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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) on

Thursday attached assets worthRs 54 crore of KartiChidambaram and his compa-ny Advantage StrategicConsulting Pvt Ltd. (ASCPL) inINX Media money launderingcase. The attached assetsinclude immovable propertiesin India, UK and Spain besidesdeposits in banks.

The ED probe has revealedthat then INX promoters Peterand Indrani Mukerjea met thenFinance Minister PChidambaram to expedite theirapplication for FIPB approval.“The ED identified payments ofRs 3.09 crore by Peter Mukerjeato ASCPL and associated enti-ties controlled by Karti throughmanipulated debit notes.During investigation, it wasadmitted that debit notes wereraised on the directions ofKarti to show some transactionwhich in fact did not occur,” theED said in a statement.

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In yet another big setback tothree directors, including

Chairman & ManagingDirector of beleagueredAmrapali Group Anil KumarSharma, the Supreme Court onThursday initiated contemptproceedings against them anddirected that they be placedunder police surveillance forthe next 15 days.

The SC clarified onThursday that the AmrapaliCMD and directors Shiv Priyaand Ajay Kumar will not bekept in police lockup for thenight and instead be taken toa hotel in Noida, where theirphones will be seized.

The top court had onOctober 9, directed that theCMD and two directors betaken into police custody tillthey hand over all the docu-ments of the group’s 46 firms.The three directors werereleased on Wednesday night

from police custody after nineproperties of Amrapali Group,where bulky documents ofgroup companies are stashed,were sealed in compliance withthe SC’s order.

A Bench of Justices UULalit and DY Chandrachudallowed the three directors tostay in their home for Thursdaynight but asked them to presentthemselves before Station HouseOfficer (SHO) of Noida Sector58 on Friday before 8 AM.

The top court fixed a 15-day limit for forensic auditorsto collect, collate and cata-logue the documents from2008 till now with regard to the46 companies of the groupfrom the nine properties situ-ated in Noida, Greater Noida ofDelhi-NCR and Rajgir andBuxar district in Bihar.

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The Very Severe CyclonicStorm ‘Titli’, which crossed

the Odisha coast early onThursday morning, left a trailof destruction in Gajapati,Ganjam, Rayagada andKandhamal districts.

The cyclone which made alandfall at Palasa in AndhraPradesh between 4.30 am and5.30 am uprooted trees, electricpoles, damaged many housesand affected vehicular com-munications. It killed 6 peoplein Andhra.

In Odisha, the most affect-ed was Gajapati district fol-lowed by Ganjam.

Roads in Paralakhemundi,Kashinagar, Mohana andGosani in Gajapati were severe-ly damaged resulting in dis-ruption of vehicular move-ment in the areas.

But there were no reportsof casualties.

Uprooting of trees wasreported on Gopalpur-Brahmapur road which affect-ed vehicular communication inthe route. The situation wassimilar in Brahmapur city,where more than 100 treeswere uprooted.

Effects of the landfall of thecyclone were also largely felt inBhanjanagar and Aska. Manystreet lights and electric polesgot uprooted in Gopalpur aswell.

Heavy rains lashed eightdistricts of Ganjam, Gajapati,Khordha, Puri, Jagatsinghpur,

Kendrapada, Bhadrak andBaleswar districts as Titli withhigh-velocity winds crossedthe south Odisha-northAndhra Pradesh coasts leavingbehind uprooted trees and dis-placing three lakh people.

Power supply and tele-phone lines were snapped inGanjam, where wind gusted at165 kmph uprooting trees, lev-elling houses disrupting roadcommunication.

Similarly, in Raygada hun-dreds of trees and electric poleswere uprooted and roofs ofmany houses were blown away.Similar was the situation inKandhamal district.

The cyclonic storm, which

made a landfall near southwestof Gopalpur at Palasa ofSrikalumum district in AndhraPradesh weakened gradually byevening, informed the RegionalOffice of Indian MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) here.

IMD sources said that Titliwill turn in to a deep depres-sion by Friday morning.

The cyclonic storm willmove towards north-westwardsand re-curve towards north-eastwards. The cyclonic stormwould further weaken and re-curve into deep depression bytomorrow morning.

Later, it will gradually turninto depression and movetowards Gangetic West Bengal,”

informed IMD RegionalDirector HR Biswas.

The Andhra Pradesh ChiefMinister's Office (CMO) saidthe other six killed were fish-ermen who had ventured intothe sea.

Of the 67 fishing boats thathad gone into the sea over thelast few days from Kakinada inEast Godavari district, 65 hadreturned to the shore safely, theCMO said, adding efforts wereon to bring back the remainingtwo boats.

In Andhra, the road net-work in Srikakulam district suf-fered extensive damage, whilethe power distribution net-work was also severely affect-

ed. More than 2,000 electricpoles were uprooted by strongwinds.The Andhra PradeshState Disaster ManagementAuthority (SDMA) said thecyclone caused widespreaddamage in Srikakulam andVizianagaram districts, andthrew normal life out of gear asheavy to very heavy rainslashed the two north coastaldistricts districts since lateWednesday night.

While a 62-year-oldwoman died at GudivadaAgraharam village after a treefell on her, a 55-year-old mandied in a house collapse atRotanasa village in Srikakulamdistrict, the SDMA said.

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The State Government onThursday claimed that it

has achieved “zero casualty”even as the Very SevereCyclone ‘Titli’ hit the southOdisha coast and ravaged theregion.

Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik reviewed the measurestaken to combat the situationoccurred due to the severecyclone that made landfallnear Palasa and enteredGajapati district with a bang.

It was revealed that asmany as 3 lakh people wereevacuated from low-lyingareas in coastal districts,including Gajapati, Ganjamand Puri.

No report of death of anyperson was reported from anyaffected district, said a Pressrelease.

“There has been no report

of any deaths due to thecyclone so far. Mission ZeroCasualty has been achieved,”said the Chief Minister

The Chief Minister askedthe officials to provide adequate quantum of reliefmaterial to all the affectedpeople.

He asked officers to con-duct restoration works andensure supply of electricityand drinking water in allaffected villages. Besides, hedirected officers to repairroads. Special ReliefCommissioner BishnupadaSethi informed that while 3lakh people were evacuated, asmany as 1,112 relief camps to

provide reliefs to people.As many as 105 pregnant

women in Ganjam and 18 inJgatsinghpur have been shift-ed to hospitals, he said.

He said while 13 NDRFteams and ODRAF teamswere deployed in all affecteddistricts, steps were later takento deploy two more NDRFteams in Gajapati district,which has been worst affect-ed in the cyclone.

Chief Secretary AdityaPrasad Padhi, DevelopmentCommissioner RBalakrishnan, Special ReliefCommissioner BishnupadaSethi and other senior officerswere present.

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Union Petroleum and SkillDevelopment Minister

Dharmendra Pradhan onThursday said Union HomeMinister Rajnath Singh hasassured him that the Centrewould provide all support tothe State Government inrestoration and rehabilitation

works in cyclone affected areasin the State.

Pradhan said he met Singhin New Delhi and held discus-sions about impact of the severecyclone Titli that affectedcoastal districts in Odisha. Hethanked Singh for successfuloperation of the the NationalDisaster Rapid Forces in affect-ed areas.

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Thursday’s cyclone may havecaused havoc in some

southern districts of the State,though not as severely as wasfeared earlier, parents in certainareas, not that much affected,had a fancy of christening theirnewborn baby girls as ‘Titli’ inremembrance of the disaster.

Parents, especially mothers,appeared to be fascinated bythe sweet-sounding word Titli,which is a Pakistani term forbutterfly.

As reported on the day,some parents in Bhubaneswar,Jagatsinghpur district and Askain Ganjam district proudlystated that they named theirdaughters after Titli.

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Fresh firework has erupted inthe Rafale deal after a

French investigative websiteMediapart quoted an internalDassault Aviation documentrevealing that the fighter jetmanufacturer had no optionbut to enter into a joint venturewith Anil Ambani’s RelianceDefence as it was presented as“mandatory” and a “trade-off ”if the French company had tobag the 36 Rafale jets deal.

However, Dassault, in aPress release on Thursday,claimed it “has freely chosen tomake a partnership with India’sReliance Group” and added

that the decision was takenunder no duress.

Latching on the revela-tion, Congress president RahulGandhi on Thursday calledfor an investigation, declaringthat Prime Minister NarendraModi “is corrupt.” Also, hedemanded Modi’s resignationand sought a probe into the roleof Modi in the deal.

The BJP rubbished thecharges and termed Rahul a“clown Prince” who hasacquired mastery in levellingfalse allegations.

The fresh revelation in theRafale came days after formerFrench President FrancoisHollande indicated that theIndian Government nudged

France to have an offset dealwith Reliance.

Mediapart, which firstreported Hollande’s remarks,said the Dassault managementhad told its trade unions it was“imperative and mandatory”for the company to chooseReliance as an offsets partner.Incidentally, the report cameout on a day when DefenceMinister Nirmala Sitharamanleft for Paris to hold bilateraltalks with her French counter-part Florence Parly.

Quoting an internal docu-ment of the aviation giant, thenews report said Deputy ChiefExecutive officer of Dassault,during a presentation to work-ers representatives, said the

joint venture with Reliance forsetting up a plant at Nagpurwas “counterpartie.”

The report said, “AtDassault Aviation, according toa document obtained byMediapart, the alliance withAmbani was indeed presentedas a ‘counterpart’ to the Rafalesales contract.

“Dassault Aviation’s deputychief executive officer LoikSegalen made this clear onMay 11, 2017 during a presentation of the NagpurDassault Reliance Aerospacejoint venture to the staff rep-resentatives: ‘It was imperativeand mandatory for DassaultAviation to accept this coun-terpart, in order to get the

export contract from India,’said the no.2 (of) the group,according to elected staff,” thereport added.

The joint venture is knownas DRAL.

The Dassault was transfer-ring its assembly line to pro-duce the Falcon business jets atthe DRAL facility being built inNagpur, and had to explain toits workers why it was not cre-ating jobs for French labourers.The company identifiedReliance as “counterpart,” thenews report said.

The Mediapart article saidthe document suggested theDassault official had explainedto its staff that the joint venturewas a “trade-off.”

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Pressure mounted on UnionMinister MJ Akbar to

resign after the RSS indicatedits support to the “victimised”women journalists even asTextile Minister Smirit Iranibacked the #MeToo movementand said Akbar should speakfor himself.

Giving clear hints onSangh’s stand on the allegationof sexual attempts made againstthem by Akbar and others, RSSjoint general secretaryDattatreya Hosabale shared apost by Facebook executiveAnkhi Das, which said, “Youneedn’t have a #MeToomoment to support the womenjournalists who have narratedtheir victimisation. You need-n’t even be a woman. You justneed to have a sensibility ofwhat is right and what iswrong.”

Tweeting the FacebookExecutive’s post, Hosabale alsocommented, “I liked it. She hasarticulated what I was feeling”.

Hosabale’s tweet in supportof female journalists who havemade complaint of sexualharassment at their workplaceis seen significant as the socialmedia is gunning for thealleged “predator”.

Close to the Sangh leader’stweet, Smriti Irani expressedher solidarity with the women

who are speaking out and saidthat “the gentleman (Akbar)concerned would be betterpositioned to speak on thisissue”.

She urged people not tomock the women who arespeaking out against theharassment meted out to them.

“I have said again andagain on this particular issue,especially about women speak-ing out that anybody speakingout in no way should beshamed, victimised or mocked.That is my only appeal toeverybody who is witnessingthis surge of outpouring ofemotion, anger on the internetand offline also,” she said.

She underlined thatwomen don’t go to work to beharassed but to work to livetheir dreams and earn arespectable living.

“So, I will say here today itmust be very difficult forwomen to come out and talkabout whatever happened intheir professional lives. It isextremely an important part oftime in our society where moreand more women are gettingthe support, so they can speakout. “I feel there are enoughinstruments in our judicial andpolice systems to deliver justiceand I am hopeful that all theseladies who are speaking out get,due to due process, the justicethat they deserve,” Irani said.

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Those who voted in the firstgeneral elections in 1952,

would never have imagined theevents up to the upcomingGeneral Elections of 2019 orbefore. No doubt, ‘We’, as ademocracy have performedextraordinarily well than ourcontemporaries, and havenever faced a coup or suspen-sion of the Constitution unlikeour troubled neighbour, and amajority of our successiveGovernments have completedfull terms.

But despite being a suc-cessful democracy, in terms ofelecting Governments whichhave been in actual control, wehave and had our own turbu-lences, the beginning ofNaxalism in 1967 with the his-toric eight documents ofCharu Majumdar, the greatIndian holocaust of 1975 (theEmergency), the anti-sikh riotsof 1984, the Bofors scam of late1980s-1990, the self immola-tion of Rajiv Goswami (thebeginning of ignition of casteinferno) and the consequentanti-Mandal uprising of 1990,the Babri Masjid demolition of1992, the Godhra Carnage of2002, the 2G Scam, theNirbhaya incident, the suicideof Rohit Vemula (a Phd schol-ar of University of Hyderabad)over caste discrimination, theNRC issue, the ongoing Rafalecontroversy.

All of these incidents show,somewhere we have as a nation,distanced ourselves from theideologies of the great found-ing fathers of our Constitution

and the constitutional princi-ples. But nonetheless, the spir-it of Constitution and consti-tutional morality havebestowed upon us, the virtuesof resilience and resurgence,and it has been imbibed in theblood of the nation, this is evi-dent from the interveningevents, between one ominousincident and another. Thebest is, despite the bleeding ofcivil liberties during theEmergency era, the nation suc-cessfully elected, thoughpatently weak, but an alterna-tive Janata Party Governmentin 1977 which gave us twoPrime Ministers, Morarji Desaiand Chaudhury Charan Singh.

Furthermore, the transfor-mation of Bharatiya Jan Sangh,that reincarnated as BharatiyaJanata Party(in 1980), intoheading the first non-Congressunited front of parties to formGovernment, that existed afull five years term in 1999, andbeing the single largest rulingparty in 2014; the creation ofBahujan Samaj Party in 1984,

from the blood of All IndiaBackward and MinorityCommunities EmployeesFederation (BAMCEF) and thetoil of Kanshi Ram, which I feelwas a potent self-assertion ofmillions of voiceless oppressedclasses, though now, has fallenprey to the self serving aspira-tions of the incumbent leader-ship; and besides this, theunprecedented and meteoricrise of the Aam Admi Party torule the national capital in2015, hold testimony to ourpotency to self determine ourruler and reassert the fact that,the ultimate key lies with themasses. Beyond what weunderstand of electoral demo-cratic processes, there are otherforms of constitutional forces atwork, this fact itself, is a hugeassurance for millions of ourcountrymen. Few landmarks inthe recent Constitutional andlegal history stand for it, like the73rd Constitution Amendmentof 1992 formally introducingdemocratic decentralisation ofpower or three-tier local self

Governments in India. Theconstitutional goal of goodgovernance and transparencytook shape of Right toInformation movement anddelivered to the nation, what wenow call, ‘Right to InformationAct-2005’. Besides, the Right toPrivacy is now declared a fun-damental right by the SupremeCourt of India in Justice KSPuttaswamy vs Union of India,in 2017, the quest for endingthe misogynistic Islamic prac-tice of triple talak havefavourably culminated asprayed and anticipated, byvirtue of the verdict of the apexcourt in Shayara Bano Case, in2017, which has since declaredit unconstitutional, and further,the decriminalisation ofSection 377 of IPC, by the apexcourt while hearing six inde-pendent petitions filed bydancer Navtej Jauhar and jour-nalist Sunil Mehra among oth-ers, excepting the bestialitypart, have assured essentialfundamental human rights tovarious stakeholders and inter-

est groups.Our commitment to the

constitutional morality, respectfor humanitarian concerns andregard for the principlesenshrined in the InternationalCovenant on Civil and PoliticalRights of 1966, akin to therights guaranteed under ourConstitution is unparalleled,even long before it came intoforce on March 23, 1976. As in1959 the 14th Dalai LamaTenzin Gyatso escaped theChinese occupation of Tibetand established the TibetanGovernment in Exile atDharmasala in India. Besides,we have been quite generous inaffording political asylum todistinguished personalities likeTaslima Nasrin and confer-ring citizenship upon singer ofPakistani origin like AdnanSami. We have over years,offered shelter to Tibetans,Chakmas of Bangladesh, ethnicTamil refugees from Sri Lankaand Afghans. As is obviousthere have been a lot of socio-political unrest and legal dis-

putes concerning Bangladeshiinflux, the Rohingyas and theongoing NRC controversy, butI think, we are still reviewingthe position in the best inter-est of our national security, andshall soon have a robust legis-lation to regulate this field.

There is no secret, inexpressing the common exas-peration about mob lynching,hate speeches (if you are notacquainted with, then may lis-ten few of Sakshi Maharaj &Owaisi brothers), violence andkillings perpetrated by gau-rak-shaks and all of this, sometimesin the garb of religion andsometimes under the garb of itsdiametrically opposite conceptof secularism. And interest-ingly, the same perpetrators ofsuch unconstitutional activities,when face prosecution, ironi-cally express faith in judiciaryand find defence in freedom ofspeech and expression andright to life as guaranteedunder the Constitution. This iswhy these fringe groups havefailed to disturb the strong

fabric of our constitutionalmorality, that has its profoundgrip over the Indian democra-cy, which has served as a plat-ter for harmonious coexistenceof various languages, religionscastes, creed, cuisines, cus-toms and costumes.

The latest, from theSupreme Court of India, as inthe Aadhaar card judgment,where the court, while havingupheld the constitutional valid-ity of the venture, have declaredits linking with bank accountsand mobile numbers as, ‘notmandatory’, and reiterated theprimacy of the right to priva-cy of the citizens, which againreposes our faith in theConstitution to be a livingentity with a soul, that is, con-stitutional morality and whichhas intimately intertwined withthe Indian democracy in morefirm and profound manner,over the years.

(The writer is a lawyerbased at Bhubaneswar and canbe reached [email protected])

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‘Malaria No More’ Asia Pacificsenior director Anjali Kaur

has assured that her agencywould provide all support tothe Odisha Government inachieving the target of fulleradication of malaria from theState by 2030.

Calling on Health andFamily Welfare, Law andInformation and PublicRelations Minister Pradap Jenaat the State Secretariat onWednesday, Kaur said the‘Malaria No More’ in associa-tion with Vector Borne DiseaseControl Programme (VBDCP)and National Malaria Research

Institute would help in makingprogrammes , undertaken forcontrolling malaria, a grandsuccess.

She hailed the ‘Daman’programme undertaken by theState Government to eradicatemalaria. She said ‘Daman’ canbe replicated in other states foreradication of the vector-bornedisease.

Notably, with implemen-tation of the ‘Daman’ pro-gramme, the malaria spreadhas reduced by 85 per cent andmalaria-related deaths by 95per cent. Minister Jena tooassured that the StateGovernment would provideall cooperation to the agencies.

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Panic gripped the residents of15 villages of Arakhakuda

panchayat in Puri district afterthe villages were waterloggedafter a new natural mouth wasformed on Thursday due tohigh tides and heavy rainsunder the impact of CycloneTitli in the Chilika lake.

Villagers alleged that theproblem assumed alarmingproportions due to rampantcutting down of trees whichposed a threat to the embank-ment. Besides, the protectionwall has also sustained damage.

Official sources informedthat the Chilika lake had onlyone active mouth opposite to

Nua Patna. The new mouthwhich had opened nearArakhakuda few weeks backhas only widened now due tohigh tides under the impact ofCyclone Titli .

“Though some people wereevacuated and kept at a multi-purpose shelter on Wednesday,they were asked to leave in themorning and even no cookedfood was provided,” alleged alocal resident.

Puri Collector Jyoti

Prakash Das said that due tosudden flow of water from thesea into the Chilika lake suchsituation cropped up. Oncethe water level of the lakedeclines, water from the villagewould automatically getdrained in a natural manner.

“The natural mouth wasalready present but it has onlywidened after the salineembankment was damaged.Tehsildar has visited the spotthis morning and he has beendirected to undertake a jointinspection along with the tech-nical team from ChilikaDevelopment Authority (CDA)to further assess the situationand assure people that there isno threat to them,” Das said.

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As the Cyclone Titli hit thecoast in Gopalpur trigger-

ing heavy rains in eight dis-tricts, the State was facing apossible flood situation onThursday.

The Regional Office ofIndia MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) said that aheavy to very heavy rainfall ata few places, and extremelyheavy rainfall at isolated places,is very likely in Odisha in thenext 24 hours.

“We believe that the entireState, except some westernparts, is likely to receive rainthroughout the day. Dependingupon the rainfall, we may seesome flood in coastal Odisha.However, there is no flood-likesituation as of now,” said ChiefSecretary Aditya Prasad Padhi.

“There may be flooding of

the Vansadhara river asGajapati and Rayagada dis-tricts received heavy rainfalldue to the cyclone,” he added.

Padhi further said thatGajapati district, which wasaffected most, received morethan 200 mm of rainfall whileMohana block in the districtreceived the maximum rainfallof 315 mm. However, latestreports said the Rushikulya,Vanshadhara and Jalka riverswere flowing above the dangerlevel.

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Besides, the Howrah-Secunderabad FalaknumaExpress from Howrah has beendiverted and will run viaKharagpur-Tata-Bilaspur-Nagpur-Kazipet.

The ECoR has alsorescheduled the Kharagpur-Villupuram Express on theday. It will leave Kharagpur at6.05 pm instead of 2.05 pm.Besides, the Hyderabad-Howrah East Coast Expresswas also rescheduled. It leftHyderabad at 12 noon insteadof 9.50 am.

Sources said train serviceswould be reviewed and deci-sion would be taken as per cir-cumstances. Railway teamsincluding track specialists,bridge engineers, overheadelectricity engineers have goneto do a detailed study of impactof cyclone Titli betweenBrahmapur-Palasa and Palasa-Kottabomali.

Sources said several stationbuildings, platform shelters,foot over bridges, signallingpole and overhead electricmasts at several places, main-ly in Palasa of Andhra Pradeshhave been damaged under thecyclone impact. ��

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Ahead of the forthcomingMake in Odisha Conclave,

Odisha’s investment promo-tion efforts have resulted in theState emerging as a top manu-facturing destination in India.

In the 72nd survey of pro-jects investment in India con-ducted by Projects Today mag-azine, Odisha has topped interms of fresh projects expen-diture by contributing almost12 per cent of the total freshprojects announced in the July

– September period (Q2) cur-rent fiscal.

The State attracted manu-facturing investments from avariety of sectors to the tune ofRs 35,861 crore in the secondquarter of this fiscal alone.

This accolade comes tothe State on the back of a sur-vey jointly conducted by InvestIndia and World Bank thatranked Odisha as an “AspiringLeader” in terms of investmentpromotion preparedness earli-er in July this year.

Earlier, ASSOCHAM hadranked Odisha as the No. 1State in terms of investmentimplementation rate andOdisha is consistently ranked

amongst the top 3 States interms of live manufacturinginvestments in India.

Commenting on the devel-opment, Principal Secretary,Industries, Sanjeev Choprasaid, “We are happy to note thatOdisha’s investment promo-tion efforts over the past cou-ple of years have resulted in theState emerging as one of thetopmost destinations for man-ufacturing investments in thecountry. The domestic andforeign investors’ meets organ-ised by the State Governmentunder the guidance of theChief Minister have receivedvery encouraging response.The industry-friendly GO-

SWIFT portal recently receivedthe 400th investment propos-al in a short span of 10 months.”

