said.

Kazakhstan's world num-ber 43 Yulia Putintseva andZarina Diyas, ranked 96, wouldbe the tough obstacles forIndia, if they are to top Pool A.

The winners of Pool Aand B, which has four teams,will clash to determine whichnation qualifies for the WorldGroup II.

"It's always tough to playtop-100 players. Ankita hadplayed the match of her lifeagainst Yulia last year. Thatexperience should help her,"opined Bhambri.

Pool B features China, whohas world number 40 ShuaiZhang and world number 42Saisai Zheng, along with Korea,Indonesia, and Pacific Oceania.

In all likelihood, Chinawill top Pool B and it will bebetween India and Kazakhstanin Pool A.

"The plan and determina-tion is the same. I have alwaysplayed my best tennis whenplaying for the country andhope to do the same," said 25-year-old Raina, who is at acareer-best rank of 165.

"I am not looking at therankings and focusing onmyself and the game I want toexecute. Also, I am analysingthe opponents' game," sheadded.

Talking about conditionsand courts, Raina said, "I amable to adapt much better sinceI have been here three timesbefore."

Bhambri said raising thegame at the right time would beimportant.

"We had good practice, wehit for 3-4 days and in Fed Cupanything can happen. You canbe favourites or underdogswhen you step out, you alsostep up," Bhambri said.

Karman, 20, said she isfeeling confident about hergame.

"Going into the Fed Cupthis year, definitely I haveimproved. I have beaten manygirls in top-200 and with top-100 players. I have learnt a lotand hope to get some wins forIndia," she said.

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NorthEast United FC willlook to avoid any hiccups

and strengthen their positionin the top four when they hostan unpredictable DelhiDynamos FC in a Hero IndianSuper League fixture onThursday.

The Highlanders current-ly occupy the last play-offspot, having tallied 23 pointsfrom 14 games.

With just four moregames left to be played andJamshedpur FC and ATKbreathing down their neck,NorthEast United needs tomake the most of their homegames.

Eelco Schattorie's side haswon just two of the sevenmatches they have played athome. Dropping points atthis juncture could potential-ly endanger their bid to reachthe ISL play-offs for the firsttime.

"It is difficult for them(Delhi) to qualify. They canplay without any pressure. Itis always a completely differ-ent mindset if you have todeliver something.

"We are in a positionwhere we need to win andthey are in a position wherethey will try to get a result. Ifyou can score quickly againstsuch a team, you can breakthem down because of lessmotivation," Schattorie said.

Schattorie will be aware

that Delhi held FC Goa to agoalless draw in their lastclash and will be out to playspoilsport, again.

The Dutchman will alsobe concerned with his ownteam's results, picking up onlyone win in their last fivematches.

Delhi Dynamos, on theother hand, finally seem tohave some wind in their sails.They have picked up sevenpoints from a possible nine intheir last three matches.

However, a disastrous ini-tial half of the season has allbut put paid to their play-offhopes. The Dynamos, howev-er, will be confident of show-ing everyone that they cangive any team a run for theirreputation.

"If we win our remainingmatches, the team will bemore motivated. We knowmaybe we won't qualify forthe play-offs but if we win thenext games, we will get con-fidence.

"In our home match, welost to NorthEast United 2-0.Now if we win tomorrow inthe away game the team willget great confidence," saidassistant manager MridulBanerjee.

Delhi do have a couple offitness concerns though.Midfielder Bikramjit Singh isinjured while Adria Carmonais not expected to feature inthe starting XI despite travel-ling with the squad.

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Abelow-par Indiaslumped to its worst everdefeat in T20

Internationals as New Zealandoutclassed the visitors in all

departments to win the firstmatch of the series by a com-prehensive 80-run margin atWestpac Stadium onWednesday.

Batting first, unheraldedkeeper-batsman Tim Seifert

took the Indian bowling apartblasting 84 off 43 balls as NewZealand posted a commanding219 for six.

With the crack openingpair of skipper Rohit Sharma(1) and Shikhar Dhawan (29)departing within the Powerplayovers, the chase became a dif-ficult one and India was all outfor 139 in 19.2 overs.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni(39 off 31 balls) did play his partbut it was always an impossiblechase with wickets falling at reg-ular intervals at the other end.India had never lost a T20International by 50 or moreruns prior to this match. India'sprevious worst was a 49-runloss to Australia back in 2010.

