VARANASIOn the occasion of

Raksha Bandhan, Unionminister Piyush Goyaltoday said in Varanasi thatas many as 51,000 womenand girls of Varanasi willbe insured under thePradhan Mantri SurakshaBima Yojana as a giftfrom the Prime Minister.

The Union minister saidthat the scheme was abrainchild of PrimeMinister Narendra Modito empower a large num-ber of women.

Addressing a gatheringof women at a school, MrGoyal said that he hascome with a gift of insur-ance scheme on RakshaBandhan for the womenand girls of Varanasi LokSabha constituency.

"As many as 51,000women and girls inVaranasi are set to getPrime Minister Narendra

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MUMBAITemperature: 340CPrecipitation:72%Humidity:75%Wind: 19Km/hr

HAQSAADDAFIGHT FOR RIGHTSUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2015

Another Army Veteran on One Rank OnePension Hunger Strike Hospitalised

Sheena Bora Case: Accused Admits MikhaelBora Also a Target, Say Sources

Phantom Movie ReviewP8

JAIPURTen-year-old Mahesh had no

hope of reuniting with hisyounger sister Mamta, who hadgone missing five years ago,but this Rakhi brought a pleas-ant surprise for him.

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Raksha BandhanGift For Brother,Reunited WithMissing Sister

BEIJINGChina is offering $300,000 as

emergency humanitarian assis-tance for storm-devastatedDominica, the commerce min-istry announced today.

The funds are meant "to con-vey the Chinese governmentand people's sympathy and

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China Offers$300,000 in Aid toStorm-Hit Dominica

PATNACongress president Sonia

Gandhi is likely to attend theAugust 30 "Swabhiman" rallyof the grand alliance of the RJD,JD-U, Congress and SamajwadiParty in Patna.

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Sonia Gandhi MayAttend 'Swabhiman'Rally in Patna

PATNARashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu

Prasad today offered theSamajwadi Party five seats to con-test in the upcoming Bihar assem-bly elections due to start nextmonth, in an effort to placate anupset ally and mount a sturdierfront against the BJP.

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To Win Samajwadi Party Over,This Is What Lalu Prasad Offered

MUMBAIWith Maharashtra facing a

drought-like situation, ChiefMinister Devendra Fadnavis willvisit affected areas of the stateincluding Marathwada,Ahmednagar and Solapur dis-tricts from September 1 to takestock of situation.

"Will tour Marathwada along with districts ofAhmednagar and Solapur from September one to

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CM Devendra Fadnavis to VisitDrought-Affected Areas in Maharashtra

PATNACongress president Sonia

Gandhi will address a first jointrally of the JD(U)-RJD-Congressalliance in Bihar tomorrowthough party vice presidentRahul Gandhi is likely to give it amiss.

"We have received programme schedule of SoniaGandhi for Swabhiman rally tomorrow," stateCongress chief Ashok Choudhary told reporters today.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD ChiefLalu Prasad are organising the rally at Patna's historic

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Congress President Sonia Gandhito Address Rally in Bihar

SRINAGARAt least 12 Army soldiers

were injured, seven of them crit-ically, in an "accidental" explo-sion at an Army camp in southKashmir's Pulwama districttoday.

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12 Soldiers Injured inExplosion at ArmyCamp in J&K

UNNAOThe driver of a courier van

was killed and a security guardinjured by unidentified armedmen who looted gold worthcrores of rupees from the vehi-cle on the Lucknow-KanpurNational Highway here, policesaid today.

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Courier Van DriverKilled, Over 7 kgGold Looted in UP

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Weather ReportDELHITemperature: 340CPrecipitation:26%Humidity: 56%Wind: 20Km/hr

KOLKATATemperature: 320CPrecipitation: 63%Humidity:90% Wind: 13Km/hr

CHENNAITemperature: 330CPrecipitation:53%Humidity:64%Wind: 18Km/hr

PATNAThe Lok Janshakti

Party (LJP), an ally of theNational DemocraticAlliance (NDA), hasasked the BJP not to givetickets to those rebel leg-islators who had desertedtheir party in the past tojoin Nitish Kumar'sJanata Dal United (JDU),in the upcoming assem-bly elections in Bihar.

Many of those leadersare now JDU rebel legis-lators, who have eitherjoined the BJP, or areplanning to join formerchief minister Jitan RamManjhi's HindustaniAwam Morcha (HAM),another NDA ally, in thehope of contesting the

elections."Chirag Paswan has

told BJP chief Amit Shahto keep such leaders outof the NationalDemocratic Alliance andnot give them tickets tocontest the assemblypolls either as candidatesof the BJP or its allies,"

said a senior LJP leaderto IANS.

The LJP has strongreservations about for-mer lawmaker Sabir Ali,who joined the BJP inJuly, and former ministerNarendra Singh and histwo sons, considered

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SHEORAPHULIA man was today caught

throwing two bags allegedlycontaining body parts of awoman and her six-year-olddaughter into the Ganga.

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Man Tries to DisposeOff Bags ContainingDismemberedBodies, Arrested

NEWS IN BRIEF

BENGALURUAfter successful

launch of GSAT-6, thecountry's latest commu-nication satellite into aG e o s y n c h r o n o u sTransfer Orbit, IndianSpace ResearchOrganisation today saidit has performed the firstorbit raising of the satel-lite.

"First orbit raisingoperation of GSAT-6 wassuccessfully completedby firing the ApogeeMotor for 3385 secondsat 08:35 hrs IST onAugust 28," ISRO said.

Realised orbit is 8,408km (perigee height) by

35,708 km (apogeeheight) with an inclina-tion of 7.5 degree and anorbital period of 13hours, 15 minutes and 24sec, it said.

ISRO on Thursday hadsuccessfully launchedGSAT-6, having an

indigenous cryogenicengine, on-board theGSLV-D6 rocket fromthe spaceport atSriharikota.

Soon after its injectioninto GTO, the two solararrays of GSAT-6 were

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PM Modi Gifts Free Accident Insurancefor 51,000 Women in Varanasi

First Orbit Raising Operation ofGSAT-6 Completed Successfully

2 BodoMilitants Killedby ArmyNEW DELHI

Two National DemocraticFront of Bodoland orNDFB-S cadres, wanted inconnection with the mas-sacre of tribals, were killedin an encounter today. Theoperation was carried outby a joint team of AssamPolice and Army.

"Based on specific intelli-gence, personnel of theAssam police and Armylaunched an operation inOxiguri village in Assam'sChirang district early in themorning today," InspectorGeneral of Police, BTAD,LR Bishnoi said.

"Two NDFB-S militantswere killed in the

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ISLAMABADUS National Security

Advisor (NSA) Susan E.Rice is scheduled toarrive in Pakistan onSunday on a day-longofficial visit, a mediareport said today.

Dr Rice is expected tomeet Pakistan's politicaland military leadershipover bilateral relationsand the regional securitysituation, Dawn report-ed.