Over the past few years,many initiatives have beentaken by Odisha to enhanceinvestment promotion pre-paredness. These include insti-tutionalizing State LevelFacilitation Cell, appointmentof sector-specific nodal officersto handhold investors, identi-fication of 6 focus sectors, reg-ular domestic and interna-tional investor outreachthrough roadshows in additionto a focused approach to facil-itating investments throughtechnology-enabled interven-tions like Government of

Odisha – Single Window Portalfor Investor Facilitation andTracking (GO-SWIFT).

Odiha has seen a signifi-cant rise in attracting manu-facturing projects with morethan 118 large projectsapproved with employmentpotential of 1, 28,572 in the pastfour years alone in the State.The average time taken forapproval of the projects is alsoreduced to 20 days from thedate of receipt of completedproject application.

Odisha has registered aGSDP growth rate of 7.94 percent in 2016-17, surpassingthe national growth rate of 7.1per cent.

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Delhi-based journalistAbhijit Iyer Mitra on

Thursday skipped appearingbefore the Odisha House(Assembly) Committee forinquiry into his alleged breachof privilege of members of thelegislature.

However, in two emails toAssembly Speaker NiranjanPujari and the HouseCommittee, Mitra sought apol-ogy for not deposing before thepanel on the scheduled date asper summon to him.

The six-member Housepanel, on the other hand, gaveone more opportunity to himand served another notice ask-ing him to appear before it at11.00 am on October 23.

Committee Chairman,Leader of OppositionNarasingha Mishra said Mitramight not have appeared beforethe panel due to the Cyclone

Titli. The panel did not con-sider it as a breach of privilegeof the House, said Mishra afterthe committee’s meeting, whichwas held expecting that Mitrawould depose to make hisstand clear on the allegationagainst him.

Last week, Mitra was alsosupposed to appear before theOdisha police for interrogationinto his alleged derogatoryremarks on the Konark SunTemple on Twitter after theSupreme Court rejected hisbail plea. However, he soughtpolice security for his appear-ance before the police.

The apex court on October5 had dismissed his bail peti-tion over his alleged remarksthat hurt religious sentimentsof people of Odisha. A three-

judge Bench headed by ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi deniedrelief from arrest to Iyer saying,“Your comments incite reli-gious feelings. How are youentitled for bail?”

Justice Gogoi furtherobserved that jail was the bet-ter place for Mitra to stay if thelatter’s life is in danger.

Notably, Mitra is facingcharges over his derogatoryremarks on the Sun Temple’sarchitecture. Two FIRs havebeen lodged against him afterhe posted a series of Tweetscriticising Odisha culture andLord Jagannath.

Mitra, who is a friend offormer MP Baijayant Panda,drew flak from all quarters afterhe posted a video on socialmedia making derogatoryremarks on the Sun Templeand a series of Tweets insultingOdisha people and their cul-ture. He made the remarks dur-ing and after his recent visit toOdisha along with his associ-ates, including Panda, by anIMFA helicopter piloted bythe former parliamentarian,whose family owns the indus-trial house.

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Cyclonic storm Titli has hadno impact in Jagatsinghpur

district after its landfall onThursday wee hours atGopalpur.

No loss of life was report-ed from any part of the district;only a few trees and electricpoles, including hutments incoastal areas, were damaged,said district Collector YaminiSarangi .

The cyclone, however, trig-gered heavy rainfall in the dis-trict. A total of 918 mm totalrainfall was recorded tillThursday.

Moreover, Erasama blockexperienced heavy rainfall of210 mm, followed by Balikuda

(136 mm), Raghunathpur(129mm), Kujanga (94mm),Naugaon (90 mm) and Biridiblock lowest (68 mm), theCollector informed.

About 13,923 people wereevacuated from low-lying areasof Erasama and Balikudablocks and were kept at multi-purpose cyclone shelters.

Dry and cooked foods andrelief stuffs were distributed toas many as 8,781 people.

They were to return home,after rainfall abated.Meanwhile, about 18 pregnantwomen spotted in differentcoastal villages were admittedin different hospitals includingthe District HeadquartersHospital for treatment duringpre-cyclone preparatory mea-sures.

Power supply and roadcommunication were partiallydisrupted in interior pockets of

Eurasia block. Efforts were onto clear roads and restorepower supply in affected areasat the earliest, the Collectorsaid.

The NDRF and ODRAFteams were positioned in a fewvulnerable points in the coast,including Paradip, undersupervision of the civil admin-istration and police onWednesday.

The Civil SupplyDepartment officials raidedmarket places in Kujanga andTirtol blocks and checkedprices of essential commoditiesto check hoarding, black mar-keting and abnormal hiking ofprices.

ADM SachidanandaSahoo, Sub Collector MPMohanty, Emergency OfficerManorama Jali and DIPROKaminiranjan Patnaik werepresent.

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There should be proper mea-sures against theft of tim-

ber, running of illegal sawmills, poaching of wild animals,and violation of laws related toforest and environment. Thegrowing of trees helps in car-bon assimilation process andprevents disastrous situationscreated by nature also. Theatmospheric humidity is alsoretained.

So, the general citizens areto be prompted to plant treesin their private as well as theircommunal land. The Timber

Transit Rules of the OrissaForest Act 1972 have to be sim-plified so that the tenants caneasily remove their trees fromtheir own fields for private usesand dispose of them.

Out of the total forestlandof the State, 33 per cent of landis bamboo forest; which comesto 18,000 sqkm. BesidesGovernment forests, there arealso private land, where variousplantations are made, includingbamboo. Bamboo is known asvery good timber of poor men.It is widely used in differentfarms in household matters inurban as well as in rural areas.The bamboo clump is alsoknown as very good assimila-tor of carbons as it has goodcrown coverage.

Hence, it acts as very goodcarbon sink. Bamboo yieldsvery good paper pulp havinglong fibre. It is a grass. Anotherlong fibre pulp rope inMayurbhanj district is Sabaigrass. This grass is procured bydifferent paper mills for pulp.

Now, the State Government isplanning to manufacture tim-ber and the products of timberfrom bamboos.

Not only the pulp of bam-boos but also the pulp of allwaste wood, all types of grass-es, sugarcane waste etc can beused as pulp out of which theflat-sheets can be prepared.The timber plates can be man-ufactured from such pulp-sheets.

The bamboo pulp-sheetscan be the substitute of timber.Again, bamboos can be slicedinto thin pieces and can bewoven into desired articles asgood as wood furniture. Thebamboo can be harvested overa very short period of 4 to 5years. This is definitely a verygood mission of the StateGovernment. Bamboo is sucha species, which can comeright from seashore to 1,500meter altitude.

So the propagation of bam-boo for economy and ecologi-cal purposes is welcome. The

forest fire damages a lot ofbamboo forests, which needsintensive care and silivicultur-al treatments. Again bamboohas peculiar biological behav-iour. Bamboo forests flower

gregariously in an interval of 10to 12 years.

The JK Paper Mill atRayagada made a bambooarboretum, where a number ofvarieties of bamboos from dif-ferent parts of India is collect-ed and grown. The science ofgrowing bamboo is very sim-ple. Our people in the rurallevel know well to grow bam-boos for their domestic uses.

The writer has seen per-sonally at Soro of Bhadrakdistrict 150 feet longSundarkania bamboo in thecoastal plain of northernOdisha. Similarly, we gathervast quantity of straws of paddyevery year after main harvest of

such crop. The husks of paddyalso go waste in huge quantityevery crop year. These wastescan to be utilised for various ofinitiatives under the ‘My GreenOdisha’ campaign. Straw board,

chipboard and husk board canbe prepared of paddy waste;which can be the substitutes oftimber in domestic uses. Againpaddy waste can be utilised forpreparation of organic com-post. We have vast waste mate-rials of organic products, whichare not utilised for constructivepurposes; such things, includ-ing the everyday domesticwaste, can be utilised for prepa-ration of organic manure.

Now, the climate changehas become major problemsnot only for Odisha or India,but also for entire globe. Thereasons of climate change aremany. Man is primarily respon-sible for nature’s furies.

Ecological restoration pro-gramme is now going on inOdisha. The rehabilitation ofdegraded forests is going onthroughout the State and avast fund is spent on the pro-gramme.

The degraded forests, boldhillocks, open forests, erodedcatchment areas, watershedland etc need proper rest, soiland moisture conservationpractices and inter planting ofindigenous plant species. Suchoperations are known as reha-bilitations of degraded forests.Beat-wise operations shouldbe carried out in collaborationwith the concerned villagerswho are supposed to be thestakeholders.

The “rooted water opera-tions” is another operationwhich comes under the scien-tific operations of rehabilitationof degraded forests. Such oper-ations can only work in theforests having the power ofcoppicing. It cannot work inhigh forest systems. So the pro-

tection and conservation mea-sures of degraded forests withsoil and moisture preserva-tion can develop the poten-tialities of the degraded forests.

Stream bank erosions canbe checked by massive planta-tions. There should be no sandlifting from the rivers, streamsetc, which invites stream-bankerosions, and widening ofrivers.

There should not be cut-ting of trees from the river-banks and stream banks; ratherthere should be plantation oftrees along the stream andriver banks for stabilising ofbanks. Ecology of streams,rivers, creeks and springs etc isquite different. The specieslike Neem, Jamun, Hinjal,Karanj, Arjuna, Patalieta andseveral evergreen plants com-monly grow well with certaingrasses like Kashatandi, Sabai,etc., which stabilize the steamembankment and help in pis-ciculture.

Generally, mangrove

forests are seen in the deposit-ed silt of river mouths.Altogether a special type ofvegetation is seen in the estu-arine land. The estuarine ecol-ogy should be protected to pre-vent sea-erosions. Similarly, allthe deltaic areas should bewell protected.

My Green Odisha pro-gramme can help the scientif-ic management of climatechange. The programmeshould always aim at sustain-able development goal, whichalso includes tribal and forestdwellers development, forestand natural resources man-agement, scientific and sys-tematic management of rainfedagriculture, practice of agro-forestry, social forestry, villageforestry and communityforestry. The climatic changescan only be brought undercontrol if the ecological balanceis maintained.

(The writer is a former for-est officer and an environmen-talist, M- 9937460649 )

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The teachers of Sambalpurdistrict and rest parts of

western region had a drearyday with no students in theirschools on Thursday.

Although the MetDepartment made earlier fore-cast that the impact of Titliwould not be that much aggres-sive in western Odisha, theState Government onWednesday, as a precautionarymeasure, had declared all theschools and AnganwadiCentres to remain closed fortwo days. But towards latenight of the same day, theheadmasters/headmistressesgot phone calls from theirseniors –BEOs and DEOs that

the holiday was only for stu-dents and not for the teachers.

Hence, the teachers wereasked to go to their schools, butthere was no work.

“There was no justificationfor declaring holiday forschools in western Odisha asthe impact of Titli was declaredto be ‘no dangerous’. Still theGovernment declared holidayas precautionary point of view.But we fail to understand whythey called us to come toschool for no specific works,”said a headmaster of the schoolof the town.

“Really life in school with-out students is totally monot-onous as the student-teacherrelationship can’t be describedin words. We have to spend anidle day today. And it willcontinue tomorrow .i.e. onFriday and we don’t know howto spend another day,” headded.

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taneous raids of Balangir dis-trict Assistant Commercial TaxOfficer (ACTO)Dhirendranath Mishra’s resi-dence and office on the allega-tions of acquisition of assetsdisproportionate to his knownsource of income.

Mishra’s triple storiedbuilding at Maha Laxmi Nagarin Balangir district and officechamber at Kantabanji weresearched and Rs 93, 04, 853including one triple storiedbuilding, one asbestos roofedhouse, four homestead plots,gold ornaments, two two-wheelers, bank and insurancedeposits, cash Rs 4,71,000 andcostly household articles weredetected. Further inquiry wasin progress.

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The Odisha police rescuedmany fishermen of Andhra

Pradesh who had been caughtin the storm while catchingfishing in the sea off Gopalpuron Wednesday night.

“About 150 fishermenalong with 35 trawlers stayed inthe sea near Gopalpur. In spiteof persuasion, they did notcome to the shore. Whencyclonic storm ‘Titli’ intensi-fied, they requested the policefor their rescue. A team beganan operation in the midnightand rescued 26 of them. The

operation was on for safe evac-uation of other fishermen,”said an official release.

DIGP, district Collectorand SP of Ganjam rushed to thespot in the midnight to rescuethem.

However, they were stuckfor some time as the road wasblocked due to a broken tree.As they reached, NDRF andODRAF teams under the lead-ership of Coast Guard startedrescue operation in the mid-night. By morning, 26 fisher-men were rescued and theoperation was on for safe evac-uation of rest of the fishermen.

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Six persons, including four ofa family, went missing after

their houses got swept away byfloodwaters of the Adangi riverfollowing heavy rains triggeredby the Cyclone ‘Titli’ in a vil-lage of Ganjam district onThursday.

The shocking incident wasreported from Bhutapankalvillage under Gajalbadi pan-chayat of Sorada block in thedistrict.

Reports said six personsincluding four of a family, acouple and their son anddaughter-in-law along withtwo other persons had takenshelter on the roof of the house

when the tragedy occurred.All of them went missing

after the house constructedunder Indira Awas scheme gotswept away in flood waters ofAdangi river following heavyrainfall in the area.

Later, Ganjam CollectorVijay Amruta Kulange imme-diately swung into action anddirected officials for rescueoperations. However, the ongo-ing rescue operations wereaffected due to inclementweather and heavy rains in thearea.

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Delay in payment of incen-tive leads to discontinua-

tion of toilet construction bythe beneficiaries under theGovernment scheme inGanjam district.

Quality of toilet construc-tion, where contactors/NGOsare hired to build, is poor.Consequently, there is low levelof usage and beneficiaries dis-satisfaction.

This was stated in a districtlevel workshop on citizenreport card on rural sanitation(Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin) was organised byProject Director DRDAGanjam at Chhatrapur onSeptember 30.

The Youth for SocialDevelopment conducted a sur-vey using Citizen Report Cardfor assessment of access, qual-ity, reliability, staff responsive-ness, corruption, satisfactionlevel and suggestions from thebeneficiaries, perspectives fromthe service providers and thephysical verification of ‘ruralsanitation’ including IHHL,sanitation in school, anganwa-di centre, healthcare institu-tions and other public institu-

tions under the Swachh BharatMission- Gramin.

The survey covered 10blocks, 20 Gram Panchayatsand 1,969 households andphysical verification conduct-ed of 61 schools (primary, UP,high schools), 77 AnganwadiCentres, 15 healthcare institu-tions (PHC, CHC and sub-cen-tre) and 22 Gram Panchayatoffices.

It revealed that the benefi-ciaries pay extra money toarrange materials due toabsence of ‘Rural Sanitary Mart’or materials being more expen-sive there. Low level of toiletusage due to poor awareness onKAP (knowledge, attitude and

practice) makes target of ‘opendefecation free’ village/GPtough, clarified the survey.

It agains told that overall 37per cent beneficiaries are dis-satisfied with SBM-GraminSchool Sanitation. Households,officials and observations con-firm high availability of toiletsin schools, separate toilets forgirls too and very few schoolshave separate toilets for teach-ers.

The reasons for not usingtoilet are lack of water, lack ofseparate toilets for boys andgirls and blocked toilets.

As many as 15 per centHHs children not allowed touse toilets in the schools and 80

per cent reported that theschool toilets were maintainedclean. More than 75% HHs sayhand washing facilities inschools are functional andaccessible to children of all agegroups.

Only little more than halfthe Anganwadi Centres havetoilets and availability of waterin toilets is very low. Handwashing facility is low too.

Officials say there are notoilets accessible for childrenwith special needs.

Besides, it said toilets areavailable in over 70 per cent ofthe health centres but avail-ability is much lower in PHCsand sub-centres.

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A17-year-old girl wasallegedly murdered by her

father and stepmother atBhauriabanki village under theTihidi police limits in Bhadrakdistrict on Wednesday night.

According to reports,Babaji Barik and his secondwife Basanti Barik used to tor-

ture Parbati Barik, his daugh-ter from his first wife.

On Wednesday night, thehusband-wife duo allegedlystrangled the girl. Hearing hergroan, the girl’s unclePrabhakar Barik rescued herand took her to hospital withthe help of villagers.

However, she was declareddead at the medical. On thebasis of a complaint filed byPrabhakar, police detained thetwo accused for questioning.

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The Bhartiya BikashParishad has urged the

Railways to fulfil its variousdemands, including extensionof three important trains andconstruction of new railwaylines, at the earliest.

Addressing a Press meetrecently, Parishad memberscriticised the Railway author-ities for neglecting southOdisha’s main city Brahmapurfor long.

Parishad presidentSurendra Panigrahi said peopleof Brahmapur have beendemanding for extending trainslike Rajdhani Express, SamparkKranti Express and LokmanyaTilak Express to Brahmapur,but in vain.

“The Railway authoritieshave taken a plea that thesetrains can’t be extended aswater facility is unavailable atBrahmpuar station for washingof trains. While Bhubaneswar-bound trains are being washedat nearby the Mancheswar rail-way station, the trains, whenextended, can be washed atnearby Sorada Road orJagannathpur or Golantharastations,” argued Panigrahi.

The Parishad also demand-ed a stoppage for Howrah-Pondichery weeklytrain at Brahmpaur and intro-duction of new train fromBrhampur to Ahmadabad in

view of large number of labour-ers from Ganjam working inSurat.

Other demands includedmaking Brahmapur a railwaydivision, construction of a newrailway line from Gopalpur toBalangir and from Brahmpuarto Digapahandi, Mohana andRayagada and construction ofnight shelters and public convenience outside theBrahmapur railway station.

Panigrahi informed thatmemorandums have alreadybeen sent to the Prime Ministerand the Chief Minster for fulfillment of the abovedemands

Among others, lawyer DrSiva Prasad Mishra, SaratChandra Behera, TrinathMoharana, Manas RanjanPatro, Sukanta Panda andSurjya Narayan Behera werepresent.

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The Puri district adminis-tration took a big respite on

Thursday after severe cyclonestorm ‘Titli’ weakened withno major effects on the coastalvillages.

No causality was reportedalong the beach from Astarangto Krusnaprasad blocks of thedistrict. However, the searemained violent with big tidescoming toward shore of Puribeach.

Since morning till eveningthe beach wore a deserted lookwith few tourists coming from

their hotels to the shore.Though the sky was complete-ly dark throughout the dayhowever, the rain started in theevening with increasing windspeed. The cyclonic storm alsohampered the visitors in theJagannath Temple with a fewpilgrims reportedly enteringthe shrine for darshan of theLords.

Looking at the weakeningstorm, the district administra-tion advised the people incyclone shelters to leave forhome. If people want they canstay one more day in the shel-ters, said the officials.

Deputy Collector (elec-

tion) Sumant Kar said to ThePioneer that total 20,417 peo-ple in 63 cyclone shelters werestaying and had been provid-ed cooked foods.

District Collector JyotiPrakash Das along with seniorofficials visited different placesalong Puri beach on Thursdayafternoon and supervised thesituation. He also met somepeople there and advised them

not to panic on rumour. Later,he convened a meeting of thesenior officials and collectedinputs from officials alreadydeputed to Astarang, Kakatpur,Puri Sadar, Puri Urban,Brahmagiri and Parikudblocks.

Sources said the storm hadno major effect on Chilka lakewith no causality reported by 8pm on Thursday. Wind blew

with high speed in the lakethroughout the day. No fisherwas found in Chilka as peradvisory given to them not toventure with their boat.

“Titli had no effect here.But wind speed was high,”informed IIC of Krunaprasadpolice station Dillip KumarSwain. Only a small hut inMalud island collapsed due tohigh wind, Swain told.

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Ahigh-level delegation com-prising Minaku ND

Jalanbad Aubin and MabiluMbyu Mukala Pius, Speakerand member, respectively, ofthe Democratic Republic ofCongo, a Central African State,and Mussi Nyamale Rosette,Cogo Ambassador to Indiaand others visited Joda to studythe mining-related activitiesin the area.

During their two-day touron Wednesday and Thursday,the team visited different

mines and the self-employ-ment training centre for dis-abled persons, the Youth Sportsand Training Academy andother welfare centres main-tained by the TISA (ThriveniIndustrial Security Academy).

Sources revealed that theteam was highly impressed bythe CSR activities of the TISAand invited the company toundertake such activities intheir country. Assistant vice-president (Security) of theThriveni Earth MoversDevendra Das escorted theteam.

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The anniversary of MaharajAgrasen was celebrated in

a grand manner in Belpahartown on Wednesday.

A large procession of theAgarwal Samaj was taken outin front of GumaderaJagannath Temple. A meetingwas organised in the premisesof the temple. The chief guestof the programme was formerpresident Utkal PrantiyaMarwari Yuwa Manch(UPMYM) MadhusudanSharma.

Sharma said MaharajaAgrasen had brought a majorsocial change by his revolu-tionary thoughts. He explainedthe importance of donatingorgans.

Assistant secretaryUPMYM, Zone 4 Rajiv Sharmacalled upon people to followAgrasen’s teachings. Amongothers, Belpahad MunicipalityChairman ParshuramSahu,Agrasen Sammitee pres-ident Bishwanath Agarwal andsocial activist Arjunlal Bondiyajoined.

The winners of variouscompetitions held earlier wereawarded.

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The Taluk Legal ServicesCommittee, Khordha

observed the World MentalHealth Day here on Wednesdayunder the chairmanship ofDistrict and Sessions Judge-IDhanurdhar Senapati.

On the occasion, a legalawareness camp was organisedin which Khordha CourtSenior Civil Judge BikashChandra Dey, JMFC Saswati

Mahapatra spoke about theamendments of differentlaws for mentally-weak chil-dren.

Senior lawyer AshokKumar Mahapatra, BhairabiClub president BaikunthaMartha, Tangi ZP Member Krishna Mandata andKhordha DSMO Bharati Routalso spoke about the relevantlaws. Committee memberBasant Kumar Satpathy coor-dinated the programme.

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Five youths under Boneisubdivision of Sundargarh

district were arrested onThursday allegedly for rapinga girl inside a forest on Mondayevening. The cousin brother ofthe victim was also beatenseverely by the miscreants.

According to sources, the19-year-old victim , a residentunder K Balang police stationunder Bonei sub division,along with his cousin brotherhad gone to Renjda village toattend a ceremony on Mondayevening. While they werereturning home in a bikethrough Jalkatu forest, threemiscreants had interceptedtheir bike.

When the cousin brotherof girl stopped the bike, themiscreants had started beatinghim severely following which

in fear he ran away into the for-est.

Thereafter, two youths outof the three, had forcibly takenthe girl inside the forest. Ayouth had gone in a bike andbrought another two youthsto the spot. The five youthsthen had forcibly gang rapedthe girl. Later, the miscreants

had fled the spot. On Tuesday,they lodged a complaint in KBalang police station. Thearrestees were identified asDhansen Singh(24), ShankarSingh(21), Sahadev Singh(23),Rabindra Singh (23), all resi-dent of Renjda village andUmesh Singh(24), a residentof Swayamba village.

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With the 14th edition ofMen’s Hockey World

Cup 2018 coming up inBhubaneswar in just a fewweeks, Chief Minister NaveenPatnaik on October 10 inau-gurated a new and renovatedKalinga Stadium, the venue ofthe game.