New Zealand bowlers keptthe pressure on Indian batsmen,especially the two spinners --left-arm orthodox MitchellSantner (2/24 in 4 overs) andleg-spinner Ish Sodhi (2/26 in3 overs).

Senior pacer Tim Southee(3/17 in 4 overs) had the bestfigures among the bowlers andthe best delivery of the matchwas bowled by LockieFerguson, who yorked Dhawan.

They kept the batsmenunder tight check and for somelike World Cup aspirantRishabh Pant (4, 10 balls), it wasa frustrating little stay in the

middle and he simply couldn'tget going.

On a pitch where Indianspinners Yuzvendra Chahal(1/35 in 4 overs) and Krunal(1/37 in 4 overs) went for plen-ty, the Black Caps slow bowlersliterally tightened the noose onthe visitors.

While Pant didn't do hischances any good, VijayShankar (27 off 17 balls)impressed during his littlecameo but would need to domore in order to book a placein that World Cup boundsquad.

The Pandya bothers —Krunal and Hardik — endureda contrasting day.

While Krunal (he alsoscored 20 off 18 balls) had anokay outing, Hardik wouldquickly like to forget the night-mare (2/51 in 4 overs and 4runs) before India play the sec-ond match of the series inAuckland on Friday.

Earlier, Seifert, whose pre-vious best score in T20Internationals happens to be14, was promoted to openalongside Colin Munro (34 off20 balls) and they added 86runs in only 8.2 overs in awhirlwind start.

Seifert's knock had sevenfours and half a dozen sixes,setting the tone for a big total.

Seifert showed the intentstraightaway as he gaveBhuvneshwar Kumar thecharge, picking the knuckle ballearly, dispatching it over mid-wicket for a six. The next shotwas a four as he stood andhammered past the bowler.

With Munro hittingKhaleel Ahmed (1/48 in 4overs) for two successive sixes,New Zealand was off to a blaz-ing start scoring 44 off the firstfour overs.

Seifert was lucky to survivewhen Dhoni dropped a sharpchance after the batsman hadedged one off Krunal.

But he promptly put thenext delivery into the stands,moving across towards off andsweeping it over backwardsquare leg.

There wasn't any sign ofovert footwork but he shuffledenough inside the crease tomake room for the big shotsand in the process disturbedthe line and length of thebowlers.

The elder Pandya finallygot a breakthrough whenMunro was caught in the deepoff Vijay Shankar.

But Seifert never let themomentum drop and hit twomore sixes off Krunal, who justkept on pushing the ballthrough a flatter trajectory.

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Smriti Mandhana remainedan unstoppable juggernaut

with a record-smashing halfcentury but the Indianwomen's cricket team failed tomake it count, going down by23 runs in the opening T20International against NewZealand on Wednesday.

Mandhana held the recordfor the fastest fifty by anIndian before the match andshe bettered it by a ball duringher 58-run knock at theWestPac Stadium. The 22-year-old faced 34 balls in allbut reached the 50-mark off 24deliveries.

However, New Zealandpacer Lea Tahuhu played adecisive role with three scalpsoff her four overs to derailIndia's pursuit of a 160-runtarget which was goingsmoothly ti l l the timeMandhana was at the crease.India eventually folded for136 in 19.1 overs.

Leg-spinner Amelia Kerr(2/28) clinched the crucialwickets of Mandhana andIndian captain HarmanpreetKaur to wreck the visitors'

chances. Off-spinner LeighKasperek also picked up acouple of wickets.

Mandhana and JemiamahRodrigues (39 off 33 balls)combined for a 102-run sec-ond-wicket stand that shouldhave been a solid foundationfor the rest of the line-up.

But India collapsed in theface of an inspired perfor-mance by Lahuhu.

From 101/1, the visitingteam was down to 117/6 in amatter of five overs that turnedthe match on its head.

Harmanpreet (17 off 15balls) played out a smallcameo, including a massive sixoff Kerr, but couldn't steer theteam home, failing to find anysupport at the other end.

Mandhana was her usualaggressive self and playedanother strokeful knock, stud-ded with seven hits to thefence and three sixes.

Earlier, openingbatswoman Sophie Devinesmashed a 48-ball 62 in anenterprising innings to takeNew Zealand women to achallenging 159 for 4 from 20overs after being put into bat.