Dr Rice is also expect-ed to meet Prime

Minister Nawaz Sharif.A top military source

also confirmed a sepa-rate meeting withPakistani army chief,General Raheel Sharif,at the General

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US National SecurityAdvisor to Visit Pakistan

ANKARATurkish planes have for

the first time joined raidsby the US-led coalitionagainst Islamic Statepositions in Syria, theTurkish foreign ministrysaid today.

"Our fighter planes ...along with planes fromthe coalition yesterdayevening began joint oper-ations against (IS) targetswhich pose a threat to thesecurity of our country,"

it said in a statement.US Defense Secretary

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BANGKOKPolice hunting for the

perpetrators of Thailand'sdeadliest bombing arresteda suspect on Saturday theysaid fit the description of aman identified on securitycameras as leaving a ruck-sack at the site of the

August 17 blast inBangkok.

Police raided an apart-ment used by the man innorthern Bangkok onSaturday and discoveredpossible bomb-makingmaterials, national police

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NASHIKThe first 'shahi snan' of

the ongoing Kumbh Melabegan in Nashik todaywith thousands of devo-tees, including 'mahants' ofvarious akhadas or sects,thronging the ghats ofRiver Godavari to take theholy dip.

Earlier, the royal proces-sions of the three akhadasof the Vaishnava sect,comprising mahants andmahamandleshwars atopvehicles, horses andcamels decorated withflowers, which began fromthe Laxminarayan Templein Tapovan here, reachedthe Ram Kund wielding

flags, swords, trishul, amidbeating of drums.

They were welcomed bythe Maharashtra WaterResource Minister GirishMahajan, who is also in-charge of Nashik, theMinister of State for

Cooperation Dada Bhuse,city mayor AshokMurtadak, deputy mayorGurmeet Singh Bagga, thedivisional commissioner,the district collector, thecommissioner of Nashik

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In Kumbh Mela's First 'ShahiSnan', Thousands Take Holy Dip

For the First Time, Turkey JoinsCoalition Attack Against Islamic State

Thai Police Say Suspect inBangkok Bombing Arrested

PATNAAhead of the much

hyped rally being organ-ised by Bihar ChiefMinister, Nitish Kumar'sJanata Dal United (JDU),Lalu Prasad's RashtriyaJanata Dal (RJD), and theCongress in Patna tomor-row, the BJP has put uptheir hoardings right nextto those put up by JDU, tocounter claims being madeby the state government onvarious issues.

The rally will be the first

big show of unity after MrKumar and Mr Prasadjoined hands last year, todefeat the BJP-ledNational DemocraticAlliance (NDA) in theupcoming assembly elec-tions.

The BJP hoardings havebeen strategically placednear Mr Kumar's posterswhich talk of good gover-nance.

Taking a dig at the stategovernment's claims, the

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Ahead of Nitish-Lalu Rallyin Patna, BJP Hoardings

Mock the CombineWomen, ChildrenTie Rakhis toPrime MinisterNarendra ModiNEW DELHI

On the occasion ofRaksha Bandhan onSaturday, women andchildren from various seg-ments of society called onPrime Minister NarendraModi at his residence andtied rakhis on his wrist.

The prime ministerblessed the children andconveyed his best wishes

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NEW DELHIPrime Minister

Narendra Modi onSaturday paid tribute tohockey legend MajorDhyan Chand on his

110th birth anniversaryand extended best wishesto all sports enthusiastsacross the country on theoccasion of the NationalSports Day.

"Best wishes to sportsenthusiasts and tributes toMajor Dhyan Chand onNational Sports Day. Maysports and sportsman spir-it shine in India," he said

in a tweet."Congrats to sportsper-

sons and coaches whowill be honoured withvarious sports awards. We

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PM Modi Pays Tribute to Dhyan Chand on National Sports Day

EDITORIAL 2 NEW DELHI | SUNDAY | AUGUST 30, 2015Fight For Right Website: www.saaddahaq.in

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BY VARGHESE K. GEORGE

Anup Yasodharan grew upon Marxist slogans inPattakkala, a hilly vil-

lage by the Manimala river inCentral Travancore. His grandfa-ther and father were active work-ers of the Communist Party ofIndia (Marxist) [CPI(M)].Today, the articulate and polite22-year-old is the leader of aRashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh(RSS) shakha in his village.Anup’s baptism into Hindutva isinstructive.

The rupture between the Dalitfamily and the CPI (M) partycame in 2002, when the partyunit abandoned them in favourof a rich Christian expatriate,who bought the land that laybetween their house and themain road and blocked theiraccess. “One comrade, who wasconsidered the dearest to us,shouted, ‘Why should these**** (a derogatory term for theircaste) want to drive to theirhouses?’ says Anup. Then a littleboy, Anup felt disowned by hisown people. RSS activists fromnearby helped the family. AsAnup drifted towards the RSS,his mother put up strong resist-ance. “The Party ran in theirveins,” recalls Anup.

Caste barrier

But an encounter with aHindutva polemicist changed hismother’s mind as well in 2008.“Waiting for the bus in a nearbytown, she happened to listen tothis leader,” says Anup. Of themany things she was swayed bythat day, one question still ran-kles. “A Christian comrade cango to the church, a Muslim com-rade can go to the mosque but aHindu comrade cannot go to thetemple. Why?”

Anup was then able to per-suade his mother that he wouldstart an RSS shakha in the same

courtyard where comrades hadonce assembled. The RSS for-mally arrived in this village, 83years after its birth. The shakhatoday has 17 members, includingsome Christians, and there arethree more shakhas within athree-km radius. A flag post anda Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh(BMS) unit in the local marketcame up later, accompanied byviolent clashes between themand CPI (M) workers.

While Anup and his motherfound ‘minority appeasement’ inthe CPI (M)’s politics, that isoften a charge against theCongress, given its links withMuslim and Christian groups.Even Congress veteran A.K.Antony said a decade ago thatthe minority communitiesextracted unreasonable patron-age from the Congress. “TheBJP exploited Hindu sentimentsagainst the Congress’s minorityappeasement,” said V. S.Achuthanandan, popular Marxistleader, after the BJP performedimpressively in a recent by-elec-tion. The irony is that while afamily committed to the partyfelt that the CPI(M) was not sen-sitive to Hindu sentiments, itsmost popular leader often accus-es the UDF of ‘minorityappeasement’. But the ironiesdon’t end there.

The CPI(M) is a victim of itssuccesses in the State, particular-ly in empowering lower castes.Inter-caste marriages are quitecommon though Dalits still faceexclusion. Simultaneously, therehas been a rise in Hindu religios-ity, on the lines of, and partly inreaction to, the Christian andMuslim revivalist movementsthat accompanied the remit-tance-fuelled affluence of thesetwo communities. For instance,the Sri Krishna Jayanti proces-sions organised by BalaGokulam, an RSS-leaningforum, have become increasing-

ly popular in recent times. Anupand his friends started one in2007 with 31 people; last year ithad 220 people. Some wereChristians.