Minister Sports and YouthServices Chandra SarathiBehera, DevelopmentCommissioner R Balakrishnan,Special Secretary to CM VKarthikeyan Pandian, SecretarySports and Tourism VishalDev, Director Sports and YouthServices R Vineel Krishna andothers were present.

With an aim to providebest of the sports infrastruc-ture, the Odisha Governmenthas remodelled the KalingaStadium into an internationalsports complex providing facil-ities for all kinds of sports andgames.

Both practice and mainpitches have been re-laid withnew blue turf as per the FIHspecification.

The stadium capacity hasalso been increased from 7,500to 15,000, adding two newgalleries in the north and southends of the stadium for thespectators.

Inaugurating the remod-eled stadium, Patnaik said,“This is a momentous occasionfor all of us in Odisha and weare proud to give India a world-class sporting complex in theform of Kalinga Stadium. Weare excited and all set to hostthe Odisha Men’s Hockey

World Cup 2018 next month atthe Kalinga Stadium. I amconfident that it will be one ofthe many international levelssporting events that will be heldin the state.”

"With the stadium nowofficially inaugurated, one cansee the commitment and tire-less effort that has gone intomaking the iconic KalingaStadium truly one of the bestvenues for hockey in the world.With increased capacity andcomfortable seating arrange-ment for spectators as well asan upgraded flood light systemamong many other key featuresthat have been given a face-lift,we can expect the OdishaHockey Men's World Cup,Bhubaneswar 2018 to be anextravagant event and I am sure

that hockey fans from acrossthe globe will carry with themgreat memories from here."said Hockey India presidentMohd Mushtaque Ahmad.

Also, as a part of the inau-gural ceremony, hockey legendsDilip Tirkey and Dhanraj Pillayled their respective teams com-prising of the current stars of

team India who enthralled fanswith an exhibition match. Itwas a great opportunity for theyounger players to get a chanceto play along with their heroes.

Hockey legend SandeepSingh was also present provid-ing special match commentary.

The match ended withteam Dilip Tirkey edging outteam Dhanraj Pillay with scoreline of 2-1.

Speaking on the occasion,Tirkey said, “It was a thrillingexperience to lead my team insuch an entertaining clash.”

“Odisha has always been ahot bed for hockey with theKalinga Stadium being thehome. It was a great first matchwith Dilip’s team and hope theboys got a good feel of the newturf,” said Pillay.

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The three-day long DAVZonal Sports Meet organ-

ised by the DAV Public SchoolChandrasekharpur concludedhere on Wednesday in whichthe DAV Chandrasekharpuremerged as the champion andDAV Unit 8 was the runners-up in shooting.

The DAV Pokhariput wasthe champion and DAVKalinganagar was runners-upin skating. In boys swimmingthe LR DAV became the cham-pion and DAV CDA Cuttack

was runners-up, in girls theDAV CDA emerged as cham-pion and DAVChandrasekharpur as runners-up.

While in boys badmintonthe DAV MCL Kalinga becamethe champion and DAVBandhbahal was runners upand in girls the DAV Burlaemerged as champion andDAV Chandrasekharpur asrunners up. The best teamwould represent the State at theDAV National Meet scheduledto be held in next month.

DAV Regional officer Dr

KC Satapathy, DAVChandrasekharpur coordinatorIndira Bhattacharya, academ-

ic supervisor Pramod KumarPatra attended as guests andfelicitated the winners.

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The Union Ayush Ministry's bid to ropein Public Sector Units (PSUs) to open

hospitals exclusively providing tradition-al systems of medicine including Ayurvedaacross the country has started deliveringresults.

In a first, and what can be called as ashot in the arm for the Ministry, theGovernment's Navratna, National ThermalPower Corporation (NTPC) has agreed toset up Ayush centres in five cities —Kayamkulum in Alappuzha district ofKerala, Koldam (Bilaspur in HimachalPradesh), Tapovan (Rishikesh inUttarakhand), Vindhyanchal and Farakkain West Bengal.

"The nitty-gritty is being finalized," asenior official from the Ministry saidadding that talks are on with other PSUstoo in this direction.

He said that efforts are on to persuadethe PSUs to set up the Ayush Centres inthe remote areas where medical facilities

are almost nil or inaccessible. "There hasbeen demand for the traditional systemsof medicines as these are playing vital rolein providing health care to large section ofpopulation, especially in developing coun-tries like India.

"This is because of the affordability ofpeople to buy Ayurvedic medicines that areof low cost, compared to that of Allopathy,"the official added.

He attributed growing demand foralternative medicines also to the increasingawareness among the public regarding theefficacy of Ayush, availability of scientifi-cally validated ayush medicines like anti-diabetes drug BGR-34 (developed by CSIR)

and Ayush Ministry's emphasis on goodmanufacturing practices in the sector.

The Ministry is also pushing for pro-grammes such as training of trainers fororientation of ASHAs/ANMs to the poten-tial of AYUSH with respect to general well-ness and preventive health care includingprevention of common ailments like dia-betes and popularizing common ayurve-da and yoga remedies/practices for themanagement of such illnesses.

Last year, the Centre had approvedproposals for setting up of 100 Ayurveda,Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy(AYUSH) hospitals across the country.During the last three years, theGovernment had also approved posting of4000 AYUSH doctors in primary healthcentres across the country.

In fact, the National Health Policy,2017 has also envisaged the integration ofthe Ayush system in the NHP and con-tribution in larger aspect including theNon- Communicable Diseases, the officialadded.

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More than 900 prisonershave been released from

jails across India under anamnesty scheme announcedas part of the year-long cele-bration to mark the 150thbirth anniversary of MahatmaGandhi beginning October 2,the Home Ministry saidThursday.

Women convicts aged 55years and above and male con-victs of 60 years or more, whohave served half of their sen-tence, and a few other cate-gories of prisoners were eligi-ble for the amnesty schemeannounced by the NarendraModi government.

In the week-long firstphase of special remission toprisoners, the states and Unionterritories, after obtaining theapproval of the competent

authority in their jurisdictions,have released more than 900prisoners, a home ministrystatement said.

In the second and thirdphase, prisoners will bereleased on April 6, 2019 andOctober 2, 2019 respectively.

The following categories ofprisoners are eligible for specialremission: women convicts of55 years of age and above, whohave completed half of their

actual sentence period, trans-gender convicts of 55 years ofage and above, who have servedhalf of their actual sentenceperiod, male convicts of 60years of age and above, whohave completed 50 per cent oftheir actual sentence period.

Physically challenged ordisabled convicts with 70 percent disability and more whohave completed 50 per cent oftheir actual sentence period, ter-

minally-ill convicts, convictedprisoners who have completedtwo-third (66 per cent) of theiractual sentence period are alsoeligible under the scheme.

Special remission scheme isnot available to prisoners whohave been convicted for anoffence for which the sentenceawarded is death or wheredeath sentence has been com-muted to life imprisonment,cases of convicts involved inserious and heinous crimeslike dowry death, rape, humantrafficking and convicted underPOTA, UAPA, TADA, FICN,POCSO Act, MoneyLaundering, FEMA, NDPS,Prevention of Corruption Act,etc.

While releasing the pris-oners, they will be gifted booksrelating to Mahatma Gandhiand will be provided suitablecounselling.

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US sanctions will not be animpediment to Indo-

Russia defence deals, and NewDelhi and Moscow could soonsign agreements on frigatesand Kalashnikov assault rifles,Russian Ambassador to IndiaNikolay Kudashev saidThursday.

Describing the recently-inked USD 5.4 billion S-400missile defence system deal asthe "largest contract" in the his-tory of Indo-Russia ties, he saidit was one of the "speediest"agreements to be signedbetween the two countries andthere were no protracted nego-tiations.

The implementation of the

contract, signed duringPresident Vladimir Putin's visitfrom October 4-5, would startin 2020 and would last for fiveyears, he said.

"In the coming months,

you can expect more deals.Talks are on, this is the normalprocess. We hope that withintwo-three months... We couldsoon have a deal on frigates, itis very much on the agenda of

the two sides, and we couldsoon have a deal on theKalashnikov assault rifles," theenvoy told a select group ofjournalists here.

"Yes," Kudashev saidemphatically, when askedwhether it would be right tostate that Countering America'sAdversaries Through SanctionsAct or CAATSA would not putpressure on India and Russiafor further defence deals.

His remarks come just aday after US President DonaldTrump said India would soon"find out" if the punitiveCAATSA sanctions apply to itover its USD 5 billion dealwith Russia to purchase the S-400 Triumf air defence sys-tem.

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The Supreme Court onThursday issued contempt

notice against three directors,including the CMD, ofAmrapali group for defyingvarious court orders andsought their reply in fourweeks.

A bench of Justices UU Lalitand DY Chandrachud asked thethree Amrapali directors — AnilKumar Sharma, Shiv Priya andAjay Kumar to present them-selves before SHO of NoidaSector 62 tomorrow before 8 AM.

It directed the Noida policeto take them to the sealedproperties where the docu-ments of the group's 46 com-panies will be catalogued.

The apex court also direct-ed Noida SSP to take the threedirectors to hotel Park Ascentafter 6 pm where their cell-phones will be seized and theyshall spend nights in the hotelfor the next 15 days, instead ofpolice lock up.

The top court said they willremain under police surveil-lance confined to the hotel.

It also said that the sealed

properties of Amrapali groupin Noida and Greater Noidawill be open from 8 AM to 6PM for cataloguing of docu-ments for next 15 days.

The bench asked the twoforensic auditors Ravi Bhatiaand Pawan Kumar Aggarwalcomplete the task of auditingthe balance sheet and affairs of46 Amrapali group companiesin next ten weeks time.

Earlier in the day the grouphad informed the apex courtthat its nine properties inNoida, Greater Noida as alsoRajgir and Buxar in Bihar havebeen sealed in compliance withthe court's order.

The apex court had yes-terday ordered the sealing ofnine properties of the embat-tled real estate company afterthe three directors, who are inpolice custody, said the docu-ments related to the group's 46firms were stored there.

The three directors hadmoved an application beforethe court stating that they werewilling to hand over all docu-ments but the police wasunaware about which oneneeded to be seized.

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The Supreme Court onThursday was apprised by

a super-speciality hospital herethat Uttar Pradesh politicianDP Yadav, facing life term inthe MLA murder case, wouldundergo spinal surgery onOctober 19.

Yadav was awarded lifeimprisonment by a DehradunCBI court in 2015 for his rolein the murder of MahendraSingh Bhati, an MLA fromGhaziabad's Dadri area. Thelawmaker was shot dead atDadri railway crossing inDecember 1992.

Yashoda SuperspecialityHospital at Ghaziabad, in itsmedical report filed in pur-suance of an earlier order, tolda bench headed by Chief JusticeRanjan Gogoi that Yadav's viralfever has gone now and hewould be operated upon byusing local anaesthesia onOctober 19.

The bench, also compris-ing Justices S K Kaul and K MJoseph, considered the reportand extended the interim bailof the controversial politicianfor undergoing the surgery. It

also directed the hospital tofurnish a fresh report onOctober 22 and fixed the mat-ter for hearing a day after.

After perusing the report,the court today said thesurgery, which was said to bea complicated one, can be donethrough laproscpoic method byusing local anaesthesia.

Earlier, the apex court haddirected the hospital to furnisha report whether Yadav was fitto undergo spinal surgery andhad cautioned him against tak-ing any "undue advantage".

The bench, which had ear-lier granted an interim bail for15 days to Yadav for undergo-ing pre-operation tests, hadtaken strong note of the factthat the tests have not beendone on the ground that he washaving viral fever and hadwarned that it would send himback to jail.

Yadav, whose appeal in theUttarkhand High Court againstthe 2015 trial court verdict ispending, had moved the topcourt for grant of bail forundergoing the surgery.

The High Court, on June14 this year, had rejected thebail plea of Yadav.

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Concerned with the rise ininstances of urban flood-

ing in the country, the Ministryof Housing and Urban Affairs( MoHUA) is bringing guide-lines on how cities should dealwith such a situation. TheMinistry has asked theNational Institute of UrbanAffairs (NIUA) to prepareguidelines to prevent urbanflooding.

The comprehensive assess-ment of losses by theGovernment during the peri-od between 1953 and 2017states that overall 256.150 mil-lion hectares of crops worth Rs1.09 lakh crore and over 8crore houses worth Rs 53,576crore were damaged while over6 crore cattle and 1 crore liveswere lost during the six -and-a-half decades. In all, the floodshave affected over 20 crorepeople so far.

According to Housing andUrban Affairs MinisterHardeep Singh Puri, there hasbeen an increasing trend ofurban flood disasters in thecountry in the past few yearsand the ministry has asked theNIUA ( National Institute ofUrban Affair ) to put togetherfacts on the recent floods, be itin Kerala or Kashmir, and

hold talks with experts to lookat the causation.

"During Kerala flood, theurban flooding issues wereraised again on whether we areprepared sufficiently to dealwith situation," Puri said afterattending a workshop on'Urban Flood Resilience' whereexperts suggested a number ofways to tackle the issue. Theworkshop was organised by theNIUA.

The minister said thatthere is need to devise a systemto anticipate natural disaster

and make preparations accord-ingly to deal with it. As perprimary estimate, Kerala floodcaused damage of assets overRs 20, 000 crore.

According to the ministry,recommendations to be drawnup to tackle urban floodingwill be based on categoriessuch as early warning for nat-ural disaster, preparedness foremergency and planning fordisaster reduction.

An official of the NIUAsaid once the recommendationsare drawn up, they will be sent

to states. NIUA Director JaganShah stressed on the need forbetter coordination betweendifferent departments in statesduring natural disaster.

The government datashows that on an average, over1,600 people die every year dueto floods, affecting nearly 32million people. More than92,000 cattles are lost everyyear, seven million hectares ofland is affected (16 percent ofthe total flood prone area), anddamage is over Rs 5,600 crore.Floods resulted in loss of 0.86percent of the total GDP in the1970s and 1980s.

Officials of MoHUA saidthat the NDMA (national dis-aster management authority)panel, set up in the wake of the2005 Mumbai floods, held thaturban flooding is a phenome-non distinct from rural flood-ing. Hence, the panel said, itneeds to be dealt with by theministry in charge of urbanaffairs through an urban flood-ing unit headed by an officerat the level of joint secretary.

In July 2012, the Ministryof Home Affairs had issuedorders designating the urbanaffairs ministry as the nodalministry for urban flooding,but since then there has beenno movement to make it oper-ational.

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Delhi will soon get 17 lakhnew houses that will be

able to accommodate 76 lakhpeople. The Ministry ofHousing and Urban Affairs(MoHUA) has finally approvedthe Delhi DevelopmentAuthority (DDA) ambitiousplan 'land pooling policy'.

Union Housing and UrbanAffairs Minister Hardeep SinghPuri on Thursday announcedthat he has signed the landpooling policy. The policy hasbeen hanging fire for five years.The policy covers urbanizableareas of urban extensions in 95villages. Formulated with anaim to provide affordable hous-ing in Delhi, the policy is alsoexpected to trigger economicdevelopment and generate onelakh jobs.

As part of the policy, DDAwill act as a facilitator and plan-ner and the process of poolingand development will be takenup by developer entities or con-sortiums. Sources said that DDAhas received 734 suggestions on

land pooling policy. Accordingto MoHUA officials, the policyhas been simplified further andDDA will now act as facilitator,regulator and planner and forthe uniform distribution of landto respective landowners; DDAprepares draft policy and regu-lations.

"A minimum two hectaresof land will be required bydeveloper entity to apply forthis policy. Each entity or landowner should have valid andlawful owner of the land par-cel proposed for pooling," thepolicy said.

Several farmers who havemade consortium to get bene-

fit from land pooling policy, isnow worried with this new reg-ulation which make themimpossible to avail the benefit.

The policy further statesthat differential land return intwo categories has been replacedwith uniform division of landon 60:40 basis. The policy cov-ers greenfield areas in five zones,including J, K-1, L, N and P-II,which come under the MasterPlan of Delhi-2021 (MPD).

DDA has, however,reduced the earlier floor arearatio (FAR) of 400 to 200 inview availability of water,requirement of land for phys-ical and social infrastructureand impact on environment. Asa result, instead of the project-ed 24 lakh dwelling units, DDAnow expects 17 lakh dwellingunits to come up in areasdeveloped under the land pool-ing policy.

The land pooling policywas notified by the MoHUA inSeptember 2013 while the reg-ulations for operationalisationof the policy were approved inMay 2015 by the Ministry.

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With 8,00,000 people killing them-selves every year, suicide is the sec-

ond leading cause of death globally among15-29 year olds while half of all mental ill-ness begins by the tender age of 14.However, what is a matter of concern, asper the World Health Organisation(WHO), is that mental health is yet tobecome a priority for Governments giventhat the sector currently receives lessthan 1 per cent of global aid.

Ringing alarm bells, the WHO haswarned that while presently mental healthconditions cost the world US $ 2.5 trilliona year , the figure is expected to balloon toUS $ 6 trillion by 2030 if timely steps arenot taken to check mental health disorders.

In India, mental health disorders andillness are on increase mainly due to chang-ing social dynamics, taboos, unawarenessand lack of timely and adequate treatment.As many as 80 per cent of people with anyform of mental or substance do not seektreatment in India, a new report on men-tal health released by Lancet Commissionhas said.

The earlier reports published in Lancettoo have pointed out that the burden of thedisease in India increased from 3 per centin 1990 to 6 per cent in 2013, whereas inChina mental, neurological and sub-

stance-use disorders, accounted for 7 percent of disability-adjusted life years in 1990and the percentage increased to 11 per-centage by 2013.

Though the report acknowledgedIndia's efforts to get in place the landmark

mental health care bill in 2017 entitlingpeople with mental disorders to accesscomprehensive medical and social care ser-vices in community settings, it said thequality of care continues to be poor formental health patients.

There is a severe shortage of special-ists in India: just 4000 psychiatrists, 3500psychologists, and 3500 mental healthsocial workers. This is too low given that150 million Indians need mental healthcare. Just 30 million are seeking care.

The Lancet report says that "even whentreatment is sought, its quality is poor - theWorld Mental Health Surveys reported thatone in five people with depressive disor-der received minimally adequate treatmentin high-income countries, dropping to justone in 27 in LMICs (low and middleincome countries)."

We must work towards reducing thestigma and increasing awareness throughmedia. Also, we need to encourage peo-ple to come out and talk about it, said DrSmitha Deshpande, head of the depart-ment of psychiatry at Delhi-based Dr RamManohar Lohia Hospital.

According to 2015-16 National MentalHealth Survey (NMHS) survey, everysixth person in India needs mental healthhelp of some sort. Of all the age groups,it is the adolescents who need most helpwith mental health issues.

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Aslipper was thrown at ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar on

Thursday when he was attend-ing a JD(U) students wingprogramme Chhatra Sangam atBapu Sabhagar here. The slip-per thrown by a youth, how-ever, did not reach the targetand fell on the ground belowthe podium.

The incident created a sen-sation as it happened despitepresence of a crowd of partyworkers, youths and students.This is the first time that suchincident took place with theCM in Patna.

The youth was in no timepinned down by the partyworkers and security personneland taken to police station butafter a good thrashing by theparty workers. He was identi-fied as Chandan fromAurangabad and he reported-

ly told the police that he was infavour of reservation to uppercastes and supported Swarnagitation.

The chappal was thrownsoon after the CM with otherdignitaries sat on the podium.Bihar JD(U) presidentBashistha Narain Singh and

Energy Minister BijendraPrasad Yadav were sitting onhis either side but at thatmoment both were lookingother side. Only Nitish whowas setting his hairs, whichwere disturbed following gar-landing, with the fingers of hisboth hands. He looked at the

flying chappal and its fall butcontinued with what he wasdoing.

Neither the CM nor anyother leader mentioned thisincident. Nitish in his speechtold the students that knowl-edge of politics during studentlife is must because they haveto do politics at state or nation-al level. But, he added, it did notmean that they should quitstudies and pursue only poli-tics.

“The standard of today’spolitics has badly fallen anddegraded. Politics without ide-ology is a social sin. Withoutprincipled politics countrycould not be run on path ofprogress,” said Nitish whilehailing the philosophies ofGandhi, Lohia, Jaya PrakashNarayan and Karpoori Thakur.The programme was organisedto mark the birth anniversaryof JP.

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Due to the episode of attacks onmigrant labourers following rape of

an infant allegedly by a Bihari worker, ‘pol-itics over migrants’ has begun in Gujaratas Congress and its allied organisations arenow making allegations on Deputy ChiefMinister Nitin Patel for opposing migrantstudents.

Right from the first attack on Hindi-speaking workers, the ruling BJP is blam-ing on Congress party and its MLA fromRadhanpur constituency Alpesh Thakorfor provoking locals to spread terroramong the migrant labourers. Someprovocative speeches of Thakor havealso become viral in which he has beenseen spitting venom against the migrantsfor taking jobs of Gujaratis.

Over the past one week, Alpesh wason explaining mode, but now his sup-

porters belonging to ‘OBC, ST, SC ExtaManch’ have come on retaliation modeover the migrants issue alleging that in thepast Gujarat’s Deputy Chief Minister

Nitin Patel had opposed for giving admis-sion to students of other states in Gujarat’smedical colleges.

“If Patel could oppose students from

other States, he can also go againstmigrant workers. He is spreading the poi-son of regionalism in order to becomeChief Minister,” claimed vice-president ofOBC Ekta Manch Mukesh Bharvad,adding that the attacks on migrants arenothing but outcome of internal conflictsin Gujarat BJP. The Ekta manch is head-ed by Thakor.

Congress MLA from Bayad in NorthGujarat Dhavalsinh Zala said that GujaratGovernment could have started helplinewhen migrants were being attacked apartfrom relief camp in order to stop their exo-dus. Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee(GPCC) spokesman Jayrajsinh Parmaralleged that in the year 2015 Nitin Patelhad stated that poverty in the Stateincreased due to those people whomigrated from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.“This mentality of Patel clearly indicatesthat he is anti-migrants,” he added.

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Having registered a FirstInformation Report (FIR)

against senior actor NanaPatekar and three others basedon a complaint of sexualharassment lodged by actressTanushree Dutt, the Oshiwarapolice on Thursday beganinvestigations into the 10-year-old case.

Ahead of summoningPatekar and three othersaccused — choreographerGanesh Acharya, producerSamee Siddiqui and directorRakesh Sarang — for ques-tioning, the police will recordthe statements of witnesses inthe case in the coming days onthe incident that took place onthe sets of a film on March 26,2008.

“Before summoningPatekar and other accused inthe case for questioning, we willfirst record the statements ofthe witnesses in the case,” asenior police officer investi-gating the case said.

Accompanied by herlawyer Nitin Satpute, Tanushreevisited the Oshiwara policestation on Wednesday nightand recorded her statement incontinuation of a written com-plaint that she had lodged withthe same police station onOctober 6.

After she recorded herstatement, the Oshiwara policeformally registered an FIRagainst Patekar and three oth-ers under sections 354 (Assaultor criminal force to women

with intent to outrage hermodesty), 354-A (Assault oruse of criminal force withintent to disrobe her) and sec-tion 509 (word, gesture or actintended to insult the modestyo a woman) of Indian PenalCode.

In a related development,the Oshirwara police are look-ing into the complaint lodgedagainst Patekar by Tanushreeon October 6 under sections354 (Assault or criminal forceto women with intent to out-rage her modesty), 354-A(Assault or use of criminalforce with intent to disrobe her)and section 509 (word, gestureor act intended to insult themodesty o a woman) of IndianPenal Code.