Devine's aggressive

innings was laced with sixboundaries and two sixes. Sheand captain Amy Satterthwaite(33) shared a 69-run stand forthe third wicket to steer NewZealand out of trouble after astuttering start.

Spinners Radha Yadav andPoonam Yadav dimissed SuzieBates (7) and Caitlin Gurrey(15) cheaply to reduce thehome side to 47 for 2 at theend of the seventh over. Butthe Indians failed to make fur-ther dents with Devine andSatterthwaite denying themany success for 8.3 overs.

Devine and Satterthwaitefell in the space of six deliver-ies off the bowling ofArundhati Reddy and DeeptiSharma in the 16th and 17thovers respectively but NewZealand still made a late flour-ish by scoring 38 runs from thefinal 3.3 overs.

Wicketkeeper KateyMartin remained not out on27 from 14 balls as the hometeam scored 16 runs from thefinal over.

Martin hit a six off the sec-ond ball of the final over aswell as from the last deliveryof the innings.

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India skipper Rohit Sharma on Wednesday said thata line-up with eight specialist batsmen should have

chased down the 220-run target set by New Zealand,however steep it might have looked for a T20 match.

India folded for 139 in 19.2 overs collapsing to theirworst-ever defeat by 80 runs in the first T20 game.

"It was a tough game. We were outplayed in all threedepartments. We didn't start well and we knew that 200was not going to be an easy chase," he said after the game.

"We have chased such (big) targets in the past andthat is why we played with eight batsmen. But we did-n't have (even) small partnerships and that made ittougher. New Zealand though played well, they had part-nerships. We need to go to Auckland, have a look at theconditions and take it from there," he added.

Outplayed 1-4 by India in the ODI series, Black Capsskipper Kane Williamson was happy to finally see histeam produce a "complete performance" in the first T20I.

"Fantastic performance all around, everyone rose andit was one of those complete performances that yousearch for. The top-order was superb and we built part-nerships that helped us," Williamson said.

"But it has finished now, we move on in a day's timeand we have another game. Hope we can keep themomentum through the series having set the tone."

Opening duo of Tim Seifert (84) and Colin Munro(34) lay the foundation for New Zealand's total beforethe bowlers returned to complete the job.

"Seifert and Munro were outstanding. It really wasa good experience for the boys. Some of the short con-tributions were of great importance. Daryll bowled real-ly well and played a good cameo down the order. Wehad the runs on the board, but the bowling and field-ing too was of high standard," Williamson said.

Seifert, who was adjudged the 'Man of the Match'for his 43-ball 84, said he was happy to live up to theexpectations after his selection in the team.

"It was a great way to start the series and the boysare really happy. It feels great to go up the order. I hada look at the first two overs and then took it from thereand put pressure on the bowlers," he said.

"I have been selected for a reason and it feels niceto have backed my ability," he said when asked abouthis big-hitting prowess.

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Fielding restrictions in the first sixPowerplay overs is challenging for

any bowler but according to KrunalPandya it was the middle overs thatproved costly during India's 80-runloss to New Zealand in the first T20International.

"In the Powerplay as well as in themiddle overs also, we gave away plen-ty of runs," Krunal said at the post-match media conference after Indiafolded for 139 while chasing 220.

He maintained that the targetwasn't easy to chase.

"Yes, obviously I guess, when youare chasing 218 (220), it's not that easy.Initially, we gave away (too many)runs and kept on leaking runs in themiddle overs as well. So no matterhow the pitch was, the scoreboardpressure was obviously there," theBaroda all-rounder said.

Krunal felt that India's defeat was"a combination of both poor bowlingand some great batting by the BlackCaps".

"They batted really well and webowled a few loose deliveries as well.So it was a combination of both."

A couple of catches were droppedincluding one by wicketkeeperMahendra Singh Dhoni, when Manof the match Tim Seifert hadn'tscored much.

Seifert went on to smash 84 off 43balls with seven fours and six sixes.Dinesh Karthik also dropped a sitterin the deep.

When asked if wind and coldconditions posed a problem while

fielding, Krunal replied: "No not thatmuch. It was fine. In fact, it was goodweather to play. As far as the wind isconcerned, it wasn't difficult to catchthe ball so I guess it was absolutelyfine."