Demographic change

The three drivers of Left poli-tics — the backward castes, stu-dents and the working class —have changed their character inthe last decade. Having over-come explicit discrimination,oppressed castes are anxious toset their own terms. Self-financ-ing professional colleges haveturned Kerala’s once-robust artseducation sector into a forlorndry land, weakening theStudents’ Federation of India(SFI). And the working class?They are mostly migrants fromWest Bengal and Assam thesedays.

Demographic changes areunsettling social equations in theState in favour of the Parivar.Not only has a socially alienworking class disrupted Leftrecruitment, new social preju-dices, prompted by their pres-ence, complicate Left politics.

In Pattakkala, several dozenmigrants live a contented life butare sadly caricatured by the localpopulace as remnants of theLeft’s failure in West Bengal orare suspected to be illegalBangladeshi migrants, onlybecause many of them areMuslims.

Consequently, the Muslim inKerala is now an immigrant too,in addition to being an emigrant.The material success of the Gulfemigrants — who are now a for-midable presence in Kerala’spublic spaces — has made themtargets of jealousy. As opposedto the more prevalent stereotyp-ing of Muslims as uneducated,religious and having large fami-lies, the Muslims in Kerala face

a different insinuation — ‘whereis all this money from?’ A reportby a team led by the late JusticeV.R. Krishna Iyer, on theNadapuram communal riots innorth Kerala in 2001, cited theoverbearing social conduct ofneo-rich Muslims and theincreasing jealousy amongHindus as one of the reasons forthe violence.

The emergence of someMuslim extremist groups addsfuel to the fire. Even before itwas officially released, the 2011census data on religion wasloosely — and as it turns out,wrongly — cited by many tosuggest that Christians andMuslims constitute more thanhalf of the State’s population.Even CPI State Secretary KanamRajendran did so, suggestingthat the Left has not been consid-erate towards Hindus.

Marshalling a response

Though these changes havebeen under way for more than adecade, the 2014 elections werethe first demonstration of theelectoral implications of thesechanges, when the BJP gainedseven lakh more votes, roughlythe margin that separates thewinner from the loser, as theLDF and the UDF rotate powerin the State. Expecting to benefitfrom the growth of the BJP at thecost of the Left in the 2016Assembly elections, theCongress has taken a benignview.

Acutely aware of the situation,the LDF, and particularly theCPI(M), is trying to marshal itsresponses, through innovationsto reach out to new sections, andnegating the campaign that it isuncaring of Hindu sentiments.

In Kollam district, secretary K.N. Balagopal’s campaign to dig200,000 rainwater harvesting

pits this monsoon and inErnakulum, secretary P. Rajeev’sinitiative to give first-aid train-ing to trade union workers whocould help victims of road acci-dents have struck a chord.Palliative and geriatric care,organic farming are some of theinitiatives that respond to theneeds of a post-modern society,where empowerment politicsmay 0have run its course. Karateclasses and yoga training byparty associates seek to connectwith the youth.

Dealing with ‘Hindu senti-ments’, however, is a much morefraught challenge. DemocraticYouth Federatio of India (DYFI)workers recently carried a nilav-ilakku, the traditional Keralalamp, to a function attended byan Indian Union Muslim League(IUML) Minister who hadrefused to light one as he consid-ered it un-Islamic; but the Stateleadership disowned the protest.CPI (M) veteran PinarayiVijayan rejected KanamRajendran’s suggestion that Leftsecularism amounted to minorityappeasement, asserting that theLDF could not countenancecommunalism. Accused by bothHindu and Muslim groups of‘appeasing’ the other, and bycaste associations of being hos-tile, the CPI(M) is in an unenvi-able situation.

In all this turmoil, theCongress hopes to retain theState for a second consecutiveterm — it will be a first, if it hap-pens. But things are not that sim-ple. “Now we have Left workerscoming to us. But Congress sup-porters will soon follow,” said V.Muraleedharan, State presidentof the BJP. Meanwhile, in a first,in the forthcoming local bodyelections, the BJP will nominatecandidates in all wards inPuramatton Panchayat wherePattakkala falls.

SUNDAY | AUGUST 30, 2015

Secure haven for a terrorist

Red fades to saffron in Kerala

BY ARGHYA SENGUPTA

Avideo game has recentlygone viral on socialmedia in Italy, accord-

ing to Italian news reports.Called “Marò Slug”, it has twoItalian naval officers who haveto kill scores of semi-dressedIndian warriors jumping likemonkeys from the treetops, andthen escape from the country.The background score is theItalian national anthem and thevisual background has a ship ora submarine called “Ridateci”or Italian for “Give us back”.

The game is clearly a puerileproduct of the popular frustra-tion with the Italian govern-ment’s bungling of the caseinvolving the real-life Italianmarines, Massimiliano Latorreand Salvatore Girone, held inIndia, in February 2012, for thealleged murder of two fisher-men, Jelestine and AjeeshPinku who had left for fishingin a mechanised boat, St.Antony, from Neendakara inKerala. They were shot dead inthe seas off the coast of Keralaallegedly by the two marineswho thought the fishermenwere pirates. The ship fromwhich the fishermen were firedupon was identified as theItalian oil tanker, Enrica Lexie,which was later detained andbrought to Kochi. The vesselwas flying an Italian flag ininternational waters, and wassailing from Singapore toEgypt when the incidentoccurred.

Unfortunately for the videogame’s developers, the Italiangovernment’s latest move, toapproach the InternationalTribunal for the Law of the Sea,which is the 21-member U.N.-mandated court in Hamburg,Germany, for their interimrelease, has also yielded no sig-nificant result. At the sametime, the curious order passedby the Tribunal has meant that

Italy looks like a tricksy forumshopper, India, a bureaucraticand judicial nightmare, and theTribunal itself less of a judicialforum and more a mediatorattempting to facilitate a mutu-ally face-saving, albeit unwork-able, compromise.

Exceeding its remit

The Tribunal, while stayingall proceedings in the case bothin India and Italy till the issueof jurisdiction is settled accord-ing to international law, hasrefused to interfere withthe status of the marinesthemselves. This meansthat Sergeant Latorrecontinues to be in Italyfor medical treatmentand Sergeant Gironeremains ensconced in theItalian Ambassador’s resi-dence in New Delhi.

This is a curious order forthree reasons. First, for theTribunal to award interimmeasures, it must be shown thatit would have jurisdiction overthe main dispute, that therewould be irreversible prejudicecaused if such measures werenot awarded and that there is anurgency which requires animmediate award of such meas-ures. While applying thesetests, the Tribunal has givensomething to both parties at thecost of logical consistency. Ifirreversible prejudice would becaused by the continuance ofcriminal proceedings in India,then surely the marines whowere standing trial would beprejudiced too and vice-versa.In fact, both these conclusionswere arrived at by several con-curring and dissenting judgesof the Tribunal itself. If adopt-ing such a halfway house solu-tion is an attempt by theTribunal to mediate a solution,it is most certainly well inten-tioned. However, given thefractious nature of the diplo-

matic relationship betweenIndia and Italy, as evidenced bytheir communications in thismatter, it is unlikely to succeed.