Talking to media personsafter actress-client recordedher statement, Satpute said:“After our insistence, the policerecorded my client’s statementin English instead of Marathi.We wanted the police to recordher statement in English as wedid not want a repeat of what

happened ten years ago”. In2008, Tanushree’s father TapanKumar Dutta had filed a com-plaint with the Oshiwara policeand nothing much had beendone on the complaint then.

On behalf of Tanushree,her lawyer also submitted a 40-page statement on the incidentto the police and also theMaharashtra State Women’sCommission (MSWC).

In her complaint lodgedwith the police on October 6,Tanushree has alleged that theincident took place on March26, 2008 during the shooting ofa song in the film “Horn OkPleaseee” . The entire was to bepicturised on the actress, whilePatekar had only line in thesong. She said that before theshoot, she had made it clear tothe producer and director thatshe would not enact or performany lewd, vulgar or uncom-fortable steps in the particularsong.

“On the 4th day of theshoot, 26th March 2008, whileshooting was going on, Nana

Patekar’s behaviour was inap-propriate towards me. He wason the set despite his work inthe song being over and he wasgrabbing me by the arms andpushing me around on thepretext of teaching me how todance. When he was teachingindecently and unnecessarily,then I felt very uncomfortablebecause of his behaviour and Ifelt he has outraged my mod-esty,” Tanushree alleged.

“He (Patekar) told thechoreographer and other juniorartists to back away so that hecould teach me the dance stepsthrough he was not a choreo-grapher and he was notrequired during the choreog-raphy as per my previousrehearsals,” the actress added.

“After the incident, I wasunder tremendous shock, Isuffered psychological trauma,was unable to take up work,suffered huge monetary lossesin crores and therefore I decid-ed to take action through filmindustry by lodging a writtencomplaint with the Cine andTV Artistes Association. TheAssociation decided the matterand passed the order withoutconsidering my complaint forap0logy,” Tanushree stated inher police complaint.

In her complaint,Tanushreee had also namedchoreographer GaneshAcharya, producer SameeSiddiqui, director RakeshSarang and some MNS work-ers who allegedly damaged hercar and pulled her out of hercar, as co-accused.

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Days after he dismissedlightly and chose not to

comment on the TanushreeDutta-Nana Patekar row,senior Bollywood actorAmitabh Bachchan onThursday broke his silence onthe ongoing “Me Too” move-ment, by saying that "nowoman should ever be sub-jected to any kind of misbe-haviour or disorderly conduct,especially at her work place".

As he turned 76, Bachchanposted an interview on histwitter handle in which hesaid: “No woman should everbe subjected to any kind of mis-behaviour, or disorderly con-duct, especially at her workplace. Such acts should imme-diately be brought to the noticeof concerned authorities, andcorrective measures be taken,either through filing com-plaints or a recourse to law”

“Discipline and civic, socialand moral curriculums, shouldbe adopted at a very early edu-cational level. Women chil-dren and the weaker sections ofour society are the most vul-nerable. They need to be underspecial protective care,” Big Bsaid, in reply to a question.

“It has been most hearten-ing to see women representa-tions in most work vocations,on the increase in our country.It would be an irreparableblemish if we are not able toprovide them the welcomethey deserve and the dignity ofthe security of their presence,”the senior actor said.

It may be recalled thatBachchan had come in forsevere criticism after he madelight of a question on the alle-gations of sexual harassmentmade by Tanushree Duttaagainst Nana Patekar, by saying:"Neither is my name Tanushreenor is it Nana Patekar so howcan I answer your question?".

Early this week, Bachchan’sdaughter-in-law and actressAishwarya Rai Bachchan hadvoiced her opinion on the“MeToo” movement at anevent. “I have always spokenout, I spoke in the past, I amspeaking now, and I will con-tinue to speak. When it comesto helping women find theirvoice, find the strength, feel con-fident about sharing their sto-ries, it’s not about the currenttime. This has been going onsince a lot of time and I am gladit has found a certain momen-tum today,” Aishwarya had said.

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Reviving her old spat withHrithik Roshan, actress

Kangana Ranaut on Thursdayslammed her ex-boyfriend-actor by saying that “peoplewho keep wives as trophies andyoung girls as mistresses shouldbe boycotted”.

“There are men who makefalse promises of love and mar-riage to a girl to get them intoa relationship that is also a typeof harassment. There are mar-ried men who keep their wivesas trophies and keep young girlsas their mistresses likeHrithik...They lure young beau-tiful girls with the promise ofmarriage and later try to provethem mad. Nobody shouldwork with such people. Theyshould be boycotted," Kanganatold a news television channel.

Justifying the treatmentbeing meted out to film makerVikas Bahl, a former memberof the now dissolved PhantomFilms who has been accused ofsexual harassment by a coupleof actresses, Kangana said:"There are many people likeVikas Bahl, he is not the onlyone. We still have a lot of workto do so, we should not start the

celebrations as yet. We have along way to go. We have tomake this place (world)absolutely safe for woman".

Kangana’s commentsagainst Hritik came three daysafter the 44-year-old actortweeted: "It is impossible for meto work with any person ifhe/she is guilty of such gravemisconduct. I am away andhave access to only sporadicinformation. I have requestedthe producers of Super 30 totake stock of the apparent factsand take a harsh stand if needbe. This is not to be hushed orbrushed under the carpet. Allproven offenders must be pun-ished and all exploited peoplemust be empowered and givenstrength to speak up.”

Hritik’s comment came inrespect of Bahl, who is thedirector of Super 30, a biopic onthe life of mathematicianAnand Kumar and his educa-tional programme Super 30.

Incidentally, Kangana'sQueen co-star Nayani Dixit hadaccused Bahl of sexual mis-conduct. After a reported affairbetween the two during thefilming of Krrish 3, Kanganaand Hrithik have been engagedin a legal war.

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ISRO Chairman K Sivansigned memorandums ofunderstanding with CUJ ViceChancellor Ashok Aima andofficials of Central SpaceInstruments Organisation(CSIR-CSIO) to set up thecentre on Thursday.

Union Minister JitendraSingh was present during thesigning of the MoUs at CUJcampus in Samba.

The centre, named SatishDhawan Center for SpaceScience, is proposed to bespread on an area of about1,150 square metres.

The area of space applica-tion is of particular interest toJammu & Kashmir as its econ-omy and human lives areaffected by vegetation cover,forest area, snow, landslides,avalanches, ground water,cloud cover, which can bemonitored from space throughremote-sensing.

Also, considering therecurring natural calamities,requirement of strengtheningground-based observationalcapabilities of this region forweather and atmosphericresearch is of utmost impor-tant.

The centre will take care ofthe emerging geospatial andspace technology requirementsfor the development of theregion.

Union Minister Singh saidthe collaboration betweenISRO and CUJ was a landmarkachievement for Jammu &Kashmir.

Saying that ISRO wouldbecome a pan-India organi-sation with the establishmentof the centre, he urged theyouth to develop scientifictemper and interest in spaceresearch. PTI

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The much publicised bookLalu Leela authored by

Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modiwas released on Thursday on theoccasion of the birth anniversaryof Loknayak Jaya PrakashNarayan. Incidentally, both Laluand Modi were disciples of JPand product of his anti-corrup-tion movement.

But the book has docu-mented “corrupt” practices ofLalu and amassing of hugewealth and assets by him and hisfamily. Lalu and his wife RabriDevi remained Chief Ministeruninterrupted for 15 years. Lateron Lalu was Railway Minister inUPA 1 under Manmohan Singhfor five years.

“Lalu Pariwar is a Ghotalapariwar. He continued with hiscorrupt practices despite goingto jail and convicted in fodderscam. He implicated his entirefamily in corruption. Tejashwi

Prasad Yadav was just a kidwhen all these corruptions tookplace,” said Modi at the booklaunching function where sev-eral senior BJP leaders andUnion Ministers were present.The BJP is also likely to use thisbook in next election againstmain rival RJD.

Modi has alleged that formaking Ministers, MPs and leg-islators Lalu asked his partymen

to donate him acres of land.Those who complied includedRaghunath Jha and Kanti Singh,both former Union Ministers,said Modi with documentaryevidences. In order make blackmoney white Lalu coerced LalanChoudhary, a BPL person, rail-way khalasi HridyanandChoudhary and landless personsPrabhunath Yadav,Chandrakanta Devi andSubhash Choudhary. The docu-ments showed these people gift-ed their precious lands in thename of Lalu’s kin, said the BJPleader.

Modi further said that toamass benami land, Lalu mis-used his family as well as thefamilies of his married daughtersand transferred the landed prop-erties through them after him-self purchasing the plots in theirname and later transferred in thename of his kin.

“Lalu left behind RobertWadra in using shell companies

for grabbing properties. Heamassed properties not only forwife, sons and daughters buttheir next three generations.Lalu is the name of the greed foramassing more and more assets,”said Modi.

Hours before the release ofthe book the Government inten-sified security of Sushil Modi.Both Nitish and Modi were pre-sent at another function and theCM was seen calling the SeniorSP and DM of Patna and gavethem necessary directives.

There was no reaction fromLalu family on this book. Leaderof Opposition Tejashwi Yadavwho has a knack of tweeting onevery issue also remained silent.Bihar RJD president RamChandra Purbe said the bookwas a bunch of lies. “Modi isusing name of Lalu only toremain in the limelight. Theworld knows that Lalu is theman always ready to take on RSSand BJP,” he said.

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Arally to highlight the plight of the defencePSU Hindustan Aeronautics

Limited(HAL) in view of the controversy overHAL missing the contract to produce Rafalefighter jet by the State Congress Party has beencancelled. The State Congress had announcedthat on his visit to Bengaluru on SaturdayCongress president Rahul Gandhi will visitHAL and address the employees. HoweverGopal Sutar, Chief of Media Communications,HAL told reporters on Thursday, “There is nocommunication on Rahul Gandhi’s meetingwith the HAL employees in Bengaluru.”

Rahul was slated to meet HAL employeesin Bengaluru on 13 October. KarnatakaPradesh Congress Committee presidentDinesh Gundu Rao had said Rahul will talkto the employees of the HAL about the con-troversial deal and also address a rally inBengaluru. However on Thursday DineshGundu Rao denied Rahul Gandhi is comingto meet HAL employees but said he will hold

a discussion . He said "Event is being held by some peo-

ple to hold a discussion on HindustanAeronautics Ltd's contribution to India, any-one can participate in it including HALemployees. He's not coming to meet HALemployees."

Rahul Gandhi had ridiculed unionGovernment's flagship Skill India campaign as"S-Kill India" and alleged �30,000 crore was"stolen" from HAL in the Rafale deal and givento a man with "no skills" to make an aircraft.The Congress has been accusing PrimeMinister Narendra Modi of snatching jobs ofthe people of Karnataka by taking away thecontract from HAL. Rahul had been saying thathad HAL been selected in place of RelianceDefence it could have generated employmentto scores of unemployed youth in the State.

The BJP has dismissed all allegations asfalse. Modi had announced the procurementof 36 Rafale fighters after holding talks withthen French president Francois Hollande on10 April, 2015, in Paris.

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PNS: After inciting violence by hisprovocative speech against migrantlabourers, repentant Congress MLAon Wednesday initiated Sadbhavnafast. Alpesh Thakor has also invit-ed Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradeshand Bihar to join him saying thatGujarat’s image is being tarnishedand hence he decided to go onSadbhavna fast. He also claimed thatthere was no attack on migrantlabourers but some people are cre-ating panic using social media.“Neither me nor the social organi-sations in which I am associatedwould ever support regionalism,”said Alpesh.

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PNS: Reacting fast on allegations made against DyCM Patel, Gujarat’s senior Minister BhupendrasinhChudasama said that all the allegation madeagainst Patel were baseless as Nitinbhai is leader ofeveryone residing in Gujarat.

“From the beginning Congress is known fordivisive politics. Everyone in Gujarat knows thatwho is provoking violence against migrants as thenames revealed in crimes against labourers eitherassociated from Congress or Alpesh led organisa-tions,” said Chudasama, alleging that Congress MLAAlpesh Thakor is trying to disturb peaceful envi-ronment of the state as his anti-migrants speech pro-voked people to attack on Hindi-speaking workers.According to him any citizen of India has right towork in Gujarat along with the local employees asper their eligibility and skills.

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Security forces on Thursday shotdead a top-ranking Hizbul

Mujahideen terrorist Mannan BashirWani along-with an associate in northKashmir’s Kupwara district whileunknown gunmen shot dead a sepa-ratist activist in southern Shopian dis-trict.

Wani was emerging as a popularterrorist across the Valley for his edu-cational background and scholarlydiscourses he had recently engagedhimself in.

The separatists have called for ashutdown across the valley on Fridayto mourn Wani’s killing while severalmainstream leaders including formerChief Minister Mehbooba Mufti haveregretted his death.

Sources said Wani and his associ-ate were trapped in a residential housein Shatgund Bala village in Mawar beltof north Kashmir’s Kupwara districtearly on Thursday. The area was cor-doned off by troops of 30 RashtriyaRifles and counterinsurgency police ona specific input that led to exchange offire.

Police said two terrorists werekilled in the shootout and one of themwas identified as Manan Bashir Wani,who joined the terrorist ranks last yearafter quitting his doctoral research ingeology department of Aligarh MuslimUniversity. Wani had written two arti-cles in past three months explaining hisdecision to quit studies and joining theseparatist movement in Kashmir.

The authorities filed a case againsta news gathering agency that published

his first article on website. The agencylater pulled the article down. Wani cir-culated his second article throughsocial media, which became an instanthit.

Soon after the news about thedeath of two terrorists spread, violentclashes erupted in parts of Kupwaraand Handwara.

The authorities announced closureof schools and colleges in northKashmir parts and several restivepockets of south Kashmir.

Wani’s associate who died in thegunfight was identified as AshiqHussain Zargar, a resident of Tulwarivillage in Langate.

Sources said that tens of thousandsof people joined the funeral prayers ofthe slain terrorist who was rankedamong the most-wanted cadre ofHizbul Mujahideen outfit.

The Joint Resistance Leadership(JRL), a grouping of separatist leadersSyed Ali Geelani, Mirwai Umar Farooqand Yasin Malik called for a valley-wideshutdown on Friday to mourn Manan

Wani’s death.“Alas! heard the tragic news of

#MananWani’s Martyrdom and of hisassociates! Deeply pained that we losta budding intellectual and writer likehim, fighting for the cause of self-deter-mination. JRL appeals to people toobserve a complete #Shutdown tomor-row to pay homage to him,” Mirwaizwrote on twitter.

Former Chief Minister MehboobaMufti termed the killing as “loss” andurged to resolve the Kashmir issuethrough dialogue with all stakeholdersincluding Pakistan.

“Today a PhD scholar chose deathover life & was killed in an encounter.His death is entirely our loss as we arelosing young educated boys everyday,” she said.

“It is high time that all the politi-cal parties in the country realise thegravity of this situation and try to facil-itate a solution through dialogue withall the stakeholders including Pakistanto end this bloodshed,” Mehboobawrote in another tweet. Wani took uparms during Mehbooba led PDP-BJPcoalition in the state.

Legislator Sheikh Rashid said thekilling of Manan Wani negatesGovernor Satya Paul Malik’s claim thatwe should focus on eliminating mili-tancy rather killing terrorists. Rashidrepresents Langate constituency wherethe encounter took place.

“Rather celebrating the killing andusing bullets and pallets to dispersethousands of protesters at theencounter site, the Government shouldintrospect as to what forces masses toplay with their lives,” he said.

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Aware of the saffron outfit’salleged “nuisance value” the

Trinamool Congress Government iskeeping close watch on the prepa-rations for the proposed BJP RathYatras in December. According tothe ruling party sources local lead-ers to the panchayat level havebeen “alerted about the kinds of mis-chief that can take place during theYatras.”

Though the BJP will not be ableto derive any special mileage fromsuch yatras in Bengal, “our workershave been asked to keep a close vigilbecause this is an election year,” StateMinister Firhad Hakim has said.

Party leader and Rajya SabhaMP Sukhendu Shekhar Roy has alsosaid that the Yatra would be a fail-ure in a politically seasoned Statelike Bengal.

“Earlier yatras were take outunder the leadership LK Advani. Butit was not successful in Bengal. Thistime also it will fail here as the peo-ple of Bengal do not like commu-nal politics,” Roy said.

Another leader and MinisterSadhan Pandey said Bengal stillcherished its renaissance valuesand would never allow outlandishphilosophy to make home in Statepolitics. “Bengal is a different ballgame; that they will soon under-stand. People of this State will justreject such communal gimmicks,”Pandey said.

When asked whether theGovernment was keeping watchon elements who might try to ignitecommunal flare, a senior leader andMinister said “no mischief will betolerated and those who committhem will be shown their places.”

With the 2019 general electionsless than a year away the BJP hasdecided to take out three RathYatras in the State. These Yatras willbe led by top BJP leaders includingparty president Amit Shah, AssamChief Minister Sarwananda Sonowaland his UP counterpart YogiAdityanath.

While Shah will lead his Yatrafrom Birbhum, the UP ChiefMinister will start his Yatra fromGanga Sagar Islands. The thirdYatra will start from Coochbehar inNorthernmost Bengal borderingAssam and will be led by the ChiefMinister of the neighbouring State.

“The Yatras will be taken out inprotest against Trinamool Congress’reign of terror, its appeasementpolicy and continuing infiltrationthrough Bangladesh border,” BJPState leader Samik Bhattacharyasaid.

The Yatras will end up inKolkata and eventually culminateinto the proposed mega rally sched-uled to be held at the historicBrigade Parade Ground in Kolkata.The date of the rally which will beaddressed by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has however notbeen given by the party.

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While V Narayanasamy,the Chief Minister of

Puducherry is campaigningagainst her day in and day outalleging that Kiran Bedi, theLieutenant Governor is notcooperating with theGovernment in implementingwelfare measures, the unde-terred Bedi is going around theUnion Territory making surethat the infrastructure worksare implemented and the entireregion is maintained neat andclean.

A day after Narayanasamywent public over Bedi’s refusalto increase the age limit to 24of police constables underclause 3 of the PoliceRecruitment Rules, theLieutenant Governor launcheda massive programme with theassistance of a corporate groupto desilt the entire irrigationchannels in Puducherry.

The project named“Mission Puducherry WaterRich” will ensure that the clean-ing and desilting of all the 23irrigation channels would beimplemented with the activecooperation of donors.

“This will save theGovernment crores of rupeeswhile the donors will be hon-oured with Swachchhta Hi

Sewa Awards on this year’sDiwali Eve,” said a release fromBedi’s office.

Desilting the 11.3 km longSellangal Feeder Canal at a costof �7 lakh would revitalize sixvillages and 900 acres of farmlands would get irrigationpotential. This will alsoimprove the ground water tablefor agriculture sector as well asthe industrial hub.

The Lt Governor launchedthe desilting works onThursday by performing thetraditional Bhumi Puja andasked the donors to make surethat the desilting works becompleted before the com-mencement of the monsoon.She also asked the engineeringauthorities of Tamil NaduGovernment who were presentduring the function to extendcooperation to their counter-parts in the union territory forthe speedy completion of theworks

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The coalition Government ofJD(S) and Congress in

Karnataka suffered a majorjolt on Thursday as primaryand Higher education MinisterN Mahesh has resigned fromHD Kumaraswamy Cabinet.

N Mahesh is the only BSPMLA from Kollegala con-stituency and became Ministerin HD Kumaraswamy’s Cabinet.Just four months after formationof a fragile coalitionGovernment of JD(S) andCongress led by HDKumaraswamy, Maheshresigned giving personal reason.The formation of coalitionGovernment in Karnataka alsobecame a short-livedOpposition unity called

Mahaghatbhandan which fiz-zled out later as both BSP supre-mo Mayawati and SP came outagainst the Congress. After hisresignation he also said hewould continue to supportJD(S) and not the Congress.

According to sourcesMahesh resigned from theCabinet after Mayawati askedhim to resign as it was againstBSP’s principal to be part of anypower with the congress.Mahesh had a meeting withMayawati on Tuesday and it wasmuch anticipated. Accordingto sources he would be contest-ing from Chamarajanagarareserve constituency againstCongress in the ensuing gener-al elections in 2019.

In political circles the newsis abuzz that it was a political

plot created by Devegowda tocontrol the warring congressand its leader Siddaramaiah.

Sources close to ChiefMinister Kumaraswamy saidMayawati asked him to dropMahesh, as he'd made unwant-ed comments that it's becauseof him that the BSP won a seatin Karnataka. The CM didn'tact on that. Today, she instruct-ed Mahesh to step down.

In another developmentformer Prime Minister andJanata Dal (S) NationalPresident H D Devegowda hassaid the Opposition partiesjoining hands against the BJPhad begun in Karnataka, butformation of a grand allianceagainst the saffron party at thenational level was highly'doubtful'.

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Banwarilal Purohit, Governorof Tamil Nadu, literally left

the rationalists and atheistsDravidian politicians in the Statespellbound on Thursday by par-ticipating in the ThamarabharaniMahapushkaram, a religiousevent held once in every 144years.

Governor Purohit who wasthe chief guest of the inaugur-al event of the rare festivaldescribed it as one of the greathistorical and cultural events inthe country. He also emphasisedthe importance commandedby the rivers across the countrybecause they are the ones whichstress the cultural unity of India.

“Thamarabharani River isinextricably linked with the his-tory of Tamil language, Tamil cul-ture and the history of Indian subcontinent from time immemor-ial. Throughout the history ofmankind, rivers have played thecentral role in sustenance. We seethe rivers not only as a source ofwater but revere them as Gods.The celebration of Pushkaramscovers the holy rivers of Sindhuand Saraswati in Western Indiato Brahmaputra in Eastern Indiato Ganges and Yamuna inNorthern India to Narmada,Godavari and Tunga-Badra inCentral India and to Kaveri andThamarabharani in South India.These pushkarams have beenhappening from time immemo-rial stressing the cultural unity

of our country over thousands ofyears,” said the Governor.

Driving home the relationbetween the pushkaram andastronomical changes, Purohitpointed out that it was connect-ed to the transit of the planetGuru to various Rasi (zodiacsigns). “The Pushkaram festivaltakes place on 12 major holyrivers, corresponding to theHindu zodiac signs, during thetransit of Guru Bhagavan fromone Rasi to another, every year,”said Purohit. He also demolished

the claim of the Dravidian par-ties that the south India is a sep-arate entity with distinct culture,literature and history. “SageAgasthya was the first one to cre-ate grammar for Tamil followedby his disciple Tholkappiar. So itmay be apt to describe the age ofTamil is same as that of the ageof Thamiraparani. We also findreferences of Thamirabharani inRamayana, Mahabharata,Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsa, works ofVarahamihira and in Sangam lit-erature,” said Purohit.

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Ahmedabad: In the wake ofthe alleged rape of a 14-monthold girl in Gujarat two weeksback, State Congress MLAGeniben Thakor has said thatrape accused should be burntalive instead of being handedover to police.

A video in which thewoman legislator is purported-ly seen telling this to a group ofwomen went viral on Thursday.

However, Thakor clarifiedthat she was just trying topacify the women as they wereanguished over the rape of the14-month old girl from Thakorcommunity.

Thakor represents Vav seatof Banaskantha district.

In the video captured on amobile phone inside a houseyesterday, the MLA is seen sur-rounded by some agitatedwomen.