"Dropping catches is a part andparcel of the game. One day youmight take a blinder like Siraj andthen another day two catches (Dhoniand Karthik) get dropped as well. It'sjust that you have to learn from everygame," he said.

New Zealand's Tim Southee wasthe pick of the bowlers with figuresof 3 for 17 and Pandya lauded hisefforts.

"I did play against him (recently)in an India A game when we came forthe A tour. I always knew that he wasa good player but today he provedwhy," he praised the senior pacer.

However Krunal seemed confi-dent that the team will make acomeback in the next game atAuckland.

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The repeated failure of the middle-order toup the game when it matters has convinced

Indian women's team vice-captain SmritiMandhana that she has to "practically bat for18 to 20 overs" for the side to stay in the huntduring stiff chases.

Mandhana smashed a 58-run knock off34 balls but the Indian team failed to make itcount and was dismissed for 136 while chas-ing a target of 160 in the opening T20 onWednesday.

"My wicket along with Jemimah's turnedout to be crucial. If you get out back-to-backin T20s, it proves costly. When you are chas-ing 160 and the run-rate is above 7 or 8, nexttime we have to plan and play better. It did-n't work out today," Smriti said after the match.

"Practically, I would say I have to bat till20 overs that is the best option. The more Ibat till 18 overs, we won't collapse because ifthe top three or four batters can bat till the 18-20th overs then the rest can revolve aroundthem. So tactically that is what I will try to do,"Mandhana said, indicating the absence of afinisher in the line-up.

Mandhana bettered her record of fastestfifty by one delivery, fetching this one off 24deliveries.

Asked if it was her best, she responded:"You never know what your best is. I can't limitmyself to a 60 and say it is my best. If I canchase any total and if I win matches for India,then only it would be my best."

Mandhana said though Indian concededa few runs in the end, the team should havebeen able to chase the target.

"We almost got our run-rate under 7,which was great but definitely we gave away10-15 runs extra in the end while bowling. Wehad got (Suzie) Bates and (Sophie) Devine butthe wicket was good and batters should havechased the target," she said.

"The way we played the ODI series, eventoday we were cruising till the 12th over butin T20s there is always a collapse. So, the nexttime we have to keep that in mind as a bat-ting unit.

Down 0-1 in the three-T20I series,Mandhana said the team will be under pres-sure.

"Being 1-0 down, we will be under thepump, everyone will be aiming to be betterthan what we were today and win the next twomatches for India, that is what we are think-ing and not what happened today."

Wind came into play at the WestPacStadium and Mandhana said she kept that fac-tor in mind while taking on-field decisions.

"We were thinking of taking pacers andspinners from whichever way the wind wasgoing. According to the wind, we were think-ing of bowling at the stumps or outside thestumps," she said.

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The Indian women's ODI teamcaptain Mithali Raj feels the

side's confidence has gone up fol-lowing the 2-1 series win overNew Zealand and it is now aim-ing to avoid qualifiers for the 2021World Cup by staying in top fourof the ICC table.

India is currently placed thirdin the table after winning thethree-match away series againstNew Zealand 2-1 recently. Theyare scheduled to host England inthe next assignment of the cham-pionship cycle later this month.

"The last time we played theQualifiers, but this time we wantto have direct qualification for2021. With series against Englandand the Windies coming up, wewill definitely look to get maxi-mum points," Mithali was quot-ed as saying in a release from theInternational Cricket Council.

"...We did not have too manyplayers who had the experience ofthe conditions with only Jhulan(Goswami) and me having touredhere before. So winning twogames here has given us a lot ofconfidence," she said.

"Losing the third game, we

have come down to number threein the rankings table but I amhappy that India is in the top four,"she added.

The coming month will seefocus on the championship withtwo more series featuring teams inthe upper tiers of the points table— Australia host New Zealandand India host England in seriesstarting February 22.

These teams are the frontrun-ners to make the cut since NewZealand and four other top teamsget direct entries to the premierevent two years from now.

New Zealand captain Amy

Satterthwaite said her side haslearnt its lessons from the deba-cle against India.

"We have our first real winterat home in 3-4 years coming upwhich gives us a great opportuni-ty to develop our skill sets, so play-ing a quality side like India helpshighlight those areas both individ-ually and as a team," she said.

"The points table is a hard oneto read into much because someteams haven't played as manygames as us. Sitting in second isa great place to be, but as otherteams play more games, that maychange," she added.

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