Second, as an internationaldispute resolution forum, theTribunal is duty-bound toensure the exhaustion ofdomestic remedies before tak-ing up a matter.Arguably, theq u e s -

tion ofexhaustion ofremedies in Indiabecomes a conundrum when itis India’s very jurisdiction thatItaly is contesting. While thismight be so, this is a matter thatneeded extensive discussionand reasoning of a kind that isentirely absent from theTribunal’s order. At an interimstage, to be satisfied that itwould have prima facie juris-diction without accounting forthe relevance, and consequentexhaustion of local remedies, islegally flawed.

Such a lack of reasoning alsohas the potential to strain thealready uneasy relationshipbetween domestic and interna-tional law. Given the fact thatsovereignty is national, thelegitimacy of international lawhas always been a contestedquestion. Without entering intothe fundamental debate of thelegitimacy of international law,it can safely be stated that a keyplinth of its acceptance by

nation-states rests on it beingrespectful of domestic law andremedies before being pressedinto operation. A summary dis-missal of India’s local remediesexhaustion argument by theTribunal calls such respect intoquestion.

A forum shopper

The issue of allowing thejudicial process in India to con-tinue becomes all the more cru-cial since Italy has, for threeyears, participated in theprocess, attended hearings andaccepted (or appealed) the deci-sions that courts in India havehanded down. Moreover, it hasconstantly sought appellaterecourse to the Supreme Court,which can hardly be said to beactions of a country that con-tests jurisdiction. It is only aftermore than three years since theincident, when an ultimate rem-edy from the Indian courtsseems an overly time-consum-ing possibility, that Italy hassought to use the Tribunal tostall the process altogether.This is far from a question ofprinciple. On the contrary, itmanifests a reprehensible prac-tice of shopping for a forumthat is most likely to deliver a

favourable result.

Equally, the manner in whichItaly has forum-shopped hasbeen in exceedingly poor taste.It writes in its submissions: “Atpresent, it is not knownwhether that hearing (on 26August 2015) will take place asscheduled and will see the

Indian Supreme Courtdecide the issue

o r

whether,as has invariably

been the case in the past withother hearings, the hearing datewill be adjourned to some otheras yet uncertain date in thefuture.” [The Supreme Courthas since suspended all judicialproceedings against themarines after the Indian and theItalian governments jointlyinformed it on August 26, 2015,that an international tribunalhad asked for status quo till itcleared the air on which coun-try had the jurisdiction to trythe two men. A three-judgeBench, led by Justice Anil R.Dave, posted the case forJanuary 13, 2016.]

Again: “As regards SergeantGirone, he is, for all intents andpurposes, being treated as ahostage, to be kept in Indianotwithstanding India’s failureto issue criminal charges.”

It is imperative to note thatSergeant Girone is on bail pur-

suant to an order of theSupreme Court. Even if Italywere to make the claim ofrecalcitrance against theGovernment of India, to sug-gest, as it has done, that theSupreme Court is deliberatelyslow, tardy and implicitly incahoots with the governmentdeserves strong condemnation.Further, this is not the first timeItaly has sought to cock a snookat the Supreme Court. On anearlier occasion too, contrary tothe affidavit of its Ambassadorin India, the Italian Foreign

Minister had declared thatthe marines would notreturn to India. This wasblatantly in the face of anorder from the SupremeCourt of India. It appearsthat the excessive gen-

erosity of the SupremeCourt, time and again, has

been interpreted as a sign ofweakness. Such behaviour isentirely unbecoming of a sover-eign nation.

A faltering justice system

The generosity of Indiancourts is in stark contrast to thefitness of its criminal justicesystem. Responsibility for thefaltering criminal process mustbe shared by both the judiciaryand the government. First, in apoorly reasoned order, theSupreme Court held that whileIndia had putative jurisdictionto try the marines, the samecould not be done by courts inKerala. As India does not havedistinct federal criminal courts,as a consequence of the court’sorder, a special court had to becreated or designated for thispurpose. The government wasslow in designating such acourt. The NationalInvestigation Agency, whichwas investigating the incident,took five months to complete apreliminary investigation. Thegovernment was subsequentlyslow in granting sanction for

prosecution of the marines.None of these processes werehelped by Italy constantlyappealing every order to theSupreme Court, each of whichtook considerable time to comeup for hearing.

Consequently, it is an uncon-tested fact, and one that hasweighed heavily with theTribunal, that after more thanthree years of the incident, themarines have not been broughtto trial. It is this inordinatedelay that has allowed the ini-tiative that India possessed inbringing the marines to book inIndia to slip. If the strategiclosses caused by, and interna-tional rebuke for, the delays inthe criminal justice system arenot adequate reason to reformit, one wonders what might be.

Given that the Tribunal isonly deciding on jurisdictionrather than criminality, it doesnot appear that the case is aboutto end anytime soon. Its interimdecision too has done little tomove it along, equivocating onkey legal questions. Stripped ofits legal accoutrements, thiscase is about two innocentIndian fishermen who lost theirlives and two Italian naval offi-cers who, justifiably or unjusti-fiably, killed them. The endlesscomplexities of the law havemeant that justice has provedhard to come by both for thefamilies of the victims and theaccused. If the courts, the gov-ernments and the law continueto muddle along as they havedone this far, “Marò Slug”might not simply remain aracist video game. It might, inthe popular imagination,become a preferable mode ofjustice delivery compared tothe slow and onerous rule oflaw.

(Arghya Sengupta isResearch Director of the VidhiCentre for Legal Policy, a NewDelhi-based think tank.)

A legal merry-go-round

Fight For Right

In an ideal world where the rule of law mattered andgeopolitics did not dominate the conduct of interna-tional relations, Pakistan would have cooperated in the