"In India, everyone has topass through the process of law(to get justice). But, wheneversuch incidents happen, 50-150persons should come togetherand burn him (rape accused)alive on the same day.

Finish him, don't handhim over to police," Thakor isseen telling the women.

In her explanation, Thakorsaid she was only trying to calmdown the women, who weremoved by the rape of the tod-dler near Himmatnagar townof Sabarkantha district onSeptember 28.

The accused, a native ofBihar was arrested by police onthe same day.

"The video was shot insidemy residence. That was not apublic rally or a press confer-ence. I said those words inorder to pacify some 100women visitors, who wereupset due to the rape incident.There was no other intention,"said Thakor. PTI

Saharsa (Bihar): A village pan-chayat in the district hasordered no girls would go toschools or colleges unless theirsafety is ensured, after three girlswere allegedly harassed on theirway to their coaching classes,police said on Thursday.

Two persons have beenarrested in connection withthe alleged misbehaviour withthe girls, in a second instance ofharassment of female studentsreported from the State withina week.

Saharsa Superintendent ofPolice Rakesh Kumar said theincident was reported atEkpadha village where a groupof men allegedly misbehavedwith girls who were going totheir coaching classes on theirbicycle.

When two brothers of oneof the girls tried to put up aresistance, they were also beat-en up by the accused, the dis-trict police chief said.

Following the incident,which took place on October 4,the village panchayat decreedthat unless and until adequatesecurity measures were taken,girls would not be allowed toattend colleges and coachingclasses, the SP said.

"So far two of the accusedhave been arrested while a

search was on for two others,"Kumar said.

He also said as many as 17college girls from the village aresaid to have been affected by thepanchayat decree and the policeand district administration weretrying to convince theirguardians to allow them toresume studies.

Earlier last week, in theadjoining district of Supaul, 30girl students of a school werethrashed by villagers when theyobjected to some boys scrib-bling obscenities on the wall.

Nine persons, includingthree women, were arrested inconnection with the assault onthe girls who had landed in ahospital and are said to be stillin a state of shock and averse toresume school. PTI

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In the past few weeks, there has been anoutflow of horrific stories of varyingdegrees of sexual assault against women.Women from most spheres, includingjournalism, politics, Bollywood, among

others, have bravely called out their aggres-sors online. The #MeToo movement has final-ly forced India out of its slumber of conve-nient ignorance in order to recognise aproblem that plagued the country muchbefore the advent of the Internet.

The ‘MeToo’ movement is a global phe-nomenon which has seen rising allegationsagainst figures across the world. As the cam-paign gathers pace, it is pertinent to highlightthat at the end of the day, the primary rea-son these incidents remained tucked away inthe closet, rather than being out in the open,is because there is a power dynamic mismatchbetween men and women. To all the people,

whose response to the movement is: Whythese incidents are only being highlightednow, the fact is that this power dynamic mis-match in all probability did not let womenthink that there would be any real benefit tocome forward as their aggressors would getaway and they would be ostracised. Ofcourse, this is only one possible reason, therecould be many other reasons, such as traumacaused to the victim etc.

As someone who is not a victim of this formof harassment, it will be unfair of me to com-ment with any expertise on what these reasonscould be. In any case, what we must remem-ber is that it should be absolutely irrelevant whywomen waited this long to come forward. Butwe should be glad that women now do feel asthough they can actually come forward withtheir stories of horror. They have had to staysilent for much too long, but now that they havecome forward, the least we can do is listen.

As empowering as the #MeToo movementis for the women, I believe, it may unfortu-nately be relegated to just a spark rather thana fire that moulds lasting change. I am awarethat these are depressing words and while Iam completely in support of the movement,systematic change cannot be ensured unlesstangible structural reforms are introduced.While I may not be able to personally iden-tify with the agony of the victims, sexual

harassment, like a number of social evils, isa crime that requires intervention from thestate and I hope to offer some insights on howit can be better tackled.

For starters, actions are classified ascrimes when there is adequate social pressureto classify certain acts as criminal. Theamount of importance and attention that isgiven to tackling these acts is a decent indi-cator as to how these social evils are viewedby our society. With respect to crimes againstthe body and the unabated increase in the fre-quency of such crimes, especially againstwomen (which I have repeatedly highlightedin these columns), it is obvious that our soci-ety does not treat these acts with the degreeof seriousness that a decent society should.

This would also explain why in cases ofrape, there is a stigma that is attached to thevictim, which in turn discourages reportingof such cases. Therefore, since the society itselfis not at a stage where these crimes are treat-ed with the seriousness that is required, it isimperative for the state to step in and createstructures that enable serious examination ofcrimes against women.

One way in which this can be done is toenable the registration of FIRs and complaintsonline. While some police forces, like theDelhi Police Force, allow for registration ofFIRs online, most police stations do not have

such a facility. This means that women, whohave been molested or raped or sexuallyassaulted, need to physically go to a police sta-tion to register a complaint and an FIR.

It is a recognised theory of behavioural eco-nomics (and frankly common sense) that inorder to encourage people to do a particularact, one should attempt to reduce the barriersthat are in the way of the concerned person.By making women go to a police station, thereis a high probability that they would not wantto subject themselves to the judgment andopinions of a male-dominated police station.

This brings me to my second point onhow we have a male-dominated police force.As per reports, only close to 7.3 per cent ofIndia’s police force comprises of women. It isimperative that the police is made a moreviable option for women so that those whohave no option, but to go to a police stationto register their complaint, are able to do soin a more comfortable environment.

In addition to including more women inthe police force, it is important to have gen-der sensitisation for the officers at a police sta-tion so that they are less inept at handlingcomplaints of such a sensitive nature. Whileit may seem radical, I have always advocatedpermitting individuals outside the policeforce to be trained to register complaints andFIRs. This would help in two ways: First, it

would reduce the burden on an already bur-dened police force and second, it would pro-vide a clearer estimate of the actual numberof crimes that are committed in India.

This because the police has an incentiveto register fewer FIRs as this would automat-ically improve the crime numbers of eachpolice station. I have often said that the crimestatistics in India is only a reflection of twoto three per cent of the crime that actuallytakes place in the country because the policemakes it extremely difficult to register an FIR.Of course, the police is already burdened buta clearer reflection of the crimes that takeplace will automatically incentivise the stateto recruit more policemen.

A final point that I would like to discussis the role private organisations, such as com-panies, guilds etc, can play in tacklinginstances of assault against women. TheSexual Harassment of Women at Workplace(Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act,2013, was a welcome step which requiresemployers to have an internal complaintscommittee. However, based on my discussionswith people, employees are often unaware ofsuch a committee being in existence in anorganisation. It is crucial for employers to takegreater responsibility in checking any form ofsexual harassment at work and encouraginggreater conversation on this issue. This is espe-

cially important because most forms of sex-ual assault on women are by individuals whoare known to the women, which means thereis a high probability of such instances occur-ring at work.

It is also important for employers to bepro-active because in my experience, offend-ers typically escalate the nature of their actsover time. For example, a rapist would in allprobability have molested many womenbefore attempting to rape them. Privateorganisations, therefore, can help check theseoffences at the initial stage itself, which couldserve as a deterrent to the offender.

To conclude, it is imperative to use thismomentum of MeToo so as to encouragestructural change. In this regard, I read thiswonderful tweet online against people whotalk about how there are instances where menare being unfairly targeted in some casesunder the MeToo movement.

In response to this, the person tweetedabout how much outrage there is about animperfect movement as opposed to the ‘sys-tematic’ abuse of women. I wholeheartedlyagree with this sentiment and, therefore,would hope that this systematic problemforces us to come up with a systematic andinstitutional solution.

(The writer is Jharkhand PCC president, for-mer MP and IPS officer. Views are personal)

�� Sir — Yet another cyclone, Titli, thestrongest to have formed over the Bayof Bengal, has hit Odisha and itsneighbouring States at a time whenthe fear and loss of hundreds of livesin the recent floods in Kerala andKarnataka just passed into oblivion.

The most fearful fact about Titliis that it is power-packed with a windspeed of 145-165 kmph, which meansthat the wind will unleash its fury allalong its trail. Though high alert hasbeen sounded and precautionarymeasures have been put in place, there

are reasons to worry. Tidal waves areexceptionally higher and the sea hasalready turned rough.

Authorities must take adequatesteps to reduce damage and loss oflives. It is still a mystery as to whatgoes into the making of frequent for-mation of severe cyclones over partsof Bay of Bengal. On the other hand,rain is a sine qua non over these partsof the land and even interiors, on theother, routine formation of cycloneover the Bay of Bengal is a blessing indisguise as it brings plenty of rainyclouds. Our land is blessed withfreshest waters. It is, therefore, our

duty to preserve this freshest water weget in abundance from nature inevery way possible for future use.

TK Nandanan Chennai

� �� Sir — There can be no denial to thefact that working women usually facesexual harassment at their workplace.It is also a bitter reality that womengenerally do not have the courage tofile complaints because of fear of lossof their own reputation. The MeToocampaign has given them the courageto speak, though its too late.

Considering the sensitivity and seri-ousness of the matter, the SupremeCourt as well as the UnionGovernment, must fix some datewhereby women may file complaintsof past. Thereafter, such charges maybe considered only in a time-boundperiod of alleged sexual harassment.

SC Agrawal Delhi

��Sir — This refers to the article, “Heatwaves: Soon to become a norm”(October 11) by Kota Sriraj. Thereport by the UN Intergovernmental

Panel on Climate Change does notportend well for the planet. Theworld leaders have to take immedi-ate measures in order to bring backhumanity from extinction.

India in particular should take thelead in the fight against climatechange. Our policymakers must speedup the process of inducting electricvehicles, the use of biofuels and thepromotion of solar energy.

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Kupwara and Uri, twobordering towns alongthe Line of Control inthe State of Jammu &Kashmir, have one of

the highest densities of landminesin the world. Local residents oftenbecome unknowing victims oflandmine explosions as these hillypastures are traditional grazinggrounds for their livestock. WhenFatah Mohammed, a resident ofKupwara, went to graze his sheep,he accidentally stepped on an oldlandmine and lost one of his legs.Since then, Mohammed’s life andlivelihood has come to a standstill.Unable to take care of his flock, hissource of income slowly dried up,forcing him and his family to livea hand-to-mouth existence. Butlast month, his life took a newturn, thanks to the Jaipur Foot.Now, he can not only walk with hisnew prosthetic leg, but can alsobow down to offer his prayers.

Mohammed is not the onlyone who has been able to get backon his feet. Last month, the JaipurFoot transformed the lives ofabout 300 people who lost theirlimbs in such accidents. Four per-cent of Kupwara’s population of 8.7lakh suffers from some disability.This is far higher than the nation-al average (2.21 per cent).Landmine accidents near the Lineof Control are a major cause ofdisability among the people livingin Kupwara. India and Pakistanare among the 32 countries whichhave not signed the internationalMine Ban Treaty.

Now free fitment of prosthet-ic legs is bringing back the springin their lives, thanks to collabora-tion between the Pir PanjalBrigade of the Army, the BhagwanMahaveer Viklang SahayataSamiti, makers of the Jaipur Foot,and its partner, the Spark MindaFoundation.

It all began in 2017, when thePir Panjal Brigade saw the plightof residents of remote Sahora andHathlanga villages along the Lineof Control, who had lost their legsin landmine explosions or firing byPakistan. Having heard about the

Jaipur Foot’s life changing abilities,the Brigade flew down seven suchpeople to Delhi for fitments.

Since then, there has been nolooking back for these men. Theyare able to walk, run, climb, squat,sit cross-legged and perform dailyactivities with ease with the water-proof prosthetic leg.

Developed in 1968, the JaipurFoot has changed million so livesso far. During its 50-year journey,it has touched the lives of over 1.7million people in 34 countries. Itwas first crafted after three emi-nent orthopaedic surgeons at theSMS Medical College hospital,Jaipur, realised that the artificialfoot available from America andGermany was unsuitable forIndians. Led by Dr PK Sethi,director and professor of rehabil-itation, SMS Medical College andcolleagues Dr SC Kasliwal and DrMP Udawat, the first prototypewas developed by master crafts-man Ram Chandra.

About 58 fitments had beendone when DR Mehta, then an IASofficer working with the RajasthanGovernment, was admitted to thesame hospital with a badly brokenleg. During his prolonged stay inthe hospital, he observed thatmost of the patients belonged toeconomically underprivilegedcommunities. So, although hedidn’t need a prosthetic leg, Mehtadecided to do something to makethe Jaipur Foot affordable.

The Bhagwan MahaveerViklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS)was formed in 1975 to enable thepoorest of the poor stand up ontheir feet again. According toMehta, the decision to centre theirhealthcare model on compassionled them to fit the Jaipur Foot freeof cost. This would help themreach out to all disabled, irrespec-tive of their caste, age, religion orgender. Beginning from one centre,BMVSS now has 22 branches acrossIndia and normally holds about 50fitment camps in a year in differ-ent districts and remote areas of thecountry. It provides more than16,000 prosthetic fitments everyyear and has helped 1.7 million peo-ple with physical disabilities inIndia get back their lives.

The first Jaipur Foot was awood and vulcanised rubberstructure. It has since then under-gone several improvements,though the basic design remainsthe same. The latest version of theJaipur Foot comprises an artificial

leg (supporting the foot) made outof high-density polyethylene pipewith a plastic knee joint. This arti-ficial limb is fitted to the amputee’sleg, thus facilitating a near-normallife. A patient who comes in themorning can walk out on his owntwo feet by evening.

Having seen the changeamong the seven men, who hadlost their limbs after they had beenfitted by the Jaipur Foot in 2017,the Pir Panjal Brigade requestedBMVSS and its partner SparkMinda Foundation (SMF) to helpthem reach out this time to a larg-er number of people with disabil-ities, both men and women.

So, in September this year,under the Army’s Sadbhavanamission, the SMF organised aneight-day BMVSS camp in theState’s Baramulla district to enableneedy residents from the bordervillages to come for fitments.

During this camp, the nine-member BMVSS technical team,comprising prosthetists and tech-nicians, set up their workshopwithin the camp premises andmade the Jaipur Foot with the help

of Plaster of Paris and equipment,like grinders, cutters, vacuumsuction machines, pipes andovens. This helps fit the amputeewithin hours of being measuredand reduces the waiting time.

Although the prosthetic legsare given free by BMVSS, its costsare met by its associate, SMF, theCSR arm of the Ashok Mindagroup. Under this partnership,BMVSS has received an annualfunding of �60 lakh since 2016.

Since this was the first time thatsuch a free camp was held inJammu & Kashmir, it enabled peo-ple from Hathlanga, Gagar Hill,Paro, Charunda, Uri, Tangdhar,Kupwada, Bandipura, Tithwal,Handwara, Pattan, Gulmarg andmany other remote villages of bor-der areas to register.

A husband and wife, who hadboth lost their limbs in a landmineexplosion, were among the first toregister. This couple travelled over150 kilometres from their villageSahoora, situated along the Line ofControl, to the camp when theyrealised that there was a chancethey could walk again.

They didn’t want to lose thisopportunity since the lack offinancial resources and remotenessof their village had stymied effortsto seek help. Thanks to the JaipurFoot, their dream to walk againcame true.

In fact, the camp receivedsuch an overwhelming responsethat the number of fitments had tobe increased from 250 to 274. Thisis also perhaps because BMVSS-SMF camps provide a comprehen-sive end-to-end support in limbfitment. So, depending on thenature and degree of the disabili-ty, it also provides caliper fitments,walkers, elbow crutches, sticks, etc.

With the creation of the JaipurKnee, a prosthetic knee jointdeveloped in collaborationbetween a team of StanfordUniversity students and BMVSS,there is now hope for those need-ing knee replacements. TheStanford-Jaipur Knee, as it is pop-ularly known, is locally manufac-tured in India and has been hailedas one of the top 50 best inventionsby Time Magazine.

One of the most remarkableachievements in the Jaipur Foot’s50-year journey is it’s connect topeople across the world. It hasemerged as a symbol of Indianhumanitarian assistance in Africa,Asia and Latin America. War rav-aged Afghanistan has the world’slargest number of amputeesbecause of landmines and the1,000 prosthetic limbs it receivedfrom India has cemented bilater-al relations.

The Government has deepeneddiplomatic ties by holding trainingcamps for technicians from Asian,African and Latin American coun-tries under its Indian Technical andEconomic Cooperation (ITEC)programme at the BMVSS head-quarters in Jaipur.

Not only has it earned Indiagoodwill, globally, but it has alsobecome a case study in South-South cooperation. Earlier thisyear in May, an exhibition on theJaipur Foot was organised at theUnited Nations headquarters inNew York by the Indian missionto highlight its contribution in giv-ing people with disabilities a sec-ond chance at life.

Even back home, the JaipurFoot is helping build bridgesbetween the Armed Forces and thepeople of Jammu & Kashmir, onehappy step at a time.

(The writer is a senior journalist)

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There is an argument projected that thePresident has no powers to amend theConstitution. The fact of the matter

is Article 35A is not a part of theConstitution of India. It’s a part of theConstitution only applicable to Jammu &Kashmir. There is a difference. So, there isno requirement of Parliament amending it,”said Jehangir Iqbal Ganai, Jammu &Kashmir Advocate-General, to a leadingnational daily in an interview in November2017. Ganai and many wilfully ignorantpeople like him have made such desperateattempts to justify the unlawful continua-tion of Article 35A.

What is Article 35A? Well, it empow-ers the Jammu & Kashmir State legislatureto define permanent residents and givesthem special treatment, privileges andrights with respect to employment with theState Government, acquisition of immov-able property, settlement in the State, rightto scholarships and other such forms of aidas the State Government may provide.

However, the very fact that Article 35Acame into being vide a presidential order in1954 and that it was not added to the IndianConstitution through a routine parliamen-tary amendment vide Article 368; that it wasonly added via an annexure by alienatingand superseding the parliamentary process;that it owes its origin to Article 370(1)(d),which in turn was always meant to be ‘tem-porary and transitional’; that it is against thebasic ethos espoused under Article 14 of theConstitution which upholds equality beforelaw and equal protection of laws within theterritory of India; that it violates the basicstructure of the Constitution by floutingArticle 14 which prohibits the State fromdiscriminating against persons on groundsof religion, caste, creed or place of birth; thatit disenfranchises children born to Kashmiriwomen who do not marry ‘natives’ — areall glaring examples of the fact that Article35A has outlived its utility long back. It existstoday as one of the worst reminders ofappeasement politics and opportunismthat was nurtured by India’s erstwhile

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.Going back in time, it is true that after

the Delhi agreement of 1952 under Clause6, the Union Government, under the aegisof Nehru, in a classic reflection of Panditji’spoor administrative skills and even poor-er vision, appreciated the need for specialrights that existed vide notifications issuedin 1927 and 1932 under the Dogra ruler,Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu & Kashmir.

It is also true that like any of the 565princely States, after Jammu & Kashmir’sunconditional accession to the IndianDominion on October 26, 1947, SheikhAbdullah took over the reins from theDogra ruler and in 1949, he negotiatedJammu & Kashmir’s political relationshipwith New Delhi that led to the inclusionof Article 370 into the Constitution.Article 370 under Part XXI guarantees spe-cial status to Jammu & Kashmir, restrict-ing the Union’s legislative powers to onlythree areas — defence, foreign affairs andcommunications. After Jammu &Kashmir’s Constitution was framed in1956, it retained the erstwhile Maharaja’sdefinition of ‘permanent residents’.

Fears that the removal of Article 35Awould lead to the erosion of Jammu &Kashmir’s autonomy and trigger demo-graphic changes in the Muslim-majorityKashmir valley, are a bag of lies, fanned byseparatists, armchair activists and those whoneither believe in insaniyat (humanism),jamhooriyat (democracy) and kashmiriyat(Kashmir’s legacy of amity). If fears of demo-graphic invasion were indeed true, why is itthat in the past 70 odd years, the coredemography of the Kashmir valley hasremained largely unchanged, even as theHindu majority in Jammu and Buddhists inLadakh have all the rights to buy propertyand settle in the valley?

The uncomfortable truth is that Article35A is a political tool by politically irrele-vant groups like the Hurriyat to keep theembers of separatism burning; thoughthings have improved dramatically underthe Narendra Modi dispensation. True,while the voter turnout in the urban localbody polls (currently underway and is beingheld after a gap of 13 long years) was just8.3 per cent in the Muslim-dominatedKashmir valley, it was more than 70 per centin Rajouri and Poonch, with Kargil record-ing an excellent voter turnout of 77.3 percent. This signals the fact that an average

Kashmiri believes in equality and democ-ratic institutions and not on the archaicArticle 35A.

Coming back to legalities, does thePresident of India have the sole power toamend the Constitution through an order?The answer is ‘no’. This was settled in thePuranlal Lakhanpal Vs President of India caseof 1961. True, the President, who is the headof the executive, enjoys legislative powersunder Article 123 of the Constitution tomake an Ordinance when either House ofthe Parliament is not in Session, but theOrdinance within six months has to bemandatorily passed by the Parliament inorder to become a law. The fact that the pres-idential order in July 1954, that gave birthto Article 35A, was passed unilaterally by cir-cumventing parliamentary procedures by thethen President Rajendra Prasad on the malafide advice of Nehru, has, therefore, alwaysbeen ‘ultra vires’ to start with!

Again, does Article 370 have the powerto add, amend, insert or delete a new Articlein the Constitution or amend theConstitution? The answer is again a categor-ical ‘no’. Sub-clause 2 of Article 368 states thatan amendment to the Constitution may beinitiated only by the introduction of a Bill forthis purpose in either House of theParliament, post which it has to be approvedby no less than two-third majority of all mem-bers present and voting of both the Housesput together. Thereafter it has to finally getpresidential assent before the amendmenteventually becomes legally valid.

Whichever way one looks at the Article35A issue, that it was extra constitutionalfrom its inception is now well established.We have lived with this 64-year-old mistakefoisted upon us by a short-sighted Nehrudespite the fact that the Jammu & KashmirConstituent Assembly was disbanded onJanuary 26, 1957. But it is time now toensure that the mistake of 1954 is rectifiedso that the true spirit of Article 19 andArticle 21 of the Indian Constitution,which embodies the right to freedom ofspeech and expression and right to life andliberty, are upheld in the truest sense with-out creating a stream of second class citi-zens within the State of Jammu & Kashmirunder the farcical garb of greater autono-my. Kashmir is because India is and not theother way round.

(The writer is an economist and chiefspokesperson for the BJP, Mumbai)

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The BSE Sensex slumpedover 750 points to end at a

six-month low and NSE Niftyended below the 10,300 markThursday as global indices wit-nessed across-the-board lossesafter investor sentiment was hitby heavy sell-off in world mar-kets.

The 30-share index, whichcommenced with a gap downopening, cracked over 1,000points, breaching the 34,000-mark and hit a low of33,723.53, before staging a par-tial recovery to touch a high of34,325.09 in afternoon trade.

The gauge finally ended759.74 points, or 2.19 per cent,lower at 34,001.15. This is thelowest closing since April 11.

It had gained 461.42 pointsWednesday.

Similarly, the NSE Niftysettled at 10,234.65, down225.45 points, or 2.16 per cent.

It moved between 10,138.60and 10,335.95 in day trade.

“This sell-off is part of theglobal sell-off triggered by thesharp cut in the mother mar-ket US,” said VK Vijayakumar,Chief Investment Strategist atGeojit Financial Services.

This is leading to capitaloutflows from emerging mar-kets (EMs) like India. Apartfrom the rising bond yield inthe US and EM currency woes,there are global trade skir-mishes impacting the senti-ment, he added.

“While most of the earlierfall could be attributed largelyto domestic factors, the reasonfor Thursday’s fall is clearlyglobal with the US marketsfalling sharply after PresidentTrump’s acerbic commentsagainst the Federal Reserveand the consequent sharp fallwitnessed in all the majorAsian markets,” said DheerajSingh, Head of Investments -Taurus AMC.

In an unprecedented crit-icism by a serving USPresident, Trump said theFederal Reserve had gone crazyafter the Dow Jones IndustrialAverage in New York tumbledby over 800 points onWednesday, the biggest declinein more than seven months.

Among the Sensex pack,

state-run lender SBI was thebiggest loser, plunging by 5.74per cent, followed by Tata Steel4.60 per cent.

Stocks of IT bellwetherTCS fell 3.10 per cent ahead ofSeptember quarter earnings tobe released later on Thursday.

Other laggards includedVedanta, M&M, Infosys, AdaniPorts, Bharti Airtel, TataMotors, HDFC, IndusIndBank, Sun Pharma, Bajaj Auto,ICICI Bank, L&T, Kotak Bank,Maruti Suzuki, HeroMotoCorp, Coal India andITC, falling up to 4.45 per cent.

Axis Bank, HDC Bank,RIL, Wipro, NTPC, AsianPaint, PowerGrid and HULalso retreated up to 1.45 percent.

In contrast, ONGC was thetop gainer in the Sensex kitty,rising 2.86 per cent, while YesBank gained 2.54 per cent.

Stocks of oil marketingcompanies were in a bettershape on falling global crude oilprices. HCPL, BPCL, ONGCand IOC ended up to 14.70 percent higher.

Airline stocks continuedtheir rising streak for the sec-ond day after the govern-ment on Wednesday cutexcise duty on jet fuel to 11per cent to give relief to theaviation industry.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Thursday allayed

fears of job loss due to techno-logical development, sayingthe ‘4th Industrial Revolution’will change the nature of jobsand provide more opportuni-ties.

Speaking at the launch ofthe World Economic Forum(WEF) Centre for the FourthIndustrial Revolution, he saidhis government is open to pol-icy changes to help reap bene-fits of the fourth industrial rev-olution.

“Our diversity, our demo-graphic potential, fast-growingmarket size and digital infra-structure has potential to makeIndia a global hub for researchand implementation,” he said.

While the previous indus-

trial revolutions eluded thecountry, India’s contribution tothe 4th Industrial Revolutionwould be astonishing, he said.

“India was not indepen-dent when the first and secondindustrial revolution happened.When third industrial revolu-tion happened, India wasstruggling with challenges ofjust attained independence,”he said.

Artificial intelligence,machine learning, Internet ofThings, blockchain and bigdata hold potential to takeIndia to new heights, the PrimeMinister said.

Reeling out the achieve-ments of his Government, Modisaid teledensity has increased to93 per cent and nearly 50 croreIndians now have mobiles.

India is the largest mobiledata consuming country inthe world and also the one withthe cheapest data rates, hesaid, adding mobile data con-sumption has increased 30times in four years.

Over 120 crore Indianshave Aadhaar, he said, addingwork to connect all the 2.5 lakhvillage panchayats with opticfibre would be completed soon.

In 2014, only 59 panchay-ats were connected with opticfibre while presently 1 lakh areconnected, Modi said.

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regime, a top Finance Ministryofficial on Thursday said theGovernment asking oil PSUs tosubsidise petrol and dieselprices by �1 per litre was a“one-time thing” and it doesnot intend to ask them to do itagain.

While oil marketing com-panies will continue to enjoymarketing freedom, upstreamoil producers like ONGCwould not be asked to sharefuel subsidy burden, he said.

Just last week, theGovernment had cut exciseduty on petrol and diesel by�1.50 per litre and asked state-owned oil marketing compa-nies (OMCs) to subsidise thetwo fuels by another �1 a litre.

But most of the �2.50 perlitre reduction in rates effectedfrom October 5 has been lostin increases in selling prices onsubsequent days, giving rise tothe suspicion that theGovernment may again askOMCs to subsidise fuel.

“The �1 absorption by

OMCs in their pricing was a one-time thing,” the official said.

The Government, he said,has no intention of askingthem to do that again.

Following the comments,shares of OMCs surged by asmuch as 19 per cent intra-day,defying the broader markettrends. Shares of HPCL surged19 per cent to hit a high of�215.40, BPCL jumped 7 percent to �284.80 and IOC gainednearly 8 per cent to �134 inintra-day trade.

The benchmark BSESensex fell 759.74 points toclose at 34,001.

The cut in excise duty andOMCs absorbing some priceshad led to a drop in the priceof petrol from a record high of�84 per litre to �81.50 in Delhiand that of diesel from an all-time high of �75.45 to �72.95a litre on October 5. But ratehikes on subsequent days havepushed prices up.

Petrol has risen by 86 paiseper litre since then and dieselby �1.67, negating the entireexcise duty reduction in lessthan a week. Petrol price inDelhi on Thursday stood at�82.36 per cent while diesel waspriced at �74.62.

The official said theGovernment is also not look-ing at bringing back the subsidysharing mechanism whereupstream firms like ONGCsubsidised cooking fuels LPGand kerosene by giving dis-

counts on crude oil they sold torefiners.

Oil and Natural Gas Corp(ONGC) shares surged to�159.60 during intra-day tradeon the BSE before ending at�152.90, up 2.86 per cent.

Oil producers ONGC andOil India Ltd had till June2015 made good as much as 40per cent of the under-recover-ies or subsidy arising out of sell-ing fuel at below market price.It was speculated that the samesubsidy sharing in some formmay be brought back.

According to Moody’sInvestors Service, share pricesof state-owned oil companieshave declined around 20 percent on average since the gov-ernment on October 4announced a reduction in thecountry’s fuel prices.

The aggregate market cap-italisation of the six largest list-ed Government owned/linkedoil companies had fallen by �1.2lakh crore since then, it said.

“The share price decline iscredit negative for the oil com-panies because of the highlevel of cross-shareholdings inone another. The market valuesof their respective investmentshave declined, reducing theirfinancial flexibility,” it said in areport on Thursday. Shares ofHPCL closed up 14.70 percent at �207.15. BPCL was up5.11 per cent at �278.65 andIOC ended 5.39 per cent high-er at �131 on the BSE.

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The 15th Annual Inter CollegiateSports Meet - 2018 of IP University

was opened at the main sports groundof the campus by renowned athlete ofthe country Padmashri GurubachanSingh Randhawa here on Thursday. Heis the first Indian athlete of the coun-try to be honoured with prestigiousArjuna Award.

Addressing the august gathering onthe occasion as a chief guest, he said the

University has come a long way in thefield of sports despite being a technicalinstitution. This culture of sports in theUniversity must be continued, he fur-ther said.

In the March Past event, ArmyInstitute of Management andTechnology was adjudged as winner.

Registrar of the University, SatnamSingh, Director — Students Welfare CSRai, Proctor Anup Singh Beniwal andother senior officers and faculty mem-bers were present on the occasion.

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Mahindra & Mahindra, part of MahindraGroup and Castrol India, an automotive

and industrial lubricant manufacturing companyin the country, on Tursday signed of a new strate-gic partnership agreement. Under the aegis ofthis agreement, Mahindra will endorse a rangeof Castrol products which include aftermarketengine oils and transmission fluids for Mahindratractors under the brand, “Mileage Ka Master”(MKM).

The agreement was signed by HemantSikka, President & Chief Purchase Officer,Powerol & Spares Business, Mahindra &Mahindra Limited and Omer Dormen,Managing Director, Castrol India Limited at aceremony held in Mumbai.

Commenting on the partnership at the sign-ing event, Hemant Sikka President & ChiefPurchase Officer, Powerol & Spares Business,Mahindra & Mahindra Limited said, “We arepleased to join hands with Castrol, the leadinglubricants brand in India. Both the companiesare considered market leaders in their respec-tive sectors — having constantly deliveredinnovative and pioneering technology to pro-vide unique and differentiated offerings to cus-tomers and consumers. We look forward to part-nering with Castrol and benefitting from theirstrong reputation, high quality products andwide-spread distribution network pan Indiathrough its over 1 lakh strong retail outlets.Objective is to capture unmet need of customersto use recommended fluids by OEMs”.

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The IT Ministry has receivedmore than 400 responses

from companies, industry bod-ies and Government depart-ments on the draft personaldata protection Bill, and willtake stock of suggestions beforeits proposed introduction inParliament, according to asenior official. The deadline tosubmit suggestions on the gov-ernment’s draft personal dataprotection bill closed onWednesday.

An official, who did notwish to be named, said the ITMinistry will start systemati-cally analysing and crystallisingthe responses now, followingwhich, it will further consultrelated stakeholders and certainministries like Law and Justice.

The official said some ofthe responses talk of how thelanguage of the draft bill can betightened to avoid its multipleinterpretation in the future, andadded that some suggestionswere around the costs sur-rounding mandatory localisa-tion or storage of data, that thebill proposes.

Many global industry bod-

ies have contended that datalocalisation proposed in thedraft bill could have “significantnegative effects” on the abilityof companies to do business inIndia.

The ministry hopes to takestock of all the feedback overthe next 1.5 months and givefinal touches to the draft byNovember-end, for its subse-quent introduction inParliament.

Parliament is expected toconvene for the winter sessionin November-December.

The official said that anumber of ministries anddepartments, includingCorporate Affairs, Social Justiceand Women and ChildDevelopment, and Youth Affairshave also sent in their feedback.

The draft personal dataprotection bill was crafted by ahigh-level panel headed byJustice BN Srikrishna, and wassubmitted to IT Minister RaviShankar Prasad in July-end.

The draft bill moots“explicit consent” for process-ing ‘sensitive personal infor-mation’ like religious or polit-ical beliefs, sexual orientationand biometric details.

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Thursday announced theNokia 3.1 Plus in India, asmartphone which goes bigon content experiences thanksto its 6-inch HD+ display anda weekend busting two-daybattery life1. Nokia 3.1 Plus isthe most affordable Nokiasmartphone with a dual-cam-era and is the latest device tojoin the Android One family,delivering the best of Googlewith monthly security patches.

The company alsolaunched the Nokia 8110,which will now be available inIndia. Reloading the legendaryNokia 8110, this 4G featurephone comes complete with theelegantly curved slider design,giving you the knowledge thatall your smartphone essentialsare there when you need them,yet you are switched off, havefun and relax.

With a familiar and easy touse interface, the Nokia 8110features intuitive tactile mechan-ics, with slide to answer and endcalls, as well as an addictive heli-copter-style spin on its axis.

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and Financia l S er v ices(IL&FS) have highlightedthe continuity risks of thecountry’s asset-backed secu-rity (ABS) servicers, Fitchsaid in i t s rep or t onThursday.

It further said the failureof IL&FS has significantlyundermined market senti-ment towards the the coun-try’s non-bank financial insti-tution (NBFI) sector andtheir ABS issuance.

Transaction f low hasstalled and there is a rise inyields on the securitisationnotes of NBFIs, it added.

IL&FS and its sub-sidiaries are facing liquiditycrisis and have defaulted onseveral debt repaymentsrecently.

According to the ratingagency, IL&FS was not itselfa counterparty to any inter-nationally rated ABS notes,but NBFIs act as the origi-nators and servicers for mostIndian ABS transactions.

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tained a stable outlook on the domestic cement sectorfor the remaining period of thisfiscal.

The agency said it expect-ed the overall demand condi-tions to remain stable for the

Indian cement manufacturers,considering a gradual eco-nomic growth forecast acrosscement end-markets, with realestate and infrastructure help-ing sustain volumes.

In a statement, Ind-Ra saidit “maintained a stable outlookon the Indian cement manu-facturers for the remainder FY2018-19, driven by a healthy

growth forecast across end-markets such as affordablehousing, roads and irrigationsector, which would help insustaining strong volumes.However, the growth in EBIT-DA (earnings before interest,tax, depreciation and amorti-zation) could be partially off-set by rising input costs”.

Over the last few quarters,

cement prices have remainedstagnant despite a constantincrease in fuel prices, Ind-Ranoted. With modest capacityadditions of 4.2 mtpa (milliontonne per annum) in ongoingfiscal, the utilisation is expect-ed to improve.

It further said that with aminimum capacity addition innorthern region and a stable

demand, the utilisation wouldremain constant.

Capacity utilisation in cen-tral region is expected toincrease over the mediumterm on account of recedingimpact of sand mining issues,election season in centralregion states and improvingutilisation level of JaypeeAssociates Ltd’s assets.

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The country’s largest soft-ware exporter TCS onThursday reported a 22.6

per cent jump in consolidatednet profit at �7,901 crore in theJuly-September 2018 quarter,buoyed by strong demand fordigital services.

Tata Consultancy Services(TCS) had posted a net profitof �6,446 crore in the sameperiod last fiscal, the companysaid in a statement.

The Tata group companysaw a revenue growth of 20.7per cent at �36,854 crore in theSeptember quarter, up from�30,541 crore a year ago. Itsearning per share for the quar-ter was at �20.66.

TCS CEO and MD RajeshGopinathan said, “We are very

pleased with our all-roundstrong performance in Q2.Revenue growth was driven byexpanding demand for digitaltransformation across verti-cals, and continued accelera-tion in banking, financial ser-vices and insurance (BFSI)and retail.”

N Ganapathy Subramani-am, chief operating officerand executive director at TCS,termed the September quarteras a “good” one and said therewas a strong demand in areaslike analytics, cloud andautomation.

The company has declareda dividend of �4 per share.

The net employee additionin September 2018 quarter wasat 10,227 professionals, highestin 12 quarters, the companysaid. Total employees strength

at the end of Q2 stood at4,11,102 on a consolidatedbasis.

IT services attrition ratewas steady at 10.9 per cent onlast 12 months basis.

Shares of TCS fell by over3 per cent on Thursday aheadof its second quarter earningsto be announced later in theday.

The stock declined 3.10 percent to close at �1,979.75 onBSE. During the day, it slumped4.89 per cent to �1,943.05.

At NSE, shares of the com-pany went down 2.37 per centto end at �1,995.

In terms of equity vol-ume, 3.58 lakh shares of thecompany were traded on BSEand over 47 lakh shareschanged hands at NSE duringthe day.

New Delhi (PTI): GMRInfrastructure on Thursday saidits arm Kakinada SEZ hadinked a pact with AndhraPradesh Gas DevelopmentCorporation (APGDC) for sup-ply of piped natural gas.

“Kakinada SEZ, a sub-sidiary of GMR Infra, signed anMoU with APGDC to get accessto piped domestic natural gasfor its upcoming 10,500-acrezone,” the company said in a fil-ing to BSE.

With this development,Kakinada SEZ would be the firstzone on the eastern coat of Indiato provide piped natural gas toall its industrial units.

The zone, which is locatedon the Vizag-Chennai IndustrialCorridor, offers 8,521 acre ofindustrial land with another1,879 acre earmarked for aGreenfield commercial port.

“This unique developmentwill be a boon for gas dependentindustries like ceramics, glass,fertilisers and chemicals in thisregion. Since gas constitutes amajor portion of their costs, a30-40 per cent saving on gasprice will yield significant com-petitive advantage.

“This is expected to attractsignificant overseas and domes-tic investments, giving a boostto ‘Make in India’ and ‘SunriseAndhra Pradesh’ initiatives,”Kakinada SEZ CEO ChallaPrasanna said.

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South Africa-based micro tagmaker Recoveri on

Thursday announced entry inIndia with investment of USD10 million by next year.

The company is mainlytargeting automobile segmentfor tagging four and two-wheelers with microdots — 1millimetre square grain sizedots which carry unique num-ber code linked to chasis ofvehicle — Recoveri CEO PhilipOpperman told reporters here.

The company sprays15,000 microdots on criticalcomponents inside vehiclewhich can be traced with helpof an ultra-violet torch and thenumber can be read with thehelp of a magnifier.

“We have earmarked over-

all investment of USD 10 mil-lion which will be done in Indiaover a period of next one year.Major part of it will be used insetting up a microdot produc-tion factory in Manesar(Haryana),” Opperman said.

The company has part-nered with Delhi-based firmFalcon to market its product inthe country.

“We have had discussionwith automotive componentmakers body ACMA for a pilotproject that will commence ina fortnight. Component mak-ers are keen to use microdotsto check sale of duplicate prod-ucts,” Opperman said.

He said the governmentwas working on draft regulationto prevent theft of vehicles,which once finalised wouldboost business of the company.

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New Delhi: TVS Motor Company on Thursday launched arefreshed version of its scooter Wego priced at �53,027 (ex-show-room Delhi). The new version comes with new features includ-ing a 20-litre utility box, sporty wheel-rim stickers, pass-by switchand a maintenance free battery. “At TVS Motor Company, wehave brought in interventions across our product portfolio basedon evolving customer requirements. TVS WEGO is inspired bythe youthful lifestyle of our target audience,” Aniruddha Haldar,vice-president, marketing, commuter motorcycles, scootersand corporate brand, TVS Motor Company, said. The compa-ny is confident that this refreshed version of TVS Wego wouldresonate with the customers, he added. The 110-cc scooter comeswith full metal body, advanced digital speedometer, among otherfeatures.

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launching an American and aRussian toward theInternational Space Station onThursday, forcing their emer-gency — but safe — landing onthe steppes of Kazakhstan.

It was latest in recent seriesof failures for the troubledRussian space programme,which is used by the US tocarry its astronauts to station.

NASA astronaut NickHague and Roscosmos’ AlexeiOvchinin were subjected toheavy gravitational forces astheir capsule automatically jet-tisoned from the Soyuz boost-er rocket and fell back to Earthat a sharper-than-normal angleand landed about 20 kilometreseast of the city of Dzhezkazganin Kazakhstan.

“Thank God the crew isalive,” said Dmitry Peskov, thespokesman for RussianPresident Vladimir Putin, whenit became clear that they hadlanded safely. He added that thepresident is receiving regularupdates about the situation.

NASA Administrator JimBridenstine, who watched thelaunch at the Russian-leasedBaikonur cosmodrome alongwith his Russian counterpart,tweeted that Hague andOvchinin are in good condi-

tion. He added that a “thoroughinvestigation into the cause ofthe incident will be conducted.”

Hague and Ovchinin liftedoff as scheduled at 2.40 pm onThursday from Baikonur. Theastronauts were to dock at theInternational Space Station sixhours after the launch andjoin an American, a Russianand a German currently aboardthe station.

But the three-stage Soyuzbooster suffered an unspecifiedfailure of its second stage abouttwo minutes after launching.Search and rescue teams wereimmediately scrambled torecover the crew, and para-troopers were dropped from aplane to reach the site quickly.

While the Russian spaceprogram has been dogged by astring of launch failures andother incidents in recent years,Thursday’s mishap marked theprogram’s first manned launchfailure since September 1983,when a Soyuz exploded on thelaunch pad.

It was to be the first spacemission for Hague, who joinedNASA’s astronaut corps in2013. Ovchinin spent sixmonths on the orbiting outpostin 2016. The astronauts wereflown by helicopter toDzhezkazgan and then byplane to Baikonur. Russianofficials said they may spendthe night in Baikonur before

being flown to Star City,Russia’s space training centeroutside Moscow, the Tass newsagency said.

NASA posted pictures ofHague and Ovchinin under-going a medical check-up atDzhezkazgan’s airport. One ofthe pictures showed Haguesmiling and another had himsitting next to Russia’s spaceagency chief Dmitry Rogozin.

Flight controllers kept thethree space station residentsabreast of the situation afterThursday’s aborted launch.

“The boys have landed,”Mission Control assured theInternational Space Stationcrew. Russian controllers toldthe space station astronauts thatHague and Ovchinin endured6.7 times the force of gravityduring their entry.

There was no immediateword on whether the space sta-tion crew might need to extendits own six-month mission.

Two spacewalks plannedfor later this month were offindefinitely. Hague was sup-posed to be one of the space-walkers.

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President Donald Trumpsaid on Thursday the

United States is being “verytough” as it looks into a Saudiwriter missing and feared mur-dered in Istanbul, adding “wehave investigators over thereand we’re working withTurkey” and with Saudi Arabia.

Trump spoke on “Fox &Friends” about Jamal Khashoggi,59, a government critic who dis-appeared a week ago after enter-ing a Saudi consulate in Turkey.The wealthy former govern-ment insider wrote columns forThe Washington Post, includingsome critical of Crown PrinceMohammed bin Salman. He’dbeen living in the United Statesin self-imposed exile.

Turkish officials say theyfear Saudi Arabia killed anddismembered Khashoggi butoffered no evidence. Saudi royalguards, intelligence officers,soldiers and an autopsy expertwere part of a 15-member teamfrom the kingdom that target-ed Khashoggi, Turkish mediareported Thursday.

“We want to find out whathappened,” Trump said. “Hewent in, and it doesn’t look like

he came out. It certainly does-n’t look like he’s around.”

The president did not pro-vide details on a U.S. investi-gation. Asked about aWashington Post report thatU.S. intelligence intercepts out-lined a Saudi plan to detainKhashoggi, Trump said, “Itwould be a very sad thing andwe will probably know in thevery short future.”

The Post, citing anony-mous U.S. officials familiar withthe intelligence, said PrinceMohammed ordered an opera-tion to lure Khashoggi from hishome in Virginia to SaudiArabia and then detain him.Saudi Arabia has called theallegation it abducted or harmedKhashoggi “baseless.” It hasoffered no evidence to supportits claim the writer simplywalked out of its consulate andvanished despite his fiancéewaiting outside for him.

Decades of close U.S.-Saudirelations, which have onlyintensified under Trump,appeared in jeopardy by thesuggestion of a carefully plot-ted murder of a governmentcritic. Trump on Thursdaydescribed the relationship as“excellent.”

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There are good doctors inPakistan”, Supreme Court

Chief Justice Saqib Nisar toldPervez Musharraf on Thursdayas he directed the Dubai-basedformer dictator to appearbefore the apex court to recordhis statement in the treasoncase against him.

General (retd) Musharraf,75, who has been living inDubai since 2016, is facing thetreason case for suspending theConstitution in 2007.

The former army chief leftfor Dubai in March 2016 formedical treatment and has notreturned since, citing securityand health reasons.

The chief justice’s crypticremarks came as he headed abench hearing the case relatedto National ReconciliationOrdinance (NRO), passed byMusharraf in 2007.

Washington: DescribingIndian-American Nikki Haleyas an “extraordinary person”,President Donald Trump hassaid the outgoing US ambas-sador to the UN is “going tomake a lot of money” in theprivate sector, which sheintends to join.

Haley, 46, the first Indian-American to hold a Cabinet-ranking position in any USpresidential administration,tendered her resignationTuesday, which Trump accept-ed. She had hinted in her res-ignation letter that she is head-ed to the private sector aftertwo years at the UN and, beforethat, six years as SouthCarolina’s governor.

She is likely to stay in theposition till the year-end so thather successor could be nomi-nated and confirmed by theSenate. Trump exuded confi-dence that Haley would returnto his administration in somecapacity at some point.

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Washington: The US “will takecare” of countries which defy itsdirective to bring their oilimports from Iran to zero byNovember 4, President DonaldTrump has warned, days after India announced that twoof its firms have placed ordersto import crude from the Gulf nation.