capture and extradition of Dawood Ibrahim and the crimi-nal and mass murderer would have faced justice in thecountry of his origin. Instead, in this real world Pakistanpersists with its long-pursued policy of “plausible denia-bility”, refusing to acknowledge the presence of the under-world “kingpin”, let alone responding to accusations thathe has been sheltered by the agencies of the state. Whilehe has been absconding from Indian justice after beingidentified as a key conspirator in the 1993 Mumbai blaststhat killed hundreds of people, it has been widely reportedthat he lives a secured life of comfort in Karachi, amongother places. How Ibrahim can live such a life without pro-tection accorded by Pakistan’s security establishment isnot an unfathomable mystery. He was after all playing aleading role in Pakistan’s strategy of trying to “bleed Indiaby a thousand cuts”, that it has seemingly followed fervid-ly in the 1990s. Much water has flowed down the Indussince then; today Pakistan suffers festering wounds inflict-ed by its own strategy of terror. There is some degree ofrealisation among its civilian establishment that the nexusbetween the security establishment and the jihadi complexhas hurt its fledgling democratic institutions. This led to anassertion of civilian supremacy in the latter half of thedecade of the 2000s, and a degree of acceptance by thesecurity establishment of the need to do away with mili-tary preponderance. But there has been little reorientationin Pakistan’s overall foreign policy towards India, beyondtokenism and a grudging acceptance of a changed world atlarge that has little tolerance for terrorists and their spon-sors. Despite an Interpol Red Corner notice out for him,and notwithstanding the UN Security Council Resolution1267 that obligates UN members to help apprehend indi-viduals included in a UN sanctions list against the al-Qaeda where Ibrahim’s name figures, there has hardlybeen any action taken by Pakistan’s state establishment.Indian governments over the years have patiently built acase for his extradition through dossiers submitted toPakistan. But these have been of no avail, and unsurpris-ingly so. After all, the most wanted terrorist of the lastdecade, Osama Bin Laden, was ensconced in a compoundin Abbottabad not far from the Pakistan Military Academycampus. “Plausible deniability” did not work with theU.S., as President Barack Obama ordered an operation totake out Bin Laden, showing little regard for Pakistan’ssovereignty. It is to be hoped that the Pakistan governmentwill revisit the lessons learnt and cooperate on the issue ofIbrahim’s extradition. Among other things, such a step willaid in mending the fraught relations between India andPakistan.

The game is clearly a puerileproduct of the popular frustration with the Italian

government’s bungling of the case involving the real-lifeItalian marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, heldin India, in February 2012, for the alleged murder of two fisher-

men, Jelestine and Ajeesh Pinku who had left for fishingin a mechanised boat, St. Antony, from

Neendakara in Kerala.

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PM Modi Gifts...Modi's gift of this insurance scheme, in

which an accident cover of Rs. 2 lakhs will beprovided at a premium of Rs. 12 per yearonly," the Union minister for Power, Coal andRenewable Energy said.

Wishing Raksha Bandhan to the people ofthe constituency on behalf of the PrimeMinister, Mr Goyal said the scheme will beprovided free of cost.

"Rs. 201 is the full time premium chargewhich the party is expected to get from char-itable trusts, NGO's and other organisations,"he said.

Mr Goyal said that their effort was also onto provide this benefit to even more womenthan the set target.

"I appeal to all the BJP workers that theymust spread awareness about this insurancescheme facility in each and every household,so that every women can get it benefit," hesaid.

PM Modi Pays...are proud of their efforts and contribution

to sports," he added.A few sportspersons and coaches will be

honoured with the National Sports Awards atRashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi on Saturday.National Sports Day is celebrated on August29.

Dhyan Chand, born on August 29, 1905was an Indian field hockey player, who iswidely considered the greatest hockey playerof all time

The legendary hockey player won goldmedals for India at the 1928, 1932 and 1936Olympics.

Known as "The Wizard" for his superb ballcontrol, Dhyan Chand played his final inter-national match in 1948. He scored over 400goals during his international career.

Dhyan Chand died on December 3, 1979.

Women, Children ...to everyone on the occasion, a statement

issued here said.

Ahead of ...hoardings mention the youth migrating to

other states in search of jobs, deterioratinglaw and order situation, and poor condition ofpatients due to non-availability of medicinesat health centres in the state.

In order to make the rally a huge success,Mr Prasad is busy addressing meetings inrural areas of districts close to Patna, askinghis supporters to attend the rally. Mr Kumarhas visited half-a-dozen districts, includinghis home district Nalanda in the past week,laying foundation stones and launching proj-ects.

One of the hoardings put up by the BJP nearthe venue, Gandhi Maidan, says "kal tak kejaani dushman, ab satta ke yaar hain," or howerstwhile foes are now best friends, only withthe aim of staying in power.

Undeterred, the grand alliance against theNDA says that the "Swabhiman Rally" willbe an answer to Prime Minister NarendraModi's arrogance and repeated insult toBihar.

In an attempt to consolidate their socialbase, both Mr Kumar and Mr Prasad havebacked the protests by the Patel communityin Gujarat demanding their inclusion in theOBC category for reservation in jobs and col-leges.

Earlier, PM Modi addressed three'Parivartan rallies' in Muzaffarpur, Gaya andSaharsa in the state. He will address yetanother rally in Bhagalpur on September 1.

2 Bodo Militants ...encounter," he said.The militants were identified as Gwndai

and Junthi, both 'platoon commanders' of theNDFB-S.

"They were responsible for the massacre oftribals on December 23, 2014.

"They had also brutally killed a Class 10student Priya Basumatary, whom they sus-pected of being a police informer," MrBishnoi said.

The senior police official said one M-16rifle along with magazines, an AK-47 riflewith magazines and one pistol were recov-ered from them along with a huge quantity ofammunition and other personal items.

First Orbit ...automatically deployed and the Master

Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan inKarnataka took control of GSAT-6, ISRO hadsaid after the launch.

In the coming days, GSAT-6's orbit will beraised from its present GTO to the final circu-lar Geostationary Orbit (GSO) by firing thesatellite's Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) instages, it had said.

The satellite will be commissioned intoservice after the completion of orbit raisingoperations, deployment of its 6 m wide sieveshaped unfurlable antenna, the satellite'spositioning in its designated orbital slot of 83degree East longitude in the GSO and in-orbittesting of its communication payloads.

GSAT-6 is the 25th geostationary commu-nication satellite of India built by ISRO and12th in the GSAT series. It provides commu-nication through five spot beams in S-bandand a national beam in C-band for strategicusers.

The cuboid shaped GSAT-6 had a lift-offmass of 2117 kg. Of this, propellants weighed1132 kg and the dry mass of the satellite was985 kg at the time of launch.

In Kumbh ...Municipal Corporation (NMC) Praveen

Gedam, and top police officials.Mr Mahajan also felicitated the mahants by

giving them yellow scarves.The NMC and several social organisations

have provided swimming experts at the RamKund to assist the people taking the dip. A lifeprotection squad has also been deployed inthe river water to prevent any drowning inci-dent.

Thousands of sadhus and mahants, includ-ing Naga sadhus of the 10 akhadas of Shaivasect, took the royal bath at the KushvartaTeerth in Trimbakeshwar town whichreceived light showers.

In Trimbakeshwar, the mahants of the ShriPancha Dashanam Juna akhada, led bymahant Harigiri Maharaj, who is also generalsecretary of the All India Shaddarshan akha-da, took the first royal bath at 4:15 AM.

Police said they have made tight securityarrangements by deploying extra forces in thetwo towns and all basic amenities for thedevotees have been ensured.

No Poll ...close to Mr Manjhi.An LJP leader said, "The LJP has informed

the BJP's top leadership that Narendra Singhand his two sons should not contest polls asNDA candidates as they plan to contest onHAM tickets."

Sources say that LJP plans to put up theirown candidates against these leaders if theBJP decides to give them tickets.

Earlier this week, NDA allies like the LJPand Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) gavean ultimatum to the BJP to finalise seat-shar-ing arrangement within a week.