Trump in May pulled theUS out of the 2015 nuclearaccord, saying it had “failed toachieve the fundamental objec-tive of blocking all paths to anIranian nuclear bomb” and didnot deal with Tehran’s “malignactivities, including its ballisticmissile programme and itssupport for terrorism”.

In an attempt to compelIran to agree to a new accord,Trump reinstated sanctionsthat targeted the Iranian gov-ernment’s purchase of US dol-lars, Iran’s trade in gold andother precious metals, and itsautomotive sector. AP

Lahore: A Pakistani extremistIslamist party is demanding thecountry’s Supreme Courtuphold the death sentence fora Christian woman convictedof blasphemy.

Asia Bibi has appealed hersentence and the court earlierthis week postponed ruling onthe final appeal. Her lawyerssay she was falsely accused.

The Tehreek-e-Labbaikparty said on Wednesday that ifthe court’s three-judge panelfrees Bibi, the judges will face“consequences”. The party alsosays its supporters will rally onFriday to demand death for Bibi.The charge against Bibi datesback to a hot day in 2009 whenshe went to get water for fellowfarm workers. Two Muslimwomen refused to drink from acontainer used by a Christian.

Bibi was later accused ofinsulting Islam’s prophet, acharge which carries the deathpenalty. AP

Melbourne: Girls feel there islittle point in reporting sexualharassment to authorities sincethere is hardly any action,according to a report whichshows that young women suf-fer relentless abuse in citiesworldwide, including Delhi.

The report from childrights organisation PlanInternational, based on morethan 21,000 testimonials ofgirls and young women livingin Delhi, Kampala, Lima,Madrid and Sydney, found thatin all five cities, boys and mengrope, chase, stalk, leer at, ver-

bally insult, and flash girls andyoung women.

While such behaviour iscondoned by society,bystanders and authoritiesrarely take action, according tothe report by researchersincluding those from MonashUniversity in Australia.

This forces girls to adjusttheir behaviour to protectthemselves. CEO of PlanInternational Australia,Susanne Legena, said theresearch provides a previouslyunseen glimpse of the impactof harassment and abuse on the

lives of girls and young women. “Constant harassment and

abuse is frightening and drain-ing, and leaves young womenfeeling completely disempow-ered. This indifference andinaction leads many girls andyoung women to blame them-selves for abuse and harass-ment,” Legena said.

“What’s more, by forcinggirls and women to constantlyadjust their behaviour to staysafe, society is denying themthe benefits and opportunitiesof city life,” she said.

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Yanjun Xu, aka Qu Hui,aka Zhang Hui, a ChineseMinistry of State Security(MSS) operative, was extradit-ed to the US on Tuesday, fol-lowing which the charges wereunsealed on Wednesday.

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The process of launching anew vehicle has changed a

bit over the years. Once upona time, it was a press confer-ence followed by drinks. Thenthe drinks disappeared andyou got a sound and lightshow with dancers bouncingaround the stage and your earspleading for mercy from the200 beats per minute EuroHouse music that accompa-nied the car being drivenonto stage. If you, as a carmak-er, wanted to make it fancier,you got European dancersinstead of Shiamak Davar’stroupe. Nowadays, it is a bitdifferent, it usually beginswith a mass ‘leak’ in a coupleof newspapers and automotivemagazines, followed by sur-prisingly accurate renders ofthe vehicle in question. Thenthere are the spy shots all overthe web. And this is where Igive you an idea. If you wantto set up your own “spy shot”website, just go to theHimalayan Expresswaybetween Zirakpur andParwanoo. Then there are theteaser emails and factory vis-its and what not. A car launchprocess often stretches foraround six-eight months, eventhe marketing around it.

So when Mahindra sentout an email saying how theirnew car would be “shark”-inspired and what not, youreally didn’t expect theMarazzo. Yes, you kind ofknew that this car was replac-ing the Xylo and would be avan, and honestly there isonly so much one can do witha van. But, you know, sharkand all. That is the fault ofyour brain because when youhear shark, your mind almostautomatically assumes thesleek and deadly GreatWhite. Because yourbrain really did notknow until youGoogled it that thereare over 500 speciesof sharks and rays. Itis a very disparatefamily of fish, but ofcourse, what we con-sider sharks are theorder of MackerelSharks, or Lamniformes.And I am sure that Mahindra

designers thought the same.Shaping a van like a GreatWhite would be ratherimpractical but the Marazzodoes look like a Basking Sharkwith its mouth agape. As Isaid, it is a large, multi-personvan. It is not supposed to begood-looking. But you knowwhat, the Marazzo is not ugly.In fact, it looks fairly reason-able. Sure, the marketeerswould always try and make itmacho, but they should nothave, as I will go on to explain.

Frankly, the last time Idrove a Mahindra vehicle, Iwas left awfully disappointedwith the KUV100. With theMarazzo, boy was I sur-prised. First, the Marazzolooks far better proportionedthan the Xylo, and while it isa big van, in the burgundy redcolour I got the tester, itlooks quite smart.The real surpris-es are not somuch in

its looks though but the wayit drives.

The Marazzo may not beperfect and I will get to thatlater, but it is fabulous whenit comes to Noise, Vibrationand Harshness (NVH). It real-ly does feel very comfortableand quiet to be inside thecabin, quite unlike any otherMahindra every before. Theother thing is that the Marazzois on the whole a very sedatecar to drive. The engine,which is a highly turbo-charged 1.5 litre diesel unit,does take some time to get upto speed and the first fewtimes you drive the car youmight stall it, starting up froma red light. But the powercomes on relatively quicklyonce you get the hang of it,a n d

despite having 121 horsepow-er in a pretty large car, it doesnot feel massively underpow-ered, although you would notreally want to push it past thehighway speed limit.

Now, one issue I did haveis that the Marazzo, partiallybecause of its size, is not themost adept handler. Of course,throwing a large people carri-er into a corner is never a rec-ommended course of action,but one has to do these thingsin a road test, but that said,body roll characteristics are farsuperior to the Xylo and theXUV500. One strange prob-lem I encountered while cor-nering hard was that the carwould warn me that my bon-net was open. I put that downto the centrifugal force open-

ing the circuit, but

a strange warning nonethelessand I hope it was peculiar tothe vehicle I had. Over threedays and 250 km on cityroads and some highwaystretches, I got a creditable 15km per litre.

Interiors, I was driving thetop-end M8 six-seater with thecaptain seats in the secondrow and rear-legroom waspretty decent. As for the thirdrow, well, third-rows are notvery comfortable for adults inmost vehicles. The Marazzo isalso a little shorter than theInnova, so it is a bit cramped,but it is a bigger third row thanthe Ertiga. The few issues Ihave were with the fact that Iam not a fan of hard-plasticsteering wheels, the fact thatthe third row does not foldflush to the floor and the start-up of the infotainment system,which takes a while and is aparticular pain if you want tostart reversing immediately. Ireally can’t imagine gettingthis car without a reversingcamera system because it isvery long.

Honestly though, theissues were few and farbetween. I can imagine some-one buying the Marazzo as acomfortable long-distancefamily cruiser. Also, for thosewho need a vehicle to trans-port a lot of stuff or pets, youcan remove the third-rowcompletely. Sure, calling it acompetitor to the Innova is abit of a stretch, but then againat under �14 lakh for the top-of-the-line M8 six-seater, it is

incredible value, cheaperthan even a second-hand

Innova from 2014-15.Personally, I like theMarazzo and hopefullyit signifies the start ofsome excitedly fromMahindra, the newXUV700 (a SsangyongRexton with aMahindra badge) ison its way later thismonth and I hope thecompany can keep its

momentum going. If you have any ques-

tions, queries or generallywant car advice, or just to chat

about cars, do reach out to@kushanmitra on Twitter.

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Like quintessential Japanesedesign, Atsushi Nakashima’sworks reflect minimalism,

which is also a part of his personalstyle. Dressed in a white T-shirt, blackpants and black and white-stripedsneakers, the artiste is a canvas of hisown art. Soft-spoken and detached,the designer, who was once the headof design of the diffusion line at JeanPaul Gaultier, preferred answeringthrough a translator despite beingable to speak good English, I was told.

The East and the West meets ina confluence in his designs. He grewup in Japan after the country hadalready modernised and as a result hiswork leaned towards the contempo-rary. But his association with JeanPaul Gaultier taught him to value tra-ditions and his designs now have ele-ments of Japan.

“When I was younger, my sensi-bility was more modern Japanese, inwhich you rebuild and reinvent butwhat changed, especially after myassociation with Jean Paul Gaultier,was I learnt how to value classic andtraditional design. The Frenchbelieve in preserving their her-itage. So old buildings are pre-served and taken care of unlikein Tokyo. While Kyoto still hasa lot of traditional temples,Tokyo is entirely rebuilt andmodernised. What I learnt isthat we must value classictraditions and the beautythey bring. After that experi-ence, I find that I appreciate myorigins and are rooted to them,”said Nakashima.

He is showcasing the sameFall-Winter 2018 collectionthat he presented at the MilanFashion Week last month. Hiscollection celebrates his country,while presenting a global outlook.His collection is replete with cir-cles that represent the sun. Fishmotifs, knee-length jackets anddresses dominate the collectionapart from oversized pants and

layers of jackets. He was inspired by 1960s’ music

like funk, soul and disco to build thecollection but using that era’s designsas it is would be placing them out ofcontext. So he has given a moderntwist to them along with usingJapanese motifs, especially the onesthat can be seen in traditionalJapanese kimonos. The kimono itself,he said, has a simple structure but lay-ers are added based on the materialand motifs. Something that is seenin his collection as well, cleanstructure with layers. He believesthat the world is becomingsmaller and global but a “dashof Japan” finds its way into allhis work.

The designer doesn’tbelieve that there is much dif-ference between the East andWest since by the time he wasin high school Americancasuals were the “defacto uniform” of theyoung. But he reiter-ates that a globaloutlook with ele-ments of Japan iswhat defineshim.

The 40-year-old knew by the timehe was in high school that he want-ed be a fashion designer. Even thoughhis parents worked in the corporatesector, he believes that he carries theDNA of his great grandfather whowas a painter.

He brings with him a sense ofnostalgia like the loose-on jacket,which he has reinvented and replant-ed. “I use geometric prints that arelinear in nature and the clothing is

kimono-esque. Part of myJapanese identity is repre-

sented by my designs,”he said.

He’s interested inIndian hand-embroi-dery and is keen toexplore how he caninterpret traditionalembroidery from

India into themotifs he

has in hismind.

Rallying the fashion troopsthrough an all-black theme,

the first day of the Lotus Make-Up India Fashion Week endedwith the showcase of a range ofdesigns and dresses in black bycreators Ashish N Soni, RajeshPratap Singh, and Rohit Gandhi+ Rahul Khanna.

Bringing into fore a range offormal wear collection, Ashish NSoni’s designs were all about rel-evance, professionalism, func-tionalism and grace.

With extreme simplicity, ashis designs are known for, therewere full dress uniforms, embell-ished dinner jackets, frock coats,knee-length asymmetrically cutshort men’s trousers, half pants,skirts, formal trousers, uncuffed,with stripes or leg seams, plain-fronted shirt with wing collars,cuff links and shirt studs, piqueor marcella coats, waistcoats,tuxedos for men, jumpsuits forwomen, pant suits, evening capesand coats and so on. Whilemodels did slay in various back-less formal dresses, modelLakshmi Rana’s outfit was one ofthose challenging the youngglobal formal fashion. Her skirt-cum-trouser was half trouserand half skirt with a short frock

blazer, that did stand outamongst all the other day-todayformals — completely a jaw-dropping look.

“The collection celebratesthe black colour in all its huespaying a tribute to our signaturebrand as well. I have used 30 dif-ferent textured black fabrics toavoid giving a dull, boring andrepetitive look. It is more aboutbringing out the simplicity yetthe elegance of black,” saidAshish.

As the dresses give a three-dimensional look, Ashish addedthat “the fabrics are either allhand-crafted and worked upon,or are in tone on tone-engi-neered jacquards.” The collectionindeed set an example of brilliantcraftsmenship as the embellish-ments were made with greatintricacy and “a disciplinedapproach to stay true to the corevalues of the brand,” said thedesigner. The inspiration behindthe all-black collection is aboutunderstanding construction,design, technique and technology.

As the first of the three showcases gaveout the message of strength and boldness, thefollowing by designer Rajesh Pratap Singh

gave chills around the hall. With the colourpalette that ranged from all shades of blackand white, Singh’s design collection combinedstyle and travel with its winter collection. Theatmosphere turned really cold and chilly asthe background resembled the heavy sleet in

the mountains. Inspired byauthor and naturalist JohnMuir’s famous saying, “Themountains are calling and Imust go,” the collection repre-sented the mystique of Indianmountains and the challengesthey hold, and to discover one-self it is imperative to acceptthose challenges and discoverthese mountains as well.

With rugged, rocky asym-metric silhouettes, deconstruct-ed shapes with inside-out seams,the collection honoured Indianpahadi roots. Fabrics used com-prise wool-linen blends, weavesthat are made on hand loomsand ikats. With knee-lengthand long woollen coats, therewere hand-crafted shoes andgloves to accessorise the look.The blazers brought back thechecks and stripes, taking oneback to the typical winter collec-tion woollens garments full ofred, black and white checks.Singh’s collection was a tributeto adventure, travel, the roam-ing spirit and the exploration ofthe physical and beyond.

The third in line was RohitGandhi + Rahul Khanna’s curat-ed collection titled Twilight, fol-lowing the monochromaticblack theme. However, why onlyblack?

Rahul’s answer to it was,“Well, we like when the sun goesdown. This was all to celebratethe colours of car brand Nexa.”While the monochrome didspread its elegance, there werealso certain accentuated glisten-ing silver elements as “they addshine to every garment amalga-mating metallic hues along withmodern edgy elements” throughlong festive wear gowns, backlessdresses and top jackets. Theshowstopper, actress SonakshiSinha set the ramp on fire withher blue eye-shadow and long-sleek black gown with sparklingblack crystals.

Rohit talked about the hand-crafted techniques “amplifyingand highlighting every detail ofthe garments in the form ofappliqué work and hand bead-ing. Black crystals have beenutilised in order to give the col-lection a sense of luxury. Withlustrous satin and twisted crepe,there is intricate metal work on

the silhouettes with matte and gloss textures,”that defined unusual patterns and gave animpression of pure indulgence.

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The much anticipated longlist for the US$25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian

Literature 2018 was announced by eminent his-torian and academic Rudrangshu Mukherjee,who is the chair of the jury panel for the dis-tinguished prize.

The longlist of 16 novels which wasunveiled at the Oxford Bookstore in New Delhiincludes four translated works from Assamese,Kannada, Tamil and Hindi. The longlist fea-tures six women authors and three womentranslators. Two outstanding debut novels alsofind place alongside the works of several estab-lished writers.

The longlist represents the best of SouthAsian fiction writing of the last year andincludes submissions from a diverse mix ofpublishers and authors of different back-grounds writing on a wide range of issues andthemes.

The novels include stunning portrayals ofmigration, war and the pain of displacement,poignant love stories, the exploration of newfound relationships and identities, and vivifi-cation of the personal struggles, hopes and aspi-rations that symbolize the urgent and divisiverealities of contemporary South Asian life.

This year the DSC Prize, administered bythe South Asian Literature Prize & Events Trust,received 88 eligible entries and the five mem-ber international jury panel diligently wentthrough these entries to arrive at this year’slonglist of 16 novels which they feel representthe best works of fiction related to the SouthAsian region.

Speaking on the occasion, Mukherjee,Chair of the jury commented, “It gives me enor-mous pleasure to announce this longlist of 16works of fiction for the DSC Prize for SouthAsian Literature 2018. My fellow jurors and Iread through over 80 works of fiction and thenarrived at this list of 16 which we will furtherprune to prepare a shortlist and then finally awinner. “

The jury will now deliberate on thelonglist over the next month and the shortlistof five or six books for the DSC Prize 2018 willbe announced on November 14 at the LondonSchool of Economics & Political Science (LSE)in London. Thereafter the jury would meetonce again to arrive at the final winner thatwould be announced at a special AwardCeremony to be hosted in a South Asian city.

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Despite a wide variety of foodavailable, the emphasis is on

how and when individuals consume thisfood. Indian cuisine from every state hasa place in history, and there is always areason why a particular food has beenincluded in a meal.

Autumn often calls for comfort foodand dishes focussed on root vegetables.But to go beyond the expected, we askeda few to weigh in on what they’re excitedto see on menus as we enter the Fallseason.

This is a season of deep green, darkyellow and brilliant orange and thesecolours mean the fruits and vegetablesare rich in disease-fightingphytochemicals. The more colourful thefruit, the better it is for your health.

Here are few trend tips for the Fall:Sujeet Singh (Executive chef,

Radisson Noida, Sec 55)Seasonal fruits are bursting with

flavours and have the highest nutrientpotential, compared with fruits storedfor longer periods of time or grown in anartificial environment. Once fruits arepicked, their quality and nutrient valuecan plummet — so eating in season islogical.

Autumn brings with it an abundanceof cruciferous vegetables, whichhave anti-inflammatorycapabilities and help detoxifythe body. Cruciferousvegetables includebroccoli, brusselssprouts, cabbage andcauliflower. These alloffer high levels ofmagnesium, amineral that helpsto boost yourenergy and relaxmuscles. Adding aspice such asturmeric to yourautumn meals willprovide additionalant i - inf lammator ybenefits and delightyour visual senses with arichly deep autumnalcolour palate. It also acts asa wonderful beautifier for theskin too.

Siddharth Jokhani (Executivechef, Smaaash)

The temperatures are cooling downand so it's time to switch up your menu.Rather than light salads and fruitycocktails, customers are looking forwarmer and heartier food and drinks tofill their bellies. Healthy eating andliving is one of the Fall 2018 trends thatwon't be going away anytime soon.Fresh juices made from qualityingredients that feature health benefitskeep customers happy, as dohandcrafted sodas and other booze-freedrinks. Cold-brew coffee has gone froma novelty to a menu staple. It has a

sweetertaste and is convenient, making it apopular choice for the younger coffeedrinkers who need their caffeine fixbefore heading to class. Score bonuspoints with customers by introducingnitro-brewed coffee, which has a thick,creamy texture.

Ashish Srivastava (Executive Souschef, Regenta LP Vilas, Dehradun)

The changing weather createsperfect conditions for cool-seasoncrops, such as lettuces, plus some foods

that have been growing all summer,such as apples, reach their peak. Fall, ofcourse, also means pumpkins, squashes

and more starchy vegetables rich invitamins and fibre, the plant-

building block that helps youfeel full and promotes

healthy digestion. Whatmakes fall eating

interesting and kind ofspecial is the variety ofsquashes andseasonal rootvegetables. Eatingp e r s i m m o n sduring peak seasonrepresents what'sgreat aboutseasonal eating:You get a wider

variety of fruits andvegetables in your

diet throughout theyear and the chance to

savour what's in season.Switching your diet

staples with the changingweather can be good for your

body too, ensuring that you areconsuming a wide variety of

nutrients.Narendra (Head shef, The Junkyard

Cafe, Saket)Autumn is the beginning of

softening of extreme humidity and thefreezing cold. As soon as certain fruitsand vegetables show up in the market,and the intense heat of summer leavesthe air, I like to suggest some must-enjoyfood this season.

These include apples, beets, brusselssprouts, pumpkin, sweet potatoes,among others.

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Who said Navratri fast-ing had to be a dullboring affair? Sure

the platter is meant to bedetoxifying. But eateries intown are giving themContinental twists and anupper crust by toggling withmaterials such as quinoa, gua-camole and water chestnutsand tossing them up as fancyrelishes, caviars and salads.

Saurabh Srivastava,Executive Chef, Aloft NewDelhi Aerocity, has given atwist to the food that will beserved during Navratri. “Onetype of food consists of thecommon favourites likeSabudane ki kheer, pakode,kuttu ki roti, aloo and parwalsubzi made in tomato, kadduand more which people like tohave at home. The second iswhere there is a bit of a twist.It is food in the modern ver-sion.” So he has whipped upBuckwheat and new potatognocchi with caper sauce andSago and peanut gallot whichare two of the five innovationshe has placed on the menu thisseason. The gallot is servedwith some raw banana frittersand tropical fruit salsa. “Thewhole plating and food conceptconsists of a number of com-ponents which gives a feelingof being out in a five star hotel,that too in a season whenthere is limited access to food,”he says. The plating, conceptand ingredients are the focus.

Despite the innovations,he has ensured that the food issaatvik. “During fasting, peo-ple like food that is light andeasy to digest. There is absti-nence where anything that isheavy on digestion is avoided.The scientific reason behindobserving Navratri is that theseason changes and heavy foodcan make you sick. So peopleavoid grains, alcohol or wheat,”says the chef who studied at theInstitute of Hotel Management,

Catering and Nutrition,Lucknow and passed out in2003.

Srivastava says that sincehe has been doing this for long,he knows which ingredients touse. “I create something newwhich takes time but it is nottoo difficult. I work one or twomonths in advance. I had start-ed the trials, compiling the

menu, getting the ingredientstogether and putting every-thing together a month before.I create the menu on paper,then slowly and graduallymove towards procurement ofthe ingredients, dishes andexecute them with the team,”he says.

There are some things thatare kept in mind while plan-ning the food for the season.“The ingredients have to befresh and fall within the para-meters of the festival. So nograins are used, the salt has tobe sendha. We make sure thatwe use separate pans, potsand ladle while ensuring that

the area is kept clean,” says thechef, who is orignally fromKanpur.

Post his hotel manage-ment, he worked at the JaypeePalace Group Hotel in Agrawhen the Vajpayee-Musharrafsummit took place. He workedwith The Oberoi, New Delhi,for four years and then gotthrough OCLD, the manage-ment programme of the group.In between, he worked at theThe Oberoi Rajvilas, Jaipur,The Cecil, Shimla as well asThe Trident and The Oberoi,Gurugram, before joining theMarriott group recently.

Srivastava’s speciality iscontemporary and modernfood as he believes that he isgood at combining ingredientsand plating them. “People alsolike the modern take as nowa-days people eat more with theeyes and less with mouth,” hesays. As for him, he prefersfood that has simple, cleanflavours and is not overtlycomplicated. “I like authenticIndian food. I cook a dal in thestyle of Punjabi dhabas. I pre-fer two-three flavours whichcome clearly through ratherthan too many flavours at onego,” he says.

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Roger Federer said that he did not wantto lose in front of his young family ashe was pushed all the way for the sec-

ond match in a row at the Shanghai Masterson Thursday.

The reigning champion squeezed intothe quarter-finals after eventually defeatingthe 28th-ranked Spaniard Roberto BautistaAgut 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.

The top seed will play Japan's eighthseed Kei Nishikori, while Novak Djokovicand Alexander Zverev are also through,albeit with far less hassle.

The 37-year-old Swiss great was forcedto fight in his opening match on Wednesdayagainst Russia's Daniil Medvedev.

Normal order appeared to have beenrestored when the 20-time Grand Slamchampion comfortably claimed the first setagainst Bautista Agut.

But the Spaniard earned a piece of per-sonal history after that, winning the secondset — the first time he had taken a set againstthe Swiss maestro.

The 30-year-old Bautista Agut had thewhiff of an upset in his nostrils and theprospect of a first victory over the Swiss atthe eighth attempt.

But in the ninth game of the decidingset, Federer made the breakthrough on hisopponent's serve, pumping his fist as anoth-er hard-won victory loomed into view.