According to sources, BJP plans to contest170 of the 243 seats, while the LJP and RLSPwant BJP to contest 102 seats and leave theremaining 141 for its three allies.

On the other hand, the Rashtriya Janata Daland the JDU have decided to contest 100seats each, leaving 40 to the Congress andthree to the Nationalist Congress Party.

Thai Police...spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said.The suspect "looks like the one we are

looking for", he said."They also found a lot of materials which

can be used to make bombs," Prawut said.The bomb tore through the crowded

Erawan Shrine in Bangkok's commercialheart on Aug. 17, killing 20 people, most ofthem tourists, and wounding scores more.

US National...Headquarters in Rawalpindi, where the

regional security situation is likely to be dis-cussed.

Earlier this week, expressing disappointmentat the cancellation of the proposed talksbetween the NSAs of India and Pakistan, theUS has urged the two neighbours to resume aformal dialogue soon.

"We are disappointed the talks will not hap-pen this weekend and encourage India andPakistan to resume formal dialogue soon," saidState Department spokesman John Kirby.

The US official, however, noted that MrSharif and PM Narendra Modi did have a"constructive interaction" in the Russian townof Ufa, last month.

For the ...called on Turkey to play a full part in the

US-led air campaign against the IslamicState group and take better control of itsborder with Syria.

He said Ankara had agreed in principle tojoin the anti-IS coalition but should add itsown warplanes to the "air tasking order,"the military structure coordinating strikes.

"They need to join the ATO (Air TaskingOrder) and they need to work more on con-trolling their border. And we've made thatclear," he said.

"Their leadership has indicated that thisneeds to be done. It's overdue, because it'sa year into the campaign, but they're indi-cating some considerable effort now."

Turkey agreed last month to step up itsinvolvement in the war raging across itssouthern border in Syria and to allow USplanes to launch strikes from a Turkishbase.

But its involvement in the battle againstthe IS group had been limited and itappeared to be concentrating on its recent-ly revived war with Kurdish separatist mil-itants.

To Win...NCP and two others from the RJD quota to

SP in the Bihar elections," Mr Prasad toldreporters. The Rashtriya Janata Dal was earli-er set to contest in 100 of the 243 seats for the

crucial polls.The Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday

walked away from the coalition of RJD, JanataDal-United and Congress and said it wouldcontest the polls by forming a third front withLeft and other parties.

"The way they (secular alliance) ditched uswhile deciding on seats, it seems there is noroom left for talks with it...It seems we are leftwith only one option," NCP general secretaryTariq Anwar had said on Thursday.

The Samajwadi Party, though, has remainedsilent over the participation of party chiefMulayam Singh Yadav in tomorrow's rally ofthe 'grand secular alliance'.

Bihar SP chief Ramchandra Singh Yadavsaid Mulayam Singh Yadav had called partysecretary general Kiranmoy Nanda toLucknow on hearing the announcement madeby Prasad.

"We are awaiting a final word on participat-ing in the rally tomorrow," the Bihar SP chieftold reporters.

Congress President...Gandhi maidan in an apparent move to

project a united face of the alliance.Mr Choudhary said Mrs Gandhi would

arrive in Patna in the afternoon and straight-way proceed to the venue and return to Delhiafter addressing the rally.

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya SabhaGulam Nabi Azad and party general secretaryand in-charge of Bihar affairs CP Joshi willalso be there.

Asked if Mr Gandhi would be accompany-ing his mother, the PCC chief said he wouldvisit Bihar later for canvassing and hold road-shows.

To a question if Rahul Gandhi did not wantto share platform with Lalu Prasad, MrChoudhary said, "Who would go where isdecided by the party high command.Moreover, when Congress' supreme leaderherself is coming, the question of who else iscoming is irrelevant."

Also, there is no clarity over the participa-tion of Samajwadi Party chief MulayamSingh Yadav in the event.

More than 1.5 lakh party workers wouldjoin supporters of JD(U) and RJD in the rally,he said.

Congress will contest on 40 seats in the243-member Bihar Assembly elections,scheduled to take place in September-October. JD(U) and RJD will fight on 100seats each and remaining three will be con-tested by NCP.

Mr Chaudhary also slammed PrimeMinister Narendra Modi for "auctioning therespect of Bihar" while announcing a Rs. 1.25lakh crore special package and said the UPAhad given Rs. 2 lakh crore to the state butnever did a propaganda.

CM Devendra ...review the drought situation," Mr Fadnavis

said today.The Chief Minister was speaking after

inaugurating 'Jan Sampark Karyalay' (localoffice) of Minister of State for Home RamShinde in Ahmednagar.

Mr Fadnavis said this office will be abridge between citizens and Chief Ministersoffice (CMO).

There is only 8 per cent water storage inreservoirs in Marathwada while the overallstorage in the state is 48 per cent.

Opposition parties Congress and NCP tooka jibe at the Chief Minister over his proposedvisit.

Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant saidthe state government has woken up late toaddress farmer's plight and issues in thedrought-hit areas.

"Better late than never.... Congress hasbeen trying to bring problems of farmers toattention of the government. But theFadnavis-led regime had turned a blind eye tothe sufferings of farmers hit by poor rains forlast three to four years," he said.

Meanwhile, NCP spokesperson NawabMalik alleged the government has nevertaken drought and water scarcity seriously.

"The planning to tackle the situation shouldhave begun six to seven months in advance.The state is facing drought for the last coupleof years, "he added.

Mr Malik also said the much-hyped'Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan'(scheme) will workonly where percolation of rain water in theground is substantial.

"What about areas where rainfall is alwaysscanty. There is no option to lift irrigation inthese areas. There is large scale migrationfrom the drought affected areas to cities andtowns", he added.

'Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan' is a programmelaunched by the Maharashtra Government tomake Maharashtra drought-free state within aperiod of five years.

Raksha Bandhan...Mamta had been abducted and forced into

begging by child traffickers. Earlier thismonth, she was recovered along with threechildren earlier and was living in a shelterhome in Ajmer.

Child welfare committee members handedover the girl to her family members yesterdayafter verifying her antecedents.

Mamta was picked on March 30, 2010 froma local fair in Nawa city of Nagaur district.Her cobbler father, now dead, and other fam-ily members left no stone unturned to trace

the girl but all efforts were in vain."Initially, a missing complaint was filed on

30 March 2010 but a case of abduction wasfiled on April 11, 2010 when it came to lightthat the girl was last seen with a balloon ven-dor, who was also missing," Investigatingofficer of Nawa Police Station, Prahlad Singhtold PTI.

"The case was closed the very year after noprogress was made. This year on August 2, aman was arrested in some other area of thedistrict for suspicious activities. He had in hispossession five children who were engaged inbegging and other works. The children weresent to a shelter home and the accused manwas remanded to judicial custody," he said.

After the family members read in a newspa-per about the recovery of five children, with agirl named Mamta, they approached thepolice and the shelter home and identified herfollowing which she was handed over to fam-ily members.