Federer's wife Mirka and their four chil-dren were in the arena and he said after-wards: "I'm not sure if they give me morecourage fighting on court, but they were heretoday.

"I was telling myself, particularly tonightI cannot do this (lose) because they werethere, but I don't know how much I drawfrom that, quite honestly."

Federer said that two stern encountershad set him up nicely for Nishikori onFriday.

"I hope it's going to help me that I playedagainst Medvedev and also Bautista Agut,

two really good baseliners."From that standpoint, I feel like I found

a rhythm."

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ter-finals is Juan Martin del Potro after hehobbled out of the tournament.

The Argentine world number four, whohad already been suffering with a virus, lost

his footing at 5-5 in the first set againstCroatia's Borna Coric.

The 30-year-old Del Potro had lengthytreatment and strapping put on his knee, butconceded the match after losing the first set7-5.

Coric, the 13th seed, faces Australia'sunseeded Matthew Ebden next

Second seed Djokovic enjoyed a mea-sure of revenge as he booked his spot in the

quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-0 demolition ofMarco Cecchinato.

The Serbian was stunned by the Italian— ranked 72 in the world at the time -- inthe French Open quarter-finals earlier thisyear.

It was part of a wretched run of formDjokovic suffered after elbow surgery inFebruary.

But he exploded back to life mid-sea-

son, winning Wimbledon, the CincinnatiMasters and US Open.

The 31-year-old says he is back close tothe kind of blistering form that has broughthim 14 Grand Slams.

Djokovic will play South Africa's sev-enth seed Kevin Anderson and said he wasarrowing in on Rafael Nadal's top ranking.The Spaniard is not in Shanghai due toinjury.

"Obviously, I'm going to try to do every-thing I can to get to number one," saidDjokovic.

"That's one of the — probably the—biggest goal of the end of the season."

Rising star Zverev was similarly emphat-ic as he brushed aside Australian teenagerAlex de Minaur, 6-1, 6-4.

The German fourth seed will next play11th seed Kyle Edmund.

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Keen to see India improv-ing their away record,

national football team captainSunil Chhetri Thursday saiddefense will be the key whenthey play an internationalfriendly against China after 21years on Saturday.

"We have to defend reallywell. By the look and feel, Ibelieve we have to do a lot ofdefending. We should notafford them much space. Atthe same time, whenever wefind a little room of opportu-nity, we have to construct themoves and counter them,"said Cheetri.

"To sum it up, it's a gamewhere we must be at the topof our game in every singledepartment. If we are notbeing able to combine welland operate as a team, thenthey'll make us struggle a lot,"he said.

Chettri said India havenot done well away from ourhome and it's time to better"our records".

"It's the time to do so. Ijust hope we can utilise thisopportunity to go back andgive a good account of our-selves. We have to convince

ourselves first that yes, we areimproving. Come January, itwill be very difficult for us andwe have to be ready for that."

"I'm happy that we areplaying a team like China. It'sstrange that we are playingthem after so long. We shouldhave played them more often.I'm very excited because theyare a quality opponent andthey have always been arespected side in Asia."

Chettri missed out onIndia's last away fixtureagainst the Kyrgyzstan due toan injury.

He is keen to make hispresence count but will nottake pressure.

"I don't take too muchpressure on myself. I'm happythat I'm back to the team onceagain, that too for an away fix-ture. It's very difficult but it'ssomething where I want to be.Thank God, everyone seemsto be fit, I'm fit too. I can't justwait to go out there and giveour best on Saturday."

The charismatic captainsaid he was more focussed onthe team doing well than per-sonal accomplishments.

"If you focus on personalgoals, then you'll go in a dif-ferent direction where youdon't actually want to head.We are a team and that's themost important thing. I'mone of the senior players,actually, the senior most play-er and I have my responsibil-ity towards the team. What weachieve individually is impor-tant but it's never ever morethan the team does."

China are being coachedby World Cup-wining ItalianMarcelo Lippi but Chhetrisaid every team playing athome is dangerous.

"Forget about China —any team who's not as fancy asChina are always threateningat their home. China are oneof the Asian teams who aredoing really great in Footballof late. The League has gonefrom strength to strength andthe National team has bene-fitted from that under arespectable coach like MarceloLippi.

"That's going to be theperfect challenge that we needto assess ourselves. We havedone really well in the lastcouple of years but now it'llhelp us gauge ourselves beforethe Asian Cup."

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India endured a medal-less outing atthe Youth Olympics after the Gold

rush of the previous three days as thewomen's hockey team lost to Argentinaand rising table tennis player ArchanaKamath went down in the Bronzemedal match here.

Kamath, who became the firstIndian paddler to enter the semifinalsof Youth Olympics, gave her all againstRomania's Andreea Dragoman beforelosing 11-8, 11-13, 9-11, 5-11, 9-11 inthe semifinal played on Wednesdaynight (wee hours of Thursday inIndia).

The Indian under-18 women'shockey team suffered its first loss of theYouth Olympics' five-a-side competi-tion, going down 2-5 to hostsArgentina.

After three successive wins, Indialost the toughest match they played inthe event.

Argentina opened the scoringwith a seventh minute goal throughCelina Di Santo. India's Mumtaz Khanequalised soon after in the eighthminute but the hosts regained the leadin the 10th minute with a field goal bySofia Ramallo.

The second period, however, wastotally dominated by Argentina as theyshowcased brilliant attack that helpedthem score back-to-back in the 12th,17th and 19th minute through Sofia,

Josefina Rubenacker and GianellaPalet respectively.

The Indian team will face SouthAfrica in its fifth match of the com-petition.

A little later in the day, the men'shockey team too did not get the resultit wanted, losing 3-4 to Australia in akeenly contested contest. Davis Miles,James Collins, Alistair Murray, BradelyMarais scored for Australia whileIndia struck through Vivek SagarPrasad, who found the net twice, andShivam Anand.

On Thursday morning, swimmerAdvait Page disappointed in Heat 3,finishing seventh. The medal-less dayfor India came after it won three his-toric Gold medals in as many days.

Another medal could be assuredif rising badminton star Lakshya Senwins his semifinal against Japan'sKodai Naraoka later on Thursday.

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India took over the podium in men's highjump T42/63 category, claiming all the

medals up for grabs with defending cham-pion Sharad Kumar smashing two recordsto snare a second successive Gold in theAsian Para Games here on Thursday.

The 26-year-old world championshipsSilver-medallist bettered the Asian as wellas the Games record with a jump of 1.90mto claim the top honours. The T42/63 cov-ers lower limb deficiency, leg length dif-ference, impaired muscle power andimpaired range of movement.

The silver was claimed by RioParalympic Bronze-medallist Varun Bhati(1.82m) and the Bronze went to the RioGold-medallist Thangavelu Mariyappan(1.67m). Bhati's jump was his season's besteffort.

Sharad, who hails from Bihar, sufferedparalysis in his left leg at the age of two afterbeing administered a spurious polio med-icine at the local eradication drive. He hasbeen a former world number one.

Earlier, Indian javelin thrower SundarSingh Gurjar won a Silver medal in themen's F46 category where two-timeParalympic Gold-medallist DevendraJhajharia finished fourth.

In the same event, Rinku picked up aBronze medal to make it an India-domi-nated podium. The F46 category of dis-ability covers upper limb deficiency,impaired muscle power or impaired rangeof movement.

India also logged a Bronze in the men's400m T13 category with Avnil Kumar

claiming the third position. The T13 clas-sification deals with visual impairment.

In javelin throw, Gurjar notched up hissilver with an effort of 61.33m in his fifthattempt. Gurjar trained for 22 days inFinland before the Games, an exercise thatwas backed by the Sports Authority of India(SAI).

However, it was disappointment forJhajharia, a Silver-winner in the in the lastAsian Para Games in Incheon.

In the men's 400m race, Avnil Kumarclocked 52sec to fetch a Bronze. The Goldin this event was won by Iran's OmidZarifsanayei, who took 51.41sec to completethe race, while Thailand's Songwut Lamsan.

Medals tumbled in for India in othertrack-and-field events as well with AnandanGunasekram claiming the men's 400mSilver in the T44, 62/64 classification,

while Vinay Kumar settled for a Bronze.In the T45/46/47 classification for

men's 400m, Sandeep Maan fetched aBronze medal.

Jayanti Behera clinched the women's400m Silver in the T45/46/47 classification.

In the women's 400m classification thatdeals with visual impairment (T12), RadhaVenkatesh took the Bronze medal.

In swimming, India fetched a bronzewith Swapnil Patil finishing third in themen's 400m freestyle S10.

India remained on the ninth place inthe overall tally with eight Gold, 17 Silverand 25 Bronze medals. The country added13 podiums to its tally Thursday for a totalof 50 medals.

China continued to dominate with 137Gold, 69 Silver and 49 Bronze, followed bySouth Korea.

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Ruslan Malinovskiy cancelled outFederico Bernardeschi's second

half strike as Italy were held 1-1 byUkraine in an international friend-ly in Genoa on Wednesday duringwhich the victims of the bridge col-lapse in the city were remembered.

Bernardeschi's low strike beatUkraine goalkeeper Andriy Pyatovafter 55 minutes, but seven minuteslater Malinovskiy volleyed in for thevisitors.

Italy coach Roberto Mancinispent most of his playing career inGenoa, at Sampdoria, and thefriendly at the Stadio Luigi Ferrariswas organised to raise money forthose affected by the collapse of theMorandi bridge on August 14.

Mancini, 53, was the mostcapped player in Sampdoria's historyand also the Genoa club's top scor-er winning a Serie A, four ItalianCup and a European Cup WinnersCup with the club.

For Italy the game was a warm-up ahead of the weekend's NationsLeague game against Poland, withthe Ukraine playing the CzechRepublic on Tuesday. Paris StGermain midfielder Marco Verattireturned after a long lay-off withCagliari midfielder Nicolo Barella,21, making his senior Italy debut.

Pyatov has made a number off ine saves, clearing a low

Bernardeschi curling shot after fiveminutes and a Leonardo Bonuccivolley.

There was a double chance justbefore half-t ime, as LorenzoInsigne's effort was beaten away byPyatov and a Barella volley deflect-ed over.

But Bernardeschi finally got thebetter of Pyatov after 55 minutesbefore being replaced by Lazio's CiroImmobile.

Federico Chiesa missed a chanceto close down the game for theItalians, and moments later MykytaBurda headed down for Malinovskiyto volley in.

The Ukraine play the CzechRepublic at home in Kharkiv onTuesday.

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India's ruthless home run is unlike-ly to be challenged when the teamtakes on a below-par West Indies in

the second Test Friday in what threat-ens to be another lopsided contest.

After the hosts won the first Testby a record innings and 272 runs, thereare hardly any signs that there will bea change in the script as the second Testpromises to be another run-feast.

Add to it, skipper Jason Holder isstill not 100 per cent fit and their onlyfast bowler of repute Shannon Gabrielis a doubtful starter for the encounter.India, on the other hand, have not madeany changes to the squad that won thefirst game inside three days in Rajkot.

The lop-sided matches are hardlythe kind of preparation the Indian teamwould have wanted before the big-tick-et series against Australia startingDecember.

In fact, Virat Kohli's team might notbe able to escape a sense of deja vu asit goes into the second Test.

In 2011, India dominated WestIndies 2-0 in a one-sided series beforecrashing to a 0-4 defeat against AustraliaDown Under.

Similarly, in 2013 when India wonboth Test matches well inside threedays, the next tour of South Africa did-n't pan out well as they lost the series.

It is just an indicator that the West

Indies Test teams over the years havenot been competitive enough to chal-lenge the Indian team, which is anywayformidable on home turf.

In contests like these, the focus ison challenging one's own self whichskipper Virat Kohli did in the first Testwhere he scored 139 off 230 balls.

While 18-year-old Prithvi Shawexpectedly hogged the limelight with asmashing ton on debut, Kohli's inningswas a master-class of how to set a dif-ferent challenge for oneself as a bats-man.

The West Indiesbowling, which atbest can be com-pared to a lowerrung first-class sidein India, could havebeen taken to thecleaners but theIndian skipper hitonly 10 fours in hisknock -- significantly lessthan Shaw's 19 boundariesand Cheteshwar Pujara's 14hits.

The bulk of the runs -99 of them came in singlesand doubles. Perhaps, hewas trying to check if hecurbs certain strokes, howhis game will shape up. Heshowed a different facet tohis batsmanship during

the 24th Test hundred.The only area of concern for India

will be vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane'sform, who was touted as the best play-er in overseas conditions back in 2013-14 season, when he scored 96 at

Durban, 118 at Wellington, 103 at theLord's and 145 at Melbourne.

Rahane has gone without a Testhundred for nearly 14 months (lasthundred came against Sri Lanka inAugust 2017).

His career has tapered off a bit inthe last couple of years. And the secondTest would be last shot to get back intoa good frame of mind before theAustralia series, which could be make

or break for him.The Indian team has decided

against any experiments with MayankAgarwal failing to find a place in the XIIfor this game.

Bowling coach Bharath Arun putup a strong argument for the out-of-form KL Rahul (14 failures in 16knocks this year).

The decision to play him for thisTest is a fair enough indication thatIndia will be looking at the Rahul-Shawcombination going into that first Testagainst Australia in Adelaide onDecember 6.

Shardul Thakur continues to be the12th man as a 2-0 series win is para-mount for the home team at this pointof time.

Mohammed Shami and UmeshYadav will also like to use this oppor-tunity well as they are unlikely to fea-ture in the ODI series.

For West Indies, the aim will to atleast put up some fight unlike the Rajkotgame where they didn't even last 100overs across both innings.

Kieran Powell's 83 and RostonChase's 53 were the only notable con-tributions from the Caribbean battingline-up in the first game.

In the second innings, it looked asif the batsmen were in a tearing hurryto hit every ball where the need of thehour was to show patience.

The West Indies' slide in Test is acombination of both lack of applicationand technique needed to compete at thehighest level.

They would love to redeem them-selves, which looks highly unlikely asof now.

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Stop the comparisons and let Prithvi Shaw be -- Indian cap-tain Virat Kohli on Thursday demanded "some space" for

the teenage sensation, whose batting has drawn parallels withthe likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.

Hailed as a child prodigy, Shaw had a cracking Test debutagainst the West Indies team, hitting 134 off 154 balls in thefirst Test against Rajkot. The knock led to a media frenzy anda series of comments on how he is destined for greatness.

On the eve of the second Test here, the skipper, who tast-ed stardom quite early himself, took queries on the 18-year-old and called for some space.

"I don't think he should be rushed into anything yet becauseyou need to give a youngster a space to grow, in his own abil-ities. This guy is supremely talented and he has got great abil-ity as everyone saw," the skipper said at the pre-match pressconference.

"We definitely think he (Shaw) has it in him to play at thehighest level and he can repeat what he did in the first game.He is a very keen learner, a sharp guy. He understands situa-tions well. We are all very happy for him," he added.

Kohli echoed India opener Gautam Gambhir, whoWednesday saidthat people shouldstop comparinghim to the greatVirender Sehwag.

"We shouldn'tcompare him toanyone yet. Weshouldn't put himin a space where hefeels pressure of anykind and he shouldbe left in a spacewhere he enjoys hiscricket and slowlygrows into a playerwe all believe in."

Tournamentslike the IPL, the Atours, live coverageof the U-19 tourna-ments put young-sters under instantspotlight and Kohliagreed that they aremore equipped tohandle pressure sit-uations.

"Definitely itcould be one of thereasons (earlyexposure) becausethey are alreadyexposed to theenvironment that

the international game would replicate. But there's always pres-sure of playing for the country.

"When you get that cap in the morning of the game, there'salways butterflies in the stomach and I am sure everyone feelsthat pressure.

"But I am sure it is not as intense as 10-15 years back, whenyou didn't have any exposure in this kind of cricket and sud-denly you are put out there in a Test match making your debutfor India - the highest or toughest thing there could be."

IPL is one of the tournaments that had helped youngstersnot get overawed by top flight cricket.

"So I agree with the fact that they have played in situationsin the IPL where they play in front of so many people that theyare not nervous anymore at the big stage.

"...I think they are not overawed by the scenario and I thinkthat's always going to be an advantage because the guys com-ing in can start doing the job from game one which both theseyoung guys have done that and Hanuma (Vihari) as well. Theyare supremely confident guys, those who are coming up (theranks)."

The skipper scored his 24th hundred in Rajkot where heran nearly 100 runs (99) in singles and doubles.

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Australia hung on for a sensa-tional draw in the first test

against Pakistan after openingbatsman Usman Khawaja scoreda patient century on the last dayThursday.

Needing an improbable 462runs for victory, Australia battedfor a draw and survived a testinglast hour eight wickets down.

After legspinner Yasir Shahsnared Khawaja, Mitchell Starc,and Peter Siddle within eightballs, Australia captain TimPaine, 61 not out, and No. 10batsman Nathan Lyon, 5 notout, held out against Pakistan.

Australia finished on 362-8,its longest fourth innings for a

draw, after 202 in the firstinnings.

Pakistan scored 482 and 181-6 declared.

All of Khawaja's 8 1/2-hourtoil in which he scored 141 off302 balls seemed to have gone invain when Shah claimed him andtwo other quick wickets to giveback Pakistan a big sniff of vic-tory.

But Paine and Lyon thwart-ed Pakistan bowlers over the last12 overs to pull off a remarkabledraw.

Khawaja and Paine seemedto be carrying Australia to safe-ty in their sixth-wicket stand last-ing 36 overs.

But just after the left-hand-ed Khawaja made the highest

score by any visiting batsman inAsia, passing Daniel Vettori's 140in 2009 in Colombo, he was out.He missed a sweep shot off Shah's

delivery around the wicket andwas plumb leg before wicket.

Starc was brilliantly snappedup on 1 close to the wicket by

Babar Azam, and Siddle fell lbwfor zero off a sharp Shah delivery.

But Paine and Lyon battedresolutely against Shah (4-114),seamer Mohammad Abbas (3-56), and offspinner Bilal Asif, whotook six wickets in the firstinnings but none in the second.

Earlier, Pakistan had to waituntil after lunch to get the day'sfirst breakthrough whenMohammad Hafeez had TravisHead (72) lbw off the very firstball with the second new ball.

This ended a brilliant 132-run, fourth-wicket stand as Headdug in on a wearing pitch in hisdebut test. He hit five fours in his175-ball knock.

Khawaja completed his cen-tury off 224 balls with 10 fours.

Then Shah claimed his first wick-et of the match by snaring MarnusLabuschagne (13) lbw off a quick-er legbreak.

Pakistan came close to dis-missing Khawaja on 109, butAzhar Ali's throw from long offmissed the stumps at the non-striker's end with the batsmanway out of his crease.

Australia resumed the day on136-3, needing an unlikely 326more runs to win.

Khawaja and Head added 79runs together in the first session,and Khawaja led them in gather-ing 74 more in the second session.Khawaja departed an hour intothe last session, but he'd given histeammates a blueprint on how todefend.

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West Indies all-rounder Roston Chase saysthey are better-prepared to tackle young

Indian batsman Prithvi Shaw, whose initialonslaught had set the tone for their embarrass-ing defeat in the first Test.

Young Shaw scored a century on debut, play-ing a key role in India's big win in the series-opener.

"I am sure our guys would have learnt quick-ly from what happened in the first Test and wewill know some of the strengths of the youngShaw, who really took us apart early in the game.I am sure we will learn from our mistakes in thefirst game and move on smartly inthe second game," Chase said onthe eve of the second Test.

While there is a planin place for Shaw, Chasedidn't want to divulge.

"We had a long chatafter the first Test andcame up with some plans.We discussed how we arelooking to bowl at him in thesecond Test along with some of theother batters. I can't obviously dis-cuss our plans in the conference.I think we have a better idea ofwhat we are looking to do againsthim."

One of the positives goinginto the second Test is thepresence of senior-most pacer KemarRoach and captainJason Holder.

"It's always goodto have the captain back. I am not sure what theline-up will be for the next match. Can't reallysay who is playing but it's really good to haveKemar Roach back, a very senior player andbrings a lot of experience to the team. So yeah,it's good to have both of them back."

Chase also explained the reasons for histeam's batting debacle in the first Test.

“India scoring 600-odd runs. It was alwaysgoing to be a hard task for us to comeback andsurpass that score. I thought that on the firstafternoon that we batted, guys were a bit tiredhaving fielded so many overs. But after that, Ithought we didn't really apply ourselves on thepitch.”

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Dashing keeper-batsman RishabhPant forced his way into the

Indian ODI set-up for the first timeas the national selection committeegot down to put in place a successionplan for the legendary MahendraSingh Dhoni.

Pant, who had scored 114 and 92in his previous two Test appearances,has been a prolific white ball playerwho replaced the inconsistent DineshKarthik as Dhoni's cover.

The southpaw is expected to beone of the missing links in theIndian ODI team's middle order jig-saw puzzle.

Asked if Pant will be playingpurely as batsman, chairman ofselectors MSK Prasad said: "Yes,definitely but if need arises he will bethe back-up keeper."

While Dhoni remains the first-choice keeper till the World Cup,Prasad indicated that young Pant isa long-term investment.

"It is no brainer who is our No 1wicketkeeper. In search of second

wicketkeeper, we have given oppor-tunities to DK and right now we aregiving opportunity to Rishabh Pant.At an appropriate time, we will takea call as to who is the best among thetwo."

Prasad indicated that they have

now zeroed in on a couple of namesfor the two middle-order slots.

Another interesting inclusionwas of Mohammed Shami, who lastplayed an ODI in September last year.He will be looked at as a potentialthird seamer option.

"I have been telling this for aquite some time that we are just 18ODIs away from now before we playfirst game of the World Cup and sowe need to figure out our fastbowlers and in this process we havepicked Shami," said Prasad.

It is learnt that skipper ViratKohli, who was rested for the AsiaCup, returns to play all five ODIswhile Bhuvneshwar Kumar andJasprit Bumrah are set to comebackduring the second phase of theseries.

The chairman of selectors alsosaid that Dhoni will take part in theVijay Hazare Trophy knock-outphase, representing Jharkhand.

On Kedar Jadhav, it was learntthat he will be available for the lastthree ODIs as he is still recoveringfrom a hamstring injury.

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Shane Warne believes England should seri-ously consider replacing Joe Root with Jos

Buttler as Test captain to allow Root to focuson becoming the world's best batsman.

Australia spin great Warne says theYorkshire star could dominate the global gamewith the bat and feels Buttler would make a"very, very good" Test skipper. Warne workedwith Buttler in his role as mentor for IndianPremier League team Rajasthan Royals andis convinced the Lancashire player has cred-ible Test leadership skills.

"I've worked with Jos a bit this year, andI think he's someone who would make anexcellent captain," said Warne. "I reallyenjoyed working with him, I'd like to thinkI helped him out a little bit." Warne, who ispromoting his autobiography, said Root is England's best player but would be disap-pointed with his conversion rate when it cameto hundreds.

"He'd love to have more hundreds to beable to be spoken about in the same sentencesas Virat Kohli and Steve Smith," he said.

"Maybe England could think about theirbest player having the shackles off, not hav-ing the responsibility of captaincy, and giveit to someone like Jos Buttler," he added.

"If he (Root) totally 100 percent con-centrates on his cricket, his batting andnothing else, then maybe we might see JoeRoot become the best batsman in theworld," Warne said. "He's got the talent todo it."

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