China Offers ...support to the government and people of

Dominica" to assist in the start of disasterrelief and support housing reconstruction, theministry said in a statement on its website.

Dominica - a small island country of about72,000 people - was hit by Tropical StormErika on Friday, leaving at least 20 peopledead.

Erika unleashed torrential rains that trig-gered devastating floods and mudslides, withPrime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit saying thatthe damage "may have set our developmentprocess back by 20 years".

The storm churned across the Caribbeantoday, with the US state of Florida declaringa state of emergency and Cuba also issuing analert.

Sonia Gandhi ...share dais with (Bihar Chief Minister) Nitish

Kumar and (RJD chief) Lalu Prasad at therally," a senior leader of the grand alliancesaid.

He said Samajwadi Party chief MulayamSingh Yadav may skip the rally.

According to JD-U leaders, after NitishKumar had talked with Congress vice presi-dent Rahul Gandhi and other senior Congressleader, Sonia Gandhi has agreed to attend therally.

Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad are activelywooing supporters to make their rally a suc-cess.

The event will be their first big show ofunity a year after the two leaders joined handsin a bid to defeat the BJP-led NationalDemocratic Alliance (NDA) in the state.

Lalu said the "Swabhiman" rally of thegrand alliance would be an answer to "Modi'sarrogance and repeated insult to Bihar".

PM Modi has already addressed three"Parivartan" rallies in Muzaffarpur, Gaya andSaharsa ahead of the assembly polls. He willspeak at another rally in Bhagalpur onSeptember 1.

12 Soldiers Injured...Trust of India that as many as "12 soldiers

have been injured in the explosion at CoreBattle School (CBS) at Khrew (in Awantiporaarea of Pulwama)."

Out of the 12, seven soldiers were criticallyinjured and airlifted to 92 Base Hospital atBadamibagh Cantonment in Srinagar for spe-cialised treatment.

"The rest of the injured have been givenfirst-aid and are stable," he said.

The officer said it was not immediatelyknown as to how the explosion happened. "Itcould be accidental. However, only an inquirywill establish the facts and nothing can be saidat this time," he said.

Courier Van..The van of Sequel Logistic Private Limited,

Ahmedabad was on its way to Lucknowwhen the men driving in an SUV interceptedit near Bajhera village, they said.

They shot the driver Harichand Yadav, 30and security guard, who offered resistance,and looted gold biscuits and jewellery weigh-ing over seven kg before fleeing, they said.

Another person, who was in the van, man-aged to save his life and rushed to inform thepolice, they said.

The driver and the guard were rushed to theNawabganj community health centre wherethe former was declared dead and the latterwas referred to Lucknow Trauma centre in aserious condition, they said.

A first information report has been filed onthe complaint of the courier company for lootof over seven kg of gold in the form of biscuitand jewellery, one mobile phone and threeATM cards, they added.

Man Tries to...The man identified as Samaresh Sarkar was

caught by his co-passengers in a ferry as hewas throwing two trolley bags, which, he toldpolice, contained body parts of a woman,with whom he was allegedly in an illicit rela-tion, and her daughter.

Hoogly SP Praveen Tripathi said Sarkar,the branch manager of PSU bank inDurgapur, was arrested after his co-passen-gers, suspecting something foul, handed himto the police in Sheoraphuli.

One trolley bag, containing the lower bodyparts of a woman, was later fished out of theriver by a diver pressed into service by thepolice, he said.

SP Tripathi said Sarkar told the police thatSucheta Chakraborty, a 34-year-old house-wife with whom he was in an illicit relation-ship, had been pressurising him to marry herand would often take money from him.

Sarkar, however, was married and his fam-ily stayed at Titagarh near Barrackpore.

When he visited Sucheta at her flat in ahousing colony in Durgapur yesterday, whereshe lived with her daughter after having sep-arated from her husband, they had a heatedargument following which she flew into arage and strangled her daughter Dipanjana todeath in front of him, Sarkar alleged.

Sucheta had then stormed into the adjoiningroom and committed suicide, he claimed.

As he did not want people to know of theincident, Sarkar claimed that he had cut upthe two bodies with a sharp weapon, stuffedthem in three trolley bags and reachedBarrackpore in North 24 Parganas district thismorning in a hired car.

SP Tripathi said Sarkar had then boarded aferry from Barrackpore for Sheoraphuli inHoogly district on the other side of the river,but could not dispose of the bags.

He had returned to Barrackpore by anotherferry and it was during the return trip that hethrew the bags mid-river and was caught byco-passengers and handed over to police.

The SP said the incident is being investigat-ed and a police team has been sent toDurgapur.

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PARISAs the reality of global

warming starts to hit home,people may ask: "How will itaffect my livelihood?"

Well, that depends.On your profession, your

age, and exactly where youlive, among other things.

Here, then, are a few sce-narios for a climate-alteredfuture, when rising tempera-tures are closing in on thethreshold of two degreesCelsius (3.6 degreeFahrenheit) above pre-indus-trial levels which scientistswarn we should not cross.

The year is 2030.The coffee farmerYou are a 60-year old cof-

fee farmer in Nicaragua, sell-ing to an organic wholesaler.

Global demand has soaredand commodity prices tripledsince 2015, but business isnot so good. Scorching tem-peratures have decimatedyour output, even after yousold your land to purchase ahigher-altitude parcel insearch of cooler climes.

Not only yields are down,but also the quality of yourbeans.

Small consolation thatmany of your 20-million fel-low coffee growers aroundthe world are in similarly dire

straits.The high-flying lawyerYou are a 39-year old real

estate lawyer in West PalmBeach, Florida.

You are flush and life issweet, despite your million-dollar house having beenswept away three years earli-er by Hurricane Hillary.

Sea levels have only risen14 centimetres (5.5 inches) inthe last 15 years, but Hillary'stide-enhanced storm surgecaused $500 billiondollars/euros in damages.

Since Washington can-celled federal flood insurancefor properties under a metre(three feet) above sea level,you have more clients thanyou can handle.

They are suing privateinsurance companies claim-ing bankruptcy to avoid hav-ing to pay out, and thoughyour clients may only get 20cents for every policy-insured dollar, you still getyour fees.

The Indonesian fishermanYou used to work fishing

boats out of Surabaya, a portcity in Java, but are nowunemployed.

The bottom fell out of thelocal industry in the mid-2020s. Intensive harvestinghad already caused several

species to collapse, includingbigeye and yellowfin.

But then, as oceanswarmed, other species --Pacific bluefin, crevalle jack,scad -- moved to coolerwaters beyond the reach oflocal vessels.

No other species havecome to replace them.

The Alpine hotelierYou own a ski-resort hotel

in the French Alps at an alti-tude of 1,280 metres (4,199feet).

Since 2020, for two yearsout of three you have had tomanufacture snow to ensurethe season. In 2022 and 2028it was so warm that even arti-ficial flakes couldn't keep thelifts going.

The silver lining: summertourism has picked up as peo-ple seek alternatives to thescorching heat waves thatregularly hit theMediterranean basin.

The Sahel subsistencefarmer

Ten years ago, youreplaced your millet cropwith genetically-modified,drought-resistant sorghum asdesertification creeps up onyou in the northeastern cor-ner of the Mopti region ofMali.

How Will Climate ChangeAffect Your Livelihood?

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Smoking may giveyou a high but it alsotakes away your

youth. Smoking affectsyou internally and exter-nally.

Along with the help ofSenior Consultant inDermatology, Dr. NipunJain with Sri Balaji ActionMedical Institute throwslight on how smokingaffects your looks. Quitsmoking before it takesyour breathe away.

How does smokingimpact hair and skin?

"Smoking harms hairand skin to an extent ofmaking you look mucholder. It tends to deprivethe skin of the essentialoxygen and nutrients,"says the dermatologist.Nicotine and other chemi-cals get logged in yourarteries blocking theaccess of important nutri-tion to your blood.

Sagging skin and wrin-kles:

The chemicals releasedfrom tobacco smoke trig-ger the destruction of col-lagen and elastin. Thisresults in sagging skin anddeep wrinkles.

Lines around the lips:While smoking, certainmuscles around the lips areused in a way that causedynamic wrinkles leadingto the loss of elasticity.

Age Spots: Various researches show

that smokers are more vul-nerable to age spots. Agespots are patches of darkerskin colour common on theface and hands.

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Hair Loss: Smoking speeds up the

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Crow's Feet (EyeWrinkles) :

Wrinkles around eyesdevelop earlier amongspeakers and go deeper.The smoke that comesfrom burning cigarettesand the squinting to keepaway the smoke contributeto visible crow's feet.Further, the inhaled tobac-co damages the skin struc-tures and blood vesselsaround the eyes due to theharmful chemicals pro-duced by it.

Negative effects ofsmoking on hair and skin

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another interesting storyof a girl named lillywho hailed from a smalltown and wanna getrich, successful overnight. But,will she orwon't she? Stay tuned,promos to out soon.Samira Raza, in mainlead with supportingcast Reet, Roopa,Sahiba, Akanksha andGagan Deep Singh.Param of Moonlightproductions is veryhopeful that this smallbudget entertainer willdo big in the industry.

This small budget entertainer willdo big in the industry: Param MLP

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NEW DELHINot everything will go

as you expect in your life.This is why you need todrop expectations & gowith the flow. NEED- isjust a four letter word buthas a valuable meaning.

Actors Ashraf Khan,Actress PriyankaBishwakarma and support-ing star GDS Bhatti, Vijay,Sachin Sajan shall be onseen entertaining the bigscreen. Yes, right movienamed Need is a musical

entertainer by Moon lightproduction house, musiccomposed by Arya Singhand vocals by Vivaang andNatasha.

The film is based onreality expressed directorParam MLP. "I am influ-

enced by the happenings inour lives and subject needvaries from individual toindividual, some takeshortcuts while some ful-fill it in all sincerity." It isa must watch for everyoneof us.

NEED a musical entertainer by MLP

Genre: Action ThrillerCast: Saif Ali Khan, Katrina Kaif,Mir Sarwar, Mohammed ZeeshanAyyub, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty,Rajesh Tailang, Qazi TouqeerDirector: Kabir Khan

Fact, fiction and fantasy aremixed in slapdash style inPhantom. Some parts of the

explosive drama that co-writer anddirector Kabir Khan creates aregripping, but the rest of the actionis either poorly paced or painfullyperfunctory.

Imagine a sequence in whichtwo Indian secret agents are in theSyrian army's line of fire in rebel-controlled Qudssaya, with aPakistani operative tracking them.

The duo fights back, butPhantom is unable even in this per-ilous situation in a conflict zone togenerate the expected edge-of-the-seat tension. It feels like justanother routine action scene.

Actually that is precisely whatPhantom is like as the whole - itsflashy firepower seems like a lot ofwasted ammunition.

A mechanical spy thriller thatonly occasionally backs up all thenoise it makes with genuinely elec-trifying moments, it, however,pulls no punches in calling a spadea spade.

Although the film asserts that itscharacters are all imaginary, theprincipal antagonists are all mod-elled on the most wanted terrormasterminds that are a thorn inIndia's flesh.

Phantom begins with a car chasein Chicago, which ends with a man

plunging into the icy waters of ariver.

The protagonist (Saif Ali Khan)is convicted for murder and jailed.Cut to the office of the RAW chief(Sabyasachi Chakrabarty), wherehe and his trusted men (RajeshTailang, Mohammad ZeeshanAyyub, etc) plan a daring covertoperation.

Daniyal Khan, a dead-end ex-soldier with a completely dead-ened sense of life and death ispulled out of oblivion and pressedinto service by the spy agency towreak vengeance on the men whoplanned the 26/11 Mumbai terrorattacks.

The RAW chief who orders thekillings does not have the permis-sion of the home minister andhence he has to keep everythingunder wraps. The reclusiveDaniyal fits his plan like a glove.

This wishful construct, derivedfrom S Hussain Zaidi's bookMumbai Avengers, is pretty flatand predictable, especially in thefirst half as the angry male protag-onist, sacked from the army oncharges of desertion, grabs theopportunity to redeem himself.

It is only when the Indian agentinfiltrates Pakistan with the help ofa former RAW operative, NawazMistry (Katrina Kaif), thatPhantom springs to some degree oflife.

Obviously, the men that Daniyaltargets - they have names such asSajid Mir, Sabahuddin Umvi andHaaris Saeed - aren't easy pick-ings, but he has gutsy accomplicesin and around Mohalla Johar,Lahore.

But that is only one little cornerof the world. Daniyal, Nawaz intow, traverses virtually the entire

globe - Chicago, London, Amman,Beirut and Lahore - to pull off hismission impossible.

The sacked army man scourssome of the most dangerous placeson earth to smoke out with the aimof eliminating the terror master-minds.

But where pray is all the excite-ment that an action-packed thrillershould have generated?

Kabir Khan is on a roll afterBajrangi Bhaijaan, a film that rev-eled in celebrating the idea ofpeace in the region. Phantom goesto other end of the spectrum andharps on an eye-for-an-eye philos-ophy. The question the film posesis: if the US can do it, why can'tIndia?

We cannot because Bollywooddoes not have either a Daniel Craigor a Tom Cruise to add heft to fan-ciful actioners.

But to Khan's credit, his narra-tive eschews jingoism and stopsshort of painting the whole ofPakistan with the same brush.

He goes to the extent of under-lining that ordinary Pakistanis mayhave suffered no less at the handsof terrorists than the innocentIndians caught in the vortex of anever-ending proxy war.

The Phantom storyline includesan elderly Pakistani woman whohas lost her son to the Lashkar-e-Taiba and is sucked into the war onterrorism.

The lead actors are the weakestlinks in Phantom. Saif Ali Khan isin Agent Vinod territory here: hebelieves being poker-faced isbeing unflappable.

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